Re: Google Docs to LaTeX

2008-04-22 Thread Luis Rivera
Michael Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dear Charles, > It is very cool grasping how to use sed in however a primitive way. But on > further investigation it seems one needs it for a LyX friendly use of > ``writer2latex'' only if the document has tables, math, images ... or French. >

Re: spanish-lists

2008-04-12 Thread Luis Rivera
Luis Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If someone > can tell me how to contact the author, I'll really appreciate. > Got reply in my inbox. Thank you for your attention. Luis.

spanish-lists

2008-04-11 Thread Luis Rivera
Hello! I've been having trouble with lists in spanish, and it seems to me that the documentation spanish-lists.lyx on the wiki may be mistaken in a couple of points. The document doesn't include author or contact information. If someone can tell me how to contact the author, I'll really appreci

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-04-08 Thread Luis Rivera
curtis osterhoudt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't see that "LyXia" engenders "oral" thoughts, though I'd be more strongly inclined to give the > program a try if it did! Besides, would this mean that Word users suffer from dysLyXia? > If the thread (and vote) are still open, I'd say "Ly

Re: No accents when mastering a document (Spanish) ??

2008-04-07 Thread Luis Rivera
Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In the master, Document > Settings > Language > Spanish, and encoding > "LaTeX default" > but into each child document, I have set Language Spanish too, but > encoding "utf8", with good results. > If I switch to "utf8" in the master

Re: Babel problem

2008-04-05 Thread Luis Rivera
Stefano Franchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dear list, > > I cannot convince Babel to use English as default language for date, > Toc, > etc. when I declare additional languages in the preamble. > Try adding \AtBeginDocument{\selectlanguage{english}} to your preamble. Luis.

Re: custom document language

2008-04-05 Thread Luis Rivera
G. Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 31.03.08, Luis Rivera wrote: > > Liviu Andronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Could LyX generate the list of supported languages by looking for *.ldf > files in the LaTeX-Configure step? > There's not m

Re: custom document language

2008-04-01 Thread Luis Rivera
G. Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 31.03.08, Luis Rivera wrote: > > Liviu Andronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Does LaTeX support such rarely encountered languages? > > > Liviu > > > > > It does: provide

Re: custom document language

2008-03-31 Thread Luis Rivera
Liviu Andronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Does LaTeX support such rarely encountered languages? > Liviu > It does: provided you supply an appropriately formatted .ldf file somewhere in your TEXPATH. Luis.

Re: custom document language

2008-03-31 Thread Luis Rivera
Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Luis Rivera schrieb: > > > Hñat-ho. > > I might need some other native languages from Mexico (Nahuatl, Cora, Huichol, > > Purepecha and Tarahumara are up in my to-do list as well). > > LaTeX doesn't have a

Re: custom document language

2008-03-30 Thread Luis Rivera
Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Luis Rivera schrieb: > > > How can I pick a language for a document not included in the drop-down menu from > > LyX? I want to typeset a document in a language not included, and I can't figure > > out how

custom document language

2008-03-29 Thread Luis Rivera
Hello! I tried to find info about this topic, without much success... How can I pick a language for a document not included in the drop-down menu from LyX? I want to typeset a document in a language not included, and I can't figure out how to include it. Please notice that I don't want to ADD a

Re: Replacing Natbib with Custom BibStyle (WAS: changing bibliography style in layouts)

2006-09-23 Thread Luis Rivera
Luis Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [snip] I found that I can use makebst generated bibtex styles with LyX's > (presumably) hardcoded \usepackage[...]{natbib} command, provided they use the > "standard" natbib macros: that's so because the \bibliogra

Re: Importing word documents to Lyx

2006-09-20 Thread Luis Rivera
Bhaskaran, Sreekumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Does anyone know how to import word documents into Lyx? > The Only Way is via LaTeX: you convert your MSWord document to LaTeX (via rtf2latex, OpenDocument, or the MSWord plugin Word2TeX, or any other way you like), and then import to LyX vi

Re: Help: Multiple entries in author-year citation

2006-09-20 Thread Luis Rivera
Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is a limitation of BibTeX and, more generally, of the citation > system used in LaTeX. It would, I believe, be possible to write a > bibliography package that resolved it, but that would be a non-trivial > undertaking, to say the least. > > Th

Re: Replacing Natbib with Custom BibStyle (WAS: changing bibliography style in layouts)

2006-09-20 Thread Luis Rivera
Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Here are some hacks. > > * Try loading oxon.sty from the preamble, hoping this is after > natbib.sty is loaded. Of course, as things are, LaTeX will > complain about your redefinitions. But perhaps you could change > the ones you

Re: changing bibliography style in layouts

2006-09-19 Thread Luis Rivera
Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm not sure I understand what it is you want to do. Do you want LyX to > export "\usepackage{oxon}" instead of "\usepackage{natbib}"? Indeed, this is what I'm trying to do. The main problem is that I redefined some commands from natbib to achie

changing bibliography style in layouts

2006-09-18 Thread Luis Rivera
Hello, I wrote my own bibliography package (no kidding), following (freely) natbib; now I want to use LyX's natbib layout, but with my own sty/bst. I browsed around the /layout directory, without figuring out where are the bibliography options stored, so that I can adjust LyX's "native" natbib su

lyx 1.3.5 win98 localization

2005-10-09 Thread Luis Rivera
Dear List, I wonder whether someone has managed to set up localization on LyX 1.3.5 on Win98. If you did, please, tell me how to. Luis. === Please avoid sending me Word, Excel, or PowerPoint attachments. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files are unreliable, unmaintainabl

Re: Book of short stories

2005-09-26 Thread Luis Rivera
Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi all, > > I'm about to publish a book of short stories. I want a table of contents with > the page number of each story. I don't want to have "Chapter" or a chapter > number, because each story stands on its own. What document class should I > use?

Re: lyx to OO conversion tool?

2005-09-24 Thread Luis Rivera
> > From: Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For an "easy" conversion, put these into your LyX preferences file: > > > > \converter "latex" "sxw" "oolatex $$i" "latex" > > \format "sxw" "sxw" "OpenOffice" "" > > \viewer "sxw" "open" > > The viewer may need to be something other than "open", de

Re: Open, take two

2005-09-23 Thread Luis Rivera
Luis Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Got any suggestions? > > > > "opening"? A phantasy name? > > > > -Andre > > > > > > What about a neologism? [...] > On second thought, I checked other options, and `

Re: Open, take two

2005-09-23 Thread Luis Rivera
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-09-19 08:20 +0200: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andre Berger > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > > * Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > 2005-09-19 06:40 +0200: > > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Peng > <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: lyx to OO conversion tool?

2005-09-23 Thread Luis Rivera
Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Nicol > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Can someone please point me to a tool that will convert a LyX document > > to a soffice document, no matter how rough the tool is? > > When I asked this earli this month, the only thin

Re: Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

2005-08-05 Thread Luis Rivera
--- Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Luis Rivera wrote: > > > What should I send to the developers? > > Luis, > >A couple of dozen roses for making a native Winduhs port might be > nice. Or, > a nice wine, perhaps? > &

Re: Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

2005-08-05 Thread Luis Rivera
>Quoting "William F. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >The install keeps crashing on me --- where should I send the crash log? > >Or should I give up until I'm running something made in this century? > It's not just that: I tried to "copy/paste" one working copy of LyX 1.3.6.1 from WinXP to Win98, ma

Heretical question?

2005-08-04 Thread Luis Rivera
>Thanks to all who responded to my requests for help to get LyX >working. It's now functioning fine... but tex2lyx has problems >translating my sample file so... > >Having looked at Latex stuff a lot over the past few weeks as a Latex >newbie, could I ask a (heretical!?) question? Why isn't LyX (o

Re: Latex import...AGAIN!

2005-06-02 Thread Luis Rivera
Nicolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hei! > > I know this issue has already been treated in this > list > (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg39543.html), > but I > still do not manage to make it work. > I am using Lyx 1.3.5 in windows. I have also installed Python 2

Re: windows lyx latex import solution

2005-05-20 Thread Luis Rivera
I'm glad nobody posted before me to this thread. I have some amendments (somehow I got confused and counted three twice in my previous posting). To whom it may concern, I think it might be convenient to summarize our discussion of the problems involved in latex conversion to lyx in Window

windows lyx latex import solution

2005-05-20 Thread Luis Rivera
To whom it may concern, I think it might be convenient to summarize our discussion of the problems involved in latex conversion to lyx in Windows. That's why I propose this new thread... The Problems 1. The conversion script is broken or incomplete. reLyX produces an old lyx forma

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-19 Thread Luis Rivera
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Luis Rivera wrote: > > > Anyway, I compiled lyx2lyx into a self-contained executable (a couple of > > libraries required, all of them placed together), but I don't know how > > to post it to the Wik

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-19 Thread Luis Rivera
TGreiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yes , at first I tried the original version in RuurdÂs package > essential modules are missing. > Thomas Greiner > > On Thu, 19 May 2005 10:02:40 +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > It seems to be something like that... or I failed to redirect pythonpath to t

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-18 Thread Luis Rivera
Luis Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Angus Leeming ...> writes: > > > > > Junk (throw away) the python that Ruurd packaged with LyX 1.3.5 and go > > get a real python package from www.python.org. > > > > Angus > > > > >

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-18 Thread Luis Rivera
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > TGreiner wrote: > > -t 221 doesnÂt work: 241: Format not supported > > or single -to doesnÂt work. I get the old error. > > Thomas > > ... and this error has been explained to you. The python that Ruurd > packaged with his port of LyX to Windows doe

Re: More Greek tribulations--help with font installation

2005-05-18 Thread Luis Rivera
Stefano Franchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > thanks for the help and the suggestions. Unfortunately the problem is > not with \emph. I tried using the new \emph{}, but I still get the same > problem. LaTeX cannot find the proper font for rendering italicized > Greek. In fact, in the log file

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-18 Thread Luis Rivera
>Angus Leeming >Tue, 17 May 2005 14:25:33 -0700 > >Luis Rivera wrote: Angus, I'm sorry I might have stepped on your toe. I apologize. Let me explain: >... reLyX generates a horrible mish-mash >of different file formats that must "somehow" be deciphered by

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-17 Thread Luis Rivera
Uwe StÃhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > TGreiner schrieb: > > > I tried the German Win32 version on Lyx 1.3.5. By importing a Latex > > document, I got the following error: > > "Der Befehl "...lyx1.3.5/lyx/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx" ist entweder > > falsch > > geschrieben oder konnte nicht gef

Re: More Greek tribulations--help with font installation

2005-05-17 Thread Luis Rivera
Stefano Franchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thank to Matej and Herbert I solved the problem with Greek letters in > BibTeX title. I am now facing another problem: how to get LyX/LaTex to > produce the 'slanted' Greek fonts needed for emphasis. > > I installed the cbgreek package by Claudi

Re: lyx in spanish?

2005-05-11 Thread Luis Rivera
Jose' Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 00:36, Marcelo AcuÃf1a wrote: > > 1) When I invoke Find & Replace I can't to type accented characters or à > > equals to the used for lyx in the text. This characters look equals but > > are differents in code. > > True, if

Re: lyx in spanish?

2005-05-11 Thread Luis Rivera
Hello, Marcelo AcuÃf1a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps qt lib is not guilty of dead keys. > as for the keyboard issues, I can say nothing (I use Ruurd's QtLyX on Win32, and the keyboard switch works fine. Thank you, Ruurd!)... As for the hyphenation, > *** Hyphenation no work > >

Re: Selecting typefaces for ancient Greek?

2005-05-11 Thread Luis Rivera
Hi, cbgreek by Claudio Beccari is the default option for babel; however, it uses bitmapped fonts by default, and when it comes to outlined fonts it is rather large (over 70 Mb); Alexej Kryukov assembled the cm-lgc package (in CTAN:/fonts/ps-type1), which does a pretty good job at substitution of T

Re: LyX on a USB-stick?

2005-04-29 Thread Luis Rivera
Joachim, Sorry to tell you this: I've tried what you suggested, and unfortunately doesn't work, or at least it's not trivial. You might run LyX alone from a USB stick on any WinXP machine, even as guest, for Ruurd's port is self-contained (though you need to fix reLyX, as it seems to be fatally

Re: LaTeX's path or something like that.

2005-04-28 Thread Luis Rivera
least (start/programs/miktex/help). You might as well subscribe to the MikTeX user mailing list. Happy LyXing, Luis. --- Pupeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Je Ĵaŭdo Aprilo 28 2005 13:48, Luis Rivera skribis: > > Act

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

2005-04-28 Thread Luis Rivera
Hum... This looks to me like another Holy War. Let me add my little bit of flame. To give everyone his due, let me say that I also despise MSW*rd, precisely because I know how to use it (I used to work with it as the formatter of a couple of tiny little journals, and its most recent feat is tha

Re: LaTeX's path or something like that.

2005-04-28 Thread Luis Rivera
--- Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pupeno wrote: > > > I've tried to use the cv > > class (for curriculum vitae) so I open the cv.lyx example and I've > got an > > error: Texclass error: The document uses a missing TeX class "cv". > Lyx will > > not be able to produce output". > > You