Re: Can I have bounding box around floating images?

2006-03-26 Thread Paul Medwell
Nagy Gabor wrote: Hi, I have some floating figures in my paper, and I would like to have a rectangle around the fload (or around the picture inside the float. How can I do that? An easy solution would be to stick in the figure inside a 1×1 table. Lata, Paul

Re: Can I have bounding box around floating images?

2006-03-26 Thread Paul Medwell
Nagy Gabor wrote: Hi, I have some floating figures in my paper, and I would like to have a rectangle around the fload (or around the picture inside the float. How can I do that? An easy solution would be to stick in the figure inside a 1×1 table. Lata, Paul

Re: Can I have bounding box around floating images?

2006-03-26 Thread Paul Medwell
Nagy Gabor wrote: Hi, I have some floating figures in my paper, and I would like to have a rectangle around the fload (or around the picture inside the float. How can I do that? An easy solution would be to stick in the figure inside a 1×1 table. Lata, Paul

Re: Center Head in Italic

2005-06-08 Thread Paul Medwell
Bruce Pourciau wrote: Oh, and I forgot, using fancyheaders how can I make the header appear in italic? in the preamble... \chead{\textit{This is italics}}

Re: Center Head in Italic

2005-06-08 Thread Paul Medwell
Bruce Pourciau wrote: Oh, and I forgot, using fancyheaders how can I make the header appear in italic? in the preamble... \chead{\textit{This is italics}}

Re: Center Head in Italic

2005-06-08 Thread Paul Medwell
Bruce Pourciau wrote: Oh, and I forgot, using fancyheaders how can I make the header appear in italic? in the preamble... \chead{\textit{This is italics}}

Re: Right alignment of text

2005-05-19 Thread Paul Medwell
Angus Leeming wrote: I'm having problems with right alignment of some text. The problem exists (to my eyes anyway) with a standard article, but is much worse with the curriculum vitae class. See attached .lyx files; the resulting .dvi files are, well, ugly. Is there any way I can make the text

Re: Right alignment of text

2005-05-19 Thread Paul Medwell
Angus Leeming wrote: I'm having problems with right alignment of some text. The problem exists (to my eyes anyway) with a standard article, but is much worse with the curriculum vitae class. See attached .lyx files; the resulting .dvi files are, well, ugly. Is there any way I can make the text

Re: Right alignment of text

2005-05-19 Thread Paul Medwell
Angus Leeming wrote: I'm having problems with right alignment of some text. The problem exists (to my eyes anyway) with a standard article, but is much worse with the curriculum vitae class. See attached .lyx files; the resulting .dvi files are, well, ugly. Is there any way I can make the text

Re: case insertion in a lyx document

2005-05-05 Thread Paul Medwell
Harold Mouras wrote: Dear Lyx Users, would someone know how to insert in a Lyx document a symbol like ð. Thanks, Harold get a copy of the latex symbol bible http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf

Re: case insertion in a lyx document

2005-05-05 Thread Paul Medwell
Harold Mouras wrote: Dear Lyx Users, would someone know how to insert in a Lyx document a symbol like ð. Thanks, Harold get a copy of the latex symbol bible http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf

Re: case insertion in a lyx document

2005-05-05 Thread Paul Medwell
Harold Mouras wrote: Dear Lyx Users, would someone know how to insert in a Lyx document a symbol like ð. Thanks, Harold get a copy of the latex "symbol bible" http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf

Re: Graphics on Float Figures

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Pupeno wrote: Hello, I'm new to Lyx. I have just created a Figure Float and put a Graphic on it, but when I try to render it to DVI, I get a LaTeX error, well, two in fact. probably because you are trying to put the graphic as the caption. to get around this, insert - float - figure then press

Re: Graphics on Float Figures

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Pupeno wrote: Hello, I'm new to Lyx. I have just created a Figure Float and put a Graphic on it, but when I try to render it to DVI, I get a LaTeX error, well, two in fact. probably because you are trying to put the graphic as the caption. to get around this, insert - float - figure then press

Re: Graphics on Float Figures

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Pupeno wrote: > Hello, I'm new to Lyx. I have just created a Figure Float and put a Graphic on it, but when I try to render it to DVI, I get a LaTeX error, well, two in fact. probably because you are trying to put the graphic as the caption. to get around this, "insert -> float -> figure" then

Re: Copiright Symbol, Registered Symbol and Trademark Symbol

2005-04-28 Thread Paul Medwell
Andrei Popov wrote: Hello All. I'm using LyX 1.3.4 on Linux, and ran into a small problem. Can anyone tell how does one go about inserting a Copiright Symbol (c), a Registered Symbol (r in a circle) and a Trademark Symbol (tm) in LyX? Are there keyboard shortcuts for these? In ERT mode...

Re: Copiright Symbol, Registered Symbol and Trademark Symbol

2005-04-28 Thread Paul Medwell
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Paul Medwell wrote: I don't know how to do a centreline symbol (a C overlapped by an L). Anyone know of a LaTeX code / package for this? Have a look at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf thanks for the response Uwe. i regularly consult

Re: Copiright Symbol, Registered Symbol and Trademark Symbol

2005-04-28 Thread Paul Medwell
Andrei Popov wrote: Hello All. I'm using LyX 1.3.4 on Linux, and ran into a small problem. Can anyone tell how does one go about inserting a Copiright Symbol (c), a Registered Symbol (r in a circle) and a Trademark Symbol (tm) in LyX? Are there keyboard shortcuts for these? In ERT mode...

Re: Copiright Symbol, Registered Symbol and Trademark Symbol

2005-04-28 Thread Paul Medwell
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Paul Medwell wrote: I don't know how to do a centreline symbol (a C overlapped by an L). Anyone know of a LaTeX code / package for this? Have a look at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf thanks for the response Uwe. i regularly consult

Re: Copiright Symbol, Registered Symbol and Trademark Symbol

2005-04-28 Thread Paul Medwell
Andrei Popov wrote: Hello All. I'm using LyX 1.3.4 on Linux, and ran into a small problem. Can anyone tell how does one go about inserting a Copiright Symbol (c), a Registered Symbol (r in a circle) and a Trademark Symbol (tm) in LyX? Are there keyboard shortcuts for these? In ERT mode...

Re: Copiright Symbol, Registered Symbol and Trademark Symbol

2005-04-28 Thread Paul Medwell
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Paul Medwell wrote: I don't know how to do a centreline symbol (a C overlapped by an L). Anyone know of a LaTeX code / package for this? Have a look at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf thanks for the response Uwe. i regularly consult

Re: How do you comment out content?

2005-04-21 Thread Paul Medwell
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a small ( 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to temporarily comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make this text into a comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as Standard environment, but for now not be visible in the output?

Re: How do you comment out content?

2005-04-21 Thread Paul Medwell
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a small ( 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to temporarily comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make this text into a comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as Standard environment, but for now not be visible in the output?

Re: How do you "comment out" content?

2005-04-21 Thread Paul Medwell
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a small (< 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to temporarily comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make this text into a comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as Standard environment, but for now not be visible in the output?

Re: TOC headache

2005-04-18 Thread Paul Medwell
Rich Drewes wrote: I have a TOC that is two pages long. I must number my abstract, TOC, list of figures, and other frontmatter with roman numerals and that's working. Also, the TOC itself must appear as an entry in the TOC. Here's the problem: If I put my \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Table

Re: TOC headache

2005-04-18 Thread Paul Medwell
Rich Drewes wrote: I have a TOC that is two pages long. I must number my abstract, TOC, list of figures, and other frontmatter with roman numerals and that's working. Also, the TOC itself must appear as an entry in the TOC. Here's the problem: If I put my \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Table

Re: TOC headache

2005-04-18 Thread Paul Medwell
Rich Drewes wrote: I have a TOC that is two pages long. I must number my abstract, TOC, list of figures, and other frontmatter with roman numerals and that's working. Also, the TOC itself must appear as an entry in the TOC. Here's the problem: If I put my \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Table

Re: Marvosym problem

2005-04-15 Thread Paul Medwell
Gunnar wrote: Thanks Paul, great answer. Just for curiosity, what version of TeTeX are you using? I might have to suck eggs on the last comment I made - a colleague of mine has the same version of tetex, but he didn't have the commented marvosym style. I asked the other users of my machine if

Re: Marvosym problem

2005-04-15 Thread Paul Medwell
Gunnar wrote: Thanks Paul, great answer. Just for curiosity, what version of TeTeX are you using? I might have to suck eggs on the last comment I made - a colleague of mine has the same version of tetex, but he didn't have the commented marvosym style. I asked the other users of my machine if

Re: Marvosym problem

2005-04-15 Thread Paul Medwell
Gunnar wrote: Thanks Paul, great answer. Just for curiosity, what version of TeTeX are you using? I might have to suck eggs on the last comment I made - a colleague of mine has the same version of tetex, but he didn't have the commented marvosym style. I asked the other users of my machine if

Re: Marvosym problem

2005-04-14 Thread Paul Medwell
Gunnar wrote: Hi I wrote \Rightarrow in mathmode and it looked good in Lyx, but when I previewed the postscript file I got : instead of = the problem disapeared when I removed \usepackage{marvosym} from the preamble. What's wrong, and how can I both use marvosym and write \Rightarrow and

Re: Marvosym problem

2005-04-14 Thread Paul Medwell
Gunnar wrote: Hi I wrote \Rightarrow in mathmode and it looked good in Lyx, but when I previewed the postscript file I got : instead of = the problem disapeared when I removed \usepackage{marvosym} from the preamble. What's wrong, and how can I both use marvosym and write \Rightarrow and

Re: Marvosym problem

2005-04-14 Thread Paul Medwell
Gunnar wrote: Hi I wrote \Rightarrow in mathmode and it looked good in Lyx, but when I previewed the postscript file I got : instead of => the problem disapeared when I removed \usepackage{marvosym} from the preamble. What's wrong, and how can I both use marvosym and write \Rightarrow and

Re: Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-13 Thread Paul Medwell
Paul Medwell wrote: If my LyX documents contain images then the papersize of the pdflatex output gets set to letter (8.5 × 11 inch), whereas I want it to be A4. I don't have this problem if the margins are set to default or custom. Sorry to reply to my own question, but I've had a bit of a play

Re: Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-13 Thread Paul Medwell
Uwe Stöhr wrote: The problem is the package a4wide. It is obsolete and actual LaTeX-packages won't take care of it. Have also a look at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf to read what is also obsolete. Thanks Uwe. The document you suggested contained a few other

Re: Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-13 Thread Paul Medwell
Paul Medwell wrote: If my LyX documents contain images then the papersize of the pdflatex output gets set to letter (8.5 × 11 inch), whereas I want it to be A4. I don't have this problem if the margins are set to default or custom. Sorry to reply to my own question, but I've had a bit of a play

Re: Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-13 Thread Paul Medwell
Uwe Stöhr wrote: The problem is the package a4wide. It is obsolete and actual LaTeX-packages won't take care of it. Have also a look at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf to read what is also obsolete. Thanks Uwe. The document you suggested contained a few other

Re: Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-13 Thread Paul Medwell
Paul Medwell wrote: If my LyX documents contain images then the papersize of the pdflatex output gets set to "letter" (8.5 × 11 inch), whereas I want it to be A4. I don't have this problem if the margins are set to default or custom. Sorry to reply to my own question, but I've had a bit

Re: Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-13 Thread Paul Medwell
Uwe Stöhr wrote: The problem is the package a4wide. It is obsolete and actual LaTeX-packages won't take care of it. Have also a look at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf to read what is also obsolete. Thanks Uwe. The document you suggested contained a few other

Re: Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 12, 2005 5:31 AM, Paul Medwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If my LyX documents contain images then the papersize of the pdflatex output gets set to letter (8.5 × 11 inch), whereas I want it to be A4. I don't have this problem if the margins are set to default or custom. Paul

Re: How do you make a bibliography?

2005-04-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Steve Litt wrote: This will be my first book with a bibliography, and I don't know how to do it. I'll probably be listing 10-15 references. What do I do? Within LyX, go Insert - Lists TOC - BibTeX reference, then add your BibTeX database file, and select the style of your reference. By the

Re: Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 12, 2005 5:31 AM, Paul Medwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If my LyX documents contain images then the papersize of the pdflatex output gets set to letter (8.5 × 11 inch), whereas I want it to be A4. I don't have this problem if the margins are set to default or custom. Paul

Re: How do you make a bibliography?

2005-04-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Steve Litt wrote: This will be my first book with a bibliography, and I don't know how to do it. I'll probably be listing 10-15 references. What do I do? Within LyX, go Insert - Lists TOC - BibTeX reference, then add your BibTeX database file, and select the style of your reference. By the

Re: Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 12, 2005 5:31 AM, Paul Medwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If my LyX documents contain images then the papersize of the pdflatex output gets set to "letter" (8.5 × 11 inch), whereas I want it to be A4. I don't have this problem if the margins are set to d

Re: How do you make a bibliography?

2005-04-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Steve Litt wrote: This will be my first book with a bibliography, and I don't know how to do it. I'll probably be listing 10-15 references. What do I do? Within LyX, go "Insert -> Lists & TOC -> BibTeX reference", then add your BibTeX database file, and select the style of your reference. By

Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-11 Thread Paul Medwell
Hi all, If my LyX documents contain images then the papersize of the pdflatex output gets set to letter (8.5 × 11 inch), whereas I want it to be A4. I don't have this problem if the margins are set to default or custom. If I remove the images OR use a different pdf generator OR change the

Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-11 Thread Paul Medwell
Hi all, If my LyX documents contain images then the papersize of the pdflatex output gets set to letter (8.5 × 11 inch), whereas I want it to be A4. I don't have this problem if the margins are set to default or custom. If I remove the images OR use a different pdf generator OR change the

Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-11 Thread Paul Medwell
Hi all, If my LyX documents contain images then the papersize of the pdflatex output gets set to "letter" (8.5 × 11 inch), whereas I want it to be A4. I don't have this problem if the margins are set to default or custom. If I remove the images OR use a different pdf generator OR change the

TEST ONLY

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Medwell
appologies for the extra message

Re: linebreaks inside table cells

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Alexander Blüm wrote: hello again, I'd like to create a table with linebreaks inside the cells. Inserting linebreaks doesn't help, neither does C-enter... any ideas? perhaps try inserting a 2 by 1 table within a cell of the original table lata, paul

Re: linebreaks inside table cells

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Alexander Blüm wrote: hello again, I'd like to create a table with linebreaks inside the cells. Inserting linebreaks doesn't help, neither does C-enter... any ideas? i don't have lyx in front of me, but perhaps try inserting a 2×1 table within the cell you want the linebreak

TEST ONLY

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Medwell
appologies for the extra message

Re: linebreaks inside table cells

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Alexander Blüm wrote: hello again, I'd like to create a table with linebreaks inside the cells. Inserting linebreaks doesn't help, neither does C-enter... any ideas? perhaps try inserting a 2 by 1 table within a cell of the original table lata, paul

Re: linebreaks inside table cells

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Alexander Blüm wrote: hello again, I'd like to create a table with linebreaks inside the cells. Inserting linebreaks doesn't help, neither does C-enter... any ideas? i don't have lyx in front of me, but perhaps try inserting a 2×1 table within the cell you want the linebreak

TEST ONLY

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Medwell
appologies for the extra message

Re: linebreaks inside table cells

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Alexander Blüm wrote: hello again, I'd like to create a table with linebreaks inside the cells. Inserting linebreaks doesn't help, neither does C-enter... any ideas? perhaps try inserting a 2 by 1 table within a cell of the original table lata, paul

Re: linebreaks inside table cells

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Alexander Blüm wrote: hello again, I'd like to create a table with linebreaks inside the cells. Inserting linebreaks doesn't help, neither does C-enter... any ideas? i don't have lyx in front of me, but perhaps try inserting a 2×1 table within the cell you want the linebreak

Re: Problems with accentued letters (they're not displayed) in FC3

2005-03-28 Thread Paul Medwell
Oscar wrote: SNIP problems with accented characters... A (not particularly pretty) workaround *may* be to use the latex equivalents, viz; = {\O} = {\~a} = {\'a} ... et cetera When I moved to FC2, I had similar problems with accented characters which turned out to be issues between UTF and

Re: Problems with accentued letters (they're not displayed) in FC3

2005-03-28 Thread Paul Medwell
Oscar wrote: SNIP problems with accented characters... A (not particularly pretty) workaround *may* be to use the latex equivalents, viz; = {\O} = {\~a} = {\'a} ... et cetera When I moved to FC2, I had similar problems with accented characters which turned out to be issues between UTF and

Re: Problems with accentued letters (they're not displayed) in FC3

2005-03-28 Thread Paul Medwell
Oscar wrote: ÂSNIPÂ problems with accented characters... A (not particularly pretty) workaround *may* be to use the latex equivalents, viz; Ã = {\"O} Ã = {\~a} Ã = {\'a} ... et cetera When I moved to FC2, I had similar problems with accented characters which turned out to be issues between UTF

Re: Require et al in italics

2005-03-08 Thread Paul Medwell
Rob S wrote: I'm at the stage of minor corrections in my thesis and I am required to change the et al in references to italics. I'm using apalike.bst. Where and how do I ammend the .bst file? Hi Rob, If you're happy with the rest of the reference formatting, I'd simply search through your bst

Re: Require et al in italics

2005-03-08 Thread Paul Medwell
Rob S wrote: I'm at the stage of minor corrections in my thesis and I am required to change the et al in references to italics. I'm using apalike.bst. Where and how do I ammend the .bst file? Hi Rob, If you're happy with the rest of the reference formatting, I'd simply search through your bst

Re: Require "et al" in italics

2005-03-08 Thread Paul Medwell
Rob S wrote: I'm at the stage of minor corrections in my thesis and I am required to change the "et al" in references to italics. I'm using apalike.bst. Where and how do I ammend the .bst file? Hi Rob, If you're happy with the rest of the reference formatting, I'd simply search through your

Re: Equation labelling

2005-01-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Vaibhav Srivastava wrote: Hi , I am new to Lyx. I have a problem with Lyx in equation labeling in the math mode. I use the version 1.3.1 In UserGuide it has shown how to label equations and when I do Insert-Label from the math mode in the users guide and enter a label then it works by showing

Re: Equation labelling

2005-01-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Vaibhav Srivastava wrote: Thanks for your reply. I am not sure how to find out what mode it is in. I just type in the math mode without setting anyother thing. If could tell me how to see that I would be grateful Thanks, Vaibhav I'm not sure what you have to type in the mini-buffer, but the

Re: Equation labelling

2005-01-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Vaibhav Srivastava wrote: Hi , I am new to Lyx. I have a problem with Lyx in equation labeling in the math mode. I use the version 1.3.1 In UserGuide it has shown how to label equations and when I do Insert-Label from the math mode in the users guide and enter a label then it works by showing

Re: Equation labelling

2005-01-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Vaibhav Srivastava wrote: Thanks for your reply. I am not sure how to find out what mode it is in. I just type in the math mode without setting anyother thing. If could tell me how to see that I would be grateful Thanks, Vaibhav I'm not sure what you have to type in the mini-buffer, but the

Re: Equation labelling

2005-01-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Vaibhav Srivastava wrote: Hi , I am new to Lyx. I have a problem with Lyx in equation labeling in the math mode. I use the version 1.3.1 In UserGuide it has shown how to label equations and when I do Insert->Label from the math mode in the users guide and enter a label then it works by showing

Re: Equation labelling

2005-01-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Vaibhav Srivastava wrote: Thanks for your reply. I am not sure how to find out what mode it is in. I just type in the math mode without setting anyother thing. If could tell me how to see that I would be grateful Thanks, Vaibhav I'm not sure what you have to type in the mini-buffer, but the

Re: Block alignment inside tables

2005-01-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have downloaded a LyX file with an example which contains a table. The horizontal alignment in this table is named block. If I create a table in a different document, I do not get the alignment named block in the list of possible alignments. How can I get the block

Re: Block alignment inside tables

2005-01-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have downloaded a LyX file with an example which contains a table. The horizontal alignment in this table is named block. If I create a table in a different document, I do not get the alignment named block in the list of possible alignments. How can I get the block

Re: Block alignment inside tables

2005-01-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have downloaded a LyX file with an example which contains a table. The horizontal alignment in this table is named block. If I create a table in a different document, I do not get the alignment named block in the list of possible alignments. How can I get the block

Re: Changing PDF version generated

2004-12-08 Thread Paul Medwell
Jane McKean wrote: «SNIP» I need to change PDF generation process to produce PDF version 1.4. It probably depends a bit on what converters you use to generate your PDF. Perhaps start by looking at the Postscript - PDF converter (Edit - Preferences - Converters). I'm running LyX 1.3.5 (qt) on

Re: Changing PDF version generated

2004-12-08 Thread Paul Medwell
Jane McKean wrote: «SNIP» I need to change PDF generation process to produce PDF version 1.4. It probably depends a bit on what converters you use to generate your PDF. Perhaps start by looking at the Postscript - PDF converter (Edit - Preferences - Converters). I'm running LyX 1.3.5 (qt) on

Re: Changing PDF version generated

2004-12-08 Thread Paul Medwell
Jane McKean wrote: «SNIP» I need to change PDF generation process to produce PDF version 1.4. It probably depends a bit on what converters you use to generate your PDF. Perhaps start by looking at the Postscript -> PDF converter (Edit -> Preferences -> Converters). I'm running LyX 1.3.5 (qt)

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-12-01 Thread Paul Medwell
Georg Baum wrote: It is not new. I guess your are using the xforms frontend, and Angus described the qt frontend. If it is not working for some reason, stop every running instance of lyx. Edit ~/.lyx/preferences with a text editor of your choice, and add the line \format PICT PICT PICT Then

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-12-01 Thread Paul Medwell
Angus Leeming wrote: Not many people seem to use the XForms frontend. Ahh well. Edit-Preferences to launch the dialog. Conversion-Formats tab. Define the format and press 'Add' to add it to the list of formats in the dialog. Press 'Save' or 'Apply' to make this format available to the rest of LyX.

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-12-01 Thread Paul Medwell
Georg Baum wrote: It is not new. I guess your are using the xforms frontend, and Angus described the qt frontend. If it is not working for some reason, stop every running instance of lyx. Edit ~/.lyx/preferences with a text editor of your choice, and add the line \format PICT PICT PICT Then

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-12-01 Thread Paul Medwell
Angus Leeming wrote: Not many people seem to use the XForms frontend. Ahh well. Edit-Preferences to launch the dialog. Conversion-Formats tab. Define the format and press 'Add' to add it to the list of formats in the dialog. Press 'Save' or 'Apply' to make this format available to the rest of LyX.

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-12-01 Thread Paul Medwell
Georg Baum wrote: It is not new. I guess your are using the xforms frontend, and Angus described the qt frontend. If it is not working for some reason, stop every running instance of lyx. Edit ~/.lyx/preferences with a text editor of your choice, and add the line \format "PICT" "PICT" "PICT" ""

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-12-01 Thread Paul Medwell
Angus Leeming wrote: Not many people seem to use the XForms frontend. Ahh well. Edit->Preferences to launch the dialog. Conversion->Formats tab. Define the format and press 'Add' to add it to the list of formats in the dialog. Press 'Save' or 'Apply' to make this format available to the rest of

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Medwell
Georg Baum wrote: Paul Medwell wrote: I can use the convert programme to convert from PICT to PNG format, but in the Converters tab of LyX preferences there is no where to specify what LyX will do with PICT files. Is it possible to add a new file format for LyX to automatically convert

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Medwell
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul Medwell wrote: Thank you for your reply, and sorry for being ignorant, but the question of how to define a new format still stands. In other words, how do I define PICT format (or any others for that matter). A google search did not find anything particularly useful and I

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Medwell
Georg Baum wrote: Paul Medwell wrote: I can use the convert programme to convert from PICT to PNG format, but in the Converters tab of LyX preferences there is no where to specify what LyX will do with PICT files. Is it possible to add a new file format for LyX to automatically convert

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Medwell
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul Medwell wrote: Thank you for your reply, and sorry for being ignorant, but the question of how to define a new format still stands. In other words, how do I define PICT format (or any others for that matter). A google search did not find anything particularly useful and I

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Medwell
Georg Baum wrote: Paul Medwell wrote: I can use the "convert" programme to convert from PICT to PNG format, but in the "Converters" tab of LyX preferences there is no where to specify what LyX will do with PICT files. Is it possible to add a new file format for LyX to a

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Medwell
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul Medwell wrote: Thank you for your reply, and sorry for being ignorant, but the question of how to define a new format still stands. In other words, how do I define PICT format (or any others for that matter). A google search did not find anything particularly useful and I

PICT conversion from LyX

2004-11-29 Thread Paul Medwell
At the moment I'm generating numerous PICT files on a Mac (that is the only format the software is capable of exporting), and I would like to get these into a LyX document on my Linux box. I can use the convert programme to convert from PICT to PNG format, but in the Converters tab of LyX

PICT conversion from LyX

2004-11-29 Thread Paul Medwell
At the moment I'm generating numerous PICT files on a Mac (that is the only format the software is capable of exporting), and I would like to get these into a LyX document on my Linux box. I can use the convert programme to convert from PICT to PNG format, but in the Converters tab of LyX

PICT conversion from LyX

2004-11-29 Thread Paul Medwell
At the moment I'm generating numerous PICT files on a Mac (that is the only format the software is capable of exporting), and I would like to get these into a LyX document on my Linux box. I can use the "convert" programme to convert from PICT to PNG format, but in the "Converters" tab of LyX

Re: Accented characters and BibTeX

2004-11-14 Thread Paul Medwell
Thanks Jürgen...works a treat. Cheers, Paul Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Jon Riding wrote: FC2 uses UTF-8 by default. To my recollection the anaconda installer for fc2 doesn't give you the option to change to ascii... You may start emacs (and LyX) with env LANG=en_US emacs to avoid the production

Re: Accented characters and BibTeX

2004-11-14 Thread Paul Medwell
after looking around a bit it seems as though there is a push for unicode to replace ascii. if this is the case, is it possible to get LyX/BibTeX to handle unicode? Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Jon Riding wrote: FC2 uses UTF-8 by default. To my recollection the anaconda installer for fc2

Re: Accented characters and BibTeX

2004-11-14 Thread Paul Medwell
Thanks Jürgen...works a treat. Cheers, Paul Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Jon Riding wrote: FC2 uses UTF-8 by default. To my recollection the anaconda installer for fc2 doesn't give you the option to change to ascii... You may start emacs (and LyX) with env LANG=en_US emacs to avoid the production

Re: Accented characters and BibTeX

2004-11-14 Thread Paul Medwell
after looking around a bit it seems as though there is a push for unicode to replace ascii. if this is the case, is it possible to get LyX/BibTeX to handle unicode? Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Jon Riding wrote: FC2 uses UTF-8 by default. To my recollection the anaconda installer for fc2

Re: Accented characters and BibTeX

2004-11-14 Thread Paul Medwell
Thanks Jürgen...works a treat. Cheers, Paul Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Jon Riding wrote: FC2 uses UTF-8 by default. To my recollection the anaconda installer for fc2 doesn't give you the option to change to ascii... You may start emacs (and LyX) with env LANG=en_US emacs to avoid the production

Re: Accented characters and BibTeX

2004-11-14 Thread Paul Medwell
after looking around a bit it seems as though there is a push for unicode to replace ascii. if this is the case, is it possible to get LyX/BibTeX to handle unicode? Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Jon Riding wrote: FC2 uses UTF-8 by default. To my recollection the anaconda installer for fc2

Accented characters and BibTeX

2004-11-11 Thread Paul Medwell
Hi all, What is the most efficient way of inserting accented characters into BibTeX? In the past I simply inserted the ASCII character into the BibTeX file with emacs and never had any troubles. I've recently upgraded from RedHat 7.2 to Fedora Core 2 and now this no longer works. Depending on

Accented characters and BibTeX

2004-11-11 Thread Paul Medwell
Hi all, What is the most efficient way of inserting accented characters into BibTeX? In the past I simply inserted the ASCII character into the BibTeX file with emacs and never had any troubles. I've recently upgraded from RedHat 7.2 to Fedora Core 2 and now this no longer works. Depending on

Accented characters and BibTeX

2004-11-11 Thread Paul Medwell
Hi all, What is the most efficient way of inserting accented characters into BibTeX? In the past I simply inserted the ASCII character into the BibTeX file with emacs and never had any troubles. I've recently upgraded from RedHat 7.2 to Fedora Core 2 and now this no longer works. Depending on

EPS graphics rotating page

2003-12-15 Thread Paul Medwell
Hi all, I've got a formatted Excel spreadsheet that I need to insert into my document. Its got a heap of colour and formatting, so I can't just import it in as a LyX/LaTeX table. I have printed it out to an EPS file, and (eventually) I got it to insert into my LyX document. The problem is

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