Recent odd behaviour with ASCII import, protected blanks, and LyX-Code

2000-12-04 Thread Roger Williams
code I import (delete the "protected blanks" and replace them with ordinary spaces). Any ideas? -- Roger Williams finger me for my PGP public key Coelacanth Engineering Incconsulting & turnkey product development Middleborough, Massachusetts wireles

Re: form document

2000-11-15 Thread Roger Williams
True/False and multiple-choice is to use itemised lists with box-shaped bullet symbols (e.g. \large(\Box)). -- Roger Williams finger me for my PGP public key Coelacanth Engineering Incconsulting & turnkey product development Middleborough, Massachusetts wireles

Re: Inserting PS figures

2000-10-17 Thread Roger Williams
cursors to identify the X and Y extents of the portion of the figure you wish to use, and then use your favourite text editor to edit the "%%BoundingBox:" comment in the PS file (by convention, it'll be near the top; if it's not there, add one). This step usually takes all o

Re: quality .eps screenshots???

2000-09-21 Thread Roger Williams
didn't need to make a PDF file or print it to a colour printer); 3. Convert to EPS with "tiff2ps -e file.tiff > file.eps"; 4. Insert it in LyX as an EPS figure. How are you generating the EPS file? You're not attempting to scale the image outside of LyX, are you? --

Re: Presentation

2000-05-30 Thread Roger Williams
tm) with this approach either. If you want more help with my approach to T1 fonts under LaTeX, drop me a private email. -- Roger Williams finger me for my PGP public key Coelacanth Engineering Incconsulting & turnkey product development Middleborough, Massachusetts

Re: A few questions

2000-05-09 Thread Roger Williams
nd even here, only those with no typographic or publishing experience. (I suspect that M$ Word has a lot do do with this...) -- Roger Williams finger me for my PGP public key Coelacanth Engineering Incconsulting & turnkey product development Middleborough, Massachusetts

Re: dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-27 Thread Roger Williams
$ cat .Xmodmap ! Use Scroll Lock as Compose key on PC101 keyboard keycode 78 = Multi_key Of course, you can try it out first with the xmodmap command, e.g.: $ xmodmap -e "keycode 78 = Multi_key" -- Roger Williams finger me for my PGP public key Coelacan

Re: dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-24 Thread Roger Williams
Standard" AutoRepeat 500 5 LeftAlt Meta RightAltMeta ScrollLock Compose ... -- Roger Williams finger me for my PGP public key Coelacanth Engineering Incconsulting & turnkey product developm

Recommendations for software manual production?

1999-11-12 Thread Roger Williams
pproach, is there anyone who has got DocBook + Jade + SGMLTools to peacefully coexist on Linux RH6? Prokopis? Drop me email if you got this working.) Thanks for your advice! -- Roger Williams finger me for my PGP public key Coelacanth Engineering Incconsulting &

Re: Double question

1999-10-29 Thread Roger Williams
nd, like this: 2 + 3 \stackrel{1}{=} 5 -- Roger Williams finger me for my PGP public key Coelacanth Engineering Incconsulting & turnkey product development Middleborough, Massachusetts wireless * datacomm * DSP * ATE tel +1 508 947-5585 * fax +1 508 861-0278 * http://www.coelacanth.com/

Re: paper size problem, quite urgent ;-/

1999-10-04 Thread Roger Williams
he latter, dvips may not be installed to work right with more than one paper size. To check that, edit /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps and set your new paper size as the default, for example: %% @ a4Size 210mm 298mm @ a5Size 148mm 210mm -- Roger Williams

Re: dot accent in math

1999-07-28 Thread Roger Williams
7; with a dot over it. Similarily, you can enter the other TeX math accents: \hat, \check, \breve, \acute, \ddot, \grave, \tilde, \bar, and \vec. I don't think that there's a way to do this from a menu, though. -- Roger Williams finger me for my PGP public

Re: Question about FoilTeX

1999-06-09 Thread Roger Williams
>>>>> Koh, Youn-Suk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "- Typeset by FoilTEX -" was printed. > I want to erase this message or replace this with anoyher. Define something like \MyLogo{Your text goes here} in your LaTeX preamble. -- Roger Willi

Re: LyX to PDF (was: Why are EPS files so big?)

1999-05-06 Thread Roger Williams
rovides most of the capabilities of Distiller, including flate compression and Type1 font support. It's available as inexpensive shareware for a wide range of platforms, and the Linux version is FREE for private and educational purposes. <http://www.this.net/~frank/pstill.html> -- Rog

Re: Electric/Electronic template

1999-03-20 Thread Roger Williams
>>>>> Paolo Di Francesco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to write electric/electronic documents, with circuits... Use a real schematic capture tool, like the one in gEDA <http://www.geda.seul.org/>, and import the schematics as