Re: lyx on cygwin
Am Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2003 15:03 schrieb Max Bian: > Hi guys, > > I am trying to get lyx working on cygwin so that I can work on my > thesis from both linux and windows if I need to. > > I first tried the tetex package distributed with cygwin. I works on > small files. If I throw my thesis on it, it just won't go. The errors > are something like "tex capacity exceeded". > > I then tried "pfTex" or TexLive. That's Windows native. I have big > trouble to get it work. First of all, it is missing many basic files i would suggest using miktex on windows when i was using lyx on windows, this was always working very well (some latex packages used by lyx are not in the default install, but can be installed very easily) -- ronny
Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script
Am Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2003 12:32 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > There is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you > configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step > (e.g. xforms not found), the the script will delete the /dev/null > device. This undoubtly leads to very bad effect, since /dev/null is a > very basic device in any unix system. > > If you have been victim of this problem, please complain here and I'll > try to find out how to reconstruct it (some magic command that I do > not know yet). mknod -m666 /dev/null c 1 3 as root, of course -- ronny
Re: import an Excel spreadsheet?
* Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-13 07:06] wrote: > Nirmal Govind wrote: > > > Hi.. this might sound totally crazy but is there any way to import an > > Excel spreadsheet into LyX as a table? I guess I can copy and paste it > > but then I need to keep track of the number of rows and columns etc. I > > also tried saving the spreadsheet as tab limited and space separated > > text files and then imported them as ascii lines into LyX but it doesn't > > work well (the spacing is all distorted). Please let me know if anyone > > has any ideas. > > > > there is an exel2latex, > > http://www.lyx.org/help/table.php#excel there actually two makros for this stuff CTAN:/support/excel2latex (or never version: http://www.jam-software.com/software.html) and CTAN:/support/xl2latex (never version only on my hd, but since i dont have excel at home i seldom find some time to work on it) > > Herbert > -- ronny
Re: Coping and pasting tables from SPSS
* Giovanni Tummarello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-09-04 19:26] wrote: > Hello people, i am a student in engeneering trying to use lyx to write my > master thesis. > Although entusiast at the beginning of the journey (leaving "Word" behind > seemed so attractive) i am now loosing entusiasm over the inability to import > objects (tables, graphs etc..) from other applications as well as the apparent > impossibility to really decide where things should go. > > Needless to say i am working on a windows 2000 environment. this is not lyx's fault ;) > > Example.. i am using SPSS (very advanced statistical program) and it produces > graphs and tables. Graphs i can export to EPS and therefore have them in my lyx > document, no problems about that. but what about tables?? tables dont offer the > "export to eps" option and there seem to be no way to include them in lyx > without COMPLETELY REWRITING THEM (which is not an option since i have several > tables filled with values). Of course if i open Word .. all i have to do is a > copy/paste sequence and the table appairs in that environmanent as well. .ready > to be nicely included. if you can export to excel (or copy&paste to excel) you can use xl2latex from ctan -- ronny
Re: installing fonts: what am I doing wrong?
* Christopher M. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-09-03 07:33] wrote: > I recently wanted to find and install the Baskerville font on my system (I > saw it in a book and liked it). After much digging, I found it as part of the > psfonts on CTAN. There were two dirs: baskerbe and baskervi. Not knowing the this are only the metrics in tex format, you need the pfa/pfb files which actually contain the font shapes i think you would have to buy them from adobe > difference (what is the difference?) I downloaded and installed them both. > > The install I did was as follows, because I simply don't know any better: the > directory I downloaded contained ./tex ./tfm ./vf directories. I coppied the > files in each of these directories to what looked like the appropriate place > in my tex tree: vf files went in /usr/share/texmf/fonts/vf/adobe/baskerbe and > baskervi, tfm files went in /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/ ... , fd files > went into /usr/share/tex/latex/psnfss. I then catted the ???.map files onto > my /etc/texmf/dvips/psfonts.map file, did a texconfig rehash, put > \usepackage{baskerbe} into my preamble, and viewed the postscript. > > The font looks positively horrible. None of the characters are spaced > correctly, none of them are sized correctly, and the font itself looks > nothing like baskerville. What did I do wrong? What do I need to do to it is not baskerville, it is a replacemnet font from ghostscript > install these fonts? I've looked at fntguide, but if the answer is there then > I don't see it > -- ronny
Re: xfig for win32...
* Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-09-04 08:55] wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 07:12:19PM +0200, francesco cattaneo wrote: > > how can i install xfig on my computer running win ME? i'm using lyx > > 1.1.6fix3 for win32... > > I succeeded once in compiling the xfig sources, probably using Cygwin. > I only remember that it was a major pain. You are probably better off with > using xfig on some *nix or using "port" like jfig under Windows. or tgif, which is imo much nicer than xfig (and compiles without problems) > > Andre' > -- ronny
Re: different pagesizes in pdf
* Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-09-02 21:44] wrote: > Ronny Buchmann wrote: > > > > is this possible, e.g. have pages in a4 and some in a3 within the same pdf? > > use package chngpage > > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc.tar.gz as far as i understand it only changes the text block, not the page itself and psmerge doesnt work > > Herbert > -- thanks ronny
different pagesizes in pdf
is this possible, e.g. have pages in a4 and some in a3 within the same pdf? -- thanks ronny
Re: left+rigth address
* Renaud MICHEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-08-27 09:47] wrote: > Le Lundi 27 Août 2001 08:57, vous avez écrit : > > hi > > > > how can i have left and right address in the same lines? > > should look like this: > > > > > > name name > > street street > > city city > > You can use two minipages wich width are less than half the \textwidth so > they will print one on the left and one on the right, align you text left on > the first and right on the second and you can even put a \hfill between the > two minipages to be sure the second will the more on the right possible. > Have a look at the sample LyX file attached, note that I used plain LaTeX for > my minipages to be able to use the command \textwidth (as LyX only allow > simple length and not the use of predefined length). > hey, minipage - that's it :) but i still use address and right address (i want the right address left aligned) and it works also with lyx minipage stuff left address: layout address, minipage, width 30%, valign center right address: layout right address, minipage, width 30%, start new minipage, use hfill, valign center -- thanks ronny
Re: left+rigth address
* Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-08-27 09:44] wrote: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Ronny Buchmann wrote: > > > name name > > street street > > city city > > Maybe you could use a Table. Eg, use 1 row, 2 columns and > then select Multicolumn from the Tabular menu and set some > good width. i hope there is a more automatic way i tried with 3 cols and \hline in the middle cell, but that doesnt work >Then enter the text, and set the paragraphs to "no indent". > > -- thanks ronny
left+rigth address
hi how can i have left and right address in the same lines? should look like this: name name street street city city -- thanks ronny
Re: tex mode
* Francesco Scaglioni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-08-24 14:41] wrote: > Hello and hopefully thanks, > > I have been using lyx 'as is' for a little while - it is excellent. I > decided to explore inserting characters in tex mode eg \gamma and > \beta etc etc. If I enter tex mode then type either \gamma or gamma > the text is highlighted in red ( as the docs predict ) then when I > attempt to view the ps one of two things happens: > > \gamma - results in an error message (There were two errors in the > latex run) and the error symbol appears twice before the \gamma \gamma is a math symbol and can only be used in math mode, AFAIK. > > gamma - (in red) results in gamma appearing as gamma in the ps. this is normal text in raw latex mode. > I am using lyx 1.1.5fix1 - stock SuSE 7.1 installaion. > > Would someone please steer me in the right direction C-M \gamma space > > Mant Thanks > > Francesco > -- ronny
Re: how to include 'pslatex' output into lyx.
* agi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-08-24 23:58] wrote: > hi ronny...i tried the way you suggested and it works just fine. is there > a way to put a caption for the figure as well, like you can if you put a > figure float and then import a .eps file?? i guess, including a file this > way is considered just 'raw' Jtex and therefore lyx doesn't know if it's > a figure at all, so the caption should be included in the .tex file > itself? > thanks a lot.. > praveen. placing the [input: graph.tex] inside a figure float should work (but i'm not sure) at least it works with tables this way > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Ronny Buchmann wrote: > > > * agi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-08-24 21:03] wrote: > > > hi...i have a plot generated by gnuplot using the driver 'pslatex' with > > > the 'auxillary' file option. i can easily include it in a latex file by > > > using 'input{graph.tex}' and then generate a postscript image and then > > > include it in the regular way in a lyx file. that works fine. but is there > > > a way to include the file 'graph.tex' directly into a lyx document. if i > > > try to import the tex document with the 'graph.tex' file included into it, > > > lyx displays a input 'graph.lyx', but it just shows the latex code in > > > output .ps file. > > > what is the easiest way to include a '.tex' and a '.ps' file > > > generated using 'pslatex' driver in gnuplot, into lyx. > > > praveen. > > > > > did you try > > Insert->Include File-> > > File Name: graph.tex > > [x] Use input[ ]Don't typeset > > ? > > > > -- > > ronny > > > -- ronny
Re: how to include 'pslatex' output into lyx.
* agi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-08-24 21:03] wrote: > hi...i have a plot generated by gnuplot using the driver 'pslatex' with > the 'auxillary' file option. i can easily include it in a latex file by > using 'input{graph.tex}' and then generate a postscript image and then > include it in the regular way in a lyx file. that works fine. but is there > a way to include the file 'graph.tex' directly into a lyx document. if i > try to import the tex document with the 'graph.tex' file included into it, > lyx displays a input 'graph.lyx', but it just shows the latex code in > output .ps file. > what is the easiest way to include a '.tex' and a '.ps' file > generated using 'pslatex' driver in gnuplot, into lyx. > praveen. > did you try Insert->Include File-> File Name: graph.tex [x] Use input[ ]Don't typeset ? -- ronny
Re: Chaptermark in headings without number
* Saalfeld, Christoph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-08-22 10:31] wrote: > Hi, > > I've configured my headings (fancy) to display a graphical logo of my > university an the current chapter. This works fine (thanks to Herbert's > Homepage), and I've inserted the assertion at the end of my document before > bibliography and index. > I've used Lyx's Chapter* template and added the entry to the TOC manually by > entering "\addcontentsline " > No problem so far. Now I'd like to have this chapter displayed in my > heading. Without entering "\chaptermark{eidesstattliche Erklärung}" the > previous chapter/appendix is shown in heading. By entering the above LaTeX > command it is displayed but with number of the previous chapter number in > front, e.g. the if the previous chapter was "B. Quellen", the heading > appears as "B. eidesstattliche Erklärung". > But Bibliography and Index appear as "Literaturverzeichnis" and "Index". How > do _they_ do this ? i had a similar problem and my solution was to make a new new fancystyle for every 'special' page i have this in preamble: % style for info page \fancypagestyle{cvshead}{% \lhead{\footnotesize CVS Datei: \RCSRCSfile} \chead{\footnotesize Revision: \RCSRevision} \rhead{\footnotesize Datum: \RCSRawDate} } % % new pagestyle for toc \fancypagestyle{toc}{\lhead{}} % toc style for all bibliography pages \let\oldbibitem\bibitem \renewcommand{\bibitem}[1]{\oldbibitem{#1}\thispagestyle{toc}} % toc style for all toc pages \let\oldtoc\tableofcontents \renewcommand{\tableofcontents}{\oldtoc\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\thispagestyle{toc}}\thispagestyle{toc}} and \thispagestyle{cvshead} in one page maybe this helps you (i'm not sure, as i dont know the answer of your last question) -- ronny
Re: colour pictures in Lyx..why is the printing so poor?
* Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-08-18 11:41] wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:48:10PM +0100, G.M.Laudone wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I'm a total newbie to Linux and to Lyx but i find it useful and > > fascinating...I'm just typing a quite important report and i'm using > > Lyx...it's great but I've noticed that when I print colour pics(both > > previously converted to eps and ps or inserted straight as jpeg) the > > quality of the printing(i'm using a HP Deskjet 640C) is a bit poor...it > > looks all "dotty" and a bit dark...i don't know if I have to change > > some of the settings or is the conversion from jpg to eps to be > > blamed...in which case...any suggestion?? any software which does it > > It is possible that you are not using a correct driver for your printer. i also think its a driver problem you should use the DJ6xxP driver from hpinkjet.sf.net -- ronny
Re: How do I print duplex?
* Ronny Buchmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-08-17 11:16] wrote: > * Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-08-17 07:50] wrote: > > I have an HP4050 which is a duplexing printer that understands Postscript. My > > lyx file is defined as 2 side, and indeed it has a binding margin that's left > > on odd pages and even on right pages. But I can't find any place to tell the > > printer the job is duplex. Anyone know? > if you use cups (in combination with qtcups, xpp or gtklp) you can set it right >before printing > > btw, lyx should support defining the print command in printing dialog (the Printer >thing changes only the argument to lpr?) i'm dumb :( the spool command is defined in Edit->Preferences->Outputs->spool command that's all i want but it's friday so maybe you excuse my stupidness ;) -- ronny
Re: How do I print duplex?
* Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-08-17 07:50] wrote: > I have an HP4050 which is a duplexing printer that understands Postscript. My > lyx file is defined as 2 side, and indeed it has a binding margin that's left > on odd pages and even on right pages. But I can't find any place to tell the > printer the job is duplex. Anyone know? if you use cups (in combination with qtcups, xpp or gtklp) you can set it right before printing btw, lyx should support defining the print command in printing dialog (the Printer thing changes only the argument to lpr?) -- ronny
Re: What's a better platform - win2k or Linux
* Vladimir Milovanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-08-15 23:13] wrote: > Hi all, > > I know that this sounds like a troll question, but I ma being serious. I am > currently running a w2k setup, and most of the software I use daily is for > windoze. However, I have used lyx before, and I think that it really makes word > look like a toy, so I'd really like to be able to use it. I read a page about a > port on windows, and even tried it , and while it worked sort of OK, I could > see that it was a port, and it wasn't "just right' - sometimes I'd get errors > from the X-server etc. > > My question is this : how difficult would it be for a linux newbie (not an > idiot though, i've installed linux before) to set up Lyx on, say, RedHat 7.1? > Or would it be better to stick with CygWin? if you are free to switch to linux than do it its much better and easier than cygwin (but cygwin is the only way to live with windows, if you are forced to use windows) andre provided commands for grabbing and installing lyx but you also need the xforms rpm available in the contrib directory on lyx ftp site > Please, email me directly if you have a suggestion, since I am not subscribed > to the list. > > Thanks, > Vlad. > -- ronny
Re: avoid pagebreak between normal text and list
* Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-08-15 14:45] schrieb: > Ronny Buchmann wrote: > > > single line paragraph describing the list > > > > * item > > * item > > * item > > - > > > now it happens that latex puts a pagebreak between the text line and the list, how >can i avoid this? > > i think the paragraph should be treated as a section heading but without special >formatting, but i dont if this right and how to do it :( > > - cursor in the single line and than > layout->paragraph->pagebreak before not so nice and only for final document > or > > - mark the above lines with the cursor and than > layout->paragraph->extra->minipage > with a width of 100% > > a minipage can't have a pagebreak, so all gets on the > next page this sounds good > or > > - if you have enough space on the current page, than > \enlargethispage{2cm} for example list is too long, and would also be only for final document -- thanks ronny
avoid pagebreak between normal text and list
hi short expample: - 1.2 section heading paragraph spawning several lines single line paragraph describing the list * item * item * item - now it happens that latex puts a pagebreak between the text line and the list, how can i avoid this? i think the paragraph should be treated as a section heading but without special formatting, but i dont if this right and how to do it :( -- thanks ronny
Re: enumerate indention/labelwidth
* Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-08-14 17:04] schrieb: > Ronny Buchmann wrote: > > > > is there a way to change to indention in enumerate environments? > > > > if i redefine the labels with \renewcommand\labelenumi{\arabic{enumi}. Tag} they >are way outside the left margin > > > > i know there are solutions not using lyx (or latex standard) enumerate (e.g. >Eenumerate), but it is it possible with lyx' enumerate? > > the problem is, that the makelabel is in every enum-environment new > defined. > write in preamble: > > \renewcommand\enumerate{% > \ifnum \@enumdepth >\thr@@\@toodeep\else > \advance\@enumdepth\@ne > \edef\@enumctr{enum\romannumeral\the\@enumdepth}% > \expandafter > \list > \csname label\@enumctr\endcsname > {\usecounter\@enumctr\def\makelabel##1{\hspace\labelsep ##1 > Tag}}% > \fi} > thanks, worked (what we do without you, herbert?) but since i dont want it for all enumerations i did \newcommand\daylist{ in preamble and then in the text: \let\oldenum\enumerate \renewcommand\enumerate{\daylist} the lyx enumeration \renewcommand\enumerate{\oldenum} > Herbert > > --
enumerate indention/labelwidth
hi is there a way to change to indention in enumerate environments? if i redefine the labels with \renewcommand\labelenumi{\arabic{enumi}. Tag} they are way outside the left margin i know there are solutions not using lyx (or latex standard) enumerate (e.g. Eenumerate), but it is it possible with lyx' enumerate? thanks -- ronny
Re: Lyx 1.1.6fix3 for Win32
* Claus Hentschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-07-30 17:08] schrieb: > The current release Lyx 1.1.6fix3 now is available for Win32, too. Have a > look at > http://www.fh-hannover.de/mbau/tim/hentschel/lyx/index.htm > as usual ;-) thanks > > Claus > from the website > Today's ghostscript version is very slow and needs too much temporary memory to >render an image for viewing inside an LyX window. There is an old but stable release >available below on this page. ghostscript-6.51 (the actual version in cygwin) isn't compiled with x11 support at all -- ronny
Re: Install on RH 7.1
* Klaus Vink Slott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-07-29 12:21] schrieb: > Adam Huffman wrote: > > > > On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, John Levon wrote: > > > > > this is means we need someone with RH7.1, who can build RPMs for it ... > > > > > > > > You can also build using rpm -bb from the src.rpm. > > > > > > Then it can be contributed pack to Kayvan's site ... > > > > I can do that if there's demand for it. > I'm not sure if this is nessesary. Acording to Kathryn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (see her mail) the lyx-1.1.6fix2-1.i386.rpm works on a redhat 7.1 > system. i installed lyx-1.1.6fix3-1.i386.rpm (and xforms-0.88-3) on rh7.1 yesterday, no problems so far -- ronny
Re: Install
* John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-07-25 16:57] schrieb: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 04:37:01PM +0200, Ronny Buchmann wrote: > > > > > i will talk to a redhat guy at the evening, maybe me gets heard ;) > > > > you should mention that xforms will hopefully be open source very soon, and > in the not too distant future we will support qt2 thanks for the news, i didn't know this (but i've looked at xforms mailing list archive now), or maybe you said it before and i forgot it > > but the distro-bashing is pretty offtopic yes, sorry (and btw, i personally prefer redhat (or better rawhide) ;)) > john > -- ronny
Re: Install
* Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-07-25 07:50] schrieb: > > > If I did not already consider them stupid for shipping gcc "2.96", I would > > > start doing so now... *sigh* > > > > Gee you've been very easy on them. Why wait so long to come to this > > decision? > > Because I use their distro only seldom. If the KDE people would use proper > C++ I'd probably have come to that decision much earlier due to the support > for that other toolkit... > > > RH dropped LyX from powertools after they made a complete FU of powertools > > 5 when they included LyX linked against 0.86 and shipped 0.81 on the cd. > > At the time we had also dropped support for 0.81 so even if you tried > > rebuilding from srpms you still couldn't get it working. Perhaps they > > didn't like our GUII idea or the KLyX port which was being rumoured (since > > everyone had said gtk wouldn't win outright). > > This smells like some political decision... redhat takes sometimes strange political decisions, sometimes license related, sometimes even stranger netscape is still included (and completely non-free), but lyx/xforms is not (which is imho more free) pine is still included (also non-free) there are several alternatives to netscape, but none to lyx there are hundreds of alternatives to pine, but none to lyx i'd accept their decision to include only free software, if they were consequent i will talk to a redhat guy at the evening, maybe me gets heard ;) > > Andre' > -- ronny
Re: CV class version 1.5 released
* Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-07-23 16:49] schrieb: > >>>>> "Ronny" == Ronny Buchmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ronny> * Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ronny> [2001-06-18 18:08] schrieb: > >> Since nobody complained about the test version of cv-1.5 I > >> announced last week (presumably nobody tried it :), I decided to > >> rebrand it 1.5 > Ronny> maybe i had had a look before, but didnt know that i need it > Ronny> (thanks to babelfish i do know now ;) > > What did you babelfish? i was looking for a latex class for "lebenslauf" in ctan "lebenslauf" (german) -> "curriculum vitae" (never heard that before, and surprised that there is no "real" english word for it) and then i remembered your CV class (btw, there are three others in ctan and yours isn't, why?) > > Ronny> small error in cv.tex, patch attached > > Thanks. Applied. > > JMarc > -- ronny
Re: www.devel.lyx.org
* Kathryn Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-07-21 13:58] schrieb: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:19:42AM +0200, Ronny Buchmann wrote: > > * Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-07-21 09:21] schrieb: > > > > > > 2a. Opera doesn't want to "text-align: center;" the guii table status > > > entries. > > yes it does! (opera 5.0 linux) > > No it doesn't! (opera 5.0 linux) > > I've noticed that with my own pages -- if one wishes to place a *table* > positioned in the centre of the page, and puts it inside, say a div > which has "text-align: center;" then the table still sits on the left. but this isn't the case here, the table itself doesn't have any special alignment (at least i don't see anything like that) and since it uses 100% of the page width, it wouldn't make sense > (And if you give the table the style "text-align: center;" then that > just centres the text inside the table (as one might expect)) i think allan did mean the table entries, which use the css classes "guiiPending" and so on and these are shown correctly (centered) if i put a div with "text-align: center" around a table, mozilla renders all entries centered (opera doesnt), i think mozilla is correct here, but im not sure > > If Ronny has found a way to make opera obey, then I'd like to know how! if you want a table centered use , it seems there is no css stuff for it (maybe "alignment"?) text-align is certainly not the right thing for it (at least what the name suggests) > > Kathryn Andersen > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Blake: And even if I'm wrong we still have a slim chance. > Vila: A slim chance - what more could we ask? > (Blake's 7: Horizon [B4]) -- ronny
Re: CV class version 1.5 released
* Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-06-18 18:08] schrieb: > > Since nobody complained about the test version of cv-1.5 I announced > last week (presumably nobody tried it :), I decided to rebrand it 1.5 maybe i had had a look before, but didnt know that i need it (thanks to babelfish i do know now ;) > officially. It can be found at > http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~lasgoutt/lyx/cv-1.5.tar.gz > and will be included in next LyX release. small error in cv.tex, patch attached > > JMarc > -- thanks ronny Index: cv.lyx === RCS file: /cvs/lyx/lyx-devel/lib/examples/cv.lyx,v retrieving revision 1.1.2.1 diff -u -p -u -d -r1.1.2.1 cv.lyx --- cv.lyx 2001/06/18 16:03:26 1.1.2.1 +++ cv.lyx 2001/07/21 12:06:58 @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ %% \topicmargin: the left margin inside topics. %% Defaults to 20% of the text width (0.20\textwidth). % To get more room for left column of Topic layouts, uncomment following line: -% \setlength{\topicmargin}{0.3\textwidth} +% \renewcommand{\topicmargin}{0.3\textwidth} \end_preamble \language english \inputencoding default
Re: www.devel.lyx.org
* Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-07-21 09:21] schrieb: > > This site is now updated and looks just as pretty as www.lyx.org. > (still waiting for the update of the main site but my test site looks > pretty anyway -- should be only a couple of minutes) > > I think there are only a few minor nitpicks left to clear up: > > 1. translation_hints.php3 hasn't been converted to clean xhtml yet. > 2. the guii table renders with black background in Netscape (boo) >simple tricks don't seem to be working at present. Might try again >later. It is still readable and actually fairly pleasant for a bug. > 2a. Opera doesn't want to "text-align: center;" the guii table status > entries. yes it does! (opera 5.0 linux) > Of course now that this is finished everyone is going to want the blue > bgimage instead of the green one... do you mean the one attached? the bgcolor is correct (#4669ad) but imho it has to much contrast what do you think? -- ronny lyxbg-blue-indexcolors.png
Re: lyx on cygwin
* Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-07-06 15:58] schrieb: > My coworker wants to start learning LaTeX, and of course I suggested him > LyX. Unfortunately he is using windows. And I haven't never used really it > so it's difficult for me to help. > > I installed huge amount of packages, starting from full MikTeX (direct net > install so it was the newest version whatever it was). Seems to be working > ok. > > Then I installed full CygWin from the net. Seems to be working fine, too. > > Then I grabbed and installed XFree/CygWin. Again, seems to working mostly > fine (altought gives some error messages at startup, eg. "can not start > mxterm" and something.) I downloaded and compiled and installed icewm from > source inside CygWin, and since it seems to be working quite fine I think > the install is ok. > > Then I installed the LyX .zip package given somewhere on the LyX web > site. I extracted the .zip (using CygWin's tools, there didn't seem to be > unzip on Windows) and installed it. Everything seems to be ok so far. > > Now, when I start first X server and then try to start LyX, XFree crashes > immediately (ie. the X window disappears). I tried running LyX remotely > >from my Linux box, and it worked fine. did you a try an x-server from the test series? maybe a strace of the x-server could help the cygwin developers if it's not working use starnet's xwin32 > > It is a Windows NT box. > -- ronny
Re: Using LyX for DTP (long)
* Kathryn Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-06-20 16:15] schrieb: > > 5) fancy page headers and footers > > I used the fancyhdr package. I never did end up putting graphical > objects around my page-numbers though. this is howto include pictures in the header \usepackage{graphics} \newcommand\myImage{ \resizebox{!}{2cm}{\includegraphics{picture.eps}} } \fancyhead[LE,LO]{\myImage\hfill\thepage} i think (but dont know) there is some latex magic possible, to place the page number over the picture it was a very interesting story, thanks -- ronny