Re: Figure key

2009-09-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Manolo Martí­nez schrieb: Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place to add explanations to a figure? A longish list of things such as "the pointed line means blah, and the blue square stands for blah"... The "figure" box in the float is too small for that -and everything you

RE: Figure key

2009-09-09 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place >to add explanations to a figure? A longish list of things >such as "the pointed line means blah, and the blue square >stands for blah"... > >The "figure" box in the float is too small for that How can it be too small ? I can put a wo

Figure key

2009-09-09 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Hi, Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place to add explanations to a figure? A longish list of things such as "the pointed line means blah, and the blue square stands for blah"... The "figure" box in the float is too small for that -and everything you put in there appears

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-11-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: David Wolfson wrote: As soon as I read this I realised that it was probably a path problem. Not knowing any better, I had installed the font to '/usr/local/share/texmf/' rather than '/usr/share/texmf/'. I removed that installation, rehashed, and carried out the instruct

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-11-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Wolfson wrote: As soon as I read this I realised that it was probably a path problem. Not knowing any better, I had installed the font to '/usr/local/share/texmf/' rather than '/usr/share/texmf/'. I removed that installation, rehashed, and carried out the instructions I mentioned earli

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-11-02 Thread David Wolfson
Stephen, On Wednesday 02 November 2005 04:07, Stephen Harris wrote: > I downloaded the entire zip package and installed it in /usr/ifsym > since I wasn't sure what the proper path was. I copied texmf.dvi, > the test file, to the same directory. Then ran "xdvi texmf.dvi" and > in displayed properly

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-11-01 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 8:07 PM Subject: Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font - Original Message - From: "David Wolfson" <[EM

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-11-01 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "David Wolfson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 1:59 AM Subject: Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font On Monday 31 October 2005 21:33, Paul A. Rubin wrote: David Wolfson wrote: >>Unfortunately,

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-11-01 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "David Wolfson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 1:59 AM Subject: Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font On Monday 31 October 2005 21:33, Paul A. Rubin wrote: David Wolfson wrote: >>Unfortunately,

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-11-01 Thread David Wolfson
On Monday 31 October 2005 21:33, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > David Wolfson wrote: > >>Unfortunately, the output was not as I'd hope. Instead of getting a > >>triangle, I have an 'a' in the DVI, > > LaTeX writes out a DVI file which contains a command to load the ifgeo10 > font. When your DVI viewer (xd

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-10-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Wolfson wrote: Unfortunately, the output was not as I'd hope. Instead of getting a triangle, I have an 'a' in the DVI, I get the same thing. and nothing in pdf. This is the same processing through LyX or LaTeX on the command line. This appears to be a problem with mktexpk, as if I l

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-10-31 Thread David Wolfson
I've just donr dome more p[oking and got a couple of updates. > Unfortunately, the output was not as I'd hope. Instead of getting a > triangle, I have an 'a' in the DVI, and nothing in pdf. This is the same > processing through LyX or LaTeX on the command line. This appears to be a problem with m

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-10-31 Thread David Wolfson
OK, I've had some luck getting it installed, but working is another matter... > > >>This would suggest that ifsym is not properly installed. Did you (a) > > >>install it and (b) update your TeX file database? If so, try > > >> 'kpsewhich ifsym.sty' from a shell to see if the system knows where t

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-10-31 Thread David Wolfson
Paul, > >>This would suggest that ifsym is not properly installed. Did you (a) > >>install it and (b) update your TeX file database? If so, try 'kpsewhich > >>ifsym.sty' from a shell to see if the system knows where to find it. > > > > Is there a > > 'howto' out there I should look at? > > Have

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-10-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Wolfson wrote: This would suggest that ifsym is not properly installed. Did you (a) install it and (b) update your TeX file database? If so, try 'kpsewhich ifsym.sty' from a shell to see if the system knows where to find it. a) not that I'm aware of! I think this is what I really need s

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-10-31 Thread David Wolfson
Paul, Thanks for the reply - sorry not to get back to you sooner, I took the weeekend off! Paul A. Rubin wrote: > David Wolfson wrote: > > I tried adding \usepackage{ifsym} in the preamamble, > > I think you need \usepackage[geometry]{ifsym} to get \FilledTriangleUp. > > surprised to hear that

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-10-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Wolfson wrote: Hi, Through the wonders of wine, I've managed to get some figures from an old excel sheet added into a lyx file as floats, but need to add symbol definitions in the caption. I've found most of the symbols listed as part of the ifsym font in the 'comprehensive list of LATE

Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-10-27 Thread David Wolfson
Hi, Through the wonders of wine, I've managed to get some figures from an old excel sheet added into a lyx file as floats, but need to add symbol definitions in the caption. I've found most of the symbols listed as part of the ifsym font in the 'comprehensive list of LATEX fonts' from CTAN, but