Re: Unfortunately i think i am giving up :( Was : ReCoping and pasting tables from SPSS

2001-09-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 02:30:14 +0200 wrote Giovanni Tummarello [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For how sad it seems i think i am back with word 2000 which works seamlessly in doing this kind of operations.. This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is free.. and that the underlying

Re: Re: Lyx: some questions and many thanks

2001-09-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 17:52:09 +0200 wrote Uwe Grossmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks, that's much better! But ispell marked a word like Hallen as unknown and shows a list of known words. One is Halle+n Is there another option which I forgot to choose? I am not an expert with ispell, but

Re: Re: ° in math-mode

2001-09-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 19:46:49 +0200 wrote Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Uwe Grossmann wrote: I can't find the 0 in math-mode on my keyboard (qwertz-latin1). So i hat to switch off the math-mode type 0 and switch back to math-mode. It's a little bit boaring. I know it's possible to

Re: lyx doesn't update view-ps when included figure changed on disk.

2001-09-05 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:32:45PM -0400, Zailong Bian wrote: Hi. This seems to be a small problem. Lyx doesn't update the postscript correctly when the figures have been changed but the lyx file is not. In this case, I have to change the file before update postscript. Is it possible

Re: Bizarre symptom -- no updated Postscript view

2001-09-05 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:57:35PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is really bizarre. My View-Postscript, View-Update-Postscript, View-PDF, View-Update-PDF, View-DVI, and View-Update-DVI all show the file as it was when I started LyX. To get an accurate view I must quit LyX and

Re: Why LyX?

2001-09-05 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:57:49PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: Oh yes, and there's the pretty PS/PDF output as well. An untutored eye may not immediately pick up on the difference between the same document in LyX-LaTeX-PS and a standard word-processor, but I think there's a subliminal

Re: Coping and pasting tables from SPSS

2001-09-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:26:57PM +0200, Giovanni Tummarello wrote: I have tried alternative approaches.. SPSS offers me to save the table in text mode which is simply a ASCII formatted table assuming font is NON proportional. Needless to say LYX's no double space, no tab, no double

Re: Unfortunately i think i am giving up :( Was : ReCoping and pasting tables from SPSS

2001-09-05 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le Mercredi 5 Septembre 2001 02:30, vous avez écrit : This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is free.. and that the underlying latex is supposely bug free. why features does lyx offer that word doesnt? (the contrary isnt really to be asked :) ) . I mean.. all the

co-operation

2001-09-05 Thread rabo_m_krimrod
Double-Win International TEL: 0086-574-86157635 FAX: 0086-574-86860673 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear sir, Very glad to learn you in your homepage, we hereby to introduce our plant as a leading fine chemical manufacturer in China. We mainly produce bulk chemicals and bulk pharmaceuticals

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, I like the idea that my work will be accessible in its source format in 20 or 30 years time, as long as I have a readable ascii file, I can get to it, I would be surprised if I could do the same with a Word format

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 14:48, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, I like the idea that my work will be accessible in its source format in 20 or 30 years time, as long as I have a readable ascii file, I can get to it, I would be

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc. That does not even hold for most .ps files. Having a format using ASCII char does not necessarily mean you can read it painlessly... Andre' -- André Pönitz

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 15:02, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc. That does not even hold for most .ps files. Having a format using ASCII char does not necessarily mean you

Re: why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread petemartin
Yes, I had in mind the input markup being of use in 20 years time, as opposed to the output format de jour. I have in my collections some old files in runnof (from Prime computers amongst others) and nroff files that I can readily access with vi. This works of course only if you have the means

RE: lyx doesn't update view-ps when included figure changed on disk.

2001-09-05 Thread Zailong Bian
I did compile it myself...and was really impressed by the space needed to compile it. I would probably try to recompile it, but I am just curious that the compiler comes in with Mandrake 8.0 is outdated. Can you recommand a version number of the gcc that gives lyx correct behaviour when

Re: lyx doesn't update view-ps when included figure changed on di sk.

2001-09-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:36:15AM -0400, Zailong Bian wrote: I would probably try to recompile it, but I am just curious that the compiler comes in with Mandrake 8.0 is outdated. Can you recommand a version number of the gcc that gives lyx correct behaviour when compiled? 2.95.2 is e.g. ok.

Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:30:14AM +0200, Giovanni Tummarello wrote: This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is free.. and that the underlying latex is supposely bug free. why features does lyx offer that word doesnt? (the contrary isnt really to be asked :) ) . I

Re: Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: One thing that LyX definitely does worse is fonts -- but that's because of the limitations of TeX. Does anyone know if that's ever likely to improve? what do you mean here ? regards john -- This is mindless pedantism up

Re: Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000 From: Kathryn Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why Lyx? On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:30:14AM +0200, Giovanni Tummarello wrote: This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is free.. and that the underlying latex is

you made it to my thanks list!

2001-09-05 Thread morten
well I'm almost done, I turn in my master thesis monday. And I have put everybody on the lyx-user mailing list in the thanks-section. I find the reasons to be obvious: 1) The developpers of lyx are listening in and they react to whatever happens here. I find lyx to be one of the best pieces of

Re: Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:45, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000 From: Kathryn Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why Lyx? I wish I could use Lyx at work. Unfortunately the manual for the software I work on is required (by the

Full width tables

2001-09-05 Thread Nicholas Piper
Hi, I'd like to permit certain tables to use the full width of my A4 page. Normally I quite like the largish margins, but trying to squish a table which contains a lot of info into them seems silly. Can my table go from one side of the sheet to the other ? Cheers, Nick -- Part 3 MEng

Re: Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
From: Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why Lyx? Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:51:33 +0300 On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:45, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000 From: Kathryn Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Full width tables

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Nicholas Piper wrote: I'd like to permit certain tables to use the full width of my A4 page. Normally I quite like the largish margins, but trying to squish a table which contains a lot of info into them seems silly. Can my table go from one side of the sheet to the other ? have a look at

Hypertext and PDF

2001-09-05 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
I've tested tex2pdf 2.29 on a real life document (a PhD thesis) with a lot of crossrefs and figures. Original figures were included with epsf, so I wrote a short script to substitute graphics to epsf (not generic I guess). I ran in a Tex capacity problem when I came to thumbnails, but when this

Re: Full width tables

2001-09-05 Thread Nicholas Piper
On Wed, 05 Sep 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: Nicholas Piper wrote: How can I integrate this with LyX's table editor ? this is not easy, because you have to redefine the table environment. fouer one or two tables choose pute tex (red) code. I don't understand your last line. Could you give me

GELLMU, GUI, Unicode

2001-09-05 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
Hi folks, Couple of questions, rather technical in nature: (1) Would it be much of a technical problem to include an export option for LaTeX-Like Markup (aka GELLMU, see http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/gellmu/) besides LaTeX? That would be a nice step towards integrating LyX into a SGML/XML

Bold Cell Entries in Tables/Very Simple Document Styles?

2001-09-05 Thread Ralph Boland
... Opps. OK. choose standard as paragraph layout for the table! if you want the table printed in bold characters write in ert: \textbf{ .. your table here ... } Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/ Actually I only want certain entries in the table to be bold.

Re: bibliography heading

2001-09-05 Thread Stephan D. Picard
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: Stephan D. Picard wrote: Hello, I know this question has been addressed before but there still is a problem (for me at least) that I can't seem to resolve. I want (me too) change the 'bibliography' for something else (say, 'references').

Re: bibliography heading

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Stephan D. Picard wrote: Actually, I have book-class. I had tried that command you mentionned but LyX returned: LaTeX Error: \refname undefined. \begin {document} Try typing return to proceed. If that doesn't work, type X return to quit. which seems to confirm that I'm not using

Re: you made it to my thanks list!

2001-09-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 10:33, you wrote: The one thing I lack is more a tex-thing than lyx. It is a style editor. Does anyone of a GUI based class/style editor? Perhaps we should mount a project to make such a software. If you do mount such a project, I'll help with the documentation

Re: Full width tables

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Nicholas Piper wrote: I don't understand your last line. Could you give me an example or point me to where I might find one ? the following all in tex (red) \noindent\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|c|X|c|}\hline one two three \\ 1 2 3 \\ a b c \\ \hline \end{tabularx} all columns

Re: Bold Cell Entries in Tables/Very Simple Document Styles?

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Ralph Boland wrote: Actually I only want certain entries in the table to be bold. However, if I try setting the characters in a table cell to bold using: layout-character or ert: \textbf{entry} I do not get the affects I expect. mark the text in the cell

Re: Why LyX?

2001-09-05 Thread Ronald Florence
John Levon writes: I've turned tens of normal students onto lyx instead of word (even unix-hating students) entirely as a result of the output. Yes, but ... I've never used ms-word, and haven't used any PC word-processing program since the first version of word-perfect. For 16 years

Re: [tex2pdf-dev] Hypertext and PDF

2001-09-05 Thread Steffen Evers
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 17:48, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: I've tested tex2pdf 2.29 on a real life document (a PhD thesis) with a lot of crossrefs and figures. Original figures were included with epsf, so I wrote a short script to substitute graphics to epsf (not generic I guess). I ran in

Re: Why LyX?

2001-09-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 16:09, you wrote: John Levon writes: I've turned tens of normal students onto lyx instead of word (even unix-hating students) entirely as a result of the output. Yes, but ... I've never used ms-word, and haven't used any PC word-processing program since

How to change spacing size in itemize

2001-09-05 Thread Holger Warm
Hello, I got to know lyx about 6 months ago and I´m still facinated of the results you get using it, why does anyone need word o something else? But sometimes I still have problems and I hope that anybody could help me. 1. How can I change the spacing size within itemize or enumerate, because

Re: Coping and pasting tables from SPSS

2001-09-05 Thread Ronald Florence
Guenter Milde writes: --512586620-1804289383-999677429=:412 Content-Type: IMAGE/jpeg; NAME=csv2lyx Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64 Content-Disposition: INLINE; FILENAME=csv2lyx --512586620-1804289383-999677429=:412 Content-Type: IMAGE/jpeg; NAME=eps2eps

Re: bibliography heading

2001-09-05 Thread Stephan D. Picard
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: Stephan D. Picard wrote: Actually, I have book-class. I had tried that command you mentionned but LyX returned: LaTeX Error: \refname undefined. \begin {document} Try typing return to proceed. If that doesn't work, type X return to

Re: How to change spacing size in itemize

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Holger Warm wrote: Hello, I got to know lyx about 6 months ago and I´m still facinated of the results you get using it, why does anyone need word o something else? But sometimes I still have problems and I hope that anybody could help me. 1. How can I change the spacing size within itemize

Re: bibliography heading

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Stephan D. Picard wrote: Now, that required a little more work then I thought. I couldn't reproduce that behaviour with a smaller file so I had to fiddle a little (long) while to figure what was happening. Here's my 'discoveries' and strangeness that I found. send the wgole main-doc as

Re: Lyx1.1.5fix2 and compose key ... bug?

2001-09-05 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
To: Beaubert Francois [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX users [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Lyx1.1.5fix2 and compose key ... bug? From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 05 Sep 2001 17:56:00 +0200 Beaubert == Beaubert Francois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Beaubert Hi all,

Re: Unfortunately i think i am giving up :( Was : ReCoping and pasting tables from SPSS

2001-09-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 02:30:14 +0200 wrote Giovanni Tummarello [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For how sad it seems i think i am back with word 2000 which works seamlessly in doing this kind of operations.. This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is free.. and that the underlying

Re: Re: Lyx: some questions and many thanks

2001-09-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 17:52:09 +0200 wrote Uwe Grossmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks, that's much better! But ispell marked a word like Hallen as unknown and shows a list of known words. One is Halle+n Is there another option which I forgot to choose? I am not an expert with ispell, but

Re: Re: ° in math-mode

2001-09-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 19:46:49 +0200 wrote Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Uwe Grossmann wrote: I can't find the 0 in math-mode on my keyboard (qwertz-latin1). So i hat to switch off the math-mode type 0 and switch back to math-mode. It's a little bit boaring. I know it's possible to

Re: lyx doesn't update view-ps when included figure changed on disk.

2001-09-05 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:32:45PM -0400, Zailong Bian wrote: Hi. This seems to be a small problem. Lyx doesn't update the postscript correctly when the figures have been changed but the lyx file is not. In this case, I have to change the file before update postscript. Is it possible

Re: Bizarre symptom -- no updated Postscript view

2001-09-05 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:57:35PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is really bizarre. My View-Postscript, View-Update-Postscript, View-PDF, View-Update-PDF, View-DVI, and View-Update-DVI all show the file as it was when I started LyX. To get an accurate view I must quit LyX and

Re: Why LyX?

2001-09-05 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:57:49PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: Oh yes, and there's the pretty PS/PDF output as well. An untutored eye may not immediately pick up on the difference between the same document in LyX-LaTeX-PS and a standard word-processor, but I think there's a subliminal

Re: Coping and pasting tables from SPSS

2001-09-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:26:57PM +0200, Giovanni Tummarello wrote: I have tried alternative approaches.. SPSS offers me to save the table in text mode which is simply a ASCII formatted table assuming font is NON proportional. Needless to say LYX's no double space, no tab, no double

Re: Unfortunately i think i am giving up :( Was : ReCoping and pasting tables from SPSS

2001-09-05 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le Mercredi 5 Septembre 2001 02:30, vous avez écrit : This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is free.. and that the underlying latex is supposely bug free. why features does lyx offer that word doesnt? (the contrary isnt really to be asked :) ) . I mean.. all the

co-operation

2001-09-05 Thread rabo_m_krimrod
Double-Win International TEL: 0086-574-86157635 FAX: 0086-574-86860673 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear sir, Very glad to learn you in your homepage, we hereby to introduce our plant as a leading fine chemical manufacturer in China. We mainly produce bulk chemicals and bulk pharmaceuticals

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, I like the idea that my work will be accessible in its source format in 20 or 30 years time, as long as I have a readable ascii file, I can get to it, I would be surprised if I could do the same with a Word format

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 14:48, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, I like the idea that my work will be accessible in its source format in 20 or 30 years time, as long as I have a readable ascii file, I can get to it, I would be

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc. That does not even hold for most .ps files. Having a format using ASCII char does not necessarily mean you can read it painlessly... Andre' -- André Pönitz

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 15:02, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc. That does not even hold for most .ps files. Having a format using ASCII char does not necessarily mean you

Re: why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread petemartin
Yes, I had in mind the input markup being of use in 20 years time, as opposed to the output format de jour. I have in my collections some old files in runnof (from Prime computers amongst others) and nroff files that I can readily access with vi. This works of course only if you have the means

RE: lyx doesn't update view-ps when included figure changed on disk.

2001-09-05 Thread Zailong Bian
I did compile it myself...and was really impressed by the space needed to compile it. I would probably try to recompile it, but I am just curious that the compiler comes in with Mandrake 8.0 is outdated. Can you recommand a version number of the gcc that gives lyx correct behaviour when

Re: lyx doesn't update view-ps when included figure changed on di sk.

2001-09-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:36:15AM -0400, Zailong Bian wrote: I would probably try to recompile it, but I am just curious that the compiler comes in with Mandrake 8.0 is outdated. Can you recommand a version number of the gcc that gives lyx correct behaviour when compiled? 2.95.2 is e.g. ok.

Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:30:14AM +0200, Giovanni Tummarello wrote: This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is free.. and that the underlying latex is supposely bug free. why features does lyx offer that word doesnt? (the contrary isnt really to be asked :) ) . I

Re: Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: One thing that LyX definitely does worse is fonts -- but that's because of the limitations of TeX. Does anyone know if that's ever likely to improve? what do you mean here ? regards john -- This is mindless pedantism up

Re: Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000 From: Kathryn Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why Lyx? On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:30:14AM +0200, Giovanni Tummarello wrote: This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is free.. and that the underlying latex is

you made it to my thanks list!

2001-09-05 Thread morten
well I'm almost done, I turn in my master thesis monday. And I have put everybody on the lyx-user mailing list in the thanks-section. I find the reasons to be obvious: 1) The developpers of lyx are listening in and they react to whatever happens here. I find lyx to be one of the best pieces of

Re: Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:45, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000 From: Kathryn Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why Lyx? I wish I could use Lyx at work. Unfortunately the manual for the software I work on is required (by the

Full width tables

2001-09-05 Thread Nicholas Piper
Hi, I'd like to permit certain tables to use the full width of my A4 page. Normally I quite like the largish margins, but trying to squish a table which contains a lot of info into them seems silly. Can my table go from one side of the sheet to the other ? Cheers, Nick -- Part 3 MEng

Re: Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
From: Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why Lyx? Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:51:33 +0300 On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:45, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000 From: Kathryn Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Full width tables

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Nicholas Piper wrote: I'd like to permit certain tables to use the full width of my A4 page. Normally I quite like the largish margins, but trying to squish a table which contains a lot of info into them seems silly. Can my table go from one side of the sheet to the other ? have a look at

Hypertext and PDF

2001-09-05 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
I've tested tex2pdf 2.29 on a real life document (a PhD thesis) with a lot of crossrefs and figures. Original figures were included with epsf, so I wrote a short script to substitute graphics to epsf (not generic I guess). I ran in a Tex capacity problem when I came to thumbnails, but when this

Re: Full width tables

2001-09-05 Thread Nicholas Piper
On Wed, 05 Sep 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: Nicholas Piper wrote: How can I integrate this with LyX's table editor ? this is not easy, because you have to redefine the table environment. fouer one or two tables choose pute tex (red) code. I don't understand your last line. Could you give me

GELLMU, GUI, Unicode

2001-09-05 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
Hi folks, Couple of questions, rather technical in nature: (1) Would it be much of a technical problem to include an export option for LaTeX-Like Markup (aka GELLMU, see http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/gellmu/) besides LaTeX? That would be a nice step towards integrating LyX into a SGML/XML

Bold Cell Entries in Tables/Very Simple Document Styles?

2001-09-05 Thread Ralph Boland
... Opps. OK. choose standard as paragraph layout for the table! if you want the table printed in bold characters write in ert: \textbf{ .. your table here ... } Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/ Actually I only want certain entries in the table to be bold.

Re: bibliography heading

2001-09-05 Thread Stephan D. Picard
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: Stephan D. Picard wrote: Hello, I know this question has been addressed before but there still is a problem (for me at least) that I can't seem to resolve. I want (me too) change the 'bibliography' for something else (say, 'references').

Re: bibliography heading

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Stephan D. Picard wrote: Actually, I have book-class. I had tried that command you mentionned but LyX returned: LaTeX Error: \refname undefined. \begin {document} Try typing return to proceed. If that doesn't work, type X return to quit. which seems to confirm that I'm not using

Re: you made it to my thanks list!

2001-09-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 10:33, you wrote: The one thing I lack is more a tex-thing than lyx. It is a style editor. Does anyone of a GUI based class/style editor? Perhaps we should mount a project to make such a software. If you do mount such a project, I'll help with the documentation

Re: Full width tables

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Nicholas Piper wrote: I don't understand your last line. Could you give me an example or point me to where I might find one ? the following all in tex (red) \noindent\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|c|X|c|}\hline one two three \\ 1 2 3 \\ a b c \\ \hline \end{tabularx} all columns

Re: Bold Cell Entries in Tables/Very Simple Document Styles?

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Ralph Boland wrote: Actually I only want certain entries in the table to be bold. However, if I try setting the characters in a table cell to bold using: layout-character or ert: \textbf{entry} I do not get the affects I expect. mark the text in the cell

Re: Why LyX?

2001-09-05 Thread Ronald Florence
John Levon writes: I've turned tens of normal students onto lyx instead of word (even unix-hating students) entirely as a result of the output. Yes, but ... I've never used ms-word, and haven't used any PC word-processing program since the first version of word-perfect. For 16 years

Re: [tex2pdf-dev] Hypertext and PDF

2001-09-05 Thread Steffen Evers
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 17:48, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: I've tested tex2pdf 2.29 on a real life document (a PhD thesis) with a lot of crossrefs and figures. Original figures were included with epsf, so I wrote a short script to substitute graphics to epsf (not generic I guess). I ran in

Re: Why LyX?

2001-09-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 16:09, you wrote: John Levon writes: I've turned tens of normal students onto lyx instead of word (even unix-hating students) entirely as a result of the output. Yes, but ... I've never used ms-word, and haven't used any PC word-processing program since

How to change spacing size in itemize

2001-09-05 Thread Holger Warm
Hello, I got to know lyx about 6 months ago and I´m still facinated of the results you get using it, why does anyone need word o something else? But sometimes I still have problems and I hope that anybody could help me. 1. How can I change the spacing size within itemize or enumerate, because

Re: Coping and pasting tables from SPSS

2001-09-05 Thread Ronald Florence
Guenter Milde writes: --512586620-1804289383-999677429=:412 Content-Type: IMAGE/jpeg; NAME=csv2lyx Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64 Content-Disposition: INLINE; FILENAME=csv2lyx --512586620-1804289383-999677429=:412 Content-Type: IMAGE/jpeg; NAME=eps2eps

Re: bibliography heading

2001-09-05 Thread Stephan D. Picard
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: Stephan D. Picard wrote: Actually, I have book-class. I had tried that command you mentionned but LyX returned: LaTeX Error: \refname undefined. \begin {document} Try typing return to proceed. If that doesn't work, type X return to

Re: How to change spacing size in itemize

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Holger Warm wrote: Hello, I got to know lyx about 6 months ago and I´m still facinated of the results you get using it, why does anyone need word o something else? But sometimes I still have problems and I hope that anybody could help me. 1. How can I change the spacing size within itemize

Re: bibliography heading

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Stephan D. Picard wrote: Now, that required a little more work then I thought. I couldn't reproduce that behaviour with a smaller file so I had to fiddle a little (long) while to figure what was happening. Here's my 'discoveries' and strangeness that I found. send the wgole main-doc as

Re: Lyx1.1.5fix2 and compose key ... bug?

2001-09-05 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
To: Beaubert Francois [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX users [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Lyx1.1.5fix2 and compose key ... bug? From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 05 Sep 2001 17:56:00 +0200 Beaubert == Beaubert Francois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Beaubert Hi all,

Re: Unfortunately i think i am giving up :( Was : ReCoping and pasting tables from SPSS

2001-09-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 02:30:14 +0200 wrote Giovanni Tummarello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For how sad it seems i think i am back with word 2000 which works seamlessly in > doing this kind of operations.. > > This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is free.. and > that the

Re: Re: Lyx: some questions and many thanks

2001-09-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 17:52:09 +0200 wrote Uwe Grossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks, that's much better! But ispell marked a word like "Hallen" as unknown > > and shows a list of known words. One is "Halle+n" > Is there another option which I forgot to choose? I am not an expert with

Re: Re: ° in math-mode

2001-09-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 19:46:49 +0200 wrote Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Uwe Grossmann wrote: > > > > I can't find the "0" in math-mode on my keyboard (qwertz-latin1). So i > > hat to switch off the math-mode type "0" and switch back to math-mode. > > It's a little bit boaring. > > I know

Re: lyx doesn't update view-ps when included figure changed on disk.

2001-09-05 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:32:45PM -0400, Zailong Bian wrote: > Hi. > > This seems to be a small problem. Lyx doesn't update the postscript > correctly when the figures have been changed but the lyx file is not. > > In this case, I have to change the file before update postscript. Is it >

Re: Bizarre symptom -- no updated Postscript view

2001-09-05 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:57:35PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > This is really bizarre. My View->Postscript, View->Update->Postscript, > View->PDF, View->Update->PDF, View->DVI, and View->Update->DVI all show the > file as it was when I started LyX. To get an accurate view I must

Re: Why LyX?

2001-09-05 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:57:49PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > Oh yes, and there's the pretty PS/PDF output as well. An untutored eye may > not immediately pick up on the difference between the same document in > LyX->LaTeX->PS and a standard word-processor, but I think there's a >

Re: Coping and pasting tables from SPSS

2001-09-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:26:57PM +0200, Giovanni Tummarello wrote: > > I have tried alternative approaches.. SPSS offers me to save the table > > in "text mode" which is simply a ASCII formatted table assuming font > > is NON proportional. Needless to say LYX's "no double space, no tab, no >

Re: Unfortunately i think i am giving up :( Was : ReCoping and pasting tables from SPSS

2001-09-05 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le Mercredi 5 Septembre 2001 02:30, vous avez écrit : > This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is free.. > and that the underlying latex is supposely bug free. why features does lyx > offer that word doesnt? (the contrary isnt really to be asked :) ) . I > mean.. all the

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Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Finally, I like the idea that my work will be accessible in its source > format in 20 or 30 years time, as long as I have a readable ascii file, I > can get to it, I would be surprised if I could do the same with a Word > format

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 14:48, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Finally, I like the idea that my work will be accessible in its source > > format in 20 or 30 years time, as long as I have a readable ascii file, I > > can get to it, I

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc. That does not even hold for most .ps files. Having a format using ASCII char does not necessarily mean you can read it painlessly... Andre' -- André Pönitz

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 15:02, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > > Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc. > > That does not even hold for most .ps files. Having a format using ASCII > char does not necessarily

Re: why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread petemartin
Yes, I had in mind the input markup being of use in 20 years time, as opposed to the output format de jour. I have in my collections some old files in runnof (from Prime computers amongst others) and nroff files that I can readily access with vi. This works of course only if you have the means

RE: lyx doesn't update view-ps when included figure changed on disk.

2001-09-05 Thread Zailong Bian
I did compile it myself...and was really impressed by the space needed to compile it. I would probably try to recompile it, but I am just curious that the compiler comes in with Mandrake 8.0 is outdated. Can you recommand a version number of the gcc that gives lyx correct behaviour when

Re: lyx doesn't update view-ps when included figure changed on di sk.

2001-09-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:36:15AM -0400, Zailong Bian wrote: > I would probably try to recompile it, but I am just curious that the > compiler comes in with Mandrake 8.0 is outdated. Can you recommand a > version number of the gcc that gives lyx correct behaviour when compiled? 2.95.2 is e.g.

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