sgml/xml and lyx

2005-02-21 Thread wenamun
hello all,as far as i understand you can edit sgml/xml-files with lyx, docbook-files that is. is it somehow possible to work with self-defined, arbitrary dtd's ? i want to edit tei-files with lyx and export them to pdf. frank

Re: sgml/xml and lyx

2005-02-21 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 21 February 2005 08:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all,as far as i understand you can edit sgml/xml-files with lyx, docbook-files that is. is it somehow possible to work with self-defined, arbitrary dtd's ? No, we are working on that, there is an entry in the bugzilla database

Re: Umlaute and sz (ß) not shown in Navigate and Table of contents

2005-02-21 Thread G. Milde
On 17.02.05, Georg Baum wrote: This is a known problem, because SuSE 9.2 uses an UTF8 environment and LyX can't handle that. A workaround is described here: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1755 As it seems to be a FAQ, I added an entry in the lyx wiki tips for it.

Re: [noob q] Recursive sections?

2005-02-21 Thread Jose' Matos
On Saturday 19 February 2005 12:41, Glenn Davy wrote: Is there a template or layout readily available for lyx that will provide that type of functionality? Alternatively what are my other options for deeper nesting of subsections? No. At this time the only option is use the traditional

Re: [noob q] Recursive sections?

2005-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Glenn Davy wrote: Is there a template or layout readily available for lyx that will provide that type of functionality? If you need a way to switch easily between article kind of classes (where section is the uppermost level) and book (which has chapter one level higher), then you might try

Re: [nooby q] 'linked' text flow

2005-02-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:53:01PM +1100, Glenn Davy wrote: I imagine given the 'structured' nature of lyx that this isn't possible? It's almost impossible to do with (La)TeX, so it is not exactly LyX's fault that this is not possible. Correct? Is it however possible to use some LaTeX tricks

Re: [nooby q] 'linked' text flow

2005-02-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Andre Poenitz wrote: There is an example in Knuth's TeXbook that shows text floating around a circle, but you have to manually compute all the line length needed and it is a real pain to do so for more than one paragraph. It might be possible to automate that task a bit, but this is not on LyX's

Re: sgml/xml and lyx

2005-02-21 Thread Matej Cepl
Jose' Matos wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all,as far as i understand you can edit sgml/xml-files with lyx, docbook-files that is. is it somehow possible to work with self-defined, arbitrary dtd's ? No, we are working on that, there is an entry in the bugzilla database requesting

Re: sgml/xml and lyx

2005-02-21 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 21 February 2005 17:09, Matej Cepl wrote: And acutally, you cannot edit Docbook/XML, just Docbook/SGML (unless you create special type in Edit/Preferences and then set up some creative way how to translate between XML and SGML). It is possible (read I have done it before ;-). It

Re: How to set up book-like footnotes

2005-02-21 Thread Matej Cepl
Jack M. Lyon wrote: Here's a way to set up standard, book-like footnotes in LyX--in other words, notes that look like this: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.user/msg/ee3217f5c4dd9a70 -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F

Re: Custom import filter

2005-02-21 Thread Matej Cepl
Jack M. Lyon wrote: It would be most cool if I could import such text directly into LyX. There must be a way to do this, but I can't figure it out from the documentation. I'd be grateful for any tips. It is not well documented, but you can do it -- create your new type file (in

Re: Using a LaTeX class file in LyX

2005-02-21 Thread Matej Cepl
Bren Mochocki wrote: I am under the impression that a document class file cannot be directly used in LyX, it must be converted into a template first. Is this the case? If so, how do I create the template? If not, how do I use the class file? More or less you are correct, except that

Re: Adding a Command in the ToC -- RESOLVED

2005-02-21 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 12:02:34AM +0530, samar j. singh wrote: Well, I've resolved this one, too, by decreasing the ToC depth by one level. Takes two pages off the total count, has no widow item on the last page and actually looks better without all the clutter. For future

Re: NEWBIE Q: how do I eliminate \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

2005-02-21 Thread mario
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 00:48, Uwe Stöhr wrote: mario wrote: It seems to me that Lyx insert the following two lines by default \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} I would like not to have them Why? Do you have a good reason for that and know what these packages

Re: NEWBIE Q: how do I eliminate \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

2005-02-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
mario wrote: Usually, I don't use them. (I type \`{a} for à) If this is an advantage for you. However, my present issue is a different one: say I process my file.tex by pdflatex as to get file.pdf. If I have used fontenc and/or inputenc, the acroread viewer displays file.pdf in a very weird way,

Re: NEWBIE Q: how do I eliminate \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

2005-02-21 Thread Herbert Voss
mario wrote: Usually, I don't use them. (I type \`{a} for à) h, makes no sense with LyX and german docs However, my present issue is a different one: say I process my file.tex by pdflatex as to get file.pdf. If I have used fontenc and/or inputenc, the acroread viewer displays file.pdf in a

RE: [nooby q] 'linked' text flow

2005-02-21 Thread Glenn Davy
Hi Rich and group I'm getting the idea that its not going to happen this for me. However, as you suggest I'll state what I had in mind JIC. In the late '80s and early '90's I did a lot of work in, pagestream on the Atari ST, and then pagemaker. What I would do is edit 'stories' using styles

Re: Adding a Command in the ToC -- RESOLVED

2005-02-21 Thread samar j. singh
Eric Fraga wrote I have a related question that maybe you can help with. I often find I was to manipulate slightly the inter-item spacing for bibliography entries generated by the BibTeX Generated References LyX directive. Unfortunately, any reference to itemsep before or after this gray box

sgml/xml and lyx

2005-02-21 Thread wenamun
hello all,as far as i understand you can edit sgml/xml-files with lyx, docbook-files that is. is it somehow possible to work with self-defined, arbitrary dtd's ? i want to edit tei-files with lyx and export them to pdf. frank

Re: sgml/xml and lyx

2005-02-21 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 21 February 2005 08:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all,as far as i understand you can edit sgml/xml-files with lyx, docbook-files that is. is it somehow possible to work with self-defined, arbitrary dtd's ? No, we are working on that, there is an entry in the bugzilla database

Re: Umlaute and sz (ß) not shown in Navigate and Table of contents

2005-02-21 Thread G. Milde
On 17.02.05, Georg Baum wrote: This is a known problem, because SuSE 9.2 uses an UTF8 environment and LyX can't handle that. A workaround is described here: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1755 As it seems to be a FAQ, I added an entry in the lyx wiki tips for it.

Re: [noob q] Recursive sections?

2005-02-21 Thread Jose' Matos
On Saturday 19 February 2005 12:41, Glenn Davy wrote: Is there a template or layout readily available for lyx that will provide that type of functionality? Alternatively what are my other options for deeper nesting of subsections? No. At this time the only option is use the traditional

Re: [noob q] Recursive sections?

2005-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Glenn Davy wrote: Is there a template or layout readily available for lyx that will provide that type of functionality? If you need a way to switch easily between article kind of classes (where section is the uppermost level) and book (which has chapter one level higher), then you might try

Re: [nooby q] 'linked' text flow

2005-02-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:53:01PM +1100, Glenn Davy wrote: I imagine given the 'structured' nature of lyx that this isn't possible? It's almost impossible to do with (La)TeX, so it is not exactly LyX's fault that this is not possible. Correct? Is it however possible to use some LaTeX tricks

Re: [nooby q] 'linked' text flow

2005-02-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Andre Poenitz wrote: There is an example in Knuth's TeXbook that shows text floating around a circle, but you have to manually compute all the line length needed and it is a real pain to do so for more than one paragraph. It might be possible to automate that task a bit, but this is not on LyX's

Re: sgml/xml and lyx

2005-02-21 Thread Matej Cepl
Jose' Matos wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all,as far as i understand you can edit sgml/xml-files with lyx, docbook-files that is. is it somehow possible to work with self-defined, arbitrary dtd's ? No, we are working on that, there is an entry in the bugzilla database requesting

Re: sgml/xml and lyx

2005-02-21 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 21 February 2005 17:09, Matej Cepl wrote: And acutally, you cannot edit Docbook/XML, just Docbook/SGML (unless you create special type in Edit/Preferences and then set up some creative way how to translate between XML and SGML). It is possible (read I have done it before ;-). It

Re: How to set up book-like footnotes

2005-02-21 Thread Matej Cepl
Jack M. Lyon wrote: Here's a way to set up standard, book-like footnotes in LyX--in other words, notes that look like this: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.user/msg/ee3217f5c4dd9a70 -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F

Re: Custom import filter

2005-02-21 Thread Matej Cepl
Jack M. Lyon wrote: It would be most cool if I could import such text directly into LyX. There must be a way to do this, but I can't figure it out from the documentation. I'd be grateful for any tips. It is not well documented, but you can do it -- create your new type file (in

Re: Using a LaTeX class file in LyX

2005-02-21 Thread Matej Cepl
Bren Mochocki wrote: I am under the impression that a document class file cannot be directly used in LyX, it must be converted into a template first. Is this the case? If so, how do I create the template? If not, how do I use the class file? More or less you are correct, except that

Re: Adding a Command in the ToC -- RESOLVED

2005-02-21 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 12:02:34AM +0530, samar j. singh wrote: Well, I've resolved this one, too, by decreasing the ToC depth by one level. Takes two pages off the total count, has no widow item on the last page and actually looks better without all the clutter. For future

Re: NEWBIE Q: how do I eliminate \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

2005-02-21 Thread mario
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 00:48, Uwe Stöhr wrote: mario wrote: It seems to me that Lyx insert the following two lines by default \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} I would like not to have them Why? Do you have a good reason for that and know what these packages

Re: NEWBIE Q: how do I eliminate \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

2005-02-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
mario wrote: Usually, I don't use them. (I type \`{a} for à) If this is an advantage for you. However, my present issue is a different one: say I process my file.tex by pdflatex as to get file.pdf. If I have used fontenc and/or inputenc, the acroread viewer displays file.pdf in a very weird way,

Re: NEWBIE Q: how do I eliminate \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

2005-02-21 Thread Herbert Voss
mario wrote: Usually, I don't use them. (I type \`{a} for à) h, makes no sense with LyX and german docs However, my present issue is a different one: say I process my file.tex by pdflatex as to get file.pdf. If I have used fontenc and/or inputenc, the acroread viewer displays file.pdf in a

RE: [nooby q] 'linked' text flow

2005-02-21 Thread Glenn Davy
Hi Rich and group I'm getting the idea that its not going to happen this for me. However, as you suggest I'll state what I had in mind JIC. In the late '80s and early '90's I did a lot of work in, pagestream on the Atari ST, and then pagemaker. What I would do is edit 'stories' using styles

Re: Adding a Command in the ToC -- RESOLVED

2005-02-21 Thread samar j. singh
Eric Fraga wrote I have a related question that maybe you can help with. I often find I was to manipulate slightly the inter-item spacing for bibliography entries generated by the BibTeX Generated References LyX directive. Unfortunately, any reference to itemsep before or after this gray box

sgml/xml and lyx

2005-02-21 Thread wenamun
hello all,as far as i understand you can edit sgml/xml-files with lyx, docbook-files that is. is it somehow possible to work with self-defined, arbitrary dtd's ? i want to edit tei-files with lyx and export them to pdf. frank

Re: sgml/xml and lyx

2005-02-21 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 21 February 2005 08:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello all,as far as i understand you can edit sgml/xml-files with lyx, > docbook-files that is. is it somehow possible to work with self-defined, > arbitrary dtd's ? No, we are working on that, there is an entry in the bugzilla

Re: Umlaute and sz (ß) not shown in Navigate and Table of contents

2005-02-21 Thread G. Milde
On 17.02.05, Georg Baum wrote: > This is a known problem, because SuSE 9.2 uses an UTF8 environment and LyX > can't handle that. A workaround is described here: > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1755 As it seems to be a FAQ, I added an entry in the lyx wiki tips for it.

Re: [noob q] Recursive sections?

2005-02-21 Thread Jose' Matos
On Saturday 19 February 2005 12:41, Glenn Davy wrote: > Is there a template or layout readily available for lyx that will provide > that type of functionality? Alternatively what are my other options for > deeper nesting of subsections? No. At this time the only option is use the traditional

Re: [noob q] Recursive sections?

2005-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Glenn Davy wrote: > Is there a template or layout readily available for lyx that will provide > that type of functionality? If you need a way to switch easily between article kind of classes (where section is the uppermost level) and book (which has chapter one level higher), then you might

Re: [nooby q] 'linked' text flow

2005-02-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:53:01PM +1100, Glenn Davy wrote: > I imagine given the 'structured' nature of lyx that this isn't possible? It's almost impossible to do with (La)TeX, so it is not exactly LyX's fault that this is not possible. > Correct? Is it however possible to use some LaTeX tricks

Re: [nooby q] 'linked' text flow

2005-02-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Andre Poenitz wrote: There is an example in Knuth's TeXbook that shows text floating around a circle, but you have to manually compute all the line length needed and it is a real pain to do so for more than one paragraph. It might be possible to automate that task a bit, but this is not on LyX's

Re: sgml/xml and lyx

2005-02-21 Thread Matej Cepl
Jose' Matos wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> hello all,as far as i understand you can edit sgml/xml-files with lyx, >> docbook-files that is. is it somehow possible to work with self-defined, >> arbitrary dtd's ? > > No, we are working on that, there is an entry in the bugzilla database >

Re: sgml/xml and lyx

2005-02-21 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 21 February 2005 17:09, Matej Cepl wrote: > And acutally, you cannot edit Docbook/XML, just Docbook/SGML (unless you > create special type in Edit/Preferences and then set up some creative way > how to translate between XML and SGML). It is possible (read I have done it before ;-).

Re: How to set up book-like footnotes

2005-02-21 Thread Matej Cepl
Jack M. Lyon wrote: > Here's a way to set up standard, book-like footnotes in LyX--in other > words, notes that look like this: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.user/msg/ee3217f5c4dd9a70 -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F

Re: Custom import filter

2005-02-21 Thread Matej Cepl
Jack M. Lyon wrote: > It would be most cool if I could import such text directly into LyX. There > must be a way to do this, but I can't figure it out from the > documentation. I'd be grateful for any tips. It is not well documented, but you can do it -- create your new type file (in

Re: Using a LaTeX class file in LyX

2005-02-21 Thread Matej Cepl
Bren Mochocki wrote: > I am under the impression that a document class file cannot be directly > used in LyX, it must be converted into a template first. Is this the > case? If so, how do I create the template? If not, how do I use the > class file? More or less you are correct, except that

Re: Adding a Command in the ToC -- RESOLVED

2005-02-21 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 12:02:34AM +0530, samar j. singh wrote: > >Well, I've resolved this one, too, by decreasing the ToC depth by one > > level. Takes two pages off the total count, has no widow item on the last > > page and actually looks better without all the clutter. > > > >For

Re: NEWBIE Q: how do I eliminate \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

2005-02-21 Thread mario
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 00:48, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > mario wrote: > > > It seems to me that Lyx insert the following two lines by default > > > > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} > > \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} > > > > I would like not to have them > > Why? Do you have a good reason for that and know

Re: NEWBIE Q: how do I eliminate \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

2005-02-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
mario wrote: Usually, I don't use them. (I type \`{a} for à) If this is an advantage for you. However, my present issue is a different one: say I process my file.tex by pdflatex as to get file.pdf. If I have used fontenc and/or inputenc, the acroread viewer displays file.pdf in a very weird way,

Re: NEWBIE Q: how do I eliminate \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

2005-02-21 Thread Herbert Voss
mario wrote: Usually, I don't use them. (I type \`{a} for à) h, makes no sense with LyX and german docs However, my present issue is a different one: say I process my file.tex by pdflatex as to get file.pdf. If I have used fontenc and/or inputenc, the acroread viewer displays file.pdf in a

RE: [nooby q] 'linked' text flow

2005-02-21 Thread Glenn Davy
Hi Rich and group I'm getting the idea that its not going to happen this for me. However, as you suggest I'll state what I had in mind JIC. In the late '80s and early '90's I did a lot of work in, pagestream on the Atari ST, and then pagemaker. What I would do is edit 'stories' using styles

Re: Adding a Command in the ToC -- RESOLVED

2005-02-21 Thread samar j. singh
Eric Fraga wrote > I have a related question that maybe you can help with. I often find I was > to manipulate slightly the inter-item spacing for bibliography entries > generated by the "BibTeX Generated References" LyX directive. Unfortunately, > any reference to itemsep before or after this gray