Re: Using Curly Brackets in Text

2005-11-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Daniel Watkins wrote: The subject says it all. I'm looking to do something that'll look like this: Not blah Blah } Blah } These lines contain blah Blah } Not blah The three }s should be replaced by one big curly bracket. I have tried doing this using a Maths environment, but I could

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

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.

lyx-1.4 cvs assertion crash when resetting wrong language

2005-11-02 Thread Helge Hafting
Used todays cvs, opened a existing document. (Written in british language, which is unusual here) Wrote two lines of text, used edit-text style to give them different font sizes sans serif. This is a customized heading. Marked it, inserted a box(minipage) around it. Noticed the silly blue line

Re: Is this possible with lyx?

2005-11-02 Thread chr
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Paul Smith wrote: I would add two different entries to the Wiki: one to answer the question 1. How can I disallow LaTeX to linebreak an inlined math formula?; Now added as http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PreventingLinebreakInInlineFormula as for the boxed thing,

Re: [need help with wiki] Re: Excel data sheets

2005-11-02 Thread chr
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Sven Schreiber wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tips/ so I've moved your text there. http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/CopyTablesFromSpreadsheets In addition, it's a good idea to add a link to the special page in each group that is used to list/describe pages in the

Re: Is this possible with lyx?

2005-11-02 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/2/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would add two different entries to the Wiki: one to answer the question 1. How can I disallow LaTeX to linebreak an inlined math formula?; Now added as http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PreventingLinebreakInInlineFormula as for

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

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

Re: Unwanted new paragraph after change to embedded math

2005-11-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I mark some text and change it into embedded math (Insert-Math-Embedded Formula or hitting C-m) LyX starts a new paragraph right after that selection. Is this a bug, or how can I stop LyX from doing that ? With instant-preview activated, the new paragraph break

MLA style for lyx

2005-11-02 Thread Wilson, Daron
Hi, I'm newly interested in lyx, especially after writing an extensive paper in which the MS word formatting issues plagued me. I have managed to get the program up and running and so far things seem to be going ok. I was wondering if there were a way to get an MLA style for lyx, particularly

converter for pdf

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Orr
Hi - I seem to have accidently deleted a few of the converters from my preferences. I'm using 1.3.5 on Windows. Can someone help me out and check their install to let me know what the default converter syntax is for PDF and for pdflatex? Thanks. Phil

Re: Using Curly Brackets in Text

2005-11-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Daniel Watkins wrote: The subject says it all. I'm looking to do something that'll look like this: Not blah Blah } Blah } These lines contain blah Blah } Not blah The three }s should be replaced by one big curly bracket. I have tried doing this using a Maths environment, but I could

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

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.

lyx-1.4 cvs assertion crash when resetting wrong language

2005-11-02 Thread Helge Hafting
Used todays cvs, opened a existing document. (Written in british language, which is unusual here) Wrote two lines of text, used edit-text style to give them different font sizes sans serif. This is a customized heading. Marked it, inserted a box(minipage) around it. Noticed the silly blue line

Re: Is this possible with lyx?

2005-11-02 Thread chr
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Paul Smith wrote: I would add two different entries to the Wiki: one to answer the question 1. How can I disallow LaTeX to linebreak an inlined math formula?; Now added as http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PreventingLinebreakInInlineFormula as for the boxed thing,

Re: [need help with wiki] Re: Excel data sheets

2005-11-02 Thread chr
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Sven Schreiber wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tips/ so I've moved your text there. http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/CopyTablesFromSpreadsheets In addition, it's a good idea to add a link to the special page in each group that is used to list/describe pages in the

Re: Is this possible with lyx?

2005-11-02 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/2/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would add two different entries to the Wiki: one to answer the question 1. How can I disallow LaTeX to linebreak an inlined math formula?; Now added as http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PreventingLinebreakInInlineFormula as for

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

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

Re: Unwanted new paragraph after change to embedded math

2005-11-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I mark some text and change it into embedded math (Insert-Math-Embedded Formula or hitting C-m) LyX starts a new paragraph right after that selection. Is this a bug, or how can I stop LyX from doing that ? With instant-preview activated, the new paragraph break

MLA style for lyx

2005-11-02 Thread Wilson, Daron
Hi, I'm newly interested in lyx, especially after writing an extensive paper in which the MS word formatting issues plagued me. I have managed to get the program up and running and so far things seem to be going ok. I was wondering if there were a way to get an MLA style for lyx, particularly

converter for pdf

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Orr
Hi - I seem to have accidently deleted a few of the converters from my preferences. I'm using 1.3.5 on Windows. Can someone help me out and check their install to let me know what the default converter syntax is for PDF and for pdflatex? Thanks. Phil

Re: Using Curly Brackets in Text

2005-11-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Daniel Watkins wrote: > The subject says it all. I'm looking to do something that'll look like > this: > Not blah > Blah } > Blah } These lines contain blah > Blah } > Not blah > > The three }s should be replaced by one big curly bracket. I have tried > doing this using a Maths environment, but

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

lyx-1.4 cvs assertion crash when resetting "wrong" language

2005-11-02 Thread Helge Hafting
Used todays cvs, opened a existing document. (Written in british language, which is unusual here) Wrote two lines of text, used edit->text style to give them different font sizes & sans serif. This is a customized heading. Marked it, inserted a box(minipage) around it. Noticed the silly blue

Re: Is this possible with lyx?

2005-11-02 Thread chr
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Paul Smith wrote: > I would add two different entries to the Wiki: one to answer the question > > 1. How can I disallow LaTeX to linebreak an inlined math formula?; Now added as http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PreventingLinebreakInInlineFormula as for the boxed

Re: [need help with wiki] Re: Excel data sheets

2005-11-02 Thread chr
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Sven Schreiber wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >Tips/ so I've moved your text there. > > > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/CopyTablesFromSpreadsheets > > > >In addition, it's a good idea to add a link to the special page in each > >group that is used to list/describe

Re: Is this possible with lyx?

2005-11-02 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/2/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would add two different entries to the Wiki: one to answer the question > > > > 1. How can I disallow LaTeX to linebreak an inlined math formula?; > > Now added as >

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

Re: Unwanted new paragraph after change to embedded math

2005-11-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I mark some text and change it into embedded math (Insert->Math->Embedded Formula or hitting C-m) LyX starts a new paragraph right after that selection. Is this a bug, or how can I stop LyX from doing that ? With instant-preview activated, the new paragraph break

MLA style for lyx

2005-11-02 Thread Wilson, Daron
Hi, I'm newly interested in lyx, especially after writing an extensive paper in which the MS word formatting issues plagued me. I have managed to get the program up and running and so far things seem to be going ok. I was wondering if there were a way to get an MLA style for lyx, particularly

converter for pdf

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Orr
Hi - I seem to have accidently deleted a few of the converters from my preferences. I'm using 1.3.5 on Windows. Can someone help me out and check their install to let me know what the default converter syntax is for PDF and for pdflatex? Thanks. Phil