Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Helge Hafting
john wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 15:16 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote: I am trying to put a logo at the top left of the page. Alongside the logo, I want my business name in \Huge letters. (This is mainly for the purpose of building web pages.)

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Helge Hafting writes: It is easy enough. :-) Insert two minipages, reduce the size from 100% of line to something smaller so they fit beside each other on the same line. Make sure they both use top alignment (default). This sounds good, but when I try it I get: XX XX XX XX

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread john
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:43 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: It is easy enough. :-) Insert two minipages, reduce the size from 100% of line to something smaller so they fit beside each other on the same line. Make sure they both use top alignment (default). In the first minipage, insert your

Re: LyX 1.4 test

2006-01-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Paul == Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Be Cautious! IF you edit a document with Lyx-1.4, then you will Paul not be able to edit with Lyx-1.3.X. You will with LyX 1.3.7 (you'll lose the new features of course). JMarc

powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I don´t manage to get powerdot to work What I did: downloaded it from CTAN site unpacked distrib.zip in ~/texmf where it gives me f/distrib/doc/lyx which contains (and powerdot-example.lyx and .tex) copied powerdot.layout to ~/.lyx/layouts did texhash, lyx reconfigure and started lyx anew.

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don´t manage to get powerdot to work What I did: downloaded it from CTAN site unpacked distrib.zip in ~/texmf where it gives me f/distrib/doc/lyx which contains (and powerdot-example.lyx and .tex) copied powerdot.layout to

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 11:07 schrieb Andres Becerra Sandoval: On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don´t manage to get powerdot to work Wolfgang The tex example works ok ? no: ssh-3.00$ latex powerdot-example1.tex This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 11:07 schrieb Andres Becerra Sandoval: On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don´t manage to get powerdot to work Wolfgang The tex example works ok ? no: ssh-3.00$ latex

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 11:43 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 11:07 schrieb Andres Becerra Sandoval: On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don´t manage to get powerdot to work Wolfgang The tex example works ok ? no: ssh-3.00$

LyX 1.4 installation problem

2006-01-17 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
Hola, I have just installed lyx 1.4.0pre3 in a suse 9.3 system without problem (with qt3), but I also tried to install in a suse 9.0 system, and I obtain and error when I try to build the executable (./configure says there is no problem):

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 11:47 schrieb Andres Becerra Sandoval: On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 11:07 schrieb Andres Becerra Sandoval: On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don´t manage to get powerdot to work

Re: LyX 1.4 installation problem

2006-01-17 Thread Georg Baum
Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote: [internal compiler error on SuSE 9.0] Has anybody had the same problem ? It looks like the same error I got with SuSE 8.1 and 8.2. See the bottom of http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Obtaining. Do I need to upgrade my C compiler (how can I do this?) ? That would

powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I am still in trouble. Trying to use powerdot under lyx I get an error LaTeX Error: File `xkeyval.sty' not found. \RequirePackage{xkeyval}[2005/07/10] ^^M *** (cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes) although I have downloaded it from CTAN (.zip,

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 11:43 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 11:07 schrieb Andres Becerra Sandoval: On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don´t manage to get powerdot to work Wolfgang The tex example works ok

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Subir Singh Lamba
Better use Beamer as I found it is much easier to install and a big document regarding it's use. Also good examples along with the distribution. On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I am still in trouble. Trying to use powerdot under lyx I get an error LaTeX Error: File

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still in trouble. Trying to use powerdot under lyx I get an error LaTeX Error: File `xkeyval.sty' not found. \RequirePackage{xkeyval}[2005/07/10] ^^M *** (cannot \read from terminal in

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 14:09 schrieb Herbert Voss: I don´t manage to get powerdot to work The tex example works ok ? has same error p.s. the powerdot.cls is in: /texmf/distrib/run better is /usr/local/share/texmf/... Thanks, Herbert, but its still the same error:

Re: LyX 1.4 test

2006-01-17 Thread Charles de Miramon
Georg Baum wrote: and it will install as lyx-1.4 and not mix up the support files either. Beware that if you have LyX 1.3 and LyX 1.4 on your computer, they will both interacts with the same .lyx directory. I've created a new user for 1.4 to isolate the two .lyx directories. Cheers,

Re: LyX 1.4 test

2006-01-17 Thread Georg Baum
Charles de Miramon wrote: Beware that if you have LyX 1.3 and LyX 1.4 on your computer, they will both interacts with the same .lyx directory. Not if you use the procedure with --version-suffix I described. Georg

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: This sounds good, but when I try it I get: XX XX XX XX John Hancock 1234 Broadway Blvd. Both are set to TOP alignment; they are side-by-side, with suitable width (100pt and 25%colwidth). Kevin,

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Rich Shepard writes: On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: [...] This is explained in Section 5.1.4, Problems With Vertical Placement (pp. 89-90) in Kopka and Daly, Guide to LaTeX, 4th Ed. What is explained?? I was simply trying out Helge's easy solution. Is there something in her

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: What is explained?? Kevin, The two minipages not being aligned at their top edges. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of Quantifying Environmental Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) | Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: the powerdot.cls is in: /texmf/distrib/run better is /usr/local/share/texmf/... Thanks, Herbert, but its still the same error: \RequirePackage{xkeyval}[2005/07/10] is it correct to have here the extracted package xkeyval with its /doc /run and /source

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 15:35 schrieb Herbert Voss: Thanks, Herbert. Here my tests: kpsewhich -show-path tex kpsewhich -show-path tex .:/home/matrox-suse/texmf/tex/generic//:!!/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/generic//:!!

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 15:35 schrieb Herbert Voss: Thanks, Herbert. Here my tests: kpsewhich -show-path tex kpsewhich -show-path tex .:/home/matrox-suse/texmf/tex/generic//:!!/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/generic//:!!

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 8:56 AM Subject: Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Paul A. Rubin writes: 1. (This is the only major issue.) Our

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 17:26 schrieb Herbert Voss: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 15:35 schrieb Herbert Voss: Thanks, Herbert. Here my tests: kpsewhich -show-path tex kpsewhich -show-path tex

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Stephen Harris wrote: I've read about widows and orphans: http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=layouts/widows Herbert

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: normally it is sh-3.00$ but I had to go superuser, since :/usr/local/share/texmf was for root only This could not make any trouble, could it? no, all tex files must only be readable sh-3.00$ latex powerdot-example-y This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 8:47 AM Subject: Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX Stephen Harris wrote: I've read about widows and orphans:

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 17:50 schrieb Herbert Voss: ok, powerdot is there ! LaTeX Error: File `xkeyval.sty' not found. install xkeyval ( texmf/tex/latex/xkeyval/ ) http://www.dante.de/CTAN//help/Catalogue/entries/xkeyval.html run texhash and eveything should be ok. Herbert, thanks

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks/pstricks.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks.tex `PSTricks' v97 patch 14 1999/12/23 (tvz) both are ancient, update pstricks.pro|tex|sty (/home/matrox-suse/texmf/tex/latex/xcolor/xcolor.sty xcolor is version

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.7 is released

2006-01-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Public release of LyX version 1.3.7 === We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.3.7. We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth noting: - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read

changing section and figure parameters

2006-01-17 Thread Cezary Morga
Hi there, First of all I'd like to say hello to all of you 'round here. Yeah, I'm new :) My problem: I'd like to make some adjustments to the section and subsection parameters in the most default article class. I'd like to change it size to be exactly the same as the text. Not necessarily on

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I'm trying to concoct a LyX template to let me write letters on school letterhead, the last task for which I still rely on WordPerfect. Having looked at akletter, newlfm and komascript, I think komascript gives me my best shot, and I

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread John O'Gorman
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 03:12, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: This sounds good, but when I try it I get: XX XX XX XX John Hancock 1234 Broadway Blvd. Both are set to TOP alignment; they are

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Put these lines in the preamble: \leftskip=1in \newcommand{\newmargin}[1]{\hangindent=1in\hangafter=-#1\break\leftskip=0in} and run latex a first time. Take note of where the pagebreak occurs. Then insert there (in ERT) the command

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 18:46 schrieb Herbert Voss: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks/pstricks.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks.tex `PSTricks' v97 patch 14 1999/12/23 (tvz) both are ancient, update pstricks.pro|tex|sty

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I have tried to update/install these missing files, but do get again with the powerdot-example.lyx errors: slide environment not defined by style fyma I am confused, since fyma is for prosper, as far as I see (Hendri Adriens site) I just wonder whether somebody had

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote: I have 6 books on Tex/LaTeX but not that one! Can you give us a brief pointer to how to fix it (or is it not fixable)? John, Yes, it's fixable. Let me paraphrase from the book. You want to place two parboxes of different heights side by side.

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Wolfgang Engelmann writes: I just wonder whether somebody had successfully installed powerdot under SuSe 9.3 and could give me a hint. ? If you are using SuSE 9.3 shouldn't you have a more or less up-to-date TeX installation? -Kevin -- Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiros-Translations

Re: changing section and figure parameters

2006-01-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Cezary Morga wrote: I'd like to make some adjustments to the section and subsection parameters in the most default article class. I'd like to change it size to be exactly the same as the text. Not necessarily on preview but on the generated pdf files. For example, I'm writing in times 12pt so

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Wolfgang Engelmann writes: I just wonder whether somebody had successfully installed powerdot under SuSe 9.3 and could give me a hint. ? If you are using SuSE 9.3 shouldn't you have a more or less up-to-date TeX installation? no Herbert

Re: changing section and figure parameters

2006-01-17 Thread Cezary Morga
Dnia wtorek 17 stycznia 2006 21:37, Uwe Stöhr napisał: Great, thanks. It worked! Still I got three questions though... \addtokomafont{section}{\normalsize\normalfont\sffamily} If I'm correct putting: \addtokomafont{section}{\normalsize\bold\sffamily} will make the font bold and normal size,

Re: no-hyphenation point?

2006-01-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: I fixed this by placing -ism in a \makebox{}, but was wondering if there might be a simpler or a LyX way (not that this was complicated, but thought there might be an Insert - Special Character - Protected Break or No-Hyphenation Point... FYI I have filed an enhancement

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread john
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:18 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote: I have 6 books on Tex/LaTeX but not that one! Can you give us a brief pointer to how to fix it (or is it not fixable)? John, Yes, it's fixable. Let me paraphrase from the book. Thanks

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, john wrote: Just a comment though. Helge was talking about using 2 minipages side-by-side (Which Kevin and I have found to not top-align properly).Your excerpt features 2 parbox structures side-by-side. Is the principle the same? If I read the book correctly, yes.

Re: changing section and figure parameters

2006-01-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Cezary Morga schrieb: \addtokomafont{section}{\normalsize\normalfont\sffamily} If I'm correct putting: \addtokomafont{section}{\normalsize\bold\sffamily} will make the font bold and normal size, right? No, you need \addtokomafont{section}{\normalsize\bfseries\sffamily} You find more infos

LyX 1.3.7 is released with Windows lack of Documentation Textclass.lst error

2006-01-17 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LyX Announce lyx-announce@lists.lyx.org; LyX Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org; LyX Mechanics lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:40 AM Subject: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.7 is released Public release

Re: LyX 1.4 test

2006-01-17 Thread K. Elo
Hi, Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote (16.1.2006 21:56): Hola, I use lyx 1.3.5 in suse 9.0 and I would like to test the new lyx 1.4.0pre3. I would like to install this new version in my system without uninstalling/deleting/erasing the old one (lyx 1.3.5), in order to test the new

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Helge Hafting
john wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 15:16 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote: I am trying to put a logo at the top left of the page. Alongside the logo, I want my business name in \Huge letters. (This is mainly for the purpose of building web pages.)

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Helge Hafting writes: It is easy enough. :-) Insert two minipages, reduce the size from 100% of line to something smaller so they fit beside each other on the same line. Make sure they both use top alignment (default). This sounds good, but when I try it I get: XX XX XX XX

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread john
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:43 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: It is easy enough. :-) Insert two minipages, reduce the size from 100% of line to something smaller so they fit beside each other on the same line. Make sure they both use top alignment (default). In the first minipage, insert your

Re: LyX 1.4 test

2006-01-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Paul == Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Be Cautious! IF you edit a document with Lyx-1.4, then you will Paul not be able to edit with Lyx-1.3.X. You will with LyX 1.3.7 (you'll lose the new features of course). JMarc

powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I don´t manage to get powerdot to work What I did: downloaded it from CTAN site unpacked distrib.zip in ~/texmf where it gives me f/distrib/doc/lyx which contains (and powerdot-example.lyx and .tex) copied powerdot.layout to ~/.lyx/layouts did texhash, lyx reconfigure and started lyx anew.

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don´t manage to get powerdot to work What I did: downloaded it from CTAN site unpacked distrib.zip in ~/texmf where it gives me f/distrib/doc/lyx which contains (and powerdot-example.lyx and .tex) copied powerdot.layout to

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 11:07 schrieb Andres Becerra Sandoval: On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don´t manage to get powerdot to work Wolfgang The tex example works ok ? no: ssh-3.00$ latex powerdot-example1.tex This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 11:07 schrieb Andres Becerra Sandoval: On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don´t manage to get powerdot to work Wolfgang The tex example works ok ? no: ssh-3.00$ latex

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 11:43 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 11:07 schrieb Andres Becerra Sandoval: On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don´t manage to get powerdot to work Wolfgang The tex example works ok ? no: ssh-3.00$

LyX 1.4 installation problem

2006-01-17 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
Hola, I have just installed lyx 1.4.0pre3 in a suse 9.3 system without problem (with qt3), but I also tried to install in a suse 9.0 system, and I obtain and error when I try to build the executable (./configure says there is no problem):

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 11:47 schrieb Andres Becerra Sandoval: On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 11:07 schrieb Andres Becerra Sandoval: On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don´t manage to get powerdot to work

Re: LyX 1.4 installation problem

2006-01-17 Thread Georg Baum
Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote: [internal compiler error on SuSE 9.0] Has anybody had the same problem ? It looks like the same error I got with SuSE 8.1 and 8.2. See the bottom of http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Obtaining. Do I need to upgrade my C compiler (how can I do this?) ? That would

powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I am still in trouble. Trying to use powerdot under lyx I get an error LaTeX Error: File `xkeyval.sty' not found. \RequirePackage{xkeyval}[2005/07/10] ^^M *** (cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes) although I have downloaded it from CTAN (.zip,

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 11:43 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 11:07 schrieb Andres Becerra Sandoval: On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don´t manage to get powerdot to work Wolfgang The tex example works ok

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Subir Singh Lamba
Better use Beamer as I found it is much easier to install and a big document regarding it's use. Also good examples along with the distribution. On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I am still in trouble. Trying to use powerdot under lyx I get an error LaTeX Error: File

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still in trouble. Trying to use powerdot under lyx I get an error LaTeX Error: File `xkeyval.sty' not found. \RequirePackage{xkeyval}[2005/07/10] ^^M *** (cannot \read from terminal in

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 14:09 schrieb Herbert Voss: I don´t manage to get powerdot to work The tex example works ok ? has same error p.s. the powerdot.cls is in: /texmf/distrib/run better is /usr/local/share/texmf/... Thanks, Herbert, but its still the same error:

Re: LyX 1.4 test

2006-01-17 Thread Charles de Miramon
Georg Baum wrote: and it will install as lyx-1.4 and not mix up the support files either. Beware that if you have LyX 1.3 and LyX 1.4 on your computer, they will both interacts with the same .lyx directory. I've created a new user for 1.4 to isolate the two .lyx directories. Cheers,

Re: LyX 1.4 test

2006-01-17 Thread Georg Baum
Charles de Miramon wrote: Beware that if you have LyX 1.3 and LyX 1.4 on your computer, they will both interacts with the same .lyx directory. Not if you use the procedure with --version-suffix I described. Georg

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: This sounds good, but when I try it I get: XX XX XX XX John Hancock 1234 Broadway Blvd. Both are set to TOP alignment; they are side-by-side, with suitable width (100pt and 25%colwidth). Kevin,

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Rich Shepard writes: On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: [...] This is explained in Section 5.1.4, Problems With Vertical Placement (pp. 89-90) in Kopka and Daly, Guide to LaTeX, 4th Ed. What is explained?? I was simply trying out Helge's easy solution. Is there something in her

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: What is explained?? Kevin, The two minipages not being aligned at their top edges. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of Quantifying Environmental Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) | Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: the powerdot.cls is in: /texmf/distrib/run better is /usr/local/share/texmf/... Thanks, Herbert, but its still the same error: \RequirePackage{xkeyval}[2005/07/10] is it correct to have here the extracted package xkeyval with its /doc /run and /source

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 15:35 schrieb Herbert Voss: Thanks, Herbert. Here my tests: kpsewhich -show-path tex kpsewhich -show-path tex .:/home/matrox-suse/texmf/tex/generic//:!!/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/generic//:!!

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 15:35 schrieb Herbert Voss: Thanks, Herbert. Here my tests: kpsewhich -show-path tex kpsewhich -show-path tex .:/home/matrox-suse/texmf/tex/generic//:!!/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/generic//:!!

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 8:56 AM Subject: Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Paul A. Rubin writes: 1. (This is the only major issue.) Our

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 17:26 schrieb Herbert Voss: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 15:35 schrieb Herbert Voss: Thanks, Herbert. Here my tests: kpsewhich -show-path tex kpsewhich -show-path tex

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Stephen Harris wrote: I've read about widows and orphans: http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=layouts/widows Herbert

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: normally it is sh-3.00$ but I had to go superuser, since :/usr/local/share/texmf was for root only This could not make any trouble, could it? no, all tex files must only be readable sh-3.00$ latex powerdot-example-y This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 8:47 AM Subject: Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX Stephen Harris wrote: I've read about widows and orphans:

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 17:50 schrieb Herbert Voss: ok, powerdot is there ! LaTeX Error: File `xkeyval.sty' not found. install xkeyval ( texmf/tex/latex/xkeyval/ ) http://www.dante.de/CTAN//help/Catalogue/entries/xkeyval.html run texhash and eveything should be ok. Herbert, thanks

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks/pstricks.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks.tex `PSTricks' v97 patch 14 1999/12/23 (tvz) both are ancient, update pstricks.pro|tex|sty (/home/matrox-suse/texmf/tex/latex/xcolor/xcolor.sty xcolor is version

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.7 is released

2006-01-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Public release of LyX version 1.3.7 === We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.3.7. We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth noting: - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read

changing section and figure parameters

2006-01-17 Thread Cezary Morga
Hi there, First of all I'd like to say hello to all of you 'round here. Yeah, I'm new :) My problem: I'd like to make some adjustments to the section and subsection parameters in the most default article class. I'd like to change it size to be exactly the same as the text. Not necessarily on

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I'm trying to concoct a LyX template to let me write letters on school letterhead, the last task for which I still rely on WordPerfect. Having looked at akletter, newlfm and komascript, I think komascript gives me my best shot, and I

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread John O'Gorman
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 03:12, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: This sounds good, but when I try it I get: XX XX XX XX John Hancock 1234 Broadway Blvd. Both are set to TOP alignment; they are

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Put these lines in the preamble: \leftskip=1in \newcommand{\newmargin}[1]{\hangindent=1in\hangafter=-#1\break\leftskip=0in} and run latex a first time. Take note of where the pagebreak occurs. Then insert there (in ERT) the command

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 18:46 schrieb Herbert Voss: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks/pstricks.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks.tex `PSTricks' v97 patch 14 1999/12/23 (tvz) both are ancient, update pstricks.pro|tex|sty

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I have tried to update/install these missing files, but do get again with the powerdot-example.lyx errors: slide environment not defined by style fyma I am confused, since fyma is for prosper, as far as I see (Hendri Adriens site) I just wonder whether somebody had

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote: I have 6 books on Tex/LaTeX but not that one! Can you give us a brief pointer to how to fix it (or is it not fixable)? John, Yes, it's fixable. Let me paraphrase from the book. You want to place two parboxes of different heights side by side.

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Wolfgang Engelmann writes: I just wonder whether somebody had successfully installed powerdot under SuSe 9.3 and could give me a hint. ? If you are using SuSE 9.3 shouldn't you have a more or less up-to-date TeX installation? -Kevin -- Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiros-Translations

Re: changing section and figure parameters

2006-01-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Cezary Morga wrote: I'd like to make some adjustments to the section and subsection parameters in the most default article class. I'd like to change it size to be exactly the same as the text. Not necessarily on preview but on the generated pdf files. For example, I'm writing in times 12pt so

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Wolfgang Engelmann writes: I just wonder whether somebody had successfully installed powerdot under SuSe 9.3 and could give me a hint. ? If you are using SuSE 9.3 shouldn't you have a more or less up-to-date TeX installation? no Herbert

Re: changing section and figure parameters

2006-01-17 Thread Cezary Morga
Dnia wtorek 17 stycznia 2006 21:37, Uwe Stöhr napisał: Great, thanks. It worked! Still I got three questions though... \addtokomafont{section}{\normalsize\normalfont\sffamily} If I'm correct putting: \addtokomafont{section}{\normalsize\bold\sffamily} will make the font bold and normal size,

Re: no-hyphenation point?

2006-01-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: I fixed this by placing -ism in a \makebox{}, but was wondering if there might be a simpler or a LyX way (not that this was complicated, but thought there might be an Insert - Special Character - Protected Break or No-Hyphenation Point... FYI I have filed an enhancement

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread john
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:18 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote: I have 6 books on Tex/LaTeX but not that one! Can you give us a brief pointer to how to fix it (or is it not fixable)? John, Yes, it's fixable. Let me paraphrase from the book. Thanks

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, john wrote: Just a comment though. Helge was talking about using 2 minipages side-by-side (Which Kevin and I have found to not top-align properly).Your excerpt features 2 parbox structures side-by-side. Is the principle the same? If I read the book correctly, yes.

Re: changing section and figure parameters

2006-01-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Cezary Morga schrieb: \addtokomafont{section}{\normalsize\normalfont\sffamily} If I'm correct putting: \addtokomafont{section}{\normalsize\bold\sffamily} will make the font bold and normal size, right? No, you need \addtokomafont{section}{\normalsize\bfseries\sffamily} You find more infos

LyX 1.3.7 is released with Windows lack of Documentation Textclass.lst error

2006-01-17 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LyX Announce lyx-announce@lists.lyx.org; LyX Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org; LyX Mechanics lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:40 AM Subject: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.7 is released Public release

Re: LyX 1.4 test

2006-01-17 Thread K. Elo
Hi, Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote (16.1.2006 21:56): Hola, I use lyx 1.3.5 in suse 9.0 and I would like to test the new lyx 1.4.0pre3. I would like to install this new version in my system without uninstalling/deleting/erasing the old one (lyx 1.3.5), in order to test the new

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