Minimal LyX installation

2006-02-17 Thread Gunnar
What is the bare minimum for a LyX installation if the only thing that should be done is writing new LyX documents and producing pdf's? LyX, LaTeX, ghostscript, what else? As I remember, the LyX installer installed both Perl and Python. Will LyX work without them? The reason for asking is that

Re: side-by-side installation of 1.3.7 and 1.4.0

2006-02-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe that sounded complicated, but it takes less than 15 seconds to switch back and forth by renaming folders. I don't know if it is this easy using Linux, but there should be a way. You need not renaming your folders. Call one folder LyX137 and the

LyX on Cygwin

2006-02-17 Thread Stephen Harris
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnCygwin Unpack lyx-1.4.x.tar.bz2 in /usr/local/src (replace x ^ to match your archive name) I was reading over Enrico's detailed instructions. I can't find a lyx 1.4.0.tar.bz2 or tar.gz for download. The Pre5 doesn't have a configure file to execute the

Re: Default behaviour of float

2006-02-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there some way (e.g. in a .layout) to tell LyX to automatically center the contents of a float environment (image and caption)? Put the following in the preamble: \renewenvironment{figure}[1][]{% [EMAIL PROTECTED] \centering

Re: LyX on Cygwin

2006-02-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnCygwin Unpack lyx-1.4.x.tar.bz2 in /usr/local/src (replace x ^ to match your archive name) I was reading over Enrico's detailed instructions. I can't find a lyx 1.4.0.tar.bz2 or tar.gz for download. Well,

Re: xforms needed question

2006-02-17 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 17 February 2006 02:30, Tom Poe wrote: Stephen:  Well, futzed around, then decided to log out, set session to KDE, and ran the command, 'yum xforms'.  It worked magically!  This was my first experience with yum.  I then ran the command 'yum install lyx' and again, magic!  I am now up

Re: LyX on Mac --Very first draft of a visual installation guide

2006-02-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote: Thanks Christian, I will try to upload the pictures and add additional material (you're right, the example files could be good). I will also try to continue with instruction on how to add templates, etc. Unfortunately I'm locked up until the

Re: I need workaround of encoding problem

2006-02-17 Thread Helge Hafting
Marcelo Acuña wrote: I can't to use spellchecker. Accented letters and ñ, Ñ are not recognized by ispell, aspell. Common problem for unicode users, because lyx doesn't support unicode. That cause trouble when the spellchekcer expects unicode while lyx gives it iso8859 encoded

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Stacia Hartleben wrote: Hi there! I was messing around after looking at this tutorial (http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XY-pic) on how to get XY pic to work on LyX and I got some limited tree support with xytree and TIPA working! That's nice indeed. Even if I knew we have some provisional code for tipa

footnotes and foot bibliography

2006-02-17 Thread Romuald POTEAU
Dear Lyx users, I am writing a document with the bibliography given as footnotes, thanks to the footbib package. I would like to insert comments, usually given as footnotes, as a part of the bibliography. In other words, is it possible to number these comments within the numbering scheme of

Re: xforms needed question

2006-02-17 Thread Rex Dieter
Tom Poe wrote: I checked for xforms download, and ran into problems trying to locate the proper file. The Redhat link for rpm, for example, gave me an error message that it couldn't change ftp directory. Does anyone know where I can download Xforms files? Or, should I try to use QT, and

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Concerning TIPA, I'm tempted to have a look in the next development cycle (for 1.5), but don't hold your breath. There are so many things to do, and even if I'm a linguist myself, I don't need phonetic symbols frequently enough to get annoyed by the lacking support

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voss wrote: do you know the following packages? Linguistic tree diagrams for Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rrgtrees typesetting of trees that are common in linguistics

RE: Creating an Index

2006-02-17 Thread Jack M. Lyon
Helge Hafting wrote: Showing the generated index is indeed possible, by using the existing mechanism for showing rendered formulas. Well, it takes a lot more time as you typically need to render the entire document to get the page numbers. So index preview should be optional. Another

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Herbert Voss wrote: do you know the following packages? Linguistic tree diagrams for Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rrgtrees typesetting of trees that are common in linguistics

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Stacia Hartleben
I'd be happy to make an info page on the lyx wiki, except would it really be useful, now that 1.4 is going to get rid of the xymatrix support? That makes me really sad :( On 2/17/06, Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Herbert Voss wrote: do you know the following packages?

RE: Creating an Index

2006-02-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Jack M. Lyon wrote: Usually indexers don't care so much about seeing the actual page numbers, but they do care about seeing the *structure* of the index as they work. Which brings up another issue that might be a wrench in the gears: different standards for indexes

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Stacia Hartleben wrote: I'd be happy to make an info page on the lyx wiki, except would it really be useful, now that 1.4 is going to get rid of the xymatrix support? That makes me really sad :( at least the tipa part will be useful. Jürgen

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voss wrote: here are some examples with code I see that your book grew quite a bit ;-) Jürgen

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-17 Thread Bo Peng
Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? Personally I am using python/manual.cls and an adapted layout file. This works reasonably well but there is no chm output and other fancy stuff. I tried the lyx/docbook

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Maria Gouskova
Stacia, this is great--I thought the only way to do trees and IPA in LyX was in ERT. I don't know how many linguists are on this list, but what do people think of starting a wiki page LyX for Linguists, similar to LaTeX for linguists? http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/clmt/latex4ling/

Re: xforms needed question

2006-02-17 Thread Tom Poe
Jose' Matos wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 02:30, Tom Poe wrote: Stephen: Well, futzed around, then decided to log out, set session to KDE, and ran the command, 'yum xforms'. It worked magically! This was my first experience with yum. I then ran the command 'yum install lyx' and

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Stacia Hartleben
I tried to get Covington (numbered examples) working but I can't seem to do it using this same method. Everyone please vote on this bug at bugzilla, or add comments: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325 It's obvious LyX can support this stuff, we just have to get it implemented in a better

text figures and lining figures

2006-02-17 Thread mail.k
Can anyone tell me how to use oldstyle figures in my body text (i.e., text figures or the j version of the fonts) and lining figures for my footnotes (the x version of the font)? I prefer the appearance of osf, but in the footnotes I must use a more scientific look. (I've asked this

XY-Pic and LyX

2006-02-17 Thread H. Peter Gumm
Hi all, rumors are that LyX 1.4 is not going to support XY-Pic anymore. I cannot believe that the developers are serious about this. If they were, the reasons for me to use LyX would be gone. To name these reasons specifically, they are: Instant-preview XY-Pic and, last but not least Uwe's

Text of diagram with the font of the main document

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I have a diagram which I can export as PNG, JPG, PDF or SVG. What should I do so that the text of the diagram appears with the same font of the main document? Is that possible? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: LyX on Cygwin

2006-02-17 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:20 AM Subject: Re: LyX on Cygwin Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnCygwin Unpack lyx-1.4.x.tar.bz2 in /usr/local/src

Re: Minimal LyX installation

2006-02-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gunnar wrote: What is the bare minimum for a LyX installation if the only thing that should be done is writing new LyX documents and producing pdf's? LyX, LaTeX, ghostscript, what else? As I remember, the LyX installer installed both Perl and Python. Will LyX work without them? The reason

Re: Using XY packages

2006-02-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 07:35:14PM -0600, Stacia Hartleben wrote: Wow, I actually did get it to work, which is sad since the support is going away in 1.4! It will come back. If I had known that only a single person was actively using that thing I would not have removed it. Andre'

Re: LyX on Cygwin

2006-02-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Pre5 doesn't have a configure file to execute the several ./configure switches in Enrico's Howto. Are you sure? The lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 archive I downloaded from ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/ had one ... Yes, I am sure that in

LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I have an EPS picture inserted in a LyX document. When I run View -- PDF (pdflatex) I do not get the picture on the PDF document. On the command line, it appears the following: $ /usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR Execution of convert failed. $ Any clue? Thanks in

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have an EPS picture inserted in a LyX document. When I run View -- PDF (pdflatex) I do not get the picture on the PDF document. On the command line, it appears the following: $ /usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR Execution of convert failed. $ Any

Re: Text of diagram with the font of the main document

2006-02-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have a diagram which I can export as PNG, JPG, PDF or SVG. What should I do so that the text of the diagram appears with the same font of the main document? Is that possible? Thanks in advance, Paul Whether you can annotate the diagram in the same font boils

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-17 Thread John Pye
What version was it that you tried with? I think (am hoping) that 1.3.7 and then 1.4 should be better... Cheers JP Bo Peng wrote: Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? Personally I am using

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/17/06, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an EPS picture inserted in a LyX document. When I run View -- PDF (pdflatex) I do not get the picture on the PDF document. On the command line, it appears the following: $ /usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR

Re: Text of diagram with the font of the main document

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/17/06, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a diagram which I can export as PNG, JPG, PDF or SVG. What should I do so that the text of the diagram appears with the same font of the main document? Is that possible? Whether you can annotate the diagram in the same font boils

vspace between sections and figures help!

2006-02-17 Thread Myriam Abramson
I've \setlength{\parskip {-1pt}} but that seems only to affect the vertical space between paragraphs. How can I set the vertical space length between sections and figures? It's quite urgent as I am trying to fit this paper into a ridiculous 6-page limit. TIA --

Re: vspace between sections and figures help!

2006-02-17 Thread Marcelo Acuña
I've \setlength{\parskip {-1pt}} but that seems only to affect the vertical space between paragraphs. How can I set the vertical space length between sections and figures? If you use titlesec package you get total control over title of section: font size, space before and after title,

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-17 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:17 PM Subject: LyX fails picture conversion Dear All I have an EPS picture inserted in a LyX document. When I run View -- PDF (pdflatex) I do not get the picture

Re: lyx 1.4.0pre minor problems

2006-02-17 Thread Marcelo Acuña
4) I lost feature: in paragraph settings I can´t find skip spaces for before and after. This feature was present in 1.3.6. Hi Marcelo, this is present but elsewhere, search for Insert-Special Character-Vertical Space Yes, I found it. Thanks. Now, I can´t find Navigate to

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Maria Gouskova
I tried to get Covington (numbered examples) working but I can't seem to do it using this same method. Everyone please vote on this bug at bugzilla, or add comments: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325 I've set up covington by wiring it in as a paragraph environment and modifying the

Minimal LyX installation

2006-02-17 Thread Gunnar
What is the bare minimum for a LyX installation if the only thing that should be done is writing new LyX documents and producing pdf's? LyX, LaTeX, ghostscript, what else? As I remember, the LyX installer installed both Perl and Python. Will LyX work without them? The reason for asking is that

Re: side-by-side installation of 1.3.7 and 1.4.0

2006-02-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe that sounded complicated, but it takes less than 15 seconds to switch back and forth by renaming folders. I don't know if it is this easy using Linux, but there should be a way. You need not renaming your folders. Call one folder LyX137 and the

LyX on Cygwin

2006-02-17 Thread Stephen Harris
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnCygwin Unpack lyx-1.4.x.tar.bz2 in /usr/local/src (replace x ^ to match your archive name) I was reading over Enrico's detailed instructions. I can't find a lyx 1.4.0.tar.bz2 or tar.gz for download. The Pre5 doesn't have a configure file to execute the

Re: Default behaviour of float

2006-02-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there some way (e.g. in a .layout) to tell LyX to automatically center the contents of a float environment (image and caption)? Put the following in the preamble: \renewenvironment{figure}[1][]{% [EMAIL PROTECTED] \centering

Re: LyX on Cygwin

2006-02-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnCygwin Unpack lyx-1.4.x.tar.bz2 in /usr/local/src (replace x ^ to match your archive name) I was reading over Enrico's detailed instructions. I can't find a lyx 1.4.0.tar.bz2 or tar.gz for download. Well,

Re: xforms needed question

2006-02-17 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 17 February 2006 02:30, Tom Poe wrote: Stephen:  Well, futzed around, then decided to log out, set session to KDE, and ran the command, 'yum xforms'.  It worked magically!  This was my first experience with yum.  I then ran the command 'yum install lyx' and again, magic!  I am now up

Re: LyX on Mac --Very first draft of a visual installation guide

2006-02-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote: Thanks Christian, I will try to upload the pictures and add additional material (you're right, the example files could be good). I will also try to continue with instruction on how to add templates, etc. Unfortunately I'm locked up until the

Re: I need workaround of encoding problem

2006-02-17 Thread Helge Hafting
Marcelo Acuña wrote: I can't to use spellchecker. Accented letters and ñ, Ñ are not recognized by ispell, aspell. Common problem for unicode users, because lyx doesn't support unicode. That cause trouble when the spellchekcer expects unicode while lyx gives it iso8859 encoded

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Stacia Hartleben wrote: Hi there! I was messing around after looking at this tutorial (http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XY-pic) on how to get XY pic to work on LyX and I got some limited tree support with xytree and TIPA working! That's nice indeed. Even if I knew we have some provisional code for tipa

footnotes and foot bibliography

2006-02-17 Thread Romuald POTEAU
Dear Lyx users, I am writing a document with the bibliography given as footnotes, thanks to the footbib package. I would like to insert comments, usually given as footnotes, as a part of the bibliography. In other words, is it possible to number these comments within the numbering scheme of

Re: xforms needed question

2006-02-17 Thread Rex Dieter
Tom Poe wrote: I checked for xforms download, and ran into problems trying to locate the proper file. The Redhat link for rpm, for example, gave me an error message that it couldn't change ftp directory. Does anyone know where I can download Xforms files? Or, should I try to use QT, and

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Concerning TIPA, I'm tempted to have a look in the next development cycle (for 1.5), but don't hold your breath. There are so many things to do, and even if I'm a linguist myself, I don't need phonetic symbols frequently enough to get annoyed by the lacking support

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voss wrote: do you know the following packages? Linguistic tree diagrams for Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rrgtrees typesetting of trees that are common in linguistics

RE: Creating an Index

2006-02-17 Thread Jack M. Lyon
Helge Hafting wrote: Showing the generated index is indeed possible, by using the existing mechanism for showing rendered formulas. Well, it takes a lot more time as you typically need to render the entire document to get the page numbers. So index preview should be optional. Another

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Herbert Voss wrote: do you know the following packages? Linguistic tree diagrams for Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rrgtrees typesetting of trees that are common in linguistics

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Stacia Hartleben
I'd be happy to make an info page on the lyx wiki, except would it really be useful, now that 1.4 is going to get rid of the xymatrix support? That makes me really sad :( On 2/17/06, Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Herbert Voss wrote: do you know the following packages?

RE: Creating an Index

2006-02-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Jack M. Lyon wrote: Usually indexers don't care so much about seeing the actual page numbers, but they do care about seeing the *structure* of the index as they work. Which brings up another issue that might be a wrench in the gears: different standards for indexes

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Stacia Hartleben wrote: I'd be happy to make an info page on the lyx wiki, except would it really be useful, now that 1.4 is going to get rid of the xymatrix support? That makes me really sad :( at least the tipa part will be useful. Jürgen

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voss wrote: here are some examples with code I see that your book grew quite a bit ;-) Jürgen

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-17 Thread Bo Peng
Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? Personally I am using python/manual.cls and an adapted layout file. This works reasonably well but there is no chm output and other fancy stuff. I tried the lyx/docbook

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Maria Gouskova
Stacia, this is great--I thought the only way to do trees and IPA in LyX was in ERT. I don't know how many linguists are on this list, but what do people think of starting a wiki page LyX for Linguists, similar to LaTeX for linguists? http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/clmt/latex4ling/

Re: xforms needed question

2006-02-17 Thread Tom Poe
Jose' Matos wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 02:30, Tom Poe wrote: Stephen: Well, futzed around, then decided to log out, set session to KDE, and ran the command, 'yum xforms'. It worked magically! This was my first experience with yum. I then ran the command 'yum install lyx' and

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Stacia Hartleben
I tried to get Covington (numbered examples) working but I can't seem to do it using this same method. Everyone please vote on this bug at bugzilla, or add comments: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325 It's obvious LyX can support this stuff, we just have to get it implemented in a better

text figures and lining figures

2006-02-17 Thread mail.k
Can anyone tell me how to use oldstyle figures in my body text (i.e., text figures or the j version of the fonts) and lining figures for my footnotes (the x version of the font)? I prefer the appearance of osf, but in the footnotes I must use a more scientific look. (I've asked this

XY-Pic and LyX

2006-02-17 Thread H. Peter Gumm
Hi all, rumors are that LyX 1.4 is not going to support XY-Pic anymore. I cannot believe that the developers are serious about this. If they were, the reasons for me to use LyX would be gone. To name these reasons specifically, they are: Instant-preview XY-Pic and, last but not least Uwe's

Text of diagram with the font of the main document

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I have a diagram which I can export as PNG, JPG, PDF or SVG. What should I do so that the text of the diagram appears with the same font of the main document? Is that possible? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: LyX on Cygwin

2006-02-17 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:20 AM Subject: Re: LyX on Cygwin Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnCygwin Unpack lyx-1.4.x.tar.bz2 in /usr/local/src

Re: Minimal LyX installation

2006-02-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gunnar wrote: What is the bare minimum for a LyX installation if the only thing that should be done is writing new LyX documents and producing pdf's? LyX, LaTeX, ghostscript, what else? As I remember, the LyX installer installed both Perl and Python. Will LyX work without them? The reason

Re: Using XY packages

2006-02-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 07:35:14PM -0600, Stacia Hartleben wrote: Wow, I actually did get it to work, which is sad since the support is going away in 1.4! It will come back. If I had known that only a single person was actively using that thing I would not have removed it. Andre'

Re: LyX on Cygwin

2006-02-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Pre5 doesn't have a configure file to execute the several ./configure switches in Enrico's Howto. Are you sure? The lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 archive I downloaded from ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/ had one ... Yes, I am sure that in

LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I have an EPS picture inserted in a LyX document. When I run View -- PDF (pdflatex) I do not get the picture on the PDF document. On the command line, it appears the following: $ /usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR Execution of convert failed. $ Any clue? Thanks in

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have an EPS picture inserted in a LyX document. When I run View -- PDF (pdflatex) I do not get the picture on the PDF document. On the command line, it appears the following: $ /usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR Execution of convert failed. $ Any

Re: Text of diagram with the font of the main document

2006-02-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have a diagram which I can export as PNG, JPG, PDF or SVG. What should I do so that the text of the diagram appears with the same font of the main document? Is that possible? Thanks in advance, Paul Whether you can annotate the diagram in the same font boils

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-17 Thread John Pye
What version was it that you tried with? I think (am hoping) that 1.3.7 and then 1.4 should be better... Cheers JP Bo Peng wrote: Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? Personally I am using

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/17/06, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an EPS picture inserted in a LyX document. When I run View -- PDF (pdflatex) I do not get the picture on the PDF document. On the command line, it appears the following: $ /usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR

Re: Text of diagram with the font of the main document

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/17/06, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a diagram which I can export as PNG, JPG, PDF or SVG. What should I do so that the text of the diagram appears with the same font of the main document? Is that possible? Whether you can annotate the diagram in the same font boils

vspace between sections and figures help!

2006-02-17 Thread Myriam Abramson
I've \setlength{\parskip {-1pt}} but that seems only to affect the vertical space between paragraphs. How can I set the vertical space length between sections and figures? It's quite urgent as I am trying to fit this paper into a ridiculous 6-page limit. TIA --

Re: vspace between sections and figures help!

2006-02-17 Thread Marcelo Acuña
I've \setlength{\parskip {-1pt}} but that seems only to affect the vertical space between paragraphs. How can I set the vertical space length between sections and figures? If you use titlesec package you get total control over title of section: font size, space before and after title,

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-17 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:17 PM Subject: LyX fails picture conversion Dear All I have an EPS picture inserted in a LyX document. When I run View -- PDF (pdflatex) I do not get the picture

Re: lyx 1.4.0pre minor problems

2006-02-17 Thread Marcelo Acuña
4) I lost feature: in paragraph settings I can´t find skip spaces for before and after. This feature was present in 1.3.6. Hi Marcelo, this is present but elsewhere, search for Insert-Special Character-Vertical Space Yes, I found it. Thanks. Now, I can´t find Navigate to

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Maria Gouskova
I tried to get Covington (numbered examples) working but I can't seem to do it using this same method. Everyone please vote on this bug at bugzilla, or add comments: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325 I've set up covington by wiring it in as a paragraph environment and modifying the

Minimal LyX installation

2006-02-17 Thread Gunnar
What is the bare minimum for a LyX installation if the only thing that should be done is writing new LyX documents and producing pdf's? LyX, LaTeX, ghostscript, what else? As I remember, the LyX installer installed both Perl and Python. Will LyX work without them? The reason for asking is that

Re: side-by-side installation of 1.3.7 and 1.4.0

2006-02-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe that sounded complicated, but it takes less than > 15 seconds to switch back and forth by renaming folders. > I don't know if it is this easy using Linux, but there should > be a way. You need not renaming your folders. Call one folder LyX137

LyX on Cygwin

2006-02-17 Thread Stephen Harris
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnCygwin "Unpack lyx-1.4.x.tar.bz2 in /usr/local/src (replace x ^ to match your archive name)" I was reading over Enrico's detailed instructions. I can't find a lyx 1.4.0.tar.bz2 or tar.gz for download. The Pre5 doesn't have a configure file to execute the

Re: Default behaviour of float

2006-02-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there some way (e.g. in a .layout) to tell LyX to automatically > center the contents of a float environment (image and caption)? Put the following in the preamble: \renewenvironment{figure}[1][]{% [EMAIL PROTECTED] \centering

Re: LyX on Cygwin

2006-02-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnCygwin > > "Unpack lyx-1.4.x.tar.bz2 in /usr/local/src > (replace x ^ to match your archive name)" > > I was reading over Enrico's detailed instructions. > > I can't find a lyx 1.4.0.tar.bz2 or tar.gz for

Re: xforms needed question

2006-02-17 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 17 February 2006 02:30, Tom Poe wrote: > Stephen:  Well, futzed around, then decided to log out, set session to > KDE, and ran the command, 'yum xforms'.  It worked magically!  This was > my first experience with yum.  I then ran the command 'yum install lyx' > and again, magic!  I am

Re: LyX on Mac --Very first draft of a visual installation guide

2006-02-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote: > Thanks Christian, > > I will try to upload the pictures and add additional material (you're > right, the example files could be good). I will also try to continue > with instruction on how to add templates, etc. Unfortunately I'm > locked up

Re: I need workaround of encoding problem

2006-02-17 Thread Helge Hafting
Marcelo Acuña wrote: I can't to use spellchecker. Accented letters and ñ, Ñ are not recognized by ispell, aspell. Common problem for unicode users, because lyx doesn't support unicode. That cause trouble when the spellchekcer expects unicode while lyx gives it iso8859 encoded

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Stacia Hartleben wrote: > Hi there! I was messing around after looking at this tutorial > (http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XY-pic) on how to get XY pic to work on LyX > and I got some limited tree support with xytree and TIPA working! That's nice indeed. Even if I knew we have some provisional code for

footnotes and foot bibliography

2006-02-17 Thread Romuald POTEAU
Dear Lyx users, I am writing a document with the bibliography given as footnotes, thanks to the footbib package. I would like to insert comments, usually given as footnotes, as a part of the bibliography. In other words, is it possible to number these comments within the numbering scheme of

Re: xforms needed question

2006-02-17 Thread Rex Dieter
Tom Poe wrote: I checked for xforms download, and ran into problems trying to locate the proper file. The Redhat link for rpm, for example, gave me an error message that it couldn't change ftp directory. Does anyone know where I can download Xforms files? Or, should I try to use QT, and

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Concerning TIPA, I'm tempted to have a look in the next development cycle (for 1.5), but don't hold your breath. There are so many things to do, and even if I'm a linguist myself, I don't need phonetic symbols frequently enough to get annoyed by the lacking support

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voss wrote: > do you know the following packages? > > Linguistic tree diagrams for Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rrgtrees > > typesetting of trees that are common in linguistics >

RE: Creating an Index

2006-02-17 Thread Jack M. Lyon
Helge Hafting wrote: > Showing the generated index is indeed possible, by > using the existing mechanism for showing rendered formulas. Well, > it takes a lot more time as you typically need to render the entire > document to get the page numbers. So "index preview" should > be optional.

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Herbert Voss wrote: do you know the following packages? Linguistic tree diagrams for Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rrgtrees typesetting of trees that are common in linguistics

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Stacia Hartleben
I'd be happy to make an info page on the lyx wiki, except would it really be useful, now that 1.4 is going to get rid of the xymatrix support? That makes me really sad :( On 2/17/06, Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Herbert Voss wrote: > > do you know the following packages? > >

RE: Creating an Index

2006-02-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Jack M. Lyon wrote: Usually indexers don't care so much about seeing the actual page numbers, but they do care about seeing the *structure* of the index as they work. Which brings up another issue that might be a wrench in the gears: different standards for indexes

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Stacia Hartleben wrote: > I'd be happy to make an info page on the lyx wiki, except would it > really be useful, now that 1.4 is going to get rid of the xymatrix > support? That makes me really sad :( at least the tipa part will be useful. Jürgen

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