Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-19 Thread Martin A. Hansen
once again - pdf files are for printing and reading - not for reading online. printing the documentation may give you a nice book to keep under the pillow, but it prevents you from seeing how lyx formatting is done, using cross refereces etc. and i think that lyx is an extremely nice editor to

Re: Build RPM-Packages from Lyx 1.4.2. for Suse Linux 10.1

2006-07-19 Thread Georg Baum
Holger Schmidt wrote: It works now. It was a mistake from me. It was the wrong directory witch I used to start with the command rpmbuild -ba lyx.spec I am ashamed of... How is it possible to give my RPM-Package called: lyx-1.4.2-1_qt.i586.rpm for Suse Linux 10.1 the community? It haves

qt library not found

2006-07-19 Thread Hans-Martin Adorf
Hi, I'm trying to install Lyx on Redhat 9, and during ./configure I'm getting a qt library not found message at the very end, no matter what I do. I had donwloaded QT, had compiled and installed it, without avail. Any suggestions? Hans-Martin Adorf -- Dr. Hans-Martin Adorf . Danziger Str.

Re: qt library not found

2006-07-19 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Hans-Martin Adorf wrote: I'm trying to install Lyx on Redhat 9, and during ./configure I'm getting a qt library not found message at the very end, no matter what I do. I had donwloaded QT, had compiled and installed it, without avail. Try to configure --with-qt-dir=/path/to/qt3 (/usr/lib/qt3

Revisited: chopped-off brackets in printed PDF

2006-07-19 Thread John Pye
Hi all, A little while ago I wrote a message asking if anyone had seen this problem with chopped-off brackets in printed PDFs. Paul Rubin (on this list) suggested that I send example files so here they are. See attached LyX file, the generated PDF and a scan of my printed output (on a Kyocera

Re: Revisited: chopped-off brackets in printed PDF

2006-07-19 Thread Georg Baum
John Pye wrote: Here's the really surprising part. When I copy the same PDF file to another machine (also Win2k, also Acrobat 4.0), it prints out fine, without the brackets chopped. That does not match with what I'll write below, but nevertheless... So I guess the conclusion is that I have

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-19 Thread Ingo Klöcker
Am Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2006 08:58 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: once again - pdf files are for printing and reading - not for reading online. printing the documentation may give you a nice book to keep under the pillow, but it prevents you from seeing how lyx formatting is done, using cross

Re: PLEASE: can someone move the Mac 1.4.2 binary from incoming to the bin directory?

2006-07-19 Thread Andreas Busch
Am 19.07.2006 um 01:15 schrieb Bo Peng: Now all that is needed is a kind sould with access rights who puts it in the /bin directory. Could someone kindly move the file? JMarc is on vacation, and I do not know whoelse can do this... Lars? Bo Thanks for the info, Bo. If nobody has access to

Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Steve Harris sent me this link http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html for working with PDFs. I've added it here http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#PDF-tools so if people on this list know of other tools that are useful for working with PDFs, feel free to add more links to that wiki

Re: Merged manuals

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to Stephen Harris there's now a PDF that's the merger of some of the manuals. See here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#merged /Christian The .lyx version was done by Ed Gatzke and included the

Re: PLEASE: can someone move the Mac 1.4.2 binary from incoming to the bin directory?

2006-07-19 Thread Anders Ekberg
Bennett, If you need disk space, send it to me and I can post it on a temporary site. /Anders Ekberg Am 19.07.2006 um 01:15 schrieb Bo Peng: Now all that is needed is a kind sould with access rights who puts it in the /bin directory. Could someone kindly move the file? JMarc is on

Re: PLEASE: can someone move the Mac 1.4.2 binary from incoming to the bin directory?

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote: Bennett, If you need disk space, send it to me and I can post it on a temporary site. Or make use www.yousendit.com and email it to me and I can place it (temporarily?) on the wiki server. cheers /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-19 Thread Enrico Forestieri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Enrico Forestieri wrote: I am not subscribed to this list and the gmane interface doesn't allow attachments, but if you reply to this mail putting me in CC, I can, in turn, reply to it and can thus attach the above files for everyone

LyX/Mac-1.4.2 (PPC) binary available

2006-07-19 Thread Bennett Helm
The LyX/Mac binary is available here: http://edisk.fandm.edu/bennett.helm/LyX/LyX-1.4.2-Mac.dmg (This URL is linked via the wiki page at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ LyXOnMac.) It is compiled for PPC only, though it apparently runs well on Intel Macs via Rosetta. If someone wants to compile an

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
Very interesting, but what about linux? Is there any tool (or collection of tools) that offer the same options for linux? On Wednesday 19 July 2006 06:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Harris sent me this link http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html for working with PDFs. I've added it

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Harris sent me this link http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html Oh. That's only for Microsoft. I've been using pdftk (the PDF Tool Kit) for several years. It has the same functions, perhaps more. Unfortunately, it does not have a

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread Richard Heck
The PDF toolkit is a good place to start for Linux: http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/. There are also Windows and Mac packages. Richard Rudi Gaelzer wrote: Very interesting, but what about linux? Is there any tool (or collection of tools) that offer the same options for linux? On Wednesday

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Richard Heck wrote: The PDF toolkit is a good place to start for Linux: http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/. And if you run KDE, there's also a nifty service menu that adds a gui to pdftk: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=37321 Jürgen

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 09:26 am, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Harris sent me this link http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html Oh. That's only for Microsoft. I've been using pdftk (the PDF Tool Kit) for several years. It has the

Re: Revisited: chopped-off brackets in printed PDF

2006-07-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: John Pye wrote: Here's the really surprising part. When I copy the same PDF file to another machine (also Win2k, also Acrobat 4.0), it prints out fine, without the brackets chopped. That does not match with what I'll write below, but nevertheless... So I guess the

Re: Prouncing LyX - help with sound file

2006-07-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 05:16:12PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though... It is also interesting how you Americans usually can't hear the difference between the vowel sound Swedes/Norwegians make when

Re: Prouncing LyX - help with sound file

2006-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 16 July 2006 03:57 am, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 05:16:12PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though... It is also interesting how you Americans usually can't hear the

Re: Prouncing LyX - help with sound file

2006-07-19 Thread Richard Heck
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though... It is also interesting how you Americans usually can't hear the difference between the vowel sound Swedes/Norwegians make when pronouncing LyX compared to eg licks. This kind of difference

Manuals PDF and merged (was: Merged manuals)

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
The page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#toc1 now has a link to PDF-versions of the normal help documents, as well as a link to a single PDF with most of the help documents (for searching etc). /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-19 Thread Stephen Harris
Ingo Klöcker wrote: Am Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2006 08:58 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: So what is the typical use-case for the LyX Manual? That someone wants to read it from the first page to the last page? Or that someone wants to read about a specific subject, say including graphics? In my

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 19 July 2006 09:26 am, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Harris sent me this link http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html Oh. That's only for Microsoft. I've been using pdftk (the PDF

Re: Merged manuals

2006-07-19 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Thanks to Stephen Harris there's now a PDF that's the merger of some of the manuals. See here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#merged /Christian That is a step in the right direction, thanks. But for my taste it would be nicer to have only a single

Single TOC of all help documents (Was: Merged manuals)

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Thanks to Stephen Harris there's now a PDF that's the merger of some of the manuals. See here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#merged /Christian That is a step in the right direction, thanks. But for my taste

Re: Single TOC of all help documents (Was: Merged manuals)

2006-07-19 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: That is a step in the right direction, thanks. But for my taste it would be nicer to have only a single TOC to get the overview (I already mentioned I have that obsession). In case people are not aware of it, you can

Help categorizing the wiki pages

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
I would like to ask my fellow LyXers with help categorizing the wiki pages. In all likelyhood most of you are now scratching your heads, wondering if heat stroke finally got me. Fear not, I live in Sweden so it's unlikely. I'll try to explain... Several users have noticed that finding stuff

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread David Neeley
Ghostscript/ghostview has had the ability to work with pdf files for some time now, and is already installed on many distributions of Linux. There are a number of other tools available as well, IIRC. However, gv has worked well for me. David On 7/19/06, Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help categorizing the wiki pages

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Having set up the system so that you can't edit pages without adding a category to a page, I'll now pack and go off on vacation. That way I'll avoid all the violent protests ;-) So remember to add stuff like [[!PDF]] and what not to the end of the wiki pages. cheers /Christian PS. Don't

Re: LyX/Mac-1.4.2 (PPC) binary available

2006-07-19 Thread Anders Ekberg
Bennett Helm Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:00:44 -0700 The LyX/Mac binary is available here: http://edisk.fandm.edu/bennett.helm/LyX/LyX-1.4.2-Mac.dmg (This URL is linked via the wiki page at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ LyXOnMac.) It is compiled for PPC only, though it apparently runs well on Intel

Removing all the bigskip's of a document

2006-07-19 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
Hi, I use LyX 1.3.5, and I have a big document someone passed to me to work with. This man likes to add a lot of extra spaces using the feature bigskip which I don't like at all. So I want to remove all of them. Is there an easy way to do this in lyx ? Thanks!

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-19 Thread Martin A. Hansen
once again - pdf files are for printing and reading - not for reading online. printing the documentation may give you a nice book to keep under the pillow, but it prevents you from seeing how lyx formatting is done, using cross refereces etc. and i think that lyx is an extremely nice editor to

Re: Build RPM-Packages from Lyx 1.4.2. for Suse Linux 10.1

2006-07-19 Thread Georg Baum
Holger Schmidt wrote: It works now. It was a mistake from me. It was the wrong directory witch I used to start with the command rpmbuild -ba lyx.spec I am ashamed of... How is it possible to give my RPM-Package called: lyx-1.4.2-1_qt.i586.rpm for Suse Linux 10.1 the community? It haves

qt library not found

2006-07-19 Thread Hans-Martin Adorf
Hi, I'm trying to install Lyx on Redhat 9, and during ./configure I'm getting a qt library not found message at the very end, no matter what I do. I had donwloaded QT, had compiled and installed it, without avail. Any suggestions? Hans-Martin Adorf -- Dr. Hans-Martin Adorf . Danziger Str.

Re: qt library not found

2006-07-19 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Hans-Martin Adorf wrote: I'm trying to install Lyx on Redhat 9, and during ./configure I'm getting a qt library not found message at the very end, no matter what I do. I had donwloaded QT, had compiled and installed it, without avail. Try to configure --with-qt-dir=/path/to/qt3 (/usr/lib/qt3

Revisited: chopped-off brackets in printed PDF

2006-07-19 Thread John Pye
Hi all, A little while ago I wrote a message asking if anyone had seen this problem with chopped-off brackets in printed PDFs. Paul Rubin (on this list) suggested that I send example files so here they are. See attached LyX file, the generated PDF and a scan of my printed output (on a Kyocera

Re: Revisited: chopped-off brackets in printed PDF

2006-07-19 Thread Georg Baum
John Pye wrote: Here's the really surprising part. When I copy the same PDF file to another machine (also Win2k, also Acrobat 4.0), it prints out fine, without the brackets chopped. That does not match with what I'll write below, but nevertheless... So I guess the conclusion is that I have

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-19 Thread Ingo Klöcker
Am Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2006 08:58 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: once again - pdf files are for printing and reading - not for reading online. printing the documentation may give you a nice book to keep under the pillow, but it prevents you from seeing how lyx formatting is done, using cross

Re: PLEASE: can someone move the Mac 1.4.2 binary from incoming to the bin directory?

2006-07-19 Thread Andreas Busch
Am 19.07.2006 um 01:15 schrieb Bo Peng: Now all that is needed is a kind sould with access rights who puts it in the /bin directory. Could someone kindly move the file? JMarc is on vacation, and I do not know whoelse can do this... Lars? Bo Thanks for the info, Bo. If nobody has access to

Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Steve Harris sent me this link http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html for working with PDFs. I've added it here http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#PDF-tools so if people on this list know of other tools that are useful for working with PDFs, feel free to add more links to that wiki

Re: Merged manuals

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to Stephen Harris there's now a PDF that's the merger of some of the manuals. See here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#merged /Christian The .lyx version was done by Ed Gatzke and included the

Re: PLEASE: can someone move the Mac 1.4.2 binary from incoming to the bin directory?

2006-07-19 Thread Anders Ekberg
Bennett, If you need disk space, send it to me and I can post it on a temporary site. /Anders Ekberg Am 19.07.2006 um 01:15 schrieb Bo Peng: Now all that is needed is a kind sould with access rights who puts it in the /bin directory. Could someone kindly move the file? JMarc is on

Re: PLEASE: can someone move the Mac 1.4.2 binary from incoming to the bin directory?

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote: Bennett, If you need disk space, send it to me and I can post it on a temporary site. Or make use www.yousendit.com and email it to me and I can place it (temporarily?) on the wiki server. cheers /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-19 Thread Enrico Forestieri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Enrico Forestieri wrote: I am not subscribed to this list and the gmane interface doesn't allow attachments, but if you reply to this mail putting me in CC, I can, in turn, reply to it and can thus attach the above files for everyone

LyX/Mac-1.4.2 (PPC) binary available

2006-07-19 Thread Bennett Helm
The LyX/Mac binary is available here: http://edisk.fandm.edu/bennett.helm/LyX/LyX-1.4.2-Mac.dmg (This URL is linked via the wiki page at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ LyXOnMac.) It is compiled for PPC only, though it apparently runs well on Intel Macs via Rosetta. If someone wants to compile an

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
Very interesting, but what about linux? Is there any tool (or collection of tools) that offer the same options for linux? On Wednesday 19 July 2006 06:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Harris sent me this link http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html for working with PDFs. I've added it

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Harris sent me this link http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html Oh. That's only for Microsoft. I've been using pdftk (the PDF Tool Kit) for several years. It has the same functions, perhaps more. Unfortunately, it does not have a

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread Richard Heck
The PDF toolkit is a good place to start for Linux: http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/. There are also Windows and Mac packages. Richard Rudi Gaelzer wrote: Very interesting, but what about linux? Is there any tool (or collection of tools) that offer the same options for linux? On Wednesday

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Richard Heck wrote: The PDF toolkit is a good place to start for Linux: http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/. And if you run KDE, there's also a nifty service menu that adds a gui to pdftk: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=37321 Jürgen

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 09:26 am, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Harris sent me this link http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html Oh. That's only for Microsoft. I've been using pdftk (the PDF Tool Kit) for several years. It has the

Re: Revisited: chopped-off brackets in printed PDF

2006-07-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: John Pye wrote: Here's the really surprising part. When I copy the same PDF file to another machine (also Win2k, also Acrobat 4.0), it prints out fine, without the brackets chopped. That does not match with what I'll write below, but nevertheless... So I guess the

Re: Prouncing LyX - help with sound file

2006-07-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 05:16:12PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though... It is also interesting how you Americans usually can't hear the difference between the vowel sound Swedes/Norwegians make when

Re: Prouncing LyX - help with sound file

2006-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 16 July 2006 03:57 am, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 05:16:12PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though... It is also interesting how you Americans usually can't hear the

Re: Prouncing LyX - help with sound file

2006-07-19 Thread Richard Heck
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though... It is also interesting how you Americans usually can't hear the difference between the vowel sound Swedes/Norwegians make when pronouncing LyX compared to eg licks. This kind of difference

Manuals PDF and merged (was: Merged manuals)

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
The page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#toc1 now has a link to PDF-versions of the normal help documents, as well as a link to a single PDF with most of the help documents (for searching etc). /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-19 Thread Stephen Harris
Ingo Klöcker wrote: Am Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2006 08:58 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: So what is the typical use-case for the LyX Manual? That someone wants to read it from the first page to the last page? Or that someone wants to read about a specific subject, say including graphics? In my

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 19 July 2006 09:26 am, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Harris sent me this link http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html Oh. That's only for Microsoft. I've been using pdftk (the PDF

Re: Merged manuals

2006-07-19 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Thanks to Stephen Harris there's now a PDF that's the merger of some of the manuals. See here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#merged /Christian That is a step in the right direction, thanks. But for my taste it would be nicer to have only a single

Single TOC of all help documents (Was: Merged manuals)

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Thanks to Stephen Harris there's now a PDF that's the merger of some of the manuals. See here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#merged /Christian That is a step in the right direction, thanks. But for my taste

Re: Single TOC of all help documents (Was: Merged manuals)

2006-07-19 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: That is a step in the right direction, thanks. But for my taste it would be nicer to have only a single TOC to get the overview (I already mentioned I have that obsession). In case people are not aware of it, you can

Help categorizing the wiki pages

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
I would like to ask my fellow LyXers with help categorizing the wiki pages. In all likelyhood most of you are now scratching your heads, wondering if heat stroke finally got me. Fear not, I live in Sweden so it's unlikely. I'll try to explain... Several users have noticed that finding stuff

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread David Neeley
Ghostscript/ghostview has had the ability to work with pdf files for some time now, and is already installed on many distributions of Linux. There are a number of other tools available as well, IIRC. However, gv has worked well for me. David On 7/19/06, Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help categorizing the wiki pages

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Having set up the system so that you can't edit pages without adding a category to a page, I'll now pack and go off on vacation. That way I'll avoid all the violent protests ;-) So remember to add stuff like [[!PDF]] and what not to the end of the wiki pages. cheers /Christian PS. Don't

Re: LyX/Mac-1.4.2 (PPC) binary available

2006-07-19 Thread Anders Ekberg
Bennett Helm Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:00:44 -0700 The LyX/Mac binary is available here: http://edisk.fandm.edu/bennett.helm/LyX/LyX-1.4.2-Mac.dmg (This URL is linked via the wiki page at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ LyXOnMac.) It is compiled for PPC only, though it apparently runs well on Intel

Removing all the bigskip's of a document

2006-07-19 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
Hi, I use LyX 1.3.5, and I have a big document someone passed to me to work with. This man likes to add a lot of extra spaces using the feature bigskip which I don't like at all. So I want to remove all of them. Is there an easy way to do this in lyx ? Thanks!

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-19 Thread Martin A. Hansen
once again -> pdf files are for printing and reading - not for reading online. printing the documentation may give you a nice book to keep under the pillow, but it prevents you from seeing how lyx formatting is done, using cross refereces etc. and i think that lyx is an extremely nice "editor" to

Re: Build RPM-Packages from Lyx 1.4.2. for Suse Linux 10.1

2006-07-19 Thread Georg Baum
Holger Schmidt wrote: > It works now. It was a mistake from me. It was the wrong directory witch I > used to start with the command "rpmbuild -ba lyx.spec" > > I am ashamed of... > > How is it possible to give my RPM-Package called: > "lyx-1.4.2-1_qt.i586.rpm" for Suse Linux 10.1 the community?

qt library not found

2006-07-19 Thread Hans-Martin Adorf
Hi, I'm trying to install Lyx on Redhat 9, and during ./configure I'm getting a "qt library not found" message at the very end, no matter what I do. I had donwloaded QT, had compiled and installed it, without avail. Any suggestions? Hans-Martin Adorf -- Dr. Hans-Martin Adorf . Danziger Str.

Re: qt library not found

2006-07-19 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Hans-Martin Adorf wrote: > I'm trying to install Lyx on Redhat 9, and during ./configure I'm > getting a "qt library not found" message at the very end, no matter what > I do. I had donwloaded QT, had compiled and installed it, without avail. Try to configure --with-qt-dir=/path/to/qt3

Revisited: chopped-off brackets in printed PDF

2006-07-19 Thread John Pye
Hi all, A little while ago I wrote a message asking if anyone had seen this problem with chopped-off brackets in printed PDFs. Paul Rubin (on this list) suggested that I send example files so here they are. See attached LyX file, the generated PDF and a scan of my printed output (on a Kyocera

Re: Revisited: chopped-off brackets in printed PDF

2006-07-19 Thread Georg Baum
John Pye wrote: > Here's the really surprising part. When I copy the same PDF file to > another machine (also Win2k, also Acrobat 4.0), it prints out fine, > without the brackets chopped. That does not match with what I'll write below, but nevertheless... > So I guess the conclusion is that I

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-19 Thread Ingo Klöcker
Am Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2006 08:58 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: > once again -> pdf files are for printing and reading - not for > reading online. printing the documentation may give you a nice book > to keep under the pillow, but it prevents you from seeing how lyx > formatting is done, using cross

Re: PLEASE: can someone move the Mac 1.4.2 binary from incoming to the bin directory?

2006-07-19 Thread Andreas Busch
Am 19.07.2006 um 01:15 schrieb Bo Peng: Now all that is needed is a kind sould with access rights who puts it in the /bin directory. Could someone kindly move the file? JMarc is on vacation, and I do not know whoelse can do this... Lars? Bo Thanks for the info, Bo. If nobody has access to

Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Steve Harris sent me this link http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html for working with PDFs. I've added it here http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#PDF-tools so if people on this list know of other tools that are useful for working with PDFs, feel free to add more links to that wiki

Re: Merged manuals

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to Stephen Harris there's now a PDF that's the merger of some of the manuals. See here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#merged /Christian The .lyx version was done by Ed Gatzke and included the

Re: PLEASE: can someone move the Mac 1.4.2 binary from incoming to the bin directory?

2006-07-19 Thread Anders Ekberg
Bennett, If you need disk space, send it to me and I can post it on a temporary site. /Anders Ekberg Am 19.07.2006 um 01:15 schrieb Bo Peng: Now all that is needed is a kind sould with access rights who puts it in the /bin directory. Could someone kindly move the file? JMarc is on

Re: PLEASE: can someone move the Mac 1.4.2 binary from incoming to the bin directory?

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote: Bennett, If you need disk space, send it to me and I can post it on a temporary site. Or make use www.yousendit.com and "email" it to me and I can place it (temporarily?) on the wiki server. cheers /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-19 Thread Enrico Forestieri
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > > I am not subscribed to this list and the gmane interface doesn't allow > > attachments, but if you reply to this mail putting me in CC, I can, in > > turn, reply to it and can thus attach the above files for

LyX/Mac-1.4.2 (PPC) binary available

2006-07-19 Thread Bennett Helm
The LyX/Mac binary is available here: (This URL is linked via the wiki page at .) It is compiled for PPC only, though it apparently runs well on Intel Macs via Rosetta. If someone wants to

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
Very interesting, but what about linux? Is there any tool (or collection of tools) that offer the same options for linux? On Wednesday 19 July 2006 06:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Steve Harris sent me this link > > > http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html > > for working with PDFs. I've

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Harris sent me this link http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html Oh. That's only for Microsoft. I've been using pdftk (the PDF Tool Kit) for several years. It has the same functions, perhaps more. Unfortunately, it does not have a

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread Richard Heck
The PDF toolkit is a good place to start for Linux: http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/. There are also Windows and Mac packages. Richard Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > Very interesting, but what about linux? > > Is there any tool (or collection of tools) that offer the same options for > linux? > > On

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Richard Heck wrote: > The PDF toolkit is a good place to start for Linux: > http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/. And if you run KDE, there's also a nifty service menu that adds a gui to pdftk: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=37321 Jürgen

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 09:26 am, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Steve Harris sent me this link > > > >> http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html > >Oh. That's only for Microsoft. > >I've been using pdftk (the PDF Tool Kit) for several years. It

Re: Revisited: chopped-off brackets in printed PDF

2006-07-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: John Pye wrote: Here's the really surprising part. When I copy the same PDF file to another machine (also Win2k, also Acrobat 4.0), it prints out fine, without the brackets chopped. That does not match with what I'll write below, but nevertheless... So I guess the

Re: Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

2006-07-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 05:16:12PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though... > > >It is also interesting how you Americans usually can't hear the difference > >between the vowel sound Swedes/Norwegians

Re: Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

2006-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 16 July 2006 03:57 am, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 05:16:12PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though... > > > > > >It is also interesting how you Americans usually can't hear

Re: Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

2006-07-19 Thread Richard Heck
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though... It is also interesting how you Americans usually can't hear the difference between the vowel sound Swedes/Norwegians make when pronouncing "LyX" compared to eg "licks". This kind of

Manuals PDF and merged (was: Merged manuals)

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
The page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#toc1 now has a link to PDF-versions of the normal help documents, as well as a link to a single PDF with most of the help documents (for searching etc). /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-19 Thread Stephen Harris
Ingo Klöcker wrote: Am Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2006 08:58 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: So what is the typical use-case for the LyX Manual? That someone wants to read it from the first page to the last page? Or that someone wants to read about a specific subject, say including graphics? In my

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 19 July 2006 09:26 am, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Steve Harris sent me this link > > > >> http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html > >Oh. That's only for Microsoft. > >I've been using pdftk

Re: Merged manuals

2006-07-19 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Thanks to Stephen Harris there's now a PDF that's the merger of some of > the manuals. See here: > > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#merged > > /Christian > That is a step in the right direction, thanks. But for my taste it would be nicer to have only a

Single TOC of all help documents (Was: Merged manuals)

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Thanks to Stephen Harris there's now a PDF that's the merger of some of the manuals. See here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#merged /Christian That is a step in the right direction, thanks. But for my taste

Re: Single TOC of all help documents (Was: Merged manuals)

2006-07-19 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> That is a step in the right direction, thanks. But for my taste it would >> be nicer to have only a single TOC to get the overview (I already >> mentioned I have that obsession). > > In case people are not aware of

Help categorizing the wiki pages

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
I would like to ask my fellow LyXers with help categorizing the wiki pages. In all likelyhood most of you are now scratching your heads, wondering if heat stroke finally got me. Fear not, I live in Sweden so it's unlikely. I'll try to explain... Several users have noticed that finding stuff

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread David Neeley
Ghostscript/ghostview has had the ability to work with pdf files for some time now, and is already installed on many distributions of Linux. There are a number of other tools available as well, IIRC. However, gv has worked well for me. David On 7/19/06, Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Help categorizing the wiki pages

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Having set up the system so that you can't edit pages without adding a category to a page, I'll now pack and go off on vacation. That way I'll avoid all the violent protests ;-) So remember to add stuff like [[!PDF]] and what not to the end of the wiki pages. cheers /Christian PS. Don't

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