Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Silly question: Are you using Evince? If so, try acroread. I have found that Evince sometimes gives strange fuzzyness. For what it's worth, I don't find the same problem with Evince on Gutsy. Apologies if this is irrelevant. Declan

lyx problems

2007-09-13 Thread NinaNutz
hi all, I'm using lyx 1.4.4 for Windows, I've tried to install the lyx 1.5 and it doesn't work, because when I try to open it, it doesn't. I have a problem with my archive, I'm using the report type file, but I cannot export to a pdf... I had this problem before but I solved changing the way to

Re: lyx problems

2007-09-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
NinaNutz schrieb: I'm using lyx 1.4.4 for Windows, I've tried to install the lyx 1.5 and it doesn't work, because when I try to open it, it doesn't. Then try out this installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller If this doesn't help, uninstall LyX 1.5, then LyX 1.4.4 and afterwards,

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Neal Becker
Declan O'Byrne wrote: Silly question: Are you using Evince? If so, try acroread. I have found that Evince sometimes gives strange fuzzyness. For what it's worth, I don't find the same problem with Evince on Gutsy. Apologies if this is irrelevant. Declan Look at the fonts used. Make

Adding longtables to List of Tables

2007-09-13 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi All I have a 100 page document with a lot of table floats in it. Thus have a List of Tables in the Table of Content. Everything works fine except for 4 longtables that I have. I could not place these tables in a float because they cover several pages. I have searched this list and found

Re: Adding longtables to List of Tables

2007-09-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
christiaan pauw schrieb: I have a 100 page document with a lot of table floats in it. Thus have a List of Tables in the Table of Content. Everything works fine except for 4 longtables that I have. How to do this is described in section Longtables and its subsection of the EmbeddedObjects

ps2pdf, ERT, and includegraphics

2007-09-13 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
Dear all, I am using lyx with powerdot for a presentation. I am trying to insert a figure within an ERT box, to get advantage of the \twocolumn command of powerdot. I discovered that lyx does not output figures to pdf when using ps2pdf (I checked this with a new article document containing a

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Neal Becker wrote: Look at the fonts used. Make sure they are type 1. If not, maybe you need either: \usepackage{lmodern} or \usepackage{cmlgc} To elaborate a bit on Neal's point, in LyX 1.5.x you can go to Document - Settings... - Fonts and set the Roman, Sans Serif and Typewriter

Re: ps2pdf, ERT, and includegraphics

2007-09-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: I am using lyx with powerdot for a presentation. I am trying to insert a figure within an ERT box, to get advantage of the \twocolumn command of powerdot. I discovered that lyx does not output figures to pdf when using ps2pdf (I checked this with a new article document

Two Column Question

2007-09-13 Thread Bruce Pourciau
A colleague of mine has a LaTeX question. In the past (about five years ago), he would use \twocolumn[header text], with the title, author, and abstract substituted in as the header text, to get the title, author, and abstract at the top of the page and written across the width of the page

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Laurent Duperval
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:16:12 +0100, Declan O'Byrne wrote: Silly question: Are you using Evince? If so, try acroread. I have found that Evince sometimes gives strange fuzzyness. For what it's worth, I don't find the same problem with Evince on Gutsy. Apologies if this is irrelevant. No

Re: Two Column Question

2007-09-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: A colleague of mine has a LaTeX question. In the past (about five years ago), he would use \twocolumn[header text], with the title, author, and abstract substituted in as the header text, to get the title, author, and abstract at the top of the page and written across the

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Laurent Duperval
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:50:20 -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: To elaborate a bit on Neal's point, in LyX 1.5.x you can go to Document - Settings... - Fonts and set the Roman, Sans Serif and Typewriter fonts to their Latin Modern choices. That will automatically insert the needed \usepackage in

Re: How do you change background color and put a frame

2007-09-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Laurent Duperval schrieb: I want to create a paragraph (or two) that have a different background color. I also want them to be framed. How do I do that? This is described in section 5.7. Colored Boxes of the Embedded Objects manual that you find in LyX's help menu. regards Uwe

Re: lyx problems

2007-09-13 Thread NinaNutz
Hi again, I have solved the problem. I think my computer had very little space at C, and probably the virtual memory had not enough. I have uninstalled a lot of programs and I have liberated space. Now it works... last a while, but it works. I still continue using the version 1.4.4... :) Maybe

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Laurent Duperval wrote: I tried and it still looks fuzzy on Linux. However, on Windows it looks fine. So it seems to be a problem with my display (LCD; on Windows it's on CRT). [Disclaimer: fonts are not my specialty.] I don't think the display is the culprit; I'm using an LCD (with

Re: ps2pdf, ERT, and includegraphics

2007-09-13 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
Dear Paul, thank you very much for your comments. It is quite weird: if I export my file prova.lyx in latex (pdflatex or plain) and run latex prova.tex, the dvi file shows the picture correctly, and of course the picture is kept through the chain of dvips and ps2pdf; if I, however, try to

Mutltiple personal dictionaries with aspell

2007-09-13 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, I write half my material in French and the other half in English. I need a personal dictionary for each language. As it stands now, whenever I change languages for my documents, I need to go to the preferences and change my personal dictionary from one language to another, otherwise I get an

Re: ps2pdf, ERT, and includegraphics

2007-09-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: Dear Paul, thank you very much for your comments. It is quite weird: if I export my file prova.lyx in latex (pdflatex or plain) and run latex prova.tex, the dvi file shows the picture correctly, and of course the picture is kept through the chain of dvips and ps2pdf; if

Seeing HEVEA errors

2007-09-13 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, Sometimes when I export to HTML, I get an error window that pops up saying there was an error with the hevea execution, but I see no details. Is there any way to see the details? L -- Prenez la parole en public en étant Speak to an audience while being moins nerveux et plus

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Silly question: Are you using Evince? If so, try acroread. I have found that Evince sometimes gives strange fuzzyness. For what it's worth, I don't find the same problem with Evince on Gutsy. Apologies if this is irrelevant. Declan

lyx problems

2007-09-13 Thread NinaNutz
hi all, I'm using lyx 1.4.4 for Windows, I've tried to install the lyx 1.5 and it doesn't work, because when I try to open it, it doesn't. I have a problem with my archive, I'm using the report type file, but I cannot export to a pdf... I had this problem before but I solved changing the way to

Re: lyx problems

2007-09-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
NinaNutz schrieb: I'm using lyx 1.4.4 for Windows, I've tried to install the lyx 1.5 and it doesn't work, because when I try to open it, it doesn't. Then try out this installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller If this doesn't help, uninstall LyX 1.5, then LyX 1.4.4 and afterwards,

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Neal Becker
Declan O'Byrne wrote: Silly question: Are you using Evince? If so, try acroread. I have found that Evince sometimes gives strange fuzzyness. For what it's worth, I don't find the same problem with Evince on Gutsy. Apologies if this is irrelevant. Declan Look at the fonts used. Make

Adding longtables to List of Tables

2007-09-13 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi All I have a 100 page document with a lot of table floats in it. Thus have a List of Tables in the Table of Content. Everything works fine except for 4 longtables that I have. I could not place these tables in a float because they cover several pages. I have searched this list and found

Re: Adding longtables to List of Tables

2007-09-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
christiaan pauw schrieb: I have a 100 page document with a lot of table floats in it. Thus have a List of Tables in the Table of Content. Everything works fine except for 4 longtables that I have. How to do this is described in section Longtables and its subsection of the EmbeddedObjects

ps2pdf, ERT, and includegraphics

2007-09-13 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
Dear all, I am using lyx with powerdot for a presentation. I am trying to insert a figure within an ERT box, to get advantage of the \twocolumn command of powerdot. I discovered that lyx does not output figures to pdf when using ps2pdf (I checked this with a new article document containing a

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Neal Becker wrote: Look at the fonts used. Make sure they are type 1. If not, maybe you need either: \usepackage{lmodern} or \usepackage{cmlgc} To elaborate a bit on Neal's point, in LyX 1.5.x you can go to Document - Settings... - Fonts and set the Roman, Sans Serif and Typewriter

Re: ps2pdf, ERT, and includegraphics

2007-09-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: I am using lyx with powerdot for a presentation. I am trying to insert a figure within an ERT box, to get advantage of the \twocolumn command of powerdot. I discovered that lyx does not output figures to pdf when using ps2pdf (I checked this with a new article document

Two Column Question

2007-09-13 Thread Bruce Pourciau
A colleague of mine has a LaTeX question. In the past (about five years ago), he would use \twocolumn[header text], with the title, author, and abstract substituted in as the header text, to get the title, author, and abstract at the top of the page and written across the width of the page

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Laurent Duperval
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:16:12 +0100, Declan O'Byrne wrote: Silly question: Are you using Evince? If so, try acroread. I have found that Evince sometimes gives strange fuzzyness. For what it's worth, I don't find the same problem with Evince on Gutsy. Apologies if this is irrelevant. No

Re: Two Column Question

2007-09-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: A colleague of mine has a LaTeX question. In the past (about five years ago), he would use \twocolumn[header text], with the title, author, and abstract substituted in as the header text, to get the title, author, and abstract at the top of the page and written across the

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Laurent Duperval
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:50:20 -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: To elaborate a bit on Neal's point, in LyX 1.5.x you can go to Document - Settings... - Fonts and set the Roman, Sans Serif and Typewriter fonts to their Latin Modern choices. That will automatically insert the needed \usepackage in

Re: How do you change background color and put a frame

2007-09-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Laurent Duperval schrieb: I want to create a paragraph (or two) that have a different background color. I also want them to be framed. How do I do that? This is described in section 5.7. Colored Boxes of the Embedded Objects manual that you find in LyX's help menu. regards Uwe

Re: lyx problems

2007-09-13 Thread NinaNutz
Hi again, I have solved the problem. I think my computer had very little space at C, and probably the virtual memory had not enough. I have uninstalled a lot of programs and I have liberated space. Now it works... last a while, but it works. I still continue using the version 1.4.4... :) Maybe

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Laurent Duperval wrote: I tried and it still looks fuzzy on Linux. However, on Windows it looks fine. So it seems to be a problem with my display (LCD; on Windows it's on CRT). [Disclaimer: fonts are not my specialty.] I don't think the display is the culprit; I'm using an LCD (with

Re: ps2pdf, ERT, and includegraphics

2007-09-13 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
Dear Paul, thank you very much for your comments. It is quite weird: if I export my file prova.lyx in latex (pdflatex or plain) and run latex prova.tex, the dvi file shows the picture correctly, and of course the picture is kept through the chain of dvips and ps2pdf; if I, however, try to

Mutltiple personal dictionaries with aspell

2007-09-13 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, I write half my material in French and the other half in English. I need a personal dictionary for each language. As it stands now, whenever I change languages for my documents, I need to go to the preferences and change my personal dictionary from one language to another, otherwise I get an

Re: ps2pdf, ERT, and includegraphics

2007-09-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: Dear Paul, thank you very much for your comments. It is quite weird: if I export my file prova.lyx in latex (pdflatex or plain) and run latex prova.tex, the dvi file shows the picture correctly, and of course the picture is kept through the chain of dvips and ps2pdf; if

Seeing HEVEA errors

2007-09-13 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, Sometimes when I export to HTML, I get an error window that pops up saying there was an error with the hevea execution, but I see no details. Is there any way to see the details? L -- Prenez la parole en public en étant Speak to an audience while being moins nerveux et plus

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Silly question: Are you using Evince? If so, try acroread. I have found that Evince sometimes gives strange fuzzyness. For what it's worth, I don't find the same problem with Evince on Gutsy. Apologies if this is irrelevant. Declan

lyx problems

2007-09-13 Thread NinaNutz
hi all, I'm using lyx 1.4.4 for Windows, I've tried to install the lyx 1.5 and it doesn't work, because when I try to open it, it doesn't. I have a problem with my archive, I'm using the report type file, but I cannot export to a pdf... I had this problem before but I solved changing the way to

Re: lyx problems

2007-09-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
NinaNutz schrieb: I'm using lyx 1.4.4 for Windows, I've tried to install the lyx 1.5 and it doesn't work, because when I try to open it, it doesn't. Then try out this installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller If this doesn't help, uninstall LyX 1.5, then LyX 1.4.4 and afterwards,

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Neal Becker
Declan O'Byrne wrote: > Silly question: Are you using Evince? If so, try acroread. I have > found that Evince sometimes gives strange fuzzyness. For what it's > worth, I don't find the same problem with Evince on Gutsy. > > Apologies if this is irrelevant. > > Declan Look at the fonts used.

Adding longtables to List of Tables

2007-09-13 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi All I have a 100 page document with a lot of table floats in it. Thus have a List of Tables in the Table of Content. Everything works fine except for 4 longtables that I have. I could not place these tables in a float because they cover several pages. I have searched this list and found

Re: Adding longtables to List of Tables

2007-09-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
christiaan pauw schrieb: I have a 100 page document with a lot of table floats in it. Thus have a List of Tables in the Table of Content. Everything works fine except for 4 longtables that I have. How to do this is described in section "Longtables" and its subsection of the EmbeddedObjects

ps2pdf, ERT, and includegraphics

2007-09-13 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
Dear all, I am using lyx with powerdot for a presentation. I am trying to insert a figure within an ERT box, to get advantage of the \twocolumn command of powerdot. I discovered that lyx does not output figures to pdf when using ps2pdf (I checked this with a new "article" document containing a

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Neal Becker wrote: Look at the fonts used. Make sure they are type 1. If not, maybe you need either: \usepackage{lmodern} or \usepackage{cmlgc} To elaborate a bit on Neal's point, in LyX 1.5.x you can go to Document -> Settings... -> Fonts and set the Roman, Sans Serif and Typewriter

Re: ps2pdf, ERT, and includegraphics

2007-09-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: I am using lyx with powerdot for a presentation. I am trying to insert a figure within an ERT box, to get advantage of the \twocolumn command of powerdot. I discovered that lyx does not output figures to pdf when using ps2pdf (I checked this with a new "article"

Two Column Question

2007-09-13 Thread Bruce Pourciau
A colleague of mine has a LaTeX question. In the past (about five years ago), he would use \twocolumn[header text], with the title, author, and abstract substituted in as the header text, to get the title, author, and abstract at the top of the page and written across the width of the page

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Laurent Duperval
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:16:12 +0100, Declan O'Byrne wrote: > Silly question: Are you using Evince? If so, try acroread. I have > found that Evince sometimes gives strange fuzzyness. For what it's > worth, I don't find the same problem with Evince on Gutsy. > > Apologies if this is irrelevant. >

Re: Two Column Question

2007-09-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: A colleague of mine has a LaTeX question. In the past (about five years ago), he would use \twocolumn[header text], with the title, author, and abstract substituted in as the header text, to get the title, author, and abstract at the top of the page and written across the

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Laurent Duperval
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:50:20 -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > To elaborate a bit on Neal's point, in LyX 1.5.x you can go to Document > -> Settings... -> Fonts and set the Roman, Sans Serif and Typewriter > fonts to their Latin Modern choices. That will automatically insert the > needed

Re: How do you change background color and put a frame

2007-09-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Laurent Duperval schrieb: I want to create a paragraph (or two) that have a different background color. I also want them to be framed. How do I do that? This is described in section "5.7. Colored Boxes" of the Embedded Objects manual that you find in LyX's help menu. regards Uwe

Re: lyx problems

2007-09-13 Thread NinaNutz
Hi again, I have solved the problem. I think my computer had very little space at C, and probably the virtual memory had not enough. I have uninstalled a lot of programs and I have liberated space. Now it works... last a while, but it works. I still continue using the version 1.4.4... :) Maybe

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Laurent Duperval wrote: I tried and it still looks fuzzy on Linux. However, on Windows it looks fine. So it seems to be a problem with my display (LCD; on Windows it's on CRT). [Disclaimer: fonts are not my specialty.] I don't think the display is the culprit; I'm using an LCD (with

Re: ps2pdf, ERT, and includegraphics

2007-09-13 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
Dear Paul, thank you very much for your comments. It is quite weird: if I export my file prova.lyx in latex (pdflatex or plain) and run latex prova.tex, the dvi file shows the picture correctly, and of course the picture is kept through the chain of dvips and ps2pdf; if I, however, try to

Mutltiple personal dictionaries with aspell

2007-09-13 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, I write half my material in French and the other half in English. I need a personal dictionary for each language. As it stands now, whenever I change languages for my documents, I need to go to the preferences and change my personal dictionary from one language to another, otherwise I get an

Re: ps2pdf, ERT, and includegraphics

2007-09-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: Dear Paul, thank you very much for your comments. It is quite weird: if I export my file prova.lyx in latex (pdflatex or plain) and run latex prova.tex, the dvi file shows the picture correctly, and of course the picture is kept through the chain of dvips and ps2pdf; if

Seeing HEVEA errors

2007-09-13 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, Sometimes when I export to HTML, I get an error window that pops up saying there was an error with the hevea execution, but I see no details. Is there any way to see the details? L -- Prenez la parole en public en étant Speak to an audience while being moins nerveux et plus