Re: hanging par strange behavior

2008-12-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: When switching from a standard paragraph to a hanging paragraph, hit Enter to end the standard paragraph, insert an empty TeX insert (ERT), hit Enter again and switch the new paragraph to hanging. Sorry, old habits die hard. An easier solution is

Re: LyX 1.5.4 no longer produces an PDF, PS, DVI or TEX file

2008-12-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stoutemyer, David wrote: For some reason LyX 1.5.4 no longer produces a .PDF, .PS, .DVI or LaTeX export file of either type when requested. Perhaps it is because of an error that I have introduced in my file, but there is no error message when I request the output file. Some of my short

Re: hanging par strange behavior

2008-12-16 Thread rgheck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: When switching from a standard paragraph to a hanging paragraph, hit Enter to end the standard paragraph, insert an empty TeX insert (ERT), hit Enter again and switch the new paragraph to hanging. Sorry, old habits die hard.

PNG to EPS without file size explosion

2008-12-16 Thread Nils Becker
Hi, when exporting a LyX file with embedded .png graphics as LaTeX (plain), .eps files are generated automatically from the .png's. That's good! However the resulting .eps file sizes can get huge. (from 700K to 110M in one case). The reason is that LyX uses convert with no options to do the

Re: Show pagebreaks in the editor?

2008-12-16 Thread Nicolás
Rich Shepard wrote: Nor the TeX way. If someone wants a WISIWIG writing tool there are multiple word processors that are specifically designed for that. They'll show page breaks, different typefaces, and all the other appearance items on the screen as the document is being written. If that's

Re: LyX 1.6.1 binaries for Ubuntu

2008-12-16 Thread Nick Bell
Just a note to the newbies (like me): This works with a fresh Ubuntu 8.10 install, having installed texlive-full first using synaptic package manager. Nick Christopher Menzel wrote: On Dec 15, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Fritz Bein wrote: Am 15.12.2008, 08:06 Uhr, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller

table headers

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Friedman
I am new to lyx (I found it in a search for an SCM-amenable tool), and have a question: In the standard WYSIWYG tool, the table headers are a different style than rest of the table. How do I get the same effect in lyx? I would like to configure a style such that table headers are

Re: LyX 1.6.1 binaries for Ubuntu

2008-12-16 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Dec 16, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Nick Bell wrote: Christopher Menzel wrote: On Dec 15, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Fritz Bein wrote: Am 15.12.2008, 08:06 Uhr, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller Public release of LyX version 1.6.1 === Thank to all developpers for the new version

Re: macros in the middle of the text

2008-12-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2008-12-15, Richard Heck wrote: Niko Schwarz wrote: hello, i noticed that math macros exist. i want something similar, but in my text. i'm writing a text about a cs problem called minimum KT distance, which is a noun. and I'm really tired of typing that name and then setting it to be a

Re: hanging par strange behavior

2008-12-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: When switching from a standard paragraph to a hanging paragraph, hit Enter to end the standard paragraph, insert an empty TeX insert (ERT), hit Enter again and switch the new paragraph to hanging. Sorry, old habits die hard. An easier solution is

Re: LyX 1.5.4 no longer produces an PDF, PS, DVI or TEX file

2008-12-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stoutemyer, David wrote: For some reason LyX 1.5.4 no longer produces a .PDF, .PS, .DVI or LaTeX export file of either type when requested. Perhaps it is because of an error that I have introduced in my file, but there is no error message when I request the output file. Some of my short

Re: hanging par strange behavior

2008-12-16 Thread rgheck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: When switching from a standard paragraph to a hanging paragraph, hit Enter to end the standard paragraph, insert an empty TeX insert (ERT), hit Enter again and switch the new paragraph to hanging. Sorry, old habits die hard.

PNG to EPS without file size explosion

2008-12-16 Thread Nils Becker
Hi, when exporting a LyX file with embedded .png graphics as LaTeX (plain), .eps files are generated automatically from the .png's. That's good! However the resulting .eps file sizes can get huge. (from 700K to 110M in one case). The reason is that LyX uses convert with no options to do the

Re: Show pagebreaks in the editor?

2008-12-16 Thread Nicolás
Rich Shepard wrote: Nor the TeX way. If someone wants a WISIWIG writing tool there are multiple word processors that are specifically designed for that. They'll show page breaks, different typefaces, and all the other appearance items on the screen as the document is being written. If that's

Re: LyX 1.6.1 binaries for Ubuntu

2008-12-16 Thread Nick Bell
Just a note to the newbies (like me): This works with a fresh Ubuntu 8.10 install, having installed texlive-full first using synaptic package manager. Nick Christopher Menzel wrote: On Dec 15, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Fritz Bein wrote: Am 15.12.2008, 08:06 Uhr, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller

table headers

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Friedman
I am new to lyx (I found it in a search for an SCM-amenable tool), and have a question: In the standard WYSIWYG tool, the table headers are a different style than rest of the table. How do I get the same effect in lyx? I would like to configure a style such that table headers are

Re: LyX 1.6.1 binaries for Ubuntu

2008-12-16 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Dec 16, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Nick Bell wrote: Christopher Menzel wrote: On Dec 15, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Fritz Bein wrote: Am 15.12.2008, 08:06 Uhr, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller Public release of LyX version 1.6.1 === Thank to all developpers for the new version

Re: macros in the middle of the text

2008-12-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2008-12-15, Richard Heck wrote: Niko Schwarz wrote: hello, i noticed that math macros exist. i want something similar, but in my text. i'm writing a text about a cs problem called minimum KT distance, which is a noun. and I'm really tired of typing that name and then setting it to be a

Re: hanging par strange behavior

2008-12-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: When switching from a standard paragraph to a hanging paragraph, hit Enter to end the standard paragraph, insert an empty TeX insert (ERT), hit Enter again and switch the new paragraph to hanging. Sorry, old habits die hard. An easier solution is

Re: LyX 1.5.4 no longer produces an PDF, PS, DVI or TEX file

2008-12-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stoutemyer, David wrote: For some reason LyX 1.5.4 no longer produces a .PDF, .PS, .DVI or LaTeX export file of either type when requested. Perhaps it is because of an error that I have introduced in my file, but there is no error message when I request the output file. Some of my short

Re: hanging par strange behavior

2008-12-16 Thread rgheck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: When switching from a standard paragraph to a hanging paragraph, hit Enter to end the standard paragraph, insert an empty TeX insert (ERT), hit Enter again and switch the new paragraph to hanging. Sorry, old habits die hard.

PNG to EPS without file size explosion

2008-12-16 Thread Nils Becker
Hi, when exporting a LyX file with embedded .png graphics as "LaTeX (plain)", .eps files are generated automatically from the .png's. That's good! However the resulting .eps file sizes can get huge. (from 700K to 110M in one case). The reason is that LyX uses convert with no options to do the

Re: Show pagebreaks in the editor?

2008-12-16 Thread Nicolás
Rich Shepard wrote: Nor the TeX way. If someone wants a WISIWIG writing tool there are multiple word processors that are specifically designed for that. They'll show page breaks, different typefaces, and all the other appearance items on the screen as the document is being written. If that's

Re: LyX 1.6.1 binaries for Ubuntu

2008-12-16 Thread Nick Bell
Just a note to the newbies (like me): This works with a fresh Ubuntu 8.10 install, having installed texlive-full first using synaptic package manager. Nick Christopher Menzel wrote: On Dec 15, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Fritz Bein wrote: Am 15.12.2008, 08:06 Uhr, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller

table headers

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Friedman
I am new to lyx (I found it in a search for an SCM-amenable tool), and have a question: In the standard WYSIWYG tool, the table headers are a different style than rest of the table. How do I get the same effect in lyx? I would like to configure a style such that table headers are

Re: LyX 1.6.1 binaries for Ubuntu

2008-12-16 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Dec 16, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Nick Bell wrote: Christopher Menzel wrote: On Dec 15, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Fritz Bein wrote: Am 15.12.2008, 08:06 Uhr, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller Public release of LyX version 1.6.1 === Thank to all developpers for the new version

Re: macros in the middle of the text

2008-12-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2008-12-15, Richard Heck wrote: > Niko Schwarz wrote: >> hello, i noticed that math macros exist. i want something similar, but >> in my text. i'm writing a text about a cs problem called "minimum KT >> distance", which is a noun. and I'm really tired of typing that name >> and then setting it