Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

2009-01-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Guenter Milde wrote: My proposal would be: LyX is a graphical frontend for LaTeX. ... Well, it is not _just_ that IMHO. My proposal: "LyX is a graphical word processor mainly used with a LateX backend. LyX is especially suited for structured document writing." The plain text export of

Re: Hi Lyx Users

2009-01-29 Thread Václav Šmídl
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, rgheck wrote: > Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Richard Heck wrote: > >>> An error occurred whilst running python -tt "C:/Program > >>> Files/Lyx/bin/../Resource" > >>> > >>> I will appreciate your help. > >> > >> I'm not sure, but I expect that whatever program LyX uses to

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-29 Thread A B
Hi. I seem to remember that a LyX / wiki connection was discussed some time ago and it just struck me that that is also an nice way of collaborating. The ability to save LyX documents as a wiki page and load a wiki page into Lyx. In non-lyx environment there might be a wiki page for information

Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-01-29 Thread jezZiFeR
Hello, I would like to avoid hyphenation in the last line of a page. How could I do that? Maybe that´s mentioned somewhere in the User Guide, but I can´t find it. I´m on OSX with Lyx 1.6.1. Best* Jess

Question : how to write vietnamese documents with LyX-1.6.1

2009-01-29 Thread R. Josh III
Is it possible to write vietnamese (with viqr code for instance) with LyX-1.6.1 ? My keyboard is a french (azerty, latin 1) one. And how may I do ? Thank you, sorry for my bad English. R. J.

Re: MS Word to LyX

2009-01-29 Thread David A. Case
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > So, it seems the only solution is word2tex -- it appears to > do the conversion better than GrindEQ. But it is hard > to judge from the trial version, and the real version is > quite expensive (and risky, since it seems support is > non-existent).

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-01-29 Thread rgheck
jezZiFeR wrote: Hello, I would like to avoid hyphenation in the last line of a page. How could I do that? Maybe that´s mentioned somewhere in the User Guide, but I can´t find it. I´m on OSX with Lyx 1.6.1. This is a LaTeX thing, and I don't myself know whether it's possible to avoid this,

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-01-29 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
rgheck wrote: jezZiFeR wrote: Hello, I would like to avoid hyphenation in the last line of a page. How could I do that? Maybe that´s mentioned somewhere in the User Guide, but I can´t find it. I´m on OSX with Lyx 1.6.1. This is a LaTeX thing, and I don't myself know whether it's possible

Re: Question : how to write vietnamese documents with LyX-1.6.1

2009-01-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
R. Josh III schrieb: Is it possible to write vietnamese (with viqr code for instance) with LyX-1.6.1 ? I don't know about "viqr", but I created a Wiki page describing the basic steps: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Vietnamese To use your french keyboard for vietnamese, you can create your own

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-01-29 Thread jezZiFeR
Hm, well, I really meant to avoid it for the whole document… You mean I could avoid with ERT at the hyphenated line? Like "\hyphenpenalty1"? Doesn´t seem like a long term solution, especially for longer documents. Is this going to be revised in a newer version of Latex? Thanks, best* Jess

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

2009-01-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 29 January 2009 03:00:45 am Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: > > My proposal would be: > > > >LyX is a graphical frontend for LaTeX. ... > > Well, it is not _just_ that IMHO. My proposal: > > "LyX is a graphical word processor mainly used with a LateX backend. LyX

How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread jezZiFeR
Dear listmembers, I would like to add the greek "ē", which is an "e" with a straight dash on the top. I do use Lyx 1.6.1. Best* Jess

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
\bar{e} all you do is control-m then \bar then e erez On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:36 PM, jezZiFeR wrote: > Dear listmembers, > > I would like to add the greek "ē", which is an "e" with a straight dash on > the top. > I do use Lyx 1.6.1. > > Best* > Jess -- Erez

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Jan 29, 2009, at 10:36 AM, jezZiFeR wrote: I would like to add the greek "ē", which is an "e" with a straight dash on the top. In math mode, \bar{e}

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread Witek Firlej
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:36 PM, jezZiFeR wrote: > Dear listmembers, > > I would like to add the greek "ē", which is an "e" with a straight dash on > the top. > I do use Lyx 1.6.1. Use Unicode -- :: Witek Firlej :: Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

2009-01-29 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 12:30 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thursday 29 January 2009 03:00:45 am Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > Guenter Milde wrote: > > > My proposal would be: > > > > > >LyX is a graphical frontend for LaTeX. ... > > > > Well, it is not _just_ that IMHO. My proposal: > > > > "LyX

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

2009-01-29 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 29 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote: > Yes it is, although creation and modification of styles is an order of > magnitude or two harder than with MS Word or WordPerfect. Contemplating the styles created by most MS Word "Power Users"* I can regard that "shortcoming" as a major

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread jezZiFeR
Thank you. This seems not to work in conjunction with italics. This is what I get:Best*JessAm 29.01.2009 um 18:38 schrieb Erez Yerushalmi:\bar{e}all you do is control-mthen \barthen eerezOn Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:36 PM, jezZiFeR wrote: Dear listmembers, I would like to

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
then maybe control M then control M again to get regular letters. Make them italic. Then get out of that box, and type a regular math equation with \bar{e} \mbox{\emph{test}}\bar{e} maybe this is better??? erez On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:07 PM, jezZiFeR wrote: >

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel
Title: MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL with LyX 1.6.1 and unicode I obtain this : it's character U+0113 ( e macron ) I used the character table on Windows ...but on LyX you can use Inser > Special characters > Symbols and the extended Latin A Hope it helps Siegfried. -- Siegfried

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
jezZiFeR schrieb: > I would like to add the greek "ē", which is an "e" with a straight dash on the top. I do use Lyx 1.6.1. You an directly insert this character to your LyX document from the Insert->Special Character->Symbols dialog or from another program. regards Uwe

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread jezZiFeR
Great! Thanks – this works fine. Best* Jess Am 29.01.2009 um 19:29 schrieb Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel: with LyX 1.6.1 and unicode I obtain this : it's character U+0113 ( e macron ) I used the character table on Windows ...but on LyX you can use Inser > Special characters >

Re: Request for svn test on Windows

2009-01-29 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Pavel Sanda schreef: hi, i started implementing another badly missing feature for svn cooperation, which is automatical locking of files so there is possibility how to avoid merge conflicts. i need one confirmation from the windows side of the pond - please is can anybody report to me whether

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-01-29 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> Hello, > > I would like to avoid hyphenation in the last line of a > page. How could I do that? Maybe that´s mentioned somewhere > in the User Guide, but I can´t find it. I´m on OSX with > Lyx 1.6.1. > > Best* > Jess Hello, This is a Latex affair. Put in your preamble \brokenpenalty=1

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-01-29 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> Hm, well, I really meant to avoid it for the whole > document… > > You mean I could avoid with ERT at the hyphenated line? > Like > "\hyphenpenalty1"? Doesn´t seem like a > long term solution, especially > for longer documents. Is this going to be revised in a > newer version of > Latex? >

Export to Open document

2009-01-29 Thread Hesham Kamel
Hi, I am trying to export a lyx document into an open document, I press export, but then no files are created. Can someone help? The reason is I am trying to get the file into an MS Word file so my supervisor can open it. Thank you, Hesham

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

2009-01-29 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> I'm using "Document class: book (more font > sizes)" > > I'm hoping I can modify the numbering so that the pages > before > chapter one are numbered separately from the pages starting > with > chapter one. IE: I want the first page of chapter one to be > page 1 > A partial answer: at the

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-29 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, A B wrote: I seem to remember that a LyX / wiki connection was discussed some time ago and it just struck me that that is also an nice way of collaborating. Hi, Yes, I'm the guy usually bringing this up :-) The ability to save LyX documents as a wiki page and load a

Re: Hi Lyx Users

2009-01-29 Thread Guven Yuceturk
Hi All; Sorry for the late answer. I did check the paths for the converters, but I couldn't find anything. In windows installation, the "scripts" folder which contains the converters, is inside of "Resources" i tried the change the path name, but i ended up getting the same error. the original

Example CVs give error

2009-01-29 Thread Dave Woodfall
I have been using lyx for letters without problem, but now want to write a CV. The problem is I always get an error when loading the example CVs. 'The layout requested by this file xxx.layout is unusable...' This is with lyx 1.6.1. I have just installed texlive thinking this might fix it but no

Re: Export to Open document

2009-01-29 Thread Typhoon
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:43:57 -0500 Hesham Kamel wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to export a lyx document into an open document, I press > export, but then no files are created. > Can someone help? > The reason is I am trying to get the file into an MS Word file so my > supervisor

Re: Export to Open document

2009-01-29 Thread Hesham Kamel
My system is Windows On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Typhoon wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:43:57 -0500 > Hesham Kamel wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am trying to export a lyx document into an open document, I press > > export, but then no files are created.

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

2009-01-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Guenter Milde wrote: My proposal would be: LyX is a graphical frontend for LaTeX. ... Well, it is not _just_ that IMHO. My proposal: LyX is a graphical word processor mainly used with a LateX backend. LyX is especially suited for structured document writing. The plain text export of

Re: Hi Lyx Users

2009-01-29 Thread Václav Šmídl
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, rgheck wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: Richard Heck wrote: An error occurred whilst running python -tt C:/Program Files/Lyx/bin/../Resource I will appreciate your help. I'm not sure, but I expect that whatever program LyX uses to convert fig files into a

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-29 Thread A B
Hi. I seem to remember that a LyX / wiki connection was discussed some time ago and it just struck me that that is also an nice way of collaborating. The ability to save LyX documents as a wiki page and load a wiki page into Lyx. In non-lyx environment there might be a wiki page for information

Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-01-29 Thread jezZiFeR
Hello, I would like to avoid hyphenation in the last line of a page. How could I do that? Maybe that´s mentioned somewhere in the User Guide, but I can´t find it. I´m on OSX with Lyx 1.6.1. Best* Jess

Question : how to write vietnamese documents with LyX-1.6.1

2009-01-29 Thread R. Josh III
Is it possible to write vietnamese (with viqr code for instance) with LyX-1.6.1 ? My keyboard is a french (azerty, latin 1) one. And how may I do ? Thank you, sorry for my bad English. R. J.

Re: MS Word to LyX

2009-01-29 Thread David A. Case
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: So, it seems the only solution is word2tex -- it appears to do the conversion better than GrindEQ. But it is hard to judge from the trial version, and the real version is quite expensive (and risky, since it seems support is non-existent).

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-01-29 Thread rgheck
jezZiFeR wrote: Hello, I would like to avoid hyphenation in the last line of a page. How could I do that? Maybe that´s mentioned somewhere in the User Guide, but I can´t find it. I´m on OSX with Lyx 1.6.1. This is a LaTeX thing, and I don't myself know whether it's possible to avoid this,

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-01-29 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
rgheck wrote: jezZiFeR wrote: Hello, I would like to avoid hyphenation in the last line of a page. How could I do that? Maybe that´s mentioned somewhere in the User Guide, but I can´t find it. I´m on OSX with Lyx 1.6.1. This is a LaTeX thing, and I don't myself know whether it's possible

Re: Question : how to write vietnamese documents with LyX-1.6.1

2009-01-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
R. Josh III schrieb: Is it possible to write vietnamese (with viqr code for instance) with LyX-1.6.1 ? I don't know about viqr, but I created a Wiki page describing the basic steps: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Vietnamese To use your french keyboard for vietnamese, you can create your own

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-01-29 Thread jezZiFeR
Hm, well, I really meant to avoid it for the whole document… You mean I could avoid with ERT at the hyphenated line? Like \hyphenpenalty1? Doesn´t seem like a long term solution, especially for longer documents. Is this going to be revised in a newer version of Latex? Thanks, best* Jess

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

2009-01-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 29 January 2009 03:00:45 am Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: My proposal would be: LyX is a graphical frontend for LaTeX. ... Well, it is not _just_ that IMHO. My proposal: LyX is a graphical word processor mainly used with a LateX backend. LyX While this is

How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread jezZiFeR
Dear listmembers, I would like to add the greek ē, which is an e with a straight dash on the top. I do use Lyx 1.6.1. Best* Jess

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
\bar{e} all you do is control-m then \bar then e erez On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:36 PM, jezZiFeR jezzi...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear listmembers, I would like to add the greek ē, which is an e with a straight dash on the top. I do use Lyx 1.6.1. Best* Jess -- Erez Yerushalmi PhD

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Jan 29, 2009, at 10:36 AM, jezZiFeR wrote: I would like to add the greek ē, which is an e with a straight dash on the top. In math mode, \bar{e}

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread Witek Firlej
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:36 PM, jezZiFeR jezzi...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear listmembers, I would like to add the greek ē, which is an e with a straight dash on the top. I do use Lyx 1.6.1. Use Unicode -- :: Witek Firlej :: Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites,

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

2009-01-29 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 12:30 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 29 January 2009 03:00:45 am Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: My proposal would be: LyX is a graphical frontend for LaTeX. ... Well, it is not _just_ that IMHO. My proposal: LyX is a graphical word

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

2009-01-29 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 29 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote: Yes it is, although creation and modification of styles is an order of magnitude or two harder than with MS Word or WordPerfect. Contemplating the styles created by most MS Word Power Users* I can regard that shortcoming as a major advantage. *

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread jezZiFeR
Thank you. This seems not to work in conjunction with italics. This is what I get:Best*JessAm 29.01.2009 um 18:38 schrieb Erez Yerushalmi:\bar{e}all you do is control-mthen \barthen eerezOn Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:36 PM, jezZiFeR jezzi...@googlemail.com> wrote: Dear listmembers, I would like to

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
then maybe control M then control M again to get regular letters. Make them italic. Then get out of that box, and type a regular math equation with \bar{e} \mbox{\emph{test}}\bar{e} maybe this is better??? erez On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:07 PM, jezZiFeR jezzi...@googlemail.com wrote: Thank

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel
Title: MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL with LyX 1.6.1 and unicode I obtain this : it's character U+0113 ( e macron ) I used the character table on Windows ...but on LyX you can use Inser Special characters Symbols and the extended Latin A Hope it helps Siegfried. -- Siegfried

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
jezZiFeR schrieb: I would like to add the greek ē, which is an e with a straight dash on the top. I do use Lyx 1.6.1. You an directly insert this character to your LyX document from the Insert-Special Character-Symbols dialog or from another program. regards Uwe

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread jezZiFeR
Great! Thanks – this works fine. Best* Jess Am 29.01.2009 um 19:29 schrieb Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel: with LyX 1.6.1 and unicode I obtain this : test.png it's character U+0113 ( e macron ) I used the character table on Windows ...but on LyX you can use Inser Special characters

Re: Request for svn test on Windows

2009-01-29 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Pavel Sanda schreef: hi, i started implementing another badly missing feature for svn cooperation, which is automatical locking of files so there is possibility how to avoid merge conflicts. i need one confirmation from the windows side of the pond - please is can anybody report to me whether

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-01-29 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello, I would like to avoid hyphenation in the last line of a page. How could I do that? Maybe that´s mentioned somewhere in the User Guide, but I can´t find it. I´m on OSX with Lyx 1.6.1. Best* Jess Hello, This is a Latex affair. Put in your preamble \brokenpenalty=1 This

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-01-29 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hm, well, I really meant to avoid it for the whole document… You mean I could avoid with ERT at the hyphenated line? Like \hyphenpenalty1? Doesn´t seem like a long term solution, especially for longer documents. Is this going to be revised in a newer version of Latex? Thanks,

Export to Open document

2009-01-29 Thread Hesham Kamel
Hi, I am trying to export a lyx document into an open document, I press export, but then no files are created. Can someone help? The reason is I am trying to get the file into an MS Word file so my supervisor can open it. Thank you, Hesham

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

2009-01-29 Thread Marcelo Acuña
I'm using Document class: book (more font sizes) I'm hoping I can modify the numbering so that the pages before chapter one are numbered separately from the pages starting with chapter one. IE: I want the first page of chapter one to be page 1 A partial answer: at the start of each

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-29 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, A B wrote: I seem to remember that a LyX / wiki connection was discussed some time ago and it just struck me that that is also an nice way of collaborating. Hi, Yes, I'm the guy usually bringing this up :-) The ability to save LyX documents as a wiki page and load a

Re: Hi Lyx Users

2009-01-29 Thread Guven Yuceturk
Hi All; Sorry for the late answer. I did check the paths for the converters, but I couldn't find anything. In windows installation, the scripts folder which contains the converters, is inside of Resources i tried the change the path name, but i ended up getting the same error. the original

Example CVs give error

2009-01-29 Thread Dave Woodfall
I have been using lyx for letters without problem, but now want to write a CV. The problem is I always get an error when loading the example CVs. 'The layout requested by this file xxx.layout is unusable...' This is with lyx 1.6.1. I have just installed texlive thinking this might fix it but no

Re: Export to Open document

2009-01-29 Thread Typhoon
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:43:57 -0500 Hesham Kamel helta...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to export a lyx document into an open document, I press export, but then no files are created. Can someone help? The reason is I am trying to get the file into an MS Word file so my supervisor can open

Re: Export to Open document

2009-01-29 Thread Hesham Kamel
My system is Windows On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Typhoon typh...@aanet.com.au wrote: On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:43:57 -0500 Hesham Kamel helta...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to export a lyx document into an open document, I press export, but then no files are created. Can

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

2009-01-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Guenter Milde wrote: My proposal would be: LyX is a graphical frontend for LaTeX. ... Well, it is not _just_ that IMHO. My proposal: LyX is a graphical word processor mainly used with a LateX backend. LyX is especially suited for structured document writing. The plain text export of

Re: Hi Lyx Users

2009-01-29 Thread Václav Šmídl
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, rgheck wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: Richard Heck wrote: An error occurred whilst running python -tt C:/Program Files/Lyx/bin/../Resource I will appreciate your help. I'm not sure, but I expect that whatever program LyX uses to convert fig files into a

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-29 Thread A B
Hi. I seem to remember that a LyX / wiki connection was discussed some time ago and it just struck me that that is also an nice way of collaborating. The ability to save LyX documents as a wiki page and load a wiki page into Lyx. In non-lyx environment there might be a wiki page for information

Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-01-29 Thread jezZiFeR
Hello, I would like to avoid hyphenation in the last line of a page. How could I do that? Maybe that´s mentioned somewhere in the User Guide, but I can´t find it. I´m on OSX with Lyx 1.6.1. Best* Jess

Question : how to write vietnamese documents with LyX-1.6.1

2009-01-29 Thread R. Josh III
Is it possible to write vietnamese (with viqr code for instance) with LyX-1.6.1 ? My keyboard is a french (azerty, latin 1) one. And how may I do ? Thank you, sorry for my bad English. R. J.

Re: MS Word to LyX

2009-01-29 Thread David A. Case
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: So, it seems the only solution is word2tex -- it appears to do the conversion better than GrindEQ. But it is hard to judge from the trial version, and the real version is quite expensive (and risky, since it seems support is non-existent).

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-01-29 Thread rgheck
jezZiFeR wrote: Hello, I would like to avoid hyphenation in the last line of a page. How could I do that? Maybe that´s mentioned somewhere in the User Guide, but I can´t find it. I´m on OSX with Lyx 1.6.1. This is a LaTeX thing, and I don't myself know whether it's possible to avoid this,

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-01-29 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
rgheck wrote: jezZiFeR wrote: Hello, I would like to avoid hyphenation in the last line of a page. How could I do that? Maybe that´s mentioned somewhere in the User Guide, but I can´t find it. I´m on OSX with Lyx 1.6.1. This is a LaTeX thing, and I don't myself know whether it's possible

Re: Question : how to write vietnamese documents with LyX-1.6.1

2009-01-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
R. Josh III schrieb: Is it possible to write vietnamese (with viqr code for instance) with LyX-1.6.1 ? I don't know about viqr, but I created a Wiki page describing the basic steps: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Vietnamese To use your french keyboard for vietnamese, you can create your own

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-01-29 Thread jezZiFeR
Hm, well, I really meant to avoid it for the whole document… You mean I could avoid with ERT at the hyphenated line? Like \hyphenpenalty1? Doesn´t seem like a long term solution, especially for longer documents. Is this going to be revised in a newer version of Latex? Thanks, best* Jess

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

2009-01-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 29 January 2009 03:00:45 am Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: My proposal would be: LyX is a graphical frontend for LaTeX. ... Well, it is not _just_ that IMHO. My proposal: LyX is a graphical word processor mainly used with a LateX backend. LyX While this is

How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread jezZiFeR
Dear listmembers, I would like to add the greek ē, which is an e with a straight dash on the top. I do use Lyx 1.6.1. Best* Jess

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
\bar{e} all you do is control-m then \bar then e erez On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:36 PM, jezZiFeR jezzi...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear listmembers, I would like to add the greek ē, which is an e with a straight dash on the top. I do use Lyx 1.6.1. Best* Jess -- Erez Yerushalmi PhD

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Jan 29, 2009, at 10:36 AM, jezZiFeR wrote: I would like to add the greek ē, which is an e with a straight dash on the top. In math mode, \bar{e}

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread Witek Firlej
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:36 PM, jezZiFeR jezzi...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear listmembers, I would like to add the greek ē, which is an e with a straight dash on the top. I do use Lyx 1.6.1. Use Unicode -- :: Witek Firlej :: Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites,

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

2009-01-29 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 12:30 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 29 January 2009 03:00:45 am Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: My proposal would be: LyX is a graphical frontend for LaTeX. ... Well, it is not _just_ that IMHO. My proposal: LyX is a graphical word

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

2009-01-29 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 29 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote: Yes it is, although creation and modification of styles is an order of magnitude or two harder than with MS Word or WordPerfect. Contemplating the styles created by most MS Word Power Users* I can regard that shortcoming as a major advantage. *

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread jezZiFeR
Thank you. This seems not to work in conjunction with italics. This is what I get:Best*JessAm 29.01.2009 um 18:38 schrieb Erez Yerushalmi:\bar{e}all you do is control-mthen \barthen eerezOn Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:36 PM, jezZiFeR jezzi...@googlemail.com> wrote: Dear listmembers, I would like to

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
then maybe control M then control M again to get regular letters. Make them italic. Then get out of that box, and type a regular math equation with \bar{e} \mbox{\emph{test}}\bar{e} maybe this is better??? erez On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:07 PM, jezZiFeR jezzi...@googlemail.com wrote: Thank

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel
Title: MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL with LyX 1.6.1 and unicode I obtain this : it's character U+0113 ( e macron ) I used the character table on Windows ...but on LyX you can use Inser Special characters Symbols and the extended Latin A Hope it helps Siegfried. -- Siegfried

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
jezZiFeR schrieb: I would like to add the greek ē, which is an e with a straight dash on the top. I do use Lyx 1.6.1. You an directly insert this character to your LyX document from the Insert-Special Character-Symbols dialog or from another program. regards Uwe

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

2009-01-29 Thread jezZiFeR
Great! Thanks – this works fine. Best* Jess Am 29.01.2009 um 19:29 schrieb Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel: with LyX 1.6.1 and unicode I obtain this : test.png it's character U+0113 ( e macron ) I used the character table on Windows ...but on LyX you can use Inser Special characters

Re: Request for svn test on Windows

2009-01-29 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Pavel Sanda schreef: hi, i started implementing another badly missing feature for svn cooperation, which is automatical locking of files so there is possibility how to avoid merge conflicts. i need one confirmation from the windows side of the pond - please is can anybody report to me whether

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-01-29 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello, I would like to avoid hyphenation in the last line of a page. How could I do that? Maybe that´s mentioned somewhere in the User Guide, but I can´t find it. I´m on OSX with Lyx 1.6.1. Best* Jess Hello, This is a Latex affair. Put in your preamble \brokenpenalty=1 This

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-01-29 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hm, well, I really meant to avoid it for the whole document… You mean I could avoid with ERT at the hyphenated line? Like \hyphenpenalty1? Doesn´t seem like a long term solution, especially for longer documents. Is this going to be revised in a newer version of Latex? Thanks,

Export to Open document

2009-01-29 Thread Hesham Kamel
Hi, I am trying to export a lyx document into an open document, I press export, but then no files are created. Can someone help? The reason is I am trying to get the file into an MS Word file so my supervisor can open it. Thank you, Hesham

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

2009-01-29 Thread Marcelo Acuña
I'm using Document class: book (more font sizes) I'm hoping I can modify the numbering so that the pages before chapter one are numbered separately from the pages starting with chapter one. IE: I want the first page of chapter one to be page 1 A partial answer: at the start of each

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-29 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, A B wrote: I seem to remember that a LyX / wiki connection was discussed some time ago and it just struck me that that is also an nice way of collaborating. Hi, Yes, I'm the guy usually bringing this up :-) The ability to save LyX documents as a wiki page and load a

Re: Hi Lyx Users

2009-01-29 Thread Guven Yuceturk
Hi All; Sorry for the late answer. I did check the paths for the converters, but I couldn't find anything. In windows installation, the scripts folder which contains the converters, is inside of Resources i tried the change the path name, but i ended up getting the same error. the original

Example CVs give error

2009-01-29 Thread Dave Woodfall
I have been using lyx for letters without problem, but now want to write a CV. The problem is I always get an error when loading the example CVs. 'The layout requested by this file xxx.layout is unusable...' This is with lyx 1.6.1. I have just installed texlive thinking this might fix it but no

Re: Export to Open document

2009-01-29 Thread Typhoon
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:43:57 -0500 Hesham Kamel helta...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to export a lyx document into an open document, I press export, but then no files are created. Can someone help? The reason is I am trying to get the file into an MS Word file so my supervisor can open

Re: Export to Open document

2009-01-29 Thread Hesham Kamel
My system is Windows On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Typhoon typh...@aanet.com.au wrote: On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:43:57 -0500 Hesham Kamel helta...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to export a lyx document into an open document, I press export, but then no files are created. Can