Re: Help message about LyX-XeTeX

2009-06-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: I've just downloaded the last LyX release (1.6.3) and my OS is Windovs Vista Home Premium. I've used LyX writing all my reports in the last six months. I've got only one great problem that I can't solve without your help. I 'd like to use some characters not available in

Re: journal abbreviations

2009-06-23 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Monday 22 June 2009 17:10:40 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: Thanks for the help. I will try Paul's proposal to use the string editor (Ctrl-T or BibTeX Edit Strings) to add one abbreviation for each journal. I might later use these for further bib-files. Wolfgang Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

2009-06-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Tad Marko t...@tadland.net writes: I simply find the memoir class unattractive. I like the looks of the classic book class. I thought that the default for memoir was to look like book.cls. Memoir is highly configurable and provided with a number of predefined \chapterstyle{} and \headstyle{}

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

2009-06-23 Thread Tad Marko
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.orgwrote: Tad Marko t...@tadland.net writes: I simply find the memoir class unattractive. I like the looks of the classic book class. I thought that the default for memoir was to look like book.cls. Memoir is highly

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

2009-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 22 June 2009 06:26:33 pm Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 22 juin 09 ā 16:06, Tad Marko a écrit : I would like to extend the book layout with the Chapterprecis from the book (memoir) layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as simple as copying book.layout and copying the

Lyx for Posters; Unavailable classes

2009-06-23 Thread Ehud Kaplan
I am trying to use Lyx 1.6.2 to create a poster under Linux. Lyx shows sciposter.cls in the list of document classes (Tools/Tex-information), but when I go to Document/Settings/Document class I cannot find it. In fact, many other classes that are on my system are also listed as Unavailable.

Re: Lyx for Posters; Unavailable classes

2009-06-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Ehud Kaplan wrote: What am I missing? The corresponding LyX layout file. LyX layout files are only available fpr a subset of LaTeX (or DocBook) classes (but it's not difficult to write a layout file). Jürgen

One and half line spacing

2009-06-23 Thread Derek Cordeiro
Hi, I have a query about line spacing. Why does the line spacing \onehalfspacing in LyX differ from word processors like Word or OpenOffice? Or are they two different things? I have used same font size of 12pt but find that a 1.5 line spacing in a word processor generates much more space. Is

Re: One and half line spacing

2009-06-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Derek Cordeiro wrote: I have a query about line spacing. Why does the line spacing \onehalfspacing in LyX differ from word processors like Word or OpenOffice? Or are they two different things? I have used same font size of 12pt but find that a 1.5 line spacing in a word processor generates

Re: One and half line spacing

2009-06-23 Thread rgheck
Derek Cordeiro wrote: Hi, I have a query about line spacing. Why does the line spacing \onehalfspacing in LyX differ from word processors like Word or OpenOffice? Or are they two different things? I have used same font size of 12pt but find that a 1.5 line spacing in a word processor generates

Re: One and half line spacing

2009-06-23 Thread rgheck
rgheck wrote: Derek Cordeiro wrote: Hi, I have a query about line spacing. Why does the line spacing \onehalfspacing in LyX differ from word processors like Word or OpenOffice? Or are they two different things? I have used same font size of 12pt but find that a 1.5 line spacing in a word

Re: Reset Section Numbering by Part

2009-06-23 Thread Andrew Hills
but in my head if you need a toc and to start sections anew for each part, you do not write an article ;). You caught me; I'm not writing an article. The article class is just the one I'm most familiar manipulating. I'm also not releasing the source for my document, so I'm more comfortable

Re: One and half line spacing

2009-06-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Derek Cordeiro wrote: I have a query about line spacing. Why does the line spacing \onehalfspacing in LyX differ from word processors like Word or OpenOffice? Or are they two different things? I have used same font size of 12pt but find that a 1.5 line spacing in

footnote - font size

2009-06-23 Thread Markus Büchele
Hi, I'm using the book class and cannot get the numbers of footnotes in the footnote lines (not the text) into the following format: normal size, not superscript I am not using KOMA, so this does not work: \deffootnote[1em]{1.5em}{1em}{\textsuperscript{\thefootnotemark}} How do I get rid of

Re: footnote - font size

2009-06-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Markus Büchele wrote: I am not using KOMA, so this does not work: \deffootnote[1em]{1.5em}{1em}{\textsuperscript{\thefootnotemark}} How do I get rid of the superscript? I have configured the footnotes with footmisc so far: \usepackage[hang]{footmisc} \setlength{\footnotemargin}{0.7cm}

Re: footnote - font size

2009-06-23 Thread Markus Büchele
Jürgen, thank you very much - your patch has solved my problem! Now I can publish it Markus Am Tuesday 23 June 2009 18:15:38 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: Markus Büchele wrote: I am not using KOMA, so this does not work: \deffootnote[1em]{1.5em}{1em}{\textsuperscript{\thefootnotemark}}

LyX, Songbird, and Mac OS X

2009-06-23 Thread Liz Cademy
Hello! I am brand new to LaTeX and Lyx. I downloaded them specifically to create a book of song lyrics for my daughter. Details: Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger) on a PowerBook G4 I am very familiar with the Mac OS, but not with linux or the terminal. If the solution to my problem needs me to

Repeating a multi-line equation

2009-06-23 Thread Ben M.
Hi, I'm working on a document that looks like this: Lots of text Multi-line equation #1 More text Multi-line equation #2 More text ... Summary of useful equations: Multi-line equation #1 Multi-line equation #2 Ideally, if I change something, I should only have to change it in one

Re: LyX, Songbird, and Mac OS X

2009-06-23 Thread BH
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Liz Cademyzcad...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to install Songbird. I am following the instructions on this wiki page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Songbook#toc4 I downloaded SongbookRelease 4.0, unpacked it, and put it in my ~/application Support/Lyx  

Russian hyphenation doesn't work

2009-06-23 Thread D.Zorig
Hi all, By default LyX doesn't hyphenate Russian language documents. I tried to include \usepackage[russian]{babel} in the preamble but still doesn't hyphenate. By google search I found following article. http://www.ibiblio.org/sergei/Software/tex.html There it says As of v3.6h, Babel has a

Re: Help message about LyX-XeTeX

2009-06-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: I've just downloaded the last LyX release (1.6.3) and my OS is Windovs Vista Home Premium. I've used LyX writing all my reports in the last six months. I've got only one great problem that I can't solve without your help. I 'd like to use some characters not available in

Re: journal abbreviations

2009-06-23 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Monday 22 June 2009 17:10:40 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: Thanks for the help. I will try Paul's proposal to use the string editor (Ctrl-T or BibTeX Edit Strings) to add one abbreviation for each journal. I might later use these for further bib-files. Wolfgang Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

2009-06-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Tad Marko t...@tadland.net writes: I simply find the memoir class unattractive. I like the looks of the classic book class. I thought that the default for memoir was to look like book.cls. Memoir is highly configurable and provided with a number of predefined \chapterstyle{} and \headstyle{}

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

2009-06-23 Thread Tad Marko
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.orgwrote: Tad Marko t...@tadland.net writes: I simply find the memoir class unattractive. I like the looks of the classic book class. I thought that the default for memoir was to look like book.cls. Memoir is highly

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

2009-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 22 June 2009 06:26:33 pm Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 22 juin 09 ā 16:06, Tad Marko a écrit : I would like to extend the book layout with the Chapterprecis from the book (memoir) layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as simple as copying book.layout and copying the

Lyx for Posters; Unavailable classes

2009-06-23 Thread Ehud Kaplan
I am trying to use Lyx 1.6.2 to create a poster under Linux. Lyx shows sciposter.cls in the list of document classes (Tools/Tex-information), but when I go to Document/Settings/Document class I cannot find it. In fact, many other classes that are on my system are also listed as Unavailable.

Re: Lyx for Posters; Unavailable classes

2009-06-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Ehud Kaplan wrote: What am I missing? The corresponding LyX layout file. LyX layout files are only available fpr a subset of LaTeX (or DocBook) classes (but it's not difficult to write a layout file). Jürgen

One and half line spacing

2009-06-23 Thread Derek Cordeiro
Hi, I have a query about line spacing. Why does the line spacing \onehalfspacing in LyX differ from word processors like Word or OpenOffice? Or are they two different things? I have used same font size of 12pt but find that a 1.5 line spacing in a word processor generates much more space. Is

Re: One and half line spacing

2009-06-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Derek Cordeiro wrote: I have a query about line spacing. Why does the line spacing \onehalfspacing in LyX differ from word processors like Word or OpenOffice? Or are they two different things? I have used same font size of 12pt but find that a 1.5 line spacing in a word processor generates

Re: One and half line spacing

2009-06-23 Thread rgheck
Derek Cordeiro wrote: Hi, I have a query about line spacing. Why does the line spacing \onehalfspacing in LyX differ from word processors like Word or OpenOffice? Or are they two different things? I have used same font size of 12pt but find that a 1.5 line spacing in a word processor generates

Re: One and half line spacing

2009-06-23 Thread rgheck
rgheck wrote: Derek Cordeiro wrote: Hi, I have a query about line spacing. Why does the line spacing \onehalfspacing in LyX differ from word processors like Word or OpenOffice? Or are they two different things? I have used same font size of 12pt but find that a 1.5 line spacing in a word

Re: Reset Section Numbering by Part

2009-06-23 Thread Andrew Hills
but in my head if you need a toc and to start sections anew for each part, you do not write an article ;). You caught me; I'm not writing an article. The article class is just the one I'm most familiar manipulating. I'm also not releasing the source for my document, so I'm more comfortable

Re: One and half line spacing

2009-06-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Derek Cordeiro wrote: I have a query about line spacing. Why does the line spacing \onehalfspacing in LyX differ from word processors like Word or OpenOffice? Or are they two different things? I have used same font size of 12pt but find that a 1.5 line spacing in

footnote - font size

2009-06-23 Thread Markus Büchele
Hi, I'm using the book class and cannot get the numbers of footnotes in the footnote lines (not the text) into the following format: normal size, not superscript I am not using KOMA, so this does not work: \deffootnote[1em]{1.5em}{1em}{\textsuperscript{\thefootnotemark}} How do I get rid of

Re: footnote - font size

2009-06-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Markus Büchele wrote: I am not using KOMA, so this does not work: \deffootnote[1em]{1.5em}{1em}{\textsuperscript{\thefootnotemark}} How do I get rid of the superscript? I have configured the footnotes with footmisc so far: \usepackage[hang]{footmisc} \setlength{\footnotemargin}{0.7cm}

Re: footnote - font size

2009-06-23 Thread Markus Büchele
Jürgen, thank you very much - your patch has solved my problem! Now I can publish it Markus Am Tuesday 23 June 2009 18:15:38 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: Markus Büchele wrote: I am not using KOMA, so this does not work: \deffootnote[1em]{1.5em}{1em}{\textsuperscript{\thefootnotemark}}

LyX, Songbird, and Mac OS X

2009-06-23 Thread Liz Cademy
Hello! I am brand new to LaTeX and Lyx. I downloaded them specifically to create a book of song lyrics for my daughter. Details: Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger) on a PowerBook G4 I am very familiar with the Mac OS, but not with linux or the terminal. If the solution to my problem needs me to

Repeating a multi-line equation

2009-06-23 Thread Ben M.
Hi, I'm working on a document that looks like this: Lots of text Multi-line equation #1 More text Multi-line equation #2 More text ... Summary of useful equations: Multi-line equation #1 Multi-line equation #2 Ideally, if I change something, I should only have to change it in one

Re: LyX, Songbird, and Mac OS X

2009-06-23 Thread BH
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Liz Cademyzcad...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to install Songbird. I am following the instructions on this wiki page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Songbook#toc4 I downloaded SongbookRelease 4.0, unpacked it, and put it in my ~/application Support/Lyx  

Russian hyphenation doesn't work

2009-06-23 Thread D.Zorig
Hi all, By default LyX doesn't hyphenate Russian language documents. I tried to include \usepackage[russian]{babel} in the preamble but still doesn't hyphenate. By google search I found following article. http://www.ibiblio.org/sergei/Software/tex.html There it says As of v3.6h, Babel has a

Re: Help message about LyX-XeTeX

2009-06-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: > > I've just downloaded the last LyX release (1.6.3) and my OS is Windovs > > Vista Home Premium. I've used LyX writing all my reports in the last six > > months. I've got only one great problem that I can't solve without your > > help. I 'd like to use some characters not available

Re: journal abbreviations

2009-06-23 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Monday 22 June 2009 17:10:40 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: Thanks for the help. I will try Paul's proposal to use the string editor (Ctrl-T or BibTeX > Edit Strings) to add one abbreviation for each journal. I might later use these for further bib-files. Wolfgang > > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > I

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

2009-06-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Tad Marko writes: > I simply find the memoir class unattractive. I like the looks of the classic > book class. I thought that the default for memoir was to look like book.cls. Memoir is highly configurable and provided with a number of predefined \chapterstyle{} and

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

2009-06-23 Thread Tad Marko
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Tad Marko writes: > > I simply find the memoir class unattractive. I like the looks of the > classic > > book class. > > I thought that the default for memoir was to look like book.cls. > >

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

2009-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 22 June 2009 06:26:33 pm Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 22 juin 09 ā 16:06, Tad Marko a écrit : > > I would like to extend the book layout with the "Chapterprecis" from > > the > > book (memoir)" layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as > > simple as > > copying book.layout

Lyx for Posters; Unavailable classes

2009-06-23 Thread Ehud Kaplan
I am trying to use Lyx 1.6.2 to create a poster under Linux. Lyx shows sciposter.cls in the list of document classes (Tools/Tex-information), but when I go to Document/Settings/Document class I cannot find it. In fact, many other classes that are on my system are also listed as Unavailable.

Re: Lyx for Posters; Unavailable classes

2009-06-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Ehud Kaplan wrote: > What am I missing? The corresponding LyX layout file. LyX layout files are only available fpr a subset of LaTeX (or DocBook) classes (but it's not difficult to write a layout file). Jürgen

One and half line spacing

2009-06-23 Thread Derek Cordeiro
Hi, I have a query about line spacing. Why does the line spacing "\onehalfspacing" in LyX differ from word processors like Word or OpenOffice? Or are they two different things? I have used same font size of 12pt but find that a 1.5 line spacing in a word processor generates much more space. Is

Re: One and half line spacing

2009-06-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Derek Cordeiro wrote: > I have a query about line spacing. Why does the line spacing > "\onehalfspacing" in LyX differ from word processors like Word or > OpenOffice? Or are they two different things? I have used same font > size of 12pt but find that a 1.5 line spacing in a word processor >

Re: One and half line spacing

2009-06-23 Thread rgheck
Derek Cordeiro wrote: Hi, I have a query about line spacing. Why does the line spacing "\onehalfspacing" in LyX differ from word processors like Word or OpenOffice? Or are they two different things? I have used same font size of 12pt but find that a 1.5 line spacing in a word processor

Re: One and half line spacing

2009-06-23 Thread rgheck
rgheck wrote: Derek Cordeiro wrote: Hi, I have a query about line spacing. Why does the line spacing "\onehalfspacing" in LyX differ from word processors like Word or OpenOffice? Or are they two different things? I have used same font size of 12pt but find that a 1.5 line spacing in a word

Re: Reset Section Numbering by Part

2009-06-23 Thread Andrew Hills
but in my head if you need a toc and to start sections anew for each part, you do not write an article ;). You caught me; I'm not writing an article. The article class is just the one I'm most familiar manipulating. I'm also not releasing the source for my document, so I'm more comfortable

Re: One and half line spacing

2009-06-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Derek Cordeiro wrote: > > I have a query about line spacing. Why does the line spacing > > "\onehalfspacing" in LyX differ from word processors like Word or > > OpenOffice? Or are they two different things? I have used same font > > size of 12pt but find that a 1.5 line

footnote - font size

2009-06-23 Thread Markus Büchele
Hi, I'm using the book class and cannot get the numbers of footnotes in the footnote lines (not the text) into the following format: normal size, not superscript I am not using KOMA, so this does not work: \deffootnote[1em]{1.5em}{1em}{\textsuperscript{\thefootnotemark}} How do I get rid of

Re: footnote - font size

2009-06-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Markus Büchele wrote: > I am not using KOMA, so this does not work: > \deffootnote[1em]{1.5em}{1em}{\textsuperscript{\thefootnotemark}} > > How do I get rid of the superscript? > > I have configured the footnotes with footmisc so far: > > \usepackage[hang]{footmisc} >

Re: footnote - font size

2009-06-23 Thread Markus Büchele
Jürgen, thank you very much - your patch has solved my problem! Now I can publish it Markus Am Tuesday 23 June 2009 18:15:38 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: > Markus Büchele wrote: > > I am not using KOMA, so this does not work: > >

LyX, Songbird, and Mac OS X

2009-06-23 Thread Liz Cademy
Hello! I am brand new to LaTeX and Lyx. I downloaded them specifically to create a book of song lyrics for my daughter. Details: Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger) on a PowerBook G4 I am very familiar with the Mac OS, but not with linux or the terminal. If the solution to my problem needs me to

Repeating a multi-line equation

2009-06-23 Thread Ben M.
Hi, I'm working on a document that looks like this: Lots of text Multi-line equation #1 More text Multi-line equation #2 More text ... Summary of useful equations: Multi-line equation #1 Multi-line equation #2 Ideally, if I change something, I should only have to change it in one

Re: LyX, Songbird, and Mac OS X

2009-06-23 Thread BH
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Liz Cademy wrote: > I am trying to install Songbird. I am following the instructions on this > wiki page: > http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Songbook#toc4 > > I downloaded SongbookRelease 4.0, unpacked it, and put it in my > ~/application Support/Lyx

Russian hyphenation doesn't work

2009-06-23 Thread D.Zorig
Hi all, By default LyX doesn't hyphenate Russian language documents. I tried to include \usepackage[russian]{babel} in the preamble but still doesn't hyphenate. By google search I found following article. http://www.ibiblio.org/sergei/Software/tex.html There it says As of v3.6h, Babel has a