Re: Lyx tip-sheets

2009-08-17 Thread Manveru
2009/8/16 Christian Ridderström christian.ridderst...@gmail.com: On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, =?UTF-8?B?RnJlZGVyaWNrIE5vcm9uaGEgW+ClnuCksOClh+CkpuCksOCkv+CklSDgpKjgpYvgpLDgpYs=?= ] wrote: Any good source from which to download Lyx tip sheets? Many thanks, FN What do you mean by a 'tip sheet'? I

Re: Lyx Xetex and otf

2009-08-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jommelli Niccolò wrote: I have been trying to use XeTex with an otf font but I cannot get Lyx/xetex to use it. I installed the otf in the open type font directory of MikTex, but nothing. Even if I declare the font family at the beginning of the document, Lyx/xetex cannot find it and I get the

Re: can't edit Converters, File Formats, Copiers

2009-08-17 Thread Manveru
2009/8/15 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com: On 08/15/2009 03:21 PM, unknownmosquito wrote: Joe wrote: In the GUI for LyX the Add and Modify buttons are gray.  I can't modify. Any advice is appreciated. I'm running 1.5.6 on OS X 10.5.4  http://n2.nabble.com/file/n669102/Picture%2B3.png

Re: Question about command sequences

2009-08-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
Venable wrote: Hi Pavel, Thanks for the tip. I looked at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctions but there was not much in the way of direction there. Could you possibly give me a bit more insight? if you have lyx 1.6, then look into help-lyx functions menu. pavel

Re: problem with default margin

2009-08-17 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-08-16, Marcelo Acuña wrote: I have a work in custom page size and custom margin. I have to try with Us letter and A4 page size and when I selected default margin I have 1,5 o 2 inchs margin. If I give a look to the source I cannot see \usepackage{geometry} with margin set in the

Re: Lyx tip-sheets

2009-08-17 Thread John Kane
Also sometimes known as a cheat sheet. Here is an example from R http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/refcard.pdf --- On Mon, 8/17/09, Manveru manv...@manveru.pl wrote: From: Manveru manv...@manveru.pl Subject: Re: Lyx tip-sheets To: Christian Ridderström christian.ridderst...@gmail.com

Re: Where is the export directory

2009-08-17 Thread rgheck
On 08/17/2009 12:15 AM, Stephen Winters wrote: rgheck wrote: On 08/16/2009 11:11 AM, Stephen Winters wrote: Hi, I'm Using Lyx 1.6.3 on Windows Vista Home edition. I have enable the Open Document export function. However, whenever I export a document (FileExportOpenDocument) Lyx appears to

Maximum Font Size

2009-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
Someone local has developed his own solution for preparing and displaying slides during presentations. He uses a browser for the display and type size of 60pt-120pt. I mentioned that I use the Beamer class with whatever the default type size is and the results are readable in all room sizes in

Re: Lyx and Japanese (no matter how hard I try there are always some problems)

2009-08-17 Thread Yokota K.
Most popular way to do is to install pTeX if you are thinking of writing Japanese as a main task. pTeX also includes normal TeX, so in most of cases it suffices to do. What kind of errors did you get when you tried it?

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-17 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 17 August 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:  But, he asked if LaTeX (or TeX itself) can scale type to 60-120pt and have it look as smooth as smaller sizes. I've never done this, nor am I sure just how to go about testing whether it can be done, so I'm asking here. I have a vague recollection

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Les Denham wrote: The attached is not a large font size, but it is a randomly chosen PDF generated from LyX, enlarged in Acrobat Reader to 2400%. Looks clean to me. I don't see any essential difference between an enlarge version of a small font, and a large font. In

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-17 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Monday 17 August 2009 10:38:36 am Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Les Denham wrote: The attached is not a large font size, but it is a randomly chosen PDF generated from LyX, enlarged in Acrobat Reader to 2400%. Looks clean to me. I don't see any essential difference

Re: Lyx tip-sheets

2009-08-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
One problem with this is that so much of the interface is configurable, so a cheat-sheet of key combinations will be incorrect fairly frequently. Some enterprising soul might be able to write a script that scanned the ui and bind files in use and created one on the fly, I suppose. /Paul

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Stefano Franchi wrote: All typographers and font designers routinely complain that bigger font scaled up font (and viceversa), because the typeface features must be manually adjusted to convey the same look in different sizes. However, I doubt that considerations of

Re: Lyx tip-sheets

2009-08-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
Paul A. Rubin wrote: One problem with this is that so much of the interface is configurable, so a cheat-sheet of key combinations will be incorrect fairly frequently. Some enterprising soul might be able to write a script that scanned the ui and bind files in use and created one on the

rename - list of algorithms

2009-08-17 Thread Ricardo Perrone
Hi, I need to rename the list of algorithms to a more convenient name. For example: List of Algorithms --- Lista de Códigos (in Portuguese/Brazil language), but default Lyx behaviour changes it to 'Lista de Algoritmos' when i set default language to Portuguese (Brazil). I have tried to use ERT

Res: toc - page numbering

2009-08-17 Thread Marcelo Boss
Try this: \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\thispagestyle{empty}} (Not it the preamble) Regards Marcelo De: rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com Para: Ricardo Perrone perr...@rocketmail.com Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Enviadas: Segunda-feira, 17 de Agosto de 2009 0:58:28

Re: problem with default margin

2009-08-17 Thread Marcelo Acuña
  I have a work in custom page size and custom   margin. I have to try   with Us letter and A4 page size and when I   selected default margin I   have 1,5 o 2 inchs margin. If I give a look to   the source I cannot see   \usepackage{geometry} with margin set in the preamble. If you select

Re: About the position of footnotes and page numbers

2009-08-17 Thread Marcelo Acuña
I'm writing and designing a text. The style is *Book Koma-script* First question: the text have a lot of footnotes, and I want it to appear on the side of the body of the text, as same as the margin notes. Is it possible? Second question: Is possible to change the position of the page

Re: Lyx tip-sheets

2009-08-17 Thread Manveru
2009/8/16 Christian Ridderström christian.ridderst...@gmail.com: On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, =?UTF-8?B?RnJlZGVyaWNrIE5vcm9uaGEgW+ClnuCksOClh+CkpuCksOCkv+CklSDgpKjgpYvgpLDgpYs=?= ] wrote: Any good source from which to download Lyx tip sheets? Many thanks, FN What do you mean by a 'tip sheet'? I

Re: Lyx Xetex and otf

2009-08-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jommelli Niccolò wrote: I have been trying to use XeTex with an otf font but I cannot get Lyx/xetex to use it. I installed the otf in the open type font directory of MikTex, but nothing. Even if I declare the font family at the beginning of the document, Lyx/xetex cannot find it and I get the

Re: can't edit Converters, File Formats, Copiers

2009-08-17 Thread Manveru
2009/8/15 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com: On 08/15/2009 03:21 PM, unknownmosquito wrote: Joe wrote: In the GUI for LyX the Add and Modify buttons are gray.  I can't modify. Any advice is appreciated. I'm running 1.5.6 on OS X 10.5.4  http://n2.nabble.com/file/n669102/Picture%2B3.png

Re: Question about command sequences

2009-08-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
Venable wrote: Hi Pavel, Thanks for the tip. I looked at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctions but there was not much in the way of direction there. Could you possibly give me a bit more insight? if you have lyx 1.6, then look into help-lyx functions menu. pavel

Re: problem with default margin

2009-08-17 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-08-16, Marcelo Acuña wrote: I have a work in custom page size and custom margin. I have to try with Us letter and A4 page size and when I selected default margin I have 1,5 o 2 inchs margin. If I give a look to the source I cannot see \usepackage{geometry} with margin set in the

Re: Lyx tip-sheets

2009-08-17 Thread John Kane
Also sometimes known as a cheat sheet. Here is an example from R http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/refcard.pdf --- On Mon, 8/17/09, Manveru manv...@manveru.pl wrote: From: Manveru manv...@manveru.pl Subject: Re: Lyx tip-sheets To: Christian Ridderström christian.ridderst...@gmail.com

Re: Where is the export directory

2009-08-17 Thread rgheck
On 08/17/2009 12:15 AM, Stephen Winters wrote: rgheck wrote: On 08/16/2009 11:11 AM, Stephen Winters wrote: Hi, I'm Using Lyx 1.6.3 on Windows Vista Home edition. I have enable the Open Document export function. However, whenever I export a document (FileExportOpenDocument) Lyx appears to

Maximum Font Size

2009-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
Someone local has developed his own solution for preparing and displaying slides during presentations. He uses a browser for the display and type size of 60pt-120pt. I mentioned that I use the Beamer class with whatever the default type size is and the results are readable in all room sizes in

Re: Lyx and Japanese (no matter how hard I try there are always some problems)

2009-08-17 Thread Yokota K.
Most popular way to do is to install pTeX if you are thinking of writing Japanese as a main task. pTeX also includes normal TeX, so in most of cases it suffices to do. What kind of errors did you get when you tried it?

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-17 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 17 August 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:  But, he asked if LaTeX (or TeX itself) can scale type to 60-120pt and have it look as smooth as smaller sizes. I've never done this, nor am I sure just how to go about testing whether it can be done, so I'm asking here. I have a vague recollection

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Les Denham wrote: The attached is not a large font size, but it is a randomly chosen PDF generated from LyX, enlarged in Acrobat Reader to 2400%. Looks clean to me. I don't see any essential difference between an enlarge version of a small font, and a large font. In

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-17 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Monday 17 August 2009 10:38:36 am Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Les Denham wrote: The attached is not a large font size, but it is a randomly chosen PDF generated from LyX, enlarged in Acrobat Reader to 2400%. Looks clean to me. I don't see any essential difference

Re: Lyx tip-sheets

2009-08-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
One problem with this is that so much of the interface is configurable, so a cheat-sheet of key combinations will be incorrect fairly frequently. Some enterprising soul might be able to write a script that scanned the ui and bind files in use and created one on the fly, I suppose. /Paul

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Stefano Franchi wrote: All typographers and font designers routinely complain that bigger font scaled up font (and viceversa), because the typeface features must be manually adjusted to convey the same look in different sizes. However, I doubt that considerations of

Re: Lyx tip-sheets

2009-08-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
Paul A. Rubin wrote: One problem with this is that so much of the interface is configurable, so a cheat-sheet of key combinations will be incorrect fairly frequently. Some enterprising soul might be able to write a script that scanned the ui and bind files in use and created one on the

rename - list of algorithms

2009-08-17 Thread Ricardo Perrone
Hi, I need to rename the list of algorithms to a more convenient name. For example: List of Algorithms --- Lista de Códigos (in Portuguese/Brazil language), but default Lyx behaviour changes it to 'Lista de Algoritmos' when i set default language to Portuguese (Brazil). I have tried to use ERT

Res: toc - page numbering

2009-08-17 Thread Marcelo Boss
Try this: \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\thispagestyle{empty}} (Not it the preamble) Regards Marcelo De: rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com Para: Ricardo Perrone perr...@rocketmail.com Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Enviadas: Segunda-feira, 17 de Agosto de 2009 0:58:28

Re: problem with default margin

2009-08-17 Thread Marcelo Acuña
  I have a work in custom page size and custom   margin. I have to try   with Us letter and A4 page size and when I   selected default margin I   have 1,5 o 2 inchs margin. If I give a look to   the source I cannot see   \usepackage{geometry} with margin set in the preamble. If you select

Re: About the position of footnotes and page numbers

2009-08-17 Thread Marcelo Acuña
I'm writing and designing a text. The style is *Book Koma-script* First question: the text have a lot of footnotes, and I want it to appear on the side of the body of the text, as same as the margin notes. Is it possible? Second question: Is possible to change the position of the page

Re: Lyx tip-sheets

2009-08-17 Thread Manveru
2009/8/16 Christian Ridderström : > On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, > =?UTF-8?B?RnJlZGVyaWNrIE5vcm9uaGEgW+ClnuCksOClh+CkpuCksOCkv+CklSDgpKjgpYvgpLDgpYs=?= > ] wrote: > >> Any good source from which to download Lyx tip sheets? Many thanks, FN > > What do you mean by a 'tip

Re: Lyx Xetex and otf

2009-08-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jommelli Niccolò wrote: > I have been trying to use XeTex with an otf font but I cannot get > Lyx/xetex to use it. I installed the otf in the open type font directory of > MikTex, but nothing. Even if I declare the font family at the beginning of > the document, Lyx/xetex cannot find it and I get

Re: can't edit Converters, File Formats, Copiers

2009-08-17 Thread Manveru
2009/8/15 rgheck : > On 08/15/2009 03:21 PM, unknownmosquito wrote: >> >> Joe wrote: >> >>> >>> In the GUI for LyX the Add and Modify buttons are gray.  I can't modify. >>> Any advice is appreciated. >>> >>> I'm running 1.5.6 on OS X 10.5.4 >>> >>>  

Re: Question about command sequences

2009-08-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
Venable wrote: > Hi Pavel, > > Thanks for the tip. I looked at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctions > but there was not much in the way of direction there. Could you > possibly give me a bit more insight? if you have lyx 1.6, then look into help->lyx functions menu. pavel

Re: problem with default margin

2009-08-17 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-08-16, Marcelo Acuña wrote: > I have a work in custom page size and custom margin. I have to try > with Us letter and A4 page size and when I selected default margin I > have 1,5 o 2 inchs margin. If I give a look to the source I cannot see > \usepackage{geometry} with margin set in

Re: Lyx tip-sheets

2009-08-17 Thread John Kane
Also sometimes known as a cheat sheet. Here is an example from R http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/refcard.pdf --- On Mon, 8/17/09, Manveru wrote: > From: Manveru > Subject: Re: Lyx tip-sheets > To: "Christian Ridderström"

Re: Where is the export directory

2009-08-17 Thread rgheck
On 08/17/2009 12:15 AM, Stephen Winters wrote: rgheck wrote: On 08/16/2009 11:11 AM, Stephen Winters wrote: Hi, I'm Using Lyx 1.6.3 on Windows Vista Home edition. I have enable the Open Document export function. However, whenever I export a document ("File>Export>OpenDocument") Lyx appears

Maximum Font Size

2009-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
Someone local has developed his own solution for preparing and displaying slides during presentations. He uses a browser for the display and type size of 60pt-120pt. I mentioned that I use the Beamer class with whatever the default type size is and the results are readable in all room sizes in

Re: Lyx and Japanese (no matter how hard I try there are always some problems)

2009-08-17 Thread Yokota K.
Most popular way to do is to install pTeX if you are thinking of writing Japanese as a main task. pTeX also includes normal TeX, so in most of cases it suffices to do. What kind of errors did you get when you tried it?

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-17 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 17 August 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: >  But, he asked if LaTeX (or TeX itself) can scale type to 60-120pt and have > it look as smooth as smaller sizes. I've never done this, nor am I sure > just how to go about testing whether it can be done, so I'm asking here. I > have a vague

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Les Denham wrote: The attached is not a large font size, but it is a randomly chosen PDF generated from LyX, enlarged in Acrobat Reader to 2400%. Looks clean to me. I don't see any essential difference between an enlarge version of a small font, and a large font. In

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-17 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Monday 17 August 2009 10:38:36 am Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Les Denham wrote: > > The attached is not a large font size, but it is a randomly chosen PDF > > generated from LyX, enlarged in Acrobat Reader to 2400%. > > > > Looks clean to me. > > > > I don't see any essential

Re: Lyx tip-sheets

2009-08-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
One problem with this is that so much of the interface is configurable, so a cheat-sheet of key combinations will be incorrect fairly frequently. Some enterprising soul might be able to write a script that scanned the ui and bind files in use and created one on the fly, I suppose. /Paul

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Stefano Franchi wrote: All typographers and font designers routinely complain that "bigger font" <> scaled up font (and viceversa), because the typeface features must be manually adjusted to convey the same look in different sizes. However, I doubt that considerations of

Re: Lyx tip-sheets

2009-08-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > One problem with this is that so much of the interface is configurable, so > a cheat-sheet of key combinations will be incorrect fairly frequently. > Some enterprising soul might be able to write a script that scanned the ui > and bind files in use and created one on the

rename - list of algorithms

2009-08-17 Thread Ricardo Perrone
Hi, I need to rename the list of algorithms to a more convenient name. For example: List of Algorithms ---> Lista de Códigos (in Portuguese/Brazil language), but default Lyx behaviour changes it to 'Lista de Algoritmos' when i set default language to Portuguese (Brazil). I have tried to use

Res: toc - page numbering

2009-08-17 Thread Marcelo Boss
Try this: \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\thispagestyle{empty}} (Not it the preamble) Regards Marcelo De: rgheck Para: Ricardo Perrone Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Enviadas: Segunda-feira, 17 de Agosto de 2009

Re: problem with default margin

2009-08-17 Thread Marcelo Acuña
>>  I have a work in custom page size and custom >>  margin. I have to try >>  with Us letter and A4 page size and when I >>  selected default margin I >>  have 1,5 o 2 inchs margin. If I give a look to >>  the source I cannot see >>  \usepackage{geometry} with margin set in the >> preamble. >

Re: About the position of footnotes and page numbers

2009-08-17 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> I'm writing and designing a text. The > style is *Book Koma-script* > > First question: the text have a lot of footnotes, and I > want it to appear on > the side of the body of the text, as same as the margin > notes. Is it > possible? > > Second question: Is possible to change the position of