Problem (File does not exist) with Lyx 1.6.2 and XeTex (under TexLive 2009)

Hello, I am a newbie running a computer with Ubuntu 8.1 (intrepid) where I tried installing Lyx and have it work with XeTex. Eventually I opted for the latest Lyx package on getdeb (version 1.6.2) and the repository files for TexLive/Xetex. I later realised that the latex/xetex were way too old

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

On 8/24/09, G. Jay Kerns gke...@ysu.edu wrote: Is there some Linux trick, where I can open LyX, say, from the Desktop without a terminal, but on-the-fly open up a terminal (or is there even some other mechanism) to see what LyX is thinking? You could use emelFM2 as the file manager from

Problem with /cleardoublepage{}

Hi, I'm new to lyx and i think it's a very good program. I've a trouble i'm trying to fix from a long time and i googled a lot without finding anything useful which works. The problem is simple, i've a frontpage which should be not numbered and that must have a blank page afterwards. I just

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyXAbout LyX and LyXPreferences.. are greyed out. How do I fix this? In particular, how do I use Preferences? Hal We know about this problem and it has our full attention. The Mac binary of LyX 1.6.4 has now been

Re: A feature you really need

Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Thank you so much for the outline view on LyX 1.6.x. You need two or three more buttons to make the outline view fully functional: * Insert * Delete * Maybe Insert Subservient The Insert function inserts a new heading, at the level of the current heading, Useful

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

Wolfgang Keller wrote: Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur. Can libertine be used without having to mess with xetex? Is there good latex support for it? Helge Hafting

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

G. Jay Kerns wrote: Dear LyX-Users, I am on Ubuntu Linux. If I run lyx from a terminal, then along with the LyX window I get a terminal where I can see what LyX is thinking when it generates PDFs, etc. This is a very useful debugging tool, but I only need it a relatively small fraction of the

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.4 is released

Public release of LyX version 1.6.4 === We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.4. This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe issues, such as: * A

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.4 is released

Am 24.08.2009, 13:28 Uhr, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: NOTE that no Mac OS X binaries will be provided for this release, due to a regression on this platform that was detected after 1.6.4 was released. Expect a minor update that addresses this problem to be released soon. OK, that means

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

You could use emelFM2 as the file manager from which you open your LyX documents. It has an integrated output pane that is, for practical reasons, a terminal. And you can see all LyX mindwork in it. When not needed, you could simply hide the output pane. I would believe Ubuntu has a (somewhat

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

I believe you can make a script that opens LyX with a terminal - but a minimized terminal. One that disappear as soon as LyX is closed. If you need the information, just restore the minimized terminal. Helge Hafting Thanks, Helge. I did some searching and it seems like I can replace the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.4 is released

Thanks a lot! This is an impressive list of bug fixes (and, moreover, of some nasty ones)! Congratulations! Murat 2009/8/24 Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org: Public release of LyX version 1.6.4 === We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.4. This is

HUGE fomulae

When I've written a math formula, whether it be inserted into the main text or as a numbered equation, the text size becomes huge with the formula usually disappearing off the end of the screen. If you then reselect the formula, as if to edit it, it then shrinks back to normal size. I am doing

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.4 is released

Joachim Osnabryg wrote: If you already have the sources of the previous release, you may want to apply one of the following patches instead ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.4.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.4.bz2 Is this statement also

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Helge Haftinghelge.haft...@hist.no wrote: I believe you can make a script that opens LyX with a terminal - but a minimized terminal. One that disappear as soon as LyX is closed. If you need the information, just restore the minimized terminal. Another

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:30:55PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: What I find I can do is to set each column to a % width. That's fine, and equivalent to figuring out a number of cm. The table does not center itself on the page, though. It slides off to the right... I _think_ I used a float

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

G. Jay Kerns wrote: I believe you can make a script that opens LyX with a terminal - but a minimized terminal. One that disappear as soon as LyX is closed. If you need the information, just restore the minimized terminal. Helge Hafting Thanks, Helge. I did some searching and it seems like

Re: Problem with /cleardoublepage{}

Vincenzo Ampolo wrote: Hi, I'm new to lyx and i think it's a very good program. I've a trouble i'm trying to fix from a long time and i googled a lot without finding anything useful which works. The problem is simple, i've a frontpage which should be not numbered and that must have a blank

Re: HUGE fomulae

sammichaelstevens wrote: When I've written a math formula, whether it be inserted into the main text or as a numbered equation, the text size becomes huge with the formula usually disappearing off the end of the screen. If you then reselect the formula, as if to edit it, it then shrinks back to

Re: Problem with /cleardoublepage{}

On Monday 24 August 2009 03:24:25 pm Helge Hafting wrote: New page/page break/clear page has nothing to do with numbering and such, these commands just gives you pages without normal text on them. Sorry i'm not good at english and i didn't explain good. I had two problems: the first one is to

RE: HUGE fomulae

When I've written a math formula, whether it be inserted into the main text or as a numbered equation, the text size becomes huge with the formula usually disappearing off the end of the screen. If you then reselect the formula, as if to edit it, it then shrinks back to normal size. I

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.4 is released

Great! I would really like to use this version because of more stability. Currently I use Lyx 1.6.3 to write my thesis. Thereby I am very careful and would like to know if it might result in any problem if I change my current version of Lyx? Thanks in advance, Matthias On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at

RE: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.4 is released

Great! I would really like to use this version because of more stability. Yes, sorry for that. Currently I use Lyx 1.6.3 to write my thesis. Thereby I am very careful and would like to know if it might result in any problem if I change my current version of Lyx? No. (at least it shouldn't).

Re: Problem with /cleardoublepage{}

On Monday 24 August 2009 03:32:13 pm Vincenzo Ampolo wrote: I had two problems: the first one is to hide the page number and this command fixed it \thispagestyle{empty} The second issue is that i need a blank page somewhere in my document. Is there a way to add it ? i tried with

RE: HUGE fomulae

Dear Helge Vincent Thankyou for your speedy responses. Turning off instant preview worked. You've made a PhD thesis writing student alot less stressed! Thanks again Sam On Monday, 24 August, 2009, at 03:41PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl wrote: When I've

Re: changing justification of caption

Hello, Wolfgang Yes, my caption is small, a few words only (I just want to show a structural formula of a molecule - so, there isn't much to say about it). When I added some more words to the caption, then the suggestion of using the caption package worked. I looked at the Embedded Object for

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur. Can libertine be used without having to mess with xetex? Is there good latex support for it? Good? It depends. For me the version from CTAN is ok. ;- Sincerely, Wolfgang -- NO Courtesy Copies PLEASE!

Distribute the title (frontmatter) over several lines separated with line space?

Hi, I am a new user with LyX, have previousely been using Scientific Workplace (SWP). I am using LyX 1.63 for Windows with the standard report template. In the frontmatter dialog in Scientific Workplace I normally use to paste a graphic/icon topmost and divide the title on lines with several

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

On 2009-08-24, G. Jay Kerns wrote: Is there some Linux trick, where I can open LyX, say, from the Desktop without a terminal, but on-the-fly open up a terminal (or is there even some other mechanism) to see what LyX is thinking? Errors of X programms without attached terminal are written into

Re: changing justification of caption

Hello all, I might be answering my own question, but if there other ways to solve the caption problem, I am eager to try them out. It is a pretty dirty trick, but it worked nicely. When you have a short caption, just add at its end whitespaces (crtl+shtift_space) and there you go, our caption

Re: Distribute the title (frontmatter) over several lines separated with line space?

On 08/24/2009 05:20 PM, Bjørn Liene Gundersen wrote: Hi, I am a new user with LyX, have previousely been using Scientific Workplace (SWP). I am using LyX 1.63 for Windows with the standard report template. In the frontmatter dialog in Scientific Workplace I normally use to paste a graphic/icon

Re: changing justification of caption

Le 24/08/2009 20:23, Jonatan R. Catai a écrit : Hello, Wolfgang Yes, my caption is small, a few words only (I just want to show a structural formula of a molecule - so, there isn't much to say about it). When I added some more words to the caption, then the suggestion of using the caption

[announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.4

Hello LyXers, the alternative Windows installer for LyX 1.6.4 is now available. This installer comes again with an update installer to update existing LyX 1.6.3 installation to LyX 1.6.4. NOTE: To be able to use this installer version, LyX 1.6.3 must have been installed with the alternative

Re: changing justification of caption

Hi JMarc The answer is yes for both questions. Interesting to thing about the feature as part of the textclass. Yes, it surprised me. I could leave the way it is. I, personally, have no problem with it. On the other side, however, the document I am writing goes to other people and that is the

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

Thanks for all of the answers; they are all what I was looking for. Perhaps Günter's solution is the most convenient for my setup... the errors have been there waiting for me in .xsession-errors all along. Thanks again. Jay

Problem (File does not exist) with Lyx 1.6.2 and XeTex (under TexLive 2009)

Hello, I am a newbie running a computer with Ubuntu 8.1 (intrepid) where I tried installing Lyx and have it work with XeTex. Eventually I opted for the latest Lyx package on getdeb (version 1.6.2) and the repository files for TexLive/Xetex. I later realised that the latex/xetex were way too old

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

On 8/24/09, G. Jay Kerns gke...@ysu.edu wrote: Is there some Linux trick, where I can open LyX, say, from the Desktop without a terminal, but on-the-fly open up a terminal (or is there even some other mechanism) to see what LyX is thinking? You could use emelFM2 as the file manager from

Problem with /cleardoublepage{}

Hi, I'm new to lyx and i think it's a very good program. I've a trouble i'm trying to fix from a long time and i googled a lot without finding anything useful which works. The problem is simple, i've a frontpage which should be not numbered and that must have a blank page afterwards. I just

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyXAbout LyX and LyXPreferences.. are greyed out. How do I fix this? In particular, how do I use Preferences? Hal We know about this problem and it has our full attention. The Mac binary of LyX 1.6.4 has now been

Re: A feature you really need

Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Thank you so much for the outline view on LyX 1.6.x. You need two or three more buttons to make the outline view fully functional: * Insert * Delete * Maybe Insert Subservient The Insert function inserts a new heading, at the level of the current heading, Useful

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

Wolfgang Keller wrote: Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur. Can libertine be used without having to mess with xetex? Is there good latex support for it? Helge Hafting

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

G. Jay Kerns wrote: Dear LyX-Users, I am on Ubuntu Linux. If I run lyx from a terminal, then along with the LyX window I get a terminal where I can see what LyX is thinking when it generates PDFs, etc. This is a very useful debugging tool, but I only need it a relatively small fraction of the

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.4 is released

Public release of LyX version 1.6.4 === We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.4. This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe issues, such as: * A

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.4 is released

Am 24.08.2009, 13:28 Uhr, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: NOTE that no Mac OS X binaries will be provided for this release, due to a regression on this platform that was detected after 1.6.4 was released. Expect a minor update that addresses this problem to be released soon. OK, that means

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

You could use emelFM2 as the file manager from which you open your LyX documents. It has an integrated output pane that is, for practical reasons, a terminal. And you can see all LyX mindwork in it. When not needed, you could simply hide the output pane. I would believe Ubuntu has a (somewhat

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

I believe you can make a script that opens LyX with a terminal - but a minimized terminal. One that disappear as soon as LyX is closed. If you need the information, just restore the minimized terminal. Helge Hafting Thanks, Helge. I did some searching and it seems like I can replace the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.4 is released

Thanks a lot! This is an impressive list of bug fixes (and, moreover, of some nasty ones)! Congratulations! Murat 2009/8/24 Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org: Public release of LyX version 1.6.4 === We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.4. This is

HUGE fomulae

When I've written a math formula, whether it be inserted into the main text or as a numbered equation, the text size becomes huge with the formula usually disappearing off the end of the screen. If you then reselect the formula, as if to edit it, it then shrinks back to normal size. I am doing

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.4 is released

Joachim Osnabryg wrote: If you already have the sources of the previous release, you may want to apply one of the following patches instead ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.4.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.4.bz2 Is this statement also

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Helge Haftinghelge.haft...@hist.no wrote: I believe you can make a script that opens LyX with a terminal - but a minimized terminal. One that disappear as soon as LyX is closed. If you need the information, just restore the minimized terminal. Another

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:30:55PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: What I find I can do is to set each column to a % width. That's fine, and equivalent to figuring out a number of cm. The table does not center itself on the page, though. It slides off to the right... I _think_ I used a float

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

G. Jay Kerns wrote: I believe you can make a script that opens LyX with a terminal - but a minimized terminal. One that disappear as soon as LyX is closed. If you need the information, just restore the minimized terminal. Helge Hafting Thanks, Helge. I did some searching and it seems like

Re: Problem with /cleardoublepage{}

Vincenzo Ampolo wrote: Hi, I'm new to lyx and i think it's a very good program. I've a trouble i'm trying to fix from a long time and i googled a lot without finding anything useful which works. The problem is simple, i've a frontpage which should be not numbered and that must have a blank

Re: HUGE fomulae

sammichaelstevens wrote: When I've written a math formula, whether it be inserted into the main text or as a numbered equation, the text size becomes huge with the formula usually disappearing off the end of the screen. If you then reselect the formula, as if to edit it, it then shrinks back to

Re: Problem with /cleardoublepage{}

On Monday 24 August 2009 03:24:25 pm Helge Hafting wrote: New page/page break/clear page has nothing to do with numbering and such, these commands just gives you pages without normal text on them. Sorry i'm not good at english and i didn't explain good. I had two problems: the first one is to

RE: HUGE fomulae

When I've written a math formula, whether it be inserted into the main text or as a numbered equation, the text size becomes huge with the formula usually disappearing off the end of the screen. If you then reselect the formula, as if to edit it, it then shrinks back to normal size. I

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.4 is released

Great! I would really like to use this version because of more stability. Currently I use Lyx 1.6.3 to write my thesis. Thereby I am very careful and would like to know if it might result in any problem if I change my current version of Lyx? Thanks in advance, Matthias On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at

RE: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.4 is released

Great! I would really like to use this version because of more stability. Yes, sorry for that. Currently I use Lyx 1.6.3 to write my thesis. Thereby I am very careful and would like to know if it might result in any problem if I change my current version of Lyx? No. (at least it shouldn't).

Re: Problem with /cleardoublepage{}

On Monday 24 August 2009 03:32:13 pm Vincenzo Ampolo wrote: I had two problems: the first one is to hide the page number and this command fixed it \thispagestyle{empty} The second issue is that i need a blank page somewhere in my document. Is there a way to add it ? i tried with

RE: HUGE fomulae

Dear Helge Vincent Thankyou for your speedy responses. Turning off instant preview worked. You've made a PhD thesis writing student alot less stressed! Thanks again Sam On Monday, 24 August, 2009, at 03:41PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl wrote: When I've

Re: changing justification of caption

Hello, Wolfgang Yes, my caption is small, a few words only (I just want to show a structural formula of a molecule - so, there isn't much to say about it). When I added some more words to the caption, then the suggestion of using the caption package worked. I looked at the Embedded Object for

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur. Can libertine be used without having to mess with xetex? Is there good latex support for it? Good? It depends. For me the version from CTAN is ok. ;- Sincerely, Wolfgang -- NO Courtesy Copies PLEASE!

Distribute the title (frontmatter) over several lines separated with line space?

Hi, I am a new user with LyX, have previousely been using Scientific Workplace (SWP). I am using LyX 1.63 for Windows with the standard report template. In the frontmatter dialog in Scientific Workplace I normally use to paste a graphic/icon topmost and divide the title on lines with several

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

On 2009-08-24, G. Jay Kerns wrote: Is there some Linux trick, where I can open LyX, say, from the Desktop without a terminal, but on-the-fly open up a terminal (or is there even some other mechanism) to see what LyX is thinking? Errors of X programms without attached terminal are written into

Re: changing justification of caption

Hello all, I might be answering my own question, but if there other ways to solve the caption problem, I am eager to try them out. It is a pretty dirty trick, but it worked nicely. When you have a short caption, just add at its end whitespaces (crtl+shtift_space) and there you go, our caption

Re: Distribute the title (frontmatter) over several lines separated with line space?

On 08/24/2009 05:20 PM, Bjørn Liene Gundersen wrote: Hi, I am a new user with LyX, have previousely been using Scientific Workplace (SWP). I am using LyX 1.63 for Windows with the standard report template. In the frontmatter dialog in Scientific Workplace I normally use to paste a graphic/icon

Re: changing justification of caption

Le 24/08/2009 20:23, Jonatan R. Catai a écrit : Hello, Wolfgang Yes, my caption is small, a few words only (I just want to show a structural formula of a molecule - so, there isn't much to say about it). When I added some more words to the caption, then the suggestion of using the caption

[announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.4

Hello LyXers, the alternative Windows installer for LyX 1.6.4 is now available. This installer comes again with an update installer to update existing LyX 1.6.3 installation to LyX 1.6.4. NOTE: To be able to use this installer version, LyX 1.6.3 must have been installed with the alternative

Re: changing justification of caption

Hi JMarc The answer is yes for both questions. Interesting to thing about the feature as part of the textclass. Yes, it surprised me. I could leave the way it is. I, personally, have no problem with it. On the other side, however, the document I am writing goes to other people and that is the

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

Thanks for all of the answers; they are all what I was looking for. Perhaps Günter's solution is the most convenient for my setup... the errors have been there waiting for me in .xsession-errors all along. Thanks again. Jay

Problem (File does not exist) with Lyx 1.6.2 and XeTex (under TexLive 2009)

Hello, I am a newbie running a computer with Ubuntu 8.1 (intrepid) where I tried installing Lyx and have it work with XeTex. Eventually I opted for the latest Lyx package on getdeb (version 1.6.2) and the repository files for TexLive/Xetex. I later realised that the latex/xetex were way too old

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

On 8/24/09, G. Jay Kerns wrote: > Is there some Linux trick, where I can open LyX, say, from the Desktop > without a terminal, but on-the-fly open up a terminal (or is there > even some other mechanism) to see what LyX is thinking? > You could use emelFM2 as the file manager

Problem with /cleardoublepage{}

Hi, I'm new to lyx and i think it's a very good program. I've a trouble i'm trying to fix from a long time and i googled a lot without finding anything useful which works. The problem is simple, i've a frontpage which should be not numbered and that must have a blank page afterwards. I just

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > > When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyX>About LyX and LyX>Preferences.. > > are greyed out. How do I fix this? In particular, how do I use > > Preferences? > > > > Hal > > We know about this problem and it has our full attention. The Mac binary of LyX 1.6.4 has

Re: A feature you really need

Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Thank you so much for the outline view on LyX 1.6.x. You need two or three more buttons to make the outline view fully functional: * Insert * Delete * Maybe "Insert Subservient" The Insert function inserts a new heading, at the level of the current heading,

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

Wolfgang Keller wrote: Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur. Can libertine be used without having to mess with xetex? Is there good latex support for it? Helge Hafting

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

G. Jay Kerns wrote: Dear LyX-Users, I am on Ubuntu Linux. If I run lyx from a terminal, then along with the LyX window I get a terminal where I can see what LyX is thinking when it generates PDFs, etc. This is a very useful debugging tool, but I only need it a relatively small fraction of the

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.4 is released

Public release of LyX version 1.6.4 === We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.4. This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe issues, such as: * A

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.4 is released

Am 24.08.2009, 13:28 Uhr, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: NOTE that no Mac OS X binaries will be provided for this release, due to a regression on this platform that was detected after 1.6.4 was released. Expect a minor update that addresses this problem to be released soon. OK, that means

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

> You could use emelFM2 as the file manager from which you open your LyX > documents. It has an integrated output pane that is, for practical > reasons, a terminal. And you can see all LyX mindwork in it. When not > needed, you could simply hide the output pane. I would believe Ubuntu > has a

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

> > I believe you can make a script that opens LyX with a terminal - but > a minimized terminal. One that disappear as soon as LyX is closed. > > If you need the information, just restore the minimized terminal. > > Helge Hafting > Thanks, Helge. I did some searching and it seems like I can

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.4 is released

Thanks a lot! This is an impressive list of bug fixes (and, moreover, of some nasty ones)! Congratulations! Murat 2009/8/24 Jürgen Spitzmüller : > Public release of LyX version 1.6.4 > === > > We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.4.

HUGE fomulae

When I've written a math formula, whether it be inserted into the main text or as a numbered equation, the text size becomes huge with the formula usually disappearing off the end of the screen. If you then reselect the formula, as if to edit it, it then shrinks back to normal size. I am doing

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.4 is released

Joachim Osnabryg wrote: > > If you already have the sources of the previous release, you may want to > > apply one of the following patches instead > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.4.gz > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.4.bz2 > > Is this

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Helge Hafting wrote: > I believe you can make a script that opens LyX with a terminal - but > a minimized terminal. One that disappear as soon as LyX is closed. > > If you need the information, just restore the minimized terminal. Another

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:30:55PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > What I find I can do is to set each column to a % width. That's fine, > and equivalent to figuring out a number of cm. The table does not > center itself on the page, though. It slides off to the right... I _think_ I used a

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

G. Jay Kerns wrote: I believe you can make a script that opens LyX with a terminal - but a minimized terminal. One that disappear as soon as LyX is closed. If you need the information, just restore the minimized terminal. Helge Hafting Thanks, Helge. I did some searching and it seems like

Re: Problem with /cleardoublepage{}

Vincenzo Ampolo wrote: Hi, I'm new to lyx and i think it's a very good program. I've a trouble i'm trying to fix from a long time and i googled a lot without finding anything useful which works. The problem is simple, i've a frontpage which should be not numbered and that must have a blank

Re: HUGE fomulae

sammichaelstevens wrote: When I've written a math formula, whether it be inserted into the main text or as a numbered equation, the text size becomes huge with the formula usually disappearing off the end of the screen. If you then reselect the formula, as if to edit it, it then shrinks back to

Re: Problem with /cleardoublepage{}

On Monday 24 August 2009 03:24:25 pm Helge Hafting wrote: > New page/page break/clear page has nothing to do with numbering and > such, these commands just gives you pages without normal text on them. Sorry i'm not good at english and i didn't explain good. I had two problems: the first one is

RE: HUGE fomulae

>> When I've written a math formula, whether it be inserted into the main >> text or as a numbered equation, the text size becomes huge with the >> formula usually disappearing off the end of the screen. If you then >> reselect the formula, as if to edit it, it then shrinks back to normal

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.4 is released

Great! I would really like to use this version because of more stability. Currently I use Lyx 1.6.3 to write my thesis. Thereby I am very careful and would like to know if it might result in any problem if I change my current version of Lyx? Thanks in advance, Matthias On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at

RE: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.4 is released

>Great! > >I would really like to use this version because of >more stability. Yes, sorry for that. >Currently I use Lyx 1.6.3 to write my thesis. >Thereby I am very careful and would like to know if >it might result in any problem if I change my current >version of Lyx? No. (at least it

Re: Problem with /cleardoublepage{}

On Monday 24 August 2009 03:32:13 pm Vincenzo Ampolo wrote: > > I had two problems: the first one is to hide the page number and this > command fixed it "\thispagestyle{empty} " > > The second issue is that i need a blank page somewhere in my document. Is > there a way to add it ? i tried with >

RE: HUGE fomulae

Dear Helge & Vincent Thankyou for your speedy responses. Turning off "instant preview" worked. You've made a PhD thesis writing student alot less stressed! Thanks again Sam On Monday, 24 August, 2009, at 03:41PM, "Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW" wrote: > >>>

Re: changing justification of caption

Hello, Wolfgang Yes, my caption is small, a few words only (I just want to show a structural formula of a molecule - so, there isn't much to say about it). When I added some more words to the caption, then the suggestion of using the caption package worked. I looked at the Embedded Object for

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

> > Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur. > > Can libertine be used without having to mess with xetex? Is there good > latex support for it? "Good"? It depends. For me the version from CTAN is ok. >;-> Sincerely, Wolfgang -- NO "Courtesy Copies" PLEASE!

Distribute the title (frontmatter) over several lines separated with line space?

Hi, I am a new user with LyX, have previousely been using Scientific Workplace (SWP). I am using LyX 1.63 for Windows with the standard report template. In the frontmatter dialog in Scientific Workplace I normally use to paste a graphic/icon topmost and divide the title on lines with several

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

On 2009-08-24, G. Jay Kerns wrote: > Is there some Linux trick, where I can open LyX, say, from the Desktop > without a terminal, but on-the-fly open up a terminal (or is there > even some other mechanism) to see what LyX is thinking? Errors of X programms without attached terminal are written

Re: changing justification of caption

Hello all, I might be answering my own question, but if there other ways to solve the caption problem, I am eager to try them out. It is a pretty "dirty" trick, but it worked nicely. When you have a short caption, just add at its end whitespaces (crtl+shtift_space) and there you go, our caption

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