Line spacing in headings

2009-09-09 Thread Matts Lindström
Hello, When I set line spacing to 1.5 (using the settings dialog) this also changes the line spacing of the document headings (section, subsection etc). This looks really bad. Can I avoid this somehow? Regards, Matts Lindström

Figure key

2009-09-09 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Hi, Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place to add explanations to a figure? A longish list of things such as "the pointed line means blah, and the blue square stands for blah"... The "figure" box in the float is too small for that -and everything you put in there appears

RE: Figure key

2009-09-09 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place >to add explanations to a figure? A longish list of things >such as "the pointed line means blah, and the blue square >stands for blah"... > >The "figure" box in the float is too small for that How can it be too small ? I can put a wo

spellchecker

2009-09-09 Thread Jaime A. Millan - UCL
Hi, I'm new using Lyx and Tex basis programs. Unfortunately when I'm trying to use the spellchecker i found the following error: The spellchecker could not be started LyX: Failed to start ispell! I just install the basic MacTex and Lyx because when i tried to use i- Installer it does not work

Re: spellchecker

2009-09-09 Thread BH
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Jaime A. Millan - UCL wrote: > Hi, I'm new using Lyx and Tex basis programs. Unfortunately when I'm trying > to use the spellchecker i found the following error: > > The spellchecker could not be started > LyX: Failed to start ispell! > > I just install the basic Mac

Re: Figure key

2009-09-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Manolo Martí­nez schrieb: Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place to add explanations to a figure? A longish list of things such as "the pointed line means blah, and the blue square stands for blah"... The "figure" box in the float is too small for that -and everything you

Turning off autosave

2009-09-09 Thread V. Martini
Hello, I'm using LyX 1.6.1 with Snow Leopard. As discussed by other users, LyX has "false" crashes every 5 minutes. This "false" crashes consists in the opening of a windows, indicating a crash, while the software keeps working regularly. As this is possibly related to the autosave functi

Re: Turning off autosave

2009-09-09 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 9/9/09, V. Martini wrote: > As this is possibly related to the autosave function, could you please > suggest me a simple way of disabling it? > Tools > Preferences (uncheck "Backup documents..") Liviu

Re: [Lyx] explicit mail subject

2009-09-09 Thread Helge Hafting
Murray Eisenberg wrote: I agree with the O.P. on this. This is something that, surely, is easily fixed at the server end, so that each message going out from the server has, say, "[LyX]" prepended to the subject. But we don't want that, so please don't wreck it on the server. If you want to se

Re: Simulate update dvi behaviour in update pdflatex

2009-09-09 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: I cannot reproduce this. What program is your default PDF viewer? (I I've also found that Acrobat starts over on the first page, very annoying:-( /Christian mean is Acrobat opened when you double-click on a PDF in the file explorer?) If Acrobat is in

Re: Simulate update dvi behaviour in update pdflatex

2009-09-09 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Sharma, Vivek schrieb: I am using lyx 1.6.4 with Miktex and adobe acrobat. When we View - > update -> dvi after the latex runs the dvi window goes to the page I was viewing last with the updated view, whereas with update pdflatex the updated file just o

Re: problems with pdf-creation

2009-09-09 Thread rgheck
On 09/08/2009 08:18 PM, "Timm Döbert" wrote: Hi there, I would like to get some advice on the following problem encountered when trying to create a pdf file: Font \csname\endcsname=psyr at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not fou Font \csname\endcsname=psyr at 9.0pt not loadable: Metric (

Re: View menu customization

2009-09-09 Thread rgheck
On 09/08/2009 09:44 PM, Myriam Abramson wrote: I just got 1.5.3 installed with Ubuntu Hardy. To view a pdf in the view menu, I see dvipdfm and pdflatex. How do I get in the menu the capability to view a pdf with ps2pdf? This option is listed in the preferences formats but how do I get it in the V

Re: change appendix

2009-09-09 Thread rgheck
On 09/08/2009 11:03 PM, Ricardo Perrone wrote: Hi, how can i change the default alignment of appendix (book.cls)? I need to put it at the center. Do you mean of the heading "Appendix" (or its translation)? Or what? rh

Re: Line spacing in headings

2009-09-09 Thread rgheck
On 09/09/2009 06:01 AM, Matts Lindström wrote: Hello, When I set line spacing to 1.5 (using the settings dialog) this also changes the line spacing of the document headings (section, subsection etc). This looks really bad. Can I avoid this somehow? I think so, but I'm guessing it is not tr

beamer handouts: how to delete/suppress frames?

2009-09-09 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi all, I'm writing a presentation using beamer, lyx 1.63, window... I would like to have a handout, where some frames will be automatically deleted (suppress frames). What I would like to do in TEX, or internally in LyX, is the following: \begin{frame} \frametitle{A title bla bla bla} *Some co

Re: Rotating tables with URLs

2009-09-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
John Coppens schrieb: I have a (rather wide) table with cross-references in it. When I rotate the table to fit it on a page, the table rotates fine, but the (red) boxes around the references stay unrotated. You can turn off the boxes in the document settings in the section of the PDF properti

Re: beamer handouts: how to delete/suppress frames?

2009-09-09 Thread KYokota
Hi Erez, You can use "handout" option of Beamer, but it sometimes fails to exclude overlays. So, what I usually do is to use PDFjam (http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam) after creating PDF. It includes an executable called "pdfnup" which should be called something like: pdfnup --nup 3x3 --paper a4

Re: beamer handouts: how to delete/suppress frames?

2009-09-09 Thread KYokota
Uh, it seems not to work on Windows. So, you may want to install Cygwin to do the above procedure. Koji

More indexing bogosity

2009-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'm deep in the middle of indexing my new book and found yet another problem, and this one can't be worked around by setting Tools->preferences->output- >latex->Tex_encoding to T1. This time, when inserting see and seealso records, I'm forced to use ERT for each of the curly braces or e

Re: change appendix

2009-09-09 Thread Ricardo Perrone
Hi, sorry, i forgot it ... is the heading "Appendix" that in book.cls is capture from \chapter. But I would like to change it only on appendix without change the default chapter alignment that was applied in the rest of document Thanks Ricardo - Original Message > From: rgheck > T

Re: More indexing bogosity

2009-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 15:05:17 Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm deep in the middle of indexing my new book and found yet another > problem, and this one can't be worked around by setting > Tools->preferences->output- > > >latex->Tex_encoding to T1. > > This time, when inserting see and

list of figures off the page

2009-09-09 Thread Evan Mason
Hi, I am using book koma-script. When I compile my document with pdflatex everything is fine, but with dvipdfm or ps2pdf the list of figures and tables are not correct. They don't wrap, so that each caption just goes off the page. I can't be the only one this happens to, but haven't found any o

Re: change appendix

2009-09-09 Thread rgheck
On 09/09/2009 03:33 PM, Ricardo Perrone wrote: Hi, sorry, i forgot it ... is the heading "Appendix" that in book.cls is capture from \chapter. But I would like to change it only on appendix without change the default chapter alignment that was applied in the rest of document Right. Well,

Re: Line spacing in headings

2009-09-09 Thread Matts Lindström
Ok, thanks for the leads; I'll try and redefine whatever macros needs to be redefined then. A bit surprising though that no more straight forward solution has been implemented yet. Matts 2009/9/9 rgheck > On 09/09/2009 06:01 AM, Matts Lindström wrote: > >> Hello, >> When I set line spacing to 1