Re: Importing doc documents

2010-03-29 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-29, Tim Wescott wrote: rgheck wrote: On 03/27/2010 02:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote: those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert sources in MS Word .doc format into .lyx format. On Linux platforms there are at least AbiWord and Kword that can open doc files

Re: PDF Fonts

2010-03-29 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-29, Alan Tyree wrote: --000e0cd118864eb5900482e8a698 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Paul Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote: Typhoon typh...@... writes: I'm preparing a manuscript for printing. The LyX Wiki recommends Latin Modern as the

Re: Shortcut for pdflatex on mac

2010-03-29 Thread Johannes Knaus
Thank you. That solved my problem. I simply overlooked that GUI based bind editing is now possible. buffer-view pdf2 did the trick. Johannes Am 26.03.2010 um 20:50 schrieb BH: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Johannes Knaus knausli...@freenet.de wrote: Hello, I'd like to create a

Letters floating- Low quality

2010-03-29 Thread YURENA MENDOZA
Hello, when my work is transfered to pdf the quality of the letters in the pdf (version 8) is very low specially letters of the floating. What can I do? In addition I can only choose between three kind of letter: time roman, sans-serif and typewriter, which package can I install, which is its

Re: Letters floating- Low quality

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 08:08 AM, YURENA MENDOZA wrote: Hello, when my work is transfered to pdf the quality of the letters in the pdf (version 8) is very low specially letters of the floating. What can I do? In addition I can only choose between three kind of letter: time roman, sans-serif and

X Error: BadGC

2010-03-29 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Having done quite a lot of searching for a certain expression in my lyx document (and exchanging each item by hand - it is lithium ions against Li^+, therefore I could not use the search and exchange way) it freezes with this error occurring continuously (taken from the terminal from which I

Re: Importing doc documents

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/28/2010 10:37 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: Tim Wescottt...@... writes: rgheck wrote: OpenOffice will also save in LaTeX format. I have used it often myself, but with old WordPerfect files, and you are right of course that the output file could use some cleaning up. Much of this can

Re: Dimension too large

2010-03-29 Thread Marcelo Acuña
   I have a koma-script book in US letter page.    When I try to go to A5 size I get this error when run latex: Dimension too large. Very strange. Do you have a _small_ LyX example file? A5 is a small page. I'd suspect a float too large to fit. Is not a problem of size page. I

RE: Importing doc documents

2010-03-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Richard, Interesting project. Thanks for the link. I'll need to play with this and see if I can get it to work. I've been looking for a way of getting from MS Word to LyX and back, and this might help to automate some of it. With that said, I had a thought. It seems that I surrounded by

Re: Is there any easy way to embed ABC musical notation ? All I get is a box that says 'abc-box' :(

2010-03-29 Thread Julien Rioux
On 28/03/2010 6:51 PM, Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ wrote: Julien Rioux wrote: Hi! What are you trying to accomplish? I am trying to embed very short musical note sequences as tone/pitch indicators. What have you tried? Finally tried table cell - minipage - ERT: \begin{abc}[name=i23ga4] X:1 L:1/4

Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
So I couldn't get PyODConverter to work---I kept getting an error about not connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ I can't get the LaTeX export option to work there, but one could use this to convert from DOC (or

Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 3/29/10, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ There is a second possibility to convert anything that OpenOffice can chew: jodconverter. From the description: JODConverter, the

Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 12:27 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/29/10, rgheckrgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ There is a second possibility to convert anything that OpenOffice can

Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 29 March 2010 12:27:54 Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/29/10, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ There is a second possibility to convert anything that OpenOffice can

Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 29 March 2010 11:34:49 rgheck wrote: So I couldn't get PyODConverter to work---I kept getting an error about not connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ I can't get the LaTeX export option to work there, but

Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 01:19 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 29 March 2010 12:27:54 Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/29/10, rgheckrgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ There is a

writer2latex Packages under Ubuntu

2010-03-29 Thread Tim Wescott
Ubuntu lists not one, but _two_ writer2latex packages: writer2latex, and openoffice.org-writer2latex. Anyone know whazzup? Is one free-standing, the other a plugin? Do I need just one, both, the first if I install the second, but not the other way around? Thanks. -- Tim Wescott Wescott

Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 01:23 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 29 March 2010 11:34:49 rgheck wrote: So I couldn't get PyODConverter to work---I kept getting an error about not connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ I can't

Re: writer2latex Packages under Ubuntu

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 01:38 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: Ubuntu lists not one, but _two_ writer2latex packages: writer2latex, and openoffice.org-writer2latex. Anyone know whazzup? Is one free-standing, the other a plugin? Yes, exactly. Do I need just one, both, the first if I install the second, but not

Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04

2010-03-29 Thread Wei-Dong Lian
Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By default, lyx 1.5.3 is installed in ubuntu 8.04, to be honest, I began with lyx1.6.4, so now all of my old lyx documents could not be opened. In addition, in the new version of

Re: Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 02:17 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By default, lyx 1.5.3 is installed in ubuntu 8.04, to be honest, I began with lyx1.6.4, so now all of my old lyx documents could

Re: Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04

2010-03-29 Thread Julien Rioux
On 29/03/2010 2:27 PM, rgheck wrote: On 03/29/2010 02:17 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By default, lyx 1.5.3 is installed in ubuntu 8.04, to be honest, I began with lyx1.6.4, so

Re: Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04

2010-03-29 Thread Wei-Dong Lian
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:27 PM, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: On 03/29/2010 02:17 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By default, lyx 1.5.3 is installed in ubuntu 8.04, to be

Re: Interline Space

2010-03-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 26.03.2010 09:41, schrieb YURENA MENDOZA: Hello, as you can see when it begins paragraph of However. the distance with the preceding paragraph is greater than in the rest and in this case there is no floating in this section. This occurs because you explicitly printed all characters in

Re: Letters floating- Low quality

2010-03-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 29.03.2010 14:08, schrieb YURENA MENDOZA: Hello, when my work is transfered to pdf the quality of the letters in the pdf (version 8) is very low specially letters of the floating. What can I do? In addition I can only choose between three kind of letter: time roman, sans-serif and

Re: Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 06:22 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:27 PM, rgheckrgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: On 03/29/2010 02:17 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By

Re: Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 06:22 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:27 PM, rgheckrgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: On 03/29/2010 02:17 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By default,

Undertilde

2010-03-29 Thread Julio Rojas
Dear all, is there a way in which \utilde from the package undertilde can be rendered on screen in a equation environment? Is not impossible for me to work without it, but I rather have a nice tilde under the variable than \utilde in red letters before it. Best regards.

Re: Undertilde

2010-03-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 30.03.2010 01:39, schrieb Julio Rojas: Dear all, is there a way in which \utilde from the package undertilde can be rendered on screen in a equation environment? This is not yet supported, but should be easy to implement because it is the same as \widetilde - only below the equation. Can

Re: Undertilde

2010-03-29 Thread Julio Rojas
Done: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6622 Thx Uwe. - Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 30.03.2010 01:39, schrieb Julio Rojas: Dear all, is there a way in which \utilde from

Compiling LyX on Ubuntu/Debian (was Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04)

2010-03-29 Thread Typhoon
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:17:25 +0200 Wei-Dong Lian weidong.l...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. SNIP ECN Weidong Hello Weidong, Here is a short Howto that I wrote for compiling LyX and

Re: Compiling LyX on Ubuntu/Debian (was Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04)

2010-03-29 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/29/2010 08:38 PM, Typhoon wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:17:25 +0200 Wei-Dong Lianweidong.l...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. SNIP ECN Weidong Hello Weidong,

Re: Importing doc documents

2010-03-29 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-29, Tim Wescott wrote: rgheck wrote: On 03/27/2010 02:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote: those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert sources in MS Word .doc format into .lyx format. On Linux platforms there are at least AbiWord and Kword that can open doc files

Re: PDF Fonts

2010-03-29 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-29, Alan Tyree wrote: --000e0cd118864eb5900482e8a698 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Paul Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote: Typhoon typh...@... writes: I'm preparing a manuscript for printing. The LyX Wiki recommends Latin Modern as the

Re: Shortcut for pdflatex on mac

2010-03-29 Thread Johannes Knaus
Thank you. That solved my problem. I simply overlooked that GUI based bind editing is now possible. buffer-view pdf2 did the trick. Johannes Am 26.03.2010 um 20:50 schrieb BH: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Johannes Knaus knausli...@freenet.de wrote: Hello, I'd like to create a

Letters floating- Low quality

2010-03-29 Thread YURENA MENDOZA
Hello, when my work is transfered to pdf the quality of the letters in the pdf (version 8) is very low specially letters of the floating. What can I do? In addition I can only choose between three kind of letter: time roman, sans-serif and typewriter, which package can I install, which is its

Re: Letters floating- Low quality

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 08:08 AM, YURENA MENDOZA wrote: Hello, when my work is transfered to pdf the quality of the letters in the pdf (version 8) is very low specially letters of the floating. What can I do? In addition I can only choose between three kind of letter: time roman, sans-serif and

X Error: BadGC

2010-03-29 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Having done quite a lot of searching for a certain expression in my lyx document (and exchanging each item by hand - it is lithium ions against Li^+, therefore I could not use the search and exchange way) it freezes with this error occurring continuously (taken from the terminal from which I

Re: Importing doc documents

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/28/2010 10:37 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: Tim Wescottt...@... writes: rgheck wrote: OpenOffice will also save in LaTeX format. I have used it often myself, but with old WordPerfect files, and you are right of course that the output file could use some cleaning up. Much of this can

Re: Dimension too large

2010-03-29 Thread Marcelo Acuña
   I have a koma-script book in US letter page.    When I try to go to A5 size I get this error when run latex: Dimension too large. Very strange. Do you have a _small_ LyX example file? A5 is a small page. I'd suspect a float too large to fit. Is not a problem of size page. I

RE: Importing doc documents

2010-03-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Richard, Interesting project. Thanks for the link. I'll need to play with this and see if I can get it to work. I've been looking for a way of getting from MS Word to LyX and back, and this might help to automate some of it. With that said, I had a thought. It seems that I surrounded by

Re: Is there any easy way to embed ABC musical notation ? All I get is a box that says 'abc-box' :(

2010-03-29 Thread Julien Rioux
On 28/03/2010 6:51 PM, Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ wrote: Julien Rioux wrote: Hi! What are you trying to accomplish? I am trying to embed very short musical note sequences as tone/pitch indicators. What have you tried? Finally tried table cell - minipage - ERT: \begin{abc}[name=i23ga4] X:1 L:1/4

Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
So I couldn't get PyODConverter to work---I kept getting an error about not connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ I can't get the LaTeX export option to work there, but one could use this to convert from DOC (or

Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 3/29/10, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ There is a second possibility to convert anything that OpenOffice can chew: jodconverter. From the description: JODConverter, the

Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 12:27 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/29/10, rgheckrgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ There is a second possibility to convert anything that OpenOffice can

Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 29 March 2010 12:27:54 Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/29/10, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ There is a second possibility to convert anything that OpenOffice can

Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 29 March 2010 11:34:49 rgheck wrote: So I couldn't get PyODConverter to work---I kept getting an error about not connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ I can't get the LaTeX export option to work there, but

Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 01:19 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 29 March 2010 12:27:54 Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/29/10, rgheckrgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ There is a

writer2latex Packages under Ubuntu

2010-03-29 Thread Tim Wescott
Ubuntu lists not one, but _two_ writer2latex packages: writer2latex, and openoffice.org-writer2latex. Anyone know whazzup? Is one free-standing, the other a plugin? Do I need just one, both, the first if I install the second, but not the other way around? Thanks. -- Tim Wescott Wescott

Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 01:23 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 29 March 2010 11:34:49 rgheck wrote: So I couldn't get PyODConverter to work---I kept getting an error about not connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ I can't

Re: writer2latex Packages under Ubuntu

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 01:38 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: Ubuntu lists not one, but _two_ writer2latex packages: writer2latex, and openoffice.org-writer2latex. Anyone know whazzup? Is one free-standing, the other a plugin? Yes, exactly. Do I need just one, both, the first if I install the second, but not

Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04

2010-03-29 Thread Wei-Dong Lian
Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By default, lyx 1.5.3 is installed in ubuntu 8.04, to be honest, I began with lyx1.6.4, so now all of my old lyx documents could not be opened. In addition, in the new version of

Re: Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 02:17 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By default, lyx 1.5.3 is installed in ubuntu 8.04, to be honest, I began with lyx1.6.4, so now all of my old lyx documents could

Re: Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04

2010-03-29 Thread Julien Rioux
On 29/03/2010 2:27 PM, rgheck wrote: On 03/29/2010 02:17 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By default, lyx 1.5.3 is installed in ubuntu 8.04, to be honest, I began with lyx1.6.4, so

Re: Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04

2010-03-29 Thread Wei-Dong Lian
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:27 PM, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: On 03/29/2010 02:17 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By default, lyx 1.5.3 is installed in ubuntu 8.04, to be

Re: Interline Space

2010-03-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 26.03.2010 09:41, schrieb YURENA MENDOZA: Hello, as you can see when it begins paragraph of However. the distance with the preceding paragraph is greater than in the rest and in this case there is no floating in this section. This occurs because you explicitly printed all characters in

Re: Letters floating- Low quality

2010-03-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 29.03.2010 14:08, schrieb YURENA MENDOZA: Hello, when my work is transfered to pdf the quality of the letters in the pdf (version 8) is very low specially letters of the floating. What can I do? In addition I can only choose between three kind of letter: time roman, sans-serif and

Re: Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 06:22 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:27 PM, rgheckrgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: On 03/29/2010 02:17 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By

Re: Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 06:22 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:27 PM, rgheckrgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: On 03/29/2010 02:17 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By default,

Undertilde

2010-03-29 Thread Julio Rojas
Dear all, is there a way in which \utilde from the package undertilde can be rendered on screen in a equation environment? Is not impossible for me to work without it, but I rather have a nice tilde under the variable than \utilde in red letters before it. Best regards.

Re: Undertilde

2010-03-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 30.03.2010 01:39, schrieb Julio Rojas: Dear all, is there a way in which \utilde from the package undertilde can be rendered on screen in a equation environment? This is not yet supported, but should be easy to implement because it is the same as \widetilde - only below the equation. Can

Re: Undertilde

2010-03-29 Thread Julio Rojas
Done: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6622 Thx Uwe. - Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 30.03.2010 01:39, schrieb Julio Rojas: Dear all, is there a way in which \utilde from

Compiling LyX on Ubuntu/Debian (was Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04)

2010-03-29 Thread Typhoon
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:17:25 +0200 Wei-Dong Lian weidong.l...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. SNIP ECN Weidong Hello Weidong, Here is a short Howto that I wrote for compiling LyX and

Re: Compiling LyX on Ubuntu/Debian (was Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04)

2010-03-29 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/29/2010 08:38 PM, Typhoon wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:17:25 +0200 Wei-Dong Lianweidong.l...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. SNIP ECN Weidong Hello Weidong,

Re: Importing doc documents

2010-03-29 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-29, Tim Wescott wrote: > rgheck wrote: >> On 03/27/2010 02:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote: >>> those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert >>> sources in MS Word .doc format into .lyx format. >>> On Linux platforms there are at least AbiWord and Kword that can open

Re: PDF Fonts

2010-03-29 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-29, Alan Tyree wrote: > --000e0cd118864eb5900482e8a698 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: >> Typhoon writes: >> > >> > I'm preparing a manuscript for printing. The LyX Wiki recommends Latin

Re: Shortcut for pdflatex on mac

2010-03-29 Thread Johannes Knaus
Thank you. That solved my problem. I simply overlooked that GUI based bind editing is now possible. buffer-view pdf2 did the trick. Johannes Am 26.03.2010 um 20:50 schrieb BH: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Johannes Knaus wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'd like to create

Letters floating- Low quality

2010-03-29 Thread YURENA MENDOZA
Hello, when my work is transfered to pdf the quality of the letters in the pdf (version 8) is very low specially letters of the floating. What can I do? In addition I can only choose between three kind of letter: time roman, sans-serif and typewriter, which package can I install, which is its

Re: Letters floating- Low quality

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 08:08 AM, YURENA MENDOZA wrote: Hello, when my work is transfered to pdf the quality of the letters in the pdf (version 8) is very low specially letters of the floating. What can I do? In addition I can only choose between three kind of letter: time roman, sans-serif and

X Error: BadGC

2010-03-29 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Having done quite a lot of searching for a certain expression in my lyx document (and exchanging each item by hand - it is lithium ions against Li^+, therefore I could not use the search and exchange way) it freezes with this error occurring continuously (taken from the terminal from which I

Re: Importing doc documents

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/28/2010 10:37 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: Tim Wescott writes: rgheck wrote: OpenOffice will also save in LaTeX format. I have used it often myself, but with old WordPerfect files, and you are right of course that the output file could use some cleaning up. Much of this

Re: Dimension too large

2010-03-29 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> >>   I have a koma-script book in US > letter page. > >>   When I try to go to A5 size I get > this error when run latex: > >> > >> Dimension too large. > > > > Very strange. Do you have a _small_ LyX example file? > > > A5 is a small page. I'd suspect a float too large to fit. Is not a

RE: Importing doc documents

2010-03-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Richard, Interesting project. Thanks for the link. I'll need to play with this and see if I can get it to work. I've been looking for a way of getting from MS Word to LyX and back, and this might help to automate some of it. With that said, I had a thought. It seems that I surrounded by

Re: Is there any easy way to embed ABC musical notation ? All I get is a box that says 'abc-box' :(

2010-03-29 Thread Julien Rioux
On 28/03/2010 6:51 PM, Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ wrote: Julien Rioux wrote: Hi! What are you trying to accomplish? I am trying to embed very short musical note sequences as tone/pitch indicators. What have you tried? Finally tried table cell -> minipage -> ERT: \begin{abc}[name=i23ga4] X:1 L:1/4

Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
So I couldn't get PyODConverter to work---I kept getting an error about not connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ I can't get the LaTeX export option to work there, but one could use this to convert from DOC (or

Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 3/29/10, rgheck wrote: > connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: > http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ > There is a second possibility to convert anything that OpenOffice can chew: jodconverter. From the description: "JODConverter,

Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 12:27 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/29/10, rgheck wrote: connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ There is a second possibility to convert anything that OpenOffice can

Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 29 March 2010 12:27:54 Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 3/29/10, rgheck wrote: > > connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: > > http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ > > There is a second possibility to convert anything that

Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 29 March 2010 11:34:49 rgheck wrote: > So I couldn't get PyODConverter to work---I kept getting an error about > not connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found > UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ > I can't get the LaTeX export option to work there,

Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 01:19 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 29 March 2010 12:27:54 Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/29/10, rgheck wrote: connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ There is a

writer2latex Packages under Ubuntu

2010-03-29 Thread Tim Wescott
Ubuntu lists not one, but _two_ writer2latex packages: writer2latex, and openoffice.org-writer2latex. Anyone know whazzup? Is one free-standing, the other a plugin? Do I need just one, both, the first if I install the second, but not the other way around? Thanks. -- Tim Wescott Wescott

Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 01:23 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 29 March 2010 11:34:49 rgheck wrote: So I couldn't get PyODConverter to work---I kept getting an error about not connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ I can't

Re: writer2latex Packages under Ubuntu

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 01:38 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: Ubuntu lists not one, but _two_ writer2latex packages: writer2latex, and openoffice.org-writer2latex. Anyone know whazzup? Is one free-standing, the other a plugin? Yes, exactly. Do I need just one, both, the first if I install the second, but not

Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04

2010-03-29 Thread Wei-Dong Lian
Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By default, lyx 1.5.3 is installed in ubuntu 8.04, to be honest, I began with lyx1.6.4, so now all of my old lyx documents could not be opened. In addition, in the new version of

Re: Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 02:17 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By default, lyx 1.5.3 is installed in ubuntu 8.04, to be honest, I began with lyx1.6.4, so now all of my old lyx documents could

Re: Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04

2010-03-29 Thread Julien Rioux
On 29/03/2010 2:27 PM, rgheck wrote: On 03/29/2010 02:17 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By default, lyx 1.5.3 is installed in ubuntu 8.04, to be honest, I began with lyx1.6.4, so

Re: Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04

2010-03-29 Thread Wei-Dong Lian
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:27 PM, rgheck wrote: > On 03/29/2010 02:17 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or >> even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. >> By default, lyx 1.5.3 is installed in ubuntu

Re: Interline Space

2010-03-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 26.03.2010 09:41, schrieb YURENA MENDOZA: Hello, as you can see when it begins paragraph of "However." the distance with the preceding paragraph is greater than in the rest and in this case there is no floating in this section. This occurs because you explicitly printed all characters

Re: Letters floating- Low quality

2010-03-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 29.03.2010 14:08, schrieb YURENA MENDOZA: Hello, when my work is transfered to pdf the quality of the letters in the pdf (version 8) is very low specially letters of the floating. What can I do? In addition I can only choose between three kind of letter: time roman, sans-serif and

Re: Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 06:22 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:27 PM, rgheck wrote: On 03/29/2010 02:17 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By

Re: Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04

2010-03-29 Thread rgheck
On 03/29/2010 06:22 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:27 PM, rgheck wrote: On 03/29/2010 02:17 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By default,

Undertilde

2010-03-29 Thread Julio Rojas
Dear all, is there a way in which "\utilde" from the package "undertilde" can be rendered on screen in a equation environment? Is not impossible for me to work without it, but I rather have a nice tilde under the variable than "\utilde" in red letters before it. Best regards.

Re: Undertilde

2010-03-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 30.03.2010 01:39, schrieb Julio Rojas: Dear all, is there a way in which "\utilde" from the package "undertilde" can be rendered on screen in a equation environment? This is not yet supported, but should be easy to implement because it is the same as \widetilde - only below the equation.

Re: Undertilde

2010-03-29 Thread Julio Rojas
Done: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6622 Thx Uwe. - Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 30.03.2010 01:39, schrieb Julio Rojas: > >> Dear all, is there a way in which

Compiling LyX on Ubuntu/Debian (was Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04)

2010-03-29 Thread Typhoon
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:17:25 +0200 Wei-Dong Lian wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or > even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. > ECN > Weidong Hello Weidong, Here is a short Howto that I wrote for compiling LyX

Re: Compiling LyX on Ubuntu/Debian (was Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04)

2010-03-29 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/29/2010 08:38 PM, Typhoon wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:17:25 +0200 Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. ECN Weidong Hello Weidong,