Re: File '/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.TJ3418/lyx_tmpbuf0/EG-L.tex' was not closed properly

2010-09-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > trying to export a document as .pdf or .dvi I get the following error > message: 74 0x61 0x62 0x6c 0x65 0x5c 0x4d 0x79 0x45 0x6e 0x64 0x74 0x61 > 0x62 0x6c 0x65 0x0a 0x5c 0x6e 0x65 0x77 0x63 0x6f 0x6d 0x6d 0x61 0x6e 0x64 > 0x7b 0x5c 0x46 0x69 0x67 0x42 0x65 0x73 0x42 0x6

Re: Many questions about typesetting

2010-09-14 Thread Etienne Snyman
Hi Richard! Thanks for the good replies... On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 17:19 -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > On 09/13/2010 12:18 PM, Etienne Snyman wrote: > > However, I would like to tweak a lot of these settings so that my > > headings are in the Sans font, and my content in the Roman font. Using > > the

Re: Many questions about typesetting

2010-09-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/14/2010 06:23 AM, Etienne Snyman wrote: Hi Richard! Thanks for the good replies... On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 17:19 -0400, Richard Heck wrote: On 09/13/2010 12:18 PM, Etienne Snyman wrote: However, I would like to tweak a lot of these settings so that my headings are in the Sans fon

Re: File '/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.TJ3418/lyx_tmpbuf0/EG-L.tex' was not closed properly

2010-09-14 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
> Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > trying to export a document as .pdf or .dvi I get the following error > > message: 74 0x61 0x62 0x6c 0x65 0x5c 0x4d 0x79 0x45 0x6e 0x64 0x74 0x61 > > 0x62 0x6c 0x65 0x0a 0x5c 0x6e 0x65 0x77 0x63 0x6f 0x6d 0x6d 0x61 0x6e > > 0x64 0x7b 0x5c 0x46 0x69 0x67 0x42 0x65 0x

delete "Unser Zeichen, ..." from dinbrief

2010-09-14 Thread chs748
Hello, As you will see from my question I am totally new to LyX. I tried different searches on the web but couldn't find any help. I like to use the dinbrief template for my private letters but don't want to have the entries for "Unser Zeichen", "Sachberabeiter" and "Telefon". The template shows

Re: File '/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.TJ3418/lyx_tmpbuf0/EG-L.tex' was not closed properly

2010-09-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Thanks Jürgen, > > but it seems to be more complicated. I have reduced my document to the very > first lines > > Circadiane Rhythmen und Epigenetik > > Wolfgang Engelmann > Institut für Botanik, Tübingen > > Tübingen, März 2010 > > Dieses Buch wurde mit LyX geschrie

Re: File '/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.TJ3418/lyx_tmpbuf0/EG-L.tex' was not closed properly

2010-09-14 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Tuesday 14 September 2010 15:59:05 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > Thanks Jürgen, > > > > but it seems to be more complicated. I have reduced my document to the > > very first lines > > > > Circadiane Rhythmen und Epigenetik > > > > Wolfgang Engelmann > > Institut fÃ

Re: Strange Table Index

2010-09-14 Thread Julien Rioux
On 13/09/2010 3:22 PM, minhvd wrote: I create several float tables. When I export to pdf, the labels are not continous. For example: table 7, table 9, ... but in Lyx document; the labels are continuous: table 7, table 8 ... I tried to copy paste, create new table ... but I have not succecced.

Re: File '/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.TJ3418/lyx_tmpbuf0/EG-L.tex' was not closed properly

2010-09-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > In the meantime I found the reason, it has to do with the following > preamble parts. Both the sidecap package (taken from the Embedded Objects > Help) and the {german}{nomencl} (taken from the Lyx list) are candidates. > I thought I had tried it with the preamble empti

Re: How to vertically center/align a small svg object with other graphics

2010-09-14 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Nikos Alexandris: > > I 've already tried that (before posting) but the images have to be > > smaller (too small for me) to fit in an A4 page. Paul Rubin: > Is that because there is extra white space within/between table cells? > That space can be reduced. Hmm... maybe you are right, did not t

Download for windows not working!

2010-09-14 Thread Guðjón Hauksson
Hello all. I get this when i try to download lyx for windows? This webpage is not available. The webpage at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7/LyX-1.6.7-4-Installer.exemight be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. Hope this is nothing permanent. Best regards,

Re: Download for windows not working!

2010-09-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 14.09.2010 18:57, schrieb Guðjón Hauksson: I get this when i try to download lyx for windows? This webpage is not available. The webpage at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7/LyX-1.6.7-4-Installer.exe might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. Works

Re: math bold revisited

2010-09-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 14.09.2010 17:50, schrieb Jack Tanner: Just tried using \mathbf (with all default document properties), and bold doesn't show up either in live preview or in PDF output. What is your LyX version? Do you see bold equations, sec. 11.2 "Bold Formulas" of LyX's EmbeddedObjects manual that you

Re: math bold revisited

2010-09-14 Thread Jack Tanner
Uwe Stöhr web.de> writes: > > Am 14.09.2010 17:50, schrieb Jack Tanner: > > > Just tried using \mathbf (with all default document properties), and bold > > doesn't show up either in live preview or in PDF output. > > What is your LyX version? Do you see bold equations, sec. 11.2 "Bold > Formu

Re: delete "Unser Zeichen, ..." from dinbrief

2010-09-14 Thread Paul Rubin
freenet.de> writes: > > As you will see from my question I am totally new to LyX. I tried > different searches on the web but couldn't find any help. > > I like to use the dinbrief template for my private letters but don't > want to have the entries for "Unser Zeichen", "Sachberabeiter" > and "

Re: math bold revisited

2010-09-14 Thread Paul Rubin
Jack Tanner hotmail.com> writes: > > I'm using 1.6.7 on Windows. With MiKTeX? Make sure you have the pifont and caption packages installed in MiKTeX. (You can use the MiKTeX package manager to check and, if necessary, download and install them.) /Paul

Re: Many questions about typesetting

2010-09-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 13 September 2010 12:18:58 Etienne Snyman wrote: > Dear LyX-peoples... > > I have a few questions concerning layout, typesetting and fonts. > (I am using LyX 1.6.5 on Ubuntu 10.04) > > I am in the planning stage of writing a music theory textbook (which > will be Creative-Commons licens

Re: File '/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.TJ3418/lyx_tmpbuf0/EG-L.tex' was not closed properly

2010-09-14 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Tuesday 14 September 2010 19:05:40 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > In the meantime I found the reason, it has to do with the following > > preamble parts. Both the sidecap package (taken from the Embedded > > Objects Help) and the {german}{nomencl} (taken from the Ly

Re: Many questions about typesetting

2010-09-14 Thread Etienne Snyman
Dear Steve On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 14:31 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > I feel your pain. The changes you describe would be so simple in WordPerfect > and MS Word, and s difficult in LyX. And you'll find out that a lot of > people ask "well why don't you just use the defaults, why do you want to

Re: math bold revisited

2010-09-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 14.09.2010 20:14, schrieb Jack Tanner: Thanks for suggesting the EmbeddedObjects manual as a test. The version of that manual that comes with 1.6.7 doesn't have the section 11.2 Bold Formulas. Sorry, I meant the math manual. When I try to render to PDF, I get two errors (below). Perhaps I

Re: delete 'Unser Zeichen' from dinbrief

2010-09-14 Thread chs748
Am Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:25:02 + (UTC) schrieb Paul Rubin : > ... > Put the cursor at the end of the "Unsere Zeichen" line and > start backspacing. You'll know when you've backspaced enough. :-) Thanks, Paul! I thought I could keep the entry "Ihr Zeichen". However I had to delete all three l

Re: math bold revisited

2010-09-14 Thread Jack Tanner
Uwe Stöhr web.de> writes: > In this case the package "pifont" is not installed. To install all > packages used by LyX, log in as admin, open an Internet connection and > reconfigure LyX (via the Tools menu). > Afterwards, restart LyX and view the EmbeddedObjects manual as PDF - > this should t

Re: math bold revisited

2010-09-14 Thread Jack Tanner
Actually, no, problem still there. The Math manual does render both \mathbf and \boldsymbol correctly, both in live preview and in PDF. However, in my own document (with all default document properties) \boldsymbol works but \mathbf doesn't work in either live preview or PDF.

Re: Many questions about typesetting

2010-09-14 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:03:45 -0400 Richard Heck shared this with is all on the Lyx users list: >For example, >for changing the font of a chapter heading, one does: > \setkomafont{chapter}{...whatever you want...} I assume that isn't done in the preamble for Koma book, because that just add

Windows setup/directory structure

2010-09-14 Thread Maria Gouskova
Dear LyX users, I am not a Windows user myself but am trying to help some people duplicate my setup on a Windows machine. On a *nix-based system, such as my Mac OS, the custom packages and the bib and bst files all live in the texmf directory, like this: HD/Users/Username/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib

Re: Many questions about typesetting

2010-09-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/14/2010 06:01 PM, Charlie wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:03:45 -0400 Richard Heck shared this with is all on the Lyx users list: For example, for changing the font of a chapter heading, one does: \setkomafont{chapter}{...whatever you want...} I assume that isn't done in the

Re: Windows setup/directory structure

2010-09-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/14/2010 06:16 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: Dear LyX users, I am not a Windows user myself but am trying to help some people duplicate my setup on a Windows machine. On a *nix-based system, such as my Mac OS, the custom packages and the bib and bst files all live in the texmf directory, like t

Re: math bold revisited

2010-09-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 14.09.2010 23:35, schrieb Jack Tanner: The Math manual does render both \mathbf and \boldsymbol correctly, both in live preview and in PDF. However, in my own document (with all default document properties) \boldsymbol works but \mathbf doesn't work in either live preview or PDF. Then your

Re: Windows setup/directory structure

2010-09-14 Thread Maria Gouskova
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 09/14/2010 06:16 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: >> >> Dear LyX users, >> >> I am not a Windows user myself but am trying to help some people >> duplicate my setup on a Windows machine. On a *nix-based system, such >> as my Mac OS, the custom pac

Re: math bold revisited

2010-09-14 Thread Jack Tanner
Uwe Stöhr web.de> writes: > > Am 14.09.2010 23:35, schrieb Jack Tanner: > > > The Math manual does render both \mathbf and > > \boldsymbol correctly, both in live preview and in PDF. However, in my own > > document (with all default document properties) \boldsymbol works but > > \mathbf > > do

Re: math bold revisited

2010-09-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 15.09.2010 04:01, schrieb Jack Tanner: The Math manual does render both \mathbf and \boldsymbol correctly, both in live preview and in PDF. However, in my own document (with all default document properties) \boldsymbol works but \mathbf doesn't work in either live preview or PDF. Then your

Re: math bold revisited

2010-09-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 15.09.2010 04:01, schrieb Jack Tanner: The Math manual does render both \mathbf and \boldsymbol correctly, both in live preview and in PDF. However, in my own document (with all default document properties) \boldsymbol works but \mathbf doesn't work in either live preview or PDF. Then your

Re: math bold revisited

2010-09-14 Thread Jack Tanner
Uwe Stöhr web.de> writes: > "To make a complete formula bold, the command \mathbf from the previous subsection cannot be used, > because it doesn't work for small Greek letters. Furthermore it prints Latin letters always upright" Whoops. I must've stopped reading that sentence when I got to the