Re: Problem with hyphenated words.

2010-11-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 5:15 AM, John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: Here is a problem posed by a Lyx novice. I know how to fix it in plain pdftex etc. but I don't use Lyx and am stumped about what to tell him. Here is his problem --- I have just

Converting Doc file to Lyx

2010-11-27 Thread Frederick Noronha
I know this might be asking for a bit much, but could someone help me with converting a Doc file to Lyx? I know there are ways of doing this, but don't have the right software tools on my comp (and can't understand the complex instructions for installing the same). If you agree, I will email you

Re: Converting Doc file to Lyx

2010-11-27 Thread Jim Oldfield
One way would be to open the file in Word and from there save it as an HTML file. Then in LyX import that HTML file. I doubt the results would be very good, but they would probably at least preserve the italics. Jim - Original Message From: Frederick Noronha

Re: csv import causes python error

2010-11-27 Thread Rich Talley
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Kelly Kearney kkear...@princeton.eduwrote: So far, I haven't been able to figure out how to run Mac Lyx from the command line. Any pointers? Sure. In OS X, applications appear to the GUI as a single object but are actually special folders. You can examine

Re: csv import causes python error

2010-11-27 Thread Kelly Kearney
Rich Talley rbtalley at unm.edu writes: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Kelly Kearney kkearney at princeton.edu wrote: So far, I haven't been able to figure out how to run Mac Lyx from the command line.  Any pointers? Sure. In OS X, applications appear to the GUI as a single object

Re: csv import causes python error

2010-11-27 Thread Rich Talley
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Kelly Kearney kkear...@princeton.eduwrote: Thanks for the info, but I was actually wondering how to run the executable. Though I can locate it, I'm not sure how to get it to run outside of the .app package. Simply trying to issue the lyx command in a

Re: csv import causes python error

2010-11-27 Thread Kelly Kearney
So, when you are in /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS in the terminal use this command: ./lyx (that's a period followed by a slash followed by the name of the executable) *facepalm* I always forget that. Command line working fine now, and I was able to diagnose the csv import

Integral sign stretch/expand to fit integrand

2010-11-27 Thread Gustavo Goretkin
How could I make an integral sign stretch so that its height is close to the height of the integrand? For example, see http://oi51.tinypic.com/qnpedi.jpg Thank you, Gustavo

[sweave] additional LaTeX package needed, but which one?

2010-11-27 Thread Jannick Asmus
Hi, loading the beamer sweave template shipped with LyX 2.0 beta 1 (on WinVista) LyX prompts that sweave needs an additional LaTeX package not installed by MikTeX. How can I find out which package is missing? Thanks as always. /J.

Re: Problem with hyphenated words.

2010-11-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 5:15 AM, John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: Here is a problem posed by a Lyx novice. I know how to fix it in plain pdftex etc. but I don't use Lyx and am stumped about what to tell him. Here is his problem --- I have just

Converting Doc file to Lyx

2010-11-27 Thread Frederick Noronha
I know this might be asking for a bit much, but could someone help me with converting a Doc file to Lyx? I know there are ways of doing this, but don't have the right software tools on my comp (and can't understand the complex instructions for installing the same). If you agree, I will email you

Re: Converting Doc file to Lyx

2010-11-27 Thread Jim Oldfield
One way would be to open the file in Word and from there save it as an HTML file. Then in LyX import that HTML file. I doubt the results would be very good, but they would probably at least preserve the italics. Jim - Original Message From: Frederick Noronha

Re: csv import causes python error

2010-11-27 Thread Rich Talley
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Kelly Kearney kkear...@princeton.eduwrote: So far, I haven't been able to figure out how to run Mac Lyx from the command line. Any pointers? Sure. In OS X, applications appear to the GUI as a single object but are actually special folders. You can examine

Re: csv import causes python error

2010-11-27 Thread Kelly Kearney
Rich Talley rbtalley at unm.edu writes: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Kelly Kearney kkearney at princeton.edu wrote: So far, I haven't been able to figure out how to run Mac Lyx from the command line.  Any pointers? Sure. In OS X, applications appear to the GUI as a single object

Re: csv import causes python error

2010-11-27 Thread Rich Talley
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Kelly Kearney kkear...@princeton.eduwrote: Thanks for the info, but I was actually wondering how to run the executable. Though I can locate it, I'm not sure how to get it to run outside of the .app package. Simply trying to issue the lyx command in a

Re: csv import causes python error

2010-11-27 Thread Kelly Kearney
So, when you are in /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS in the terminal use this command: ./lyx (that's a period followed by a slash followed by the name of the executable) *facepalm* I always forget that. Command line working fine now, and I was able to diagnose the csv import

Integral sign stretch/expand to fit integrand

2010-11-27 Thread Gustavo Goretkin
How could I make an integral sign stretch so that its height is close to the height of the integrand? For example, see http://oi51.tinypic.com/qnpedi.jpg Thank you, Gustavo

[sweave] additional LaTeX package needed, but which one?

2010-11-27 Thread Jannick Asmus
Hi, loading the beamer sweave template shipped with LyX 2.0 beta 1 (on WinVista) LyX prompts that sweave needs an additional LaTeX package not installed by MikTeX. How can I find out which package is missing? Thanks as always. /J.

Re: Problem with hyphenated words.

2010-11-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 5:15 AM, John Culleton wrote: > Here is a problem posed by a Lyx novice. I know how to fix it in plain > pdftex etc. but I don't use Lyx and am stumped about what to tell him. > Here is his problem > --- > I have

Converting Doc file to Lyx

2010-11-27 Thread Frederick Noronha
I know this might be asking for a bit much, but could someone help me with converting a Doc file to Lyx? I know there are ways of doing this, but don't have the right software tools on my comp (and can't understand the complex instructions for installing the same). If you agree, I will email you

Re: Converting Doc file to Lyx

2010-11-27 Thread Jim Oldfield
One way would be to open the file in Word and from there save it as an HTML file. Then in LyX import that HTML file. I doubt the results would be very good, but they would probably at least preserve the italics. Jim - Original Message > From: Frederick Noronha

Re: csv import causes python error

2010-11-27 Thread Rich Talley
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Kelly Kearney wrote: > > So far, I haven't been able to figure out how to run Mac Lyx from the > command > line. Any pointers? > > > > Sure. In OS X, applications appear to the GUI as a single object but are actually special folders. You

Re: csv import causes python error

2010-11-27 Thread Kelly Kearney
Rich Talley unm.edu> writes: > > > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Kelly Kearney princeton.edu> wrote: > So far, I haven't been able to figure out how to run Mac Lyx from the command > line.  Any pointers? > > > Sure. In OS X, applications appear to the GUI as a single object but are

Re: csv import causes python error

2010-11-27 Thread Rich Talley
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Kelly Kearney wrote: > > > Thanks for the info, but I was actually wondering how to run the > executable. > Though I can locate it, I'm not sure how to get it to run outside of the > .app > package. Simply trying to issue the "lyx" command

Re: csv import causes python error

2010-11-27 Thread Kelly Kearney
> > So, when you are in /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS in the terminal use this command: > > ./lyx > > (that's a period followed by a slash followed by the name of the executable) > *facepalm* I always forget that. Command line working fine now, and I was able to diagnose the csv

Integral sign stretch/expand to fit integrand

2010-11-27 Thread Gustavo Goretkin
How could I make an integral sign stretch so that its height is close to the height of the integrand? For example, see http://oi51.tinypic.com/qnpedi.jpg Thank you, Gustavo

[sweave] additional LaTeX package needed, but which one?

2010-11-27 Thread Jannick Asmus
Hi, loading the beamer sweave template shipped with LyX 2.0 beta 1 (on WinVista) LyX prompts that sweave needs an additional LaTeX package not installed by MikTeX. How can I find out which package is missing? Thanks as always. /J.