Re: Renaming LabelString of Note Inset

2010-12-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-12-14, Richard Heck wrote: On 12/14/2010 03:35 AM, Lisa Andrews wrote: With Lyx Beta 2.0.0beta2 on Windows7, I notice that if I write in a module InsetLayout Note:Note LabelFont ColorBlue EndFont . a note will indeed change its label color to Blue. However

Good dictionary for Lyx

2010-12-15 Thread Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक न ोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
What is a good dictionary for Lyx in English please? And what's the easiest idiot-proof way to install it :-) FN -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Updated: http://goabooks.wordpress.com

Re: LyX and editors?

2010-12-15 Thread Gilles Mioni
Hi Steve, My own experience with editors is : 1/ I send an abstract and a complete document written with lyx and exported in PDF format. 2/ I send, if necessary, the whole text for lecture in epub format From Lyx, I exported in HTLM format then I use XHTML software Amaya and Calibre software to

Re: Renaming LabelString of Note Inset

2010-12-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 15/12/2010 11:14, Guenter Milde a écrit : Will this also work for Labels/Refs (where I would like to have a Unicode-Symbol instead of the lenghty text)? No, on text insets use Inset layouts for now (although this will change eventually). The right idea would be to have icons for those

Re: LyX and editors?

2010-12-15 Thread ehud.kap...@gmail.com
Collaborating with non-Lyx users is a problem for me as well, because I often want to use comments (like PostIt notes), but when the Lyx source is exported to pdf, the notes do not appear. If there were a way to make them appear in the pdf output that would be a great help. EK On 12/15/2010

Re: LyX and editors?

2010-12-15 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:34 PM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Collaborating with non-Lyx users is a problem for me as well, because I often want to use comments (like PostIt notes), but when the Lyx source is exported to pdf, the notes do not appear. To complete the

Re: LyX and editors?

2010-12-15 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/15/2010 12:34 PM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Collaborating with non-Lyx users is a problem for me as well, because I often want to use comments (like PostIt notes), but when the Lyx source is exported to pdf, the notes do not appear. If

Re: LyX and editors?

2010-12-15 Thread Richard Heck
On 12/15/2010 06:34 AM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Collaborating with non-Lyx users is a problem for me as well, because I often want to use comments (like PostIt notes), but when the Lyx source is exported to pdf, the notes do not appear. If there were a way to make them appear in the pdf

Re: Renaming LabelString of Note Inset

2010-12-15 Thread Richard Heck
On 12/15/2010 05:14 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-12-14, Richard Heck wrote: On 12/14/2010 03:35 AM, Lisa Andrews wrote: Is it possible to change a Note's label text (for example to a shortened version)? You're right: This doesn't work. I don't see why it shouldn't,

System Font issues: XeTeX and LuaTeX

2010-12-15 Thread Daron Wilson
Greetings all, I am using LyX 2 beta 2, and I have been trying out the use of system fonts with XeTeX and LuaTeX. Whenever I chose the fonts I want, I click apply, and then ok. If I exit the document and then reopen, the sans serif font and the typewriter font are reset to default, and the

Block Quotations in Letter Class

2010-12-15 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Is there a simple (read simple-minded Mac user) way to get the basic Letter class to allow the Quote environment? Bruce

Re: Block Quotations in Letter Class

2010-12-15 Thread Richard Heck
On 12/15/2010 09:50 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Is there a simple (read simple-minded Mac user) way to get the basic Letter class to allow the Quote environment? I wonder why we don't have that? I'll fix it. For now: Find the file letter.layout. Copy it to your local LyX directory, open it, and

Re: LyX and editors?

2010-12-15 Thread Marc J. Driftmeyer
It makes more sense, in a distributed team environment to include embedded forms within PDF that allow one to make their comments on what needs to be edited or what you would like to modify, and then in the post production you can strip out the JavaScript forms in the finished PDF. - Marc On

Lyx 2.0 beta Windows - A few remarks

2010-12-15 Thread Michael Scheer
Hi, I'm pretty new to Latex, new to Lyx and I like the Xetex integration of Lyx 2. I'm using Lyx alongside with Miktex on Win7x64. I've installed ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.0/beta2/LyX-20beta2-5-8-AltInstaller-Small.exe A few problems and remarks: - I like the concept of Lyx.

Re: System Font issues: XeTeX and LuaTeX

2010-12-15 Thread Fareed Qureshi
On 12/15/2010 10:25 AM, Daron Wilson wrote: Greetings all, I am using LyX 2 beta 2, and I have been trying out the use of system fonts with XeTeX and LuaTeX. Whenever I chose the fonts I want, I click apply, and then ok. If I exit the document and then reopen, the sans serif font and the

Re: Extreme speed difference between 1.4.5.1 and 1.6.8

2010-12-15 Thread Michael Joyner
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: Michael Joyner wrote: if i ever tried to solve such kind of task i would produce direct .tex files instead of .lyx file though... pavel One of our initial goals was to try and maintain an easy to edit file format should the

Re: Extreme speed difference between 1.4.5.1 and 1.6.8

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:54:01 Michael Joyner wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: Michael Joyner wrote: if i ever tried to solve such kind of task i would produce direct .tex files instead of .lyx file though... pavel One of our initial

Re: Lyx 2.0 beta Windows - A few remarks

2010-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/15/2010 05:59 PM, Michael Scheer wrote: - DVI preview does not work since Ver. XeTeX renders PDF directly. There's no DVI. Thus, use PDF preview, not DVI preview. It forgets the fonts settings in the document properties (I use Xetex!) and tends to store 10% size. Currently, I

Re: System Font issues: XeTeX and LuaTeX

2010-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/15/2010 05:25 PM, Daron Wilson wrote: Greetings all, I am using LyX 2 beta 2, and I have been trying out the use of system fonts with XeTeX and LuaTeX. Whenever I chose the fonts I want, I click apply, and then ok. If I exit the document and then reopen, the sans serif font and the

how to make CMYK pdf file

2010-12-15 Thread Boguslaw Kluz
Hi all, I'm completely new to LyX (and LaTeX). I just can write and compose books. My question is this: how can I export a pdf file in CMYK colorspace? I know there are several options in save/export but how to make sure it's CMYK? best regards

Re: Extreme speed difference between 1.4.5.1 and 1.6.8

2010-12-15 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 15/12/2010 18:59, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:54:01 Michael Joyner wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Pavel Sandasa...@lyx.org wrote: Michael Joyner wrote: if i ever tried to solve such kind of task i would produce direct .tex files instead of .lyx file

Re: Extreme speed difference between 1.4.5.1 and 1.6.8

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:32:43 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: On 15/12/2010 18:59, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:54:01 Michael Joyner wrote: [clip] One of our initial goals was to try and maintain an easy to edit file format should the internal customers need to

Re: Extreme speed difference between 1.4.5.1 and 1.6.8

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:32:43 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: On 15/12/2010 18:59, Steve Litt wrote: Mike, I REALLY appreciate your making easy to edit file format as a goal. I'd estimate that half my full-length LyX projects involve editing either with Vim or with a Perl script.

Re: OT: Checking the font size of text in pdf docs (in Linux)?

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Rubin
Not sure how much help this will be, but pdfedit can convert a PDF file to XML format. Here's a sample font tag from the XML output of a PDF file: font basename=VYKOIK+NimbusRomNo9L-Regu origname=VYKOIK+NimbusRomNo9L-Regu embeddedfontname=VYKOIK+NimbusRomNo9L-Regu tag=F67 serif=false

Re: OT: Checking the font size of text in pdf docs (in Linux)?

2010-12-15 Thread stefano franchi
Thanks Paul. For future reference: I ended up installing a demo version of a Windows-only Pdf editor (Infix Pdf Editor) in my VirtualBox environment. The demo is actually perfectly functional---you cannot save without getting the pdf files watermarked, but saving was useless to me. You can

installation problems on OS X 10.6

2010-12-15 Thread David Rangel
Hello, I am trying to install LyX but am having trouble getting the LyX .cls and .sty files to install properly: Cannot run texhash command to update TeX installation. Please run manually. (installation report below) I followed the instructions and ran the following at the command prompt: sudo

Re: installation problems on OS X 10.6

2010-12-15 Thread BH
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:48 PM, David Rangel dprangel...@gmail.com wrote: 5. Installing LyX's special LaTeX files • Found TeX installation at . This line is suspicious. It should return a path to, e.g., /usr/texbin. Do you actually have a working TeX installation? (How did you install

Re: Block Quotations in Letter Class

2010-12-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-12-15, Richard Heck wrote: On 12/15/2010 09:50 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Is there a simple (read simple-minded Mac user) way to get the basic Letter class to allow the Quote environment? I wonder why we don't have that? Most probably, because the standard/basic letter class is

Re: Renaming LabelString of Note Inset

2010-12-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-12-15, Richard Heck wrote: On 12/15/2010 05:14 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: ... Will this also work for Labels/Refs (where I would like to have a Unicode-Symbol instead of the lenghty text)? No, that's a different beast altogether. At present, layouts only work with text insets, and

Re: Renaming LabelString of Note Inset

2010-12-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-12-14, Richard Heck wrote: On 12/14/2010 03:35 AM, Lisa Andrews wrote: With Lyx Beta 2.0.0beta2 on Windows7, I notice that if I write in a module InsetLayout Note:Note LabelFont ColorBlue EndFont . a note will indeed change its label color to Blue. However

Good dictionary for Lyx

2010-12-15 Thread Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक न ोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
What is a good dictionary for Lyx in English please? And what's the easiest idiot-proof way to install it :-) FN -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Updated: http://goabooks.wordpress.com

Re: LyX and editors?

2010-12-15 Thread Gilles Mioni
Hi Steve, My own experience with editors is : 1/ I send an abstract and a complete document written with lyx and exported in PDF format. 2/ I send, if necessary, the whole text for lecture in epub format From Lyx, I exported in HTLM format then I use XHTML software Amaya and Calibre software to

Re: Renaming LabelString of Note Inset

2010-12-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 15/12/2010 11:14, Guenter Milde a écrit : Will this also work for Labels/Refs (where I would like to have a Unicode-Symbol instead of the lenghty text)? No, on text insets use Inset layouts for now (although this will change eventually). The right idea would be to have icons for those

Re: LyX and editors?

2010-12-15 Thread ehud.kap...@gmail.com
Collaborating with non-Lyx users is a problem for me as well, because I often want to use comments (like PostIt notes), but when the Lyx source is exported to pdf, the notes do not appear. If there were a way to make them appear in the pdf output that would be a great help. EK On 12/15/2010

Re: LyX and editors?

2010-12-15 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:34 PM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Collaborating with non-Lyx users is a problem for me as well, because I often want to use comments (like PostIt notes), but when the Lyx source is exported to pdf, the notes do not appear. To complete the

Re: LyX and editors?

2010-12-15 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/15/2010 12:34 PM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Collaborating with non-Lyx users is a problem for me as well, because I often want to use comments (like PostIt notes), but when the Lyx source is exported to pdf, the notes do not appear. If

Re: LyX and editors?

2010-12-15 Thread Richard Heck
On 12/15/2010 06:34 AM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Collaborating with non-Lyx users is a problem for me as well, because I often want to use comments (like PostIt notes), but when the Lyx source is exported to pdf, the notes do not appear. If there were a way to make them appear in the pdf

Re: Renaming LabelString of Note Inset

2010-12-15 Thread Richard Heck
On 12/15/2010 05:14 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-12-14, Richard Heck wrote: On 12/14/2010 03:35 AM, Lisa Andrews wrote: Is it possible to change a Note's label text (for example to a shortened version)? You're right: This doesn't work. I don't see why it shouldn't,

System Font issues: XeTeX and LuaTeX

2010-12-15 Thread Daron Wilson
Greetings all, I am using LyX 2 beta 2, and I have been trying out the use of system fonts with XeTeX and LuaTeX. Whenever I chose the fonts I want, I click apply, and then ok. If I exit the document and then reopen, the sans serif font and the typewriter font are reset to default, and the

Block Quotations in Letter Class

2010-12-15 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Is there a simple (read simple-minded Mac user) way to get the basic Letter class to allow the Quote environment? Bruce

Re: Block Quotations in Letter Class

2010-12-15 Thread Richard Heck
On 12/15/2010 09:50 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Is there a simple (read simple-minded Mac user) way to get the basic Letter class to allow the Quote environment? I wonder why we don't have that? I'll fix it. For now: Find the file letter.layout. Copy it to your local LyX directory, open it, and

Re: LyX and editors?

2010-12-15 Thread Marc J. Driftmeyer
It makes more sense, in a distributed team environment to include embedded forms within PDF that allow one to make their comments on what needs to be edited or what you would like to modify, and then in the post production you can strip out the JavaScript forms in the finished PDF. - Marc On

Lyx 2.0 beta Windows - A few remarks

2010-12-15 Thread Michael Scheer
Hi, I'm pretty new to Latex, new to Lyx and I like the Xetex integration of Lyx 2. I'm using Lyx alongside with Miktex on Win7x64. I've installed ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.0/beta2/LyX-20beta2-5-8-AltInstaller-Small.exe A few problems and remarks: - I like the concept of Lyx.

Re: System Font issues: XeTeX and LuaTeX

2010-12-15 Thread Fareed Qureshi
On 12/15/2010 10:25 AM, Daron Wilson wrote: Greetings all, I am using LyX 2 beta 2, and I have been trying out the use of system fonts with XeTeX and LuaTeX. Whenever I chose the fonts I want, I click apply, and then ok. If I exit the document and then reopen, the sans serif font and the

Re: Extreme speed difference between 1.4.5.1 and 1.6.8

2010-12-15 Thread Michael Joyner
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: Michael Joyner wrote: if i ever tried to solve such kind of task i would produce direct .tex files instead of .lyx file though... pavel One of our initial goals was to try and maintain an easy to edit file format should the

Re: Extreme speed difference between 1.4.5.1 and 1.6.8

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:54:01 Michael Joyner wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: Michael Joyner wrote: if i ever tried to solve such kind of task i would produce direct .tex files instead of .lyx file though... pavel One of our initial

Re: Lyx 2.0 beta Windows - A few remarks

2010-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/15/2010 05:59 PM, Michael Scheer wrote: - DVI preview does not work since Ver. XeTeX renders PDF directly. There's no DVI. Thus, use PDF preview, not DVI preview. It forgets the fonts settings in the document properties (I use Xetex!) and tends to store 10% size. Currently, I

Re: System Font issues: XeTeX and LuaTeX

2010-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/15/2010 05:25 PM, Daron Wilson wrote: Greetings all, I am using LyX 2 beta 2, and I have been trying out the use of system fonts with XeTeX and LuaTeX. Whenever I chose the fonts I want, I click apply, and then ok. If I exit the document and then reopen, the sans serif font and the

how to make CMYK pdf file

2010-12-15 Thread Boguslaw Kluz
Hi all, I'm completely new to LyX (and LaTeX). I just can write and compose books. My question is this: how can I export a pdf file in CMYK colorspace? I know there are several options in save/export but how to make sure it's CMYK? best regards

Re: Extreme speed difference between 1.4.5.1 and 1.6.8

2010-12-15 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 15/12/2010 18:59, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:54:01 Michael Joyner wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Pavel Sandasa...@lyx.org wrote: Michael Joyner wrote: if i ever tried to solve such kind of task i would produce direct .tex files instead of .lyx file

Re: Extreme speed difference between 1.4.5.1 and 1.6.8

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:32:43 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: On 15/12/2010 18:59, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:54:01 Michael Joyner wrote: [clip] One of our initial goals was to try and maintain an easy to edit file format should the internal customers need to

Re: Extreme speed difference between 1.4.5.1 and 1.6.8

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:32:43 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: On 15/12/2010 18:59, Steve Litt wrote: Mike, I REALLY appreciate your making easy to edit file format as a goal. I'd estimate that half my full-length LyX projects involve editing either with Vim or with a Perl script.

Re: OT: Checking the font size of text in pdf docs (in Linux)?

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Rubin
Not sure how much help this will be, but pdfedit can convert a PDF file to XML format. Here's a sample font tag from the XML output of a PDF file: font basename=VYKOIK+NimbusRomNo9L-Regu origname=VYKOIK+NimbusRomNo9L-Regu embeddedfontname=VYKOIK+NimbusRomNo9L-Regu tag=F67 serif=false

Re: OT: Checking the font size of text in pdf docs (in Linux)?

2010-12-15 Thread stefano franchi
Thanks Paul. For future reference: I ended up installing a demo version of a Windows-only Pdf editor (Infix Pdf Editor) in my VirtualBox environment. The demo is actually perfectly functional---you cannot save without getting the pdf files watermarked, but saving was useless to me. You can

installation problems on OS X 10.6

2010-12-15 Thread David Rangel
Hello, I am trying to install LyX but am having trouble getting the LyX .cls and .sty files to install properly: Cannot run texhash command to update TeX installation. Please run manually. (installation report below) I followed the instructions and ran the following at the command prompt: sudo

Re: installation problems on OS X 10.6

2010-12-15 Thread BH
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:48 PM, David Rangel dprangel...@gmail.com wrote: 5. Installing LyX's special LaTeX files • Found TeX installation at . This line is suspicious. It should return a path to, e.g., /usr/texbin. Do you actually have a working TeX installation? (How did you install

Re: Block Quotations in Letter Class

2010-12-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-12-15, Richard Heck wrote: On 12/15/2010 09:50 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Is there a simple (read simple-minded Mac user) way to get the basic Letter class to allow the Quote environment? I wonder why we don't have that? Most probably, because the standard/basic letter class is

Re: Renaming LabelString of Note Inset

2010-12-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-12-15, Richard Heck wrote: On 12/15/2010 05:14 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: ... Will this also work for Labels/Refs (where I would like to have a Unicode-Symbol instead of the lenghty text)? No, that's a different beast altogether. At present, layouts only work with text insets, and

Re: Renaming LabelString of Note Inset

2010-12-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-12-14, Richard Heck wrote: > On 12/14/2010 03:35 AM, Lisa Andrews wrote: >> With Lyx Beta 2.0.0beta2 on Windows7, I notice that if I write in a module >> InsetLayout Note:Note >> >> LabelFont >> ColorBlue >> EndFont >> . >> a note will indeed change its label color

Good dictionary for Lyx

2010-12-15 Thread Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक न ोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
What is a good dictionary for Lyx in English please? And what's the easiest idiot-proof way to install it :-) FN -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Updated: http://goabooks.wordpress.com

Re: LyX and editors?

2010-12-15 Thread Gilles Mioni
Hi Steve, My own experience with editors is : 1/ I send an abstract and a complete document written with lyx and exported in PDF format. 2/ I send, if necessary, the whole text for lecture in epub format From Lyx, I exported in HTLM format then I use XHTML software Amaya and Calibre software to

Re: Renaming LabelString of Note Inset

2010-12-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 15/12/2010 11:14, Guenter Milde a écrit : Will this also work for Labels/Refs (where I would like to have a Unicode-Symbol instead of the lenghty text)? No, on text insets use Inset layouts for now (although this will change eventually). The right idea would be to have icons for those

Re: LyX and editors?

2010-12-15 Thread ehud.kap...@gmail.com
Collaborating with non-Lyx users is a problem for me as well, because I often want to use comments (like PostIt notes), but when the Lyx source is exported to pdf, the notes do not appear. If there were a way to make them appear in the pdf output that would be a great help. EK On 12/15/2010

Re: LyX and editors?

2010-12-15 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:34 PM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: > Collaborating with non-Lyx users is a problem for me as well, because I > often want to > use comments (like PostIt notes), but when the Lyx source is exported to > pdf, the notes do not appear. > To complete

Re: LyX and editors?

2010-12-15 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/15/2010 12:34 PM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: > Collaborating with non-Lyx users is a problem for me as well, because I > often want to > use comments (like PostIt notes), but when the Lyx source is exported to > pdf, the notes do not appear.

Re: LyX and editors?

2010-12-15 Thread Richard Heck
On 12/15/2010 06:34 AM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Collaborating with non-Lyx users is a problem for me as well, because I often want to use comments (like PostIt notes), but when the Lyx source is exported to pdf, the notes do not appear. If there were a way to make them appear in the pdf

Re: Renaming LabelString of Note Inset

2010-12-15 Thread Richard Heck
On 12/15/2010 05:14 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-12-14, Richard Heck wrote: On 12/14/2010 03:35 AM, Lisa Andrews wrote: Is it possible to change a Note's label text (for example to a shortened version)? You're right: This doesn't work. I don't see why it shouldn't,

System Font issues: XeTeX and LuaTeX

2010-12-15 Thread Daron Wilson
Greetings all, I am using LyX 2 beta 2, and I have been trying out the use of system fonts with XeTeX and LuaTeX. Whenever I chose the fonts I want, I click apply, and then ok. If I exit the document and then reopen, the sans serif font and the typewriter font are reset to default, and the

Block Quotations in Letter Class

2010-12-15 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Is there a simple (read simple-minded Mac user) way to get the basic Letter class to allow the Quote environment? Bruce

Re: Block Quotations in Letter Class

2010-12-15 Thread Richard Heck
On 12/15/2010 09:50 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Is there a simple (read simple-minded Mac user) way to get the basic Letter class to allow the Quote environment? I wonder why we don't have that? I'll fix it. For now: Find the file letter.layout. Copy it to your local LyX directory, open it, and

Re: LyX and editors?

2010-12-15 Thread Marc J. Driftmeyer
It makes more sense, in a distributed team environment to include embedded forms within PDF that allow one to make their comments on what needs to be edited or what you would like to modify, and then in the post production you can strip out the JavaScript forms in the finished PDF. - Marc On

Lyx 2.0 beta Windows - A few remarks

2010-12-15 Thread Michael Scheer
Hi, I'm pretty new to Latex, new to Lyx and I like the Xetex integration of Lyx 2. I'm using Lyx alongside with Miktex on Win7x64. I've installed ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.0/beta2/LyX-20beta2-5-8-AltInstaller-Small.exe A few problems and remarks: - I like the concept of Lyx.

Re: System Font issues: XeTeX and LuaTeX

2010-12-15 Thread Fareed Qureshi
On 12/15/2010 10:25 AM, Daron Wilson wrote: > Greetings all, > > I am using LyX 2 beta 2, and I have been trying out the use of system > fonts with XeTeX and LuaTeX. Whenever I chose the fonts I want, I > click apply, and then ok. If I exit the document and then reopen, > the sans serif font

Re: Extreme speed difference between 1.4.5.1 and 1.6.8

2010-12-15 Thread Michael Joyner
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Michael Joyner wrote: > if i ever tried to solve such kind of task i would produce direct .tex > files > instead of .lyx file though... > pavel > One of our initial goals was to try and maintain an easy to edit file format

Re: Extreme speed difference between 1.4.5.1 and 1.6.8

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:54:01 Michael Joyner wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Michael Joyner wrote: > > if i ever tried to solve such kind of task i would produce direct .tex > > files > > instead of .lyx file though... > > pavel > > One of

Re: Lyx 2.0 beta Windows - A few remarks

2010-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/15/2010 05:59 PM, Michael Scheer wrote: - DVI preview does not work since Ver. XeTeX renders PDF directly. There's no DVI. Thus, use PDF preview, not DVI preview. It forgets the fonts settings in the document properties (I use Xetex!) and tends to store "10%" size. Currently, I

Re: System Font issues: XeTeX and LuaTeX

2010-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/15/2010 05:25 PM, Daron Wilson wrote: Greetings all, I am using LyX 2 beta 2, and I have been trying out the use of system fonts with XeTeX and LuaTeX. Whenever I chose the fonts I want, I click apply, and then ok. If I exit the document and then reopen, the sans serif font and the

how to make CMYK pdf file

2010-12-15 Thread Boguslaw Kluz
Hi all, I'm completely new to LyX (and LaTeX). I just can write and compose books. My question is this: how can I export a pdf file in CMYK colorspace? I know there are several options in save/export but how to make sure it's CMYK? best regards

Re: Extreme speed difference between 1.4.5.1 and 1.6.8

2010-12-15 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 15/12/2010 18:59, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:54:01 Michael Joyner wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: Michael Joyner wrote: if i ever tried to solve such kind of task i would produce direct .tex files instead of .lyx file

Re: Extreme speed difference between 1.4.5.1 and 1.6.8

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:32:43 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > On 15/12/2010 18:59, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:54:01 Michael Joyner wrote: [clip] > >> One of our initial goals was to try and maintain an easy to edit file > >> format should the internal customers

Re: Extreme speed difference between 1.4.5.1 and 1.6.8

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:32:43 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > On 15/12/2010 18:59, Steve Litt wrote: > > Mike, > > > > I REALLY appreciate your making easy to edit file format as a goal. I'd > > estimate that half my full-length LyX projects involve editing either > > with Vim or with a Perl

Re: OT: Checking the font size of text in pdf docs (in Linux)?

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Rubin
Not sure how much help this will be, but pdfedit can convert a PDF file to XML format. Here's a sample font tag from the XML output of a PDF file: You can identify the font from the basename attribute, and weight/slant from obvious attributes. Size is tricky. The difference ascent-descent

Re: OT: Checking the font size of text in pdf docs (in Linux)?

2010-12-15 Thread stefano franchi
Thanks Paul. For future reference: I ended up installing a demo version of a Windows-only Pdf editor (Infix Pdf Editor) in my VirtualBox environment. The demo is actually perfectly functional---you cannot save without getting the pdf files watermarked, but saving was useless to me. You can

installation problems on OS X 10.6

2010-12-15 Thread David Rangel
Hello, I am trying to install LyX but am having trouble getting the LyX .cls and .sty files to install properly: "Cannot run texhash command to update TeX installation. Please run manually." (installation report below) I followed the instructions and ran the following at the command prompt:

Re: installation problems on OS X 10.6

2010-12-15 Thread BH
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:48 PM, David Rangel wrote: > 5. Installing LyX's special LaTeX files > > • Found TeX installation at . This line is suspicious. It should return a path to, e.g., /usr/texbin. Do you actually have a working TeX installation? (How did you

Re: Block Quotations in Letter Class

2010-12-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-12-15, Richard Heck wrote: > On 12/15/2010 09:50 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: >> Is there a simple (read simple-minded Mac user) way to get the basic >> Letter class to allow the Quote environment? > I wonder why we don't have that? Most probably, because the standard/basic letter class

Re: Renaming LabelString of Note Inset

2010-12-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-12-15, Richard Heck wrote: > On 12/15/2010 05:14 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: ... >> Will this also work for Labels/Refs (where I would like to have a >> Unicode-Symbol instead of the lenghty text)? > No, that's a different beast altogether. At present, layouts only work > with text