Re: Thesis templates needed

2007-06-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Supheakmungkol SARIN wrote: > Hello Lyxer, > > I am now in the process of writing thesis. I'd like to > know whether you can point out some great lyx thesis > templates or you can share your own template if you > have made one. What are your specific requirements? What is your discipline? Are you

Re: Bibliography in child document

2007-06-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: > Daniel Lohmann schrieb: > >> [...] >> >> On the LyX side I did some customization to support my intended document >> structure. For instance, each chapter is a child document which includes >> the bibliography if compiled

How to execute some command after an Update in LyX

2007-06-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, I am using LyX 1.4.x on Linux, with xpdf as PDF viewer. Currently I open the viewer first by selecting "View->PDF" in LyX, after that I just refresh the existing PDF by selecting "View->Update->PDF". What I would like to achieve is that the xpdf does an automatic refresh whenever I update the

Re: Figure caption macro

2007-07-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Lyx user writes: > >> I would like to insert code in my preamble that will replace every instance >> of >> >> \caption{Short. Long long long long.} >> >> with >> >> \caption[Short]{Short. Long long long long.} >> >> However, I am not too familiar with LaTeX and TeX comm

Re: Figure caption macro

2007-07-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> "Lyx" == Lyx user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Lyx> I would like to insert code in my preamble that will replace > Lyx> every instance of \caption{Short. Long long long long.} > > Lyx> with > > Lyx> \caption[Short]{Short. Long long long long.} > > May I ask

Re: Figure caption macro

2007-07-04 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Try the following: > > \let\oldcaption\caption > \def\takeshort#1.#2\next{\gdef\short{#1}\gdef\everything{{\bfseries #1}.~~#2}} > \def\caption#1{\takeshort#1\next\oldcaption[\short]{\everything}} > >> I am a bit confused... Why there is such a big difference in the eff

Re: LyX 1.5 and 1.4.5

2007-07-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Matthias Diehl wrote: >> Yeah, so forget about LyX 1.4.5?! > > Remember that every major release with new features has the potential of new > bugs. Some people might decide to be more conservative. > I want to back that! I really, really appreciate that the LyX team

Re: RFC: Better name for the wiki page 'LyX for X'

2007-07-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Lyx for A-Z > I like this one. It is close to the original suggestion (with the advantage of being not ambigious), short, doesn't sound as synthetic as many other suggestions, and is not biased to any specific field or area. Daniel

Re: PDF viewers for Windows

2007-07-31 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Alan G Isaac schrieb: SumatraPDF is great because it is so fast. You must press 'r' to reload the document. Thanks Alan for pointing me to this one! SummatraPDF has one very nice feature that I haven't found in other PDF viewers so far and that makes it a particularly good choice for LyX/LaTe

\newtheorem and \newtheoremstyle

2007-08-30 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, In my thesis I have to define a couple of terms and I thought about using the amsthm package which offers the \newtheorem and \newtheoremstyle commands to generate environments for theorem-like structures. So I added to my layout file a new style $Definition to my layout file: Counter

Re: \newtheorem and \newtheoremstyle

2007-08-30 Thread Daniel Lohmann
o LaTeX. Is there any way to pass an optional argument (in square brackets) from LyX to the \begin{xxx} of the internally used LaTeX environment? Thanks Daniel Daniel Lohmann schrieb: Hi, In my thesis I have to define a couple of terms and I thought about using the amsthm package which off

Re: relative paths

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Helmut, In fact relative paths work very well - only the file selection dialog does not return them. Just enter the relative path to the figure by hand or change it after using the file selection dialog. Daniel Hauser Helmut schrieb: Hello, I use LyX on a Linux machine in my office and on

Re: References managers

2007-09-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Hi, I've selected JabRef as a references manager to work with LyX. I've selected it after a small web research, but, as I'm a newbie on LyX, I would like your opinion: was JabRef a good choice or are there better references managers to work with LyX? I'm on Win XP. You

How to set the printer page size to letter without altering the layout

2007-09-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
ed for letter format.) More precisely: \usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry} messed up the layout completely, whereas \usepackage[letterpaper]{typearea} resulted in a error message that "current" has not been defined. Any ideas? Daniel -- Dipl.-Inf. Daniel Lohmann (Wissenschaftlicher Mit

Re: How to set the printer page size to letter without altering the layout

2007-09-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Daniel Lohmann wrote: >> [...] More precisely: \usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry} messed up the layout completely [...] How did \usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry} mess up the layout? It also changed the column width, which resulted in a 7 instead of 5

Toggle CharStyle Display (LyX 1.4.x)

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, I just figured out by chance that it is possible to make the name of a CharStyle disappear in an assignment by right clicking on the affected word. This is pretty nice, as I find the extra space taken by the CharStyle names quite disturbing in the on-screen layout of may text. (I use a di

Re: Toggle CharStyle Display (LyX 1.4.x)

2007-10-04 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: "M-x all insets-toggle" (but this also toggles the other insets). It's "M-x all-insets-toggle" Thanks Juergen, However, I tried that one already -- it does toggle the display of CharStyle insets in 1.4.x. Although it work

Re: Toggle CharStyle Display (LyX 1.4.x)

2007-10-04 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Thanks Juergen, However, I tried that one already -- it does toggle the display of CharStyle insets in 1.4.x. Although it works in 1.5.x. Of course this should have read as: However, I tried that one already -- it does *not* toggle the display of CharStyle insets in 1.4.x. Although it works

Re: Toggle CharStyle Display (LyX 1.4.x)

2007-10-04 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: However, I tried that one already -- it does not toggle the display of CharStyle insets in 1.4.x. Although it works in 1.5.x. Ah yes, it's a new feature in 1.5, where the toggle state also should be preserved between sessions. Sorry fo

Re: [OT] Programmatically Creating a LaTeX Document

2007-10-10 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Rich Shepard schrieb: There will be plots (created, no doubt, with PSTricks), to be included in the audit log report of each run. So I expect the templates to be as inclusive as your example. If you haven't worked with PSTricks so far (meaning that you have to learn something new anyway

Re: back reference to citations

2007-10-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
ndard, citecolor = hr_standard, filecolor = hr_standard, urlcolor = hr_standard, pagecolor = hr_standard, pdftitle = {Aspect-Oriented Operating System Design}, pdfauthor = {Daniel Lohmann}, pdfkeywords = {AOP, Aspect-oriented Programming, As

Re: syntax highlighted code

2007-11-16 Thread Daniel Lohmann
ocument as any other element. I don't know about groks, but listings already supports a huge bunch of languages and it is very easy to specify a new one. Daniel -- Dipl.-Inf. Daniel Lohmann (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Informatik

Re: Cross-referencing a table inserted into ERT.

2007-11-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
ype it in there manually and get a LyX cross-reference inset to your ERT-defined label. Daniel -- Dipl.-Inf. Daniel Lohmann (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Informatik 4 Martensstr. 1 91058 Erlangen Tel: +49-9131-8527904 Fax: +49-9131-852873

Re: Feature Request: Show the title in closed floats

2007-12-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: mike c wrote: Hi all (I'm new to this list), It'd be nice if closed floats showed a little more than just "Float: Figure" or "Float: Table". Is there an option (or the possibility of an option) to show the title of the figure or table as well? e.g. "Float: Figure - T

Re: Feature Request: Show the title in closed floats

2007-12-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: As we are already on it :-) It also would be really nice, if 1) there is an opportunity to specify the *default* display for *new* inset, preferably even customizable per inset-type. 2) the document-specific st

Re: Koma-script report, Bibliography entry in Table of Contents un-bold?

2007-12-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Dave Hewitt wrote: Is it possible to un-bold the entry for the Bibliography in the Table of Contents and put it at the same level as a section? I'm using Koma-script (report) class with natbib (BibTeX). AFAIK this is not so easy and requires some LaTeX hacking. The following code is probabl

Newbie: LyX on OS X

2007-12-06 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hey LyX folks, I have been using LyX for years on Windows and Linux. Now I got my first Mac (running OS X 10.5.1) and one of the first things I installed on it was LyX - of course. 1) I installed TexShop 2.14 as TeX-distro. Is this the recommended LaTeX for OS X in conjunction with LyX? 2)

Re: Newbie: LyX on OS X

2007-12-06 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Maximilian Wollner wrote: Am 06.12.2007 um 19:59 schrieb Daniel Lohmann: Hey LyX folks, I have been using LyX for years on Windows and Linux. Now I got my first Mac (running OS X 10.5.1) and one of the first things I installed on it was LyX - of course. [...] > > TexShop

Re: Change size of inserted LaTeX code?

2007-12-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
bigblop wrote: Is there some way to change the size of the latex code when typing it directly into the LyX editor? I current LyX versions ERT boxes are simply rendered in the font size of the surrounding LyX environment. So if you insert ERT into a title or level 1 heading, the font size is

Re: Koma-script report, Bibliography entry in Table of Contents un-bold?

2007-12-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
David Hewitt wrote: I'm not great with plain LaTeX, so could you post a piece of hacking that would work just to drop the Bibliography to a section level? Okay, the following should work with KOMA-script. Just put it in the LaTeX preamble of your document: \makeatletter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Errors in LyX 1.5.3 installer for Mac

2007-12-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Similar problem here. It seems to be a permissions problem. In my case the lyx folder under Library/texmf/tex/latex was owned by root and the installer could not copy the "Lyx's additional classes and styles". I guess the reason is that he folder originally had been created by a LyX 1.51 i

Some LyX 1.5.3 issues (OS-X specific?)

2007-12-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi LyX folks, On a longer train journey I had the opportunity to actually do some work with LyX on my new Mac. While doing so, I observed a couple of issues. Some of them might be related to the fact that I am still using it in a very Windows-like way, especially with respect to trying to

Re: Some LyX 1.5.3 issues (OS-X specific?)

2007-12-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.12.2007, at 17:59, Jens Noeckel wrote: On Dec 22, 2007, at 5:12 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Dec 21, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: And finally, on LyX OS-X related question: How can I use the "Ctrl" key in LyX key bindings? "C" is apparently bound t

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

2008-01-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, While I have neither used VimOutliner, nor am I a professional book writer, I usually do outline my texts before starting the actual writing. I use the mind-mapping tool FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ ) to do the outlining, which supports links, keyboard navigation, folding

Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 10.01.2008, at 02:33, Bennett Helm wrote: Better yet, look at the mac-bind.pdf file that is included with the LyX/Mac distribution. Insert footnote is not defined there, but you can define it yourself by creating a file with the following: \bind_file mac.bind \bind "S-C-F"

Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac

2008-01-16 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 15.01.2008, at 19:40, Jens Noeckel wrote: Fortunately, on the Mac you can also access the menu bar by the system-wide shortcut "Control-F2" (which you can in turn customize in the System Preferences). Well, yes - so lets hope that bug 4446 gets fixed in the next release :-) ht

Emedding PDF graphcis problem - missing converter

2008-02-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
LyX 1.5.1, OS-X Hi, Whenever I insert some pdf graphics into my LyX document and compile it with pdflatex, Lyx complains about a missing converter: "No information for converting pdf format files to png. Define a converter in the preferences. " Why is LyX trying to convert the graphics into

Re: Memory use

2008-02-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 13.02.2008, at 11:26, Nicolás wrote: Hi! LyX seems to make a good use of RAM just after it has been started up. When a file is closed the memory the file was using is released and when LyX is minimized, the memory used is reduced to a minimum. That's great! However, this is no longer

Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

2008-02-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.02.2008, at 14:13, Bennett Helm wrote: On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote: Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to find the documentation for the Beamer class. It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can be found at: /usr/

Re: backref

2008-02-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 25.02.2008, at 11:48, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I try to locate some references in my document by using the package backref. I do, however, get only pages (actually Seiten, since it is a german document) behind the reference, no page number. What do I do wrong? I inserted \usepackage[ngerm

ftp.lyx.org down?

2008-02-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, It seems that the ftp server on ftp.lyx.org is down. I can ping the machine, but the ftp server does not answer requests. I am still using 1.5.1 because of the "show stopper bugs" in the 1.5.2 and 1.5.3 releases that, according to the change log, have been fixed. Now I am desperately

Re: ftp.lyx.org down?

2008-02-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 26.02.2008, at 16:14, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: It seems that the ftp server on ftp.lyx.org is down. I can ping the machine, but the ftp server does not answer requests. The server is not really down, but rather slow and sometimes unrespondable these days (it

Re: LyX won't compile my document any more

2008-02-29 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Maximilian, Text line contains an invalid character. M^^F An1oz:8 #^^82^^Sr6'GE^^89N^^94A^^IK^^93}: 4*^^Ye:;[EMAIL PROTECTED] A funny symbol that I can't read has just been input. Continue, and I'll forget that it ever happened. I assume that you have somehow auto-magica

Re: Inserting graphics of the "appropriate" type: how to?

2008-03-04 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 04.03.2008, at 22:40, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: For many plots in a sub directory "PlotFigures", I have 2 versions, one in eps version and one in pdf version. Have you tried specifying a clipping region in LyX? Might be there's an issue with reading

Re: new lines disappearing in program listings

2008-03-04 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 05.03.2008, at 05:55, Bo Peng wrote: Have you checked out the support for lstlisting in LyX 1.5.x? I gather from the wiki that Bo Peng is responsible for it (props to Bo). It's not on the environment roster; you get it with Insert -> Program Listing. Right click the widget handle to see

Re: LyX mac customized icon

2008-03-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 05.03.2008, at 14:54, Julio Rojas wrote: Can you post a JPG? Apparently there is a JPG or GIF on Dianas blog: http://ailoan.free.fr/blog Daniel

Re: Use pdf figures without converting.

2008-03-11 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 11.03.2008, at 08:30, G. Milde wrote: On 11.03.08, Klaus Unger wrote: I am using PDF figures. Lyx does convert them to png before and chops them incorrectly. When? * display in the LyX window? * view as/export to Postscript? * view as/export to PDF (ps2pdf)? Well, I had exactly thi

Re: Literal monofont underscores?

2008-03-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 19.03.2008, at 03:01, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Doh! And here's why it worked for me and not you: I typed in the underscores, and LyX cleverly escaped them as \_\_ (ad nauseum). I'm guessing you pasted them in or imported them as text, and got just underscores, no escapes. Hm... LyX

Experiences with biblatex?

2008-03-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, After finding myself spending more and more time with tweaking and customizing bibliography handling I am considering switching to biblatex. According to the wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex) and a thread from last December (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

Re: Experiences with biblatex?

2008-03-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 19.03.2008, at 10:26, Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Daniel Lohmann schrieb am 19.03.2008: After finding myself spending more and more time with tweaking and customizing bibliography handling I am considering switching to biblatex. [...] 1) Do you have to change your .bib-files

How to open the dialog for label / reference inset by keyboard

2008-03-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, Is there any LFUN or pre-assigned shortcut to open the settings dialog for the label / reference / bib reference inset under the cursor? Thanks! Daniel

LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Anybody an idea? Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard. Thanks, Daniel Begin forwarded message: From: Daniel Lohmann <[EM

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 23.03.2008, at 13:50, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Anybody an idea? Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 23.03.2008, at 22:53, Pavel Sanda wrote: Anybody an idea? Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) this behaviour is intended? i find the naming confusing. wouldn't be better to have clear distinction between toggling and dialog showing? also what is the relation to dialog-show lfun?

Re: ERT to inline by command

2008-04-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 07.04.2008, at 12:44, Salát Máté wrote: Hi! What command makes the "Display" option of the active ERT to "Inline"? I want to create a key binding to this function. AFAIK there is, unfortunately, no LFUN for this I too would really appreciate a keyboard shortcut. Daniel

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 07.04.2008, at 18:51, Walter H. van Holst wrote: Of course, there are also other vector drawing programs (besides Xfig), so what is outlined here is not the only option you have. If only Linux and Windows are required, I'd recommend Inkscape. It is much more polished and user friendly tha

Re: ERT to inline by command

2008-04-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 07.04.2008, at 16:01, Ethan Metsger wrote: On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:04:16 -0400, Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: AFAIK there is, unfortunately, no LFUN for this I too would really appreciate a keyboard shortcut. I was under the impression that using CTRL-I would do the j

Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-30 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 29.04.2008, at 19:28, Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2008 13:11, rgheck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2008 09:00, you wrote: But I've done a little experimenting, and here's one way this can happen. First, you have to be using a "local" layout file, that is, a layo

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 02.05.2008, at 05:45, adam_taylor wrote: Folks, I am a new LyX user, and have a very basic question. I am using Lyx 1.5.1 under Ubuntu 7.10. I believe the TeX system is TeXLive. I created a new document (of class article), wrote a few lines in it, and then wanted to make a PDF. I

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 02.05.2008, at 23:08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 2 May 2008, David A. Case wrote: 1. an article with Document->Page layout set to "US Letter" (and Document->Page Margins is set to "default") is likely to come out of pdflatex as A4 (unless, unlike me, you know enoug

Re: includepdf

2008-05-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 05.05.2008, at 10:17, Mario Braun wrote: I think this isn't the way pdfpages is supposed to be used. If you want a caption, include a single pdf page via the graphics dialog. well, I don´t really want a caption. I just want the 3 pages of my pdf-file to start on the page where the se

How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-01 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Lyx 1.4.3svn Win32 Hi, Even though I have been using Lyx for quite a couple of years, I am new on this list - so please forgive me, if this already has been discussed. (Yes, I did a quick check the archives :-) ) 1) I would like to use character styles in my documents. In our papers, we fre

Re: How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
h it seems to be implemented differently. Thanks again! Daniel Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Daniel Lohmann wrote: 1) I would like to use character styles in my documents. In our papers, we frequently have to refer to identifiers from C++ listings that should be set in "typewriter" a

Re: How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
For 1.5, I'm just working on a patch that lets you hide all labels at once and probably also saves the settings (whether the labels are shown or not). The former might even go into some future version of 1.4 (the latter not, because it entails a file format change). Yeah, however it is not just

Re: pdf metadata

2006-10-08 Thread Daniel Lohmann
eX \pdftrue \fi \ifpdf \usepackage[pdftex, implicit = false ]{hyperref} \hypersetup { pdftitle = {Lean and Efficient System Software Product Lines: Where Aspects Beat Objects}, pdfsubject = {to appear in Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development}, pdfauthor = {Daniel Lohmann, Olaf Sp

Re: Multi-paragraph description

2006-10-09 Thread Daniel Lohmann
As we are already on the topic... I have always been wondering how to end a nested environment *without* starting a new item in the previous level: 1) This is item 1. It contains a list of sub-items, which are in fact a) one sub-item b) and another one However, there are definitely more

Re: Multi-paragraph description

2006-10-09 Thread Daniel Lohmann
As Paul described below, you need to indent the sub-items *and* the standard paragraph in between. (See the attached.) Bennett Cool - exactly what I was looking for :-) I never tried to achieve it by intending a standard paragraph - an approach that seems a bit counter-intuitive at first (IMHO

Re: how to add llncs class

2006-10-11 Thread Daniel Lohmann
MikTex, as almost any LaTeX distribution, manages an index file with all installed packages. LyX can only find packages that are registered in this index file, hence you have to update it before doing the reconfigure. Open the MiKTeX options dialog, click on the Root tab, select the TEXMF da

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-18 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Results for User Mode Process LYX-QT4.EXE (PID = 3344) User Time = 15.07% of the Elapsed Time Kernel Time = 11.18% of the Elapsed Time Total Avg. Rate Page Faults , 5692, 95/sec. Thi

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Daniel Lohmann
2006/10/18, Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Any ideas what is causing this? Yes. Acrobat is a lousy pdf reader - it don't handle bitmap fonts very well. Simple solution - use other pdf readers. Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows, the only platform on which this problem

Re: How ERT are displayed

2006-10-18 Thread Daniel Lohmann
ERTs are rendered in the same font size than the line they are embedded into. Hence, if you add an ERT to e.g. the title of an article the font is huge. ERTs in the main text are a lot more readable. I would, however, also prefer to have a fixed font size for all ERTs Daniel 2006/10/18, Timothy

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Abdelrazak Younes schrieb: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Could you provide the results for the CSRSS.EXE process as well? See below but I don't see much of a difference. I've passed the "-j" option to let it find the .pdb but it can't seem to find the debug symbols appar

Re: How ERT are displayed

2006-10-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: "Daniel" == Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> I would, however, also prefer to have a fixed font size for Daniel> all ERTs Some people who use ERT for short bits would not like to have it be of the same fixed size. Howeve

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Curtis Osterhoudt schrieb: > > Simple solution - use other pdf readers. > > Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows > Daniel Hi, Daniel, I'm quite happy with Foxit's free .pdf viewer (www.foxitsoftware.com), though I don't know how well it handles bitmapped fonts. T

Re: Update to: [announce] new extended LyX manual available

2006-11-08 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: I wrote: I'm proud to announce the new extended LyX manual about Floats, Notes, Tables, Graphics, and Boxes. The manual can be downloaded from http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#Extended-Insets I'm happily surprized that I got so much feedback about this.

Re: formating of hyperref links

2006-12-06 Thread Daniel Lohmann
y, pagecolor= darkgrey, pdftitle = {A Quantitive Analysis of Aspects in the eCos Kernel}, pdfsubject = {D.4.7 [Operating Systems]: Organization and Design?Realtime systems and embedded systems; D.3.3 [Programming Languages]: Language Constructs and Features}, pdfauthor = {Daniel Lohmann, Fabian

Re: Replicating a document layout

2006-12-28 Thread Daniel Lohmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Siterer Shawn Willden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] Each page also needs a footer, containing the file name, page number (e.g. "Page n of m"), version number and last revision date. Would it be difficult to make something like this? Is there something out there that's

Re: BibTeX and master documents

2007-02-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > To make it easier to insert citatiosn (if you still need to), you can > insert a bibliography within each child document, but place it inside a > *comment*. That way LaTeX won't see it, but LyX will know what > .bib-files to scan for when showing you the available cit

Re: BibTeX and master documents

2007-02-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Thanks Richard, Works like a charm :-) Daniel Richard Heck wrote: > Use the technique mentioned here: > http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChildMathMacros. More or less. And see below. >> 1) Define a variable \master in the preamble of the master document >> before including the common preamble: > Define

Understanding key bindings

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Lyx-Folks, One of the less documened, but very useful features of LyX is to assign formattings by key strokes. It is so convenient to press e.g. "ALT-P S" to format a paragraph as "Standard" So I looked up the actually defined keystrokes in menus.bind. However, I am either not able to int

Re: Understanding key bindings

2007-02-08 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Paul, # I have no problems with these: \bind "M-p ~S-5""layout Paragraph" \bind "M-p ~S-6""layout Subparagraph" # I don't know how to press these # What is asterisk on a German keyboard? # Or is it a "magic" key? \bind "M-p ~S-asterisk ~S-5""layout Paragraph*" \bind "M-p

Re: Understanding key bindings

2007-02-08 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: Of course they have it. It was just my ignorance regarding the meaning of "asteriks". Don't confuse it with the small guy from Gaul, then! :-) Daniel

How to prevent page break before Part and Chapter

2007-02-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi LyX-Folks, This most probably is, as 90% of the messages on this list, more realated to LaTeX than to LyX itself: For my thesis I am using the koma-script book class (scrbook). I would like to remove (suppress) the usual page breaks before Part and Chapter headings in draft printings, bu

Re: How to prevent page break before Part and Chapter

2007-02-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Jürgen Spitzmüller schrieb: Daniel Lohmann wrote: For my thesis I am using the koma-script book class (scrbook). I would like to remove (suppress) the usual page breaks before Part and Chapter headings in draft printings, but print a horizontal line instead. Then use report, not book

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
John Kane schrieb: No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I normally use OOo as a WP, with "smart quotes" off, but I get some very badly formatted Word documents for internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them into LyX than it is to try to reformat them into something readab

TeXperts: using hyperref to refer to label containing # in external document

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi LyX-Folks, I am writing a document that refers to specific pages or chapters of other documents. In the resulting PDF, the reader should be able to navigate directly to the referred document and page. I am using the hyperref package to generate the links. Problem is that I am not the aut

Re: TeXperts: using hyperref to refer to label containing # in external document

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Georg Baum schrieb: Am Dienstag, 20. Februar 2007 16:44 schrieb Daniel Lohmann: OK, the second line is responsible for inserting the dot (".") between the second and the third parameter. However, while I successfully managed to replace it with almost any character, I have not be

Re: TeXperts: using hyperref to refer to label containing # in external document

2007-02-21 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Enrico Forestieri schrieb: Please, try the following: \usepackage{hyperref} \catcode`\#=11 \def\hashmark{#} \catcode`\#=6 \def\@@hyperref#1#2#3{% [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@one\\{#1}% } Thanks a lot Enrico, the \catcode trick did it :-) Now the href links are created as they s

Document-specific layout extensions

2007-02-21 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, I am looking for way to extend or customize the LyX layout (such as the available styles) for a particular document only. While I know how to tweak layouts in the global or user-specific Resources/layouts/ folder, I would like to avoid this, as the document is shared with a couple of other

Re: Document-specific layout extensions

2007-02-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Georg Baum wrote: > [...] > I would suggest to create a layout file that you ship together with your > document. It should have a new name, so that users can simply copy it into > their resource directory and reconfigure LyX. If you change the file and > ship an update then the reconfigure step

Re: Complaints regarding keyboard shortcuts?

2007-02-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I read the complaing page for LyX >> >> http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Complaints >> >> where at the end someone complained about "no simple keyboard >> bindings". I'm afraid I don't understand that bit - I personally never >> found the keyboard s

Re: Complaints regarding keyboard shortcuts?

2007-02-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: "Daniel" == Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> No, seriously. I personally think that LyX is quite well Daniel> usable via the keyboard, point is just that most shortcuts are Daniel> not obvious. Studying the bind-files

Re: Complaints regarding keyboard shortcuts?

2007-02-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Daniel> Nevertheless: It would be nice to have them for style > Daniel> selections, menu entries and simple dialogs (if the OK action > Daniel> of

Re: lyx 1.4.4 and lyx 1.5.0beta

2007-02-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Tino Langer schrieb: > >> is it possible to install both versions at the same time on one >> computer? What I have to look for to have no trouble. > > Yes you can. I have both version installed side by side. To avoid > problems install first LyX 1.4.4 using this installer > [..

Re: My solution to problems with IEEEtran.cls and Babel (You haven't defined the language ENGLISH yet)

2007-03-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Two additional comments: - The problem appears with other article classes as well (I had it with other IEEE styles, but also the ACM classes sigplan, acm_proc_article and so on). - It seems to be enough to just uncheck the "use bable" option. There is no need for reconfiguration. Daniel Ma

Re: ugly big blank space

2007-03-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
AFAIK there is no out-of-the-box solution (aka some magic option) for this kind of problem that really works. If the space is just enough for an orphan/widow, but to big to be let empty, well what should LaTeX possibly do about it? IMHO this is best solved by manual fine-tuning at the very end: -

Re: [SOLVED] appendix package not working?

2007-03-25 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Bob, This info and the example is definitely worth to be put on the Wiki! I think the reason you got no answers on your questions is not caused by a lack of interest but by a lack of knowledge. Daniel Bob Lounsbury schrieb: Hello, I'm trying to use the appendix package to change the defaul

Re: Embedding highlighed external source code files in a LyX document

2007-03-28 Thread Daniel Lohmann
John Pye wrote: > Hi all > > I know that this has 'been done' but I'm not sure how to go about it > myself. I would like to link to an external source code file and 'pull > it in' to my compiled document when I use pdflatex. I would like to > apply source code highlighting, although that's not ess

Re: Embedding highlighed external source code files in a LyX document

2007-03-29 Thread Daniel Lohmann
John Pye schrieb: Hi Daniel Where and how do I get this 'listings' package? I looked on the LyX homepage and on the Wiki but couldn't find it. Well, it is not related to LyX, but a LaTeX package which you have to install for your LaTeX distribution. With MikTex on Windows this should be jus

Re: Bounding box on OpenOffice PDFs

2007-03-31 Thread Daniel Lohmann
John Pye schrieb: Point is that it doesn't NEED cropping. If I open the file in Evince, it correctly shows the image not needing cropping. I have got to pains to change the page size in OpenOffice to just that which is requred. The point is that LyX is not detecting the BoundingBox correctly from

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