Re: Absolute Positioning of Graphics

2008-02-02 Thread John Culleton
for the newbie question. I'm sure this is simple to do. Thanks in advance, -Tyler Not simple I am afraid. You may have to save as latex and then use pstricks.sty in that file. Or you can try manipulating pstricks from within Lyx but that may be problematic. John Culleton -- John Culleton

Fonts for Lyx

2008-02-05 Thread John Culleton
? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

Re: Printing from LyX on a mac

2008-02-07 Thread John Culleton
on letter paper. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread JOHN CULLETON
. Trust me it is a helluva way to do my daily work. John Culleton TeX since 1995. __ D O T E A S Y - Join the web hosting revolution! http://www.doteasy.com

Lualatex and Lyx.

2011-11-03 Thread john Culleton
for your help. -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Create Book Covers with Scribus http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

Unsubscribe info

2009-11-14 Thread John Culleton
on the web site needs correction. That line appears only if you set the folder to full headers. I only do that on rare occasions for debugging purposes. Other listserves put the unsubscribe info in the trailer. That makes more sense. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus http

Using ttf fonts via Luatex

2010-10-21 Thread John Culleton
If one wants to use ttf or otf fonts via luatex is this possible in Lyx? Or do I need to export a LaTeX file from Lyx and hand modify it? -- John Culleton, Wexford Press Create Book Covers with Scribus $5.95 at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html Free eps format barcode: http

Problem with hyphenated words.

2010-11-26 Thread John Culleton
word fragment sticks out in the margin. -- John Culleton, Wexford Press Create Book Covers with Scribus $5.95 at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html Free eps format barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/

Font choices.

2010-12-24 Thread John Culleton
What font choices are available? How does one select a non-standard font? Typically I use fonts such as Bitstream Charter, Adobe Garamond, Nimbus etc. etc. In plain TeX or pdftex I can just use a \font statement. I see no easy way to select them under Lyx. -- John Culleton, typesetting

Re: A question

2009-03-26 Thread John Culleton
1 The default setting is \hyphenpenalty 50 I would consult with your advisor as to what format is preferred, and whether hyphenation should be discouraged or eliminated altogether. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

2009-06-12 Thread John Culleton
name for Helvetica. Try Helvetica instead. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

Segmentaton error again.

2000-06-17 Thread John Culleton
special requirement for libraries etc. peculiar to lyx that could be causing this problem? I have glibc 2.1.2, Xforms 88, libXpm 4.11. I really need lyx and I really need help :-( John Culleton

Re: Finishing with lyx in suse 6.4

2000-06-21 Thread John Culleton
://www.faw.uni-ulm.de It seems that Xforms is the source of many problems. On my Slackware Linux system I had to install a particular version of Xforms 0.88, the one that is linked against glibc 2.1. Nothing else worked with Lyx 1.1.5. Go figure. John Culleton -- John Culleton - Please

Using \large text throughout.

2000-06-21 Thread John Culleton
Currently I highlight each paragraph and change it to \large type size. Is there a way to do this globally in Lyx?? (I can figure out how to do it in plain TeX or Latex ;-) -- John Culleton - Please visit http://www.carr.org/~john/

[Fwd: Idea: PENDING-Notes]

2000-07-25 Thread John Culleton
John Culleton wrote: Raffael Herzog wrote: Normally I write my texts not in the same order as it will be in the final document. I often leave parts out to write them later. Normally, I use notes, to mark those parts, so I don't forget them. This works fine, but there are two backdraws

Re: paragraph margins

2000-07-28 Thread John Culleton
is the author of course.) This means using ERC to bring in the file and use the command. There are no stupid questions. If you knew the answer you wouldn't have asked. There are of course wrong answers. I hope this isn't one of them ;| -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org

Re: foilTex and figure floats

2000-07-29 Thread John Culleton
who want to do an essentially simple task but are using a tool not designed with that task in mind. \end rant -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Can't quit this list.

2000-08-03 Thread John Culleton
Please someone send me the correct instructions for unsubscribing this list. -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

How to find text classes

2000-09-04 Thread John Culleton
directory under texmf where letter.cls is found but that doesn't help. I tried ./configure but that didn't help either. 1. How do I set up the necessary paths? 2. is a textclass the same as a foo.cls file? -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

hollywood template.

2000-09-04 Thread John Culleton
in Hollywood. I tried uncommenting some lines in the hollywood.cls file but that gave me errors. I am a long time TeXer but LaTeX is not my best friend. So I don't know what to do to kill the rule. Any suggestions? -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: hollywood template.

2000-09-05 Thread John Culleton
"Garst R. Reese" wrote: Allan Rae wrote: You should take direct to the master: Garst Reece. He built all the Hollywood and Broadway stuff. On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, John Culleton wrote: Thanks to Herb V. I have the hollywood template working now. I increased the right mar

Key binding map

2000-09-05 Thread John Culleton
nstallation. I don't find any other files (other than in Lyx that is) with a .bind suffix so moving files around and re-texhashing probably won't help. Any suggestions? -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: hollywood template.

2000-09-05 Thread John Culleton
Herbert Voss wrote: John Culleton wrote: Thanks to Herb V. I have the hollywood template working now. I increased the right margin to one inch, to meet the standards I have read. Hollywood (the place) is very fussy about format. I still have one major problem with the hollywood

Re: Key binding map

2000-09-06 Thread John Culleton
Allan Rae wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, John Culleton wrote: I have a key binding map "hollywood.bind" in the appropriate directory. When I try to activate this map via options- keyboard I get the error message "error keymap not found." that's because its a LyX bi

Re: Writing tech-manuals with Lyx

2000-09-11 Thread John Culleton
work better. For a Lyx user, if Lyx will produce an acceptable ps file with whatever kind of graphics you have then perhaps ps2pdf could then create the right kind of pdf file also. Of course, If I knew what I was doing, I would be rich :-) John Culleton -- John Culleton - Please visit

Re: *.lyx --- *.pdf ??

2000-09-12 Thread John Culleton
. BTW Xpdf doesn't work with my pdf files either. Try acroread (Acrobat reader) instead. xpdf seems to be still a beta thing. -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: *.lyx --- *.pdf ??

2000-09-13 Thread John Culleton
Tuukka Toivonen wrote: On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, John Culleton wrote: It is probably better to use pdftex/pdflatex, which works fine as long as you don't have pictures Or pstricks! -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

My/our changes to hollywood format

2000-09-13 Thread John Culleton
files can be found at: http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/tex.html My thanks to all who have helped me on this adventure, particularly Garst Reese who is the author of the format. -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: KLyX revival?

2000-09-14 Thread John Culleton
Allan Rae wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/ where you'll see evidence of a kde-1.1.2 port in progress. It doesn't use the KLyX dialogs because KLyX didn't use a gui-designer. Allan. (ARRae) Regular Lyx runs just fine under KDE. Why is a port needed? -- John

Re: Using a new class

2000-09-16 Thread John Culleton
is reediting the LaTeX output in a text editor to use your required class. Remember Lyx is at the bottom just a front end to LaTeX. You can output the text and deal with LaTeX directly if needed. -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: lyx crashes in tight memory situations

2000-09-18 Thread John Culleton
crash. Do you have a lot going on besides Lyx? Netscape perhaps? (Earlier Netscape versions had memory leaks that would eventually swamp your system.) Are your documents extremely large? John C. John C. -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: Trying to convert the Professor!

2000-09-18 Thread John Culleton
ut I would do it, if there's no other way. 2 - Is it possible to convert pdf --- Lyx? []'s Vinícius Provenzano There is a pdftotex command on my system. That would give one a start to a conversion. Then import the text file into Lyx. John C. -- John Culleton - Please

Re: X-server

2000-09-20 Thread John Culleton
g. John C. -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: long program floats

2000-09-20 Thread John Culleton
; dvips foo.dvi; print or view foo.ps.) If you can deal with your document completely within Lyx that is of course desirable, but when that proves difficult there are other paths that combine Lyx and other facilities already on your system. John Culleton -- John Culleton - Please visit http

Re: Finetuning amsbook

2000-09-26 Thread John Culleton
always have the option of exporting LaTeX code and fiddling with that. Do you have Lamport's book? -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread John Culleton
with Lyx for more normal situations. -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: Problems with viewing dvi files

2000-09-27 Thread John Culleton
as this doesn't work either. I have xdvi and dvips installed and they work fine on there own. I use apsfilter for printing. TIA Tom Beale Try a later release of Lyx. Version 1.1.5fix1 works fine on my Slackware system. -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-28 Thread John Culleton
editing with a markup language, getting the speed of one and the flexibility of the other. John Culleton -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: unsubscribe...

2000-10-01 Thread John Culleton
ference between letter kerning and blank space kerning. Worth a shot. Probably won't work. -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: BibTeX

2000-09-20 Thread John Culleton
method pretty closely. John Culleton -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: Absolute Positioning of Graphics

2008-02-02 Thread John Culleton
for the newbie question. I'm sure this is simple to do. Thanks in advance, -Tyler Not simple I am afraid. You may have to save as latex and then use pstricks.sty in that file. Or you can try manipulating pstricks from within Lyx but that may be problematic. John Culleton -- John Culleton

Fonts for Lyx

2008-02-05 Thread John Culleton
? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

Re: Printing from LyX on a mac

2008-02-07 Thread John Culleton
on letter paper. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread JOHN CULLETON
. Trust me it is a helluva way to do my daily work. John Culleton TeX since 1995. __ D O T E A S Y - Join the web hosting revolution! http://www.doteasy.com

Lualatex and Lyx.

2011-11-03 Thread john Culleton
for your help. -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Create Book Covers with Scribus http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

Unsubscribe info

2009-11-14 Thread John Culleton
on the web site needs correction. That line appears only if you set the folder to full headers. I only do that on rare occasions for debugging purposes. Other listserves put the unsubscribe info in the trailer. That makes more sense. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus http

Using ttf fonts via Luatex

2010-10-21 Thread John Culleton
If one wants to use ttf or otf fonts via luatex is this possible in Lyx? Or do I need to export a LaTeX file from Lyx and hand modify it? -- John Culleton, Wexford Press Create Book Covers with Scribus $5.95 at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html Free eps format barcode: http

Problem with hyphenated words.

2010-11-26 Thread John Culleton
word fragment sticks out in the margin. -- John Culleton, Wexford Press Create Book Covers with Scribus $5.95 at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html Free eps format barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/

Font choices.

2010-12-24 Thread John Culleton
What font choices are available? How does one select a non-standard font? Typically I use fonts such as Bitstream Charter, Adobe Garamond, Nimbus etc. etc. In plain TeX or pdftex I can just use a \font statement. I see no easy way to select them under Lyx. -- John Culleton, typesetting

Re: A question

2009-03-26 Thread John Culleton
1 The default setting is \hyphenpenalty 50 I would consult with your advisor as to what format is preferred, and whether hyphenation should be discouraged or eliminated altogether. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

2009-06-12 Thread John Culleton
name for Helvetica. Try Helvetica instead. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

Segmentaton error again.

2000-06-17 Thread John Culleton
special requirement for libraries etc. peculiar to lyx that could be causing this problem? I have glibc 2.1.2, Xforms 88, libXpm 4.11. I really need lyx and I really need help :-( John Culleton

Re: Finishing with lyx in suse 6.4

2000-06-21 Thread John Culleton
://www.faw.uni-ulm.de It seems that Xforms is the source of many problems. On my Slackware Linux system I had to install a particular version of Xforms 0.88, the one that is linked against glibc 2.1. Nothing else worked with Lyx 1.1.5. Go figure. John Culleton -- John Culleton - Please

Using \large text throughout.

2000-06-21 Thread John Culleton
Currently I highlight each paragraph and change it to \large type size. Is there a way to do this globally in Lyx?? (I can figure out how to do it in plain TeX or Latex ;-) -- John Culleton - Please visit http://www.carr.org/~john/

[Fwd: Idea: PENDING-Notes]

2000-07-25 Thread John Culleton
John Culleton wrote: Raffael Herzog wrote: Normally I write my texts not in the same order as it will be in the final document. I often leave parts out to write them later. Normally, I use notes, to mark those parts, so I don't forget them. This works fine, but there are two backdraws

Re: paragraph margins

2000-07-28 Thread John Culleton
is the author of course.) This means using ERC to bring in the file and use the command. There are no stupid questions. If you knew the answer you wouldn't have asked. There are of course wrong answers. I hope this isn't one of them ;| -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org

Re: foilTex and figure floats

2000-07-29 Thread John Culleton
who want to do an essentially simple task but are using a tool not designed with that task in mind. \end rant -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Can't quit this list.

2000-08-03 Thread John Culleton
Please someone send me the correct instructions for unsubscribing this list. -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

How to find text classes

2000-09-04 Thread John Culleton
directory under texmf where letter.cls is found but that doesn't help. I tried ./configure but that didn't help either. 1. How do I set up the necessary paths? 2. is a textclass the same as a foo.cls file? -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

hollywood template.

2000-09-04 Thread John Culleton
in Hollywood. I tried uncommenting some lines in the hollywood.cls file but that gave me errors. I am a long time TeXer but LaTeX is not my best friend. So I don't know what to do to kill the rule. Any suggestions? -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: hollywood template.

2000-09-05 Thread John Culleton
"Garst R. Reese" wrote: Allan Rae wrote: You should take direct to the master: Garst Reece. He built all the Hollywood and Broadway stuff. On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, John Culleton wrote: Thanks to Herb V. I have the hollywood template working now. I increased the right mar

Key binding map

2000-09-05 Thread John Culleton
nstallation. I don't find any other files (other than in Lyx that is) with a .bind suffix so moving files around and re-texhashing probably won't help. Any suggestions? -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: hollywood template.

2000-09-05 Thread John Culleton
Herbert Voss wrote: John Culleton wrote: Thanks to Herb V. I have the hollywood template working now. I increased the right margin to one inch, to meet the standards I have read. Hollywood (the place) is very fussy about format. I still have one major problem with the hollywood

Re: Key binding map

2000-09-06 Thread John Culleton
Allan Rae wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, John Culleton wrote: I have a key binding map "hollywood.bind" in the appropriate directory. When I try to activate this map via options- keyboard I get the error message "error keymap not found." that's because its a LyX bi

Re: Writing tech-manuals with Lyx

2000-09-11 Thread John Culleton
work better. For a Lyx user, if Lyx will produce an acceptable ps file with whatever kind of graphics you have then perhaps ps2pdf could then create the right kind of pdf file also. Of course, If I knew what I was doing, I would be rich :-) John Culleton -- John Culleton - Please visit

Re: *.lyx --- *.pdf ??

2000-09-12 Thread John Culleton
. BTW Xpdf doesn't work with my pdf files either. Try acroread (Acrobat reader) instead. xpdf seems to be still a beta thing. -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: *.lyx --- *.pdf ??

2000-09-13 Thread John Culleton
Tuukka Toivonen wrote: On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, John Culleton wrote: It is probably better to use pdftex/pdflatex, which works fine as long as you don't have pictures Or pstricks! -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

My/our changes to hollywood format

2000-09-13 Thread John Culleton
files can be found at: http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/tex.html My thanks to all who have helped me on this adventure, particularly Garst Reese who is the author of the format. -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: KLyX revival?

2000-09-14 Thread John Culleton
Allan Rae wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/ where you'll see evidence of a kde-1.1.2 port in progress. It doesn't use the KLyX dialogs because KLyX didn't use a gui-designer. Allan. (ARRae) Regular Lyx runs just fine under KDE. Why is a port needed? -- John

Re: Using a new class

2000-09-16 Thread John Culleton
is reediting the LaTeX output in a text editor to use your required class. Remember Lyx is at the bottom just a front end to LaTeX. You can output the text and deal with LaTeX directly if needed. -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: lyx crashes in tight memory situations

2000-09-18 Thread John Culleton
crash. Do you have a lot going on besides Lyx? Netscape perhaps? (Earlier Netscape versions had memory leaks that would eventually swamp your system.) Are your documents extremely large? John C. John C. -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: Trying to convert the Professor!

2000-09-18 Thread John Culleton
ut I would do it, if there's no other way. 2 - Is it possible to convert pdf --- Lyx? []'s Vinícius Provenzano There is a pdftotex command on my system. That would give one a start to a conversion. Then import the text file into Lyx. John C. -- John Culleton - Please

Re: X-server

2000-09-20 Thread John Culleton
g. John C. -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: long program floats

2000-09-20 Thread John Culleton
; dvips foo.dvi; print or view foo.ps.) If you can deal with your document completely within Lyx that is of course desirable, but when that proves difficult there are other paths that combine Lyx and other facilities already on your system. John Culleton -- John Culleton - Please visit http

Re: Finetuning amsbook

2000-09-26 Thread John Culleton
always have the option of exporting LaTeX code and fiddling with that. Do you have Lamport's book? -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread John Culleton
with Lyx for more normal situations. -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: Problems with viewing dvi files

2000-09-27 Thread John Culleton
as this doesn't work either. I have xdvi and dvips installed and they work fine on there own. I use apsfilter for printing. TIA Tom Beale Try a later release of Lyx. Version 1.1.5fix1 works fine on my Slackware system. -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-28 Thread John Culleton
editing with a markup language, getting the speed of one and the flexibility of the other. John Culleton -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: unsubscribe...

2000-10-01 Thread John Culleton
ference between letter kerning and blank space kerning. Worth a shot. Probably won't work. -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: BibTeX

2000-09-20 Thread John Culleton
method pretty closely. John Culleton -- John Culleton - Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Re: Absolute Positioning of Graphics

2008-02-02 Thread John Culleton
ery new to lyx and sorry for the newbie question. I'm > sure this is simple to do. > > Thanks in advance, > > -Tyler > Not simple I am afraid. You may have to save as latex and then use pstricks.sty in that file. Or you can try manipulating pstricks from within Lyx but that ma

Fonts for Lyx

2008-02-05 Thread John Culleton
? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

Re: Printing from LyX on a mac

2008-02-07 Thread John Culleton
easy.com Speaking from the depths of my ignorance, I suspect you are trying to print A4 pages on letter paper. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread JOHN CULLETON
. Trust me it is a helluva way to do my daily work. John Culleton TeX since 1995. __ D O T E A S Y - "Join the web hosting revolution!" http://www.doteasy.com

Lualatex and Lyx.

2011-11-03 Thread john Culleton
for your help. -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

Unsubscribe info

2009-11-14 Thread John Culleton
e text on the web site needs correction. That line appears only if you set the folder to "full headers." I only do that on rare occasions for debugging purposes. Other listserves put the unsubscribe info in the trailer. That makes more sense. -- John Culleton "Create Book Cove

Using ttf fonts via Luatex

2010-10-21 Thread John Culleton
If one wants to use ttf or otf fonts via luatex is this possible in Lyx? Or do I need to export a LaTeX file from Lyx and hand modify it? -- John Culleton, Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" $5.95 at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html Free eps format bar

Problem with hyphenated words.

2010-11-26 Thread John Culleton
word fragment sticks out in the margin. -- John Culleton, Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" $5.95 at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html Free eps format barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/

Font choices.

2010-12-24 Thread John Culleton
What font choices are available? How does one select a non-standard font? Typically I use fonts such as Bitstream Charter, Adobe Garamond, Nimbus etc. etc. In plain TeX or pdftex I can just use a \font statement. I see no easy way to select them under Lyx. -- John Culleton, typesetting

Re: A question

2009-03-26 Thread John Culleton
ave some hyphenation occurences so the command to prevent that is \hyphenpenalty 1 The default setting is \hyphenpenalty 50 I would consult with your advisor as to what format is preferred, and whether hyphenation should be discouraged or eliminated altogether. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

2009-06-12 Thread John Culleton
u. > > Parul Verdana is Microsoft's name for Helvetica. Try Helvetica instead. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

Segmentaton error again.

2000-06-17 Thread John Culleton
special requirement for libraries etc. peculiar to lyx that could be causing this problem? I have glibc 2.1.2, Xforms 88, libXpm 4.11. I really need lyx and I really need help :-( John Culleton

Re: Finishing with lyx in suse 6.4

2000-06-21 Thread John Culleton
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX: +49/731/501-999 > http://www.faw.uni-ulm.de It seems that Xforms is the source of many problems. On my Slackware Linux system I had to install a particular version of Xforms 0.88, the one that is linked against glibc 2.1. Nothing else worked with Lyx

Using \large text throughout.

2000-06-21 Thread John Culleton
Currently I highlight each paragraph and change it to \large type size. Is there a way to do this globally in Lyx?? (I can figure out how to do it in plain TeX or Latex ;-) -- John Culleton -> Please visit http://www.carr.org/~john/

[Fwd: Idea: PENDING-Notes]

2000-07-25 Thread John Culleton
John Culleton wrote: > Raffael Herzog wrote: > > > Normally I write my texts not in the same order as it will be in the > > final document. I often leave parts out to write them later. Normally, > > I use notes, to mark those parts, so I don't forget them. This works >

Re: paragraph margins

2000-07-28 Thread John Culleton
is a file plain.sty that adds most plain.tex commands to latex. (David Carlisle is the author of course.) This means using ERC to bring in the file and use the command. There are no stupid questions. If you knew the answer you wouldn't have asked. There are of course wrong answers. I hope this isn

Re: foilTex and figure floats

2000-07-29 Thread John Culleton
extent with respect to LaTeX. There are horses for courses and tools for tasks. This list and the comp.tex.text newsgroup are full of messages from people who want to do an essentially simple task but are using a tool not designed with that task in mind. \end rant -- John Culleton -> Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

Can't quit this list.

2000-08-03 Thread John Culleton
Please someone send me the correct instructions for unsubscribing this list. -- John Culleton -> Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

How to find text classes

2000-09-04 Thread John Culleton
directory under texmf where letter.cls is found but that doesn't help. I tried ./configure but that didn't help either. 1. How do I set up the necessary paths? 2. is a textclass the same as a foo.cls file? -- John Culleton -> Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

hollywood template.

2000-09-04 Thread John Culleton
in Hollywood. I tried uncommenting some lines in the hollywood.cls file but that gave me errors. I am a long time TeXer but LaTeX is not my best friend. So I don't know what to do to kill the rule. Any suggestions? -- John Culleton -> Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/

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