Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-10 Thread John Kane
I have just tried to install LyX 1.3.6 under Windows XP. I like what I have seen but I have a problem. As the heading says: I cannot produce any output because LyX has marked all the layouts apparently as not existing. I have installed ImageMagick-6.2.5-4-Q16-windows-dll Ghostscript gs853w32

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-10 Thread John Kane
--- Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:43 AM Subject: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions? I

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-10 Thread John Kane
--- Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:43 AM Subject: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions? I

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-11 Thread John Kane
--- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: Hang on. The ~2.8 MB file in Stephen's directory listing is probably the installer, which you don't need once installation is done (and which wouldn't necessarily be in that particular directory even if you did keep

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-11 Thread John Kane
--- Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 2:05 PM Subject: Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-11 Thread John Kane
--- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: The file is there, all 43K of it, but “sh configure” simply gives me an error message 'sh' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Ok, when you ran the first test (that worked

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-11 Thread John Kane
--- Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Users LyX lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 8:57 AM Subject: Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-11 Thread John Kane
--- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: Path=C:\Perl\bin\;c:program files\imanemagick-6.2.5_q16;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;c:\WINDOWS\system32;C:WINDOWS;C;\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:Program Files\Common Files\MDL Shared\ISIS I'm getting a bit out of sync with what you put

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-11 Thread John Kane
--- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: I think you said that the MinSYS bin directory (c:\msys\1.0\bin?) was on the LyX internal path No it was not. I've added it. Still getting the error after restarting LyX That's not surprising. Have you tried Edit

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-12 Thread John Kane
--- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: Obviously, as a student you, did not have the card reader shred your computer deck ½ hours before the assignment was due and all you needed was a clean printout. No, but I have the dubious distinction of having rested

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-15 Thread John Kane
of it useful :) and recalled a bunch of DOS commands I would happily had remain forgotten. John Kane, Kingston ON Canada - Find your next car at Yahoo! Canada Autos

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-15 Thread John Kane
be found [EMAIL PROTECTED] set to: . Assuming \openin and \input have the same search path. --And much more dreck- John Kane wrote: Updates on the continuing (non) installation saga This replies to a number of postings by Steven

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-16 Thread John Kane
is not on my hard drive BTW I have not been able to find a Lyx file in the Applications Data file under User after I have installed, created and saved a file in Lyx. ARRGH! John Kane, Kingston ON Canada Find your next car at Yahoo! Canada Autos

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2006-03-27 Thread John Kane
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Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.3 released (for Intel, PPC, Universal)

2007-12-19 Thread John Kane
Thank you. Just upgraded about 15 minutes ago. --- Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Binaries for LyX/Mac 1.5.3 have now been posted in all three flavors: Intel, PPC, and Universal. All users of 1.5 are encouraged to upgrade to this new version. They can be found here:

Re: [OT] using open office

2008-01-07 Thread John Kane
--- Donn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every now and then I get an inclination to try the more widely used tools, such as OO (open office). I am always stumped right at the start. Where is the template for something like a lyx or latex article format? Open the Lyx file in Lyx and simply

Re: Languages British vs English

2008-03-10 Thread John Kane
I'd agree with English (US) since it is not the normal spelling that is used in Canada. Of course we don't use the UK spelling either. :) --- David Romano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would concur and weigh in in favor English (US) since British English is more likely the official language of

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread John Kane
--- John Coppens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ever wonder why legal pads are yellow(ish)? Sulpher stains? Okay, I'm leaving. __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-13 Thread John Kane
--- Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Bruce Pourciau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Elbow problems have begun to make it hard for me to type a long manuscript into LyX. I was thinking that we could install LyX (but not LaTeX) on my secretary's machine, and

Re: Editing Original Source Tex File

2008-06-21 Thread John Kane
You should be able to open any LyX document in any text editor. --- On Sat, 6/21/08, Mehmet Engin Tozal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mehmet Engin Tozal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Editing Original Source Tex File To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Received: Saturday, June 21, 2008, 5:55 AM Dear

Re: Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-08-08 Thread John Kane
--- On Fri, 8/8/08, Les Denham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Les Denham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Excel graphs into Lyx To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Received: Friday, August 8, 2008, 9:42 AM On Friday 08 August 2008, Konrad Blum wrote: PS: The people who have the free time to learn a

Re: Test

2008-09-08 Thread John Kane
--- On Mon, 9/8/08, Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Test On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 4:34 PM, npierre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this reaches the Lyx usergroup please let me know. Yep. The original message should have been,

Re: Word processor bashing

2008-11-05 Thread John Kane
--- On Wed, 11/5/08, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Word processor bashing To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Received: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 9:41 AM On Wednesday 05 November 2008 04:24:46 am killermike wrote: Obviously most word

Re: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]

2008-11-05 Thread John Kane
From: rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing] To: lyx-users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Received: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 7:19 PM I know a lot of people who use Word, etc, and I don't know a single person who regularly uses styles. I suspect that some do but in

Re: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]

2008-11-06 Thread John Kane
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing] To: Micha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX User lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Received: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 5:35 AM They are a pain though with word as it's

Re: Multi-column layout for multilingual documents (translations)

2011-03-01 Thread John Kane
ledmac/ledpar http://www.djdekker.net/ledmac/ Parallel http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=parallel Disclaimer: I've never used them, I've just heard of them --- On Tue, 3/1/11, Carlos Franke carlos_fra...@taunusstein.net wrote: From: Carlos Franke carlos_fra...@taunusstein.net

Re: Help me out of .doc

2011-03-22 Thread John Kane
Hi Hannu, I'm afraid I don't know enough about LyX to help.  However I had a quick look at it in OpenOffice.org and assuming it imported correctly, which it seems to have, it seems like a typically badly laid-out Word document.  I can see why any little thing could mess it up. I think

Re: LyX Promotion

2011-03-23 Thread John Kane
--- On Wed, 3/23/11, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: From: Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com Subject: Re: LyX Promotion To: Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com Cc: LyX Devel lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org, lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Received: Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 4:34 AM On Wed,

Ubuntu -tex live 2011 set paths?

2012-03-12 Thread John Kane
PATH MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf/doc/man:$MANPATH; export MANPATH INFOPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf/doc/info:$INFOPATH; export INFOPATH stefano franchi (Thu, 15 Sep 2011 ) http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg88783.html has another approach. John Kane

Re: Ubuntu -tex live 2011 set paths?

2012-03-17 Thread John Kane
was usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux/ Now to figure out how to get tlmgr to work. Thanks very much for the help. John Kane Kingston ON Canada -Original Message- From: stefano.fran...@gmail.com Sent: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:15:29 -0500 To: jrkrid...@inbox.com Subject: Re: Ubuntu

Re: Ubuntu -tex live 2011 set paths?

2012-03-18 Thread John Kane
have thought sudo would work but I really am a newbie at Linux. John Kane Kingston ON Canada -Original Message- From: stefano.fran...@gmail.com Sent: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:07:09 -0500 To: jrkrid...@inbox.com Subject: Re: Ubuntu -tex live 2011 set paths? On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10

Re: Ubuntu -tex live 2011 set paths?

2012-03-19 Thread John Kane
Have not tried to update yet but your hack seems to have worked. I'll have a look at that link for the path discussionm Thanks very much. John Kane Kingston ON Canada -Original Message- From: stefano.fran...@gmail.com Sent: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:35:53 -0500 To: jrkrid...@inbox.com

OT? upgrading Texlive to work with LyX 2.0.2. Paths problem

2012-05-15 Thread John Kane
I am trying to upgrade from TexLive 2009 to TexLive 2011 on Ubuntu 12.04 to use with LyX 2.0.2. Ubuntu's repositories have only the 2009 package. Working on a ASUS X53U 64 bit machine, dual boot with Windows 7 I managed to get 2011 working on Ubuntu 11.10 following Stefano Franchi's excellent

Re: OT? upgrading Texlive to work with LyX 2.0.2. Paths problem

2012-05-15 Thread John Kane
Cancel this.  I just did a complete reboot and Lyx is working fine[1].  I thought I had already tried that but I must have been mistaken. 1. Well at least it produced one document :) - Original Message - From: John Kane jrkrid...@yahoo.ca To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users

Re: OT? upgrading Texlive to work with LyX 2.0.2. Paths problem

2012-05-22 Thread John Kane
: John Kane jrkrid...@yahoo.ca; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 5:24:16 PM Subject: Re: OT? upgrading Texlive to work with LyX 2.0.2. Paths problem On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Scott Kostyshak skost...@princeton.edu wrote: From: John Kane [jrkrid

Lyz path not working in Ubuntu or Windows

2012-07-25 Thread John Kane
A couple of months ago a power surge fried my laptop. I now have a new laptop with a dual-boot Ubuntu 12.04 / Windows 7 setup.   Lyx 2.0.3, Firefox 14.01 with  Lyz 2.1.4 Zotero 3.0.8 .  Since then I have not been doing anything with LyX and just noticed that I cannot sent citations from

LyZ paths not working in Ubuntu or Windows

2012-08-02 Thread John Kane
A couple of months ago a power surge fried my laptop. I now have a new laptop with a dual-boot Ubuntu 12.04 / Windows 7 setup.   Lyx 2.0.3, Firefox 14.01 with  Lyz 2.1.4 Zotero 3.0.8 .  Since then I have not been doing anything with LyX and just noticed that I cannot sent citations from

Re: LyZ paths not working in Ubuntu or Windows

2012-08-03 Thread John Kane
From: Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org To: John Kane jrkrid...@yahoo.ca Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2012 12:21:24 PM Subject: Re: LyZ paths not working in Ubuntu or Windows On 08/02/2012 12:20 PM, John Kane

Re: LyZ paths not working in Ubuntu or Windows

2012-08-03 Thread John Kane
Thanks. I'll start googling again. From: Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org To: John Kane jrkrid...@yahoo.ca Cc: lyx-users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, August 3, 2012 10:39:21 AM Subject: Re: LyZ paths not working in Ubuntu or Windows On 08/03/2012 10

Side by site footnotes?

2006-10-26 Thread John Kane
Hi, I am not a regular LyX list user. I still cannot get LyX to install properly :( However I do recommend it at time to other people. Over on an OpenOffice.org form we have received a question about placing footnotes in a horizontal line. Example at

Re: Side by site footnotes?

2006-10-26 Thread John Kane
--- Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:21:08 -0400 (EDT) From: John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Side by site footnotes? To: Users LyX lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Hi, I am not a regular LyX list user. I still cannot get LyX to install properly

It works!!!!!!!!! I finally got LyX to install

2006-10-26 Thread John Kane
I have been trying, on-and-off, for months to see if LyX would install with no luck. However today I asked a questions about side-by-side footnotes for another person (thanks for the fast answer Jean Pierre) and realised that I had not tried 1.4.3. I downloaded the Windows .exe package and it

Problem with APA and tables

2006-10-30 Thread John Kane
I am a new user and just playing around with LyX to date. I have installed LyX 1.4.3-4 with all the settings at default. I seem to have a problem with the document class APA. When I create a table I am getting an extra column/row partly defined. I created a 4X4 table and I am getting some

Re: visio drawings

2006-12-16 Thread John Kane
--- Valter Filipe Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i already try to download it, but the link is dead :8 Regards Give it another try. It may have been a tempory glitch. I just downloaded it with no problem. Nicolás wrote: OTEditor is your friend! Take a look here (under

Re: volume of rotation drawing

2006-12-21 Thread John Kane
--- Gunnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Not really lyx related but someone might perhaps know how to produce nice eps drawings of a volume of rotation. You know the kind of picture you usually find in your calculus textbook where the graph of f(x) rotates around the x-axis. Any

Re: Bibliography Style with In: for chapters in books

2006-12-21 Thread John Kane
--- Rainer M Krug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi An urgent last minute question: I am looking for a bibliography style which has author-year citations in text and the bibliography is sorted by surname, initials and book chapters are referenced as: Chaptername. In:book information

Re: Newbie windows install problem class scrbook is unknown

2007-01-19 Thread John Kane
--- Andreas K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yanni papastavrou [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: “Using the default document class, because the class scrbook is unknown” Hi, 1. Open the MiKTeX Settings 2. Choose Package installation: Install missing packages on-the-fly: Yes 3. Then,

Journal in article(APA)

2007-01-19 Thread John Kane
I am using the article(APA) doc class Options jou ,(MiKTeX WinXP) LyX 2.4.1 The class has a heading called journal that gives an error but works when I use \journal{Journal Name} in the LaTeX preamble (which the LyX error message told me to). Has anyone encountered this?

Kill off a heading like a date etc.

2007-01-19 Thread John Kane
I am just learning to use LyX. There are a couple for useful doc classes but they tend to insert a date or something similar when I don't need it. article(APA) is an example. I would like to use it but kill off the Author and Date. I know I have seen something like this mentioned in the list

Re: Newbie windows install problem class scrbook is unknown

2007-01-21 Thread John Kane
--- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: Just what I wanted to know since I am getting a warning message for hyperref when loading the LyX User's Guide but how do I find the MiKTeX settings to open them? Am I looking for something in LyX itself or in MiKTeX

Fwd: Re: Newbie windows install problem class scrbook is unknown

2007-01-22 Thread John Kane
--- John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:41:57 -0500 (EST) From: John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie windows install problem class scrbook is unknown To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: ARRRGH

Fwd: Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX

2007-01-23 Thread John Kane
--- John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:34:36 -0500 (EST) From: John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gunnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunatly I must also say that OpenOffice is far behind MS Word. I'm

Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX

2007-01-25 Thread John Kane
--- killermike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I was considering switching to OpenOffice because of the excessive effort in creating/modifying styles in LyX. So as an experiment, I began making a derivative, in OpenOffice, of a book I originally wrote using

Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX

2007-01-26 Thread John Kane
than try to figure out what all the spaces were doing (tabs were too sophisticated). At least the CV's were not in Excel which I have seen. On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:37 am, John Kane wrote: Beats me but there are quite a few books out there done with OOo including the collaboratively

LyX 1.3.4-4 does not load, LyX 1.5 svn loads nicely

2007-02-02 Thread John Kane
I just moved to a new (for me) computer ( 1G ram, hurray. My old one with 512K had died and I was using a clunker with 256k. Still WindowsXP but ... I had to install a lot of my personal software including LyX. I tried to install LyX 1.3.4 and first got a message that it was timing out trying

Re: cannot reqd an old lyx file

2007-02-03 Thread John Kane
--- Mouras Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I composed several days ago a lyx file butt am not able to read it on a new computer running windiws vista and the new lyx for windows. I have attached the file. Could someone help me ? Thnak you very much in advance, Harold What

Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-07 Thread John Kane
Having accidentally spammed 3,000 or so R-help list readers with this message I thought I might try again,hopefully in the right list this time. I just changed machines and, at first, could not get LyX 1.4.3-4 to even load. I tried 1.5 which loaded nicely but would not give me PDF output.

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread John Kane
--- Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm writing a short book called Troubleshooting: Just the Facts. The intention is to make it an Ebook that can be printed and staple bound by the customer, if so desired. I use skip rather than indentation to separate paragraphs, and I

Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-10 Thread John Kane
--- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: Having accidentally spammed 3,000 or so R-help list readers with this message I thought I might try again,hopefully in the right list this time. Might not be spam -- maybe one of them can produce a logistic regression

Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-11 Thread John Kane
--- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: --- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: Could this just be a Foxit problem? Possible but not entirely likely. Can you load a doc into LyX and then use File-Export-PDF (pdflatex) to generate

Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-11 Thread John Kane
--- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: If you have acroread32 set as the viewer for PDF (pdflatex), that would explain why View-PDF (pdflatex) now calls Acrobat Reader. Otherwise, it's probably the same phenomenon that causes your car to do strange things

MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-12 Thread John Kane
What is the current approach to importing Word documents to LyX? I don't want to do anything fancy. I have some very poorly formatted Word docs (working docs not for publication) and I have found that simply cutting and pasting the text into LyX and doing a bit of formatting can save me a lot of

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: My problem is that I am getting a ? for (curly quotes) LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, so you should be able to search and replace, in Word

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I didn't produce the document but a search and replace is easy enough. I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you don't disable

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Lohmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Lyx article on OSNews

2007-02-27 Thread John Kane
--- killermike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17373/Lyx-the-Multi-Platform-Document-Editor/ I wrote a quick overview of Lyx for tech news site OSNews. I enjoyed the article and have bookmarked it for passing on to others. I was particularly struck by the

Bibtex question on URL references

2007-03-03 Thread John Kane
I have been trying to use JabRef to handle references. My first experiments have been fairly successful but I am wondering how people handle a URL reference. For example I have a reference to a website ( see http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/burdett2004.pdf ) and I don't see quite how to

Re: Bibtex question on URL references

2007-03-04 Thread John Kane
. However the format is used by about 1,000 journals and is commonly used as the basis for a lot of reports etc. And I grew up with it! John Kane wrote: I have been trying to use JabRef to handle references. My first experiments have been fairly successful but I am wondering how people

Re: (sin asunto)

2007-03-15 Thread John Kane
--- Jorge Mario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i can't run my Lyx in winXP, please. My Lyx 1,5 works well in my office, but it does not run in my PC, It says to Lyx no Started”, I can solve it? Are you trying to run LyX 1.5 on both machines? What operating system do you have at work?

Re: Utility to help with importing text?

2007-03-16 Thread John Kane
--- Tad Marko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy! I have a few manuscripts in convering to LyX for a friend. They are plain text files. Are there any utilities that can help me with the transformation of the double quotes to a `` and '' format (or whatever format I should be using)?

Re: LyX beta 2.0 on Mac

2007-05-18 Thread John Kane
--- A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to echo the praise for LyX given earlier. I I've used LyX in lecture and they are impressed with the quick entry of equations, promptly followed by a legible on-screen preview of the equations. It's a wonderful tool. Can

Re: LyX beta 2.0 on Mac

2007-05-18 Thread John Kane
--- Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 18, 2007, at 7:23 PM, John Kane wrote: --- A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to echo the praise for LyX given earlier. I I've used LyX in lecture and they are impressed with the quick entry of equations

Re: LyX beta 2.0 on Mac

2007-05-19 Thread John Kane
--- Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 18, 2007, at 8:45 PM, John Kane wrote: --- Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 18, 2007, at 7:23 PM, John Kane wrote: --- A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to echo the praise for LyX given earlier

Re: copying spreadsheet data into Lyx

2007-05-20 Thread John Kane
--- Russell Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi How can spreadsheet data be copying into LyX quickly? I can't get Open Office or Gnumeric to do this easily. Surely there must be a better way than one cell at a time? cheers Russell I suspect that there are better ways but try

Re: copying spreadsheet data into Lyx

2007-05-20 Thread John Kane
--- Russell Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi How can spreadsheet data be copying into LyX quickly? I can't get Open Office or Gnumeric to do this easily. Surely there must be a better way than one cell at a time? cheers Russel Have a look at calc2latex at

Lyx export to OpenOffice.org

2007-05-20 Thread John Kane
I noticed that there is an export option for LyX to OOo Writer. I gave it a try and Lyx seemed to do something but I don't see any output file. Am I missing something here? I tried a TeX export on the same document and it seemed to work fine. Thanks Be smarter than spam. See how

Re: Fully contained lyx + miktex distribution!

2007-05-21 Thread John Kane
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2007, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Therefore, I suggest that there is a big lyx distribution in the form of a single zip-file or CD .iso that contains really everything - MikTex (everything) + Lyx + pdf viewer + etc. Note that neither GSview nor

Installing lettrine.sty - corrupt remote site/

2007-06-12 Thread John Kane
Something tells me that this http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/corrupt.lettine.jpg is not a good sign. Is my computer the remote site? Using 1.4.3-5 on Windows XP Get news delivered with the All new Yahoo! Mail. Enjoy RSS feeds right on your Mail page. Start today at

Re: Installing lettrine.sty - corrupt remote site/

2007-06-12 Thread John Kane
Whewww, thanks --- Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, the remote site is the selected repository. On 6/12/07, John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something tells me that this http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/corrupt.lettine.jpg is not a good sign. Is my computer

Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.

2007-06-14 Thread John Kane
Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader called PDF-Viewer http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download (Windows only I believe) I gave it a try and it is very nice, far superior to Acrobat reader. However with both installed and PDF-Viewer as default I find that LyX does not create a

Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.

2007-06-14 Thread John Kane
--- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader called PDF-Viewer http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download (Windows only I believe) I gave it a try and it is very nice, far superior to Acrobat reader. However

Re: Bibtex/Citations: number of authors

2007-07-13 Thread John Kane
--- Maria Gouskova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. You would need to modify your .bst file, whichever one you are using, to do this. This is not for the faint of heart. But look at the btxhak.dvi BibTeX documentation if you really want to do it. For the faint of heart, custom-bib is an

Re: LyX vs. Scribus

2007-07-20 Thread John Kane
I have only had a quick look at it but it is a desktop publishing program like the old pagemaker. As far as I could see it was designed to take existing text and images and produce a nice output. It seems to handle linked frames, call-outs etc well. LyX and Scribus are almost completely

Re: apa styles and the dreaded (?.?)

2007-08-09 Thread John Kane
Anybody? --- John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot seem to get article(apa) to produce proper citations. I have tried what seems to be any possible combination of Bibliography Citation Style, and BibTeX Style available and either I generate the infamous (?.?) or, else, some kind

Re: apa styles and the dreaded (?.?)

2007-08-10 Thread John Kane
with this set. Mateo. On Saturday 04 August 2007 22:04, John Kane wrote: I cannot seem to get article(apa) to produce proper citations. I have tried what seems to be any possible combination of Bibliography Citation Style, and BibTeX Style available and either I generate

Re: apa styles and the dreaded (?.?)

2007-08-10 Thread John Kane
Thanks Richard. It looks like Mateo had the simple answer. I thought I had used that option before. Come to think of it I just did a complete registry clean etc. I may have cured something while doing that. Love Windows. :) --- Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote

Re: apa styles and the dreaded (?.?)

2007-08-10 Thread John Kane
with style Author, year selected in the Document|Setting|Bibliography menu. The references show fine with this set. Mateo. On Saturday 04 August 2007 22:04, John Kane wrote: I cannot seem to get article(apa) to produce proper citations. I have tried what seems to be any possible

Re: [announce] completely revised LyX UserGuide - request for testing

2007-08-15 Thread John Kane
It seems okay now 09:08 Eastern Daylight Saving Time --- Typhoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:30:54 +0200 Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP You can download the new UserGuide version and a PDF-version here:

Re: Endnote to Jabref to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread John Kane
A very nice start is Paul Johnson's article http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/BibTeX/biblioexample.pdf It does not touch on MLA specifically though. --- Jannika Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the prompt and helpful replies! I managed to transfer my endnote database to Jabref. Now I

Re: Help with specific class

2007-08-18 Thread John Kane
Leandro, I don't know about the overall layout but I have just started playing with LyX and as far as I can see one of the bibtex apa classes will handle the citation and referencing with no problem. I think your wife would want apacite but this may depend on which document class you use. ---

Using \include in ERT : How do I specify a path?

2007-08-23 Thread John Kane
I have a table in plain LaTex that I would like to inclulde in a LyX document. Using ERT \include{filename} works fine when I have the file in the same folder. I don't seem to see how to specify something like C:\food\table1.tex in either LaTeX or LyX. It must be obvious but I just don't see

Re: Using \include in ERT : How do I specify a path?

2007-08-24 Thread John Kane
--- Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane schrieb: I have a table in plain LaTex that I would like to inclulde in a LyX document. Using ERT \include{filename} works fine when I have the file in the same folder. I don't seem to see how to specify something like

Re: Exporting

2007-08-27 Thread John Kane
--- Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lars Olesen wrote: I have written my thesis in Lyx on Windows, and I have no problem exporting to pdf. However, I have trouble converting to other stuffÆ + when I want to export to plain text, it does not include the bibliography + I cannot

Re: Exporting

2007-08-27 Thread John Kane
--- Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: --- Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lars Olesen wrote: I have written my thesis in Lyx on Windows, and I have no problem exporting to pdf. However, I have trouble converting

Re: Exporting

2007-08-27 Thread John Kane
Ah so there it is. Thanks However I don't seem much further ahead. When I select the Export Open Document command I end up with nothing\ that resembles a OpenOffice.org (odt) file which I what I was expecting. The closest I seem to come to that is a file entitled : estimates.4od with 2

Re: Exporting

2007-08-27 Thread John Kane
: John Kane wrote: I don't understand your last comment. Are you suggeting that I should use ooolatex at a command prompt? Yes. And see if that works. If not, then the problem is with oolatex. If so, then the problem is in LyX. Of course you'll need to export to LaTeX first

Re: Exporting

2007-08-27 Thread John Kane
I'm more at the point of just doing a latex2rtf conversion which is not all that bad, but it is extremely annoying that I cannot get this to work. I use OOo a lot and the ability to move things in and out of Lyx would be a big help. --- Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/27/07, John

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

2007-08-29 Thread John Kane
Err, download from where? I think any good book on self-publishing would be useful for the LyX community and is likely to extend its use. Also I can easily see transfering from Word or OpenOffice to LyX for final publishing even if most or all of the writing has been done in a wp. I am

Re: Exporting

2007-08-30 Thread John Kane
I have no idea of what version of tex4th is on the machine. Any suggestions on how to check this? I am assuming that the tex4ht was installed when I installed MiKTex 2.5 which I think was about 6 months ago. This is the first LaTeX LyX installation on the machine that I am aware of (corporate

Re: date-insert again

2007-08-30 Thread John Kane
--- Pavel Sanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: date-insert command still exists in LyX 1.5.1 and is listed in http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctions it doesn't work for me. Is it my problem (I have a ~amd64 Gentoo install) or is more general ? let me know... works on ~x86 gentoo. is

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