Re: citations and references in multi document files

2005-07-20 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Micha Feigin wrote: > references to > other parts of the document have to be entered manually and I can only > push > citations from bibtex as they are not known to the local document and even > then > I can't control their format. > > Is there any solution to any of these problems? Workaround for

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: > Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ or (if you're on win) http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ Jürgen

Re: adding section headings within a bibliography

2005-07-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > I need some advice about preparing a bibliography. The author wants to > include some section headers within the bibliography something like > this: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/BibTeX#toc2 HTH, Jürgen

Re: Program to edit the Wiki

2005-07-26 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there some WYSIWYM program to produce the code to insert inside the > > Wiki pages? > > No, and it'll probably be a while before such a program ever exists (1-3 > years if I have to make a wild guess). However, if I ever get around to > modify LyX to allow it to edit

Re: Program to edit the Wiki

2005-07-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hmm.. you mean taking LaTeX output from LyX and converting it into wiki > markup?  That *is* an interesting idea. It is as easy as: - defining a "wiki" file format - define latex2wiki as the LaTeX->wiki converter Then you can "export" LyX documents to the wiki markup. (I

Re: Program to edit the Wiki

2005-07-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It is as easy as: > > - defining a "wiki" file format > > It should probablyl be a "pmwiki" file format - different wikis typically > use different syntaxes. certainly > > - define latex2wiki as the LaTeX->wiki converter > > Then you can "export" LyX documents to the

Re: Obsolete fonts palatino, times, pslatex

2005-07-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Am Sonntag, 31. Juli 2005 16:23 schrieb Rich Shepard: > Andre, > >    I certainly hope not! I like Palatino. It's the default font in all my > writing and what I used in my book. Why would I want to use math fonts for > body text instead of Palatino or Times? Rich, mathpazo.sty is an enhanced rep

Re: Obsolete fonts palatino, times, pslatex

2005-07-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Andre Berger wrote: > Maybe one could just make them > available in the document layout font menu, for a start :) It's not that easy. We have to check if mathpazo is available, if not, fall back to mathpple, if that is not available, fall back to palatino (same for mathptmx -> mathptm -> times).

Re: Mapping the Euro sign

2005-08-01 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Andre Berger wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm on LyX 1.3.6/Mac OS X Tiger, and would like to map the Euro sign > to the LaTeX command \texteuro (provided by textcomp.sty), i.e., I > would like to insert this command as ERT when hitting the Mac > keystroke Option-Shift-2 (US-keyboard). Is that possible?

Re: How to print change bars

2005-08-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Roger McMurtrie wrote: > The change tracking function is working well on screen but when I View->DVI > or PDF the change bars don't appear. > Is there ant way of having them appear on the printed page? Did you install dvipost, which is used for the change bars in the output? If not, grab it here:

Re: Weird table errors ...

2005-08-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Søren O'Neill wrote: > LaTeX Error: Too many unprocessed floats. http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tmupfl HTH, Jürgen

Re: Annotating documents

2005-08-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Stephen Harris wrote: > Hello Jürgen, > > That seemed like a good explanation to me and it was very thoughtful > or considerate to go out of your way to illustrate the idea graphically. > > I've been looking at flpsed which features: > http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/#flpsed This is certai

Re: Annotating documents

2005-08-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Stephen Harris wrote: > But eXPert PDF viewer > seems to be free in the same sense as Adobe Reader for making annotations. > First you have to buy eXPert PDF Editor which is 39 or 79 Euro, I don't > know much that is in dollars, which provides the functionality of Adobe > Writer Pro, and although i

Re: Annotating documents

2005-08-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Stephen Harris wrote: > Multivalent also annotated pdf in a more satisfactory manner but > appeared to save in its own format, mvd, rather than the .pdf format > which would be readable from Adobe Reader by other collaborators. I think it would be a good idea if you could sum your experiences with

Re: File format extension

2005-08-06 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: >  I tried changing the extension for a clone of the PDF > (pdflatex) format to 'pdf4' (because I was trying to open it in a > non-Acrobat viewer, and the files were opening in Acrobat Reader > regardless).  Turns out this doesn't work, because pdflatex gives the > file a .pdf

Re: File format extension

2005-08-08 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > (In other words, making it "pdf4" > does not tell LyX to modify the pdflatex command to produce an output > file named whatever.pdf4.) No. it just tells LyX what to do with given whatever.pdf4 files. You could define a pdf->pdf4 converter, although I think this is rather si

Re: vertical alignment (center text vertically)

2005-08-11 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm looking for a way to center a multiline text horizontally and > > vertically on a page. > > (I'm planing to write something like vocabulary cards). The horizontal > > alignment is no problem but how to center the text vertically? > > thanks > > Robert > > In

Re: Paragraph separation

2005-08-30 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Pupeno wrote: > See in work experience how there's too much space between each of the > paragraphs (inside each entry). If I make it smaller, I can make it fit on > three pages and I like that. Since you are using a list environment, you have to alter the list parameter, namely \parskip (the spac

Re: Environment Depth question..

2005-09-06 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Pierre Marc Dumuid wrote: > I have to: > a) choose enumerate > b) Type "Non-words" and press enter > c) click the "Increase environment depth icon in the toolbar > d) Type "fooblog" > e) click the "Increase environment depth icon in the toolbar > f) Type "lyxlog" > g) click the "Increase environmen

Re: problem with hyphenation of underlined text

2005-09-06 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: > > But might there be a way that LyX (1.3.5) can take advantage of soul.sty > > automatically (without any ERT on my part)? > > Nope. But you can put \let\underbar\ul in preamble, then LyX's undeline will use soul's \ul. Jürgen

Re: footnotes in table not appearing

2005-09-06 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > I've got two small tables that contain footnote references. The correct > reference numbers appear in the dvi output, but the footnotes > themselves (and numbers) at the bottom of the page are omitted. A LaTeX restriction, see http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label

Re: confusion: interword spacing vs. unbreakble space

2005-09-07 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
David Soukal wrote: > I'm very confused about how to properly create an interword space. In > LaTeX the standard way is to use "\ " for an interword space and \@ for > the end-of-sentence spacing after punctuation. I was used to typing > > bla, e.g.\ bla correct is: bla, e.\,g.\ bla (with "thinsp

Re: Bibunits with a master document

2005-09-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - should the "\usepackage{bibunits}" command be inserted in the master > document preamble or in the included files preamble? In the master document. If you intend to compile your child documents separately, put it also there. > - should the "\bibliographyunit[\chapter

Re: Bibliography style

2005-09-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
christiaan johannes pauw wrote: > Before I selected "use natbib" the citation style was something like > [Barth(1948), 40]. Now it is (Barth, 1948, 40). What I would like is > (Barth 1948:40). Is there something I can do to change the .bst file or > use something else to  achieve that? have a look

Re: confusion: interword spacing vs. unbreakble space

2005-09-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > What about a situation such as this: "Fig. 26"? To my eye, the interword > space behind the abbreviating period seems too wide. Should this be a > thin space instead? It should be an unbreakable space in any case (that is, thinspace or protected space ~). I use protected s

Re: List of Figures in Table of Contents

2005-09-15 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Christian Fischer wrote: > hi there, > i think the subject already explains my problem. i want to appear my > list of figures in the table of contents but i can't make this work. any > suggestions? http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted#toc1 Jürgen

Re: Book of short stories

2005-09-26 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Steve Litt wrote: > I'm about to publish a book of short stories. I want a table of contents > with the page number of each story. I don't want to have "Chapter" or a > chapter number, because each story stands on its own. What document class > should I use? I'd recommend KOMA book or memoir. Bot

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rich Shepard wrote: > > - save this date in the document and keep it there so it appears > > unmodified whenever I reprint the document > >    Write in the date manually rather than using a macro that grabs the > system date. Or use "Alt-x date-insert", if you're lazy. Jürgen

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul Smith wrote: > It does not work well, because it inserts the date in English in > documents whose language is different from English. Actually, it uses your LC language settings (German in my case). There's certainly room for improvement. Jürgen

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul Smith wrote: > You mean the system language settings? Or the language settings of the > document? The system language settings (the string is generated by means of strftime). I agree the the latter would be more sensible, although more difficult. Jürgen

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Michael-E. Voges wrote: > great!! I didn't know that, yet. > But: it gives me "Dienstag, 27 September 2005" > without any dot after the day-number 27 Go to Preferences->Output->Date Format and change the string to %A, %e. %B %Y (i.e., add a dot after the %e parameter). For more configuration poss

Re: \line and justification

2005-09-29 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Georg Baum wrote: > > justified environment. What would really be great is if I had a command > > to replace typed text with a line of the same length. e.g. > > \hspace{\sizeof{theword}}. This command, of course, does not work. But > > could there be something like it? > > Maybe (untested) > > \und

Re: Selecting All Within A Document

2005-09-30 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Daniel Watkins wrote: > This is a fairly noob Q, but is there a shortcut to select everything > within a document (like Ctrl-A)? Set the cursor at the beginning of the doc, and then C-S-End Jürgen

Re: BiBTeX programmer's guide?

2005-10-06 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
K. Elo wrote: > Does anybody know BiBTeX hacking/programming guides/manuals (or relevant > links etc.)? I think there's not much, unfortunately, but I found this documentation quite useful: ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/info/bibtex/tamethebeast/ttb_en.pdf HTH, Jürgen

Re: BiBTeX programmer's guide?

2005-10-06 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > do we have a list of "suggested reading" on the wiki? > > i could write an abstract of lshort and the latex companion, if need be. That's certainly a very good idea. Jürgen

Re: Page numbers and foot-note distance

2005-10-06 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >         2. Increase the foot-note distance from >            the body text? (it is too close to the >            body area) You can try something like: \renewcommand\footnoterule{% % distance body -- footnoterule [EMAIL PROTECTED]@width1.5cm% [EMAIL PROTECTED] % dis

Re: some observations about lyx1.4pre2

2005-10-12 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) wrote: > 3) I have segmentation faults whenever I touch the Navigate menu item > with my 'original' documents. New documents seem OK. Could you provide a sample document? Jürgen

Re: space between single and right double quote marks

2005-10-12 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Helge Hafting wrote: > The bug exist in lyx 1.4 too, unfortunately. Things look fine on > screen, but a closing single quote followed by a closing double quote > (i.e. after the word "foo") looks like the opposite (a closing double > followed by a closing single) in the output. Ugly. It's an oldti

Re: jurabib from within lyx

2005-10-12 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Lachlan wrote: > "Paragraph ended before \org@@citex was complete > I suspect you've forgotten a "}", causing me to apply this control sequence > to too much text.  How can we recover?  My plan is to forget the whole > thing and hope for the best." I think the reason is that the babel package has

Re: space between single and right double quote marks

2005-10-12 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jim Osborn wrote: > I can't seem to find a way to typeset the following text correctly: > > "The word was `foo,'" he said. For the time being, the quickest solution is to use \textquotedblright{} in ERT instead of the closing double quotation mark. HTH, Jürgen

Re: Presentations using LyX

2005-10-12 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Daniel Watkins wrote: > I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along > with such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was > wondering if someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used > in such a way, or point me to a website which would do the sam

Re: pagebreaks and labeling

2005-10-12 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Todd Denniston wrote: > Although I Generally like to force new major sections to start on a new > page too, you can be a little gentler and ask LaTeX not to make widows[1] > or orphans[2] most of the time anyway. The LaTeX way is to make it a > penalty to create such a line, using \clubpenalty and

Re: Problem with table and paranthesis wn Lyx 1.4pre2

2005-10-12 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Marius Ionescu wrote: > I am using Lyx1.4pre2 with the qt frontend on Ubuntu 5.04. It behaves > strange when, in the math mode (display), I want to insert a two-by-two > matrix and then I select it and try to insert parenthesis to the left and > right (a matrix). After I press the insert button (fo

Re: FW: space between single and right double quote marks

2005-10-14 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Helge Hafting wrote: > A ligature break prevents a wrong ligature from being made. > a single quote followed by a double quote still looks bad, > it will look like a "triple quote".  What he wants is text that > really looks like a single quote followed by a double quote. > That is achievable by pu

Re: Clever quotes

2005-10-19 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul wrote: > Suppose I have some text that has a lot of quoted speech in it, but it's > supplied using standard (") straight single and double quotes. > > Is there some pre-processing tool that will try to convert them to > proper curly quotes suitable for LaTeX (``) and ('')? Here's some post-pr

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just wanna know: > What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why? In addition to the things already mentioned: pdflatex supports some nifty microtypographical features that latex (and hence dvipdfm) doesn't. Google for "character protusion" and "font

Re: Links Within Documents

2005-10-23 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Daniel Watkins wrote: > > One thing I've noticed some documents being able to do (namely the > > Beamer User Guide) is have clickable links in the ToC which > > automagically move the view to the appropriate section, which I thought > > was rather nifty. > > Use the hyperref-pack

Re: Links Within Documents

2005-10-23 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > There's also a neat script which helps with this task: > > http://tex2pdf.berlios.de/lyx-howto.htm > > tex2pdf doesn't help you to create links in the TOC. tex2pdf is just > another program to produce a pdf from LyX/TeX. I cannot recommend its > use. Better use the LyX menu Exp

Re: Using lyx and multibib

2005-11-01 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Christofer Zwanzig wrote: > Are there any sugestions how I can solve this problem? It will be difficult to get LyX to work with multibib. You could try bibtopic as an alternative. Cf. http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/BibTeX#toc2 Jürgen

Re: Faulty Latex generated by LyX ?

2005-11-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > It is a bug, but I am not sure it is in bugzilla yet. bug 1630. > What is > especially stupid is that the empty line before \begin{quotation} is > here... Ideally, it should be possible to have the two behaviours in > LyX (separate paragraphs or not). Yes, especia

lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

2005-11-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > how do i supply the sort&compress option correctly? Enter it into Layout->Document->Extra Options. LaTeX will pass it through to natbib. Jürgen

lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

2005-11-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > excellent - that worked. however, i feel it is a strange place to enter an > extra option to natbib. shouldnt these options: [...] > be checkboxes availible when one selects bibliography->use natbib ??? Yes, they should. We are thinking about a kind of package manager a a

Re: all footnotes at end of book

2005-11-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > I posted already a similar question; > however, is there an easy way to collect ALL footnotes throughout the book > at the END of the book without doing anything tho the footnotes themselves > (i.e. something in the preamble)? In Preamble: \usepackage{endnotes} \let\foo

Re: Modifying the koma-letter2 lyx template

2005-11-06 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rohnny Moland wrote: > I am using the koma-letter2 lyx template, which works very well, but I > am looking for a way to turn off the opening section, when writing > formal letters. Is this possible? I have looked at the lyx template code > but I cant find any options for it. You can't just turn it

Re: Figure number X

2005-11-13 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanx Uwe, but putting that at my preamble, Lyx > gives me the following error: > > Undefined control sequence. >  \numberwithin >                   {figure}{section} \numberwithin is a command of AMS math. Alternatively, try \renewco

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-16 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: > How I can get align left and hyphention? \usepackage{ragged2e} At the begin of the document \RaggedRight HTH, Jürgen

Re: bug in "change bars" patch (lyx 1.3.6)

2005-11-24 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin A. Hansen: > it is possible to offset change bars in a very ugly way. > > 1) take a piece of text > 2) enable change bars > 3) delete one word > 4) insert a whitespace after the word before the deleted word > > now, the double whitespace is collapsed by lyx when moving the curser, but > at t

Re: shorter distance in lists

2005-12-01 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > How to reduce the standard distance between items of the lists in a koma > book? Have a look at the enumitem package. Regards, Jürgen

Re: LyX wiki has been upgraded

2005-12-08 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is a warning^H^H^H^H^H^H^H blurb that I just finally upgraded the > wiki to the new wiki engine. neat. Once everything else is up and running, could you please replace the ugly LyX monster in the upper left corner by a slightly less ugly one, e.g. http://wiki.lyx.o

Re: LyX wiki has been upgraded

2005-12-08 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Done. Hmm... you don't think it's a bit big now though? Perhaps. You could try the attached, scaled version. > I guess I could customize the skin to work better, but I suspect my time > working on the wiki is better spent on structure/content than apperance. Certainly.

Re: selection of font in footnote in koma-script

2005-12-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: >   \setkomafont{footnote}{\sffamily} This works for me. Can you send a minimal example file? Jürgen

Re: I lost a very useful feature

2005-12-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: > How I can get sections* and Navigate Menu. I think it's not possible, but it would be definitely desirable. Cf. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1982 Jürgen

Re: I lost a very useful feature

2005-12-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: > For aesthetic and legibility. My book is on history and >   is plenty of dates, numbers, and is very long. >   I try to reduce hard impact in readers. >   Because my book have a cronological structural, numbers >   of section no add useful information for readers but >

Re: selection of font in footnote in koma-script

2005-12-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: > While I was making a minimal example file I found the origin of >   problem, This is the main reason for doing a minimal example. >   this is: >   \usepackage[flushmargin]{footmisc} >   I put that in preamble for get an apropiate format of footnote. >   But, now, I

Re: list of figures / subfigures

2005-12-23 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Rather than me torturing the LyX list with this, can anyone recommend a > good LaTeX list (newsgroup?) where I can get help (beginner's) for the > caption and subfigure packages? comp.text.tex de.comp.text.tex (German) Jürgen

Re: Mdwlist layout question

2005-12-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Thorsten Grothe wrote: > In tables and longtables I would like to use the mdwlist enviroments > itemize* and enumerate* with smaller spaces. Is there a layout file for lyx > putting this feature to the koma classes? I googled a lot but I did not > find anything. http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-use

Re: Raising the table of contents

2005-12-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Steve Litt wrote: > Any ideas how to raise the "Contents" header on the table of contents page? \renewcommand{\tocheadstart}{} or \renewcommand{\tocheadstart}{\vspace*{}} Cf. the memoir manual, sec. 10.3 HTH, Jürgen

Re: Using 14 point font in Memoir

2005-12-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jose' Matos wrote: > > I want to use 14pt, but the option doesn't show up in LyX's > > Layout->Document->Layout->Font&Size. If I use Vim to strongarm the .lyx > > file itself to \paperfontsize 14, when I View->postscript the typesize is > > 10, which is Memoir's default. How do I use Memoir's 14 po

Re: Using 14 point font in Memoir

2005-12-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jose' Matos wrote: > PS: Don't you have by any chance a bag at hand? I could hide my head > there. ;-) I'm afraid Santa took all bags along. Jürgen

Re: Crammed roman numerals in table of contents

2005-12-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > The package tocloft has lots of information about this (and many other > things one can do to modify the toc, lof, etc. (Actually I thought that > \cftpartnumwidth _was_ part of the tocloft package.) It is. However, Peter Wilson, author of the tocloft package, merged this

Re: PDF-File as front page for a master thesis

2005-12-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Christian Schanz wrote: > What is the best way to insert this PDF-File into my LyX Document? package pdfpages. Jürgen

Re: Crammed roman numerals in table of contents

2005-12-28 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Steve Litt wrote: > It's too bad Peter Wilson didn't include more. I REALLY could have > used some more of the tocloft variables, especially \cftbeforetoctitleskip. could you tell me again why this hint didn't work for you? http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users%40lists.lyx.org/msg44197.html Jürg

Re: Mdwlist layout question

2005-12-29 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Thorsten Grothe wrote: > Ok as I wrote the layout file works fine. But how can I redefine mdwlist or > any other package, to produce lists in tables without any indent? Is that > possible, like this: > > text text text > - list > - list > > (...) I'm not very familar with the mdwlist package, but

Re: Crammed roman numerals in table of contents

2005-12-29 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Steve Litt wrote: > Thanks Jürgen, > > I just tried both suggestions, and neither > \renewcommand{\tocheadstart}{} > > nor > > \renewcommand{\tocheadstart}{\vspace*{7in}} > > made any difference in where the CONTENTS title started, nor did the empty > one followed by the one with the length. I trie

Re: Mdwlist layout question

2005-12-29 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > I'm not very familar with the mdwlist package, but it is possible with the > enumitem package, see attached example. If you add \usepackage{mdwtab} you don't need to adjust the vertical space in the tabular cell. The package might result in side

Re: Stange appearance for xform in linux

2005-12-30 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
theblond wrote: > What is the problem? How to resole it? [...] > My setting for locale is: > LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8 does it help if you start lyx with LANG=hu_HU lyx (without UTF-8)? Jürgen

Re: Working with large table

2005-12-30 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Luqman H wrote: > it's really hard for me working with large table in LyX. > when i try to rotate the table, the table's caption dont rotate > so it's weird looking. > is there any simple way to work with large table? > like autoresize, autofit, or some easy way todo? In preamble \usepackage{rotat

Re: Crammed roman numerals in table of contents

2005-12-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Steve Litt wrote: > Hmmm, > > When I tried to view postscript on your file, I got the following error > message: > > == > LaTeX Error: File `showframe.sty' not found. >  \renewcommand >                   {\tocheadstart}{}^^M > *** (cannot \read from terminal

Re: Working with large table

2005-12-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voss wrote: > this often makes no sense for small tables, because > you _always_ get a new page for this table. Is there an alternative if you _have_ to rotate the table? Jürgen

Re: Working with large table

2005-12-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voss wrote: > if you have a wide table but only a few lines, then it looks > no very well on an own page. In such a case you can use > two minipages side by side, a table or multicolums. The > table _together_ with the caption (package capt-of) is > rotated together. If both are in a minipa

Re: Stange appearance for xform in linux

2005-12-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
theblond wrote: > Thanks Jurgen. > > It works. > > I have tried to convert the .po file to utf-8, but it was > not worked. > What is the difference between the two kind of LANG variable > processing in lyx? The problem is that LyX cannot handle unicode currently, but your system uses unicode. Wit

Re: "no-hyphenation point"?

2006-01-12 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > I fixed this by placing "-ism" in a \makebox{}, but was wondering if > there might be a simpler or a LyX way (not that this was complicated, > but thought there might be an "Insert -> Special Character -> Protected > Break" or "No-Hyphenation Point"... If you are using [n]g

Re: "no-hyphenation point"?

2006-01-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > I fixed this by placing "-ism" in a \makebox{}, but was wondering if > there might be a simpler or a LyX way (not that this was complicated, > but thought there might be an "Insert -> Special Character -> Protected > Break" or "No-Hyphenation Point"... FYI I have filed an

Re: how to change intext references from [1] to (1) with natbit ?

2006-01-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > i dont really know where to start. > i have looked at the natbib docs, but i didnt find anything. Search for \bibpunct. Jürgen

Re: jabref again

2006-01-26 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Here is another jabref related question. > The output of the article style in the References section > does not give me Capitals in the titel, except the first one. However, in > German references this is not tolerable. I am sure there is a way round in > jabref, but I d

Re: Heading Font in KomaScript Book Class

2006-02-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rich Shepard wrote: >  I've looked through the KOMA-Script guide without seeing anything on how > to change the typefaces. In Layout->Document I can specify the body > typeface and size, but not that used for the title and headings. > >    While I need the additional features in the KOMA classes, I

Re: GUI Buttons In Text

2006-02-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rich Shepard wrote: > Then I tried searching the symbol list, Google, and the TUG Tips and Tricks > web pages. Didn't find anything that looked like a solution. Rich, maybe the keystroke package is what you're looking for: http://www.ctan.org/info?id=keystroke HTH, Jürgen

Re: how to force a straight quote (") ??

2006-02-08 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > How do I force straight quote marks? As in:   5'-0" In LyX: String+Shift+" Jürgen

Re: how to force a straight quote (") ??

2006-02-08 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > String = Streng   ? > > i.e. Ctrl+Shift+" Yes, sorry. Ctrl ("Strg" on my German keyboard). Jürgen

Re: bibtex natbib square brackets and Lyx

2006-02-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Alexander Gahr wrote: > Also i want to use square brackets in cite look for \bibpunct in the natbib documentation. Jürgen

Re: Upgrade problem: deadkeys are gone after upgrade to suse 9.3

2006-02-12 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
christiaan johannes pauw wrote: > Hi > > I upgraded to Suse 9=2E3 and kept the same keyboard (brazilian on US) that > works with deadkeys. It works in all application except lyx. Do you run the most recent version of LyX (1.3.7)? Jürgen

Re: Upgrade problem: deadkeys are gone after upgrade to suse 9.3

2006-02-12 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Also sprach christiaan johannes pauw: > Hi > > I run 1.3.5 that upgraded with Suse This one has a problem with deadkeys. Please upgrade to 1.3.7: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.7/lyx-1.3.7-2_suse92_suse93_qt.i586 Jürgen P.S.: please always reply to the list.

Afrikaans Hyphentation (was Re: Left Title)

2006-02-12 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
christiaan johannes pauw wrote: > Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for > (babel)the language `Afrikaans' > (babel)I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 > instead. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] = a dialect from [EMAIL PROTECTED] You could t

Re: no page nbr. on first page of table of contents?

2006-02-14 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > I'm using koma-book and have renewed the commands for \chapterpagestyle > and \indexpagestyle to be empty so that no page numbers appear on the > first page. But how do I do this for the first page of the TOC and the > list of figures? I've tried a couple wild guesses and lo

Re: Change margin in a specified paragraph

2006-02-15 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > From http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=paragraph/margins (slightly > modified): > > In the preamble, add the following: > \newenvironment{widePar}[2]% >   {\begin{list}{}{\leftmargin#1\rightmargin#2}\item{}}{\end{list}} > > In ERT at the start of the paragraph you want t

Re: Lyxpipe?

2006-02-16 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Matthias Schmidt wrote: > Hallo zusammen, Hello (this is an English writing list). > ich arbeite mich zur Zeit in Lyx auf Windwos XP ein. > > Diese Frage konnte ich auch über google etc. nicht für mich erklären: > was ist die Lyx-pipe? Basically, it's the interface which is used for communicati

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Stacia Hartleben wrote: > Hi there! I was messing around after looking at this tutorial > (http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XY-pic) on how to get XY pic to work on LyX > and I got some limited tree support with xytree and TIPA working! That's nice indeed. Even if I knew we have some provisional code for ti

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voss wrote: > do you know the following packages? > > Linguistic tree diagrams for Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rrgtrees > > typesetting of trees that are common in linguistics > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/con

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Stacia Hartleben wrote: > I'd be happy to make an info page on the lyx wiki, except would it > really be useful, now that 1.4 is going to get rid of the xymatrix > support? That makes me really sad :( at least the tipa part will be useful. Jürgen

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voss wrote: > here are some examples with code I see that your book grew quite a bit ;-) Jürgen

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