Re: Subtitles

2006-06-14 Thread Matej Cepl
Steve Litt wrote: If you notice, most modern books have two lines to their title, as in: === Guide to LaTeX Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting === Try this one. Basically it means redefinition of [EMAIL PROTECTED] like this

Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx

2006-07-08 Thread Matej Cepl
Paul A. Rubin wrote: However, I never noticed that I have to close the last display of a pdf in Acrobat to be able to view the new one (I get the message I can't write on foo.pdf until I close foo.pdf. You might want to look at http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#toc1. Being too

tex4ht just doesn't work for me ...

2006-08-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, couple of people mentioned htlatex as tool for conversion from LaTeX to HTML. I have long history (at least 2 years) of not being able to convert even quite simple LaTeX to HTML with tex4ht stuff. Using Debian/testing, I have tex4ht 20060619-1 and when I tried to convert my dissertation

Re: Scaling an A4 doc to 2-up Landscape on A4

2006-08-05 Thread Matej Cepl
john wrote: I have tried: cat doc.ps | psbook | psnup -2 | lp -d printer Aside from honoring you with Useless Use of Cat Award (http://laku19.adsl.netsonic.fi/~era/unix/award.html) psnup has really weird syntax -- the parameter is really -2up (don't ask me why). So this should read: psbook

Re: access privileges of new files

2006-08-05 Thread Matej Cepl
pol wrote: It appears LyX always creates new files with privileges -rw-r--r-- Is that a bug? umask(1) is your friend. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ

Re: Copying and pasting

2006-08-14 Thread Matej Cepl
Pupeno wrote: My wife is doing some work in which she pastes lots of text from mails and other places, most of the on UTF-8 and pastes it on Lyx, but Lyx uses Latin-1, so she ends up with a lot of weird characters. Any ideas how to solve the problem ? something that is agile ? What's your

Re: Aspell and language de_CH

2006-08-25 Thread Matej Cepl
david wrote: How can I get aspell to use the language German Switzerland (de_CH)? It is weird -- I tried to find out what is the status of support of de_CH in LaTeX, but it seems to be pretty nonexistent (be aware, that I don't speak German at all, so I know nearly nothing about this

Re: change tracking in 1.4.2

2006-08-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Martin A. Hansen wrote: what can i do? Install dvipost (http://freshmeat.net/projects/dvipost/ or from your distribution) Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ

Re: change tracking in 1.4.2

2006-08-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: And dvipost.sty is in the tex search path? I.e., what do you get with kpsewhich dvipost.sty Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ

Re: Bibtex or bibitem?

2006-08-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Miki Dovrat wrote: Is there a way to translate entries from a bibtex file to a specific format and then reinclude them as items in the bibliography? Nice or dirty solutions are welcome. That's what *.bbl file is about. Paste it into ERT to your document, and you are all set. Matej -- GPG

Re: book koma-script options explained?

2006-09-01 Thread Matej Cepl
tom poe wrote: Is there a discussion of the options, e.g., backtitle, uppertitleback, lowertitleback, extratitle, etc. that would help me prepare for book layout? Tom Well, what about manual to koma-script http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/scrguien.pdf ? :-)

Re: Ligature problem

2006-09-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: Can somebody please tell me what to tweak to make all ligatures (ff, fi, ffi, fl, ffl) work? What fonts do you use? TeX cannot more than what is available in the fonts. The best coverage (of course) is in Knuth's Computer Modern fonts. So, if you use ae fonts

Re: adding hollywood TeX class

2006-09-06 Thread Matej Cepl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find the hollywood TeX class, and how do I install it so that Lyx will find it? It is usually part of the LyX package (lyx-common in Debian to be exact). What is your distribution/operating system? Best, Matěj -- 23 Marion St. #3, Cambridge, MA 02141,

Re: [Re: adding hollywood TeX class]

2006-09-07 Thread Matej Cepl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/share/lyx/tex/hollywood.cls /usr/share/lyx/bind/hollywood.bind /usr/share/lyx/layouts/hollywood.layout /usr/share/lyx/templates/hollywood.lyx Sorry, you need also (before running texhash) make this symlink: mkdir /usr/share/texmf-var/tex/latex/hollywood/ ln -sf

Re: [Re: adding hollywood TeX class]

2006-09-07 Thread Matej Cepl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the help. Matej's suggested changes along with the Reconfigure did the trick. For whatever reason, texhash was not working with the modifications. BTW, you should really file a bug report to Slackware LyX maintainers -- not making the proper symlink/copy

Re: Navigating in a big document

2006-09-08 Thread Matej Cepl
Elver Loho wrote: I was wondering... How do you guys navigate around in large files? I am not sure about screenplays and their structure, but about conveniently named menu Navigate? Does it work? Matěj -- http://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964

Re: Navigating in a big document

2006-09-09 Thread Matej Cepl
Elver Loho wrote: There are no sections and chapters in this document. Just the title page and scenes. I would say, that it is a bug in the LaTeX document structure then -- just a wild idea, cannot you contact developer of the LaTeX class to fix it? Matěj -- http://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/ GPG

Re: Lyx to Latex backto Lyx

2004-12-07 Thread Matej Cepl
LB wrote: Is it a good idea to avoid underscores and use hyphens instead? Yes, underscores have tendency to confuse LaTeX (being a sign for subscript) and they need to be protected. If you can, avoid them. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Matej Cepl
to an audience with computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her slides to me. OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a presentations well? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Matej Cepl
Rich Shepard wrote: Google search terms giving presentations returned 3,370,000 hits. The first few look promising. Major tips: Thanks a lot, Rich, that's exactly what I hoped to get. matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25

Re: Printing a Pocket Paramedic Protocol Booklet: Is Lyx the right tool?

2004-12-17 Thread Matej Cepl
the booklet and then staple bind it. There is a generalized version of psnup called pstops (it is part of the same package -- psutils), which is real PITA to use (because it is really complicated), but I guess you can persuade to do basically anything. Read pstops(1). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http

Re: Change starting number at enumerate

2004-12-21 Thread Matej Cepl
be it, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them. -- James

Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2004-12-28 Thread Matej Cepl
to ignite flame war, I have been using LyX for more than five years and all my work is dependent on it. However, I have just some fears about its future, which I would love to have answered. Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25

Re: Uses for Lyx

2004-12-30 Thread Matej Cepl
the use of a terrible, proprietary word processor when they can get camera-ready, typeset submittals as .tex files? Shrug. It's a real shame. Even worse, O'Reilly are one of the powers behind DocBook! Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-03 Thread Matej Cepl
griefs with LyX are. I know there are a lot of problems, but you mention only a few that are relevant to LyX in your message. See above. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-03 Thread Matej Cepl
of coding energy was lost to create the least-common-denominator between Qt and Xforms. Hear, hear!!! -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 A GOOD name is rather

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Matej Cepl wrote: * later ... well, actually, why not switch LyX to save its files in some kind of subset of OASIS Document format (what is going to be a native format of OOo 2.0, KOffice, and possibly even AbiWord)? Just throwing the thought here -- it will certainly need a long

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-03 Thread Matej Cepl
have clear goal what it wants to accomplish (Do one thing and do it well.). IMHO, LyX was supposed to be first-class authoring environment for scientific/scholarly writing. What about that? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-06 Thread Matej Cepl
a thought. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? -- Mark Twain

Re: About version control under windows.

2005-01-07 Thread Matej Cepl
am on Linux) and it is possible to make it work, but it takes some persistence. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Do not long for the night, when people

Re: LyX - XML, Koma-Script - XSD XSL?

2005-01-07 Thread Matej Cepl
from trivial. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Why should I travel, when I'm already there? -- Bostonian lady, when being asked why she never visited other

Re: lyx+tetex on mac os x / jean-marc's cv class

2005-01-08 Thread Matej Cepl
file somewere in there? $TEXMF/help/tds.dvi, section 2.2. What I mean, that there is no reason in the world, why you shouldn't have more than TEXMF tree on your system. What does 'kpsepath tex' tells to you? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB

Re: lyx+tetex on mac os x / jean-marc's cv class

2005-01-09 Thread Matej Cepl
(including `which tex` itself) which is called libkpathsea. I am not sure about k, but the rest is abbreviation of path search. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623

Re: corrections in LyX

2005-01-09 Thread Matej Cepl
standalone utility). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Dan Stanford

Re: does lyx support unicode

2005-01-11 Thread Matej Cepl
-- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money. -- Alexis de

Steve Litt's gripes against LyX and Docbook

2005-01-14 Thread Matej Cepl
of its definition). It is very rough and probably buggy, but it may work at least partially. However, then the answer is what to do with Docbook XML file and it is not simple either. Comments? Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3

Re: newpage in twocolumn style

2005-01-17 Thread Matej Cepl
example of what you mean, please? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Why should I travel, when I'm already there? -- Bostonian lady, when being asked why

Re: How to add a font in Lyx?

2005-01-18 Thread Matej Cepl
} \renewcommand{\ttdefault}{pcr} Which sets default ``roman'' font to Lido (http://www.cstug.cz/stormtype/slido.html -- cleaned up version of Times New Roman), Sans-serif font to Helvetica, and ``teletype'' (i.e., non-proportional) font to Courier. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG

Re: Steve Litt's gripes against LyX and Docbook

2005-01-18 Thread Matej Cepl
for the further development of OpenOffice.org, which looks like that it may be promising sometime down the road) than doing anything serious. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617

Re: prosper

2005-01-19 Thread Matej Cepl
-beta.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.user/msg/ee3217f5c4dd9a70 -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Re: When to use quote and quotation

2005-01-21 Thread Matej Cepl
quotations, whereas anything shorter should use quote. Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Dan

Re: Deriving a new LyX environment

2005-01-21 Thread Matej Cepl
): \let\oldbibliography=\thebibliography \let\endoldbibliography=\endthebibliography \renewenvironment{thebibliography}{% [EMAIL PROTECTED] \begin{oldbibliography}% }{% \end{oldbibliography}\end{minipage}\end{lrbox} } Enjoy! Matej -- Matej Cepl

Re: Various book document classes

2005-01-21 Thread Matej Cepl
Steve Litt wrote: I've got a beginners guide at http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200210/200210.htm. It's nowhere near complete,but it's a good starting point. And of course you should read Help/Customization as well. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6

Re: [OT] Re: apology

2005-01-22 Thread Matej Cepl
in this aspect). b) I would think that there are many people who use gmane.org (news2mail gateway; I do), which leads to using newsereaders, which are usually pretty well equipped in threaded department. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25

Re: How to cross reference a float

2005-01-26 Thread Matej Cepl
of that, pressing [Enter], then going Layout-Paragraph-Center before Insert-Graphic for each one. With all this, what's one more step? :-) This is not a wise solution, because floats are floats because they can float, i.e., following figure may actually get before its reference (AFAIK). Matej -- Matej

Re: beginner question: cyrillic

2005-01-27 Thread Matej Cepl
(ERT = Evil Red Text, which is a method how to write LaTeX commands directly in LyX). Generally speaking, the true solution for your problem of multi-encoded documents will come when LaTeX will fully support Unicode, which is unfortunately not the case yet. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz

Re: how to export lyx files to ascii with bibtex references ?

2005-01-28 Thread Matej Cepl
could even define a new ASCII(dvi2tty) format and converters in EditPreferences to get an FileExportASCII(dvi2tty) entry. Alternatively use some export to HTML and then run the result with lynx -dump. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Matej Cepl
) gmane.editors.lyx.general. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here. -- Stephen Bishop

Re: Non standard default font size

2005-02-06 Thread Matej Cepl
Keto wrote: I would like to change the default font size in my book to a non standard one (say 9pt). As book class only allow 10pt, 11pt and 12pt. How can I achieve this. $TEXMF/tex/latex/extsizes/ $TEXMF/doc/latex/extsizes/ Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF

Re: Latex class for reference manual.

2005-02-12 Thread Matej Cepl
/doc.html http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/pythonlatexsetup.html ??? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Re: [Fwd: Exports]

2005-02-13 Thread Matej Cepl
Colin J. Williams wrote: What information do I need to provide? What does 'lyx -x latex filename.lyx' do? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 He has Van

Re: Latex class for reference manual.

2005-02-13 Thread Matej Cepl
the current situation when LyX puts into .tex file some commands and _user has no way how to influence it_ is insane. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 He has all

Re: sgml/xml and lyx

2005-02-21 Thread Matej Cepl
for tei support as an enhancement but we are not there (yet). And acutally, you cannot edit Docbook/XML, just Docbook/SGML (unless you create special type in Edit/Preferences and then set up some creative way how to translate between XML and SGML). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz

Re: How to set up book-like footnotes

2005-02-21 Thread Matej Cepl
Jack M. Lyon wrote: Here's a way to set up standard, book-like footnotes in LyX--in other words, notes that look like this: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.user/msg/ee3217f5c4dd9a70 -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F

Re: Custom import filter

2005-02-21 Thread Matej Cepl
://www.editorium.com Like remove M$-Windows and install Linux w/ LyX? :-) -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real

Re: Using a LaTeX class file in LyX

2005-02-21 Thread Matej Cepl
that document class file is not CONVERTED, but the additional .layout file is created to help LyX understand what is necessary from the class file. You will find a help how to do it in Help/Customization. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25

Re: Problems with Lyx1.3.5 (Ruurd's port) on Windows98SE

2005-02-27 Thread Matej Cepl
samar j. singh wrote: I have installed Lyx on my windows98SE laptop. Seems to work fine generally. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.user/msg/ee3217f5c4dd9a70 -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland

Re: How to use Appendix?

2005-02-28 Thread Matej Cepl
is not the best one, but what they wanted to say is that when you insert Start Appendix Here every chapter and/or sections will be turned into new appendices. Try just to create a new section. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC

Re: pdfLaTeX: auto fullscreen in adobe reader?

2005-03-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Marcus Beyer wrote: Does some special trick exist to start the Adobe Reader in fullscreen mode when opening a certain document? I am using pdfLaTeX. RTFM -- $TEXMF/doc/pdftex/base/ (e.g., pdftexman.pdf, page 16). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A

Re: redefining the aticle document class

2005-03-23 Thread Matej Cepl
. Take a look, try to understand what's going on, and ask questions (here on the list). Some details are unnecessary (she is a linguist, so you probably do not need gb4e package, etc.). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC

Re: [OT] pdflatex vs. pdftex

2005-03-23 Thread Matej Cepl
of this? (A colleague of mine has the tetex package as well, but says he has 'pdflatex'.) The realtion between the two is same as the relation between 'tex' and 'latex'. I.e., in context of LyX you are interested only about 'latex' and 'pdflatex'. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej

Re: url insertion and mailto:

2005-03-24 Thread Matej Cepl
Marcus Beyer wrote: \href{mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] did the trick :) It would be wonderful if somebody finally put all these pieces of wisdom into Insert/URL box. I know, I know, there are no developers. Oh well. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger

Re: Docbook template - Textclass error

2005-03-29 Thread Matej Cepl
twenty times, until you get it). Then go to google and search for Windows ports of Docbook/SGML tools (jade, or ojade, DSSSL stylesheets, etc.). Install them and let us know what happened (lyx -debug is your friend). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43

Re: Docbook template - Textclass error

2005-03-29 Thread Matej Cepl
of the base templates? Yes, you've got it right. In the same manner as LyX/LaTeX documents are not usable without LaTeX, LyX/DocBook documents are not usable without Docbook toolchain. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC

Re: Dutch surnames in Bibtex

2005-03-30 Thread Matej Cepl
} Is it what you want? Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Always make new mistakes -- Esther Dyson

Re: Print LyX notes

2005-04-04 Thread Matej Cepl
). Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. -- Hebrew Proverb

Re: Modifying header environments

2005-04-04 Thread Matej Cepl
://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/titlesec.html Good luck! Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight

Explanation of \@ commands [Was: Re: redefining the aticle document class]

2005-04-04 Thread Matej Cepl
. Is it clear now? Happy LaTeXing, Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Just remember, brothers and sisters--their skins may be white, but their souls are just

Re: Typography aesthetic question

2005-04-10 Thread Matej Cepl
Taylor's articles http://www.ntg.nl/maps/pdf/19_10.pdf and http://www.ntg.nl/maps/pdf/19_11.pdf . Really good stuff! Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488

Re: Lyx-qt Button icons

2005-04-10 Thread Matej Cepl
think it is a design flaw of LyX, but that's another question (well, I think that relying on XForms as a first UI toolkit is a design flaw in itself, but that highly flammable and off-topic). Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964

Re: Lyx-qt Button icons

2005-04-10 Thread Matej Cepl
Angus Leeming wrote: What makes you say that? What appears in the menu and toolbars is controlled by an external file. I am sorry for misleading information. I think we're coming round to the idea of just dropping XForms. Cool! Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger

Re: Typography aesthetic question

2005-04-11 Thread Matej Cepl
?), and they claim that it even worked, but it is hard to believe that. Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge

Re: How do you make a bibliography?

2005-04-12 Thread Matej Cepl
bibtex-mode are different BibTeX-as-database programs -- tkbibtex, or (what I've used) pybliographer, or Java jabref. You will be certainly much better with them, than just with vim (although that's what I use most of the time -- sometimes I use Kate). Best, Matj -- Matej Cepl, http

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

2005-04-18 Thread Matej Cepl
-- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. -- Mark Twain

Re: why lyx when there's word?

2005-04-18 Thread Matej Cepl
tell Word that a paragraph in given style should be intended, but not when it is a first paragraph after Headline[1-3], list, or table? Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617

Re: why lyx when there's word?

2005-04-19 Thread Matej Cepl
opposite -- use LyX for everything and only in the rare cases when you need .doc document, or where you really need to tweak layout more use OOo (or maybe Scribus?). Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10

Re: How do you make a bibliography?

2005-04-22 Thread Matej Cepl
of the book (within the bounds of fair use). How do these differ as far as the bibiliaography? see @incollection. Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 As a rule

Re: Sections

2005-04-22 Thread Matej Cepl
Peter Pieczora wrote: I get corrupted output ( exporting it to latex, I can see Underfull \hbox (badness 1590) in paragraph error messages). Underfull \hbox is a warning not error and it can be silently ignored in most of the cases. Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger

Re: Custom 1st Page ?

2005-04-26 Thread Matej Cepl
= {Kopka, H., Daly, P.}, Title = {A Guide to \LaTeX2e{}}, Year = 2003, Edition = {fourth} } or http://www.informit.com/title/0321173856?aid=c9e80f0c-fab1-42b1-a79e-79453cba4ad1 Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC

Re: Change layout of the build in bibliography manager (autor, year)

2005-04-26 Thread Matej Cepl
features does by default. Is there a way to change this? put round in Layout/Document/Layout/options (without quotes), and then switch on NatBiB in Layout/Document/Bibliography/Use Natbib. Is it what you want? Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB

Re: Error Resulting file is empty

2005-04-26 Thread Matej Cepl
display whenever they get focus. matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Always make new mistakes -- Esther Dyson

Re: why lyx when there's word?

2005-04-28 Thread Matej Cepl
Steve Litt wrote: By the way, I finally just gave up on the underlining. By the way, did you take a look at package soul? matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488

Re: Change layout of the build in bibliography manager (autor, year)

2005-04-29 Thread Matej Cepl
ERT when necessary), you can use natbib, fill in your bibliography database (which is the most time consuming part of BibTeXing) and enjoy much better world than just with plain LaTeX's bibliography environment (what you call build-in bibliography). Just a thought, Matj -- Matej Cepl

Re: Adding a logo to all the pages of the document

2005-04-29 Thread Matej Cepl
) ? epstopdf -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 ..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work

Re: Two bibliographies

2005-05-01 Thread Matej Cepl
fuchst wrote: Does any one know whether this can be done and could point me in the right directions? bibtopic or something like that. Try Catalogue on CTAN (http://www.ctan.org) -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138

Re: Two bibliographies

2005-05-01 Thread Matej Cepl
fuchst wrote: Does any one know whether this can be done and could point me in the right directions? http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html#bibmulti Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138

Re: why lyx when there's word?

2005-05-01 Thread Matej Cepl
references. Just for both sides of the story, there is an ongoing effort to create a really good (MODS-based) Java bibliographic manager for OOo, which (if actually created) could make me think about switching to OOo after all these years. Just FYI, for what it is worth. Matj -- Matej Cepl

Re: Two bibliographies

2005-05-02 Thread Matej Cepl
finds no related hits. Is it like most good things I hear about ... taken off the market? :} I have no idea -- I don't use multple bibliographies myself. Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10

Re: [slightly OT response] to Re: Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-05 Thread Matej Cepl
there was an easier solution ;-) It just seems really strange behaviour, because I didn't change any config at all -- I just pasted some text in from another document! If it is not confidential -- can you mail to me an output of rcsdiff -u against the last version which worked? Matj -- Matej Cepl, http

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Matej Cepl
Angus Leeming wrote: \textit{\cite{cicerone}} Really? Why not do that in the BibTeX database? @String{BAUHAUS = {\textit{Das Bauhaus}}} Because I do not think it is wise to put presentation markup (or any non-database markup for that matter) into BibTeX database. Matj -- Matej Cepl

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Matej Cepl
) OpenOffice.org will be useful for me, and then I would have to convert my 172k BibTeX database into MODS format. For that case I want to have in BibTeX just clean data and no LaTeX commands at all, if possible. Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-06 Thread Matej Cepl
, that there is not enough developers -- and no I cannot do C++ if it saves my life -- is certainly not _your_ fault). This flamewar was supposed to be about BibTeX-as-database v. BibTeX-as-extension-of-LaTeX :-). Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-06 Thread Matej Cepl
it could be done by the bst file (running custom bib) And that is one of the reasons, why I am so happy to use natbib -- it supports url field. Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143

Re: PDF and fonts

2005-05-07 Thread Matej Cepl
. Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 The main idea of the pope's asking for forgiveness was not to be afraid of the truth. DO NOT BE AFRAID OF TRUTH! We have to have

Re: How to use version control under Lyx 1.3.5 Windows

2005-05-09 Thread Matej Cepl
1.3.5 Windows? Try to search google using keywords rcs djgpp (that's for M$-DOS version) or maybe there is even rcs cygwin (for Windows version). Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma

Re: passing doc dir to converter script?

2005-05-10 Thread Matej Cepl
INDEXLIST=$(dirname $1) ? Read dirname(1) for more. Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human

Re: lyx in spanish?

2005-05-11 Thread Matej Cepl
). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 A bird in the hand makes it awfully hard to blow your nose.

Re: A LaTeX Query

2005-05-12 Thread Matej Cepl
://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texhax), but it has really low volume, and low level of response. For clueless muddlers, you don't have to do anything and ask here :-). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10

Re: ec fonts

2005-05-13 Thread Matej Cepl
full comprehensive guide, then go to the local library or buy books referenced in TeX FAQ referenced above (I prefer [Kopka, Daly], which has the 3rd edition published last year). Best, Matej Cepl -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F

Re: Metapost problems

2005-05-13 Thread Matej Cepl
is a special dialect (?) of EPS. That didn't work, either, nor did Well, kind of -- Metapost's EPS is so simple, that somebody was able to create TeX macros which convert it into internal codes of PDF, which could be processed natively by pdftex. Let us know about your progress, Matej -- Matej Cepl

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