Re: Removing pages from a .pdf file?

2005-07-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/19/05, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just generated a pdf file using pdflatex that runs from page -8 > to page 11. Is there a tool that I can use to remove pages -8 to 0 > (inclusive) from the pdf file? Or is there a way of getting pdflatex > to output only pages 1 to 11? An

Re: Automatic view DVI file after update DVI

2005-07-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/19/05, Stephen P. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>Systematically, when I update the DVI file, I want to view the DVI > >>>file. So, it would be nice to be possible to configure LyX so that > >>>clicking on Update --> DVI led automatically to the DVI viewer. Can it > >>>be done with LyX

Re: Automatic view DVI file after update DVI

2005-07-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/19/05, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, Angus, that is exactly what I mean. Maybe, this feature would be > > worthy of implementing in the future as an user option. But, of > > course, I know that there are many other features and more important > > to be implemented... > > If y

Re: Automatic view DVI file after update DVI

2005-07-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/19/05, Stephen P. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are welcome, Paul. Most MS Windows functionality is > availabe to Linux or Solaris so I was suggesting that an sh > script could probably manage to fulfill the function of the > cmd file which could serve as a basis for writing the *nix

Re: Users' list

2005-07-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/20/05, Jesús Jiménez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, my nick is Atlanta and I'd like taking part in the LiX users' list. Well, just subscribe it! The instructions are at: http://www.lyx.org/internet/mailing.php3 Paul

Strange message on the console

2005-07-24 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I am using LyX 1.3.6 on Mandriva LE2005. In spite of the fact that LyX works perfectly, I always get the following on the console, at the startup: MenuItem(): LyX command `show-forks' does not exist. I thought it would be worthy of reporting this. Paul

Re: Strange message on the console

2005-07-24 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/24/05, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using LyX 1.3.6 on Mandriva LE2005. In spite of the fact that LyX > > works perfectly, I always get the following on the console, at the > > startup: > > > > MenuItem(): LyX command `show-forks' does not exist. > > > > I thought it would

Re: Strange message on the console

2005-07-24 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/24/05, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Indeed, Angus, I am using my previous $HOME/.lyx/ directory. The command > > > > grep -r 'show-forks' > > > > is running since one hour ago, but with no result yet. > > It's waiting for you to specify the directory it should be looking in. >

Re: Strange message on the console

2005-07-24 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/24/05, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $ grep -r 'show-forks' /home/psmith/.lyx > > /home/psmith/.lyx/ui/default.ui:Item "Child Processes|C" > > "show-forks" $ > > > > What shall I do now? > > One of two things: > > 1. You really do have a different menu layout to the de

Re: \Gamma doesn't show in screen

2005-07-26 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/25/05, JORGE A. HERNANDO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a weird bug and I don't know where it belongs to. > The machine has FC3 installed since approximately 2 months > ago and I've just found that the capital gamma is not shown > in the screen (the same happens if I write \Gamma). Of

Re: \Gamma doesn't show in screen

2005-07-26 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/26/05, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you latex-xft-fonts installed? If not, you should install them > > and then the problem should disappear. > > Just for info. The latex-xft fonts are equivalent to but "less high > quality" than the BaKoMa fonts: > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pu

Re: \Gamma doesn't show in screen

2005-07-26 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/26/05, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/BaKoMa4LyX.zip > >> Not working the link above, Angus! > > Until ftp.lyx.org lives again, try: > http://lyx.mirror.fr/contrib/BaKoMa4LyX.zip The mirror works fine! Thanks, Jean-Marc. But the fonts

Re: \Gamma doesn't show in screen

2005-07-26 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/26/05, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just for info. The latex-xft fonts are equivalent to but "less high > quality" than the BaKoMa fonts: > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/BaKoMa4LyX.zip > > Perhaps someone with energy will modify the appropriate pages on the wiki? I am goi

Program to edit the Wiki

2005-07-26 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Is there some WYSIWYM program to produce the code to insert inside the Wiki pages? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: \Gamma doesn't show in screen

2005-07-26 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/26/05, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just for info. The latex-xft fonts are equivalent to but "less high > > quality" than the BaKoMa fonts: > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/BaKoMa4LyX.zip > > > > Perhaps someone with energy

Re: \Gamma doesn't show in screen

2005-07-26 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/26/05, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am writing the Wiki page and I would like to know whether it is > > necessary that latex-xft-fonts are installed before installing BaKoMa > > fonts. Thanks in advance. > > Nope. THey're exactly equivalent. Then, where should the user plac

Re: Program to edit the Wiki

2005-07-26 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/26/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 wiki pages it might be quicker - OTOH, I'm > guessing it'll

Re: Program to edit the Wiki

2005-07-26 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, if you re-start emacs, you should know be able to do > > M-x lyx-open > > and then give e.g. 'Main.WikiSandbox' as an argument, in order to open tha > page. Let me know if you have any problems. I get the following error:

Re: Program to edit the Wiki

2005-07-26 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I get the following error: > > > > replace-regexp-in-string: Symbol's function definition is void: caddr > > Ah.. that problem keeps popping up. The good news is that you're nearly > there. The bad news is that you probably have an old v

Re: Program to edit the Wiki

2005-07-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/27/05, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Works with the above. Thanks! After having quiting Emacs in the middle of a pmwiki-mode session, when I restart Emacs and the pmwiki-mode, I get the following message after the command M-x pmwiki-mode: Loading goto-addr...done and

Re: Program to edit the Wiki

2005-07-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've hopefully made 'caddr' automatically be defined by requiring a > package called 'cl' in pmwiki-mode.el. So I wonder if you could run > > cvs update No success, Christian: $ cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/pmwiki-mo

Re: Program to edit the Wiki

2005-07-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I have no idea what's going on there. Try one of these:' > * Delete what you have and check it all out from scratch > * Make sure you are *in* pmwiki-mode/ when running 'cvs update' > * Try > cvs -d ... update > from within pm

Re: \Gamma doesn't show in screen

2005-07-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/26/05, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then, where should the user place BaKoMa fonts? On my system is the > following place: > > /usr/share/fonts/ttf/latex/ > > but the directory changes with the Linux distribution. I have updated the Wiki page concerning

Re: bakoma fonts available in RPM format

2005-07-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/27/05, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've always used latex-xft in linux. When I recently saw the > recommendation in favor of bakoma fonts, I decided to test that out. In > case you use linux with an rpm package manager, I think this package > will be a suitable replacement for l

Re: bakoma fonts available in RPM format

2005-07-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/27/05, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I can get a > couple of people to test and confirm they work for them, I'll figure how > to upload to the lyx server. And afterwards, may we announce your rpm at the Wiki pages? If so, please let us know when you do that upload. Paul

Re: How to export a lyx document to a latex document?

2005-07-28 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/29/05, sylvain zorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried to do : file->export-> Latex ; but nothing happened. file->export-> Latex creates a file with the name of your LyX file but with the extension tex, and this file is placed in the directory where your LyX file is. Cannot you find

Re: center figures with paragraph skip

2005-08-02 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/2/05, Geoffrey Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use the center paragraph option when I place figures in floats to ensure > they are in the center of the page. However with this option the spacing > between the figure and the caption increases relative to the default > (justified). > >

Re: Paste External

2005-08-02 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/3/05, Stacia Hartleben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way I could make a keyboard command for paste external? I > need to paste a lot of external things and it takes a long time to go > to the menu all the time. I don't mind if there are two seperate > functions, but I want easy acess

Re: center figures with paragraph skip

2005-08-03 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/3/05, Søren O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually use: > > \centering{} Søren, I think the brackets are irrelevant and, therefore, my solution also works fine. Regards, Paul

Re: no TeX classes after FC4 upgrade

2005-08-05 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/5/05, Derek Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just upgraded my machine from Redhat 9 to Fedora Core 4. Since the > upgrade (which I saw inclued a tetex upgrade), LyX 1.3.6 does not > recognize any Tex document classes: 'The document uses a missing TeX > class "article". LyX will not be able

Re: no TeX classes after FC4 upgrade

2005-08-05 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/5/05, Derek Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Derek: try to use the latex command (from the command line) on a LaTeX > >document to check whether the problem comes exclusively from the LaTeX > >side. > > > ok, I asked someone to make sure I was doing that correctly (I use LyX > so I don't hav

Re: no TeX classes after FC4 upgrade

2005-08-08 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/8/05, Derek Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I have run texhash and LyX->Edit->Reconfigure, deleted my ~/.lyx > >>directory and restarted, even reinstalled LyX just to be sure, to no > >>avail. > >> > >>When I do LyX->Help->LaTeX Configuration, Section 1 says that "The LaTeX > >>version tha

Re: pdflatex view

2005-08-09 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/9/05, Geoffrey Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All of a sudden when I select view->>pdflatex instead of getting the document > as it is I get a very old version of it. > > I have tried Update, I have tried closing and starting again. > > ANy ideas?? view dvi works fine! I would first t

Re: installing beamer

2005-08-24 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/24/05, Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have encountered a slight problem installing beamer. > > i installed beamer, ran texhash, ran lyx->reconfigure, restarted lyx, > but there is no beamer class availible? Usually, it does not appear according to an alphabetic order; it app

Re: Questions.

2005-08-26 Thread Paul Smith
Although some questions (or most of them) can be answered through searching the information sources (wiki, mail archives, etc.), it is probably easier for everyone if all collaborate to answer those questions, as many times the answers are one or two lines long and therefore easy to give. If all co

Re: $\displaystyle...$

2005-08-26 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/26/05, Carlos Knauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I use the command $\displaystyle...$ in Lyx ? I would like to write > an equation with exponents (up and down). For example: I would like to write > The summatory $\Sum_{i=1}^n V_i$ is... but in Lyx. How can I do it ? Inside math mode

Re: Forcing two same environments to be splitted

2005-08-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/27/05, fAX k.root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a question. If I want 2 definitions one after other to be > numbered separately, I don't know how to do this elegantly. For now, I'm > forced to put an invisible note or make nested environments. How can I > tell LyX that I want TWO SEPARAT

gzipped patch

2005-08-29 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All >From the "LyX 1.3.6 released"of the LyX page, I get the following information: «Please find enclosed an announcement, some sources in tar.gz format (also .tar.bz2 ) and finally a gzipped patch (in .bz2 too). In a few days there should also be some binaries.» What for is the gzipped pa

Re: gzipped patch

2005-08-29 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/29/05, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From the "LyX 1.3.6 released"of the LyX page, I get the following > > information: > > > > «Please find enclosed an announcement, some sources in tar.gz format > > (also .tar.bz2 ) and finally a gzipped patch (in .bz2 too). In a few > > days th

Re: displaymath

2005-08-29 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/29/05, Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am using displaymath environment and wondered whether it was > >> possible, for a few equations only, to have this environment to be > >> left aligned rather than the default centered. > > > > In Layout->Document->Packages, check the box to

Re: Keyboard shortcut for selecting paragraph styles / environments?

2005-09-03 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/3/05, Mark Engelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a shortcut to activate the drop-down box for all the environments? > It really bugs me having to use a mouse to click up there any time I change > environments. Mark, You could try to bind some commands to perform the change to the d

Re: Problem with math-macro

2005-09-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/4/05, Srinivas Nedunuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I tried defining a macro as described in the User Guide (the > macrowarg example). However, I get the following erroe message: > > Extra }, or forgotten $. > \newcommand{\macrowarg}[1]{2+\sqrt{#1}} > > What is wrong here? T

Re: Compiling LyX 1.3.6 with qt

2005-09-05 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/6/05, Luqman H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks it works... > > i'm just have tobe patient for very long compiling.. > btw, is it a bug? or it only happen > to my machine..? > > 2005/8/31, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Luqman H wrote: > > > > > Please help.. i

Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-09 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/9/05, Peter Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just tried to install Lyx from the 1.3.6-1 RPMs. > > It can't find the commands kpsewhich and texhash, which is weird because > they are both in the global path. The TeX is a new full install from the > TeX Collection DVD. > > How do I get aro

Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-10 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/10/05, Peter Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just tried to install Lyx from the 1.3.6-1 RPMs. > >> > >> It can't find the commands kpsewhich and texhash, which is weird > >> because they are both in the global path. The TeX is a new full > >> install from the > >> TeX Collection DVD. >

Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-10 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/10/05, Peter Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Is anyone out there using LyX on FC4? > > > > I am using LyX on FC4 with no problem. The way I installed it was: > > > > 1. copied my own .lyx directory into my home directory; > > > > 2. yum install lyx. > > Excellent! Never used yum before,

Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-14 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/14/05, Rex Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They are included *in* the mathml-fonts package. In order to update the Wiki site, the above information, Rex, is valid for all Fedora Cores (FC1, FC2, FC3 and FC4)? Paul

Re: Fedora Core mathml-bakoma4lyx and mathml-fonts packages

2005-09-17 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/15/05, Rex Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> For my Fedora Linux systems I prepared just such a collection, using > >> Rex's framework and making only the minimal changes to insert the > >> bakoma4lyx fonts and tighten up packaging. I inserted the bakoma4lyx > >> Readme.txt documentation

Re: Fedora Core mathml-bakoma4lyx and mathml-fonts packages

2005-09-17 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/17/05, Rex Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>OK, mathml-fonts-1.0-18 has been released (or will be real-soon-now). > >> > >>%changelog > >>* Thu Sep 15 2005 Rex Dieter 1.0-18 > >>- replace latex-xft-fonts with bakoma4lyx > >>- remove non-distributable Math'ca fonts (#168405) > > > Will m

Re: Fedora Core mathml-bakoma4lyx and mathml-fonts packages

2005-09-17 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/17/05, Rex Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, Rex. As soon as mathml-fonts-1.0-18 becomes available, I will > > update the Wiki. > > FYI, it's available now (and was within hours of my original notice to > this list). Well, it seems that my extras repository has not been update ye

Re: Copying A Table Float Across Documents

2005-09-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/19/05, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to copy a table -- as a table -- from one document to another, but > my attempts so far have failed. > >I've opened the table in the source document, highlighted the entire table, > used ctrl-c to copy it to the clipboard, switche

Re: Quick question: enumerating from 0

2005-09-24 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, how do I have a numbered list (enumerate environment) start > from 0 (or some other number)? Thanks in advance. See http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted#enumListStartingNumber Paul

Re: non-LyX question: Beamer enumerate

2005-09-26 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/26/05, David Soukal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry to bring up this question here, but I didn't get any response > on the Beamer support site... I figured somebody here might have had > this problem before me. > > In a theorem a I have an enumeration of three properties: > > \item Prop

Re: non-LyX question: Beamer enumerate

2005-09-26 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/26/05, David Soukal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The package enumitem, David, may be of some help. Have a look at the > > examples in its documentation. > > Thank you Paul. I had a look at the package and it looks useful. > However, I wasn't able to figure out what I should put as "label="..

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/27/05, Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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-ins

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/27/05, Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. Yo

Re: Trouble with ispell

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/27/05, Luis Angel Fernández Cuadrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using SuSE 9.3 on an AMD64 machine. Normally, I compile LyX from source > but last time I was a bit lazy and downloded and installed the 1.3.6 binary > in the LyX ftp site (bin) compiled for SuSE 9.2. Almost everything works

Re: Fixing the equal-sign and other font issues on Windows

2005-09-30 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/30/05, Matei Zaharia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I noticed that on http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/ it says to > download certain TTF fonts for Windows, and if an issue pops up where > horizontal or vertical lines are being hidden (e.g. in equal signs, but also > happens with +/-, e

Re: Fixing the equal-sign and other font issues on Windows

2005-09-30 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/30/05, Matei Zaharia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > LyX team has meanwhile released the version 1.3.6, in which the > > problem reported by you does not occur! > > Hmm, I'm actually using 1.3.6. Maybe I missed some extra installation > instructions. Specifically, here's what I did: > > - Insta

Re: equations in lyx

2005-09-30 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/30/05, gajus miknaitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's worked for me. > > > > If you press ctrl-m (or shift-ctrl-m) do you get the math box in which to > > type your equation? If so, the proper LaTeX code has been inserted in the > > document. > > Ok, I just opened a fresh document and i

Re: Page numbers and foot-note distance

2005-10-05 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey friends! How are you doing? I hope fine! > > Well, the subject already speaks for itself: > > How can I: > > 1. Take off the page numbers? (I need to >make a Curriculum Vitae); and > > 2. Increase

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-07 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/7/05, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If we can keep a new user for a week, we will have him for good. After > lyx/latex becomes irreplaceable, he will join this list and learn some > latex and advanced lyx. The situation now is that most (windows) users > are scared away by the long ins

Converting from EPS to JPG

2005-10-10 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All This may be a bit out of topic, but I would like to convert a eps picture to a jpg one with the following features: * 600 DPI for line drawing * 300 DPI for halftones (gray scale) How can I do this conversion? Or could someone please direct me to the right forum to ask my question? Tha

Re: Converting from EPS to JPG

2005-10-10 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/10/05, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This may be a bit out of topic, but I would like to convert a eps picture > > to a jpg one with the following features: > >'man convert' Thanks to all who have answered. The picture that I have got is a PS file and corresponds to a small

Re: Converting from EPS to JPG

2005-10-10 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/10/05, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks to all who have answered. The picture that I have got is a PS > > file and corresponds to a small rectangular part of an entire part. > > How can I throw away the whole superfluous white space around the > > picture? I have tried GSview

pre2 is stable?

2005-10-10 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Is the the pre2 version of LyX a stable one? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: pre2 is stable?

2005-10-10 Thread Paul Smith
On 10 Oct 2005 21:55:49 +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Is the the pre2 version of LyX a stable one? > > Oooo... way no. But it is getting there. It shoudn't eat your > documents and crash your machine all the time... > | > | Thanks in advance, > > But please try it out, b

Re: converting tex to lyx; layouts

2005-10-11 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/11/05, Tomoki Tsuchiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > I am using win32 lyx 1.3.6. > I am wondering why I can't convert tex file to lyx file. is it possible at > all? Have a look at: http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx > As well as that, I am searching for a good site, explaining

Re: Presentations using LyX

2005-10-12 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/12/05, Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: Presentations using LyX

2005-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/13/05, Gour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've used beamer to prepare the slides for two public presentations over > > the past month. I've inserted tables within a slide frame, created graphics > > using tgif (which are included as .eps files) and PSTricks (compiled with > > ps4pdf before

Re: PDF's Repeatedly Corrupted under Windows

2005-10-15 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/15/05, Roy Schestowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question possibly refers to conversion at a level lower than that of LyX, > but > regardless: > > I often find that my supervisor, who is an avid Windows XP user, cannot view > documents that I compile in LyX as PDF (this has gone on for

Re: where to get pre 1.4.0

2005-10-16 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/16/05, Stacia Hartleben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to try the preview version of 1.4.0. I hear people > talking about it all the time but I don't know where to get it - where > can I download it to try it out? Stacia, You can get it from ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/l

Re: Ok! Here is such a example file! :)

2005-10-16 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/16/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok! Here is such a example file! :) Your example file behaves here as expected. (I am sending you, privately, the pdf output.) Paul

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/19/05, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> PS: Please always reply to the list > > > > I second that. I noticed a tendency to reply off-list. This leaves > > gaps in the mailing list archives and puts off a subset of list > > subscribers. css-discuss, on the contrary, adopted some different

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/19/05, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree, Paul. The reply address should be occupied by the list's > address. > > I don't agree. Read http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html, and > then get a decent email program (or news client, if you read the list via > gmane). For e

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/20/05, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't agree. Read http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html, and > >> then get a decent email program (or news client, if you read the list > >> via gmane). For example, I press L in kmail when I want to answer to the > >> list. > >

Re: LyX displaying problem.

2005-10-23 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/23/05, ray zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know why when when enter Math Mode and type \leq, it gives me a > space. But once I turn the lyx document into DVI, it shows \leq as it > should. What could be the problem? Ray, You need to install BaKoma fonts. If you are running Linux

Re: Is this possible in lyx?

2005-10-25 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/25/05, Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just figured out how to disallow LaTeX to linebreak > > a math inline formula that resides in the end of a > > line. Sometimes they turn so awkward when they are > > breaked in the end of the line. With LaTeX I just type > > a formula in an

Re: Is this possible with lyx?

2005-10-25 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/25/05, Giorgio Zavarise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MY PROCEDURE FOR DUMMIES WAS WRONG, SORRY > > The problem comes from the fact that within the box generated with the > \fbox command you are back to the text environment, hence to type > equations, once you are inside the box, you have to i

Re: Is this possible with lyx?

2005-10-26 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/25/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought I'd add the stuff below to the wiki, but first I'd like to check > that it's correct (since I haven't tried it myself). > > > > Question: > How can I disallow LaTeX to linebreak an inlined math fo

Re: How to put a box around an equation: is there a bug in Lyx?

2005-10-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/27/05, Giorgio Zavarise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > POST SCRIPTUM > I tried also the above procedure recently proposed by Paul Smith, but > for me it does not work. I means the result looks correct, but I am not > able to pdflatex it, and I got the following error mess

Re: Updating dvi

2005-10-31 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/31/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, how are you? > Well, I cannot view the newest dvi file when I > type ctrl+d. It just launch the old one. I need always > to manually delete the dvi file, and then press the > ctrl+d again to really view the dvi file with

Re: Updating dvi

2005-10-31 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/31/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Paul, but that not work neither. The > Shift+Ctrl+d is the same to ``View->update->DVI'' > > > Douglas: use shift+ctrl+d instead. What is the DVI viewer that you are using, Douglas? Paul

Re: Updating dvi

2005-11-01 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/1/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yap 2.4.1803 DVI viewer. > Thanks for trying to help! :))) > > On 10/31/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks Paul, but that not work neither. The > > > Shift+Ctrl+d is the same to ``View->update->DVI

Re: Is this possible with lyx?

2005-11-02 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/2/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would add two different entries to the Wiki: one to answer the question > > > > 1. How can I disallow LaTeX to linebreak an inlined math formula?; > > Now added as > http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PreventingLinebreakInInlineFormul

Re: converter for pdf

2005-11-03 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/3/05, Robert Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - > I seem to have accidently deleted a few of the > converters from my preferences. I'm using 1.3.5 on > Windows. > > Can someone help me out and check their install to let > me know what the default converter syntax is for PDF > and for pd

mtabular environment in LyX

2005-11-06 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All As far as I can see, there is no LyX support for the nice AMS environment mtabular. Is it planned to have it in next versions of LyX? (I am using LyX 1.3.6.) Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: mtabular environment in LyX

2005-11-06 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/6/05, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I can see, there is no LyX support for the nice AMS > environment mtabular. Is it planned to have it in next versions of > LyX? (I am using LyX 1.3.6.) To have a better understanding of what is mtabular environment,

Re: mtabular environment in LyX

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/7/05, Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> As far as I can see, there is no LyX support for the nice AMS > >> environment mtabular. Is it planned to have it in next versions of > >> LyX? (I am using LyX 1.3.6.) > > > > To have a better understanding of what is mtabular environment, se

Re: mtabular environment in LyX

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/7/05, Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> As far as I can see, there is no LyX support for the nice AMS > >> >> environment mtabular. Is it planned to have it in next versions of > >> >> LyX? (I am using LyX 1.3.6.) > >> > > >> > To have a better understanding of what is mtabular

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/6/05, James W Dow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > LyX is a wonderful word processor. It is best one for writing mathematics > directly from the keyboard. Please don't spend a huge time developing it for > Windows. Windows will gradually fade away. Putting nice programs like LyX on > that operati

Re: Memoir Install?

2005-11-08 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/8/05, Gill, Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a LyX nubie. > > I'm using Ubuntu 5.10, and have installed LyX via the Ubuntu package > manager. > > How do I install Memoir? Where do I put the sty files, etc? Jack, If you have a working LaTeX installation, memoir should be accessible fro

Re: Memoir Install?

2005-11-08 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/8/05, Gill, Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded the files from CTAN, followed the instructions in the > readme file, and it still didn't show up. I restarted LyX several > times, and nothing. Then I rebooted the PC, and there it is. In such a situations, one must reconfigure LyX

Re: New layout for brev.cls available at wiki.lyx.org

2005-11-11 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/11/05, Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have made a layout and a template document for brev.cls, > which is available from http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts > > brev.cls is nice for writing letters on A4 paper, it positions the > sendto address so it is visible through the windo

Re: Big Equation

2005-11-14 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/14/05, Carlos Knauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello ! > I would like to write a big equation using 2 or more lines. How do I do it > ? See sub-section "multline environment" in ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf (LyX supports multline environment.)

Re: about custom key bindings

2005-11-14 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/14/05, Nusret BALCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know Scientific workplace from my MS thesis: It's > reasonably well, but sometimes you need to tweak the > Latex code anyway. For some reason you should be > extremely careful doing that, because it tried to eat > my document a couple of ti

Re: Building lyx from source

2005-11-16 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/16/05, pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently installed a slackware package of lyx 1.36 to my computer, but > it doesn't work as well as when i compiled it myself; pdf preview > preview doesn't work. > > The problem when i compile myself is that it automatically uses xforms > gui, which

In-line formulae and inter-lines spacing

2005-11-18 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Sometimes, some in-line equations cause a larger inter-lines spacing around the line where the equation is placed. Is there some way of minimizing this undesirable side effect? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: Question about subscripts to limits (inline mode)

2005-11-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/19/05, Dimitris B. Kalamaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if there is a way to have subscripts to limits (in inline mode) > written beneath the lim word rather than next to it. I cannot use display > mode all the time. > > I know that LaTeX can do it i.e. > $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow

Re: In-line formulae and inter-lines spacing

2005-11-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/20/05, Roy Schestowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sometimes, some in-line equations cause a larger inter-lines spacing > > around the line where the equation is placed. Is there some way of > > minimizing this undesirable side effect? > > I know exactly what you mean, but what solution c

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