On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Paul wrote:
Is there a command-line tool that does this using some heuristics to cover
most areas that could be problematic?
Paul
sed. tr, too, but sed would work. Something like s/[A-Z,a-z]?/``?/g. I
didn't look
at my sed book, but that reads, substitute two single
In a couple of presentations I have the following ERT immediately after the
author block on the title slide:
\pgfdeclareimage[height=0.5cm]{institution-logo}{/home/rshepard/data/slide-presentation/beamer/aesi-logo}
\logo{\pgfuseimage{institution-logo}}
but nothing shows up on the slides when
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Jose' Matos wrote:
AFAIR you need the file suffix for pdflatex.
Jose',
Actually, that's not true. At least with the beamer class any suffix that
can be processed by pdflatex works.
In any case, I found the source of the problem: user error, of course. I
had one
This is a minor point, but annoying nonetheless.
When I invoke LyX, the environment choice button at the left of the icon
bar is small. As soon as I load a beamer document, that button expands to
consume about 1/3 the horizontal space in the window. This drives the macro
entry widget to the
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Paul wrote:
Most of my potential readership is going to be using Adobe Acrobat on
Windows I imagine. So if I use Times, will that be treated as different
from Times New Roman and cause problems for Windows users, or will it
silently substitute the font (possibly causing
The environment control is expanding to accommodate the widest entry in the
list, which with beamer appears to be ColumnsCenterAligned. If you never
use columns, I suppose you could edit ColumnsCenterAligned and
ColumnsTopAligned out of the layout file, and then the environment control
would not
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just wanna know:
What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why?
Douglas,
I've used only pdflatex and it produces everything very well. I have not
looked at other output processors because this one works for everything I do.
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
Correct me someone if I'm wrong, but doesn't PDF (pdflatex) fail when the
document has graphics in eps format? But PDF will work fine. Don't know
about PDF (dvipdfm).
Bruce,
No. At least, not for me. I use .eps graphics in book, article, report,
I've tried adding some subsections and frames in a presentation I'm
writing. I get this error message when compiling with pdflatex:
LaTeX Error: There's no line here to end.
\lyxframeend
{}\lyxframe{Information Domains II}
Your command was ignored.
Type I command return to
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Rich Shepard wrote:
Is it the mix of definition and enumerate that causes pdflatex the
indigestion? I just do not see the error.
It was not the mixture of types (I don't think) as much as it was too much
information to fit on a slide. The mixture probably didn't help
I just upgraded all the systems here to Slackware-10.2. I've been busy
developing beamer presentations (another one to be done in the next couple of
weeks), so I've been viewing compiled output with pdflatex. Yesterday,
however, I wrote a short article and tried to view the output by pressing
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
To rule out the first, try exporting the doc as a DVI and then running xdvi
against it manually.
Paul,
Sigh. Why didn't I think of this? (That's a rhetorical question, by the
way.) For some reason, the t1lib was not upgraded. No library, no
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Andre Berger wrote:
You have to define a viewer like
\format dvi dvi DVI D xdvi
No, that's not it. It turns out that apparently xdvi is behind the t1
libraries. The application is looking for libt1.so.1, and the current version
of the library is libt1.so.5.1.0. The
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Andre Berger wrote:
Glad you solved it.
Andre,
Thanks! I am, too. Now I'm trying to learn why the error occurred in the
first place. I suspect it's the way xdvi was packaged.
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President | Author of Quantifying Environmental
Not too long ago, someone here recommended jpicedt to make it easier to
work with PSTricks. The application is not properly installing for me
(Slackware-10.2) and I would appreciate an off-the-list response if anyone
has suggestions. I'll explain the problems, of course.
TIA,
Rich
--
Dr.
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Rich Shepard wrote:
Not too long ago, someone here recommended jpicedt to make it easier to
work with PSTricks. The application is not properly installing for me
(Slackware-10.2) and I would appreciate an off-the-list response if anyone
has suggestions. I'll explain
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) wrote:
Where can I see what lyx is doing in the background when generating a preview?
Maarten,
Take a look in /tmp/lyx_tmpdirectory*/lyx_tmpbuf0/ and you'll find all the
files, including the .log file.
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard,
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Steve Litt wrote:
Where does one get The LaTeX Companion 2nd edition?
http://www.amazon.com, http://www.powells.com, and others.
It's a great resource, Steve. I ended up reading it cover to cover just
because it was so interesting and answered so many questions.
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
I am using a book class. I have a tableofcontents and I have a printindex{}
at end.
How can I get my generated books' table of contents to also have an entry
that says: Index with the correct page number?
Jeremy,
Mine does this automagically.
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Note that you can declare a single cell to be multicolumn if you want it
to have unique borders.
Also, if you want the column to have entries left justified, but the column
header to be centered, you need to declare that column header cell
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
It uses same font size though which I also don't want.
Jeremy,
Highlight the sub-title using the pointy device or the arrow keys, then
select Layout-Character and make the font size small, smaller, or smallest.
This is what I do on my beamer
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Joerg Hau wrote:
If I take the same code and copy/paste it in a piece of ERT containing the
\begin{lstlisting}...\end{lstlisting} brackets, the whole code is
displayed double-spaced. Example below. Oops?!
Anyone knows how to work around this problem?
Joerg,
Yup. It
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, John C. McCabe-Dansted wrote:
a) I have in my book: Otto von Bismark-Schonhausen I put the cursor at
the end of this name, click on Insert Index Entry and get a dialog box
with the word Schonhausen, then I must add the rest of name without any
misspelling each time
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Nusret BALCI wrote:
I've seen the flash demo on their website: what's kdissert about? Is it
just to draw charts like that? Probably it has other uses, right? Thanks.
Nusret,
Mind mapping is a tool for people who were never taught to organize their
thoughts and ideas in
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Helge Hafting wrote:
Evereybody except me get sub-second startup times?
That is good, lyx is probably ok with me making a mistake then.
It'd sure be interesting if anyone have an idea what I do wrong.
Helge,
If I've not invoked LyX before, then it takes about 1-2
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a minor tip, try this:
time lyx -x 'command-sequence lyx-quit;'
Christian,
How kewel! I've not had LyX running today, so I gave the above three tries
in succession:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ time lyx -x 'command-sequence lyx-quit;'
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Helge Hafting wrote:
Impressive timings. Your first start is faster than my cached startups. My
lyx-1.3 starts in 0.7s, my lyx-1.4 in 3.5s when in cache. Which version of
lyx is this, and does it use xforms or qt?
Helge,
1.3.6qt. On Slack-10.2. A moderately fast
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
After a vacation and hiatus I am back on the list. The book project that I
have been working on (forever, it seems) will soon go to the printer. Today
I got back the following comments after they looked at a small sample of
our LyX file (the
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, John O'Gorman wrote:
Which you guys think is better, ragged right or justified right?
It's a book of short stories.
I think that justified right creates the appearance of professionalism.
Studies have shown that it is a little easier to read ragged right.
It is a book of
This is a LaTeX question rather than a LyX question, so I hope that you
indulge my posting here first.
I created a LaTeX document to be used as the basis for printing Optical
Mark Readable (OMR) forms. The content of each form will change from one use
to the next. That is, the number of
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Rich Shepard wrote:
I created a LaTeX document to be used as the basis for printing Optical
Mark Readable (OMR) forms. The content of each form will change from one use
to the next. That is, the number of lines may vary, and the contents of each
string certainly
I have a narrow form (textwidth = 72.5mm) that is to be on a page no wider
than 82.5mm. I lose part of the available width because of the laser
printer's non-printing area along the left margin of the paper.
Is there a single LaTeX (or TeX) command that can shift everything to the
right by a
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Helge Hafting wrote:
If you want to shift everything to the right - why not simply increase the
left margin and decrease the right margin? That is the usual way of moving
the text area.
Helge,
I wasn't sure what would happen if I increased the page width, but after
Happy New Year, folks:
On my OMR form the marking boxes need to be a specific size (3.0mm wide x
2.54mm high). My research in Guide to LaTeX taught me how to use a \rule box
as a strobe mark, but that's filled by default and I cannot find an
equivalent command to create an empty box of
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Kevin,
\begin{picture}(72,72)(0,0)
\put(36,36){\framebox(72,72)][0]{}}
\end{picture}
This might get you started (not sure if it's the best solution, though
as I've never used such a thing).
Look at \framebox and the picture env. for more info.
I
I'm caught in an infinite loop here. Kevin was very helpful in suggesting
that I use \framebox rather than \makebox; that gives me a rectangular, empty
box (as long as there's no text to frame). Now I have three issues that I've
not been able to resolve. I hope someone here can help me.
1.)
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Kevin Pfeiffer writes:
Look at \framebox and the picture env. for more info.
The attached LyX file is my meagre attempt to offer a better example.
Kevin,
Thanks for your efforts. If you look at the .tex file I attached to my post
you'll see that
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Rich Shepard wrote:
1.) The \multido{} loop in lines 69-71 does not produce the desired
results. I want each framebox in line 71 to be 3mm wide, but if I reduce the
width from 7mm, the lines are combined; that is, the even numbered line is
next to the odd nunber line. I
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Have you looked at \multiput?
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-269.html
Kevin,
I will take a look at it.
... but perhaps since you are working on something specialized you should
purchase one or two
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Herbert Voss wrote:
insert an explicit line end.
Herbert,
Sonofagun. I've not seen a \newline before in my documents or the examples
folks have used here on the mail list. I've seen a double backslash and a
space followed by a %, but not the \newline. I tried variations
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Herbert Voss wrote:
insert an explicit line end.
%% Make nR rows of scoring boxes for answers
\multido{\nRow=1+1}{\nR}{%
{\strobe}\hspace{3mm}\makebox[0.3\omrx]{\nRow}%
\multido{}{10}{\hspace{2mm} \framebox[3.55mm]{}}\newline}
Herbert,
I have read everything I
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Herbert Voss wrote:
for PSTricks it is \rput or one of the other label macros, but not \put
Herbert,
Thanks for the reminder. It's been a while. But, ... I think that's what I
need for this OMR form. Plain ol' LaTeX took me 98% of the way, but fine
tuning positioning is
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Herbert Voss wrote:
you need only the right tool :-)
Well, Herbert, that's what I've been trying to learn on my own.
attched an example which creates the table dynymical. You can modify this
macro for your purpose. With a tabular you'll get always correct horizontal
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Herbert Voss wrote:
this depends strongly on your problem. But you should always first trying
to realize it with a tabular. It is a powerful environment, but needs some
time to understand.
Herbert,
Yes, it does. Time to re-read the books I have so I can become more
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Rich Shepard wrote:
I have read everything I can find on \framebox and \vspace, and I have
tried putting a negative \vspace at different positions in the last line
above.
Well, I just re-discovered that the proper command is \raisebox to adjust
the vertical position
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
I just had to change several subsections to subsubsections. There were not
enough of these to bother switching to search-and-replace in my text
editor, but enough to make the process in LyX tedious. While doing this it
occurred to me that the MS Word
Perhaps it's too early here, and the caffine has not reached full titer in
my NPU, but I cannot find why only part of a document displays. This is
lyx-1.3.6 on linux.
Yesterday I started a report and quite for the evening after entering a new
section head. This morning, I fire up LyX and
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Rich Shepard wrote:
Yesterday I started a report and quite for the evening after entering a
new section head. This morning, I fire up LyX and load the document and
only the first 255 (of 344 total) lines display. The titlehead image is
also messed up (that is, there's
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote:
If you can send me the file (or post it to the list), I'll see if I can
reproduce your errors.
Anders,
Here it is. I've not before encountered this behavior so I'm really
puzzled. BTW, I've lots of time; these comments are not due until February.
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote:
If you can send me the file (or post it to the list), I'll see if I can
reproduce your errors.
Anders/Paul,
Now it's working here, too. I suspect there was some process running in the
background that stopped LyX from fully loading the file for
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote:
Works fine for me too (on both 1.3.6 and 1.4pre3 on Mac). I send you
pdf-output privately along with a newly saved file (in case something is
still messed up with the original. In case the problem persists, a
possibility could be to do some resets
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Martin Geisler wrote:
Then I ran texhash (all of this as root), reconfigured and restarted
LyX, and added \usepackage{ellipsis} to the doc preamble.
So I always install such new packages there and thus avoid becoming root.
On my own machine this doesn't make such a big
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, mail.k wrote:
I still have some newbie problems. The text in my document occasionally
runs past the right margin in dvi, postscript, and pdf output.
Eran,
This can occur in lyx-code mode or in regular text mode. If it's only a
word that hangs into the right margin it's
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, 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...
Kevin,
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
That would add a space between the hyphen and the suffix: - ism
Ah, my apologies, Kevin. I know it's there ... OK. Shift-control-space. An
off-by-one (key) error. From the Users Guide: However, what if you want or
need to use more than one word in
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Frans Grotepass wrote:
I'm new to the list and will start with a question. When inserting sample
code in a lyx file using LyX-Code, the longer lines are not wrapped. They
run off the right-hand side of the page. How can I invoke this
automatically?
Frans,
You cannot;
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Rich Shepard wrote:
Ah, my apologies, Kevin. I know it's there ... OK. Shift-control-space. An
off-by-one (key) error. From the Users Guide: However, what if you want or
need to use more than one word in the label of a Description environment?
Simple: use a Protected Blank
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
My LaTeX Companion book arrived today (hurrah) and looks to be useful.
In it, for example, I found an answer to the (correct) question above:
In Preamble: \usepackage{amsmath}
Command: \nobreakdash (goes in an ERT)
Glad you found it, Kevin. I
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
I'm trying to concoct a LyX template to let me write letters on school
letterhead, the last task for which I still rely on WordPerfect. Having
looked at akletter, newlfm and komascript, I think komascript gives me my
best shot, and I have a template
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
I noticed the reference to fuzzy logic in your sig. I take it you do a lot
of work for the government? :-) As I recall, fuzzy logic is built on fuzzy
truth: true; false; sort of true; true enough to fool the voters; ...
/Paul,
The last part of
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote:
I am trying to put a logo at the top left of the page. Alongside the logo,
I want my business name in \Huge letters. (This is mainly for the purpose
of building web pages.)
John,
Something like the attached?
I did this in OO.o, trimmed the page
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, john wrote:
Shrug. I had hoped it would be easy in LyX (because that's what I tell
everyone!)
John,
It probably _is_ easy when you know exactly how to do it. :-) I found this
approach took me less time.
Rich
--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Attached is one rough suggestion (just cribbed together with some
hard-wired values and not tried in a letter template.
Kevin,
Very nicely done!
Rich
--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of Quantifying Environmental
Applied
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
This sounds good, but when I try it I get:
XX
XX
XX
XX
John Hancock
1234 Broadway Blvd.
Both are set to TOP alignment; they are side-by-side, with suitable width
(100pt and 25%colwidth).
Kevin,
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
What is explained??
Kevin,
The two minipages not being aligned at their top edges.
Rich
--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of Quantifying Environmental
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) | Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote:
I have 6 books on Tex/LaTeX but not that one! Can you give us a brief
pointer to how to fix it (or is it not fixable)?
John,
Yes, it's fixable. Let me paraphrase from the book.
You want to place two parboxes of different heights side by side.
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, john wrote:
Just a comment though. Helge was talking about using 2 minipages
side-by-side (Which Kevin and I have found to not top-align properly).Your
excerpt features 2 parbox structures side-by-side. Is the principle the
same?
If I read the book correctly, yes.
I just built a Slackware-10.2 package of LyX-1.3.7 with the Qt3 front-end
using checkinstall-1.6.0. It upgraded the existing 1.3.6/Qt on my system just
fine. If anyone wants a copy, write to me and I'll email it to you. It's 5.8M
in size.
If the development crew would like me to put it on an
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Yes, please. Put it on ftp.devel.lyx/org/pub/incoming or tell me where
I can grab it.
JMarc,
It's on its way. I'm sorry that I did not respond earlier, but one of my
business partners flew in for a business meeting and we've been at it all
I don't have a copy of the TeXbook, but the error message reads,
Missing number, treated as zero.
A number should have been here; I inserted 0. (If you can't figure out why I
needed to see a number, look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)
What I did:
I took a document in the
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Stephen Harris wrote:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nonum
http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/novices/node96.html
http://web.mit.edu/answers/latex/latex_missing_number.html
I send you what is on page 298 of the The TeXbook
Thanks, Stephen. The
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
I have many code examples with lyx-code and they don't fit well on my
6-inch wide page. I don't know how much space will be needed for the
perfect binding. I am using koma scrbook and have default left and right
margins which appear to be:
Jeremy,
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
Any ideas on how to set \leftmargin to nothing when using lyx-code in my
preamble?
Jeremy,
A quick look at TLC2 did not have anything jump out and bite my nose. You
might look at the fancyvrb package to see if that helps.
What I've done on
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Christoph Nelles wrote:
Has anybody a solution for adding a button to the button bar or adding a key
short cut?
Christoph,
I don't do buttons, but if you look in ~/.lyx/bind/ you'll find a couple of
files that define shortcut keys. In my case, ctrl-v is used to page
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
i would love to hear the developers (and others) oppinion on the raised
issues.
martin,
I've not read the OP's blog so I cannot directly comment on specific issues
raised. However, I will share my initial reaction to reading the original
post:
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
I might agree with the arguemtents against web pages, but a lot of the
problems there are exactly the same when creating document types that are
hypertext capable: pdf for instance.
Lars,
I certainly appreciate this. I've not yet had a need
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Bo Peng wrote:
I was talking about the same thing as Yaron, Cutting Pasting from
Non-LyX Windows.
And another session of lyx. If you have two lyx windows open, you can
not paste selection from another window.
Bo,
I must be missing something here. I can copy from one
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Bo Peng wrote:
This is the case. I sometimes open two lyx sessions (instances) when I need
to refer to another file, or another part of a long lyx file.
Bo,
Thanks for the insight. I've just used two documents in the same window, or
the navigation menu to move around a
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote:
Just for me to understand, which platforms are you talking about?
Anders,
Oooo! Good point. My experiences are with linux only.
Rich
--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of Quantifying Environmental
Applied Ecosystem Services,
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Yaron Y. Goland wrote:
But I think if you review the issues I list you will find that I am trying
to create a static document that can be 'reasonably' outputted as HTML in
the same sense that one uses LyX to create a document that can be
'reasonably' outputted as a PDF. The
I have figures in .png format inserted in my document. To view the output I
need to use View-pdflatex rather than C-d for the dvi output. For some
reason I do not understand, acroread comes up at 168% magnification rather
than at 100% magnification. Annoying.
Where do I change this, please?
I should know how to do this, or find the correct macro in TLC2, but the
answer has so far eluded me.
Document is book class with fancy headers. Following the title page is a
blank page with the page number '2' that I'd like to suppress. I've tried
\frontmatter
\pagestyle{plain}
between
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Paul Smith wrote:
Regarding Acrobat Reader, I do not know, but I recommend you to use kpdf,
which has the very useful watch file feature, i.e., the view of the pdf
file is updated as soon as your pdf file changes. Concomitantly, it is
possible that your problem is solved
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
You can easily change this in acroreads' preferences.
Uwe,
In all the years I've used acroread I never did a thing to change the
default behavior. So, I didn't know there were preferences that could be
changed. Totally irrelevant, but I don't like the
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Jose' Matos wrote:
In ERT in the title page:
\thispagestyle{empty}
I am kidding not. ;-)
Nope. Doesn't work in front of the title any more than it does just after
the author.
Rich
--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of Quantifying Environmental
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Sara Stymne wrote:
I found that neither \pagestyle{plain} nor \thispagestyle{empty} works for
the following blank page.
Sara,
What matters is location, location, location as the real estate sales
people say. I was putting the command _after_ the \frontmatter command.
A document requires screen shots as illustrations. I've used The GIMP to
capture the window, scaled the result to 100 pixels/inch resolution, and a
size of 4 inches wide. Then it's saved as a .png file. The document will
almost certainly be printed by readers on a laser or color inkjet printer.
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 much prefer the
serif
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Georg Baum wrote:
I would not scale the image. The dimensions of the screenshot in inch don't
matter at all, what matters is the number of pixels, and that is
predetermined by the window you want to capture. You can do the final
scaling in LyX, this is often preferable,
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Georg Baum wrote:
I would not scale the image. The dimensions of the screenshot in inch
don't matter at all, what matters is the number of pixels, and that is
predetermined by the window you want to capture. You can do the final
scaling in LyX, this is often preferable,
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
\setkomafont{sectioning}{\normalfont\bfseries}
Have a look at scrguien.pdf for more possibilities (setkomafont,
addtokomafont).
Jürgen,
Thank you very much. I see that's in the command index and I was looking at
the table of contents.
Rich
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Cezary Morga wrote:
Could anyone tell me if there is a way to make floating table's caption
align to left? I can't find it anywhere.
Put the cursor at the head of the caption, then from the menu system:
Layout-Paragraph-Alignment. Change that to Center in the combo box
In my document I reference specific buttons on the GUI of an application;
buttons such as OK, Clear, Add, and Load. What I have done is place each word
in a \framebox{}. It looks pretty ugly; the frames extend slightly below the
baseline and above the line of text.
Then I tried searching the
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Rich Shepard wrote:
What do folks do in this situation? I suppose I could set the words in
Italics and let it go at that.
Thank you Kevin, Juergen, Herbert, and Enrico. A slew of excellent ideas.
Normally I don't fret over little things like this; I think it's
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Herbert Voss wrote:
\usepackage{multicol}
To implement this, just before where you want the two columns to begin
place '\begin{multicols}{2}'. Where you want to switch back to single column
mode, place '\end{multicols}'.
Rich
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Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.
Anyone here know the difference between ConTeXt and the standard tetex
included in linux distributions? I see references to the former but I've no
idea how it differs. Heck, when it comes right down to it, I don't know why
there are different LaTeX flavors (other than pdflatex) anyway.
Rich
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Nusret BALCI wrote:
Why are there different LaTeX flavors?
Nusret,
I realize that I was asking a rhetorical question.
As far as I know, though, ConTeXt is not a LaTeX flavor. It's rather a peer
and rival macro package right on top of TeX. I've read claims about its
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you like, you can add an entry to this page, letting the rest of the
world know!
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ProducedPublications
Christian,
I added my book to it. Also, Bruce Momjian's PostgreSQL book of a couple of
years ago was
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, John O'Gorman wrote:
I am embarking on creating an index for a manual of about 200 pages
(written in LyX of course).
Could someone on the list who has actually created an index advise if
this is really the best approach?
John,
If you want a good reference to read, get
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Jack M. Lyon wrote:
Usually indexers don't care so much about seeing the actual page numbers,
but they do care about seeing the *structure* of the index as they work.
Which brings up another issue that might be a wrench in the gears:
different standards for indexes
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