Re: most lyx-friendly bibtex-format?

2005-07-20 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum wrote: > Sven Schreiber wrote: > > >>afaik the weaknesses of the used simple bibtex parser are known, but not >>to me, so please what are recommendations for the bibtex file format so >>that the parser won't get confused? > > > I never h

relative paths & beamer & temp directory: possible?

2005-07-28 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, is it possible to use relative paths (e.g. to graphics files) when using the beamer class, and having checked the "use temporary directory" in preferences? More precisely, I am having the following problem (this is in 1.3.6 on windows): To define a "logo" in beamer, I adapted some template and

Re: relative paths & beamer & temp directory: possible?

2005-07-28 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum wrote: > > You are doing nothing wrong. This is probably bug 1751 > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1751 > > Does the .tex file in the temporary directory contain something like > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, the first lines are: \batchmode \makeatletter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/Sven

[workaround] Re: relative paths & beamer & temp directory: possible?

2005-07-28 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum wrote: > > That should not matter, but I don't know for sure. If [EMAIL PROTECTED] is > set and > if it does not work with one slash (you could also try backslashes instead > of slashes it seems to be a problem of the tex system that you are using. > In this case please ask on the appr

Re: [workaround] Re: relative paths & beamer & temp directory: possible?

2005-07-29 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum wrote: >> >>But I still have no clue on why the pgf-thing failed. > > > It simply looks like pgf is not using [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please file this as a > bug > to the author of pgf. IMHO all LaTeX packages that include some external > stuff should honour [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it doe

doubleclicking files vs. file-open in lyx/win

2005-08-08 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, this is from a happy user of 1.3.6 on win 2000. Nevertheless, one little quirk I want to ask about: I get different results from the same lyx-file when 1) opening it via file-open dialog, and 2) double-clicking it to be automatically opened. In case 1, everything is perfect. In case 2, the ti

Re: doubleclicking files vs. file-open in lyx/win

2005-08-09 Thread Sven Schreiber
Angus Leeming wrote: >> I get different results from the same lyx-file when 1) opening it via >> file-open dialog, and 2) double-clicking it to be automatically opened. >> >> In case 1, everything is perfect. >> In case 2, the title bar shows the DOS-8.3-abbreviation of the file >> name. That's ok

output refresh when only graphics change?

2005-08-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
How can I force lyx to run a latex cycle when only an included graphics file has changed? Lyx doesn't seem to notice the change (which I understand) and therefore only offers the output from the buffer with the old graphic. Workaround is to close and reopen the lyx-file, but surely this is not re

Re: output refresh when only graphics change?

2005-08-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Sven Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | How can I force lyx to run a latex cycle when only an included graphics > | file has changed? > > | Lyx doesn't seem to notice the change (which I understand) and therefore > | only o

Re: output refresh when only graphics change?

2005-08-19 Thread Sven Schreiber
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Sven Schreiber wrote: > >> How can I force lyx to run a latex cycle when only an included graphics >> file has changed? >> >> Lyx doesn't seem to notice the change (which I understand) and therefore >> only offers the ou

Re: output refresh when only graphics change?

2005-08-19 Thread Sven Schreiber
Stephen P. Harris wrote: > I read this article which may have a bearing on the issue, Sorry no I don't think so, but thanks for trying to help. > > To conclude: I strongly recommend that anybody importing graphics into > LaTex for the first time read "Using imported graphics in LaTex 2e" [1].

Re: output refresh when only graphics change?

2005-08-22 Thread Sven Schreiber
Sven Schreiber wrote: > > Actually it is difficult to construct a simple test case, so this seems > to be a rather subtle bug that is triggered only in special Well I don't remember why I found that so difficult, but I found out some details; especially that the problem only appea

Re: how to insert optional arguments?

2005-09-22 Thread Sven Schreiber
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Paul" == Paul A Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I had no idea that worked. (I'd assumed that it literally Paul> inserted *only* the optional short version of a title.) How Paul> about Insert-> Option or Insert->Optional argument? Those are Paul> sufficientl

[need help with wiki] Re: Excel data sheets

2005-10-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
>>6. Click the middle button on your mouse. >> >>That should be it. The experts tell me this should not work but >>unfortunately for the theory, it does for me. >> >>samar >> >> > > >Kenward > > I just discovered your tips on transferring spreadsheet contents, and I think it's really useful;

Re: [need help with wiki] Re: Excel data sheets

2005-10-19 Thread Sven Schreiber
> Its great that you are visualising putting this on the wiki. > > > I just wonder if it might be a better idea to scan through the lists and > summarize all cut and paste tips and put them together on the wiki if you can > spare the time. In principle I could do that, but with the (hopefull

Re: [need help with wiki] Re: Excel data sheets

2005-10-23 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Tips/ so I've moved your text there. > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/CopyTablesFromSpreadsheets > >In addition, it's a good idea to add a link to the special page in each >group that is used to list/describe pages in the group. Here, the page is >simply > > h

Re: Forcing LyX to retypeset included files?

2005-10-26 Thread Sven Schreiber
Stefano Franchi schrieb: > I have a LyX file for a book that essentially contains a list of include > statements for the single chapters. Additionally, it has a long > preamble with all the formatting instructions. > > Since I am now fiddling with formatting details, I would like LyX/LaTeX > to t

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Sven Schreiber
James W Dow schrieb: > 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 operating system just delays peopl

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Sven Schreiber
Before this develops into a flamewar, let me rectify something: I *like* Linux more than I like Windows, but that doesn't change the fact that some very specialized apps simply don't exist on *nix. I'm very glad though that many open-source apps are cross-platform so that I can work with them. T

Re: Acrobat has problems reading parts of my PDF

2005-11-23 Thread Sven Schreiber
> "Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph". > Maybe you knew that already, but this seems to be a problem with the embedded font information. Maybe you could use other fonts to work around the problem, for example by switching to one of the Acrobat-standard fonts that don't need to be embedded

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-04 Thread Sven Schreiber
[replying on the users list to a devel list message] Angus Leeming schrieb: > Angus' reply is essentially similar to that of Herbert. .bst, .cls and .sty > files are all essentially the same in this regard; they belong in a TeX > tree. If you're not willing to create J:\tex\local (which can be ma

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-04 Thread Sven Schreiber
Stephen Harris schrieb: > > The Miktex installation states that it is recommended to install > Miktex to a directory without spaces. > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/setup/install.html#id421158 > > I think it is certainly the most efficient practice for a new user > to fo

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-04 Thread Sven Schreiber
Helge Hafting schrieb: > > Failing that, here are a couple of workarounds: > > 1. Use the "subst" dos/windows command, which associates a new > drive letter with a path. You can then access the new drive > letter without said path - and avoid the spaces. > Detailed docs: > http://www.micr

Re: problem using beamer

2006-01-12 Thread Sven Schreiber
Subir Singh Lamba schrieb: > Thanks for your help. I have just one more problem when I try to compile > the given example lyx file and generate a .ps file. The slide occupise > only 1/4th of the A4 page and that too in the lower left corner of the > page. > > What is the possible cause ? > >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.7 is released

2006-01-18 Thread Sven Schreiber
I think this is the right time to say thank you to all the people who contributed their time and effort to this release! (It's also great that you are now adopting a regular half-year release cycle -- July 16 -> Jan 17 ;-) Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX fil

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

2006-01-29 Thread Sven Schreiber
Martin A. Hansen schrieb: > i would love to hear the developers (and others) oppinion on the raised > issues. > As a devoted Lyx user I think he is very kind to Lyx when he says "Thankfully I haven't needed to copy anything more complex than a few URLs so the limited copy/paste functionality is n

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

2006-01-29 Thread Sven Schreiber
Lars Gullik Bjønnes schrieb: > Is it copy/paste that you really want or to be able to insert > larger/smaller pieces from other files/documents etc? > I'm not sure I understand your question; I use copy/paste a lot within my lyx documents and it works great if that's what your aiming at (except

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

2006-01-29 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum schrieb: > Am Sonntag, 29. Januar 2006 20:18 schrieb Bo Peng: > >>>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. > > > Thes

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

2006-01-30 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum schrieb: > Am Sonntag, 29. Januar 2006 21:55 schrieb Sven Schreiber: > >>So should bug 2138 be broadened to cover external copy&paste from other >>applications as well, or should a new bug be opened? > > > Do as you like :-) (if you open another bu

tex2lyx minor tabular glitch

2006-02-09 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, given 1.3.7's capability to read tex2lyx output I've started to use it more often, and it's great. One thing I stumbled over today is that in the following line, \begin{tabular}{|p{0.8\textwidth}|} the tabular width is "lost" when opening the converted lyx file. -Sven

Re: tex2lyx minor tabular glitch

2006-02-09 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum schrieb: > Sven Schreiber wrote: > >> Hi, given 1.3.7's capability to read tex2lyx output I've started to use >> it more often, and it's great. One thing I stumbled over today is that >> in the following line, >> >> \begin{tabular}{|

double superscript a lyx bug?

2006-02-22 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, I just ran into the same thing reported by Bo Peng a short while ago -- if in math you make an explicit superscript but also append a "'" as a shortcut for prime (= matrix transpose sign here), latex complains about double superscript. Minimal lyx file is embedded below, but I guess only \begi

Re: double superscript a lyx bug?

2006-02-22 Thread Sven Schreiber
Daniel Watkins schrieb: > LyX is creating a correct LaTeX file. If you try the same formula in a .tex > file, LaTeX will complain. It's just not valid LaTeX, so you need to make > it $a^{*\prime)$. This is not a LyX issue. > > Dan > Sorry, that sounds self-contradictory, or is it because I shou

Re: Importing files written with SWP 4.0

2006-02-23 Thread Sven Schreiber
Piero Pasotti schrieb: > Hi, > I'm a newcomer to the Lyx's world. Unfortunately I have the need to > frequently exchange .tex files with people working with Scientific > Workplace 4.0. I'm facing some problembs both in exporting lyx files > to .tex and in importing swp .tex files to Lix. > Coul

Re: Prerelease 6 of 1.4.0

2006-03-04 Thread Sven Schreiber
Lars Gullik Bjønnes schrieb: > This will be the last prerelease before the 1.4.0 proper is released. > > Unless critical problems is discovered this will become 1.4.0 in a > reasonable short time. > > Help to make sure that pre6 does not contain any brown-paperbag bugs > will be appreciated. >

Re: Congratulations!!!

2006-03-09 Thread Sven Schreiber
Martin A. Hansen schrieb: > It is certainly time to rejoice, dance, and throw flowers in the air! > > My deepest respect goes to the development team and all contributors. > Yes indeed! Lyx has become an almost indispensable tool for me, let all developers know that their work is highly apprecia

Re: LyX 1.4.1 is released

2006-04-11 Thread Sven Schreiber
Many thanks to all involved for the hard bug-fixing work! (If you keep up this pace of releasing, I will have to give up thanking you every time ;-) With respect to the win32 version: I've just noticed the first binary ...setup_v1.exe, but in contrast to v1.3.7 I could not find (or have overlooked

crash recipe (semi-exact)

2006-05-12 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hello, just wanted to let everybody concerned know about a crash I've experienced and was (partly) able to reproduce. This is with Lyx 1.4.1 on winxp. 1. open my lyx document, edit something in a note in a multicolumn cell of a table, don't save the change (more on that below) 2. open the user gui

Re: Trouble with eps inclusions in lyx-1.4.1

2006-05-30 Thread Sven Schreiber
Paul Johnson schrieb: > I just ran into a really weird lyx problem on Fedora Core 5 and > tetex-3.0-19. It is so interesting I want to share and ask for help: > > http://pj.freefaculty.org/latex/weirdRotations-lyx.tar.gz > > That tarball has a lyx file and 3 eps files that I generated with R. >

bug?: section numbering in note-insets

2006-06-15 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi all, when I shove an entire subsection into a note inset, the numbering of the other non-note subsections remains as if nothing was "commented out", i.e. numbers on screen do not match the printed output. I realize that this behavior might also be considered a feature, but I'm inclined to class

using rc1 (was: Re: Question wrt to key board use)

2007-06-15 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hellmut Weber schrieb: > > BTW I'm using RC1 now for two weeks without problems ;-) > I'm also using rc1 regularly now, but I repeatedly get bitten by known (and fixed in trunk) crash bugs http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3790, http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3801, http://bugzil

Re: using rc1

2007-06-15 Thread Sven Schreiber
Abdelrazak Younes schrieb: > Sven Schreiber wrote: >> Hellmut Weber schrieb: >> >>> BTW I'm using RC1 now for two weeks without problems ;-) >>> >> >> I'm also using rc1 regularly now, but I repeatedly get bitten by known >>

Re: Using svn-2007-06-17, continued

2007-06-19 Thread Sven Schreiber
Abdelrazak Younes schrieb: > Hellmut Weber wrote: > >> Looking at all this new features and functionality I'm very lucka with >> lyx ;-) > > lucka? > On the German qwertz keyboard z and y are swapped and so y is right below a. Not that you really wanted to know...

Re: Lyx crashing on backspace, 1.5rc1. if pagebreak and math mode enabled

2007-06-20 Thread Sven Schreiber
It's most likely one of the known bugs, and the workaround advice given to me was: disable right-to-left language support if you don't need it. -sven Ronald Ryland schrieb: > *Lyx crashing on backspace, 1.5rc1. if pagebreak and math mode enabled. > * > Lyx 1,5rc1 is a tremendous step forward, but

rc2?

2007-06-26 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, I hope I'm not sounding "pushy" but isn't rc2 overdue? IMHO it would be more efficient to test the current status instead of stumbling over "fixedintrunk" bugs again and again. Currently it seems to me that many known and/or fixed bugs are reported again and again, which in turn may induce som

Re: rc2?

2007-06-26 Thread Sven Schreiber
Abdelrazak Younes schrieb: > Sven Schreiber wrote: >> IMHO it would be more efficient to test the current status instead of >> stumbling over "fixedintrunk" bugs again and again. Currently it seems >> to me that many known and/or fixed bugs are reported again and aga

minor rc2 issues

2007-06-28 Thread Sven Schreiber
Thanks Uwe for the Win installer of rc2! Here are the first slight glitches I noticed with rc2 (not with the installer itself which worked fine). I have no idea whether these are new (probably not) or whether they are supposed to be already fixed. As you can see, these are only small annoyances, n

Re: bibtex on windows

2006-06-28 Thread Sven Schreiber
bigot schrieb: > I use lyx 1.3.7 on windows installed with lyxwininstaller. > (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller.) > > Everything works well except bibtex. > > When I try to include a bibtex reference (insert/lists&toc/bibtex) the > computer > start looking for something on the disk.

Re: LateX file ... not found

2006-07-03 Thread Sven Schreiber
Alexander Braun schrieb: > > To be more precise: > I inserted graphic overview.eps, which lies in the same path as my document. > The picture is diplayed in the open lyx-document. Now, when I choose > View->DVI or View->Postscript my document is rendered perfectly despite the > images. > On the

File with png graphics hangs lyx

2006-07-06 Thread Sven Schreiber
Don't know if this is a known bug; when using pdf (pdflatex), Lyx doesn't respond while "waiting for latex run 1" forever. The exported latex compiles fine directly to pdf with Miktex (using Texniccenter). Using other pdf-generating profiles works, so this is not a huge issue, but still. I attach

Re: LateX file ... not found

2006-07-07 Thread Sven Schreiber
(you forgot to send to the list as well) Alexander Braun schrieb: > Am Montag, 3. Juli 2006 10:33 schrieben Sie: >> Alexander Braun schrieb: >> which platform? which lyx version? what exactly did you insert into the >> graphics dialog? > > sorry - I forgot everything: > plattform Debian Linux (i

Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx

2006-07-07 Thread Sven Schreiber
Thanks for your reply, Paul. > > I loaded your document into LyX 1.4.1 here (Win XP, MiKTeX but *not* > Texniccenter), substituted a PNG file I have (you didn't attach yours), > and viewed it via pdflatex with no problem. I routinely use PNG images > in PDF files and have not had LyX hang. > >

keyboard access to environment selection menu

2006-07-11 Thread Sven Schreiber
Dear all, how do I activate/access (whatever you call it) the drop-down menu for setting the paragraph environment without the mouse? I know there are direct keyboard shortcuts for specific environments, but I can't or don't want to memorize them. What I'm hoping for is to get the focus on that m

Re: keyboard access to environment selection menu

2006-07-11 Thread Sven Schreiber
Jean-Pierre Chretien schrieb: >>> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> how do I activate/access (whatever you call it) the drop-down menu for >>> setting the paragraph environment without the mouse? >>> > Here (lyx-1.4.1) after Alt-E P I get the paragraph settings window, but then > it seems that the underline

Re: keyboard access to environment selection menu

2006-07-11 Thread Sven Schreiber
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: > > M-p (alt-p) followed by a space opens the environment list. From there, > repeatedly typing the same letter cycles through all environment names > starting with that letter. > Thanks alot Paul! I looked in the guides and the wiki and couldn't find it. Is it documente

Re: keyboard access to environment selection menu

2006-07-11 Thread Sven Schreiber
Jean-Pierre Chretien schrieb: >>> M-p (alt-p) followed by a space opens the environment list. From there, >>> repeatedly typing the same letter cycles through all environment names >>> starting with that letter. > > I was not aware of this, but it does not work excatly as described here: > I ne

bug(?): strange behavior after ctrl-shift-left

2006-07-11 Thread Sven Schreiber
To reproduce: 1. open new document 2. type something and start a new paragraph (hit return) 3. hit control-shift-arrowleft For me the keyboard is not responding in lyx anymore after that. Can anybody confirm this? Is it known? Ctrl-shift-left may be stupid to use, but I was just following a hunch

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-14 Thread Sven Schreiber
mail.k schrieb: > Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... This list is not, but I guess Rich was addressing the developers (give him the benefit of doubt...) > > > Rich Shepard wrote: > >> >> Gentlemen: >> >>Is there something I can read to learn how this differs from the >>current > >

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-16 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum schrieb: > Am Samstag, 15. Juli 2006 21:00 schrieb David Halpern: >> Georg, >> I tried what you suggested but rescanning doesn't help. > > Then that looks like a general bug in the windows version. Can other > windows users confirm this? > > > Georg > No. I upgraded to 1.4.2 with t

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-16 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum schrieb: > Am Sonntag, 16. Juli 2006 12:16 schrieb Sven Schreiber: >> No. I upgraded to 1.4.2 with the smaller installer (uninstalled 1.4.1 >> first) w/o any problems so far. During the installation I was prompted >> to have some latex/miktex stuff automatically ins

please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
Dear lyxers, don't know if this is the right list, but anyway: I have tried many times to understand the logic behind the various help documents (tutorial, user guide, extended features, ... and this list goes on), but now I've had enough -- did you know that branches are explained not in exte

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
Daniel Watkins schrieb: > Sven Schreiber wrote: >>> So please consolidate the documentation into one file (or let me do it). > > I promise you, no-one here is going to hold you back, if you're > volunteering[*]. :p > Well isn't there a documentation team? Maybe

branches cosmetics

2006-07-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, I've just been working with branches for the first time, and noticed some minor quirks: 1) Apparently one cannot have spaces in branches names? And more importantly, later on the names are not editable? 2) It would be nice to have a function to toggle show/collapse all insets belonging to a b

Re: branches cosmetics

2006-07-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
Sven Schreiber schrieb: > > 2) It would be nice to have a function to toggle show/collapse all > insets belonging to a branch. (Or it could be done on (de)activating the > branch, but that solution would be inferior imho.) > whoops, just noticed that the second thing is already implemented... !

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Schreiber
Helge Hafting schrieb: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:06:05PM +0200, Sven Schreiber wrote: > > If you do a lot of searching, consider making a document > consisting of User's guide + extended features in one > document. Just paste one into the other, > perhap

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > As for the problem of searching all the help documentation, couldn't we > ask the developers for a special help menu entry that says something like: > > Search help documents > > This seems to me like it would solve the problems you are talking about. > Are th

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: > >> Yes, easily getting an overview of what's in the help file. > > Good point. To summarize: > > * We'd like an overview of what's in all the help files. Perhaps some > kin

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Schreiber
Bo Peng schrieb: >> I have lyx 1.4.2 installed on a win2k system. I can not reliably >> reproduce this, but after a few minutes, lyx would not respond to >> keyboard input. Mouse/menu etc still work. All other applications >> (cygwin, firefox etc) still get keyboard input. > > Follow up: > > I ca

Re: Merged manuals

2006-07-19 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Thanks to Stephen Harris there's now a PDF that's the merger of some of > the manuals. See here: > > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#merged > > /Christian > That is a step in the right direction, thanks. But for my taste it would be nicer to have only a si

Re: Single TOC of all help documents (Was: Merged manuals)

2006-07-19 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> That is a step in the right direction, thanks. But for my taste it would >> be nicer to have only a single TOC to get the overview (I already >> mentioned I have that obsession). > > In case

crash (table and scrolling)

2006-09-08 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, encountered a crash in lyx (standard 1.4.2 on win); to reproduce (not in 100% of the cases, but fairly often): 1. open the attached lyx document 2. click in a table cell so that the caret waits there for typing 3. use the mouse wheel to scroll the document up and down 4. repeat steps 2 and 3 u

Re: crash (table and scrolling)

2006-09-11 Thread Sven Schreiber
06, at 1:27 PM, Sven Schreiber wrote: > >> Hi, >> encountered a crash in lyx (standard 1.4.2 on win); to reproduce (not in >> 100% of the cases, but fairly often): >> >> 1. open the attached lyx document >> 2. click in a table cell so that the caret waits

table-editing a mess

2006-09-12 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, I have just almost gone crazy editing a table that was too large to fit on screen. (Yes I reduced the font/screen zoom to work around, thank you. No, I won't upgrade my monitor just yet, sorry.) Together with many other quirks of table editing, especially in the dialog that seems to be broken

Re: table-editing a mess

2006-09-12 Thread Sven Schreiber
(oops, Helge and I forgot to cc the list..., but here's the fix:) Helge Hafting schrieb: >> >> > > Please file this at bugzilla.lyx.org. Tables are not supposed to be slow, > > and with a bug report you show that people really care > > about tables wider than the screen. > > (I guess you also

lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu

2006-09-15 Thread Sven Schreiber
Dear all, I have some questions/comments about using the current lyx version on ubuntu (current/6.06). First I checked the lyx ftp server, but found no 1.4.2 binaries for ubuntu. Are there any? Then I downloaded the 1.4.1 binaries in the ubuntu/dapper dir, but I had no luck with them. They either

Re: lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu

2006-09-15 Thread Sven Schreiber
Sven Hoexter schrieb: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 02:14:38PM +0200, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> Dear all, >> I have some questions/comments about using the current lyx version on >> ubuntu (current/6.06). > Take a look at packages.ubuntu.com. Prebuild packages for the lat

Re: lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu

2006-09-15 Thread Sven Schreiber
Helge Hafting schrieb: >> Then I downloaded the 1.4.1 binaries in the ubuntu/dapper dir, but I had >> no luck with them. They either gave me 1.3.7 or failed due to dependency >> errors. >> > A 1.4.1 binary should not give you 1.3.7? The dependencies could not be > resolved by installing > packa

Re: lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu

2006-09-15 Thread Sven Schreiber
Dirk Markert schrieb: > Sven the first, > > you can find a download link for Dapper here: > > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Download > > But you will still get wrong Umlaute with this build. > > That's very good to know, a little late for me now though. Is there a reason there is a separate binary

Re: lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu

2006-09-15 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum schrieb: > Sven Schreiber wrote: > > > You have to make sure that the latin1 locale is installed. How to do that is > in the list archives. You do _not_ need to change your locale to latin1 (by > setting LANG and/or LC_* variables), LyX will do that internally, but th

Re: lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu

2006-09-16 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum schrieb: > Am Freitag, 15. September 2006 22:48 schrieb Sven Schreiber: >> Turns out that apparently on ubuntu dapper (6) it's not so easy to get >> iso8859 locales. What's in the mailing list (taken from debian) does >> _not_ work, dapper only gives you

Re: lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu

2006-09-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > It is actually quite easy to generate locales on ubuntu though it is > different from debian because dpkg-reconfigure locales does not work here > anymore. The command is simply: > > sudo locale-gen de_DE > > and german umlauts will work. With respect to the package

caption justification howto?

2006-09-26 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, I want to change the justification of a float caption from centered to, say, flushleft (aka raggedright). If I do it the naive way via the paragraph settings dialog, Lyx doesn't remember my changes, so that doesn't work. First question: Is that a bug, or is that feature simply not implemented?

Re: caption justification howto?

2006-09-30 Thread Sven Schreiber
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: > Sven Schreiber wrote: >> I want to change the justification of a float caption from centered to, >> say, flushleft (aka raggedright). If I do it the naive way via the >> paragraph settings dialog, Lyx doesn't remember my changes, so tha

another (?) table-editing bug

2006-10-05 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, is the following known? 1. create new document 2. insert tabular, e.g. default 5x5 3. select cells in first row and make it a multicolumn (never mind the other known bug that right-clicking doesn't work for preserving selection, use the menu) 4. try to de-select the "upper line" ("obere Linie"

Re: another (?) table-editing bug

2006-10-06 Thread Sven Schreiber
Helge Hafting schrieb: > Sven Schreiber wrote: >> Hi, >> is the following known? >> >> 1. create new document >> 2. insert tabular, e.g. default 5x5 >> 3. select cells in first row and make it a multicolumn (never mind the >> other known bug th

tabular lines/borders yet again (was: Re: another (?) table-editing bug)

2006-10-06 Thread Sven Schreiber
[topic shifted from bug to user interface, so I'm starting a new thread] Helge Hafting schrieb: >> Btw, some time ago somebody suggested to let lyx create new tabulars >> without any lines by default. I think that's a great idea. That can't be >> so difficult to implement, right? Do we need a vot

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread Sven Schreiber
kmailuk schrieb: > Paul, > Thanks for your reply. I already had instant preview turned off. I tried > turning off virus scan but I still had the same problem with LyX displaying > what I type very slowly. When I looked at the Task Manager after typing a > sentence (which would take several seconds

Re: Text before title

2006-10-13 Thread Sven Schreiber
Nicolás schrieb: > Hi! > > This question is probably more related to Latex than to Lyx, but > hopefully you can help me. > > Given a paper, I would like to write some text in the free space > existing above the title. With fancy headers a can have headers in the > body of the paper, but I would l

Re: Lyx 143 on kubuntu dapper much slower than on Suse 9.1

2006-10-30 Thread Sven Schreiber
Robert Neumann schrieb: > Hello Raymond, > sounds reasonable, I found a documentation at > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/cvs/Ps2pdf.htm > But since I'm not so familiar with the switches and options > Menu -> Tools -> Settings (I guess, last choice in the bottom, > «Préférences» in french) -

Re: Update to: [announce] new extended LyX manual available

2006-11-01 Thread Sven Schreiber
Without having actually looked at your manual yet, I want to thank you for this effort, and for the general idea to improve the documentation! Many open source projects underestimate the importance of accessible information and manuals. Lyx used to be a notable exception, but although 1.4 took so l

Re: Doesn't export or view PDF

2006-11-02 Thread Sven Schreiber
Matthias Schmidt schrieb: > Hello, > > I have just installed Lyx 1.4.3-4 from the lyx-143-4-bundle.exe. > > Some of the manuals I can export or view as PDF-file (for example ), > some not (for example ). > > What may be the reason for this? > > Can I find the manuals as PDF-Files anywhere else

Re: Lyx 143 on kubuntu dapper much slower than on Suse 9.1

2006-11-12 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum schrieb: > Am Mittwoch, 8. November 2006 19:26 schrieb Andre Poenitz: >> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:30:22PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: >>> Any other slowdown is either caused by external programs or a bug. >> Not sure this is true. The paint logic changed from 1.3 to 1.4. > > We were tal

Re: Using kpdf as the default pdf viewer

2006-11-13 Thread Sven Schreiber
Guy Rutenberg schrieb: > Hi, > > I'm using LyX 1.4 on Linux and I would like to set kpdf (instead of gv) as > my default viewer in LyX for pdf's. Can someone please write to me how > to do > it or point me to where I would find such instructions? > > have you tried tools->settings->file format

Re: Key sequence

2006-11-16 Thread Sven Schreiber
icebna schrieb: > Hi all : > In my work I use many the superindex. There is some way of doing it from > the keyboard with a key sequence? Thanks advanced > > Miguel Either I completely misunderstand you, or the answer is simply the ^ key as in LaTex. This answer is in the documentation, right?

Re: lyx to word conversion

2006-11-28 Thread Sven Schreiber
Juergen Fenn schrieb: > > I don't think this is a good idea. If you are supposed to provide MS > Word format you should use MS Word or at least OOo for writing your > paper. The point is that the TeX community has spent too little effort > on converters. > > Regards, > Jürgen. > "That's a bold

Re: lyx to word conversion

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Schreiber
Nicolás schrieb: > Has anyone tried to convert latex to OpenDocument format with tex4ht? > And then convert it to Word with OpenOffice or with the "OpenOffice > filter to Microsoft Word XML"? > > Nicolás > Sure, there's lots of traffic on this in the list archives. See also the special "oolatex"

mixing languages, problem

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, I had some problems with multi-language documents; for example, marking a word as Spanish (in an otherwise English-language document), Lyx includes the command \deactivatetilden in the latex file, and latex throws an error. Is this known? What can one do? Help or pointers welcome. (this is th

Re: mixing languages, problem

2006-12-22 Thread Sven Schreiber
Sven Schreiber schrieb: > Hi, I had some problems with multi-language documents; > for example, marking a word as Spanish (in an otherwise English-language > document), Lyx includes the command \deactivatetilden in the latex file, > and latex throws an error. > > Is this know

Re: mixing languages, problem

2006-12-22 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum schrieb: > Am Freitag, 22. Dezember 2006 11:42 schrieb Sven Schreiber: >> Sven Schreiber schrieb: >>> Hi, I had some problems with multi-language documents; >>> for example, marking a word as Spanish (in an otherwise > English-language >>&

Re: mixing languages, problem

2006-12-22 Thread Sven Schreiber
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: > Sven Schreiber wrote: > >>> http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2365 >>> >> Interesting, but that would suggest the fix to bug 2365 caused my bug. I >> will try to include a detailed description/recipe in the bug tha

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