Re: Text of diagram with the font of the main document

2006-02-20 Thread Vaclav Smidl
. Quite a few linux programs can export into xfig's native format, so it should be no problem. Hope it helps, Vasek -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute web

Re: Putting something in the center of the page

2006-04-26 Thread Vaclav Smidl
like a seperate title page? I'm doing a bit of a hack right now with a ton of line breaks, but it seems like there should be a better solution which perfectly centers it... -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel

Re: Several appendixes

2006-05-02 Thread Vaclav Smidl
me only one appendix. How can I change this? I use Lyx 1.3.4. Regards Susanne -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute web: http://staff.utia.cz/smidl

Re: popups stopping lyx (latex export)

2006-05-12 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Friday 12 May 2006 15:19, Pol wrote: As i try to export my doc as latex, a popup ask me if i want to overwrite pictures (eps format, in my case). Replying 'overwrite all' lead to correct completion, but why should pictures be re-created? When the 'document-settings' panel is open, the

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-08-28 Thread Vaclav Smidl
-1.4.2_1.4.2-1_i386.deb) make sure that the standard dapper lyx packages are not installed (there are several). I use it to write papers and it works well. Richard Kleeman -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel

Re: Document - Change Tracking?

2006-09-19 Thread Vaclav Smidl
differences on the same line, causing conflicts. You have to go through your files manually to correct this. Vasek -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute web

Re: help installing spell check package

2006-09-21 Thread Vaclav Smidl
! -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute web: http://staff.utia.cz/smidl/ of Information Theory and Automation, fax: +420 26605 2068 Prague, Czech Republic

Re: Thesis first pages

2008-05-27 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Lukáš Oliva wrote: Hi all, I want to write thesis in lyx but my faculty uses quite complicated first section with images, legal note etc. I wanted to fill it in openoffice and export it to pdf and insert to LyX. I was able to do it as image, nevertheless I have two

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-06-26 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi Wolfgang, I also prefer having the fontsize in figures equal to that of the surrounding text. If the special flag was set you encountered a bug, either in xfig, fig2dev or in LyX. Otherwise just set the flag, and the text should be typeset by LaTeX. How does xfig find out the size and

Re: \usepackage{hyperref}

2006-10-19 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 4:53 pm, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: If I use \usepackage{hyperref} in the preamble I get errors: Paragraph ended before [EMAIL PROTECTED] was complete. I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this control sequence to too much text. How can we

Re: document class svmono.cls

2006-11-26 Thread Vaclav Smidl
-- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute web: http://staff.utia.cz/smidl/ of Information Theory and Automation, fax: +420 26605 2068 Prague, Czech Republic #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass

Re: Enquiry

2006-12-07 Thread Vaclav Smidl
December 2006 9:03 am From: Van Zyl, Wiehann, Mnr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vaclav Smidl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi I downloaded and installed MikTex on Windows XP. After that I downloaded the basic installer for Lyx 1.4 and had basically necessary components installed as indicated

Re: Enquiry

2006-12-07 Thread Vaclav Smidl
-- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute web: http://staff.utia.cz/smidl/ of Information Theory and Automation, fax: +420 26605 2068 Prague, Czech Republic

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-19 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 8:05 pm, John Hughes wrote: Hi, I'm a little new to this, so please be patient with me. I'm trying to use a BibTeX database to organise my references. The database seems to work fine and I can insert a BibTeX reference list into my document and use it to put

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-20 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Vaclav: I looked under MenuToolsPreferencesPaths, but I can't see anything like lyx_tmpdir? or lyx_tmpbuf???. In, MenuToolsPreferencesPaths is an entry Temporary directory. This directory is different in different systems, that is why I wanted you to see where is yours. On linux, my

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-20 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:20 am, you wrote: Thanks. The file says this: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99cThe top-level auxiliary file: newfile1.aux White space in argument---line 3 of file newfile1.aux : \bibstyle{C:/Documents : and Settings/john/My :

Re: ubuntu edgy checkinstall packages amd64 i386

2007-02-15 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Andrew Corrigan wrote: I made packages for ubuntu edgy with checkinstall: http://cds.gmu.edu/~acorriga/files/lyx_1.4.4-1_amd64.deb http://cds.gmu.edu/~acorriga/files/lyx_1.4.4-1_i386.deb Note, it's not a fully functional package. It just saves you the trouble

Re: Exporting non-ASCII characters to text?

2007-03-12 Thread Vaclav Smidl
- -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute web: http://staff.utia.cz/smidl/ of Information Theory and Automation, fax: +420 26605 2068 Prague, Czech Republic

Re: Exporting non-ASCII characters to text?

2007-03-12 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Monday 12 March 2007, Urtzi Jauregi wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007 13:04:10 Vaclav Smidl wrote: Hi Urtzi, I assume that you are using LyX on Windows, right? Sorry Vaclav, I forgot to give my system info. I'm using LyX 1.4.3 on Ubuntu Linux 6.10. The encoding of the LyX

Re: pdflatex postscript handling

2007-06-06 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi, When pdflatex converts *.eps files to pdf I get errors that these figures can't be converted and are not shown in the final pdf. When .ps files get converted, their boundingboxes are ignored so figures are not displayed properly. This is a sign of corrupted eps files. Missing bounding

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-06 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi, I have been using LyX on windows XP since a while now and i am trying to move to Linux. I have not tried to install LyX on Linux yet (I am sorry but i already know that it won't be easy, I already tried once with no success) but my question is different now. On ubuntu it should be as

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-07 Thread Vaclav Smidl
*** On ubuntu it should be as easy as typing $ apt-get install lyx on the command line, or selecting lyx in synaptic and pressing apply button. (assuming that you are connected to the internet) I'll give it a try, but LyX is not on the Synaptic manager, as far as I can see (on Ubuntu

Re: Small poll about svn

2009-10-09 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Thu October 8 2009 17:50:26 Pavel Sanda wrote: hi, i have small question for people using lyx + subversion. i'm thinking about using some svn syntax from version =1.5 for new lyx commands. how big is the crowd of people still using svn 1.4 or in other words could you drop me version

Re: Placing Images inside of Tables

2004-06-08 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 08:25, Matthew McKay wrote: Hey, I am trying to place images inside of a table, however whenever I do so the text in the other columns always starts in line with the bottom of the image. I have tried placing the image inside a float and then into a cell but

Re: theorem

2004-06-18 Thread Vaclav Smidl
It depends on the class of your document. Layout Document Document class If you pick e.g. article (AMS), theorems and lemmas will be accessible in the toolbar, (in place of Standard) Vasek On Friday 18 June 2004 10:22, Eric Delevaux wrote: Hello I've just installed lyx and i don't

Re: lyx screen fonts and \Gamma symbol

2004-06-21 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Strange. Can you send a bit more info on your system? Distro, versions: LyX, Xserver, QT, Also, do you see these letters in any other application? (font cmmi10) E.g. in kword: Insert Special Character. Vasek On Monday 21 June 2004 16:53, Miki Dovrat wrote: I have tried to post this and it

Re: lyx screen fonts and \Gamma symbol

2004-06-22 Thread Vaclav Smidl
I do see the font cmmi10 in other applications just fine, even \Gamma and \Psi? and in lyx just the \Gamma and \Psi have problems, it is strange indeed. do you use any locale settings? if $ export LC_ALL=EN_US; lyx does not help, then, I have no idea... Vasek

Re: Tables - general question

2004-07-21 Thread Vaclav Smidl
I do not know. Possibly you can use a minipage for that. Again, I'll have a look at this method as well. It works, see attached example. You need to set the column width if you want the minipage width be a % of the column, and to get a proper LyX layout: compare col 1 and 2. When you

Re: Tables - general question

2004-07-21 Thread Vaclav Smidl
When you fix the column width, each cell is set as a \parbox, so there is no need to use minipage. (see attachment) However, the resulting .ps is slightly different (extra vspace at the end of the second cell)... I don't see any \parbox in the latex export of the example, but

Re: Tables - general question

2004-07-21 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 12:31, Herbert Voss wrote: Vaclav Smidl wrote: My point was that if you specify the width of a column in a table, you can insert the same stuff as in parbox. the behaviour of footnotes is different and the vertival space for the first line also. I agree

Re: Creating a theorem with enclosed list

2004-07-22 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Have you tried nesting? Alt-p - (right arrow) Vasek On Thursday 22 July 2004 15:03, Jiri palecek wrote: Hi all I have a small question. How can I make a theorem (in AMS article) that contains a list or numbered list like this: Theorem 1: These claims are equivalent: 1. first 2.

Re: List of Figures without bibliography

2004-10-18 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi, I would use short-titles for this. Though the name suggest its use for titles it also works for the captions. At the beginning of each caption do:InsertShort Title It gives you an [opt] inset. Write the caption without references there and it will be used in the List of Figures instead

Re: apa document class Unavailable

2004-10-21 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi Jack, which tex distribution do you use? For tetex (default linux option) you should copy these files to: ~/texmf/tex/latex and run texhash in the command line. For mixtex (windows): I guess (not using it...) the directory is c:\localtex or similar. Then you should run something like:

Math fonts on Windows

2004-10-21 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi, I am happily running LyX on linux. Recently, I have installed Ruurd's win32 port for my colleague. The installation was smooth and lyx is running as it should. However, there is one issue I can not get rid of: the characters for \sum and \int are displayed much higher than they should (as

Re: Math fonts on Windows

2004-10-21 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Thursday 21 October 2004 13:28, Angus Leeming wrote: Vaclav Smidl wrote: Hi, I am happily running LyX on linux. Recently, I have installed Ruurd's win32 port for my colleague. The installation was smooth and lyx is running as it should. However, there is one issue I can not get rid

Re: Curriculum Document Style

2004-10-29 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Dave, there are some options mentioned on: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Examples/CV I am happily using option #1: Christian Ridderstrm's CV - academic format Vasek On Friday 29 October 2004 20:14, Dave Augustus wrote: I am investigating options with using Lyx as a platform for developing

Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-03 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi Paul, I have no personal experiece (Matlab is available in my institution), If you have kde or qt, you can try: http://soft.proindependent.com/qtiplot.html http://labplot.sourceforge.net/ both should be able to produce eps, the latter uses pstoedit to produce .fig files. Vasek On

Re: hfill inside math mode

2004-11-03 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Wednesday 03 November 2004 20:45, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a command similar to \hfill to use inside math mode. In truth, I am wanting to have a single line with several equations equally separated. I think the AMS align environment does that, but the line has just one

Re: Change bar patch for 1.3.5

2004-11-18 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi Jane, thanks for the patch, it works beautifully. I vote for its inclusion into 1.3.6cvs. Vasek On Tuesday 16 November 2004 19:20, Jane McKean wrote: OK. I think I've posted the two files here: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Tips/ChangeTrackingLyx1-3-2 Hope this helps. --jane

Re: Change bar patch for 1.3.5

2004-11-18 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Our policy is to avoid any change in stable releases that would change the file format. All 1.3.x releases read and write the same files. Thanks for explanation. This patch has been applied to 1.4.0cvs, but due to the numerous changes in LyX internal they are now non-functionnal, to such

Re: Where can I find manual

2004-12-01 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Stephen, LyX and LaTeX are two different projects. In fact LyX is a frontend to LaTeX. First, you have to decide which one you want to use: Option 1: LyX run lyx (e.g. from your console) follow HelpTutorial in the menu Option 2: latex read

Re: Getting LyX to replace custom-defined symbols as if they were standard LaTeX symbols

2005-02-02 Thread Vaclav Smidl
! Is there a way to make LyX replace my commands as well, as it does with the standard LaTeX ones? Thanks for your suggestions D. -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute

key-binding numbers

2005-02-09 Thread Vaclav Smidl
\bind KP_1 self-insert 1 I am getting always 1, If I use: \bind KP_1 self-insert 1 \bind 1 self-insert x I am getting always x. Any thoughts, workarounds? Thanks, Vasek -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D

Re: key-binding numbers

2005-02-10 Thread Vaclav Smidl
think is to look for a proper windows keyboard layout. Vasek On Thursday 10 February 2005 08:31, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 07:54:02PM +0100, Vaclav Smidl wrote: I am trying to modify some key binding files to get the following: if I press regular 1 insert x

Re: key-binding numbers

2005-02-10 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Thursday 10 February 2005 11:30, G. Milde wrote: On 9.02.05, Vaclav Smidl wrote: If I use: \bind 1 self-insert x \bind KP_1 self-insert 1 I am getting always 1, If I use: \bind KP_1 self-insert 1 \bind 1 self-insert x I am getting always x. Just a guess. Did you

Re: laprint psfrag

2005-05-27 Thread Vaclav Smidl
, Anyone use laprint, a matlab function, successfully in lyx? Richard -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute web: http://www.utia.cas.cz/AS/smidl

Re: laprint psfrag

2005-05-27 Thread Vaclav Smidl
not need graphicp, change it to graphicx, it should also work. What happens if you go to /tmp and run: latex pcttmp.tex manually? Vasek -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department

Re: laprint psfrag

2005-05-27 Thread Vaclav Smidl
! LaTeX Error: File `mono-pre.tex' not found. Oh, sorry, I did not noticed that. It is a file with my personal newcommands. :-). Remove it or replace with your own... Best, Vasek

Re: laprint psfrag

2005-05-28 Thread Vaclav Smidl
-- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute web: http://www.utia.cas.cz/AS/smidl/ of Information Theory and Automation, fax: +420 26605 2068 Prague, Czech Republic

Re: LyX doesn't store my PDF viewer info

2005-09-09 Thread Vaclav Smidl
preferences options are being read and you have only one preferences file. -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute web: http://www.utia.cas.cz/AS/smidl

Re: dia help

2005-09-12 Thread Vaclav Smidl
and superscripts. Does anybody know how to do that in a nice way? Thanks for your insights, -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute web: http

Interpretation of ERT

2003-02-07 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi, I am having troubles with ERT. LyX exports any NL (newline) character in TeX insets as TWO NL characters in .tex file. It is interpreted as \par by LaTeX. It means that any commands that does not allow \par have to be written in one runaway line. It significantly decreases readability. Is

Re: Interpretation of ERT

2003-02-07 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Thanks to all for suggestions. C-Enter works fine at the moment but I would vote for solution ERT behaves like text editor as suggested in the bug report. Please read bug 698 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698 do you think that it refers to the same problem? Vasek

Elsart layout

2003-02-25 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi, I have to write an article using elsart.cls. Is there a LyX layout file for this class? There is a few notes on the web about elsart.layout but it is not part of LyX distro and I can not find it in any contrib directory. Thanks, Vasek

Re: Elsart layout

2003-02-27 Thread Vaclav Smidl
, Also, have a look at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg52858.html for a patch to 1.3.0 that is the latest version of elsart. Rod On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, I Wayan Warmada wrote: On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Vaclav Smidl wrote: | I have to write an article using elsart.cls

Re: Elsart layout

2003-02-28 Thread Vaclav Smidl
of the Elsevier instructions. The second example uses a different format. I've attached the tex output, with a space between the first two authors, and one betweent the second and last. The spacing in the dvi seems the same. Rod On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Vaclav Smidl wrote: Hi

Re: Elsevier layout and authors / thanksref

2003-03-21 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi, I had the same problem. I solved it by copying elsart.layout to my home directory and adding lines: Style StandartInTitle CopyStyle Standard InTitle 1 end Now, I use StandartInTitle for latex inset with \author, etc. It is probably not nice and elegant, but it

Math-macro

2003-07-03 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi, I am using lyx for some years now, but I started to use math-macros quite recently. However, as far as I know it always inserts \newcommand even if the macro already exist. Is there any switch to use \renewcommand instead? I found, that ERT line: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spell checking

2003-07-04 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Have you tried to put your accented characters to: Edit Preferences Language setting Spellchecker Escape characters ? (This is the path in QT version, should be fairly similar in xforms) You need to use correct encoding though. Best, Vasek On Friday 04 of July 2003 14:40, Eduardo Haro

Re: EPS figure not showing in output

2003-11-25 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi, Are you using draft option? This is what draft mode does. Vasek On Tuesday 25 November 2003 06:55, Jeremy Buchmann wrote: Hello all, I am using LyX 1.3.3qt and am having trouble with a figure I made in Dia. It is an EPS file and displays perfectly in LyX, but doesn't show up in the

Re: Problem with fonts

2004-02-05 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Kudos to you for posting the solution :-) (which I've just added separately to the FAQ: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/FAQ/Unsorted#mathSymbolsNotShown /Christian Hi, I am affraid it is a bit hidden in Unsorted or even LyX and QT. I was recently asking the very same question. (I

Re: Page number on first page

2004-02-11 Thread Vaclav Smidl
It depends what you want to write. You should specify your Document class: Menu: Layout Document Document class For article, the first page is usually numbered. For report, the first page is not numbered (if you have assigned title already). The second one starts from 1, which is usually OK.

Re: Degree symbol?

2004-02-14 Thread Vaclav Smidl
As far as I know, there is no standard macro for this. (I guess in some fonts it is character 228). However, I usually use: \newcommand\degree{\ensuremath{^{\circ}}} in preamble, and then \degree{} in ERT in text. Vasek On Saturday 14 of February 2004 15:58, Maria Torres wrote: How do I

Re: Package Font errors after upgrading LyX (3rd post attempt)

2004-02-18 Thread Vaclav Smidl
It looks more like a Latex problem to me. What document class and packages are you using? Metrics for ecbx1440 are not available on my tetex 2.0.2 either. None of my classes have ever asked for them. Metrics for ecbx2074 are in tetex-extra package for debian. Do you have these fonts installed?

Re: urgent - newbi question - how to use latex/tex templates in lyx

2004-03-01 Thread Vaclav Smidl
hi, thanx for your reply. what i have from my university is 4 style files and some sample tex files to be used as a formatting template for the thesis. so pls tell me how do all i use the style files within lyx to create my thesis. thanx, psfig.sty - tables styles graphicx.sty - figure

Re: lyx for ever! + a little question

2004-03-06 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi, i use xfig and want to export latex-figures oder ps/latex -figures and want them in my lyx-file. (i use xfig to draw mathematical diagrams) why latex-figures? in my diagrams i use blackboard bold, fraktur and mathcal fonts and this is not supported in xfig (without using -specialtext and

Re: Screen appearance of mathematical signs in Lyx 1.30

2004-03-12 Thread Vaclav Smidl
try any of these: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Troubleshooting On Friday 12 of March 2004 15:41, Robert Neumann wrote: Hello, I recently changed from Lyx 1.20 to 1.30. Lyx 1.30 seems to print rather the latex code like \Rightarrow or cdot on the screen instead of = or the dot. I

Re: enumerate - prefixed with text

2004-05-04 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi, an example file with two solutions is attached. You have to use ERT in both cases. The second one is better but it does not look nice in LyX... Vasek On Tuesday 04 May 2004 16:29, Rob S wrote: Dear list I would like to use a numbered list (enumerate environment); but with each number

Re: problem with size of the table

2004-05-17 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Are you talking about horizontal or vertical size? If horizontal, you can adjust the width of each column in Table settings of the dialog you get when right-clicking on the table. If vertical, longtable is what are you looking for. (it is an extra tab in the same dialog). It splits the table in

Re: Text of diagram with the font of the main document

2006-02-20 Thread Vaclav Smidl
. Quite a few linux programs can export into xfig's native format, so it should be no problem. Hope it helps, Vasek -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute web

Re: Putting something in the center of the page

2006-04-26 Thread Vaclav Smidl
like a seperate title page? I'm doing a bit of a hack right now with a ton of line breaks, but it seems like there should be a better solution which perfectly centers it... -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel

Re: Several appendixes

2006-05-02 Thread Vaclav Smidl
me only one appendix. How can I change this? I use Lyx 1.3.4. Regards Susanne -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute web: http://staff.utia.cz/smidl

Re: popups stopping lyx (latex export)

2006-05-12 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Friday 12 May 2006 15:19, Pol wrote: As i try to export my doc as latex, a popup ask me if i want to overwrite pictures (eps format, in my case). Replying 'overwrite all' lead to correct completion, but why should pictures be re-created? When the 'document-settings' panel is open, the

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-08-28 Thread Vaclav Smidl
-1.4.2_1.4.2-1_i386.deb) make sure that the standard dapper lyx packages are not installed (there are several). I use it to write papers and it works well. Richard Kleeman -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel

Re: Document - Change Tracking?

2006-09-19 Thread Vaclav Smidl
differences on the same line, causing conflicts. You have to go through your files manually to correct this. Vasek -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute web

Re: help installing spell check package

2006-09-21 Thread Vaclav Smidl
! -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute web: http://staff.utia.cz/smidl/ of Information Theory and Automation, fax: +420 26605 2068 Prague, Czech Republic

Re: Thesis first pages

2008-05-27 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Lukáš Oliva wrote: Hi all, I want to write thesis in lyx but my faculty uses quite complicated first section with images, legal note etc. I wanted to fill it in openoffice and export it to pdf and insert to LyX. I was able to do it as image, nevertheless I have two

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-06-26 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi Wolfgang, I also prefer having the fontsize in figures equal to that of the surrounding text. If the special flag was set you encountered a bug, either in xfig, fig2dev or in LyX. Otherwise just set the flag, and the text should be typeset by LaTeX. How does xfig find out the size and

Re: \usepackage{hyperref}

2006-10-19 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 4:53 pm, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: If I use \usepackage{hyperref} in the preamble I get errors: Paragraph ended before [EMAIL PROTECTED] was complete. I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this control sequence to too much text. How can we

Re: document class svmono.cls

2006-11-26 Thread Vaclav Smidl
-- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute web: http://staff.utia.cz/smidl/ of Information Theory and Automation, fax: +420 26605 2068 Prague, Czech Republic #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass

Re: Enquiry

2006-12-07 Thread Vaclav Smidl
December 2006 9:03 am From: Van Zyl, Wiehann, Mnr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vaclav Smidl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi I downloaded and installed MikTex on Windows XP. After that I downloaded the basic installer for Lyx 1.4 and had basically necessary components installed as indicated

Re: Enquiry

2006-12-07 Thread Vaclav Smidl
-- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute web: http://staff.utia.cz/smidl/ of Information Theory and Automation, fax: +420 26605 2068 Prague, Czech Republic

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-19 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 8:05 pm, John Hughes wrote: Hi, I'm a little new to this, so please be patient with me. I'm trying to use a BibTeX database to organise my references. The database seems to work fine and I can insert a BibTeX reference list into my document and use it to put

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-20 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Vaclav: I looked under MenuToolsPreferencesPaths, but I can't see anything like lyx_tmpdir? or lyx_tmpbuf???. In, MenuToolsPreferencesPaths is an entry Temporary directory. This directory is different in different systems, that is why I wanted you to see where is yours. On linux, my

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-20 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:20 am, you wrote: Thanks. The file says this: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99cThe top-level auxiliary file: newfile1.aux White space in argument---line 3 of file newfile1.aux : \bibstyle{C:/Documents : and Settings/john/My :

Re: ubuntu edgy checkinstall packages amd64 i386

2007-02-15 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Andrew Corrigan wrote: I made packages for ubuntu edgy with checkinstall: http://cds.gmu.edu/~acorriga/files/lyx_1.4.4-1_amd64.deb http://cds.gmu.edu/~acorriga/files/lyx_1.4.4-1_i386.deb Note, it's not a fully functional package. It just saves you the trouble

Re: Exporting non-ASCII characters to text?

2007-03-12 Thread Vaclav Smidl
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Re: Exporting non-ASCII characters to text?

2007-03-12 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Monday 12 March 2007, Urtzi Jauregi wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007 13:04:10 Vaclav Smidl wrote: Hi Urtzi, I assume that you are using LyX on Windows, right? Sorry Vaclav, I forgot to give my system info. I'm using LyX 1.4.3 on Ubuntu Linux 6.10. The encoding of the LyX

Re: pdflatex postscript handling

2007-06-06 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi, When pdflatex converts *.eps files to pdf I get errors that these figures can't be converted and are not shown in the final pdf. When .ps files get converted, their boundingboxes are ignored so figures are not displayed properly. This is a sign of corrupted eps files. Missing bounding

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-06 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi, I have been using LyX on windows XP since a while now and i am trying to move to Linux. I have not tried to install LyX on Linux yet (I am sorry but i already know that it won't be easy, I already tried once with no success) but my question is different now. On ubuntu it should be as

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-07 Thread Vaclav Smidl
*** On ubuntu it should be as easy as typing $ apt-get install lyx on the command line, or selecting lyx in synaptic and pressing apply button. (assuming that you are connected to the internet) I'll give it a try, but LyX is not on the Synaptic manager, as far as I can see (on Ubuntu

Re: Small poll about svn

2009-10-09 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Thu October 8 2009 17:50:26 Pavel Sanda wrote: hi, i have small question for people using lyx + subversion. i'm thinking about using some svn syntax from version =1.5 for new lyx commands. how big is the crowd of people still using svn 1.4 or in other words could you drop me version

Re: Placing Images inside of Tables

2004-06-08 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 08:25, Matthew McKay wrote: Hey, I am trying to place images inside of a table, however whenever I do so the text in the other columns always starts in line with the bottom of the image. I have tried placing the image inside a float and then into a cell but

Re: theorem

2004-06-18 Thread Vaclav Smidl
It depends on the class of your document. Layout Document Document class If you pick e.g. article (AMS), theorems and lemmas will be accessible in the toolbar, (in place of Standard) Vasek On Friday 18 June 2004 10:22, Eric Delevaux wrote: Hello I've just installed lyx and i don't

Re: lyx screen fonts and \Gamma symbol

2004-06-21 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Strange. Can you send a bit more info on your system? Distro, versions: LyX, Xserver, QT, Also, do you see these letters in any other application? (font cmmi10) E.g. in kword: Insert Special Character. Vasek On Monday 21 June 2004 16:53, Miki Dovrat wrote: I have tried to post this and it

Re: lyx screen fonts and \Gamma symbol

2004-06-22 Thread Vaclav Smidl
I do see the font cmmi10 in other applications just fine, even \Gamma and \Psi? and in lyx just the \Gamma and \Psi have problems, it is strange indeed. do you use any locale settings? if $ export LC_ALL=EN_US; lyx does not help, then, I have no idea... Vasek

Re: Tables - general question

2004-07-21 Thread Vaclav Smidl
I do not know. Possibly you can use a minipage for that. Again, I'll have a look at this method as well. It works, see attached example. You need to set the column width if you want the minipage width be a % of the column, and to get a proper LyX layout: compare col 1 and 2. When you

Re: Tables - general question

2004-07-21 Thread Vaclav Smidl
When you fix the column width, each cell is set as a \parbox, so there is no need to use minipage. (see attachment) However, the resulting .ps is slightly different (extra vspace at the end of the second cell)... I don't see any \parbox in the latex export of the example, but

Re: Tables - general question

2004-07-21 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 12:31, Herbert Voss wrote: Vaclav Smidl wrote: My point was that if you specify the width of a column in a table, you can insert the same stuff as in parbox. the behaviour of footnotes is different and the vertival space for the first line also. I agree

Re: Creating a theorem with enclosed list

2004-07-22 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Have you tried nesting? Alt-p - (right arrow) Vasek On Thursday 22 July 2004 15:03, Jiri palecek wrote: Hi all I have a small question. How can I make a theorem (in AMS article) that contains a list or numbered list like this: Theorem 1: These claims are equivalent: 1. first 2.

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