New Color Box Type code error

2018-11-26 Thread lloyd
This code throws an error: New Color Box Type Name cBoxA 1 col back=gray!25!white,colbacktitle=black, colframe=black!;75!black, fonttitle=\bfseries, title=\listno\,##, width=\textwidth \begin{cBoxA} {} Evidently related to the parameter after cBoxA. My notes say that there should be the te

Problem adding computer code to colored boxes

2018-11-28 Thread lloyd
Hello,   My co-author and I are trying to typeset a computer programming book with Lyx. We're able to create fancy colored boxes to display computer code with the following: New Color Box Type cBoxA1colback=gray!25!white,colbacktitle=black, colframe=black!75!black, fonttitle=\bfseries, title=\l

Need to display computer code listings with normal, bold, and strikeout display

2018-01-21 Thread lloyd
better/easier way to accomplish my goal? Many thanks to all, Lloyd * My books: THE GOSPEL OF ASHES http://thegospelofashes.com Strength is not enough. Do they have the courage and the cunning? Can they survive long enough to save t

Re: Need to display computer code listings with normal, bold, and strikeout display

2018-01-22 Thread lloyd
nsequences 2. I fear that it might be incompatible with our current book-length *.lyx file   So, I'm hoping that someone can show us an easier way to incorporate a monospace font family that includes bold face.   Many thanks,   Lloyd       code_listing_example.lyx Descript

Re: Need to display computer code listings with normal, bold, and strikeout display -- SOLVED!

2018-01-22 Thread lloyd
Hello again,   I just discovered that I can display bold code listings in my *.pdf document by selecting Courier as the Typewriter font in Settings.   Thanks all for help.   Lloyd     Hello,   Responding to Scott's suggestion, I've attached *.lyx and *.pdf files that illustrate what we

Book templates in lyx

2018-02-21 Thread lloyd
Hello, I'm perplexed and concerned. I've typeset several of my books in lyx using the memoir book package. But now, on a new computer and fresh install of lyx I can't find a single book package in settings and somewhere in the somewhat confusing help pages find a note that memoir is broken

Code listings in colored boxes

2018-02-24 Thread lloyd
n studying the tcolorbox manual. But when I try to change parameters in the lyx preamble nothing seems to change. So I'm guessing there's a lyx issue I'm ignorant of.   I'd much appreciate any and all tips to help solve these issues.   Many thanks,   Lloyd R. Prentice     listno.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: Code listings in colored boxes

2018-04-05 Thread lloyd
Thanks guys, There is so much to learn and so much I want to learn about Lyx/LaTex/Tex. Has anyone come up with a syllabus that that takes one from total noob to mastery? All the best, Lloyd -Original Message- From: "Scott Kostyshak" Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Re: Code listings in colored boxes

2018-04-06 Thread lloyd
Thanks Joel, Nice and clean! Our use-case was slightly different--- rather than color-coding tokens, we needed to color-code (bf) selected program fragments that correlated with tutorial text. All the best, Lloyd -Original Message- From: "Joel Kulesza" Sent: Thursda

KOMA-script book -- author is blank when I display pdf

2014-05-11 Thread lloyd
Hello, I've selected KOMA-script book for my next work. I've marked the author as "Author" and have tried putting it under the title and on a new page. But neither case works. Title and text displays in pdf, but author doesn't. Can some kind soul suggest what I'm doing wrong? Many thanks,

Re: KOMA-script book -- author is blank when I display pdf

2014-05-20 Thread lloyd
al area of source that is likely culprit for the problem at hand? Many thanks for your response. Lloyd -Original Message- From: "Marcelo Acuña" Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 6:54pm To: "ll...@writersglen.com" , "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org" Subject: Re: KOMA-scrip

Toolbar in 1.3.6

2005-07-19 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi   Yes another question, sorry.   I have been using 1.3.5 for sometime and have become very use to the toolbar that I am using. It is a corruption of the 'Alternative Toolbar' provided here   http://www.semverteilung.vwl.uni-muenchen.de/mitarbeiter/es/software/ToolbarES.htm   However when I

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

2005-07-19 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Jean-Pierre Chretien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 5:30 PM Subject: Re: 1.3.6 for Win To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: 1.3.6 for Win Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:22:22 +0100 Jean-Pier

Re: Removing pages from a .pdf file?

2005-07-19 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 6:29 PM Subject: Removing pages from a .pdf file? I've just generated a pdf file using pdflatex that runs from page -8 to page 11. Is there a tool that I can use to remove pages -8 to 0 (

Instant preview in 1.3.6 win

2005-07-19 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi So far so good with the 1.3.6 install. Only I can't get instant preview to work. I have selected Instant Preview in Preferences and also have a full version of Python 2.4 installed. Anyone got Instant Preview to work on a Win system and know how to do it? Geoff

SOLVED -Instant preview

2005-07-19 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Ok it seems that on (my) WinXP box as well as Python you also need a set of Python extensions which can be found here. There are files to cover the latest Python releases. https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=78018&package_id=79063&release_id=319716 Perhaps something should be

Strange menu behaviour on resize

2005-07-19 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi A strange thing happens whenever I minimise my Lyx window to the tool bar in Windows. When I bring it back up (regardless of whether it is full screen or user defined size) only the first 4 menu options are available (FIle, Edit, Insert, Layout). When I run the mouse of the vacant space the

Re: 1.3.6 win continued

2005-07-21 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 11:25 AM Subject: 1.3.6 win continued hello all version 1.3.6 win is slower at startup, and its window position and size at exit is still not memorized. can this be fixed? - would be great! all in all, th

Re: citations and references in multi document files

2005-07-21 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Another way to do it is to 'compile' the main document first, eg by doing view dvi. This effectively lets all Includes see all the other stuff such as biblios or sections in other includes for cross referencing. - Original Message - From: "Micha Feigin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sen

Re: Page Style Fancy Problem

2005-07-22 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Roger McMurtrie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 5:03 AM Subject: Page Style Fancy Problem I am using the document class book with page style fancy. However, footnotes on Chapter pages don't appear when viewed. My LaTeX book suggests tha

Figure numbering/labelling

2005-07-24 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi Just had a paper accepted for publication and thanks to Lyx it was a breeze to produce in the right way for the publisher. However the figures are labelled Figure 1: caption Figure 2: caption etc I need FIG. 1. Caption Notice the colon has become a period. At the moment I am using \ren

Re: Figure numbering/labelling

2005-07-25 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 2:38 AM Subject: Re: Figure numbering/labelling Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: the figures are labelled Figure 1: caption Fi

tex2lyx

2005-07-25 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Anyone managed to get this working with 1.3.6-1 for Windows I have followed the install instruction and also the instructions for activation from within Lyx which are provided on the wiki and I keep getting an error saying Cannot convert file Error while executing tex2lyx.cmd "filename.tex" "f

Re: tex2lyx

2005-07-25 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
From: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Subject: tex2lyx Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:03:46 +0100 Anyone managed to get this working with 1.3.6-1 for Windows I have followed the install instruction and also the instructions for activation from within Lyx which are prov

Re: tex2lyx - SOLVED

2005-07-25 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Ok I had saved the cmd file as unicode and lyx couldnt read it. So it seems the cmd way of doing things still works. THanks for the suggestions and sorry that as usual pilot error was the cause! Geoff - Original Message - From: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: figure* in LyX?

2005-07-25 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
If you right click the float box a load of options appear - one of which is Span Columns. Check this box and all should be ok. BTW in many cases the float will appear on the page following its position so if you want it to span two columns on page 2 make sure you place it somewhere on page 1.

debug and command line stuff

2005-07-27 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi On many occasions when people have had problems with a Lyx setup the gurus have suggested running lyx from the command line using -dbg and then certain strings. I have had a poke about on the wiki but I can't find a list of possible commands. Is there anywhere an equivalent to *nix 'man lyx'

Re: debug and command line stuff

2005-07-27 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Many thanks - and also to Angus who sent a 'man' page. Should prove useful in the future. Geoff - Original Message - From: "Jean-Marc Lasgouttes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2

Excel data sheets

2005-07-28 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi Has anyone had any experience or success in importing MS Excel data sheets into lyx? Ideally they would appear as a table but I am not averse to importing them as a graphic. Any ideas welcomed. Geoff

Re: Multiple Document windows and unnumbered sections

2005-08-01 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 2:06 PM Subject: Multiple Document windows and unnumbered sections More newbie questions from me that might be a little easier this time! 1. I have found that upon opening multiple do

Re: Excel data sheets

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
s work with LyX? If so, what is the trick? Thanks, Brian Williams "William F. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jul 28, 2005, at 9:06 AM, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Has anyone had any experience or success in importing MS Excel data sheets into lyx? Ideally they would appear as

Re: Spellcheck with Windows?

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 2:36 PM Subject: Spellcheck with Windows? I'm not sure how to set up spellcheck for windows. It kind of looks like Ispell is only for Unix. How would I do this? Download and install

center figures with paragraph skip

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I use the center paragraph option when I place figures in floats to ensure they are in the center of the page. However with this option the spacing between the figure and the caption increases relative to the default (justified). Is there any way of having centered figures without this addit

Section headings

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
By default the section heading in Latex are bold. This is fine. In the table of contents they are written in normal type. Again all this looks good. However I need to use some math in one of my section headings. If I input it as normal it appears in the heading in normal (non-bold font). If I us

SOLVED:bold math in section heading

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
In fact this is a generic solution for section and toc headings to differ in form. I simply used the Insert->Short title option. In the Heading I had bold, in the Short title normal text. Geoff

Re: Citation Problems

2005-08-03 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Thomas Liem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 11:13 AM Subject: Citation Problems Hello ! I have installed Lyx and it`s a really nice program. So i would like write my diploma with Lyx. But i have some problems with citation. I u

Re: center figures with paragraph skip

2005-08-03 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 11:51 AM Subject: Re: center figures with paragraph skip On 8/3/05, Søren O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually use: \centering{} Søren, I think the brackets are irrelevant an

Bibliography in TOC

2005-08-03 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I can add the bibliogrpahy to the TOC by simply checking the box in the Bibtex bar. However this doesn't provide the alignment I require. It look like this 5. Conclusions Bibliography What I want is 5. Conclusions Bibliography For all other lines in the TOC I can do this by using \ad

Re: Please try this out for me...

2005-08-03 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Søren O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 8:21 PM Subject: Please try this out for me... I'm having a persistent problem here, please try if you can reproduce it: create an empty LyX doc in preamble: \addpackage{colortbl}

Re: Please try this out for me...

2005-08-03 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Søren O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 8:31 PM Subject: Re: Please try this out for me... On Wednesday 03 August 2005 21:27, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: - Original Message - From: "Søren O

Re: weird table problems in Lyx

2005-08-04 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 3:18 PM Subject: weird table problems in Lyx I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but most times when I make a table, the first row of the table is seperate than the others. I

Re: weird table problems in Lyx

2005-08-04 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Herbert Voss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 4:42 PM Subject: Re: weird table problems in Lyx Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: - Original Message - From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: S

Re: Longtable

2005-08-04 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
According to the Docs captions cannot be used unless in a float. So it looks like you will have to do ALL this by hand in ERT. I am willing to be stood corrected though. so \begin{longtable} \caption[myfirsttable]{myfirsttable} \label{tab1} \\ ...now all the table layout commands a

Re: Longtable

2005-08-04 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 5:57 PM Subject: Re: Longtable According to the Docs captions cannot be used unless in a float. So it looks like you will have to do ALL

Re: Longtable

2005-08-04 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
er is already at 2 and the number 3 is assigned. Sorry that is long winded but it makes sense if you read it slowly! Anyway the work around. At the end of each table put in ERT \addtocounter{table}{-1} Hope this helps Geoff On Thursday 04 August 2005 19:21, Herbert Voss wrote: Geoffrey L

Re: Longtable

2005-08-05 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
John This can be done using the package xcolor. It envokes the colortbl package too. I will send you the docs in a private email as the package is fairly powerful giving you a lot of control over colors used. Basically In the preamble put usepackage[table]{xcolor} then at before the

Re: Tex Information

2005-08-05 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Sreekumar R. Bhaskaran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 4:47 PM Subject: Tex Information I installed Lyx 1.3.6 on Win XP. I went through the steps as described in wiki website. The problem is I am not able to assign the .sh files to o

Re: Multirow ... no go !

2005-08-05 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Søren O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 7:36 PM Subject: Multirow ... no go ! I've included two lyx files. One is from the wiki at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables called table-,ultirow-lyx and it demonstrates multirow support.

Re: last question tonight :-)

2005-08-05 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
ctrl-enter - Original Message - From: "Søren O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 9:20 PM Subject: last question tonight :-) How do I force a newline in a section heading? Kind regards -- Soren O'Neill, kiropraktor, MSc, klinisk lektor Rygambulatoriet, Syge

Re: ERT vs. TeX in "Insert" menu

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Kevin Pfeiffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 12:34 PM Subject: ERT vs. TeX in "Insert" menu This just tripped me up again... I couldn't remember my keyboard shortcut for adding an ERT insert and had to scan up and down the Insert m

lengths

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am trying to make a line on a page that is as long as the actual text in the paragraph, not the width of the text on the page. This may sound confusing but it should look like this MY NAME UNIVERSITY ADDRESS DATE _ Rather than a line that goes across the whole page.

Text and figure layout - HELP!

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Ok I have been struggling with this all day and it seems to me there must be an obvious solution.   The layout I would like is as follows:   A name and address above each other right aligned - this bit is easy as I can just align the paragraph.   Under that a rule as wide as the text above it

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

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Sven Schreiber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LyX Users List" Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 6:20 PM Subject: doubleclicking files vs. file-open in lyx/win Hi, this is from a happy user of 1.3.6 on win 2000. Nevertheless, one little quirk I want to ask about:

Re: Text and figure layout - HELP!

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Herbert Voss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 8:12 PM Subject: Re: Text and figure layout - HELP! Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Ok I have been struggling with this all day and it seems to me there must be an obvious solutio

Space between table columns

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I have created a table in latex and imported it into Lyx. Unfortunately there is a large amount of space between the contents of each column. I want them to almost touch. If I right align the left hand column and left align the right, then I can get what I want (albeit with the insertion of

Font advice

2005-08-09 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I have prepared my thesis and all is well. I just wnated some advice or guidance about fonts in Latex - I know this is a Lyx list but many latex gurus lurk here! Basically I want to use a nice modern looking font - the sort that might be found in a scientific publication. I use a large amou

pdflatex view

2005-08-09 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi All of a sudden when I select view->>pdflatex instead of getting the document as it is I get a very old version of it. I have tried Update, I have tried closing and starting again. ANy ideas?? view dvi works fine!

Re: Tex Information

2005-08-10 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Sreekumar Bhaskaran-Nair {msbad084}" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 4:52 AM Subject: Re: Tex Information I had msys installed in c:\MSYS\1.0\bin That was the default path for me. But the default path for lyx was in program files.

Re: Symbol

2005-08-10 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Yes try \S in ERT - Original Message - From: "Sreekumar Bhaskaran-Nair {msbad084}" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 3:28 PM Subject: Symbol Is there a symbol in latex for the one given in the attached PDF file? It is quite useful for representing section numb

Re: Symbol

2005-08-10 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Just for future reference in the folder (or equivalent on your system) \texmf\doc\latex\comprehensive ther should be a file named symbols-a4 in both pdf and ps formats. This contains every symbol and character you could ever want. - Original Message - From: "Sreekumar Bhaskaran-Nair {m

Re: got many Error when try previewing

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Luqman H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ekkehart Schlicht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 10:50 AM Subject: Re: got many Error when try previewing really sorry for that.. maybe it caused by server frequently down i have upload my doc t

Re: vertical alignment (center text vertically)

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Robert Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:22 AM Subject: vertical alignment (center text vertically) Hello, I'm looking for a way to center a multiline text horizontally and vertically on a page. (I'm planing to write s

Re: Subject: vertical alignment (center text vertically)

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Well it works as you want if you press return after the ERT before typing - honestly - Original Message - From: "Robert Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:50 AM Subject: Re: Subject: vertical alignment (center text vertically) Precedence: fm-user Orga

Lengths

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am trying to edit a sty file to set up what I want to see on the page. There are a number of lengths that are defined \vskip x\p@ where x is a number. What exactly is the unit of length here?

Palatino font

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi   I am having issues with the palatino font. It prints beautifully but when viewed in Acrobat Reader it looks awful, as if it doesn't quite scale. Things look crunched an the letters are consistently the same shape. If I zoom in then it gets better but you can't view a document at 500%!!

Re: Palatino font

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Roy Schestowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 3:23 PM Subject: Re: Palatino font Quoting Geoffrey Lloyd: Hi I am having is

Re: Author in lower right corner and no page num on first page

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Søren O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 6:25 PM Subject: Author in lower right corner and no page num on first page The standard format for the author typography is centered on the page. I need it to be left-aligned, but ind

Re: Palatino font

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
owitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 3:23 PM Subject: Re: Palatino font Quoting Geoffrey Lloyd: Hi I am having issues with the palatino font. It prints beautifully but w

Re: Palatino font

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 10:54 PM Subject: Re: Palatino font Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Ok this is becoming more of a mystery. I think this is no longer a Lyx/Latex issue so I am sorry for buggi

Palatino SUMMARY

2005-08-12 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Ok I know it is bad to start a new thread but I think a number of things need to be listed so that people (me included) aren't confused.   I am using   \usepackage{palatino}   This provides Type 1 (non-bitmap) fonts.   The dvi file is perfect - to create the dvi it makes its fonts from .vf a

Palatino - SOLVED (sort of!)

2005-08-12 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Ok So I started from scratch and made my own Palatino from Truetype fonts. There is a nifty little miktex thing for this which does everything you need. http://www.mtfi.drzoom.ch/ Now my on screen fonts are great, no funny bits hanging off the T and D. (they are type 3 fonts but T1 encoding s

Re: PS -> PDF?

2005-08-13 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
The option you want is the PDF without anything in brackets. If you are using the default UI the view menu should read DraftDVI DVI PDF PDF (dvipdfm) PDF (pdflatex) Update You want the first PDF option. The same is true in File->Export The PDF without any brackets goes via the ps fil

Re: Problem viewing PDFs

2005-08-15 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Gustavo Guerra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:02 PM Subject: Problem viewing PDFs Hi there I just installed LyX 1.3.6 for Windows. When I select View->PDF (any of the three versions), acrobat reader gives an error saying that

Re: Adjust image width to text width

2005-08-15 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 6:32 PM Subject: Adjust image width to text width ¿How can i adjust the image width to text width? Thanks Click on the image and a grey Graphics box pops up. Under Ouput Width select text%

Re: output refresh when only graphics change?

2005-08-19 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 7:37 PM Subject: Re: output refresh when only graphics change? Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Ok, I think I see the problem, though not the solution. The first time you vi

Re: output refresh when only graphics change?

2005-08-19 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 8:20 PM Subject: Re: output refresh when only graphics change? Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: - Original Message - From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: lyx 1.3.6 win32: perl on xp?

2005-08-26 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Unless you want to use relyx then you don't need perl. I suggest you go and get tex2lyx (info on the wiki) and forget about perl all together Geoff On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Marcus Beyer wrote: Hello all! Congrats for successfully completing the Windows port of LyX! I just installed it. Grea

Re: how to insert a label of a figure?

2005-08-26 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Leon Chen wrote: Hi all, I have solve this problem by restart the lyx application... Then the number shown in the Yap goes well. Thank you for your attention However I still can not get a default 'fig:' content of the label, which is 'cap:' now... So everytime I ha

Questions.

2005-08-26 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi It is becoming apparent that many questions on this list are being repeated and some are quite sraightforward for want of a better phrase. Could I suggest that before a question is posted the following things are done 1) Read the wiki 2) Search the mailing list archives 3) Try google to

Spellchecker - possible bug??

2005-08-29 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi When using the spell checker with words in quotation marks it always flags up the last word as incorrectly spelt e.g. Here is a "good sentence" with quotes. it will flag up <> Is this a bug or just the fact that, possibly rightly, it doesn't like the use of quotes in standard text. BTW

Spellchecker - My stupidity!

2005-08-29 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Clearly nothing wrong with spellcheck just my stupidity in assigning quote marks in Latex. While two open single quotes are needed - ie `` - the use of " is valid for closing quotes. I foolishly thought that the same must apply and was using two closing quotes - ie ' ' without the space. Cons

displaymath

2005-08-29 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am using displaymath environment and wondered whether it was possible, for a few equations only, to have this environment to be left aligned rather than the default centered. Geoff

Re: mathsymbols in LyX 1.3.6 in Windows XP

2005-08-29 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Gunnar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 3:00 PM Subject: mathsymbols in LyX 1.3.6 in Windows XP Hi. How do I make LyX 1.4.6 for Windows XP display mathsymbols? \sum is transformed into "P" in LyX but it looks alright in the ps/pdf f

Re: displaymath

2005-08-29 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
]> To: Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 8:17 PM Subject: Re: displaymath Paul A. Rubin wrote: Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Hi I am using displaymath environment and wondered whether it was possible, for a few equations only, to have this environment to be left aligned rather than the default center

Re: an asthetic question

2005-08-30 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Marcelo Acuÿf1a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:59 PM Subject: an asthetic question Hi all, I writing with Koma script book style. In several books I can see that quotations appears: Smith said: "blah blah blah". in others a

Caption widths

2005-08-31 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi When I have a page of floats in my document the figure captions do not seem to adhere to the page width set out in the rest of the text pages. Any ideas? Geoff

Latex2html

2005-09-05 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi Just wondered if anyone had any success using/installing this with WinXp and Lyx?? I tried to do an Export->Html and got an error saying it couldn't find Latex2html - I assume it doesn't come with Lyx (is this correct??) If this is the case I will go and find it and do a full install, but g

Thanks

2005-09-05 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi Thanks to everyone on this list for the helpful advice they have provided me since I began using Lyx back in March. As a result of your efforts I now have a beautiful - (yes beauty is in the eye of the beholder but.) - Ph.D thesis which I submitted on Friday. I found Lyx a joy to use an

Re: Help!- Windows/Linux .lyx file compatability

2005-09-06 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
I imagine you output looks fine and this is a problem with display only. Have you installed the Maths fonts (Bakoma)? These help Lyx display math properly. It is on the wiki http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136 under maths fonts Geoff - Original Message - From: "Rik Aspinall" <[EMAIL

Re: Simple questions.

2005-09-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roy Schestowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 9:08 PM Subject: Re: Simple questions. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roy Schestowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: _/ On Fri 09 Sep 2005 22:14:14 BS

Re: How create PDF bookmarks?

2005-09-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Leon Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 8:36 PM Subject: How create PDF bookmarks? I have tried --- In the LaTeX preamble write: \usepackage[bookmarks]{hyperref} If you want the bookmarks numbered, load hyperref with the option:

Re: How create PDF bookmarks?

2005-09-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Leon Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 9:58 PM Subject: Re: How create PDF bookmarks? Sorry forgot that... I added : \usepackage[bookmarks, bookmarkso

Re: Both Linux and Windows

2005-10-10 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Have you installed any dictionaries?? http://aspell.net/win32/ for windows - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lyx Contribute" Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 2:50 PM Subject: Both Linux and Windows I've Lyx installed in both Windows and Linux. I need at least one

1.4pre2 - windows

2005-10-10 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am keen to lend a hand testing this release but sadly do not know how to go about compiling the source on a WinXP box. Has anyone got a compiled version I could have to install.? If not could someone email me detailed instructions of how to compile my on (on or off list) Many thanks in a

Re: xdvi slow preview

2005-10-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:17 AM Subject: xdvi slow preview Hello all, I use LyX 1.3.5 in suse 9.0. When I have a document with several figures, usually as ".eps" or ".jpg" images inserted in

Re: Guess? Aspell working!

2005-10-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lyx Contribute" Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:24 PM Subject: Guess? Aspell working! Hey people! Thanks a lot for help me! Well, now I know why was not working before: It is necessary to download the 'lean' Aspell --

Re: pdflatex & MacOS X

2005-10-13 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Bennett Helm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 1:38 AM Subject: Re: pdflatex & MacOS X the maximally simple example. Thanks, D test1.lyx Description: application

pdflatex

2005-10-13 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi In trying to help with another thread (pdflatex & MacOS X) I have come across something I don't understand. It appears that when you do Export->pdflatex Lyx does not do what I expected. Here is what I think should happen: Lyx->Latex->pdf (using pdflatex) AND it should produce the same resu

Re: More about foreign languages - No!

2005-10-16 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
On Lyx1.3.6 you simply need to go to Layout->Document->Language I dont have Edit->Text style either. Really it works if you do above.. Geoff - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lyx Contribute" Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 4:22 PM Subject: Re: More about foreign langu

Re: Bug ?

2005-10-17 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Nicolas Ferré" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 2:38 PM Subject: Bug ? Dear all, could you please confirm the following bug, found in the following build of lyx: LyX 1.3.6 of Sat, Jul 16, 2005 Built on Jul 17 2005, 12:36:17 Configura

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