Lyx -> Latex

2006-08-15 Thread David Philp
Hi Sorry for coming in late on this one. I'd like to add my voice to the people who were perturbed by the automatic exporting of EPS files on exporting of Latex. * I usually export EPS files (foo.eps) from a program * I then touch them up in Illustrator, saving them as foo.ai (for editing) and

Typewriter font not fixed width on screen

2006-08-15 Thread Andrew Harrington
I just loaded Lyx 1.4.2 onto a new Windows machine and copied over a document I was working on under Lyx 1.3.7 on another Windows XP machine. Under 1.3.7 typewriter font displayed in a fixed width font on the screen. With 1.4.2, it does not. I may have loaded some fonts I forgot about on the o

Re: Copying and pasting

2006-08-15 Thread Matej Cepl
Pupeno wrote: > Yes, this is KDE (Kubuntu to be precise). Actually, for me inserting text from clipboard in UTF-8 works well (I have UTF-8 locale though, maybe that's the difference) -- it comes to LyX in ISO-8859-2. However, character conversion of clipboard in KDE are really trivial: prelozeno

Re: Pasting with the mouse middle button inside math mode

2006-08-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: Am Dienstag, 15. August 2006 21:11 schrieb Paul Smith: Dear All Selecting a piece of text and clicking on the middle button of the mouse pastes the selected text, with *no* need of CTRL+c. A similar procedure worked fine inside math mode, but not anymore on LyX 1.4.2 (on Fedor

Re: nested paragraphs

2006-08-15 Thread L. R. Denham
On Tuesday 24 March 2009 17:36, Thomas Klimpel wrote: > [description1] Some text ... >     not realy important ... >     but still belonging to the same description >     1. first point of an inner enumeration >     2. second point of an inner enumeration >     more text, still belonging to the fir

Re: New to LyX 1.4

2006-08-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: Am Dienstag, 15. August 2006 21:05 schrieb Gunnar: So, finaly I'm taking the step to 1.4 from 1.3.7 I have some customizations all over the the .lyx directory, keybindings, external templates, etc. Is there something I should do before chaning to 1.4 except making a backup

Re: standard Lyx template/example does not work (?)

2006-08-15 Thread TechTonics
sk wrote: Hello, I am a somewhat experienced Lyx user. Using Lyx 1.4.2. with the latest MiKTeX (2.5 with updated packages from the 14.august.2006) on Windows xp. I have reconfigured Lyx via the Menu (Tools -> reconfigure) after all MiKTeX updates. I don't know much about plain LaTeX though (that

Re: Pasting with the mouse middle button inside math mode

2006-08-15 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/15/06, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Selecting a piece of text and clicking on the middle button of the > mouse pastes the selected text, with *no* need of CTRL+c. A similar > procedure worked fine inside math mode, but not anymore on LyX 1.4.2 > (on Fedora Core 5). Is it possible

Re: Is it easy to add collaboration feature into LyX?

2006-08-15 Thread TechTonics
Michael wrote: On 8/14/06, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi TechTonics, > > The one feature that I've mentioned is the real time communication, > real-time math discussion, and real-time collaboration. I guess it is not > exist in the current version of LyX. > > any more thoughts? I am

Re: Pasting with the mouse middle button inside math mode

2006-08-15 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 15. August 2006 21:11 schrieb Paul Smith: > Dear All > > Selecting a piece of text and clicking on the middle button of the > mouse pastes the selected text, with *no* need of CTRL+c. A similar > procedure worked fine inside math mode, but not anymore on LyX 1.4.2 > (on Fedora Core 5)

Re: New to LyX 1.4

2006-08-15 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 15. August 2006 21:05 schrieb Gunnar: > So, finaly I'm taking the step to 1.4 from 1.3.7 > I have some customizations all over the the .lyx directory, keybindings, > external templates, etc. > > Is there something I should do before chaning to 1.4 except making a backup > copy? Yo

Table of content line wrap problem.

2006-08-15 Thread Bo Peng
Dear list, I am using a customized thesis cls file. I notice that the long section titles do not wrap in table of content when using ps2pdf, but wraps when using pdflatex. Does anybody know what I should look for in the cls file to correct this problem? Many thanks in advance. Bo

Pasting with the mouse middle button inside math mode

2006-08-15 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Selecting a piece of text and clicking on the middle button of the mouse pastes the selected text, with *no* need of CTRL+c. A similar procedure worked fine inside math mode, but not anymore on LyX 1.4.2 (on Fedora Core 5). Is it possible to have that so useful feature back? Thanks in a

New to LyX 1.4

2006-08-15 Thread Gunnar
So, finaly I'm taking the step to 1.4 from 1.3.7 I have some customizations all over the the .lyx directory, keybindings, external templates, etc. Is there something I should do before chaning to 1.4 except making a backup copy?

standard Lyx template/example does not work (?)

2006-08-15 Thread sk
Hello, I am a somewhat experienced Lyx user. Using Lyx 1.4.2. with the latest MiKTeX (2.5 with updated packages from the 14.august.2006) on Windows xp. I have reconfigured Lyx via the Menu (Tools -> reconfigure) after all MiKTeX updates. I don't know much about plain LaTeX though (thats why I use

Re: Copying and pasting

2006-08-15 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 14:58, Pupeno wrote: > >   In 1.4.2 I don't have any problem copy and pasting from an external > > source to lyx. > > Is the external selection in UTF-8 ? is your locale in UTF-8 ? is your > desktop environment all using UTF-8 as well ? If so, can you track that it > is a

Re: Copying and pasting

2006-08-15 Thread Pupeno
On Monday 14 August 2006 15:51, José Matos wrote: > On Monday 14 August 2006 14:25, Pupeno wrote: > > My wife is doing some work in which she pastes lots of text from mails > > and other places, most of the on UTF-8 and pastes it on Lyx, but Lyx uses > > Latin-1, so she ends up with a lot of weird

Re: Copying and pasting

2006-08-15 Thread Pupeno
On Monday 14 August 2006 13:51, Matej Cepl wrote: > Pupeno wrote: > > My wife is doing some work in which she pastes lots of text from mails > > and other places, most of the on UTF-8 and pastes it on Lyx, but Lyx uses > > Latin-1, so she ends up with a lot of weird characters. Any ideas how to > >

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-15 Thread John Pye
Hi, For UML diagrams, consider taking a look at Gaphor which is a purpose built UML program that runs on Linux, Windows & Mac (using Python and GTK+). It's also worth taking a look at Graphviz (dot, neato), especially if you think you might like to automate the production of your diagrams.

Re: placing a large table in landscape orientation

2006-08-15 Thread John Pye
Belated thanks to you both. The ERT "\scriptsize" ... "\normalsize" around the table was good, and I combined it with the rotated table float, and got just what I needed. Thanks a lot! JP José Matos wrote: On Tuesday 08 August 2006 06:54, John Pye wrote: Hi all, I have moderately wide t

Re: TIPA+Instant Preview in 1.4.2

2006-08-15 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > M-m > \textipa[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have added some notes on the wiki about how to create a keyboard shortcut or menu entry to switch to TIPA mode. This is certainly more convenient if you need TIPA frequently: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX#tipa-lfun HTH, Jürge

Re: LaTeX commands instead of KB shortcuts

2006-08-15 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:24:10 -0700 Ravi Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Russell and Gunnar, > > Thanks for your replies. > > Russell, what I meant was not a DVI/PDF preview as you type, but > rather the preview in LyX itself, for example, as you type math, LyX > converts it as you typ