Re: Zotero to Bibtex to Lyx: A Problem not a baseball play.

2009-12-31 Thread John Kane
--- On Wed, 12/30/09, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > From: Paul A. Rubin > Subject: Re: Zotero to Bibtex to Lyx: A Problem not a baseball play. > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 11:32 AM > John Kane wrote: > > Sorry for the last part of t

RE: Zotero to Bibtex to Lyx: A Problem not a baseball play

2009-12-30 Thread John Kane
Hi Rob, I did check the path as you suggest. It looked funny but is correct. I guess I'll have to send a message to support. Thank john --- On Tue, 12/29/09, Rob Oakes wrote: > From: Rob Oakes > Subject: RE: Zotero to Bibtex to Lyx: A Problem not a baseball play >

RE: Zotero to Bibtex to Lyx: A Problem not a baseball play

2009-12-28 Thread John Kane
my watched folder list. Wonderful! At the moment if I can get the Mandeley-Zotero sync to work properly the two look to be extremely complimentary products. Many thanks for the --- On Mon, 12/28/09, John Kane wrote: > From: John Kane > Subject: RE: Zotero to Bibtex to Lyx: A Problem not

Re: LyZ: LyX plugin for Zotero

2009-12-28 Thread John Kane
--- On Mon, 12/28/09, rgheck wrote: > From: rgheck > Subject: Re: LyZ: LyX plugin for Zotero > >    > The term "bibliography" can mean a few different things. > One thing it can mean is just a reference list, and that's > what it means in LyX and LaTeX, though you can add non-cited > sources

RE: Zotero to Bibtex to Lyx: A Problem not a baseball play

2009-12-28 Thread John Kane
kes wrote: > From: Rob Oakes > Subject: RE: Zotero to Bibtex to Lyx: A Problem not a baseball play > To: "'John Kane'" > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Sunday, December 27, 2009, 4:55 PM > Hi John, > > By default, Zotero produces atrocious look

Re: LyZ: LyX plugin for Zotero

2009-12-28 Thread John Kane
Hi Steve, I'm not Petr but I'll try to answer some of your questions. I'm sure others will disagree but I should be somewhere in the right area First of all think of the entire area of citations, references, etc, as being something like the academic equivalent of an audit trail. Academic wri

Re: LyZ: LyX plugin for Zotero

2009-12-28 Thread John Kane
This sounds great since I had just posted a message about Zotero Lyx problems yestersay but Firefox is refusing to let me connect to the web page. Nor is even Internet Explorer ! I'm getting warnings about the security certificate. Any suggestions? --- On Mon, 12/28/09, Petr Šimon <089021

Zotero to Bibtex to Lyx: A Problem not a baseball play.

2009-12-27 Thread John Kane
Sorry for the last part of the subject line but I am sure that there is some famous song (or something about a triple play. Perhaps I should have lunch. I have been having great fun using Zotero to grab a lot of references lately and wanted to use the results in a LyX file.  I selected a subset

Re: Missing Aspell ?

2009-12-21 Thread John Kane
Thanks for the help and advice. I'll wait for the final tufe file on CTAN John --- On Mon, 12/21/09, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > From: Uwe Stöhr > Subject: Re: Missing Aspell ? > To: "John Kane" > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Monday, December 21, 2009, 1:34 PM

Re: Missing Aspell ?

2009-12-21 Thread John Kane
flux at the moment. Thanks again John --- On Mon, 12/21/09, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > From: Uwe Stöhr > Subject: Re: Missing Aspell ? > To: "John Kane" > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Monday, December 21, 2009, 12:06 AM > Am 20.12.2009 16:17, schrieb John >

Re: Lyx used for a fench book: a great experience

2009-12-21 Thread John Kane
Definitely a happy camper. The point about the change from A4 to A5 with everthing else intact was interesting. --- On Mon, 12/21/09, Raphael Bauduin wrote: > From: Raphael Bauduin > Subject: Lyx used for a fench book: a great experience > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Monday, Dece

Re: Tufte layout? Here the patched tufte-common.def!

2009-12-20 Thread John Kane
Excellent. Thank you very much. I'll try to get it installed this evening or early tommorrow and see what happens. --- On Sun, 12/20/09, Joachim Osnabryg wrote: > From: Joachim Osnabryg > Subject: Re: Tufte layout? Here the patched tufte-common.def! > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received:

Re: Tufte layout?

2009-12-20 Thread John Kane
--- On Sun, 12/20/09, Joachim Osnabryg wrote: > From: Joachim Osnabryg > Subject: Re: Tufte layout? > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 4:17 PM > Am 20.12.2009, 22:10 Uhr, schrieb > John Kane : > > No attachment :( > > not yet, b

Re: Tufte layout?

2009-12-20 Thread John Kane
No attachment :( Thanks for the help though. --- On Sun, 12/20/09, Joachim Osnabryg wrote: > From: Joachim Osnabryg > Subject: Re: Tufte layout? > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 2:18 PM > Am 20.12.2009, 20:00 Uhr, I wrote: > > To get the actual release tuft

Missing Aspell ?

2009-12-20 Thread John Kane
I just installed Lyx on a little netbook and seem to have lost my spellchecker. When I spell check I recieive an error message and when I check under Tools > Perfernces the spell checker panel which reads Aspell is greyed out. I am correct in assuming that I need to install Aspell and reconfi

Re: Tufte layout?

2009-12-20 Thread John Kane
Another Tufte fan! Welcome --- On Sun, 12/20/09, bb wrote: > From: bb > Subject: Tufte layout? > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 8:52 AM > I found some remarks, that there is a > new layout called tufte in lyx available. I found a remark > printed in red on ht

Re: pro culture of margin notes

2009-12-19 Thread John Kane
s to imply that I am missing a MiKTeX font. The Doc > Properties message seems to read that MiXATeX could not open some local application. Any suggestions? LyX 1.6.5 XP Home Edition --- On Sat, 12/19/09, John Kane wrote: > From: John Kane > Subject: Re: pro culture of margin no

Re: pro culture of margin notes

2009-12-19 Thread John Kane
I have been wanting to try the handout version for some time and after upgrading to 1.6.5 this afternoon,it looks like I'm back in business. Thanks for reminding me to check it again since I had not seen anything new for 1.6.4 this morning. Depending on the topic, etc, tufte layouts look very

Re: Printing book on two-sided document

2009-12-08 Thread John Kane
--- On Sun, 12/6/09, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > From: Jürgen Spitzmüller > Subject: Re: Printing book on two-sided document > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 8:33 AM > Luca Carlon wrote: > > Hi! Tomorrow I will have to print my final thesis, and > I'll have i

bibtex screen problem on a netbook

2009-12-05 Thread John Kane
I seem to have run into a problem with LyX and bibtex on a small netbook computer. I have a Acer Aspire One with Windows XP Home edition on it. I recently installed LyX 1.6.4 using the Windows alternate installer. I run into trouble when I try to insert a bibtex reference list. All goes well

Re: portable lyx: Lytex

2009-11-29 Thread John Kane
I've never tried to install LyX on a USB stick with any success before this. Lytex installs latex and LyX and it is nicely portable when one is away from one's own machine. Does a standard installer now create a stand alone system ? --- On Sun, 11/29/09, James Mansion wrote: > From: James

Re: portable lyx: Lytex

2009-11-29 Thread John Kane
I've had it on a USB stick for 3-4 months and it seems good but I have had a problem loading new LaTeX styles. Otherwise it's been handy. --- On Sun, 11/29/09, vban...@gmail.com wrote: > From: vban...@gmail.com > Subject: portable lyx: Lytex > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Sunday

Old/new problem with Tufte layouts

2009-11-28 Thread John Kane
I wonder if anyone can help me with Tufte layouts? I just bought an little netbook and installed LyX 1.6.4 on Windows XP using the AltWindows installer. Lyx seems to be running well, in my limited tests except for the Tufte layouts. I have dropped the new layouts from the wiki into the layout

Re: Layouts for education?

2009-11-15 Thread John Kane
--- On Sun, 11/15/09, Myriam Abramson wrote: > From: Myriam Abramson > Subject: Layouts for education? > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Sunday, November 15, 2009, 4:58 PM > > Is there any lyx layouts for educational purposes out > there? There probably are many but what kind of thi

Re: tufte-handout.layout outdated

2009-11-05 Thread John Kane
--- On Thu, 11/5/09, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > From: Uwe Stöhr > Subject: Re: tufte-handout.layout outdated > To: "Joachim Osnabryg" > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 2:53 PM > Joachim Osnabryg schrieb: > > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Tufte-handout > - under "F

Re: Anyone used Lytex?

2009-09-08 Thread John Kane
Presumably that site belongs to someone but they are not easy to contact are they? I've been using it a bit over the last 2-3 months, just playing around really as I have not needed Lyx that much over the summer. I've had some problem with the preview but so far anyway I have gotten consisten

Re: Lyx tip-sheets

2009-08-17 Thread John Kane
Also sometimes known as a cheat sheet. Here is an example from R http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/refcard.pdf --- On Mon, 8/17/09, Manveru wrote: > From: Manveru > Subject: Re: Lyx tip-sheets > To: "Christian Ridderström" > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Monday, August 17, 2009

Re: Is Lyx free for all?

2009-02-28 Thread John Kane
--- On Fri, 2/27/09, Steve Litt wrote: > From: Steve Litt > Subject: Re: Is Lyx free for all? > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Friday, February 27, 2009, 1:07 PM > On Friday 27 February 2009 11:21:22 am Nils Friedrich wrote: > > Is Lyx without costs, even if companies use it? > > Ma

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread John Kane
--- On Mon, 1/26/09, Steve Litt wrote: > From: Steve Litt > Subject: Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users? > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Monday, January 26, 2009, 10:15 AM > On Monday 26 January 2009 08:33:32 am Nikos Alexandris > wrote: > > > I only want to

Re: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]

2008-11-06 Thread John Kane
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Manveru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Manveru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing] > To: "Micha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "LyX User" > Received: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 5:35 AM > > They are a pain though with word as it's very > di

Re: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]

2008-11-05 Thread John Kane
> From: rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing] > To: "lyx-users" > Received: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 7:19 PM >I know a lot of > people who use Word, etc, and I don't know a single > person who regularly uses styles. I suspect that some do but in the documents

Re: Word processor bashing

2008-11-05 Thread John Kane
--- On Wed, 11/5/08, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Word processor bashing > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 9:41 AM > On Wednesday 05 November 2008 04:24:46 am killermike wrote: > > > Obviously m

Re: Test

2008-09-08 Thread John Kane
--- On Mon, 9/8/08, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Test > > On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 4:34 PM, npierre > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If this reaches the Lyx usergroup please let me > know. > > > Yep. > >The original messag

Re: plug: LyX article on Linux.com

2008-08-28 Thread John Kane
Nice article. I can refer to it when recommending LyX to people. --- On Thu, 8/28/08, killermike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: killermike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: plug: LyX article on Linux.com > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 1:22 PM > I've just w

Re: Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-08-08 Thread John Kane
--- On Fri, 8/8/08, Les Denham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Les Denham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Excel graphs into Lyx > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Friday, August 8, 2008, 9:42 AM > On Friday 08 August 2008, Konrad Blum wrote: > > PS: The people who have the free time

Re: Editing Original Source Tex File

2008-06-21 Thread John Kane
You should be able to open any LyX document in any text editor. --- On Sat, 6/21/08, Mehmet Engin Tozal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Mehmet Engin Tozal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Editing Original Source Tex File > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Saturday, June 21, 2008, 5:55 A

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-13 Thread John Kane
--- Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Bruce Pourciau > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Elbow problems have begun to make it hard for me > to type a long manuscript > > into LyX. I was thinking that we could install LyX > (but not LaTeX) on my > > secretary's m

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread John Kane
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Re: Languages British vs English

2008-03-10 Thread John Kane
I'd agree with English (US) since it is not the normal spelling that is used in Canada. Of course we don't use the UK spelling either. :) --- David Romano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would concur and weigh in in favor "English (US)" > since British English > is more likely the official languag

Re: [OT] using open office

2008-01-07 Thread John Kane
--- Donn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Every now and then I get an inclination to try the > more widely used tools, > > such as OO (open office). I am always stumped > right at the start. Where > > is the template for something like a lyx or latex > article format? > Open the Lyx file in Lyx a

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.3 released (for Intel, PPC, Universal)

2007-12-19 Thread John Kane
Thank you. Just upgraded about 15 minutes ago. --- Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Binaries for LyX/Mac 1.5.3 have now been posted in > all three flavors: > Intel, PPC, and Universal. All users of 1.5 are > encouraged to upgrade > to this new version. They can be found here: > >

Re: For Lyx users, a problem in sharing a Lyx file

2007-10-14 Thread John Kane
I have run into this before and later discovered that what was happening was that my version was out of date not the one the other person was using. I would suggest checking with the other author : He or she may be using a more modern version of LyX. If so you may need to upgrade. --- "Frederi

Re: FW: Re: Pagination + long and float table?

2007-10-13 Thread John Kane
Under help. It is one of the included manuals --- Mia Pöhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > > > Von: Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Gesendet: 13.10.07 15:24:19 > > > An: Mia Pöhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > > > Betref

Re: APA layout

2007-09-05 Thread John Kane
I gave APA a quick run and it does not seem be handling titles correctly. In particular the subsection* is definately messing up. The APA.CLS author's example seems to run perfectly in LaTeX. --- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roberto Gorjão wrote: > > > > I'm using apa.layout

Re: MS Word to LyX?

2007-09-04 Thread John Kane
Word-to-LaTex will give you a LaTeX file that you might then able to import to LyX http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-to-latex/index.html . I suspect the results will be VERY ugly. Actually OOo is usually fine. It's Word's practice of mangling styles that seems to mess it up. :) --- Steve Litt

Re: Exporting

2007-09-01 Thread John Kane
text > that is compressed > with zip. So install zip, and try again! > > pj > > On 8/30/07, John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you Paul. > > I have tried your suggestion and it looks like > there > > may be a font problem although I&#x

Re: Exporting

2007-08-30 Thread John Kane
Thank you Paul. I have tried your suggestion and it looks like there may be a font problem although I'm not good enough at reading the terminal output to be sure. I have posted the output at http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/lyx.ooo.pdf . I am not getting any error messages but two warnings

Re: date-insert again

2007-08-30 Thread John Kane
--- Pavel Sanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > date-insert command still exists in LyX 1.5.1 and > is listed in > > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctions > > it doesn't work for me. Is it my problem (I have a > ~amd64 Gentoo install) or is > > more general ? let me know... > > works on ~x86 gento

Re: Exporting

2007-08-30 Thread John Kane
I have no idea of what version of tex4th is on the machine. Any suggestions on how to check this? I am assuming that the tex4ht was installed when I installed MiKTex 2.5 which I think was about 6 months ago. This is the first LaTeX & LyX installation on the machine that I am aware of (corporate ma

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

2007-08-29 Thread John Kane
Err, download from where? I think any good book on self-publishing would be useful for the LyX community and is likely to extend its use. Also I can easily see transfering from Word or OpenOffice to LyX for final publishing even if most or all of the writing has been done in a wp. I am tendi

Re: Exporting

2007-08-27 Thread John Kane
gt; On 8/27/07, John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ah so there it is. Thanks > > > > However I don't seem much further ahead. When I > > select the Export > Open Document command I end > up > > with nothing\ that resembles a OpenOffice.org > (o

Re: Exporting

2007-08-27 Thread John Kane
ECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > I don't understand your last comment. Are you > > suggeting that I should use ooolatex at a command > > prompt? > > > Yes. And see if that works. If not, then the problem > is with oolatex. If > so, then the prob

Re: Exporting

2007-08-27 Thread John Kane
Ah so there it is. Thanks However I don't seem much further ahead. When I select the Export > Open Document command I end up with nothing\ that resembles a OpenOffice.org (odt) file which I what I was expecting. The closest I seem to come to that is a file entitled : estimates.4od with 2 byt

Re: Exporting

2007-08-27 Thread John Kane
--- Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > --- Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Lars Olesen wrote: > >> > >>> I have written my thesis in Lyx on Windows, and > I > >>

Re: Exporting

2007-08-27 Thread John Kane
--- Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lars Olesen wrote: > > I have written my thesis in Lyx on Windows, and I > have no problem > > exporting to pdf. However, I have trouble > converting to other stuffÆ > > > > + when I want to export to plain text, it does not > include the bibliography

Re: Using \include in ERT : How do I specify a path?

2007-08-24 Thread John Kane
--- Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane schrieb: > > > I have a table in plain LaTex that I would like to > > inclulde in a LyX document. > > Using ERT > > \include{filename} > > > > works fine when I have the file in the sam

Using \include in ERT : How do I specify a path?

2007-08-23 Thread John Kane
I have a table in plain LaTex that I would like to inclulde in a LyX document. Using ERT \include{filename} works fine when I have the file in the same folder. I don't seem to see how to specify something like C:\food\table1.tex in either LaTeX or LyX. It must be obvious but I just don't see

Re: Help with specific class

2007-08-18 Thread John Kane
Leandro, I don't know about the overall layout but I have just started playing with LyX and as far as I can see one of the bibtex apa classes will handle the citation and referencing with no problem. I think your wife would want apacite but this may depend on which document class you use. ---

Re: Endnote to Jabref to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread John Kane
A very nice start is Paul Johnson's article http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/BibTeX/biblioexample.pdf It does not touch on MLA specifically though. --- Jannika Bock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the prompt and helpful replies! > > I managed to transfer my endnote database to Jabref. > Now

Re: [announce] completely revised LyX UserGuide - request for testing

2007-08-15 Thread John Kane
It seems okay now 09:08 Eastern Daylight Saving Time --- Typhoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:30:54 +0200 > Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > You can download the new UserGuide version and a > PDF-version here: > > > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDev

Re: apa styles and the dreaded (?.?)

2007-08-10 Thread John Kane
atbib" option with style > "Author, year" selected in the > Document|Setting|Bibliography menu. > > The references show fine with this set. > > Mateo. > > > On Saturday 04 August 2007 22:04, John Kane wrote: > > I cannot seem to get article(apa) t

Re: apa styles and the dreaded (?.?)

2007-08-10 Thread John Kane
Thanks Richard. It looks like Mateo had the simple answer. I thought I had used that option before. Come to think of it I just did a complete registry clean etc. I may have cured something while doing that. Love Windows. :) --- Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John K

Re: apa styles and the dreaded (?.?)

2007-08-10 Thread John Kane
phy menu. > > The references show fine with this set. > > Mateo. > > > On Saturday 04 August 2007 22:04, John Kane wrote: > > I cannot seem to get article(apa) to produce > proper > > citations. I have tried what seems to be any > possible > > c

Re: apa styles and the dreaded (?.?)

2007-08-09 Thread John Kane
Anybody? --- John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot seem to get article(apa) to produce proper > citations. I have tried what seems to be any > possible > combination of Bibliography > Citation Style, and > BibTeX Style available and either I generate the > in

apa styles and the dreaded (?.?)

2007-08-04 Thread John Kane
I cannot seem to get article(apa) to produce proper citations. I have tried what seems to be any possible combination of Bibliography > Citation Style, and BibTeX Style available and either I generate the infamous (?.?) or, else, some kind of error message. I have also tried adding \usepackage{ap

Re: LyX vs. Scribus

2007-07-20 Thread John Kane
I have only had a quick look at it but it is a desktop publishing program like the old pagemaker. As far as I could see it was designed to take existing text and images and produce a nice output. It seems to handle linked frames, call-outs etc well. LyX and Scribus are almost completely differ

Re: Bibtex/Citations: number of authors

2007-07-13 Thread John Kane
--- Maria Gouskova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No. You would need to modify your .bst file, > whichever one you are > > using, to do this. This is not for the faint of > heart. But look at the > > btxhak.dvi BibTeX documentation if you really want > to do it. > > For the faint of heart, custo

Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.

2007-06-14 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader > > called PDF-Viewer > > http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download > (Windows > > only I believe) > > > > I gave i

Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.

2007-06-14 Thread John Kane
Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader called PDF-Viewer http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download (Windows only I believe) I gave it a try and it is very nice, far superior to Acrobat reader. However with both installed and PDF-Viewer as default I find that LyX does not create a pdf

Re: Installing lettrine.sty - corrupt remote site/

2007-06-12 Thread John Kane
Whewww, thanks --- Julio Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nope, the remote site is the selected repository. > > On 6/12/07, John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Something tells me that this > > > http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/Ly

Installing lettrine.sty - corrupt remote site/

2007-06-12 Thread John Kane
Something tells me that this http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/corrupt.lettine.jpg is not a good sign. Is my computer the remote site? Using 1.4.3-5 on Windows XP Get news delivered with the All new Yahoo! Mail. Enjoy RSS feeds right on your Mail page. Start today at http://mrd.mail

Re: Fully contained lyx + miktex distribution!

2007-05-21 Thread John Kane
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > >> Therefore, I suggest that there is a big lyx > distribution in the form > >> of a single zip-file or CD .iso that contains > really everything - > >> MikTex (everything) + Lyx + pdf viewer + etc. > > > > Note that nei

Lyx export to OpenOffice.org

2007-05-20 Thread John Kane
I noticed that there is an export option for LyX to OOo Writer. I gave it a try and Lyx seemed to do something but I don't see any output file. Am I missing something here? I tried a TeX export on the same document and it seemed to work fine. Thanks Be smarter than spam. See how smart

Re: copying spreadsheet data into Lyx

2007-05-20 Thread John Kane
--- Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > How can spreadsheet data be copying into LyX > quickly? > I can't get Open Office or Gnumeric to do this > easily. > Surely there must be a better way than one cell at a > time? > cheers > Russel Have a look at calc2latex at http://calc2latex.s

Re: copying spreadsheet data into Lyx

2007-05-20 Thread John Kane
--- Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > How can spreadsheet data be copying into LyX > quickly? > I can't get Open Office or Gnumeric to do this > easily. > Surely there must be a better way than one cell at a > time? > cheers > Russell I suspect that there are better ways but try ht

Re: LyX beta 2.0 on Mac

2007-05-19 Thread John Kane
--- Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 18, 2007, at 8:45 PM, John Kane wrote: > > > > > --- Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On May 18, 2007, at 7:23 PM, John Kane wrote: > >> > >>> --- "A. Scot

Re: LyX beta 2.0 on Mac

2007-05-18 Thread John Kane
--- Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 18, 2007, at 7:23 PM, John Kane wrote: > > > --- "A. Scottedward Hodel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >> I want to echo the praise for LyX given earlier. > I > >> I&#

Re: LyX beta 2.0 on Mac

2007-05-18 Thread John Kane
--- "A. Scottedward Hodel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to echo the praise for LyX given earlier. I > I've used LyX in > lecture and they are impressed with the quick entry > of equations, > promptly followed by a legible on-screen preview of > the equations. > It's a wonderful t

Re: Utility to help with importing text?

2007-03-16 Thread John Kane
--- Tad Marko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy! > > I have a few manuscripts in convering to LyX for a > friend. They are > plain text files. Are there any utilities that can > help me with the > transformation of the double quotes to a `` and '' > format (or whatever > format I should be usin

Re: (sin asunto)

2007-03-15 Thread John Kane
--- Jorge Mario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > > i can't run my Lyx in winXP, please. > > My Lyx 1,5 works well in my office, but it does not > run in my PC, It > says to "Lyx no Started”, I can solve it? Are you trying to run LyX 1.5 on both machines? What operating system do you have at

Re: Bibtex question on URL references

2007-03-04 Thread John Kane
rrors. I believe he felt the system was a bit picky and arbitrary. However the format is used by about 1,000 journals and is commonly used as the basis for a lot of reports etc. And I grew up with it! > > John Kane wrote: > > I have been trying to use JabRef to handle > referen

Bibtex question on URL references

2007-03-03 Thread John Kane
I have been trying to use JabRef to handle references. My first experiments have been fairly successful but I am wondering how people handle a URL reference. For example I have a reference to a website ( see http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/burdett2004.pdf ) and I don't see quite how to se

Re: Lyx article on OSNews

2007-02-27 Thread John Kane
--- killermike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17373/Lyx-the-Multi-Platform-Document-Editor/ > > I wrote a quick overview of Lyx for tech news site > OSNews. I enjoyed the article and have bookmarked it for passing on to others. I was particularly struck by the

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane schrieb: > > > > > No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I > > normally use OOo as a WP, with "smart quotes" off, > but > > I get some very badly formatted Word documents

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Kane wrote: > >> Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I > didn't > >> produce the document but a search and replace is > easy > >

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Kane wrote: > > My problem is that I am getting a ? for " (curly > > quotes) > LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, > so

MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-12 Thread John Kane
What is the current approach to importing Word documents to LyX? I don't want to do anything fancy. I have some very poorly formatted Word docs (working docs not for publication) and I have found that simply cutting and pasting the text into LyX and doing a bit of formatting can save me a lot of f

Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-11 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > >>> > >> If you have acroread32 set as the viewer for PDF > (pdflatex), that would > >> explain why View->PDF (pdflatex) now calls > Acrobat Reader. Otherwise,

Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-11 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > --- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> John Kane wrote: > > >>> Could this just be a Foxit problem? > > >> Possible but

Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-10 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > Having accidentally spammed 3,000 or so R-help > list > > readers with this message I thought I might try > > again,hopefully in the right list this time. > > Might not be spam

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread John Kane
--- Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm writing a short book called "Troubleshooting: > Just the Facts". The > intention is to make it an Ebook that can be printed > and staple bound by the > customer, if so desired. I use skip rather than > indentation to separate > parag

Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-07 Thread John Kane
Having accidentally spammed 3,000 or so R-help list readers with this message I thought I might try again,hopefully in the right list this time. I just changed machines and, at first, could not get LyX 1.4.3-4 to even load. I tried 1.5 which loaded nicely but would not give me PDF output. Remove

Re: cannot reqd an old lyx file

2007-02-03 Thread John Kane
--- Mouras Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > I composed several days ago a lyx file butt am not > able to read it on a > new computer running windiws vista and the new lyx > for windows. I have > attached the file. Could someone help me ? > Thnak you very much in advance, > Harold

LyX 1.3.4-4 does not load, LyX 1.5 svn loads nicely

2007-02-02 Thread John Kane
I just moved to a new (for me) computer ( 1G ram, hurray. My old one with 512K had died and I was using a clunker with 256k. Still WindowsXP but ... I had to install a lot of my personal software including LyX. I tried to install LyX 1.3.4 and first got a message that it was timing out trying

Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX

2007-01-26 Thread John Kane
to a standard format. It was faster to have them reentered than try to figure out what all the spaces were doing (tabs were too sophisticated). At least the CV's were not in Excel which I have seen. > > On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:37 am, John Kane > wrote: > > Beats me but th

Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX

2007-01-25 Thread John Kane
--- killermike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was considering switching to OpenOffice because > of the excessive effort in > > creating/modifying styles in LyX. > > > > So as an experiment, I began making a derivative, > in OpenOffice, of a book I > > origi

Fwd: Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX

2007-01-23 Thread John Kane
--- John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:34:36 -0500 (EST) > From: John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- Gunnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Unfor

Fwd: Re: Newbie windows install problem "class scrbook is unknown"

2007-01-22 Thread John Kane
--- John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:41:57 -0500 (EST) > From: John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Newbie windows install problem "class > scrbook is unknown" > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- "Paul A.

Re: Newbie windows install problem "class scrbook is unknown"

2007-01-21 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > > > > Just what I wanted to know since I am getting a > > warning message for hyperref when loading the LyX > > User's Guide but how do I find the MiKTeX settings >

Kill off a heading like a date etc.

2007-01-19 Thread John Kane
I am just learning to use LyX. There are a couple for useful doc classes but they tend to insert a date or something similar when I don't need it. article(APA) is an example. I would like to use it but kill off the Author and Date. I know I have seen something like this mentioned in the list b

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