Re: Some problems

[Yann Collete]

Hello,

OK, thank you.

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> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:09:38PM +0100, Yann Collete wrote:
> > Another thing with selection:
> > Create a new document, in this document insert a tabular
> > (menu insert->tabular) you can select the default one (5x5).
> > In the fisrt cell, add some text ("some text" for example) and,
> > at the end of your text, add a math formula ("math" for example)
> > then, go to the end of the cell and, with shift+left arrow, select 
> > the expression. The math expression is not selected.
> 
> I've just fixed this bug,

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

[A . L . Meyers]

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On Monday 12 February 2001 22:24, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Jim Osborn wrote:
> > > When she wants eighteen-point type, dammit, she wants eighteen
> > > points.  She says anyone who speced a type size of "huger"
> > > would have been laughed out of a job.
> >
> > Well put :). I guess that the reason LaTeX (and LyX) doesn't use
> > specific numeric sizes is that, for example "huger", makes not only the
> > usual font larger, but the headers too. So if you use "huger" the
> > standard font size might be maybe 18 points, but section headers might
> > be 24 points. So which point size should LaTeX use? This is what I think
> > LaTeX makers were thinking--but correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> as Lars said, there are only three standard font sizes: 10, 11, 12 pt.
> all other, like small, huge a.s.o. depend in their sizes to the
> standrard
> font size. all other "standard font sizes", like the one from the
> ext-package are special styles.
>
> > The actual size if "huger" etc. might also depend on document class.
>
> a document class has not a specific font size by default. choosing
> 10, 11 or 12pt defines all other sizes and the baselineskip, too:
>
> http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts.html#table
>
>
> Herbert

Dear fellow LyXers,

Part of the beauty and new paradigm (WYSIWYM) of LyX is precisely that it
does not bother the user with exact type sizes etc. Just went through
reformatting a cv using LyX. In 15 minutes I had a beautifully formatted cv
using the class "article" without setting a single font size.

However, I understand that someone might want to set a specific font size.

Best regards,

Lucien
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"Failed fgetpos" while using latex2rtf

[Marco . Bravi]

Dear LyX-ers,

I am currently trying to export a simple document written
in LyX (of which I am a longtime user) into RTF.

I downloaded latex2rtf ver. 1.8aa, compiled & installed it. When running
(from the command line) latex2rtf on the .tex file I get the
following error (the same I used to get with ver. 1.8a, which I used to
have).

{\rtf1\pc\fs20\deff0\deflang1024
 lots of RTF code
{\*\pnseclvl4\pnlcltr\pnstart1\pnindent720\pnhang{\pntxta .}}

kickstart-rm-080201.tex:1: Error! Failed fgetpos; main.c (Convert): errno
29

ANY LaTeX-from-LyX file I have tried to convert fails with this error.

Any hints? Tnx a lot in advance!

Marco Bravi


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Re: Shadow color box

[Miyata Shigeru]

Beaubert Francois 0251858286 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Yes I did it before but I found only (perhaps I miss it) a color box (but
> without the possibility to choose the color of the shadow under the box
> like in pstricks)
> This kind of box does everithing I want expect the color of shadow under
> the box which could be different from the color of the frame

I am afraid you have to write a style file yourself.
The best way is to write a pdftex driver for the pstricks package.
An easier may be by overtyping:  Check the package
macros/latex/contrib/supported/contour

Regards,
SMiyata

Simple equation format problem

[Flink Del Dinky]

Hello, LyX/LaTeX seems very good at displaying sophisticated
mathematical problems.

However, I can't seem to figure out how to display the underscore bar in
a simple arithmatic problem like this:
   9
x 5

  40

I'm trying to figure out how to draw the line the seperates the problem
from the answer.

Word Wrap in Tables

[Stephen Carville]

I am trying to create some tables that will have cells with pretty long
lines.  So far I have been unable to get these line to wrap on screen or
on paper.  

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Re: no shortcut for floats

[Thies Wels]

> 
> For the moment, you might want to download
> ftp://hst33127.phys.uu.nl/pub/LyX/lyx.mo_1.1.6fix1.gz
> gunzip it and copy it as lyx.mo to your locale directory, most probably
> /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo

I did that but nothing changed. Do I have to configure something
additionally? I tried the configure button without success. I also
changed back to the cau bind file (although this might not have anything
to do with this stuff.. :)) 
 

Thies

Pb option in a new convertor DVI -> PDF

[Yves Bergeon]

Hi,
I am trying to use a convertor DVI-> PDF, which name is dvipdf (ghost
6.50).
It's OK by hand, but when I try to use it from lyx, I had a window with
this
message: 
Error while executing dvipdf -p letter 'file_name.dvi' 'file_name.pdf'

This is normal, because -p letter is not an option. So, how to avoid the
string
-p letter ? (I didn't define it).

Thanks

Yves Bergeon
Lyx User - Lyx 1.1.6fix1 on Mandrake 7.2 (Athlon)

Pb with new layout

[Yves Bergeon]

Hi,
I am trying to create a new layout, but I have this problem.
Is-it possible to get the number of item in an itemize block and to send
back this number to the beginning of the itemize list (itemize is an
example,
my problem is for an environment named overlay). 

This next example will show you the problem:

\begin{itemize}{my_number}
\item 1 ...
\item 2 ...
\item 3 ...
\end{itemize}

where my_number is the number of item between \begin{itemize} and
\end{itemize}.
In this example, my number should have the value 3, and if I had an item
I want
this number to be incremented automatically.

Any idea ?

Yves Bergeon
Lyx User - Lyx 1.1.6fix1 on Mandrake 7.2 (Athlon)

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

[Herbert Voss]

Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Jim Osborn wrote:
> 
> > When she wants eighteen-point type, dammit, she wants eighteen
> > points.  She says anyone who speced a type size of "huger"
> > would have been laughed out of a job.
> 
> Well put :). I guess that the reason LaTeX (and LyX) doesn't use specific
> numeric sizes is that, for example "huger", makes not only the usual font
> larger, but the headers too. So if you use "huger" the standard font size
> might be maybe 18 points, but section headers might be 24 points. So which
> point size should LaTeX use? This is what I think LaTeX makers were
> thinking--but correct me if I'm wrong.

as Lars said, there are only three standard font sizes: 10, 11, 12 pt. 
all other, like small, huge a.s.o. depend in their sizes to the
standrard 
font size. all other "standard font sizes", like the one from the
ext-package are special styles.

> The actual size if "huger" etc. might also depend on document class.

a document class has not a specific font size by default. choosing
10, 11 or 12pt defines all other sizes and the baselineskip, too:

http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts.html#table


Herbert


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Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Jim Osborn wrote:

> When she wants eighteen-point type, dammit, she wants eighteen
> points.  She says anyone who speced a type size of "huger"
> would have been laughed out of a job.

Well put :). I guess that the reason LaTeX (and LyX) doesn't use specific
numeric sizes is that, for example "huger", makes not only the usual font
larger, but the headers too. So if you use "huger" the standard font size
might be maybe 18 points, but section headers might be 24 points. So which
point size should LaTeX use? This is what I think LaTeX makers were
thinking--but correct me if I'm wrong.

The actual size if "huger" etc. might also depend on document class.

I do think that it would be better to specify the font size by defining
the points of the standard font. It would actually mean some actual
size. Maybe LyX could some day have this feature?

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

[Andre Poenitz]

> When she wants eighteen-point type, dammit, she wants eighteen
> points.  She says anyone who speced a type size of "huger"
> would have been laughed out of a job.

I guess that person would have found a position on this side of the pond
;-)

Andre'


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Re: Shadow color box

[Beaubert Francois 0251858286]

Herbert Voss wrote:

> Beaubert Francois 0251858286 wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a package that can do a shadow box with the following
> > parameters:
> >
> > -colour of the shadow
> > -colour of the text
> > -colour of the frame
> >
> > I found the package pstricks that do that but I can't use it since I
> > compil my tex file with pdflatex
>
> have a look at package color. it nmay be part of your local installation
> or available at CTAN.
>
> Herbert
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Yes I did it before but I found only (perhaps I miss it) a color box (but
without the possibility to choose the color of the shadow under the box
like in pstricks)
This kind of box does everithing I want expect the color of shadow under
the box which could be different from the color of the frame

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Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

Jim Osborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) asks:
| >| > Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size
| >| > in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller"
| >| > sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu?
| >|
| >
| >But I still want to know _why_ you need this.
| 
| My wife, who has worked many years in the graphics/typesetting
| industry (she was invited to be one of the first testers/providers-of-
| feedback-to-the-developers at Aldus as they were creating PageMaker),
| is used to working with type in explicit sizes.
| 
| When she wants eighteen-point type, dammit, she wants eighteen
| points.  She says anyone who speced a type size of "huger"
| would have been laughed out of a job.

So I take it that she has not worked a lot with (La)TeX before?

Even if it is possible to work with absolute font sizes in (La)TeX you
don't really want to. You really want to create a command \myfontsize
(or \huger), and you also want this command to take the base fontsize
of the document into consideration.

Perhaps you know this, but I am certain there are others who don't.
standard LaTeX documentclasses have three base fontsizes
(10pt,11pt,12pt) which is the \normal fontsize command.

Also since (La)TeX is a markup language it makes sense to define
commands for the different sizes so that if you ever want to change
the fontsiz you only change the definition of the command.
 
| That's why I need this---credibility with a long-time typesetter! :)

Surely we want to accomodate professional typesetters as well, but not
by making it easy to set a specific font size on text, but rather by
making it possible/easy to define new fontsize commands.

I belive I have this somewhere on my todo list...


Lgb

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

[Jim Osborn]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) asks:
>| > Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size
>| > in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller"
>| > sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu?
>|
>
>But I still want to know _why_ you need this.

My wife, who has worked many years in the graphics/typesetting
industry (she was invited to be one of the first testers/providers-of-
feedback-to-the-developers at Aldus as they were creating PageMaker),
is used to working with type in explicit sizes.

When she wants eighteen-point type, dammit, she wants eighteen
points.  She says anyone who speced a type size of "huger"
would have been laughed out of a job.

That's why I need this---credibility with a long-time typesetter! :)

Jim

Re: Shadow color box

[Herbert Voss]

Beaubert Francois 0251858286 wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a package that can do a shadow box with the following
> parameters:
> 
> -colour of the shadow
> -colour of the text
> -colour of the frame
> 
> I found the package pstricks that do that but I can't use it since I
> compil my tex file with pdflatex

have a look at package color. it nmay be part of your local installation
or available at CTAN.

Herbert


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Shadow color box

[Beaubert Francois 0251858286]

Hi,

Is there a package that can do a shadow box with the following
parameters:

-colour of the shadow
-colour of the text
-colour of the frame

I found the package pstricks that do that but I can't use it since I
compil my tex file with pdflatex

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Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| Jim Osborn wrote:
| > 
| > Hi LyX experts,
| > 
| > Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size
| > in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller"
| > sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu?
| 
| 
| have a look at 
| http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts.html#newfont

But I still want to know _why_ you need this.

Lgb

Re: pageheader section and subsection not separated

[Herbert Voss]

Dekel Tsur wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:53:57PM +0100, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> >
> > I am using in an article fancy pagestyle. Section and subsection titles are
> > displayed as page headers, but-, because of their length, - they overlay
> > partly. How to avoid this?
> 
> You can decrease the size of the header font by putting the following in the
> preamble:
> 
>  \fancyhead[LE,RO]{\small\slshape \rightmark}
>  \fancyhead[LO,RE]{\small\slshape \leftmark}
> 
> Another option is to decrease the margins.

and anotherone for chapters and sections 

\chaptermark{My short Title} 
\sectionmark{my another short Title}

just behind your chapter/section title in tex(red)

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Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

[Herbert Voss]

Jim Osborn wrote:
> 
> Hi LyX experts,
> 
> Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size
> in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller"
> sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu?


have a look at 
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts.html#newfont

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Re: Tables in letter class

[Herbert Voss]

Raffael Herzog wrote:
> 
> I'm having problems with tables when using the document class
> "letter (g-brief, german)". I get 20 LaTeX errors as soon as I include
> a table in the letter. If I delete it, everything's OK again. I need
> tables in letters because I'm writing bills and offers with lyx. With
> lyx1.1.5, there was no problem with this, but now, with 1.1.6-fix1 it
> doesn't work.
> 
> Some of the errors I think could be interesting:
> 
> \begin{document} ended by \end{g-brief}.
> 
> Tons of Misplaced alignment tab character &.
> 
> \begin{g-brief} on input line 73 ended by \end{tabular}.
> 
> Extra }, or forgotten $ (\end{tabular})
> 
> Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup (\end{tabular})

have a look at

http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/table.html#g-brief

Herbert


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Specifying explicit point sizes

[Jim Osborn]

Hi LyX experts,

Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size
in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller"
sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu?

I'm using 1.1.5 currently, but I'll upgrade if necessary.

TIA,

Jim

lyx-cannot load colormap

[Jiri Mares]

I have RH 6.2 on P120 MHz and S3 videocard.
When I start lyx (1.1.5fix1) I get inversion
in colormap. How can I configure Lyx to avoid 
this?
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Re: no shortcut for floats

[Peter Suetterlin]

> If I try to insert a float via a shortcut the former 
> combination  does not work. The menu tells me to use 
> instead (the a is underlined), but this opens the math-formual editor
> (which actually should be c-m or something). This does not happen in the
> help files (which are write protected). There the combination 
> opens the (disabled) float menu.  

Yes, there were changes in the whole structure of the menues, and while
translating I messed up the shortcuts :-)
This is corrected in the CVS source, so the next fix release should work
flawlessly.  

> I tried to modify the  "bind" file.
> But although other changes in the "bind" had an effect this one didn't.

The shortcuts are defined in the po file that contains the translations...

For the moment, you might want to download
ftp://hst33127.phys.uu.nl/pub/LyX/lyx.mo_1.1.6fix1.gz
gunzip it and copy it as lyx.mo to your locale directory, most probably
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo

There's also a SuSE RPM of 1.1.6fix1 at the above mentioned site that
already includes the corrected po file...

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Tables in letter class

[Raffael Herzog]

I'm having problems with tables when using the document class
"letter (g-brief, german)". I get 20 LaTeX errors as soon as I include
a table in the letter. If I delete it, everything's OK again. I need
tables in letters because I'm writing bills and offers with lyx. With
lyx1.1.5, there was no problem with this, but now, with 1.1.6-fix1 it
doesn't work.


Some of the errors I think could be interesting:

\begin{document} ended by \end{g-brief}.

Tons of Misplaced alignment tab character &.

\begin{g-brief} on input line 73 ended by \end{tabular}.

Extra }, or forgotten $ (\end{tabular})

Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup (\end{tabular})


Any ideas?


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Re: spelling

[Eric Seynaeve]

What hyphenation package are you using? The most recent one is 
nehyph96.tex (on my system located in 
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/), look on your favorite CTAN site. 
Another pretty good one is nehyph.tex but it's older. Stay away from the 
older hyphenation patterns (nehyphx.tex, nehyph1.tex,...).

dutch should also be installed in your language.dat (look for a line with 
dutch, this should read
dutch nehyph96.tex
=dutch
). Normally texconfig should do this for you and run texconfig init to update 
your configuration (I had to do this manually though).
Otherwise you might try to use the nohyphenation 'language' instead of 
dutch.

HTH,

Eric

PS: moet het eigenlijk geen bruine dwergen zijn  ipv bruineN dwergen? Het 
klinkt nu oud-nederlands ;-).


On 8 Feb 2001, at 0:32, Dekel Tsur wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:35:09PM +0100, Joeri Verbiest wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When I convert lyx to pdf I get (sorry that it is in Dutch)
> > 
> >  zoals het zoeken naar bruinen dw-
> > ergen en extrasolar ...
> > 
> > How can I get
> > 
> >  zoals het zoeken naar bruinen dwergen
> > en extrasolar ...
> > 
> > I mean how can I configure the document so that never words would be
> > split, because lyx does not do this correct in the Dutch language.
> 
> First you can try to enable hyphenation for the Dutch language by running
> texconfig.
> 
> If this doesn't work, you can disable hyphenation by putting
>  \hyphenpenalty = 1
> in the preamble.



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binary distribution for IRIX

[alex]

What about a binary distribution for SGI-IRIX 6.x with static library
objects for user installation? Is it a work in progress or has anyone
forgotten about IRIX users? ;)

Thank you. Best regards
Alex