Re: Bad font (follow-up question)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Emil Pavlov wrote:
 Actually, the text is not pixelled. I just HATE the default font.
 Although I installed a packaged called texlive-fonts-extra, I can only 
 select Helvetica for the sans serif fonts. This means that, when I use 
 book (KOMA-script) class, only the sections, subsetions, etc. are 
 rendered with helvetica and the rest of the text is some other font. Is 
 there a remedy for this?

The Lyx GUI (i.e., the fonts selection widgets) only provides a limited set of 
the available tex fonts. This is so because the fonts packages differ very 
much, so every one needs to be treated differently.

However, you can load any available font via document  Settings  Preamble. 
Just set the sans serif font to Default and inset the necessary command to 
the preamble (see the documentation of your desired font for the actual 
command).

Jürgen

Re: Bad font (follow-up question)

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Emil Pavlov emil_pav...@mail.bg wrote:
 Actually, the text is not pixelled. I just HATE the default font.
 Although I installed a packaged called texlive-fonts-extra, I can only
 select Helvetica for the sans serif fonts. This means that, when I use book
 (KOMA-script) class, only the sections, subsetions, etc. are rendered with
 helvetica and the rest of the text is some other font. Is there a remedy for
 this?

Yes. Read Help  User Guide  3.7.2. You need to set a different Serif
font, which is used in most parts of the document.
Liviu


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Stupid question about index

[Pascal Francq]

Hi,
I am using the multiple index feature include in Lyx 2.0 (beta1). It's working 
well. When the index are printed, their format is index, page1, page2 I 
want that they are printed with the format index : page1, page2
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Re: Some page numbers are rendered in a wrong font

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-11-29, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
 On 11/29/2010 05:05 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:
 On 2010-11-28, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

 Not sure if this is a LyX problem, but I hope someone here has
 encountered this issue and might know a solution.

 My problem is that when a program listing (Insert -  Program Listing)
 does not fit into the same page it starts in, and so a page break
 occurs in the middle of it, the page number at the bottom of the page
 in which the page break occurs is rendered in the typewriter font,
 just like the program listing itself. This only happens if I use:

 basicstyle={\ttfamily}

 in Document Settings -  Listings so that program listings use the
 document's typewriter font (in my case DejaVu Sans Mono) instead of
 the weird-looking default.

 I'm using XeTeX. 

...

 ... it only happens when setting the document
 language to Greek.  With English there's no problem.

 Greek and XeTeX: * make sure not to use the babel package

 LyX 2 uses the polyglossia package when enabling XeTeX,

Fine.

  which in turn 
 loads babel.  But I don't load babel myself, if that's what you mean.

At least my version of polyglossia 

   {polyglossia}[2009/01/25 v1.0.2 
Babel replacement for XeLaTeX]

does not load babel.

 listings and XeTeX might also be problematic regarding the font
 choices (as listings will usually select TeX fonts).

 If I let listing select TeX fonts, then there's no problem.  The problem 
 occurs only when I use basicstyle={\ttfamily} so that the XeTeX font 
 is used.

What happens, if you use the string expansion \ttfamily (i.e. the real
name of the font)?

 How about changing the language of the listing to English while
 keeping the document Greek?

 Just tried, but unfortunately it makes no difference.

In this case, I recommend to create a minimal working example that shows
the problem, export as LaTeX (XeTeX), cut the LyX stuff, and send it to
either the comp.text.tex group or the listings maintainer(s).

Günter

LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.8 Nastiness

[Ken]

Hi,

Yesterday I installed lyx and all necessary components using 
LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.8, on Windows Vista. Today, after a 
restart, the Qt applications I am developing refused to start, not 
entering main.


The cause is some part of the installation process pushing MikTeX's 
private bin directory on the front of the system PATH env var. This 
private bin directory contains Qt dlls, which not unsurprisingly, are 
incompatible with other applications that use Qt.


Solving this problem has caused me to waste many valuable hours.

Ken Appleby

Re: file conversions

[Richard Heck]

On 11/29/2010 03:50 PM, Paul Sutton wrote:

Hi

Looking around on the net i found references to the following

lyxtox script - converts lyx to docbook sgml
db2lyx - converts lyx to xml docbook


not sure if these are mentioned anywhere on the wiki

not sure if any of this is useful,  converting to docbook would be good
for anyone interested in doing stuff for the linux documentation project.


LyX has native DocBook support now, so there's no need for conversion.

rh

Re: Stupid question about index

[Richard Heck]

On 11/30/2010 05:01 AM, Pascal Francq wrote:

Hi,
I am using the multiple index feature include in Lyx 2.0 (beta1). It's working
well. When the index are printed, their format is index, page1, page2 I
want that they are printed with the format index : page1, page2
Anyone an idea ?


http://mirror.hmc.edu/ctan/indexing/makeindex/doc/makeindex.hlp

You need to create a style file that redefines delim_0, etc. You'll 
also need to modify the index command that

LyX issues, under ToolsPreferencesOutputLaTeX.

I have never tried to do this.

Richard

Strange Problem Importing Text File

[Rich Shepard]

  In all the years I've used LyX I've not before encountered this problem
and I have not yet found the solution.

  I open a .lyx document. Then I select either File-Import-Text, join
lines or ctrl-x i (import file) and select the text file I want to insert in
the .lyx file.

  The open .lyx file is closed (displaying the blank lyx screen) and a
message box appears telling me that the lyx file already exists and asks if
I want to overwrite it or cancel.

  Is this a deliberate behavior change from the past when the included file
was placed in the existing file at the cursor position?

  I'm preparing a proposal that must be submitted tomorrow to my client so
I do need to get this figured out or fixed ASAP.

TIA,

Rich

Re: Strange Problem Importing Text File

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Rich Shepard wrote:


 In all the years I've used LyX I've not before encountered this problem
and I have not yet found the solution.


  Forgot to mention that I'm running 1.6.8 here.

Rich

AW: [sweave] additional LaTeX package needed, but which one?

[Jannick Asmus]

Liviu Andronic wrote:


I'm surprised that LyX 2.0 ships an *sweave* beamer template.


I have just double-checked: It seems to me that I must have simply taken 
a copy out of the version 1.6.8 template folder which I have saved 
somewhere on my hard drive.



LyX prompts that sweave needs an additional LaTeX package not
installed by MikTeX. How can I find out which package is missing?


If you load the sweave module, it might be that LyX cannot find
Sweave.sty. As a hack, you might want to copy this file from the R
installation to the dir of your LyX file.


To be honest I do not have any R installed. In my MikTeX folder there is 
no sweave.sty-file.


In LyX I have just loaded the template beamer-sweave-template.lyx with 
the prompted error that some module is missing in the LaTeX 
installation. Isn't is possible to have a feature implemented to look 
for the missing LaTeX part?


/J. 

Re: LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.8 Nastiness

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 30.11.2010 14:04, schrieb Ken:


The cause is some part of the installation process pushing MikTeX's
private bin directory on the front of the system PATH env var.


This is done by the MiKTeX installer. The LyX installers only start this 
MiKTeX-installer (which is a program of its own). Therefore you need to 
report the problem to the MiKTeX developer.
But note that this can most probably not be changed. Many programs put 
itself at the first position of the PATH when being installed. This is 
often necessary to overcome problems you have now: that libraries of 
other programs are used instead of the ones that come with the program. 
(For example, many programs have a file named convert.exe. The 
position in the PATH decides which convert.exe will be used.) This 
general Windows-problematic cannot be solved properly.


regards Uwe

Re: [sweave] additional LaTeX package needed, but which one?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Jannick Asmus jannick.n...@gmail.com wrote:
 To be honest I do not have any R installed. In my MikTeX folder there is no
 sweave.sty-file.

Then you cannot use Sweave. To compile the document LyX first sends it
to R to process the code chunks and output the results, and then pipes
it to LaTeX to generate the final PDF.


 In LyX I have just loaded the template beamer-sweave-template.lyx with the
 prompted error that some module is missing in the LaTeX installation. Isn't
 is possible to have a feature implemented to look for the missing LaTeX
 part?

No, if you don't have R and Sweave.sty (in path or in current dir). Regards
Liviu



 /J.




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Re: LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.8 Nastiness

[Ken]

On 30/11/2010 19:03, Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Am 30.11.2010 14:04, schrieb Ken:


The cause is some part of the installation process pushing MikTeX's
private bin directory on the front of the system PATH env var.


This is done by the MiKTeX installer. The LyX installers only start this
MiKTeX-installer (which is a program of its own). Therefore you need to
report the problem to the MiKTeX developer.
But note that this can most probably not be changed. Many programs put
itself at the first position of the PATH when being installed. This is
often necessary to overcome problems you have now: that libraries of
other programs are used instead of the ones that come with the program.
(For example, many programs have a file named convert.exe. The
position in the PATH decides which convert.exe will be used.) This
general Windows-problematic cannot be solved properly.

regards Uwe

Thanks for the response. I am aware of this kind of problem on Windows. 
I think the only solution is for installers to never touch the PATH 
environment variable. Applications can place all the dlls they require, 
from other products as necessary, in a dedicated directory, the same one 
containing all the product's own .exes and .dlls. That is what MikTeX 
has done with the Qt dlls. It should perhaps allow others to treat it 
equally.


Regards,

Ken

Re: Strange Problem Importing Text File [SOLVED]

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Rich Shepard wrote:


 In all the years I've used LyX I've not before encountered this problem
and I have not yet found the solution.


  Fixed. User error: I need to Insert-File, not Import-File. More coffee
solved the problem.

Rich

Point size for captions

[Frederick Noronha]

Dear all:

I'm using the following setting to control the point-size and
line-space of my text:
\renewcommand{\normalsize}{\fontsize{10pt}{14pt}\selectfont}

This works fine for me, except when it comes to captions for
photographs. The spacing between lines looks too much.

Can you kindly let me know how to reduce the line-space between
captions only, while retaining 10/14 for the rest of the text? Many
thanks, FN

Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Converting doc to Lyx

[Frederick Noronha]

Dear all:

As we work in Lyx to create our alternative books here in Goa, India,
we often run into the headache of having to convert entire doc files
into Lyx. This is a time-consuming and fraught-with-errors process,
and a line-by-line manual method.

Recently, thanks to the very efficient Lyx-Users list
[lyx-us...@lists.lyx.org] list, I learnt of some ways through which to
convert doc files into Lyx. The formatting often works, and with a
quick clean-up, it's possible to preserve formatting and import it
straight into Lyx.

This really saves a lot of time, energy and trouble.

Let me share it with you here, while thanking Stefano for helping me
convert some of my files!

Jim Oldfield jim_...@yahoo.co.uk: One way would be to open the file
in Word and from there save it as an HTML file.  Then in LyX import
that HTML file.  I doubt the results would be very good, but they
would probably at least preserve the italics.

stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com: The conversion is never
pretty, I am afraid. I usually follow  this path:
1. in word (or equivalent) save from doc  to rtf
2. convert rtf to latex with rtftolatex2e   (in Linux and, I think,
MacOs X. I do not know if a version for windows exists)
3. clean up the tex file in a text editor (in particular, remove all
the \tab commands, take a close look at the font commads)
4. import the latex file into lyx

Notice that most of the formatting is done via ad hoc latex command
(i.e. changing the fonts, inserting spaces, etc), instead of using the
proper Latex commands (i.e. title, chapter, emphasis, etc). That is
how the rtf-to-latex converter works. If you want a proper Lyx file,
you would have to clean up the file, by removing all the formatting
instruction in ERT boxes (i.e. the boxes with \tab et similia), and by
fixing the formatting with lyx formatting commands. For instance, the
paragraph spacing should be uniform, etc. But the lyx file should get
you going.

Dr Eberhard W Lisse e...@lisse.na: I have had to do this a bit
recently and find that the easiest way is to
   open the file in OpenOffice, and export it to LaTeX (you need an
   extension, google for it) using the ultra-clean option.
   Then I use TeXShop to get rid of some unnecessary stuff and change
   the header to what I like in LyX and then run tex2lyx.
Works very nicely.
It may work for you. Others have suggested the html route

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Re: Converting doc to Lyx

[Pavel Sanda]

Frederick Noronha wrote:
 Let me share it with you here, while thanking Stefano for helping me
 convert some of my files!

another way how to thank is to create/edit lyx wiki page so others
are able to reach it quickly.

pavel

Adding an item to LyX format menu

[Avi Dagan]

Hello,

How do I add an item to LyX format menu? Usually I use Theorem or Lemma
but this time I need Question. It doesn't appear in the drop-down menu and
I don't know how to add it.

Thank you very much for any help,

Avi

Re: Bad font (follow-up question) [Solved]

[Emil Pavlov]

На 30.11.2010 09:38, Liviu Andronic написа:

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Emil Pavlovemil_pav...@mail.bg  wrote:

Actually, the text is not pixelled. I just HATE the default font.
Although I installed a packaged called texlive-fonts-extra, I can only
select Helvetica for the sans serif fonts. This means that, when I use book
(KOMA-script) class, only the sections, subsetions, etc. are rendered with
helvetica and the rest of the text is some other font. Is there a remedy for
this?


Yes. Read Help  User Guide  3.7.2. You need to set a different Serif
font, which is used in most parts of the document.
Liviu



Emil




What I meant was if there is a way to use Helvetica for the whole 
document, I found one and I didn´t like it. But, anyway, thank you for 
all the responses.


Emil

Re: Bad font (follow-up question) [Solved]

[Daron Wilson]

Emil,

I'm not sure if you're still wanting Helvetica, but what works for me is to 
open the document settings and go to the Fonts section

The first drop-down selection list  is where you set the default font family, 
i.e. the family that LyX should use as the basic family for  the whole 
document.  Now that you have told LyX what the default family should be (sans 
serif), you need to go the the Sans Serif drop-down list and tell it to use 
Helvetica as the specific sans serif font-face (which you already set to be 
used for everything).

This will change the onscreen LyX font to Helvetica, as well as the typeset 
output.  

This will solve your KOMA-Script problems because KOMA will typeset the 
headings in the sans serif of your choice, which is specified as Helvetica.  It 
will then typeset the body text according to the default font family, which you 
have specified as sans serif--Helvetica.

Regards,

Daron


On 1 Dec 2010, at 08:30, Emil Pavlov wrote:

 На 30.11.2010 09:38, Liviu Andronic написа:
 On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Emil Pavlovemil_pav...@mail.bg  wrote:
 Actually, the text is not pixelled. I just HATE the default font.
 Although I installed a packaged called texlive-fonts-extra, I can only
 select Helvetica for the sans serif fonts. This means that, when I use book
 (KOMA-script) class, only the sections, subsetions, etc. are rendered with
 helvetica and the rest of the text is some other font. Is there a remedy for
 this?
 
 Yes. Read Help  User Guide  3.7.2. You need to set a different Serif
 font, which is used in most parts of the document.
 Liviu
 
 
 Emil
 
 
 
 What I meant was if there is a way to use Helvetica for the whole document, I 
 found one and I didn´t like it. But, anyway, thank you for all the responses.
 
 Emil

LyX format menu: short cut?

[Jannick Asmus]

Hi,

what is the short cut to jump into the drop-down of LyX formats menu?

I couldn't find it in the manual, but I am sure I saw it there a long 
time ago.


Thx.

/J. 

Re: LyX format menu: short cut?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Jannick Asmus jannick.n...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 what is the short cut to jump into the drop-down of LyX formats menu?

alt + i + o ?

Liviu


 I couldn't find it in the manual, but I am sure I saw it there a long time
 ago.

 Thx.

 /J.





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AW: LyX format menu: short cut?

[Jannick Asmus]

Liviu Andronic wrote:

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Jannick Asmus



what is the short cut to jump into the drop-down of LyX formats menu?


alt + i + o ?


No I'm afraid. This splits the screens for my document. What are the 
keys to undo this? :(


BTW: Working on WinVista with LyX 2.0 beta1.

/J. 

Re: Bad font (follow-up question)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Emil Pavlov wrote:
 Actually, the text is not pixelled. I just HATE the default font.
 Although I installed a packaged called texlive-fonts-extra, I can only 
 select Helvetica for the sans serif fonts. This means that, when I use 
 book (KOMA-script) class, only the sections, subsetions, etc. are 
 rendered with helvetica and the rest of the text is some other font. Is 
 there a remedy for this?

The Lyx GUI (i.e., the fonts selection widgets) only provides a limited set of 
the available tex fonts. This is so because the fonts packages differ very 
much, so every one needs to be treated differently.

However, you can load any available font via document  Settings  Preamble. 
Just set the sans serif font to Default and inset the necessary command to 
the preamble (see the documentation of your desired font for the actual 
command).

Jürgen

Re: Bad font (follow-up question)

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Emil Pavlov emil_pav...@mail.bg wrote:
 Actually, the text is not pixelled. I just HATE the default font.
 Although I installed a packaged called texlive-fonts-extra, I can only
 select Helvetica for the sans serif fonts. This means that, when I use book
 (KOMA-script) class, only the sections, subsetions, etc. are rendered with
 helvetica and the rest of the text is some other font. Is there a remedy for
 this?

Yes. Read Help  User Guide  3.7.2. You need to set a different Serif
font, which is used in most parts of the document.
Liviu


 Emil




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Stupid question about index

[Pascal Francq]

Hi,
I am using the multiple index feature include in Lyx 2.0 (beta1). It's working 
well. When the index are printed, their format is index, page1, page2 I 
want that they are printed with the format index : page1, page2
Anyone an idea ?
Thanks.
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Re: Some page numbers are rendered in a wrong font

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-11-29, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
 On 11/29/2010 05:05 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:
 On 2010-11-28, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

 Not sure if this is a LyX problem, but I hope someone here has
 encountered this issue and might know a solution.

 My problem is that when a program listing (Insert -  Program Listing)
 does not fit into the same page it starts in, and so a page break
 occurs in the middle of it, the page number at the bottom of the page
 in which the page break occurs is rendered in the typewriter font,
 just like the program listing itself. This only happens if I use:

 basicstyle={\ttfamily}

 in Document Settings -  Listings so that program listings use the
 document's typewriter font (in my case DejaVu Sans Mono) instead of
 the weird-looking default.

 I'm using XeTeX. 

...

 ... it only happens when setting the document
 language to Greek.  With English there's no problem.

 Greek and XeTeX: * make sure not to use the babel package

 LyX 2 uses the polyglossia package when enabling XeTeX,

Fine.

  which in turn 
 loads babel.  But I don't load babel myself, if that's what you mean.

At least my version of polyglossia 

   {polyglossia}[2009/01/25 v1.0.2 
Babel replacement for XeLaTeX]

does not load babel.

 listings and XeTeX might also be problematic regarding the font
 choices (as listings will usually select TeX fonts).

 If I let listing select TeX fonts, then there's no problem.  The problem 
 occurs only when I use basicstyle={\ttfamily} so that the XeTeX font 
 is used.

What happens, if you use the string expansion \ttfamily (i.e. the real
name of the font)?

 How about changing the language of the listing to English while
 keeping the document Greek?

 Just tried, but unfortunately it makes no difference.

In this case, I recommend to create a minimal working example that shows
the problem, export as LaTeX (XeTeX), cut the LyX stuff, and send it to
either the comp.text.tex group or the listings maintainer(s).

Günter

LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.8 Nastiness

[Ken]

Hi,

Yesterday I installed lyx and all necessary components using 
LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.8, on Windows Vista. Today, after a 
restart, the Qt applications I am developing refused to start, not 
entering main.


The cause is some part of the installation process pushing MikTeX's 
private bin directory on the front of the system PATH env var. This 
private bin directory contains Qt dlls, which not unsurprisingly, are 
incompatible with other applications that use Qt.


Solving this problem has caused me to waste many valuable hours.

Ken Appleby

Re: file conversions

[Richard Heck]

On 11/29/2010 03:50 PM, Paul Sutton wrote:

Hi

Looking around on the net i found references to the following

lyxtox script - converts lyx to docbook sgml
db2lyx - converts lyx to xml docbook


not sure if these are mentioned anywhere on the wiki

not sure if any of this is useful,  converting to docbook would be good
for anyone interested in doing stuff for the linux documentation project.


LyX has native DocBook support now, so there's no need for conversion.

rh

Re: Stupid question about index

[Richard Heck]

On 11/30/2010 05:01 AM, Pascal Francq wrote:

Hi,
I am using the multiple index feature include in Lyx 2.0 (beta1). It's working
well. When the index are printed, their format is index, page1, page2 I
want that they are printed with the format index : page1, page2
Anyone an idea ?


http://mirror.hmc.edu/ctan/indexing/makeindex/doc/makeindex.hlp

You need to create a style file that redefines delim_0, etc. You'll 
also need to modify the index command that

LyX issues, under ToolsPreferencesOutputLaTeX.

I have never tried to do this.

Richard

Strange Problem Importing Text File

[Rich Shepard]

  In all the years I've used LyX I've not before encountered this problem
and I have not yet found the solution.

  I open a .lyx document. Then I select either File-Import-Text, join
lines or ctrl-x i (import file) and select the text file I want to insert in
the .lyx file.

  The open .lyx file is closed (displaying the blank lyx screen) and a
message box appears telling me that the lyx file already exists and asks if
I want to overwrite it or cancel.

  Is this a deliberate behavior change from the past when the included file
was placed in the existing file at the cursor position?

  I'm preparing a proposal that must be submitted tomorrow to my client so
I do need to get this figured out or fixed ASAP.

TIA,

Rich

Re: Strange Problem Importing Text File

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Rich Shepard wrote:


 In all the years I've used LyX I've not before encountered this problem
and I have not yet found the solution.


  Forgot to mention that I'm running 1.6.8 here.

Rich

AW: [sweave] additional LaTeX package needed, but which one?

[Jannick Asmus]

Liviu Andronic wrote:


I'm surprised that LyX 2.0 ships an *sweave* beamer template.


I have just double-checked: It seems to me that I must have simply taken 
a copy out of the version 1.6.8 template folder which I have saved 
somewhere on my hard drive.



LyX prompts that sweave needs an additional LaTeX package not
installed by MikTeX. How can I find out which package is missing?


If you load the sweave module, it might be that LyX cannot find
Sweave.sty. As a hack, you might want to copy this file from the R
installation to the dir of your LyX file.


To be honest I do not have any R installed. In my MikTeX folder there is 
no sweave.sty-file.


In LyX I have just loaded the template beamer-sweave-template.lyx with 
the prompted error that some module is missing in the LaTeX 
installation. Isn't is possible to have a feature implemented to look 
for the missing LaTeX part?


/J. 

Re: LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.8 Nastiness

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 30.11.2010 14:04, schrieb Ken:


The cause is some part of the installation process pushing MikTeX's
private bin directory on the front of the system PATH env var.


This is done by the MiKTeX installer. The LyX installers only start this 
MiKTeX-installer (which is a program of its own). Therefore you need to 
report the problem to the MiKTeX developer.
But note that this can most probably not be changed. Many programs put 
itself at the first position of the PATH when being installed. This is 
often necessary to overcome problems you have now: that libraries of 
other programs are used instead of the ones that come with the program. 
(For example, many programs have a file named convert.exe. The 
position in the PATH decides which convert.exe will be used.) This 
general Windows-problematic cannot be solved properly.


regards Uwe

Re: [sweave] additional LaTeX package needed, but which one?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Jannick Asmus jannick.n...@gmail.com wrote:
 To be honest I do not have any R installed. In my MikTeX folder there is no
 sweave.sty-file.

Then you cannot use Sweave. To compile the document LyX first sends it
to R to process the code chunks and output the results, and then pipes
it to LaTeX to generate the final PDF.


 In LyX I have just loaded the template beamer-sweave-template.lyx with the
 prompted error that some module is missing in the LaTeX installation. Isn't
 is possible to have a feature implemented to look for the missing LaTeX
 part?

No, if you don't have R and Sweave.sty (in path or in current dir). Regards
Liviu



 /J.




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Re: LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.8 Nastiness

[Ken]

On 30/11/2010 19:03, Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Am 30.11.2010 14:04, schrieb Ken:


The cause is some part of the installation process pushing MikTeX's
private bin directory on the front of the system PATH env var.


This is done by the MiKTeX installer. The LyX installers only start this
MiKTeX-installer (which is a program of its own). Therefore you need to
report the problem to the MiKTeX developer.
But note that this can most probably not be changed. Many programs put
itself at the first position of the PATH when being installed. This is
often necessary to overcome problems you have now: that libraries of
other programs are used instead of the ones that come with the program.
(For example, many programs have a file named convert.exe. The
position in the PATH decides which convert.exe will be used.) This
general Windows-problematic cannot be solved properly.

regards Uwe

Thanks for the response. I am aware of this kind of problem on Windows. 
I think the only solution is for installers to never touch the PATH 
environment variable. Applications can place all the dlls they require, 
from other products as necessary, in a dedicated directory, the same one 
containing all the product's own .exes and .dlls. That is what MikTeX 
has done with the Qt dlls. It should perhaps allow others to treat it 
equally.


Regards,

Ken

Re: Strange Problem Importing Text File [SOLVED]

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Rich Shepard wrote:


 In all the years I've used LyX I've not before encountered this problem
and I have not yet found the solution.


  Fixed. User error: I need to Insert-File, not Import-File. More coffee
solved the problem.

Rich

Point size for captions

[Frederick Noronha]

Dear all:

I'm using the following setting to control the point-size and
line-space of my text:
\renewcommand{\normalsize}{\fontsize{10pt}{14pt}\selectfont}

This works fine for me, except when it comes to captions for
photographs. The spacing between lines looks too much.

Can you kindly let me know how to reduce the line-space between
captions only, while retaining 10/14 for the rest of the text? Many
thanks, FN

Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Converting doc to Lyx

[Frederick Noronha]

Dear all:

As we work in Lyx to create our alternative books here in Goa, India,
we often run into the headache of having to convert entire doc files
into Lyx. This is a time-consuming and fraught-with-errors process,
and a line-by-line manual method.

Recently, thanks to the very efficient Lyx-Users list
[lyx-us...@lists.lyx.org] list, I learnt of some ways through which to
convert doc files into Lyx. The formatting often works, and with a
quick clean-up, it's possible to preserve formatting and import it
straight into Lyx.

This really saves a lot of time, energy and trouble.

Let me share it with you here, while thanking Stefano for helping me
convert some of my files!

Jim Oldfield jim_...@yahoo.co.uk: One way would be to open the file
in Word and from there save it as an HTML file.  Then in LyX import
that HTML file.  I doubt the results would be very good, but they
would probably at least preserve the italics.

stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com: The conversion is never
pretty, I am afraid. I usually follow  this path:
1. in word (or equivalent) save from doc  to rtf
2. convert rtf to latex with rtftolatex2e   (in Linux and, I think,
MacOs X. I do not know if a version for windows exists)
3. clean up the tex file in a text editor (in particular, remove all
the \tab commands, take a close look at the font commads)
4. import the latex file into lyx

Notice that most of the formatting is done via ad hoc latex command
(i.e. changing the fonts, inserting spaces, etc), instead of using the
proper Latex commands (i.e. title, chapter, emphasis, etc). That is
how the rtf-to-latex converter works. If you want a proper Lyx file,
you would have to clean up the file, by removing all the formatting
instruction in ERT boxes (i.e. the boxes with \tab et similia), and by
fixing the formatting with lyx formatting commands. For instance, the
paragraph spacing should be uniform, etc. But the lyx file should get
you going.

Dr Eberhard W Lisse e...@lisse.na: I have had to do this a bit
recently and find that the easiest way is to
   open the file in OpenOffice, and export it to LaTeX (you need an
   extension, google for it) using the ultra-clean option.
   Then I use TeXShop to get rid of some unnecessary stuff and change
   the header to what I like in LyX and then run tex2lyx.
Works very nicely.
It may work for you. Others have suggested the html route

Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Re: Converting doc to Lyx

[Pavel Sanda]

Frederick Noronha wrote:
 Let me share it with you here, while thanking Stefano for helping me
 convert some of my files!

another way how to thank is to create/edit lyx wiki page so others
are able to reach it quickly.

pavel

Adding an item to LyX format menu

[Avi Dagan]

Hello,

How do I add an item to LyX format menu? Usually I use Theorem or Lemma
but this time I need Question. It doesn't appear in the drop-down menu and
I don't know how to add it.

Thank you very much for any help,

Avi

Re: Bad font (follow-up question) [Solved]

[Emil Pavlov]

На 30.11.2010 09:38, Liviu Andronic написа:

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Emil Pavlovemil_pav...@mail.bg  wrote:

Actually, the text is not pixelled. I just HATE the default font.
Although I installed a packaged called texlive-fonts-extra, I can only
select Helvetica for the sans serif fonts. This means that, when I use book
(KOMA-script) class, only the sections, subsetions, etc. are rendered with
helvetica and the rest of the text is some other font. Is there a remedy for
this?


Yes. Read Help  User Guide  3.7.2. You need to set a different Serif
font, which is used in most parts of the document.
Liviu



Emil




What I meant was if there is a way to use Helvetica for the whole 
document, I found one and I didn´t like it. But, anyway, thank you for 
all the responses.


Emil

Re: Bad font (follow-up question) [Solved]

[Daron Wilson]

Emil,

I'm not sure if you're still wanting Helvetica, but what works for me is to 
open the document settings and go to the Fonts section

The first drop-down selection list  is where you set the default font family, 
i.e. the family that LyX should use as the basic family for  the whole 
document.  Now that you have told LyX what the default family should be (sans 
serif), you need to go the the Sans Serif drop-down list and tell it to use 
Helvetica as the specific sans serif font-face (which you already set to be 
used for everything).

This will change the onscreen LyX font to Helvetica, as well as the typeset 
output.  

This will solve your KOMA-Script problems because KOMA will typeset the 
headings in the sans serif of your choice, which is specified as Helvetica.  It 
will then typeset the body text according to the default font family, which you 
have specified as sans serif--Helvetica.

Regards,

Daron


On 1 Dec 2010, at 08:30, Emil Pavlov wrote:

 На 30.11.2010 09:38, Liviu Andronic написа:
 On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Emil Pavlovemil_pav...@mail.bg  wrote:
 Actually, the text is not pixelled. I just HATE the default font.
 Although I installed a packaged called texlive-fonts-extra, I can only
 select Helvetica for the sans serif fonts. This means that, when I use book
 (KOMA-script) class, only the sections, subsetions, etc. are rendered with
 helvetica and the rest of the text is some other font. Is there a remedy for
 this?
 
 Yes. Read Help  User Guide  3.7.2. You need to set a different Serif
 font, which is used in most parts of the document.
 Liviu
 
 
 Emil
 
 
 
 What I meant was if there is a way to use Helvetica for the whole document, I 
 found one and I didn´t like it. But, anyway, thank you for all the responses.
 
 Emil

LyX format menu: short cut?

[Jannick Asmus]

Hi,

what is the short cut to jump into the drop-down of LyX formats menu?

I couldn't find it in the manual, but I am sure I saw it there a long 
time ago.


Thx.

/J. 

Re: LyX format menu: short cut?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Jannick Asmus jannick.n...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 what is the short cut to jump into the drop-down of LyX formats menu?

alt + i + o ?

Liviu


 I couldn't find it in the manual, but I am sure I saw it there a long time
 ago.

 Thx.

 /J.





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AW: LyX format menu: short cut?

[Jannick Asmus]

Liviu Andronic wrote:

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Jannick Asmus



what is the short cut to jump into the drop-down of LyX formats menu?


alt + i + o ?


No I'm afraid. This splits the screens for my document. What are the 
keys to undo this? :(


BTW: Working on WinVista with LyX 2.0 beta1.

/J. 

Re: Bad font (follow-up question)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Emil Pavlov wrote:
> Actually, the text is not pixelled. I just HATE the default font.
> Although I installed a packaged called texlive-fonts-extra, I can only 
> select Helvetica for the sans serif fonts. This means that, when I use 
> book (KOMA-script) class, only the sections, subsetions, etc. are 
> rendered with helvetica and the rest of the text is some other font. Is 
> there a remedy for this?

The Lyx GUI (i.e., the fonts selection widgets) only provides a limited set of 
the available tex fonts. This is so because the fonts packages differ very 
much, so every one needs to be treated differently.

However, you can load any available font via document > Settings > Preamble. 
Just set the sans serif font to "Default" and inset the necessary command to 
the preamble (see the documentation of your desired font for the actual 
command).

Jürgen

Re: Bad font (follow-up question)

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Emil Pavlov  wrote:
> Actually, the text is not pixelled. I just HATE the default font.
> Although I installed a packaged called texlive-fonts-extra, I can only
> select Helvetica for the sans serif fonts. This means that, when I use book
> (KOMA-script) class, only the sections, subsetions, etc. are rendered with
> helvetica and the rest of the text is some other font. Is there a remedy for
> this?
>
Yes. Read Help > User Guide > 3.7.2. You need to set a different Serif
font, which is used in most parts of the document.
Liviu


> Emil
>



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Stupid question about index

[Pascal Francq]

Hi,
I am using the multiple index feature include in Lyx 2.0 (beta1). It's working 
well. When the index are printed, their format is "index, page1, page2...". I 
want that they are printed with the format "index : page1, page2...".
Anyone an idea ?
Thanks.
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Re: Some page numbers are rendered in a wrong font

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-11-29, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 11/29/2010 05:05 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:
>> On 2010-11-28, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> Not sure if this is a LyX problem, but I hope someone here has
> encountered this issue and might know a solution.

> My problem is that when a program listing (Insert ->  Program Listing)
> does not fit into the same page it starts in, and so a page break
> occurs in the middle of it, the page number at the bottom of the page
> in which the page break occurs is rendered in the typewriter font,
> just like the program listing itself. This only happens if I use:

> basicstyle={\ttfamily}

> in Document Settings ->  Listings so that program listings use the
> document's typewriter font (in my case "DejaVu Sans Mono") instead of
> the weird-looking default.

> I'm using XeTeX. 

...

>>> ... it only happens when setting the document
>>> language to Greek.  With English there's no problem.

>> Greek and XeTeX: * make sure not to use the babel package

> LyX 2 uses the polyglossia package when enabling XeTeX,

Fine.

>  which in turn 
> loads babel.  But I don't load babel myself, if that's what you mean.

At least my version of polyglossia 

   {polyglossia}[2009/01/25 v1.0.2 
Babel replacement for XeLaTeX]

does not load babel.

>> listings and XeTeX might also be problematic regarding the font
>> choices (as listings will usually select TeX fonts).

> If I let listing select TeX fonts, then there's no problem.  The problem 
> occurs only when I use "basicstyle={\ttfamily}" so that the XeTeX font 
> is used.

What happens, if you use the string expansion \ttfamily (i.e. the real
name of the font)?

>> How about changing the language of the listing to English while
>> keeping the document Greek?

> Just tried, but unfortunately it makes no difference.

In this case, I recommend to create a minimal working example that shows
the problem, export as LaTeX (XeTeX), cut the LyX stuff, and send it to
either the comp.text.tex group or the listings maintainer(s).

Günter

LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.8 Nastiness

[Ken]

Hi,

Yesterday I installed lyx and all necessary components using 
"LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.8", on Windows Vista. Today, after a 
restart, the Qt applications I am developing refused to start, not 
entering main.


The cause is some part of the installation process pushing MikTeX's 
private bin directory on the front of the system PATH env var. This 
private bin directory contains Qt dlls, which not unsurprisingly, are 
incompatible with other applications that use Qt.


Solving this problem has caused me to waste many valuable hours.

Ken Appleby

Re: file conversions

[Richard Heck]

On 11/29/2010 03:50 PM, Paul Sutton wrote:

Hi

Looking around on the net i found references to the following

lyxtox script - converts lyx to docbook sgml
db2lyx - converts lyx to xml docbook


not sure if these are mentioned anywhere on the wiki

not sure if any of this is useful,  converting to docbook would be good
for anyone interested in doing stuff for the linux documentation project.


LyX has native DocBook support now, so there's no need for conversion.

rh

Re: Stupid question about index

[Richard Heck]

On 11/30/2010 05:01 AM, Pascal Francq wrote:

Hi,
I am using the multiple index feature include in Lyx 2.0 (beta1). It's working
well. When the index are printed, their format is "index, page1, page2...". I
want that they are printed with the format "index : page1, page2...".
Anyone an idea ?


http://mirror.hmc.edu/ctan/indexing/makeindex/doc/makeindex.hlp

You need to create a "style file" that redefines delim_0, etc. You'll 
also need to modify the index command that

LyX issues, under Tools>Preferences>Output>LaTeX.

I have never tried to do this.

Richard

Strange Problem Importing Text File

[Rich Shepard]

  In all the years I've used LyX I've not before encountered this problem
and I have not yet found the solution.

  I open a .lyx document. Then I select either File->Import->Text, join
lines or ctrl-x i (import file) and select the text file I want to insert in
the .lyx file.

  The open .lyx file is closed (displaying the blank lyx screen) and a
message box appears telling me that the lyx file already exists and asks if
I want to overwrite it or cancel.

  Is this a deliberate behavior change from the past when the included file
was placed in the existing file at the cursor position?

  I'm preparing a proposal that must be submitted tomorrow to my client so
I do need to get this figured out or fixed ASAP.

TIA,

Rich

Re: Strange Problem Importing Text File

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Rich Shepard wrote:


 In all the years I've used LyX I've not before encountered this problem
and I have not yet found the solution.


  Forgot to mention that I'm running 1.6.8 here.

Rich

AW: [sweave] additional LaTeX package needed, but which one?

[Jannick Asmus]

Liviu Andronic wrote:


I'm surprised that LyX 2.0 ships an *sweave* beamer template.


I have just double-checked: It seems to me that I must have simply taken 
a copy out of the version 1.6.8 template folder which I have saved 
somewhere on my hard drive.



LyX prompts that sweave needs an additional LaTeX package not
installed by MikTeX. How can I find out which package is missing?


If you load the sweave module, it might be that LyX cannot find
Sweave.sty. As a hack, you might want to copy this file from the R
installation to the dir of your LyX file.


To be honest I do not have any R installed. In my MikTeX folder there is 
no sweave.sty-file.


In LyX I have just loaded the template "beamer-sweave-template.lyx" with 
the prompted error that some module is missing in the LaTeX 
installation. Isn't is possible to have a feature implemented to look 
for the missing LaTeX part?


/J. 

Re: LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.8 Nastiness

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 30.11.2010 14:04, schrieb Ken:


The cause is some part of the installation process pushing MikTeX's
private bin directory on the front of the system PATH env var.


This is done by the MiKTeX installer. The LyX installers only start this 
MiKTeX-installer (which is a program of its own). Therefore you need to 
report the problem to the MiKTeX developer.
But note that this can most probably not be changed. Many programs put 
itself at the first position of the PATH when being installed. This is 
often necessary to overcome problems you have now: that libraries of 
other programs are used instead of the ones that come with the program. 
(For example, many programs have a file named "convert.exe". The 
position in the PATH decides which convert.exe will be used.) This 
general Windows-problematic cannot be solved properly.


regards Uwe

Re: [sweave] additional LaTeX package needed, but which one?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Jannick Asmus  wrote:
> To be honest I do not have any R installed. In my MikTeX folder there is no
> sweave.sty-file.
>
Then you cannot use Sweave. To compile the document LyX first sends it
to R to process the code chunks and output the results, and then pipes
it to LaTeX to generate the final PDF.


> In LyX I have just loaded the template "beamer-sweave-template.lyx" with the
> prompted error that some module is missing in the LaTeX installation. Isn't
> is possible to have a feature implemented to look for the missing LaTeX
> part?
>
No, if you don't have R and Sweave.sty (in path or in current dir). Regards
Liviu



> /J.
>



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Re: LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.8 Nastiness

[Ken]

On 30/11/2010 19:03, Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Am 30.11.2010 14:04, schrieb Ken:


The cause is some part of the installation process pushing MikTeX's
private bin directory on the front of the system PATH env var.


This is done by the MiKTeX installer. The LyX installers only start this
MiKTeX-installer (which is a program of its own). Therefore you need to
report the problem to the MiKTeX developer.
But note that this can most probably not be changed. Many programs put
itself at the first position of the PATH when being installed. This is
often necessary to overcome problems you have now: that libraries of
other programs are used instead of the ones that come with the program.
(For example, many programs have a file named "convert.exe". The
position in the PATH decides which convert.exe will be used.) This
general Windows-problematic cannot be solved properly.

regards Uwe

Thanks for the response. I am aware of this kind of problem on Windows. 
I think the only solution is for installers to never touch the PATH 
environment variable. Applications can place all the dlls they require, 
from other products as necessary, in a dedicated directory, the same one 
containing all the product's own .exes and .dlls. That is what MikTeX 
has done with the Qt dlls. It should perhaps allow others to treat it 
equally.


Regards,

Ken

Re: Strange Problem Importing Text File [SOLVED]

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Rich Shepard wrote:


 In all the years I've used LyX I've not before encountered this problem
and I have not yet found the solution.


  Fixed. User error: I need to Insert->File, not Import->File. More coffee
solved the problem.

Rich

Point size for captions

[Frederick Noronha]

Dear all:

I'm using the following setting to control the point-size and
line-space of my text:
\renewcommand{\normalsize}{\fontsize{10pt}{14pt}\selectfont}

This works fine for me, except when it comes to captions for
photographs. The spacing between lines looks too much.

Can you kindly let me know how to reduce the line-space between
captions only, while retaining 10/14 for the rest of the text? Many
thanks, FN

Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Converting doc to Lyx

[Frederick Noronha]

Dear all:

As we work in Lyx to create our alternative books here in Goa, India,
we often run into the headache of having to convert entire doc files
into Lyx. This is a time-consuming and fraught-with-errors process,
and a line-by-line manual method.

Recently, thanks to the very efficient Lyx-Users list
[lyx-us...@lists.lyx.org] list, I learnt of some ways through which to
convert doc files into Lyx. The formatting often works, and with a
quick clean-up, it's possible to preserve formatting and import it
straight into Lyx.

This really saves a lot of time, energy and trouble.

Let me share it with you here, while thanking Stefano for helping me
convert some of my files!

Jim Oldfield : One way would be to open the file
in Word and from there save it as an HTML file.  Then in LyX import
that HTML file.  I doubt the results would be very good, but they
would probably at least preserve the italics.

stefano franchi : The conversion is never
pretty, I am afraid. I usually follow  this path:
1. in word (or equivalent) save from doc  to rtf
2. convert rtf to latex with rtftolatex2e   (in Linux and, I think,
MacOs X. I do not know if a version for windows exists)
3. clean up the tex file in a text editor (in particular, remove all
the \tab commands, take a close look at the font commads)
4. import the latex file into lyx

Notice that most of the formatting is done via ad hoc latex command
(i.e. changing the fonts, inserting spaces, etc), instead of using the
proper Latex commands (i.e. title, chapter, emphasis, etc). That is
how the rtf-to-latex converter works. If you want a "proper" Lyx file,
you would have to clean up the file, by removing all the formatting
instruction in ERT boxes (i.e. the boxes with \tab et similia), and by
fixing the formatting with lyx formatting commands. For instance, the
paragraph spacing should be uniform, etc. But the lyx file should get
you going.

Dr Eberhard W Lisse : I have had to do this a bit
recently and find that the easiest way is to
   open the file in OpenOffice, and export it to LaTeX (you need an
   extension, google for it) using the ultra-clean option.
   Then I use TeXShop to get rid of some unnecessary stuff and change
   the header to what I like in LyX and then run tex2lyx.
Works very nicely.
It may work for you. Others have suggested the html route

Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Re: Converting doc to Lyx

[Pavel Sanda]

Frederick Noronha wrote:
> Let me share it with you here, while thanking Stefano for helping me
> convert some of my files!

another way how to thank is to create/edit lyx wiki page so others
are able to reach it quickly.

pavel

Adding an item to LyX format menu

[Avi Dagan]

Hello,

How do I add an item to LyX format menu? Usually I use "Theorem" or "Lemma"
but this time I need "Question". It doesn't appear in the drop-down menu and
I don't know how to add it.

Thank you very much for any help,

Avi

Re: Bad font (follow-up question) [Solved]

[Emil Pavlov]

На 30.11.2010 09:38, Liviu Andronic написа:

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Emil Pavlov  wrote:

Actually, the text is not pixelled. I just HATE the default font.
Although I installed a packaged called texlive-fonts-extra, I can only
select Helvetica for the sans serif fonts. This means that, when I use book
(KOMA-script) class, only the sections, subsetions, etc. are rendered with
helvetica and the rest of the text is some other font. Is there a remedy for
this?


Yes. Read Help>  User Guide>  3.7.2. You need to set a different Serif
font, which is used in most parts of the document.
Liviu



Emil




What I meant was if there is a way to use Helvetica for the whole 
document, I found one and I didn´t like it. But, anyway, thank you for 
all the responses.


Emil

Re: Bad font (follow-up question) [Solved]

[Daron Wilson]

Emil,

I'm not sure if you're still wanting Helvetica, but what works for me is to 
open the document settings and go to the Fonts section

The first drop-down selection list  is where you set the default font family, 
i.e. the family that LyX should use as the basic family for  the whole 
document.  Now that you have told LyX what the default family should be (sans 
serif), you need to go the the Sans Serif drop-down list and tell it to use 
Helvetica as the specific sans serif font-face (which you already set to be 
used for everything).

This will change the onscreen LyX font to Helvetica, as well as the typeset 
output.  

This will solve your KOMA-Script problems because KOMA will typeset the 
headings in the sans serif of your choice, which is specified as Helvetica.  It 
will then typeset the body text according to the default font family, which you 
have specified as sans serif-->Helvetica.

Regards,

Daron


On 1 Dec 2010, at 08:30, Emil Pavlov wrote:

> На 30.11.2010 09:38, Liviu Andronic написа:
>> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Emil Pavlov  wrote:
>>> Actually, the text is not pixelled. I just HATE the default font.
>>> Although I installed a packaged called texlive-fonts-extra, I can only
>>> select Helvetica for the sans serif fonts. This means that, when I use book
>>> (KOMA-script) class, only the sections, subsetions, etc. are rendered with
>>> helvetica and the rest of the text is some other font. Is there a remedy for
>>> this?
>>> 
>> Yes. Read Help>  User Guide>  3.7.2. You need to set a different Serif
>> font, which is used in most parts of the document.
>> Liviu
>> 
>> 
>>> Emil
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> What I meant was if there is a way to use Helvetica for the whole document, I 
> found one and I didn´t like it. But, anyway, thank you for all the responses.
> 
> Emil

LyX format menu: short cut?

[Jannick Asmus]

Hi,

what is the short cut to jump into the drop-down of LyX formats menu?

I couldn't find it in the manual, but I am sure I saw it there a long 
time ago.


Thx.

/J. 

Re: LyX format menu: short cut?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Jannick Asmus  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what is the short cut to jump into the drop-down of LyX formats menu?
>
 + i + o ?

Liviu


> I couldn't find it in the manual, but I am sure I saw it there a long time
> ago.
>
> Thx.
>
> /J.
>
>



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AW: LyX format menu: short cut?

[Jannick Asmus]

Liviu Andronic wrote:

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Jannick Asmus



what is the short cut to jump into the drop-down of LyX formats menu?


 + i + o ?


No I'm afraid. This splits the screens for my document. What are the 
keys to undo this? :(


BTW: Working on WinVista with LyX 2.0 beta1.

/J.