FAQ: Font size and type

1999-04-30 Thread jmunoz
Hello, I suppose that's a faq, but ... I am unable to change the font size and type of a document. I do this in Layout-Document popup but no change can be apreciated in the final doc I see with "View dvi" or "View Postscript". The Layout-Character option works well. I am using RedHat 5.2.

FAQ: Thesis

1999-04-30 Thread jmunoz
Well, I suppose that's a faq: I am evaluating Lyx for doing my Thesis. The major problem I see is that I don't know if I must redo a Layout (wich in fact I don't know 100% what it is, and wich is very complicate?), or if it can match in classical stlyles like "book". Sure, the Thesis must follow

Re: Errors during the Latex run

1999-04-30 Thread Kayvan Aghaiepour Sylvan
"ctdole" == ctdole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ctdole I worked with this for some time and actually thought I had it ctdole "fixed". If I open a LyX document and delete the first few ctdole lines of text and type it back in then print (or view dvi) it ctdole comes out fine. No errors are

Re: Running headers

1999-04-30 Thread Ingo Kloecker
Is there a way in lyx to have a shorter version of a chapter header apart from \chapter[short]{long header} in tex mode? Which documentclass do you use? In article there is no chapter. But you could use report (?) or book. In these documentclasses there exists the chapter header. Regards,

Re: [Sebastien Loisel loisel@math.mcgill.ca] lyx

1999-04-30 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
I have another showstopper but it's to do with my LaTeX install. Somehow, TeTeX thinks that amstex.sty is obsolete so I can't use \Bbb. Grumble. I think amstex.sty is an old style-file. The new style-file from the AMS is called amssymb.sty. If you include a \usepackage{amssymb} in

Re: Errors during the Latex run

1999-04-30 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Chris" == ctdole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris My printer has been broken for some time now and it has been a Chris really long time since I've printed anything. I borrowed a Chris friends printer and when trying to print Lyx documents that I Chris wrote with Lyx 1.0.1 under my recently

Re: Why are EPS files so big?

1999-04-30 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Barry" == Barry Kauler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Barry Thanks for the responses about why a small bit-map becomes such Barry a huge EPS. One thing that should be high on the wish-list is Barry to be able to insert bit-map images directly into Lyx, and have Barry Lyx encapsulate them

Re: Why are EPS files so big?

1999-04-30 Thread Barry Kauler
Thanks for the responses about why a small bit-map becomes such a huge EPS. One thing that should be high on the wish-list is to be able to insert bit-map images directly into Lyx, and have Lyx encapsulate them on-the-fly when previewing and printing. Probably cache the conversions for

FAQ: Font size and type

1999-04-30 Thread jmunoz
Hello, I suppose that's a faq, but ... I am unable to change the font size and type of a document. I do this in Layout-Document popup but no change can be apreciated in the final doc I see with "View dvi" or "View Postscript". The Layout-Character option works well. I am using RedHat 5.2.

FAQ: Thesis

1999-04-30 Thread jmunoz
Well, I suppose that's a faq: I am evaluating Lyx for doing my Thesis. The major problem I see is that I don't know if I must redo a Layout (wich in fact I don't know 100% what it is, and wich is very complicate?), or if it can match in classical stlyles like "book". Sure, the Thesis must follow

Re: Errors during the Latex run

1999-04-30 Thread Kayvan Aghaiepour Sylvan
"ctdole" == ctdole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ctdole I worked with this for some time and actually thought I had it ctdole "fixed". If I open a LyX document and delete the first few ctdole lines of text and type it back in then print (or view dvi) it ctdole comes out fine. No errors are

Re: Running headers

1999-04-30 Thread Ingo Kloecker
Is there a way in lyx to have a shorter version of a chapter header apart from \chapter[short]{long header} in tex mode? Which documentclass do you use? In article there is no chapter. But you could use report (?) or book. In these documentclasses there exists the chapter header. Regards,

Re: [Sebastien Loisel loisel@math.mcgill.ca] lyx

1999-04-30 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
I have another showstopper but it's to do with my LaTeX install. Somehow, TeTeX thinks that amstex.sty is obsolete so I can't use \Bbb. Grumble. I think amstex.sty is an old style-file. The new style-file from the AMS is called amssymb.sty. If you include a \usepackage{amssymb} in

Re: Errors during the Latex run

1999-04-30 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Chris" == ctdole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris My printer has been broken for some time now and it has been a Chris really long time since I've printed anything. I borrowed a Chris friends printer and when trying to print Lyx documents that I Chris wrote with Lyx 1.0.1 under my recently

Re: Why are EPS files so big?

1999-04-30 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Barry" == Barry Kauler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Barry Thanks for the responses about why a small bit-map becomes such Barry a huge EPS. One thing that should be high on the wish-list is Barry to be able to insert bit-map images directly into Lyx, and have Barry Lyx encapsulate them

Re: Why are EPS files so big?

1999-04-30 Thread Barry Kauler
Thanks for the responses about why a small bit-map becomes such a huge EPS. One thing that should be high on the wish-list is to be able to insert bit-map images directly into Lyx, and have Lyx encapsulate them on-the-fly when previewing and printing. Probably cache the conversions for

FAQ: Font size and type

1999-04-30 Thread jmunoz
Hello, I suppose that's a faq, but ... I am unable to change the font size and type of a document. I do this in Layout->Document popup but no change can be apreciated in the final doc I see with "View dvi" or "View Postscript". The Layout->Character option works well. I am using RedHat 5.2.

FAQ: Thesis

1999-04-30 Thread jmunoz
Well, I suppose that's a faq: I am evaluating Lyx for doing my Thesis. The major problem I see is that I don't know if I must redo a Layout (wich in fact I don't know 100% what it is, and wich is very complicate?), or if it can match in classical stlyles like "book". Sure, the Thesis must follow

Re: Errors during the Latex run

1999-04-30 Thread Kayvan Aghaiepour Sylvan
> "ctdole" == ctdole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ctdole> I worked with this for some time and actually thought I had it ctdole> "fixed". If I open a LyX document and delete the first few ctdole> lines of text and type it back in then print (or view dvi) it ctdole> comes out fine. No errors

Re: Running headers

1999-04-30 Thread Ingo Kloecker
> Is there a way in lyx to have a shorter version of a chapter header > apart from \chapter[short]{long header} in tex mode? Which documentclass do you use? In article there is no chapter. But you could use report (?) or book. In these documentclasses there exists the chapter header. Regards,

Re: [Sebastien Loisel <loisel@math.mcgill.ca>] lyx

1999-04-30 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>> >> > I have another showstopper but it's to do with my LaTeX install. >> > Somehow, TeTeX thinks that amstex.sty is obsolete so I can't use \Bbb. >> > Grumble. >> >> I think amstex.sty is an old style-file. The new style-file from the AMS >> is called amssymb.sty. If you include a

Re: Errors during the Latex run

1999-04-30 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Chris" == ctdole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> My printer has been broken for some time now and it has been a Chris> really long time since I've printed anything. I borrowed a Chris> friends printer and when trying to print Lyx documents that I Chris> wrote with Lyx 1.0.1 under my

Re: Why are EPS files so big?

1999-04-30 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Barry" == Barry Kauler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Barry> Thanks for the responses about why a small bit-map becomes such Barry> a huge EPS. One thing that should be high on the wish-list is Barry> to be able to insert bit-map images directly into Lyx, and have Barry> Lyx encapsulate

Re: Why are EPS files so big?

1999-04-30 Thread Barry Kauler
Thanks for the responses about why a small bit-map becomes such a huge EPS. One thing that should be high on the wish-list is to be able to insert bit-map images directly into Lyx, and have Lyx encapsulate them on-the-fly when previewing and printing. Probably cache the conversions for