Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sat, 04 Sep 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Susie" == me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JMarc> Could you send a short TeX document that produces the problem, > JMarc> along with the .log file? I am curious to know what the problem > JMarc> is... Do you have unusually short lines o

Re: Printing Users Manual

1999-09-03 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 06:30:40PM -0400, Ralph Boland wrote: > > All the errors appear to be of the form: > > ! Undefined control sequence. > > l.# message > The control sequence at the end of the top line > of your error message was never \def'ed. If ... > Can you send me the LaTe

Re: Vertical Page Centering

1999-09-03 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 03:28:46PM -0700, Technical Support wrote: > > I have been using LaTeX for some time and am now switching to LyX. In > my first few attempts I have had a hard time getting some sample letters > > I have written centered vertically on the page. Is this a feature of > LyX

Printing Users Manual

1999-09-03 Thread Ralph Boland
I am a new lyx user and have been trying to print the users manual. In a previous post I pointed out a failure because latex could not find file 'rotating.sty'. I have now installed this file and also file 'url.sty' and now complaints about missing files have gone away. Thanks for the help K

Vertical Page Centering

1999-09-03 Thread Technical Support
I have been using LaTeX for some time and am now switching to LyX. In my first few attempts I have had a hard time getting some sample letters I have written centered vertically on the page. Is this a feature of LyX or am I doing something wrong? How can I influence this vertical positioning

Fancy Headings on first page of article class?

1999-09-03 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
How can I get the fancyheaders package to start working on the first page of my document? Here's an example that does not seem to work even though I use the recommended \thispagestyle{fancy} at the beginning of the first page. Anyone have any ideas for me? ---Kayvan --

[Fwd: fonts]

1999-09-03 Thread François Patte
-- François Patte. UFR de mathématiques et informatique. 45 rue des St Pères. 75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tel: 01 44 55 35 59 -- Fax: 01 44 55 35 35 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte Bonjour, I want to add specific fonts to lyx: I have installed some fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ and

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Susie" == me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JMarc> Could you send a short TeX document that produces the problem, JMarc> along with the .log file? I am curious to know what the problem JMarc> is... Do you have unusually short lines or long words? Susie> here's the tex file. it's an A4 docu

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread me
JMarc> Could you send a short TeX document that produces the problem, JMarc> along with the .log file? I am curious to know what the JMarc> problem is... Do you have unusually short lines or long words? here's the tex file. it's an A4 document, and i havent changed the line settings. hyphe

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Susie" == me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JMarc> In what language are you typesetting your document? I just JMarc> checked and the only hypenation proposed by TeX in english for JMarc> `systems' is `sys-tems'. I do not understand how you could get JMarc> something as `system-s'. Susie> en

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread me
Dirk> Hope this helps. actually, it didnt work completely. i put \sloppy at the beginning of a line and it made "system-s" change to "sys-tems" which is certainly an improvement, but \sloppy at the beginning of another paragraph had no affect at all. i then removed these and put \sloppy in t

Captions in italics?

1999-09-03 Thread Knut Lian
Is it possible to make figure and table captions in italic fonts? I'm using the Report environment. Cheers Knut -- Knut Lian Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering The University of Edinburgh King's Buildings Mayfield Rd Edinburgh EH9 3JL (Int +44) 131 650 5608 (direct) [EMAIL PR

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Susie" == me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Susie> g'day again, Susie> in my 'book' class document i've foudn that Lyx and/or latex Susie> insists on putting hyphens in unintelligent places, such as Susie> "system-s". can anyone tell me how i can disable all Susie> hyphenation ? or is it

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Dirk Klugmann
susie wrote: > > in my 'book' class document i've foudn that Lyx > and/or latex insists on putting hyphens in unintelligent > places, such as "system-s". > can anyone tell me how i can disable all hyphenation ? > or is it possible to disable it on an individual paragraph > basis at least ?

hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread me
g'day again, in my 'book' class document i've foudn that Lyx and/or latex insists on putting hyphens in unintelligent places, such as "system-s". can anyone tell me how i can disable all hyphenation ? or is it possible to disable it on an individual paragraph basis at least ? please have

Re: Mac Word 98 to Lyx

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Ralph" == Ralph Boland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralph> When I filed out a tex document and just filed it back in again Ralph> I did not get the exactly the same document. Lyx gave no Ralph> complaints when I used a (") character. But when I saved it to Ralph> tex and read it back in e

Re: errors caused by marginpar?

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Reinhard" == Reinhard Borek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Reinhard> Yes, I have (had) a lot of these marginpars. Then that's the reason: when you have many margin par, LaTeX has to keep track of all of them before it can find a place for them on the page. It is not always easy... JMarc

Re: errors caused by marginpar?

1999-09-03 Thread Reinhard Borek
Hi, at Fri, 03 Sep 1999 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Reinhard" == Reinhard Borek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Reinhard> But I do not think, what is wrong with marginpars! > > Do you have a lot of these marginpars? It cause problems to LaTeX when > there are too many on a page. Yes, I

Re: ?use custom latex class at non-standard directory?

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Nien-Po" == Nien-Po Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nien-Po> Hi LyX users, I just discovered LyX and am very excited about Nien-Po> it. I want to use it with a custom LaTeX class file Nien-Po> (foo.cls), but it is not part of the standard LaTeX Nien-Po> installation. I use a shared UNIX

Re: errors caused by marginpar?

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Reinhard" == Reinhard Borek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Reinhard> But I do not think, what is wrong with marginpars! Do you have a lot of these marginpars? It cause problems to LaTeX when there are too many on a page. JMarc

equation numbering, headings,JPG2EPS

1999-09-03 Thread Damco
I would appreciate help for a few questions (I'm new in Lyx): -How and where can I change equation (figure) numbering? I would like equations (figures) to be numbered 1,2,3,4...and not 1.1,1.2,1.3 where the first number (1.x) is a chapter number. -I would like to align set of equations at equa