Re: wish list: sentence commands

2000-04-07 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sat, 08 Apr 2000, Ronald Florence wrote: > I find myself constantly missing the sentence commands of xemacs and > emacs: M-a goes to the beginning of a sentence, M-d deletes a > sentence, M-e goes to the end of a sentence. They're very convenient. > Any chance they could be incorporated into a

Newbie formatting problem

2000-04-07 Thread Joseph Zitt
I'm working on a book of performance scores, many of which are in a format that uses sort of python-like indenting: Someone sings the beginning of a syllable at any pitch at any volume starting with any consonant or combination of consonants followed b

RE par moi meme: too many unproceeded floats

2000-04-07 Thread Werner Brück
Sorry folks, I just learned something about "too many unproceeded floats" at the DE-TeX-FAQ: there are only 18 possible floats. This is not good, because it would be fine to create a picture-collection like a "catalogue" in scientific works. I am confronted with this problem because I am studying

wish list: sentence commands

2000-04-07 Thread Ronald Florence
I find myself constantly missing the sentence commands of xemacs and emacs: M-a goes to the beginning of a sentence, M-d deletes a sentence, M-e goes to the end of a sentence. They're very convenient. Any chance they could be incorporated into a future version of LyX? Regards, -- Ronald Floren

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread Ronald Florence
Lars Gullik Bjønnes writes: No, use the copyright symbol directly or write it out -> "Copyright", the strange thingie paranthesis-C-paranthesis have noe meaning legally. (it just looks kindo similar to the copyright symbol). Actually, under the Bern Convention, which governs copyright in

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread mressler
On 7 Apr 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | * 9.4: you could maybe use directly © for copyright. If you think this > | will be bad for our non-western countries readers, use (C). > > No, use the copyright symbol directly or write it out

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | * 9.4: you could maybe use directly © for copyright. If you think this | will be bad for our non-western countries readers, use (C). No, use the copyright symbol directly or write it out -> "Copyright", the strange thingie paranthesis-C-para

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Martin Vermeer wrote: | > | > On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:09:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > | > [...] | > | > > Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record documents" (read it | > > - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer

Re: Fixing the Position of a Table

2000-04-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > And then put as first!!! characters in the float: | > | > [H] | > | > in TeX-Mode (the text should be red!!!) | > | > This should help you! | | Maybe "somebody" could extend the table dialog to allow individual | positioning ;-) Absolutely. (and

fix3, configure & xforms library

2000-04-07 Thread Ronald Florence
Lyx-1.1.4fix3 installs and builds as promised on our Sparc-Solaris-2.6 systems. I trust that it cures the mystery crashes, for which many thanks to the developers. One question which I mean to pose each time I build LyX: our xforms libraries are in /usr/local/lib. Configure finds xforms, happil

Re: fix3

2000-04-07 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 04:25:27PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Ronald" == Ronald Florence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ronald> Has fix3 for LyX-1.1.4 been released? Where would I find it? > [...] > > fix3 is ready since monday, but it has not been formally announced > since (1

Extending LyX to use paralist package

2000-04-07 Thread Matthew Lovell
Hi, Has anyone taken a look at the paralist package available on CTAN? I'd like to extend LyX to be able to treat "compactitem", "inparaitem", and all the other new list types natively. If anyone could kindly point out the most relevant portions, I'll go RTFM. Also, is it possible to extend L

Re: Table of content

2000-04-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Yann Collete wrote: > > |Yann Collete wrote: > |> > |> Hello > |> > |> I would like to known how to change the depth > |> of a table of content just for a chapter. > |> I have tried > |> \setcounter{tocdepth}{2} > |> in the chapter but it doesn't work. > | > |layout -> document -> depth (on the l

Re: fix3

2000-04-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Ronald" == Ronald Florence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ronald> Has fix3 for LyX-1.1.4 been released? Where would I find it? Ronald> Maybe I've caught things in the middle of a transition, but Ronald> all the URLs I've been using for LyX seem to come up blank Ronald> this morning. fix3 is

Re: watermark - answer

2000-04-07 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 09:26:46AM +0100, Tony Dancer wrote: > Ages ago I asked whether it was possible to use a watermark. Those > who responded felt it wasn't. I have found one solution I thought I > would share with you all in case others seek the same thing. For single words it is possible

fix3

2000-04-07 Thread Ronald Florence
Has fix3 for LyX-1.1.4 been released? Where would I find it? Maybe I've caught things in the middle of a transition, but all the URLs I've been using for LyX seem to come up blank this morning. Thanks, -- Ronald Florence http://members.home.net/18james

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 11:05:34AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > * 5: explain what the LaTeX preamble is. Note maybe that ERT and > preamble work for SGML too (am I right wrt the preamble?). Both (ert and preamble) work with linuxdoc and docbook! -- José

Re: Table of content

2000-04-07 Thread Yann Collete
|Yann Collete wrote: |> |> Hello |> |> I would like to known how to change the depth |> of a table of content just for a chapter. |> I have tried |> \setcounter{tocdepth}{2} |> in the chapter but it doesn't work. | |layout -> document -> depth (on the lower right) | |you can choose the depth for

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Martin Vermeer wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:09:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [...] > > > Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record documents" (read it > > - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118 page thesis? > > Anyone write a proposal

Re: Table of content

2000-04-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Yann Collete wrote: > > Hello > > I would like to known how to change the depth > of a table of content just for a chapter. > I have tried > \setcounter{tocdepth}{2} > in the chapter but it doesn't work. layout -> document -> depth (on the lower right) you can choose the depth for TOC and in g

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread Ronald Florence
Martin Vermeer writes: Then there is the Proceedings of the Second Continental Workshop on the Geoid in Europe, (Finnish Geodetic Institute Report 98:4), 292 pages, most of which passed through LyX. But not as a single doc so it doesn't count. Yet, I wonder if it is the largest publish

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread Kimmo Koli
On 7 Apr 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Kimmo" == Kimmo Koli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Kimmo> In our configuration we try to make a multi-platform > Kimmo> installation so that Linux, Solaris and HP-UX share the > Kimmo> platform independent files. However, reconfigure is now w

Table of content

2000-04-07 Thread Yann Collete
Hello I would like to known how to change the depth of a table of content just for a chapter. I have tried \setcounter{tocdepth}{2} in the chapter but it doesn't work. YC

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Kimmo" == Kimmo Koli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kimmo> In our configuration we try to make a multi-platform Kimmo> installation so that Linux, Solaris and HP-UX share the Kimmo> platform independent files. However, reconfigure is now working Kimmo> only on HP-UX, as the configure-script i

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Oops! I sent the message by mistake. I have more complaints... Jean-Marc> * 6.5: what's wrong with "math-insert root" (M-m r)? * 8.1: explicitely point to the Tutorial as minimum reading. * 9.4: why don't you want to use the

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Mike" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> Areas I would particularly like comments about are the Mike> following: Mike> Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record Mike> documents" (read it - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer Mike> than a 118 page thesis? Anyone writ

watermark - answer

2000-04-07 Thread Tony Dancer
Ages ago I asked whether it was possible to use a watermark. Those who responded felt it wasn't. I have found one solution I thought I would share with you all in case others seek the same thing. Using the fancybox package, and the subsequent \thisfancyput or \fancyput command, it is possible to

Orphans and Widows

2000-04-07 Thread Diego A. Puertas F.
How can I archieve orphans an widows control on LyX, I need to have no more than two orphans/widows lines per page. Thanks in advance.

Re: point in abbreviations

2000-04-07 Thread Dirk Klugmann
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > In Latex a tilde (~) is used behind a point in an abbreviation such as Dr. Smith > or i.e. (alternative \space, but in this case line break is possible) > In Lyx I am not sure how to do it. If I write > Dr.Smith the distance is too small > Dr. Smith too large > With

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:09:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record documents" (read it > - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118 page thesis? > Anyone write a proposal for more than $1 M (US)? etc. My lec

Re: chapters on even pages

2000-04-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Javier" == Javier García <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Javier> How can I force the chapters to begin always on even pages? This is the default in book format, so I guess you are using the report class. You should add 'openright' in Layout->Document->Extra_Options. JMarc

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread Yann MORERE
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have just placed "Version 0.3.0pre0.build000, Alpha" of the LyX FAQ into > the lyxdoc CVS module. It's not "finished" by any stretch, but I wanted > people to have a chance to see it and offer comments before it gets too > much bigger. > > The format is loosely bas

Re: Q: Apropos tables

2000-04-07 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 06-Apr-2000 Herbert Voss wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> I want to have several lines of text within ONE FIELD of a table. E.g: >> >> Monday|Apples >> - >> Tuesday |Apples | >> |and Kiwi | >> - >> Wednesday |McDo'| >> >>