{\a{a}} in bibtex

2001-01-18 Thread Rod Pinna
Hi all, A latex problem I suspect, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I want to use {\a{a}} in an author name in bibtex, however, when I view the postscript file, I get an error about the character not being available in the T1 encoding. It appears that lyx uses the T1 encoding as a default.

Two points on a letter.

2001-01-18 Thread Joeri Verbiest
Hi,  Some german letters have two points on it, how can I to this in Lyx. I can't find it in the symbol list of LaTex.  Joeri

Re: Grr... Is this _Real_?? Solution <-> Re: Old pkg. no good-changes...

2001-01-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Kenward" == Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kenward> Well, I finally weaseled out the answer to my problem. It has Kenward> nothing to do with _anything_ Except the following difference Kenward> between working/non-working files: [...] Kenward> Is this "for real??" One space Ou

Re: lyx, natbib and alternate \cite commands

2001-01-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Joshua" == Joshua Rigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joshua> I submit this message with full knowledge that this has been Joshua> discussed extensively in the past. I'm just curious why, with Joshua> such a major change to the citation dialog in LyX 1.1.6, Joshua> nothing was added to take

Re: {\a{a}} in bibtex

2001-01-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Rod" == Rod Pinna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rod> Hi all, A latex problem I suspect, but I'm not sure what I'm Rod> doing wrong. I want to use {\a{a}} in an author name in bibtex, Rod> however, when I view the postscript file, I get an error about Rod> the character not being available in

Re: Saving options and mathcursor in 1.1.6

2001-01-18 Thread Angus Leeming
> 1. If I change something using the Preferences pop-up, the prefrences file gets > overwritten, and only the just-made changes appear in it. The previous > customizations are lost. Is this the intended behavior? Am I using the pop-up > wrong? A! A bug brought about by lack of understand

Re: Two points on a letter, found list, but I get errors.

2001-01-18 Thread Joeri Verbiest
Hi, > Some german letters have two points on it, how can I to this in Lyx. I > can't find it in the symbol list of LaTex. I have now the rigth symbol list for this problem, but when I insert the LaTex code and to view DVI it gives errors. The first (of the 18 errors) is Missing $ inserted \bib

WYSIWYM

2001-01-18 Thread Andre Berger
Straight to the point: I'm very disappointed. Not even M$ dared to introduce a file format change between minor versions, say, 1.1.5 to 1.1.6; they made (or declared) changes in major releases "only", e.g. Word 6/97/2000. What do you think I mean when I see a .lyx file? Not that I don't know if I'

Re: WYSIWYM

2001-01-18 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Straight to the point: I'm very disappointed. Not even M$ dared to | introduce a file format change between minor versions, say, 1.1.5 to | 1.1.6; Why do you think that the change from 1.1.5 to 1.1.6 was a change in minor versions? It certanly is not.

Re: WYSIWYM

2001-01-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> Straight to the point: I'm very disappointed. Not even M$ dared Andre> to introduce a file format change between minor versions, say, Andre> 1.1.5 to 1.1.6; they made (or declared) changes in major Andre> releases "only", e.g. Word

Re: lyx crash

2001-01-18 Thread Yann Collete
Hello, Sorry, I can't reproduce the bug. Yann COLLETTE > Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm > X-No-Archive: yes > List-Post: > List-Help: > List-Unsubscribe: > Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL

Re: lyx, natbib and alternate \cite commands

2001-01-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Angus> Hmmm. Thinking. I COULD ignore the extra options for the time Angus> being and just release a simple patch that gives users the Angus> ability to input different \cite commands. It wouldn't break Angus> future compatibility. Are pe

Re: lyx, natbib and alternate \cite commands

2001-01-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Yes, a little. I have preliminary natbib support working in my tree. I'd just like to sort out how LyX stores options to LaTeX commands before releasing this to the general public. Natbib can have up to two options in a \cite field; comments before and after the citation. LyX can currently dea

Re: Two points on a letter.

2001-01-18 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:32:57PM +0100, Joeri Verbiest wrote: > Hi, > > Some german letters have two points on it, how can I to this in Lyx. I > can't find it in the symbol list of LaTex. You can enter these letters by pressing, M-m " and then pressing letter you want (there also other methods

Re: WYSIWYM

2001-01-18 Thread thomas schönhoff
Andre Berger schrieb: > Straight to the point: I'm very disappointed. Not even M$ dared to > introduce I doubt that this might be a helpful comparision, thinking in this terms might also direct into a wrong direction ! There a so many differences between MS and the Lyx- project tha

Re: WYSIWYM

2001-01-18 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On 18 Jan 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Why do you think that the change from 1.1.5 to 1.1.6 was a change in > minor versions? > > It certanly is not. Ok, I'm now better informed. But I do think that the LyX version numbers are confusing. My suggestions: - drop those a.b.cfixd ver

Re: WYSIWYM

2001-01-18 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 18 Jan 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | | > Why do you think that the change from 1.1.5 to 1.1.6 was a change in | > minor versions? | > | > It certanly is not. | | Ok, I'm now better informed. But I do think that the LyX version numbers | are

arabic support on lyx 1.1.6

2001-01-18 Thread belahcene abdelkader
hi everybody, I have used arabic support in lyx1.1.5, (redhat 6.0 ) whithout big problem. I only copied (thank you dekel ) the lyxrc.example to my lyx Home and changing the corresponding lines to the arabic support. (I used arabtex ) Now, with Lyx 1.1.6, I try do the same thing but the program d

A couple of small points in lyxrc.example (lyx 1.1.6)

2001-01-18 Thread Reuben Thomas
When reconciling my current lyxrc with the latest lyxrc.example, I found the following stylistic inconsistencies (i.e. small things, but nice to fix): 1. Some commented out commands have "# " before them (e.g. \serverpipe), but most just "#". Something like s/# \\/#\\/ is what you need to fix it.

Re: A couple of small points in lyxrc.example (lyx 1.1.6)

2001-01-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Reuben, I think that it's fair to say that use of lyxrc is deprecated and support for it will probably be removed eventually. The idea is to use the GUI Preferences popup instead, the output of which is saved to a new file "preferences". Moreover (some of) the entries of lyxrc.example may ev

Re: lyx crash

2001-01-18 Thread Yann Collete
Hello, Infortunatly, I can't reproduce the bug. Yann COLLETTE > Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm > X-No-Archive: yes > List-Post: > List-Help: > List-Unsubscribe: > Delivered-To: mailing list

Re: WYSIWYM

2001-01-18 Thread Andre Berger
thomas schönhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andre Berger schrieb: > > > Straight to the point: I'm very disappointed. Not even M$ dared to > > introduce > > I doubt that this might be a helpful comparision, thinking in this terms > might also direct into a wrong direction ! There

Re: lyx crash

2001-01-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Yann" == Yann Collete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yann> Hello, Infortunatly, I can't reproduce the bug. Just tell us if it appears again... JMarc

pstex image problem

2001-01-18 Thread Yann Collete
Hello, I've got big problems with pstex figures inclusion. If you follow the tips number 3 of the section 4.3.2 of the user's guide, it doesn't work. So I went on the mail-archive. I do the following steps. In XFig, I export my figure as combined PS/Latex I rename the file myfig.pstex_t -> myfig

Re: WYSIWYM

2001-01-18 Thread Florian Cramer
Am Thu, 18.Jan.2001 um 11:29:18 +0100 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > Unfortunately, changing format only for major releases is only > possible if you have a development team strong enough to be able to > have both a stable and development branch (think Linux kernel). We It seems to me that, in

$LANG specific menus not possible in 1.1.6

2001-01-18 Thread Claus Hentschel
I do know that this mail should be better placed into the lyx-devel group! But I haven't subscribed there now and I hope to get in contact with some develepers through this list, too! = I am just working on the port pf 1.1.6 to Win32 (A lot

Re: A couple of small points in lyxrc.example (lyx 1.1.6)

2001-01-18 Thread Reuben Thomas
> I think that it's fair to say that use of lyxrc is deprecated and support for > it will probably be removed eventually. The idea is to use the GUI > Preferences popup instead, the output of which is saved to a new file > "preferences". Thanks, I hadn't realised that. Perhaps it would be worth d

partial pdf export in 1.1.6

2001-01-18 Thread Roy Cutler
Hello everyone, I have the need to pull out chapters of a book seperately and make pdf versions of them. In 1.1.5 I can do this by: exporting to PS and then using the dialogue box to print out a range of pages, name the file "ChapterX.ps" and then use to ps2pdf to convert it. Worked great. Is

Re: A couple of small points in lyxrc.example (lyx 1.1.6)

2001-01-18 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 18 January 2001 14:31, Reuben Thomas wrote: > > I think that it's fair to say that use of lyxrc is deprecated and support for > > it will probably be removed eventually. The idea is to use the GUI > > Preferences popup instead, the output of which is saved to a new file > > "preferenc

LaTeX-errors in 1.1.6

2001-01-18 Thread Niklas Werner
Hi All! strange behaviour found ;-) when processing a file with loads of latex in it and some error in it (couldn't verify which ones do it, forgotten braces, eg), lyx doesn't seem to get the errormessage back (or doesn't handle it right), but simply updates dvi or ps with the last version tha

Crash with tables...

2001-01-18 Thread Adrian Ball
I've hit a problem with 1.1.6 when using tables. Difficult to describe it, but when appending a column to an existing table, it sometimes crashes. Worse, the emergency file is truncated :(, so on one occasion I had to find a .tex file in the temporary area and relyx it (ayaargh - scary). Anyway

Re: $LANG specific menus not possible in 1.1.6

2001-01-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Claus" == Claus Hentschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Claus> ===> 1) One problem is that although I have set LANG=de_DE the Claus> german menus will not open! BUT: Passing -dbg 32 shows that Claus> de_menus.bind will be loaded. So I am working with default Claus> english menus but have to

Re: pstex image problem

2001-01-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Yann" == Yann Collete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yann> Then I try view postscript and, it doesn't work. After some Yann> tries, I found it was due to the .pstex_t.tex file. I store my Yann> figures in a "Images/" directory so, in my .pstex_t.tex, the Yann> reference to the pstex file is s

Re: compatibility 11.5fix2 and 1.1.6

2001-01-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "thomas" == thomas schönhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: thomas> Hi, I started thinking about installint Lyx on my NT 4.0 thomas> maschine at wrk. At home I have already installed Lyx-1.1.6 on thomas> my RH 7.0 maschine. Recently I noticed that Lyx-1.1.5fix2 is thomas> available for windows

Re: floating images within a page

2001-01-18 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:12:46AM -0500, hawk wrote: I've moved this thread to lyx-users, which is the correct place for this kind of questions. > > My problem is this. I have say, nine images of which I would like to float > > three each to a page. (I know that they will fit.) Right now, wh

Re: WYSIWYM

2001-01-18 Thread Lior Silberman
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, thomas schönhoff wrote: > > > by the way is there a possibility to convert 11.5 files to LaTex and > re-import them to 1.1.6 (althought this might be a bit uneasy in case of > included graphics, isn't it?) > > There is no need to explicitly convert 1.1.5 files to 1.1.6

Re: $LANG specific menus not possible in 1.1.6

2001-01-18 Thread Claus Hentschel
> Claus> ===> 1) One problem is that although I have set LANG=de_DE the > Claus> german menus will not open! BUT: Passing -dbg 32 shows that > Claus> de_menus.bind will be loaded. So I am working with default > Claus> english menus but have to use the german shortcuts!?!?! What > Claus> has been c

arabic support on ly1.16

2001-01-18 Thread belahcene abdelkader
hi everybody, I have used arabic support in lyx1.1.5, (redhat 6.0 ) whithout big problem. I only copied (thank you dekel ) the lyxrc.example to my lyx Home and changing the corresponding lines to the arabic support. (I used arabtex ) Now, with Lyx 1.1.6, I try do the same thing but the program

Re: $LANG specific menus not possible in 1.1.6

2001-01-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Claus" == Claus Hentschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Claus> At the moment the following does happen: - the mo files are Claus> located in ...lyx/lib/locale/xx/lyx.mo - gdb shows that lyx Claus> uses ...lyx/share/locale as its LOCALEDIR by default (so it Claus> can't find the files!) - doi

Re: pstex image problem

2001-01-18 Thread Baruch Even
A better way to handle XFig files .fig's is to use the External Inset, In this inset you add the .fig file and it will add the tex and image automatically, if it doesn't then it's a single script change to make it work. Hope this helps. On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Yann Collete wrote: > Hello, > > I'v

Re: 1.1.6-pre3 and wv

2001-01-18 Thread Robin Turner
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:43:28AM +0200, Robin Turner wrote: > > Dekel Tsur wrote: > > It was in English. Here's an example of what got generated: > > > Closer inspection revealed that I was not getting "digital garbage" as > > I'd said before - look carefully here and yo

FTP site

2001-01-18 Thread Stephen Walton
There is something weird about the FTP server at ftp.lyx.org which is giving ncftp trouble. Here's the output of script with the non-printing characters edited out: Script started on Thu Jan 18 10:07:22 2001 sunspot:~> ncftp ftp.lyx.org mNcFTP 3.0.1 (March 27, 2000) by Mike Gleason ([EMAIL PROT

two definitions in a row, article(AMS), 1.1.5fix1

2001-01-18 Thread Rodney Bates
I am just learning lyx for the first time on a paper. I want two (sometimes more) Definitions in a row. The definition environment puts all contiguous definition paragraphs under one occurrence of the label "definition", with one definition number. The only way I have gotten two of them is to p

algorithms, article(AMS), 1.1.5fix1

2001-01-18 Thread Rodney Bates
I am just learning lyx for the first time on a paper. I need to write an algorithm, with indented lines, properly lined up. I have found three things in the documentation that looked like possibilities, but none has worked, so far. The Lyx-code enviroment sounds good in the documentation, but

Re: partial pdf export in 1.1.6

2001-01-18 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:40:33AM -0500, Roy Cutler wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I have the need to pull out chapters of a book seperately and make pdf > versions of them. In 1.1.5 I can do this by: exporting to PS and then using > the dialogue box to print out a range of pages, name the fi

Re: 1.1.6-pre3 and wv

2001-01-18 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 07:22:23PM +0200, Robin Turner wrote: > I installed from RPMs. If I compile wv from source, Lyx doesn't detect > it. In order to autodetect the wvCleanLatex program, it must be in your path. Did you did a make install after compiling it ? You can also add a Word->Latex co

Re: $LANG specific menus not possible in 1.1.6

2001-01-18 Thread Claus Hentschel
> Claus> At the moment the following does happen: - the mo files are > Claus> located in ...lyx/lib/locale/xx/lyx.mo - gdb shows that lyx > Claus> uses ...lyx/share/locale as its LOCALEDIR by default (so it > Claus> can't find the files!) - doing ln -s form lib/locale to > Claus> share/locale and

Lyx 1.1.4 fix3

2001-01-18 Thread Juergen Wieczorrek
Hallo, these days I installed SuSE Linux 7 Personal Edition. This bundle contained also a LyX Version 1.1.4 fix 3. After I had installed the program I begun to test as I am facinated of the features. After I've started the program I saw later on the console the following message: Achtung: Benö

Lyx-1.1.6 and Included files

2001-01-18 Thread ben
Hello, I've seen the following problem in lyx-1.1.6: when I include a lyx file into another lyx file, the latex compilation fails because the translation is: \Include{the_subfile} instead of: \include{the_subfile} Of course putting \def\Include#1{\include{#1}} in the pramble makes it work, bu

Re: $LANG specific menus not possible in 1.1.6

2001-01-18 Thread Lior Silberman
Could this be the the 'make install' requirement for i18n menus that was discussed a few days ago? Lior. On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Claus Hentschel wrote: > > Claus> ===> 1) One problem is that although I have set LANG=de_DE the > > Claus> german menus will not open! BUT: Passing -dbg 32 shows that

Re: {\a{a}} in bibtex

2001-01-18 Thread Rod Pinna
Thanks for the suggestion, however, I now get the message that it isn't available in OT1 encoding. Perhaphs I have the wrong code? I'm after an a with a little circle above it. Pardon my ignorance for not knowing the name BTW. I've tried this both with and without the times.sty package, and got

Re: {\a{a}} in bibtex

2001-01-18 Thread Rod Pinna
Hello all, Mea Culpa. Well, sort of. The format of {\a{a}} doesn't work. Oddly, it works for {\"{u}} though. Not sure where I picked it up. Changing it to {\aa} provided the solution, which now quite happily uses T1 encoding. Sorry 'bout that, Rod On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Rod Pinna wrote: > > T

Re: two definitions in a row, article(AMS), 1.1.5fix1

2001-01-18 Thread Oscar
Rodney Bates wrote: > > I am just learning lyx for the first time on a paper. I want two > (sometimes > more) Definitions in a row. The definition environment puts all > contiguous > definition paragraphs under one occurrence of the label "definition", > with > one definition number. I guess

Re: algorithms, article(AMS), 1.1.5fix1

2001-01-18 Thread Oscar
Rodney Bates wrote: > > I am just learning lyx for the first time on a paper. > > I need to write an algorithm, with indented lines, properly > lined up. I have found three things in the documentation > that looked like possibilities, but none has worked, so far. > > The Lyx-code enviroment so

LyX 1.1.6. does not launch on OSF

2001-01-18 Thread Peer Frank
Hi LyXers ! still/again trying to get the thing going. LyX is still unable to start (with the former version ~./lyx dir removed); is any other OSF user more lucky ? Now i tried the debug option, maybe this shows an obvious reason that jumps into the eye of some LyXexpert. Idea: unlike for the f