Re: math environments

2001-05-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jean-Pierre" == Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jean-Pierre> Does \mbox{$...$} come in the list ? This is recommended Jean-Pierre> in the Lamport book to define new math commands which may Jean-Pierre> be used as plain LaTeX commands or inside math Jean-Pierre> environment

Re: math environments

2001-05-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > | This sounds like a disadvantage... So why do we use \(...\) at >> all? > > AFAIK \( \) is advised in LaTeX instead of $ $ Andre> What's the rationale behind this? Let's say that plain TeX only knows about $...$ and $$...$$. \(...

Re: math environments

2001-05-09 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
Does \mbox{$...$} come in the list ? This is recommended in the Lamport book to define new math commands which may be used as plain LaTeX commands or inside math environments. In the preamble: \newcommand{\myalpha}{\mbox{$\alpha$}} Then \myalpha and $\myalpha$ (or any other use in math mode) pr

Re: math environments

2001-05-09 Thread Andre Poenitz
> > | This sounds like a disadvantage... So why do we use \(...\) at all? > > > > AFAIK \( \) is advised in LaTeX instead of $ $ What's the rationale behind this? > as Joao in his mail said: > if you want some mathstuff in a \section or something > else you always have to use \protect$...$.

Re: Help on compiling lyx on solaris 8

2001-05-09 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Frank Naumann wrote: > I am using GNU make Which version? Allan. (ARRae)

Re: math environments

2001-05-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | > > $...$- inlined > | > > \(...\) - inlined differs from $...$ by ??? > | > > | > The $ are PROTECTED environments, and \( is unprotected. That > | > means that strange things may happen to t

Re: math environments

2001-05-09 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > > $...$- inlined | > > \(...\) - inlined differs from $...$ by ??? | > | > The $ are PROTECTED environments, and \( is unprotected. That | > means that strange things may happen to the arguments of \(...\) | > due

Re: math environments

2001-05-09 Thread Andre Poenitz
> [...] > hope this helps Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. Andre' -- André Pönitz . [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: math environments

2001-05-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Would anybody please help: > > I need a (more or less complete) list of math "environments" together with > some description of their "special properties". > > Something like: > -- > $...$- inlined > \(...\)

Re: math environments

2001-05-09 Thread Andre Poenitz
> > $...$- inlined > > \(...\) - inlined differs from $...$ by ??? > > The $ are PROTECTED environments, and \( is unprotected. That > means that strange things may happen to the arguments of \(...\) > due to moving arguments around. This sounds like a dis

Re: math environments

2001-05-09 Thread Joao B. Oliveira
> > I need a (more or less complete) list of math "environments" together with > some description of their "special properties". > > $...$- inlined > \(...\) - inlined differs from $...$ by ??? The $ are PROTECTED environments, and \( is unprotected. That means that str

appendix

2001-05-09 Thread Remzi Seker
How do I get an appendix field in report koma-script style? thanks r

math environments

2001-05-09 Thread Andre Poenitz
Would anybody please help: I need a (more or less complete) list of math "environments" together with some description of their "special properties". Something like: $...$- inlined \(...\) - inlined differs from $...$ by ??? \[...\] - displayed,

Re: margin settings per page

2001-05-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Nick DeClario wrote: > > I keep getting "Undefined control sequence"... > > Also, will this change just the text length or all margins? I guess > what I want to do is take all my current margins, top, left, right, > bottom which are all set to 1in and reduce them to 0in for this one > page, whi

Re: page numbers

2001-05-09 Thread Christopher M.
Check out the \thispagestyle{} command. To remove numbers on the first page, \thispagestyle{empty}. On Wed, 09 May 2001, you wrote: > How can I eliminate a page number on the first page, use small case > Roman numerals on the next few pages and start regular numbers on the > main body of text. >

Re: Different numbering for chemical reaction and numerical equation

2001-05-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Andreas Döring wrote: > > During writing my thesis I ran into this problem: > I use chemical reactions and numerical equations in the text. The > problem is, to number the different equations in a different way, like: > > 1+1=2(2.1) > 1+2=3(2.2) > > but for chemi

Re: Concerning \(...\) and $...$

2001-05-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > "Joao" == Joao B Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Joao> Hi! I have a question that starts as a TeX question, but ends up > Joao> at LyX: > > Joao> After producing quite acceptable .layout and .cls files for our > Joao> students, someone needed a Lis

Re: page numbers

2001-05-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Shawn Koons wrote: > > How can I eliminate a page number on the first page, use small case > Roman numerals on the next few pages and start regular numbers on the > main body of text. > > I have a title page with a page break, then the TOC, then another page > break, then the main body of text.

Re: paragraph indent by 1cm?

2001-05-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Osvaldo Fornaro wrote: > > Hi, > I need to indent the firs line of all standard paragraphs by 1 cm (default is > approx 0.5 cm). What is the variable to fix this value? in preamble \AtBeginDocument{\setlength{\parindent}{1cm}} Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: Concerning \(...\) and $...$

2001-05-09 Thread Joao B. Oliveira
> > Joao> After producing quite acceptable .layout and .cls files for our > Joao> students, someone needed a List of Abbreviations. I managed to > Joao> produce all entries with a nice macro like this > > Joao> \abbrev {SVD] {Singular Value Decomposition} > On a relative point, we could probabl

Re: margin settings per page

2001-05-09 Thread Nick DeClario
I keep getting "Undefined control sequence"... Also, will this change just the text length or all margins? I guess what I want to do is take all my current margins, top, left, right, bottom which are all set to 1in and reduce them to 0in for this one page, which happens to be the first page of

Re: Word2LaTex

2001-05-09 Thread Matej Cepl
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:55:05PM +0200, Otto Tronarp wrote: > Remzi Seker wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a good way to convert MS Word documents to Latex or Lyx > > (except for word2tex.com's product?) ;-) Since I dont have formulas in the > > document i have (tables), I exported the word d

Re: Concerning \(...\) and $...$

2001-05-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Joao" == Joao B Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joao> Hi! I have a question that starts as a TeX question, but ends up Joao> at LyX: Joao> After producing quite acceptable .layout and .cls files for our Joao> students, someone needed a List of Abbreviations. I managed to Joao> produc

page numbers

2001-05-09 Thread Shawn Koons
How can I eliminate a page number on the first page, use small case Roman numerals on the next few pages and start regular numbers on the main body of text. I have a title page with a page break, then the TOC, then another page break, then the main body of text. I would appreciate an answer that

Different numbering for chemical reaction and numerical equation

2001-05-09 Thread Andreas Döring
During writing my thesis I ran into this problem: I use chemical reactions and numerical equations in the text. The problem is, to number the different equations in a different way, like: 1+1=2(2.1) 1+2=3(2.2) but for chemical reaction something like C+O2->CO2

paragraph indent by 1cm?

2001-05-09 Thread Osvaldo Fornaro
Hi, I need to indent the firs line of all standard paragraphs by 1 cm (default is approx 0.5 cm). What is the variable to fix this value? Thanks in advance. -- Dr. Osvaldo Fornaro IFIMAT - FCE - UNCPBA

Re: margin settings per page

2001-05-09 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 10:52:26 -0400 >>From: Nick DeClario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: margin settings per page >> >>Hey guys, >> >>I am trying to change the margins locally for one page only leaving the >>margins I set on the remaining pages as they were. I can't f

Re: Word2LaTex

2001-05-09 Thread Otto Tronarp
Remzi Seker wrote: > Does anyone know of a good way to convert MS Word documents to Latex or Lyx > (except for word2tex.com's product?) ;-) Since I dont have formulas in the > document i have (tables), I exported the word document to html. Then, I > realized latex2html is a one way program. >

margin settings per page

2001-05-09 Thread Nick DeClario
Hey guys, I am trying to change the margins locally for one page only leaving the margins I set on the remaining pages as they were. I can't figure out how to do this? Any thoughts/ideas? Thanks. Regards, -Nick

Re: Word2LaTex

2001-05-09 Thread Remzi Seker
On Wednesday 09 May 2001 08:41, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > Have a look at rtf2latex2e (tries do deal with formulas as well). > Export to HTML from Word, and use html2latex is a mess in general > because the structure is lost (might be good for tables alone, but > seems to me that rtf2latex2e d

Re: Word2LaTex

2001-05-09 Thread Rem
I tried the word->lyx way but it did not work. It could not convert some parts of the table and gave some errors when I tried to view the dvi... Thanks Remzi ps: I am going to try rtf2latex and see how it performs - Original Message - From: "Robin Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL

Re: Word2LaTex

2001-05-09 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 09 May 2001 16:41, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > >>X-Sybari-Space: > >>From: Remzi Seker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: Lyx Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Subject: Word2LaTex > >>Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 08:34:28 -0500 > >> > >>Does anyone know of a good way t

Re: Word2LaTex

2001-05-09 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>X-Sybari-Space: >>From: Remzi Seker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: Lyx Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Word2LaTex >>Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 08:34:28 -0500 >> >>Does anyone know of a good way to convert MS Word documents to Latex or Lyx >>(except for word2tex.com's

Word2LaTex

2001-05-09 Thread Remzi Seker
Does anyone know of a good way to convert MS Word documents to Latex or Lyx (except for word2tex.com's product?) ;-) Since I dont have formulas in the document i have (tables), I exported the word document to html. Then, I realized latex2html is a one way program. Does anyone know how I can c

Re: menu shortcuts dont work in 1.1.6fix1

2001-05-09 Thread Peter Suetterlin
Guenter Milde wrote: > > did you a reconfigure ? > I didn't before but this still don't help. (Also, when I first started > LyX, there was no call to de-menus.bind.) Furthermore, I suppose > de-menus.bind is fixed now (i.e. the fix is the abovementioned > outcommenting of all bindings that shall

Re[2]: menu shortcuts dont work in 1.1.6fix1

2001-05-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On Wed, 09 May 2001 07:37:46 +0200 wrote Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I think we had this topic some time ago, but then I still shunned upgrading > > > > (just becouse of the troubles with 1.1.6) but now I have done it and the menu > > > > shortcuts don't work. > > > > > > > > I fou

Re: Case shortcuts

2001-05-09 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>From: Ronald Florence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 12:36:39 -0400 (EDT) >>To: Shawn Koons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: Case shortcuts >> >>Shawn, >> >>After adding >> >>\bind "C-x c""word-capitalize" >>\bind "C-x l"

Re: \mbox containing blanks in math mode?

2001-05-09 Thread James Brusey
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:45:10AM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote: > Still, on my lyx 1.1.6 with cua.bind ctrl-m does the same job. The relevant line > in cua.sl is > > \bind "C-m""math-mode" > > I suppose for some funny reson, your lyx is configured otherwise. > Can you ente