Re: Displaying Math Equations in lyx

2001-09-07 Thread Rick Angell
On 7 September 2001 at 16:20, "Matthew L. Fidler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: '> "I'm trying to display greek math equations under Mandrake 8, and instead of '> "displaying the greek characters, said characters disappear, and I get nothi ng '> "until output. '> " '> "I suppose that I can stil

Displaying Math Equations in lyx

2001-09-07 Thread Matthew L. Fidler
I'm trying to display greek math equations under Mandrake 8, and instead of displaying the greek characters, said characters disappear, and I get nothing until output. I suppose that I can still deal with this issue, since the output is fine, but having to look at the output to see the actua

Re: Lamport's book

2001-09-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 07 September 2001 10:25, Piotr R. Sidorowicz wrote: > > Out of curiosity, if you're going to go through the trouble of learning > LaTeX, why bother using LyX? ;) > Piotr An excellent question! My top priority as a writer is to use an absolutely no-brainer tool. Even with a no-brainer

Error: BadMatch (Invalid parameter attributes)

2001-09-07 Thread Christopher M. Jones
I've recently set up my X server to run two screens on two monitors. LyX operates normally on the primary monitor, the first one listed in the server layout (I'm using X v.4.1). However, running lyx from the second monitor causes the following error: BadMatch (Invalid parameter attributes) Ab

Re: Bibliography header

2001-09-07 Thread Stephan D. Picard
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:35:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephan D. Picard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jean-Pierre.Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bibliography header Hi, Should this work directly into the preamble? I've copied it directly and nothing change

Re: Bibliography header

2001-09-07 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:36:00 -0400 (EDT) >>From: "Stephan D. Picard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Bibliography header >> >>Hello, >>I have an issue with the bibliography that I hope I can find a solution >>here. In the main document (that includes a pile of other LyX

Installing fonts [was: Re: Why Lyx?]

2001-09-07 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 07 September 2001 01:51, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:46:55PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > > > > One thing that LyX definitely does

Bibliography header

2001-09-07 Thread Stephan D. Picard
Hello, I have an issue with the bibliography that I hope I can find a solution here. In the main document (that includes a pile of other LyX files), I use fancyhdr to redefine the headers. My settings smallcap the word chapter as well as the chapter name, in the heading. Now, for the bibliography,

Register package

2001-09-07 Thread Matthew Lovell
Hello, I just wanted to forward this package announcement to the LyX users group. My group did all of their recent chip documentation in LyX, so this package is meant to work well with it. Matthew Lovell writes: > I have uploaded register.tar.gz to the UK incoming directory. I > would suggest

Re: Lamport's book

2001-09-07 Thread Ronald Florence
Piotr R. Sidorowicz writes: Out of curiosity, if you're going to go through the trouble of learning LaTeX, why bother using LyX? ;) I used to write with LaTeX, using xemacs/auc-tex, and switched to LyX for two reasons: 1) because the LyX interface is less off-putting to others who we

Re: line

2001-09-07 Thread Piotr R. Sidorowicz
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, morten wrote: > I want a horizontal line between to paragraphs > Do I have to make a line.eps and insert it as a figure? > > mo > > No. In TeX mode type: \rule{100mm}{0.5mm} the first {} specifies the width, the second {} the thickness of the line Hope this helps, Pi

Re: Lamport's book

2001-09-07 Thread Piotr R. Sidorowicz
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > > > Would you recommend Lamport's book to someone who is writing a book in Lyx > > and needs lots of custom Environments and character styles? Is it > > understandable for someone who, let's put it this way -- doesn't have the > > w

Re: line

2001-09-07 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:08:01PM +0200, morten wrote: > I want a horizontal line between to paragraphs > Do I have to make a line.eps and insert it as a figure? Layout->paragraph->line below regards john -- "We don't have to worry about single players such as Michael Owen or Emile Heskey.

Re: line

2001-09-07 Thread DUVAL Laurent
||I want a horizontal line between to paragraphs ||Do I have to make a line.eps and insert it as a figure? You could use the latex command \rule{20mm}{1mm} in LaTeX style, and change the size as you like.

line

2001-09-07 Thread morten
I want a horizontal line between to paragraphs Do I have to make a line.eps and insert it as a figure? mo -- -- E-Mail: morten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 07-Sep-2001 Time: 14:05:25 Currently working hard for the LAI at INSA-lyon --

Re: Lamport's book

2001-09-07 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:03:08PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thursday 06 September 2001 18:51, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > > > > LyX wasn't actually free -- it cost me $72 (the price of Lamport's LaTeX > > book). Oddly enough, I found the book catalogued under "programming > > languages". > W

error with yap!

2001-09-07 Thread francesco cattaneo
incredibly yap don't want to do its work! i'm using the lyx port to win32... just a moment before it worked very fine and now: c:\cygwin\tmp\lyx_tmpdir647165647165\lyx_tmpbuf1\tesi.dvi: cannot open dvi document i've inserted in my preferences file all the right command lines... it worked befor