Re: Linux.conf.au LyX Work-In-Progress online

2002-02-12 Thread Allan Rae
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: > Allan Rae wrote: > > > the actual tarball is here: > > http://www.devel.lyx.org/~rae/LCA-2002-LyX-rae.tar.gz > > you are using the textclass pdfscreen. can you send > the pdfscreen.layout to this list? I'll add it to the tarball sometime soon. In th

Re: Letter - address and right address

2002-02-12 Thread marvin
Hello Robin. Thanks, that seems to right justify the second set of text as opposed to having it`s left edge lined up. Also, the letter template I am trying put`s double spaces in. I guess I will create my own template and see how it goes. I find it hard to believe there is NOT a good templat

Re: Letter - address and right address

2002-02-12 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 22:29, marvin wrote: > marvin writes: > Quite often (especially in business), you use the recipents name and > address in the top left and yours on the top right. A bit like this :- > > > recipients name Your name > street addressstreet a

Re: TeX Tutorials??

2002-02-12 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 20:56, Herbert Voss wrote: > Roberto Hernandez wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. Actually I've had a look at those tutorials, they > > teach how to use LaTeX for typesetting. I was looking for something more > > in the lines of how to write TeX or LaTeX _MACROS_. Yep, y

Re: TeX Tutorials??

2002-02-12 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 20:23, Roberto Hernandez wrote: > > The big question is: where can I find some online, entry-level tutorials > that teach what I'm looking for? I've been searching Google like crazy. > While I've found millions of tutorials for other languages, I can't seem > to find a

Re: Letter - address and right address

2002-02-12 Thread marvin
marvin writes: Apologies for the mail typo`s. I`m playing mail catchup and being tardy on checking. Here it is with corrections. Hello everyone :-) Just joined the list. Printed out the tutorial and user guide and played with LyX. It`s worked really well on some example text I imported a

Re: customizing natbib

2002-02-12 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:38:09PM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: > > another one is to throw bibtex out of the window and use amsrefs > (on www.ams.org). It does not do any such ugly things. > I just checked out this website. It seems like the amsrefs package is meant for publishing mathmatical do

Letter - address and right address

2002-02-12 Thread marvin
Hello everyone :-) Just joined the list. Printed out the tutorial and user guide and played with it. It`s worked really good on some example text I imported and I`m fairly happy about it on day one...but... I`ve checked the site a bit but am a bit stick on a basic point. Creating a standard

Re: Release date for LyX 1.2 ? Full AMS support in the math panel ?

2002-02-12 Thread Pete Martin
Thanks for the link. Those of us who work mainly behind a firewall, CVS is a real bother, so this makes things much easier. Pete - Original Message - From: "Robin Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 5:01 PM Subject: Re: Release date for Ly

Re: landscape table problem

2002-02-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > I use in bookstyle twocolumn > > \onecolumn > \landscape%because landscape does not work in twocolumn AFAIK) > \scriptsize %because the table would still be too large if normalsize > > widetable float > with \caption[short legend]{long legend} > > \endlandsca

landscape table problem

2002-02-12 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I use in bookstyle twocolumn \onecolumn \landscape%because landscape does not work in twocolumn AFAIK) \scriptsize %because the table would still be too large if normalsize widetable float with \caption[short legend]{long legend} \endlandscape \normalsize \twocolumn exporting as .ps file

Re: TeX Tutorials??

2002-02-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Roberto Hernandez wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Actually I've had a look at those tutorials, they > teach how to use LaTeX for typesetting. I was looking for something more > in the lines of how to write TeX or LaTeX _MACROS_. http://www.lyx.org/help/LaTeX/docs.php Herbert

Re: TeX Tutorials??

2002-02-12 Thread Roberto Hernandez
Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Roberto Hernandez wrote: >>The big question is: where can I find some online, entry-level tutorials > > Usually there are tutorials installed in LaTeX distributions. > In my Linux they are in directory > /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/general > for

Re: TeX Tutorials??

2002-02-12 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Roberto Hernandez wrote: >The big question is: where can I find some online, entry-level tutorials Usually there are tutorials installed in LaTeX distributions. In my Linux they are in directory /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/general for example lshort.dvi, and essential

TeX Tutorials??

2002-02-12 Thread Roberto Hernandez
Hey everyone, I've been a happy user of LyX for a few months now. I really like the WYSIWYM idea and intend to continue using LyX for a long time. From what I've seen in this list, most of the fine tuning needs to be done through ERT. The LyX developers obviously put in an enormous amount of

Re: Release date for LyX 1.2 ? Full AMS support in the math panel ?

2002-02-12 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 07:01:21PM +0200, Robin Turner wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2002 15:31, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > > > Also, you can find daily cvs builds for linux at > > ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/devel. > > > > JMarc > > And very nice it is too. Make sure you have egcs or the e

Re: Release date for LyX 1.2 ? Full AMS support in the math panel ?

2002-02-12 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 15:31, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Also, you can find daily cvs builds for linux at > ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/devel. > > JMarc And very nice it is too. Make sure you have egcs or the equivalent installed, though, or it won't run. Thanks to Kayvan for making life

Re: adjusting fonts in captions

2002-02-12 Thread Albert F. Niessner
Thanks to all the replies for the lyx-code change. Works great. Now that I see how the style 'lyx-code' is done, I guess what I need to do is create a new style, 'caption-text' maybe, that that differs from standard in size only. Then I could just change the paragraph manually. It would be nicer

Re: Cells of tables borders

2002-02-12 Thread Wayan
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Guenter Milde wrote: > Did you already try the popup with right click on the table > (tabs entry and row/collumn)? > > This will solve at least 90% of your question. Ask again for the lasting > 10% (it will be easier to explain). and you can activate multicolumn in specialf

Re: Figures

2002-02-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Ryan Southall wrote: > Hi, > I have installed Lyx on my Mandrake 8.1 box and everything seems fine when i > run the examples or any document that came with Lyx, but i cannot view > figures i have placed in a document myself. I can see the picture in the full > screen preview when i click

Re: figure numbering

2002-02-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Yvonne Becherini wrote: > Hallo, > I cannot understand why with LyX 1.1.6fix4 figure references are always like > this "??". there is a problem with your bibfile. Have a look at view->logfile (near the end). Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/

figure numbering

2002-02-12 Thread Yvonne Becherini
Hallo, I cannot understand why with LyX 1.1.6fix4 figure references are always like this "??". Thank you Yvonne

Re: Cells of tables borders

2002-02-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:35:41 +0100 wrote Carlo Ferri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > A new question: > I would like to have a table with rows borders (horizontal, > top and bottom), without columns border, except the first > column, one in the middle, the last column (for all them > there is no problem)

Re: Re: drawing imports don't work the way I expect

2002-02-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:13:24 +0800 (WST) wrote Rod Pinna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Guenter Milde wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 23:33:33 -0600 wrote Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > I found the tip on importing xfig drawings > > > ... > > > But it does not work

Re: Release date for LyX 1.2 ? Full AMS support in the math panel ?

2002-02-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Renaud" == Renaud MICHEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Renaud> Le Mardi 12 Février 2002 10:10, vous avez écrit : >> Just one question : is there a release date for LyX 1.2 ? I am very >> interested by the full AMS's symbols support in the math panel >> (with display on the screen). With this

Re: Release date for LyX 1.2 ? Full AMS support in the math panel ?

2002-02-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:10:39AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just one question : is there a release date for LyX 1.2 ? No fixed date. > I am very interested by the full AMS's symbols support in the math > panel (with display on the screen). With this full support, does the > "above/below

Re: Release date for LyX 1.2 ? Full AMS support in the math panel ?

2002-02-12 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le Mardi 12 Février 2002 10:10, vous avez écrit : > Just one question : is there a release date for LyX 1.2 ? I am very > interested by the full AMS's symbols support in the math panel (with > display on the screen). With this full support, does the "above/below" > (i.e. \stackrel) functionnality

Re: adjusting fonts in captions

2002-02-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:55:45PM +, Al Niessner wrote: > 1) How do I define the paragraph after the caption to be "small" > standard rather than "no change" standard? Right now I have to go Add the following line to the preamble: \usepackage[small]{caption2} > > 2) I want lyx-code to be s

Re: bounding box problem in eps file made from kontour prg

2002-02-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:02:43PM -0500, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > I am using kontour 1.1 in KDE 2.2.2.-1 to produce eps figures. > Exporting them gives too much white space below the figure content. Use ps2eps to fix the files created by kontour http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalo

Re: bib files

2002-02-12 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:05:15 +0200 >>From: Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: Patrick Dupre LCMI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, LyX users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: bib files >> >>On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 10:44:49PM +0100, Patrick Dupre LCMI wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> How can I indicate to l

Re: IEEEtran / Babel

2002-02-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 12:05:27PM +1030, Nick Burgan wrote: > I am writing a paper for the IEEE using IEEEtran_v15.cls as my Document Class. > After trying lots of things to try and get IEEEtran to work and reading all > of the emails on the list that I could find related to this, I believe that

Re: bib files

2002-02-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 10:44:49PM +0100, Patrick Dupre LCMI wrote: > Hello, > > How can I indicate to lyx that all my *.bib files are located in a precise > directory ? export BIBINPUTS=/home/foo/bib: (in .bashrc if you use bash) setenv BIBINPUTS /home/foo/bib: (in .tcshrc if you use tcsh)

Cells of tables borders

2002-02-12 Thread Carlo Ferri
A new question: I would like to have a table with rows borders (horizontal, top and bottom), without columns border, except the first column, one in the middle, the last column (for all them there is no problem) and the first row. In fact in the first row, where there are the labels of each colum

Release date for LyX 1.2 ? Full AMS support in the math panel ?

2002-02-12 Thread pmellerin
Hello, Just one question : is there a release date for LyX 1.2 ? I am very interested by the full AMS's symbols support in the math panel (with display on the screen). With this full support, does the "above/below" (i.e. \stackrel) functionnality will be supported ? Is it possible to get and

Re: adjusting fonts in captions

2002-02-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:55:45 + wrote Al Niessner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 1) How do I define the paragraph after the caption to be "small" > standard rather than "no change" standard? Right now I have to go > through modify them one at a time by hand. Slow, error prone, and a real > pain. I no

Re: bounding box problem in eps file made from kontour prg

2002-02-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:02:43 -0500 wrote Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am using kontour 1.1 in KDE 2.2.2.-1 to produce eps figures. > Exporting them gives too much white space below the figure content. > > In the FAQ of the kontour help it says: > > > Question: > > > How c