Re: section headings - a long shot

2002-09-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:39:26AM +0800, Rod Pinna wrote: Less drastic solution is to export to LaTeX, make changes there (which is quite simple in any reasonable text editor) and then reimport into LyX. Even easier is to simply edit the .lyx file, rather than exporting to latex.

Re: section headings - a long shot

2002-09-26 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:39:26AM +0800, Rod Pinna wrote: Less drastic solution is to export to LaTeX, make changes there (which is quite simple in any reasonable text editor) and then reimport into LyX. Even easier is to simply edit the .lyx file, rather than exporting to latex.

Problems with lyx installation on Debian woody

2002-09-26 Thread sebastien hugues
Hello, I've just installed the latest debian, also named as woody, on my powerbook lombard and i have some troubles with lyx installation. I launch lyx and a few seconds later, it crashes with this error : SIGSEGV signal caught ... I have checked the version of libc, latex and lyx

authors and adresses

2002-09-26 Thread Trond SAUE
I am writing a paper with 4 authors and 2 adresses and I am trying to put this together correctly. Ideally I want to have authors 1 and 3 associated with adress 1 and authors 2 and 4 associated with adress 2, but I can also settle for having authors 1 and 2 associated with adress 1 etc. How

Help me install lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Toth Imre
Hi All! I want install lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3. I download lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm from ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.2.1. yoda# rpm -ivh --test lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: libforms.so.0.88 is need by lyx-1.2.1-1 libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is need by lyx-1.2.1-1 I'm sad. O.K. I

Re: Trying to use lyx 1.2.1, getting nowhere fast ...

2002-09-26 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 04:11:03PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: Lots of things don't work. Can't use the ieeetrans template, or the aa template, or in fact most of the templates -- unkown textclass. so I use the linuxdoc_article template, but if I put in figure floats, or table floats,

Re: Problems with lyx installation on Debian woody

2002-09-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:23:16AM +0200, sebastien hugues wrote: I've just installed the latest debian, also named as woody, on my powerbook lombard and i have some troubles with lyx installation. I launch lyx and a few seconds later, it crashes with this error : SIGSEGV signal caught

Re: hello! BibTeX style packages LyX information request

2002-09-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 08:26:13PM +0100, Carlo F. wrote: I'm quite new to BibteX file and Style files. Using Bibview I can produce bib-file and import them in Lyx. My problem is that I would You can try using a more recent tool like gbib or pybliographic. 1) How can I properly install

Backgroung image on first page only

2002-09-26 Thread Ragnar Beer
Howdy! I read Herbert Voss' Lyx tip on how to put a background image on every page in a text. My problem: I need the background image only on page one of a letter (koma-script). Does anybody know how to get it only there and not on the other pages? Cheers, Ragnar

Re: Backgroung image on first page only

2002-09-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:55:55PM +0200, Ragnar Beer wrote: I read Herbert Voss' Lyx tip on how to put a background image on every page in a text. My problem: I need the background image only on page one of a letter (koma-script). Does anybody know how to get it only there and not on the

Re: Trying to use lyx 1.2.1, getting nowhere fast ...

2002-09-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 04:11:03PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: Lots of things don't work. Can't use the ieeetrans template, or the aa template, or in fact most of the templates -- unkown textclass. The IEEEtran.cls file is usually not installed by default. You can get it from

Re: Trying to use lyx 1.2.1, getting nowhere fast ...

2002-09-26 Thread Ronald G Minnich
I'll try edit-reconfigure. I realized at some point I was being stupid, I had to get it out of (SGML) document formats and things got a lot better. Over all this is a very nice lyx, I'm impressed with the new features. Are tables in SGML just out of the question? ron

Re: Backgroung image on first page only

2002-09-26 Thread Ragnar Beer
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:56:10 +0300 Dekel Tsur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:55:55PM +0200, Ragnar Beer wrote: I read Herbert Voss' Lyx tip on how to put a background image on every page in a text. My problem: I need the background image only on page one of a letter

Re: Trying to use lyx 1.2.1, getting nowhere fast ...

2002-09-26 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Thursday 26 September 2002 14:37, Ronald G Minnich wrote: Are tables in SGML just out of the question? You are referring to linuxdoc that is a dtd described by SGML, such as html or docbook. Now regarding the table question in linuxdoc. I have seen the description in the dtd, but I

problems with latex2rtf

2002-09-26 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. I'm trying to use latex2rtf to convert a lyx document to rtf (so that I can send it to folks who use MS Word).. I'm getting a bunch of errors: Warning line=4 Unknown style option ae ignored Warning line=5 Unknown style option aecompl ignored Warning line=6 Unknown style option fontenc

Re: problems with latex2rtf

2002-09-26 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:14:25AM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: Warning line=4 Unknown style option ae ignored What you've posted are all warnings partly on things you'd probably never need. Did rtf2latex fail in the end? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain

Re: Help me install lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Bo Peng
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:21:20PM +, Toth Imre wrote: Hi All! I want install lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3. I download lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm from ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.2.1. yoda# rpm -ivh --test lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: libforms.so.0.88 is need by lyx-1.2.1-1

which version of kernel should I use?

2002-09-26 Thread Luiz T. F. Eleno
I am on the act of installing the Debian distribuition on my i686. Before that, however, I must know what kernel version to use: do lyx 1.1.6, 1.2.0 or 1.2.1 run well under 2.4 kernel, or there are known problems and I should keep the 2.2.2 kernel in order to avoid problems with lyx? It is

header problem

2002-09-26 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Could somebody help? I can´t find the notes I once made re this problem If needed, I would send a minimal lyx file including the preamble This is the layout of my book (twocolumn, fancyheader) Titlepage Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables %here begins text, which should in the

Re: problems with latex2rtf

2002-09-26 Thread Nirmal Govind
What you've posted are all warnings partly on things you'd probably never need. Did rtf2latex fail in the end? No, latex2rtf did not fail but I can't open the rtf file generated.. at least not in abiword.. never mind, I just tried OpenOffice and it opened the rtf file and the output is just

Re: Problems with lyx installation on Debian woody

2002-09-26 Thread Sébastien Taylor
I'm making a debian package for the lyx-1.2.1, when it's done, you can build the package on your powerbook if you want (I use macosx on my mac, and my debian box is x86). sebastien hugues a écrit: Hello, I've just installed the latest debian, also named as woody, on my powerbook lombard

Re: Help me install lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Sébastien Taylor
Hello, as was mentioned by someone else, you should try the source rpm. You'll need the dev tools from redhat (should be installed) then, as root, type 'rpm --rebuild lyx-1.2.1-1.src.rpm' and go make yourself some tea. When you come back, assuming it finished correctly, you'll find you rpm

Re: which version of kernel should I use?

2002-09-26 Thread Sébastien Taylor
The latest stable kernel will be fine. Luiz T. F. Eleno a écrit: I am on the act of installing the Debian distribuition on my i686. Before that, however, I must know what kernel version to use: do lyx 1.1.6, 1.2.0 or 1.2.1 run well under 2.4 kernel, or there are known problems and I should keep

Re: problems with latex2rtf

2002-09-26 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Thursday 26 September 2002 18:12, Nirmal Govind wrote: No, latex2rtf did not fail but I can't open the rtf file generated.. at least not in abiword.. never mind, I just tried OpenOffice and it opened the rtf file and the output is just as it looks in lyx.. Are you sure that abiword opens

Re: problems with latex2rtf

2002-09-26 Thread Nirmal Govind
Are you sure that abiword opens rtf? I don't think so. A smaller program to ope rtf files is Ted http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/ Hmm.. I just checked the Open dialog of abiword and under the list of extensions to open as, it does have RTF.. Well, something interesting - I opened the rtf

Dash attached

2002-09-26 Thread chamanga
Hi, I am writting a comorian dictionary (bantu language) and I note verbs or adjectives by preceding the term by a dash (-) (ex: -renga to take, -zuri beautiful). I am trying to figure out how to keep the dash attached to the beginning of the word. The software (lyx) automatically separates

Re: Dash attached

2002-09-26 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Hi Chamanga, use LaTeX mode (ERT) \mbox{-renga} Regards, Jürgen. chamanga wrote: I am writting a comorian dictionary (bantu language) and I note verbs or adjectives by preceding the term by a dash (-) (ex: -renga to take, -zuri beautiful). I am trying to figure out how to keep the dash

Re: problems with latex2rtf

2002-09-26 Thread Paul Tremblay
Are you sure that abiword opens rtf? I don't think so. A smaller program to ope rtf files is Ted http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/ Hmm.. I just checked the Open dialog of abiword and under the list of extensions to open as, it does have RTF.. Well, something interesting - I opened

possible feature - long shot but still..

2002-09-26 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. I was wondering if anyone's thought of implementing a revisions/changes tracker in LyX? So for e.g., if someone sends me a Lyx (Latex) file, then I open (import) it in Lyx, and the changes that I make are tracked so that after I make all my changes, when I view the output, there'll be some

Re: possible feature - long shot but still..

2002-09-26 Thread Ralph P. Boland
I think this would be a great idea. It would be great in terms of updating lyx documentation for instance. Anybody finding a bug or in the documentation or updating the documentation should be able to make changes and send the file back. The documentation maintainer ideally would be able to

installing lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Matthew Kelly
Hello, I tried to rebuild the source RPM on Redhat 7.3 as instructed. (rpm --rebuild lyx-1.2.1-1.src.rpm) However the rebuild did not work the following error message was generated; g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../src -I../../../images -I../../../src/ -I../../../src/frontends/

installing lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Matthew Kelly
Dear all, I hope this helps any redhat users out there. I eventually managed to get lyx 1.2.1 running on redhat 7.3. I am definitely not an expert on linux, redhat ect so if there is anything wrong or dangerous with the following suggestions please point them out before i cause major damage to

Re: installing lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On 27 Sep 2002, Matthew Kelly wrote: I then uninstalled xforms-0.89-5 and replaced it with xforms-0.88-4 Good move! However the good news is that recompiling the source code (generated during rpm --rebuild lyx-1.2.1-1.src.rpm) using ./configure and ./make worked once xforms-0.88-4 was

Re: section headings - a long shot

2002-09-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:39:26AM +0800, Rod Pinna wrote: Less drastic solution is to export to LaTeX, make changes there (which is quite simple in any reasonable text editor) and then reimport into LyX. Even easier is to simply edit the .lyx file, rather than exporting to latex.

Re: section headings - a long shot

2002-09-26 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:39:26AM +0800, Rod Pinna wrote: Less drastic solution is to export to LaTeX, make changes there (which is quite simple in any reasonable text editor) and then reimport into LyX. Even easier is to simply edit the .lyx file, rather than exporting to latex.

Problems with lyx installation on Debian woody

2002-09-26 Thread sebastien hugues
Hello, I've just installed the latest debian, also named as woody, on my powerbook lombard and i have some troubles with lyx installation. I launch lyx and a few seconds later, it crashes with this error : SIGSEGV signal caught ... I have checked the version of libc, latex and lyx

authors and adresses

2002-09-26 Thread Trond SAUE
I am writing a paper with 4 authors and 2 adresses and I am trying to put this together correctly. Ideally I want to have authors 1 and 3 associated with adress 1 and authors 2 and 4 associated with adress 2, but I can also settle for having authors 1 and 2 associated with adress 1 etc. How

Help me install lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Toth Imre
Hi All! I want install lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3. I download lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm from ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.2.1. yoda# rpm -ivh --test lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: libforms.so.0.88 is need by lyx-1.2.1-1 libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is need by lyx-1.2.1-1 I'm sad. O.K. I

Re: Trying to use lyx 1.2.1, getting nowhere fast ...

2002-09-26 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 04:11:03PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: Lots of things don't work. Can't use the ieeetrans template, or the aa template, or in fact most of the templates -- unkown textclass. so I use the linuxdoc_article template, but if I put in figure floats, or table floats,

Re: Problems with lyx installation on Debian woody

2002-09-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:23:16AM +0200, sebastien hugues wrote: I've just installed the latest debian, also named as woody, on my powerbook lombard and i have some troubles with lyx installation. I launch lyx and a few seconds later, it crashes with this error : SIGSEGV signal caught

Re: hello! BibTeX style packages LyX information request

2002-09-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 08:26:13PM +0100, Carlo F. wrote: I'm quite new to BibteX file and Style files. Using Bibview I can produce bib-file and import them in Lyx. My problem is that I would You can try using a more recent tool like gbib or pybliographic. 1) How can I properly install

Backgroung image on first page only

2002-09-26 Thread Ragnar Beer
Howdy! I read Herbert Voss' Lyx tip on how to put a background image on every page in a text. My problem: I need the background image only on page one of a letter (koma-script). Does anybody know how to get it only there and not on the other pages? Cheers, Ragnar

Re: Backgroung image on first page only

2002-09-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:55:55PM +0200, Ragnar Beer wrote: I read Herbert Voss' Lyx tip on how to put a background image on every page in a text. My problem: I need the background image only on page one of a letter (koma-script). Does anybody know how to get it only there and not on the

Re: Trying to use lyx 1.2.1, getting nowhere fast ...

2002-09-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 04:11:03PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: Lots of things don't work. Can't use the ieeetrans template, or the aa template, or in fact most of the templates -- unkown textclass. The IEEEtran.cls file is usually not installed by default. You can get it from

Re: Trying to use lyx 1.2.1, getting nowhere fast ...

2002-09-26 Thread Ronald G Minnich
I'll try edit-reconfigure. I realized at some point I was being stupid, I had to get it out of (SGML) document formats and things got a lot better. Over all this is a very nice lyx, I'm impressed with the new features. Are tables in SGML just out of the question? ron

Re: Backgroung image on first page only

2002-09-26 Thread Ragnar Beer
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:56:10 +0300 Dekel Tsur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:55:55PM +0200, Ragnar Beer wrote: I read Herbert Voss' Lyx tip on how to put a background image on every page in a text. My problem: I need the background image only on page one of a letter

Re: Trying to use lyx 1.2.1, getting nowhere fast ...

2002-09-26 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Thursday 26 September 2002 14:37, Ronald G Minnich wrote: Are tables in SGML just out of the question? You are referring to linuxdoc that is a dtd described by SGML, such as html or docbook. Now regarding the table question in linuxdoc. I have seen the description in the dtd, but I

problems with latex2rtf

2002-09-26 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. I'm trying to use latex2rtf to convert a lyx document to rtf (so that I can send it to folks who use MS Word).. I'm getting a bunch of errors: Warning line=4 Unknown style option ae ignored Warning line=5 Unknown style option aecompl ignored Warning line=6 Unknown style option fontenc

Re: problems with latex2rtf

2002-09-26 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:14:25AM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: Warning line=4 Unknown style option ae ignored What you've posted are all warnings partly on things you'd probably never need. Did rtf2latex fail in the end? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain

Re: Help me install lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Bo Peng
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:21:20PM +, Toth Imre wrote: Hi All! I want install lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3. I download lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm from ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.2.1. yoda# rpm -ivh --test lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: libforms.so.0.88 is need by lyx-1.2.1-1

which version of kernel should I use?

2002-09-26 Thread Luiz T. F. Eleno
I am on the act of installing the Debian distribuition on my i686. Before that, however, I must know what kernel version to use: do lyx 1.1.6, 1.2.0 or 1.2.1 run well under 2.4 kernel, or there are known problems and I should keep the 2.2.2 kernel in order to avoid problems with lyx? It is

header problem

2002-09-26 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Could somebody help? I can´t find the notes I once made re this problem If needed, I would send a minimal lyx file including the preamble This is the layout of my book (twocolumn, fancyheader) Titlepage Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables %here begins text, which should in the

Re: problems with latex2rtf

2002-09-26 Thread Nirmal Govind
What you've posted are all warnings partly on things you'd probably never need. Did rtf2latex fail in the end? No, latex2rtf did not fail but I can't open the rtf file generated.. at least not in abiword.. never mind, I just tried OpenOffice and it opened the rtf file and the output is just

Re: Problems with lyx installation on Debian woody

2002-09-26 Thread Sébastien Taylor
I'm making a debian package for the lyx-1.2.1, when it's done, you can build the package on your powerbook if you want (I use macosx on my mac, and my debian box is x86). sebastien hugues a écrit: Hello, I've just installed the latest debian, also named as woody, on my powerbook lombard

Re: Help me install lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Sébastien Taylor
Hello, as was mentioned by someone else, you should try the source rpm. You'll need the dev tools from redhat (should be installed) then, as root, type 'rpm --rebuild lyx-1.2.1-1.src.rpm' and go make yourself some tea. When you come back, assuming it finished correctly, you'll find you rpm

Re: which version of kernel should I use?

2002-09-26 Thread Sébastien Taylor
The latest stable kernel will be fine. Luiz T. F. Eleno a écrit: I am on the act of installing the Debian distribuition on my i686. Before that, however, I must know what kernel version to use: do lyx 1.1.6, 1.2.0 or 1.2.1 run well under 2.4 kernel, or there are known problems and I should keep

Re: problems with latex2rtf

2002-09-26 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Thursday 26 September 2002 18:12, Nirmal Govind wrote: No, latex2rtf did not fail but I can't open the rtf file generated.. at least not in abiword.. never mind, I just tried OpenOffice and it opened the rtf file and the output is just as it looks in lyx.. Are you sure that abiword opens

Re: problems with latex2rtf

2002-09-26 Thread Nirmal Govind
Are you sure that abiword opens rtf? I don't think so. A smaller program to ope rtf files is Ted http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/ Hmm.. I just checked the Open dialog of abiword and under the list of extensions to open as, it does have RTF.. Well, something interesting - I opened the rtf

Dash attached

2002-09-26 Thread chamanga
Hi, I am writting a comorian dictionary (bantu language) and I note verbs or adjectives by preceding the term by a dash (-) (ex: -renga to take, -zuri beautiful). I am trying to figure out how to keep the dash attached to the beginning of the word. The software (lyx) automatically separates

Re: Dash attached

2002-09-26 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Hi Chamanga, use LaTeX mode (ERT) \mbox{-renga} Regards, Jürgen. chamanga wrote: I am writting a comorian dictionary (bantu language) and I note verbs or adjectives by preceding the term by a dash (-) (ex: -renga to take, -zuri beautiful). I am trying to figure out how to keep the dash

Re: problems with latex2rtf

2002-09-26 Thread Paul Tremblay
Are you sure that abiword opens rtf? I don't think so. A smaller program to ope rtf files is Ted http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/ Hmm.. I just checked the Open dialog of abiword and under the list of extensions to open as, it does have RTF.. Well, something interesting - I opened

possible feature - long shot but still..

2002-09-26 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. I was wondering if anyone's thought of implementing a revisions/changes tracker in LyX? So for e.g., if someone sends me a Lyx (Latex) file, then I open (import) it in Lyx, and the changes that I make are tracked so that after I make all my changes, when I view the output, there'll be some

Re: possible feature - long shot but still..

2002-09-26 Thread Ralph P. Boland
I think this would be a great idea. It would be great in terms of updating lyx documentation for instance. Anybody finding a bug or in the documentation or updating the documentation should be able to make changes and send the file back. The documentation maintainer ideally would be able to

installing lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Matthew Kelly
Hello, I tried to rebuild the source RPM on Redhat 7.3 as instructed. (rpm --rebuild lyx-1.2.1-1.src.rpm) However the rebuild did not work the following error message was generated; g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../src -I../../../images -I../../../src/ -I../../../src/frontends/

installing lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Matthew Kelly
Dear all, I hope this helps any redhat users out there. I eventually managed to get lyx 1.2.1 running on redhat 7.3. I am definitely not an expert on linux, redhat ect so if there is anything wrong or dangerous with the following suggestions please point them out before i cause major damage to

Re: installing lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On 27 Sep 2002, Matthew Kelly wrote: I then uninstalled xforms-0.89-5 and replaced it with xforms-0.88-4 Good move! However the good news is that recompiling the source code (generated during rpm --rebuild lyx-1.2.1-1.src.rpm) using ./configure and ./make worked once xforms-0.88-4 was

Re: section headings - a long shot

2002-09-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:39:26AM +0800, Rod Pinna wrote: > > > > Less drastic solution is to export to LaTeX, make changes there > > (which is quite simple in any reasonable text editor) and then > > reimport into LyX. > > Even easier is to simply edit the .lyx file, rather than exporting to

Re: section headings - a long shot

2002-09-26 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:39:26AM +0800, Rod Pinna wrote: > > > > Less drastic solution is to export to LaTeX, make changes there > > (which is quite simple in any reasonable text editor) and then > > reimport into LyX. > > Even easier is to simply edit the .lyx file, rather than exporting to

Problems with lyx installation on Debian woody

2002-09-26 Thread sebastien hugues
Hello, I've just installed the latest debian, also named as woody, on my powerbook lombard and i have some troubles with lyx installation. I launch lyx and a few seconds later, it crashes with this error : SIGSEGV signal caught ... I have checked the version of libc, latex and lyx

authors and adresses

2002-09-26 Thread Trond SAUE
I am writing a paper with 4 authors and 2 adresses and I am trying to put this together correctly. Ideally I want to have authors 1 and 3 associated with adress 1 and authors 2 and 4 associated with adress 2, but I can also settle for having authors 1 and 2 associated with adress 1 etc. How

Help me install lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Toth Imre
Hi All! I want install lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3. I download lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm from ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.2.1. yoda# rpm -ivh --test lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: libforms.so.0.88 is need by lyx-1.2.1-1 libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is need by lyx-1.2.1-1 I'm sad. O.K. I

Re: Trying to use lyx 1.2.1, getting nowhere fast ...

2002-09-26 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 04:11:03PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > Lots of things don't work. Can't use the ieeetrans template, or the aa > template, or in fact most of the templates -- "unkown textclass". > > so I use the linuxdoc_article template, but if I put in figure floats, or > table

Re: Problems with lyx installation on Debian woody

2002-09-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:23:16AM +0200, sebastien hugues wrote: > I've just installed the latest debian, also named as woody, on my > powerbook lombard and > i have some troubles with lyx installation. I launch lyx and a few > seconds later, > it crashes with this error : SIGSEGV signal

Re: hello! BibTeX style packages & LyX information request

2002-09-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 08:26:13PM +0100, Carlo F. wrote: > I'm quite new to BibteX file and Style files. Using Bibview I can > produce bib-file and import them in Lyx. My problem is that I would You can try using a more recent tool like gbib or pybliographic. > 1) How can I properly install

Backgroung image on first page only

2002-09-26 Thread Ragnar Beer
Howdy! I read Herbert Voss' Lyx tip on how to put a background image on every page in a text. My problem: I need the background image only on page one of a letter (koma-script). Does anybody know how to get it only there and not on the other pages? Cheers, Ragnar

Re: Backgroung image on first page only

2002-09-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:55:55PM +0200, Ragnar Beer wrote: > I read Herbert Voss' Lyx tip on how to put a background image on every > page in a text. My problem: I need the background image only on page one > of a letter (koma-script). Does anybody know how to get it only there and > not on the

Re: Trying to use lyx 1.2.1, getting nowhere fast ...

2002-09-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 04:11:03PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > Lots of things don't work. Can't use the ieeetrans template, or the aa > template, or in fact most of the templates -- "unkown textclass". The IEEEtran.cls file is usually not installed by default. You can get it from

Re: Trying to use lyx 1.2.1, getting nowhere fast ...

2002-09-26 Thread Ronald G Minnich
I'll try edit->reconfigure. I realized at some point I was being stupid, I had to get it out of (SGML) document formats and things got a lot better. Over all this is a very nice lyx, I'm impressed with the new features. Are tables in SGML just out of the question? ron

Re: Backgroung image on first page only

2002-09-26 Thread Ragnar Beer
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:56:10 +0300 Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:55:55PM +0200, Ragnar Beer wrote: > > I read Herbert Voss' Lyx tip on how to put a background image on every > > page in a text. My problem: I need the background image only on page > > one of a

Re: Trying to use lyx 1.2.1, getting nowhere fast ...

2002-09-26 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Thursday 26 September 2002 14:37, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > Are tables in SGML just out of the question? You are referring to linuxdoc that is a dtd described by SGML, such as html or docbook. Now regarding the table question in linuxdoc. I have seen the description in the dtd, but I

problems with latex2rtf

2002-09-26 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. I'm trying to use latex2rtf to convert a lyx document to rtf (so that I can send it to folks who use MS Word).. I'm getting a bunch of errors: Warning line=4 Unknown style option ae ignored Warning line=5 Unknown style option aecompl ignored Warning line=6 Unknown style option fontenc

Re: problems with latex2rtf

2002-09-26 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:14:25AM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Warning line=4 Unknown style option ae ignored What you've posted are all warnings partly on things you'd probably never need. Did rtf2latex fail in the end? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain

Re: Help me install lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Bo Peng
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:21:20PM +, Toth Imre wrote: > Hi All! > I want install lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3. I download > lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm from ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.2.1. > yoda# rpm -ivh --test lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm > error: failed dependencies: > libforms.so.0.88 is need by

which version of kernel should I use?

2002-09-26 Thread Luiz T. F. Eleno
I am on the act of installing the Debian distribuition on my i686. Before that, however, I must know what kernel version to use: do lyx 1.1.6, 1.2.0 or 1.2.1 run well under 2.4 kernel, or there are known problems and I should keep the 2.2.2 kernel in order to avoid problems with lyx? It is

header problem

2002-09-26 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Could somebody help? I can´t find the notes I once made re this problem If needed, I would send a minimal lyx file including the preamble This is the layout of my book (twocolumn, fancyheader) Titlepage Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables %here begins text, which should in the

Re: problems with latex2rtf

2002-09-26 Thread Nirmal Govind
> What you've posted are all warnings partly on things you'd probably > never need. Did rtf2latex fail in the end? > No, latex2rtf did not fail but I can't open the rtf file generated.. at least not in abiword.. never mind, I just tried OpenOffice and it opened the rtf file and the output is

Re: Problems with lyx installation on Debian woody

2002-09-26 Thread Sébastien Taylor
I'm making a debian package for the lyx-1.2.1, when it's done, you can build the package on your powerbook if you want (I use macosx on my mac, and my debian box is x86). sebastien hugues a écrit: > Hello, > > I've just installed the latest debian, also named as woody, on my > powerbook

Re: Help me install lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Sébastien Taylor
Hello, as was mentioned by someone else, you should try the source rpm. You'll need the dev tools from redhat (should be installed) then, as root, type 'rpm --rebuild lyx-1.2.1-1.src.rpm' and go make yourself some tea. When you come back, assuming it finished correctly, you'll find you rpm

Re: which version of kernel should I use?

2002-09-26 Thread Sébastien Taylor
The latest stable kernel will be fine. Luiz T. F. Eleno a écrit: >I am on the act of installing the Debian distribuition on my i686. >Before that, however, I must know what kernel version to use: do lyx >1.1.6, 1.2.0 or 1.2.1 run well under 2.4 kernel, or there are known >problems and I should

Re: problems with latex2rtf

2002-09-26 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Thursday 26 September 2002 18:12, Nirmal Govind wrote: > No, latex2rtf did not fail but I can't open the rtf file generated.. at > least not in abiword.. never mind, I just tried OpenOffice and it opened > the rtf file and the output is just as it looks in lyx.. Are you sure that abiword

Re: problems with latex2rtf

2002-09-26 Thread Nirmal Govind
> Are you sure that abiword opens rtf? I don't think so. A smaller > program to > ope rtf files is Ted http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/ Hmm.. I just checked the "Open" dialog of abiword and under the list of extensions to open as, it does have RTF.. Well, something interesting - I opened the

Dash attached

2002-09-26 Thread chamanga
Hi, I am writting a comorian dictionary (bantu language) and I note verbs or adjectives by preceding the term by a dash (-) (ex: -renga "to take", -zuri "beautiful"). I am trying to figure out how to keep the dash attached to the beginning of the word. The software (lyx) automatically

Re: Dash attached

2002-09-26 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Hi Chamanga, use LaTeX mode (ERT) \mbox{-renga} Regards, Jürgen. chamanga wrote: > I am writting a comorian dictionary (bantu language) and I note verbs or > adjectives by preceding the term by a dash (-) (ex: -renga "to take", -zuri > "beautiful"). I am trying to figure out how to keep the

Re: problems with latex2rtf

2002-09-26 Thread Paul Tremblay
> > > > > Are you sure that abiword opens rtf? I don't think so. A smaller > > program to > > ope rtf files is Ted http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/ > > Hmm.. I just checked the "Open" dialog of abiword and under the list of > extensions to open as, it does have RTF.. > > Well, something

possible feature - long shot but still..

2002-09-26 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. I was wondering if anyone's thought of implementing a revisions/changes tracker in LyX? So for e.g., if someone sends me a Lyx (Latex) file, then I open (import) it in Lyx, and the changes that I make are "tracked" so that after I make all my changes, when I view the output, there'll be some

Re: possible feature - long shot but still..

2002-09-26 Thread Ralph P. Boland
I think this would be a great idea. It would be great in terms of updating lyx documentation for instance. Anybody finding a bug or in the documentation or updating the documentation should be able to make changes and send the file back. The documentation maintainer ideally would be able to

installing lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Matthew Kelly
Hello, I tried to rebuild the source RPM on Redhat 7.3 as instructed. (rpm --rebuild lyx-1.2.1-1.src.rpm) However the rebuild did not work the following error message was generated; g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../src -I../../../images -I../../../src/ -I../../../src/frontends/

installing lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Matthew Kelly
Dear all, I hope this helps any redhat users out there. I eventually managed to get lyx 1.2.1 running on redhat 7.3. I am definitely not an expert on linux, redhat ect so if there is anything wrong or dangerous with the following suggestions please point them out before i cause major damage to

Re: installing lyx-1.2.1-1 on RedHat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On 27 Sep 2002, Matthew Kelly wrote: > I then uninstalled xforms-0.89-5 and replaced it with xforms-0.88-4 Good move! > However the good news is that recompiling the source code (generated > during rpm --rebuild lyx-1.2.1-1.src.rpm) using > ./configure and ./make worked once xforms-0.88-4