problems with accents (II)

2004-06-08 Thread Stefano Baroni
Dear All: it seems to me that there are some serious problems with accents in LyX. At least with the aqua version for mac that I have 1) Yesterday I reported that I cannot input characters with accent from an us keyboard. " " simply does not seem to work. For example, "` a" produces "à" on any

LyX Win32 installation problem

2004-06-08 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before installing LyX and I verified t

Re: Placing Images inside of Tables

2004-06-08 Thread G. Milde
On 8.06.04, Vaclav Smidl wrote: > On Tuesday 08 June 2004 08:25, Matthew McKay wrote: > > > > I am trying to place images inside of a table, however whenever I do so > > the text in the other columns always starts in line with the bottom of the > > image. This is TeX default behaviour, top

Re: Re: \hyphenation

2004-06-08 Thread G. Milde
On 8.06.04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The other problem concerns breaking up small words like \"also\": while it > might be logically correct ... > Is there a way to stop hypenathion for those small words? If you use the \sloppy command (in ERT or preamble?), LaTeX is not so fuzzy about int

Re: font encoding lyx mistery

2004-06-08 Thread Charlls Quarra
I add two semi-minimal examples of a well encoded .lyx file and a bad encoded one. Note that both display correctly encoded characters when viewed directly with vi, but they look screwed in badenc.lyx Im totally inept to find a difference between the headers of both files :-( --- Charlls Qua

font encoding lyx mistery

2004-06-08 Thread Charlls Quarra
i copied from a german document to my spanish document, before doing the copy exporting the document to latex would produce transición but now it produces transiciÃ\ensuremath{³}n not to mention that it looks screwd up also in the lyx window. I tried verifying that Layout->Document->Langua

changing font family on the fly

2004-06-08 Thread Fred Nastos
Is it possible to switch between the font families on-the-fly, or do I need to always use Layout->Character->Family? I would like to be able to switch between Roman and Typewriter font families. Thanks

Re: page sharing between figure floats and text [oops!]

2004-06-08 Thread Charlls Quarra
Oops! i tried adding the same structure of your example to my book document, ie: ERT \begin{titlepage} stuff ERT \end{titlepage} the rest of the stuff but it wont compile giving errors related to "\begin{document} being closed by a \end{center}.\begin{center}\end{center}" (???) dont hav

Re: page sharing between figure floats and text

2004-06-08 Thread Charlls Quarra
--- "G. Milde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On 7.06.04, Charlls Quarra wrote: > > --- "G. Milde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have a look at the attached example too :-) > Your example works really nice, thanks a lot :) But i cannot find a way to insert the \align center lyx commands fro

Re: Can't edit Wiki page

2004-06-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Aarrgh! Just went through it again. I tried to post a paragraph to the Instant Preview page. I can edit, I can preview the change, but I can't save it. (The browser goes off on a coffee break, then comes back and says the return page is empty.) More interspersed below ... Christian Ridders

Re: SSlightly OT: ghostscript error when trying to print

2004-06-08 Thread Russell W. Behne
Yesterday at 06:26, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Russell W. Behne wrote: > > This is /etc/printcap, even though I don't think that's the problem: > > # This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the > > # /etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file > >

RE: RE: Re: \hyphenation

2004-06-08 Thread peter.may
Hi, > I have defined a global file lexikon.tex, which I have saved where TeX can > find it (texmf tree). Then I \\input{lexikon} in the preamble. That souns really interesting! Thanks I will try it this way. > > > Especially as I do have a \\\"master\\\" document with front-,main- and > > backm

<< instead of "

2004-06-08 Thread Harold Mouras
Hello, how ca I insert in a Lyx document a symbol << (in french) instead of " for english. THnks in advance, Harold - Harold Mouras Doctorant/ATER Université Paris 5 Inserm U483 Boite 23 9, quai Saint Bernard 75005 Paris Téléphone : +33 1 4

Re: LyX kills X

2004-06-08 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Mon, 7 Jun 2004, the wise Marc Jeffrey Driftmeyer entered: On Monday 07 June 2004 01:23 pm, Marco Beishuizen wrote: You mentioned you are using XFree86 4.4.0. What is your display driver? I'm using a Matrox G450 PCI and it uses the mga driver of Xfree86-4.4.0. Have you checked the XFree

Re: compose key on mac os

2004-06-08 Thread Bennett Helm
Hi! I am a new LyX user. On Mac OS X (10.3.4, US intl keuboard) I am not able to enter accents the way I am used to on any other application (i.e. ` a for "à", for instance. Can anybody let me know how to persuade LyX to accept as a "regular" modifier? Thank you in advance - Stefano I don't ha

compose key on mac os

2004-06-08 Thread Stefano Baroni
Hi! I am a new LyX user. On Mac OS X (10.3.4, US intl keuboard) I am not able to enter accents the way I am used to on any other application (i.e. ` a for "à", for instance. Can anybody let me know how to persuade LyX to accept as a "regular" modifier? Thank you in advance - Stefano --- Stefa

Re: Placing Images inside of Tables

2004-06-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Vaclav Smidl wrote: > What you are looking for is "Vertical alignment" which is (a bit > contra-intuitively) in the group with "Column Width". It is grayed-out by > default. If you specify width of your columns (e.g. 50 col%), you can > select vertical alignment. Another qu

RE: Re: \hyphenation

2004-06-08 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I do have a set of problems: first \"political corrected\" person- > definitions: > eg. instead of \"Probanden\" -> \"ProbandInnen\" > This is a common method to change male-\"endings\" of a word into a > \"plural-femal\" version... -> I have manually set the hyphenation

Re: page sharing between figure floats and text

2004-06-08 Thread G. Milde
On 7.06.04, Charlls Quarra wrote: > --- "G. Milde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What happens if you put the eps graphic inset directly into the title > > paragraph? > > > > layout title: insert>Graphik logo.eps > > [Ctrl-Return] > >University of my Town >

Re: Placing Images inside of Tables

2004-06-08 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 08:25, Matthew McKay wrote: > Hey, > > I am trying to place images inside of a table, however whenever I do so > the text in the other columns always starts in line with the bottom of the > image. I have tried placing the image inside a float and then into a cell > bu

Re: Placing Images inside of Tables

2004-06-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Matthew McKay wrote: > Any suggestions on how to get images into tables looking right? I think you need to define 'right'. How would you like things to appear? -- Angus

Placing Images inside of Tables

2004-06-08 Thread Matthew McKay
Hey, I am trying to place images inside of a table, however whenever I do so the text in the other columns always starts in line with the bottom of the image. I have tried placing the image inside a float and then into a cell but then lyx compiles with errors and doesn't like to have a fl

Re: trouble with margins and saving (strange behaviours)

2004-06-08 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Matthew" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> I am really not sure what is going wrong here. I have my Matthew> thesis in Lyx and have suddenly noticed the following strange Matthew> behaviour and am not really sure where to start sorting it Matthew> out. I cannot seem to save my maste