I am back

2005-05-04 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi! After quite a long period I am back, now using lyx on Mac OS X. For some years on my Linux boxes I worked with emacs+auctex and TeXmacs, which is a really interesting software, but yet still with some drawbacks. The reason for me to use LyX again is quite simple. LyX just works on

Re: LyX XML Schema

2005-05-04 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 01:59, John O'Gorman wrote: Hi I've found the file lyxformat.dtd from the mail archives. No reference to Part, Chapter, Section, Subsection, etc. Are these to be instances of para? Probably not instances but attributes. At least such as it is now, that dtd AFAIR

Re: layout file for theorem environment with options

2005-05-04 Thread G. Milde
On 3.05.05, Gunnar wrote: Try, export to LaTeX and have a look. (And tell us about your findings.) There was not a single trace of the short-title in the latex file. I see. In my testing revealed, optional arguments only show up if the LatexType is command. * So one possibility is to use

strategy for writing a book

2005-05-04 Thread Gunnar
I need some advice. I'm trying to write a book, but I'm not quite sure about the layout that I wish to have for theorems,exercises, etc. Right now I use {\theorembodyfont{\upshape} \newtheorem{Theor}{Theorem}} but what if I want to have all the theorems in a colored frames, using the framed

flexible layout example

2005-05-04 Thread Staffan Ringbom
Hello, Have you wondered how to make a flexible layout which fits your needs? It is easeir than you think. the amsthm package is flexible and has the most you need, so why don't use it as your starting point. So I did. A simple copy and paste from the existing layouts can be used to create a

@ Angus Re: lyx preview on winXP

2005-05-04 Thread Michael Henschel
Hi Angus, however, I did not succeed getting the Tex to Lyx conversion to work. The instant preview seems to work. Now I'm confused. tex-lyx conversion is the process of generating a lyx document from some original latex source. What has that got to do with instant preview which generates a

Re: @ Angus Re: lyx preview on winXP

2005-05-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Michael Henschel wrote: in the original thread the error message posted looked very much like my error message. This was the original /PreviewLoader::startLoading() Consider installing the PyWin extension modules if you're irritated by windows a ppearing briefly. latex.exe failed to

footnote-help

2005-05-04 Thread Subir Singh Lamba
I am writing a document where besides the footnotes which contain information about the authors I want to put some text which is common to all the authors and hence requires no numbering. Is there some way to do it? thanks Subir

Re: flexible layout example

2005-05-04 Thread chr
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Staffan Ringbom wrote: Hello, Have you wondered how to make a flexible layout which fits your needs? It is easeir than you think. the amsthm package is flexible and has the most you need, so why don't use it as your starting point. So I did. A simple copy and paste

Re: @ Angus Re: lyx preview on winXP

2005-05-04 Thread Michael Henschel
However, when I try to import latex documents I get the message: /Reading LaTeX command syntax (diplom1.tex: Splitting Preamble Creating LyX preamble Reading layout file Cleaning... Translating... Writing... ) Deleting temp files Finished successfully! Buffer::Buffer() Assigning to buffer 0

Re: @ Angus Re: lyx preview on winXP

2005-05-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Michael Henschel wrote: Don't you have to remove the extension for \input ? I suspect that you'll get greater joy if you rename your file as makros.tex (in the latex file too). Just some ideas. No success unfortunately. However, there is a difference when I write \input {} This makes no

Re: What is beamer?

2005-05-04 Thread Charles de Miramon
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, What is beamer? SteveT If you ever used Harvard Graphics, it is more or less the same philosophy. The LyX interface is very clunky, I found it easier to write my presentation directly in LaTeX. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

List of tables, figres, and footnotes for article submission

2005-05-04 Thread Leonid Belostotski
Hello, I'm submitting an article to IEEE Circuits and Systems. The submission instructions require separate pages with all footnotes, all figure captions (complete, including Fig X. in front of the caption but not including the page number). Is it possible to accomplish this? What I would

Re: What is beamer?

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 5/4/05, Charles de Miramon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is beamer? If you ever used Harvard Graphics, it is more or less the same philosophy. The LyX interface is very clunky, I found it easier to write my presentation directly in LaTeX. I have used both ways (LaTeX directly and LyX)

graphic issues

2005-05-04 Thread Rich Drewes
I have a full-page size graphic for the scanned signature page that I wish to include as a page in my thesis. I place it in my lyx doc as a graphic, however the output pdf and dvi always has my image-page graphic starting at about mid page and flowing off the page to the right. Thinking that I

Re: What is beamer?

2005-05-04 Thread samar
Thanks Paul Subject: Re: What is beamer? On 5/4/05, Charles de Miramon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is beamer? If you ever used Harvard Graphics, it is more or less the same philosophy. The LyX interface is very clunky, I found it easier to write my presentation directly in LaTeX. I have used

notes in footnotes?

2005-05-04 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi, My author has notes inside her footnotes reminding her to verify references, archive information, etc., but it seems to me that if I leave them there (we are migrating a book from Word to Lyx that she won't be able to easily find them using the navigation menu. Am I doing something wrong

Graphics on Float Figures

2005-05-04 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm new to Lyx. I have just created a Figure Float and put a Graphic on it, but when I try to render it to DVI, I get a LaTeX error, well, two in fact. This is the first error: - --- Paragraph ended before [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Graphics on Float Figures

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Pupeno wrote: Hello, I'm new to Lyx. I have just created a Figure Float and put a Graphic on it, but when I try to render it to DVI, I get a LaTeX error, well, two in fact. probably because you are trying to put the graphic as the caption. to get around this, insert - float - figure then press

Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-04 Thread Meri Williams
Hi I'm getting some really random bibliography behaviour. In the Layout - Document menu, I've chosen to use Natbib, in the Author-Year cite style. Then, where I've added my Bibliography at the end of the document, I've selected the format as apalike. This worked fine until today -- my citations

I am back

2005-05-04 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi! After quite a long period I am back, now using lyx on Mac OS X. For some years on my Linux boxes I worked with emacs+auctex and TeXmacs, which is a really interesting software, but yet still with some drawbacks. The reason for me to use LyX again is quite simple. LyX just works on

Re: LyX XML Schema

2005-05-04 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 01:59, John O'Gorman wrote: Hi I've found the file lyxformat.dtd from the mail archives. No reference to Part, Chapter, Section, Subsection, etc. Are these to be instances of para? Probably not instances but attributes. At least such as it is now, that dtd AFAIR

Re: layout file for theorem environment with options

2005-05-04 Thread G. Milde
On 3.05.05, Gunnar wrote: Try, export to LaTeX and have a look. (And tell us about your findings.) There was not a single trace of the short-title in the latex file. I see. In my testing revealed, optional arguments only show up if the LatexType is command. * So one possibility is to use

strategy for writing a book

2005-05-04 Thread Gunnar
I need some advice. I'm trying to write a book, but I'm not quite sure about the layout that I wish to have for theorems,exercises, etc. Right now I use {\theorembodyfont{\upshape} \newtheorem{Theor}{Theorem}} but what if I want to have all the theorems in a colored frames, using the framed

flexible layout example

2005-05-04 Thread Staffan Ringbom
Hello, Have you wondered how to make a flexible layout which fits your needs? It is easeir than you think. the amsthm package is flexible and has the most you need, so why don't use it as your starting point. So I did. A simple copy and paste from the existing layouts can be used to create a

@ Angus Re: lyx preview on winXP

2005-05-04 Thread Michael Henschel
Hi Angus, however, I did not succeed getting the Tex to Lyx conversion to work. The instant preview seems to work. Now I'm confused. tex-lyx conversion is the process of generating a lyx document from some original latex source. What has that got to do with instant preview which generates a

Re: @ Angus Re: lyx preview on winXP

2005-05-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Michael Henschel wrote: in the original thread the error message posted looked very much like my error message. This was the original /PreviewLoader::startLoading() Consider installing the PyWin extension modules if you're irritated by windows a ppearing briefly. latex.exe failed to

footnote-help

2005-05-04 Thread Subir Singh Lamba
I am writing a document where besides the footnotes which contain information about the authors I want to put some text which is common to all the authors and hence requires no numbering. Is there some way to do it? thanks Subir

Re: flexible layout example

2005-05-04 Thread chr
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Staffan Ringbom wrote: Hello, Have you wondered how to make a flexible layout which fits your needs? It is easeir than you think. the amsthm package is flexible and has the most you need, so why don't use it as your starting point. So I did. A simple copy and paste

Re: @ Angus Re: lyx preview on winXP

2005-05-04 Thread Michael Henschel
However, when I try to import latex documents I get the message: /Reading LaTeX command syntax (diplom1.tex: Splitting Preamble Creating LyX preamble Reading layout file Cleaning... Translating... Writing... ) Deleting temp files Finished successfully! Buffer::Buffer() Assigning to buffer 0

Re: @ Angus Re: lyx preview on winXP

2005-05-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Michael Henschel wrote: Don't you have to remove the extension for \input ? I suspect that you'll get greater joy if you rename your file as makros.tex (in the latex file too). Just some ideas. No success unfortunately. However, there is a difference when I write \input {} This makes no

Re: What is beamer?

2005-05-04 Thread Charles de Miramon
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, What is beamer? SteveT If you ever used Harvard Graphics, it is more or less the same philosophy. The LyX interface is very clunky, I found it easier to write my presentation directly in LaTeX. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

List of tables, figres, and footnotes for article submission

2005-05-04 Thread Leonid Belostotski
Hello, I'm submitting an article to IEEE Circuits and Systems. The submission instructions require separate pages with all footnotes, all figure captions (complete, including Fig X. in front of the caption but not including the page number). Is it possible to accomplish this? What I would

Re: What is beamer?

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 5/4/05, Charles de Miramon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is beamer? If you ever used Harvard Graphics, it is more or less the same philosophy. The LyX interface is very clunky, I found it easier to write my presentation directly in LaTeX. I have used both ways (LaTeX directly and LyX)

graphic issues

2005-05-04 Thread Rich Drewes
I have a full-page size graphic for the scanned signature page that I wish to include as a page in my thesis. I place it in my lyx doc as a graphic, however the output pdf and dvi always has my image-page graphic starting at about mid page and flowing off the page to the right. Thinking that I

Re: What is beamer?

2005-05-04 Thread samar
Thanks Paul Subject: Re: What is beamer? On 5/4/05, Charles de Miramon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is beamer? If you ever used Harvard Graphics, it is more or less the same philosophy. The LyX interface is very clunky, I found it easier to write my presentation directly in LaTeX. I have used

notes in footnotes?

2005-05-04 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi, My author has notes inside her footnotes reminding her to verify references, archive information, etc., but it seems to me that if I leave them there (we are migrating a book from Word to Lyx that she won't be able to easily find them using the navigation menu. Am I doing something wrong

Graphics on Float Figures

2005-05-04 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm new to Lyx. I have just created a Figure Float and put a Graphic on it, but when I try to render it to DVI, I get a LaTeX error, well, two in fact. This is the first error: - --- Paragraph ended before [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Graphics on Float Figures

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Pupeno wrote: Hello, I'm new to Lyx. I have just created a Figure Float and put a Graphic on it, but when I try to render it to DVI, I get a LaTeX error, well, two in fact. probably because you are trying to put the graphic as the caption. to get around this, insert - float - figure then press

Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-04 Thread Meri Williams
Hi I'm getting some really random bibliography behaviour. In the Layout - Document menu, I've chosen to use Natbib, in the Author-Year cite style. Then, where I've added my Bibliography at the end of the document, I've selected the format as apalike. This worked fine until today -- my citations

I am back

2005-05-04 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi! After quite a long period I am back, now using lyx on Mac OS X. For some years on my Linux boxes I worked with emacs+auctex and TeXmacs, which is a really interesting software, but yet still with some drawbacks. The reason for me to use LyX again is quite simple. LyX just works on

Re: LyX XML Schema

2005-05-04 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 01:59, John O'Gorman wrote: > Hi > > I've found the file lyxformat.dtd from the mail archives. > > No reference to Part, Chapter, Section, Subsection, etc. > > Are these to be instances of para? Probably not instances but attributes. At least such as it is now, that

Re: layout file for theorem environment with options

2005-05-04 Thread G. Milde
On 3.05.05, Gunnar wrote: > > Try, export to LaTeX and have a look. > > (And tell us about your findings.) > There was not a single trace of the short-title in the latex file. I see. In my testing revealed, optional arguments only show up if the LatexType is "command". * So one possibility is

strategy for writing a book

2005-05-04 Thread Gunnar
I need some advice. I'm trying to write a book, but I'm not quite sure about the layout that I wish to have for theorems,exercises, etc. Right now I use {\theorembodyfont{\upshape} \newtheorem{Theor}{Theorem}} but what if I want to have all the theorems in a colored frames, using the framed

flexible layout example

2005-05-04 Thread Staffan Ringbom
Hello, Have you wondered how to make a flexible layout which fits your needs? It is easeir than you think. the amsthm package is flexible and has the most you need, so why don't use it as your starting point. So I did. A simple copy and paste from the existing layouts can be used to create a

@ Angus Re: lyx preview on winXP

2005-05-04 Thread Michael Henschel
Hi Angus, however, I did not succeed getting the Tex to Lyx conversion to work. The instant preview seems to work. Now I'm confused. tex->lyx conversion is the process of generating a lyx document from some original latex source. What has that got to do with "instant preview" which

Re: @ Angus Re: lyx preview on winXP

2005-05-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Michael Henschel wrote: > in the original thread the error message posted looked very much like my > error message. This was the original > > /PreviewLoader::startLoading() > Consider installing the PyWin extension modules if you're irritated by > windows a > ppearing briefly. > latex.exe failed

footnote-help

2005-05-04 Thread Subir Singh Lamba
I am writing a document where besides the footnotes which contain information about the authors I want to put some text which is common to all the authors and hence requires no numbering. Is there some way to do it? thanks Subir

Re: flexible layout example

2005-05-04 Thread chr
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Staffan Ringbom wrote: > Hello, > > Have you wondered how to make a flexible layout which fits your > needs? It is easeir than you think. the amsthm package is flexible and > has the most you need, so why don't use it as your starting point. So > I did. A simple copy and

Re: @ Angus Re: lyx preview on winXP

2005-05-04 Thread Michael Henschel
However, when I try to import latex documents I get the message: /Reading LaTeX command syntax (diplom1.tex: Splitting Preamble Creating LyX preamble Reading layout file Cleaning... Translating... Writing... ) Deleting temp files Finished successfully! Buffer::Buffer() Assigning to buffer 0

Re: @ Angus Re: lyx preview on winXP

2005-05-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Michael Henschel wrote: >>Don't you have to remove the extension for \input ? I suspect that you'll >>get greater joy if you rename your file as makros.tex (in the latex file >>too). >> >>Just some ideas. > No success unfortunately. However, there is a difference when I write > \input {} > >

Re: What is beamer?

2005-05-04 Thread Charles de Miramon
Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > What is beamer? > > SteveT > If you ever used Harvard Graphics, it is more or less the same philosophy. The LyX interface is very clunky, I found it easier to write my presentation directly in LaTeX. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

List of tables, figres, and footnotes for article submission

2005-05-04 Thread Leonid Belostotski
Hello, I'm submitting an article to IEEE Circuits and Systems. The submission instructions require separate pages with all footnotes, all figure captions (complete, including Fig X. in front of the caption but not including the page number). Is it possible to accomplish this? What I would

Re: What is beamer?

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 5/4/05, Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is beamer? > > If you ever used Harvard Graphics, it is more or less the same philosophy. > The LyX interface is very clunky, I found it easier to write my > presentation directly in LaTeX. I have used both ways (LaTeX directly

graphic issues

2005-05-04 Thread Rich Drewes
I have a full-page size graphic for the scanned signature page that I wish to include as a page in my thesis. I place it in my lyx doc as a graphic, however the output pdf and dvi always has my image-page graphic starting at about mid page and flowing off the page to the right. Thinking that I

Re: What is beamer?

2005-05-04 Thread samar
Thanks Paul Subject: Re: What is beamer? On 5/4/05, Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is beamer? If you ever used Harvard Graphics, it is more or less the same philosophy. The LyX interface is very clunky, I found it easier to write my presentation directly in LaTeX. I have used

notes in footnotes?

2005-05-04 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi, My author has notes inside her footnotes reminding her to verify references, archive information, etc., but it seems to me that if I leave them there (we are migrating a book from Word to Lyx that she won't be able to easily find them using the navigation menu. Am I doing something wrong

Graphics on Float Figures

2005-05-04 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm new to Lyx. I have just created a Figure Float and put a Graphic on it, but when I try to render it to DVI, I get a LaTeX error, well, two in fact. This is the first error: - --- Paragraph ended before [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Graphics on Float Figures

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Pupeno wrote: > Hello, I'm new to Lyx. I have just created a Figure Float and put a Graphic on it, but when I try to render it to DVI, I get a LaTeX error, well, two in fact. probably because you are trying to put the graphic as the caption. to get around this, "insert -> float -> figure" then

Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-04 Thread Meri Williams
Hi I'm getting some really random bibliography behaviour. In the Layout -> Document menu, I've chosen to use Natbib, in the Author-Year cite style. Then, where I've added my Bibliography at the end of the document, I've selected the format as apalike. This worked fine until today -- my