Re: Beamer troubles

2005-06-16 Thread samar
Hi I also had problems using Lyx with Beamer. Eventually I went for a mix of ERT and Lyx. Some things are just done much more easily in ERT. I have put a sample file on the wiki under the beamer window. If that works for you, you may care to use it as a template. Looking at Beamers

Problem with special characters

2005-06-16 Thread Kimmo Elo
Hi, since the KDE 3.4-3.4.1 update I have a problem with special characters with Lyx 1.3.5 in SuSE 9.2. Before that I could easily write e.g. or in Lyx, now there appear u and 'e instead. I have to use Lyx-code (\{u}) to get this chars straight. In all other programs (OO, Konsole etc.)

Abstract in 3 languages?

2005-06-16 Thread Jean-Claude Christnach
dear Lyxers, I have to provide an abstract for my resume in 3 different languages. I can use the abstract environment several times, but there must be another environment in between, but which one does provide only a blank skip? And what about the title of the abstract which would be three

Re: Beamer Presentation: Getting Blocks Properly Displayed

2005-06-16 Thread G. Milde
On 15.06.05, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: My goal is to have each title/itemized list as a separate block. If I do not indent the itemized lines, both chunks are preceeded by the block command and display in separate boxes. As soon as I specify itemized for the details, I lose

Re: Problem with special characters

2005-06-16 Thread Jose' Matos
On Thursday 16 June 2005 07:33, Kimmo Elo wrote: Hi, since the KDE 3.4-3.4.1 update I have a problem with special characters with Lyx 1.3.5 in SuSE 9.2. Before that I could easily write e.g. or in Lyx, now there appear u and 'e instead. I have to use Lyx-code (\{u}) to get this chars

A box over a sum

2005-06-16 Thread Nicolas Ferré
How would you obtain in math mode such a thing in lyx ? bla blibli \sum x I mean, the 2 words over the sum sign are one above the other, both centered. -- *** Dr. Nicolas Ferre' *** Laboratoire de Chimie Theorique et de Modelisation Moleculaire

Re: A box over a sum

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/16/05, Nicolas Ferr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would you obtain in math mode such a thing in lyx ? bla blibli \sum x I mean, the 2 words over the sum sign are one above the other, both centered. Nicolas: try the command \stackrel twice inside math mode. Paul

Re: A box over a sum

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/16/05, Nicolas Ferr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would you obtain in math mode such a thing in lyx ? bla blibli \sum x I mean, the 2 words over the sum sign are one above the other, both centered. Nicolas: try the command \stackrel twice inside math mode. Thanks,

Re: My versions won't control

2005-06-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:11:04 -0400 Matej Cepl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: As a sidenote: RCS has been (sort of) superseded by CVS a dozen years ago which in turn is in the process of being superseded by SVN as far as I can tell. Things might be bearable on a single-user

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-16 Thread Michael Wojcik
Brian Williams wrote: If it could deal with spaces in the user directory, surely it wouldn't need that restriction? The way I get around this is to map a local network drive (X:) to the Documents and Settings directory so as to avoid having to create yet another top level directory. Quick

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-16 Thread Rob S
Quick Windows tip: rather than mapping a local network drive, try subst, which is faster (operates directly at the filesystem level - no SMB generation and parsing, no transfers through the loopback interface), cleaner, and safer (no unnecessarily-shared directory). You can make the subst

missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi something seems to be missing on this box, since File-Export-PDF(LaTaX) is the only PDF export option - File-Export-PDF is missing (and that one supports change bars). what may i have forgotten to install? (linux/debian) best regards martin

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin A. Hansen wrote: hi something seems to be missing on this box, since File-Export-PDF(LaTaX) is the only PDF export option - File-Export-PDF is missing (and that one supports change bars). what may i have forgotten to install? (linux/debian) The conversion path is: lyx file - latex

Re: Beamer troubles

2005-06-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John O'Gorman wrote: I expect that the beamer.layout file is the problem. Does anyone know where to get the kosher version of this file for beamer? regards John O'Gorman The latest version of Beamer installs everything you need in the texmf tree. Install the latest Beamer, then look in

Re: lmodern, ae and missing fonts

2005-06-16 Thread Matej Cepl
Martijn Brouwer wrote: As far as I know type1 fonts (such as lmodern) scale just by multiplying the width and height by the same factor. The CM and EC fonts are scaled more subtle depending on the size. I assume that the lmodern fonts look the same as EC modern at all font sizes. How doest

known bug in beamer?

2005-06-16 Thread Fernando Gisbert Cervera
I don't know if this has been commented before, anyway, I expose it here. I am creating a presentation with the beamer class, and I have inserted a figure with insert graphics, but the path to the figure is relative. When I want to view the pdf with pdflatex, the pdflatex hangs. This does not

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Let's return this to the lyx-users list... On Thursday 16 June 2005 15:21, Martin wrote: i do have tetex-bin, and gs-common installed, which provides these. however, i only have: File-Export-PDF(dvipdfm) File-Export-PDF(pdflatex) there is no File-Export-PDF - which i have at my home box

Re: known bug in beamer?

2005-06-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Fernando Gisbert Cervera wrote: I don't know if this has been commented before, anyway, I expose it here. I am creating a presentation with the beamer class, and I have inserted a figure with insert graphics, but the path to the figure is relative. When I want to view the pdf with pdflatex,

Re: My versions won't control

2005-06-16 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Todd Denniston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | There may be no way in LyX to specify which one LyX uses, but as I just | confirmed with a LyX document I have under CVS, LyX knows how to interface | with CVS. I believe (have not looked in the LyX code) it makes the choice | of which VCS to use based

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Martin A. Hansen
i am aware of lyx way of finding things, however, i seem to missing something on my box, which was lost during a recent upgrade. i have now installed all sorts of pdf related stuff, recompiled lyx, restarted lyx and no ... still no File-Export-PDF and no File-Export-Postscript either ... ?

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i am aware of lyx way of finding things, however, i seem to missing something on my box, which was lost during a recent upgrade. i have now installed all sorts of pdf related stuff, recompiled lyx, restarted lyx and no ... still no

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Martin A. Hansen
yes m On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i am aware of lyx way of finding things, however, i seem to missing something on my box, which was lost during a recent upgrade. i have now installed all sorts of pdf

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/16/05, Martin A. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i am aware of lyx way of finding things, however, i seem to missing something on my box, which was lost during a

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Martin A. Hansen
It is m On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 07:42:32PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: On 6/16/05, Martin A. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i am aware of lyx way of finding things,

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Go to Edit | Preferences | Converters. Per Angus's first reply, you need the following converters: LaTeX - DVI (converter is latex $$i, with extra flag latex); DVI - Postscript (converter is dvips -o $$o $$i); Postscript - PDF (converter is ps2pdf13 $$i, on my system at least). Are all three

Beamer Presentation: Multi-slide Frames

2005-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
I have a couple of frames with content that spills over the bottom edge of the slide. According to the manual (page 43 ff), if I put the ERT, \allowframebreaks, as the first thing in a \frame title, the content will be apportioned among multiple pages but retain the same frame title. It

Re: Beamer Presentation: Multi-slide Frames

2005-06-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: I have a couple of frames with content that spills over the bottom edge of the slide. According to the manual (page 43 ff), if I put the ERT, \allowframebreaks, as the first thing in a \frame title, the content will be apportioned among multiple pages but retain the same

Re: Beamer Presentation: Multi-slide Frames

2005-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Insert in an ERT box at the start of the frame title [allowframebreaks] (minus the quotes). Note that (a) there's no command backslash and (b) it goes in square brackets, not braces. Paul, D'oh! Of course! It's an option to the \frame command.

Re: Beamer Presentation: Multi-slide Frames

2005-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Also, if I read the manual correctly, overlays are not allowed within multi-page frames. Paul, An interesting discovery: without pauses between the seven items they all fit comfortably on one slide. With pauses, they're spaced vertially apart and

beamerlyxexample1.lyx

2005-06-16 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! I started to use Beamer. I get this error with Beamer 3.05 and LyX 1.3.5 on the example file beamerlyxexample1.lyx provided with Beamer: Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `averagebackgroundcolor'. ...beamerexample!10!averagebackgroundcolor)} I do have xcolor installed in the texmf

Re: Beamer troubles

2005-06-16 Thread samar
Hi I also had problems using Lyx with Beamer. Eventually I went for a mix of ERT and Lyx. Some things are just done much more easily in ERT. I have put a sample file on the wiki under the beamer window. If that works for you, you may care to use it as a template. Looking at Beamers

Problem with special characters

2005-06-16 Thread Kimmo Elo
Hi, since the KDE 3.4-3.4.1 update I have a problem with special characters with Lyx 1.3.5 in SuSE 9.2. Before that I could easily write e.g. or in Lyx, now there appear u and 'e instead. I have to use Lyx-code (\{u}) to get this chars straight. In all other programs (OO, Konsole etc.)

Abstract in 3 languages?

2005-06-16 Thread Jean-Claude Christnach
dear Lyxers, I have to provide an abstract for my resume in 3 different languages. I can use the abstract environment several times, but there must be another environment in between, but which one does provide only a blank skip? And what about the title of the abstract which would be three

Re: Beamer Presentation: Getting Blocks Properly Displayed

2005-06-16 Thread G. Milde
On 15.06.05, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: My goal is to have each title/itemized list as a separate block. If I do not indent the itemized lines, both chunks are preceeded by the block command and display in separate boxes. As soon as I specify itemized for the details, I lose

Re: Problem with special characters

2005-06-16 Thread Jose' Matos
On Thursday 16 June 2005 07:33, Kimmo Elo wrote: Hi, since the KDE 3.4-3.4.1 update I have a problem with special characters with Lyx 1.3.5 in SuSE 9.2. Before that I could easily write e.g. or in Lyx, now there appear u and 'e instead. I have to use Lyx-code (\{u}) to get this chars

A box over a sum

2005-06-16 Thread Nicolas Ferré
How would you obtain in math mode such a thing in lyx ? bla blibli \sum x I mean, the 2 words over the sum sign are one above the other, both centered. -- *** Dr. Nicolas Ferre' *** Laboratoire de Chimie Theorique et de Modelisation Moleculaire

Re: A box over a sum

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/16/05, Nicolas Ferr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would you obtain in math mode such a thing in lyx ? bla blibli \sum x I mean, the 2 words over the sum sign are one above the other, both centered. Nicolas: try the command \stackrel twice inside math mode. Paul

Re: A box over a sum

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/16/05, Nicolas Ferr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would you obtain in math mode such a thing in lyx ? bla blibli \sum x I mean, the 2 words over the sum sign are one above the other, both centered. Nicolas: try the command \stackrel twice inside math mode. Thanks,

Re: My versions won't control

2005-06-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:11:04 -0400 Matej Cepl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: As a sidenote: RCS has been (sort of) superseded by CVS a dozen years ago which in turn is in the process of being superseded by SVN as far as I can tell. Things might be bearable on a single-user

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-16 Thread Michael Wojcik
Brian Williams wrote: If it could deal with spaces in the user directory, surely it wouldn't need that restriction? The way I get around this is to map a local network drive (X:) to the Documents and Settings directory so as to avoid having to create yet another top level directory. Quick

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-16 Thread Rob S
Quick Windows tip: rather than mapping a local network drive, try subst, which is faster (operates directly at the filesystem level - no SMB generation and parsing, no transfers through the loopback interface), cleaner, and safer (no unnecessarily-shared directory). You can make the subst

missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi something seems to be missing on this box, since File-Export-PDF(LaTaX) is the only PDF export option - File-Export-PDF is missing (and that one supports change bars). what may i have forgotten to install? (linux/debian) best regards martin

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin A. Hansen wrote: hi something seems to be missing on this box, since File-Export-PDF(LaTaX) is the only PDF export option - File-Export-PDF is missing (and that one supports change bars). what may i have forgotten to install? (linux/debian) The conversion path is: lyx file - latex

Re: Beamer troubles

2005-06-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John O'Gorman wrote: I expect that the beamer.layout file is the problem. Does anyone know where to get the kosher version of this file for beamer? regards John O'Gorman The latest version of Beamer installs everything you need in the texmf tree. Install the latest Beamer, then look in

Re: lmodern, ae and missing fonts

2005-06-16 Thread Matej Cepl
Martijn Brouwer wrote: As far as I know type1 fonts (such as lmodern) scale just by multiplying the width and height by the same factor. The CM and EC fonts are scaled more subtle depending on the size. I assume that the lmodern fonts look the same as EC modern at all font sizes. How doest

known bug in beamer?

2005-06-16 Thread Fernando Gisbert Cervera
I don't know if this has been commented before, anyway, I expose it here. I am creating a presentation with the beamer class, and I have inserted a figure with insert graphics, but the path to the figure is relative. When I want to view the pdf with pdflatex, the pdflatex hangs. This does not

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Let's return this to the lyx-users list... On Thursday 16 June 2005 15:21, Martin wrote: i do have tetex-bin, and gs-common installed, which provides these. however, i only have: File-Export-PDF(dvipdfm) File-Export-PDF(pdflatex) there is no File-Export-PDF - which i have at my home box

Re: known bug in beamer?

2005-06-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Fernando Gisbert Cervera wrote: I don't know if this has been commented before, anyway, I expose it here. I am creating a presentation with the beamer class, and I have inserted a figure with insert graphics, but the path to the figure is relative. When I want to view the pdf with pdflatex,

Re: My versions won't control

2005-06-16 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Todd Denniston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | There may be no way in LyX to specify which one LyX uses, but as I just | confirmed with a LyX document I have under CVS, LyX knows how to interface | with CVS. I believe (have not looked in the LyX code) it makes the choice | of which VCS to use based

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Martin A. Hansen
i am aware of lyx way of finding things, however, i seem to missing something on my box, which was lost during a recent upgrade. i have now installed all sorts of pdf related stuff, recompiled lyx, restarted lyx and no ... still no File-Export-PDF and no File-Export-Postscript either ... ?

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i am aware of lyx way of finding things, however, i seem to missing something on my box, which was lost during a recent upgrade. i have now installed all sorts of pdf related stuff, recompiled lyx, restarted lyx and no ... still no

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Martin A. Hansen
yes m On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i am aware of lyx way of finding things, however, i seem to missing something on my box, which was lost during a recent upgrade. i have now installed all sorts of pdf

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/16/05, Martin A. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i am aware of lyx way of finding things, however, i seem to missing something on my box, which was lost during a

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Martin A. Hansen
It is m On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 07:42:32PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: On 6/16/05, Martin A. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i am aware of lyx way of finding things,

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Go to Edit | Preferences | Converters. Per Angus's first reply, you need the following converters: LaTeX - DVI (converter is latex $$i, with extra flag latex); DVI - Postscript (converter is dvips -o $$o $$i); Postscript - PDF (converter is ps2pdf13 $$i, on my system at least). Are all three

Beamer Presentation: Multi-slide Frames

2005-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
I have a couple of frames with content that spills over the bottom edge of the slide. According to the manual (page 43 ff), if I put the ERT, \allowframebreaks, as the first thing in a \frame title, the content will be apportioned among multiple pages but retain the same frame title. It

Re: Beamer Presentation: Multi-slide Frames

2005-06-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: I have a couple of frames with content that spills over the bottom edge of the slide. According to the manual (page 43 ff), if I put the ERT, \allowframebreaks, as the first thing in a \frame title, the content will be apportioned among multiple pages but retain the same

Re: Beamer Presentation: Multi-slide Frames

2005-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Insert in an ERT box at the start of the frame title [allowframebreaks] (minus the quotes). Note that (a) there's no command backslash and (b) it goes in square brackets, not braces. Paul, D'oh! Of course! It's an option to the \frame command.

Re: Beamer Presentation: Multi-slide Frames

2005-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Also, if I read the manual correctly, overlays are not allowed within multi-page frames. Paul, An interesting discovery: without pauses between the seven items they all fit comfortably on one slide. With pauses, they're spaced vertially apart and

beamerlyxexample1.lyx

2005-06-16 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! I started to use Beamer. I get this error with Beamer 3.05 and LyX 1.3.5 on the example file beamerlyxexample1.lyx provided with Beamer: Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `averagebackgroundcolor'. ...beamerexample!10!averagebackgroundcolor)} I do have xcolor installed in the texmf

Re: Beamer troubles

2005-06-16 Thread samar
Hi I also had problems using Lyx with Beamer. Eventually I went for a mix of ERT and Lyx. Some things are just done much more easily in ERT. I have put a sample file on the wiki under the beamer window. If that works for you, you may care to use it as a template. Looking at Beamers

Problem with special characters

2005-06-16 Thread Kimmo Elo
Hi, since the KDE 3.4->3.4.1 update I have a problem with special characters with Lyx 1.3.5 in SuSE 9.2. Before that I could easily write e.g. ü or é in Lyx, now there appear "u and 'e instead. I have to use Lyx-code (\"{u}) to get this chars straight. In all other programs (OO, Konsole etc.)

Abstract in 3 languages?

2005-06-16 Thread Jean-Claude Christnach
dear Lyxers, I have to provide an abstract for my resume in 3 different languages. I can use the abstract environment several times, but there must be another environment in between, but which one does provide only a blank skip? And what about the title of the abstract which would be three

Re: Beamer Presentation: Getting Blocks Properly Displayed

2005-06-16 Thread G. Milde
On 15.06.05, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Rich Shepard wrote: > > > > My goal is to have each title/itemized list as a separate block. If > >I do not indent the itemized lines, both "chunks" are preceeded by the > >"block" command and display in separate boxes. As soon as I specify > >"itemized" for

Re: Problem with special characters

2005-06-16 Thread Jose' Matos
On Thursday 16 June 2005 07:33, Kimmo Elo wrote: > Hi, > > since the KDE 3.4->3.4.1 update I have a problem with special characters > with Lyx 1.3.5 in SuSE 9.2. Before that I could easily write e.g. ü or > é in Lyx, now there appear "u and 'e instead. I have to use Lyx-code > (\"{u}) to get this

A box over a sum

2005-06-16 Thread Nicolas Ferré
How would you obtain in math mode such a thing in lyx ? bla blibli \sum x I mean, the 2 words over the sum sign are one above the other, both centered. -- *** Dr. Nicolas Ferre' *** Laboratoire de Chimie Theorique et de Modelisation Moleculaire

Re: A box over a sum

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/16/05, Nicolas Ferré <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would you obtain in math mode such a thing in lyx ? > > bla >blibli > \sum x > > I mean, the 2 words over the sum sign are one above the other, both > centered. Nicolas: try the command \stackrel twice inside math mode.

Re: A box over a sum

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/16/05, Nicolas Ferré <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>How would you obtain in math mode such a thing in lyx ? > >> > >> bla > >> blibli > >>\sum x > >> > >>I mean, the 2 words over the sum sign are one above the other, both > >>centered. > > > > Nicolas: try the command \stackrel

Re: My versions won't control

2005-06-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:11:04 -0400 Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > As a sidenote: RCS has been (sort of) superseded by CVS a dozen years > > ago which in turn is in the process of being superseded by SVN as far > > as I can tell. Things might be bearable on a

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-16 Thread Michael Wojcik
Brian Williams wrote: If it could deal with spaces in the user directory, surely it wouldn't need that restriction? The way I get around this is to map a local network drive (X:) to the Documents and Settings directory so as to avoid having to create yet another top level directory. Quick

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-16 Thread Rob S
Quick Windows tip: rather than mapping a local network drive, try subst, which is faster (operates directly at the filesystem level - no SMB generation and parsing, no transfers through the loopback interface), cleaner, and safer (no unnecessarily-shared directory). You can make the subst

missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi something seems to be missing on this box, since File->Export->PDF(LaTaX) is the only PDF export option - File->Export->PDF is missing (and that one supports change bars). what may i have forgotten to install? (linux/debian) best regards martin

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin A. Hansen wrote: hi something seems to be missing on this box, since File->Export->PDF(LaTaX) is the only PDF export option - File->Export->PDF is missing (and that one supports change bars). what may i have forgotten to install? (linux/debian) The conversion path is: lyx file ->

Re: Beamer troubles

2005-06-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John O'Gorman wrote: I expect that the beamer.layout file is the problem. Does anyone know where to get the kosher version of this file for beamer? regards John O'Gorman The latest version of Beamer installs everything you need in the texmf tree. Install the latest Beamer, then look in

Re: lmodern, ae and missing fonts

2005-06-16 Thread Matej Cepl
Martijn Brouwer wrote: > As far as I know type1 fonts (such as lmodern) scale just by multiplying > the width and height by the same factor. The CM and EC fonts are scaled > more subtle depending on the size. I assume that the lmodern fonts > look the same as EC modern at all font sizes. How doest

known bug in beamer?

2005-06-16 Thread Fernando Gisbert Cervera
I don't know if this has been commented before, anyway, I expose it here. I am creating a presentation with the beamer class, and I have inserted a figure with insert graphics, but the path to the figure is relative. When I want to view the pdf with pdflatex, the pdflatex hangs. This does not

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Let's return this to the lyx-users list... On Thursday 16 June 2005 15:21, Martin wrote: > i do have tetex-bin, and gs-common installed, which provides these. > > however, i only have: > > File->Export->PDF(dvipdfm) > File->Export->PDF(pdflatex) > > there is no > File->Export->PDF - which i have

Re: known bug in beamer?

2005-06-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Fernando Gisbert Cervera wrote: > I don't know if this has been commented before, anyway, I expose it here. > I am creating a presentation with the beamer class, and I have inserted > a figure with insert graphics, but the path to the figure is relative. > When I want to view the pdf with

Re: My versions won't control

2005-06-16 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Todd Denniston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | There may be no way in LyX to specify which one LyX uses, but as I just | confirmed with a LyX document I have under CVS, LyX knows how to interface | with CVS. I believe (have not looked in the LyX code) it makes the choice | of which VCS to use

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Martin A. Hansen
i am aware of lyx way of finding things, however, i seem to missing something on my box, which was lost during a recent upgrade. i have now installed all sorts of pdf related stuff, recompiled lyx, restarted lyx and no ... still no File->Export->PDF and no File->Export->Postscript either

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > i am aware of lyx way of finding things, however, i seem to missing > something on my box, which was lost during a recent upgrade. i have now > installed all sorts of pdf related stuff, recompiled lyx, restarted lyx > and no ... > > > still no

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Martin A. Hansen
yes m On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > > i am aware of lyx way of finding things, however, i seem to missing > > something on my box, which was lost during a recent upgrade. i have now > > installed all sorts

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/16/05, Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > > > > i am aware of lyx way of finding things, however, i seem to missing > > > something on my box, which was

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Martin A. Hansen
It is m On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 07:42:32PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > On 6/16/05, Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes > > > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > > > > > > i am aware of lyx way

Re: missing Export PDF option

2005-06-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Go to Edit | Preferences | Converters. Per Angus's first reply, you need the following converters: LaTeX -> DVI (converter is latex $$i, with extra flag latex); DVI -> Postscript (converter is dvips -o $$o $$i); Postscript -> PDF (converter is ps2pdf13 $$i, on my system at least). Are all

Beamer Presentation: Multi-slide Frames

2005-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
I have a couple of frames with content that spills over the bottom edge of the slide. According to the manual (page 43 ff), if I put the ERT, \allowframebreaks, as the first thing in a \frame title, the content will be apportioned among multiple pages but retain the same frame title. It

Re: Beamer Presentation: Multi-slide Frames

2005-06-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: I have a couple of frames with content that spills over the bottom edge of the slide. According to the manual (page 43 ff), if I put the ERT, \allowframebreaks, as the first thing in a \frame title, the content will be apportioned among multiple pages but retain the same

Re: Beamer Presentation: Multi-slide Frames

2005-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Insert in an ERT box at the start of the frame title "[allowframebreaks]" (minus the quotes). Note that (a) there's no command backslash and (b) it goes in square brackets, not braces. Paul, D'oh! Of course! It's an option to the \frame command.

Re: Beamer Presentation: Multi-slide Frames

2005-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Also, if I read the manual correctly, overlays are not allowed within multi-page frames. Paul, An interesting discovery: without pauses between the seven items they all fit comfortably on one slide. With pauses, they're spaced vertially apart and

beamerlyxexample1.lyx

2005-06-16 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! I started to use Beamer. I get this error with Beamer 3.05 and LyX 1.3.5 on the example file beamerlyxexample1.lyx provided with Beamer: Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `averagebackgroundcolor'. ...beamerexample!10!averagebackgroundcolor)} I do have xcolor installed in the texmf