software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-16 Thread John Pye
Hi there, Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? In particular, I want to be able to generate 'chm' files for Windows, and DocBook XML for GNOME ('yelp' help browser). Is this something that other people on the li

Re: Creating an Index

2006-02-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Jack M. Lyon wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: the index is normally _not_ for documenting every occurence of some word. Amen. How about creating a real indexing feature for LyX that would allow users to index a document in the way Helge has described: I did it the other way around,

Re: Ling-TeX: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-16 Thread Stacia Hartleben
Sorry about the spam, but I figured out how to get simple trees from qtree working (I much prefer it to xytree, but I thought only that might work because of the xy library or something) Try a tree like this: \xymatrix{\text{\Tree[.S [.N This ] [.V is ] [.NP [.Det a ] [.N test ] ] ] } } and then h

TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-16 Thread Stacia Hartleben
Hi there! I was messing around after looking at this tutorial (http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XY-pic) on how to get XY pic to work on LyX and I got some limited tree support with xytree and TIPA working! Here's what you do. Install xytree and tipa packages. Then try some example things like this: \xyma

Re: LyX on Mac --Very first draft of a visual installation guide

2006-02-16 Thread Anders Ekberg
Thanks Christian, I will try to upload the pictures and add additional material (you're right, the example files could be good). I will also try to continue with instruction on how to add templates, etc. Unfortunately I'm locked up until the end of next week, so it may take some time. /An

Re: xforms needed question

2006-02-16 Thread Tom Poe
Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: "Jose' Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 3:57 PM Subject: Re: xforms needed question On Thursday 16 February 2006 22:52, Tom Poe wrote: I checked for xforms download, and ran into problems trying to loc

Re: Using XY packages

2006-02-16 Thread Stacia Hartleben
Wow, I actually did get it to work, which is sad since the support is going away in 1.4! For example: \xymatrix{& \xynode[-1,1]{S} \\ \xynode[0]{NP} & & \xytrinode{VP} \\ \xyterminal{It} & & \xyterminal{is raining} } Will display a small syntax tree. Awesome!! On 2/16/06, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL

Re: Using XY packages

2006-02-16 Thread Stephen Harris
- - Original Message - From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LyX Users" Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 4:13 PM Subject: Using XY packages I saw something about viewing XY figures in LyX and I got it to work. Can I get this to work with other packages that use XY, l

Re: Using XY packages

2006-02-16 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LyX Users" Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 4:13 PM Subject: Using XY packages I saw something about viewing XY figures in LyX and I got it to work. Can I get this to work with other packages that use XY, like th

Re: xforms needed question

2006-02-16 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Jose' Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 3:57 PM Subject: Re: xforms needed question On Thursday 16 February 2006 22:52, Tom Poe wrote: I checked for xforms download, and ran into problems trying to locate the proper file. T

Using XY packages

2006-02-16 Thread Stacia Hartleben
I saw something about viewing XY figures in LyX and I got it to work. Can I get this to work with other packages that use XY, like this one? http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xytree/ I couldn't seem to get that to work when I tried the "display equation" button.

Re: xforms needed question

2006-02-16 Thread Jose' Matos
On Thursday 16 February 2006 22:52, Tom Poe wrote: > I checked for xforms download, and ran into problems trying to locate > the proper file. The Redhat link for rpm, for example, gave me an error > message that it couldn't change ftp directory. Does anyone know where I > can download Xforms file

Re: xforms needed question

2006-02-16 Thread John Pye
Did you try http://apt.ling.li/rpms/lyx/ Works for me, although I use the Qt version. But the xforms file is there as well. JP Tom Poe wrote: I checked for xforms download, and ran into problems trying to locate the proper file. The Redhat link for rpm, for example, gave me an error messa

Re: side-by-side installation of 1.3.7 and 1.4.0

2006-02-16 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Nusret BALCI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:38 AM Subject: Re: side-by-side installation of 1.3.7 and 1.4.0 [OOPS, it went to Georg's private inbox :(. My apologies!] Thank you Georg. Well, I don't know whether that would b

Re: Creating an Index

2006-02-16 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Jack M. Lyon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Helge Hafting'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 7:39 AM Subject: RE: Creating an Index How about creating a real indexing feature for LyX that would allow users to index a document in the way

xforms needed question

2006-02-16 Thread Tom Poe
I checked for xforms download, and ran into problems trying to locate the proper file. The Redhat link for rpm, for example, gave me an error message that it couldn't change ftp directory. Does anyone know where I can download Xforms files? Or, should I try to use QT, and follow the INSTALL

Re: side-by-side installation of 1.3.7 and 1.4.0

2006-02-16 Thread Nusret BALCI
[OOPS, it went to Georg's private inbox :(. My apologies!] Thank you Georg. Well, I don't know whether that would be possible, but if Uwe could provide a windows installer capable of side-by-side installation (bundling a binary version built as Georg mentioned), that could be good for a transitio

Default behaviour of float

2006-02-16 Thread Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.)
Hi, Is there some way (e.g. in a .layout) to tell LyX to automatically center the contents of a float environment (image and caption)? Maarten

Re: side-by-side installation of 1.3.7 and 1.4.0

2006-02-16 Thread Georg Baum
Nusret BALCI wrote: > Hi all, > Will it be possible to install LyX 1.4 alongside 1.3.7 > when it's released? Thank you! Yes, this is possible if you install from source and use the --with-version-suffix switch of the configure script. Georg

Re: Creating an Index

2006-02-16 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Jack M. Lyon writes: > Helge Hafting wrote: > > the index is normally _not_ for documenting > > every occurence of some word. > How about creating a real indexing feature for LyX Yes, that would be great! Because we were doing an "index of persons" and (for better or worse) _wanted_ every menti

RE: Creating an Index

2006-02-16 Thread Jack M. Lyon
Helge Hafting wrote: > the index is normally _not_ for documenting > every occurence of some word. Amen. How about creating a real indexing feature for LyX that would allow users to index a document in the way Helge has described: > I did it the other way around, I > read the manuscript and ind

Re: lyx 1.4.0pre minor problems

2006-02-16 Thread Jose' Matos
On Thursday 16 February 2006 13:36, Marcelo Acuña wrote: > 4) I lost feature: in paragraph settings I can´t find > skip spaces for before and after. This feature was > present in 1.3.6. Hi Marcelo, this is present but elsewhere, search for Insert->Special Character->Vertical Space > (

side-by-side installation of 1.3.7 and 1.4.0

2006-02-16 Thread Nusret BALCI
Hi all, Will it be possible to install LyX 1.4 alongside 1.3.7 when it's released? Thank you! nusret __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Lyxpipe?

2006-02-16 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Matthias Schmidt wrote: > Hallo zusammen, Hello (this is an English writing list). > ich arbeite mich zur Zeit in Lyx auf Windwos XP ein. > > Diese Frage konnte ich auch über google etc. nicht für mich erklären: > was ist die Lyx-pipe? Basically, it's the interface which is used for communicati

lyx 1.4.0pre minor problems

2006-02-16 Thread Marcelo Acuña
hi, I have minor problems, they are: 1) cursor is too thin, is dificult to see. 2) repeat keyboard rate is too slow, (rest of aplication without changes, I only install lyx 1.4) 3) mouse wheel is to slow, I changed parameter in preferences but this no work ok. 4) I lost feature: in paragraph settin

Re: Lyxpipe?

2006-02-16 Thread Georg Baum
Matthias Schmidt wrote: > Hallo zusammen, > > ich arbeite mich zur Zeit in Lyx auf Windwos XP ein. The language of this list is englsh, so I'll answer in english. > Diese Frage konnte ich auch über google etc. nicht für mich erklären: > was ist die Lyx-pipe? Die wird gelegentlich erwähnt aber n

Re: I need workaround of encoding problem

2006-02-16 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> >I can't to use spellchecker. Accented letters > >and ñ, Ñ are not recognized by ispell, aspell. > Common problem for unicode users, because > lyx doesn't support unicode. That cause trouble > when the spellchekcer expects unicode while lyx > gives it iso8859 encoded text. > Here's what I do: >

Re: I need workaround of encoding problem

2006-02-16 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> > I can't to use spellchecker. Accented letters > > and ñ, Ñ are not recognized by ispell, aspell. > > I try to use ispell from command line but > > I can't said nothing to ispell about char > > enconding. > > aspell -c --encoding=iso8859-1 filename.lyx With this encoding are ok but this no wor

Lyxpipe?

2006-02-16 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Hallo zusammen, ich arbeite mich zur Zeit in Lyx auf Windwos XP ein. Diese Frage konnte ich auch über google etc. nicht für mich erklären: was ist die Lyx-pipe? Die wird gelegentlich erwähnt aber nirgends so richtig erklärt: Gibts das auch in Windows (hab ich) oder nur in Linux? Im Bibtex-Program

Re: Creating an Index

2006-02-16 Thread Helge Hafting
John O'Gorman wrote: I am embarking on creating an index for a manual of about 200 pages (written in LyX of course). I studied up all the advice I could find, and as a result set out to produce a list of all the unique words in the book. There are plenty of word you don't want to index. "Th