Re: spelling in Lyx 1.4.3-5

2006-11-28 Thread LB
I have just installed lyx 1.4.3-5 on WinXP. However I can't get aspell to work. What I do is: 1. uninstall old Lyx 2. install new LyX - this creates aspell directory in c:\ 3. install aspell dictionaries 4. copy files from Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60 to Aspell\Dictionaries When I try checking

Re: lyx to word conversion

2006-11-28 Thread Juergen Fenn
"Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my case, PLoS genetics only accept MS Word submission and the > Scientific Publication department of our institution only accepts > manuscripts in Word format for proofread (so that they can use the > change tracking feature of word, although this feature

Re: lyx to word conversion

2006-11-28 Thread Bo Peng
I don't think this is a good idea. If you are supposed to provide MS Word format you should use MS Word or at least OOo for writing your paper. The point is that the TeX community has spent too little effort on converters. First, I get used to my ways (lable/ref, bibtex/cite, hyperref, external

alphabetic enumeration

2006-11-28 Thread Christian Kerst
Hi everybody, i know that sounds like a stupid question but I scanned the lyx help material and still could not find an answer. How do I change the type of enumeration within my document? This change should not apply for the whole document. I just would like to have small letters instead of or

Re: lyx to word conversion

2006-11-28 Thread Sven Schreiber
Juergen Fenn schrieb: > > I don't think this is a good idea. If you are supposed to provide MS > Word format you should use MS Word or at least OOo for writing your > paper. The point is that the TeX community has spent too little effort > on converters. > > Regards, > Jürgen. > "That's a bold

Re: lyx to word conversion

2006-11-28 Thread Bo Peng
I think there's hope that in the future people will rather require Open Doc Format files instead of Word. Then it would be great if Lyx could export ODF easily. Maybe the planned XML file format will help...? Lars seems to be doing XML privately and I have no idea what he has in mind. It is not

Re: alphabetic enumeration

2006-11-28 Thread Robert Neumann
Hello christian, just insert an ERT with \renewcommand\labelenumi{\alph{enumi})} if you want to set the counter back use \renewcommand\labelenumi{\arabic{enumi}.} Regards Robert

Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-28 Thread Robert Neumann
Hello, I had lyx 143 running on win xp and everything went fine. Now I reinstalled lyx (with all miktex and so on) because I rearranged my harddrive. If I now want to create a pdf of an existing file using ps2pdf, I get only a blank page. dvi and pdflatex works. Unfortunately I need ps2pdf... Obvi

Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Robert Neumann wrote: Hello, I had lyx 143 running on win xp and everything went fine. Now I reinstalled lyx (with all miktex and so on) because I rearranged my harddrive. If I now want to create a pdf of an existing file using ps2pdf, I get only a blank page. dvi and pdflatex works. Unfortunat

Re: spelling in Lyx 1.4.3-5

2006-11-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
LB wrote: I have just installed lyx 1.4.3-5 on WinXP. However I can't get aspell to work. What I do is: 1. uninstall old Lyx 2. install new LyX - this creates aspell directory in c:\ 3. install aspell dictionaries 4. copy files from Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60 to Aspell\Dictionaries When I tr

patricks-add Barchart

2006-11-28 Thread Jaime Díaz-Deus Fernández
Helo to all. I have problems with this code from the pstricks-add manual (pstricks-add-doc) and there are errors in the DVI wiew: \psset{xunit=.44cm,yunit=.3cm} \begin{pspicture}(-2,-3)(29,13) \psaxes[axesstyle=axes,0x=1466,0y=0,Dx=4,Dy=2,ylabelFactor={\,\%}{-}(29,12) \listplot[shadow=true,linecol

+/- symbol

2006-11-28 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi, How can I have the +/- symbol where the + is on top of the - symbol, reading plus or minus. For example, a standard deviation would have this sign. Tex code is fine. TIA. Hope that's clear. myriam

Re: +/- symbol

2006-11-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Myriam Abramson wrote: How can I have the +/- symbol where the + is on top of the - symbol, reading plus or minus. For example, a standard deviation would have this sign. Tex code is fine. Myriam, Use \pm (for plus-minus) in a LaTeX box (ERT). Rich -- Richard B. Shepa

Re: +/- symbol

2006-11-28 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Nov 28, 2006, at 6:49 PM, Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi, How can I have the +/- symbol where the + is on top of the - symbol, reading plus or minus. For example, a standard deviation would have this sign. Tex code is fine. TIA. Hope that's clear. myriam

Howto use default pdf preview in MacOS

2006-11-28 Thread Luqman H
hi, i'm using lyx 1.43 on MacOS intel when trying to preview PDF, it showing using Safari (Mac OS browser) instead of "Preview", the default pdf preview in MacOS X i've try to change pdfviewer from "auto" to /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview but it just not opening the pdf. Luqe.

Re: Howto use default pdf preview in MacOS

2006-11-28 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Nov 28, 2006, at 7:59 PM, Luqman H wrote: hi, i'm using lyx 1.43 on MacOS intel when trying to preview PDF, it showing using Safari (Mac OS browser) instead of "Preview", the default pdf preview in MacOS X i've try to change pdfviewer from "auto" to /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS

Re: Howto use default pdf preview in MacOS

2006-11-28 Thread Luqman H
2006/11/29, Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This may be a bit vague, but what you need to do is find the pdf file 'right click' select 'Get Info' and under the 'Open with' dialog select the program of your choice and then hit the 'Change All' button to apply it to all similar pdf files. Bob

Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-28 Thread Robert Neumann
> Check Tools->Preferences->Converters->Postscript->PDF (ps2pdf). The > converter is usually ps2pdf13, but I suppose it could be different in > your setup. Assuming it is, there should be a ps2pdf13.bat file in the > MikTeX bin directory (along with ps2pdfxx.bat and ps2pdfxx.exe). The convert