Re: Plain ol' LaTeX issues -- Thread End

2006-12-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:53:08 -0800 (PST) >>From: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: Plain ol' LaTeX issues -- Thread End >> >> My thanks to Jean-Pierre and Richard for the help. I have three files (one >>for the front, two for the back -- one landscape,

Re: [fix] Personal Dictionary not working

2006-12-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: One small problem remains: when I made the change, my personal dictionary ended up in C:\Aspell\Personal\ despite the path I gave LyX in Tools -> Preferences... -> Language settings -> Spellchecker -> Perosnal dictionary (C:\Documents and Settings\what a handome guy I

Re: Plain ol' LaTeX issues -- Thread End

2006-12-14 Thread Rich Shepard
My thanks to Jean-Pierre and Richard for the help. I have three files (one for the front, two for the back -- one landscape, one portrait) and won't have to go through this again the next time I need to print stock certificates. I'm still puzzled why 1) specifying landscape in the document's

Re: LyX Graphics Distorted

2006-12-14 Thread Fuad Tabba
You're right, it is a BMP file but the LaTeX code does not have an extension assocaited with te file. In LyX the file does have bmp as an extension, it's the LaTeX output which doesn't. Where do you suggest I add the "bmp"? I tried exporting it to LaTeX, adding the .bmp there and reimporting it wi

Re: LyX Graphics Distorted

2006-12-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Fuad Tabba wrote: It's (in the context of a figure):- \begin{figure} \includegraphics[keepaspectratio]{My-Graphics} \caption{\label{fig:-Graphics} Caption text.} \end{figure} That's what it should be (assuming the file name is correct), so the issue would seem to be with LaTeX (or the ima

Re: LyX Graphics Distorted

2006-12-14 Thread Fuad Tabba
It's (in the context of a figure):- \begin{figure} \includegraphics[keepaspectratio]{My-Graphics} \caption{\label{fig:-Graphics} Caption text.} \end{figure} On 12/15/06, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fuad Tabba wrote: > Maintain aspect ratio is checked; moreover, the original sho

Re: LyX Graphics Distorted

2006-12-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Fuad Tabba wrote: Maintain aspect ratio is checked; moreover, the original should fit comfortably within the page margins. As a matter of fact, LyX is scaling it up not down most of the time. At times other graphics are being scaled down even though they also fit comfortable within the page margi

Re: LyX Graphics Distorted

2006-12-14 Thread Fuad Tabba
Maintain aspect ratio is checked; moreover, the original should fit comfortably within the page margins. As a matter of fact, LyX is scaling it up not down most of the time. At times other graphics are being scaled down even though they also fit comfortable within the page margins. Thanks, /Fuad

Re: LyX Graphics Distorted

2006-12-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Fuad Tabba wrote: Thanks for your reply. The problem is when I use a different kind of scaling, say col% - if I set it to 100% then the graphic spans the whole column. Isn't there a way that images would go into the final output with their original dimentions - that no scaling gets done? Cheers

Re: LyX Graphics Distorted

2006-12-14 Thread Fuad Tabba
Thanks for your reply. The problem is when I use a different kind of scaling, say col% - if I set it to 100% then the graphic spans the whole column. Isn't there a way that images would go into the final output with their original dimentions - that no scaling gets done? Cheers, /Fuad On 12/15/0

Re: [fix] Personal Dictionary not working

2006-12-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Nicolás schrieb: I am using LyX 1.4.3-4 on Windows XP. I am not able to use the personal dictionary with Aspell. Words that I add while spellchecking are not recognized next time I run the spellcheker. There is a bug in the aspell.dll delivered with newer LyX1.4.3 builds f

Re: Lyx 1.5svn and pdflatex

2006-12-14 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 14 December 2006 7:19 pm, Guy Rutenberg wrote: > hi, > > I compiled from source lyx 1.5 from the svn. And discovered that pdflatex > is not a listed under the view menu or the file->export as default anymore > and one should add it himself (through setting dialog) if he wants to use > i

Re: Plain ol' LaTeX issues

2006-12-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Richard Heck wrote: You can also create your locate .dvipsrc and put this into it: o Just an "o" on an otherwise blank line. That essentially deletes the previous definition. Richard, Thank you. I've not had to futz with dvips before so all this is new to me. Rich

Re: Plain ol' LaTeX issues

2006-12-14 Thread Richard Heck
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Could be the .dvipsrc which has been changed, or the latex installation itself, in texmf-var/dvips/config ? In /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps: % How to print, maybe with lp instead lpr, etc. If commented-out, output

Lyx 1.5svn and pdflatex

2006-12-14 Thread Guy Rutenberg
hi, I compiled from source lyx 1.5 from the svn. And discovered that pdflatex is not a listed under the view menu or the file->export as default anymore and one should add it himself (through setting dialog) if he wants to use it. Does this reflect anything about pdflatex? Why they didn't list it

Re: Plain ol' LaTeX issues -- II

2006-12-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: dvips -t landscape -o foo.ps foo.dvi should do it. Jean-Pierre, Using 'dvips -t landscape foo.dvi' did the job ... except, it's upside down! You might create a ps landcscape viewer in the preferences. Hmm-m. Where do I learn to do this?

Re: Plain ol' LaTeX issues -- II

2006-12-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:00:21 -0800 (PST) >>From: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: Plain ol' LaTeX issues -- II >> [...] >>but, the output (in gv and xpdf) is in portrait orientation, cutting off the >>right side of the document and having too much room o

Re: Plain ol' LaTeX issues -- II

2006-12-14 Thread Rich Shepard
Well, now I cannot orient the paper in landscape mode despite that being in the preamble. The preamble begins with \documentclass[twoside,english]{article} \usepackage{palatino} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage{geometry} \geometry{verbose,landscape,letterpap

Re: Plain ol' LaTeX issues

2006-12-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:37:21 -0800 (PST) >>From: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: Plain ol' LaTeX issues >> >>On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: [...] Ta-da! >> >> In /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps: >> >>% How to print, maybe wi

Re: [announce] LyX150svn builds for Windows

2006-12-14 Thread killermike
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Under http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=11854 You can download a Win-installer that installs a LyX1.5.0svn development snapshot. Well done and thanks, to you and the rest of the team. I'm sure that this will serve as an early Christmas

Re: Plain ol' LaTeX issues

2006-12-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Could be the .dvipsrc which has been changed, or the latex installation itself, in texmf-var/dvips/config ? Jean-Pierre, Ta-da! In /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps: % How to print, maybe with lp instead lpr, etc. If commented-out,

Re: mini-buffer's showing and hding

2006-12-14 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 13 Dec, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:04:21AM -0600, Stefano Franchi wrote: Closing the minibuffer automatically is (would be) best for those of us with limited screen real estate. I only use LyX on a 12" powerbook, and every pixel is precious. Next to b

Re: Plain ol' LaTeX issues

2006-12-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:58:50 -0800 (PST) >>From: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: Plain ol' LaTeX issues >> >>On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Richard Heck wrote: [...] >> >> When I run dvips on the TeX-generated .dvi file it's immediately sent to >>lpr rather tha

Re: mini-buffer's showing and hding

2006-12-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:04:21AM -0600, Stefano Franchi wrote: > Closing the minibuffer automatically is (would be) best for those of us > with limited screen real estate. I only use LyX on a 12" powerbook, and > every pixel is precious. Next to best would be changing the behavior of > Alt-x t

Re: Plain ol' LaTeX issues

2006-12-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Richard Heck wrote: Sorry, I just meant make a blank line, which is what LaTeX interprets as a paragraph break. Richard, I realized that not only had I eliminated the paragraph breaks, but I needed to explicitly \setlength\textwidth{} and \setlength\textheight{}. That f

[fix] Personal Dictionary not working

2006-12-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicolás schrieb: I am using LyX 1.4.3-4 on Windows XP. I am not able to use the personal dictionary with Aspell. Words that I add while spellchecking are not recognized next time I run the spellcheker. There is a bug in the aspell.dll delivered with newer LyX1.4.3 builds for Windows. To fix

[announce] LyX150svn builds for Windows

2006-12-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Under http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=11854 You can download a Win-installer that installs a LyX1.5.0svn development snapshot. These LyX builds are for testers and for interested LyXers to see the new features. If you find crash bugs, please report t

Re: symplifying the menu

2006-12-14 Thread Richard Heck
Stefano Baroni wrote: Hi! Is there any way of customizing (especially: simplifying) LyX's very rich menu bar? For instance, I would always "view" my document using pdflatex, and I find it a little distracting that I have to choose among so many options (dvi, ps, several pdf's, etc.). First, a w

Re: LyX Graphics Distorted

2006-12-14 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Dec 13, 2006, at 9:04 PM, Fuad Tabba wrote: Hi, I'm using Lyx 1.4.3-4 for Windows. Anyway, when I insert add a graphic (bmp to be specific) it looks fine under the editor itself, however, all the outputs (dvi and pfd) the graphics are resized and distorted. I haven't changed any of th

Re: A satisfied customer

2006-12-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Danny" == Danny Holstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Danny> To all LyX developers; I want everyone to know how thankful I Danny> am of the effort you've all put into LyX. I know (first hand, Danny> actually) that when you put something out in the "Open" World, Danny> very few users will ack