Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

2006-12-19 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:36:14 -0500 David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:02:07 +1100 Russell Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have used the binaries made by the LyX Deb team when I ran Debian and they are 100% reliable. Thanks guys! Now I am Ubuntu-Dapper

F7 (Spellchecker) makes lyx-1.3.7 chrash

2006-12-19 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi list, i'm using lyx-1.3.7 on my gentoo-linux system on an IBM Lenovo T60 laptop. In wahtever situation iI am in lyx pressing F7 to start the spell checker makes lyx crash. Since i called lyx from the command line i got the attached crash information. Any idea what's happening? Greetings

Re: The spell-checker detects typos but no suggestions window

2006-12-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 12/18/06, José Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The spell-checker detects typos but never any window with replacements suggestion is shown. I am using LyX 1.4.3 installed from the official repositories on Fedora Core 6, and aspell-en-6.0-2.1 is installed. Any ideas? Here, with the same

Re: Special case of enumerate

2006-12-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 12/18/06, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get the following special case of enumerate: - A1. The first item; A2. The second item; A3. The third item; Here, there is some standard text and then enumerate again. A4. The fourth

Problem with bibliography and hyperref

2006-12-19 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi I have a problem with the hyperref package and a bibtex bibliography (elsart-harv.bst) and urls (see attached screenshot). I already set breaklinks=true, but the URLs in the bibliography are still longer then one line. Any ideas? (below please find my preamble) Any help appreciated,

Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

2006-12-19 Thread Richard Kleeman
Russell Davie wrote: Not yet. Ubuntu does have various levels, but it means to upgrade to something like Deb-unstable and comes with all the cutting edge flakiness as a bonus! No thanks, I sort out how to do a proper package soon. Russell Well I am using edgy and I see little flakiness.

Re: Special case of enumerate

2006-12-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 12/19/06, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get the following special case of enumerate: - A1. The first item; A2. The second item; A3. The third item; Here, there is some standard text and then enumerate again. A4. The

Update to: [announce] LyX150svn builds for Windows

2006-12-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXTesters, I published a new version with LyX1.5.0svn from 18-12-2006: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=11890 I fixed some bugs and changed a lot in the installer, here's the changelog:

LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel?

2006-12-19 Thread Gerard A. Ateshian
Has anyone compiled LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel? If so, would you make it available? Thanks, Gerard Ateshian

Re: LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel?

2006-12-19 Thread Nicolás
Why use LyX 1.3.7 when you have a much powerful version available: 1.4.3? http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac Nicolás Gerard A. Ateshian wrote: Has anyone compiled LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel? If so, would you make it available? Thanks, Gerard Ateshian

One-third Horizontal Rule

2006-12-19 Thread Bruce Pourciau
A LaTeX question: How can I create a horizontal rule that is one- third the width of the typeblock and centered? Bruce

Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread Stefano Franchi
Hi everyone: I need some help on accented letters. I managed to convert a long, multi-file manuscript from its original Framemaker format into LyX. However, I an now facing a problem with accents. All the accented letters have been converted as LaTeX escape sequences. For instance, é is \i

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread Jens Noeckel
On Dec 19, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Hi everyone: I need some help on accented letters. I managed to convert a long, multi-file manuscript from its original Framemaker format into LyX. However, I an now facing a problem with accents. All the accented letters have been

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread William Adams
On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Unless I could find a program/editor allowing me to do multiple replace over multiple files at once. I am not aware or any such programs for Mac/Linux, though? The free BBedit Lite could do this. I believe the free TextWrangler can as

Re: Special case of enumerate

2006-12-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Thanks to everybody who replied. With the package mdwlist, I am able to do interruptions of lists, but not with A1, A2, A3,...; only with 1, 2, 3,... Any further ideas? I was meanwhile able to produce a solution with enumitem, which I am attaching. Just for the halibut,

Re: no textclasses found on windows

2006-12-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Menger, William M. wrote: Ditto. I tried the fix suggested by Torsten Andersen (12 dec) of using -userdir (path) and for the path made sure no spaces were in it... no help, the installation rebuilt the user space and again failed with textclasses not found... I re-installed three times so far.

Re: One-third Horizontal Rule

2006-12-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: A LaTeX question: How can I create a horizontal rule that is one-third the width of the typeblock and centered? Bruce Does putting \rule{0.33\textwidth}{0.2ex} in ERT in a centered paragraph do what you want? (The second argument is the height; season to taste.)

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread Charles de Miramon
William Adams wrote: On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Unless I could find a program/editor allowing me to do multiple replace over multiple files at once. I am not aware or any such programs for Mac/Linux, though? The free BBedit Lite could do this. I believe the

BibTeX styles

2006-12-19 Thread John Hughes
Hi, I'm a little new to this, so please be patient with me. I'm trying to use a BibTeX database to organise my references. The database seems to work fine and I can insert a BibTeX reference list into my document and use it to put citations in my document. However, when I try to change the style

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 19 Dec, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: William Adams wrote: On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Unless I could find a program/editor allowing me to do multiple replace over multiple files at once. I am not aware or any such programs for Mac/Linux, though?

Re: LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel?

2006-12-19 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2006 17:41 schrieb Nicolás: Why use LyX 1.3.7 when you have a much powerful version available: 1.4.3? Because 1.4.x has some speed issues on OS X (depending on document content). Fortunately the reason for this problem has been found and solved in the development

Re: LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel?

2006-12-19 Thread Gerard A. Ateshian
I have tried 1.4.3 on Mac PowerPC, Mac Intel, and Windows XP, and I have found it too slow for my needs. 1.3.7 is far better as far as I am concerned. I am writing a book with more than 200 pages so far, and I have found the scrolling problems in 1.4.3 to be a limiting factor. I also

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-19 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
Obs: I'm assuming that you're not using LyX, but latex directly... If you're using LyX forget about what's below. How many times did you compile your .tex file? In order to arrange all cross-references and citations right, LaTeX needs at least 2 (sometimes 3) runs. The order of events would

Re: Question concerning Preamble in Child Documents

2006-12-19 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2006 08:36 schrieb Rainer M Krug: I don't get it to work. My setup is below, and I don't get any error messages concerning the \input{preamble.tex}. preamble.tex is in the same directory as the LyX file, but the preamble is not loaded, as \AIC gives an error

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-19 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 8:05 pm, John Hughes wrote: Hi, I'm a little new to this, so please be patient with me. I'm trying to use a BibTeX database to organise my references. The database seems to work fine and I can insert a BibTeX reference list into my document and use it to put

Re: One-third Horizontal Rule

2006-12-19 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Bruce Pourciau wrote: A LaTeX question: How can I create a horizontal rule that is one- third the width of the typeblock and centered? Bruce Does putting \rule{0.33\textwidth}{0.2ex} in ERT in a centered paragraph do what you want? (The

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread cmiramon
Stefano Franchi wrote: On 19 Dec, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: William Adams wrote: On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Unless I could find a program/editor allowing me to do multiple replace over multiple files at once. I am not aware or any such

Re: Problem with bibliography and hyperref

2006-12-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rainer M Krug schrieb: I have a problem with the hyperref package and a bibtex bibliography (elsart-harv.bst) and urls (see attached screenshot). I already set breaklinks=true, but the URLs in the bibliography are still longer then one line. Any ideas? (below please find my preamble) Are

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 6:53 pm, Charles de Miramon wrote: You can also use a sed script like this one : Just to add to the fun, here it is my solution using python, it reads from the standard input and it writes to the standard output. -- José Abílio transform.py Description:

wiki export to LaTeX or LyX format?

2006-12-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Anyone know of any wiki that can export to LaTeX or LyX format? Anyone use a wiki to generate LaTeX?

Re: Question concerning Preamble in Child Documents

2006-12-19 Thread Rainer M Krug
Georg Baum wrote: Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2006 08:36 schrieb Rainer M Krug: I don't get it to work. My setup is below, and I don't get any error messages concerning the \input{preamble.tex}. preamble.tex is in the same directory as the LyX file, but the preamble is not loaded, as \AIC

Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

2006-12-19 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:36:14 -0500 David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:02:07 +1100 Russell Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have used the binaries made by the LyX Deb team when I ran Debian and they are 100% reliable. Thanks guys! Now I am Ubuntu-Dapper

F7 (Spellchecker) makes lyx-1.3.7 chrash

2006-12-19 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi list, i'm using lyx-1.3.7 on my gentoo-linux system on an IBM Lenovo T60 laptop. In wahtever situation iI am in lyx pressing F7 to start the spell checker makes lyx crash. Since i called lyx from the command line i got the attached crash information. Any idea what's happening? Greetings

Re: The spell-checker detects typos but no suggestions window

2006-12-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 12/18/06, José Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The spell-checker detects typos but never any window with replacements suggestion is shown. I am using LyX 1.4.3 installed from the official repositories on Fedora Core 6, and aspell-en-6.0-2.1 is installed. Any ideas? Here, with the same

Re: Special case of enumerate

2006-12-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 12/18/06, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get the following special case of enumerate: - A1. The first item; A2. The second item; A3. The third item; Here, there is some standard text and then enumerate again. A4. The fourth

Problem with bibliography and hyperref

2006-12-19 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi I have a problem with the hyperref package and a bibtex bibliography (elsart-harv.bst) and urls (see attached screenshot). I already set breaklinks=true, but the URLs in the bibliography are still longer then one line. Any ideas? (below please find my preamble) Any help appreciated,

Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

2006-12-19 Thread Richard Kleeman
Russell Davie wrote: Not yet. Ubuntu does have various levels, but it means to upgrade to something like Deb-unstable and comes with all the cutting edge flakiness as a bonus! No thanks, I sort out how to do a proper package soon. Russell Well I am using edgy and I see little flakiness.

Re: Special case of enumerate

2006-12-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 12/19/06, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get the following special case of enumerate: - A1. The first item; A2. The second item; A3. The third item; Here, there is some standard text and then enumerate again. A4. The

Update to: [announce] LyX150svn builds for Windows

2006-12-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXTesters, I published a new version with LyX1.5.0svn from 18-12-2006: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=11890 I fixed some bugs and changed a lot in the installer, here's the changelog:

LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel?

2006-12-19 Thread Gerard A. Ateshian
Has anyone compiled LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel? If so, would you make it available? Thanks, Gerard Ateshian

Re: LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel?

2006-12-19 Thread Nicolás
Why use LyX 1.3.7 when you have a much powerful version available: 1.4.3? http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac Nicolás Gerard A. Ateshian wrote: Has anyone compiled LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel? If so, would you make it available? Thanks, Gerard Ateshian

One-third Horizontal Rule

2006-12-19 Thread Bruce Pourciau
A LaTeX question: How can I create a horizontal rule that is one- third the width of the typeblock and centered? Bruce

Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread Stefano Franchi
Hi everyone: I need some help on accented letters. I managed to convert a long, multi-file manuscript from its original Framemaker format into LyX. However, I an now facing a problem with accents. All the accented letters have been converted as LaTeX escape sequences. For instance, é is \i

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread Jens Noeckel
On Dec 19, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Hi everyone: I need some help on accented letters. I managed to convert a long, multi-file manuscript from its original Framemaker format into LyX. However, I an now facing a problem with accents. All the accented letters have been

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread William Adams
On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Unless I could find a program/editor allowing me to do multiple replace over multiple files at once. I am not aware or any such programs for Mac/Linux, though? The free BBedit Lite could do this. I believe the free TextWrangler can as

Re: Special case of enumerate

2006-12-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Thanks to everybody who replied. With the package mdwlist, I am able to do interruptions of lists, but not with A1, A2, A3,...; only with 1, 2, 3,... Any further ideas? I was meanwhile able to produce a solution with enumitem, which I am attaching. Just for the halibut,

Re: no textclasses found on windows

2006-12-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Menger, William M. wrote: Ditto. I tried the fix suggested by Torsten Andersen (12 dec) of using -userdir (path) and for the path made sure no spaces were in it... no help, the installation rebuilt the user space and again failed with textclasses not found... I re-installed three times so far.

Re: One-third Horizontal Rule

2006-12-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: A LaTeX question: How can I create a horizontal rule that is one-third the width of the typeblock and centered? Bruce Does putting \rule{0.33\textwidth}{0.2ex} in ERT in a centered paragraph do what you want? (The second argument is the height; season to taste.)

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread Charles de Miramon
William Adams wrote: On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Unless I could find a program/editor allowing me to do multiple replace over multiple files at once. I am not aware or any such programs for Mac/Linux, though? The free BBedit Lite could do this. I believe the

BibTeX styles

2006-12-19 Thread John Hughes
Hi, I'm a little new to this, so please be patient with me. I'm trying to use a BibTeX database to organise my references. The database seems to work fine and I can insert a BibTeX reference list into my document and use it to put citations in my document. However, when I try to change the style

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 19 Dec, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: William Adams wrote: On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Unless I could find a program/editor allowing me to do multiple replace over multiple files at once. I am not aware or any such programs for Mac/Linux, though?

Re: LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel?

2006-12-19 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2006 17:41 schrieb Nicolás: Why use LyX 1.3.7 when you have a much powerful version available: 1.4.3? Because 1.4.x has some speed issues on OS X (depending on document content). Fortunately the reason for this problem has been found and solved in the development

Re: LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel?

2006-12-19 Thread Gerard A. Ateshian
I have tried 1.4.3 on Mac PowerPC, Mac Intel, and Windows XP, and I have found it too slow for my needs. 1.3.7 is far better as far as I am concerned. I am writing a book with more than 200 pages so far, and I have found the scrolling problems in 1.4.3 to be a limiting factor. I also

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-19 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
Obs: I'm assuming that you're not using LyX, but latex directly... If you're using LyX forget about what's below. How many times did you compile your .tex file? In order to arrange all cross-references and citations right, LaTeX needs at least 2 (sometimes 3) runs. The order of events would

Re: Question concerning Preamble in Child Documents

2006-12-19 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2006 08:36 schrieb Rainer M Krug: I don't get it to work. My setup is below, and I don't get any error messages concerning the \input{preamble.tex}. preamble.tex is in the same directory as the LyX file, but the preamble is not loaded, as \AIC gives an error

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-19 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 8:05 pm, John Hughes wrote: Hi, I'm a little new to this, so please be patient with me. I'm trying to use a BibTeX database to organise my references. The database seems to work fine and I can insert a BibTeX reference list into my document and use it to put

Re: One-third Horizontal Rule

2006-12-19 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Bruce Pourciau wrote: A LaTeX question: How can I create a horizontal rule that is one- third the width of the typeblock and centered? Bruce Does putting \rule{0.33\textwidth}{0.2ex} in ERT in a centered paragraph do what you want? (The

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread cmiramon
Stefano Franchi wrote: On 19 Dec, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: William Adams wrote: On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Unless I could find a program/editor allowing me to do multiple replace over multiple files at once. I am not aware or any such

Re: Problem with bibliography and hyperref

2006-12-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rainer M Krug schrieb: I have a problem with the hyperref package and a bibtex bibliography (elsart-harv.bst) and urls (see attached screenshot). I already set breaklinks=true, but the URLs in the bibliography are still longer then one line. Any ideas? (below please find my preamble) Are

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 6:53 pm, Charles de Miramon wrote: You can also use a sed script like this one : Just to add to the fun, here it is my solution using python, it reads from the standard input and it writes to the standard output. -- José Abílio transform.py Description:

wiki export to LaTeX or LyX format?

2006-12-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Anyone know of any wiki that can export to LaTeX or LyX format? Anyone use a wiki to generate LaTeX?

Re: Question concerning Preamble in Child Documents

2006-12-19 Thread Rainer M Krug
Georg Baum wrote: Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2006 08:36 schrieb Rainer M Krug: I don't get it to work. My setup is below, and I don't get any error messages concerning the \input{preamble.tex}. preamble.tex is in the same directory as the LyX file, but the preamble is not loaded, as \AIC

Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

2006-12-19 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:36:14 -0500 "David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:02:07 +1100 > Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have used the binaries made by the LyX Deb team when I ran Debian and > > they are 100% reliable. Thanks guys! > > > > Now I

F7 (Spellchecker) makes lyx-1.3.7 chrash

2006-12-19 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi list, i'm using lyx-1.3.7 on my gentoo-linux system on an IBM Lenovo T60 laptop. In wahtever situation iI am in lyx pressing F7 to start the spell checker makes lyx crash. Since i called lyx from the command line i got the attached crash information. Any idea what's happening? Greetings

Re: The spell-checker detects typos but no suggestions window

2006-12-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 12/18/06, José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The spell-checker detects typos but never any window with replacements > suggestion is shown. I am using LyX 1.4.3 installed from the official > repositories on Fedora Core 6, and aspell-en-6.0-2.1 is installed. Any > ideas? Here, with the

Re: Special case of enumerate

2006-12-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 12/18/06, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to get the following special case of enumerate: > > - > A1. The first item; > A2. The second item; > A3. The third item; > > Here, there is some standard text and then enumerate again. > > A4.

Problem with bibliography and hyperref

2006-12-19 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi I have a problem with the hyperref package and a bibtex bibliography (elsart-harv.bst) and urls (see attached screenshot). I already set breaklinks=true, but the URLs in the bibliography are still longer then one line. Any ideas? (below please find my preamble) Any help appreciated,

Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

2006-12-19 Thread Richard Kleeman
Russell Davie wrote: Not yet. Ubuntu does have various levels, but it means to upgrade to something like Deb-unstable and comes with all the cutting edge flakiness as a bonus! No thanks, I sort out how to do a proper package soon. Russell Well I am using edgy and I see little

Re: Special case of enumerate

2006-12-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 12/19/06, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to get the following special case of enumerate: > > > > - > > A1. The first item; > > A2. The second item; > > A3. The third item; > > > > Here, there is some standard text and then enumerate

Update to: [announce] LyX150svn builds for Windows

2006-12-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXTesters, I published a new version with LyX1.5.0svn from 18-12-2006: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_id=11890 I fixed some bugs and changed a lot in the installer, here's the changelog: https://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=11890

LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel?

2006-12-19 Thread Gerard A. Ateshian
Has anyone compiled LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel? If so, would you make it available? Thanks, Gerard Ateshian

Re: LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel?

2006-12-19 Thread Nicolás
Why use LyX 1.3.7 when you have a much powerful version available: 1.4.3? http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac Nicolás Gerard A. Ateshian wrote: Has anyone compiled LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel? If so, would you make it available? Thanks, Gerard Ateshian

One-third Horizontal Rule

2006-12-19 Thread Bruce Pourciau
A LaTeX question: How can I create a horizontal rule that is one- third the width of the typeblock and centered? Bruce

Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread Stefano Franchi
Hi everyone: I need some help on accented letters. I managed to convert a long, multi-file manuscript from its original Framemaker format into LyX. However, I an now facing a problem with accents. All the accented letters have been converted as LaTeX escape sequences. For instance, é is \i

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread Jens Noeckel
On Dec 19, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Hi everyone: I need some help on accented letters. I managed to convert a long, multi-file manuscript from its original Framemaker format into LyX. However, I an now facing a problem with accents. All the accented letters have been

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread William Adams
On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: > Unless I could find a program/editor allowing me to do multiple > replace over multiple files at once. I am not aware or any such > programs for Mac/Linux, though? The free BBedit Lite could do this. I believe the free TextWrangler can

Re: Special case of enumerate

2006-12-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Thanks to everybody who replied. With the package mdwlist, I am able to do interruptions of lists, but not with A1, A2, A3,...; only with 1, 2, 3,... Any further ideas? I was meanwhile able to produce a solution with enumitem, which I am attaching. Just for the halibut,

Re: "no textclasses found" on windows

2006-12-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Menger, William M. wrote: Ditto. I tried the fix suggested by Torsten Andersen (12 dec) of using -userdir (path) and for the path made sure no spaces were in it... no help, the installation rebuilt the user space and again failed with "textclasses not found..." I re-installed three times so

Re: One-third Horizontal Rule

2006-12-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: A LaTeX question: How can I create a horizontal rule that is one-third the width of the typeblock and centered? Bruce Does putting \rule{0.33\textwidth}{0.2ex} in ERT in a centered paragraph do what you want? (The second argument is the height; season to taste.)

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread Charles de Miramon
William Adams wrote: > On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: > >> Unless I could find a program/editor allowing me to do multiple >> replace over multiple files at once. I am not aware or any such >> programs for Mac/Linux, though? > > The free BBedit Lite could do this. > > I

BibTeX styles

2006-12-19 Thread John Hughes
Hi, I'm a little new to this, so please be patient with me. I'm trying to use a BibTeX database to organise my references. The database seems to work fine and I can insert a BibTeX reference list into my document and use it to put citations in my document. However, when I try to change the style

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 19 Dec, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: William Adams wrote: On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Unless I could find a program/editor allowing me to do multiple replace over multiple files at once. I am not aware or any such programs for Mac/Linux, though?

Re: LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel?

2006-12-19 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2006 17:41 schrieb Nicolás: > Why use LyX 1.3.7 when you have a much powerful version available: 1.4.3? Because 1.4.x has some speed issues on OS X (depending on document content). Fortunately the reason for this problem has been found and solved in the development

Re: LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel?

2006-12-19 Thread Gerard A. Ateshian
I have tried 1.4.3 on Mac PowerPC, Mac Intel, and Windows XP, and I have found it too slow for my needs. 1.3.7 is far better as far as I am concerned. I am writing a book with more than 200 pages so far, and I have found the scrolling problems in 1.4.3 to be a limiting factor. I also

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-19 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
Obs: I'm assuming that you're not using LyX, but latex directly... If you're using LyX forget about what's below. How many times did you compile your .tex file? In order to arrange all cross-references and citations right, LaTeX needs at least 2 (sometimes 3) runs. The order of events would

Re: Question concerning Preamble in Child Documents

2006-12-19 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2006 08:36 schrieb Rainer M Krug: > I don't get it to work. > My setup is below, and I don't get any error messages concerning the > \input{preamble.tex}. > preamble.tex is in the same directory as the LyX file, but the preamble > is not loaded, as \AIC gives an error

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-19 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 8:05 pm, John Hughes wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a little new to this, so please be patient with me. I'm trying to > use a BibTeX database to organise my references. The database seems to > work fine and I can insert a BibTeX reference list into my document > and use it to put

Re: One-third Horizontal Rule

2006-12-19 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Bruce Pourciau wrote: A LaTeX question: How can I create a horizontal rule that is one- third the width of the typeblock and centered? Bruce Does putting \rule{0.33\textwidth}{0.2ex} in ERT in a centered paragraph do what you want? (The

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread cmiramon
Stefano Franchi wrote: > > On 19 Dec, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: > >> William Adams wrote: >> >>> On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: >>> Unless I could find a program/editor allowing me to do multiple replace over multiple files at once. I am not

Re: Problem with bibliography and hyperref

2006-12-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rainer M Krug schrieb: I have a problem with the hyperref package and a bibtex bibliography (elsart-harv.bst) and urls (see attached screenshot). I already set breaklinks=true, but the URLs in the bibliography are still longer then one line. Any ideas? (below please find my preamble) Are

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 6:53 pm, Charles de Miramon wrote: > You can also use a sed script like this one : Just to add to the fun, here it is my solution using python, it reads from the standard input and it writes to the standard output. -- José Abílio transform.py Description:

wiki export to LaTeX or LyX format?

2006-12-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Anyone know of any wiki that can export to LaTeX or LyX format? Anyone use a wiki to generate LaTeX?

Re: Question concerning Preamble in Child Documents

2006-12-19 Thread Rainer M Krug
Georg Baum wrote: Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2006 08:36 schrieb Rainer M Krug: I don't get it to work. My setup is below, and I don't get any error messages concerning the \input{preamble.tex}. preamble.tex is in the same directory as the LyX file, but the preamble is not loaded, as \AIC