Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 00:57:03 +0300 From: Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book On Sun, 13 May 2007 13:07:03 +0200 Tim Michelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] What program is used for that export? Maybe I missed to install

LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
Hi everybody, Since I upgraded to Ubuntu Feisty (7.04), whenever I input a special character in math mode, I just get the name of the character, not the rendered character itself. For example: to get an integral sign I switch to math mode, type \int and press space.

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Michelsen
Urtzi Jauregi schrieb: Hi everybody, Since I upgraded to Ubuntu Feisty (7.04), whenever I input a special character in math mode, I just get the name of the character, not the rendered character itself. I have no problems with the same setting although I had to install it via Gdebi

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread ubuntuuser
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:10:54 +0200 Von: Urtzi Jauregi [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Betreff: LyX 1.4.3 won\'t render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04 Hi everybody, Since I upgraded to Ubuntu Feisty (7.04), whenever I input

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
On Monday 14 May 2007 11:47:15 Tim Michelsen wrote:   Math characters appear correctly in the final LaTeXed document, mind you; it's just LyX that has stopped rendering them in the UI window. Did you tick the preview option in the LyX preferences? Do you mean the Instant Preview

RTF export not present on Ubunutu (Lyx 1.4.3) [was: Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book]

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Michelsen
I believe that there is also an option to export as rtf. Not in my 1.4.3on Ubuntu Lyx-Qt. What program is used for that export? Maybe I missed to install it... You need latex2rtf at http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/ I did install it and reconfigured it. But the RTF-Export is still not

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Michelsen
the package latex-xft-fonts is no longer a dependency of lyx in debian and ubuntu. You have to install it. You could also use the inofficial 1.4.4 deb in the download section of the wiki, where latex-xft-fonts is still a dependency. Don't you think that this should be reported as a bug of the

Lyx with Texlive?

2007-05-14 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
Hi everybody, I am considering switching from TeTex to Texlive. Is there any problem or issue I should be aware of when working with TexLive and LyX? I just put them together on my experimental partition running Ubuntu 7.04 (with LyX 1.4.3) and for now they seem to

Re: Lyx with Texlive?

2007-05-14 Thread Mark T.B. Carroll
Urtzi Jauregi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am considering switching from TeTex to Texlive. Is there any problem or issue I should be aware of when working with TexLive and LyX? I don't use them very hard, but I've not had any trouble so far. There was some trouble or other from me

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread David L. Johnson
Urtzi Jauregi wrote: Hi everybody, Since I upgraded to Ubuntu Feisty (7.04), whenever I input a special character in math mode, I just get the name of the character, not the rendered character itself. For example: to get an integral sign I switch to math mode, type \int and press

Re: lyx-1.5: textdegree

2007-05-14 Thread Bernd Sellentin
Am Sonntag, 13. Mai 2007 22:29 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: while in lyx-1.4 i could type the textdegree symbol on my german keyboard and latexing went fine, this is no longer true in lyx-1.5. On the display everything seems okay, but latexing gives the error: Package inputenc Error: Keyboard

Bibtex-key decapitalized in 1.5 beta2

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Beckmann
Dear Lyx users, Since I installed version 1.5 beta2 on my Ubuntu 7.04 system all bibtex keys seem to be de-capitalized in lyx. The bibtex database is ok and shows keys with capital letters. I use Jabref to push the citations directly to lyx which means that a key with a capital letter is

html (oolatex/word) conversions not working. Font problem

2007-05-14 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
I'm trying to convert a lyx file to MS word format. Trying export directly from lyx gives no output file and no indication about what the problem is. Exporting to tex and then using the ConvTex utility from http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice crashes with the rather cryptic error message:

Re: Bibtex-key decapitalized in 1.5 beta2

2007-05-14 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Michael Beckmann wrote: Dear Lyx users, Since I installed version 1.5 beta2 on my Ubuntu 7.04 system all bibtex keys seem to be de-capitalized in lyx. The bibtex database is ok and shows keys with capital letters. I use Jabref to push the citations directly to lyx which means that a key with

Re: html (oolatex/word) conversions not working. Font problem

2007-05-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: html (oolatex/word) conversions not working. Font problem Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 12:25:46 -0300 From: Rudi Gaelzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to convert a lyx file to MS word format. [...] Trying oolatex through tex4ht: mk4ht oolatex file.tex gives the

multiple lines in header

2007-05-14 Thread Marco Beishuizen
Hi, How do I get more than one line in the header? I would like to put my personal information (name, adress etc.) in the header of the letter. I've looked in the fancyhdr.dvi file but without success. I'm also interested in the adjustment of the font size/type of the header. Thanks in

using pdflatex with pagebackref option

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, when I use pdflatex with pagebackref option like \usepackage[pdftex,a4paper, %to the citation page pagebackref=true, ]{hyperref} I am getting the following error: Paragraph ended before \BR@@lbibitem was complete Why does this happen? In the hyperref manual it says: Adds ‘backlink’

Re: multiple lines in header

2007-05-14 Thread Richard Heck
The attached style file is what I use to get this kind of effect. It generates a lot of warnings, however, concerning bad boxes. These don't have any actual effect, so far as I can see, so I've never bothered fixing them. But if anyone wanted to tell me what I've forgotten to do, that'd be

Re: using pdflatex with pagebackref option

2007-05-14 Thread Richard Heck
It's just a guess at the moment, but I expect that there's something problematic on one of your citation keys that is causing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] macro to expand incorrectly. To debug this, (a) export to LaTeX, (b) run it manually, (c) try to figure out exactly where the error is being

Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? AFAIK once you convert to Word (or rtf or whatever), you can't really get it back into LyX. Once you're in Word, you don't have LyX-LaTeX-TeX ability to lay out

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. Interface preference. Or availability (maybe author has limited access to Word). Jeremy C. Reed

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? [snip] But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. I don't

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 14 May 2007 13:42, you wrote: Of course, OOo is an option, but then OOo to Word conversions aren't always trivial, either, and I still vastly prefer writing in LyX to writing in OOo. One man's opinion: OOo word processing (as opposed to presentation) is an abomination. If my only

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 14 May 2007 13:33, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. Interface preference. Or availability (maybe author has limited access to Word).

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Sven Schreiber
Richard Heck schrieb: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? [snip] But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread ubuntuuser
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 14 May 2007 09:49:35 -0400 Von: David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Urtzi Jauregi [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Betreff: Re: LyX 1.4.3 won\'t render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04 Urtzi Jauregi wrote: Hi everybody,

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread ubuntuuser
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 14 May 2007 13:08:54 +0200 Von: Tim Michelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Betreff: Re: LyX 1.4.3 won\'t render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04 the package latex-xft-fonts is no longer a dependency of lyx in debian and ubuntu.

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 14 May 2007 09:49, David L. Johnson wrote: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.  --Ralph Waldo Emerson This is an odd statement on a LyX list :-) SteveT

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread ubuntuuser
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 14 May 2007 20:03:49 +0200 Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Tim Michelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED], lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Betreff: Re: LyX 1.4.3 won\'t render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04 Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 14 May 2007

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Steve Litt apparently wrote: I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. Interface, interoperability, and reliability. I cannot write in Word. Too slow. Large equations are a nightmare. Not every publisher

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Andreas K .
Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? Because it sucks writing math in MS Word. Andreas

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:10:37PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the package latex-xft-fonts is no longer a dependency of lyx in debian and ubuntu. You have to install it. You could also use the inofficial 1.4.4 deb in the download section of the wiki, where latex-xft-fonts is

only every second line is used in listings

2007-05-14 Thread Christopher Eckert
Hello, I've got a problem with the listings package. When I insert code from a file like this: \begin{lstlisting}[caption=program1,frame=Tb,rulesep=10pt,numbers=left,numbersep=5pt,numberstyle=\tiny,language=C] for (i=0;i=j;i++){ i+=1; } \end{lstlisting} Example output: 1 for (i=0;i=j;i++){ 2

Re: only every second line is used in listings

2007-05-14 Thread Bo Peng
On 5/14/07, Christopher Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a problem with the listings package. When I insert code from a file like this: Do you use ERT in lyx.1.4 or the listings inset in lyx 1.5.0 svn? Bo

Re: only every second line is used in listings

2007-05-14 Thread Bo Peng
I use ERT in Lyx 1.3.7. I do not have 1.3.7 to test right now but AFAIK, ERT in 1.3.7 output par1 par2 as par1 par2 so you will have to use Ctrl-Enter (\newline) to enter paragraphs if you want output par1 par2 Any, lyx 1.5.0 is not far away from being released so you may want to try the

auto indexing? (fwd)

2007-05-14 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I emailed the following last November, but I don't recall receiving any feedback. Does anyone have a tool for automaticlly adding index entries for LyX? I thought there was a ruby script, but I can't find it now. I already have the list of terms to index. I don't want to manually as this list

Creating a document class

2007-05-14 Thread NicoWinger
Hello, I'm still creating a document class for the quote guidelines of our university and a belonging template. Both is nearly finished, but there is one thing that still bothers me. The cover: There are very strong requirements for the position of title, name etc. So far I made it with a table

Creating a document class

2007-05-14 Thread NicoWinger
Hello, I'm still creating a document class for the quote guidelines of our university and a belonging template. Both is nearly finished, but there is one thing that still bothers me. The cover: There are very strong requirements for the position of title, name etc. So far I made it with a table

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Ricardo Rodríguez - Your XEN ICT Team
I've been playing around with Lyx for about three months now. I am coming from a FrameMaker environment. I can not tell you why Lyx-Word, but I've been doing FM-Word for years. And the reason was/is clear to me: it is far easy accomplish Word requirements working with FM (I do hope it will the

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 14 May 2007 12:30, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? Steve, The documents I write tend to be technical reports with lots of figures. The report I'm working on at

Re: How to detect current font size, shape, series and the like?

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 11 May 2007 15:09, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Turns out I'll be using my Ex character style in body text and in several headings, which means I can't hardcode a size like \LARGE, but instead must find a way to *increase* the font size, which means I need to detect

Re: auto indexing? (fwd)

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 14 May 2007 17:08, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I emailed the following last November, but I don't recall receiving any feedback. Does anyone have a tool for automaticlly adding index entries for LyX? I thought there was a ruby script, but I can't find it now. I already have the list of

Re: Creating a document class

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 14 May 2007 17:36, NicoWinger wrote: Hello, I'm still creating a document class for the quote guidelines of our university and a belonging template. Both is nearly finished, but there is one thing that still bothers me. The cover: There are very strong requirements for the position

Re: Creating a document class

2007-05-14 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 00:30:18 Steve Litt wrote: I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but in my opinion every book's front matter is a one-off affair and therefore the proper procedure is to fine tune it with ERT, not to find (or create) a document class conforms to your front matter

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread David A. Case
On Mon, May 14, 2007, Steve Litt wrote: But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. As others have said, one doesn't always know where a manuscript will end up when you start writing. Or you may be working with a

Re: Creating a document class

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 14 May 2007 19:30, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 14 May 2007 17:36, NicoWinger wrote: Hello, I'm still creating a document class for the quote guidelines of our university and a belonging template. Both is nearly finished, but there is one thing that still bothers me. The cover:

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 00:57:03 +0300 From: Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book On Sun, 13 May 2007 13:07:03 +0200 Tim Michelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] What program is used for that export? Maybe I missed to install

LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
Hi everybody, Since I upgraded to Ubuntu Feisty (7.04), whenever I input a special character in math mode, I just get the name of the character, not the rendered character itself. For example: to get an integral sign I switch to math mode, type \int and press space.

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Michelsen
Urtzi Jauregi schrieb: Hi everybody, Since I upgraded to Ubuntu Feisty (7.04), whenever I input a special character in math mode, I just get the name of the character, not the rendered character itself. I have no problems with the same setting although I had to install it via Gdebi

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread ubuntuuser
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:10:54 +0200 Von: Urtzi Jauregi [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Betreff: LyX 1.4.3 won\'t render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04 Hi everybody, Since I upgraded to Ubuntu Feisty (7.04), whenever I input

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
On Monday 14 May 2007 11:47:15 Tim Michelsen wrote:   Math characters appear correctly in the final LaTeXed document, mind you; it's just LyX that has stopped rendering them in the UI window. Did you tick the preview option in the LyX preferences? Do you mean the Instant Preview

RTF export not present on Ubunutu (Lyx 1.4.3) [was: Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book]

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Michelsen
I believe that there is also an option to export as rtf. Not in my 1.4.3on Ubuntu Lyx-Qt. What program is used for that export? Maybe I missed to install it... You need latex2rtf at http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/ I did install it and reconfigured it. But the RTF-Export is still not

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Michelsen
the package latex-xft-fonts is no longer a dependency of lyx in debian and ubuntu. You have to install it. You could also use the inofficial 1.4.4 deb in the download section of the wiki, where latex-xft-fonts is still a dependency. Don't you think that this should be reported as a bug of the

Lyx with Texlive?

2007-05-14 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
Hi everybody, I am considering switching from TeTex to Texlive. Is there any problem or issue I should be aware of when working with TexLive and LyX? I just put them together on my experimental partition running Ubuntu 7.04 (with LyX 1.4.3) and for now they seem to

Re: Lyx with Texlive?

2007-05-14 Thread Mark T.B. Carroll
Urtzi Jauregi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am considering switching from TeTex to Texlive. Is there any problem or issue I should be aware of when working with TexLive and LyX? I don't use them very hard, but I've not had any trouble so far. There was some trouble or other from me

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread David L. Johnson
Urtzi Jauregi wrote: Hi everybody, Since I upgraded to Ubuntu Feisty (7.04), whenever I input a special character in math mode, I just get the name of the character, not the rendered character itself. For example: to get an integral sign I switch to math mode, type \int and press

Re: lyx-1.5: textdegree

2007-05-14 Thread Bernd Sellentin
Am Sonntag, 13. Mai 2007 22:29 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: while in lyx-1.4 i could type the textdegree symbol on my german keyboard and latexing went fine, this is no longer true in lyx-1.5. On the display everything seems okay, but latexing gives the error: Package inputenc Error: Keyboard

Bibtex-key decapitalized in 1.5 beta2

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Beckmann
Dear Lyx users, Since I installed version 1.5 beta2 on my Ubuntu 7.04 system all bibtex keys seem to be de-capitalized in lyx. The bibtex database is ok and shows keys with capital letters. I use Jabref to push the citations directly to lyx which means that a key with a capital letter is

html (oolatex/word) conversions not working. Font problem

2007-05-14 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
I'm trying to convert a lyx file to MS word format. Trying export directly from lyx gives no output file and no indication about what the problem is. Exporting to tex and then using the ConvTex utility from http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice crashes with the rather cryptic error message:

Re: Bibtex-key decapitalized in 1.5 beta2

2007-05-14 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Michael Beckmann wrote: Dear Lyx users, Since I installed version 1.5 beta2 on my Ubuntu 7.04 system all bibtex keys seem to be de-capitalized in lyx. The bibtex database is ok and shows keys with capital letters. I use Jabref to push the citations directly to lyx which means that a key with

Re: html (oolatex/word) conversions not working. Font problem

2007-05-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: html (oolatex/word) conversions not working. Font problem Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 12:25:46 -0300 From: Rudi Gaelzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to convert a lyx file to MS word format. [...] Trying oolatex through tex4ht: mk4ht oolatex file.tex gives the

multiple lines in header

2007-05-14 Thread Marco Beishuizen
Hi, How do I get more than one line in the header? I would like to put my personal information (name, adress etc.) in the header of the letter. I've looked in the fancyhdr.dvi file but without success. I'm also interested in the adjustment of the font size/type of the header. Thanks in

using pdflatex with pagebackref option

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, when I use pdflatex with pagebackref option like \usepackage[pdftex,a4paper, %to the citation page pagebackref=true, ]{hyperref} I am getting the following error: Paragraph ended before \BR@@lbibitem was complete Why does this happen? In the hyperref manual it says: Adds ‘backlink’

Re: multiple lines in header

2007-05-14 Thread Richard Heck
The attached style file is what I use to get this kind of effect. It generates a lot of warnings, however, concerning bad boxes. These don't have any actual effect, so far as I can see, so I've never bothered fixing them. But if anyone wanted to tell me what I've forgotten to do, that'd be

Re: using pdflatex with pagebackref option

2007-05-14 Thread Richard Heck
It's just a guess at the moment, but I expect that there's something problematic on one of your citation keys that is causing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] macro to expand incorrectly. To debug this, (a) export to LaTeX, (b) run it manually, (c) try to figure out exactly where the error is being

Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? AFAIK once you convert to Word (or rtf or whatever), you can't really get it back into LyX. Once you're in Word, you don't have LyX-LaTeX-TeX ability to lay out

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. Interface preference. Or availability (maybe author has limited access to Word). Jeremy C. Reed

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? [snip] But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. I don't

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 14 May 2007 13:42, you wrote: Of course, OOo is an option, but then OOo to Word conversions aren't always trivial, either, and I still vastly prefer writing in LyX to writing in OOo. One man's opinion: OOo word processing (as opposed to presentation) is an abomination. If my only

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 14 May 2007 13:33, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. Interface preference. Or availability (maybe author has limited access to Word).

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Sven Schreiber
Richard Heck schrieb: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? [snip] But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread ubuntuuser
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 14 May 2007 09:49:35 -0400 Von: David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Urtzi Jauregi [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Betreff: Re: LyX 1.4.3 won\'t render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04 Urtzi Jauregi wrote: Hi everybody,

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread ubuntuuser
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 14 May 2007 13:08:54 +0200 Von: Tim Michelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Betreff: Re: LyX 1.4.3 won\'t render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04 the package latex-xft-fonts is no longer a dependency of lyx in debian and ubuntu.

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 14 May 2007 09:49, David L. Johnson wrote: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.  --Ralph Waldo Emerson This is an odd statement on a LyX list :-) SteveT

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread ubuntuuser
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 14 May 2007 20:03:49 +0200 Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Tim Michelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED], lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Betreff: Re: LyX 1.4.3 won\'t render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04 Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 14 May 2007

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Steve Litt apparently wrote: I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. Interface, interoperability, and reliability. I cannot write in Word. Too slow. Large equations are a nightmare. Not every publisher

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Andreas K .
Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? Because it sucks writing math in MS Word. Andreas

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:10:37PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the package latex-xft-fonts is no longer a dependency of lyx in debian and ubuntu. You have to install it. You could also use the inofficial 1.4.4 deb in the download section of the wiki, where latex-xft-fonts is

only every second line is used in listings

2007-05-14 Thread Christopher Eckert
Hello, I've got a problem with the listings package. When I insert code from a file like this: \begin{lstlisting}[caption=program1,frame=Tb,rulesep=10pt,numbers=left,numbersep=5pt,numberstyle=\tiny,language=C] for (i=0;i=j;i++){ i+=1; } \end{lstlisting} Example output: 1 for (i=0;i=j;i++){ 2

Re: only every second line is used in listings

2007-05-14 Thread Bo Peng
On 5/14/07, Christopher Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a problem with the listings package. When I insert code from a file like this: Do you use ERT in lyx.1.4 or the listings inset in lyx 1.5.0 svn? Bo

Re: only every second line is used in listings

2007-05-14 Thread Bo Peng
I use ERT in Lyx 1.3.7. I do not have 1.3.7 to test right now but AFAIK, ERT in 1.3.7 output par1 par2 as par1 par2 so you will have to use Ctrl-Enter (\newline) to enter paragraphs if you want output par1 par2 Any, lyx 1.5.0 is not far away from being released so you may want to try the

auto indexing? (fwd)

2007-05-14 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I emailed the following last November, but I don't recall receiving any feedback. Does anyone have a tool for automaticlly adding index entries for LyX? I thought there was a ruby script, but I can't find it now. I already have the list of terms to index. I don't want to manually as this list

Creating a document class

2007-05-14 Thread NicoWinger
Hello, I'm still creating a document class for the quote guidelines of our university and a belonging template. Both is nearly finished, but there is one thing that still bothers me. The cover: There are very strong requirements for the position of title, name etc. So far I made it with a table

Creating a document class

2007-05-14 Thread NicoWinger
Hello, I'm still creating a document class for the quote guidelines of our university and a belonging template. Both is nearly finished, but there is one thing that still bothers me. The cover: There are very strong requirements for the position of title, name etc. So far I made it with a table

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Ricardo Rodríguez - Your XEN ICT Team
I've been playing around with Lyx for about three months now. I am coming from a FrameMaker environment. I can not tell you why Lyx-Word, but I've been doing FM-Word for years. And the reason was/is clear to me: it is far easy accomplish Word requirements working with FM (I do hope it will the

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 14 May 2007 12:30, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? Steve, The documents I write tend to be technical reports with lots of figures. The report I'm working on at

Re: How to detect current font size, shape, series and the like?

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 11 May 2007 15:09, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Turns out I'll be using my Ex character style in body text and in several headings, which means I can't hardcode a size like \LARGE, but instead must find a way to *increase* the font size, which means I need to detect

Re: auto indexing? (fwd)

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 14 May 2007 17:08, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I emailed the following last November, but I don't recall receiving any feedback. Does anyone have a tool for automaticlly adding index entries for LyX? I thought there was a ruby script, but I can't find it now. I already have the list of

Re: Creating a document class

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 14 May 2007 17:36, NicoWinger wrote: Hello, I'm still creating a document class for the quote guidelines of our university and a belonging template. Both is nearly finished, but there is one thing that still bothers me. The cover: There are very strong requirements for the position

Re: Creating a document class

2007-05-14 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 00:30:18 Steve Litt wrote: I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but in my opinion every book's front matter is a one-off affair and therefore the proper procedure is to fine tune it with ERT, not to find (or create) a document class conforms to your front matter

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread David A. Case
On Mon, May 14, 2007, Steve Litt wrote: But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. As others have said, one doesn't always know where a manuscript will end up when you start writing. Or you may be working with a

Re: Creating a document class

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 14 May 2007 19:30, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 14 May 2007 17:36, NicoWinger wrote: Hello, I'm still creating a document class for the quote guidelines of our university and a belonging template. Both is nearly finished, but there is one thing that still bothers me. The cover:

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 00:57:03 +0300 >>From: Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book >> >>On Sun, 13 May 2007 13:07:03 +0200 >>Tim Michelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >>> What program is used for that export? Maybe

LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
Hi everybody, Since I upgraded to Ubuntu Feisty (7.04), whenever I input a special character in math mode, I just get the name of the character, not the rendered character itself. For example: to get an integral sign I switch to math mode, type \int and press space.

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Michelsen
Urtzi Jauregi schrieb: Hi everybody, Since I upgraded to Ubuntu Feisty (7.04), whenever I input a special character in math mode, I just get the name of the character, not the rendered character itself. I have no problems with the same setting although I had to install it via Gdebi

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread ubuntuuser
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:10:54 +0200 Von: Urtzi Jauregi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Betreff: LyX 1.4.3 won\'t render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04 > > Hi everybody, > > Since I upgraded to Ubuntu Feisty (7.04), whenever I

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
On Monday 14 May 2007 11:47:15 Tim Michelsen wrote: > >   Math characters appear correctly in the final LaTeXed document, > > mind you; it's just LyX that has stopped rendering them in the UI window. > > Did you tick the "preview" option in the LyX preferences? Do you mean the

RTF export not present on Ubunutu (Lyx 1.4.3) [was: Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book]

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Michelsen
I believe that there is also an option to export as rtf. Not in my 1.4.3on Ubuntu Lyx-Qt. What program is used for that export? Maybe I missed to install it... You need latex2rtf at http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/ I did install it and reconfigured it. But the RTF-Export is still not

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Michelsen
the package latex-xft-fonts is no longer a dependency of lyx in debian and ubuntu. You have to install it. You could also use the inofficial 1.4.4 deb in the download section of the wiki, where latex-xft-fonts is still a dependency. Don't you think that this should be reported as a bug of the

Lyx with Texlive?

2007-05-14 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
Hi everybody, I am considering switching from TeTex to Texlive. Is there any problem or issue I should be aware of when working with TexLive and LyX? I just put them together on my "experimental" partition running Ubuntu 7.04 (with LyX 1.4.3) and for now they seem to

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