Re: Has anyone successfully used apacite?

2007-06-06 Thread Julio Rojas
Emilio, to use the "apacite" BibTeX style, you need to use the "article (APA)" document class. It doesn't work by itself on any document class. If you need to cite in APA style on any given document class, it's better to use the "apalike" BibTeX style. On minor problem is that it only comes in en

Re: Title too long

2007-06-06 Thread Sandor Szabo
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sandor Szabo wrote: I use LyX 1.4.3-5 on windows xp. Unfortunately Short Title is grey (inactive) when I put the cursor in the Title part of the document. (In sections it works.) What could be the solution? Try parking the attached (hacked) copy of amsdefs.inc in your loc

Has anyone successfully used apacite?

2007-06-06 Thread Emilio Gagliardi
Hi there, I have been trying for about a week to get apacite to work with no luck in either lyx or texshop. I'm almost ready to start using word again as at least I know how to get citations working...if anyone can share a simple lyx file that demonstrates how to use this package I would be real

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Richard -- what do you think of Century Schoolbook? I've used that for my last few Ebooks, because onscreen it seems to look black and legible, and it seems to be available with LyX. SteveT, This is another Richard ... and I use Palatino for my LyX docu

Re: Title too long

2007-06-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Sandor Szabo wrote: I use LyX 1.4.3-5 on windows xp. Unfortunately Short Title is grey (inactive) when I put the cursor in the Title part of the document. (In sections it works.) What could be the solution? Try parking the attached (hacked) copy of amsdefs.inc in your local layouts directory

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-06 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/6/07, Ares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ## I think I understand the problem that Diego reports. The pdf viewers in Linux are more accurate and if the fonts are not included in the pdf file, the quality of the document on the screen looks not so god,

Re: Title too long

2007-06-06 Thread Sandor Szabo
Bennett Helm wrote: On Jun 6, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Sandor Szabo wrote: I write a paper, document class: article(AMS). The title is too long and I must not use fancyheader or similar packages. How could I put a short title on the head of pages? Insert > Short Title Bennett I use LyX 1.4.3-5 on

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-06 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 06 June 2007 14:52, Richard Heck wrote: Oisin Feeley wrote: On 6/6/07, Ares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] When I view my old documents (i.e. the pdf files generated by LyX on Windows) on Linux (Ubuntu 7.04) the quality is very bad. I guess thi

question on titlesec package

2007-06-06 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello, I want to have giant chapter number in first page of each chapter. I am using titlesec package and in preamble I put: \titleformat{\chapter}{display­}{\sffamily\Large\bfseries} {\chaptertitlename\thechapter}­{4ex}{}{\titlerule}{} but I don´t know how to get that chapter number became v

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 14:52, Richard Heck wrote: > Oisin Feeley wrote: > > On 6/6/07, Ares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > >> > When I view my old documents (i.e. the pdf files generated by LyX on > >> > Windows) on Linux (Ubuntu 7.04) the quality is very bad. I guess this > >> > is

about rc1

2007-06-06 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello, 1) I haven´t crahs in lyx 1.5.0 rc1 (like beta 3). 2) I have a little problem with tools bar. I put 3 tools bar at the rigth margin of screen in 2 columns. This work ok. But when I close lyx and then reopen, this 3 tools bars appears superpossed in only 1 column. 3) Session manager work o

Re: 1.5.0rc1 Mac PPC G3 typing lag

2007-06-06 Thread Anders Ekberg
On 6 jun 2007, at 16.15, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jun 6, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Johannes Knaus wrote: Well, I can confirm that Gerards PPC-Version runs just fine (flawlessly and speedy - no lags anymore) on my PPCs, while the universal binary just behaves like driving through small city streets

Re: Comments on RC1

2007-06-06 Thread Richard Heck
Pavel Sanda wrote: Try it with svn if you can. I can't remember an update that would have fixed this. Seems to be the same issue: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3018 Probably, but I still can't reproduce. In fact, if I leave the citation dialog open, then as I switch from doc

Re: Title too long

2007-06-06 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 6, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Sandor Szabo wrote: I write a paper, document class: article(AMS). The title is too long and I must not use fancyheader or similar packages. How could I put a short title on the head of pages? Insert > Short Title Bennett

Title too long

2007-06-06 Thread Sandor Szabo
I write a paper, document class: article(AMS). The title is too long and I must not use fancyheader or similar packages. How could I put a short title on the head of pages? Thanks, Sandor

Re: Comments on RC1

2007-06-06 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > Try it with svn if you can. I can't remember an update that would have > > fixed this. Seems to be the same issue: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3018 > > i can confirm this bug with todays svn(gentoo on x86). > pavel

Re: 1.5.0rc1 Mac PPC G3 typing lag

2007-06-06 Thread Patrick De Visschere
On Jun 6, 2007, at 3:05 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jun 6, 2007, at 12:27 AM, Gerard Ateshian wrote: I also found that the universal binary for 1.5rc1 runs slowly on Mac OS X PPC (I have a PowerBook G4, 1.67 GHz, 2 GB memory), so I compiled my own version and it runs just fine. If you want

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-06 Thread Richard Heck
Oisin Feeley wrote: On 6/6/07, Ares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > When I view my old documents (i.e. the pdf files generated by LyX on > Windows) on Linux (Ubuntu 7.04) the quality is very bad. I guess this > is related to the installed fonts. [snip] . Anyway you can view a sample pdf

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-06 Thread Oisin Feeley
On 6/6/07, Ares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > When I view my old documents (i.e. the pdf files generated by LyX on > Windows) on Linux (Ubuntu 7.04) the quality is very bad. I guess this > is related to the installed fonts. [snip] . Anyway you can view a sample pdf generated on my machi

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-06 Thread Ares
From: Vaclav Smidl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have been using LyX on windows XP since a while now and i am trying to move to Linux. I have not tried to install LyX on Linux yet (I am sorry but i already know that it won't be easy, I already tried once with no success) but my question is different now

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-06 Thread Richard Heck
Oisin Feeley wrote: Forgive me if this is OT, but I was reminded of it it by your post. Red Hat just released replacements for the common Microsoft proprietary fonts: https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/ including replacements for TimesNewRoman, Aerial and CourierNew. Thanks for the info! This

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-06 Thread Oisin Feeley
On 6/6/07, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps some of your fonts weren't embedded, and maybe they were truetype. You can install Truetype fonts on your Linux computer. Forgive me if this is OT, but I was reminded of it it by your post. Red Hat just released replacements for the com

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-06 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/6/07, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using LyX on windows XP since a while now and i am trying > to move to Linux. I have not tried to install LyX on Linux yet (I am > sorry but i already know that it won't be easy, I already tried once > with no success) but my question

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 06:06, Ares wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been using LyX on windows XP since a while now and i am trying > to move to Linux. I have not tried to install LyX on Linux yet (I am > sorry but i already know that it won't be easy, I already tried once > with no success) but my qu

Re: pdflatex postscript handling

2007-06-06 Thread LB
This is a sign of corrupted eps files. Missing bounding boxes can be restored by program called "ps2eps", http://www.tm.uka.de/~bless/ps2eps After correcting your eps, you can try to push them through epstopdf again. Actually, I have been using ps2eps already... Leo

Re: Where is the example_lyxified.lyx file?

2007-06-06 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 6, 2007, at 11:04 AM, I.D. Colvin wrote: Sorry I was confusing. I should have been more explicit. I meant searching within the Mac finder for the file (which is also cmd-f). That was my first resort when I couldn't find an examples button in the Open File dialog. I can't see a sear

docbook and graphics within floating figure

2007-06-06 Thread David Koski
I am a new Lyx user using Debian 4.0, Lyx 1.4.3 and am trying to insert a graphic image within a floating figure in a Docbook (xml) document. My "Document Class" is set to "DocBook book (SGML)" and I am exporting to "Docbook (XML)" but I get errors: book.xml:16:18:E: document type does not allow e

Re: Where is the example_lyxified.lyx file?

2007-06-06 Thread I.D. Colvin
Sorry I was confusing. I should have been more explicit. I meant searching within the Mac finder for the file (which is also cmd-f). That was my first resort when I couldn't find an examples button in the Open File dialog. I can't see a search field in the open dialog (with Mac OS). Is there s

Re: Where is the example_lyxified.lyx file?

2007-06-06 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 6, 2007, at 10:30 AM, Ian C wrote: Thank you, Bennett. I don't think I would ever have found that without directions. :) I'm no great Mac expert, but if the folder you suggest is searched by the command-F, find file dialog, then I think it would be a great improvement on the current

Re: Where is the example_lyxified.lyx file?

2007-06-06 Thread Ian C
Thank you, Bennett. I don't think I would ever have found that without directions. :) I'm no great Mac expert, but if the folder you suggest is searched by the command-F, find file dialog, then I think it would be a great improvement on the current situation. Alternatively (or as well) updating the

Re: 1.5.0rc1 Mac PPC G3 typing lag

2007-06-06 Thread Anders Ekberg
Bennett Helm Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:06:49 -0700 On Jun 6, 2007, at 12:27 AM, Gerard Ateshian wrote: I also found that the universal binary for 1.5rc1 runs slowly on Mac OS X PPC (I have a PowerBook G4, 1.67 GHz, 2 GB memory), so I compiled my own version and it runs just fine. If you want it,

Re: 1.5.0rc1 Mac PPC G3 typing lag

2007-06-06 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 6, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Johannes Knaus wrote: Well, I can confirm that Gerards PPC-Version runs just fine (flawlessly and speedy - no lags anymore) on my PPCs, while the universal binary just behaves like driving through small city streets with a truck that can't brake ;-) Thank you

Re: Where is the example_lyxified.lyx file?

2007-06-06 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 6, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Ian C wrote: Dear all, Forgive this beginner's question. I am looking for the example file, example_lyxified.lyx, referred to in the Lyx Tutorial. I quote: "The example files can be found in the examples/ directory, which you can get to by selecting FileOpen and t

Re: 1.5.0rc1 Mac PPC G3 typing lag

2007-06-06 Thread Johannes Knaus
Well, I can confirm that Gerards PPC-Version runs just fine (flawlessly and speedy - no lags anymore) on my PPCs, while the universal binary just behaves like driving through small city streets with a truck that can't brake ;-) Thank you very much Gerard. Johannes Am 06.06.2007 um 15:05

Where is the example_lyxified.lyx file?

2007-06-06 Thread Ian C
Dear all, Forgive this beginner's question. I am looking for the example file, example_lyxified.lyx, referred to in the Lyx Tutorial. I quote: "The example files can be found in the examples/ directory, which you can get to by selecting FileOpen and then clicking on the Examples button. Open the

marginal graphic

2007-06-06 Thread Trevor Nicholls
Hi I would like to define a style/environment which is effectively a standard paragraph indented by a certain amount, with a small graphic file in the margin created by the indent. Apart from the text in the paragraph, everything is fixed, i.e. the graphic is a specific 75x21px image and the inden

Re: 1.5.0rc1 Mac PPC G3 typing lag

2007-06-06 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 6, 2007, at 12:27 AM, Gerard Ateshian wrote: I also found that the universal binary for 1.5rc1 runs slowly on Mac OS X PPC (I have a PowerBook G4, 1.67 GHz, 2 GB memory), so I compiled my own version and it runs just fine. If you want it, you can download it from http://bio7.mech.co

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-06 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/6/07, Vaclav Smidl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using LyX on windows XP since a while now and i am trying > to move to Linux. I have not tried to install LyX on Linux yet (I am > sorry but i already know that it won't be easy, I already tried once > with no success) but my questi

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-06 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi, > > I have been using LyX on windows XP since a while now and i am trying > to move to Linux. I have not tried to install LyX on Linux yet (I am > sorry but i already know that it won't be easy, I already tried once > with no success) but my question is different now. On ubuntu it should be as

Re: \Resizebox in a float table

2007-06-06 Thread Christian Liesen
I¨ve updated the sample file here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables#toc17, it shows you how it's done. Regards, -- Christian Valter Filipe Silva wrote: Hello, To have a \resizebox command in a flot table is necessary to make the implement the \begin{table}, the \end{table}, caption, etc in E

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-06 Thread Julio Rojas
Nope, you're right Enrico. Steve only wants to achieve the task at hand with as little ERT as possible. On 6/6/07, Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Julio Rojas writes: > He knows that Enrico, it's only that, when you're writing a book, it's a > little cumbersome to do it with LaTeX

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-06 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Julio Rojas writes: > He knows that Enrico, it's only that, when you're writing a book, it's a > little cumbersome to do it with LaTeX all the time. I think I was also suggesting how to get that layout in LyX, or am I missing something here? -- Enrico

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-06 Thread Miki Dovrat
Hi, Dov, I don't understand why you would need to keep the logical behavior. In my opinion it is just bad, but we have all gotten used to it so it feels familiar. I will join the devel thread as Stefan requested. Miki "Dov Feldstern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED

\Resizebox in a float table

2007-06-06 Thread Valter Filipe Silva
Hello, To have a \resizebox command in a flot table is necessary to make the implement the \begin{table}, the \end{table}, caption, etc in ERT. It that correct? Or, i'm doing something wrong? Thanks in advance Regards Valter -- - Valter Filipe

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.5rc1-31-05-2007

2007-06-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: I uploaded an installer for LyX 1.5rc1: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=12890 I accidentally uploaded there the installer for LyX 1.5beta3, the correct installer can be found here: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.ph

moving to linux...

2007-06-06 Thread Ares
Hi all, I have been using LyX on windows XP since a while now and i am trying to move to Linux. I have not tried to install LyX on Linux yet (I am sorry but i already know that it won't be easy, I already tried once with no success) but my question is different now. When I view my old documents

Re: Merging lyx documents (can version tracking be abbused for this)

2007-06-06 Thread Helge Hafting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an imported tex->lyx document that I changed and now the original (tex) was also changed by the original author What is the best (or easiest) way to merge these changes? AFAIK gui diff programs are sensitive to line breaks and will probably get things wrong. Is it

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-06 Thread Georg Baum
Dov Feldstern wrote: > Back to RTL spaces: > > The problem is this: almost always, the user just wanted a space between > the previous word (which happened to be, say English) and the next one > (which happens to be Hebrew), but by mistake pressed F12 before space > and not first space and only t

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-06 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Now we have two threads in lyx-users and lyx-devels. Miki, are you on lyx-devels as well? Then we can continue there with the discussion. Stefan Am 05.06.2007 um 18:11 schrieb Miki Dovrat: Hi, I am having trouble following your examples, but my opinion is that no MAGIC should happen. Spa

Re: pdflatex postscript handling

2007-06-06 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi, > > When pdflatex converts *.eps files to pdf I get errors that these figures > can't be converted and are not shown in the final pdf. When .ps files get > converted, their boundingboxes are ignored so figures are not displayed > properly. This is a sign of corrupted eps files. Missing bound

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-06 Thread Julio Rojas
He knows that Enrico, it's only that, when you're writing a book, it's a little cumbersome to do it with LaTeX all the time. On 6/6/07, Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve Litt writes: > = > \documentclass[12pt]{amsbook} > \newcomm