Re: beamer installation in Lyx

2007-06-11 Thread Alex Salvador
Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Salvador wrote: I get Using the default document class, because the class beamer could not be loaded Any idea ? Please post the output of 1. kpsewhich beamer.cls /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/beamer.cls 2. the console while

Re: beamer installation in Lyx

2007-06-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Alex Salvador wrote: /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/beamer.cls This looks good. 2. the console while running reconfigure in LyX. [...] +checking for document class beamer [beamer]... yes And this as well. Are you sure you don't have a newer beamer.layout installed somewhere (your

lyx tutorium

2007-06-11 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I am asking for experiences and hints from those of you who have introduced LyX to interested people. I have done it several times but am not content with the way I did it so far. The main task is -as I see it- to 1- make people see the advantages of LaTeX over other prg´s and the advantages

Re: LyX-1.5.0 Release Candidate 1 on Mac PPC: Speed issues (solution?)

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Don't know how much known this is: Apple provides a wonderful easy to use profiling application for OSX, called Shark. You get it here for free (maybe you have to register for the ADC website, but it's free): http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/ Shark is part of the package Computer

Re: LyX-1.5.0 Release Candidate 1 on Mac PPC: Speed issues (solution?)

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Am 09.06.2007 um 17:05 schrieb Gerard Ateshian: Bob, The version of Qt I had used for that compilation was 4.2. Just like you, I had noticed that the Times font was not a problem in that version. At least it helps to know that this font problem is due to Qt, not to LyX. That a

Re: lyx tutorium

2007-06-11 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Hi Wolfgang, Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: I am asking for experiences and hints from those of you who have introduced LyX to interested people. I have done it several times but am not content with the way I did it so far. The main task is -as I see it- to 1- make people see the advantages

Re: Lyx 1.5 RC1 Mac, Problem with absolute Path

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Am 08.06.2007 um 15:08 schrieb Alexander Kern: Hi fellow Lyx Users, I recently started to use the Lyx RC1 and I am very impressed. I realy like the new outline TOC feature. But I do have a Problem with Lyx Files I recieve from other People. Aparently Lyx saves Bibtex Bibliographies

RC1 -- strange behaviour

2007-06-11 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, the attached file is the reduced form of a template i have prepared into which i edit the path to and the name of the document when using it (doing a tiny bit of bash scripting). 1.) Open the file with RC1 from the command line, in my case $ lyxrc1 D_Test_01.lyx you will see at the end

Re: Lyx 1.5 RC1 Mac, Problem with absolute Path

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
I recently started to use the Lyx RC1 and I am very impressed. I realy like the new outline TOC feature. But I do have a Problem with Lyx Files I recieve from other People. Aparently Lyx saves Bibtex Bibliographies with an absolute path. That leads to problems when the files are moved ore

Re: RC1 -- strange behaviour

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Make a bug report in bugzilla please. Stefan Hi, the attached file is the reduced form of a template i have prepared into which i edit the path to and the name of the document when using it (doing a tiny bit of bash scripting). 1.) Open the file with RC1 from the command line, in my case

Re: RC1 -- strange behaviour

2007-06-11 Thread Georg Baum
Stefan Schimanski wrote: Make a bug report in bugzilla please. No. This is no valid .lyx file. A valid one would have \backslash _ (with the \backslash in its own line) instead of \_ in the ERT. Adjust the script that generates the file, and it should work. This syntax is used since at

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-11 Thread Helge Hafting
Ares wrote: I thought that pdf, being a portable document format, didn't need any special setting on the machine you use. Now matter how portable - you still need pdf reader software. On linux there are several alternatives, some may be better than others. Some do a bad job with bitmap fonts,

Re: marginal graphic

2007-06-11 Thread Helge Hafting
Trevor Nicholls wrote: 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

Re: beamer installation in Lyx

2007-06-11 Thread Alex Salvador
Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And this as well. Are you sure you don't have a newer beamer.layout installed somewhere (your ~/.lyx/layouts directory for instance)? I re-checked and there is only one copy in /usr/share/lyx/layouts/ and it is the version you provided However,

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-11 Thread Georg Baum
Helge Hafting wrote: Ares wrote: I thought that pdf, being a portable document format, didn't need any special setting on the machine you use. Now matter how portable - you still need pdf reader software. On linux there are several alternatives, some may be better than others. Some do a

Re: beamer installation in Lyx

2007-06-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Alex Salvador wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And this as well. Are you sure you don't have a newer beamer.layout installed somewhere (your ~/.lyx/layouts directory for instance)? I re-checked and there is only one copy in /usr/share/lyx/layouts/ and it is the version

Re: beamer installation in Lyx

2007-06-11 Thread Alex Salvador
Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see. What about the attached layout? Jürgen #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[beamer,pgf.sty,xcolor.sty]{Beamer Presentation Class} # Author : Till Tantau [EMAIL PROTECTED] # $Header:

Re: lyx tutorium

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 11 June 2007 04:24, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I am asking for experiences and hints from those of you who have introduced LyX to interested people. I have done it several times but am not content with the way I did it so far. Hi Wolfgang, This is a subject near and dear to my heart

Re: question on titlesec package

2007-06-11 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: [...] but I don´t know how to get that chapter number became very large. I am crazy. Actually in preamble I put:

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 20:13, Enrico Forestieri wrote: Steve Litt writes: = \documentclass[12pt]{amsbook} \newcommand{\cn}[1]{\texttt{\char92 #1}} \begin{document} \begin{align*} x=5y+3z+221a+43621\qquad\text{hellox}\\

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Julio Rojas
Now I know. Sorry Enrico for beeing such a pain. BTW Steve, doesn't matter that the text is right aligned? On 6/11/07, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 20:13, Enrico Forestieri wrote: Steve Litt writes: =

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 11 June 2007 14:19, Julio Rojas wrote: Now I know. Sorry Enrico for beeing such a pain. BTW Steve, doesn't matter that the text is right aligned? Hi Julio, On my test.lyx, the explanation text is left aligned, not right. Don't worry about being a pain. Now that I've seen how good

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 11 June 2007 14:33, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 11 June 2007 14:19, Julio Rojas wrote: Now I know. Sorry Enrico for beeing such a pain. BTW Steve, doesn't matter that the text is right aligned? Hi Julio, On my test.lyx, the explanation text is left aligned, not right. Don't

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Julio Rojas
Yup, I did exactly that, from the beggining. But the text is right aligned. That's why I changed to tables in my solution. On 6/11/07, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 11 June 2007 14:33, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 11 June 2007 14:19, Julio Rojas wrote: Now I know. Sorry

Lyx and lifecon

2007-06-11 Thread Benoit Plante
Hi, I'm an actuary, and a new user of Lyx. I'm trying to figure how to insert actuarial notations in reports I'm writing in Lyx. I found this style (called lifecon.sty) that do exactly that: http://maths.dur.ac.uk/stats/courses/AMII/lifecon.sty it has a pretty manual too

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-11 Thread Tim Michelsen
you did apt-get install lyx). For odd packages that you need generally ctan is your friend and you can set up a texmf directory under your home directory for these odd packages. Then run 'sudo texhash' from command line and reconfigure LyX and all is good in the world. To install additional

Re: Spellchecker für Lyx 1.5 rc1

2007-06-11 Thread Joost Verburg
Robert Poser wrote: Hoffe ich bin hier richtig... nachdem ich meine Studienarbeit mit WinEdt geschrieben habe, möchte ich nun den Lyx Editor in Windows nutzen. Bei der Installation der Version 1.5 rc1 kam jedoch ein Hinweis, das der Link zu dem Wörterbuch nicht funktioniert. Kann mir jemand

How to create my own LyX commands?

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'd like to make some LyX commands, bound to keystrokes, that accomplish several things -- a sort of script. For instance, I want a function to produce a new line in a math array* thing, and place \qquad\text in the last of the four. I can then bind that to a hotkey and instantly

Re: How to create my own LyX commands?

2007-06-11 Thread Jonathan Vogt
Hi, I've looked through all LyX help files and couldn't find references to how to do it. Can someone point me in the right direction? right direction would be the math.bind file. I got some similar keybindings. so it should be hard to adapt them. The only thing I can't insert so far is a

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 02:33:31PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: LyX math is so new to me that I don't know exactly what I want, yet I need to have it pretty much nailed down before I begin the book. Yet you decided already that typing in LaTeX and hitting C-m is easier. Quite interesting. Andre'

Install spellchecker in LyX 1.4.4-4

2007-06-11 Thread Ricardo Bessa
I can´t install spellchecker with aspell in LyX 1.4.4-4, how a can do this mannualy? A try to install but Lyx doesn´t detect aspell 0.6. Best regards, Bessa

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 11 June 2007 17:42, you wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 02:33:31PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: LyX math is so new to me that I don't know exactly what I want, yet I need to have it pretty much nailed down before I begin the book. Yet you decided already that typing in LaTeX and

RE: lyx tutorium

2007-06-11 Thread Trevor Nicholls
LyX vs. Docbook: I believe that LyX can be used to front-end docbook. So I am led to understand (in principle), but if this is really true then it is one area where the LyX help files are sadly deficient. I'm quite willing to accept that it's my ignorance that is responsible for my failure to

Thesis templates needed

2007-06-11 Thread Supheakmungkol SARIN
Hello Lyxer, I am now in the process of writing thesis. I'd like to know whether you can point out some great lyx thesis templates or you can share your own template if you have made one. Thank you so much in advance. Best regards, Supheakmungkol

Re: beamer installation in Lyx

2007-06-11 Thread Alex Salvador
Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Salvador wrote: I get Using the default document class, because the class beamer could not be loaded Any idea ? Please post the output of 1. kpsewhich beamer.cls /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/beamer.cls 2. the console while

Re: beamer installation in Lyx

2007-06-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Alex Salvador wrote: /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/beamer.cls This looks good. 2. the console while running reconfigure in LyX. [...] +checking for document class beamer [beamer]... yes And this as well. Are you sure you don't have a newer beamer.layout installed somewhere (your

lyx tutorium

2007-06-11 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I am asking for experiences and hints from those of you who have introduced LyX to interested people. I have done it several times but am not content with the way I did it so far. The main task is -as I see it- to 1- make people see the advantages of LaTeX over other prg´s and the advantages

Re: LyX-1.5.0 Release Candidate 1 on Mac PPC: Speed issues (solution?)

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Don't know how much known this is: Apple provides a wonderful easy to use profiling application for OSX, called Shark. You get it here for free (maybe you have to register for the ADC website, but it's free): http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/ Shark is part of the package Computer

Re: LyX-1.5.0 Release Candidate 1 on Mac PPC: Speed issues (solution?)

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Am 09.06.2007 um 17:05 schrieb Gerard Ateshian: Bob, The version of Qt I had used for that compilation was 4.2. Just like you, I had noticed that the Times font was not a problem in that version. At least it helps to know that this font problem is due to Qt, not to LyX. That a

Re: lyx tutorium

2007-06-11 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Hi Wolfgang, Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: I am asking for experiences and hints from those of you who have introduced LyX to interested people. I have done it several times but am not content with the way I did it so far. The main task is -as I see it- to 1- make people see the advantages

Re: Lyx 1.5 RC1 Mac, Problem with absolute Path

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Am 08.06.2007 um 15:08 schrieb Alexander Kern: Hi fellow Lyx Users, I recently started to use the Lyx RC1 and I am very impressed. I realy like the new outline TOC feature. But I do have a Problem with Lyx Files I recieve from other People. Aparently Lyx saves Bibtex Bibliographies

RC1 -- strange behaviour

2007-06-11 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, the attached file is the reduced form of a template i have prepared into which i edit the path to and the name of the document when using it (doing a tiny bit of bash scripting). 1.) Open the file with RC1 from the command line, in my case $ lyxrc1 D_Test_01.lyx you will see at the end

Re: Lyx 1.5 RC1 Mac, Problem with absolute Path

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
I recently started to use the Lyx RC1 and I am very impressed. I realy like the new outline TOC feature. But I do have a Problem with Lyx Files I recieve from other People. Aparently Lyx saves Bibtex Bibliographies with an absolute path. That leads to problems when the files are moved ore

Re: RC1 -- strange behaviour

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Make a bug report in bugzilla please. Stefan Hi, the attached file is the reduced form of a template i have prepared into which i edit the path to and the name of the document when using it (doing a tiny bit of bash scripting). 1.) Open the file with RC1 from the command line, in my case

Re: RC1 -- strange behaviour

2007-06-11 Thread Georg Baum
Stefan Schimanski wrote: Make a bug report in bugzilla please. No. This is no valid .lyx file. A valid one would have \backslash _ (with the \backslash in its own line) instead of \_ in the ERT. Adjust the script that generates the file, and it should work. This syntax is used since at

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-11 Thread Helge Hafting
Ares wrote: I thought that pdf, being a portable document format, didn't need any special setting on the machine you use. Now matter how portable - you still need pdf reader software. On linux there are several alternatives, some may be better than others. Some do a bad job with bitmap fonts,

Re: marginal graphic

2007-06-11 Thread Helge Hafting
Trevor Nicholls wrote: 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

Re: beamer installation in Lyx

2007-06-11 Thread Alex Salvador
Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And this as well. Are you sure you don't have a newer beamer.layout installed somewhere (your ~/.lyx/layouts directory for instance)? I re-checked and there is only one copy in /usr/share/lyx/layouts/ and it is the version you provided However,

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-11 Thread Georg Baum
Helge Hafting wrote: Ares wrote: I thought that pdf, being a portable document format, didn't need any special setting on the machine you use. Now matter how portable - you still need pdf reader software. On linux there are several alternatives, some may be better than others. Some do a

Re: beamer installation in Lyx

2007-06-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Alex Salvador wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And this as well. Are you sure you don't have a newer beamer.layout installed somewhere (your ~/.lyx/layouts directory for instance)? I re-checked and there is only one copy in /usr/share/lyx/layouts/ and it is the version

Re: beamer installation in Lyx

2007-06-11 Thread Alex Salvador
Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see. What about the attached layout? Jürgen #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[beamer,pgf.sty,xcolor.sty]{Beamer Presentation Class} # Author : Till Tantau [EMAIL PROTECTED] # $Header:

Re: lyx tutorium

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 11 June 2007 04:24, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I am asking for experiences and hints from those of you who have introduced LyX to interested people. I have done it several times but am not content with the way I did it so far. Hi Wolfgang, This is a subject near and dear to my heart

Re: question on titlesec package

2007-06-11 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: [...] but I don´t know how to get that chapter number became very large. I am crazy. Actually in preamble I put:

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 20:13, Enrico Forestieri wrote: Steve Litt writes: = \documentclass[12pt]{amsbook} \newcommand{\cn}[1]{\texttt{\char92 #1}} \begin{document} \begin{align*} x=5y+3z+221a+43621\qquad\text{hellox}\\

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Julio Rojas
Now I know. Sorry Enrico for beeing such a pain. BTW Steve, doesn't matter that the text is right aligned? On 6/11/07, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 20:13, Enrico Forestieri wrote: Steve Litt writes: =

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 11 June 2007 14:19, Julio Rojas wrote: Now I know. Sorry Enrico for beeing such a pain. BTW Steve, doesn't matter that the text is right aligned? Hi Julio, On my test.lyx, the explanation text is left aligned, not right. Don't worry about being a pain. Now that I've seen how good

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 11 June 2007 14:33, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 11 June 2007 14:19, Julio Rojas wrote: Now I know. Sorry Enrico for beeing such a pain. BTW Steve, doesn't matter that the text is right aligned? Hi Julio, On my test.lyx, the explanation text is left aligned, not right. Don't

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Julio Rojas
Yup, I did exactly that, from the beggining. But the text is right aligned. That's why I changed to tables in my solution. On 6/11/07, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 11 June 2007 14:33, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 11 June 2007 14:19, Julio Rojas wrote: Now I know. Sorry

Lyx and lifecon

2007-06-11 Thread Benoit Plante
Hi, I'm an actuary, and a new user of Lyx. I'm trying to figure how to insert actuarial notations in reports I'm writing in Lyx. I found this style (called lifecon.sty) that do exactly that: http://maths.dur.ac.uk/stats/courses/AMII/lifecon.sty it has a pretty manual too

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-11 Thread Tim Michelsen
you did apt-get install lyx). For odd packages that you need generally ctan is your friend and you can set up a texmf directory under your home directory for these odd packages. Then run 'sudo texhash' from command line and reconfigure LyX and all is good in the world. To install additional

Re: Spellchecker für Lyx 1.5 rc1

2007-06-11 Thread Joost Verburg
Robert Poser wrote: Hoffe ich bin hier richtig... nachdem ich meine Studienarbeit mit WinEdt geschrieben habe, möchte ich nun den Lyx Editor in Windows nutzen. Bei der Installation der Version 1.5 rc1 kam jedoch ein Hinweis, das der Link zu dem Wörterbuch nicht funktioniert. Kann mir jemand

How to create my own LyX commands?

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'd like to make some LyX commands, bound to keystrokes, that accomplish several things -- a sort of script. For instance, I want a function to produce a new line in a math array* thing, and place \qquad\text in the last of the four. I can then bind that to a hotkey and instantly

Re: How to create my own LyX commands?

2007-06-11 Thread Jonathan Vogt
Hi, I've looked through all LyX help files and couldn't find references to how to do it. Can someone point me in the right direction? right direction would be the math.bind file. I got some similar keybindings. so it should be hard to adapt them. The only thing I can't insert so far is a

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 02:33:31PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: LyX math is so new to me that I don't know exactly what I want, yet I need to have it pretty much nailed down before I begin the book. Yet you decided already that typing in LaTeX and hitting C-m is easier. Quite interesting. Andre'

Install spellchecker in LyX 1.4.4-4

2007-06-11 Thread Ricardo Bessa
I can´t install spellchecker with aspell in LyX 1.4.4-4, how a can do this mannualy? A try to install but Lyx doesn´t detect aspell 0.6. Best regards, Bessa

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 11 June 2007 17:42, you wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 02:33:31PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: LyX math is so new to me that I don't know exactly what I want, yet I need to have it pretty much nailed down before I begin the book. Yet you decided already that typing in LaTeX and

RE: lyx tutorium

2007-06-11 Thread Trevor Nicholls
LyX vs. Docbook: I believe that LyX can be used to front-end docbook. So I am led to understand (in principle), but if this is really true then it is one area where the LyX help files are sadly deficient. I'm quite willing to accept that it's my ignorance that is responsible for my failure to

Thesis templates needed

2007-06-11 Thread Supheakmungkol SARIN
Hello Lyxer, I am now in the process of writing thesis. I'd like to know whether you can point out some great lyx thesis templates or you can share your own template if you have made one. Thank you so much in advance. Best regards, Supheakmungkol

Re: beamer installation in Lyx

2007-06-11 Thread Alex Salvador
Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alex Salvador wrote: > > I get "Using the default document class, because the class beamer could not > > be loaded" > > > > Any idea ? > > Please post the output of > 1. "kpsewhich beamer.cls" /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/beamer.cls > 2.

Re: beamer installation in Lyx

2007-06-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Alex Salvador wrote: > /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/beamer.cls This looks good. > > 2. the console while running reconfigure in LyX. [...] > +checking for document class beamer [beamer]... yes And this as well. Are you sure you don't have a newer beamer.layout installed somewhere (your

lyx tutorium

2007-06-11 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I am asking for experiences and hints from those of you who have introduced LyX to interested people. I have done it several times but am not content with the way I did it so far. The main task is -as I see it- to 1- make people see the advantages of LaTeX over other prg´s and the advantages

Re: LyX-1.5.0 Release Candidate 1 on Mac PPC: Speed issues (solution?)

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Don't know how much known this is: Apple provides a wonderful easy to use profiling application for OSX, called Shark. You get it here for free (maybe you have to register for the ADC website, but it's free): http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/ Shark is part of the package

Re: LyX-1.5.0 Release Candidate 1 on Mac PPC: Speed issues (solution?)

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Am 09.06.2007 um 17:05 schrieb Gerard Ateshian: Bob, The version of Qt I had used for that compilation was 4.2. Just like you, I had noticed that the Times font was not a problem in that version. At least it helps to know that this font problem is due to Qt, not to LyX. That a

Re: lyx tutorium

2007-06-11 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Hi Wolfgang, Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: I am asking for experiences and hints from those of you who have introduced LyX to interested people. I have done it several times but am not content with the way I did it so far. The main task is -as I see it- to 1- make people see the advantages

Re: Lyx 1.5 RC1 Mac, Problem with absolute Path

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Am 08.06.2007 um 15:08 schrieb Alexander Kern: Hi fellow Lyx Users, I recently started to use the Lyx RC1 and I am very impressed. I realy like the new outline TOC feature. But I do have a Problem with Lyx Files I recieve from other People. Aparently Lyx saves Bibtex Bibliographies

RC1 -- strange behaviour

2007-06-11 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, the attached file is the reduced form of a template i have prepared into which i edit the path to and the name of the document when using it (doing a tiny bit of bash scripting). 1.) Open the file with RC1 from the command line, in my case $ lyxrc1 D_Test_01.lyx you will see at the end

Re: Lyx 1.5 RC1 Mac, Problem with absolute Path

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
I recently started to use the Lyx RC1 and I am very impressed. I realy like the new outline TOC feature. But I do have a Problem with Lyx Files I recieve from other People. Aparently Lyx saves Bibtex Bibliographies with an absolute path. That leads to problems when the files are moved ore

Re: RC1 -- strange behaviour

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Make a bug report in bugzilla please. Stefan Hi, the attached file is the reduced form of a template i have prepared into which i edit the path to and the name of the document when using it (doing a tiny bit of bash scripting). 1.) Open the file with RC1 from the command line, in my case

Re: RC1 -- strange behaviour

2007-06-11 Thread Georg Baum
Stefan Schimanski wrote: > Make a bug report in bugzilla please. No. This is no valid .lyx file. A valid one would have \backslash _ (with the \backslash in its own line) instead of \_ in the ERT. Adjust the script that generates the file, and it should work. This syntax is used since at

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-11 Thread Helge Hafting
Ares wrote: I thought that pdf, being a "portable document format", didn't need any special setting on the machine you use. Now matter how portable - you still need pdf reader software. On linux there are several alternatives, some may be better than others. Some do a bad job with bitmap

Re: marginal graphic

2007-06-11 Thread Helge Hafting
Trevor Nicholls wrote: 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

Re: beamer installation in Lyx

2007-06-11 Thread Alex Salvador
Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And this as well. Are you sure you don't have a newer beamer.layout installed > somewhere (your ~/.lyx/layouts directory for instance)? I re-checked and there is only one copy in /usr/share/lyx/layouts/ and it is the version you provided

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-11 Thread Georg Baum
Helge Hafting wrote: > Ares wrote: >> >> I thought that pdf, being a "portable document format", didn't need >> any special setting on the machine you use. > Now matter how portable - you still need pdf reader software. > On linux there are several alternatives, some may be better > than others.

Re: beamer installation in Lyx

2007-06-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Alex Salvador wrote: > Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > And this as well. Are you sure you don't have a newer beamer.layout > > installed somewhere (your ~/.lyx/layouts directory for instance)? > > I re-checked and there is only one copy in /usr/share/lyx/layouts/ and it > is the

Re: beamer installation in Lyx

2007-06-11 Thread Alex Salvador
Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see. > What about the attached layout? > > Jürgen > > > #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this > # \DeclareLaTeXClass[beamer,pgf.sty,xcolor.sty]{Beamer Presentation Class} > # Author : Till Tantau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > #

Re: lyx tutorium

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 11 June 2007 04:24, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > I am asking for experiences and hints from those of you who have introduced > LyX to interested people. I have done it several times but am not content > with the way I did it so far. Hi Wolfgang, This is a subject near and dear to my

Re: question on titlesec package

2007-06-11 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: > > [...] > > but I don´t know how to get that chapter number > > became very large. > > I am crazy. Actually in preamble I put:

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 20:13, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Steve Litt writes: > > = > > \documentclass[12pt]{amsbook} > > \newcommand{\cn}[1]{\texttt{\char92 #1}} > > > > \begin{document} > > \begin{align*} > >

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Julio Rojas
Now I know. Sorry Enrico for beeing such a pain. BTW Steve, doesn't matter that the text is right aligned? On 6/11/07, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 20:13, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Steve Litt writes: > > = > >

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 11 June 2007 14:19, Julio Rojas wrote: > Now I know. Sorry Enrico for beeing such a pain. > > BTW Steve, doesn't matter that the text is right aligned? Hi Julio, On my test.lyx, the explanation text is left aligned, not right. Don't worry about being a pain. Now that I've seen how

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 11 June 2007 14:33, Steve Litt wrote: > On Monday 11 June 2007 14:19, Julio Rojas wrote: > > Now I know. Sorry Enrico for beeing such a pain. > > > > BTW Steve, doesn't matter that the text is right aligned? > > Hi Julio, > > On my test.lyx, the explanation text is left aligned, not

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Julio Rojas
Yup, I did exactly that, from the beggining. But the text is right aligned. That's why I changed to tables in my solution. On 6/11/07, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 11 June 2007 14:33, Steve Litt wrote: > On Monday 11 June 2007 14:19, Julio Rojas wrote: > > Now I know. Sorry

Lyx and lifecon

2007-06-11 Thread Benoit Plante
Hi, I'm an actuary, and a new user of Lyx. I'm trying to figure how to insert actuarial notations in reports I'm writing in Lyx. I found this style (called lifecon.sty) that do exactly that: http://maths.dur.ac.uk/stats/courses/AMII/lifecon.sty it has a pretty manual too

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-11 Thread Tim Michelsen
you did "apt-get install lyx"). For odd packages that you need generally ctan is your friend and you can set up a texmf directory under your home directory for these odd packages. Then run 'sudo texhash' from command line and reconfigure LyX and all is good in the world. To install additional

Re: Spellchecker für Lyx 1.5 rc1

2007-06-11 Thread Joost Verburg
Robert Poser wrote: Hoffe ich bin hier richtig... nachdem ich meine Studienarbeit mit WinEdt geschrieben habe, möchte ich nun den Lyx Editor in Windows nutzen. Bei der Installation der Version 1.5 rc1 kam jedoch ein Hinweis, das der Link zu dem Wörterbuch nicht funktioniert. Kann mir jemand

How to create my own LyX commands?

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'd like to make some LyX commands, bound to keystrokes, that accomplish several things -- a sort of script. For instance, I want a function to produce a new line in a math array* thing, and place \qquad\text in the last of the four. I can then bind that to a hotkey and instantly

Re: How to create my own LyX commands?

2007-06-11 Thread Jonathan Vogt
Hi, > I've looked through all LyX help files and couldn't find references to how > to do it. Can someone point me in the right direction? right direction would be the math.bind file. I got some similar keybindings. so it should be hard to adapt them. The only thing I can't insert so far is a

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 02:33:31PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > LyX math is so new to me that I don't know exactly what I want, yet I need to > have it pretty much nailed down before I begin the book. Yet you decided already that typing in LaTeX and hitting C-m is easier. Quite interesting.

Install spellchecker in LyX 1.4.4-4

2007-06-11 Thread Ricardo Bessa
I can´t install spellchecker with aspell in LyX 1.4.4-4, how a can do this mannualy? A try to install but Lyx doesn´t detect aspell 0.6. Best regards, Bessa

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 11 June 2007 17:42, you wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 02:33:31PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > LyX math is so new to me that I don't know exactly what I want, yet I > > need to have it pretty much nailed down before I begin the book. > > Yet you decided already that typing in LaTeX and

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