Re: Self-publishing with LyX

William Adams wrote: - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. Helge Hafting

Re: date-insert again

John Kane wrote: --- Pavel Sanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: works on ~x86 gentoo. is Insert-Date working for you ? pavel It works okay on Windows XP except I'm getting the American dating format. I believe you set the date format in the preferences somewhere. Helge Hafting

Tables without oldstylenums

Hi! I have a lengthy (300 p) humanistic manuscript and have enabled \usepackage[osf]mathpazo as to get oldstyle figures across the whole document. However, I also have 50+ tables and if I've understood correctly one should not use oldstylenums except in the main text body. Is there any way

microtype package and hanging punctuation (was: Re: Self-publishing with LyX)

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: William Adams wrote: - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. I am reading the Micro-Typography with PDFTeX

Re: Tables without oldstylenums

On Aug 31, 2007, at 7:06 AM, Niklas Huldén wrote: I have a lengthy (300 p) humanistic manuscript and have enabled \usepackage[osf]mathpazo as to get oldstyle figures across the whole document. However, I also have 50+ tables and if I've understood correctly one should not use oldstylenums

Re: microtype package and hanging punctuation

Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: William Adams wrote: - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. I am reading the

Re: microtype package and hanging punctuation

On 8/31/07, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. I am reading the Micro-Typography with PDFTeX (microtype.dvi

Re: microtype package and hanging punctuation

Paul Smith wrote: On 8/31/07, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. I am reading the

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

Typhoon wrote: I have recompiled it with \usepackage{lmodern} as suggested earlier. Could you, and others with problems, download it from http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf and report the results? It now looks much better on my system. Thanks! Regards, Walter

Re: microtype package and hanging punctuation

On 8/31/07, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. I am reading the Micro-Typography with PDFTeX (microtype.dvi

PracTex Journal: Issue 2007-3: New Issue Contents Notification (fwd)

I've not seen this announcement here and it is probably of interest to many subscribers. Have at it. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.| Accelerators(TM) http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice:

work around for spell checker and apostrophes (single quotes)?

Hi I am using Aspell to spell-check English language text. The spell checker can handle word internal quotes fine, but it always balks at recognising words with quotes at their end. So it would think _verb's_ is fine, but _verbs'_ isn't. It also doesn't seem to be possible to add these

Ghostscript instead of Acrobat

Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to configure LyX to use Ghostscript to display the PDF file. The nice thing with GS is that it updates automatically the display when the file is changed. Regards, Gwenael

Re: Tables without oldstylenums

William Adams skrev: On Aug 31, 2007, at 7:06 AM, Niklas Huldén wrote: I have a lengthy (300 p) humanistic manuscript and have enabled \usepackage[osf]mathpazo as to get oldstyle figures across the whole document. However, I also have 50+ tables and if I've understood correctly one should

Re: Exporting

That output ends with a error saying it can't find the zip program in your system. zip is necessary in the creation of ODT format files, because those files are simply xhtml markup text that is compressed with zip. So install zip, and try again! pj On 8/30/07, John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: work around for spell checker and apostrophes (single quotes)?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi I am using Aspell to spell-check English language text. The spell checker can handle word internal quotes fine, but it always balks at recognising words with quotes at their end. So it would think _verb's_ is fine, but _verbs'_ isn't. It also doesn't seem to be

Bug with background color of LyX notes?

Dear All, I have found what I think is a bug: 1. change the background color of LyX to white; 2. inside a LyX note, insert something in math mode. One gets white background for the piece of the LyX note in math mode instead of yellow. Do you confirm this bug? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: A source for document class layouts?

The error goes like this... The new document class shows up (available and with the right name I gave it) in the LyX drop-down, but when I choose it, LyX generates an error window with a red 'X' on it and a warning that says The document could not be converted into the document class NRC -- I

Inserting graphics via lyxpipe

Hi -- I'd like to be able to insert graphics using the lyx server, but I'm not sure whether there are LFUN's that I need. I can do inset-insert graphics and dialog-show-new-inset graphics, but I don't know how to specify the name of the file I'd like to insert. e.g. I wish I could do

Re: A source for document class layouts?

Dave Hewitt wrote: So I tried Paul's suggestion, and the resulting two files (yes, it snapped again) are here: http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/lyx/ The layout file is there too, as you made it. The only thing that comes to mind is that I did use the Save as Document Defaults

Re: Ghostscript instead of Acrobat

Gwenael Gabard wrote: Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to configure LyX to use Ghostscript to display the PDF file. The nice thing with GS is that it updates automatically the display when the file is changed. Regards, Gwenael Go to Tools - Preferences... - File formats.

Re: Bug with background color of LyX notes?

Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, I have found what I think is a bug: 1. change the background color of LyX to white; Yuck! Hard on the eyes. 2. inside a LyX note, insert something in math mode. One gets white background for the piece of the LyX note in math mode instead of yellow. Do you

Re: Bug with background color of LyX notes?

On 8/31/07, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found what I think is a bug: 1. change the background color of LyX to white; Yuck! Hard on the eyes. :-) 2. inside a LyX note, insert something in math mode. One gets white background for the piece of the LyX note in math

bibtex .bst that works for APA with urldoi?

Hi all- Does anyone have (or know of) a bibtex style file that produces modern APA formatted references, that include DOI and URL references? I tried: apa apalike apalike2 apacite apacitex newapa and none do a satisfactory job. The plannat and elsart-harv include url references, but don't

how install a layaut

Please helpme How am I able to install a layout? thanks

Re: Indented paragraph in description list.

Rudi Gaelzer wrote: On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: For a more aesthetically pleasing solution, I think you would need either to redefine the itemize environment or create your own (and then add you new environment to the layout file). Specification of a value for

Re: how install a layaut

Jorge Mario wrote: Please helpme How am I able to install a layout? thanks See Help - Customization, chapter 5. /Paul

Re: A source for document class layouts?

Paul A. Rubin wrote: I'll skip over the forensic steps (and the what was I drinking that made me even think of them part) and cut to the chase scene. My layout file is coded (according to Notepad++) ANSI as UTF-8. Yours is coded UTF-8. Turns out either ANSI or ANSI as UTF-8 works fine, but

Re: A source for document class layouts?

Paul A. Rubin wrote: I'll skip over the forensic steps (and the what was I drinking that made me even think of them part) and cut to the chase scene. My layout file is coded (according to Notepad++) ANSI as UTF-8. Yours is coded UTF-8. Turns out either ANSI or ANSI as UTF-8 works fine, but

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

William Adams wrote: - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. Helge Hafting

Re: date-insert again

John Kane wrote: --- Pavel Sanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: works on ~x86 gentoo. is Insert-Date working for you ? pavel It works okay on Windows XP except I'm getting the American dating format. I believe you set the date format in the preferences somewhere. Helge Hafting

Tables without oldstylenums

Hi! I have a lengthy (300 p) humanistic manuscript and have enabled \usepackage[osf]mathpazo as to get oldstyle figures across the whole document. However, I also have 50+ tables and if I've understood correctly one should not use oldstylenums except in the main text body. Is there any way

microtype package and hanging punctuation (was: Re: Self-publishing with LyX)

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: William Adams wrote: - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. I am reading the Micro-Typography with PDFTeX

Re: Tables without oldstylenums

On Aug 31, 2007, at 7:06 AM, Niklas Huldén wrote: I have a lengthy (300 p) humanistic manuscript and have enabled \usepackage[osf]mathpazo as to get oldstyle figures across the whole document. However, I also have 50+ tables and if I've understood correctly one should not use oldstylenums

Re: microtype package and hanging punctuation

Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: William Adams wrote: - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. I am reading the

Re: microtype package and hanging punctuation

On 8/31/07, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. I am reading the Micro-Typography with PDFTeX (microtype.dvi

Re: microtype package and hanging punctuation

Paul Smith wrote: On 8/31/07, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. I am reading the

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

Typhoon wrote: I have recompiled it with \usepackage{lmodern} as suggested earlier. Could you, and others with problems, download it from http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf and report the results? It now looks much better on my system. Thanks! Regards, Walter

Re: microtype package and hanging punctuation

On 8/31/07, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. I am reading the Micro-Typography with PDFTeX (microtype.dvi

PracTex Journal: Issue 2007-3: New Issue Contents Notification (fwd)

I've not seen this announcement here and it is probably of interest to many subscribers. Have at it. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.| Accelerators(TM) http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice:

work around for spell checker and apostrophes (single quotes)?

Hi I am using Aspell to spell-check English language text. The spell checker can handle word internal quotes fine, but it always balks at recognising words with quotes at their end. So it would think _verb's_ is fine, but _verbs'_ isn't. It also doesn't seem to be possible to add these

Ghostscript instead of Acrobat

Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to configure LyX to use Ghostscript to display the PDF file. The nice thing with GS is that it updates automatically the display when the file is changed. Regards, Gwenael

Re: Tables without oldstylenums

William Adams skrev: On Aug 31, 2007, at 7:06 AM, Niklas Huldén wrote: I have a lengthy (300 p) humanistic manuscript and have enabled \usepackage[osf]mathpazo as to get oldstyle figures across the whole document. However, I also have 50+ tables and if I've understood correctly one should

Re: Exporting

That output ends with a error saying it can't find the zip program in your system. zip is necessary in the creation of ODT format files, because those files are simply xhtml markup text that is compressed with zip. So install zip, and try again! pj On 8/30/07, John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: work around for spell checker and apostrophes (single quotes)?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi I am using Aspell to spell-check English language text. The spell checker can handle word internal quotes fine, but it always balks at recognising words with quotes at their end. So it would think _verb's_ is fine, but _verbs'_ isn't. It also doesn't seem to be

Bug with background color of LyX notes?

Dear All, I have found what I think is a bug: 1. change the background color of LyX to white; 2. inside a LyX note, insert something in math mode. One gets white background for the piece of the LyX note in math mode instead of yellow. Do you confirm this bug? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: A source for document class layouts?

The error goes like this... The new document class shows up (available and with the right name I gave it) in the LyX drop-down, but when I choose it, LyX generates an error window with a red 'X' on it and a warning that says The document could not be converted into the document class NRC -- I

Inserting graphics via lyxpipe

Hi -- I'd like to be able to insert graphics using the lyx server, but I'm not sure whether there are LFUN's that I need. I can do inset-insert graphics and dialog-show-new-inset graphics, but I don't know how to specify the name of the file I'd like to insert. e.g. I wish I could do

Re: A source for document class layouts?

Dave Hewitt wrote: So I tried Paul's suggestion, and the resulting two files (yes, it snapped again) are here: http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/lyx/ The layout file is there too, as you made it. The only thing that comes to mind is that I did use the Save as Document Defaults

Re: Ghostscript instead of Acrobat

Gwenael Gabard wrote: Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to configure LyX to use Ghostscript to display the PDF file. The nice thing with GS is that it updates automatically the display when the file is changed. Regards, Gwenael Go to Tools - Preferences... - File formats.

Re: Bug with background color of LyX notes?

Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, I have found what I think is a bug: 1. change the background color of LyX to white; Yuck! Hard on the eyes. 2. inside a LyX note, insert something in math mode. One gets white background for the piece of the LyX note in math mode instead of yellow. Do you

Re: Bug with background color of LyX notes?

On 8/31/07, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found what I think is a bug: 1. change the background color of LyX to white; Yuck! Hard on the eyes. :-) 2. inside a LyX note, insert something in math mode. One gets white background for the piece of the LyX note in math

bibtex .bst that works for APA with urldoi?

Hi all- Does anyone have (or know of) a bibtex style file that produces modern APA formatted references, that include DOI and URL references? I tried: apa apalike apalike2 apacite apacitex newapa and none do a satisfactory job. The plannat and elsart-harv include url references, but don't

how install a layaut

Please helpme How am I able to install a layout? thanks

Re: Indented paragraph in description list.

Rudi Gaelzer wrote: On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: For a more aesthetically pleasing solution, I think you would need either to redefine the itemize environment or create your own (and then add you new environment to the layout file). Specification of a value for

Re: how install a layaut

Jorge Mario wrote: Please helpme How am I able to install a layout? thanks See Help - Customization, chapter 5. /Paul

Re: A source for document class layouts?

Paul A. Rubin wrote: I'll skip over the forensic steps (and the what was I drinking that made me even think of them part) and cut to the chase scene. My layout file is coded (according to Notepad++) ANSI as UTF-8. Yours is coded UTF-8. Turns out either ANSI or ANSI as UTF-8 works fine, but

Re: A source for document class layouts?

Paul A. Rubin wrote: I'll skip over the forensic steps (and the what was I drinking that made me even think of them part) and cut to the chase scene. My layout file is coded (according to Notepad++) ANSI as UTF-8. Yours is coded UTF-8. Turns out either ANSI or ANSI as UTF-8 works fine, but

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

William Adams wrote: - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. Helge Hafting

Re: date-insert again

John Kane wrote: --- Pavel Sanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: works on ~x86 gentoo. is Insert->Date working for you ? pavel It works okay on Windows XP except I'm getting the American dating format. I believe you set the date format in the preferences somewhere. Helge Hafting

Tables without oldstylenums

Hi! I have a lengthy (300 p) humanistic manuscript and have enabled \usepackage[osf]mathpazo as to get oldstyle figures across the whole document. However, I also have 50+ tables and if I've understood correctly one should not use oldstylenums except in the main text body. Is there any way

microtype package and hanging punctuation (was: Re: Self-publishing with LyX)

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: > William Adams wrote: > > > > - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? > When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page > to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. I am reading the Micro-Typography with PDFTeX

Re: Tables without oldstylenums

On Aug 31, 2007, at 7:06 AM, Niklas Huldén wrote: I have a lengthy (300 p) humanistic manuscript and have enabled \usepackage[osf]mathpazo as to get oldstyle figures across the whole document. However, I also have 50+ tables and if I've understood correctly one should not use oldstylenums

Re: microtype package and hanging punctuation

Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: William Adams wrote: - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. I am reading the

Re: microtype package and hanging punctuation

On 8/31/07, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? > >>> > >> When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page > >> to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. > >> > > I am reading the Micro-Typography with

Re: microtype package and hanging punctuation

Paul Smith wrote: On 8/31/07, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. I am reading the

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

Typhoon wrote: I have recompiled it with \usepackage{lmodern} as suggested earlier. Could you, and others with problems, download it from http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf and report the results? It now looks much better on my system. Thanks! Regards, Walter

Re: microtype package and hanging punctuation

On 8/31/07, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? > > > > > When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page > to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. > > > >>> I am reading the

PracTex Journal: Issue 2007-3: New Issue Contents Notification (fwd)

I've not seen this announcement here and it is probably of interest to many subscribers. Have at it. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.| Accelerators(TM) Voice:

work around for spell checker and apostrophes (single quotes)?

Hi I am using Aspell to spell-check English language text. The spell checker can handle word internal quotes fine, but it always balks at recognising words with quotes at their end. So it would think _verb's_ is fine, but _verbs'_ isn't. It also doesn't seem to be possible to add these

Ghostscript instead of Acrobat

Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to configure LyX to use Ghostscript to display the PDF file. The nice thing with GS is that it updates automatically the display when the file is changed. Regards, Gwenael

Re: Tables without oldstylenums

William Adams skrev: On Aug 31, 2007, at 7:06 AM, Niklas Huldén wrote: I have a lengthy (300 p) humanistic manuscript and have enabled \usepackage[osf]mathpazo as to get oldstyle figures across the whole document. However, I also have 50+ tables and if I've understood correctly one should

Re: Exporting

That output ends with a error saying it can't find the zip program in your system. zip is necessary in the creation of ODT format files, because those files are simply xhtml markup text that is compressed with zip. So install zip, and try again! pj On 8/30/07, John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: work around for spell checker and apostrophes (single quotes)?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi > > I am using Aspell to spell-check English language text. The spell > checker can handle word internal quotes fine, but it always balks at > recognising words with quotes at their end. So it would think _verb's_ > is fine, but _verbs'_ isn't. It also doesn't seem

Bug with background color of LyX notes?

Dear All, I have found what I think is a bug: 1. change the background color of LyX to white; 2. inside a LyX note, insert something in math mode. One gets white background for the piece of the LyX note in math mode instead of yellow. Do you confirm this bug? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: A source for document class layouts?

The error goes like this... The new document class shows up (available and with the right name I gave it) in the LyX drop-down, but when I choose it, LyX generates an error window with a red 'X' on it and a warning that says "The document could not be converted into the document class NRC" -- I

Inserting graphics via lyxpipe

Hi -- I'd like to be able to insert graphics using the lyx server, but I'm not sure whether there are LFUN's that I need. I can do "inset-insert graphics" and dialog-show-new-inset graphics, but I don't know how to specify the name of the file I'd like to insert. e.g. I wish I could do

Re: A source for document class layouts?

Dave Hewitt wrote: So I tried Paul's suggestion, and the resulting two files (yes, it snapped again) are here: http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/lyx/ The layout file is there too, as you made it. The only thing that comes to mind is that I did use the "Save as Document Defaults"

Re: Ghostscript instead of Acrobat

Gwenael Gabard wrote: Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to configure LyX to use Ghostscript to display the PDF file. The nice thing with GS is that it updates automatically the display when the file is changed. Regards, Gwenael Go to Tools -> Preferences... -> File formats.

Re: Bug with background color of LyX notes?

Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, I have found what I think is a bug: 1. change the background color of LyX to white; Yuck! Hard on the eyes. 2. inside a LyX note, insert something in math mode. One gets white background for the piece of the LyX note in math mode instead of yellow. Do you

Re: Bug with background color of LyX notes?

On 8/31/07, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have found what I think is a bug: > > > > 1. change the background color of LyX to white; > > Yuck! Hard on the eyes. :-) > > 2. inside a LyX note, insert something in math mode. > > > > One gets white background for the piece of the

bibtex .bst that works for APA with url?

Hi all- Does anyone have (or know of) a bibtex style file that produces modern APA formatted references, that include DOI and URL references? I tried: apa apalike apalike2 apacite apacitex newapa and none do a satisfactory job. The plannat and elsart-harv include url references, but don't

how install a layaut

Please helpme How am I able to install a layout? thanks

Re: Indented paragraph in description list.

Rudi Gaelzer wrote: On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: For a more aesthetically pleasing solution, I think you would need either to redefine the itemize environment or create your own (and then add you new environment to the layout file). Specification of a value for

Re: how install a layaut

Jorge Mario wrote: Please helpme How am I able to install a layout? thanks See Help -> Customization, chapter 5. /Paul

Re: A source for document class layouts?

Paul A. Rubin wrote: I'll skip over the forensic steps (and the "what was I drinking that made me even think of them" part) and cut to the chase scene. My layout file is coded (according to Notepad++) "ANSI as UTF-8". Yours is coded UTF-8. Turns out either ANSI or "ANSI as UTF-8" works

Re: A source for document class layouts?

Paul A. Rubin wrote: I'll skip over the forensic steps (and the "what was I drinking that made me even think of them" part) and cut to the chase scene. My layout file is coded (according to Notepad++) "ANSI as UTF-8". Yours is coded UTF-8. Turns out either ANSI or "ANSI as UTF-8" works