In both 1.3.7 & 1.5.1 I've been unable to get a Figure Float Wrap to
appear in either DVI or a print-out. It's visible to me--I can see
both the graphic & the text in LyX.
Floated images work fine, but as soon as I try to wrap text, the entire
float becomes invisible to DVI & Post Script. In fa
David Pokorny wrote:
Thanks for the lively discussion :)
This is actually a somewhat common problem for me, and I understand
the value of asking that new users acclimate to a new interface, but
in this particular instance, I have to disagree:
First, the current behavior is a small (but importan
Lance W. Haverkamp wrote:
In both 1.3.7 & 1.5.1 I've been unable to get a Figure Float Wrap to
appear in either DVI or a print-out. It's visible to me--I can see
both the graphic & the text in LyX.
Floated images work fine, but as soon as I try to wrap text, the entire
float becomes invisible
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, not really. Within math if the cursor is behind an 'complex inset'
> that ordinarily would be removed by backspace we first select the inset
> and only the second backspace actually deletes it. It has been like that
> for a while and I think people
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 n
Simple question. What is a good way to typeset 'c++'?
Paul Smith wrote:
I have just noticed that one can select the math mode background
color. However, unless one selects the same background color for
normal text and for LyX notes, one cannot avoid the reported problem.
I agree that this is not a bug, but an enhancement could be introduced
to give
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 15:54:58 Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Go for it. But I won't be surprised if it's a long wait before a
> developer gets around to that one.
Have we told you that we accept patches? ;-)
Not that every patch goes in directly but a patch is a nice start. :-)
> /Paul
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On Tue, 04 Sep 2007, Neal Becker wrote:
> Simple question. What is a good way to typeset 'c++'?
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listings/
hth,
Alan Isaac
On 9/4/07, José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Go for it. But I won't be surprised if it's a long wait before a
> > developer gets around to that one.
>
> Have we told you that we accept patches? ;-)
>
> Not that every patch goes in directly but a patch is a nice start. :-)
Unfortunately
on 09/04/2007 03:53 AM Helge Hafting said the following:
> Lance W. Haverkamp wrote:
>> In both 1.3.7 & 1.5.1 I've been unable to get a Figure Float Wrap to
>> appear in either DVI or a print-out. It's visible to me--I can see
>> both the graphic & the text in LyX.
> What you can do is:
> Try
Alan Isaac wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007, Neal Becker wrote:
>> Simple question. What is a good way to typeset 'c++'?
>
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listings/
>
Sorry, I meant typeset the word: "c++".
On 9/4/07, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Go for it. But I won't be surprised if it's a long wait before a
> > > developer gets around to that one.
> >
> > Have we told you that we accept patches? ;-)
> >
> > Not that every patch goes in directly but a patch is a nice start. :-)
>
Something appears to be significantly broken:
Some of the example documents can't even open without reporting an error.
I'm running a Dapper-based MEPIS Linux system. Dapper includes 1.3.7.
I have also installed the Dapper version 1.5.1, from the LyX servers
(which installed without errors).
Op
Hi all,
My 1999 classic, "Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful
Technologist" was written in MS Word. It was a styles based document. Now I
want to make a second edition.
I tried to work on it in OpenOffice, but OpenOffice is terrible.
Is there a way to transfer an MS Word document t
Appreciated!
Cheers, Sam
Word-to-LaTex will give you a LaTeX file that you
might then able to import to LyX
http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-to-latex/index.html
. I suspect the results will be VERY ugly.
Actually OOo is usually fine. It's Word's practice of
mangling styles that seems to mess it up. :)
--- Steve Litt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For Ledmac, you don't insert a footnote at the end of a sentence but apply
it to a range of the text. I doubt it is possible to do it in LyX with
insets. Or only in a clumsy way.
Oh, I see, this is more of a challenge. It'd be possible, though, to
define two charstyle
Unnstalled 1.3.7 reinstalled 1.5.1, no change
Uninstalled 1.5.1 reinstalled 1.3.7 no change; error messages worded
slightly differently, but still largely non-functional beyond the most
basic commands.
on 09/04/2007 10:23 AM Lance W. Haverkamp said the following:
> Something appears to be sign
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 12:45, John Kane wrote:
> Word-to-LaTex will give you a LaTeX file that you
> might then able to import to LyX
> http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-to-latex/index.html
> . I suspect the results will be VERY ugly.
This looks like what I need. No matter how ugly the outp
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 13:34, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 12:45, John Kane wrote:
> > Word-to-LaTex will give you a LaTeX file that you
> > might then able to import to LyX
> > http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-to-latex/index.html
> > . I suspect the results will be VERY
On 9/4/07, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 13:34, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 September 2007 12:45, John Kane wrote:
> > > Word-to-LaTex will give you a LaTeX file that you
> > > might then able to import to LyX
> > > http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-t
On 9/4/07, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't spoze there's an rtf to LaTeX converter that doesn't require Word
> or .Net?
There is latex2rtf and rtf2latex. Don't know if it preserves any
styles. It's available on Linux.
Bob
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 13:35, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > My 1999 classic, "Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful
> > Technologist" was written in MS Word. It was a styles based document. Now
> > I want to make a second edition.
>
Lance W. Haverkamp wrote:
Unnstalled 1.3.7 reinstalled 1.5.1, no change
Uninstalled 1.5.1 reinstalled 1.3.7 no change; error messages worded
slightly differently, but still largely non-functional beyond the most
basic commands.
Try running LyX from a terminal, and then running "Reconfigure" w
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 13:34, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 12:45, John Kane wrote:
> > Word-to-LaTex will give you a LaTeX file that you
> > might then able to import to LyX
> > http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-to-latex/index.html
> > . I suspect the results
Steve Litt wrote:
> Is there a way to transfer an MS Word document to LyX, preserving the
> paragraph and character styles in the document? I don't care how messed up
> it looks after transfer -- I can tweak the layout file to suit my needs,
> but I'd prefer not to lose styles.
>
> Anyone know ho
Neal Becker wrote:
> Sorry, I meant typeset the word: "c++".
http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=misc/misc#cpp
Georg
On Sep 4, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
I have another idea. I could write a series of Word macros to find
styles and
write their names as tags within the text. Then export as text,
write a Ruby
parser, and convert to LyX. Only thing is, I don't know if I can
write the
word macros to
Hi,
I'm using apa.layout to style my papers, but it seems to miss several of
the APA style specifications, namely headings' specifications (cf.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APA_style#Headings).
Is there any other layout already developed that follows APA
specifications more closely?
Thank
Roberto Gorjão wrote:
I'm using apa.layout to style my papers, but it seems to miss several of
the APA style specifications, namely headings' specifications (cf.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APA_style#Headings).
Is there any other layout already developed that follows APA
specifications mo
Hello,
I'm new to LyX, and have to say that is a very impressive piece of software.
Congrats to the LyX Team.
It there available a \documentclass specifically intended to create Help files
like a Reference Guide where the TOC use 'keywords' instead of numbers.
Currently I'm getting .html help
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
> I don't spoze there's an rtf to LaTeX converter that doesn't require Word
> or .Net?
ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/support/rtf2latex/
Or export to HTML and then run "tidy" for it. And then HTML to LaTeX with:
http://html2latex.sourceforge.net/
Then import
Declan O'Byrne wrote:
I have this error, which prevents my document from doing anything. The
same document worked fine with lyx 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.04. Now I'm
running Ubuntu 7.10. I wonder if the problem is related to texlive,
and whether there is some package I should add?
Is the error that th
Helge Hafting schrieb:
This is a latex bug or weakness.
The float wrap is implemented using the latex package "floatflt".
Unfortunately, it doesn't always work. The wrapped stuff
sometimes disappear if it gets too near the page boundary,
or particularly if it gets tangled up with document sec
Dawn & Marie Perry schrieb:
See from reading some archived mail that I can rotate tables. What about
single lines & blocks of text?
This is possible with LaTeX-commands. Have a look at section 22.15 in this
manual
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/LyXMathebefehle/LyXMathebefehle-3-09.pdf
(it is
> See from reading some archived mail that I can
> rotate tables. What
> about single lines & blocks of text?
You can rotate text.
Marcelo
¡Sé un mejor fotógrafo!
Perfeccioná tu técnica y encontrá la
I have a 210 page book and a 650 page book with many Emphasis (italics)
and /path/to/file/names that extend out into my margin.
I am using microtype package which seems to work well for formatting.
I don't want to manually place a line break before each of these problem
words or file names. I w
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
I have a 210 page book and a 650 page book with many Emphasis (italics)
and /path/to/file/names that extend out into my margin.
I think you could probably use \url for the filenames. I'm not sure what
the problem with \emph would be. Does that really interfere with
hyph
Hi,
I'm trying to use JabRef to manage my references, and all seemed to go
well... till I got to web page references. How may I create my entries
so LyX import URLs? On LyX I'm using an APA article class and apacitex
style.
I'm also having problems with enconding... I've tryed UTF-8 and
ISO
Roberto Gorjão wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to use JabRef to manage my references, and all seemed to go
well... till I got to web page references. How may I create my entries
so LyX import URLs? On LyX I'm using an APA article class and apacitex
style.
I'm not sure what you mean. If you want the ref
Roberto Gorjão wrote:
I'm also having problems with enconding... I've tryed UTF-8 and
ISO8859-1, but diacritics always appear wrong on LyX.
The critical thing is that the encoding match the encoding of the output
LaTeX file. Other people will have the details.
Richard
--
hi,
> Hello all, I'm a long-time LaTeX user but new to LyX. I am currently
> working on a package to convert Word-using literature scholars to open
> formats and the benefits of TeX. Specifically, I am trying to
> find/write a sensible GUI to the ledmac package for typesetting
> critical editions.
Roberto Gorjão wrote:
I'm trying to use JabRef to manage my references, and all seemed to go
well... till I got to web page references. How may I create my entries
so LyX import URLs? On LyX I'm using an APA article class and apacitex
style.
The apacite user manual contains some discussio
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
I have a 210 page book and a 650 page book with many Emphasis (italics)
and /path/to/file/names that extend out into my margin.
I am using microtype package which seems to work well for formatting.
I don't want to manually place a line break before each of these problem
Hi,
When you enter a new bibtex entry in Jabref, the url field is under the
"General" tab.
In plain text bibtex, it is just the "url = {http:// }", found on the
rightmost tab (bibtex entry).
Whether and how this will show up in the bibliography depends entirely on
the bibtex entry type an
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