Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread Dominik Böhm
Hi there everyone, I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. In general the spell checking works quite well, but some things doesn't work as smoothly as with Microsoft Word 2003: for example compound words. In German you cannot compound arbitrary words to new words. For example

Re: Problem with LyX-154-3-22-AltInstaller-Complete.exe

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tuomo von Lerber schrieb: I installed LyX-154-3-22-AltInstaller-Complete.exe package. Everything seems to go fine, the MiKTeX is updated etc. However, LyX doesn't start, but opens a following window: lyx.exe - Application Error The application failed to initialize properly (0x0150002). Click

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread G. Milde
On 12.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. ... In German you cannot compound arbitrary words to new words. ... So, for German this compound setting seems to be pretty useless. So you should disable it. But as we Germans tend to use a lot of

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
G. Milde wrote: On 12.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. ... In German you cannot compound arbitrary words to new words. ... So, for German this compound setting seems to be pretty useless. hunspell seems to work better for German :

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Charles de Miramon wrote: G. Milde wrote: On 12.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. ... In German you cannot compound arbitrary words to new words. ... So, for German this compound setting seems to be pretty useless. hunspell seems to work

Installing Norwegian spellchecker with LyX

2008-03-12 Thread Jon Leirdal
I am not sure if this is reported before, but there seems to be a problem with the installer for the two Norwegian spellcheckers (Bokmål, Nynorsk) for Windows. The installer fails when trying to install. (Failing the CRC check presumably) Has anyone else experienced this problem? I even tried to

Re: How to save the current font in LaTeX?

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 19:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I used to know this but forgot and couldn't quickly find it in my book. In LaTeX, how do I find the current value of the font, so when I set something to \tiny and then want to reset it to what it was, I

Eliminating the date

2008-03-12 Thread James Sutherland
Does anyone know how to eliminate the display of the date from within LyX? James

Re: How to save the current font in LaTeX?

2008-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: I'll do that if I can't find the command containing the current font, but \begingroup and \endgroup don't nest. My real hope was to implement a stack, push the current font on the stack, set the new font, write the text, then pop the old font off the stack and reset the

Re: Eliminating the date

2008-03-12 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:26 AM, James Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to eliminate the display of the date from within LyX? James Put '\date{}' in the preamble. Bob

Re: rtf2latex for mac OSX?

2008-03-12 Thread Wilfried
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a bunch of pre-historic word docs that I want to convert to LyX. I've gathered that the best way to do this is by converting rtf to latex. (If anyone has a better suggestion I'm interested.) What about opening the word doc in OpenOffice and then export

Re: Latex template on 1.5.4

2008-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Phillip, PITA alert: If you copy the template .lyx file someplace and edit the copy, you need to do one of the following: a. delete the image and bibliography stuff; or b. copy the image file and the two .bib files to the same location as the copy you are editing; or c. replace the

Re: Installing Norwegian spellchecker with LyX

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jon Leirdal schrieb: I am not sure if this is reported before, but there seems to be a problem with the installer for the two Norwegian spellcheckers (Bokmål, Nynorsk) for Windows. The installer fails when trying to install. (Failing the CRC check presumably) It works fine with this version:

Sections in koma-letter2

2008-03-12 Thread Kenneth Berland
List, I write long letters. Is there a way to include section and subsection environments in a koma-letter2? TIA, KB

RE: Eliminating the date

2008-03-12 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
Hi, Just insert \date{} in your doc preamble. Regards, Daniel CLEMENT -Original Message- From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:26 PM To: LyX User Subject: Eliminating the date Does anyone know how to eliminate the display of the

PNG background

2008-03-12 Thread Dawid Ciecierski
Hello, I've been using LyX for a few months and it wins with Word hands down. I don't even write letters in Word anymore! Just wanted to say a quick and BIG thank you to all of you who make it possible and support others in their editorial life. One little thing I haven't been able to figure out

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:21:11AM +0100, Dominik Böhm wrote: Hi there everyone, I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. In general the spell checking works quite well, but some things doesn't work as smoothly as with Microsoft Word 2003: for example compound words. In German you

Re: How to save the current font in LaTeX?

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 11:27, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: I'll do that if I can't find the command containing the current font, but \begingroup and \endgroup don't nest. My real hope was to implement a stack, push the current font on the stack, set the new font, write the

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL wrote: I often use the GMANE site at http://dir.gmane.org/index.php?prefix=gmane.editors.lyx You can see older messages sorted by subject (threads). I like GMANE, but I actually read it through a news reader - I

Re: PNG background

2008-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Dawid Ciecierski wrote: One little thing I haven't been able to figure out is making PNGs with transparency look nice, i.e. specifying white as the background colour instead of the default black. Is that something I can set in LyX or a setting in ImageMagick? You could try ImageMagick:

formatting text within a bibtex citation

2008-03-12 Thread Andrew Barr
I use Lyx 1.5.2 on XP with bibtex to write academic papers. I sometimes want to cite a reference as an example of a point I am making using the Latin expression *e.g*.. What I am going for is something like the following. Many researchers have said blah blah blah (*e.g.* Smith, 2005).

Re: formatting text within a bibtex citation

2008-03-12 Thread cmiramon
Andrew Barr wrote: I use Lyx 1.5.2 on XP with bibtex to write academic papers. I sometimes want to cite a reference as an example of a point I am making using the Latin expression *e.g*.. What I am going for is something like the following. Many researchers have said blah blah blah

Adjusting styles in lists

2008-03-12 Thread James Sutherland
Is there a way in LyX to set list style parameters such as \topsep \parsep, \itemsep etc? James

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread Dominik Böhm
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it does not know about Konfiguration*einstellung (neither do I, btw, it's like talking about weisser Schimmel...) Yes I know, the example was very badly chosen, but that doesn't change the fact that (my) aspell has

Re: Adjusting styles in lists

2008-03-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 02:55:46PM -0600, James Sutherland wrote: Is there a way in LyX to set list style parameters such as \topsep \parsep, \itemsep etc? Add it in a ERT Box (the thing you get with Ctrl-L) at the beginning of the first item of the list. Not exactly nice, but it works.

Re: formatting text within a bibtex citation

2008-03-12 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the Text Before field, you can write \emph{e. g.} or any LaTex input Or rather \emph{e.\,g.}, for that matter (to get better spacing). Jürgen

Re: Adjusting styles in lists

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 17:03, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 02:55:46PM -0600, James Sutherland wrote: Is there a way in LyX to set list style parameters such as \topsep \parsep, \itemsep etc? Add it in a ERT Box (the thing you get with Ctrl-L) at the beginning of the

How to programmattically mark all ssh with a charstyle?

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I have a character style called charcode, and would like to have every occurrance of the lower case word ssh have charstyle charcode applied to it. Is there a search and replace type way to do that from within LyX, or will I need to use Vim on the native LyX file? There are many, many

Re: How to programmattically mark all ssh with a charstyle?

2008-03-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 06:05:56PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a character style called charcode, and would like to have every occurrance of the lower case word ssh have charstyle charcode applied to it. Is there a search and replace type way to do that from within LyX, or

Adding a document class to Mac LyX?

2008-03-12 Thread Yoav Felberbaum
Hullo, I'm trying to add a document class to my mac LyX 1.5.3 install. However, I'm a bit puzzled as to how to make it show up. The package is exam.cls. I have it in my LyX app folder and in the / sw/... folder as well. Yet, exam does not show up when I check in the Settings-Document

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-12 Thread Frode Svindseth
Den 11. mars. 2008 kl. 18.25 skrev Abdelrazak Younes: Maximilian Wollner wrote: Hello everybody, Somehow, I find it difficult to use mailing lists, maybe I am a too young computer and internet user but I can not see a single advantage. So I tried to look around for LyX discussion boards

Re: Adding a document class to Mac LyX?

2008-03-12 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Yoav Felberbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hullo, I'm trying to add a document class to my mac LyX 1.5.3 install. However, I'm a bit puzzled as to how to make it show up. The package is exam.cls. I have it in my LyX app folder and in the / sw/... folder as

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Frode Svindseth wrote: Den 11. mars. 2008 kl. 18.25 skrev Abdelrazak Younes: Maximilian Wollner wrote: Hello everybody, Somehow, I find it difficult to use mailing lists, maybe I am a too young computer and internet user but I can not see a single advantage. So I tried to look around for

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-12 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frode Svindseth wrote: Den 11. mars. 2008 kl. 18.25 skrev Abdelrazak Younes: Maximilian Wollner wrote: Hello everybody, Somehow, I find it difficult to use mailing lists, maybe I am a too young

Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread Dominik Böhm
Hi there everyone, I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. In general the spell checking works quite well, but some things doesn't work as smoothly as with Microsoft Word 2003: for example compound words. In German you cannot compound arbitrary words to new words. For example

Re: Problem with LyX-154-3-22-AltInstaller-Complete.exe

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tuomo von Lerber schrieb: I installed LyX-154-3-22-AltInstaller-Complete.exe package. Everything seems to go fine, the MiKTeX is updated etc. However, LyX doesn't start, but opens a following window: lyx.exe - Application Error The application failed to initialize properly (0x0150002). Click

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread G. Milde
On 12.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. ... In German you cannot compound arbitrary words to new words. ... So, for German this compound setting seems to be pretty useless. So you should disable it. But as we Germans tend to use a lot of

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
G. Milde wrote: On 12.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. ... In German you cannot compound arbitrary words to new words. ... So, for German this compound setting seems to be pretty useless. hunspell seems to work better for German :

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Charles de Miramon wrote: G. Milde wrote: On 12.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. ... In German you cannot compound arbitrary words to new words. ... So, for German this compound setting seems to be pretty useless. hunspell seems to work

Installing Norwegian spellchecker with LyX

2008-03-12 Thread Jon Leirdal
I am not sure if this is reported before, but there seems to be a problem with the installer for the two Norwegian spellcheckers (Bokmål, Nynorsk) for Windows. The installer fails when trying to install. (Failing the CRC check presumably) Has anyone else experienced this problem? I even tried to

Re: How to save the current font in LaTeX?

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 19:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I used to know this but forgot and couldn't quickly find it in my book. In LaTeX, how do I find the current value of the font, so when I set something to \tiny and then want to reset it to what it was, I

Eliminating the date

2008-03-12 Thread James Sutherland
Does anyone know how to eliminate the display of the date from within LyX? James

Re: How to save the current font in LaTeX?

2008-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: I'll do that if I can't find the command containing the current font, but \begingroup and \endgroup don't nest. My real hope was to implement a stack, push the current font on the stack, set the new font, write the text, then pop the old font off the stack and reset the

Re: Eliminating the date

2008-03-12 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:26 AM, James Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to eliminate the display of the date from within LyX? James Put '\date{}' in the preamble. Bob

Re: rtf2latex for mac OSX?

2008-03-12 Thread Wilfried
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a bunch of pre-historic word docs that I want to convert to LyX. I've gathered that the best way to do this is by converting rtf to latex. (If anyone has a better suggestion I'm interested.) What about opening the word doc in OpenOffice and then export

Re: Latex template on 1.5.4

2008-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Phillip, PITA alert: If you copy the template .lyx file someplace and edit the copy, you need to do one of the following: a. delete the image and bibliography stuff; or b. copy the image file and the two .bib files to the same location as the copy you are editing; or c. replace the

Re: Installing Norwegian spellchecker with LyX

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jon Leirdal schrieb: I am not sure if this is reported before, but there seems to be a problem with the installer for the two Norwegian spellcheckers (Bokmål, Nynorsk) for Windows. The installer fails when trying to install. (Failing the CRC check presumably) It works fine with this version:

Sections in koma-letter2

2008-03-12 Thread Kenneth Berland
List, I write long letters. Is there a way to include section and subsection environments in a koma-letter2? TIA, KB

RE: Eliminating the date

2008-03-12 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
Hi, Just insert \date{} in your doc preamble. Regards, Daniel CLEMENT -Original Message- From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:26 PM To: LyX User Subject: Eliminating the date Does anyone know how to eliminate the display of the

PNG background

2008-03-12 Thread Dawid Ciecierski
Hello, I've been using LyX for a few months and it wins with Word hands down. I don't even write letters in Word anymore! Just wanted to say a quick and BIG thank you to all of you who make it possible and support others in their editorial life. One little thing I haven't been able to figure out

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:21:11AM +0100, Dominik Böhm wrote: Hi there everyone, I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. In general the spell checking works quite well, but some things doesn't work as smoothly as with Microsoft Word 2003: for example compound words. In German you

Re: How to save the current font in LaTeX?

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 11:27, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: I'll do that if I can't find the command containing the current font, but \begingroup and \endgroup don't nest. My real hope was to implement a stack, push the current font on the stack, set the new font, write the

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL wrote: I often use the GMANE site at http://dir.gmane.org/index.php?prefix=gmane.editors.lyx You can see older messages sorted by subject (threads). I like GMANE, but I actually read it through a news reader - I

Re: PNG background

2008-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Dawid Ciecierski wrote: One little thing I haven't been able to figure out is making PNGs with transparency look nice, i.e. specifying white as the background colour instead of the default black. Is that something I can set in LyX or a setting in ImageMagick? You could try ImageMagick:

formatting text within a bibtex citation

2008-03-12 Thread Andrew Barr
I use Lyx 1.5.2 on XP with bibtex to write academic papers. I sometimes want to cite a reference as an example of a point I am making using the Latin expression *e.g*.. What I am going for is something like the following. Many researchers have said blah blah blah (*e.g.* Smith, 2005).

Re: formatting text within a bibtex citation

2008-03-12 Thread cmiramon
Andrew Barr wrote: I use Lyx 1.5.2 on XP with bibtex to write academic papers. I sometimes want to cite a reference as an example of a point I am making using the Latin expression *e.g*.. What I am going for is something like the following. Many researchers have said blah blah blah

Adjusting styles in lists

2008-03-12 Thread James Sutherland
Is there a way in LyX to set list style parameters such as \topsep \parsep, \itemsep etc? James

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread Dominik Böhm
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it does not know about Konfiguration*einstellung (neither do I, btw, it's like talking about weisser Schimmel...) Yes I know, the example was very badly chosen, but that doesn't change the fact that (my) aspell has

Re: Adjusting styles in lists

2008-03-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 02:55:46PM -0600, James Sutherland wrote: Is there a way in LyX to set list style parameters such as \topsep \parsep, \itemsep etc? Add it in a ERT Box (the thing you get with Ctrl-L) at the beginning of the first item of the list. Not exactly nice, but it works.

Re: formatting text within a bibtex citation

2008-03-12 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the Text Before field, you can write \emph{e. g.} or any LaTex input Or rather \emph{e.\,g.}, for that matter (to get better spacing). Jürgen

Re: Adjusting styles in lists

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 17:03, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 02:55:46PM -0600, James Sutherland wrote: Is there a way in LyX to set list style parameters such as \topsep \parsep, \itemsep etc? Add it in a ERT Box (the thing you get with Ctrl-L) at the beginning of the

How to programmattically mark all ssh with a charstyle?

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I have a character style called charcode, and would like to have every occurrance of the lower case word ssh have charstyle charcode applied to it. Is there a search and replace type way to do that from within LyX, or will I need to use Vim on the native LyX file? There are many, many

Re: How to programmattically mark all ssh with a charstyle?

2008-03-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 06:05:56PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a character style called charcode, and would like to have every occurrance of the lower case word ssh have charstyle charcode applied to it. Is there a search and replace type way to do that from within LyX, or

Adding a document class to Mac LyX?

2008-03-12 Thread Yoav Felberbaum
Hullo, I'm trying to add a document class to my mac LyX 1.5.3 install. However, I'm a bit puzzled as to how to make it show up. The package is exam.cls. I have it in my LyX app folder and in the / sw/... folder as well. Yet, exam does not show up when I check in the Settings-Document

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-12 Thread Frode Svindseth
Den 11. mars. 2008 kl. 18.25 skrev Abdelrazak Younes: Maximilian Wollner wrote: Hello everybody, Somehow, I find it difficult to use mailing lists, maybe I am a too young computer and internet user but I can not see a single advantage. So I tried to look around for LyX discussion boards

Re: Adding a document class to Mac LyX?

2008-03-12 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Yoav Felberbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hullo, I'm trying to add a document class to my mac LyX 1.5.3 install. However, I'm a bit puzzled as to how to make it show up. The package is exam.cls. I have it in my LyX app folder and in the / sw/... folder as

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Frode Svindseth wrote: Den 11. mars. 2008 kl. 18.25 skrev Abdelrazak Younes: Maximilian Wollner wrote: Hello everybody, Somehow, I find it difficult to use mailing lists, maybe I am a too young computer and internet user but I can not see a single advantage. So I tried to look around for

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-12 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frode Svindseth wrote: Den 11. mars. 2008 kl. 18.25 skrev Abdelrazak Younes: Maximilian Wollner wrote: Hello everybody, Somehow, I find it difficult to use mailing lists, maybe I am a too young

Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread Dominik Böhm
Hi there everyone, I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. In general the spell checking works quite well, but some things doesn't work as smoothly as with Microsoft Word 2003: for example compound words. In German you cannot compound arbitrary words to new words. For example

Re: Problem with LyX-154-3-22-AltInstaller-Complete.exe

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tuomo von Lerber schrieb: I installed LyX-154-3-22-AltInstaller-Complete.exe package. Everything seems to go fine, the MiKTeX is updated etc. However, LyX doesn't start, but opens a following window: lyx.exe - Application Error The application failed to initialize properly (0x0150002). Click

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread G. Milde
On 12.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: > I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. ... > In German you cannot compound arbitrary words to new words. ... > So, for German this compound setting seems to be pretty useless. So you should disable it. > But as we Germans tend to use a lot of

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
G. Milde wrote: > On 12.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: > >> I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. > ... >> In German you cannot compound arbitrary words to new words. > ... >> So, for German this compound setting seems to be pretty useless. > hunspell seems to work better for German :

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Charles de Miramon wrote: G. Milde wrote: On 12.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. ... In German you cannot compound arbitrary words to new words. ... So, for German this compound setting seems to be pretty useless. hunspell seems to work

Installing Norwegian spellchecker with LyX

2008-03-12 Thread Jon Leirdal
I am not sure if this is reported before, but there seems to be a problem with the installer for the two Norwegian spellcheckers (Bokmål, Nynorsk) for Windows. The installer fails when trying to install. (Failing the CRC check presumably) Has anyone else experienced this problem? I even tried to

Re: How to save the current font in LaTeX?

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 19:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I used to know this but forgot and couldn't quickly find it in my book. > > In LaTeX, how do I find the current value of the font, so when I set > > something to \tiny and then want to reset it to what

Eliminating the date

2008-03-12 Thread James Sutherland
Does anyone know how to eliminate the display of the date from within LyX? James

Re: How to save the current font in LaTeX?

2008-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: I'll do that if I can't find the command containing the current font, but \begingroup and \endgroup don't nest. My real hope was to implement a stack, push the current font on the stack, set the new font, write the text, then pop the old font off the stack and reset the

Re: Eliminating the date

2008-03-12 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:26 AM, James Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how to eliminate the display of the date from within LyX? > > James > > Put '\date{}' in the preamble. Bob

Re: rtf2latex for mac OSX?

2008-03-12 Thread Wilfried
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I have a bunch of "pre-historic" word docs that I want to convert > to LyX. I've gathered that the best way to do this is by converting > rtf to latex. (If anyone has a better suggestion I'm interested.) What about opening the word doc in OpenOffice and then

Re: Latex template on 1.5.4

2008-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Phillip, PITA alert: If you copy the template .lyx file someplace and edit the copy, you need to do one of the following: a. delete the image and bibliography stuff; or b. copy the image file and the two .bib files to the same location as the copy you are editing; or c. replace the

Re: Installing Norwegian spellchecker with LyX

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jon Leirdal schrieb: I am not sure if this is reported before, but there seems to be a problem with the installer for the two Norwegian spellcheckers (Bokmål, Nynorsk) for Windows. The installer fails when trying to install. (Failing the CRC check presumably) It works fine with this version:

Sections in koma-letter2

2008-03-12 Thread Kenneth Berland
List, I write long letters. Is there a way to include section and subsection environments in a koma-letter2? TIA, KB

RE: Eliminating the date

2008-03-12 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
Hi, Just insert \date{} in your doc preamble. Regards, Daniel CLEMENT > -Original Message- > From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:26 PM > To: LyX User > Subject: Eliminating the date > > > Does anyone know how to eliminate the display

PNG background

2008-03-12 Thread Dawid Ciecierski
Hello, I've been using LyX for a few months and it wins with Word hands down. I don't even write letters in Word anymore! Just wanted to say a quick and BIG thank you to all of you who make it possible and support others in their editorial life. One little thing I haven't been able to figure out

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:21:11AM +0100, Dominik Böhm wrote: > Hi there everyone, > > I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. In general the spell > checking works quite well, but some things doesn't work as smoothly as with > Microsoft Word 2003: for example compound words. In German

Re: How to save the current font in LaTeX?

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 11:27, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > I'll do that if I can't find the command containing the current font, but > > \begingroup and \endgroup don't nest. My real hope was to implement a > > stack, push the current font on the stack, set the new font, write

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL wrote: I often use the GMANE site at http://dir.gmane.org/index.php?prefix=gmane.editors.lyx You can see older messages sorted by subject (threads). I like GMANE, but I actually read it through a "news reader" - I

Re: PNG background

2008-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Dawid Ciecierski wrote: One little thing I haven't been able to figure out is making PNGs with transparency look nice, i.e. specifying white as the background colour instead of the default black. Is that something I can set in LyX or a setting in ImageMagick? You could try ImageMagick:

formatting text within a bibtex citation

2008-03-12 Thread Andrew Barr
I use Lyx 1.5.2 on XP with bibtex to write academic papers. I sometimes want to cite a reference as an example of a point I am making using the Latin expression *e.g*.. What I am going for is something like the following. Many researchers have said "blah blah blah" (*e.g.* Smith, 2005).

Re: formatting text within a bibtex citation

2008-03-12 Thread cmiramon
Andrew Barr wrote: > I use Lyx 1.5.2 on XP with bibtex to write academic papers. I sometimes > want to cite a reference as an example of a point I am making using the > Latin expression *e.g*.. What I am going for is something like the > following. > > Many researchers have said "blah

Adjusting styles in lists

2008-03-12 Thread James Sutherland
Is there a way in LyX to set list style parameters such as \topsep \parsep, \itemsep etc? James

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread Dominik Böhm
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So it does not know about "Konfiguration*einstellung" (neither do I, > btw, it's like talking about "weisser Schimmel"...) Yes I know, the example was very badly chosen, but that doesn't change the fact that (my) aspell

Re: Adjusting styles in lists

2008-03-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 02:55:46PM -0600, James Sutherland wrote: > Is there a way in LyX to set list style parameters such as \topsep \parsep, > \itemsep etc? Add it in a "ERT Box" (the thing you get with Ctrl-L) at the beginning of the first item of the list. Not exactly nice, but it works.

Re: formatting text within a bibtex citation

2008-03-12 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the Text Before field, you can write \emph{e. g.} or any LaTex input Or rather \emph{e.\,g.}, for that matter (to get better spacing). Jürgen

Re: Adjusting styles in lists

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 17:03, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 02:55:46PM -0600, James Sutherland wrote: > > Is there a way in LyX to set list style parameters such as \topsep > > \parsep, \itemsep etc? > > Add it in a "ERT Box" (the thing you get with Ctrl-L) at the beginning >

How to programmattically mark all "ssh" with a charstyle?

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I have a character style called "charcode", and would like to have every occurrance of the lower case word "ssh" have charstyle "charcode" applied to it. Is there a search and replace type way to do that from within LyX, or will I need to use Vim on the native LyX file? There are

Re: How to programmattically mark all "ssh" with a charstyle?

2008-03-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 06:05:56PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a character style called "charcode", and would like to have every > occurrance of the lower case word "ssh" have charstyle "charcode" applied to > it. Is there a search and replace type way to do that from within

Adding a document class to Mac LyX?

2008-03-12 Thread Yoav Felberbaum
Hullo, I'm trying to add a document class to my mac LyX 1.5.3 install. However, I'm a bit puzzled as to how to make it show up. The package is "exam.cls". I have it in my LyX app folder and in the / sw/... folder as well. Yet, "exam" does not show up when I check in the Settings->Document

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-12 Thread Frode Svindseth
Den 11. mars. 2008 kl. 18.25 skrev Abdelrazak Younes: Maximilian Wollner wrote: Hello everybody, Somehow, I find it difficult to use mailing lists, maybe I am a too young computer and internet user but I can not see a single advantage. So I tried to look around for LyX discussion boards

Re: Adding a document class to Mac LyX?

2008-03-12 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Yoav Felberbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hullo, > > I'm trying to add a document class to my mac LyX 1.5.3 install. > However, I'm a bit puzzled as to how to make it show up. > > The package is "exam.cls". I have it in my LyX app folder and in the / >

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