Re: Uncompilable file

2008-04-01 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:17:31PM -0500, Mark Reglewski wrote: > Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >> christiaan pauw wrote: >>> Thanks Jürgen, it worked >>> Incidentally, How does M-x work. Is "M" some special key that you hold >>> down. I have a macbook, so I have fn,ctrl, alt and cmd -is it one of >>>

Re: Text in table is all boldface

2008-04-01 Thread Geevarghese Philip
Jürgen, Paul, Thanks for the solution, and thanks for the detailed explanation. -- Philip

Re: New LyX website

2008-04-01 Thread M-L
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne shared this with us all: >--} Thanks for the feedback, Guenter! >--} >--} G. Milde wrote: >--} > On 31.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: >--} > >--} >> 3. Should we provide output samples (DVI, PDF) somewhere (under > About --} >> LyX or Visual Tour)? Non-LaTeX-user

Re: Uncompilable file

2008-04-01 Thread Mark Reglewski
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: christiaan pauw wrote: Thanks Jürgen, it worked Incidentally, How does M-x work. Is "M" some special key that you hold down. I have a macbook, so I have fn,ctrl, alt and cmd -is it one of them? Thanks again for saving my day Ah, sorry. M is the "Meta-Key", which is A

Re: New LyX website

2008-04-01 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Thanks for the feedback, Guenter! G. Milde wrote: On 31.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: 3. Should we provide output samples (DVI, PDF) somewhere (under About LyX or Visual Tour)? Non-LaTeX-users might not know what they're getting. Of course we should. Also as illustration of the WYSIWYM

Re: Templates, 3d pages graphic, logo ideas

2008-04-01 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Pavel Sanda wrote: The 'pages' are nice. However, I don't like the logo. Too far away from the current one... The 'pages' do look nice, but how are they to be used? In a splash screen? maybe incorporate it into intro picture? i like it too. pavel I agree. I think those would loo

Re: Output track changes in pdf with latex error

2008-04-01 Thread Peter Sutovsky
There seems to be problem if citation is in the deleted text. On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Peter Sutovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I get error message when I try to get output in pdf with "show changes in > > outp

Re: Output track changes in pdf with latex error

2008-04-01 Thread Peter Sutovsky
First error in Document->LaTeX log: ! Argument of [EMAIL PROTECTED] has an extra }. \par l.256 ...31 2008}{PANDA-CDCA \citep{CooperSS2006}} I've run across a `}' that doesn't seem to match anything. For example, `\def\a#1{...}' an

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Wojcik
William R. Buckley wrote: What really surprises me is the effort various members have expended to encourage me not to help your project. I quite think your efforts are misguided. Well, I suspect this particular issue (the treatment of Windows "shortcuts" in some of the LyX file-open dialogs,

Re: question about lyx

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Wojcik
Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Michael Wojcik wrote: It's an attribute, not a tag. And it's deprecated in HTML 4.0, and omitted entirely in XHTML 1.0. The correct way to specify justification in contemporary HTML is with a style. That's because xhtml has moved toward separation o

Re: Templates, 3d pages graphic, logo ideas

2008-04-01 Thread Joost Verburg
AK wrote: Generally speaking Joost' design is excellent, the only thing I'd like to add is that strong shadows on the sides seem to be overused, I'd either considerably tone them down or maybe try how it looks without them. I've made the shadows lighter and smaller. Joost

Re: Templates, 3d pages graphic, logo ideas

2008-04-01 Thread Joost Verburg
Pavel Sanda wrote: The 'pages' are nice. However, I don't like the logo. Too far away from the current one... The 'pages' do look nice, but how are they to be used? In a splash screen? maybe incorporate it into intro picture? i like it too. Or maybe for the Features page? Joost

List of fonts in psfonts.map

2008-04-01 Thread Rich Shepard
I have /usr/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map, but cannot relate to a lot of the obfuscated typeface names. Is there a way to print the contents of this file so the actual typefaces/fonts are displayed? Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCr

Re: Output track changes in pdf with latex error

2008-04-01 Thread Bo Peng
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Peter Sutovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get error message when I try to get output in pdf with "show changes in > output " is on. Output to dvi and ps works well. Is it way to make it work > with pdf? Thanks. What does Document->LaTeX log say? Bo

Re: Output track changes in pdf with latex error

2008-04-01 Thread Peter Sutovsky
yes, I have xcolor package installed. Peter On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Peter Sutovsky wrote: > > I get error message when I try to get output in pdf with "show changes in > > output " is on. Output to dvi and ps works well. Is it way to make

Re: Templates, 3d pages graphic, logo ideas

2008-04-01 Thread Pavel Sanda
>> The 'pages' are nice. However, I don't like the logo. Too far away from >> the current one... > > The 'pages' do look nice, but how are they to be used? In a splash screen? maybe incorporate it into intro picture? i like it too. pavel

Re: Templates, 3d pages graphic, logo ideas

2008-04-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: The 'pages' are nice. However, I don't like the logo. Too far away from the current one... The 'pages' do look nice, but how are they to be used? In a splash screen? /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: Templates, 3d pages graphic, logo ideas

2008-04-01 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 03:04:52PM -0500, AK wrote: > Hello, > > I did some work during this past week and I put the results I have so far > here: http://www.lightbird.net/lyx/ . None of this is final, in fact, since > that many people spoke out against changing logo at all, the old logo will >

Change working language

2008-04-01 Thread Salát Máté
Hello, How can I change the menu language of LyX after it's already installed? Thanks, Máté

Templates, 3d pages graphic, logo ideas

2008-04-01 Thread AK
Hello, I did some work during this past week and I put the results I have so far here: http://www.lightbird.net/lyx/ . None of this is final, in fact, since that many people spoke out against changing logo at all, the old logo will likely stay, if only with minor changes, however I think ther

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-01 Thread Joost Verburg
G. Milde wrote: There was a suggestion to report the bug to "where it belongs", i.e. the QT library. QT is actively supported, tries to do the "operating system universality" in a clean and sensible way. Maybe this bug is even fixed in a current version of QT (or labelled as wontfix even there if

Re: short title in floating object

2008-04-01 Thread David Hewitt
> How can I make a short title in a floating object? I want to shorten my > figure title for the list of figures. > In LyX 1.5.3, open the User's Guide from the Help menu and use Find with "short title" to be directed here: 3.3.4.4 Short Titles of Headings Some section or chapter titles, suc

Re: "Troubleshooting Process" not allowed?

2008-04-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, William Seager wrote: I *hate* April 1. Yeah. We never know what to believe when it comes from Washington, DC, or the political campaigns. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|

Re: "Troubleshooting Process" not allowed?

2008-04-01 Thread William Seager
On April 1, 2008 14:20:00 Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 04:04:54PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > > Steve Litt wrote: > > > Have any of you gotten an error message like this before? Is there a > > > way to configure LyX's list of obscene phrases? > > > > I'm getting such error

Re: "Troubleshooting Process" not allowed?

2008-04-01 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 04:04:54PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Have any of you gotten an error message like this before? Is there a way to > > configure LyX's list of obscene phrases? > > I'm getting such error messages the whole day. Actually, just a minute ago, > it

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-01 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 05:53:57AM -0700, William R. Buckley wrote: > There was an assumption then, that I know what Qt is, > and therefore should have understood the mention. Well, that's an assumption e.g. I rarely make. However, I usually assume that literate people using the internet for emai

Re: LyX logo

2008-04-01 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Rather that there are bosses believing that if you have fun at work you > are not seriously working. I.e. once they see the platypus on your > desktop you cannot convince them that using LyX will increase > productivity as well as quality but fear for the reputation of their > company/university/

Re: Removal from mailing list

2008-04-01 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:53:19AM +0200, Andre Bonhote wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Nicholas Shaw > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (a lot! really?) > > I personally like this e-mail. What do we have here: 5 lines of real, > hand-written content (including the "many thanks"), plus 45 li

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-01 Thread Joost Verburg
William R. Buckley wrote: I noticed that when trying to browse for the graphic file of a figure inserted into a document via the LyX user interface, and upon trying to utilise a shortcut (as the means to more efficiently select the proper directory that is to be browsed), it happens that LyX copi

Re: custom document language

2008-04-01 Thread Luis Rivera
G. Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 31.03.08, Luis Rivera wrote: > > Liviu Andronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Does LaTeX support such rarely encountered languages? > > > Liviu > > > > > It does: provided you supply an appropriately formatted .ldf file > > somewhere in your

Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6 alpha1 for Windows

2008-04-01 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL wrote: I have the problem you describe with the 1.6svn : I can't open files saved with an other version of LyX, even the doc files. Since I have Inkscape, I copied the three files you mentioned ... to no avail. Up to now, if I want to open files from the 1.6 but n

Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6 alpha1 for Windows

2008-04-01 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL wrote: I have the problem you describe with the 1.6svn : I can't open files saved with an other version of LyX, even the doc files. Since I have Inkscape, I copied the three files you mentioned ... to no avail. Up to now, if I want to open files from the 1.6 but n

Re: "Troubleshooting Process" not allowed?

2008-04-01 Thread Jens Noeckel
On Apr 1, 2008, at 7:45 AM, José Matos wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2008 15:04:54 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: I hope this will be fixed in LyX 1.6. That will be released on Christmas. Jürgen -- José Abílio Of course that bug doesn't affect the Mac. There, I only get the following warn

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-01 Thread Joost Verburg
Paul A. Rubin wrote: On my XP Home box, every program I've tested that uses the Windows file open dialog can follow a shortcut (.lnk) to a directory. So either something is amiss with your system, or maybe you have some registry setting mucking things up. If I remember correctly, there is in

Re: LyX logo

2008-04-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, G. Milde wrote: Rather that there are bosses believing that if you have fun at work you are not seriously working. I.e. once they see the platypus on your desktop However, if you're actually using LyX to prepare documents there

Re: short title

2008-04-01 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:15 AM, zulu74 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can I activate short title in my menu? I cannot select it. By inserting something into the document that would use the short title. For instance a 'Figure Float' that has a caption but you would like a shorter caption in th

Re: MiKTeX Problem Report: Permission denied

2008-04-01 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Ed Sykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > i'm new to LyX and am hoping someone can assist on a problem I'm having. > On a fairly regular basis when I select the "dvi" button or the "div update" > button Yap crashes and gives the message: > "MiKTeX Problem Rep

Re: "Troubleshooting Process" not allowed?

2008-04-01 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 15:04:54 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > I hope this will be fixed in LyX 1.6. That will be released on Christmas. > Jürgen -- José Abílio

Re: Uncompilable file

2008-04-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> Since this can happen so easily, should we find a workaround? > > We have the workaround that we switch automatically to Greek if Greek > characters are found. I have no idea how we could solve it differently. After

Re: Text in table is all boldface

2008-04-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Geevarghese Philip wrote: Hi, I am using Lyx 1.5.4, and all text that I put in any table turns up as boldface in the dvi/pdf output. See the attached file. How do I make this text to appear as normal fonts, except for the first row where I do want the text to appear as bold? Thanks, Phil

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Joost Verburg wrote: William R. Buckley wrote: Well, the open source tool Maxima has no problem following a Windows shortcut in its browsing function. So, your position is therefore that LyX should be less than it might be, when other open source tools have no problem with a simple if arcane fu

short title

2008-04-01 Thread zulu74
How can I activate short title in my menu? I cannot select it. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/short-title-tp16418457p16418457.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Text in table is all boldface

2008-04-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Geevarghese Philip wrote: > How do I make > this text to appear as normal fonts, except for the first row where I do > want the text to appear as bold? The table is part of a description environment. Set the enclosing paragraph to "Standard". Jürgen

Re: "Troubleshooting Process" not allowed?

2008-04-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Steve Litt wrote: > Have any of you gotten an error message like this before? Is there a way to > configure LyX's list of obscene phrases? I'm getting such error messages the whole day. Actually, just a minute ago, it yielded: "Get yourself a real job, dude!" I hope this will be fixed in LyX 1.6

"Troubleshooting Process" not allowed?

2008-04-01 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, While compiling my latest book on 1.5.3, Mandriva 2007 Linux, I got the following error message: LyX document contains obscene phrase: "Troubleshooting Process" Eliminate all instances of the phrase "Troubleshooting Process" from your document an

Text in table is all boldface

2008-04-01 Thread Geevarghese Philip
Hi, I am using Lyx 1.5.4, and all text that I put in any table turns up as boldface in the dvi/pdf output. See the attached file. How do I make this text to appear as normal fonts, except for the first row where I do want the text to appear as bold? Thanks, Philip table_boldface.lyx Des

Re: Uncompilable file

2008-04-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Since this can happen so easily, should we find a workaround? We have the workaround that we switch automatically to Greek if Greek characters are found. I have no idea how we could solve it differently. After all, we do not know if people copy and paste a unit or a

Re: Uncompilable file

2008-04-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christiaan Pauw wrote: >> Does anyone understand what this means or how i can fix it? > > Yes. Since you're using a Greek µ (mu) character, LyX is switching to greek > encoding, but you do not have the appropriate Greek fonts installed. Since this

Re: Uncompilable file

2008-04-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
christiaan pauw wrote: > Thanks Jürgen, it worked > Incidentally, How does M-x work. Is "M" some special key that you hold > down. I have a macbook, so I have fn,ctrl, alt and cmd -is it one of them? > > Thanks again for saving my day Ah, sorry. M is the "Meta-Key", which is Alt here on my Linux P

Re: Uncompilable file

2008-04-01 Thread christiaan pauw
Thanks Jürgen, it worked Incidentally, How does M-x work. Is "M" some special key that you hold down. I have a macbook, so I have fn,ctrl, alt and cmd -is it one of them? Thanks again for saving my day regard Christiaan On 01/04/2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Christiaan

Re: LyX 1.5.3 issue : article.layout not usable

2008-04-01 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 06:37:28PM +0530, Geevarghese Philip wrote: Hi, > I removed the version of LyX 1.5.3 that caused this problem and > installed LyX 1.5.4 from "deb > http://download.tuxfamily.org/emiscabpo/lyx15-bpo ./" as the wiki > article suggested, but the problem did not go away

MiKTeX Problem Report: Permission denied

2008-04-01 Thread Ed Sykes
hi, i'm new to LyX and am hoping someone can assist on a problem I'm having. On a fairly regular basis when I select the "dvi" button or the "div update" button Yap crashes and gives the message: "MiKTeX Problem Report: Permission denied: C:\TEMP\lyx_tmpdir280a01160\lyx_tmpbuf1\my_file.dvi" I

Re: Uncompilable file

2008-04-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Christiaan Pauw wrote: > Does anyone understand what this means or how i can fix it? Yes. Since you're using a Greek µ (mu) character, LyX is switching to greek encoding, but you do not have the appropriate Greek fonts installed. One solution (apart from installing this font) is, as Bennett poin

Re: LyX logo

2008-04-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, G. Milde wrote: Rather that there are bosses believing that if you have fun at work you are not seriously working. I.e. once they see the platypus on your desktop However, if you're actually using LyX to prepare documents there is no platypus visible. It's not on the spla

Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6 alpha1 for Windows

2008-04-01 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL
I have the problem you describe with the 1.6svn : I can't open files saved with an other version of LyX, even the doc files. Since I have Inkscape, I copied the three files you mentioned ... to no avail. Up to now, if I want to open files from the 1.6 but not from my version, I must change the v

Re: LyX 1.5.3 issue : article.layout not usable

2008-04-01 Thread Geevarghese Philip
Sven Hoexter wrote: Well it's a nice mess you got now. Please read http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnDebian and consider to go back to the packages released with Debian/etch or use a proper backport. I removed the version of LyX 1.5.3 that caused this problem and installed LyX 1.5.4 from "deb h

Re: Uncompilable file

2008-04-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Christiaan Pauw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I exported the file to Latex and this is what the offending line looks > like: > > more than 30~000 \textgreek{m}g/m{\small 3} during stove use (several > times the US-EPA 24-hour ambient standard of 150 \textgreek{m}g/m

RE: WRB - Observations

2008-04-01 Thread William R. Buckley
There was an assumption then, that I know what Qt is, and therefore should have understood the mention. Frankly, as far as I can tell, from the messages posted, Qt is part of the LyX product. I am not a developer of your tool, so would not, and should not be expected to, know how it is built, nor

sharing and awkward solution to an awkward problem

2008-04-01 Thread Jan Ebr
Hi all, I originally wanted to ask you for help, but meanwhile I just wanted to check something and it turned into a solution. Today, I returned to using lyx after a year's break. I found 1.44-3 on my computer, wiped it right away and run the latest 1.54-1 installator (having winxp sp2, czech loc

Uncompilable file

2008-04-01 Thread Christiaan Pauw
Hallo Everybody I'm in deep trouble. I have a file (a report due yesterday) that I cannot compile. I use LyX 1.5.4 on Mac OS X with TeXlive-2007-basic . The problem seems to be related to a inline formula I exported the file to Latex and this is what the offending line looks like: more

Re: Removal from mailing list

2008-04-01 Thread Andre Bonhote
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Nicholas Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (a lot! really?) I personally like this e-mail. What do we have here: 5 lines of real, hand-written content (including the "many thanks"), plus 45 lines of marketing gibber. Funny enough, one of the first lines reads: "your

Re: Removal from mailing list

2008-04-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Nicholas Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kelly Services... we see work from a People perspective Yeah, right ! As in ``Why not find people to unsubscribe me from the mailing list, I can't be bothered to find out.'' JMarc

Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6 alpha1 for Windows

2008-04-01 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Hello LyX testers, I uploaded a new snapshot of the upcoming LyX version 1.6.0 for Windows. The first alpha of LyX 1.6 was build a week ago, this version includes additionally the bugfixes from this week (erything until SVN commit 24066). NOTE: LyX 1.6 is in alpha state! Tha

Re: Visual Tour (Was: New LyX website)

2008-04-01 Thread G. Milde
On 31.03.08, Michael Thompson wrote: > On the question of screenshots, > a) it bugs me that the illustrations are all in a serif font, > which should never be used on a screen, unless it's maybe old > courier. Well, we should provide at least one screenshot resembling the appearance of LyX o

Re: New LyX website

2008-04-01 Thread G. Milde
On 31.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: >> For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at: >> http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage >> We're still doing some design work, but the basics are in place. What >> do you all think? Good overall impression.

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-04-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: to the URI. We do not need to restrict ourselve to one skin only. We really should not have multiple designs for our web site. One official skin is enough. I don't see why not, especially as the current site has two slightly different skins. You co

Re: LyX logo

2008-04-01 Thread G. Milde
On 31.03.08, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > We try hard to make a good application. We do not want to be > - ISO 9002 compliant > - 99.% reliant > - 24/24, 7/7 > - Vista Experience Qualified Professional (or whatever) > - [insert your own here] This should go to the

Re: LyX logo

2008-04-01 Thread G. Milde
On 31.03.08, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:42:18PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, G. Milde wrote: > > > >>> About the logo ... > >> * funny ... > >>> * home made > > > > The problem I see with these associations is getting an acceptance at for > > wor

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-01 Thread G. Milde
On 31.03.08, William R. Buckley wrote: > Well, the open source tool Maxima has no problem following a Windows > shortcut in its browsing function. So, your position is therefore that > LyX should be less than it might be, when other open source tools have > no problem with a simple if arcane func