Re: Uncompilable file

2008-04-02 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 them? Thanks

Menu language

2008-04-02 Thread Salát Máté
Hello, Is it possible to change the menu language of LyX after it's already installed? I use Windows XP and LyX 1.5.4. Thanks, Máté

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

2008-04-02 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Olivier Ripoll wrote: 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

Re: final feedback

2008-04-02 Thread Helge Hafting
William B. King wrote: After struggling with LyX for two days, I can't even get it to print out its own documentation, which was prepared in LyX! How much more retarded could it possibly get? Good idea. Let me know when you get it working. For your information, we got it working - many

Re: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-04-02 Thread Helge Hafting
William R. Buckley wrote: On this note, add my pipe. If the speed with which LaTeX could operate were such that output could be produced and displayed within the timeframe of a human keystroke (for fun, lets say you're a really good 150 wpm typist), how would this differ from WYSIWYG? Then

Re: Menu language

2008-04-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Máté, 2008/4/2 Salát Máté [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is it possible to change the menu language of LyX after it's already installed? I use Windows XP and LyX 1.5.4. Searching on the LyX Wiki for menu language you could have stumbled on this [1] article. Basically, you would need to define the

Re: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-04-02 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 26 March 2008 05:22, Eric S Fraga wrote: At Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:33:22 -0700 (PDT), Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: WYSIWYG promise? Andre', I hope not!! That's why there's AbiWord and OO.o.

Another MiKTeX Problem Report: Windows API error 3.

2008-04-02 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: Windows API error 3: The system cannot find the path specified. I recently

Re: Troubleshooting Process not allowed?

2008-04-02 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: 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

Re: Menu language

2008-04-02 Thread Joost Verburg
Salát Máté wrote: Is it possible to change the menu language of LyX after it's already installed? I use Windows XP and LyX 1.5.4. Just run the installer again. Joost

Re: New LyX website

2008-04-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: By the way, when you guys click on a .lyx file in your browser, do you get a download prompt or does your browser display the LyX source? New users might be confused if they see the LyX source and don't know what to do with it. I get the source displayed as text

Re: Troubleshooting Process not allowed?

2008-04-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: 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 Personally, I'm encouraged to see a tradition that we apparently share with our brethren across the

Re: Change working language

2008-04-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Salát Máté wrote: Hello, How can I change the menu language of LyX after it's already installed? Thanks, Máté You can do it by setting the LANG environment variable in the batch file or script that launches LyX. For instance, I have LyX installed under Windows with English (real English,

Re: Booklet headings

2008-04-02 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 07:33:21 G. Milde wrote: You could try the scaling factor box for the individual fonts (instead of the global document fontsize), however this will give wrong proportions as it will not increase the spacing accordingly. Hi Gunter Thanks for the tip. When I looked, the

Re: Possible bug on document encoding.

2008-04-02 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 19:21:29 Enrico Forestieri wrote: I did it: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4665 -- Enrico Enrico, I noticed that the bug is fixed. How do I proceed to patch my existing LyX installation (LyX 1.5.4 on Fedora 8) Or should I simply wait for an update? Thanks.

Re: Possible bug on document encoding.

2008-04-02 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rudi Gaelzer wrote: Enrico, I noticed that the bug is fixed. How do I proceed to patch my existing LyX installation (LyX 1.5.4 on Fedora 8) Or should I simply wait for an update? If you can, try to checkout the stable branch from svn, as described here: http://www.lyx.org/devel/cvs.php

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-02 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

a0poster example using LyX

2008-04-02 Thread Robert Orr
Some time back there was discussion of using the a0poster class with LyX. Would someone be kind enough to post an example .lyx file using this class and layout file. Thanks. Phil You rock. That's why

Re: a0poster example using LyX

2008-04-02 Thread obregonmateo
I ended up using the sciposter class with the options [landscape,a0,largefonts,plainsections] and the packages: \usepackage{multicol} \usepackage{sectionbox} \usepackage{wallpaper} This gave me a great A0 landscape poster with 3 columns, a wallpaper image and text enclosed in boxes with a white

layout file for .tex files

2008-04-02 Thread Charlse Darwin
I just installed LyX via MacPorts and now have a newbie question for you all: I get following error message: ``The layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not available. See the

Re: layout file for .tex files

2008-04-02 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Charlse Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed LyX via MacPorts and now have a newbie question for you all: I get following error message: ``The layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not usable. This is probably because a

Re: MiKTeX Problem Report: Permission denied

2008-04-02 Thread Ed Sykes
Thanks Bob, I appreciate you taking time for your suggestion. I've tried it but with no luck. I was wondering if someone could point me where to try to find the answer: is it a Windows thing? is it MiKTeX thing or is it a LyX thing? Thanks, Ed Sykes - Original Message - From: Bob

Re: Another MiKTeX Problem Report: Windows API error 3.

2008-04-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Sykes 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 Report: Windows API error 3: The system cannot find the path

Re: Uncompilable file

2008-04-02 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 them? Thanks

Menu language

2008-04-02 Thread Salát Máté
Hello, Is it possible to change the menu language of LyX after it's already installed? I use Windows XP and LyX 1.5.4. Thanks, Máté

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

2008-04-02 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Olivier Ripoll wrote: 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

Re: final feedback

2008-04-02 Thread Helge Hafting
William B. King wrote: After struggling with LyX for two days, I can't even get it to print out its own documentation, which was prepared in LyX! How much more retarded could it possibly get? Good idea. Let me know when you get it working. For your information, we got it working - many

Re: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-04-02 Thread Helge Hafting
William R. Buckley wrote: On this note, add my pipe. If the speed with which LaTeX could operate were such that output could be produced and displayed within the timeframe of a human keystroke (for fun, lets say you're a really good 150 wpm typist), how would this differ from WYSIWYG? Then

Re: Menu language

2008-04-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Máté, 2008/4/2 Salát Máté [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is it possible to change the menu language of LyX after it's already installed? I use Windows XP and LyX 1.5.4. Searching on the LyX Wiki for menu language you could have stumbled on this [1] article. Basically, you would need to define the

Re: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-04-02 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 26 March 2008 05:22, Eric S Fraga wrote: At Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:33:22 -0700 (PDT), Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: WYSIWYG promise? Andre', I hope not!! That's why there's AbiWord and OO.o.

Another MiKTeX Problem Report: Windows API error 3.

2008-04-02 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: Windows API error 3: The system cannot find the path specified. I recently

Re: Troubleshooting Process not allowed?

2008-04-02 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: 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

Re: Menu language

2008-04-02 Thread Joost Verburg
Salát Máté wrote: Is it possible to change the menu language of LyX after it's already installed? I use Windows XP and LyX 1.5.4. Just run the installer again. Joost

Re: New LyX website

2008-04-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: By the way, when you guys click on a .lyx file in your browser, do you get a download prompt or does your browser display the LyX source? New users might be confused if they see the LyX source and don't know what to do with it. I get the source displayed as text

Re: Troubleshooting Process not allowed?

2008-04-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: 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 Personally, I'm encouraged to see a tradition that we apparently share with our brethren across the

Re: Change working language

2008-04-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Salát Máté wrote: Hello, How can I change the menu language of LyX after it's already installed? Thanks, Máté You can do it by setting the LANG environment variable in the batch file or script that launches LyX. For instance, I have LyX installed under Windows with English (real English,

Re: Booklet headings

2008-04-02 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 07:33:21 G. Milde wrote: You could try the scaling factor box for the individual fonts (instead of the global document fontsize), however this will give wrong proportions as it will not increase the spacing accordingly. Hi Gunter Thanks for the tip. When I looked, the

Re: Possible bug on document encoding.

2008-04-02 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 19:21:29 Enrico Forestieri wrote: I did it: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4665 -- Enrico Enrico, I noticed that the bug is fixed. How do I proceed to patch my existing LyX installation (LyX 1.5.4 on Fedora 8) Or should I simply wait for an update? Thanks.

Re: Possible bug on document encoding.

2008-04-02 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rudi Gaelzer wrote: Enrico, I noticed that the bug is fixed. How do I proceed to patch my existing LyX installation (LyX 1.5.4 on Fedora 8) Or should I simply wait for an update? If you can, try to checkout the stable branch from svn, as described here: http://www.lyx.org/devel/cvs.php

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-02 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

a0poster example using LyX

2008-04-02 Thread Robert Orr
Some time back there was discussion of using the a0poster class with LyX. Would someone be kind enough to post an example .lyx file using this class and layout file. Thanks. Phil You rock. That's why

Re: a0poster example using LyX

2008-04-02 Thread obregonmateo
I ended up using the sciposter class with the options [landscape,a0,largefonts,plainsections] and the packages: \usepackage{multicol} \usepackage{sectionbox} \usepackage{wallpaper} This gave me a great A0 landscape poster with 3 columns, a wallpaper image and text enclosed in boxes with a white

layout file for .tex files

2008-04-02 Thread Charlse Darwin
I just installed LyX via MacPorts and now have a newbie question for you all: I get following error message: ``The layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not available. See the

Re: layout file for .tex files

2008-04-02 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Charlse Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed LyX via MacPorts and now have a newbie question for you all: I get following error message: ``The layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not usable. This is probably because a

Re: MiKTeX Problem Report: Permission denied

2008-04-02 Thread Ed Sykes
Thanks Bob, I appreciate you taking time for your suggestion. I've tried it but with no luck. I was wondering if someone could point me where to try to find the answer: is it a Windows thing? is it MiKTeX thing or is it a LyX thing? Thanks, Ed Sykes - Original Message - From: Bob

Re: Another MiKTeX Problem Report: Windows API error 3.

2008-04-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Sykes 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 Report: Windows API error 3: The system cannot find the path

Re: Uncompilable file

2008-04-02 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

Menu language

2008-04-02 Thread Salát Máté
Hello, Is it possible to change the menu language of LyX after it's already installed? I use Windows XP and LyX 1.5.4. Thanks, Máté

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

2008-04-02 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Olivier Ripoll wrote: 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

Re: final feedback

2008-04-02 Thread Helge Hafting
William B. King wrote: After struggling with LyX for two days, I can't even get it to print out its own documentation, which was prepared in LyX! How much more retarded could it possibly get? Good idea. Let me know when you get it working. For your information, we got it working - many

Re: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-04-02 Thread Helge Hafting
William R. Buckley wrote: On this note, add my pipe. If the speed with which LaTeX could operate were such that output could be produced and displayed within the timeframe of a human keystroke (for fun, lets say you're a really good 150 wpm typist), how would this differ from WYSIWYG? Then

Re: Menu language

2008-04-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Máté, 2008/4/2 Salát Máté <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is it possible to change the menu language of LyX after it's already > installed? I use Windows XP and LyX 1.5.4. Searching on the LyX Wiki for "menu language" you could have stumbled on this [1] article. Basically, you would need to

Re: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-04-02 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 26 March 2008 05:22, Eric S Fraga wrote: At Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:33:22 -0700 (PDT), Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: WYSIWYG promise? Andre', I hope not!! That's why there's AbiWord and OO.o.

Another MiKTeX Problem Report: Windows API error 3.

2008-04-02 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: Windows API error 3: The system cannot find the path specified. I recently

Re: "Troubleshooting Process" not allowed?

2008-04-02 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: 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"

Re: Menu language

2008-04-02 Thread Joost Verburg
Salát Máté wrote: Is it possible to change the menu language of LyX after it's already installed? I use Windows XP and LyX 1.5.4. Just run the installer again. Joost

Re: New LyX website

2008-04-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: By the way, when you guys click on a .lyx file in your browser, do you get a download prompt or does your browser display the LyX source? New users might be confused if they see the LyX source and don't know what to do with it. I get the source displayed as text

Re: "Troubleshooting Process" not allowed?

2008-04-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: 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 Personally, I'm encouraged to see a tradition that we apparently share with our brethren across the

Re: Change working language

2008-04-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Salát Máté wrote: Hello, How can I change the menu language of LyX after it's already installed? Thanks, Máté You can do it by setting the LANG environment variable in the batch file or script that launches LyX. For instance, I have LyX installed under Windows with English (real English,

Re: Booklet headings

2008-04-02 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 07:33:21 G. Milde wrote: > You could try the scaling factor box for the individual fonts (instead of > the global document fontsize), however this will give wrong proportions as > it will not increase the spacing accordingly. Hi Gunter Thanks for the tip. When I looked,

Re: Possible bug on document encoding.

2008-04-02 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 19:21:29 Enrico Forestieri wrote: > I did it: > > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4665 > > -- > Enrico Enrico, I noticed that the bug is fixed. How do I proceed to patch my existing LyX installation (LyX 1.5.4 on Fedora 8) Or should I simply wait for an update?

Re: Possible bug on document encoding.

2008-04-02 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > Enrico, I noticed that the bug is fixed. > How do I proceed to patch my existing LyX installation (LyX 1.5.4 on > Fedora 8) Or should I simply wait for an update? If you can, try to checkout the stable branch from svn, as described here: http://www.lyx.org/devel/cvs.php

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-02 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

a0poster example using LyX

2008-04-02 Thread Robert Orr
Some time back there was discussion of using the a0poster class with LyX. Would someone be kind enough to post an example .lyx file using this class and layout file. Thanks. Phil You rock. That's why

Re: a0poster example using LyX

2008-04-02 Thread obregonmateo
I ended up using the sciposter class with the options [landscape,a0,largefonts,plainsections] and the packages: \usepackage{multicol} \usepackage{sectionbox} \usepackage{wallpaper} This gave me a great A0 landscape poster with 3 columns, a wallpaper image and text enclosed in boxes with a white

layout file for .tex files

2008-04-02 Thread Charlse Darwin
I just installed LyX via MacPorts and now have a newbie question for you all: I get following error message: ``The layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not available. See the

Re: layout file for .tex files

2008-04-02 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Charlse Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed LyX via MacPorts and now have a newbie question for you > all: > > I get following error message: > > ``The layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not > usable. This is probably

Re: MiKTeX Problem Report: Permission denied

2008-04-02 Thread Ed Sykes
Thanks Bob, I appreciate you taking time for your suggestion. I've tried it but with no luck. I was wondering if someone could point me where to try to find the answer: is it a Windows thing? is it MiKTeX thing or is it a LyX thing? Thanks, Ed Sykes - Original Message - From: "Bob

Re: Another MiKTeX Problem Report: Windows API error 3.

2008-04-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Sykes 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 Report: Windows API error 3: The system cannot find the path

how to center chapter title?

2008-04-02 Thread snvv
Hello I'd like to center the chapter and bibliography titles of document class book (memoir) or book in general. Thank you in advance sn