Re: No accents when mastering a document (Spanish) ??

2008-04-08 Thread Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo
El mar, 08-04-2008 a las 10:12 +0200, G. Milde escribió: > On 7.04.08, Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo wrote: > > > So I don't know what to do, if I should abandon the idea of building a > > master document,since I don't see clearly which advantages it really > > provides. Anyone could point me

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-04-08 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Dienstag, 8. April 2008 23:02 schrieb Luis Rivera: > curtis osterhoudt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't see that "LyXia" engenders "oral" thoughts, though I'd be more > > strongly inclined to give the > > > program a try if it did! Besides, would this mean that Word users suffer > > from

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-08 Thread Oscar Lopez
Oscar Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thank you very much for your contributions to this thread I would like to give a brief summary of what I have been able to learn I gave a try to inkscape however it seems that the render of latex formula is broken at linux at version 0.45. Last stable vers

Float Placement in Windows version of LYX

2008-04-08 Thread neon none
Hello, I am trying to control the float placement in Windows version of Lyx. While the LyxWiki prescribes going to Layout menu and use Float placement dialog to do so, I see no such 'Layout' menu in the version I am using (LyxWindows 1.5.4) [the official windows installation]. So, what should I d

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: Is there a SVG to PSTricks converter? Can you imagine how cool that would be?! Seems to me I saw somewhere that Inkscape can read SVG (is that its native format?) and export to PSTricks. /Paul

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-04-08 Thread Luis Rivera
curtis osterhoudt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't see that "LyXia" engenders "oral" thoughts, though I'd be more strongly inclined to give the > program a try if it did! Besides, would this mean that Word users suffer from dysLyXia? > If the thread (and vote) are still open, I'd say "Ly

Re: Howto for footnoting from a table

2008-04-08 Thread Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo
El lun, 07-04-2008 a las 19:45 +0200, Uwe Stöhr escribió: > Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo schrieb: > > > > One of the doubts is how to do a footnote from a table element, if > > possible. Lyx behaves as it had been done, but it hadn't, according with > > the xdvi preview. > > See sec. 4.2 and 5

Re: Just the name of the chapter right in the header, unable of getting it. How how how...

2008-04-08 Thread Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo
El mar, 08-04-2008 a las 10:52 +0200, Filippo Zangheri escribió: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo ha scritto: > > Hi again, > > > > Honestly, I hope to get to explain good enough. The issue is very > > simple. > > > > What I've done until no

Re: Clickable Intradocument Cross-Reference

2008-04-08 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 08 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > Where would I find information on how to insert a clickable > cross-reference (much like a hypertext one), which redirects to another > area of the same document, in Lyx? > > Thanks in advance. For when you are editing the LyX document

Re: natbib.sty

2008-04-08 Thread rgheck
KM, H & A Friedl wrote: Hi I am a newcomer in using LyX. May I kindly ask you for your assistance with the problem I am struggling with: I have downloaded natbib.zip and unzipped it to my LyX folder You need to install natbib.sty into your LaTeX tree. Exactly how you do this and where you

natbib.sty

2008-04-08 Thread KM, H & A Friedl
Hi I am a newcomer in using LyX. May I kindly ask you for your assistance with the problem I am struggling with: I have downloaded natbib.zip and unzipped it to my LyX folder but when I am trying to convert into .pdf a document of a colleague in which he has used natbib for the bibliography I

Clickable Intradocument Cross-Reference

2008-04-08 Thread martinezfive
Hi, Where would I find information on how to insert a clickable cross-reference (much like a hypertext one), which redirects to another area of the same document, in Lyx? Thanks in advance.

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-08 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Alan G Isaac wrote: On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard apparently wrote: > I strongly recommend PSTricks. Don't forget about tikz, which is more than enough for most users but it more portable. (E.g., it can be used with pdftex.) I created a wiki

Re: No accents when mastering a document (Spanish) ??

2008-04-08 Thread Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo
> > It is really important that you check twice and make sure that all > child documents are encoded in "utf8", because just one miss can > cause that complaint. Here, with LyX 1.5.4 on Linux and Italian > language, I can not reproduce the behaviour you are describing. > > I did it. Your suspe

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 08 April 2008 09:33, Rich Shepard wrote: > I strongly recommend PSTricks. Herbert's two > chapters in the second edition of The LaTeX Graphics Companion provide all > the knowledge one needs to start. Is there a SVG to PSTricks converter? Can you imagine how cool that would be?! SteveT

Re: break long URL lines with LyX

2008-04-08 Thread Enrique J. Madrid M.
Thanks a lot for the response, but I got the same effect. However, I am using \href{URL}{TEXT}. Where TEXT is the URL, because i need to show the URL for print out. In addition, I am inserting a space into TEXT to forcing the break line. enrique j. madrid m. Tecnología y Desarrollo. Solucione

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-08 Thread curtis osterhoudt
If you're actually comfortable with XFig (it's almost all I need sometimes), look up JFig. It's not a 100% clone (which is a good thing, in my opinion). / Down with categorical imperative! [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Missing the Obvious? -- FIXED!

2008-04-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, José Matos wrote: Welcome to the "Teddy bear effect". :-) I used to teach at University level. It quickly became obvious to me that to really know a subject well one must teach it. Too often, however, I felt that I was subject to the brick wall ef

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-08 Thread Maksi
Oscar Lopez wrote: > Now we are concerned with the use of a common vector > drawing program that can be used at both platforms. The main feature that > we > require is that the vector drawing program can annotate drawings with > latex math > formulae. I do not know about the math formula stuff,

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Alan G Isaac wrote: On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard apparently wrote: I strongly recommend PSTricks. Don't forget about tikz, which is more than enough for most users but it more portable. (E.g., it can be used with pdftex.) I'll second this. My graphics use is pretty much limited to net

Re: ERT to inline by command (workaround)

2008-04-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
> How can I find out other possbile arguments to inset-insert and what > argument(s) does inset-apply expect? some partial info can be found here: http://www.jikos.cz/~ps/lyx/html/namespacelyx.html#5ae63e8160e98b54ad28f142ed40c202449cfaf8159510673d9cbc8920aa6428 pavel

Re[2]: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-08 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard apparently wrote: > I strongly recommend PSTricks. Don't forget about tikz, which is more than enough for most users but it more portable. (E.g., it can be used with pdftex.) Cheers, Alan Isaac

Re: Missing the Obvious? -- FIXED!

2008-04-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, José Matos wrote: Welcome to the "Teddy bear effect". :-) I used to teach at University level. It quickly became obvious to me that to really know a subject well one must teach it. Too often, however, I felt that I was subject to the brick wall effect rather than to t

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, G. Milde wrote: Ipe is a Qt based vector drawing app that uses LaTeX for text. When I started looking at vector graphics applications for linux I stopped counting at 17. I tried ipe; it's nice but didn't make my final cut. You might consid

Re: ERT to inline by command (workaround)

2008-04-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > currently inset-settings lfun (now speaking in terms of 1.6) > > I find inset-settings even in my LyX 1.5.4. > > However, I could not get M-x inset-settings to open the settings dialogue > of an ERT box. Tried with the cursor inside the box as well as in front > of the box. (Error message: B

Re: Creating LaTeX File Programmatically: The Solution

2008-04-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Steve Litt wrote: I agree. And even if it never makes it to LyX (which I think it will), it's valuable with LaTeX. As I said, I'll be using it (or something like it) to make mailing labels. I sent the file to Jose'. It can be renamed to whatever anyone wants. Since it's a

Re: ERT to inline by command (workaround)

2008-04-08 Thread G. Milde
On 8.04.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > My suggestion would be a new LFUN "next-inset-configure" that will > > open a dialog window in any case: > currently inset-settings lfun (now speaking in terms of 1.6) I find inset-settings even in my LyX 1.5.4. However, I could not get M-x inset-settings to

Re: ERT to inline by command

2008-04-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
> My suggestion would be a new LFUN "next-inset-configure" that will > open a dialog window in any case: currently inset-settings lfun (now speaking in terms of 1.6) pavel

Re: Creating LaTeX File Programmatically: The Solution

2008-04-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 08 April 2008 05:38, José Matos wrote: > On Tuesday 08 April 2008 00:58:49 Rich Shepard wrote: > >    I don't mind contributing this to the Wiki if Christian (or anyone > > else) thinks there might be future interest in this, but I did not try it > > with LyX because I knew there would b

Re: Lyx crashing on custom template

2008-04-08 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
hectic styler wrote: > The main.lyx file included in > http://www.threewordslong.com/downloads/lyx/unswthesis.zip exhibits > this behavior. I cannot reproduce any problem with your testfile on linux. Jürgen

Re: break long URL lines with LyX

2008-04-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Enrique J. Madrid M. schrieb: How to break long URL lines with LyX?. I am using \url{}. Use \href instead of \url, as described in section 5.8 or 5.9 in the EmbeddedObjects manual. regards Uwe

Re: WRB - Summary of Experience with LyX

2008-04-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
William R. Buckley schrieb: I have learned from where most of the text formatting is controlled, and it is surprisingly easy. Don't understand why I can't there also find *strikeout* among the forms. Because the LateX-packages that support this are not yet ready for Unicode (non latin) charac

Postscript visualisation

2008-04-08 Thread Minet Roux
This visu give me:(approximative transalation from french) "error during execution of dvips -t a4" Lyx 1.5.3 Ubuntu 7.10

Re: Creating LaTeX File Programmatically: The Solution

2008-04-08 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 08 April 2008 00:58:49 Rich Shepard wrote: >    I don't mind contributing this to the Wiki if Christian (or anyone else) > thinks there might be future interest in this, but I did not try it with > LyX because I knew there would be a lot of adjustments to get the > positioning just right

Re: Missing the Obvious? -- FIXED!

2008-04-08 Thread José Matos
On Monday 07 April 2008 23:33:13 Rich Shepard wrote: >    I now return you to your regularly scheduled mail list. Welcome to the "Teddy bear effect". :-) http://www.answers.com/topic/teddy-bear-effect > Rich -- José Abílio

Error exporting OpenDocument

2008-04-08 Thread 张玉 Zhang Yu, Aaron
I download the lyx1.5.4 installation for windows, and get it installed with default setup. It downloads MikteX and ImageMagik automatically. However when select File->Export->OpenDocument, it runs "Latx run Number1"..."oolatex -filename", but nothing happens to my directory. I searched all my fi

endheads: problem with the memoir class?

2008-04-08 Thread Mathias Girel
Dear Lyx-users I have managed, with the offline help of another lister, to have endheads running smoothly with the Koma Script book class. This package is wonderful. The problem is that my document's class is Memoir and endheads does not seem to like that (I keep having error messages related to /

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-08 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL
Inkscape works very well on Windows ( at least on my XP system ...) I also use a java implementation of xfig : jfig see http://tams-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/applets/jfig/ Siegfried.

Re: Just the name of the chapter right in the header, unable of getting it. How how how...

2008-04-08 Thread Filippo Zangheri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo ha scritto: > Hi again, > > Honestly, I hope to get to explain good enough. The issue is very > simple. > > What I've done until now in order to sorting this out has been just > taping in the preamble, inside "\rhead{

Re: No accents when mastering a document (Spanish) ??

2008-04-08 Thread G. Milde
On 7.04.08, Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo wrote: > So I don't know what to do, if I should abandon the idea of building a > master document,since I don't see clearly which advantages it really > provides. Anyone could point me any? You will get the advantage of a common document * continuo

Re: Lyx crashing on custom template

2008-04-08 Thread hectic styler
The main.lyx file included in http://www.threewordslong.com/downloads/lyx/unswthesis.zip exhibits this behavior. If you remove the first three lines (i.e. the title and author ) you can view the file in 1.5.4. If either the title or author are included in the lyx file the file doesn't view. wes

Re: ERT to inline by command

2008-04-08 Thread G. Milde
On 7.04.08, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:25:45PM +0200, Daniel Lohmann wrote: > > On 07.04.2008, at 16:01, Ethan Metsger wrote: > >> On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:04:16 -0400, Daniel Lohmann > >> > >>> AFAIK there is, unfortunately, no LFUN for this > >>> I too would really apprecia

Re: Hyphenation problem with two languages

2008-04-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Mark Reglewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tools>Preferences>Language Settings>Language > > > > Not here on LyX 1.5.4 running on Mac OS X. > > You can't get to this setting from the Tools or Document menus. Here it's > actually: > > LyX > Preferences > Languag