feauture request

2008-04-09 Thread Stefano Baroni
Hi everybody and many thanks for the creating, maintaining, and improving LyX. I have a small request that may be silly for normally able people, but may be important for the visually impaired. Would it be possible to have rendered math formulas scaled automatically with the text? Thanks aga

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 09 April 2008 14:42, Joost Verburg wrote: > Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > Perhaps I'm missing something, but if there's no LaTeX installed, won't > > the LyX configuration script decide that none of the layouts are usable, > > making it impossible to start (or I assume open) a document? > >

Re: WRB - Summary of Experience with LyX

2008-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
William R. Buckley schrieb: Telling me, even suggesting to me, how I should react to the written words of others is rude. The telling is what is rude. > You treated me rudely when you suggested how I should be > affected by the written words of others. What, it is rude that I said you shouldn'

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Les Denham
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:21 -0500, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > I would ask our IT folks to install LyX on her machine. Any thoughts > on how I can make this go smoothly for them? Bruce, Another option is the portable LyX mentioned in another thread earlier today. http://portableapps.com/node/9880

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Eberhard Lisse wrote: I would just install the complete stuff and don't tell the secretary about LaTeX. Another option for situations like Bruce's is to use a linux live cd. I believe that both Knoppix and the [X|K|G|Edu]ubuntu family come with both latex (tetex is the u

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Eberhard Lisse
I would just install the complete stuff and don't tell the secretary about LaTeX. That's what I did actually :-)-O greetings, el on 4/9/08 3:21 PM Bruce Pourciau said the following: Elbow problems have begun to make it hard for me to type a long manuscript into LyX. I was thinking that we coul

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Joost Verburg
Bruce Pourciau wrote: Is this _not_ true of most LyX installers? In other words, is it generally the case that a LyX installer or LyX itself will complain and even not allow a LyX document to be opened and typed into when LaTeX is not installed? The official installer also allows you to insta

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bruce Pourciau schrieb: The installer has an option to install it without using LaTeX. Is this _not_ true of most LyX installers? In other words, is it generally the case that a LyX installer or LyX itself will complain and even not allow a LyX document to be opened and typed into when LaTeX

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Apr 9, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Bruce Pourciau schrieb: Is there any reason this might not work? (I'm running LyX/Mac 1.4.1 and she's running Windows XP). Should work, but you should both use the same major LyX Version. I recommend to use LyX 1.5 not 1.4. I would ask our I

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-04-09 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Apr 9, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Manveru wrote: My penny to the well... At first sight http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ has professional feeling, but maybe little to heavy. I like http://www.python.org/ because I always find this page useful. http://www.inkscape.org has simple structure, but is g

Re: Portable Lyx

2008-04-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Matthias Schmidt wrote: Does anyone know, if there is a portable version of lyx anywhere, that is running without problems from an usb-stick? And if there is, how it is to arrange with miktex an so on the stick? You might want to look at http://portableapps.com/node/9880. /Paul

Portable Lyx

2008-04-09 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Does anyone know, if there is a portable version of lyx anywhere, that is running without problems from an usb-stick? And if there is, how it is to arrange with miktex an so on the stick? Matthias ___ Der früh

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:21:14 -0500 Bruce Pourciau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would ask our IT folks to install LyX on her machine. Any thoughts > on how I can make this go smoothly for them? Can't she run your LyX remotely? Maybe make an account for her on your machine? John

Re: WRB - Summary of Experience with LyX

2008-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
William R. Buckley schrieb: For instance, consider the attached paper, which includes many different fonts. I should add that this paper has been published. This is no excuse ;-), I have read books, written in Word and directly published. One font is not always a desirable condition. > Ag

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Joost Verburg
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Perhaps I'm missing something, but if there's no LaTeX installed, won't the LyX configuration script decide that none of the layouts are usable, making it impossible to start (or I assume open) a document? You can still open the document. Joost

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Bruce Pourciau schrieb: Is there any reason this might not work? (I'm running LyX/Mac 1.4.1 and she's running Windows XP). Should work, but you should both use the same major LyX Version. I recommend to use LyX 1.5 not 1.4. I would ask our IT folks to install LyX on her ma

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-04-09 Thread Manveru
My penny to the well... At first sight http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ has professional feeling, but maybe little to heavy. I like http://www.python.org/ because I always find this page useful. http://www.inkscape.org has simple structure, but is good looking. Very professional was http://www.drupal.

Re: WRB - Summary of Experience with LyX

2008-04-09 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:57:55AM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > William R. Buckley schrieb: >> Interesting to me is >> that Andre Pönitz vociferously and rudely suggested to me >> that the problem must be resident in Window, the OS. Are you refering to http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bruce Pourciau schrieb: Is there any reason this might not work? (I'm running LyX/Mac 1.4.1 and she's running Windows XP). Should work, but you should both use the same major LyX Version. I recommend to use LyX 1.5 not 1.4. I would ask our IT folks to install LyX on her machine. Any thoughts

LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Elbow problems have begun to make it hard for me to type a long manuscript into LyX. I was thinking that we could install LyX (but not LaTeX) on my secretary's machine, and then she could type the ms into LyX, perhaps typing ff or something whenever there's a formula that would require LaTe

Re: WRB - Summary of Experience with LyX

2008-04-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > (or found, for traditionalists) I feel the traditionalists attacking. Of course, it's spelled "fount". Jürgen

Re: WRB - Summary of Experience with LyX

2008-04-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rich Shepard wrote: > It seems a very common misconception. Too many people use the word 'font' > when they refer to 'typeface.' A 'font' is a particular typeface > (Palatino, Amerigo, Bookman), shape (Roman, Slant, Italic), weight > (normal, bold, thin), and size (10pt, 11pt, 12pt). That's why yo

Re: WRB - Summary of Experience with LyX

2008-04-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: You mix "fonts" and "font shapes". It seems a very common misconception. Too many people use the word 'font' when they refer to 'typeface.' A 'font' is a particular typeface (Palatino, Amerigo, Bookman), shape (Roman, Slant, Italic), weight (normal, bold,

Re: Float Placement in Windows version of LYX

2008-04-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
neon none wrote: 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].

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

2008-04-09 Thread Filippo Zangheri
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Re: Lyx crashing on custom template

2008-04-09 Thread hectic styler
Did one of windows binary maintainers want to see if they could reproduce this? wes On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 6:12 PM, hectic styler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The main.lyx file included in > http://www.threewordslong.com/downloads/lyx/unswthesis.zip exhibits > this behavior. > > If you remove

Re: Float Placement in Windows version of LYX

2008-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
neon none schrieb: I am trying to control the float placement in Windows version of Lyx. Have a look at section 3.5 of the EmbeddedObjects manual. regards Uwe

Re: Setting align as the default environment for multiline formulas

2008-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Guy Rutenberg schrieb: Using \renewenvironment didn't work (LyX still treats it as an eqnarray and adds an extra &). Sorry my fault, this is of course not possible because align has 2 columns, eqnarray 3 columns. So the easiest way is to define a keyboard shortcut that inserts an align equat

Re: Setting align as the default environment for multiline formulas

2008-04-09 Thread Guy Rutenberg
Hi, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This can be done by redefining the eqnarray environment to be the align environment, you should find > how this is done in the archive of this list. > > regards Uwe > > Thanks very much for your reply. I tried searching the archive and google bu

Re: WRB - Summary of Experience with LyX

2008-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
William R. Buckley schrieb: On this point, you and I strongly disagree. There are many times when a document could benefit by the use of more than one font. I can send you example documents which do use several fonts, and would be difficult to fathom if only one font were used. You mix "font

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-09 Thread G. Milde
On 8.04.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > 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?) It is. > and export to PSTricks. However, AFAIK, it converts

Re: Float Placement in Windows version of LYX

2008-04-09 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL
I suppose it is Document > Settings and choose Float placement ( I translate from french ... sorry ). Hope it helps. Siegfried.