Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
TP wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: ppm or png can be equally shown within LyX. Ok. AFAIK, the semicolon is not for redirection but for command separation, you might want to use '' instead. Yes, I mean that I used the semicolon, because the following does not work in command line: $

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread G. Milde
On 16.06.08, TP wrote: G. Milde wrote: which OS? Linux Kubuntu 8.04. This should be not too different from my Debian/testing with TeXLive-2007. It would be nice if we could find the reason why --export-area-drawing works for some people while it does not for others. It works perfectly

Re: Nested lists

2008-06-17 Thread G. Milde
On 16.06.08, James Sutherland wrote: On Jun 16, 2008, at 7:53 PM, Neal Becker wrote: James Sutherland wrote: On Jun 16, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Neal Becker wrote: I have an enumerated list nested in an itemize list. How do I exit the inner enumerated list and return to the outer itemize?

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: On 16.06.08, TP wrote: It also used to work for me from within LyX. However, a new test with LyX shows that it no longer works as expected for both display in LyX and PDF export. Starting LyX with the graphics conversion debug option, lyx -dbg List of supported debug

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread G. Milde
On 17.06.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: G. Milde wrote: On 16.06.08, TP wrote: of course the --export-area-drawing option can not have any effect if there is no export! Right. My guess is, that svg support in the image loader is new in QT 4.4 and hence this option worked with QT 4.4.

Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
Hello Lyx Users, first of all I have to apologize for asking here about a problem not caused by LyX itself, but at least it is related since I am writing a rather extensive technical book using LyX (several hundred pages done already) which contains a lot of schematics/.eps files imported to

Re: Short indexes reference

2008-06-17 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Bump. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Short-indexes-reference-tp17784790p17882948.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Nested lists

2008-06-17 Thread Neal Becker
G. Milde wrote: On 16.06.08, James Sutherland wrote: On Jun 16, 2008, at 7:53 PM, Neal Becker wrote: James Sutherland wrote: On Jun 16, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Neal Becker wrote: I have an enumerated list nested in an itemize list. How do I exit the inner enumerated list and return to the

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
Hmmm, searching the 'net for the problem, the need of generating new bounding boxes to exclude the excessive white frame around the actual picture in an .eps file seems to be rather common. What about a new/additional LyX graphics menue/dialog option, like Auto bounding box, means, having the

Re: Short indexes reference

2008-06-17 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
MonAmiPierrot wrote: Another - silly - question: how can I BY KEYBOARD open (and close) an index box or a TeX box in Lyx? Ctrl-i Abdel.

Re: Nested lists

2008-06-17 Thread G. Milde
On 17.06.08, Neal Becker wrote: G. Milde wrote: What is --- Environment Separator ---? I'm using 1.6beta3. It is a paragraph layout (like Standard, Enumerated, List, ...) that can be found in the drop-down list of layouts (at least in 1.5.n). Defined in stdlayouts.inc as Style --Separator--

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Mukhtar
Tom Schlangen, If you are using MiKTeX (which is most likely), then you can use eps2eps with -dNOCACHE option like this: eps2eps -dNOCACHE input.eps output.eps This will convert all the fonts to outlines. If you don't want that, then a better option is to use ps2eps on the link

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
Some further digging the 'net for related information reveals that several quite current ghostscript (GS-GPL and other) versions beginning with V8.60 show bbox related bugs :-( Any other idea/method _not_ using ghostscript to crop the white frame from the actual information in an .eps file to

Minipage not aligning to margin

2008-06-17 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Hi all, Shouldn't using 100% textwidth in a minipage align the minipage box with the page margins? A simple LyX Note/framed aligns properly to the page margins or am I doing something wrong. I've attached a simple example, along with a picture showing the minipage box extending into the margin.

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
Dear Mukhtar, If you are using MiKTeX (which is most likely), then you can use eps2eps with -dNOCACHE option like this: eps2eps -dNOCACHE input.eps output.eps This will convert all the fonts to outlines. Maybe, but unfortunately it does not compute any bounding box values around the actual

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Mukhtar
Tom Schlangen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Mukhtar, If you are using MiKTeX (which is most likely), then you can use eps2eps with -dNOCACHE option like this: eps2eps -dNOCACHE input.eps output.eps This will convert all the fonts to outlines. Maybe, but unfortunately it does not

Re: headings

2008-06-17 Thread NinaNutz
rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, sorry, you can't quite do it that way. The \chaptermark command does not hold the name of the chapter. Rather, it is called when a chapter is defined, and it then calls \markright or \markleft or \markboth to set the contents of the \rightmark

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
Dear Mukhtar, to clarify the problem at hand: 1. I do have .eps files already (generated by a circuit drawing program plus an .eps driver), 2. but they contain bounding box information that relates to the _page_ size, not the actual drawing _tile_ size 3. the usual method to import something

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Mukhtar
Tom Schlangen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Mukhtar, to clarify the problem at hand: 1. I do have .eps files already (generated by a circuit drawing program plus an .eps driver), 2. but they contain bounding box information that relates to the _page_ size, not the actual drawing

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Mukhtar
In continuation with my last post... Since I have got a working ps2eps, you could send me one example eps file so that I can check if it works. Mukhtar

Re: headings

2008-06-17 Thread NinaNutz
NinaNutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, it doesn't work at all, in my final document because I changed the margins of my document and the command \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} doestn't work... I tried: \cfoot{\thepage} and I have been looking for that in the documentation and I haven't found it.

Re: Short indexes reference

2008-06-17 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Thnx, Abdel, but it doesn't work - perhaps is because of the italian version (lyx 1.5.5) Abdelrazak Younes-2 wrote: MonAmiPierrot wrote: Another - silly - question: how can I BY KEYBOARD open (and close) an index box or a TeX box in Lyx? Ctrl-i Abdel. -- View this message in

Re: headings

2008-06-17 Thread rgheck
NinaNutz wrote: NinaNutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, it doesn't work at all, in my final document because I changed the margins of my document and the command \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} doestn't work... I tried: \cfoot{\thepage} and I have been looking for that in the documentation and

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread TP
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: TP wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: ppm or png can be equally shown within LyX. Ok. AFAIK, the semicolon is not for redirection but for command separation, you might want to use '' instead. Yes, I mean that I used the semicolon, because the following does

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
TP wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: TP wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: ppm or png can be equally shown within LyX. Ok. AFAIK, the semicolon is not for redirection but for command separation, you might want to use '' instead. Yes, I mean that I used the semicolon, because the following

Building a Lyx live CD for Windows

2008-06-17 Thread Renaud Lacour
Hello, I would like to be able to run Lyx on Windows without installing neither it (especially without writing anything to the register) nor all the stuff that is required while unsually not provided on common Windows systems. So I am thinking of a CD or a USB mass storage medium which would

Re: Latex commands in math mode

2008-06-17 Thread Nigel Pegram
What happens if you use ctrl-space, instead of space? On 16/06/2008, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Friedrich Hagedorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:17:50AM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 2:17 AM, Friedrich

Re: Short indexes reference

2008-06-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
Thnx, Abdel, but it doesn't work - perhaps is because of the italian version (lyx 1.5.5) do you have the cursor exactly before the inset (box)? as for the repeat-typing problem, maybe the autocompletion in 1.6 will be of some help for you. pavel

Re: Latex commands in math mode

2008-06-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Friedrich Hagedorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems this \intertext command is not properly handled in LyX. I had the same problem, when you press 'space' it jumps you out of the command. You may want to file this as a bug or feature enhancement. I'm not sure

Re: Building a Lyx live CD for Windows

2008-06-17 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Renaud Lacour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to be able to run Lyx on Windows without installing neither it (especially without writing anything to the register) nor all the stuff that is required while unsually not provided on common Windows

Re: Building a Lyx live CD for Windows

2008-06-17 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Hello Renaud, So I am thinking of a CD or a USB mass storage medium which would provide a ready-to-use Lyx (with the required third party software). there is a portable lyx on portableapps: http://portableapps.com/node/9880 I tried it on usb-stick, but it worked only on my computer, where

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
TP wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: ppm or png can be equally shown within LyX. Ok. AFAIK, the semicolon is not for redirection but for command separation, you might want to use '' instead. Yes, I mean that I used the semicolon, because the following does not work in command line: $

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread G. Milde
On 16.06.08, TP wrote: G. Milde wrote: which OS? Linux Kubuntu 8.04. This should be not too different from my Debian/testing with TeXLive-2007. It would be nice if we could find the reason why --export-area-drawing works for some people while it does not for others. It works perfectly

Re: Nested lists

2008-06-17 Thread G. Milde
On 16.06.08, James Sutherland wrote: On Jun 16, 2008, at 7:53 PM, Neal Becker wrote: James Sutherland wrote: On Jun 16, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Neal Becker wrote: I have an enumerated list nested in an itemize list. How do I exit the inner enumerated list and return to the outer itemize?

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: On 16.06.08, TP wrote: It also used to work for me from within LyX. However, a new test with LyX shows that it no longer works as expected for both display in LyX and PDF export. Starting LyX with the graphics conversion debug option, lyx -dbg List of supported debug

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread G. Milde
On 17.06.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: G. Milde wrote: On 16.06.08, TP wrote: of course the --export-area-drawing option can not have any effect if there is no export! Right. My guess is, that svg support in the image loader is new in QT 4.4 and hence this option worked with QT 4.4.

Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
Hello Lyx Users, first of all I have to apologize for asking here about a problem not caused by LyX itself, but at least it is related since I am writing a rather extensive technical book using LyX (several hundred pages done already) which contains a lot of schematics/.eps files imported to

Re: Short indexes reference

2008-06-17 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Bump. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Short-indexes-reference-tp17784790p17882948.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Nested lists

2008-06-17 Thread Neal Becker
G. Milde wrote: On 16.06.08, James Sutherland wrote: On Jun 16, 2008, at 7:53 PM, Neal Becker wrote: James Sutherland wrote: On Jun 16, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Neal Becker wrote: I have an enumerated list nested in an itemize list. How do I exit the inner enumerated list and return to the

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
Hmmm, searching the 'net for the problem, the need of generating new bounding boxes to exclude the excessive white frame around the actual picture in an .eps file seems to be rather common. What about a new/additional LyX graphics menue/dialog option, like Auto bounding box, means, having the

Re: Short indexes reference

2008-06-17 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
MonAmiPierrot wrote: Another - silly - question: how can I BY KEYBOARD open (and close) an index box or a TeX box in Lyx? Ctrl-i Abdel.

Re: Nested lists

2008-06-17 Thread G. Milde
On 17.06.08, Neal Becker wrote: G. Milde wrote: What is --- Environment Separator ---? I'm using 1.6beta3. It is a paragraph layout (like Standard, Enumerated, List, ...) that can be found in the drop-down list of layouts (at least in 1.5.n). Defined in stdlayouts.inc as Style --Separator--

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Mukhtar
Tom Schlangen, If you are using MiKTeX (which is most likely), then you can use eps2eps with -dNOCACHE option like this: eps2eps -dNOCACHE input.eps output.eps This will convert all the fonts to outlines. If you don't want that, then a better option is to use ps2eps on the link

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
Some further digging the 'net for related information reveals that several quite current ghostscript (GS-GPL and other) versions beginning with V8.60 show bbox related bugs :-( Any other idea/method _not_ using ghostscript to crop the white frame from the actual information in an .eps file to

Minipage not aligning to margin

2008-06-17 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Hi all, Shouldn't using 100% textwidth in a minipage align the minipage box with the page margins? A simple LyX Note/framed aligns properly to the page margins or am I doing something wrong. I've attached a simple example, along with a picture showing the minipage box extending into the margin.

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
Dear Mukhtar, If you are using MiKTeX (which is most likely), then you can use eps2eps with -dNOCACHE option like this: eps2eps -dNOCACHE input.eps output.eps This will convert all the fonts to outlines. Maybe, but unfortunately it does not compute any bounding box values around the actual

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Mukhtar
Tom Schlangen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Mukhtar, If you are using MiKTeX (which is most likely), then you can use eps2eps with -dNOCACHE option like this: eps2eps -dNOCACHE input.eps output.eps This will convert all the fonts to outlines. Maybe, but unfortunately it does not

Re: headings

2008-06-17 Thread NinaNutz
rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, sorry, you can't quite do it that way. The \chaptermark command does not hold the name of the chapter. Rather, it is called when a chapter is defined, and it then calls \markright or \markleft or \markboth to set the contents of the \rightmark

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
Dear Mukhtar, to clarify the problem at hand: 1. I do have .eps files already (generated by a circuit drawing program plus an .eps driver), 2. but they contain bounding box information that relates to the _page_ size, not the actual drawing _tile_ size 3. the usual method to import something

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Mukhtar
Tom Schlangen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Mukhtar, to clarify the problem at hand: 1. I do have .eps files already (generated by a circuit drawing program plus an .eps driver), 2. but they contain bounding box information that relates to the _page_ size, not the actual drawing

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Mukhtar
In continuation with my last post... Since I have got a working ps2eps, you could send me one example eps file so that I can check if it works. Mukhtar

Re: headings

2008-06-17 Thread NinaNutz
NinaNutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, it doesn't work at all, in my final document because I changed the margins of my document and the command \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} doestn't work... I tried: \cfoot{\thepage} and I have been looking for that in the documentation and I haven't found it.

Re: Short indexes reference

2008-06-17 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Thnx, Abdel, but it doesn't work - perhaps is because of the italian version (lyx 1.5.5) Abdelrazak Younes-2 wrote: MonAmiPierrot wrote: Another - silly - question: how can I BY KEYBOARD open (and close) an index box or a TeX box in Lyx? Ctrl-i Abdel. -- View this message in

Re: headings

2008-06-17 Thread rgheck
NinaNutz wrote: NinaNutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, it doesn't work at all, in my final document because I changed the margins of my document and the command \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} doestn't work... I tried: \cfoot{\thepage} and I have been looking for that in the documentation and

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread TP
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: TP wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: ppm or png can be equally shown within LyX. Ok. AFAIK, the semicolon is not for redirection but for command separation, you might want to use '' instead. Yes, I mean that I used the semicolon, because the following does

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
TP wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: TP wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: ppm or png can be equally shown within LyX. Ok. AFAIK, the semicolon is not for redirection but for command separation, you might want to use '' instead. Yes, I mean that I used the semicolon, because the following

Building a Lyx live CD for Windows

2008-06-17 Thread Renaud Lacour
Hello, I would like to be able to run Lyx on Windows without installing neither it (especially without writing anything to the register) nor all the stuff that is required while unsually not provided on common Windows systems. So I am thinking of a CD or a USB mass storage medium which would

Re: Latex commands in math mode

2008-06-17 Thread Nigel Pegram
What happens if you use ctrl-space, instead of space? On 16/06/2008, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Friedrich Hagedorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:17:50AM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 2:17 AM, Friedrich

Re: Short indexes reference

2008-06-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
Thnx, Abdel, but it doesn't work - perhaps is because of the italian version (lyx 1.5.5) do you have the cursor exactly before the inset (box)? as for the repeat-typing problem, maybe the autocompletion in 1.6 will be of some help for you. pavel

Re: Latex commands in math mode

2008-06-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Friedrich Hagedorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems this \intertext command is not properly handled in LyX. I had the same problem, when you press 'space' it jumps you out of the command. You may want to file this as a bug or feature enhancement. I'm not sure

Re: Building a Lyx live CD for Windows

2008-06-17 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Renaud Lacour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to be able to run Lyx on Windows without installing neither it (especially without writing anything to the register) nor all the stuff that is required while unsually not provided on common Windows

Re: Building a Lyx live CD for Windows

2008-06-17 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Hello Renaud, So I am thinking of a CD or a USB mass storage medium which would provide a ready-to-use Lyx (with the required third party software). there is a portable lyx on portableapps: http://portableapps.com/node/9880 I tried it on usb-stick, but it worked only on my computer, where

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
TP wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: ppm or png can be equally shown within LyX. Ok. AFAIK, the semicolon is not for redirection but for command separation, you might want to use '>' instead. Yes, I mean that I used the semicolon, because the following does not work in command line: $

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread G. Milde
On 16.06.08, TP wrote: > G. Milde wrote: > > which OS? > Linux Kubuntu 8.04. This should be not too different from my Debian/testing with TeXLive-2007. > > It would be nice if we could find the reason why --export-area-drawing > > works for some people while it does not for others. > It works

Re: Nested lists

2008-06-17 Thread G. Milde
On 16.06.08, James Sutherland wrote: > On Jun 16, 2008, at 7:53 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >> James Sutherland wrote: >>> On Jun 16, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Neal Becker wrote: I have an enumerated list nested in an itemize list. How do I exit the inner enumerated list and return to the outer

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: On 16.06.08, TP wrote: It also used to work for me from within LyX. However, a new test with LyX shows that it no longer works as expected for both display in LyX and PDF export. Starting LyX with the graphics conversion debug option, > lyx -dbg List of supported debug

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread G. Milde
On 17.06.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > G. Milde wrote: >> On 16.06.08, TP wrote: >> of course the --export-area-drawing option can not have any effect if >> there is no export! > Right. >> My guess is, that svg support in the image loader is new in QT 4.4 and >> hence this option worked with

Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
Hello Lyx Users, first of all I have to apologize for asking here about a problem not caused by LyX itself, but at least it is related since I am writing a rather extensive technical book using LyX (several hundred pages done already) which contains a lot of schematics/.eps files imported to

Re: Short indexes reference

2008-06-17 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Bump. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Short-indexes-reference-tp17784790p17882948.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Nested lists

2008-06-17 Thread Neal Becker
G. Milde wrote: > On 16.06.08, James Sutherland wrote: >> On Jun 16, 2008, at 7:53 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >>> James Sutherland wrote: On Jun 16, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > > I have an enumerated list nested in an itemize list. How do I exit > the inner enumerated list

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
Hmmm, searching the 'net for the problem, the need of generating new bounding boxes to exclude the excessive white "frame" around the actual picture in an .eps file seems to be rather common. What about a new/additional LyX graphics menue/dialog option, like "Auto bounding box", means, having

Re: Short indexes reference

2008-06-17 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
MonAmiPierrot wrote: Another - silly - question: how can I BY KEYBOARD open (and close) an index box or a TeX box in Lyx? Ctrl-i Abdel.

Re: Nested lists

2008-06-17 Thread G. Milde
On 17.06.08, Neal Becker wrote: > G. Milde wrote: > What is "--- Environment Separator ---"? I'm using 1.6beta3. It is a paragraph layout (like Standard, Enumerated, List, ...) that can be found in the drop-down list of layouts (at least in 1.5.n). Defined in stdlayouts.inc as Style

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Mukhtar
Tom Schlangen, If you are using MiKTeX (which is most likely), then you can use eps2eps with -dNOCACHE option like this: eps2eps -dNOCACHE input.eps output.eps This will convert all the fonts to outlines. If you don't want that, then a better option is to use ps2eps on the link

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
Some further digging the 'net for related information reveals that several quite current ghostscript (GS-GPL and other) versions beginning with V8.60 show bbox related bugs :-( Any other idea/method _not_ using ghostscript to crop the white "frame" from the actual information in an .eps file

Minipage not aligning to margin

2008-06-17 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Hi all, Shouldn't using 100% textwidth in a minipage align the minipage box with the page margins? A simple LyX Note/framed aligns properly to the page margins or am I doing something wrong. I've attached a simple example, along with a picture showing the minipage box extending into the margin.

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
Dear Mukhtar, > If you are using MiKTeX (which is most likely), then you can use > eps2eps with -dNOCACHE option like this: > eps2eps -dNOCACHE input.eps output.eps > This will convert all the fonts to outlines. Maybe, but unfortunately it does not compute any bounding box values around the

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Mukhtar
Tom Schlangen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dear Mukhtar, > > > If you are using MiKTeX (which is most likely), then you can use > > eps2eps with -dNOCACHE option like this: > > eps2eps -dNOCACHE input.eps output.eps > > This will convert all the fonts to outlines. > > Maybe, but

Re: headings

2008-06-17 Thread NinaNutz
rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Actually, sorry, you can't quite do it that way. The \chaptermark > command does not hold the name of the chapter. Rather, it is called when > a chapter is defined, and it then calls \markright or \markleft or > \markboth to set the contents of the

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Schlangen
Dear Mukhtar, to clarify the problem at hand: 1. I do have .eps files already (generated by a circuit drawing program plus an .eps driver), 2. but they contain bounding box information that relates to the _page_ size, not the actual drawing _tile_ size 3. the usual method to import something

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Mukhtar
Tom Schlangen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dear Mukhtar, > > to clarify the problem at hand: > > 1. I do have .eps files already (generated by a circuit drawing program plus an .eps driver), > > 2. but they contain bounding box information that relates to the _page_ size, not the actual

Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

2008-06-17 Thread Mukhtar
In continuation with my last post... Since I have got a working ps2eps, you could send me one example eps file so that I can check if it works. Mukhtar

Re: headings

2008-06-17 Thread NinaNutz
NinaNutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ok, it doesn't work at all, in my final document because I changed the margins of my document and the command \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} doestn't work... I tried: \cfoot{\thepage} and I have been looking for that in the documentation and I haven't found

Re: Short indexes reference

2008-06-17 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Thnx, Abdel, but it doesn't work - perhaps is because of the italian version (lyx 1.5.5) Abdelrazak Younes-2 wrote: > > MonAmiPierrot wrote: >> Another - silly - question: how can I BY KEYBOARD open (and close) an >> index >> box or a TeX box in Lyx? > > Ctrl-i > > Abdel. > > > -- View

Re: headings

2008-06-17 Thread rgheck
NinaNutz wrote: NinaNutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ok, it doesn't work at all, in my final document because I changed the margins of my document and the command \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} doestn't work... I tried: \cfoot{\thepage} and I have been looking for that in the documentation and

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread TP
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > TP wrote: >> Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >> >>> ppm or png can be equally shown within LyX. >> >> Ok. >> >>> AFAIK, the semicolon is not for redirection but for command separation, >>> you might want to use '>' instead. >> >> Yes, I mean that I used the semicolon,

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
TP wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: TP wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: ppm or png can be equally shown within LyX. Ok. AFAIK, the semicolon is not for redirection but for command separation, you might want to use '>' instead. Yes, I mean that I used the semicolon, because the following

Building a Lyx "live CD" for Windows

2008-06-17 Thread Renaud Lacour
Hello, I would like to be able to run Lyx on Windows without installing neither it (especially without writing anything to the register) nor all the stuff that is required while unsually not provided on common Windows systems. So I am thinking of a CD or a USB mass storage medium which would

Re: Latex commands in math mode

2008-06-17 Thread Nigel Pegram
What happens if you use ctrl-space, instead of space? On 16/06/2008, Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Friedrich Hagedorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:17:50AM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 2:17 AM,

Re: Short indexes reference

2008-06-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Thnx, Abdel, but it doesn't work - perhaps is because of the italian version > (lyx 1.5.5) do you have the cursor exactly before the inset (box)? as for the repeat-typing problem, maybe the autocompletion in 1.6 will be of some help for you. pavel

Re: Latex commands in math mode

2008-06-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Friedrich Hagedorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems this \intertext command is not properly handled in LyX. I had > the same problem, when you press 'space' it jumps you out of the > command. You may want to file this as a bug or feature enhancement. > I'm

Re: Building a Lyx "live CD" for Windows

2008-06-17 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Renaud Lacour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I would like to be able to run Lyx on Windows without installing neither > it (especially without writing anything to the register) nor all the > stuff that is required while unsually not provided on common

Re: Building a Lyx "live CD" for Windows

2008-06-17 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Hello Renaud, > So I am thinking of a CD or a USB mass storage medium which would provide a ready-to-use Lyx (with the required third party software). there is a portable lyx on portableapps: http://portableapps.com/node/9880 I tried it on usb-stick, but it worked only on my computer, where