Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-24 Thread G. Milde
On 24.07.08, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: or we can put the .lyx file into LyX help menu. I think it's a good idea, this is useful information. Maybe as an appendix to Customization? Seconded. Günter

Re: The \DeclareMathOperatorcommand in my lyx doesn't work,please help!

2008-07-24 Thread G. Milde
On 23.07.08, Richard heck wrote: LittleNew wrote: I wanted to add a \arccot self-defined function in my document, and I followed the help's instruction to add \DeclareMathOperator{\arccot}{arccot} in Document-settings...-LaTeX Preamble, but after I did it, nothing happened. ... Is the

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-24 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:24:16 Pavel Sanda wrote: this depends on what you master. i'm used on the bunch of small unix utilities so i gave that sed example. if you know python you will do in python. my point was not propose the best tools but to groan and moan about xml :) FWIW this chunk

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

2008-07-24 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:16:49 Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, One feature I think would be really helpful in LyX would be search-for-environment and search-for-character-style. That way I wouldn't need to go into Vim every time I wanted to locate a specific character style. Thanks SteeveT

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

2008-07-24 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
José Matos wrote: On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:16:49 Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, One feature I think would be really helpful in LyX would be search-for-environment and search-for-character-style. That way I wouldn't need to go into Vim every time I wanted to locate a specific character style.

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

2008-07-24 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: One feature I think would be really helpful in LyX would be search-for-environment and search-for-character-style. That way I wouldn't need to go into Vim every time I wanted to locate a specific character style. Hi Steve, You should send this to the

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-24 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: As a sed/awk/perl/ruby parser, I appreciate that very much. The more I think about it, the more I think I should make the XML-YAML and YAML-XML converters. That way, if future generations of LyX project programmers forget why it's important to space

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-24 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: Then we can link to that page from the page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctions and eventually integrate the results. i have already put the section here, so from my point of view its finished. Great. when 1.6 is out we can replace the

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: by the way - Uwe, i have hidden wish - would it be possible for you to produce ONE BIG LYX documentation for all the manuals together (plus lfuns.lyx) - each file could be one part for example... ? Would you only use it to search for information? In

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
what I claim is that we need better script tools to handle lyx documents. Those tools should be stable across lyx versions and should not depend of any particular file format. frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it. my feeling is that the xml-branch commit

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

2008-07-24 Thread Charles de Miramon
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: As for character style naigation, we could have something similar in 1.6.x. I was wondering yesterday if this could be used : http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/qtxmlpatterns.html It works on non-xml data and you can mash-up in one structure the LyX format and the

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

2008-07-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:16:49 Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, One feature I think would be really helpful in LyX would be search-for-environment and search-for-character-style. That way I wouldn't need to go into Vim every time I wanted to locate a specific character style. Thanks

Re: replace text

2008-07-24 Thread Manveru
Maybe LyX need chemistry mode similar to the math mode (with certainly less options). 2008/7/23 Christopher Reeve [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't know about you, but I find having lots of ERTs in my document distracting and a bit annoying! My solution is similar but instead I use the math mode -

Re: Hollywood template author's address

2008-07-24 Thread Thomas King
Thomas King [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I looked through the archives and wiki, and didn't find an answer to this issue (although it was mentioned on the devel list). The hollywood.lyx template doesn't render the author's address. Is there something I need to tweak first? Thank you, Tom

Re: Whats wrong with tabluar?

2008-07-24 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL
It isn't a bug, it's the way it works, I suppose it is a way to emphasize the header line. You can modify easily your table : select the first line and remove the bottom border ( there is a button in the table tool bar ). Hope it helps. Siegfried

Whats wrong with tabluar?

2008-07-24 Thread bigblop
I have made a 3x3 tabular. But for some reason the first row is seperated from the 2 last rows. Is this a bug in LyX? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Whats-wrong-with-tabluar--tp580261p580261.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Problem with Lyx 1.5.5 (Windows, Miktex) when converting to PS

2008-07-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Logies wrote: The 58 pages take 1:35 (95 seconds) with Lyx 1.5.5 (for PS) till gsview comes up with the error message (PIV, 3 GHz, 3 GB RAM, Win XP Prof.) Lyx 1.4.5 takes 1:25 and succeeds. Both need 6 rounds of Latex. I suspect the speed difference has less to do with the LyX

Re: Whats wrong with tabluar?

2008-07-24 Thread Zan
bigblop, first row is seperated from the 2 last rows with a double line? This is the default setting for LyX tables. To remove, select a cell in the second row and deselect the top boarder in the table toolbar or in the table setting dialog box. z -- View this message in context:

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion

2008-07-24 Thread Manveru
I understand DTD simplicity... but it is no longer fresh these days. Schema allows better understanding and can be processed by XSLT. 2008/7/23 John [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 23 July 2008 08:04:59 am Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008 11:32, rgheck wrote: Steve Litt wrote:

Math Macro

2008-07-24 Thread Bruce Pourciau
A paper I'm writing has a googolplex of symbols with an \overrightarrow overhead. What would be the best way to make these insertions in math mode as quick as possible? Bruce

Re: Math Macro

2008-07-24 Thread rgheck
Bruce Pourciau wrote: A paper I'm writing has a googolplex of symbols with an \overrightarrow overhead. What would be the best way to make these insertions in math mode as quick as possible? Well, you can shorten \overrightarrow by defining a quick math-macro, e.g.:

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-24 Thread G. Milde
On 24.07.08, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: or we can put the .lyx file into LyX help menu. I think it's a good idea, this is useful information. Maybe as an appendix to Customization? Seconded. Günter

Re: The \DeclareMathOperatorcommand in my lyx doesn't work,please help!

2008-07-24 Thread G. Milde
On 23.07.08, Richard heck wrote: LittleNew wrote: I wanted to add a \arccot self-defined function in my document, and I followed the help's instruction to add \DeclareMathOperator{\arccot}{arccot} in Document-settings...-LaTeX Preamble, but after I did it, nothing happened. ... Is the

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-24 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:24:16 Pavel Sanda wrote: this depends on what you master. i'm used on the bunch of small unix utilities so i gave that sed example. if you know python you will do in python. my point was not propose the best tools but to groan and moan about xml :) FWIW this chunk

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

2008-07-24 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:16:49 Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, One feature I think would be really helpful in LyX would be search-for-environment and search-for-character-style. That way I wouldn't need to go into Vim every time I wanted to locate a specific character style. Thanks SteeveT

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

2008-07-24 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
José Matos wrote: On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:16:49 Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, One feature I think would be really helpful in LyX would be search-for-environment and search-for-character-style. That way I wouldn't need to go into Vim every time I wanted to locate a specific character style.

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

2008-07-24 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: One feature I think would be really helpful in LyX would be search-for-environment and search-for-character-style. That way I wouldn't need to go into Vim every time I wanted to locate a specific character style. Hi Steve, You should send this to the

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-24 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: As a sed/awk/perl/ruby parser, I appreciate that very much. The more I think about it, the more I think I should make the XML-YAML and YAML-XML converters. That way, if future generations of LyX project programmers forget why it's important to space

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-24 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: Then we can link to that page from the page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctions and eventually integrate the results. i have already put the section here, so from my point of view its finished. Great. when 1.6 is out we can replace the

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: by the way - Uwe, i have hidden wish - would it be possible for you to produce ONE BIG LYX documentation for all the manuals together (plus lfuns.lyx) - each file could be one part for example... ? Would you only use it to search for information? In

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
what I claim is that we need better script tools to handle lyx documents. Those tools should be stable across lyx versions and should not depend of any particular file format. frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it. my feeling is that the xml-branch commit

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

2008-07-24 Thread Charles de Miramon
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: As for character style naigation, we could have something similar in 1.6.x. I was wondering yesterday if this could be used : http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/qtxmlpatterns.html It works on non-xml data and you can mash-up in one structure the LyX format and the

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

2008-07-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:16:49 Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, One feature I think would be really helpful in LyX would be search-for-environment and search-for-character-style. That way I wouldn't need to go into Vim every time I wanted to locate a specific character style. Thanks

Re: replace text

2008-07-24 Thread Manveru
Maybe LyX need chemistry mode similar to the math mode (with certainly less options). 2008/7/23 Christopher Reeve [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't know about you, but I find having lots of ERTs in my document distracting and a bit annoying! My solution is similar but instead I use the math mode -

Re: Hollywood template author's address

2008-07-24 Thread Thomas King
Thomas King [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I looked through the archives and wiki, and didn't find an answer to this issue (although it was mentioned on the devel list). The hollywood.lyx template doesn't render the author's address. Is there something I need to tweak first? Thank you, Tom

Re: Whats wrong with tabluar?

2008-07-24 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL
It isn't a bug, it's the way it works, I suppose it is a way to emphasize the header line. You can modify easily your table : select the first line and remove the bottom border ( there is a button in the table tool bar ). Hope it helps. Siegfried

Whats wrong with tabluar?

2008-07-24 Thread bigblop
I have made a 3x3 tabular. But for some reason the first row is seperated from the 2 last rows. Is this a bug in LyX? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Whats-wrong-with-tabluar--tp580261p580261.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Problem with Lyx 1.5.5 (Windows, Miktex) when converting to PS

2008-07-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Logies wrote: The 58 pages take 1:35 (95 seconds) with Lyx 1.5.5 (for PS) till gsview comes up with the error message (PIV, 3 GHz, 3 GB RAM, Win XP Prof.) Lyx 1.4.5 takes 1:25 and succeeds. Both need 6 rounds of Latex. I suspect the speed difference has less to do with the LyX

Re: Whats wrong with tabluar?

2008-07-24 Thread Zan
bigblop, first row is seperated from the 2 last rows with a double line? This is the default setting for LyX tables. To remove, select a cell in the second row and deselect the top boarder in the table toolbar or in the table setting dialog box. z -- View this message in context:

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion

2008-07-24 Thread Manveru
I understand DTD simplicity... but it is no longer fresh these days. Schema allows better understanding and can be processed by XSLT. 2008/7/23 John [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 23 July 2008 08:04:59 am Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008 11:32, rgheck wrote: Steve Litt wrote:

Math Macro

2008-07-24 Thread Bruce Pourciau
A paper I'm writing has a googolplex of symbols with an \overrightarrow overhead. What would be the best way to make these insertions in math mode as quick as possible? Bruce

Re: Math Macro

2008-07-24 Thread rgheck
Bruce Pourciau wrote: A paper I'm writing has a googolplex of symbols with an \overrightarrow overhead. What would be the best way to make these insertions in math mode as quick as possible? Well, you can shorten \overrightarrow by defining a quick math-macro, e.g.:

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-24 Thread G. Milde
On 24.07.08, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Pavel Sanda wrote: > > or we can put the .lyx file into LyX help menu. > I think it's a good idea, this is useful information. Maybe as an > appendix to Customization? Seconded. Günter

Re: The "\DeclareMathOperator"command in my lyx doesn't work,please help!

2008-07-24 Thread G. Milde
On 23.07.08, Richard heck wrote: > LittleNew wrote: >> I wanted to add a "\arccot" self-defined function in my >> document, and I followed the help's instruction to add >> "\DeclareMathOperator{\arccot}{arccot}" in "Document->settings...->LaTeX >> Preamble", but after I did it, nothing happened.

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-24 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:24:16 Pavel Sanda wrote: > this depends on what you master. i'm used on the bunch of small unix > utilities so i gave that sed example. if you know python you will do in > python. my point was not propose the best tools but to groan and moan about > xml :) FWIW this

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

2008-07-24 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:16:49 Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > One feature I think would be really helpful in LyX would be > search-for-environment and search-for-character-style. That way I wouldn't > need to go into Vim every time I wanted to locate a specific character > style. > > Thanks >

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

2008-07-24 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
José Matos wrote: On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:16:49 Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, One feature I think would be really helpful in LyX would be search-for-environment and search-for-character-style. That way I wouldn't need to go into Vim every time I wanted to locate a specific character style.

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

2008-07-24 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: One feature I think would be really helpful in LyX would be search-for-environment and search-for-character-style. That way I wouldn't need to go into Vim every time I wanted to locate a specific character style. Hi Steve, You should send this to the

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-24 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: As a sed/awk/perl/ruby parser, I appreciate that very much. The more I think about it, the more I think I should make the XML->YAML and YAML->XML converters. That way, if future generations of LyX project programmers forget why it's important to space

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-24 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: Then we can link to that page from the page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctions and eventually integrate the results. i have already put the section here, so from my point of view its finished. Great. when 1.6 is out we can replace the

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: >> by the way - Uwe, i have hidden wish - would it be possible for you to >> produce ONE BIG LYX documentation for all the manuals together (plus >> lfuns.lyx) - each file could be one part for example... ? > > Would you only use it to search for

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
> what I claim is that we need better > script tools to handle lyx documents. Those tools should be stable across lyx > versions and should not depend of any particular file format. frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it. my feeling is that the xml-branch commit

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

2008-07-24 Thread Charles de Miramon
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > As for character style naigation, we could have something similar in > 1.6.x. I was wondering yesterday if this could be used : http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/qtxmlpatterns.html It works on non-xml data and you can mash-up in one structure the LyX format and the

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

2008-07-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:16:49 Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > One feature I think would be really helpful in LyX would be > > search-for-environment and search-for-character-style. That way I wouldn't > > need to go into Vim every time I wanted to locate a specific character > >

Re: replace text

2008-07-24 Thread Manveru
Maybe LyX need chemistry mode similar to the math mode (with certainly less options). 2008/7/23 Christopher Reeve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't know about you, but I find having lots of ERTs in my document > distracting and a bit annoying! > > My solution is similar but instead I use the math

Re: Hollywood template author's address

2008-07-24 Thread Thomas King
Thomas King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I looked through the archives and wiki, and didn't find an answer to > this issue (although it was mentioned on the devel list). The > hollywood.lyx template doesn't render the author's address. Is there > something I need to tweak first? > > Thank

Re: Whats wrong with tabluar?

2008-07-24 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL
It isn't a bug, it's the way it works, I suppose it is a way to emphasize the header line. You can modify easily your table : select the first line and remove the bottom border ( there is a button in the table tool bar ). Hope it helps. Siegfried

Whats wrong with tabluar?

2008-07-24 Thread bigblop
I have made a 3x3 tabular. But for some reason the first row is seperated from the 2 last rows. Is this a bug in LyX? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Whats-wrong-with-tabluar--tp580261p580261.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Problem with Lyx 1.5.5 (Windows, Miktex) when converting to PS

2008-07-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Logies wrote: The 58 pages take 1:35 (95 seconds) with Lyx 1.5.5 (for PS) till gsview comes up with the error message (PIV, 3 GHz, 3 GB RAM, Win XP Prof.) Lyx 1.4.5 takes 1:25 and succeeds. Both need 6 rounds of Latex. I suspect the speed difference has less to do with the LyX

Re: Whats wrong with tabluar?

2008-07-24 Thread Zan
bigblop, "first row is seperated from the 2 last rows" with a double line? This is the default setting for LyX tables. To remove, select a cell in the second row and deselect the top boarder in the table toolbar or in the table setting dialog box. z -- View this message in context:

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion

2008-07-24 Thread Manveru
I understand DTD simplicity... but it is no longer fresh these days. Schema allows better understanding and can be processed by XSLT. 2008/7/23 John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 23 July 2008 08:04:59 am Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 July 2008 11:32, rgheck wrote: > > > Steve Litt

Math Macro

2008-07-24 Thread Bruce Pourciau
A paper I'm writing has a googolplex of symbols with an \overrightarrow overhead. What would be the best way to make these insertions in math mode as quick as possible? Bruce

Re: Math Macro

2008-07-24 Thread rgheck
Bruce Pourciau wrote: A paper I'm writing has a googolplex of symbols with an \overrightarrow overhead. What would be the best way to make these insertions in math mode as quick as possible? Well, you can shorten \overrightarrow by defining a quick math-macro, e.g.: