Re: How to number an inline equation

2008-12-03 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Kuang Chen wrote: Hi, Konrad: Problem solved. I found the reason seems to be that spacing is big whenever I want to insert a real display equation in a separate line. However if I insert it right after a paragraph by ctrl+alt+n, a new box will also show up on a new line below the paragrap

Re: How to number an inline equation

2008-12-03 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Kuang Chen wrote: Here is the situation: I have a bunch of inline equations to number. They have \displaystyle, are centered on a separate line. So basically they look like a real display-styled equations. The ONLY difference is that those real display equations created by CTRL+SHIFT+M has a

view pdf : file does not exist

2008-12-03 Thread Mike Martell
I recently changed macs using migration assistant. now, when i try to view pdf, i am told that the file does not exist? any help? thanks

Re: Suggesting on Math editing and the Toolbar position

2008-12-03 Thread asm23
Paul Smith wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I want to edit math formula at bottom of the View. When I click the formula, then ,the math toolbar jumped out and would overlay the math formula area. I think it is not a convenient manner. So, I sugge

How to number an inline equation

2008-12-03 Thread Kuang Chen
Hi, Here is the situation: I have a bunch of inline equations to number. They have \displaystyle, are centered on a separate line. So basically they look like a real display-styled equations. The ONLY difference is that those real display equations created by CTRL+SHIFT+M has a larger spac

Does the version management work under windows?

2008-12-03 Thread Niko Schwarz
ok, i think i figured this out. i needed to install more miktex packages. it runs now. but the version management does not work at all. i see it complain that some ci tool is returning an error. there is no ci tool installed at all, so im not surprised. it does not appear in the cygwin tree, so im

Re: LaTeX Error: File `prettyref.sty' not found.

2008-12-03 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Niko Schwarz wrote: > why does it say that? because prettyref.sty is not installed on your computer. > what can i do about it? Install it :-) Grab it here: http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/prettyref or try to get it via your package manager (probably the MikTeX package manage

Re: Find and Replace math

2008-12-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a long-standing desire, for "round trip" LaTeX editing, or the > ability to edit directly in the View>Source pane. Unfortunately, LyX's > own internal format isn't LaTeX, and the tex2lyx importer isn't ready > for this kind of thing. Basically, i

Re: footnote problem

2008-12-03 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Wow, thank Konrad!! I didn't know that!! also, thanks rh for explaining this. Best Regards, Erez On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Konrad Hofbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Erez Yerushalmi wrote: > > I suddenly wished that LyX had a simple button to switch between > "regular" > > lyx view a

LaTeX Error: File `prettyref.sty' not found.

2008-12-03 Thread Niko Schwarz
I wrote this lyx file on my mac and it worked fine. then my mac exploded and now im trying to work with it on my windows box. but the latex compiler says: "prettyref.sty noot found". why does it say that? what can i do about it? cheers, niko

Re: footnote problem

2008-12-03 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: > I suddenly wished that LyX had a simple button to switch between "regular" > lyx view and a Kile-type view. Then Kile would be absolute because LyX would > be able to do both at the same time. In LyX, View -> Source. You cannot edit the Latex code, but you see it. /K

Re: Find and Replace math

2008-12-03 Thread Richard Heck
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: I had an idea regarding this issue, which could be useful a wide range of issues The easiest option at the moment to find and replace would be to export as latex into an editor, and find and replace y_{1t} into x_{1t}. Then import it again. If LyX is an editor for Latex

Re: footnote problem

2008-12-03 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi, Just to add to your discussion. I agree with Marcelo completely. That is why I really love LyX. Please read my previous mail to JMarc regarding this kind of issue. I suddenly wished that LyX had a simple button to switch between "regular" lyx view and a Kile-type view. Then Kile would be abso

Re: footnote problem

2008-12-03 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> Hi Marcelo, > thank you for your answer. The mistake was my own - when > defining text parts > as quotes i sometimes marked the citations as quotes too, > which led to the > strange pdf outputs. So there's no problem with lyx at > all. It's the user :)! > Anyway, I think that it would be a goo

Re: Find and Replace math

2008-12-03 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi JMarc, Thanks for your answer! Is it you in youtube??? :-) I had an idea regarding this issue, which could be useful a wide range of issues The easiest option at the moment to find and replace would be to export as latex into an editor, and find and replace y_{1t} into x_{1t}. Then import i

Re: Find and Replace math

2008-12-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Erez Yerushalmi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear All, > > I need to change many symbols in a document. > In LyX-wiki and in youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxjMVvn7d3M > I find that I should be able to use the advanced search with control-shift-f > > But this does't work. Does anyone k

Find and Replace math

2008-12-03 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Dear All, I need to change many symbols in a document. In LyX-wiki and in youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxjMVvn7d3M I find that I should be able to use the advanced search with control-shift-f But this does't work. Does anyone know why? I'm using lyx 1.6.0 window xp -- Erez Yerushal

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-03 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
OK, Sorry to write this now. But actually, with Oliver's method, \alpha = 2\times \beta pressing 6 times ctrl-z I can 100% a crash. But, only after I placed in a Section Heading. So we have probably the same bug. Best Regards, Erez On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Olivier Ripoll < [EMAIL

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-03 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Dear All, I have been following all your comments quietly. Unfortunately, I don't know how to contribute to the discussion. I can reproduce crashes, but I can't find exactly a systematic way to do it. I just spent 15 min, and made 5 crashes. What I need to do is the following: Open up a math bo

Re: Suggesting on Math editing and the Toolbar position

2008-12-03 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> If I want to edit math formula at bottom of the View. When I click the >>> formula, then ,the math toolbar jumped out and would overlay the math >>> formula area. I think it is not a convenient manner. >>> >>> So, I suggest

Re: editing problems with 1.6 and mac 10.4 intel

2008-12-03 Thread charles reid
It turns out the issue was, as mentioned, related to a bind file - I was able to restore functionality by going to LyX > Preferences > Shortcuts and changing the Bind File field from what it was to "mac.bind". However, if I simply deleted or moved my old bind file, it didn't fix the problem. When

Re: Suggesting on Math editing and the Toolbar position

2008-12-03 Thread Richard Heck
Paul Smith wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:37 PM, asm23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I want to edit math formula at bottom of the View. When I click the formula, then ,the math toolbar jumped out and would overlay the math formula area. I think it is not a convenient manner. So, I suggest t

Re: Suggesting on Math editing and the Toolbar position

2008-12-03 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:37 PM, asm23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I want to edit math formula at bottom of the View. When I click the > formula, then ,the math toolbar jumped out and would overlay the math > formula area. I think it is not a convenient manner. > > So, I suggest the whole page w

Re: LyX and Docbook/XML

2008-12-03 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 26 November 2008 20:13:29 Ethan Metsger wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:48:26 -0500, José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would have done before if I had not been victim of a cold. :-) > > I'm currently recovering from one, too--no worries about the delay. > > > What are the pro

Re: editing problems with 1.6 and mac 10.4 intel - fixed

2008-12-03 Thread Brian Kidd
thanks for the suggestions. removing the .bind file worked and i was able to create new bindings that match my previous shortcuts. thanks, -brian On Dec 3, 2008, at 4:27 AM, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Brian Kidd wrote: i am a long-time LyX user and big fan of the software. i recently upgraded

Suggesting on Math editing and the Toolbar position

2008-12-03 Thread asm23
If I want to edit math formula at bottom of the View. When I click the formula, then ,the math toolbar jumped out and would overlay the math formula area. I think it is not a convenient manner. So, I suggest the whole page will slide ahead a bit to avoid this problem. Thank you!

Re: Presentation about LyX ?

2008-12-03 Thread asm23
Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Hello, has sombody ever made a presentation and/or slides _about_ LyX, for a LaTeX-savy scientific audience? I am thinking about giving one, and it would be nice to have slides to start from ... /Konrad Do you mean that you want to make some slides or presentation t

Re: Installation on Windows XP and 2000 failes

2008-12-03 Thread asm23
Antonio Costa wrote: Hi all, I've tried to install Lyx on Windows2000 and XP. In both cases I get error messages: Error opening file for writing: MiKTeX2.7SystemAdmin yesPowerUser noSharedSetup unknownBinDir C\Program Files\MiKTex2.7\miktex\binOS Microsoft After that message I get

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-03 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Micha Feigin wrote: > Did some more tests, it depends on two things, the outliner being open and > for the displayed math formula to be just after a section header (the > first line of the paragraph). With this combination the crash is very > consistent OK, then it's the mentioned bug. As said, a

Re: problem with fig2pdftex in newest Ubuntu

2008-12-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Martin Vermeer wrote: Hi, I just was involuntarily forced to test Ubuntu 8.10 (my power supply burned out and probably something else too, because we couldn't get the box back to life again with a new power supply), and having problems with XFig figures in LyX. They come out 90 degs rotated an

Re: footnote problem

2008-12-03 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> Hi, > I'm just finishing my thesis and have got some problems > with a couple of > footnotes. some of them are moved somewhat towards the > middle and there is a > pretty large paragraph above it. > > actually i can't really trace the problem, i already > tried a couple of > templates (book,

Presentation about LyX ?

2008-12-03 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Hello, has sombody ever made a presentation and/or slides _about_ LyX, for a LaTeX-savy scientific audience? I am thinking about giving one, and it would be nice to have slides to start from ... /Konrad

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-03 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Micha Feigin wrote: On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:59:35 +0100 Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: I see this a LOT when I press ctrl-z (undo), more then 50% of the time it crashes. Didn't loose information due to it so far though. Yes, this looks very much like http://

Re: editing problems with 1.6 and mac 10.4 intel

2008-12-03 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Brian Kidd wrote: i am a long-time LyX user and big fan of the software. i recently upgraded to 1.6 and noticed a few strange editing problems. Most likely, you have own customized bind- and/or ui-files from old versions in your user-directory, which are copied over to the new version, but do

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:59:35 +0100 Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > > I see this a LOT when I press ctrl-z (undo), more then 50% of the time it > > crashes. Didn't loose information due to it so far though. > > Yes, this looks very much like > http://bugzil

problem with fig2pdftex in newest Ubuntu

2008-12-03 Thread Martin Vermeer
Hi, I just was involuntarily forced to test Ubuntu 8.10 (my power supply burned out and probably something else too, because we couldn't get the box back to life again with a new power supply), and having problems with XFig figures in LyX. They come out 90 degs rotated and with the wrong boun

Re: editing problems with 1.6 and mac 10.4 intel

2008-12-03 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
charles reid wrote: > I am using LyX 1.6.0 on OS X 10.5 and I can confirm the behavior of the > Shift-key problem. If I use the Shift key plus the left and right arrows, > no text is selected, and the arrows simply move left and right as though > Shift were not being held down (same behavior for

Re: Macros and Parent/Child Documents in 1.6

2008-12-03 Thread charles reid
I actually experience the same issue, but with macros that take no arguments as well as with macros that do take arguments. Charles On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:17 AM, James Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > On Dec 2, 2008, at 5:49 AM, Stefan Schimanski wrote: > > >> Am 01.12.2008 um 18:59

Re: editing problems with 1.6 and mac 10.4 intel

2008-12-03 Thread charles reid
I am using LyX 1.6.0 on OS X 10.5 and I can confirm the behavior of the Shift-key problem. If I use the Shift key plus the left and right arrows, no text is selected, and the arrows simply move left and right as though Shift were not being held down (same behavior for both left and right Shift key

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-03 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Micha Feigin wrote: > I see this a LOT when I press ctrl-z (undo), more then 50% of the time it > crashes. Didn't loose information due to it so far though. Yes, this looks very much like http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5499 which is about undo crashes that occur (a.o.) in math mode IF t

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see this a LOT when I press ctrl-z (undo), more then 50% of the time it > crashes. Didn't loose information due to it so far though. > > This is under linux BTW (1.6.0 debian package, 64bit system) This is weird. I would be interested by a recipe and/or

Re: Ð in math mode

2008-12-03 Thread Guenter Milde
James Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Dec 2, 2008, at 4:46 PM, James Sutherland wrote: >> This is probably a very simple question: does anyone know how to get >> a Ð to show up in math mode? I can copy and past it, but I don't >> know how to get it from a key stroke... I saw som