Re: Best advice on Fonts and PDF output from Lyx

2008-12-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > I've run LyX on RedHat, Fedora, and Ubuntu Linux at various times for > about 10 years. Until a year or so, the LaTeX distribution was TeTeX, > but recently I've converted over to TeXLive. > > Like many other LyX users, I've been wrestling wi

Best advice on Fonts and PDF output from Lyx

2008-12-12 Thread Paul Johnson
I've run LyX on RedHat, Fedora, and Ubuntu Linux at various times for about 10 years. Until a year or so, the LaTeX distribution was TeTeX, but recently I've converted over to TeXLive. Like many other LyX users, I've been wrestling with PDF output from LyX for a long time. It used to be that the

Re: Does the version management work under windows?

2008-12-12 Thread Michael Wojcik
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Pavel Sanda wrote: > >> ci is a part of rcs. another possibility is subversion. >> >> whether there is a possibility to run those creatures under >> cygwin/windows i haven't slightest clue. > > Subversion (both server and client) is available for Win XP and higher. As is C

Re: Lyx math problems

2008-12-12 Thread James Sutherland
1. Suppose I have a math symbol #1 which has is subscriptedt. I now want to insert a second symbol #2 immediately to the left of #1. When I try to put a subscript on #2 the insertion point appears as a subscript on #1. This problem does not happen every time but does most times. When ed

Re: Lyx math problems

2008-12-12 Thread William Mullin
Thanks for the suggestions. Note responses below: On Dec 12, 2008, at 11:42 AM, James Sutherland wrote: On Dec 12, 2008, at 9:34 AM, William Mullin wrote: I use Lyx on a Mac Intel laptop. While I find it very useful, there are some difficulties with writing math. 1. Suppose I have a math

Re: Override menu hotkeys?

2008-12-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Dec 12, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Christopher Menzel wrote: I'm using LyX 1.6 in a Linux virtual machine under OS X which uses the option key as the alt key. (I also use the OS X version, of course.) I would like to have as many Emacs keybindings as possible in LyX, in pa

Re: Show pagebreaks in the editor?

2008-12-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, rgheck wrote: To elaborate: LyX relies upon LaTeX to do the formatting. LyX has no way of knowing where LaTeX might decide to break the pages, and even a single character one on page could cause LaTeX to do something completely different several pages before (because it move

Re: a guide for get a 1.6.0 crash

2008-12-12 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: On 2008-12-12, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Marcelo Acuña writes: ... Have anyone same problem? Is it with the outline pane open? In this case it is probably http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5491 In my case, it is whithout outline pan

Re: Lyx math problems

2008-12-12 Thread James Sutherland
On Dec 12, 2008, at 9:34 AM, William Mullin wrote: I use Lyx on a Mac Intel laptop. While I find it very useful, there are some difficulties with writing math. 1. Suppose I have a math symbol #1 which has is subscriptedt. I now want to insert a second symbol #2 immediately to the left of

Re: a guide for get a 1.6.0 crash

2008-12-12 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2008-12-12, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Marcelo Acuña writes: ... Have anyone same problem? Is it with the outline pane open? In this case it is probably http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5491 In my case, it is whithout outline pane. (Although trying to ope

Re: Empty \item

2008-12-12 Thread rgheck
Máté Salát wrote: Hello, If you are in an enumerate environment what is the recommended way for creating an \item element with no content? You may need it to have a sub enumerate environment start at the same line as the previous \item element starts in the outer enumerate. I could prevent

Lyx math problems

2008-12-12 Thread William Mullin
I use Lyx on a Mac Intel laptop. While I find it very useful, there are some difficulties with writing math. 1. Suppose I have a math symbol #1 which has is subscriptedt. I now want to insert a second symbol #2 immediately to the left of #1. When I try to put a subscript on #2 the inserti

Re: Override menu hotkeys?

2008-12-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Christopher Menzel wrote: Greetings LyX users, I'm using LyX 1.6 in a Linux virtual machine under OS X which uses the option key as the alt key. (I also use the OS X version, of course.) I would like to have as many Emacs keybindings as possible in LyX, in particular, Alt-f to move forward

Re: a guide for get a 1.6.0 crash

2008-12-12 Thread Jens Noeckel
On Dec 12, 2008, at 7:23 AM, asm23 wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: On 2008-12-12, Marcelo Acuña wrote: Have anyone same problem? I did experience several crashes after undoing changes but did not bother to investigate and report so far. LyX 1.6.0 on Debian/testing Günter I'm using windows xp,

Empty \item

2008-12-12 Thread Máté Salát
Hello, If you are in an enumerate environment what is the recommended way for creating an \item element with no content? You may need it to have a sub enumerate environment start at the same line as the previous \item element starts in the outer enumerate. I could prevent the empty \item from

Re: a guide for get a 1.6.0 crash

2008-12-12 Thread asm23
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2008-12-12, Marcelo Acuña wrote: Have anyone same problem? I did experience several crashes after undoing changes but did not bother to investigate and report so far. LyX 1.6.0 on Debian/testing Günter I'm using windows xp,Lyx 1.60, I also did experience some cras

Re: No PDF

2008-12-12 Thread asm23
Julio Rojas wrote: Hi, I am using a LaTeX class from my University for a document. The class works fine with the samples provided as I have manually compiled them. I have created a basic layout for this class. The class is based on "Book" with some small changes. I have copied the "Book" layout

Re: Show pagebreaks in the editor?

2008-12-12 Thread rgheck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: bigblop wrote: Even though I much prefer LyX over Microsoft Word it just looks much better when pages are shown separately in the editor. This does not make sense in the LyX context. To elaborate: LyX relies upon LaTeX to do the formatting. LyX has no way

Re: Custom Bibliography

2008-12-12 Thread rgheck
Luca De Marini wrote: Thanks to everyone, reading the documents you linked, I managed to obtain the exact result I needed. Basically, I searched the wiki and never found the illustrated guide Dominik linked :) With that guide and using JabRef, as suggested by rgheck, I have now a fully setted and

Re: a guide for get a 1.6.0 crash

2008-12-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2008-12-12, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Marcelo Acuña writes: ... >> Have anyone same problem? > Is it with the outline pane open? In this case it is probably > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5491 In my case, it is whithout outline pane. (Although trying to open it was a different

Re: Lyx with latex template .tex file

2008-12-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2008-12-12, Ha Thai Duong wrote: > I am a new bee to latex and lyx so please accept my apologize if the > question is not appropriate. > I have latex tamplate file (a .tex file) Can you please tell me if lyx can > use this type of template as i can't find the option? This depends on the docu

Lyx with latex template .tex file

2008-12-12 Thread Ha Thai Duong
Hi I am a new bee to latex and lyx so please accept my apologize if the question is not appropriate. I have latex tamplate file (a .tex file) Can you please tell me if lyx can use this type of template as i can't find the option? Thanks a lot for your help Best regards Duong -- View this me

Re: Custom Bibliography

2008-12-12 Thread Luca De Marini
Thanks to everyone, reading the documents you linked, I managed to obtain the exact result I needed. Basically, I searched the wiki and never found the illustrated guide Dominik linked :) With that guide and using JabRef, as suggested by rgheck, I have now a fully setted and working bibliography fo

Re: Show pagebreaks in the editor?

2008-12-12 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
bigblop wrote: > Are there any plans in the future to show separate pages in the lyx editor > instead of one long background with potential unlimited margins? No. > Even though I much prefer LyX over Microsoft Word it just looks much better > when pages are shown separately in the editor. This d

Show pagebreaks in the editor?

2008-12-12 Thread bigblop
Are there any plans in the future to show separate pages in the lyx editor instead of one long background with potential unlimited margins? Even though I much prefer LyX over Microsoft Word it just looks much better when pages are shown separately in the editor. -- View this message in context:

No PDF

2008-12-12 Thread Julio Rojas
Hi, I am using a LaTeX class from my University for a document. The class works fine with the samples provided as I have manually compiled them. I have created a basic layout for this class. The class is based on "Book" with some small changes. I have copied the "Book" layout and renamed it with t

Re: LyX/LateX solution for Industrial label/sticker?

2008-12-12 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
peerlynt wrote: Abdelrazak Younes writes: Hello, I would like to automatically generate a sticker on an electronic device. Usual things like serial number, bar code, part number, etc. Does someone know of a LyX/LateX solution for this kind of things? this package might help you: http://te

Re: a guide for get a 1.6.0 crash

2008-12-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Marcelo Acuña writes: > hello, > with opensuse and kde 4.1, qt 4.4.3: > 1) open a big doc like EmbeddedObject.lyx. > 2) at the end of a paragraph in the last chapter insert a footnote. > 3) write several words. > 4) press, and hold pressed, ctrl + z > 5) with lyx 1.6.0, and not with 1.5.7,

Re: Custom Bibliography

2008-12-12 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Luca De Marini wrote: >> In Document>Settings>Bibliography, choose "Natbib" and then "Numerical" for >> "Natbib Style". Then, in Document>Settings>Document Class, under Class >> Options, Custom, put the word: super. > > Yes, uhm, but once I set all of this, and I've done it, what do I do next? I

Re: LyX/LateX solution for Industrial label/sticker?

2008-12-12 Thread peerlynt
Abdelrazak Younes writes: > > Hello, > > I would like to automatically generate a sticker on an electronic > device. Usual things like serial number, bar code, part number, etc. > Does someone know of a LyX/LateX solution for this kind of things? this package might help you: http://texcatalo