Re: Question on whitespace at the end of raw TeX - inserts

2008-12-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Dieter Jurzitza dieter.jurzi...@t-online.de writes: But wait: what is LyX saying about itself, WYSIWYM? Hey, if I put a whitespace after the end of an ERT you tell me we see it but we won't protect it because you put it there but because you've been working with an ERT before we are sure you

Re: Lyx to Booksurge Success

2008-12-23 Thread Ethan Metsger
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:48:13 -0500, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: if you can view it online, why should you pay for the book? For my part, I hate reading electronic copy. I'm willing to scan it to see if the content is worth reading, but I would much rather turn to a

Re: Lyx to Booksurge Success

2008-12-23 Thread Quiliro Ordóñez
2008/12/23 Ethan Metsger emets...@obj-sys.com On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:48:13 -0500, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: if you can view it online, why should you pay for the book? For my part, I hate reading electronic copy. I'm willing to scan it to see if the content is worth

Re: Landscape Book

2008-12-23 Thread Bob Wonderly
Bennett Applying your recommendation did result in the text going to landscape mode. Thank you. I am still having difficulties with implanting the plots in the document but did manage to get two of the smaller ones embedded. Lyx, or something, keeps wanting to clip off the right hand side

Re: Lyx to Booksurge Success

2008-12-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 07:40:51 am Ethan Metsger wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:48:13 -0500, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: if you can view it online, why should you pay for the book? For my part, I hate reading electronic copy. I'm willing to scan it to see if the

Re: Lyx to Booksurge Success

2008-12-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 22 December 2008 12:46:10 pm Jonathan Kroner wrote: I have a question about the search inside the book. A publishing mailing list of which I'm also a member is extremely upset about Google's plan to scan all books from the libraries. The thought is that why should

Change reference size

2008-12-23 Thread Sengly Heng
Dear all, To squeeze text for more words, I need to change the font size of reference to smaller. I can change the font size of the reference but I do not know how to change the word reference itself. Your comments are welcome. Thanks and Regards, Sengly

Re: Question on whitespace at the end of raw TeX - inserts

2008-12-23 Thread dcmertens
Quick question: why doesn't LyX do this? abcertdef/ert ghi -to tex- abcdef\ ghi I totally agree that you shouldn't mess with ert; that's the point of ert. But this would protect the spaces _outside_ of ert as Dieter described. For that matter, this could be applied to any other insert if

repeating toc and other doubts

2008-12-23 Thread Sindhu
hi all! am a total newbie to lyx (although am halfway through reading the tutorial). am using Lyx 1.5.6 on an Ubuntu 8.10 laptop. Am a computer science student developing software for my final semester project work. Am currently documenting the SRS (software requirements specification). Here is

Re: Question on whitespace at the end of raw TeX - inserts

2008-12-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
dcmertens wrote: abcertdef/ert ghi -to tex- abcdef\ ghi Because this is not expected in all cases, and because you cannot revert this to a normal blank (whereas you can always get the desired result if you insert an inter-word space [M-C-space] instead of a normal blank). For instance, if I

Re: repeating toc and other doubts

2008-12-23 Thread dcmertens
Here's my $0.02: Re doubts 1 and 3: You don't actually create a table of contents apart from your material. In other words, from your example, in order to add material to 1.1, go to the end of blah blah blah and press enter. This should create a new, standard paragraph in section 1.1. Make

Re: Question on whitespace at the end of raw TeX - inserts

2008-12-23 Thread Dieter Jurzitza
Dear David, if I get you right you suggest protecting the first whitespace following ERT - if there is one - the point is that the developers say they do not want to cope with side effects from ERT as ERT is a do that if you _really_ know what you do! And expect side effects on the document!

Re: Problem with images directly present in CLS

2008-12-23 Thread Manveru
2008/12/23 Iñaki Paz Rey i@lks.es: I have configured a new class in Miktex and the problem is that the class uses images. Ive been trying to put those images in many places but when I try to compile a lyx document with that class, it does not find the images and fails producing the

[LyX 1.6.1] lyx2lyx don't work

2008-12-23 Thread Marcus Glöder
Hello and a nice day, on a non-productive system (Windows XP) I have installed by way of trial a German-language version of LyX 1.6.1. Now I can't load my LyX-1.4.x- or 1.5.x-documents into LyX 1.6.1. The (German-language) error message reads: --- \begin{quote} --- LyX: Das

Re: repeating toc and other doubts

2008-12-23 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Sindhu m...@sindhu-s.com wrote: hi all! am a total newbie to lyx (although am halfway through reading the tutorial). am using Lyx 1.5.6 on an Ubuntu 8.10 laptop. Am a computer science student developing software for my final semester project work. Am

BibTeX and Legal Text

2008-12-23 Thread Julio Rojas
Does anybody have a good document that helps me handle law and legal document citations with BibTeX??? I don't want to move to Jurabib, so that's not an option. What I need to know is how to fill BibTeX fields with the info from laws and legal documents to have an adequate citation in LaTeX.

Re: bug: need alt-P in index inset

2008-12-23 Thread rgheck
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Hi, in Lyx 1.6.1, when in a Lyx-Code paragraph, inserting an index entry (Alt-I,D) puts the font selection into a somewhat undefined state. Just typing produces roman font, but hitting Ctrl-Alt-P still produces roman font; only issuing Ctrl-Alt-P once again finally

Problem with the spell checker on Debian

2008-12-23 Thread paulalt
I like the software but as other people already have noticed, there is something wrong with the spell checker; it's just not doing a great job. In my case, I have it on a computer with Debian, which serves me as a VPS. Then I port Lyx from VPS onto my windows vista machine through X11. The

Re: bug: need alt-P in index inset

2008-12-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jan Engelhardt wrote: in Lyx 1.6.1, when in a Lyx-Code paragraph, inserting an index entry (Alt-I,D) puts the font selection into a somewhat undefined state. Just typing produces roman font, but hitting Ctrl-Alt-P still produces roman font; only issuing Ctrl-Alt-P once again finally gives

Re: Question on whitespace at the end of raw TeX - inserts

2008-12-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Dieter Jurzitza dieter.jurzi...@t-online.de writes: But wait: what is LyX saying about itself, WYSIWYM? Hey, if I put a whitespace after the end of an ERT you tell me we see it but we won't protect it because you put it there but because you've been working with an ERT before we are sure you

Re: Lyx to Booksurge Success

2008-12-23 Thread Ethan Metsger
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:48:13 -0500, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: if you can view it online, why should you pay for the book? For my part, I hate reading electronic copy. I'm willing to scan it to see if the content is worth reading, but I would much rather turn to a

Re: Lyx to Booksurge Success

2008-12-23 Thread Quiliro Ordóñez
2008/12/23 Ethan Metsger emets...@obj-sys.com On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:48:13 -0500, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: if you can view it online, why should you pay for the book? For my part, I hate reading electronic copy. I'm willing to scan it to see if the content is worth

Re: Landscape Book

2008-12-23 Thread Bob Wonderly
Bennett Applying your recommendation did result in the text going to landscape mode. Thank you. I am still having difficulties with implanting the plots in the document but did manage to get two of the smaller ones embedded. Lyx, or something, keeps wanting to clip off the right hand side

Re: Lyx to Booksurge Success

2008-12-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 07:40:51 am Ethan Metsger wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:48:13 -0500, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: if you can view it online, why should you pay for the book? For my part, I hate reading electronic copy. I'm willing to scan it to see if the

Re: Lyx to Booksurge Success

2008-12-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 22 December 2008 12:46:10 pm Jonathan Kroner wrote: I have a question about the search inside the book. A publishing mailing list of which I'm also a member is extremely upset about Google's plan to scan all books from the libraries. The thought is that why should

Change reference size

2008-12-23 Thread Sengly Heng
Dear all, To squeeze text for more words, I need to change the font size of reference to smaller. I can change the font size of the reference but I do not know how to change the word reference itself. Your comments are welcome. Thanks and Regards, Sengly

Re: Question on whitespace at the end of raw TeX - inserts

2008-12-23 Thread dcmertens
Quick question: why doesn't LyX do this? abcertdef/ert ghi -to tex- abcdef\ ghi I totally agree that you shouldn't mess with ert; that's the point of ert. But this would protect the spaces _outside_ of ert as Dieter described. For that matter, this could be applied to any other insert if

repeating toc and other doubts

2008-12-23 Thread Sindhu
hi all! am a total newbie to lyx (although am halfway through reading the tutorial). am using Lyx 1.5.6 on an Ubuntu 8.10 laptop. Am a computer science student developing software for my final semester project work. Am currently documenting the SRS (software requirements specification). Here is

Re: Question on whitespace at the end of raw TeX - inserts

2008-12-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
dcmertens wrote: abcertdef/ert ghi -to tex- abcdef\ ghi Because this is not expected in all cases, and because you cannot revert this to a normal blank (whereas you can always get the desired result if you insert an inter-word space [M-C-space] instead of a normal blank). For instance, if I

Re: repeating toc and other doubts

2008-12-23 Thread dcmertens
Here's my $0.02: Re doubts 1 and 3: You don't actually create a table of contents apart from your material. In other words, from your example, in order to add material to 1.1, go to the end of blah blah blah and press enter. This should create a new, standard paragraph in section 1.1. Make

Re: Question on whitespace at the end of raw TeX - inserts

2008-12-23 Thread Dieter Jurzitza
Dear David, if I get you right you suggest protecting the first whitespace following ERT - if there is one - the point is that the developers say they do not want to cope with side effects from ERT as ERT is a do that if you _really_ know what you do! And expect side effects on the document!

Re: Problem with images directly present in CLS

2008-12-23 Thread Manveru
2008/12/23 Iñaki Paz Rey i@lks.es: I have configured a new class in Miktex and the problem is that the class uses images. Ive been trying to put those images in many places but when I try to compile a lyx document with that class, it does not find the images and fails producing the

[LyX 1.6.1] lyx2lyx don't work

2008-12-23 Thread Marcus Glöder
Hello and a nice day, on a non-productive system (Windows XP) I have installed by way of trial a German-language version of LyX 1.6.1. Now I can't load my LyX-1.4.x- or 1.5.x-documents into LyX 1.6.1. The (German-language) error message reads: --- \begin{quote} --- LyX: Das

Re: repeating toc and other doubts

2008-12-23 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Sindhu m...@sindhu-s.com wrote: hi all! am a total newbie to lyx (although am halfway through reading the tutorial). am using Lyx 1.5.6 on an Ubuntu 8.10 laptop. Am a computer science student developing software for my final semester project work. Am

BibTeX and Legal Text

2008-12-23 Thread Julio Rojas
Does anybody have a good document that helps me handle law and legal document citations with BibTeX??? I don't want to move to Jurabib, so that's not an option. What I need to know is how to fill BibTeX fields with the info from laws and legal documents to have an adequate citation in LaTeX.

Re: bug: need alt-P in index inset

2008-12-23 Thread rgheck
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Hi, in Lyx 1.6.1, when in a Lyx-Code paragraph, inserting an index entry (Alt-I,D) puts the font selection into a somewhat undefined state. Just typing produces roman font, but hitting Ctrl-Alt-P still produces roman font; only issuing Ctrl-Alt-P once again finally

Problem with the spell checker on Debian

2008-12-23 Thread paulalt
I like the software but as other people already have noticed, there is something wrong with the spell checker; it's just not doing a great job. In my case, I have it on a computer with Debian, which serves me as a VPS. Then I port Lyx from VPS onto my windows vista machine through X11. The

Re: bug: need alt-P in index inset

2008-12-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jan Engelhardt wrote: in Lyx 1.6.1, when in a Lyx-Code paragraph, inserting an index entry (Alt-I,D) puts the font selection into a somewhat undefined state. Just typing produces roman font, but hitting Ctrl-Alt-P still produces roman font; only issuing Ctrl-Alt-P once again finally gives

Re: Question on whitespace at the end of raw TeX - inserts

2008-12-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Dieter Jurzitza writes: > But wait: what is LyX saying about itself, WYSIWYM? Hey, if I put a > whitespace after the end of an ERT you tell me we see it but we won't > protect it because you put it there but because you've been working > with an ERT before we are sure

Re: Lyx to Booksurge Success

2008-12-23 Thread Ethan Metsger
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:48:13 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: if you can view it online, why should you pay for the book? For my part, I hate reading electronic copy. I'm willing to scan it to see if the content is worth reading, but I would much rather turn to a

Re: Lyx to Booksurge Success

2008-12-23 Thread Quiliro Ordóñez
2008/12/23 Ethan Metsger > On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:48:13 -0500, Steve Litt > wrote: > > if you can view it online, why should you >> pay for the book? >> > > For my part, I hate reading electronic copy. I'm willing to scan it to see > if the

Re: Landscape Book

2008-12-23 Thread Bob Wonderly
Bennett Applying your recommendation did result in the text going to landscape mode. Thank you. I am still having difficulties with implanting the plots in the document but did manage to get two of the smaller ones embedded. Lyx, or something, keeps wanting to clip off the right hand side

Re: Lyx to Booksurge Success

2008-12-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 07:40:51 am Ethan Metsger wrote: > On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:48:13 -0500, Steve Litt > > wrote: > > if you can view it online, why should you > > pay for the book? > > For my part, I hate reading electronic copy. I'm willing to scan it to > see

Re: Lyx to Booksurge Success

2008-12-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 22 December 2008 12:46:10 pm Jonathan Kroner wrote: I have a question about the "search inside the book". A publishing mailing list of which I'm also a member is extremely upset about Google's plan to scan all books from the libraries. The thought is that why

Change reference size

2008-12-23 Thread Sengly Heng
Dear all, To squeeze text for more words, I need to change the font size of reference to smaller. I can change the font size of the reference but I do not know how to change the word reference itself. Your comments are welcome. Thanks and Regards, Sengly

Re: Question on whitespace at the end of raw TeX - inserts

2008-12-23 Thread dcmertens
Quick question: why doesn't LyX do this? abcdef ghi -to tex- abcdef\ ghi I totally agree that you shouldn't mess with ert; that's the point of ert. But this would protect the spaces _outside_ of ert as Dieter described. For that matter, this could be applied to any other insert if desired.

repeating toc and other doubts

2008-12-23 Thread Sindhu
hi all! am a total newbie to lyx (although am halfway through reading the tutorial). am using Lyx 1.5.6 on an Ubuntu 8.10 laptop. Am a computer science student developing software for my final semester project work. Am currently documenting the SRS (software requirements specification). Here is

Re: Question on whitespace at the end of raw TeX - inserts

2008-12-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
dcmertens wrote: > abcdef ghi > -to tex- > abcdef\ ghi Because this is not expected in all cases, and because you cannot revert this to a normal blank (whereas you can always get the desired result if you insert an "inter-word space" [M-C-] instead of a normal blank). For instance, if I write

Re: repeating toc and other doubts

2008-12-23 Thread dcmertens
Here's my $0.02: Re doubts 1 and 3: You don't actually create a table of contents apart from your material. In other words, from your example, in order to add material to 1.1, go to the end of "blah blah blah" and press . This should create a new, standard paragraph in section 1.1. Make

Re: Question on whitespace at the end of raw TeX - inserts

2008-12-23 Thread Dieter Jurzitza
Dear David, if I get you right you suggest protecting the first whitespace following ERT - if there is one - the point is that the developers say they do not want to cope with side effects from ERT as ERT is a "do that if you _really_ know what you do! And expect side effects on the document!"

Re: Problem with images directly present in CLS

2008-12-23 Thread Manveru
2008/12/23 Iñaki Paz Rey : > > I have configured a new class in Miktex and the problem is that the class > uses images. Ive been trying to put those images in many places but when I > try to compile a lyx document with that class, it does not find the images > and fails

[LyX 1.6.1] lyx2lyx don't work

2008-12-23 Thread Marcus Glöder
Hello and a nice day, on a non-productive system (Windows XP) I have installed by way of trial a German-language version of LyX 1.6.1. Now I can't load my LyX-1.4.x- or 1.5.x-documents into LyX 1.6.1. The (German-language) error message reads: --- \begin{quote} --- LyX: Das

Re: repeating toc and other doubts

2008-12-23 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Sindhu wrote: > hi all! > > am a total newbie to lyx (although am halfway through reading the > tutorial). am using Lyx 1.5.6 on an Ubuntu 8.10 laptop. > > Am a computer science student developing software for my final semester > project work.

BibTeX and Legal Text

2008-12-23 Thread Julio Rojas
Does anybody have a good document that helps me handle law and legal document citations with BibTeX??? I don't want to move to Jurabib, so that's not an option. What I need to know is how to fill BibTeX fields with the info from laws and legal documents to have an adequate citation in LaTeX.

Re: bug: need alt-P in index inset

2008-12-23 Thread rgheck
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Hi, in Lyx 1.6.1, when in a Lyx-Code paragraph, inserting an index entry (Alt-I,D) puts the font selection into a somewhat undefined state. Just typing produces roman font, but hitting Ctrl-Alt-P still produces roman font; only issuing Ctrl-Alt-P once again finally

Problem with the spell checker on Debian

2008-12-23 Thread paulalt
I like the software but as other people already have noticed, there is something wrong with the spell checker; it's just not doing a great job. In my case, I have it on a computer with Debian, which serves me as a VPS. Then I port Lyx from VPS onto my windows vista machine through X11. The

Re: bug: need alt-P in index inset

2008-12-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jan Engelhardt wrote: > in Lyx 1.6.1, when in a Lyx-Code paragraph, inserting an index entry > (Alt-I,D) puts the font selection into a somewhat undefined state. > Just typing produces roman font, but hitting Ctrl-Alt-P still produces > roman font; only issuing Ctrl-Alt-P once again finally gives