Re: Example CVs give error

2009-01-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dave Woodfall schrieb: I have been using lyx for letters without problem, but now want to write a CV. The problem is I always get an error when loading the example CVs. 'The layout requested by this file xxx.layout is unusable...' It depends on the CV class that you want to use. For the moder

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

2009-01-30 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> > A partial answer: > > at the start of each chapter put in ERT > > \setcounter{pagenumber}{0} > > Thanks Marcelo. This sounds like one of the "ways to > strongarm the > page number" that Steve mentioned in his reply... > > Offhand this looks like a way to thoroughly micromanage > page numberi

Re: how to put an image

2009-01-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 21:39 +, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > Nikos Alexandris writes: > > > > Hi Yego. > > > > Hmm, that's a bit strange to me. I use .eps all the time without any > > problem and "hit" the pdf button (or export > PDF (pdlatex) ) and never > > experienced conflicts. > > > > P

Re: how to put an image

2009-01-30 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Yes, I agree, LyX can handle eps, but you need the imagemagick package. However, I think the problem here is that the size cannot be determined. I had that kind of problem before in Latex, and I solved it by setting the width in Latex, which I believe is equivalent to setting width in lyx. Check

Re: how to put an image

2009-01-30 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Nikos Alexandris writes: > Hi Yego. > > Hmm, that's a bit strange to me. I use .eps all the time without any > problem and "hit" the pdf button (or export > PDF (pdlatex) ) and never > experienced conflicts. > > Perhaps I don't understand the problem of Yakup very well, but I think > it's prob

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-30 Thread Typhoon
I have had good experience using reStructuredText as a cooperative format. It is a fairly powerful "plain text" markup. It has the advantage of a formal specification and good converters to oo, LaTeX and xhtml. Because of the formal specs, it has become more powerful than most wiki languages as ne

Re: how to put an image

2009-01-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 18:51 +0100, Yago wrote: > Hello, > > If you export the LyX file to pdf with pdflatex, only .pdf, .png, .pdf > or > Metapost output figures will be processed. That's all: pdflatex don't > support the .eps format in figures. You can use instead dvipdfm to > export to > .pdf

Re: how to put an image

2009-01-30 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Yakup Ayvaz writes: > I inserted an images, which also shows the image correctly in lyx, > but then I try to export in pdf format I get an error like "... cannot > determine size of graphic". I would suggest specifying width and height in the LyX graphics dialog box. This sounds like the type

Re: how to put an image

2009-01-30 Thread Yago
Hello, If you export the LyX file to pdf with pdflatex, only .pdf, .png, .pdf or Metapost output figures will be processed. That's all: pdflatex don't support the .eps format in figures. You can use instead dvipdfm to export to .pdf your LyX file or convert .eps figures to another format that

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

2009-01-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 30 January 2009 11:40:05 am Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > It would appear that on Jan 25, Steve Litt did say: > > Start the book with \frontmatter, and then where you want page 1 to be, > > use \mainmatter. > > Thank You! (I presume these go in ERT boxes???) Yes. In ERT boxes. > > The

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

2009-01-30 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jan 29, Marcelo Acu?a did say: > A partial answer: > at the start of each chapter put in ERT > \setcounter{pagenumber}{0} Thanks Marcelo. This sounds like one of the "ways to strongarm the page number" that Steve mentioned in his reply... Offhand this looks like a way t

Re: Macros in Lyx?

2009-01-30 Thread Richard Heck
E. Kaplan wrote: Is there a way to record and play back macros (sequences of keystrokes/mouse clicks), as one can do in some editors, like WinEdt? Not quite. You can't record them. But you can assign any sequence of operations you like to a key. I think it would be fairly easy to add a recor

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

2009-01-30 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jan 25, Steve Litt did say: > Start the book with \frontmatter, and then where you want page 1 to be, > use \mainmatter. Thank You! (I presume these go in ERT boxes???) The logic of \frontmatter identifying the part of a book that appears before the \mainmatter makes me

Re: how to put an image

2009-01-30 Thread Dave Hewitt
Yakup Ayvaz writes: > I inserted an images, which also shows the image correctly in lyx, > but then I try to export in pdf format I get an error > like "... cannot determine size of graphic". > > Whats the problem here? > I tried a lot but I could not solve the problem... can somebody help...?

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

2009-01-30 Thread Dave Hewitt
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook writes: > I'm also hoping I can get the pre-chapter pages to be numbered with a > different style such as roman numerals... Definitely use the \frontmatter and \mainmatter separations. Also, to get the numbering style changes you want, put this in ERT at the start of each o

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

2009-01-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 30 January 2009 03:18:09 am Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2009-01-29, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Thursday 29 January 2009 03:00:45 am Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >> Guenter Milde wrote: > >> > My proposal would be: > >> > > >> >LyX is a graphical frontend for LaTeX. ... > >> > >> Well, it is

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

2009-01-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 30 January 2009 03:18:09 am Guenter Milde wrote: > When considering how best to decribe LyX in the Debian and Ubuntu > repositories, please keep the context (including the heading "Document > Processor"). This would give the discussion a proper base. > > The current description of LyX in

Re: SV: Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-30 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: However, images might be a problem, I guess... I think it would be a great addition. My use case is my latest book. It was co-authored in a wiki (50+ persons), converted to html, imported to oo, exported as Latex imported to lyx. Added a lot of te

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-30 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 29 January 2009, Christian Ridderström wrote: > > Add a html/wiki <--> LyX converter and we are all done! Heck, with the > > current LyX format it feels like replacing \section with == > > Well, in principle, yes. One further complication I haven't seen mentioned here is that HTML is

Re: How do I get todays date output as e.g. 2009-01-30?

2009-01-30 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-01-30, Christian Ridderström wrote: I'd like to output todays date in the header with the date formatted as 2009-01-30 How should I do this? with the package "isodate": http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/help/Catalogue/entries/isodate.

Re: How do I get todays date output as e.g. 2009-01-30?

2009-01-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-01-30, Christian Ridderström wrote: > I'd like to output todays date in the header with the date formatted as > 2009-01-30 > How should I do this? with the package "isodate": http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/help/Catalogue/entries/isodate.html Günter

Macros in Lyx?

2009-01-30 Thread E. Kaplan
Is there a way to record and play back macros (sequences of keystrokes/mouse clicks), as one can do in some editors, like WinEdt? Thanks,

SV: Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-30 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
> There are several problems here: > > * Which of the many wiki variants do you want to support? Even if there are many wikis, there are many common features. However, the best aproach may be to include these into a layout file. e.g.: Style Chapter wikicommand "==" END Style Section

how to put an image

2009-01-30 Thread Yakup Ayvaz
Hello, I have a problem with lyx. I inserted an images, which also shows the image correctly in lyx, but then I try to export in pdf format I get an error like "... cannot determine size of graphic". Whats the problem here? I tried a lot but I could not solve the problem... can somebody help.

Re: Request for svn test on Windows

2009-01-30 Thread Pavel Sanda
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: >> 6. is the file.lyx inside LyX window in read-only mode? > Yes. >> 10. is the file.lyx inside LyX window in write mode? > Yes. >> 13. is the file.lyx inside LyX window in read-only mode? > Yes. >> 14. in A: does the following fail?: svn lock file.lyx > Yes. > > Vince

Re: Export to Open document

2009-01-30 Thread Piero Faustini
Hesham Kamel writes: > > My system is Windows I also use windows, XP sp3, Lyx 1.6.1 installed with the alt installer I've never been able to export (with the menu tools) to a open document, and I use Lyx since the 1.5.4 version. The problem has always been more or less the same of Hesham, but

How do I get todays date output as e.g. 2009-01-30?

2009-01-30 Thread Christian Ridderström
Hi, I'd like to output todays date in the header with the date formatted as 2009-01-30 How should I do this? I'm using \today to get the current date. Best regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

2009-01-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-01-29, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thursday 29 January 2009 03:00:45 am Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >> Guenter Milde wrote: >> > My proposal would be: >> > >> >LyX is a graphical frontend for LaTeX. ... >> Well, it is not _just_ that IMHO. My proposal: >> "LyX is a graphical word processor mai

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-01-30 Thread jezZiFeR
Hello Marcelo, thanks a lot! This works – thank you also for the explanations. Best* Jess Am 30.01.2009 um 00:28 schrieb Marcelo Acuña: Hm, well, I really meant to avoid it for the whole document… You mean I could avoid with ERT at the hyphenated line? Like "\hyphenpenalty1"? Doesn´t

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-01-30, Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, A B wrote: >> Add a html/wiki <--> LyX converter and we are all done! Heck, with the >> current LyX format it feels like replacing \section with == > Well, in principle, yes. :-) There are several problems here: * Which of th