Re: multiple indexes and section numbers

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John White wrote: 1. I would sure like to be able to make multiple indexes in the article class.  I see an article in wikipedia about doing such in memoir class but don't want to use Book. Have a look at the package splitidx. You have to define a specific index converter in

Re: References in floats come first?

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: Do you have a list of figures? If so, then that is the problem: This reference DOES come first, in the list of figures. If you have a list of tables, then the same problem will affect it. I think there's a workaround, but I don't know what it is. Someone else will. The

Re: Long table messes up table numbering

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Axsuul wrote: Anyone having this problem? It seems to be that having a long table makes the next table numbering skip. http://texnik.dante.de/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?file=table/longtable#caption Jürgen

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

2009-02-04 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jan 30, Dave Hewitt did say: 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 of those sections: \pagenumbering{roman} \pagenumbering{arabic} Thanks Dave... Now

compatibility of two scripts

2009-02-04 Thread Marie-Theres Strauss
Dear developers, I have recently started using LyX and am amazed at the quality of the output - never seen better typesetting on an easy-to-use editor, truly. The problem that I can't seem to solve is the following: I commonly write in English but need to insert Chinese characters into my text

Re: compatibility of two scripts

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Marie-Theres Strauss wrote: The error message runs as follows: Argument of \...@xx has an extra }.Paragraph ended before \...@xx was complete.Undefined control sequence.Argument of \...@xx has an extra }.Paragraph ended before \...@xxwas complete. Could you post a small LyX example file?

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

2009-02-04 Thread Ken
It was a few months ago that I went through the hassle of import/exporting between LyX and SWP. Yes, SWP can export to portable latex, but it was not all that portable. However with a few tweaks it was possible to get a decent import into LyX. (I think there is a wiki page on it with regards to

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

2009-02-04 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
I definitely support Ken's proposition. SWP really makes a huge mess with the latex file (even if the file is compilable by a standar Latex engine - I use the same TexLive 2005 with SWP and LyX). The possibility of easily switching to LyX can have some importance consequences on a larger

Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-04 Thread Maria José Garcia Soldado
the table

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

2009-02-04 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi all, I agree with much of what has been said. Another thing which *diffuses* LyX into the academia is just pure*advertising * - I'm using Murat's words. For example, I am advertising LyX to all my students and colleagues. Maybe a good thing is for all those that like LyX, to do something

problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-04 Thread NinaNutz
Hi all, I have the lyx version 1.6 and I have some problems with the tables ¿Is this usual? For example, I have the table attached and I cannot see the file that it is below the file continúa en página siguiente, so I have some lines in my pdf that i cannot delete... Any idea? Thanks in advance

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

2009-02-04 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Hi Erez, Nice promotional page! I had planned to write a page on LyX on my very slow-living blog after the release of the version 1.6, but I have not time yet. My students normally use the tips I give there Maybe during the next holidays I will try to put it in place. The promotion is important.

how to force section to start on a specific number

2009-02-04 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi all, This should be easy. (but I can't do it). How do I force a sections and all the rest (subsections, equation numbers, etc...) to start on a different number? Say, I want to start my whole document from section 4? I don't want to use the parent/child, method. But just to open a new

RE: how to force section to start on a specific number

2009-02-04 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
How do I force a sections and all the rest (subsections, equation numbers, etc...) to start on a different number? http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-h tml/ltx-3.html Vincent

Re: how to force section to start on a specific number

2009-02-04 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Thanks. That is great!!! It works. Thanks for giving my this link. erez On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl wrote: How do I force a sections and all the rest (subsections, equation numbers, etc...) to start on a different number?

Re: Big document

2009-02-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-02, Paul Johnson wrote: I have converted from a big document to a single small master document that includes the separate chapters. ... Here are some problems I've run into. 2. It is much nicer to work on the separate chapters in separate files. They are smaller, more

TOC not picking up chapter names

2009-02-04 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
I'm working ona book (document class: book), but suddenly my Chapter* titles won't show up in the table of contents. It works fine if I switch to Chapter (with the chapter numbers). But that's not what I want. Could I correct this somehow? Thanks, FN -- FN *

Re: TOC not picking up chapter names

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote: I'm working ona  book (document class: book), but suddenly my Chapter* titles won't show up in the table of contents. It's a feature: starred headings are not supposed to appear in the TOC. Look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted#toc22 Jürgen

Re: Long table messes up table numbering

2009-02-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Axsuul schrieb: Anyone having this problem? It seems to be that having a long table makes the next table numbering skip. I.e. Table 1 (long table) then the next table number would be Table 3 This behaviour and the workaround is described in sec. 2.6.3 of the Embedded Objects manual that

Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
NinaNutz schrieb: I have the lyx version 1.6 and I have some problems with the tables ¿Is this usual? For example, I have the table attached and I cannot see the file that it is below the file continúa en página siguiente, so I have some lines in my pdf that i cannot delete... When you attach

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

2009-02-04 Thread David Mertens
3. (optional, and not so inmediate) A light-weight full-view (and idiot-proof as well) LyX version, (I have the name: LyteX or LyghtX!) which is able to edit text (and structure) of conventional LyX docs, without the possibility of editing ERT or items explicitly banned by the original

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

2009-02-04 Thread Piero Faustini
David Mertens dcmert...@... writes: Yeah, a LyX viewer/editor without document processing back-end (and the associated 800Mb download) would be great. I posted this wanted feature (let's call it this way!) in http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Collaboration and I'm very persuaded it could be great

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

2009-02-04 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Yeah, a LyX viewer/editor without document processing back-end (and the associated 800Mb download) would be great. I posted this wanted feature (let's call it this way!) in http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Collaboration and I'm very persuaded it could be great but I have NO idea of how much

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

2009-02-04 Thread Piero Faustini
Erez Yerushalmi erezyerusha...@... writes: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi/c omputing/lyx Nice page, only that a few other languages seems quite unfair... above all for french, german, spanish, italian etc. etc. users!!!

Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-04 Thread NinaNutz
Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@... writes: When you attach a _small_ example file, I can have a look. regards Uwe The attach is in the next email/post...

Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-04 Thread Maria José Garcia Soldado
Here is the table When you attach a _small_ example file, I can have a look. regards Uwe tabla_problema.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: Puzzled

2009-02-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-02, Ehud Kaplan wrote: I have a file with some figures. It compiles without any problem on both a WINDOWS (with Miktex 2.7) machine and on a Kubuntu 8.10 machine, both running Lyx 16.1. But on another WINDOWS machine (Miktex 2.7, Lyx 1.6.1) it fails to compile

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

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 04:21:26 am Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: All I need to figure out now is: how to suppress the printing of any page number on pages I don't want numbered??? \thispagestyle{empty} Well that and how to get Lyx to position the by authorname copyright

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

2009-02-04 Thread Pavel Sanda
David Mertens wrote: 3. (optional, and not so inmediate) A light-weight full-view (and idiot-proof as well) LyX version, (I have the name: LyteX or LyghtX!) which is able to edit text (and structure) of conventional LyX docs, without the possibility of editing ERT or items explicitly

changing document layout

2009-02-04 Thread Alexy Khrabrov
How do I change the layout of a LyX document? E.g. I started writing a paper via New Document, but now want to switch to one of the conference layouts available? Cheers, Alexy

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

2009-02-04 Thread Piero Faustini
Pavel Sanda sa...@... writes: when you download lyx installer (not the bundled version), you are enforced to install miktex too? to remove export/view menu items is a piece of cake. to deny editing of certain elements would be harder. should this part of the discussion be moved to the

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

2009-02-04 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Piero Faustini schreef: Pavel Sanda sa...@... writes: when you download lyx installer (not the bundled version), you are enforced to install miktex too? to remove export/view menu items is a piece of cake. to deny editing of certain elements would be harder. should this part of the

How to edit

2009-02-04 Thread Dr. Joachim K. Rennstich
The Lyx Wiki for the Mac suggests the following: If at this point you are unable to save new words to the personal dictionary you will need to edit the file at /usr/local/etc/ aspell.conf. Remove the line home-dir $HOME/Library/Preferences/ aspell (line 38 including blanks), or disable it by

Re: How to edit

2009-02-04 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:47:28 -0500 Dr. Joachim K. Rennstich rennst...@fordham.edu wrote: How exactly can I do this? Configuration files should handled with a text editor. I don't know what that would be for your system but something like Vim, Gedit, Kate etc. You will probably need to edit this

Re: changing document layout

2009-02-04 Thread Witek Firlej
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Alexy Khrabrov delivera...@gmail.com wrote: How do I change the layout of a LyX document? E.g. I started writing a paper via New Document, but now want to switch to one of the conference layouts available? Document-Settings -- :: Witek Firlej :: ::

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

2009-02-04 Thread Piero Faustini
Vincent van Ravesteijn v.f.vanraveste...@... writes: Although I was enthusiastic when I first saw this proposal, but I do not think it is something that solves the problem. 1. LyX is pretty lightweight, as you don't have to install any of the additional stuff, 2. You still have to

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

2009-02-04 Thread Yago
- Original Message - From: Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:21 AM Subject: Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1) It would appear that on Jan 30, Dave Hewitt did say: Definitely use the

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

2009-02-04 Thread Pavel Sanda
Piero Faustini wrote: want. No converters, no LaTeX. no converters - no pictures pavel

Extra \endgroup; editing raw TeX?

2009-02-04 Thread Alexy Khrabrov
I've selected the whole abstract of a paper, cut, and pasted to another paper instead of its own abstract, which I deleted before that. Now I'm getting an error, Extra \endgroup \end{abstract} -- and the last few words of the abstract are selected. I can't get to the raw TeX to kill the

Use in US government agencies

2009-02-04 Thread Haynes Goddard
Hello: Can anyone tell me is LyX is currently being used in any US Government agency? I am particularly interested to know if it is used in the USEPA. Haynes Goddard

Re: Use in US government agencies

2009-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Haynes Goddard wrote: Can anyone tell me is LyX is currently being used in any US Government agency? I am particularly interested to know if it is used in the USEPA. Haynes, I doubt it very much. The federal government -- and almost all lower levels, too -- are still

Re: How to edit

2009-02-04 Thread Joachim K . Rennstich
Thanks, Ian, for the fast reply Configuration files should handled with a text editor. I don't know what that would be for your system but something like Vim, Gedit, Kate etc. You will probably need to edit this file as root. I am using Lyx 1.6.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.6. Unfortunately, I don't

text boxes in 1.6.1

2009-02-04 Thread John White
I use lyx 1.6.1 on a vector linux (slackware) computer. I work in either letter or article, mostly article. I used to use text boxes all the time. They are no longer on the insert menu. Rather there is minipage but I can't figure out how to change the width of the minipage. Any

Anyone using LyX on FreeBSD?

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Litt
Anyone using LyX on FreeBSD? How do you like it? SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US

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

2009-02-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl wrote: Piero Faustini schreef: Pavel Sanda sa...@... writes: when you download lyx installer (not the bundled version), you are enforced to install miktex too? to remove export/view menu items is a piece

Re: text boxes in 1.6.1

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John White wrote: I used to use text boxes all the time.  They are no longer on the insert menu.  Rather there is minipage but I can't figure out how to change the width of the minipage. Right mouse click on the minipage button should bring up a context menu that lets you change the border

Re: Extra \endgroup; editing raw TeX?

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Alexy Khrabrov wrote: (1) What's the way to delete it? Could you post a small example file? (2) Is there a way to edit the TeX source visible when View-Source is   selected, in the lower window? No. Jürgen

Re: multiple indexes and section numbers

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John White wrote: 1. I would sure like to be able to make multiple indexes in the article class.  I see an article in wikipedia about doing such in memoir class but don't want to use Book. Have a look at the package splitidx. You have to define a specific index converter in

Re: References in floats come first?

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: Do you have a list of figures? If so, then that is the problem: This reference DOES come first, in the list of figures. If you have a list of tables, then the same problem will affect it. I think there's a workaround, but I don't know what it is. Someone else will. The

Re: Long table messes up table numbering

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Axsuul wrote: Anyone having this problem? It seems to be that having a long table makes the next table numbering skip. http://texnik.dante.de/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?file=table/longtable#caption Jürgen

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

2009-02-04 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jan 30, Dave Hewitt did say: 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 of those sections: \pagenumbering{roman} \pagenumbering{arabic} Thanks Dave... Now

compatibility of two scripts

2009-02-04 Thread Marie-Theres Strauss
Dear developers, I have recently started using LyX and am amazed at the quality of the output - never seen better typesetting on an easy-to-use editor, truly. The problem that I can't seem to solve is the following: I commonly write in English but need to insert Chinese characters into my text

Re: compatibility of two scripts

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Marie-Theres Strauss wrote: The error message runs as follows: Argument of \...@xx has an extra }.Paragraph ended before \...@xx was complete.Undefined control sequence.Argument of \...@xx has an extra }.Paragraph ended before \...@xxwas complete. Could you post a small LyX example file?

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

2009-02-04 Thread Ken
It was a few months ago that I went through the hassle of import/exporting between LyX and SWP. Yes, SWP can export to portable latex, but it was not all that portable. However with a few tweaks it was possible to get a decent import into LyX. (I think there is a wiki page on it with regards to

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

2009-02-04 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
I definitely support Ken's proposition. SWP really makes a huge mess with the latex file (even if the file is compilable by a standar Latex engine - I use the same TexLive 2005 with SWP and LyX). The possibility of easily switching to LyX can have some importance consequences on a larger

Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-04 Thread Maria José Garcia Soldado
the table

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

2009-02-04 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi all, I agree with much of what has been said. Another thing which *diffuses* LyX into the academia is just pure*advertising * - I'm using Murat's words. For example, I am advertising LyX to all my students and colleagues. Maybe a good thing is for all those that like LyX, to do something

problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-04 Thread NinaNutz
Hi all, I have the lyx version 1.6 and I have some problems with the tables ¿Is this usual? For example, I have the table attached and I cannot see the file that it is below the file continúa en página siguiente, so I have some lines in my pdf that i cannot delete... Any idea? Thanks in advance

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

2009-02-04 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Hi Erez, Nice promotional page! I had planned to write a page on LyX on my very slow-living blog after the release of the version 1.6, but I have not time yet. My students normally use the tips I give there Maybe during the next holidays I will try to put it in place. The promotion is important.

how to force section to start on a specific number

2009-02-04 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi all, This should be easy. (but I can't do it). How do I force a sections and all the rest (subsections, equation numbers, etc...) to start on a different number? Say, I want to start my whole document from section 4? I don't want to use the parent/child, method. But just to open a new

RE: how to force section to start on a specific number

2009-02-04 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
How do I force a sections and all the rest (subsections, equation numbers, etc...) to start on a different number? http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-h tml/ltx-3.html Vincent

Re: how to force section to start on a specific number

2009-02-04 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Thanks. That is great!!! It works. Thanks for giving my this link. erez On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl wrote: How do I force a sections and all the rest (subsections, equation numbers, etc...) to start on a different number?

Re: Big document

2009-02-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-02, Paul Johnson wrote: I have converted from a big document to a single small master document that includes the separate chapters. ... Here are some problems I've run into. 2. It is much nicer to work on the separate chapters in separate files. They are smaller, more

TOC not picking up chapter names

2009-02-04 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
I'm working ona book (document class: book), but suddenly my Chapter* titles won't show up in the table of contents. It works fine if I switch to Chapter (with the chapter numbers). But that's not what I want. Could I correct this somehow? Thanks, FN -- FN *

Re: TOC not picking up chapter names

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote: I'm working ona  book (document class: book), but suddenly my Chapter* titles won't show up in the table of contents. It's a feature: starred headings are not supposed to appear in the TOC. Look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted#toc22 Jürgen

Re: Long table messes up table numbering

2009-02-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Axsuul schrieb: Anyone having this problem? It seems to be that having a long table makes the next table numbering skip. I.e. Table 1 (long table) then the next table number would be Table 3 This behaviour and the workaround is described in sec. 2.6.3 of the Embedded Objects manual that

Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
NinaNutz schrieb: I have the lyx version 1.6 and I have some problems with the tables ¿Is this usual? For example, I have the table attached and I cannot see the file that it is below the file continúa en página siguiente, so I have some lines in my pdf that i cannot delete... When you attach

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

2009-02-04 Thread David Mertens
3. (optional, and not so inmediate) A light-weight full-view (and idiot-proof as well) LyX version, (I have the name: LyteX or LyghtX!) which is able to edit text (and structure) of conventional LyX docs, without the possibility of editing ERT or items explicitly banned by the original

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

2009-02-04 Thread Piero Faustini
David Mertens dcmert...@... writes: Yeah, a LyX viewer/editor without document processing back-end (and the associated 800Mb download) would be great. I posted this wanted feature (let's call it this way!) in http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Collaboration and I'm very persuaded it could be great

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

2009-02-04 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Yeah, a LyX viewer/editor without document processing back-end (and the associated 800Mb download) would be great. I posted this wanted feature (let's call it this way!) in http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Collaboration and I'm very persuaded it could be great but I have NO idea of how much

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

2009-02-04 Thread Piero Faustini
Erez Yerushalmi erezyerusha...@... writes: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi/c omputing/lyx Nice page, only that a few other languages seems quite unfair... above all for french, german, spanish, italian etc. etc. users!!!

Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-04 Thread NinaNutz
Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@... writes: When you attach a _small_ example file, I can have a look. regards Uwe The attach is in the next email/post...

Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-04 Thread Maria José Garcia Soldado
Here is the table When you attach a _small_ example file, I can have a look. regards Uwe tabla_problema.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: Puzzled

2009-02-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-02, Ehud Kaplan wrote: I have a file with some figures. It compiles without any problem on both a WINDOWS (with Miktex 2.7) machine and on a Kubuntu 8.10 machine, both running Lyx 16.1. But on another WINDOWS machine (Miktex 2.7, Lyx 1.6.1) it fails to compile

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

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 04:21:26 am Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: All I need to figure out now is: how to suppress the printing of any page number on pages I don't want numbered??? \thispagestyle{empty} Well that and how to get Lyx to position the by authorname copyright

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

2009-02-04 Thread Pavel Sanda
David Mertens wrote: 3. (optional, and not so inmediate) A light-weight full-view (and idiot-proof as well) LyX version, (I have the name: LyteX or LyghtX!) which is able to edit text (and structure) of conventional LyX docs, without the possibility of editing ERT or items explicitly

changing document layout

2009-02-04 Thread Alexy Khrabrov
How do I change the layout of a LyX document? E.g. I started writing a paper via New Document, but now want to switch to one of the conference layouts available? Cheers, Alexy

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

2009-02-04 Thread Piero Faustini
Pavel Sanda sa...@... writes: when you download lyx installer (not the bundled version), you are enforced to install miktex too? to remove export/view menu items is a piece of cake. to deny editing of certain elements would be harder. should this part of the discussion be moved to the

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

2009-02-04 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Piero Faustini schreef: Pavel Sanda sa...@... writes: when you download lyx installer (not the bundled version), you are enforced to install miktex too? to remove export/view menu items is a piece of cake. to deny editing of certain elements would be harder. should this part of the

How to edit

2009-02-04 Thread Dr. Joachim K. Rennstich
The Lyx Wiki for the Mac suggests the following: If at this point you are unable to save new words to the personal dictionary you will need to edit the file at /usr/local/etc/ aspell.conf. Remove the line home-dir $HOME/Library/Preferences/ aspell (line 38 including blanks), or disable it by

Re: How to edit

2009-02-04 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:47:28 -0500 Dr. Joachim K. Rennstich rennst...@fordham.edu wrote: How exactly can I do this? Configuration files should handled with a text editor. I don't know what that would be for your system but something like Vim, Gedit, Kate etc. You will probably need to edit this

Re: changing document layout

2009-02-04 Thread Witek Firlej
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Alexy Khrabrov delivera...@gmail.com wrote: How do I change the layout of a LyX document? E.g. I started writing a paper via New Document, but now want to switch to one of the conference layouts available? Document-Settings -- :: Witek Firlej :: ::

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

2009-02-04 Thread Piero Faustini
Vincent van Ravesteijn v.f.vanraveste...@... writes: Although I was enthusiastic when I first saw this proposal, but I do not think it is something that solves the problem. 1. LyX is pretty lightweight, as you don't have to install any of the additional stuff, 2. You still have to

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

2009-02-04 Thread Yago
- Original Message - From: Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:21 AM Subject: Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1) It would appear that on Jan 30, Dave Hewitt did say: Definitely use the

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

2009-02-04 Thread Pavel Sanda
Piero Faustini wrote: want. No converters, no LaTeX. no converters - no pictures pavel

Extra \endgroup; editing raw TeX?

2009-02-04 Thread Alexy Khrabrov
I've selected the whole abstract of a paper, cut, and pasted to another paper instead of its own abstract, which I deleted before that. Now I'm getting an error, Extra \endgroup \end{abstract} -- and the last few words of the abstract are selected. I can't get to the raw TeX to kill the

Use in US government agencies

2009-02-04 Thread Haynes Goddard
Hello: Can anyone tell me is LyX is currently being used in any US Government agency? I am particularly interested to know if it is used in the USEPA. Haynes Goddard

Re: Use in US government agencies

2009-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Haynes Goddard wrote: Can anyone tell me is LyX is currently being used in any US Government agency? I am particularly interested to know if it is used in the USEPA. Haynes, I doubt it very much. The federal government -- and almost all lower levels, too -- are still

Re: How to edit

2009-02-04 Thread Joachim K . Rennstich
Thanks, Ian, for the fast reply Configuration files should handled with a text editor. I don't know what that would be for your system but something like Vim, Gedit, Kate etc. You will probably need to edit this file as root. I am using Lyx 1.6.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.6. Unfortunately, I don't

text boxes in 1.6.1

2009-02-04 Thread John White
I use lyx 1.6.1 on a vector linux (slackware) computer. I work in either letter or article, mostly article. I used to use text boxes all the time. They are no longer on the insert menu. Rather there is minipage but I can't figure out how to change the width of the minipage. Any

Anyone using LyX on FreeBSD?

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Litt
Anyone using LyX on FreeBSD? How do you like it? SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US

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

2009-02-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl wrote: Piero Faustini schreef: Pavel Sanda sa...@... writes: when you download lyx installer (not the bundled version), you are enforced to install miktex too? to remove export/view menu items is a piece

Re: text boxes in 1.6.1

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John White wrote: I used to use text boxes all the time.  They are no longer on the insert menu.  Rather there is minipage but I can't figure out how to change the width of the minipage. Right mouse click on the minipage button should bring up a context menu that lets you change the border

Re: Extra \endgroup; editing raw TeX?

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Alexy Khrabrov wrote: (1) What's the way to delete it? Could you post a small example file? (2) Is there a way to edit the TeX source visible when View-Source is   selected, in the lower window? No. Jürgen

Re: multiple indexes and section numbers

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John White wrote: > 1. I would sure like to be able to make multiple indexes in the article > class.  I see an article in wikipedia about doing such in memoir class > but don't want to use Book. Have a look at the package splitidx. You have to define a specific index converter in

Re: References in floats come first?

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: > Do you have a list of figures? If so, then that is the problem: This > reference DOES come first, in the list of figures. If you have a list of > tables, then the same problem will affect it. > > I think there's a workaround, but I don't know what it is. Someone else > will. The

Re: Long table messes up table numbering

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Axsuul wrote: > Anyone having this problem? It seems to be that having a long table makes > the next table numbering skip. http://texnik.dante.de/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?file=table/longtable#caption Jürgen

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

2009-02-04 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jan 30, Dave Hewitt did say: > 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 of those sections: > > \pagenumbering{roman} > > \pagenumbering{arabic} Thanks

compatibility of two scripts

2009-02-04 Thread Marie-Theres Strauss
Dear developers, I have recently started using LyX and am amazed at the quality of the output - never seen better typesetting on an easy-to-use editor, truly. The problem that I can't seem to solve is the following: I commonly write in English but need to insert Chinese characters into my text

Re: compatibility of two scripts

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Marie-Theres Strauss wrote: > The error message runs as follows: Argument of \...@xx has an extra > }.Paragraph ended before \...@xx was complete.Undefined control > sequence.Argument of \...@xx has an extra }.Paragraph ended before > \...@xxwas complete. Could you post a small LyX example file?

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