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

perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to demonstrate its merrit to those who care Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though. I'm using

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

Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: Document format conversion is lossy by a natural law. ...the Wise know this. Anyway, @LyxLyght's oppositors: I not-LyX-nor-even-LaTeX (i.e. Word) collaborators are of 3 kind: A. Those who will never use anything different than Word (or OOo), say 50% B. Those

Re: Lyx won't open on OS 10.3.9

Adam Treverrow wrote: You might be able to get LyX 1.3.7 from here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/13x Or here: http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/ /Konrad

Re: Spellchecking in Australian English

Doug Laidlaw wrote: The authors of aspell must be really parochial. To them, English means American, Canadian is a distinct language, and British English just does not exist. There are dictionaries for languages with a smaller user base than British English. Wrong. Using aspell and having

Re: Bessere Darstellung von eingefügten PDF-S eiten

a b wrote: ich möchte meiner Arbeit ein Deckblatt voranstellen, dass im PDF-Format vorliegt. Wenn ich die Datei über Externes Material pdfpages einfüge, wird sie allerdings als Rastergrafik eingefügt und sieht sehr verpixelt aus. The preview you see in LyX is pixelated, but the PDF output

Re: multiple indexes and section numbers

John White wrote: I lied. The 0.1 is not in Section numbering in article class. Rather 0.1 numbering comes up, in 1.6.1 at least, only if I go directly to Subsection, without first putting something in section. I got out of the habit of doing this (using Section) in earlier versions as the

header title and numbering

A pair of question which I seem to remember to have been already discussed, but couldn't find them. I'm writing (with Koma-book) a dissertation with this structure (hope it's quite clear): Addchap introduction text Addsec sec 1 text Addsec sec 2 text Addsec sec 3 text

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

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, typh...@aanet.com.au wrote: I wasn't clear enough... I was actually thinking of Windows users, and that they'd be able to run LyX from the CD, but still inside Windows and not by booting into eg Knoppix. Using a virtual machine might be an idea, but then you have the

Re: References in floats come first?

I got an excellent e-mail from rgheck (below), which said that because I have a List of Figures and a List of Tables, these references in the floats DO come first in the text - makes sense! Anybody know of a work-around? I've been searching google, but am obviously doing a poor job! Someone MUST

Re: References in floats come first?

Apologies! I know this is bad etiquette, I am new to mailing lists and just found that my question had been answered, sorry and thanks for the rapid response! Won't happen again. Cheers! Alex rettie wrote: I got an excellent e-mail from rgheck (below), which said that because I have a

Re: graphic in fancy header causes crash with ps2pdf

christiaan pauw schrieb: Thanks, I'll try using a eps image. The reason I used ps2pdf is because the resulting pdf file is much smaller (the pdflatex file is 27M for a 50 page document). Why is there such a big difference between the size of the pdf files? This is because PDF can only embed

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

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Keller wrote: perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to demonstrate its merrit to those who care Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without installing it. I'm

Re: New way for SVG graphics

Manveru schrieb: I would like to share with you my new method of handling SVG graphics from LyX to pdflatex. Many thanks, also for your Wiki contributions. I had some issues with my early-betas of Inkscape, and this new method solved my problem. On Windows it works very well when Inkscape

Windows bundle 1.6.1; path questions about spaces and paths

I'm a linux user, but I have students who have this thing called MS Windows. I've not heard of that system before, I pretended to the students that they were using some weird, minority operating system :). I noticee Lyx 1.6.1 had an installer for that Windoze thing. We installed the lyx bundle

LyX installation error on Mac OS X

Greetings all, I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a simple solution. First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v. 10.4.11. I installed TeXShop (v. 2.18-svn), which includes the MacTeX-2008 distribution. After struggling with LaTeX

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

When you installed LyX did you run the installer as well as copying the LyX file to your applications folder? -Neil On 8-Feb-09, at 2:27 PM, Blaine Erickson wrote: Greetings all, I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a simple solution. First, my

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

Yes, I ran the installer when I installed LyX. I tried running it again, and when I opened LyX I got the same error message. Blaine

Re: Spellchecking in Australian English

Not wrong. Different. My eyes are not deceiving me; neither are yours. Because Mandriva won't configure to use DVIs, it clearly has other problems. So I tried in SimplyMepis. The version is newer, but the language selection is identical. In the circumstances, it is useless taking the

Help with lyx personal dictionaries

Hi all I have been starting out with LyX and I'm having trouble with the personal dictionary settings. Basically, whenever I tell the dictionary to add a new word (eg 'dopant') it remembers the word for the duration of that spellcheck, but silently fails to add the word to the personal dictionary

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Blaine Erickson erick...@piercingsuit.com wrote: Greetings all, I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a simple solution. First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v. 10.4.11. I installed TeXShop (v.

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you suggested, and got the same error message. However, when I dragged the icon onto the desktop and double-clicked it, I got the Welcome to LyX! window, proclaiming LyX: The Document Processor version 1.6.1 I got the same positive result after dragging

setting width of minipage (ver 1.6.1)

I use Vector Linux (slackware 12) an lyx ver 1.6.1. I have been having some trouble in the switch to 1.6.1. My current (and, I hope, last) problem is that when I right click within a minipage, I no longer get a window allowing me to change the width of the box. Rather I get an error message

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

perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to demonstrate its merrit to those who care Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though. I'm using

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

Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: Document format conversion is lossy by a natural law. ...the Wise know this. Anyway, @LyxLyght's oppositors: I not-LyX-nor-even-LaTeX (i.e. Word) collaborators are of 3 kind: A. Those who will never use anything different than Word (or OOo), say 50% B. Those

Re: Lyx won't open on OS 10.3.9

Adam Treverrow wrote: You might be able to get LyX 1.3.7 from here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/13x Or here: http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/ /Konrad

Re: Spellchecking in Australian English

Doug Laidlaw wrote: The authors of aspell must be really parochial. To them, English means American, Canadian is a distinct language, and British English just does not exist. There are dictionaries for languages with a smaller user base than British English. Wrong. Using aspell and having

Re: Bessere Darstellung von eingefügten PDF-S eiten

a b wrote: ich möchte meiner Arbeit ein Deckblatt voranstellen, dass im PDF-Format vorliegt. Wenn ich die Datei über Externes Material pdfpages einfüge, wird sie allerdings als Rastergrafik eingefügt und sieht sehr verpixelt aus. The preview you see in LyX is pixelated, but the PDF output

Re: multiple indexes and section numbers

John White wrote: I lied. The 0.1 is not in Section numbering in article class. Rather 0.1 numbering comes up, in 1.6.1 at least, only if I go directly to Subsection, without first putting something in section. I got out of the habit of doing this (using Section) in earlier versions as the

header title and numbering

A pair of question which I seem to remember to have been already discussed, but couldn't find them. I'm writing (with Koma-book) a dissertation with this structure (hope it's quite clear): Addchap introduction text Addsec sec 1 text Addsec sec 2 text Addsec sec 3 text

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

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, typh...@aanet.com.au wrote: I wasn't clear enough... I was actually thinking of Windows users, and that they'd be able to run LyX from the CD, but still inside Windows and not by booting into eg Knoppix. Using a virtual machine might be an idea, but then you have the

Re: References in floats come first?

I got an excellent e-mail from rgheck (below), which said that because I have a List of Figures and a List of Tables, these references in the floats DO come first in the text - makes sense! Anybody know of a work-around? I've been searching google, but am obviously doing a poor job! Someone MUST

Re: References in floats come first?

Apologies! I know this is bad etiquette, I am new to mailing lists and just found that my question had been answered, sorry and thanks for the rapid response! Won't happen again. Cheers! Alex rettie wrote: I got an excellent e-mail from rgheck (below), which said that because I have a

Re: graphic in fancy header causes crash with ps2pdf

christiaan pauw schrieb: Thanks, I'll try using a eps image. The reason I used ps2pdf is because the resulting pdf file is much smaller (the pdflatex file is 27M for a 50 page document). Why is there such a big difference between the size of the pdf files? This is because PDF can only embed

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

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Keller wrote: perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to demonstrate its merrit to those who care Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without installing it. I'm

Re: New way for SVG graphics

Manveru schrieb: I would like to share with you my new method of handling SVG graphics from LyX to pdflatex. Many thanks, also for your Wiki contributions. I had some issues with my early-betas of Inkscape, and this new method solved my problem. On Windows it works very well when Inkscape

Windows bundle 1.6.1; path questions about spaces and paths

I'm a linux user, but I have students who have this thing called MS Windows. I've not heard of that system before, I pretended to the students that they were using some weird, minority operating system :). I noticee Lyx 1.6.1 had an installer for that Windoze thing. We installed the lyx bundle

LyX installation error on Mac OS X

Greetings all, I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a simple solution. First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v. 10.4.11. I installed TeXShop (v. 2.18-svn), which includes the MacTeX-2008 distribution. After struggling with LaTeX

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

When you installed LyX did you run the installer as well as copying the LyX file to your applications folder? -Neil On 8-Feb-09, at 2:27 PM, Blaine Erickson wrote: Greetings all, I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a simple solution. First, my

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

Yes, I ran the installer when I installed LyX. I tried running it again, and when I opened LyX I got the same error message. Blaine

Re: Spellchecking in Australian English

Not wrong. Different. My eyes are not deceiving me; neither are yours. Because Mandriva won't configure to use DVIs, it clearly has other problems. So I tried in SimplyMepis. The version is newer, but the language selection is identical. In the circumstances, it is useless taking the

Help with lyx personal dictionaries

Hi all I have been starting out with LyX and I'm having trouble with the personal dictionary settings. Basically, whenever I tell the dictionary to add a new word (eg 'dopant') it remembers the word for the duration of that spellcheck, but silently fails to add the word to the personal dictionary

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Blaine Erickson erick...@piercingsuit.com wrote: Greetings all, I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a simple solution. First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v. 10.4.11. I installed TeXShop (v.

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you suggested, and got the same error message. However, when I dragged the icon onto the desktop and double-clicked it, I got the Welcome to LyX! window, proclaiming LyX: The Document Processor version 1.6.1 I got the same positive result after dragging

setting width of minipage (ver 1.6.1)

I use Vector Linux (slackware 12) an lyx ver 1.6.1. I have been having some trouble in the switch to 1.6.1. My current (and, I hope, last) problem is that when I right click within a minipage, I no longer get a window allowing me to change the width of the box. Rather I get an error message

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

> > perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to > > demonstrate its merrit to those who care > > Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software > on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without > installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though.

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

Guenter Milde writes: > Document format conversion is lossy "by a natural law". ...the Wise know this. Anyway, @LyxLyght's "oppositors": I not-LyX-nor-even-LaTeX (i.e. Word) collaborators are of 3 kind: A. Those who will never use anything different than Word (or OOo), say >50%

Re: Lyx won't open on OS 10.3.9

Adam Treverrow wrote: You might be able to get LyX 1.3.7 from here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/13x Or here: http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/ /Konrad

Re: Spellchecking in Australian English

Doug Laidlaw wrote: The authors of aspell must be really parochial. To them, "English" means "American", Canadian is a distinct language, and British English just does not exist. There are dictionaries for languages with a smaller user base than British English. Wrong. Using aspell and

Re: Bessere Darstellung von eingefügten PDF-S eiten

a b wrote: ich möchte meiner Arbeit ein Deckblatt voranstellen, dass im PDF-Format vorliegt. Wenn ich die Datei über "Externes Material" > pdfpages einfüge, wird sie allerdings als Rastergrafik eingefügt und sieht sehr verpixelt aus. The preview you see in LyX is pixelated, but the PDF output

Re: multiple indexes and section numbers

John White wrote: I lied. The 0.1 is not in Section numbering in article class. Rather 0.1 numbering comes up, in 1.6.1 at least, only if I go directly to Subsection, without first putting something in section. I got out of the habit of doing this (using Section) in earlier versions as the

header title and numbering

A pair of question which I seem to remember to have been already discussed, but couldn't find them. I'm writing (with Koma-book) a dissertation with this structure (hope it's quite clear): Addchap "introduction" text Addsec "sec 1" text Addsec "sec 2" text Addsec "sec 3"

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

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, typh...@aanet.com.au wrote: I wasn't clear enough... I was actually thinking of Windows users, and that they'd be able to run LyX from the CD, but still inside Windows and not by booting into eg Knoppix. Using a virtual machine might be an idea, but then you have the

Re: References in floats come first?

I got an excellent e-mail from rgheck (below), which said that because I have a List of Figures and a List of Tables, these references in the floats DO come first in the text - makes sense! Anybody know of a work-around? I've been searching google, but am obviously doing a poor job! Someone MUST

Re: References in floats come first?

Apologies! I know this is bad etiquette, I am new to mailing lists and just found that my question had been answered, sorry and thanks for the rapid response! Won't happen again. Cheers! Alex rettie wrote: > > I got an excellent e-mail from rgheck (below), which said that because I > have a

Re: graphic in fancy header causes crash with ps2pdf

christiaan pauw schrieb: Thanks, I'll try using a eps image. The reason I used ps2pdf is because the resulting pdf file is much smaller (the pdflatex file is 27M for a 50 page document). Why is there such a big difference between the size of the pdf files? This is because PDF can only embed

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

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Keller wrote: perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to demonstrate its merrit to those who care Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without installing it. I'm

Re: New way for SVG graphics

Manveru schrieb: I would like to share with you my new method of handling SVG graphics from LyX to pdflatex. Many thanks, also for your Wiki contributions. I had some issues with my early-betas of Inkscape, and this new method solved my problem. On Windows it works very well when Inkscape

Windows bundle 1.6.1; path questions about spaces and paths

I'm a linux user, but I have students who have this thing called MS Windows. I've not heard of that system before, I pretended to the students that they were using some weird, minority operating system :). I noticee Lyx 1.6.1 had an installer for that Windoze thing. We installed the lyx bundle

LyX installation error on Mac OS X

Greetings all, I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a simple solution. First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v. 10.4.11. I installed TeXShop (v. 2.18-svn), which includes the MacTeX-2008 distribution. After struggling with LaTeX

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

When you installed LyX did you run the installer as well as copying the LyX file to your applications folder? -Neil On 8-Feb-09, at 2:27 PM, Blaine Erickson wrote: Greetings all, I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a simple solution. First, my

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

Yes, I ran the installer when I installed LyX. I tried running it again, and when I opened LyX I got the same error message. Blaine

Re: Spellchecking in Australian English

Not wrong. Different. My eyes are not deceiving me; neither are yours. Because Mandriva won't configure to use DVIs, it clearly has other problems. So I tried in SimplyMepis. The version is newer, but the language selection is identical. In the circumstances, it is useless taking the

Help with lyx personal dictionaries

Hi all I have been starting out with LyX and I'm having trouble with the personal dictionary settings. Basically, whenever I tell the dictionary to add a new word (eg 'dopant') it remembers the word for the duration of that spellcheck, but silently fails to add the word to the personal dictionary

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Blaine Erickson wrote: > Greetings all, > > I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a > simple solution. > > First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v. 10.4.11. > > I installed

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you suggested, and got the same error message. However, when I dragged the icon onto the desktop and double-clicked it, I got the "Welcome to LyX!" window, proclaiming "LyX: The Document Processor version 1.6.1" I got the same positive result after

setting width of minipage (ver 1.6.1)

I use Vector Linux (slackware 12) an lyx ver 1.6.1. I have been having some trouble in the switch to 1.6.1. My current (and, I hope, last) problem is that when I right click within a minipage, I no longer get a window allowing me to change the width of the box. Rather I get an error message