Re: Cannot export to PDF

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Your file doesn't contain any Hebrew and you also haven't specified any > font. > Because the problem also occurs in English, and I figured that would be easier for non- Middle Easterners to work with. >> I am using Microsoft's Tahoma font, which I took >> from a Hebrew Windows computer so it h

Re: Part environment subtitle

2009-02-19 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
Sorry I was using Part* not Part, and adding the command \addcontentsline to control the TOC, as explained before --- was On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: > I wrote a document in book (KOMA-Script), and I did almost similar to what > you want, but I don't know whether i

Re: Part environment subtitle

2009-02-19 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
I wrote a document in book (KOMA-Script), and I did almost similar to what you want, but I don't know whether it is exactly what you are expected. In Part environment Part I Ctrl+Return Big title Ctrl+Return Smaller subtitle then add LaTeX command ERT (but here I did not put the Part No) \addco

Re: Spacing around floats with centered figures - a suggestion

2009-02-19 Thread Dave Hewitt
So is it true that the float widgets must remain left-aligned in the LyX view in order not to cause problems?

Re: Trouble getting a powerdot output in landscape

2009-02-19 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 19 February 2009 08:40:59 pm Robert Orr wrote: > I found that I needed to remove this from the class options > > > > nopsheader > > > Have to go back to the powerdot manual and see what that does, but > apparenty it has > > to be removed to get a landscape .pdf, at least for me. Robert

Re: Trouble getting a powerdot output in landscape

2009-02-19 Thread Robert Orr
I found that I needed to remove this from the class options nopsheader Have to go back to the powerdot manual and see what that does, but apparenty it has to be removed to get a landscape .pdf, at least for me. --- On Thu, 2/19/09, Les Denham wrote: From: Les Denham Subject: Re: Tr

Re: Howto downgrade LyX 1.6.1 documents to LyX 1.5.5 documents?

2009-02-19 Thread M-L
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Lance Simmons engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Robert Orr > wrote: --} > >--} > Why do you want to downgrade? >--} >--} Last week Debian released its new stable version, Lenny. Debian stable > is rock --} solid; all release-

ttf font?

2009-02-19 Thread ignacio martinez
Hi, I'm using LYX in ubuntu. I would like to know how to change the font in a document. I used http://www.yourfonts.com/print.html to create a font with my own handwriting and it would be nice to be able to use it with lyx (i can use it with openoffice) Thanks for the help Ignacio

Re: Howto downgrade LyX 1.6.1 documents to LyX 1.5.5 documents?

2009-02-19 Thread Lance Simmons
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Robert Orr wrote: > > Why do you want to downgrade? Last week Debian released its new stable version, Lenny. Debian stable is rock solid; all release-critical bugs have been worked out. The packages are somewhat older than Debian testing or unstable, but they al

Re: Cannot export to PDF

2009-02-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dotan Cohen schrieb: Thanks, attached. Your file doesn't contain any Hebrew and you also haven't specified any font. I am using Microsoft's Tahoma font, which I took from a Hebrew Windows computer so it has the Hebrew glyphs. This is the best-looking standard Hebrew font there is. What do

Re: Howto downgrade LyX 1.6.1 documents to LyX 1.5.5 documents?

2009-02-19 Thread Robert Orr
Why do you want to downgrade?    What influenced you to go back to 1.5.5? --- On Thu, 2/19/09, rgheck wrote: From: rgheck Subject: Re: Howto downgrade LyX 1.6.1 documents to LyX 1.5.5 documents? To: "Lance Simmons" Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 5:41 PM

Re: How to write degree symbol ° ?

2009-02-19 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
> I simply use a ^\circ in math mode. This works well. Yes I alway do from the math mode, after power command ^ then from operators math toolbar, I select circ. So it is exactly ^\circ. And the result so far it's ok to me. --- was

Re: simple diff between two versions?

2009-02-19 Thread rgheck
Cameron Stone wrote: I have a multi-file document (about 10 child documents), and I was wondering if there is any way to generate an output document that highlights the changes made. I know about the excellent "track changes" feature, but I was not enabled when I made the changes. I'm using vers

Re: Howto downgrade LyX 1.6.1 documents to LyX 1.5.5 documents?

2009-02-19 Thread rgheck
Lance Simmons wrote: I'm sure there are much better ways to do this, and plenty of pitfalls to the way I did it, but it converted about 600 LyX files to the 1.5.x format, without any apparent problems, and in about 5 seconds. I checked many files in different directories at random, and haven't f

simple diff between two versions?

2009-02-19 Thread Cameron Stone
I have a multi-file document (about 10 child documents), and I was wondering if there is any way to generate an output document that highlights the changes made. I know about the excellent "track changes" feature, but I was not enabled when I made the changes. I'm using version control, so I can g

Re: How to write degree symbol ° ?

2009-02-19 Thread Yago
I have an spanish keyboard and when I want to type the degree symbol, I put this in math mode: $90\textrm\textdegree$ for to obtain 90º. - Original Message - From: "Dotan Cohen" To: "Uwe Stöhr" Cc: Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:11 PM Subject: Re: How to write degree symbol °

Re: Howto downgrade LyX 1.6.1 documents to LyX 1.5.5 documents?

2009-02-19 Thread Lance Simmons
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: > >>How can I convert the 1.6.1 documents to the older 1.5.5 format? > > In LyX 1.6.1, choose File->Export->LyX 1.5.x I did a shell script to convert all my LyX documents to 1.5.x. I had about 600 LyX documents with many differ

Re: Trouble getting a powerdot output in landscape

2009-02-19 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 19 February 2009, Robert Orr wrote: > Hi list, > > Has anyone had trouble getting a powerdot doc to create a landscape .pdf? > > I just upgraded to 1.6.1 and re-installed everything (miktex, gv, gs, > jabref,etc) but now my powerdot .lyx files display portrait instead of > landscape in

Trouble getting a powerdot output in landscape

2009-02-19 Thread Robert Orr
Hi list, Has anyone had trouble getting a powerdot doc to create a landscape .pdf? I just upgraded to 1.6.1 and re-installed everything (miktex, gv, gs, jabref,etc) but now my powerdot .lyx files display portrait instead of landscape in the .pdf output. using ps2pdf to generate it. I'm not su

Re: Cannot export to PDF

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
> So the used font is broken and LaTeX cannot access its size. Please check > your preamnle font settings ore use another font. > If it doesn't work, you can send a _small_ LyX example file to test. > Thanks, attached. I am using Microsoft's Tahoma font, which I took from a Hebrew Windows computer

Re: highlight spelling errors

2009-02-19 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi, Yes, please donate! A few months ago, Abdel agreed to work on this feature. We each gave a bit to the pot and we are pretty close to the target. I just wrote a note about this last week to remind people. Like rh wrote, it is bug 718, in http://www.lyx.org/Donate . Regards, Erez On Thu,

Re: Cannot export to PDF

2009-02-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dotan Cohen schrieb: When I try to export to PDF, I get this error: " \begin{document} I wasn't able to read the size data for this font, so I will ignore the font specification. So the used font is broken and LaTeX cannot access its size. Please check your preamnle font settings ore use an

Re: insert delimiters dialog bug

2009-02-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rodrigo Fresneda schrieb: Ever since I installed kde4, lyx has been behaving very weirdly. I remember that there were some bugs in KDE 4.0.x, but since KDE 4.1 and Qt 4.4.x these should be solved. I btw. cannot reproduce your problem. Please report it to our bugtracker: bugzilla.lyx.org r

International keyboard (Was: How to write degree symbol)

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
> OK. But you can have a look if you can switch on your OS to the US > international keyboard layout: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#United_States > > Then the right Alt key is redefined to be the AltGr key and then you can > access many more characters directly. > It should be kno

Re: highlight spelling errors

2009-02-19 Thread rgheck
James C. Sutherland wrote: i would prefer it if speling errors could be highlighted/underlined like in other edititors. is this possible? Not currently possible. It has been discussed here as a possible future feature. If you really want it, consider donating: http://www.lyx.org/Donate. rh

Re: highlight spelling errors

2009-02-19 Thread James C. Sutherland
i would prefer it if speling errors could be highlighted/underlined like in other edititors. is this possible? Not currently possible. It has been discussed here as a possible future feature.

highlight spelling errors

2009-02-19 Thread Zubin Saihan
hi there i am a newbie to lyx. i have previously used the winedt latex package for windows. i have installed lyx, cocoaspell and downloaded a PhD thesis template to start writing my thesis. i really like the look and feel of lyx and would prefer to use it BUT... i cannot see a way to automatically

Re: English appearing backwards

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/2/19 Guenter Milde : > On 2009-02-19, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I have Lyx 1.6.1 installed on a Hebrew installation of Ubuntu 8.04. I >> can create Hebrew documents fine (from what I can tell). However, >> _English_ documents come out with their text going right to left > > Also if the document la

Re: Font and layout problem

2009-02-19 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-19, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Klaus F. Abel schrieb: >> Attached is a screenshot showing two problems: >> 1. The letter "ĵ", a special letter of the Esperanto language, is >> represented as a black box in pdf and dvi output. > This is beacuse the font you are using doesn't have this glyph.

Re: insert delimiters dialog bug

2009-02-19 Thread Rodrigo Fresneda
On Thursday 19 February 2009 16:43:49 Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Rodrigo Fresneda wrote: > > Hi, I am using lyx 1.6.1 and whenever I use the insert > > delimiters dialog from the math panel with unmatched > > delimiters, it never lets me choose the second delimiter: > > upon choosing one bracket, eith

Re: English appearing backwards

2009-02-19 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-19, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have Lyx 1.6.1 installed on a Hebrew installation of Ubuntu 8.04. I > can create Hebrew documents fine (from what I can tell). However, > _English_ documents come out with their text going right to left Also if the document language is set to English? > I int

Cannot export to PDF

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
When I try to export to PDF, I get this error: " \begin{document} I wasn't able to read the size data for this font, so I will ignore the font specification. [Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.] You might try inserting a different font spec; e.g., type `I\font='. " This is pretty muc

Re: insert delimiters dialog bug

2009-02-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rodrigo Fresneda wrote: Hi, I am using lyx 1.6.1 and whenever I use the insert delimiters dialog from the math panel with unmatched delimiters, it never lets me choose the second delimiter: upon choosing one bracket, either left or right, the dialog quits and lyx inserts whatever was selected fo

English appearing backwards

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
I have Lyx 1.6.1 installed on a Hebrew installation of Ubuntu 8.04. I can create Hebrew documents fine (from what I can tell). However, _English_ documents come out with their text going right to left, like this: sdrawkcab si sihT I have read the relevant pages on the wiki, but nowhere does it dis

Re: Bibtex White space in argument (workaround found)

2009-02-19 Thread Dirk Gorissen
>> The spaces you were getting here: >> > This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.5.6) >> > The top-level auxiliary file: asme_dac09.aux >> > White space in argument---line 2 of file asme_dac09.aux >> > >> > : \citation{2.5pt >> > : plus 1.49998pt minus 0.59998pt} >> > >> > I'm ski

Re: Bibtex White space in argument (workaround found)

2009-02-19 Thread Dirk Gorissen
> The spaces you were getting here: > > This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.5.6) > > The top-level auxiliary file: asme_dac09.aux > > White space in argument---line 2 of file asme_dac09.aux > > > > : \citation{2.5pt > > : plus 1.49998pt minus 0.59998pt} > > > > I'm skipping wha

Re: How to write degree symbol ° ?

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
> international keyboard layout: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#United_States > Switched, thank you! There are three or four characters in there that I use often enough to warrant it! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-

Re: Headings in Book (Koma-Script)

2009-02-19 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
> Yes. Read the documentation (scrguien.pdf) that comes with KOMA and insert > the appropriate commands in the Document>Settings>LaTeX preamble. Thank you for the information After reading scrguien.pdf and fancyhdr.pdf, I can get very close to what I want by adding commands in the preamble \fancy

Re: How to write degree symbol ° ?

2009-02-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dotan Cohen schrieb: No, I posted the Belgian keyboard that _does_ have the degree symbol to show that there are keyboards with this symbol. My keyboards (US English, Dvorak, Hebrew, and the occasional Russian and Arabic) do not have this symbol. OK. But you can have a look if you can switch o

Re: Font and layout problem

2009-02-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Klaus F. Abel schrieb: Attached is a screenshot showing two problems: 1. The letter "ĵ", a special letter of the Esperanto language, is represented as a black box in pdf and dvi output. This is beacuse the font you are using doesn't have this glyph. When you use the Latin Modern Fonts, it w

insert delimiters dialog bug

2009-02-19 Thread Rodrigo Fresneda
Hi, I am using lyx 1.6.1 and whenever I use the insert delimiters dialog from the math panel with unmatched delimiters, it never lets me choose the second delimiter: upon choosing one bracket, either left or right, the dialog quits and lyx inserts whatever was selected for the second bracket. This

Re: How to write degree symbol ° ?

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> I see it now, I do not have this key on any of my keyboard layouts: >> >> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Belgian_keyboard_layout.png > > But you have it in your keyboard right beside the "0" key. > No, I posted the Belgian keyboard that _does_ have the degree symbol to show

Re: How to write degree symbol ° ?

2009-02-19 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Feb 19, 2009, at 2:07 AM, Hubert Christiaen wrote: I have big probems for entering a degree symbol as in 'cos 30°'. If entered as such from the keyboard in TeX, it's not accepted. If entered in Lyx, it's represented as '\lyxmathsym{\textdegree}', but when it comes to producing output

Re: How to write degree symbol ° ?

2009-02-19 Thread Sengottuvelavan t.p.
For my report i did this Go to Insert menu - special symbols - geometric shapes U can find a small circle looking similar to degree ...insert it and cut it Now after typing cos 30 ...paste it in the superscript..This looked well in output

Re: How to write degree symbol ° ?

2009-02-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dotan Cohen schrieb: I see it now, I do not have this key on any of my keyboard layouts: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Belgian_keyboard_layout.png But you have it in your keyboard right beside the "0" key. The degrre sign is btw. a bit different than other units. The Appe

Font and layout problem

2009-02-19 Thread Klaus F. Abel
Hi @, This is my first post here and I couldn't really spend many days sifting through archives to avoid repeating, so if the answer to this has been given before I apologize and would appreciate a quick pointer. I'm still in the getting-started phase. Attached is a screenshot showing two pr

Re: LyX with monospace words, code fragments

2009-02-19 Thread Helge Hafting
Justin Crites wrote: Greetings, I am new to LyX and love the concept. I was hoping to be advised about the correct way to typeset certain document features. I am using it for some documents that frequently require sections of monospace text. For example, I might have a "program listing" block

Re: How to write degree symbol ° ?

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> What, exactly, are you entering? > The degree symbol by the key on the keyboard, just one hit. I see it now, I do not have this key on any of my keyboard layouts: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Belgian_keyboard_layout.png Try using just \textdegree as I see through google l

Re: How to write degree symbol ° ?

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I have big probems for entering a degree symbol as in 'cos 30°'. If entered as > such from the keyboard in TeX, it's not accepted. What, exactly, are you entering? > If entered in Lyx, it's > represented as '\lyxmathsym{\textdegree}', but when it comes to producing > output an error is the resu

Re: Spacing around floats with centered figures - a suggestion

2009-02-19 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Konrad Hofbauer wrote: > LyX then creates a: > > \begin{figure} > \begin{centering} > \includegraphics{asdf.pdf} > \par\end{centering} > \caption{asdf} > \end{figure} > > Is this equivalent to what the texfaq-entry says one should do? Yes. It is basically equivalent to \centering. The environme

Re: Howto downgrade LyX 1.6.1 documents to LyX 1.5.5 documents?

2009-02-19 Thread Pavel Sanda
Sven Hoexter wrote: > I hope to finish my Debian Application soon[1] so that I can provide again > LyX packages on backports.org for the current Debian stable release. > Will take some time though to get this all sorted out and done. i dont know much about the exact debian policy for updating pack

Re: New way for SVG graphics

2009-02-19 Thread Manveru
2009/2/19 Pavel Sanda : > adding svg file format, adding detection of convertors - batik and inkscape > in particular (do i understand that inkscape is able to run also as > command-line > utility without lanuching any gui, right?) > > pavel When you use proper command line options GUI do not sta

Re: New way for SVG graphics

2009-02-19 Thread Pavel Sanda
Manveru wrote: > 2009/2/18 Pavel Sanda : > > Manveru wrote: > >> One of developers told us, it is already there. > > > > actually i dont see it there. feel free to file enhancement request or > > post the patch for configure.py. > > Wait, > We are talking about basic SVG configuration or PDF -> EP

Re: Spacing around floats with centered figures - a suggestion

2009-02-19 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Again, this is not the suggested way. See here: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=vertspacefloat So how is this to be understood wrt. LyX? Having graphics centered, is IMO a very common need, and most people probably use the paragraph-centering because

Re: Spacing around floats with centered figures - a suggestion

2009-02-19 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Hubert Christiaen wrote: > When I use the paragraph setting in the float frame, the picture is > centered in that frame. When I insert by an ERT a '\begin{center}' and > '\end{center}', then it's not centered in the Lyx view, but it is in the > output Again, this is not the suggested way. See her

Re: Spacing around floats with centered figures - a suggestion

2009-02-19 Thread Hubert Christiaen
On woensdag 18 februari 2009, David Hewitt wrote: > What the user probably > wants a figure float set in its own environment as recommended > above, but with the graphic in the float centered by changing the > paragraph settings for the graphic *within* the float. This leaves the > widget at left i

How to write degree symbol ° ?

2009-02-19 Thread Hubert Christiaen
I have big probems for entering a degree symbol as in 'cos 30°'. If entered as such from the keyboard in TeX, it's not accepted. If entered in Lyx, it's represented as '\lyxmathsym{\textdegree}', but when it comes to producing output an error is the result. The '\textdegree' alone seems not vi

Re: How to change symbols size?

2009-02-19 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-19, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > francisco schrieb: >> Okay so I am doing integrals and have a big fraction equation, I want to >> know how to change the size of the symbol. > But the integral sign size should automatically be adjusted. But only in 2 steps normally (inline vs. display). This

Re: Headings in Book (Koma-Script)

2009-02-19 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-19, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: > I am preparing a book manuscript using Book (KOMA-Script) two-sided > document, but I am not happy with the headings (Document > Settings > Page > Layout). > What I want is the headings of the Book class (chapter/section and page > number are written as