Wrong characters when writing swedish

Hello, I mainly use lyx to write project reports in english, but I recently had reason to write one in swedish and had some problems with writing swedish characters. Whenever I type å, ä, ö or their uppercase equivalents on the keyboard, I get the à character instead. However, if I input the

Re: Setting Latin Modern fonts makescompley e the lyx unrecognisable by linux (text editors)

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 07:22 +, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-03-04, Nikos Alexandris wrote: I've changed the fonts of my document over to Latin Modern. ... Instead, it is seen as a binary file! Is this a known problem? Do I have to add something (fonts?) in my linux-box? I

SV: Wrong characters when writing swedish

I mainly use lyx to write project reports in english, but I recently had reason to write one in swedish and had some problems with writing swedish characters. Whenever I type å, ä, ö or their uppercase equivalents on the keyboard, I get the à character instead. However, if I input the

Help formatting

Hallo All I am really frustrated, and in lack of time! Ok I am using lyx to write my thesis, following are my document settings and preambles: Document Class: report Line spacing: Single Page layout: A4 Headings style :plain Two sided document Margins: Top: 45 mm

Re: Wrong characters when writing swedish

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Ingar Pareliussen ingar.parelius...@dmmh.no wrote: I mainly use lyx to write project reports in english, but I recently had reason to write one in swedish and had some problems with writing swedish characters. Whenever I type å, ä, ö or their uppercase

Re: Help formatting

Mehrdad: [...] I have following problems, my images end up sometime creating huge gaps between image and paragraph etc. My paraghraps spaces are not formatted nicely. And things like small skip medium skip etc is most of the time totally ignored. I had one reply saying I should use:

Re: Help formatting

Mehrdad wrote: Floar Placement: here definitely THIS is very likely the cause of your problems. Select 'Use default placement' and let Latex figure out where it is best to put your images!!! Also make sure the bounding boxes of your images are correct (or use the clip option in LyX).

SV: Wrong characters when writing swedish

snip To bad, it wasn't that easy :) Everything is as they should be as far as I can see. Do you use any other Qt software or KDE? I guess you have tried and it the characters works there? If they work they problem may be: 1. something gone wrong with the compilation of the Qtlibs. 2.

Re: Help formatting

The best way to avoid a needless white gap under wrap floats is to use the 'line span' setting in the wrap float settings. This counts only real lines, no blank lines and a header is also 1 line. Sincerely, Hubert -- Hubert Christiaen Bloesemlaan 17 3360 Korbeek-Lo Belgium

Re: Wrong characters when writing swedish

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Ingar Pareliussen ingar.parelius...@dmmh.no wrote: snip To bad, it wasn't that easy :) Everything is as they should be as far as I can see. Do you use any other Qt software or KDE? I guess you have tried and it the characters works there? Yes, I use KDE

nested numbering?

I'm just starting out with LyX as I need to make a report for my studies and I want it to look really good this time. But now I have stumbled upon a thing I can't solve myself with the help files. I need to make this list of requirements like the example below (yes that's dutch :)) but I

Re: nested numbering?

accidentially didnt post it to the list, sorry for that... Martijn Wisse schrieb: I'm just starting out with LyX as I need to make a report for my studies and I want it to look really good this time. But now I have stumbled upon a thing I can't solve myself with the help files. I need to make

Export Lyx files to LaTeX with non-ascii letters.

Hi, I have letters like üäö in my lyx file, when I export to latex, they are still üäö in latex. This could be problematic and I would like to have \{u},\{o} and \{a} inside .tex files. can I do this?

Re: Help formatting

Mehrdad wrote: Hallo All I am really frustrated, and in lack of time! Ok I am using lyx to write my thesis, following are my document settings and preambles: [...] Floar Placement: here definitely [...] Now I have following problems, my images end up sometime creating huge gaps

Re: nested numbering?

On Wednesday 04 March 2009 08:40:16 am Martijn Wisse wrote: Can someone please help me? Thanks a lot! So here is the example: 2)      Milieubelasting (geluidshinder, landschapvervuiling) 2.1          De milieuklasse voor betonconstructies moet milieuklasse   You can change the way nested

RE: Wrong characters when writing swedish

I have just tried to recompile LyX without effect. I will start to recompile the Qt libraries now. (Version 4.5-rc1, does LyX work with Qt-4.5?) Aha, that helped :). qt4.5rc1 an LyX is broken...

Re: Wrong characters when writing swedish

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Ingar Pareliussen ingar.parelius...@dmmh.no wrote: I have just tried to recompile LyX without effect. I will start to recompile the Qt libraries now. (Version 4.5-rc1, does LyX work with Qt-4.5?) Aha, that helped :). qt4.5rc1 an LyX is broken...

Re: Export Lyx files to LaTeX with non-ascii letters.

acolyte lee schrieb: Hi, I have letters like üäö in my lyx file, when I export to latex, they are still üäö in latex. This could be problematic and I would like to have \{u},\{o} and \{a} inside .tex files. can I do this? Use any decent texteditor's search and replace function on the created

How to put an end to white spaces around figures

Hello all. I have searched for this for a long time, but could not find a satisfactory solution. I usually insert figures into tables (which reside inside figure floats). The problem is that lyx automatically inserts white spaces above, below, to the left and to the right of the figures.

Re: Wrong characters when writing swedish

On Wednesday 04 March 2009 16:30:37 Peter Gille wrote: Ok, I'll just have to live with it until LyX works with 4.5 - I very seldom write in swedish. The accents work for me with qt-4.5.0 (final) in Fedora 10. Thanks for the help / Peter -- José Abílio

Re: Help formatting

Mehrdad schrieb: Ok I am using lyx to write my thesis, following are my document settings and preambles: Floar Placement: here definitely Use the default float placement. The EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's Help menu explains in detail how the float placement is working and

Page Headings

Dear Lyx users, I'm writing a statement of purpose and one of the requirements is that my name and title appear at the top of each page. How can I do this in Lyx? Right now I'm using document class article. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks for your help, Paulina Restrepo Echavarria

Re: Page Headings

Paulina Restrepo wrote: Dear Lyx users, I'm writing a statement of purpose and one of the requirements is that my name and title appear at the top of each page. How can I do this in Lyx? Right now I'm using document class article. Does anyone have any ideas? Use the fancy heading, and see

Re: graphics

Manveru Thank you. Your solution done with LyX 1.6 would not work with my 1.5.5 so I installed 1.6.1 and then it worked fine. I had wasted hours and hours fighting with LyX then gave up and sought help. Thank you again. Bob Wonderly Manveru wrote: 2009/3/4 Bob Wonderly

Re: Page Headings

On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Paulina Restrepo wrote: Dear Lyx users, I'm writing a statement of purpose and one of the requirements is that my name and title appear at the top of each page. How can I do this in Lyx? Right now I'm using document class article. Does anyone have any ideas?

Re: Degree symbol

Yago schrieb: With LyX 1.5.6 the degree symbol was, for example: $sin30\textrm{\textdegree}$ You can alternatively insert it directly, see sec. 16.4 of the Math manual that you find in LyX's the Help menu. regards Uwe

Re: graphics

2009/3/4 Bob Wonderly rwon...@attglobal.net: Thank you. Your solution done with LyX 1.6 would not work with my 1.5.5 so I installed 1.6.1 and then it worked fine. I had wasted hours and hours fighting with LyX then gave up and sought help. Thank you again. Preferred version by supporters on

Wrong characters when writing swedish

Hello, I mainly use lyx to write project reports in english, but I recently had reason to write one in swedish and had some problems with writing swedish characters. Whenever I type å, ä, ö or their uppercase equivalents on the keyboard, I get the à character instead. However, if I input the

Re: Setting Latin Modern fonts makescompley e the lyx unrecognisable by linux (text editors)

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 07:22 +, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-03-04, Nikos Alexandris wrote: I've changed the fonts of my document over to Latin Modern. ... Instead, it is seen as a binary file! Is this a known problem? Do I have to add something (fonts?) in my linux-box? I

SV: Wrong characters when writing swedish

I mainly use lyx to write project reports in english, but I recently had reason to write one in swedish and had some problems with writing swedish characters. Whenever I type å, ä, ö or their uppercase equivalents on the keyboard, I get the à character instead. However, if I input the

Help formatting

Hallo All I am really frustrated, and in lack of time! Ok I am using lyx to write my thesis, following are my document settings and preambles: Document Class: report Line spacing: Single Page layout: A4 Headings style :plain Two sided document Margins: Top: 45 mm

Re: Wrong characters when writing swedish

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Ingar Pareliussen ingar.parelius...@dmmh.no wrote: I mainly use lyx to write project reports in english, but I recently had reason to write one in swedish and had some problems with writing swedish characters. Whenever I type å, ä, ö or their uppercase

Re: Help formatting

Mehrdad: [...] I have following problems, my images end up sometime creating huge gaps between image and paragraph etc. My paraghraps spaces are not formatted nicely. And things like small skip medium skip etc is most of the time totally ignored. I had one reply saying I should use:

Re: Help formatting

Mehrdad wrote: Floar Placement: here definitely THIS is very likely the cause of your problems. Select 'Use default placement' and let Latex figure out where it is best to put your images!!! Also make sure the bounding boxes of your images are correct (or use the clip option in LyX).

SV: Wrong characters when writing swedish

snip To bad, it wasn't that easy :) Everything is as they should be as far as I can see. Do you use any other Qt software or KDE? I guess you have tried and it the characters works there? If they work they problem may be: 1. something gone wrong with the compilation of the Qtlibs. 2.

Re: Help formatting

The best way to avoid a needless white gap under wrap floats is to use the 'line span' setting in the wrap float settings. This counts only real lines, no blank lines and a header is also 1 line. Sincerely, Hubert -- Hubert Christiaen Bloesemlaan 17 3360 Korbeek-Lo Belgium

Re: Wrong characters when writing swedish

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Ingar Pareliussen ingar.parelius...@dmmh.no wrote: snip To bad, it wasn't that easy :) Everything is as they should be as far as I can see. Do you use any other Qt software or KDE? I guess you have tried and it the characters works there? Yes, I use KDE

nested numbering?

I'm just starting out with LyX as I need to make a report for my studies and I want it to look really good this time. But now I have stumbled upon a thing I can't solve myself with the help files. I need to make this list of requirements like the example below (yes that's dutch :)) but I

Re: nested numbering?

accidentially didnt post it to the list, sorry for that... Martijn Wisse schrieb: I'm just starting out with LyX as I need to make a report for my studies and I want it to look really good this time. But now I have stumbled upon a thing I can't solve myself with the help files. I need to make

Export Lyx files to LaTeX with non-ascii letters.

Hi, I have letters like üäö in my lyx file, when I export to latex, they are still üäö in latex. This could be problematic and I would like to have \{u},\{o} and \{a} inside .tex files. can I do this?

Re: Help formatting

Mehrdad wrote: Hallo All I am really frustrated, and in lack of time! Ok I am using lyx to write my thesis, following are my document settings and preambles: [...] Floar Placement: here definitely [...] Now I have following problems, my images end up sometime creating huge gaps

Re: nested numbering?

On Wednesday 04 March 2009 08:40:16 am Martijn Wisse wrote: Can someone please help me? Thanks a lot! So here is the example: 2)      Milieubelasting (geluidshinder, landschapvervuiling) 2.1          De milieuklasse voor betonconstructies moet milieuklasse   You can change the way nested

RE: Wrong characters when writing swedish

I have just tried to recompile LyX without effect. I will start to recompile the Qt libraries now. (Version 4.5-rc1, does LyX work with Qt-4.5?) Aha, that helped :). qt4.5rc1 an LyX is broken...

Re: Wrong characters when writing swedish

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Ingar Pareliussen ingar.parelius...@dmmh.no wrote: I have just tried to recompile LyX without effect. I will start to recompile the Qt libraries now. (Version 4.5-rc1, does LyX work with Qt-4.5?) Aha, that helped :). qt4.5rc1 an LyX is broken...

Re: Export Lyx files to LaTeX with non-ascii letters.

acolyte lee schrieb: Hi, I have letters like üäö in my lyx file, when I export to latex, they are still üäö in latex. This could be problematic and I would like to have \{u},\{o} and \{a} inside .tex files. can I do this? Use any decent texteditor's search and replace function on the created

How to put an end to white spaces around figures

Hello all. I have searched for this for a long time, but could not find a satisfactory solution. I usually insert figures into tables (which reside inside figure floats). The problem is that lyx automatically inserts white spaces above, below, to the left and to the right of the figures.

Re: Wrong characters when writing swedish

On Wednesday 04 March 2009 16:30:37 Peter Gille wrote: Ok, I'll just have to live with it until LyX works with 4.5 - I very seldom write in swedish. The accents work for me with qt-4.5.0 (final) in Fedora 10. Thanks for the help / Peter -- José Abílio

Re: Help formatting

Mehrdad schrieb: Ok I am using lyx to write my thesis, following are my document settings and preambles: Floar Placement: here definitely Use the default float placement. The EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's Help menu explains in detail how the float placement is working and

Page Headings

Dear Lyx users, I'm writing a statement of purpose and one of the requirements is that my name and title appear at the top of each page. How can I do this in Lyx? Right now I'm using document class article. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks for your help, Paulina Restrepo Echavarria

Re: Page Headings

Paulina Restrepo wrote: Dear Lyx users, I'm writing a statement of purpose and one of the requirements is that my name and title appear at the top of each page. How can I do this in Lyx? Right now I'm using document class article. Does anyone have any ideas? Use the fancy heading, and see

Re: graphics

Manveru Thank you. Your solution done with LyX 1.6 would not work with my 1.5.5 so I installed 1.6.1 and then it worked fine. I had wasted hours and hours fighting with LyX then gave up and sought help. Thank you again. Bob Wonderly Manveru wrote: 2009/3/4 Bob Wonderly

Re: Page Headings

On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Paulina Restrepo wrote: Dear Lyx users, I'm writing a statement of purpose and one of the requirements is that my name and title appear at the top of each page. How can I do this in Lyx? Right now I'm using document class article. Does anyone have any ideas?

Re: Degree symbol

Yago schrieb: With LyX 1.5.6 the degree symbol was, for example: $sin30\textrm{\textdegree}$ You can alternatively insert it directly, see sec. 16.4 of the Math manual that you find in LyX's the Help menu. regards Uwe

Re: graphics

2009/3/4 Bob Wonderly rwon...@attglobal.net: Thank you. Your solution done with LyX 1.6 would not work with my 1.5.5 so I installed 1.6.1 and then it worked fine. I had wasted hours and hours fighting with LyX then gave up and sought help. Thank you again. Preferred version by supporters on

Wrong characters when writing swedish

Hello, I mainly use lyx to write project reports in english, but I recently had reason to write one in swedish and had some problems with writing swedish characters. Whenever I type å, ä, ö or their uppercase equivalents on the keyboard, I get the à character instead. However, if I input the

Re: Setting Latin Modern fonts makescompley e the lyx unrecognisable by linux (text editors)

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 07:22 +, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2009-03-04, Nikos Alexandris wrote: > > > I've changed the fonts of my document over to Latin Modern. > ... > > Instead, it is seen as a binary file! > > > Is this a known problem? Do I have to add something (fonts?) in my > >

SV: Wrong characters when writing swedish

> I mainly use lyx to write project reports in english, but I > recently had > reason to write one in swedish and had some problems with > writing swedish > characters. > Whenever I type å, ä, ö or their uppercase equivalents on the > keyboard, I > get the à character instead. > However, if I

Help formatting

Hallo All I am really frustrated, and in lack of time! Ok I am using lyx to write my thesis, following are my document settings and preambles: Document Class: report Line spacing: Single Page layout: A4 Headings style :plain Two sided document Margins: Top: 45 mm

Re: Wrong characters when writing swedish

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: > > I mainly use lyx to write project reports in english, but I > > recently had > > reason to write one in swedish and had some problems with > > writing swedish > > characters. > > Whenever I type å, ä, ö or

Re: Help formatting

Mehrdad: > [...] I have following problems, my images end up sometime creating > huge gaps between image and paragraph etc. > My paraghraps spaces are not formatted nicely. And things like small > skip medium skip etc is most of the time totally ignored. > I had one reply saying I should use:

Re: Help formatting

Mehrdad wrote: Floar Placement: here definitely THIS is very likely the cause of your problems. Select 'Use default placement' and let Latex figure out where it is best to put your images!!! Also make sure the bounding boxes of your images are correct (or use the clip option in LyX).

SV: Wrong characters when writing swedish

To bad, it wasn't that easy :) Everything is as they should be as far as I can see. Do you use any other Qt software or KDE? I guess you have tried and it the characters works there? If they work they problem may be: 1. something gone wrong with the compilation of the Qtlibs. 2. somthing

Re: Help formatting

The best way to avoid a needless white gap under wrap floats is to use the 'line span' setting in the wrap float settings. This counts only real lines, no blank lines and a header is also 1 line. Sincerely, Hubert -- Hubert Christiaen Bloesemlaan 17 3360 Korbeek-Lo Belgium

Re: Wrong characters when writing swedish

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: > > > To bad, it wasn't that easy :) Everything is as they > should be as far as I can see. > > Do you use any other Qt software or KDE? I guess you > have tried and it the characters works there? Yes, I use

nested numbering?

I'm just starting out with LyX as I need to make a report for my studies and I want it to look really good this time. But now I have stumbled upon a thing I can't solve myself with the help files. I need to make this list of requirements like the example below (yes that's dutch :)) but I

Re: nested numbering?

accidentially didnt post it to the list, sorry for that... Martijn Wisse schrieb: I'm just starting out with LyX as I need to make a report for my studies and I want it to look really good this time. But now I have stumbled upon a thing I can't solve myself with the help files. I need to make

Export Lyx files to LaTeX with non-ascii letters.

Hi, I have letters like üäö in my lyx file, when I export to latex, they are still "üäö" in latex. This could be problematic and I would like to have \"{u},\"{o} and \"{a} inside .tex files. can I do this?

Re: Help formatting

Mehrdad wrote: Hallo All I am really frustrated, and in lack of time! Ok I am using lyx to write my thesis, following are my document settings and preambles: [...] Floar Placement: here definitely [...] Now I have following problems, my images end up sometime creating huge gaps

Re: nested numbering?

On Wednesday 04 March 2009 08:40:16 am Martijn Wisse wrote: > Can someone please help me? Thanks a lot! > > So here is the example: > > 2)      Milieubelasting (geluidshinder, landschapvervuiling) > > 2.1          De milieuklasse voor betonconstructies moet milieuklasse   You can change the way

RE: Wrong characters when writing swedish

>I have just tried to recompile LyX without effect. I will start to recompile >the Qt libraries now. >(Version 4.5-rc1, does LyX work with Qt-4.5?) Aha, that helped :). qt4.5rc1 an LyX is broken...

Re: Wrong characters when writing swedish

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: > > > > > >I have just tried to recompile LyX without effect. I will start to > recompile > >the Qt libraries now. > >(Version 4.5-rc1, does LyX work with Qt-4.5?) > > Aha, that helped :). qt4.5rc1 an LyX is

Re: Export Lyx files to LaTeX with non-ascii letters.

acolyte lee schrieb: Hi, I have letters like üäö in my lyx file, when I export to latex, they are still "üäö" in latex. This could be problematic and I would like to have \"{u},\"{o} and \"{a} inside .tex files. can I do this? Use any decent texteditor's search and replace function on the

How to put an end to white spaces around figures

Hello all. I have searched for this for a long time, but could not find a satisfactory solution. I usually insert figures into tables (which reside inside figure floats). The problem is that lyx automatically inserts white spaces above, below, to the left and to the right of the figures.

Re: Wrong characters when writing swedish

On Wednesday 04 March 2009 16:30:37 Peter Gille wrote: > Ok, I'll just have to live with it until LyX works with 4.5 - I very seldom > write in swedish. The accents work for me with qt-4.5.0 (final) in Fedora 10. > Thanks for the help > > / Peter -- José Abílio

Re: Help formatting

Mehrdad schrieb: Ok I am using lyx to write my thesis, following are my document settings and preambles: > Floar Placement: here definitely Use the default float placement. The EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's Help menu explains in detail how the float placement is working

Page Headings

Dear Lyx users, I'm writing a statement of purpose and one of the requirements is that my name and title appear at the top of each page. How can I do this in Lyx? Right now I'm using document class article. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks for your help, Paulina Restrepo Echavarria

Re: Page Headings

Paulina Restrepo wrote: Dear Lyx users, I'm writing a statement of purpose and one of the requirements is that my name and title appear at the top of each page. How can I do this in Lyx? Right now I'm using document class article. Does anyone have any ideas? Use the "fancy" heading, and

Re: graphics

Manveru Thank you. Your solution done with LyX 1.6 would not work with my 1.5.5 so I installed 1.6.1 and then it worked fine. I had wasted hours and hours "fighting with" LyX then gave up and sought help. Thank you again. Bob Wonderly Manveru wrote: 2009/3/4 Bob Wonderly

Re: Page Headings

On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Paulina Restrepo wrote: > Dear Lyx users, > > I'm writing a statement of purpose and one of the requirements is > that my name and title appear at the top of each page. > How can I do this in Lyx? Right now I'm using document class article. > > Does anyone have any

Re: Degree symbol

Yago schrieb: With LyX 1.5.6 the degree symbol was, for example: $sin30\textrm{\textdegree}$ You can alternatively insert it directly, see sec. 16.4 of the Math manual that you find in LyX's the Help menu. regards Uwe

Re: graphics

2009/3/4 Bob Wonderly : > Thank you. Your solution done with LyX 1.6 would not work with my 1.5.5 so I > installed 1.6.1 and then it worked fine. I had wasted hours and hours > "fighting with" LyX then gave up and sought help. Thank you again. Preferred version by