Re: Greek and latin accented characters in a TOX BibTex bibliography

2009-04-02 Thread Manveru
2009/4/3 Konstantinos Kopanias : > For quite a long time I am trying to use my bibtex (bib) bibliography in > LyX. My bibliography contains references in many different languages, e.g. > greek, english, german, french and other north european languages. When I > import it in Lyx through Insert - Li

Re: Where is the autosave in LyX 1.6.1 (Windows)?

2009-04-02 Thread Manveru
2009/4/2 TJ McLaughlin : > > Today, for the second time, I was working on something in LyX and managed to > crash it, losing my document. I had not yet saved the file (so the name in > the title bar was "newfile1.lyx"). > Both LyX itself and the documentation say that there is an "auto-save" > feat

Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien]

2009-04-02 Thread Manveru
2009/4/2 Wolfgang Engelmann : > Am Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:29:12 schrieb Guenter Milde: > > I would like to install LyX1.6.2 - > if I try >> svn co  svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X > > it says the URL does not exist. Is the site down? When will it be up again? Are you behind

Prevent printing of footnotes

2009-04-02 Thread Louis A. Turk
In a document with many footnotes, is there any easy way to turn off (prevent) the printing of the footnotes so that there is no trace of them in the printed document? Lou

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 debian binaries (LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien])

2009-04-02 Thread Per Olofsson
Nina Lafayette wrote: > Am 24.03.2009, 15:29 Uhr, schrieb Guenter Milde > : > > Hi folks, > > isn't there anybody who can put the debian binaries for Lyx 1.6.2 on a Web > server? This would be great! FWIW, I just uploaded lyx 1.6.2 to Debian unstable. Should hit the mirrors soon. > > Thanks,

Greek and latin accented characters in a TOX BibTex bibliography

2009-04-02 Thread Konstantinos Kopanias
For quite a long time I am trying to use my bibtex (bib) bibliography in LyX. My bibliography contains references in many different languages, e.g. greek, english, german, french and other north european languages. When I import it in Lyx through Insert - List/TOK - BibTex Bibliography only the

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-02 Thread Steve Litt
There's two types of tweaking: With environments and character styles, which I wholeheartedly endorse, and with inline ERT, which I caution against except in the \frontmatter. SteveT On Thursday 02 April 2009 03:51:12 pm Yury Davidouski wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I still find myself tweaking LyX fo

Re: Where is the autosave in LyX 1.6.1 (Windows)?

2009-04-02 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
TJ McLaughlin schreef: Today, for the second time, I was working on something in LyX and managed to crash it, losing my document. I had not yet saved the file (so the name in the title bar was "newfile1.lyx"). Both LyX itself and the documentation say that there is an "auto-save" feature to c

Where is the autosave in LyX 1.6.1 (Windows)?

2009-04-02 Thread TJ McLaughlin
Today, for the second time, I was working on something in LyX and managed to crash it, losing my document. I had not yet saved the file (so the name in the title bar was "newfile1.lyx"). Both LyX itself and the documentation say that there is an "auto-save" feature to create emergency backups.

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-02 Thread Yury Davidouski
Hi Steve, I still find myself tweaking LyX formatting a bit at stages closer to finishing of the project writing, but it's just maybe I am not proficient enough with it yet. On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:37:56 +0100, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Last night, at Greater Orlando Linux User Group

LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-02 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Last night, at Greater Orlando Linux User Group (GoLUG), I a gave a presentation on using TeX for simple tasks like printing shipping labels. As you can imagine, this was mostly an anti-Microsoft crowd. Interestingly, several were already TeX or LaTeX users, and several criticized MS Wo

Re: 1.6.2 handling of graphics paths changed from 1.6.1.

2009-04-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Shooting from the hip... We found the problem, it was my fault that I accidentally forgot two third-party executables in the current installer release. I'll provide a new installer this weekend. regards Uwe

Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien]

2009-04-02 Thread rgheck
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:29:12 schrieb Guenter Milde: I would like to install LyX1.6.2 - if I try svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X it says the URL does not exist. Is the site down? When will it be up again? I just did thi

Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien]

2009-04-02 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:29:12 schrieb Guenter Milde: I would like to install LyX1.6.2 - if I try > svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X it says the URL does not exist. Is the site down? When will it be up again? Wolfgang

Re: 3 columns

2009-04-02 Thread James C. Sutherland
looking at lyx it gives me an option for 2 column, i would guess that a 3 column would be an option somewhere, either that or i need to put it in a pre amble somewhere. Take a look at the description of using "multicol" in the help manual: Help -> Specific Manuals -> Multicol

3 columns

2009-04-02 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi having now sorted out my table problem, thank you again for the help on that, I now want to put everything in to a nice 3 column document, looking at lyx it gives me an option for 2 column, i would guess that a 3 column would be an option somew

Re: Position of tilde

2009-04-02 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 02 April 2009, rettie wrote: > Hello all! I apologise if this has been asked to death, but is there any > way to get a normal looking tilde? Like this --> ~? I want to use it > instead of saying "approximately" but when I use the keyboard tilde > (\textasciitilde) it appears at the top

Position of tilde

2009-04-02 Thread rettie
Hello all! I apologise if this has been asked to death, but is there any way to get a normal looking tilde? Like this --> ~? I want to use it instead of saying "approximately" but when I use the keyboard tilde (\textasciitilde) it appears at the top of the line in the pdf output instead of the

Re: Underlining of copied text

2009-04-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-01, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: >>... All this copied text is underlined in blue in the final file. How >>do I get rid of that underlining? ... > The pasted text has probably a different language than the language of > your target document. This might for example happen when yo

Re: Underlining of copied text

2009-04-02 Thread Hubert Christiaen
On woensdag 1 april 2009, john wrote: > In my case, the problem was Language. > My document was british, the insert was english. That's really the language which divides! > The problem seemed harmless (I don't use spellcheck on technical > documents). > > I fixed it by dashing off a sed command to