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2009-08-13 Thread K. Elo
Dear list members! I suppose most of us are members in other mailing lists, too, and thus receive several mails per day from these lists. Now, several lists add a list identifier at the beginning of the topic (e.g. "[List] Title"). What do you think, would such an identifier make sense for this l

Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-08-13 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Aug 13, Abdelrazak Younes did say: > > What about F11 to switch to full screen view? > Thanks for the idea Abdel. And I almost like it. But I keep my LyX window only almost maximized because I keep track of the time with a clock gadget that full screen view would hide.

Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-08-13 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Aug 13, rgheck did say: > View>Toolbars? I remember it used to be there in ver 1.5.6... But I can't find it in ver 1.6.3 But thanks... -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <*> <*> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <>

Re: Spellchecker problem

2009-08-13 Thread M-L
Christian Bustamante wrote: Hi all, I'm using LyX on Windows XP and I'm trying to set up the spellchecker, so I downloaded the spanish Open Office dictionary. This file is a plain text one, so I changed the extension to pws (the requiered one for LyX). Then I went to Tools -> Prefeernces -> Lang

Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-08-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 13/08/2009 20:05, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: It would appear that on Aug 12, BH did say: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Magically, the dropdownbox is also shown when the toolbar is hidden (after Alt-P) From what I can tell, this is true only if the stan

Re: Problem with pdfview/pdfopen/pdfclose in LyX 1.6.3 + Acrobat 8.1.x + Win 7

2009-08-13 Thread Thomas Winkler
Hi all, the topic posted right after this (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg75792.html) just got me checking my file format associations, and voilà, there I see that not pdfview, but acrobat is set as the PDF viewer. I don't know why the installer set this wrong, but now tha

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Graham M Smith
Paul I'm using 1.6.2, on Ubuntu 9.04 and none of the margin/page controls are greyed out, so I can already adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) as in any article. It was just that these then needed set back to "default" when switching back t Beamer. Strange isn't it. Stra

Re: I need HELP!

2009-08-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:25 PM, wrote: > I am trying hard to use LyX instead of Scientific Workplace but I have an > irriatating problem. After a short time of writing (Title, author, > abstract, and so on) the dvi, pdf buttons don't work. I just click and > nothing happens. What the heck is goin

Re: I need HELP!

2009-08-13 Thread rgheck
On 08/13/2009 03:25 PM, m.kocin...@mini.pw.edu.pl wrote: I am trying hard to use LyX instead of Scientific Workplace but I have an irriatating problem. After a short time of writing (Title, author, abstract, and so on) the dvi, pdf buttons don't work. I just click and nothing happens. What the he

I need HELP!

2009-08-13 Thread M . Kocinski
I am trying hard to use LyX instead of Scientific Workplace but I have an irriatating problem. After a short time of writing (Title, author, abstract, and so on) the dvi, pdf buttons don't work. I just click and nothing happens. What the heck is going on!! best regards, Marek Kociński

Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-08-13 Thread rgheck
On 08/13/2009 02:05 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: Yup I used the .ui file to dump the undesirable toolbars... But I'm curious, How else can I get rid of them? I wouldn't have discovered the existence of the .ui files if I could have found a pulldown menu choice to deactivate them... Vie

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Graham M Smith wrote: Paul Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I could not reproduce your res

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham M Smith wrote: Paul Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I could not reproduce your results. If you are usi

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Graham M Smith
Jürgen Graham M Smith wrote: After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the default and changed the margin sizes. I was hoping that Lyx would "magically" remember this was just the default for the Beamer (article) bit, but it also took th

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Graham M Smith
Paul Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I could not reproduce your results. If you are using 1.6.x, though, I may

Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-08-13 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Aug 12, BH did say: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Vincent van > Ravesteijn wrote: > > > > Magically, the dropdownbox is also shown when the toolbar is hidden (after > > Alt-P ) > > From what I can tell, this is true only if the standard toolbar has > been visible in

Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-08-13 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Yes, I tried to guess what would open a chapter and found out that +[c] = lyx code... Sorry, I have to tell you: +[0] = Part, [1] = Chapter, [2] = Section, [3] = SubSection, etc. +<*>[0] = Part*, [1] = Chapter*, [2] = Section*, [3] = SubSection*, etc. Now I'm feeling nauseous... Sorr

Problem with pdfview/pdfopen/pdfclose in LyX 1.6.3 + Acrobat 8.1.x + Win 7

2009-08-13 Thread Thomas Winkler
Hi all, I have a small problem with my still almost clean setup of LyX 1.6.3 (installed with LyXWinInstaller) on Windows 7 Pro (x64) and Acrobat 8.1.x. If I click the View PDF button, the PDF file is generated in the temp folder, but nothing much happens. Well, nothing visible at least - in

RE: Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-08-13 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Aug 12, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW did say: > > >Perhaps this "automagic" behavior is dependent on the windowmanager? > > Then you'd really have to try the Windows windowmanager :) Now I'm feeling nauseous... -- | ~^~ ~^~ | Joe (theWordy) Philbrook

Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-08-13 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Aug 11, rgheck did say: > On 08/11/2009 07:41 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > Well Vincent, I'm glad to hear that it's supposed to work like that. > > But it doesn't work that way for me... --- snip --- > > Perhaps this "automagic" behavior is dependent on t

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-13 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Yes, you are right!!! On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:43 PM, rgheck wrote: > On 08/13/2009 11:30 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: > >> Same idea as Richard's, >> >> Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and >> replace the WORD >> with >> \emph on WORD \emph default >> >> I tried

Spellchecker problem

2009-08-13 Thread Christian Bustamante
Hi all, I'm using LyX on Windows XP and I'm trying to set up the spellchecker, so I downloaded the spanish Open Office dictionary. This file is a plain text one, so I changed the extension to pws (the requiered one for LyX). Then I went to Tools -> Prefeernces -> Language -> Spellchecker and brows

Re: How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Daniel Lohmann wrote: > The real problem is to get the preamble right. Because TikZ is a huge > package that has a noticeable impact on LaTeX compilation times (and > memory consumption), it is pretty well modularized into multiple > libraries. A typical preamble for a TikZ figure looks as fo

Re: How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 13.08.2009, at 11:22, Pavel Sanda wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: - to make a python script which would take the parent document dumps the preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both preview and output. Here is such a python script (although i

Re: About the position of footnotes and page numbers

2009-08-13 Thread rgheck
On 08/13/2009 12:39 PM, Antonio Díaz wrote: I'm writing and designing a text. The style is *Book Koma-script* First question: the text have a lot of footnotes, and I want it to appear on the side of the body of the text, as same as the margin notes. Is it possible? Yes, but I don't really k

Re: How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 12.08.2009, at 09:53, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-08-11, Pavel Sanda wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: that mean that it is *not possible* to achieve goal (1) (the preview in LyX, everything else works) via file formats and converters only? unless imagemagick convert utility knows how to

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-13 Thread rgheck
On 08/13/2009 11:30 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I tried it and wit worked for me. Then you got lucky...unless you had the newlines in there, too. Y

About the position of footnotes and page numbers

2009-08-13 Thread Antonio Díaz
I'm writing and designing a text. The style is *Book Koma-script* First question: the text have a lot of footnotes, and I want it to appear on the side of the body of the text, as same as the margin notes. Is it possible? Second question: Is possible to change the position of the page numbers? Ho

Re: How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 13.08.2009, at 06:47, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi, So here is what I want to achieve: I have some TikZ figures (which are actually stand-alone LaTeX- documents with the extension .tikz) that I want to embed (not the source, but the PDF

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-13 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I tried it and wit worked for me. erez On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bruce Pourciau >

Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 13 August 2009 11:34:54 zweetsmoel wrote: > issue has been resolved! by running: ldd `which lyx` in a shell, i was > able to see that libQtCore.so.4 was loaded from /usr/local/lib instead > of /usr/lib, which suggests duplicate and wrong usage of libs. > deleting two qt-lib files resid

> biblatex installation

2009-08-13 Thread Ehud Kaplan
>Paul Johnson wrote: "You did not make a complete install of biblatex. It is much more than just that one style file. In linux, these are the installed files from biblatex: usr/share/texmf /usr/share/texmf/bibtex /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/csf /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/csf/biblatex /usr/share/texmf

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham M Smith wrote: Paul That's ok, I understood what you meant -- just not why you did it. I don't use article (Beamer), but my impression is that it's purpose is to facilitate turning a slideshow into a paper (either after the fact or in parallel development). I don't think it's really

Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 11.08.2009, at 23:48, Phil wrote: You might also try excel2latex I can also recommend excel2latex. I used it quite a lot when I was writing my thesis. The nice thing about it is that it also preserves a sensible part of the formattings (e.g., bold headlines, right aligned data, ..

Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc

2009-08-13 Thread zweetsmoel
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:13 AM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:17 AM, zweetsmoel wrote: >> only another error message... >> src/lyx: symbol lookup error: src/lyx: undefined symbol: >> _ZN8QPainter10drawPixmapERK7QPointFRK7QPixmap >> >> ok, this is definitely a qt error. ev

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-13 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I tried it and wit worked for me. erez On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bruce Pourciau < bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu> wrote: > Is there a simple w

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham M Smith wrote: To answer your margin question, I wonder how you changed the margins? In all of the beamer examples I find, the margin options are grayed out and I can't change them. After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-13 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Aug 12, 2009, at 5:38 PM, rgheck wrote: On 08/12/2009 04:34 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Is there a simple way to go back through a document and italicize (emphasize) all occurrences of a certain word? Not within LyX itself. The best way to do it is to run a script of some sort on the .lyx

Re: lyx 1.6.2 + Ubuntu 9.04 = slow typing

2009-08-13 Thread Alex M
> > This is worth posting to the wiki, if you're so inclined. Well, I can do this. Which wiki section should I post to? > Intel drivers for the older chips are currently broken and in most cases > unusable. > So all in all I doubt this is somehow relevant for LyX it's more of a general > issue.

Re: How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Pavel Sanda wrote: > > - to make a python script which would take the parent document dumps the > > preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both preview > > and output. > > Here is such a python script (although it is a bit too UNIX-centric): > http:

Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc

2009-08-13 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:13 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > you get other wise similar results, a >  sudo apt-get install libqt4 > May help. By which I mean sudo apt-get install libqt4-assistant libqt4-core libqt4-dbg libqt4-dbus libqt4-designer libqt4-dev libqt4-gui libqt4-help libqt4-network

Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc

2009-08-13 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:17 AM, zweetsmoel wrote: > only another error message... > src/lyx: symbol lookup error: src/lyx: undefined symbol: > _ZN8QPainter10drawPixmapERK7QPointFRK7QPixmap > > ok, this is definitely a qt error. even qtconfig won't launch, it > gotta be qt related. but what exactly

Re: How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: > - to make a python script which would take the parent document dumps the > preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both preview > and output. Here is such a python script (although it is a bit too UNIX-centric): http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~me

Re: How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: > > I guess the tikz file would need its own preamble. > > well, i have written my ideas with taking into account Paul's concerns: > > Recall that one of the strengths of TikZ/pgf is that the fonts and > > such in the figure will match the document. If you persist in keeping > >

Re: How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Pavel Sanda wrote: > > and the parent preamble? > > I guess the tikz file would need its own preamble. well, i have written my ideas with taking into account Paul's concerns: > Recall that one of the strengths of TikZ/pgf is that the fonts and > such in the figure wil

Re: How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: > and the parent preamble? I guess the tikz file would need its own preamble. Jürgen

Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc

2009-08-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
zweetsmoel wrote: > for your information, when i compile lyx (either 1.6.1/2/3), i get > this info when finished: as a last resort you can try to compile qt's locally and install them into eg ~/tree/. then configure lyx for qt's having in ~/tree/ , probably also with install prefix to ~/tree/. com

Re: How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > IMHO the only way to go is an external inset that > > * outputs \input{myfigure.tiks} to LaTeX > and > * uses the graphics approach for the preview. > > I think this should be possible with the current external templates approach. and the parent preamble? pavel

Re: How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: > i see three possibilities: > > - one possibility would be to make external template which tries to > the instant preview from the included file only. it will work 100% > for typeset output, preview will work for figures and somewhat unreliably > for the documents i guess.

Re: How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Paul Johnson wrote: > I am sorry if I am telling you something you already know, but... thanks for info (i know basically nothing about tikz) > It seems to me you are throwing away the value of TikZ by doing this. > > Recall that one of the strengths of TikZ/pgf is that the fonts and > such in t

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Graham M Smith wrote: > After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document > Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the default and changed the margin > sizes. I was hoping that Lyx would "magically" remember this was just > the default for the Beamer (article) bit, but it also took this as