Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

2010-03-05 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:55:39 +0100 Stefaan Himpe wrote: > > Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex? > Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create > such drawings for you. > > See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/ > > Best regards, > Stefaa

RE: Garamond in LyX?

2010-03-05 Thread Rob Oakes
Piero, If you have access to open type or true type fonts, you might consider using XeLaTeX and fontspec. I've had better success going this route than trying to install Garamond by hand (for some reason the Ubuntu packages just don't seem to work well for me.) Cheers, Rob -Original Messag

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

2010-03-05 Thread Micha
On 06/03/2010 01:55, Stefaan Himpe wrote: Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex? Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create such drawings for you. See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/ Best regards, Stefaan. If it's possible to call i

Re: Seperate Numbering for Theorems, Defs, Examples, etc

2010-03-05 Thread Srinivas Nedunuri
Quick apology: I asked this question before, and was pointed at a lyx page that was supposed to contain some modules that I could use. However the link ((http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Modules) appears broken. I looked on the main wiki page but i couldnt see anything that was obviously relevent: "Srin

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

2010-03-05 Thread Stefaan Himpe
Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex? Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create such drawings for you. See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/ Best regards, Stefaan.

Seperate Numbering for Theorems, Defs, Examples, etc

2010-03-05 Thread Srinivas Nedunuri
Hello, is there a way to get Lyx to use seperate numbering for these different mathematical elements. ie, instead of Theorem 1, Def 2, Example 3, Theorem 4, etc I want Theorem 1, Def 1, Example 1, Theorem 2, etc Right now I'm hacking the generated Latex file removing the [thm] in \newth

Re: title page using koma script book

2010-03-05 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> Uisng koma script book, and having on > my title page only a title, > subject and authors, for some reason I get a white page > after the title > page whereas I need to put the title verso there. I can't > see any reason > why this is happening: what should I check? A long time ago I decided to

how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

2010-03-05 Thread Micha
I'm trying to port a powerpoint presentation to lyx with beamer. The one problem I ran into is reproducing a 3d text effect similar to http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~michf/example.jpg I found a package that does the shadow (and some mirror and other effects in tik-z) but could find anything that can

Re: Typesetting poetry

2010-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 05 March 2010 11:27:24 Richard Brown wrote: > I'm using Komsascript book, and have a fair amount of poetry in my > manuscript. But the VERSE environment is not very satisfactory: The main > problem is that there is too much space between one line and the next, and > I must absolutely adj

Re: Problems with the TOC

2010-03-05 Thread rgheck
On 03/05/2010 02:00 PM, Daniele_P wrote: Dear LyX users, I am writing a essay in LyX and have a problem with the document class “Book” and the buitl-in option to create the TOC. In particular, when I introduce the TOC LyX automatically adds the titles of the chapters also at the top of each pag

Problems with the TOC

2010-03-05 Thread Daniele_P
Dear LyX users, I am writing a essay in LyX and have a problem with the document class “Book” and the buitl-in option to create the TOC. In particular, when I introduce the TOC LyX automatically adds the titles of the chapters also at the top of each page (actually with an interval of 1 page, le

Typesetting poetry

2010-03-05 Thread Richard Brown
I'm using Komsascript book, and have a fair amount of poetry in my manuscript. But the VERSE environment is not very satisfactory: The main problem is that there is too much space between one line and the next, and I must absolutely adjust that. It would also be nice if I had greater flexibility fo

Re: Journal abbreviation JabRef

2010-03-05 Thread Julien Rioux
Wolfgang Engelmann writes: > > Slightly off topic: > I am using Jabref for handling references in my LyX documents. I would like > to > use Journal abbreviations, and there exists a list jabref-journals. This is, > however, quite uncomplete, at least for my field (biology). External lists >

Re: LyX 2 over Mac OS X Snow Leopard make error

2010-03-05 Thread BH
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Yvon Thoraval wrote: >> >> Yes -- that fixes it for me. (Assuming this is the right fix, can >> someone check it in?) >> > > Unfortunately no ;-) You're not understanding. To "check in" the fix is to modify the official source so that everyone can get the fix by u

Re: ML archives request

2010-03-05 Thread Νίκος Αλεξανδρής
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 10:19 +0100, Janek Kozicki wrote: > Hi, > > I just subscribed to lyx-users and lyx-devel. > > Can someone, please, send me the mailing list archives in mbox > format ? I'll import it to claws-mail directory and enjoy the grep > feature in claws :) > > Thanks in advance. J

Re: title page using koma script book

2010-03-05 Thread Richard Brown
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: > > > Are you using "two-sided", I have no problem in two-sided. Also > Uppertitleback and Lowertitleback environments work in two-sided only. > > Waluyo > Yes, I am using two sided. It seems that Uppertitleback and Lowertitleback can ea

Journal abbreviation JabRef

2010-03-05 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Slightly off topic: I am using Jabref for handling references in my LyX documents. I would like to use Journal abbreviations, and there exists a list jabref-journals. This is, however, quite uncomplete, at least for my field (biology). External lists can be added under JabRef. Has somebody exper

ML archives request

2010-03-05 Thread Janek Kozicki
Hi, I just subscribed to lyx-users and lyx-devel. Can someone, please, send me the mailing list archives in mbox format ? I'll import it to claws-mail directory and enjoy the grep feature in claws :) Thanks in advance. -- # Janek Kozicki http://janek.kozicki.pl/

Re: how to vary the spacing between paragraphs?

2010-03-05 Thread Hellmut Weber
Am 04.03.2010 21:15, schrieb Paul Rubin: Richard Brown writes: I don't seem to be able to vary the distance between paragraphs. I'm sure there must be a way. Grateful for pointers. In one specific spot: Insert> Formatting> Vertical Space. Globally, adjust the \parskip length in the pre

Re: lyx 1.6.5 will not open lyx 2 docs

2010-03-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-04, William Seager wrote: > On Thursday 04 March 2010 at 10:05, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: >> Yes, it works. >> There should be a .lyx16 file next to the original .lyx file, which can >> be opened by LyX 1.6.5. >> Vincent > thanks - that works perfectly (I just didn't se

Re: how to vary the spacing between paragraphs?

2010-03-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-04, John Coppens wrote: > On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:12:37 +0100 > Richard Brown wrote: >> Thanks for that; but I'm sorry I should have been clearer in my >> question. I don't want to change the default settings for paragraph >> spacing in the whole document. I just need to be able to say

Re: Import and export to many formats...

2010-03-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-04, Nikos Alexandris wrote: > OK, I think I found it: I also had an Appendix with a rotated table. I > removed the Appendix completely and it worked! :-) > Well, as expected, it looks horrible but at least the text is there. This is why I believe we should be more specific about the