update doesn't work

2010-05-20 Thread [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.
Hi! I've seen this before with LyX 1.6.5 on Mac OS X but never reported it. Now, working with LyX 2.0.0 alpha3, I have the same problem: View works fine, but I've never got Update working. I've to close the current view (whatever PDF viewer I am using, Adobe or Skim, for instance), to get an

Re: box alignment

2010-05-20 Thread [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.
Hi Uwe! Uwe Stöhr wrote: I don't understand what you mean. regards Uwe I know I must read through the manuals! But some help will be welcome as I am still trying to understand the whole scenario. At what point changes area allowed by using LyX WYSIWYM interface or I must play with configu

Re: Lower-res PDFs

2010-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 21.05.2010 01:54, schrieb Frederick Noronha: Is there some way I could create lower-res PDFs, if I want to share them via the Net? Not With LyX but with PDF tools. You can force to compress the images inside existing PDFs, for example with Acrobat or Foxit PDF Editor. regards Uwe

Re: Editing while spell-checking

2010-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 21.05.2010 01:50, schrieb Frederick Noronha: Is there some way I could edit (make small changes) to a file, at the same time as I'm spellchecking it? Due to a bug not in LyX 1.6.6. In LyX 2.0 this will be possible. regards Uwe

Lower-res PDFs

2010-05-20 Thread Frederick Noronha
Is there some way I could create lower-res PDFs, if I want to share them via the Net? Hi-res photos meant for printing can make for slow transmission via the Net. Thanks! FN Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 +91-832-2409490

Re: Typographical devices, instead of numbers, for footnotes

2010-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 20.05.2010 23:26, schrieb Frederick Noronha: Is it possible for me to use typographical devices [like *, †, ‡, §, ‖, ¶] instead of number for footnotes, as I have end-notes as well using numbers? Se sec. 4.2.1 "Footnote Numbering" of the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's Help m

Re: Lyx for Farsi under Mac OS

2010-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 21.05.2010 00:12, schrieb Amir: I was wondering whether or not I can use Lyx to create Farsi/English documents under Mac OS. I saw that Lyx can be used for creating Farsi documents under Windows. How about Mac OS? It should work on all platforms. You only need to install the LaTeX-packa

Editing while spell-checking

2010-05-20 Thread Frederick Noronha
Is there some way I could edit (make small changes) to a file, at the same time as I'm spellchecking it? Reason: I notice some small word needs to be italicised or changed to lower-case, but under the current way of doing things, I have to exit from the spellchecker, make the change, and then go b

Re: Typographical devices, instead of numbers, for footnotes

2010-05-20 Thread Frederick Noronha
Thank you very much, it works fine! FN Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 +91-832-2409490 On 21 May 2010 05:08, curtis osterhoudt wrote: > \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}

Re: Typographical devices, instead of numbers, for footnotes

2010-05-20 Thread curtis osterhoudt
I may be wrong here, but in looking at an old preamble file I have for which typograpical footnote devices work as you'd like, try the following: \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}} /** As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the

Lyx for Farsi under Mac OS

2010-05-20 Thread Amir
I was wondering whether or not I can use Lyx to create Farsi/English documents under Mac OS. I saw that Lyx can be used for creating Farsi documents under Windows. How about Mac OS? How can I do that?

Typographical devices, instead of numbers, for footnotes

2010-05-20 Thread Frederick Noronha
Is it possible for me to use typographical devices [like *, †, ‡, §, ‖, ¶] instead of number for footnotes, as I have end-notes as well using numbers? Many thanks! FN Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 +91-832-2409490

Re: entry-level question

2010-05-20 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Ricardo, If you'd find it helpful, I've been working on a book appendix that compares some of the most common LaTeX document classes. It shows examples, and goes over their more common features. It's still in draft form, but I would be happy to provide a download link if you think it would be

Re: entry-level question

2010-05-20 Thread RIchard Heck
On 05/20/2010 03:58 PM, [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC. wrote: Hi all, New to this incredible edition framework, please, forgive me if I am missing something obvious. One the most difficult decisions I'm facing while starting to work with LyX is to chose what Document class I must use for a given

Re: Spellcheck in 1.6.6 misses every second word

2010-05-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Sven Hoexter wrote: > Sure see the attached german one. Yes, I see it now. And I found out which bug fix caused this (fix for #6217). Jürgen

entry-level question

2010-05-20 Thread [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.
Hi all, New to this incredible edition framework, please, forgive me if I am missing something obvious. One the most difficult decisions I'm facing while starting to work with LyX is to chose what Document class I must use for a given work. It seems to me really hard do decide between the mu

Re: Document-internal hyperlinks

2010-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 16.05.2010 20:41, schrieb Shawn Willden: What I'd really like is for something like: begin example \label{code:53-5-703}\paragraph{...}... ... As can be seen in \hyperlink{code:53-5-703}{53-5-703}, the composition of the board is... -end example---

Re: Spellcheck in 1.6.6 misses every second word

2010-05-20 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 08:52:09PM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Hi, > Can you please report this as LyX bug? Done: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6708 Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep]

Re: Equation Numbering change in RTL languages

2010-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 17.05.2010 21:49, schrieb Nosrat Maghsoudi: Greetings, I am using LyX to typeset a book in Farsi. Equation numbers change when referenced. For example (2-12), becomes (21-2). Please help if you have a solution. Can you please provide a LyX example file? I tried to reproduce with the attac

Re: Spellcheck in 1.6.6 misses every second word

2010-05-20 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 08:28:59PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > Round one: > Catches "Deis", correct it to "Dies", next word detected is "eni". > > Round two: > Ignore "Deis", next word detected is "istt". Thanks to xvidcap I could even create a short demo video (1.5MB). http://sven.stormbind.ne

Re: Spellcheck in 1.6.6 misses every second word

2010-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 20.05.2010 20:28, schrieb Sven Hoexter: I don't see this (and I cannot imagine what could have caused this). Could you post a test file? Sure see the attached german one. Round one: Catches "Deis", correct it to "Dies", next word detected is "eni". Now I can reproduce it too. It only occ

Re: Nested Environments

2010-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 20.05.2010 20:24, schrieb iustifico: Is there a way to do this: Environment 1 Some Text... Environment 2 Some Text... Some Other Text<--- This Text goes to environment 1! Let's say Our Environment is a Definition or Proposition... No, because Defini

Re: Spellcheck in 1.6.6 misses every second word

2010-05-20 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 08:05:48PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Sven Hoexter wrote: > > it seems to me that the spellcheck in LyX 1.6.6 misses every second word. > > Am I the only one seeing this? > > I don't see this (and I cannot imagine what could have caused this). Could > you > post a

Nested Environments

2010-05-20 Thread iustifico
I know how to achieve this: Environment 1 Environment 2 Some Text Environment 3 Some Text... Environment 4 More Text... Environment 4 Some Text... Is there a way to do this: Environment 1 Some Text... Environment 2

Re: Question: Skipping Numbers in Enumeration

2010-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 20.05.2010 19:36, schrieb Andreas Brack: In LaTeX there is a command like \stepcounter{}, which skips a number in the Numeration. For Example 1 1.1 \stepcounter{?} 1.3 Is there a command in lyx, which reaches the same?? You can do everything that you can do with LaTeX also in LyX. So s

Re: Wrapping text around an image

2010-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 20.05.2010 19:39, schrieb Vladimir Giszpenc: When I used the floating figure, the image was centered which was not the style I was looking for. When I used the \begin{wrapfigure} LaTex directive all the text was placed under the image (sized to the image) instead of wrapping around. Has anyo

Re: Spellcheck in 1.6.6 misses every second word

2010-05-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Sven Hoexter wrote: > it seems to me that the spellcheck in LyX 1.6.6 misses every second word. > Am I the only one seeing this? I don't see this (and I cannot imagine what could have caused this). Could you post a test file? Jürgen

Wrapping text around an image

2010-05-20 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Hi, I am trying to wrap text around an image. I attached how I was doing it in HTML but I can't seem to figure out how to do this with LyX. When I used the floating figure, the image was centered which was not the style I was looking for. When I used the \begin{wrapfigure} LaTex directive all th

Re: Enumeration of Theorems and definitions in a certain hierarchy...

2010-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 20.05.2010 19:24, schrieb iustifico: In Lyx I am using the koma-skript. And I want this enumeration hierarchy \part I<-- ROMAN Enumeration \section 1<-- Arabic Enumeration \subsection 1<-- Arabic Enumeration Defintion I.1.1.1 This is hard to achieve and also uncommon. usually the chapter

Question: Skipping Numbers in Enumeration

2010-05-20 Thread Andreas Brack
Hi, I have got a question about lyx. In LaTeX there is a command like \stepcounter{}, which skips a number in the Numeration. For Example 1 1.1 \stepcounter{?} 1.3 Is there a command in lyx, which reaches the same?? And how? Thanks a lot Andreas

Re: Any possible way to have clickable table of contents when exporting to PDF?

2010-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 20.05.2010 11:09, schrieb Francois Berenger: Here is what I did: Document -> Settings -> PDF Properties Then I checked almost everything, to be sure I would see if any of these feature has some effect. You don't need all of them the same time. the different options are described in sec. 6

Enumeration of Theorems and definitions in a certain hierarchy...

2010-05-20 Thread iustifico
Hello, In Lyx I am using the koma-skript. And I want this enumeration hierarchy \part I <-- ROMAN Enumeration \section 1 <-- Arabic Enumeration \subsection 1 <-- Arabic Enumeration Defintion I.1.1.1 \section 2 \subsection 1 Definition I.2.1.1 \section 3 Definition I.3.1 <== Here it is on

Enumeration of Theorems and definitions in a certain hierarchy...

2010-05-20 Thread iustifico
Hello, In Lyx I am using the koma-skript. And I want this enumeration hierarchy \part I <-- ROMAN Enumeration \section 1 <-- Arabic Enumeration \subsection 1 <-- Arabic Enumeration Defintion I.1.1.1 \section 2 \subsection 1 Definition I.2.1.1 \section 3 Definition I.3.1 <== Here it is on

Re: Package installation question

2010-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 20.05.2010 13:38, schrieb Artimess: 1) Where does Lyx stores the packages in Mac, Linux, and Windows if they are different? What do you mean with "package"? They are different compared to what? 2) Should I do anything special to install a package beyond moving it to the right directory a

Re: Spellcheck in 1.6.6 misses every second word

2010-05-20 Thread BH
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 20.05.2010 19:01, schrieb Hal Kierstead: > >> Actually, I think the problem may be that it fails to check the next word >> after it finds a misspelled word. > > As said, I cannot reproduce that with LyX 1.6.6 on Windows. Here every > misspelle

Re: Spellcheck in 1.6.6 misses every second word

2010-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 20.05.2010 19:01, schrieb Hal Kierstead: Actually, I think the problem may be that it fails to check the next word after it finds a misspelled word. As said, I cannot reproduce that with LyX 1.6.6 on Windows. Here every misspelled word is correctly recognized. regards Uwe

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.6

2010-05-20 Thread Hal Kierstead
Actually, I think the problem may be that it fails to check the next word after it finds a misspelled word. Hal On May 20, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Hello LyXers, > > the alternative Windows installer for LyX 1.6.6 is now available. > > This installer comes again with an update insta

Re: Spellcheck in 1.6.6 misses every second word

2010-05-20 Thread Hal Kierstead
I have this problem on my Mac. Hal On May 20, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Sven Hoexter wrote: > Hi, > it seems to me that the spellcheck in LyX 1.6.6 misses every second word. > Am I the only one seeing this? > > Running on Debian/sid with aspell aswell as enchant. > > Sven > -- > If God passed a mic to

[announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.6

2010-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, the alternative Windows installer for LyX 1.6.6 is now available. This installer comes again with an update installer to update existing LyX 1.6.5 installation to LyX 1.6.6. NOTE: To be able to use this update installer, LyX 1.6.5 must have been installed with the alternative Wi

Re: Spellcheck in 1.6.6 misses every second word

2010-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 20.05.2010 18:14, schrieb Sven Hoexter: it seems to me that the spellcheck in LyX 1.6.6 misses every second word. Am I the only one seeing this? I don't see this on Windows with Aspell. regards Uwe

Spellcheck in 1.6.6 misses every second word

2010-05-20 Thread Sven Hoexter
Hi, it seems to me that the spellcheck in LyX 1.6.6 misses every second word. Am I the only one seeing this? Running on Debian/sid with aspell aswell as enchant. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep]

configuration of modified toolbars

2010-05-20 Thread Sergio Celani
Hello users I modified the original stdtoolbars.inc of LyX 1.6.5. according to my needs. 1. I added two new toolbars called " Letras griegas y otras" and "Sets and Logic". But in a computer with linux or with windows when I select these two new toolbar nothing happens in Lyx. With LyX 2

Fwd: request feature (again)

2010-05-20 Thread Sergio Celani
Mensaje original Asunto: request feature (again) Fecha: Fri, 07 May 2010 12:51:49 -0300 De: Sergio Celani A: lyx-users-h...@lists.lyx.org El 20/04/2010 11:42 a.m., Pavel Sanda escribió: Sergio Celani wrote: Actually, with some text editor it is possi

Re: Multiple formatting questions with LyX 1.6.5 - book (Memoir)

2010-05-20 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-05-20, RIchard Heck wrote: > On 05/20/2010 02:33 AM, Yannick Fournier wrote: >> One more question I forgot to ask: >> How do you reduce the vertical space, in itemize and enumerate listings, >> between the first item and the preceeding paragraph? I tried the following >> preamble commands

Re: Multiple formatting questions with LyX 1.6.5 - book (Memoir)

2010-05-20 Thread RIchard Heck
On 05/20/2010 02:33 AM, Yannick Fournier wrote: |> a) Changing cross-references links of "subsubsection" to a | nicer "section": |> Is there a command similar to the one for renaming figure | captions (see |> below), in order to have for example "subsections 3.4.3.2" | or "section |> 3.4.3.2

Re: Package installation question

2010-05-20 Thread RIchard Heck
On 05/20/2010 07:38 AM, Artimess wrote: Could someone tell me: 1) Where does Lyx stores the packages in Mac, Linux, and Windows if they are different? If by "package" you mean "LaTeX package", then the answer is: LyX doesn't store LaTeX packages or even have much to do with them. That is ent

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.6 is released

2010-05-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Public release of LyX version 1.6.6 === We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.6. This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number of crashes, reported by our users or our

Package installation question

2010-05-20 Thread Artimess
Could someone tell me: 1) Where does Lyx stores the packages in Mac, Linux, and Windows if they are different? 2) Should I do anything special to install a package beyond moving it to the right directory and do a reconfigure? 3) How can I check if a package is available or installed? 4) Are the c

Re: Any possible way to have clickable table of contents when exporting to PDF?

2010-05-20 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, Thanks for your help, it started working. I was almost going to givup. Here is what I did: Document -> Settings -> PDF Properties Then I checked almost everything, to be sure I would see if any of these feature has some effect. Then, I hit the "Save as Document Defaults" button. I think

Re: Any possible way to have clickable table of contents when exporting to PDF?

2010-05-20 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Francois Berenger wrote: Hello, I played with this option without any effect. Whatever PDF reader I use, TOC is not clickable. Is there a trick when exporting the document? Like only some way to generate the PDF will manage/preserve links? There are 3 pdf export methods. At least, with pdflat