can anyone help me get moving with LyX?

2010-06-17 Thread Gary Kline
People, Appended is a greatly abbreviated sample of the novel that I want to get typeset via the TeX/LaTex/LyX program set. Given the superb toolset that TeX offers, I would like to use different typefaces: typewriter fonts --- as per my example typewritten letter. I also have places where I

Spell check on 1.6.6.1

2010-06-17 Thread Daniel Klein
Hi, the lyx spell checker does not seem to work properly on lyx 1.6.6.1. It skips words that are obviously typed in the wrong way. "distroy" ("destroy" would be right) is not found in 1.6.6.1. However, lyx 1.6.2 which I have as a parallel installation finds the error. "distroy" is neither

Re: Spell check on 1.6.6.1

2010-06-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Daniel Klein wrote: the lyx spell checker does not seem to work properly on lyx 1.6.6.1. It skips words that are obviously typed in the wrong way. distroy (destroy would be right) is not found in 1.6.6.1. However, lyx 1.6.2 which I have as a parallel installation finds the error. distroy is

Re: can anyone help me get moving with LyX?

2010-06-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 17 June 2010 02:46:53 Gary Kline wrote: People, Appended is a greatly abbreviated sample of the novel that I want to get typeset via the TeX/LaTex/LyX program set. Given the superb toolset that TeX offers, I would like to use different typefaces: typewriter fonts --- as per my

Citation of Authors With the Same Last Name with Natbib

2010-06-17 Thread Bruno-
Hi, I've got 2 authors with the same last name and I'm using Natbib. How can I show the initials of the first names of these authors? To do something like this: (R.A Harris, 1995) (Z.S Harris, 1951) Now in both cases, only surname appears. And if I put them together, LyX shows (Harris, 1995,

Re: Citation of Authors With the Same Last Name with Natbib

2010-06-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 6/17/2010 7:23 AM, Bruno- wrote: Hi, I've got 2 authors with the same last name and I'm using Natbib. How can I show the initials of the first names of these authors? To do something like this: (R.A Harris, 1995) (Z.S Harris, 1951) Now in both cases, only surname appears. And if I put them

Re: Spell check on 1.6.6.1

2010-06-17 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Daniel Klein wrote: the lyx spell checker does not seem to work properly on lyx 1.6.6.1. It skips words that are obviously typed in the wrong way. distroy (destroy would be right) is not found in 1.6.6.1. However, lyx 1.6.2 which I have as a parallel installation finds

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-17 Thread Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES
Jose Quesada ques...@gmail.com writes: Hi again, I have to say, I still find slowness overall. On both sabayon and ubuntu. Everybody I know describes LyX as lighting fast. And it has the most useful outliner I know (and getting better). It'd be a pity we cannot have both things at the same

LyX template problems

2010-06-17 Thread John O Brien
Hi, I just installed MiKTeX 2.8 and LyX 1.6. Whenever I try to open some templates in LyX I get the following message: the layout file requested by this document, aa.layout, is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not available. See the Customization

Re: LyX template problems

2010-06-17 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi John, This message means that the LaTeX document class needed by the layout is not available. You can install these using the MikTeX package manager. Simply search for the required package name and then click on install. Once you have installed the needed LaTeX packages, then you can

Re: can anyone help me get moving with LyX?

2010-06-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:42:53AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 17 June 2010 02:46:53 Gary Kline wrote: People, Appended is a greatly abbreviated sample of the novel that I want to get typeset via the TeX/LaTex/LyX program set. Given the superb toolset that TeX offers, I

Re: LyX template problems

2010-06-17 Thread stephen's mailinglist account
On 17 June 2010 19:12, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote: Hi John, This message means that the LaTeX document class needed by the layout is not available.  You can install these using the MikTeX package manager. Simply search for the required package name and then click on install. Once

can anyone help me get moving with LyX?

2010-06-17 Thread Gary Kline
People, Appended is a greatly abbreviated sample of the novel that I want to get typeset via the TeX/LaTex/LyX program set. Given the superb toolset that TeX offers, I would like to use different typefaces: typewriter fonts --- as per my example typewritten letter. I also have places where I

Spell check on 1.6.6.1

2010-06-17 Thread Daniel Klein
Hi, the lyx spell checker does not seem to work properly on lyx 1.6.6.1. It skips words that are obviously typed in the wrong way. "distroy" ("destroy" would be right) is not found in 1.6.6.1. However, lyx 1.6.2 which I have as a parallel installation finds the error. "distroy" is neither

Re: Spell check on 1.6.6.1

2010-06-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Daniel Klein wrote: the lyx spell checker does not seem to work properly on lyx 1.6.6.1. It skips words that are obviously typed in the wrong way. distroy (destroy would be right) is not found in 1.6.6.1. However, lyx 1.6.2 which I have as a parallel installation finds the error. distroy is

Re: can anyone help me get moving with LyX?

2010-06-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 17 June 2010 02:46:53 Gary Kline wrote: People, Appended is a greatly abbreviated sample of the novel that I want to get typeset via the TeX/LaTex/LyX program set. Given the superb toolset that TeX offers, I would like to use different typefaces: typewriter fonts --- as per my

Citation of Authors With the Same Last Name with Natbib

2010-06-17 Thread Bruno-
Hi, I've got 2 authors with the same last name and I'm using Natbib. How can I show the initials of the first names of these authors? To do something like this: (R.A Harris, 1995) (Z.S Harris, 1951) Now in both cases, only surname appears. And if I put them together, LyX shows (Harris, 1995,

Re: Citation of Authors With the Same Last Name with Natbib

2010-06-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 6/17/2010 7:23 AM, Bruno- wrote: Hi, I've got 2 authors with the same last name and I'm using Natbib. How can I show the initials of the first names of these authors? To do something like this: (R.A Harris, 1995) (Z.S Harris, 1951) Now in both cases, only surname appears. And if I put them

Re: Spell check on 1.6.6.1

2010-06-17 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Daniel Klein wrote: the lyx spell checker does not seem to work properly on lyx 1.6.6.1. It skips words that are obviously typed in the wrong way. distroy (destroy would be right) is not found in 1.6.6.1. However, lyx 1.6.2 which I have as a parallel installation finds

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-17 Thread Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES
Jose Quesada ques...@gmail.com writes: Hi again, I have to say, I still find slowness overall. On both sabayon and ubuntu. Everybody I know describes LyX as lighting fast. And it has the most useful outliner I know (and getting better). It'd be a pity we cannot have both things at the same

LyX template problems

2010-06-17 Thread John O Brien
Hi, I just installed MiKTeX 2.8 and LyX 1.6. Whenever I try to open some templates in LyX I get the following message: the layout file requested by this document, aa.layout, is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not available. See the Customization

Re: LyX template problems

2010-06-17 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi John, This message means that the LaTeX document class needed by the layout is not available. You can install these using the MikTeX package manager. Simply search for the required package name and then click on install. Once you have installed the needed LaTeX packages, then you can

Re: can anyone help me get moving with LyX?

2010-06-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:42:53AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 17 June 2010 02:46:53 Gary Kline wrote: People, Appended is a greatly abbreviated sample of the novel that I want to get typeset via the TeX/LaTex/LyX program set. Given the superb toolset that TeX offers, I

Re: LyX template problems

2010-06-17 Thread stephen's mailinglist account
On 17 June 2010 19:12, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote: Hi John, This message means that the LaTeX document class needed by the layout is not available.  You can install these using the MikTeX package manager. Simply search for the required package name and then click on install. Once

can anyone help me get moving with LyX?

2010-06-17 Thread Gary Kline
People, Appended is a greatly abbreviated sample of the novel that I want to get typeset via the TeX/LaTex/LyX program set. Given the superb toolset that TeX offers, I would like to use different typefaces: typewriter fonts --- as per my example typewritten letter. I also have places where I

Spell check on 1.6.6.1

2010-06-17 Thread Daniel Klein
Hi, the lyx spell checker does not seem to work properly on lyx 1.6.6.1. It skips words that are obviously typed in the wrong way. "distroy" ("destroy" would be right) is not found in 1.6.6.1. However, lyx 1.6.2 which I have as a parallel installation finds the error. "distroy" is neither

Re: Spell check on 1.6.6.1

2010-06-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Daniel Klein wrote: > the lyx spell checker does not seem to work properly on lyx 1.6.6.1. It > skips words that are obviously typed in the wrong way. "distroy" > ("destroy" would be right) is not found in 1.6.6.1. However, lyx 1.6.2 > which I have as a parallel installation finds the error.

Re: can anyone help me get moving with LyX?

2010-06-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 17 June 2010 02:46:53 Gary Kline wrote: > People, > > Appended is a greatly abbreviated sample of the novel that I want > to get typeset via the TeX/LaTex/LyX program set. > > Given the superb toolset that TeX offers, I would like to use > different typefaces: typewriter fonts --- as

Citation of Authors With the Same Last Name with Natbib

2010-06-17 Thread Bruno-
Hi, I've got 2 authors with the same last name and I'm using Natbib. How can I show the initials of the first names of these authors? To do something like this: (R.A Harris, 1995) (Z.S Harris, 1951) Now in both cases, only surname appears. And if I put them together, LyX shows (Harris, 1995,

Re: Citation of Authors With the Same Last Name with Natbib

2010-06-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 6/17/2010 7:23 AM, Bruno- wrote: Hi, I've got 2 authors with the same last name and I'm using Natbib. How can I show the initials of the first names of these authors? To do something like this: (R.A Harris, 1995) (Z.S Harris, 1951) Now in both cases, only surname appears. And if I put them

Re: Spell check on 1.6.6.1

2010-06-17 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Daniel Klein wrote: the lyx spell checker does not seem to work properly on lyx 1.6.6.1. It skips words that are obviously typed in the wrong way. "distroy" ("destroy" would be right) is not found in 1.6.6.1. However, lyx 1.6.2 which I have as a parallel installation

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-17 Thread Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES
Jose Quesada writes: > Hi again, > > I have to say, I still find slowness overall. On both sabayon and ubuntu. > Everybody I know describes LyX as lighting fast. And it has the most useful > outliner I know (and getting better). It'd be a pity we cannot have both > things at

LyX template problems

2010-06-17 Thread John O Brien
Hi, I just installed MiKTeX 2.8 and LyX 1.6. Whenever I try to open some templates in LyX I get the following message: "the layout file requested by this document, aa.layout, is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not available. See the

Re: LyX template problems

2010-06-17 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi John, This message means that the LaTeX document class needed by the layout is not available. You can install these using the MikTeX package manager. Simply search for the required package name and then click on install. Once you have installed the needed LaTeX packages, then you can

Re: can anyone help me get moving with LyX?

2010-06-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:42:53AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thursday 17 June 2010 02:46:53 Gary Kline wrote: > > People, > > > > Appended is a greatly abbreviated sample of the novel that I want > > to get typeset via the TeX/LaTex/LyX program set. > > > > Given the superb toolset that TeX

Re: LyX template problems

2010-06-17 Thread stephen's mailinglist account
On 17 June 2010 19:12, Rob Oakes wrote: > Hi John, > > This message means that the LaTeX document class needed by the layout is > not available.  You can install these using the MikTeX package manager. > Simply search for the required package name and then click on install.