Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Andrew Parsloe apars...@clear.net.nz wrote: I meant something more on these lines: you have a table in LyX with a few columns of figures; you want the totals of the columns, perhaps a grand total. The numbers aren't at this point fixed. New data may arise as you

Re: Importing and RTF document into LyX

2011-05-05 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Eric, something like this: cat t.pl EOF #!/usr/bin/perl while(STDIN) { s/\\bigskip//; s/{\\textquotesingle}/'/g; s/\\ / /g; s/{}//g; print; } EOF chmod 755 t.pl ./t.pl t.tex.ori t.tex tex2lyx -f t.tex open t.lyx It removes unnecessary \bigskip, replaces

Re: Lyx and xindy

2011-05-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 May 2011, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Pascal Francq wrote: I try to change from makeindex to xindy to manage two index in the document from LyX. I have just selected xindy in ToolsPreferencesOutputLatex (adding the option -l french for the French language). Now, when I create the

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-05-05, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I think I have confused people, perhaps because I used the phrase 'LyX office suite' (but in quotes -- it was meant with a certain tongue-in-cheek quality) and mentioned the word spreadsheet. ... My request was for a button on the table toolbar that

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: LyX doesn't need to acquire spreadsheet capabilities. I have no wish to see it heading down the road of OpenOffice. But I am pretty sure that, when this support is implemented, there will be requests that LyX displays

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 5/05/2011 7:39 p.m., Guenter Milde wrote: On 2011-05-05, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I think I have confused people, perhaps because I used the phrase 'LyX office suite' (but in quotes -- it was meant with a certain tongue-in-cheek quality) and mentioned the word spreadsheet. ... My request

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 5/05/2011 7:49 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Guenter Mildemi...@users.berlios.de wrote: LyX doesn't need to acquire spreadsheet capabilities. I have no wish to see it heading down the road of OpenOffice. But I am pretty sure that, when this support is

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Liviu, on 2.0 RC3 on 10.6.7 I can't see the OOo or Excell formats offered unter External Material. Please advise. greetings, el On 5/4/11 10:18 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Andrew Parsloe apars...@clear.net.nz wrote: The current lack of even a basic 'active'

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse e...@lisse.na wrote: on 2.0 RC3 on 10.6.7 I can't see the OOo or Excell formats offered unter External Material. Please advise. You should see the Gnumeric external material. It supports files saved under Gnumeric, OOo or Excel spreadsheet

Re: problems with table width. How to modify its dimensions?

2011-05-05 Thread Paul Rubin
I'm not positive I understand your problem, but the following may help: 1. Labels (for cross-referencing) usually go in the table caption, although this is probably unrelated to your issue. 2. You can specify column widths by right-clicking a cell, choosing Settings..., entering a value in the

Re: Maxima and LyX

2011-05-05 Thread Julien Rioux
On 29/04/2011 10:52 PM, Dana Chandler wrote: Hello -- I am new to LyX and am wondering how to get LyX and maxima working together. I have them both on my computer and when I try highlighting an equation in LyX and going through the menus to select maxima, I just get a blank expression. Does

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Julien Rioux
On 05/05/2011 12:22 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 5/05/2011 12:32 p.m., Charlie wrote: If a vote is being taken on this feature request. I would rather that it doesn't happen, so please put me down as a no. Please don't do it. There are plenty of spreadsheet programs and if you haven't

Re: Maxima and LyX

2011-05-05 Thread Julien Rioux
On 05/05/2011 6:14 PM, Julien Rioux wrote: On 29/04/2011 10:52 PM, Dana Chandler wrote: Hello -- I am new to LyX and am wondering how to get LyX and maxima working together. I have them both on my computer and when I try highlighting an equation in LyX and going through the menus to select

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 6/05/2011 10:26 a.m., Julien Rioux wrote: On 05/05/2011 12:22 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 5/05/2011 12:32 p.m., Charlie wrote: If a vote is being taken on this feature request. I would rather that it doesn't happen, so please put me down as a no. Please don't do it. There are plenty of

latex2html equivalent of Windows HTML export?

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew
Hi there, I use Lyx on both Linux and Windows, and I have tried all the HTML export options, including Elyxer. I like the Windows HTML export option the best, and I want to be able to produce HTML on Linux the same as the Windows HTML export does. I assume the Windows HTML export uses

Re: latex2html equivalent of Windows HTML export?

2011-05-05 Thread Julien Rioux
On 05/05/2011 10:05 PM, Andrew wrote: Hi there, I use Lyx on both Linux and Windows, and I have tried all the HTML export options, including Elyxer. I like the Windows HTML export option the best, and I want to be able to produce HTML on Linux the same as the Windows HTML export does. I

Re: latex2html equivalent of Windows HTML export?

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew
Sounds great, I'll try this. Thanks for your fast reply Julien!

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Andrew Parsloe apars...@clear.net.nz wrote: I meant something more on these lines: you have a table in LyX with a few columns of figures; you want the totals of the columns, perhaps a grand total. The numbers aren't at this point fixed. New data may arise as you

Re: Importing and RTF document into LyX

2011-05-05 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Eric, something like this: cat t.pl EOF #!/usr/bin/perl while(STDIN) { s/\\bigskip//; s/{\\textquotesingle}/'/g; s/\\ / /g; s/{}//g; print; } EOF chmod 755 t.pl ./t.pl t.tex.ori t.tex tex2lyx -f t.tex open t.lyx It removes unnecessary \bigskip, replaces

Re: Lyx and xindy

2011-05-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 May 2011, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Pascal Francq wrote: I try to change from makeindex to xindy to manage two index in the document from LyX. I have just selected xindy in ToolsPreferencesOutputLatex (adding the option -l french for the French language). Now, when I create the

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-05-05, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I think I have confused people, perhaps because I used the phrase 'LyX office suite' (but in quotes -- it was meant with a certain tongue-in-cheek quality) and mentioned the word spreadsheet. ... My request was for a button on the table toolbar that

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: LyX doesn't need to acquire spreadsheet capabilities. I have no wish to see it heading down the road of OpenOffice. But I am pretty sure that, when this support is implemented, there will be requests that LyX displays

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 5/05/2011 7:39 p.m., Guenter Milde wrote: On 2011-05-05, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I think I have confused people, perhaps because I used the phrase 'LyX office suite' (but in quotes -- it was meant with a certain tongue-in-cheek quality) and mentioned the word spreadsheet. ... My request

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 5/05/2011 7:49 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Guenter Mildemi...@users.berlios.de wrote: LyX doesn't need to acquire spreadsheet capabilities. I have no wish to see it heading down the road of OpenOffice. But I am pretty sure that, when this support is

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Liviu, on 2.0 RC3 on 10.6.7 I can't see the OOo or Excell formats offered unter External Material. Please advise. greetings, el On 5/4/11 10:18 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Andrew Parsloe apars...@clear.net.nz wrote: The current lack of even a basic 'active'

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse e...@lisse.na wrote: on 2.0 RC3 on 10.6.7 I can't see the OOo or Excell formats offered unter External Material. Please advise. You should see the Gnumeric external material. It supports files saved under Gnumeric, OOo or Excel spreadsheet

Re: problems with table width. How to modify its dimensions?

2011-05-05 Thread Paul Rubin
I'm not positive I understand your problem, but the following may help: 1. Labels (for cross-referencing) usually go in the table caption, although this is probably unrelated to your issue. 2. You can specify column widths by right-clicking a cell, choosing Settings..., entering a value in the

Re: Maxima and LyX

2011-05-05 Thread Julien Rioux
On 29/04/2011 10:52 PM, Dana Chandler wrote: Hello -- I am new to LyX and am wondering how to get LyX and maxima working together. I have them both on my computer and when I try highlighting an equation in LyX and going through the menus to select maxima, I just get a blank expression. Does

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Julien Rioux
On 05/05/2011 12:22 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 5/05/2011 12:32 p.m., Charlie wrote: If a vote is being taken on this feature request. I would rather that it doesn't happen, so please put me down as a no. Please don't do it. There are plenty of spreadsheet programs and if you haven't

Re: Maxima and LyX

2011-05-05 Thread Julien Rioux
On 05/05/2011 6:14 PM, Julien Rioux wrote: On 29/04/2011 10:52 PM, Dana Chandler wrote: Hello -- I am new to LyX and am wondering how to get LyX and maxima working together. I have them both on my computer and when I try highlighting an equation in LyX and going through the menus to select

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 6/05/2011 10:26 a.m., Julien Rioux wrote: On 05/05/2011 12:22 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 5/05/2011 12:32 p.m., Charlie wrote: If a vote is being taken on this feature request. I would rather that it doesn't happen, so please put me down as a no. Please don't do it. There are plenty of

latex2html equivalent of Windows HTML export?

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew
Hi there, I use Lyx on both Linux and Windows, and I have tried all the HTML export options, including Elyxer. I like the Windows HTML export option the best, and I want to be able to produce HTML on Linux the same as the Windows HTML export does. I assume the Windows HTML export uses

Re: latex2html equivalent of Windows HTML export?

2011-05-05 Thread Julien Rioux
On 05/05/2011 10:05 PM, Andrew wrote: Hi there, I use Lyx on both Linux and Windows, and I have tried all the HTML export options, including Elyxer. I like the Windows HTML export option the best, and I want to be able to produce HTML on Linux the same as the Windows HTML export does. I

Re: latex2html equivalent of Windows HTML export?

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew
Sounds great, I'll try this. Thanks for your fast reply Julien!

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > I meant something more on these lines: you have a table in LyX with a few > columns of figures; you want the totals of the columns, perhaps a grand > total. The numbers aren't at this point fixed. New data may arise as

Re: Importing and RTF document into LyX

2011-05-05 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Eric, something like this: cat > t.pl <) { s/\\bigskip//; s/{\\textquotesingle}/'/g; s/\\ / /g; s/{}//g; print; } EOF chmod 755 t.pl ./t.pl < t.tex.ori > t.tex && tex2lyx -f t.tex && open t.lyx It removes unnecessary \bigskip, replaces \textquotesingle with ' removes empty

Re: Lyx and xindy

2011-05-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 May 2011, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Pascal Francq wrote: > > I try to change from makeindex to xindy to manage two index in the > > document from LyX. I have just selected xindy in > > "Tools>Preferences>Output>Latex" (adding the option "-l french" for the > > French language). > > Now,

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-05-05, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > I think I have confused people, perhaps because I used the phrase 'LyX > office suite' (but in quotes -- it was meant with a certain > tongue-in-cheek quality) and mentioned the word spreadsheet. ... > My request was for a button on the table toolbar

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: >> LyX doesn't need to acquire spreadsheet capabilities. I have no wish to >> see it heading down the road of OpenOffice. > > But I am pretty sure that, when this support is implemented, there will > be requests that LyX

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 5/05/2011 7:39 p.m., Guenter Milde wrote: On 2011-05-05, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I think I have confused people, perhaps because I used the phrase 'LyX office suite' (but in quotes -- it was meant with a certain tongue-in-cheek quality) and mentioned the word spreadsheet. ... My request

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 5/05/2011 7:49 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: LyX doesn't need to acquire spreadsheet capabilities. I have no wish to see it heading down the road of OpenOffice. But I am pretty sure that, when this support is

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Liviu, on 2.0 RC3 on 10.6.7 I can't see the OOo or Excell formats offered unter External Material. Please advise. greetings, el On 5/4/11 10:18 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: >> The current lack of even a basic

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > on 2.0 RC3 on 10.6.7 I can't see the OOo or Excell formats offered unter > External Material. > > Please advise. > You should see the Gnumeric external material. It supports files saved under Gnumeric, OOo or Excel

Re: problems with table width. How to modify its dimensions?

2011-05-05 Thread Paul Rubin
I'm not positive I understand your problem, but the following may help: 1. Labels (for cross-referencing) usually go in the table caption, although this is probably unrelated to your issue. 2. You can specify column widths by right-clicking a cell, choosing "Settings...", entering a value in the

Re: Maxima and LyX

2011-05-05 Thread Julien Rioux
On 29/04/2011 10:52 PM, Dana Chandler wrote: Hello -- I am new to LyX and am wondering how to get LyX and maxima working together. I have them both on my computer and when I try highlighting an equation in LyX and going through the menus to select maxima, I just get a blank expression. Does

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Julien Rioux
On 05/05/2011 12:22 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 5/05/2011 12:32 p.m., Charlie wrote: If a vote is being taken on this feature request. I would rather that it doesn't happen, so please put me down as a "no". Please don't do it. There are plenty of spreadsheet programs and if you haven't

Re: Maxima and LyX

2011-05-05 Thread Julien Rioux
On 05/05/2011 6:14 PM, Julien Rioux wrote: On 29/04/2011 10:52 PM, Dana Chandler wrote: Hello -- I am new to LyX and am wondering how to get LyX and maxima working together. I have them both on my computer and when I try highlighting an equation in LyX and going through the menus to select

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 6/05/2011 10:26 a.m., Julien Rioux wrote: On 05/05/2011 12:22 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 5/05/2011 12:32 p.m., Charlie wrote: If a vote is being taken on this feature request. I would rather that it doesn't happen, so please put me down as a "no". Please don't do it. There are plenty

latex2html equivalent of Windows HTML export?

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew
Hi there, I use Lyx on both Linux and Windows, and I have tried all the HTML export options, including Elyxer. I like the Windows HTML export option the best, and I want to be able to produce HTML on Linux the same as the Windows HTML export does. I assume the Windows HTML export uses

Re: latex2html equivalent of Windows HTML export?

2011-05-05 Thread Julien Rioux
On 05/05/2011 10:05 PM, Andrew wrote: Hi there, I use Lyx on both Linux and Windows, and I have tried all the HTML export options, including Elyxer. I like the Windows HTML export option the best, and I want to be able to produce HTML on Linux the same as the Windows HTML export does. I

Re: latex2html equivalent of Windows HTML export?

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew
Sounds great, I'll try this. Thanks for your fast reply Julien!