Re: Proper URLs from Insert->url

2002-02-21 Thread Fernando Pérez
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: > > Thanks a lot Herbert, but I had already read that page (should've said so > > :) My point is precisely to avoid using ERT if at all possible, and achieve > > the same effect via Lyx's insert->url. Is such a thing simply not > > > sorry, you're right.

Re: Proper URLs from Insert->url

2002-02-20 Thread Fernando Pérez
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: > > Any solutions to this using Lyx only? I know I can just pop in all the urls > > with ERT, but I'd prefer to use a Lyx-ish solution if there is one, and the > > url insert seems to do 99% of the job. > try > > http://www.lyx.org/help/html/url.php3 Th

Proper URLs from Insert->url

2002-02-20 Thread Fernando Pérez
Hi all, I'm using lyx 1.1.6f4, trying to create a simple document which will be exported to html, and I'm havig a problem with urls. If I choose Insert->URL and say type: URL-> http://mysite.com/ Name -> Click here the generated Lyx code looks like \begin_inset LatexCommand my\htmlurl[Click he

Re: whishes for next version

2002-01-26 Thread Fernando Pérez
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Wayan wrote: > yes, not a bug. > pdflatex only recognize png, jpg and pdf figure. > If you have lot of figures in eps format, use ps2pdf or dvipdfm instead of > pdflatex. dvipdfm is better than ps2pdf to handle hyperref (as I have > tried). But the important one is ghostscrip

Writing python documentation with LyX?

2001-12-26 Thread Fernando Pérez
Hi all, I'd like to know if someone has used LyX for writing documents which conform to the Python doc standards. Basically this would mean having written the lyx layout files corresponding to the manual and howto document classes defined by Python. It would save me a lot of work not to have to

Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Fernando Pérez
> > This is a highly non-trivial task to accomplish. The real kicker wouldn't > > be so much to integrate with a numerics-only package like octave, but > > rather with a full-fledged technical computing environment like Mathematica > > or Maple. Unfortunately there's no real open source equivalent

Re: Only one LyX source document for all exports

2001-09-19 Thread Fernando Pérez
> > > But is there a program that can convert from PDF file to Tex, PS or HTML ? > > > > use pdf2tex --> search in CTAN Or use lyxport (http://www-hep.colorado.edu/~fperez/lyxport) which does all 3: lyx->(ps,pdf,html). If you only need tex->pdf, you can try tex2pdf (I don't recall the url), it's

Re: LyX<->Palm Document Exchange....

2001-09-10 Thread Fernando Pérez
Hi, > > Question: what software are you using to sync your HandEra under Linux? I've > been trying to use KPilot, but it's been a pain (doable, but a real pain). > I use jpilot for a Palm m100(standard in Mandrake, otherwise google will get it). Works great, has a very nice "desktop" interface,

Re: Default packages

2001-08-14 Thread Fernando Pérez
> Example: A LaTeX file generated by LyX contains the following command: > > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} > > However, this package forces pdflatex to use bitmapped fonts resulting > in very poor quality documents. By manually commeting this line out and > re-running pdflatex, a good quality pdf fi

Re: eps2pdf

2001-08-03 Thread Fernando Pérez
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Michael Koundouros wrote: > I am using gsview to convert individual eps figures to pdf. unfortunately > the pdf images are not sized to the page. I understand there exists a script > (eps2pdf) that will allow the conversion process to read the eps bounding > box. Does anyone k

Re: EPS_PS_Format?

2001-08-03 Thread Fernando Pérez
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Karshi Hasanov wrote: > > After converting *.bmp(*.jpeg) files to *.eps(*.ps), I am getting very low > resolution. It's because of the Image Magic or gv(for linux)? Are you sure? Don't trust how gv displays them on screen, I think it uses a low-res embedded preview of some t

Updated (Lyx/Latex) -> (ps/pdf/html) script

2001-07-19 Thread Fernando Pérez
Hi All, I have updated/documented quite a bit my Perl script to automate producing PostScript, PDF and HTML from a Latex or Lyx source file. I've tested it a fair bit and it seems to be working well (famous last words), to the point where I've replaced the normal calls to pdflatex and latex2html

Re: ps2pdf

2001-07-12 Thread Fernando Pérez
On 12 Jul 2001, Myriam Abramson wrote: > > Hi! > > I'm trying to convert some foiltex to pdf for a presentation. > I put \usepackage[ps2pdf]{hyperref} in the latex preamble. > ps2pdf works fine but the colors and the fonts come out terrible on > acroread on the pc. Any ideas? > > Thanks, He

Re: latex2html and InputIfFileExists

2001-07-12 Thread Fernando Pérez
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Thomas Templin wrote: > Im trying to export html via latex2html but it don't work. > See my earlier message from a few hours ago (with subject line UPDATE: LyX to (html,ps,pdf) script). It's Perl script designed to do exactly that (plus giving you pdf and ps along the way),

UPDATE: LyX to (html,ps,pdf) script

2001-07-12 Thread Fernando Pérez
Update: A. Poenitz found a dumb quoting error I made in yesterday's posting of this script (note to self: don't post code at 3am when too tired to think). The attached version is fixed and should work (I *did* check it :-) Fernando. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 200

LyX to (html,ps,pdf) script

2001-07-12 Thread Fernando Pérez
Hi Lyxers, attached is a Perl script I wrote called lyxpub (short for "lyx publish", for lack of a better name!). It borrows heavily from contributions by S. Evers, but tries to be a bit cleaner and more robust (also do more). >From the mini-documentation: A simple Perl script which takes a L

Re: Using LyX for DTP (long)

2001-06-20 Thread Fernando Pérez
Wow. Thanks a lot for presenting this detailed explanation of your work. Even though I don't specifically need to make that kind of document, I saved your message as it's full of useful little nuggets which may come in handy. May I suggest you keep your message around, update it and turn it into

Re: Book layout and included files problem.

2001-06-08 Thread Fernando Pérez
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > Currently, the documentclass of the master file should be equal to the > documentclass of the included files. Thanks a lot (also to Herbert) for the reply. It worked perfectly. I wonder if it might be worth having a little message in the File Include box indicating that sty

Book layout and included files problem.

2001-06-07 Thread Fernando Pérez
I'm using Lyx 1.1.6fix1 and am encountering the following problem: if I create a document which includes other lyx documents using the article class, everything is fine. But if I change the "master document" layout to be book or Thesis (University of Colorado's thesis, specifically), the included