Re: Charactersstickingtooneanother (Memoire class)

2011-04-28 Thread Frederick Noronha
It is showing up in the PDF too and in the printed copy also! On the screen it looks fine. FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 (after 2pm) #784 Nr Lourdes Convent, Saligao 403511 Goa India http://fn.goa-india.org http://goa1556.goa-india.org On 28 April 2011 07:23, Jim Oldfield wrote: > > > >

Charactersstickingtooneanother (Memoire class)

2011-04-27 Thread Frederick Noronha
Dear all: I'm using Book Memoire class to set books, using Palatino or Times Roman. A peculiar problem: when I set a word in italics, it tends tosticktothenextword, unless I manually place an inter-word space between both. This can be quite time-consuming. Could you tell me what's going wrong? I

Spellchecker

2011-04-19 Thread Frederick Noronha
Any good British English spellchecker I could set up for Lyx, and guidelines to help me? Secondly, how do I create a set-up that would take Portuguese as my default language, and also do the correct word-breaks at the end of a line? FN FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 (after 2pm) #784 Nr Lour

Re: Typesetting in Devanagari

2011-04-19 Thread Frederick Noronha
this is what you wanted or if you > wanted to do it directly from LyX. Anyway, here it goes. Regards. > - > Julio Rojas > jcredbe...@gmail.com > > > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Frederick Noronha > wrote: >>

Typesetting in Devanagari

2011-04-19 Thread Frederick Noronha
Can someone kindly help me by typesetting the attached word in Devanagari? Even a JPG output would be fine. Many thanks! FN FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 (after 2pm) #784 Nr Lourdes Convent, Saligao 403511 Goa India http://fn.goa-india.org http://goa1556.goa-india.org <>

Captions... can't be justified

2010-12-24 Thread Frederick Noronha
Could anyone help me and let me know why the captions for my photographs can't get justified? They keep getting centralised. I'm using 'tables' for placing some of my photos and captions into. Thanks! FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 More books from G

Photos... in a table

2010-12-19 Thread Frederick Noronha
t, FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

No page number on chapter-start page

2010-12-05 Thread Frederick Noronha
rpnum %\renewcommand{\cftchapterleader}{\space} \usepackage{pxfonts} \renewcommand{\normalsize}{\fontsize{10.2pt}{14pt}\selectfont} Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Converting doc to Lyx

2010-11-30 Thread Frederick Noronha
, google for it) using the ultra-clean option. Then I use TeXShop to get rid of some unnecessary stuff and change the header to what I like in LyX and then run tex2lyx. Works very nicely. It may work for you. Others have suggested the html route Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Point size for captions

2010-11-30 Thread Frederick Noronha
et me know how to reduce the line-space between captions only, while retaining 10/14 for the rest of the text? Many thanks, FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Re: Converting Doc file to Lyx

2010-11-28 Thread Frederick Noronha
lyx It may work for you. Others have suggested the html route UNQUOTE FN PS: I did have to remove a lot of \tab commands, and some \dots, but that was all... far better than manually resetting! Thanks, Stefano!!! Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 On 29 November 2010 00

Converting Doc file to Lyx

2010-11-27 Thread Frederick Noronha
email you the doc file, and really appreciate if it could be converted to Lyx.In particular, I need to retain the italicisation of the text. Thanks! FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Inserting symbols into Lyx text ⇲

2010-11-26 Thread Frederick Noronha
Dear all, I tried inserting a symbol ⇲ (arrow pointing inwards) into my lyx text, but an error message crops up, saying: "Package ucs Error: Unknown Unicode character 5690 = U+21F2. Anything I could do to sort it? Thanks in advance. FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Section, not showing up in the table-of-contents

2010-11-21 Thread Frederick Noronha
Dear all: Is there some way I could include a section (in a book) which features in the text (without a number) but also shows up in the table-of-contents? FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Suitable point size

2010-11-13 Thread Frederick Noronha
Dear all: Could someone tell me what might be a suitable point size (font, and line-space) for a general purpose, non-fiction book of 8.5inches x 5.5 inches dimensions? Assuming I'm using Palatino? Thanks, FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

New Rupee symbol

2010-11-12 Thread Frederick Noronha
Could someone kindly help me on how to insert the new Rupee symbol in a Lyx document? Thanks in advance, FN PS: It is not ₨ but http://www.labnol.org/india/indian-rupee-added-to-unicode/17919/ Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Missing chapter numbers

2010-11-08 Thread Frederick Noronha
I'm missing my chapter numbers in a book (on the chapter page and index). Could someone kindly tell me what I'm doing wrong? FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Re: Low res PDF

2010-11-07 Thread Frederick Noronha
Thanks very much Liviu, it works exactly as I wanted. Now I have a file about 1/20th the size, which I can easily email to the author. You saved me (and the environment) a 16-km trip from my village to Panjim, Goa! Drop in if you're ever in these parts. Obrigado. FN Frederick Noronha :

Re: Low res PDF

2010-11-07 Thread Frederick Noronha
a PDF file with no images, but just grey boxes in the space where images would be? Wouldn't that make things very convenient for us users? Just a suggestions, and many thanks! FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 On 8 November 2010 00:56, Liviu Andronic wrote: > O

Re: Low res PDF

2010-11-07 Thread Frederick Noronha
No, actually I just want to lower the resolution. It's 29MB and I can't send it across via Gmail. FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 On 8 November 2010 00:42, Michael Joyner wrote: > If you are trying to protect yourself, you need to use PDFTK after creation

Low res PDF

2010-11-07 Thread Frederick Noronha
Please guide me how to create a low-res PDF of a Lyx file, which I need to send to the author for approval. Thanks! FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Re: Understanding Lyx

2010-11-02 Thread Frederick Noronha
On 2 November 2010 23:15, Rob Oakes wrote: > When you say, sharable templates, what do you > mean by that (templates are just LyX documents)? Dear Rob and Jacob, My apologies for not explaining myself adequately -- I'm a content person, not technical and hence the handicap. What I was looking f

Sharing documents among different versions of Lyx

2010-11-02 Thread Frederick Noronha
Is there some tool that makes the sharing of documents among different versions of Lyx a little easier? FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Understanding Lyx

2010-11-02 Thread Frederick Noronha
Dear all: this is a note I sent to our Free Software Users' Group in Goa, India [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fsug-goa] but would like to share with you too. Thanks in advance for any tips. FN Frederick Noronha, Managing Trustee http://goa1556.goa-india.org [An alternative book publishing ve

Re: ♥ The Alvareses ... heart shaped symbols

2010-11-02 Thread Frederick Noronha
Thanks a lot. Works perfectly! FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 On 2 November 2010 15:42, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > $\varheartsuit$  The Alvareses:

♥ The Alvareses ... heart shaped symbols

2010-11-02 Thread Frederick Noronha
Dear all: I need to use glyphs like the heart symbol (below) from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(symbol) in my text: ♥ The Alvareses: Question: what encoding should I use? Unicode (UTF 8) doesn't seem to work. FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Deb for Ubunut?

2010-10-30 Thread Frederick Noronha
Could anyone tell me if a Lyx deb package exists for the distro below: Distributor ID:Ubuntu Description:Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Release:8.04 Codename:hardy Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Re: Bug?

2010-10-29 Thread Frederick Noronha
Letterine is for creating drop caps. It works fine for me, EXCEPT when there is an inverted comma in the text such as I’d told you Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 On 29 October 2010 19:35, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Frederick Noronha wrote: >> I seem to have

Bug?

2010-10-29 Thread Frederick Noronha
ed by creaking floor... Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Re: New parts of a book opening on right hand side page only?

2010-10-05 Thread Frederick Noronha
Got it, thanks! It was playing tough as long as I didn't mark it a two-sided document! FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 On 6 October 2010 02:28, Richard Heck wrote: > On 10/05/2010 04:18 PM, Frederick Noronha wrote: >> >> Is there some way I c

New parts of a book opening on right hand side page only?

2010-10-05 Thread Frederick Noronha
Is there some way I could get all the new 'parts' of a book to open on a right hand side page only? (In other words, I don't want the \openany option.) FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Re: Two queries...

2010-08-19 Thread Frederick Noronha
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Frederick Noronha wrote: * How to convert a book from 12 point to say 11.5 point with a line-space of 12.5? http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Fonts#fontsdef * How to ensure that page numbers show up on all pages (I'm currently using book memoire with companion headers

Two queries...

2010-08-19 Thread Frederick Noronha
pages). FN Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 +91-832-2409490

Re: Centering page numbers for a book

2010-08-13 Thread Frederick Noronha
Thanks Marcelo! What I mean is, if after typesetting the book, I need to remove or add pages (post printouts), then things go awry. FN Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 +91-832-2409490 2010/8/14 Marcelo Acuña : >> Is there some way I could CENTRE all the page numbers at >> the b

Widows... and orphans

2010-07-17 Thread Frederick Noronha
Is there any way to avoid widows and orphans showing up in Lyx? Thanks! FN Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 +91-832-2409490

Removing an extra page

2010-07-15 Thread Frederick Noronha
mpty}\pagebreak{}} \par\end{center}{\small \par} \noindent \begin{flushleft} {\small \frontmatter} \par\end{flushleft}{\small \par} \noindent \begin{flushleft} \emph{\small Song of Goa: Crown of Mandos}\\ \textit{\emph{\small ©}}\emph{\small{} José Pereira, Micael Martins ... Frederick Noronha

Irregular point size, line-space in Lyx

2010-07-10 Thread Frederick Noronha
Could someone tell me please how to change the point size and line-space in Lyx, to irregular figures? Say, if I want 12.5 point size on 15 point line space, how do I achieve that? Many thanks, gracias, shukriya, daanyawaad. FN Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 +91-832-2409490

Contents in header, numbers in the index

2010-06-11 Thread Frederick Noronha
in the table of contents? Thanks! FN -- - June 2010 | Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | +91-832-2409490 1 2 3 4 5 | 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | My latest photos from South India 13 14 15 16 17

Between paras

2010-06-11 Thread Frederick Noronha
Is it possible to use BOTH an indentation AND vertical space between paras? The option in Lyx settings seem to offer either/or. Is this right? Am I missing something? FN Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 +91-832-2409490

"Contents" ... header appearing over first chapter

2010-06-09 Thread Frederick Noronha
Many thanks! FN -- - June 2010 | Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | +91-832-2409490 1 2 3 4 5 | 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | My latest photos from South India 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 | http://photosfromgoa.notlong.com 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 | 27 28 29 30 | -

Ital-sticking to roman text

2010-06-08 Thread Frederick Noronha
Strange case, this never happened before to me: I'm using Palatino type with document class book (memoir). In the text, very often, the ITALICS type seems to have got stucktotheromantype! Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? FN Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 +91-832-2409490

Error msg

2010-06-08 Thread Frederick Noronha
Could someone kindly tell me what it means when I get an error message saying: File does not exist: /tmp/lyx_impdir.TJ6561/lyx_impbut0/June9.pdf FN Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 +91-832-2409490

Italics words touching non-italics

2010-06-04 Thread Frederick Noronha
Hi all: I seem to be having a problem suddenly cropping up. Italicised words are touching the non-italics words, when I view my PDF file. In Lyx it looks okay, but the words seem to touch ever so often when I view a PDF. Is there some glitch here? Am I doing something wrong? The font being us

Re: Lower-res PDFs

2010-05-21 Thread Frederick Noronha
Many thanks Uwe for all your useful tips. Wouldn't it be better for Lyx itself to allow for low-res PDF output, printable PDF output and what not? Do Acrobat and Foxit PDF Editor work with GNU/Linux? FN Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 +91-832-2409490 On 21 May 2010 06:55, Uwe Stöhr

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

Editing while spell-checking

2010-05-20 Thread Frederick Noronha
en go back. Please help if possible. FN Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 +91-832-2409490

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}}

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

Offer... for technical writing

2010-04-02 Thread Frederick Noronha
speaker level. FN -- Frederick Noronha Books from Goa :: http://goa1556.goa-india.org

Lyx... book (memoir) ... getting sections*/subsections* in the table of contents

2010-04-02 Thread Frederick Noronha
Just a query: is it possible for me to get sections* and subsections* to show up in the table of contents of a Memoir style book? I can manage with sections/subsections, but don't want any numbers to show up before these. Thanks! FN -- Frederick Noronha Books from Goa :: http://goa155

MLA style for bibliography in Lyx

2010-03-30 Thread Frederick Noronha
le to offer. FN -- Frederick Noronha Books from Goa :: http://goa1556.goa-india.org

A box... over two pages

2010-03-10 Thread Frederick Noronha
Could someone kindly help me on how to get a box continue over two pages of a book (it's too long to fit on one page). Thanks! FN

Strike-through text in Lyx

2010-03-04 Thread Frederick Noronha
How do I get strike-through text in Lyx 2.6.X please? FN -- Frederick Noronha Columnist :: journalism :: editing :: alt.publishing :: photography :: blogging P +91-832-2409490 M +91-9822122436 A:784 Saligao 403511 Goa India Please add a 'signature' below your email. Makes it easy wh

Installation on Windows

2010-02-03 Thread Frederick Noronha
Dear all: Need your help. I'm trying to install Lyx on the comps of two of my (Window-using) friends, because I need to work and transfer files with them, while editing. Somehow, my attempts to install it have so far been unsucessful. When I took the lighter version of the Windows Lyx download (a

Re: Query... adding multiple authors names to TOC

2010-01-20 Thread Frederick Noronha
Thanks so much Uwe, it works superbly! FN 2010/1/21 Uwe Stöhr : > Am 20.01.2010 21:28, schrieb Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] فريدريك > نورونيا: > >> I want to add the contributory writers' names to the table-of-contents >> of an anthology where almost every chapter

Query... adding multiple authors names to TOC

2010-01-20 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया] فريدريك نورونيا
GUAGE ... ... Alfred F. Braganza ... 147 Many thanks! Would appreciate a cc of your reply to me! FN -- Frederick Noronha Columnist :: journalism :: editing :: alt.publishing :: photography :: blogging

Chapter numbers not showing up...

2009-12-26 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया] فريدريك نورونيا
I have this in my LaTeX preamble (book Memoir), but somehow the chapter numbers won't show up at the start of each chapter. Thanks in advance for any possible help! FN \makeatletter \newcommand{\thechapterwords} { \ifcase \thechapter\or One\or Two\or Three\or Four\or Five\or Six\or Seven\or Eight

Table of contents in ALL CAPS

2009-12-25 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया] فريدريك نورونيا
Dear all: I'm using Book (Memoir) and the command \tableofcontents* Could someone please guide me on how to shift my table of contents from ALL CAPS to UpperAndLowerCase? For this, many thanks in advance... FN -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Updated: http://goabooks.wordpress.com

http:// renderings in lyx

2009-11-04 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया] فريدريك نورونيا
Guys, could you tell me if I'm doing something wrong, the http://whatever.com doesn't render when in lyx. In particuarly the // looks too far from the text. Should I use some other way of doing this? Thanks! FN -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Updated: http://goabooks.wordpress.com

Error in Lyx

2009-09-06 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
I keep getting this error while typing in long sessions in Lyx. Could you tell me what's wrong pls? FN X Error: BadGC (invalid GC parameter) 13 Major opcode: 60 (X_FreeGC) Resource id: 0x2e0160b -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Konkani adages http://konkani-adages.notlong.com/ Medie

Memoir, books... page-breaks for boxes

2009-08-31 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
I'm using (mostly) Memoire class for books, but can't seem to get my page-breaks working for long boxes (which span more than one page). Could someone help me... Thanks! FN -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Konkani adages http://konkani-adages.notlong.com/ Medieval Goa http://medieval-go

Opening up files where work had stopped

2009-08-30 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Just wanted to know if there is any way I could open Lyx software to show up the 4-5 files I was last working on simultaneously -- at the very spot where I finished editing last. Wouldn't this be helpful, specially if one works on multiple files at the same time (like me)? FN -- FN +91-9822122436

Devanagari, Unicode, Latex

2009-08-15 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
How do I set up Unicode Devanagari to work with Latex/Lyx? Tks, FN -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Konkani adages http://konkani-adages.notlong.com/ Medieval Goa http://medieval-goa.notlong.com/

Table... within a box

2009-08-15 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
I'm trying to place a table within a box, and the settings are going awry (the table is extending the book-page, despite setting it properly). Any reason why this should happen? Tks, FN -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Konkani adages http://konkani-adages.notlong.com/ Medieval Goa http:

Lyx tip-sheets

2009-08-14 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Any good source from which to download Lyx tip sheets? Many thanks, FN -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Konkani adages http://konkani-adages.notlong.com/ Medieval Goa http://medieval-goa.notlong.com/

Re: Open recent...

2009-08-14 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Thanks Vincent. 20 is surely enough! FN 2009/8/15 Vincent van Ravesteijn > Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] schreef: > >> I would like more of my work-in-progress files to show up in the 'open >> recent' menu. Is there any way I could do this please? FN >>

Open recent...

2009-08-14 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
I would like more of my work-in-progress files to show up in the 'open recent' menu. Is there any way I could do this please? FN -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Konkani adages http://konkani-adages.notlong.com/ Medieval Goa http://medieval-goa.notlong.com/

More ... on Chapter styles for Lyx

2009-08-12 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Just to share... I found some good chapter styles for Lyx here, but am still finding some challenges in adapting them: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX FN -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Konkani adages http://konkani-adages.notlong.com/ Medieval Goa http://medieval-goa.notlong.

Chapter styles...

2009-08-11 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Could someone tell me where I could find more chapter styles for a book? I mean something like http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html Many thanks in advance. FN -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Konkani adages http://konkani-adages.notlong.com/ Medieval Goa http://medie

Reducing font-size in non-standard options

2009-07-25 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Could someone please tell me how to reduce the font-size of a chapter in non-standard options? That is, I don't want to reduce it from Normal to Small to Smaller but say from 10 point to 9.5 point or 9.3 point for the entire chapter. Thanks! FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://

\thispagestyle{empty}

2009-07-14 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Please could someone tell me how I insert \thispagestyle{empty} at the start of a new 'part' for a book? Can't seem to manage, though it works fine on a new-chapter page. FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/fn http://fredericknoronha.multiply.com/ http://goa1556.go

Devanagari...

2009-07-14 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Sorry for raising such an elementary question... how do I typeset a page in Devanagari for Lyx? Thanks in advance. FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/fn M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://fredericknoronha.multiply.com/ http://goa1556.goa-india.org "Ever wond

Contents page titled as "Contents page"

2009-07-05 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
My contents page shows up as follows: Contents Contentsiii Chapter 1 1 And so on. Obviously I don't want the Contents to be treated as a chapter title. How do I avoid this? FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/fn M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2

Hyperlinks... at the index

2009-07-03 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Please could someone tell me how to remove the hyperlinks in the index of a book I've just set in Lyx? Thanks in advance for all the help (past too!) FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/fn M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://fredericknoronha.multiply.com/ http

Avoiding page numbers on the starting page of every chapter...

2009-07-01 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Please could you tell me how to attain this: Avoid page numbers on the starting page of every chapter. And also stops after Part I, Part II and Part III. FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/fn M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://fredericknoronha.multiply.com/

Suppressing pagination (page numbers) on pages where the chapter starts

2009-06-19 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Could anyone guide me how I could suppress page numbers on the start of every chapter page? Thanks, FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/fn M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://fredericknoronha.multiply.com/ http://goa1556.goa-india.org "Never trust a computer y

Chapter styles...

2009-05-02 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Could someone point me to any Latex chapter styles, like the ones below, which I find vey useful in creating books: http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html Thanks in advance! FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/fn M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409

Query about formatting reverse-line text

2009-05-02 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Dear all on this very helpful Lyx list: I'm trying to format some information with alternative lines reverse, as follows: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/3495151790/sizes/o/ The above was done in Inkscape, since I couldn't get the desired result in Lyx (don't know coding). Could anyone help i

Zapf dingbats

2009-03-06 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Is there some way to use Zapf dingbats in a Lyx file? Thanks in advance... FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://twitter.com/fn On Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/people/Frederick-Noronha/502514643 "Any sufficiently advanced techn

Query on new-chapters-not-on-new-page

2009-03-06 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
fn On Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/people/Frederick-Noronha/502514643 "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius

Something like a LaTeX cheat sheet: Re: Navigate > Other Lists

2009-03-06 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
ook: http://www.new.facebook.com/people/Frederick-Noronha/502514643 "We ought never to do wrong when people are looking." - Mark Twain

Sample chapter ... Was: Re: Navigate > Other Lists

2009-03-06 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
ll for me: http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://twitter.com/fn On Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/people/Frederick-Noronha/502514643 "Never miss a good chance to shut up." - Will Rogers

Navigate > Other Lists

2009-03-05 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
N * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://twitter.com/fn On Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/people/Frederick-Noronha/502514643 "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." - Henry Ford

Re: Linking Lyx text to external file

2009-02-11 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
: > Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote: >> >> Is there some way I could link a Lyx text to an external file (say, in >> Jstar or any Linux wordprocessor) so that when I make changes in the >> file the Lyx text gets automatically updated? Or am I asking for too >&

Linking Lyx text to external file

2009-02-11 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
-2409490 http://twitter.com/fn On Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/people/Frederick-Noronha/502514643

Typesetting verse

2009-02-05 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
What's the best way to typeset a poem or two? And how does one attain the spacing needed between lines? Thanks so much, FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://twitter.com/fn

TOC not picking up chapter names

2009-02-04 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
I'm working ona book (document class: book), but suddenly my Chapter* titles won't show up in the table of contents. It works fine if I switch to Chapter (with the chapter numbers). But that's not what I want. Could I correct this somehow? Thanks, FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.co

Book (AMS), quote* getting indented

2009-01-19 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Hi all: I'm trying to use Book (AMS) class, and in it, the quote* text seems to be getting indented at the start of every new para. Actually I don't want the indent, because I've not implemented it throughout in the book. Question: how do I achieve this? Many thanks! FN -- FN * Independent Jou

Chapter styles...

2009-01-19 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
My friend Derek sent me this note about how to introduce interesting chapter-styles in a page. Just thought of sharing it with you, and thank the guys (from France?) who put this together! FN -- Forwarded message -- From: Derek CORDEIRO Date: 2009/1/5 Subject: Chapter styles To: "

Change tracking ... in Lyx

2009-01-04 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
What's the way to track changes made in a Lyx document? I know there's a patch for earlier versions http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChangeTrackingLyx1-3-2 but is there something now for 1.6.1? Thanks, FN -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org M: +91-9822122436 P: +91-832-2409490

1.6.1

2009-01-04 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
Just shifted to Lyx 1.6.1 today and it's very nice! I particularly liked its superior NAVIGATE functions, that allows you to reach to specific footnotes, etc. Thanks guys and ladies, who worked on it! FN http://goa1556.goa-india.org -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org Blog: http

Photos for offset printing

2008-11-30 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
Sorry to raise what might be an off-topic query here. Is there any tutorial (Lyx- or Free Software-connected) tutorial on how to prepare your photos for offset printing? Many thanks. FN -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org M: +91-9822122436 P: +91-832-2409490

Halftones

2008-11-29 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
Sorry about not phrasing my question adequately, but this is what I meant to say earlier: To print in offset, my B&W photos need to be in halftones, if I am to output it properly on a Lyx file, made into PDF. Please could you tell me how to convert my images into halftones? What is the best forma

Fwd: [Tugindia] Query on printing with 'screens'

2008-11-18 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
v 17, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Nina Mazumdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all: >> >> I'm a Lyx user in Goa, and hope you won't mind me intruding. >> >&

Query on printing with 'screens'

2008-11-17 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
Hi all: I'm a Lyx user in Goa, and hope you won't mind me intruding. Every time I go in for a book, to be printed via offset, my printer has a problem. He takes the PDF file and attempts to do crazy things like importing it into Windows/Corel Draw, etc. He says the photos won't print because the

Book (AMS) default type

2008-11-10 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
Please could someone tell me what is the default type used for Book (AMS)? I would like to include this in the publishing info of the book, but can't seem to find the name of the type. If I've hiked the default type (base) to 11, what would be the resultant linespace? Thanks! FN -- FN * Independen

Re: Spellcheck for Lyx

2008-08-12 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
Unbuntu 7.10 Lyx 1.5.1 FN 2008/8/13 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ""Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Please, could someone tell me how to install a good spellchecker for Lyx? >> I'm a non-te

Spellcheck for Lyx

2008-08-12 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
Please, could someone tell me how to install a good spellchecker for Lyx? I'm a non-techie would appreciate any help. FN PS: Used Lyx to create these books: http://books.google.com/books?q=goa1556&btnG=Search+Books Two printed and being commercially sold, the third an e-book. -- FN * Independent J

Watermark across a book?

2008-07-27 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
Is it possible to use Lyx to create a 'watermark' across all the pages of a book -- say, something in grey to read 'Unedited Rough Draft'? I've seen this on another draft copy of a book (not done in Lyx) and was wondering if similar capabilities existed here. Just need to use this while submitting

Watermark across a book?

2008-07-27 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
Is it possible to use Lyx to create a 'watermark' across all the pages of a book -- say, something in grey to read 'Unedited Rough Draft'? I've seen this on another draft copy of a book (not done in Lyx) and was wondering if similar capabilities existed here. Just need to use this while submitting

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