Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.

2007-06-14 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader > > called PDF-Viewer > > http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download > (Windows > > only I believe) > > > > I gave i

Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.

2007-06-14 Thread John Kane
Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader called PDF-Viewer http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download (Windows only I believe) I gave it a try and it is very nice, far superior to Acrobat reader. However with both installed and PDF-Viewer as default I find that LyX does not create a pdf

Re: Installing lettrine.sty - corrupt remote site/

2007-06-12 Thread John Kane
Whewww, thanks --- Julio Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nope, the remote site is the selected repository. > > On 6/12/07, John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Something tells me that this > > > http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/Ly

Installing lettrine.sty - corrupt remote site/

2007-06-12 Thread John Kane
Something tells me that this http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/corrupt.lettine.jpg is not a good sign. Is my computer the remote site? Using 1.4.3-5 on Windows XP Get news delivered with the All new Yahoo! Mail. Enjoy RSS feeds right on your Mail page. Start today at http://mrd.mail

Re: Fully contained lyx + miktex distribution!

2007-05-22 Thread John Pye
These issues relating to single-file installers just keep coming up repeatedly across different unix/linux originated projects that are being ported to Windows. Off the top of my head: GIMP, Inkscape, MinGW, LyX,GAIM, K-3D, and scipy. The problem is that each project tackles the problem in isolati

Re: Fully contained lyx + miktex distribution!

2007-05-21 Thread John Kane
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > >> Therefore, I suggest that there is a big lyx > distribution in the form > >> of a single zip-file or CD .iso that contains > really everything - > >> MikTex (everything) + Lyx + pdf viewer + etc. > > > > Note that nei

Lyx export to OpenOffice.org

2007-05-20 Thread John Kane
I noticed that there is an export option for LyX to OOo Writer. I gave it a try and Lyx seemed to do something but I don't see any output file. Am I missing something here? I tried a TeX export on the same document and it seemed to work fine. Thanks Be smarter than spam. See how smart

Re: copying spreadsheet data into Lyx

2007-05-20 Thread John Kane
--- Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > How can spreadsheet data be copying into LyX > quickly? > I can't get Open Office or Gnumeric to do this > easily. > Surely there must be a better way than one cell at a > time? > cheers > Russel Have a look at calc2latex at http://calc2latex.s

Re: copying spreadsheet data into Lyx

2007-05-20 Thread John Kane
--- Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > How can spreadsheet data be copying into LyX > quickly? > I can't get Open Office or Gnumeric to do this > easily. > Surely there must be a better way than one cell at a > time? > cheers > Russell I suspect that there are better ways but try ht

texvc & lyx

2007-05-20 Thread John Pye
Hi all I just wanted to pass this on in case noone knew. Mediawiki, the software behind Wikipedia, comes with a little program called 'texvc' that just might be of some use in LyX. This program AFAICT includes a latex math parser and can give useful feedback about syntax errors. It also deals with

'Algorithm' float in a multiple-file document

2007-05-19 Thread John Pye
b][\color{darkgreen}]", morecomment=[s][\color{darkgreen}]{\{}{\}}, } \lstnewenvironment{ascend} {\lstset{basicstyle=\ttfamily\small, keywordstyle=\color{darkred}}} {} --8<- -- John Pye Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia http://pye.dyndns.org/

Re: LyX beta 2.0 on Mac

2007-05-19 Thread John Kane
--- Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 18, 2007, at 8:45 PM, John Kane wrote: > > > > > --- Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On May 18, 2007, at 7:23 PM, John Kane wrote: > >> > >>> --- "A. Scot

Re: LyX beta 2.0 on Mac

2007-05-18 Thread John Kane
--- Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 18, 2007, at 7:23 PM, John Kane wrote: > > > --- "A. Scottedward Hodel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >> I want to echo the praise for LyX given earlier. > I > >> I&#

Re: LyX beta 2.0 on Mac

2007-05-18 Thread John Kane
--- "A. Scottedward Hodel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to echo the praise for LyX given earlier. I > I've used LyX in > lecture and they are impressed with the quick entry > of equations, > promptly followed by a legible on-screen preview of > the equations. > It's a wonderful t

Re: Beamer questions

2007-05-08 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On 5/8/07, Myriam Abramson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (1) Can we have a logo on the top instead of at the bottom as seems to be the default with \logo? A theme which does this is the uoregon theme: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~peter/uotheme/ -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD S

Re: downsampling in pdflatex output?

2007-05-04 Thread John Pye
Helge Hafting wrote: > John Pye wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I would like to know if there's a way I can easily downsample (or >> 'degrade') images in my LyX document when creating output using >> pdflatex. I have a mix of PNGs, PDFs, EPS and JPG in my do

Re: Multiple document cross-reference problems?

2007-05-04 Thread John Pye
t; I suggest that, as Helge suggested, you create a master document that contains 'Input' tags for the two subdocuments. Then create your PDF by calling pdflatex on the master document. Then, if you really want to split the resulting sngle document back into separate PDFs, use 'pdf

downsampling in pdflatex output?

2007-05-04 Thread John Pye
Hi all I would like to know if there's a way I can easily downsample (or 'degrade') images in my LyX document when creating output using pdflatex. I have a mix of PNGs, PDFs, EPS and JPG in my document, but my PDF file is starting to become large and I'm sure there must be some too-high resolution

Re: My LyX seems broken

2007-04-14 Thread John B. Egger
ul to you. Very slight... but here it is. -- --John Registered Linux User #291592

Re: Table of Contents formatting

2007-04-10 Thread John Hughes
With the help of your example, I now understand the documentation much better! Thanks! John From: Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: John Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,LyX Subject: Re: Table of Contents formatting Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:03:58 -0600 On 4/3/07 7:05 AM,

Getting an rpm of lyx 1.4.4 to install

2007-04-06 Thread Dalton, John L \(John\)
Hello, I am trying to install lyx1.4.4 on a redhat enterprise 4 ws - workstation. I got it down to one dependencies: # rpm -ivh lyx-1.4.4-1.el4.i386.rpm warning: lyx-1.4.4-1.el4.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID ff6382fa error: Failed dependencies: lyx-frontend = 1.4.4 is needed

Re: Citing websites?

2007-04-04 Thread John Pye
ckage[bookmarks]{hyperref} \usepackage{lmodern} * *Does that mean I am using hyperref already? > BibLaTeX will handle this much better. Will BibLaTex work with my current tools like Jabref etc, or is it a whole separate thing? Cheers JP -- John Pye Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia http://pye.dyndns.org/

Citing websites?

2007-04-04 Thread John Pye
't managed to work it out so far, and I don't know if it's a lack in Jabref or LyX or what. Cheers JP -- John Pye Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia http://pye.dyndns.org/

Re: Table of Contents formatting

2007-04-03 Thread John Hughes
From: Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: John Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,LyX Subject: Re: Table of Contents formatting Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:18:44 -0600 On 4/2/07 9:48 AM, "John Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By default, the highest level entri

Table of Contents formatting

2007-04-02 Thread John Hughes
to match? Thanks John _ Solve the Conspiracy and win fantastic prizes. http://www.theconspiracygame.co.uk/

Re: Bounding box on OpenOffice PDFs

2007-03-31 Thread John Pye
FAICT. I can send a sample file if you wish. JP Paul Smith wrote: > On 3/31/07, John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all >> >> Any time I export a 'Draw' page from OpenOffice as a PDF, and then try >> to import it with LyX, LyX fails to correctly fin

Bounding box on OpenOffice PDFs

2007-03-30 Thread John Pye
unding box? Have other people seen this? I'm using LyX 1.4.3 on Ubuntu 6.10. FWIW I saw this thread and it seems it might also be a problem with 1.4.4. http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg54249.html Cheers JP -- John Pye Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Enginee

Re: Embedding highlighed external source code files in a LyX document

2007-03-29 Thread John Pye
Do both of these approaches work OK with producing sane-looking HTML as well as PDFs? Are then any examples of output from your 'highlight' approach, Gunnar? Cheers JP Gunnar Lindholm wrote: >> I know that this has 'been done' but I'm not sure how to go about it >> myself. I would like to link t

Re: Embedding highlighed external source code files in a LyX document

2007-03-29 Thread John Pye
Hi Daniel Where and how do I get this 'listings' package? I looked on the LyX homepage and on the Wiki but couldn't find it. The 'highlight' approach from Gunnar Lindholm is quite separate though, right -- no connection at all? Cheers JP Daniel Lohmann wrote: > Jo

Re: Embedding highlighed external source code files in a LyX document

2007-03-29 Thread John Pye
Gunnar Lindholm wrote: >> I know that this has 'been done' but I'm not sure how to go about it >> myself. I would like to link to an external source code file and 'pull >> it in' to my compiled document when I use pdflatex. I would like to >> apply source code highlighting, although that's not esse

Embedding highlighed external source code files in a LyX document

2007-03-28 Thread John Pye
ot essential (the language I'm using is not one that is supported by any of the tools). I worked out how to import external code, but not how to maintain a link. Do I need to use ERT? Can LyX be set to use 'highlight' on-the-fly as for graphics formats, or must I prepare the latex by

Re: Newbie question: export to tex

2007-03-28 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
and did you install from package or compile from source? -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia

Re: Lyx 1.5.0 (beta 1) "Failed to start LyX."

2007-03-24 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
In theory Crusoe supports i686 but there have been some obsure problems, and sometimes Crusoe is detected as i586. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia

Re: Ubuntu compile error

2007-03-21 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
this works better than a straight configure. Report any further problems or success. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia

Weird compositions.

2007-03-20 Thread John Coppens
able the keyboard selection, all is well, but, of course, composing doesn't work anymore at all. How can I get simply the same functionality as in other programs? I'd just like one 'explicit' compose-key. Completely confused... John

Re: Format Freeze during betas?

2007-03-20 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
;ll have to make sure that both my laptop and my desktop are running the same snapshot or risk not being able to open files on my laptop though. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia

Format Freeze during betas?

2007-03-19 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Has the 1.5.x format has been frozen? (due to the beta release) If so I might use 1.5.x a bit more. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia

Re: degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

2007-03-16 Thread John Pye
Hi Ignacio You are right -- thanks! (The sequence Compose o o worked for me; the other one didn't -- I don't have an AltGr key). But any thoughts on why this compose sequence is different from that required in GNOME programs like gnome-terminal and gedit, etc? If I have to learn different compo

Re: Utility to help with importing text?

2007-03-16 Thread John Kane
--- Tad Marko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy! > > I have a few manuscripts in convering to LyX for a > friend. They are > plain text files. Are there any utilities that can > help me with the > transformation of the double quotes to a `` and '' > format (or whatever > format I should be usin

Re: (sin asunto)

2007-03-15 Thread John Kane
--- Jorge Mario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > > i can't run my Lyx in winXP, please. > > My Lyx 1,5 works well in my office, but it does not > run in my PC, It > says to "Lyx no Started”, I can solve it? Are you trying to run LyX 1.5 on both machines? What operating system do you have at

Re: degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

2007-03-09 Thread John Pye
Helge Hafting wrote: > Are you sure you're getting a degree symbol and not a zero exponent? > Those two are different - degree is a perfect circle while the zero > exponent > is a tiny "0". > > When I type ^0 I get a zero exponent: ⁰ > Typing ALT 0 (in an xterm) gives me the degree: ° > > The degre

Re: degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

2007-03-08 Thread John Pye
Hi Michael, I'm still trying to work out what's stopping my degree symbol from showing up.. Michael Wojcik wrote: > You could probably suppress that by filtering the LyX output through > something to strip out the control characters. For example: > > lyx -dbg key 2>&1 | tr -dc '[:print:]\n' > >

Re: degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

2007-03-07 Thread John Pye
␊1.┌≤│ ␤▒⎽ ┤┼⎽▒┴␊␍ ␌␤▒┼±␊⎽. D⎺ ≤⎺┤ ┬▒┼├ ├⎺ ⎽▒┴␊ ├␤␊ ␍⎺␌┤└␊┼├ ⎺⎼ ␍␋⎽␌▒⎼␍ ├␤␊ ␌␤▒┼±␊⎽? A⎽⎽┤└␋┼± ▒┼⎽┬␊⎼ ␋⎽ &S▒┴␊ &D␋⎽␌▒⎼␍ &C▒┼␌␊┌ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:·$ Michael Wojcik wrote: > John Pye wrote: >> >> Under Ubuntu, one can use the Keyboard preferences to set up a 'Compose' >> key (I chose 'r

degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

2007-03-05 Thread John Pye
cter directly in LyX. This is ubuntu 6.10 running standard deb package LyX 1.4.3. Has anyone using Ubuntu been able to make this work correctly? Cheers JP -- John Pye Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia http://pye.dyndns.org/

Re: Bibtex question on URL references

2007-03-04 Thread John Kane
rrors. I believe he felt the system was a bit picky and arbitrary. However the format is used by about 1,000 journals and is commonly used as the basis for a lot of reports etc. And I grew up with it! > > John Kane wrote: > > I have been trying to use JabRef to handle > referen

Caption line spacing

2007-03-04 Thread John Hughes
Setting the line spacing to one half doesn't affect captions - is there a way around this? John _ MSN Hotmail is evolving – check out the new Windows Live Mail http://ideas.live.com

Bibtex question on URL references

2007-03-03 Thread John Kane
I have been trying to use JabRef to handle references. My first experiments have been fairly successful but I am wondering how people handle a URL reference. For example I have a reference to a website ( see http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/burdett2004.pdf ) and I don't see quite how to se

Re: how to pronounce LyX

2007-03-01 Thread John O'Gorman
who favoured Lick (aspirated so that the screen becomes rather moist - to quote Donald Knuth re the pronunciation of TeX) In the absence of a papal pronouncement, there will never be an authoritative answer. regards John O'Gorman > > I'd say "licks". The original name was

Re: Insering source code into LyX document

2007-03-01 Thread John Coppens
has the Listings package? John

ERT \today output format

2007-02-28 Thread John O'Gorman
oblem. If it is a teTeX problem, how do I fix it? regards John O'Gorman

Re: Lyx article on OSNews

2007-02-27 Thread John Kane
--- killermike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17373/Lyx-the-Multi-Platform-Document-Editor/ > > I wrote a quick overview of Lyx for tech news site > OSNews. I enjoyed the article and have bookmarked it for passing on to others. I was particularly struck by the

Re: mathtime font problems

2007-02-26 Thread John Hughes
Thanks, but I'm afraid I'm can't seem to find an entry for mathdesign that mentions that in the bug tracker. John From: Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: John Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: mathtime font problems Date: Mon,

Re: mathtime font problems

2007-02-26 Thread John Hughes
So am I to understand that this package should NOT work? John From: Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: LyX-Users Subject: Re: mathtime font problems Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:36:01 +0100 Bob Lounsbury schrieb: Here's a simple examp

Re: Compile warnings for 1.4.4

2007-02-23 Thread John Coppens
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:41:37 +0100 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "John" == John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> This happened after a clean install of the 1.4.4 source distro. > John> The .pch appe

Re: Compile warnings for 1.4.4

2007-02-22 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:22:12 +0100 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "John" == John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> I get similar warnings for most files compiled: g++ > John> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.

Re: LyX 1.4.4 Permission denied: 'configure.log' (FIXED)

2007-02-22 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On 2/22/07, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> "John" == John McCabe-Dansted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> I compiled lyx 1.4.4 from source in Dapper. I got the error John> below. This was fixed by moving ~/.lyx out of the way.

Re: LyX is getting... very annoying.

2007-02-21 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
asted the "\phi" symbol completely outside any math-mode environment. For consistency, I would also suggest that we replace '^'s with "\textasciicircum{}" in mboxes, just like we do in all other non-math environments. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia

mathdesign

2007-02-21 Thread John Hughes
e bold or italic are medium and upright - this includes letters in mathematical equations. Is this package supposed to work in LyX and if so, what have I done wrong? Thanks John _ Get Hotmail, News, Sport and Entertainment from MSN on

caption style

2007-02-21 Thread John Hughes
equence" errors or simply no change in the document output. Please help. John _ Get Hotmail, News, Sport and Entertainment from MSN on your mobile. http://www.msn.txt4content.com/

Lyx 1.4.4 for windows crashes

2007-02-20 Thread John Brown
Hello, I just installed 1.4.4 for windows using the Standard web installer found at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.4/lyx-144-2.exe. The installation seems to complete just fine, but when I double click on the icon it crashes with a message "lyxc.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close

Compile warnings for 1.4.4

2007-02-19 Thread John Coppens
: created and used with different settings of -fpic I'm using gcc-4.1.1, maybe that's the problem? Should I worry? I couldn't find a description of the error on google. John

LyX 1.4.4 Permission denied: 'configure.log' (FIXED)

2007-02-17 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
nfigure.py", line 759, in ? log = open(logfile, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'configure.log' if I manually run "/usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py", configure works, but does not fix ~/.lyx, so manually running configure was not enough to allow

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane schrieb: > > > > > No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I > > normally use OOo as a WP, with "smart quotes" off, > but > > I get some very badly formatted Word documents

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Kane wrote: > >> Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I > didn't > >> produce the document but a search and replace is > easy > >

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Kane wrote: > > My problem is that I am getting a ? for " (curly > > quotes) > LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, > so

MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-12 Thread John Kane
What is the current approach to importing Word documents to LyX? I don't want to do anything fancy. I have some very poorly formatted Word docs (working docs not for publication) and I have found that simply cutting and pasting the text into LyX and doing a bit of formatting can save me a lot of f

Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-11 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > >>> > >> If you have acroread32 set as the viewer for PDF > (pdflatex), that would > >> explain why View->PDF (pdflatex) now calls > Acrobat Reader. Otherwise,

Table cell coloring?

2007-02-11 Thread John Yamokoski
I'm a fairly new user to Lyx so I apologize if this answer is already answered in a document somewhere. Is it possible to fill in a cell in a table with a solid color?

Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-11 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > --- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> John Kane wrote: > > >>> Could this just be a Foxit problem? > > >> Possible but

Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-10 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > Having accidentally spammed 3,000 or so R-help > list > > readers with this message I thought I might try > > again,hopefully in the right list this time. > > Might not be spam

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread John Kane
--- Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm writing a short book called "Troubleshooting: > Just the Facts". The > intention is to make it an Ebook that can be printed > and staple bound by the > customer, if so desired. I use skip rather than > indentation to separate > parag

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-07 Thread John Coppens
X) document with all the characters you will need and open that by default. You can then copy from one document to another, which may be easier. John

Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-07 Thread John Kane
Having accidentally spammed 3,000 or so R-help list readers with this message I thought I might try again,hopefully in the right list this time. I just changed machines and, at first, could not get LyX 1.4.3-4 to even load. I tried 1.5 which loaded nicely but would not give me PDF output. Remove

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread John Coppens
had with combinations. Try things like Winkey 1 2 to get a 'half' and Winkey + - to get ±... The composition tables in my distro reside in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/include eg. compose.latin1 Rgds John

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread John Coppens
hope this works for you... It did for me for all versions of LyX, except the last one. But it seems I am an exception. John

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread John Coppens
> {e}. That seems easier to me. I've noticed that in many keyboards Ctl-. (Ctl + decimal point) is defined as the Compose character. Try to enter the è as: Ctl-. e `or reversed: Ctl-. ` e If necessary, it's possible to define another character as Compose (or, more 'modern', as MultiKey). I think this is even easier that ERT, and the character appears as such on the screen. John

Type 1 CM in LyX

2007-02-05 Thread John Hughes
When I export PDF documents from LyX for Windows (using any method), it uses the bitmap versions of the Computer Modern fonts. However, if I export a tex file to PDF through the Texmaker editor (again with Windows), it uses Type 1 Computer Modern fonts. Why is this? John

Re: cannot reqd an old lyx file

2007-02-03 Thread John Kane
--- Mouras Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > I composed several days ago a lyx file butt am not > able to read it on a > new computer running windiws vista and the new lyx > for windows. I have > attached the file. Could someone help me ? > Thnak you very much in advance, > Harold

LyX 1.3.4-4 does not load, LyX 1.5 svn loads nicely

2007-02-02 Thread John Kane
I just moved to a new (for me) computer ( 1G ram, hurray. My old one with 512K had died and I was using a clunker with 256k. Still WindowsXP but ... I had to install a lot of my personal software including LyX. I tried to install LyX 1.3.4 and first got a message that it was timing out trying

RE: [Totally New] Trying to format mathematical equations in two columns

2007-01-31 Thread John Hughes
Hi, How about using a table? You can set the column widths so that the equations are as far apart or close together as possible and the rows will always line up. Regards John From: "Steven Harms (stharms)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [T

Re: BibTeX and master documents

2007-01-31 Thread John Hughes
Putting the bibliographies in the child documents in comments suits me perfectly. Thanks - and thanks for the other suggestions. They might come in handy another time! John From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: BibTeX and master documents Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21

BibTeX and master documents

2007-01-30 Thread John Hughes
n their own chapters or a single bibliography at the end of the master document? Thanks John _ MSN Hotmail is evolving – check out the new Windows Live Mail http://ideas.live.com

Re: Removing chapter prefix

2007-01-30 Thread John Hughes
Had another look around and the following doesn't work, probably because LyX uses babel: \renewcommand{\chaptername}{} However, this does work: \AtBeginDocument{% \addto\captionsenglish{% \renewcommand{chaptername}{}% }} So that's fixed now. Thanks for the point

Removing chapter prefix

2007-01-30 Thread John Hughes
Is there an easy way of removing the word "Chapter" from chapter titles in the report and book classes? John _ MSN Hotmail is evolving – check out the new Windows Live Mail http://ideas.live.com

chapters and bibliography in separate document

2007-01-28 Thread John Yamokoski
Maybe this is asking too much, but I was wondering if it was possible to generate a separate PDF file for each chapter and bibliography. Right now I have each one of my chapters in a separate lyx file as well as a separate lyx file for the bibtex references. I know its possible to compile each sep

A question about fonts

2007-01-27 Thread John Hughes
other fonts on the system. Why is this? And can LyX use the fonts installed in Windows? Thanks John _ MSN Hotmail is evolving – check out the new Windows Live Mail http://ideas.live.com

Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX

2007-01-26 Thread John Kane
to a standard format. It was faster to have them reentered than try to figure out what all the spaces were doing (tabs were too sophisticated). At least the CV's were not in Excel which I have seen. > > On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:37 am, John Kane > wrote: > > Beats me but th

Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX

2007-01-25 Thread John Kane
--- killermike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was considering switching to OpenOffice because > of the excessive effort in > > creating/modifying styles in LyX. > > > > So as an experiment, I began making a derivative, > in OpenOffice, of a book I > > origi

Section numbers in left margin?

2007-01-25 Thread John Hughes
Is there a way of making the section (and subsection etc.) numbers appear in the left margin, so that the text of the section headings themselves are lined up with the left margin? _ MSN Hotmail is evolving – check out the new Wind

Fwd: Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX

2007-01-23 Thread John Kane
--- John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:34:36 -0500 (EST) > From: John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- Gunnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Unfor

Re: Font changes

2007-01-23 Thread John Hughes
That's a really useful preamble! I have another question: what if you just want to change the titles and headings to sans serif? John From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jürgen Spitzmüller) To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Font changes Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:25:48 +0100 Julio Rojas

Re: EPS problem

2007-01-23 Thread John Hughes
case it is "bmpsep8", while it should be "pdfwrite". In the ImageMagick installation directory, there is a "config" folder, and inside there is a delegates.xml file. Check that you have a line like this: Now I have a question. My LyX installation uses epstopdf to

Re: EPS problem

2007-01-23 Thread John Hughes
I did what you suggested and here's the output: START OF OUTPUT C:\Documents and Settings\jkh107\My Documents>convert -verbose light_data.eps li ght_data.pdf [ghostscript library] Files/gs/gs8.54/bin/gswin32c.exe" -q -dBATCH -dSAFER -dMax Bitmap=5 -dNOPAUSE -dAlignToPixels=0 "-sDEVICE

LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!

2007-01-22 Thread John M. Linebarger
I just downloaded LyX for Windows 1.4.3-5 and I get this persistent error that makes the program completely unusable. It says that no textclasses are found. So I look at the mailing list archives, which state that I should blow away my Application Data LyX directory and regenerate it. I do so

Fwd: Re: Newbie windows install problem "class scrbook is unknown"

2007-01-22 Thread John Kane
--- John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:41:57 -0500 (EST) > From: John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Newbie windows install problem "class > scrbook is unknown" > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- "Paul A.

Re: EPS problem

2007-01-22 Thread John Hughes
olás wrote: > According to the bug's explanation, .ps and .eps are converted to .pdf, > not .png. I am using v1.4.3 with Miktex 2.5 and ImageMagic 2.6.7, and my > LyX behaves as expected by John. That is, I insert .eps graphics in my LyX > document and when invoking the pdf

Re: EPS problem

2007-01-22 Thread John Hughes
From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: EPS problem Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:13:48 -0500 John Hughes wrote: 1. ImageMagick is in the command path and LyX's path prefix. 2. When I convert the EPS file to PDF using the

Re: Newbie windows install problem "class scrbook is unknown"

2007-01-21 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > > > > Just what I wanted to know since I am getting a > > warning message for hyperref when loading the LyX > > User's Guide but how do I find the MiKTeX settings >

Re: EPS problem

2007-01-21 Thread John Hughes
From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: EPS problem Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:52:24 -0500 John Hughes wrote: As far as I can tell, everything is up to date now. I have discovered that I can include EPS graphics if I export

Re: EPS problem

2007-01-20 Thread John Hughes
(or either of the other options). From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: EPS problem Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:51:37 -0500 John Hughes wrote: I'm running on WinXP with MikTeX and ImageMagick installed. Have you checked that

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