Re: Why a processing error under Windows but not Linux?

2020-03-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On 3/5/20 5:39 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 3/5/20 8:25 PM, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hi all, I have my students using LyX for their organic chemistry lab reports.  I use a pretty standard installation at home under Debian, while most of them use Windows or Mac.  One student in

Why a processing error under Windows but not Linux?

2020-03-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi all, I have my students using LyX for their organic chemistry lab reports.  I use a pretty standard installation at home under Debian, while most of them use Windows or Mac.  One student in particular tried using an example file I posted for them, added material to it, then ran into proble

Re: Trying to combine articles into one file...

2013-12-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:44:50 +0100 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Is there any way to accomplish this easily? I appreciate any > > thoughts people may have! > > http://www.ctan.org/pkg/combine > > There is no LyX layout for this class AFA

Trying to combine articles into one file...

2013-12-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hello, I'm planning to have my chemistry class create an in-house journal as a way of reporting their lab experiment results. Using the article class with a title/author/abstract/etc. seems to work well with that format, and I've successfully used psjoin and a "book" script I found online to cr

A "slash o" ?? Cannot get it...

2011-02-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Being a perfectionist, I'd love to get the name Bronsted properly spelled, with a slash through the o. Using LyX, I've inserted "\o" in ERT, but get an undefined control sequence error: ...Define a \inputencoding{latin1}{Br\onsted }\inpu

Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker

2011-01-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 22:01 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > ... > > I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults > > came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this > > ought to be a default instead of an option. > > One thing to note

Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker

2011-01-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 23:39 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > > > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > >> Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > >> > >>> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at

Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker

2011-01-20 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > > > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > >> Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > >> > >>> I'm a tad befuddled

Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker

2011-01-20 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > > > I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have > > no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) > >

getting LyX to see spellchecker

2011-01-20 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no av

Re: LyX 2.0 and framed package

2011-01-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 10:13 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > A snip of the file is attached. > > Apparently, nesting framed into quote doesn't work. It works vice versa > (nesting quote into framed). I don't think this is a LyX problem

Re: LyX 2.0 and framed package

2011-01-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 08:06 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > I'm updating my class syllabus, which has a mandatory statement which I > > normally frame as follows: > > > > \begin{framed}Students with disabilities who believe they may

Re: LyX 2.0 and framed package

2011-01-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 22:02 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... > The .dvi file *is* written out, and I can view it from the temporary > directory /tmp/lyx_tmpdir... The framed area IS framed, and all else > seems OK from a brief scan of the result. > > Any ideas what/where the

LyX 2.0 and framed package

2011-01-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm updating my class syllabus, which has a mandatory statement which I normally frame as follows: \begin{framed}Students with disabilities who believe they may need accommodations in this class are encouraged to contact Supportive Services in FACE 16, 395-4334, as soon as possible to better ensur

Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...

2010-11-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 21:07 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:43 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > > Ah. OK. Knowing that, does anyone have a suggestion for the > > > > transfor

Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...

2010-11-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:43 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Ah. OK. Knowing that, does anyone have a suggestion for the > > transformation? I thought pdf could be a "wrapper" about an eps > > figure... If so, which utility is a good one?

Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...

2010-11-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 09:50 +, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: > Kenward Vaughan earthlink.net> writes: > > > > > On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 15:31 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... > > But now something else was noticed... all my beautiful eps figures have > > been raster

Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...

2010-11-11 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 15:31 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... > Removing the XeTeX parts from the document makes it all go away. :( > > Does anyone have thoughts about this problem? One other area I perhaps > should include is the preamble. Is one of the packages incompatible

Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...

2010-11-11 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi, I've decided to give XeTeX a go as well as LyX 2.0, so have installed both on my Linux system (Debian Sid). First thing to do was to open a recent exam and change the settings to use XeTeX as the means of output, as well as the default viewer to XeTeX's pdf version. When I try to view the do

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

2010-09-09 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 16:25 +0300, Necati Demir wrote: > Hello, > > I am creating a presentation with beamer. In some slides i want to use > > 1) different theme, > 2) custom theme, > 3) no theme. > > How can i do that? If all else is the same, you might be able to generate separate pdf files

Re: Help: Newbie writing a report- Help in drawing diagrams particularly circuits

2010-07-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 07:59 -0600, Rob Oakes wrote: > Hi Bob, > > The best way to create specific types of drawings for a LyX document > is to use a program designed for that purpose (like a circuit diagram > editor) and then exporting to an appropriate image format (PDF, PNG, > JPEG, etc.). Ther

Re: why braces were automatically added to equation after I reopen Lyx file

2010-03-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 03:06 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 08.03.2010 08:16, schrieb Asm warrior: > > > I have equation like below: > > > > \begin{equation} > > ^{C}v_{B}=^{C}(^{U}V_{B})\end{equation} > > > > but when I save the lyx file, then reopen it, it became > > > > \begin{equation} > > ^{C}v_

Re: unit package

2010-01-30 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:28 +0100, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Is the package \unit for the correct setting of units (kg etc) build in in > LyX > or do I have to use ERT? I did not find it in the various menues > > Wolfgang Don't know about that, but I just recently discovered \dfrac and others

Another wishlist item?

2009-12-07 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Don't know if this has been asked before, but I'd like to be able to take my images with me... so I wondered whether there had been any thoughts about an "export to package" option which would amount to creating a subdirectory under /tmp or ~ (or whatever Windows uses) into which all referenced it

Re: Layouts for education?

2009-11-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 08:24 -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote: > I'm looking for quizzes and exams layouts. I'm presently using > AcroTex. > Depending on your requirements, standard layouts may work fine. I've always used the vanilla article form with multicol (when needed), and a few small modifica

Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?

2009-09-28 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 12:59 -0500, Les Denham wrote: > On Monday 28 September 2009 11:02:11 Kenward Vaughan wrote: > ... > > I don't know where the problem is except that perhaps the way things get > > translated from LyX to LaTeX to the pdf files gets messed up from > &g

Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?

2009-09-28 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 18:06 -0700, Phil wrote: > For me, it works only if remove option.nopsheader > > > > I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, > > paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed > > out as well. Well, part of the problem st

Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?

2009-09-27 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 17:16 -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying powerdot as a quick way to create some slides, but have a > problem of the slide being created in landscape mode but placed on > portrait paper (if that makes any sense). > > I've t

Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?

2009-09-27 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi all, I'm trying powerdot as a quick way to create some slides, but have a problem of the slide being created in landscape mode but placed on portrait paper (if that makes any sense). I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, paper=screen into the class options to no avail.

Re: Spacing between table cell contents and borders?

2009-09-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 11:20 -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any > > classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to > > center in the cells. When I get

Spacing between table cell contents and borders?

2009-09-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to center in the cells. When I get up to numbers such as 123.45 it becomes evident that the cells have a preconceived notion about how far **left** they will place

Re: [Survey] Explicit subject tag on this list

2009-09-17 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 17:52 +0200, Julio Rojas wrote: > Not a lot of people interested on the subject??? I went ahead and took the survey ("no opinion"). I wanted to point out that filtering the list is easy without such a catch. I have evolution check the recipients for "lyx-users" which snags

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 23:13 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 08:01:32PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > > OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the > > table settings which addresses this. > > In my LyX (1.6.2 o

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 22:54 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 02:54:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal > > margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size

shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be that wide on letter paper. The other way I see attacking this would be to rotate t

Re: Printing is weird... funny hash lines

2009-02-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Sorry, I don't know whether this is LyX or LaTeX. When I print out > > documents generated by LyX, I see weird marks on the paper not seen > > in the screen copy. They are horizontal, very sm

Printing is weird... funny hash lines

2009-02-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Sorry, I don't know whether this is LyX or LaTeX. When I print out documents generated by LyX, I see weird marks on the paper not seen in the screen copy. They are horizontal, very small, and seem to mark the heights of (some of) the characters on the page. Those capitals which have it are most ap

Re: okay, can't resist one more bit of "feedback"

2008-03-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 14:19 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > "He has conducted research on conditioned taste aversion, and on the > > effects of amphetamines and LSD on social behavior." > > Andre', > >A friend of mine (a psychologist in private

Re: how to insert a theorem?

2008-03-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 13:55 -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Viktor Nagy wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Sorry for this stupid question, but I can't manage inserting a theorem. ... > If you are using one of the AMS classes, just start a new paragraph, > then click the drop down list of environments (lef

Re: fun poll: your linux distro

2007-12-28 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 15:18 -0700, Bob Lounsbury wrote: > Hi, > > I was just curious what everyone is using. If you'd like to respond > that's fine, if not, just ignore the message. Also, could you include > if you're running the latest LyX 1.5.3. Thanks in advance for anyones' > input. > > Cheer

Re: Dumb LyX question (fwd)

2007-12-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 08:36 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I got the following question from a friend, any ideas? > (I'm not on Mac...) > > --- > > Thanks -- it's probably really stupid, so try not to laugh... > > When I click the pdf icon (LyX 5 but the same happens in > old

Re: Disertations on quiz questions and answers

2007-09-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 12:53 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I've created module quizzes for my Troubleshooting Course. I'd like to create > a document containing the quiz questions, answers and a disertation on why > the correct answer is correct. This document would be given to course >

Re: Faster way to access Standard, Title, Section, etc

2007-08-09 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 14:24 +0200, Daniel Janzon wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm writing quite a lot of documents in LyX and am starting to > get tired of moving the mouse to the upper left selection box > in order to select what kind of text to write (Standard, Title, > Section, LyX-Code, etc). Is ther

Re: changes are not reflected to PDF anymore

2007-07-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 12:32 +0200, Giuseppe Vitalone wrote: > Hi, I'm experiencing strange problems I didn't before. To have chages to lyx > documents reflected to PDF, I have to restart Lyx; if I don't, changes are > not reflected. What could be the matter? Thanks Do you leave the viewer open whi

Re: line break or wrapping text in tabular

2007-06-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 20:20 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I see several pages mentioning about line breaks within a tabular. > > I have tables where I have a lot of text in a cell so then the tabnle is > wider than my printed page. > > How can I get that text to wrap automatically? > > Or by m

Re: Thanks to All LyXers/developers here! Re: Orientation Problem With Output

2007-04-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 16:49 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > What gets me constantly is how helpful the people on this list are with > > questions of all levels. Sorry for using the thread, Rich, but it leapt > > to mind with

Thanks to All LyXers/developers here! Re: Orientation Problem With Output

2007-04-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 16:33 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > > Did you try adding geometry{dvips} to the preamble? It works for me (and > > the resulting file > displays in GSView 4.8 correctly). > > Paul, > >I took Uwe's suggestion and added dvips

Re: File refuses to conform to letter size...

2007-01-29 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 12:25 +, José Matos wrote: > On Monday 29 January 2007 7:37:13 am Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 20:32 -0600, Les Denham wrote: > > > On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:55, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > > Hello folks, > >

Re: File refuses to conform to letter size...

2007-01-28 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 20:32 -0600, Les Denham wrote: > On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:55, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > > I have an older LyX file for my classes which I opened for the semester, > > and cannot get the file to properly print out using US l

File refuses to conform to letter size...

2007-01-28 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hello folks, I have an older LyX file for my classes which I opened for the semester, and cannot get the file to properly print out using US letter in landscape mode. It insists on being A4. I have never had this happen before, and am frustrated because I've no clue what the issue is. I'm using

Re: texlive as support for lyx

2007-01-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 17:05 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > David L. Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:59:57 +0100 > > Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> abdelkader belahcene wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> since the new available latex on linux, will be texlive instead

Re: Happy LyXing to Everybody in 2007...

2006-12-31 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 11:21:28AM +0100, Alex wrote: > Dear LyXers, > > I am very happy that I see how LyX and its community is growing. > This is quite friendly and helpful community. > Thanks for your support in 2006. > > I wish HAPPY NEW YEAR to all the Developers, Contributers and > to every

Re: Special case of enumerate

2006-12-18 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:54:11AM +, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I am trying to get the following special case of enumerate: > > - > A1. The first item; > A2. The second item; > A3. The third item; > > Here, there is some standard text and then enume

Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

2006-12-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:01:37AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Bill Wood wrote: > > > Hi, I'm considering switching Linux distributions to Debian or Ubuntu, > > and I wanted to know what the community experience was regarding Lyx on > > either. In particular, are there any known functional

Re: Multiple Choice Tests

2006-10-07 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 04:10:35PM +0200, Christian von Lani-Fischer wrote: > Hi everybody, > > i was just wondering if there is some document class that provides > support to create multiple choice tests or if there is a trick to > create some boxes in "common" document classes, where one can

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:10:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 01:43 am, Alex wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > One student who makes her diplom about "Comparing LyX to another Word > > processors", asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. > > Hi Alex, > > I think her in

Re: Easing the editing/correction of LyX documents

2006-06-19 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:00:22PM +0100, Peter Bowyer wrote: > Hi, > > I am one of the people who cannot finds editing documents hard on > screen - I end up printing a copy and then working through it with a > pen, making changes and restructuring, and then typing the changes up. > > I didn't

Re: Enumeration/conversion issues of 1.4.1 - 1.3.x files (important exams)

2006-04-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 12:52:38AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > After some kind help from Micha and Charles, I have 1.4.1 running > > apparently smoothly (the screen still appears a bit sluggish, which I > > recall seeing in other posts

Enumeration/conversion issues of 1.4.1 - 1.3.x files (important exams)

2006-04-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
After some kind help from Micha and Charles, I have 1.4.1 running apparently smoothly (the screen still appears a bit sluggish, which I recall seeing in other posts about 1.4.1--but that's not an issue for me yet... ;-). An important problem I immediately encountered involves the way it interprets

Re: Problems with 1.4.1, from Re: LyX 1.4.1 binaries for Debian unstable

2006-04-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
inter' if you use KDE > and get the very nice Kprinter dialog. Thank you both. This worked to bring up LyL with its new interface. Yum, yum! I still have a serious problem with my files, which I need to resolve soon. The issue I had mentioned about the enumeration still exists. I will

Re: Problems with 1.4.1, from Re: LyX 1.4.1 binaries for Debian unstable

2006-04-22 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 08:04:05AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:23:07AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The Debian maintainers of LyX are not very active. I have therefore > > created unofficial i386 binaries of Ly

Problems with 1.4.1, from Re: LyX 1.4.1 binaries for Debian unstable

2006-04-22 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:23:07AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: > Hello, > > The Debian maintainers of LyX are not very active. I have therefore > created unofficial i386 binaries of LyX 1.4.1 for Debian unstable > (sid). > > You should add in your /etc/apt/sources.list the following line : >

Re: enumeration problem...

2006-03-01 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:19:51PM -0600, Mathieu Richaud wrote: > Hello all, > > What I am trying to create is the following enumerated list; > > 1. Item 1 > 2. Item 2 > 3. Item 3 > [standard text] > 4. Item 4 > 5. Item 5 > > However, Lyx reset to 1 the enumeration after the standard text. How

Re: Simplest approach to hanging indent paragraph?

2005-11-28 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:52:08AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > >What is the best advice now for LyX users who want paragraphs shaped > >like this > > > >X > > > > > > But we want to cont

Re: Heretical question?

2005-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:00:20PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Michael Wojcik wrote: > >Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > > >>> > >>Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this > >>thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I > >>assume you see some adva

Re: Excel data sheets

2005-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:06:55AM -0400, samar j. singh wrote: ... > You may find it useful to try what I do normally. I've added a few more details about the sequence I have to go through to get this to work. > 1. open your xls file with gnumeric or open office. > > 2. Select the requisite

Re: Syllabus class (LaTeX/LyX)?

2005-05-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 07:07:17AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... > http://www2.bc.cc.ca.us/kvaughan/chem11/syllabus/SpringClassSyllabus.lyx Ooops. Should have been http://www2.bc.cc.ca.us/kvaughan/chem11/SpringClassSyllabus.lyx Sorry. Kenward -- In a completely rational society,

Re: Syllabus class (LaTeX/LyX)?

2005-05-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 11:03:29AM -0700, Stefano Franchi wrote: > Is anyone here using LaTeX/LyX to produce syllaby for classes? If so, > do you use a standard class, your own producced class, or just a > template? I looked on Ctan, but could not find anything, and as I am > about to start conv

Re: Superscript Positioning

2005-03-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:13:41AM +1000, Matt Davies wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:32 -0500, Stephen Buonopane wrote: > > > > > > I would like to clearly distinguish between two sets of superscript by > > > positioning them at successive heights/offsets from the baseline. > > > > > Math mode a

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:25:42PM +0100, Nicolas Ferré wrote: > Hi, > > Some years ago, as a PhD student, I decided to learn LaTeX to be able to > write scientific stuff directly on my workstation. A few time later, I > found LyX and I am using it now for the last 5 years. > > Now that I am on

Re: latex2html doub t

2005-02-04 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:07:39PM -0800, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: > Hello, > > I have installed debian testing on my machine, I > install lyx also, my doubt what can I do in order to > make lyx to convert my lyx files to html?, because > debian does not have latex2html by default. > > can I

Re: newpage in twocolumn style

2005-01-17 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:40:24PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > >If I use newpage in twocolumn style, I do not get the following text on a > >new page, but in the right column. > > This the correct LaTeX behaviour. > > >how can I get the text on a new page? > > Use

Re: Uses for LyX

2005-01-01 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi Jack, On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 02:23:31PM -0600, Jack T. Gill wrote: > Thanks to Rich and others for their comments. > > I'm a chemist and am currently interim chair of a chemistry department at a > medium-sized, state supported university. LyX intrigues me as it seems to > offer the potential

Re: Classes or packages suitable for solutions of texts/exams

2004-10-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:16:12PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > Does somebody here know about classes or packages suitable to produce > resolutions for academic tests and exams? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul Depends on what you want. I simply use the article class to create exams,

Re: Nested enumerate in columns

2004-10-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 06:26:25PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:51:50 -0700, Kenward Vaughan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Use multicol package at the beginning of the first nested item, > > then the end of the last nested item. > >

Re: Nested enumerate in columns

2004-10-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 07:31:25AM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > Some time ago, Herbert provided here an example for me to achieve the > following enumerate environment in columns: > > (a) First item; (c) Third item; > (c) Second item; (d) Fourth item. > > Now, I am tr

Re: Newbie - Chemistry

2004-09-11 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 01:01:04PM -0500, Jack Gill wrote: > I'm a two-week newbie to Lyx. I am a chemist and am interested in using > Lyx to write papers that contain chemical structures. > > I would appreciate any pointers to resources. I used to use a LaTeX package (ochem) for drawing my stru

Re: A newbie approaches LyX

2004-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:15:38AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... > You can add a second converter to refine the HTML output. For instance > I have one defined for "HTML2" which has the following: > > latex2html -no_navigation -no_subdir -split 0 -show_section_numbers $$

Re: A newbie approaches LyX

2004-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 10:37:01AM -0400, Colin J. Williams wrote: > Uwe St?hr wrote: ... > I have three problems with LyX all, I suspect, because I don't know ^ I count four. ;-) I can address two of those. :( > where to look in the docs. ... >2. Produce HTML from the

Re: References

2004-06-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
less bloated file. > Am Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2004 22:02 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > > I'm not sure exactly what you are thinking about--it struck me that you > > might mean inserting a marker for every chapter (for example) in order > > to reference one in the middle somewhere??

Re: References

2004-06-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 06:00:54PM +0200, Roland Schmitz wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to insert a cross reference to a chapter, section or > subsection, or even to a figure, without inserting a marker for every > heading? I'm not sure exactly what you are thinking about--it struck me that yo

Re: Paragraph Alignment

2004-03-04 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:43:12AM -0700, Tim J. Garrett wrote: > Hi, > Is there anyone who know how to apply a single paragraph alignment > elegantly to an entire document, or better yet everythings that is > "Standard" (i.e. not caption or abstract) in the text body? Doing things > paragraph b

[kay_jay@earthlink.net: Re: Postscript or PDF --> html?]

2004-02-01 Thread Kenward Vaughan
- Forwarded message from Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Postscript or PDF --> html? On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 11:32:36PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > I have a Postscript document. It w

Re: [announce] final version of LyX/mathed documentation available

2004-01-31 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:45:01PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Go for it. The natives will correct it if they are sufficiently annoyed > | by the abuse of their[1] language. > > Here, here > > (or is it hair, hair?) Annoyed? U bet I notis

Re: Ugly pdf fonts

2004-01-19 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:23:04AM +0100, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: ... > You'll find lots of information in the tug faq: > http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-binhttp://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?keyword=fonts/texfaq2html?keyword=fonts ... It seems that trimming the above to http://www.tex

Re: Switching from the Math panel window to the document window

2003-12-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:27:10PM +0100, G?nter Milde wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:38:30AM +0100, G?nter Milde wrote: > > > > > This works nice for often used symbols or the ones with (almost) > > > non-ambiguous names (\alpha...\omega, but not \varphi) > > > > H

Re: Tables with columns with the same width

2003-11-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:09:48PM +, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I would like to know how to set the columns having the same width. > Could somebody here please help me? Column widths are set by using the right mouse button over any one you wish to fix. A dialog will appear, with the wi

Re: integrate source code snippets (verbatim text?) into document

2003-11-19 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:02:05PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > I'd like to put short source code snippets (from 1 to 10 lines max) > into my text, in typewriter font (I am writing a coding styleguide). > I tried to just tweak the font settings but was not happy with it > becaus

Re: question

2003-11-03 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:53:10PM +0100, Orlando Alejo Mendez wrote: > does anybody know why my speller doesn't work? I have Lyx v. 1.1.6 fix > 4. and every time I invoke the spell checking, I got -after 1/2 minute- > the following message: > "the ispell process has died for some reason" -se

Re: Reports in Lyx - Quote vs quotation

2003-08-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 11:37:20PM +0200, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: > I am working on a report in LyX (v. 1.3.2). What is the difference between > "quote" and "quotation"? Try 'em both on a selection. See what the output is like. :-) Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of u

small request--default "yes" to print command?

2003-06-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Is there a way I can fix a default file somewhere which would allow me to call up the print command and have it print automatically on entering an Enter? I'm trying to keep my fingers on the keyboard, and a "few thousand" tabs later doesn't fit ease-of-use. (Why would I call up the print command

Re: input of chemical formula's

2003-06-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:50:44PM +0200, Martijn Brouwer wrote: > Is there an alternative to mathmode to insert chemical formulas like > $C_6H_{12}O_6$. In Herberts help pages I found a few tips about chemical > drawings, but not about this issue. I am aware of none. Actually, after I had used m

Re: toggled printing for instructor version

2003-06-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:02:52PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > > I am interested in feature where I can select content and flag it so it > > > will only be printed (exported) as needed. ... > > I just tried chan

Re: toggled printing for instructor version

2003-06-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:14:52AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I am interested in feature where I can select content and flag it so it > will only be printed (exported) as needed. > > For example, a single document could contain a book or handout for > students and the teacher, but the instruct

Re: problems with math formulae in 1.3.1 (xforms)

2003-04-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:57:13PM +, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:14:22PM +0100, John Levon wrote: ... > >> > Has the input for math changed that much from 1.

Re: problems with math formulae in 1.3.1 (xforms)

2003-04-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:14:22PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:09:11AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... > > Some additional information: if I try the sequence below at the beginning > > of a document, it flat out fails with 6 errors about things like miss

Re: problems with math formulae in 1.3.1 (xforms)

2003-04-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:00:34PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > I apologize if this has been reported, but my time is limited and I can't > track all the messages which flow through this list... :) I'm now using I hope this comment didn't bother people (I don't knpow

problems with math formulae in 1.3.1 (xforms)

2003-03-31 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I apologize if this has been reported, but my time is limited and I can't track all the messages which flow through this list... :) I'm now using 1.3.1 with my documents and have discovered that writing a chemical formula in my usaul fashion totally screws up paragraph formatting. For example, to

Re: compiling 1.3.1 qt on Debian Sid fails. Which qt libs?

2003-03-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:42:49PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:18:36PM +, John Levon wrote: ... > > /tmp/cckDVC0f.o(.text+0x17): In function `main': > > : undefined reference to `QString::QString[in-charge](char const*)' > > > > > > You're using the wrong compiler

Re: compiling 1.3.1 qt on Debian Sid fails. Which qt libs?

2003-03-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Sorry. Forgot the config.log. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest

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