Re: Another beamer question

2005-05-12 Thread Rich Drewes
I found that unless I copied the graphic to the Lyx working directory in /tmp, the logo wouldn't end up in the presentation. My working hypothesis was that this was because the graphics package automatically put the .eps or .png on the end of the filename, Lyx didn't know what filename to put

graphic issues

2005-05-04 Thread Rich Drewes
I have a full-page size graphic for the scanned signature page that I wish to include as a page in my thesis. I place it in my lyx doc as a graphic, however the output pdf and dvi always has my image-page graphic starting at about mid page and flowing off the page to the right. Thinking that I n

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

2005-04-26 Thread Rich Drewes
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > Does anyone have any simple lyx examples for beamer to share? I just completed my thesis defense using a Lyx-generated LaTex-Beamer presentation not 20 minutes ago! Here is the lyx doc: http://www.interstice.com/drewes/brain/thesispres.lyx which gen

Re: TOC headache

2005-04-22 Thread Rich Drewes
option in the Lyx Bib widget and that fixed that problem. Thanks! Rich On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Paul Medwell wrote: > Rich Drewes wrote: > > I have a TOC that is two pages long. I must number my abstract, TOC, list > > of figures, and other frontmatter with roman numerals and t

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

2005-04-22 Thread Rich Drewes
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Ernesto Jardim wrote: > And for last, your arguments are very much depending on the use of > pybliographic. That was the best free & open source GUI bibliographic manager I had found at the time that could insert references into a Lyx doc with a click and also launch a refer

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

2005-04-21 Thread Rich Drewes
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote: > One big issue here is that such third party add-ons for Word are usually paid > their LOC in gold. (LOC?) > Another problem is the quite frequent instabillity derived > by "overloading" word with such bells and whistles. I can't tell any

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

2005-04-19 Thread Rich Drewes
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Matej Cepl wrote: > etc., where Word's instability goes into author's way. However, there are > other factors where Word's inadequacy shows up -- somebody mentioned > mathematics, I would add missing support for BibTeX Serious Word users would point to EndNote and say that to

TOC headache

2005-04-17 Thread Rich Drewes
I have a TOC that is two pages long. I must number my abstract, TOC, list of figures, and other frontmatter with roman numerals and that's working. Also, the TOC itself must appear as an entry in the TOC. Here's the problem: If I put my \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Table of Contents} bef

Re: page numbering issues

2005-04-09 Thread Rich Drewes
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Rich Drewes wrote: > It does *not* seem to work to put the ERT "\pagestyle{fancy}" or the ERT > "\pagestyle{plain}" inside the Abstract section of my Lyx doc to simply > force the first page of the Abstract to be a page style that has > numberi

page numbering issues

2005-04-09 Thread Rich Drewes
Hello all, I am trying to use Lyx for my thesis, without acquiring the LaTeX-fu skills necessary to create a custom Lyx document class. I am having a couple of problems getting the page numbering to conform to the rather odd page numbering requirements of my University. 1. I need the Abstract t