RE: photographs: what format to use for b/w printing via lyx?

2010-01-25 Thread Richard Brown
Thanks for that encouraging reply, Rob. Can I ask a quick supplementary? I have colour jpgs, not particularly high res but neither are they poor. And I'm making a pdf for submission to a printer, to be printed in b/w. The jpgs are atthe moment much bigger than I need: I'll have to scale them to

RE: photographs: what format to use for b/w printing via lyx?

2010-01-25 Thread Richard Brown
Thanks, Rob. That was very clear and helpful! Richard On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 13:12 -0700, Rob Oakes wrote: > Hi Richard, > > << Can I ask a quick supplementary? >> > > Of course. > > << The jpgs are at the moment much bigger than I need: I'll have to scale > them to about 40%. Should I

Komascript book headers question

2010-01-22 Thread Richard Brown
Hello again. Is it possible to edit the contents of \leftmark so that they contain the chapter name but not the chapter number, and of \rightmark so that the inverse is true? Or would there be a better solution to my issue, which is how to print (in the header on my Komascript bnook class doc)

in Koma script book: how to put pages before the title page

2010-01-22 Thread Richard Brown
I don't seem to be able to do this. If I put a \frontmatter command in before my title, anything longer than five words produces a compile error. What am I missing? TIA Richard

Re: in Koma script book: how to put pages before the title page

2010-01-22 Thread Richard Brown
On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 07:01 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: You can try one line before your title. Type \frontmatter in red box [Enter] then your title in Title environment. Thanks for the reply, Waluyo. I had managed to do this: but I am unable to put more than one line before the title

Re: Komascript book headers question

2010-01-22 Thread Richard Brown
On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 06:56 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: You can control the headings by using package fancyhdr. Thanks: however, I have been trying to use scrpage2 since the komascript documentation says that it has a greater compatibility (with komascript) than fancyhdr. With

Komascript book headers question

2010-01-22 Thread Richard Brown
Hello again. Is it possible to edit the contents of \leftmark so that they contain the chapter name but not the chapter number, and of \rightmark so that the inverse is true? Or would there be a better solution to my issue, which is how to print (in the header on my Komascript bnook class doc)

in Koma script book: how to put pages before the title page

2010-01-22 Thread Richard Brown
I don't seem to be able to do this. If I put a \frontmatter command in before my title, anything longer than five words produces a compile error. What am I missing? TIA Richard

Re: in Koma script book: how to put pages before the title page

2010-01-22 Thread Richard Brown
On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 07:01 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: You can try one line before your title. Type \frontmatter in red box [Enter] then your title in Title environment. Thanks for the reply, Waluyo. I had managed to do this: but I am unable to put more than one line before the title

Re: Komascript book headers question

2010-01-22 Thread Richard Brown
On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 06:56 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: You can control the headings by using package fancyhdr. Thanks: however, I have been trying to use scrpage2 since the komascript documentation says that it has a greater compatibility (with komascript) than fancyhdr. With

Komascript book headers question

2010-01-22 Thread Richard Brown
Hello again. Is it possible to edit the contents of \leftmark so that they contain the chapter name but not the chapter number, and of \rightmark so that the inverse is true? Or would there be a better solution to my issue, which is how to print (in the header on my Komascript bnook class doc)

in Koma script book: how to put pages before the title page

2010-01-22 Thread Richard Brown
I don't seem to be able to do this. If I put a \frontmatter command in before my title, anything longer than five words produces a compile error. What am I missing? TIA Richard

Re: in Koma script book: how to put pages before the title page

2010-01-22 Thread Richard Brown
On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 07:01 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: > You can try one line before your title. Type \frontmatter in red box > [Enter] then your title in Title environment. Thanks for the reply, Waluyo. I had managed to do this: but I am unable to put more than one line before the title

Re: Komascript book headers question

2010-01-22 Thread Richard Brown
On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 06:56 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: > You can control the headings by using package fancyhdr. Thanks: however, I have been trying to use scrpage2 since the komascript documentation says that it has a greater compatibility (with komascript) than fancyhdr. With

Re: KOMA script book chapter headings

2010-01-19 Thread Richard Brown
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 13:09 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Hmm, what is your document class, what version of KOMA-script? The document class is BOOK (Koma script) and the version of Koma script is the default I have with my installation of Lyx 1.5.3. The following info is cut-and-pasted from the Latex

Re: KOMA script book chapter headings

2010-01-19 Thread Richard Brown
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 13:09 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Hmm, what is your document class, what version of KOMA-script? The document class is BOOK (Koma script) and the version of Koma script is the default I have with my installation of Lyx 1.5.3. The following info is cut-and-pasted from the Latex

Re: KOMA script book chapter headings

2010-01-19 Thread Richard Brown
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 13:09 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Hmm, what is your document class, what version of KOMA-script? The document class is BOOK (Koma script) and the version of Koma script is the default I have with my installation of Lyx 1.5.3. The following info is cut-and-pasted from the Latex

White pages after some chapters using KOMA script book

2010-01-15 Thread Richard Brown
Hello again. I'm struggling still, though I can now see some progress... But my problem now is that I have an unwanted empty white page after some, but not all, chapters. I can't see any logic as to why, either in my input ms or in the output dvi. What should I be looking for, anfd how can I

Making only one page landscape while the rest is portrait

2010-01-15 Thread Richard Brown
Hello yet again. I have a big table in my ms, which can only fit on the page if I put it in landscape mode. How do I do this for just one page, leaving the rest as portrait which is fine? I'm using Koma script Book and the table was generated by using insert float table Thanks again. Richard

Re: Making only one page landscape while the rest is portrait

2010-01-15 Thread Richard Brown
an environment (\begin{landscape}..\end{landscape}. Content in between is rotated, but headers and footers are left as per normal. I have used this with a rotated supertabular which stetched over a few pages. Don't know whether lyX can implement. may need some ERT 2010/1/15 Richard Brown rich

White pages after some chapters using KOMA script book

2010-01-15 Thread Richard Brown
Hello again. I'm struggling still, though I can now see some progress... But my problem now is that I have an unwanted empty white page after some, but not all, chapters. I can't see any logic as to why, either in my input ms or in the output dvi. What should I be looking for, anfd how can I

Making only one page landscape while the rest is portrait

2010-01-15 Thread Richard Brown
Hello yet again. I have a big table in my ms, which can only fit on the page if I put it in landscape mode. How do I do this for just one page, leaving the rest as portrait which is fine? I'm using Koma script Book and the table was generated by using insert float table Thanks again. Richard

Re: Making only one page landscape while the rest is portrait

2010-01-15 Thread Richard Brown
an environment (\begin{landscape}..\end{landscape}. Content in between is rotated, but headers and footers are left as per normal. I have used this with a rotated supertabular which stetched over a few pages. Don't know whether lyX can implement. may need some ERT 2010/1/15 Richard Brown rich

White pages after some chapters using KOMA script book

2010-01-15 Thread Richard Brown
Hello again. I'm struggling still, though I can now see some progress... But my problem now is that I have an unwanted empty white page after some, but not all, chapters. I can't see any logic as to why, either in my input ms or in the output dvi. What should I be looking for, anfd how can I

Making only one page landscape while the rest is portrait

2010-01-15 Thread Richard Brown
Hello yet again. I have a big table in my ms, which can only fit on the page if I put it in landscape mode. How do I do this for just one page, leaving the rest as portrait which is fine? I'm using Koma script Book and the table was generated by using insert > float > table Thanks again.

Re: Making only one page landscape while the rest is portrait

2010-01-15 Thread Richard Brown
r lyX can implement. may need some ERT > > > > 2010/1/15 Richard Brown <rich...@guidedelearning.com>: > >> Hello yet again. > >> > >> I have a big table in my ms, which can only fit on the page if I put it > >> in landscape mode. How do I do th

KOMA script book chapter headings

2010-01-14 Thread Richard Brown
In the koma script book documentation I (a pure newby) find these instructions: With the standard classes book and report a chapter title consists of a line with the word “Chapter”1 followed by the chapter number. The title itself s set left-justified on the following lines. The same

KOMA script book chapter headings

2010-01-14 Thread Richard Brown
In the koma script book documentation I (a pure newby) find these instructions: With the standard classes book and report a chapter title consists of a line with the word “Chapter”1 followed by the chapter number. The title itself s set left-justified on the following lines. The same

KOMA script book chapter headings

2010-01-14 Thread Richard Brown
In the koma script book documentation I (a pure newby) find these instructions: With the standard classes book and report a chapter title consists of a line with the word “Chapter”1 followed by the chapter number. The title itself s set left-justified on the following lines. The same

hyphenation in Italian, again

2009-12-15 Thread Richard Brown
, assuming I've got the right ones, I find big unfriendly warnings that nothing should be changed. It's rather worrying, and I have -don't we all?- imminent deadlines! Thanks enormously, and in advance. I'm running Lyx 1.5.3 on ubuntu linux 8.04 Richard Richard Brown ..

Re: hyphenation in Italian, again

2009-12-15 Thread Richard Brown
this helps. - Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Richard Brown gines...@omnilog.com wrote: Looking at www.MikTeX.org it seems miktex- which I don't have on my system as far as I can tell- is a windows

hyphenation in Italian, again

2009-12-15 Thread Richard Brown
, assuming I've got the right ones, I find big unfriendly warnings that nothing should be changed. It's rather worrying, and I have -don't we all?- imminent deadlines! Thanks enormously, and in advance. I'm running Lyx 1.5.3 on ubuntu linux 8.04 Richard Richard Brown ..

Re: hyphenation in Italian, again

2009-12-15 Thread Richard Brown
this helps. - Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Richard Brown gines...@omnilog.com wrote: Looking at www.MikTeX.org it seems miktex- which I don't have on my system as far as I can tell- is a windows

hyphenation in Italian, again

2009-12-15 Thread Richard Brown
, assuming I've got the right ones, I find big unfriendly warnings that nothing should be changed. It's rather worrying, and I have -don't we all?- imminent deadlines! Thanks enormously, and in advance. I'm running Lyx 1.5.3 on ubuntu linux 8.04 Richard Richard Brown ..

Re: hyphenation in Italian, again

2009-12-15 Thread Richard Brown
l th package > "texlive-lang-italian", which loads the Italian hyphenation pattern. > > I hope this helps. > --------- > Julio Rojas > jcredbe...@gmail.com > > > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Richard Brown <g

can't remove text 'Contents' from pages between TOC and chapter 1

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Brown
Hello. In my book, I want to put a preface after the TOC and before chapter 1. But I can't work out how to eliminate the text 'Contents' that appears not only on the TOC pages (where I want it) but also in the header of the preface, where I decidedly don't. I've experimented with Book, Memoir and

can't remove text 'Contents' from pages between TOC and chapter 1

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Brown
Hello. In my book, I want to put a preface after the TOC and before chapter 1. But I can't work out how to eliminate the text 'Contents' that appears not only on the TOC pages (where I want it) but also in the header of the preface, where I decidedly don't. I've experimented with Book, Memoir and

can't remove text 'Contents' from pages between TOC and chapter 1

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Brown
Hello. In my book, I want to put a preface after the TOC and before chapter 1. But I can't work out how to eliminate the text 'Contents' that appears not only on the TOC pages (where I want it) but also in the header of the preface, where I decidedly don't. I've experimented with Book, Memoir and

Changing the order of styles in the drop down menu

2005-07-11 Thread Richard Brown
Dear Lyx people, I'm using the memoir document class for my work at the moment, but find that the three format styles that I most often use are at the very end of the drop down styles menu on the left. Is there some way to configure the list so that I can decide in which order the items appear,

numbering graphics place holders and text alignment

2005-07-11 Thread Richard Brown
I'm using the memoir document class, and I need to do the following: insert a graphic on the page, and next to the graphic write a short 2 line dialogue exchange- like this mock-up picture of dinosaur picture of dinosaur picture of dinosaur Look! Is that a brontosaurus? picture of

Re: numbering graphics place holders and text alignment

2005-07-11 Thread Richard Brown
Cur that I am, I forgot both to sign myself off, and to thank you in advance for your help! Richard Richard Brown wrote: I'm using the memoir document class, and I need to do the following: insert a graphic on the page, and next to the graphic write a short 2 line dialogue exchange- like

Changing the order of styles in the drop down menu

2005-07-11 Thread Richard Brown
Dear Lyx people, I'm using the memoir document class for my work at the moment, but find that the three format styles that I most often use are at the very end of the drop down styles menu on the left. Is there some way to configure the list so that I can decide in which order the items appear,

numbering graphics place holders and text alignment

2005-07-11 Thread Richard Brown
I'm using the memoir document class, and I need to do the following: insert a graphic on the page, and next to the graphic write a short 2 line dialogue exchange- like this mock-up picture of dinosaur picture of dinosaur picture of dinosaur Look! Is that a brontosaurus? picture of

Re: numbering graphics place holders and text alignment

2005-07-11 Thread Richard Brown
Cur that I am, I forgot both to sign myself off, and to thank you in advance for your help! Richard Richard Brown wrote: I'm using the memoir document class, and I need to do the following: insert a graphic on the page, and next to the graphic write a short 2 line dialogue exchange- like

Changing the order of styles in the drop down menu

2005-07-11 Thread Richard Brown
Dear Lyx people, I'm using the memoir document class for my work at the moment, but find that the three format styles that I most often use are at the very end of the drop down styles menu on the left. Is there some way to configure the list so that I can decide in which order the items appear,

numbering graphics place holders and text alignment

2005-07-11 Thread Richard Brown
I'm using the memoir document class, and I need to do the following: insert a graphic on the page, and next to the graphic write a short 2 line dialogue exchange- like this mock-up Look! Is that a brontosaurus? No- ir's my pet leek in pajamas. I tried with a table, but I

Re: numbering graphics place holders and text alignment

2005-07-11 Thread Richard Brown
Cur that I am, I forgot both to sign myself off, and to thank you in advance for your help! Richard Richard Brown wrote: >I'm using the memoir document class, and I need to do the following: > >insert a graphic on the page, and next to the graphic write a short 2 >line dialogue ex

Re: Still have problems with version control

2005-06-20 Thread Richard Brown
Thanks Elias! That worked, and got me a little further on. Now I have a completely different error message, which reads c: The TZ environment variable is not set; please set it to yout timezone ci aborted I get the same error even if I go to a DOS window, and do SET TZ=BST001 for my time zone,

Re: Still have problems with version control

2005-06-20 Thread Richard Brown
Thanks Elias! That worked, and got me a little further on. Now I have a completely different error message, which reads c: The TZ environment variable is not set; please set it to yout timezone ci aborted I get the same error even if I go to a DOS window, and do SET TZ=BST001 for my time zone,

Re: Still have problems with version control

2005-06-20 Thread Richard Brown
Thanks Elias! That worked, and got me a little further on. Now I have a completely different error message, which reads c: The TZ environment variable is not set; please set it to yout timezone ci aborted I get the same error even if I go to a DOS window, and do SET TZ=BST001 for my time zone,

Re: My versions won't control

2005-06-18 Thread Richard Brown
Thanks to everyone for their comments, which I have found illuminating. It seems to me that RCS would probably be sufficient for me now, as I am a single user but that CVS would cope with future developments if my colleagues also adopt Lyx. So I'd go for RCS now, if I could find any information on

Still have problems with version control

2005-06-18 Thread Richard Brown
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions about version control. I still can't seem to get it to work. I am working with winXP. I have the RCS files from Purdue, have unzipped them and have put them in a directory (C:\lyx\RCS) which I have also added to the PATH variable. (There is no install,

Re: My versions won't control

2005-06-18 Thread Richard Brown
Thanks to everyone for their comments, which I have found illuminating. It seems to me that RCS would probably be sufficient for me now, as I am a single user but that CVS would cope with future developments if my colleagues also adopt Lyx. So I'd go for RCS now, if I could find any information on

Still have problems with version control

2005-06-18 Thread Richard Brown
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions about version control. I still can't seem to get it to work. I am working with winXP. I have the RCS files from Purdue, have unzipped them and have put them in a directory (C:\lyx\RCS) which I have also added to the PATH variable. (There is no install,

Re: My versions won't control

2005-06-18 Thread Richard Brown
Thanks to everyone for their comments, which I have found illuminating. It seems to me that RCS would probably be sufficient for me now, as I am a single user but that CVS would cope with future developments if my colleagues also adopt Lyx. So I'd go for RCS now, if I could find any information on

Still have problems with version control

2005-06-18 Thread Richard Brown
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions about version control. I still can't seem to get it to work. I am working with winXP. I have the RCS files from Purdue, have unzipped them and have put them in a directory (C:\lyx\RCS) which I have also added to the PATH variable. (There is no install,

My versions won't control

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Brown
Hello Lyx people, It's me with a stupid question again. Comes of being an advanced idiot, but also of wanting to learn. I'd like to be able to do version control of my Lyx files running on Win XP; but I find the manual etc less than clear. I found a page on the web which said quote

My versions won't control

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Brown
Hello Lyx people, It's me with a stupid question again. Comes of being an advanced idiot, but also of wanting to learn. I'd like to be able to do version control of my Lyx files running on Win XP; but I find the manual etc less than clear. I found a page on the web which said quote

My versions won't control

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Brown
Hello Lyx people, It's me with a stupid question again. Comes of being an advanced idiot, but also of wanting to learn. I'd like to be able to do version control of my Lyx files running on Win XP; but I find the manual etc less than clear. I found a page on the web which said

Re: Conditional printing

2005-06-13 Thread Richard Brown
, teachers, CDscript)? With different preambles in each? What is the main content in each wrapper? Thanks again! Richard PS - sorry to everyone because I haven't yet worked out how to get my posts in the thread. It's all very new, but I'm trying to learn G. Milde wrote: On 12.06.05, Richard

Re: Conditional printing

2005-06-13 Thread Richard Brown
, teachers, CDscript)? With different preambles in each? What is the main content in each wrapper? Thanks again! Richard PS - sorry to everyone because I haven't yet worked out how to get my posts in the thread. It's all very new, but I'm trying to learn G. Milde wrote: On 12.06.05, Richard

Re: Conditional printing

2005-06-13 Thread Richard Brown
trying to learn G. Milde wrote: >On 12.06.05, Richard Brown wrote: > > > >>What I'd like to be able to do is write all the elements for each >>exercise at the same time in the same file, defining them as "students >>book", "teachers boo

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-12 Thread Richard Brown
wrote: Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C

Conditional printing

2005-06-12 Thread Richard Brown
where the elements go, and print it to the right file so that I end up with 4 files: the master, the students book, the teachers book and the CD script. All properly cross-reefernced. Am I asking for too much? Can it be done, and how? Thanks for your time and help, Richard Brown

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-12 Thread Richard Brown
wrote: Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C

Conditional printing

2005-06-12 Thread Richard Brown
where the elements go, and print it to the right file so that I end up with 4 files: the master, the students book, the teachers book and the CD script. All properly cross-reefernced. Am I asking for too much? Can it be done, and how? Thanks for your time and help, Richard Brown

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-12 Thread Richard Brown
wrote: > Richard Brown wrote: > >> Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at >> all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it >> was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was >> lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with

Conditional printing

2005-06-12 Thread Richard Brown
ave the software automatically understand where the elements go, and print it to the right file so that I end up with 4 files: the master, the students book, the teachers book and the CD script. All properly cross-reefernced. Am I asking for too much? Can it be done, and how? Thanks for your time and help, Richard Brown

Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this

[Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]

2005-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My

Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this

[Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]

2005-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My

Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this

[Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]

2005-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Richard Brown wrote: > Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is > advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. > I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all > sorts of thing

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
s.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file “text

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