Curriculum Vitae document template missing

2005-06-06 Thread Walter H. van Holst
Hello, I am using LyX both on a Debian Unstable and a Mac OS X 1.4.1 system. It is version 1.3.4 on the Debian box and 1.3.5 on the iBook. On the Debian box I can use the Curriculum Vitae document template, but it is mentioned as unavailable on the iBook. Since the iBook is becoming my primary sys

ftp.lyx.org down?

2007-10-07 Thread Walter H. van Holst
Hello all, Is ftp.lyx.org down or is it just me? Regards, Walter

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-11 Thread Walter H. van Holst
> of users helping other users. But I find it quite uncomfortable to > use a mailing list. I had a subscription for a while but got way too > many emails each day and ended up deleting them without reading them. A common solution for that is to use a separate folder and filters for mailinglists.

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-07 Thread Walter H. van Holst
> Of course, there are also other vector drawing programs (besides > Xfig), so > what is outlined here is not the only option you have. If only Linux and Windows are required, I'd recommend Inkscape. It is much more polished and user friendly than Xfig whose UI is a bit daunting. Regards, Walt

Multi-line footnotes

2001-05-19 Thread Walter H. van Holst
Hello, I am currently writing a scientific paper and would like to be able to have mult-line footnotes in a two-column layout with correct indentations. I am using the Article template and haven't figured out a way to achieve this. Regards, Walter H. van Holst

Re: Multi-line footnotes

2001-05-19 Thread Walter H. van Holst
Herbert Voss wrote: > I don't understand what do you mean with multiline footnotes? Footnotes that are that long that they will span more than one line on paper. The problem is that in the cases this happens the next line of text in the footnote is not indented properly. For example 1. The q

Lyx-QT debs

2003-08-17 Thread Walter H. van Holst
Hello, Lately I have been using the lyx-qt deb from http://dpt.tuxfamily.org and am quite grateful for it. The only problem I have is that it depends on a deprecated version of pspell. I would like to be able to upgrade my spell checking tools, so does anybody have a recent deb src of lyx-qt avai

Re: Lyx-QT debs

2003-08-17 Thread Walter H. van Holst
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 14:50, Walter H. van Holst wrote: > Lately I have been using the lyx-qt deb from http://dpt.tuxfamily.org > and am quite grateful for it. The only problem I have is that it depends > on a deprecated version of pspell. I would like to be able to upgrade my > sp

Document troubles after upgrade

2004-08-29 Thread Walter H. van Holst
Hello, Recently I upgrade to Lyx 1.3.4 and when I try to load a document I get the following error dialog: Texclass error The document uses an unknown textclass "scrbook" -- substituting default Followed by: Textclass error The document uses a missing TeX class "scrbook". LyX will not be abl

Re: Document troubles after upgrade

2004-08-31 Thread Walter H. van Holst
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 09:14, Helge Hafting wrote: > You have to do edit->reconfigure when upgrading to 1.3.4, or even > when switching back and forth between 1.3.3 and 1.3.4 Funnily enough I had already tried that before. After switching to Lyx-QT and again running reconfigure it now gives me dif

Trouble with a newly created document

2000-11-12 Thread Walter H. van Holst
\begin{document}.} You're in trouble here. Try typing to proceed. If that doesn't work, type X to quit. Which is rather confusing. Does anyone have a pointer on how to solve this? Regards, Walter H. van Holst

Re: Trouble with a newly created document

2000-11-12 Thread Walter H. van Holst
would enhance the usability of Lyx for those users who have to write documents for different purposes. Regards, Walter H. van Holst __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/

Attribution question

2002-04-07 Thread Walter H. van Holst
Hello, I'd like to put a reference to LyX and LaTeX in the foreword of my thesis, how can I get those names to appear in the jumpy look like they are supposed to be? Regards, Walter -- We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. (H.G. Wells)

Re: Attribution question

2002-04-07 Thread Walter H. van Holst
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 23:08, Herbert Voss wrote: > if you write it with lyx, it's done by default. Thanks. Didn't know it would be that simple, so I never tried that. Regards, Walter -- We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. (H.G. Wells)

Conversion question (LyX -> Word)

2002-06-25 Thread Walter H. van Holst
Hello, I have written a thesis in LyX and usually used the pdf output option to make it usable for my coach. Faculty standards however require a electronic version in a single file that is readable by MS-Word. PDF is not readably by Word. So far I haven't found any free tools to convert my documen

Re: Conversion question (LyX -> Word)

2002-06-25 Thread Walter H. van Holst
> Awful standards... why not require everything to be readable with > Wordstar? Well, I am not in favour of these either, but there isn't a terrible lot I can do about it. > http://www.lyx.org/help/converter.php). If you don't have heavy > formulas, tth is probably just fine. Otherwise, try latex

Re: Conversion question (LyX -> Word)

2002-06-25 Thread Walter H. van Holst
> there are tenth of options in latex2html, among which > you can forbid splitting: here > latex2html -no_navigation -auto_prefix -split 0 -link 2 -no_subdir > ... Ah, thanks a lot. That is at least one second-best option. Regards, Walter

Re: Conversion question (LyX -> Word)

2002-06-25 Thread Walter H. van Holst
> Ask them why they want MS-Word. I have contacted them in the meantime. They want to be able to analyse every thesis for fraud detection. So it seems that I am allowed now to come up with a plain text version for the fraud analysis and a pdf one for the database they are planning to become publi

Image underneath text

2002-07-05 Thread Walter H. van Holst
Hello, I would like to have an image underneath the text of my thesis' frontpage. On http://www.lyx.org/help I have found a method of doing so, but it will cause the image to be repeated on all following pages. How can I keep it confied to just the frontpage? Regards, Walter -- We are kept k

Titlepage troubles

2002-07-09 Thread Walter H. van Holst
Hello, Upon finalising my thesis I decided to put a fancy picture on the title page. And here my troubles began. The problem is that both the title and the picture end up on the second page, while the actual title page remains empty. Attached an example lyx file, the image can be found on http://

Re: Titlepage troubles

2002-07-09 Thread Walter H. van Holst
On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 20:12, Herbert Voss wrote: > try it in this way. I have version 1.2 I have version 1.2 as well and the version you sent is worse. If you look at the DVI you still see an empty title page, followed by a numbered page with the title and the figure. The figure however is shift

Re: Titlepage troubles

2002-07-09 Thread Walter H. van Holst
On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 06:16, Herbert Voss wrote: > here is my dvi, only one page, the title! OK, then the way LyX handles the size of a picture is a problem. Take the original example I send, get the picture I mentioned in it and scale it to 60% instead of the 70% in the document. You'll end up

Re: Titlepage troubles

2002-07-09 Thread Walter H. van Holst
On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 08:27, Herbert Voss wrote: > this has nothing to do with lyx! The image is still too big in > it's height. Scale it down. that's all Boy, do I feel stupid. Scaling it somewhat down does indeed do the trick. How come LyX is able to put the whole shebang together on a singl

Re: Image underneath text

2002-07-14 Thread Walter H. van Holst
On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 08:00, Herbert Voss wrote: > > I would like to have an image underneath the text of my thesis' > > frontpage. On http://www.lyx.org/help I have found a method of doing so, > > but it will cause the image to be repeated on all following pages. How > > can I keep it confied t

Random ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Walter H. van Holst
Hi, I have put some brainfarts on what I think should be the underlying principles of the ideal document processor, they can be found here: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/1/11/193740/942 Feel free to shoot at them, laugh at them or to come up with additional ideas. Regards, Walter -- R

1.3pre2 problems

2003-01-14 Thread Walter H. van Holst
Hello, I have successfully build 1.3pre2 withe folling configure options: --prefix=/usr/local/lyx-qt --with-frontend=qt However, when I run /usr/local/lyx-qt/bin/lyx I get a version of LyX that has no visible text in the menubar, the menus themselves and the dialogs. See the attached screenshot.

Re: 1.3pre2 problems

2003-01-14 Thread Walter H. van Holst
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 20:25, Walter H. van Holst wrote: > However, when I run /usr/local/lyx-qt/bin/lyx I get a version of LyX > that has no visible text in the menubar, the menus themselves and the > dialogs. See the attached screenshot. > Oh, and by the way, X gives the following

Re: 1.2.3 rpms

2003-01-20 Thread Walter H. van Holst
>> again I'm looking for rpms for Redhat 7.3 if anybody has them handy. > (yes, i am too lazy to compile from the tar file and I am afraid to > screw up my current configuration). It is just a matter of unpacking the tarball, entering the lyx-1.2.3 directory and doing a 'make rpmdist' as root. Aft

Re: kLyx ?

2003-01-22 Thread Walter H. van Holst
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:47:56AM +0100, harmel wrote: > what is with kLyx ? is the Development down ? KLyX has been dead for years. 1.3pre2 can be compiled with a QT frontend though, it looks quite pretty. Regards, Walter

Spell checker question

2003-06-15 Thread Walter H. van Holst
Hello, I am running LyX-QT 1.3.1 on Debian Testing. Both ispell and ispell-dutch are installed. Nonetheless, when I try to spell check a Dutch document I get the following error: The spellchecker has failed I'm sorry I can't find any suitable word lists for the language-tag "nl". Since the hyp

Re: Spell checker question

2003-06-16 Thread Walter H. van Holst
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 08:52, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > This has nothing to do with the spell checker, but with LaTeX's config. Have a > look at your language.dat file (in texmf/tex/generic/config on my box). If > dutch is commented out (%! dutch nehyph.tex), remove the comment (%! ) and > r

Re: Spell checker question

2003-06-16 Thread Walter H. van Holst
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 08:36, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > > What does "whereis ispell" say? ispell: /usr/bin/ispell /usr/lib/ispell /usr/share/man/man1/ispell.1.gz /usr/share/man/man5/ispell.5.gz > and which files are located in the ispell directory (/usr/lib/ispe

Re: Spell checker question

2003-06-16 Thread Walter H. van Holst
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 20:58, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > What happens if you select "alternative language: nederlands" in preferences > (language->spellchecker)? Make shure that you have really selected ispell > (and not aspell). It doesn't help, and yes, I have really selected ispell (althou

Re: Spell checker question

2003-06-16 Thread Walter H. van Holst
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 21:25, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Hmm... I remember that I saw this error message on my box too, and it was due > to conflicts between an old ispell version and the new (GNU) aspell. Can you > try to uninstall ispell and aspell completely and install from scratch? I > d