2 columns document with columns of different width

2001-02-22 Thread Raymond Ouellette
I would like to know if it is possible to create a document wich has 2 columns of different width, for exemple a wide column at the right side of the page, approx 13 cm wide, and a smaller one of 4 cm at the left side. The main text would be in the main column, and the left column would be used

Re: 2 columns document with columns of different width

2001-02-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
>>>>> "Raymond" == Raymond Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Raymond> I would like to know if it is possible to create a document Raymond> wich has 2 columns of different width, for exemple a wide Raymond> column at the right side of the page, approx 1

Re: 2 columns document with columns of different width,

2001-02-22 Thread Raymond Ouellette
[fichier joint : testmarge.lyx 13020 octets] I enclosed with this email a test lyx file with the reverse margin note. It works with times fonts, but if I try to change the entire document to helvetica fonts (Format-->Document-->Font properties) nothing happens. I then select all the text and I d

Re: 2 columns document with columns of different width,

2001-02-22 Thread Herbert Voss
Raymond Ouellette wrote: > I enclosed with this email a test lyx file with the reverse margin note. > It works with times fonts, but if I try to change the entire document to > helvetica fonts (Format-->Document-->Font properties) nothing happens. > > I then select all the text and I do Format--

Re: 2 columns document with columns of different width,

2001-02-23 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 02:24:37PM -0500, Raymond Ouellette wrote: One more thing: If you don't need "normal" margin notes, you can put the following lines in the preamble: \let\oldmarginpar=\marginpar \renewcommand{\marginpar}[1]{\reversemarginpar\oldmarginpar{#1}} and then you will not need to

Re: 2 columns document with columns of different width,

2001-02-23 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 02:24:37PM -0500, Raymond Ouellette wrote: > [fichier joint : testmarge.lyx 13020 octets] > > I enclosed with this email a test lyx file with the reverse margin note. > It works with times fonts, but if I try to change the entire document to > helvetica fonts (Format-->Doc

Spacing Between Columns

2000-08-29 Thread Hisyam Lee
Hello, I require 1.3cm spacing between two columns for my article. Can't find it anyway under layout. Secondly, my articles Title, Author, Address need to crossover two columns at the first page. I certainly appreciate if someone can help. Thanks.   MHLee

More on two columns

1999-06-22 Thread Anonymous
Hi I produced a two-column document recently, where the hyphenation looked pretty grim - single letters cut off words etc. Is there a way to optimise this. Henk -- Henk Coetzee Geophysics Unit Council for Geoscience Private Bag X112, Pretoria, 0

alignment of columns (newbie)

2000-04-12 Thread gus
Hello, I need to print two columns, where each paragraph of the right column must be locked to a specific line in the left column -- a bit like margin notes, though in this case there is almost as much text in the right column as in the left. I did try using margin notes (changing format in the

Re: Spacing Between Columns

2000-08-29 Thread Herbert Voss
> Hisyam Lee wrote: > > Hello, > I require 1.3cm spacing between two columns for my article. Can't find > it anyway under layout. Secondly, my articles Title, Author, Address > need to crossover two columns at the first page. I certainly > appreciate if someone can help

Re: Spacing Between Columns

2000-08-29 Thread MH Lee
Yes, I managed to increase the spacing. You are very helpful, thanks a lots Herbert. But the article required two columns text start at first page (just after address). Aid are appreciated. MH Lee - Original Message - From: Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Hisyam Lee &

Re: Spacing Between Columns

2000-08-29 Thread Herbert Voss
MH Lee wrote: > > Yes, I managed to increase the spacing. You are very helpful, thanks a lots > Herbert. But the article required two columns text start at first page (just > after address). Aid are appreciated. you need latex-package multicol, it's often part of the install

Re: Spacing Between Columns

2000-08-29 Thread MH Lee
Thanks Herbert, I managed to do as you mentioned. But my two eps files insert through Insert/Floats/Figure Float not display on dvi but if I change it to Wide Figure Float it will display nicely but figure will across two columns. Any suggestion are appreciated. MH Lee - Original Message

Re: Spacing Between Columns

2000-08-30 Thread Herbert Voss
MH Lee wrote: > > Thanks Herbert, I managed to do as you mentioned. But my two eps files > insert through Insert/Floats/Figure Float not display on dvi but if I change > it to Wide Figure Float it will display nicely but figure will across two > columns. Any suggestion are appre

Re: Spacing Between Columns

2000-08-31 Thread MH Lee
le font size to 20pt? MH Lee - Original Message - From: Yann MORERE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: MH Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 2:58 PM Subject: Re: Spacing Between Columns > MH Lee wrote: > > > > Wonderful, exactly what I needed. Thanks Yan

Re: Spacing Between Columns

2000-08-31 Thread Herbert Voss
MH Lee wrote: > > Beautiful...I only need to change % of page width to 40%, it fit in > beautifully inside the column. By the way I didn't download any "float" > package. Currently I'm using version 1.1.5fix1, probably the float package > is there. Yann and Herbert, THANK YOU. > How do I change T

Re: Spacing Between Columns

2000-08-31 Thread MH Lee
I used article class. MH Lee - Original Message - From: Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: MH Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: LyX Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 3:55 AM Subject: Re: Spacing Between Columns > MH Lee wrote: > > >

Re: Spacing Between Columns

2000-09-01 Thread MH Lee
day, September 01, 2000 5:25 PM Subject: Re: Spacing Between Columns > MH Lee wrote: > > > > How do I change Title font size to 20pt? > > mark the title and than choos layout->character->size > > Herbert > >

Re: Spacing Between Columns

2000-09-01 Thread Herbert Voss
MH Lee wrote: > > Under that menu are Tiny, Smallest, ..., Normal, Larger, ..., Huge, ..., > Increase etc. > I can't find point size that I need. you don't need it! for 10pt and 11pt documentwide font size choose \huge for 12pt \LARGE than they are always 20.74pt. another way: in Latex pream

Re: Spacing Between Columns

2000-09-01 Thread Herbert Voss
MH Lee wrote: > > How do I change Title font size to 20pt? mark the title and than choos layout->character->size Herbert

Re: More on two columns

1999-06-22 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Henk Coetzee wrote: > Hi > > I produced a two-column document recently, where the hyphenation looked > pretty grim - single letters cut off words etc. Is there a way to > optimise this. Is the document language specified correctly? How wide are your column

[LyX_users] Footnotes from table columns?

1999-09-09 Thread csawtell
Greets world, Two quick questions. I can't make a footnote from within a table. Is this a feature or a bug? Where in the documentation are the instructions about binding keys sequencies to characters to print. I need to be able to produce an `a' with a macron. Sincerely etc., NAME

Re: alignment of columns (newbie)

2000-04-12 Thread Herbert Voss
gus wrote: > > Hello, > > I need to print two columns, > where each paragraph of the right column must be locked to > a specific line in the left column -- a bit like margin notes, > though in this case there is almost as much text in the right > column as in the le

Re: alignment of columns (newbie)

2000-04-12 Thread mressler
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, gus wrote: > I need to print two columns, > where each paragraph of the right column must be locked to > a specific line in the left column -- a bit like margin notes, > though in this case there is almost as much text in the right > column as in the left. You

RE: alignment of columns (newbie)

2000-04-13 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 12-Apr-2000 gus wrote: > Hello, > > I need to print two columns, > where each paragraph of the right column must be locked to > a specific line in the left column -- a bit like margin notes, > though in this case there is almost as much text in the right > column as in

disabling columns for wide matrix

2001-01-23 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
I'm writing an article using two columns. It looks good but I have couple of wide math matrices that don't fit in single column. How could I disable the columns for a few lines so that the matrix would use both columns?

Re: [LyX_users] Footnotes from table columns?

1999-09-09 Thread Andre Poenitz
> I can't make a footnote from within a table. > Is this a feature or a bug? IIRC this is a LaTeX 'feature' and LyX does not provide a work around (yet?)... Andre' -- Andre' Poenitz, TU Chemnitz, Fakultaet fuer Mathematik [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... +49 3727 58 1381

RE: [LyX_users] Footnotes from table columns?

1999-09-10 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 08-Sep-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I can't make a footnote from within a table. > Is this a feature or a bug? Try to have a look at the TableExamples.lyx file in the examples-directory and you'll see how to realize this! Greets Jürgen -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-.

About decimal alignment of table columns

2000-05-16 Thread Edwin Leuven
I might not be the first to do this, but why keep it to myself? In addition to the way mentioned in the extended features doc one can also use the dcolumn package to have decimal alignment in tables. In the LateX preamble I added: \usepackage{dcolumn} \newcolumntype{d}[1]{D{.}{.}{#1}} To have

Re: disabling columns for wide matrix

2001-01-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > > I'm writing an article using two columns. It looks good but I have couple > of wide math matrices that don't fit in single column. How could I disable > the columns for a few lines so that the matrix would use both columns? from my point of view

Re: disabling columns for wide matrix

2001-01-24 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:55:20PM +, Herbert Voss wrote: > Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > > > > I'm writing an article using two columns. It looks good but I have couple > > of wide math matrices that don't fit in single column. How could I disable > > th

Re: disabling columns for wide matrix

2001-01-24 Thread Herbert Voss
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:55:20PM +, Herbert Voss wrote: > > Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > > > > > > I'm writing an article using two columns. It looks good but I have couple > > > of wide math matrices that don't fit in sin

Re: disabling columns for wide matrix

2001-01-24 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: > from my point of view the only senseful way is to use the multicol I did read the documentation for multicol package and it described other ways to disable temporarily columns, without the package, simply using commands \twocolumn

Table: Right Justification for columns not working

1999-08-05 Thread John Andress
Hi, I have inserted a float table into my document. When I right click, the Table Layout popup appears but I cannot activate the Alignment buttons: it is fixed on Left. If I do Edit->Table->Align Right, the document responds correctly. See table.lyx attached. However, the Table Layout Alignme

RE: Table: Right Justification for columns not working

1999-08-05 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 05-Aug-99 John Andress wrote: > Hi, > > I have inserted a float table into my document. When I right click, the > Table Layout popup appears but I cannot activate the Alignment buttons: it > is fixed on Left. > The behaviour is VERY right :). You defined a fixed column width which in LaTeX

RE: Table: Right Justification for columns not working

1999-08-05 Thread John Andress
Hi Jurgen, If I remove the fixed width for my columns, then the table extends off the right hand side of my column. That is why I put in the fixed widths in the first place. I'll try your multicolumn suggestion, but surely the fixedness of a column should be independent of the justificati

RE: Table: Right Justification for columns not working

1999-08-05 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 05-Aug-99 John Andress wrote: > Hi Jurgen, > > If I remove the fixed width for my columns, then the table extends off the > right hand side of my column. That is why I put in the fixed widths in > the first place. I'll try your multicolumn suggestion, but surely the >

How to control the spacing between two columns?

1999-11-30 Thread Kenny Zhu Qili
Hi, I'm editing a double-column paper when I noticed I couldn't adjust the spacing between the two columns in lyx 1.0.4. Can anybody help? Kenny

Re: How to control the spacing between two columns?

1999-11-30 Thread Dirk Klugmann
Kenny Zhu Qili wrote: > > Hi, I'm editing a double-column paper when I noticed I couldn't adjust the > spacing between the two columns in lyx 1.0.4. Can anybody help? Hi, try inserting "\setlength{\columnsep}{value}" (don't forget the unit in "value"

Why Lyx always adds additional columns in arrays when opening?---A bug?

2001-06-04 Thread Qingchang Zhong
p; 0  & A \end{array}\right]  \) I could do this on digital workstation (alpha) before, but now I changed to  a new computer. When I open the file including such arrays,  it always adds additional columns in the array like this: \( \left[ \begin{array}{cc|c} A & 0  & 0 & \\  0 &

Re: Why Lyx always adds additional columns in arrays when opening?---A bug?

2001-06-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Qingchang Zhong wrote: > > I have a problem with arrays in Lyx. Frequently, I need insert > vertical and horizontal lines into arrays. For example, > A 0| 0 > 0A | 0 > > 00| A > > > The corresponding latex code is : > > \( \left[ \begin{array}{cc|c} > A &

Re: Why Lyx always adds additional columns in arrays when opening?---A bug?

2001-06-04 Thread Dekel Tsur
r. When I open the file including such arrays, it > always adds additional columns in the array like this: [deleted] > When compiling it, the following error: > extra alignment has been changed to ... > comes out and then it stops. > > I think it is because Lyx reads cc|c as fou

Re: Why Lyx always adds additional columns in arrays when opening?---> A not bad solution

2001-06-05 Thread Qingchang Zhong
Dear Herbert, Thank you for your solution. Along with your solution, I obtained a solution to change massive arrays including vertical lines. Some suggestions regarding to vertical/horizontal lines in arrays are: 1. horizontal lines can be input in arrays directly with \hline at the first cell of

Re: Why Lyx always adds additional columns in arrays when opening?---> A not bad solution

2001-06-05 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:15:30AM +0100, Qingchang Zhong wrote: > Dear Herbert, > Along with your solution, I obtained a solution to change massive arrays including >vertical lines. > > Some suggestions regarding to vertical/horizontal lines in arrays are: > > 1. horizontal lines can be input