Re: LaTeX -> LyX and \newcommand

2010-08-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 31.08.2010 20:35, schrieb Torquil Macdonald Sørensen: Let me try to explain better what I meant. I don't want those grey boxes of tex code for each instance where a user-defined command is executed in the latex document. I want my LyX file to look as if I had written everything in LyX witho

Re: LyX and Lilypond

2010-08-31 Thread Julien Rioux
On 31/08/2010 2:50 PM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: You could check if you have the same settings as me. These are default LyX settings here on Debian. I haven't changed them. These are default (I checked for LyX 1.6.5 specifically), but you do need a recent version of lilypond installed,

Re: LaTeX -> LyX and \newcommand

2010-08-31 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 31/08/10 20:52, Hal Kierstead wrote: I agree that this would be very pleasing, especially when working with collaborators who do not use LyX and who use many new commands. Hal This is the simple python code which takes a filename as an argument, and creates the file PlastexProcessed.tex

Re: LaTeX -> LyX and \newcommand

2010-08-31 Thread Hal Kierstead
I agree that this would be very pleasing, especially when working with collaborators who do not use LyX and who use many new commands. Hal On Aug 31, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > On 31/08/10 19:35, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > Am 31.08.2010 18:35, schrieb Torquil

Re: LyX and Lilypond

2010-08-31 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 31/08/10 20:03, Etienne Snyman wrote: Hi Torquil! Thanks for the reply. Please find my replies to your comments in-line: On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 19:08 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Do you want to write Lilypond code directly in LyX, and have LyX automatically run the necessary

Re: LaTeX -> LyX and \newcommand

2010-08-31 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 31/08/10 19:35, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 31.08.2010 18:35, schrieb Torquil Macdonald Sørensen: > >> My goal was to import a LaTeX file into LyX, but LyX was not able to >> understand all the \newcommands in the document, and therefore I wanted >> to preprocess the LaTeX file first. > > What do you

Re: LyX and Lilypond

2010-08-31 Thread Etienne Snyman
Hi Torquil! Thanks for the reply. Please find my replies to your comments in-line: On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 19:08 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > Do you want to write Lilypond code directly in LyX, and have LyX > automatically > run the necessary 'lilypond-book'

Re: LaTeX -> LyX and \newcommand

2010-08-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 31.08.2010 18:35, schrieb Torquil Macdonald Sørensen: My goal was to import a LaTeX file into LyX, but LyX was not able to understand all the \newcommands in the document, and therefore I wanted to preprocess the LaTeX file first. What do you mean with LyX doesn't understand? LyX should imp

Re: LyX and Lilypond

2010-08-31 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
LyX document, I will be willing to send you some free fake digital non-existent chocolates via imagination mail. Or, if any subsequent versions of LyX have similar support, I would be even more grateful. Thanks Etienne Hi Etienne! Do you want to write Lilypond code directly in LyX, and have LyX

LaTeX -> LyX and \newcommand

2010-08-31 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! I figured out a way to preprocess LaTeX files in order to eliminate dependency on \newcommands, using Python and plasTeX. My goal was to import a LaTeX file into LyX, but LyX was not able to understand all the \newcommands in the document, and therefore I wanted to preprocess the LaTeX f

LyX and Lilypond

2010-08-31 Thread Etienne Snyman
Dear LyX-people This is my first time posting on the list as a new LyX user, so please excuse any stupid mistakes I might make or stupid questions I might ask! :-) For the record, I am using LyX 1.6.5 on Ubuntu 10.04. I would like to write music theory content for music students, and it seems tha

Re: lyx and tabout

2010-08-11 Thread Joseph
Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES lyx.org> writes: > > Joseph gmail.com> writes: > > \multicolumn{...@{}l}{\footnotesize{\emph{source:} C:\Documents and > > Settings\Administrador\Mis documentos\My Dropbox\UCL\Dissertation\Data\GSS\data\1987.dta}} > > The problem is in the "Source:" comment above. It conta

Re: lyx and tabout

2010-08-11 Thread Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES
Joseph writes: > \multicolumn{...@{}l}{\footnotesize{\emph{source:} C:\Documents and > Settings\Administrador\Mis documentos\My > Dropbox\UCL\Dissertation\Data\GSS\data\1987.dta}} The problem is in the "Source:" comment above. It contains \ characters that mark macros for LaTeX. I do not know wh

Re: Fw: lyx and tabout

2010-08-11 Thread Joseph
Liviu Andronic gmail.com> writes: > > > I'm not very good at LaTeX debuggin, but isn't this a typo? Assuming > the code came through correctly, shouldn't it be "\Dissertation" > instead of "\Dis> sertation"? > > For pure LaTeX errors it might also make sense to ask for help on > http://tex.st

Fw: lyx and tabout

2010-08-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:05:04 + (UTC) From: Joseph To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: lyx and tabout \multicolumn{...@{}l}{\footnotesize{\emph{source:} C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Mis documentos\My Dropbox\UCL\Dis > sertation\Data\GSS\data\1

Re: lyx and tabout

2010-08-10 Thread Joseph
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lyx.org> writes: > > Le 11 août 10 à 00:53, Joseph a écrit : > > I've got the most basic and standard possible setup. Installed > > miktex (probably > > latest version), installed lyx, began to work. The errors I get are > > always the > > "your control sequence was neve

Re: lyx and tabout

2010-08-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 11 août 10 à 00:53, Joseph a écrit : I've got the most basic and standard possible setup. Installed miktex (probably latest version), installed lyx, began to work. The errors I get are always the "your control sequence was never defined" kind We will need to see a file output by tabout a

Re: lyx and tabout

2010-08-10 Thread Joseph
And as I will probably get only questions back from what I just posted... I've got the most basic and standard possible setup. Installed miktex (probably latest version), installed lyx, began to work. The errors I get are always the "your control sequence was never defined" kind thanks!

lyx and tabout

2010-08-10 Thread Joseph
hi I've been programming for a long while, but I'm new to latex, and given I've got a pretty short time and need to get something done in latex, lyx was a blessing. I was beginning to learn latex and stopped as soon as I found it, mostly because of the interface, so nice to edit and read at the sa

Re: Lyx and Jabref

2010-06-15 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
> > I'm having trouble using insert  List/TOC  BibTeX Bibliography in Lyx. I > want to insert a Jabref file but this has the extension .bib and Lyx is > looking for a file with extension .bst. Any help to fix this problem would > be most appreciated. Thanks > In the BibTeX bibliography dialog, sel

Lyx and Jabref

2010-06-15 Thread Louise Wilkinson
Hi, I'm having trouble using insert List/TOC BibTeX Bibliography in Lyx. I want to insert a Jabref file but this has the extension .bib and Lyx is looking for a file with extension .bst. Any help to fix this problem would be most appreciated. Thanks

Re: LyX and DeTeXor

2010-06-07 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Stéphane Adamowicz wrote: > I have been a happy Lyx user for 6 months now, but this morning I > discovered on Macupdate (http://www.macupdate.com/) a software called > DeTeXor 2.4 that claims to "move useless byproducts of TeX file > compilations to Trash". These are probably the log files and the

LyX and DeTeXor

2010-06-07 Thread Stéphane Adamowicz
Hi ! I have been a happy Lyx user for 6 months now, but this morning I discovered on Macupdate (http://www.macupdate.com/) a software called DeTeXor 2.4 that claims to "move useless byproducts of TeX file compilations to Trash". I was not aware of garbage files with TeX. How far LyX users are c

Re: LyX and SVG

2010-05-10 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
http://bokomoko.de/~rd/lyxsvgtest/ The test.svg file already looks bitmapped. After removing "font-family:Sans;", the svg is rendered properly. What do you use to render the svg? In Inkscape it looks rendered properly... Internet explorer + Adobe SVG viewer plugin. Also i

Re: LyX and SVG

2010-05-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-05-10, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Am Montag, 10. Mai 2010 schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: >> Op 10-5-2010 20:42, Rainer Dorsch schreef: >> > For some reason I get the svg's converted in bitmaps, when I include th= > em >> > in pdf. Is that expected? Not really. However, there is a chance th

Re: LyX and SVG

2010-05-10 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Montag, 10. Mai 2010 schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: > Op 10-5-2010 20:42, Rainer Dorsch schreef: > > Hello, > > > > I was following > > > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/UseInkscapeSVGImages > > > > to setup lyx 1.6.5 with svg support (happy to read that 1.6.6 will > > support it out of the box). >

Re: LyX and SVG

2010-05-10 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 10-5-2010 20:42, Rainer Dorsch schreef: Hello, I was following http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/UseInkscapeSVGImages to setup lyx 1.6.5 with svg support (happy to read that 1.6.6 will support it out of the box). For some reason I get the svg's converted in bitmaps, when I include them in pdf. Is t

LyX and SVG

2010-05-10 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, I was following http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/UseInkscapeSVGImages to setup lyx 1.6.5 with svg support (happy to read that 1.6.6 will support it out of the box). For some reason I get the svg's converted in bitmaps, when I include them in pdf. Is that expected? Here is an example: http://

Re: LyX and Aspell in spanish

2010-04-09 Thread Mchapa
Hello Mr. Uwe I tried to solve it reinstaling the spanish dicc. with the one you suggest, but unfortunatelly it didn't work if i dont get results, I will try to reinstall LyX completelly. Thanks

Re: LyX and Aspell in spanish

2010-04-09 Thread Mchapa
> Hello, > > I use aspell (in spanish) everyday in LyX and in KDE-4 applications. > > ¿Can you use aspell in other programs? > > ¿What is your operating system? > Hi. I am using Win. Vista home premium. I haven't tried to use aspell with any other program, but

Re: LyX and Aspell in spanish

2010-04-09 Thread Andrés Becerra Sandoval
language "es_ES". > > I installed both dicc. at the same time. I created an Alias file called > "es_ES" > but it did not solve the problem. > > Could someone lend me a hand, please? Thanks a lot in advance > > Hello, I use aspell (in spanish) everyday in L

Re: LyX and Aspell in spanish

2010-04-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
s" and "es.prepl" on your PC - reinstall this Spanish Aspell dictionary: http://prdownload.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/aspell6-es-0.50-2.exe - start LyX and reconfigure it (only to be safe) If this doesn't work: - uninstall _all_ Aspell dictionaries via the Windows Software lis

LyX and Aspell in spanish

2010-04-08 Thread Mchapa
Hello everyone. I have a problem with Aspell in LyX, it works pretty nice in English, but i cannot use it in spanish, i got an error message that says: The spellcheker could not be started No word list can be found for the language "es_ES". I installed both dicc. at the same time. I created an Al

Re: lyx and beamer class

2010-03-03 Thread Giovanni Bacci
mercoledì 03 marzo 2010, 20:07, Paul Rubin: > Giovanni Bacci writes: > > > Hi all! I'm trying to do a presentation with the beamer class > > inside LyX. I'd like to pass an option to the itemize environment. > > In plain latex: > > \begin{itemize}[<+->] > > > > It's possible to do this dir

Re: lyx and beamer class

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Rubin
Giovanni Bacci writes: > Hi all! I'm trying to do a presentation with the beamer class inside > LyX. I'd like to pass an option to the itemize environment. In plain > latex: > \begin{itemize}[<+->] > > It's possible to do this directly in LyX, without writing all the > itemize code in an ERT?

lyx and beamer class

2010-03-03 Thread Giovanni Bacci
Hi all! I'm trying to do a presentation with the beamer class inside LyX. I'd like to pass an option to the itemize environment. In plain latex: \begin{itemize}[<+->] It's possible to do this directly in LyX, without writing all the itemize code in an ERT? Thanks, Giovanni

Lyx and Excalibur

2010-02-24 Thread Julio Rojas
Dear all, is there a way to use Excalibur (spellchecker) with Lyx under OS X? Have anybody did it? Thanks in advance. Best regards. - Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: LyX and the Humanities

2010-01-18 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-18, Guido Milanese wrote: > On 18/01/2010 at 08.13 +, Guenter Milde wrote: >> It might be interesting to give some hints about writing Greek in LyX. >> It is easy using Unicode input. Recently, also polytonic (ancient) >> Greek is supported (with some remaining issues). > Yes, alr

Re: LyX and the Humanities

2010-01-18 Thread Guido Milanese
On 18/01/2010 at 08.13 +, Guenter Milde wrote: > It might be interesting to give some hints about writing Greek in LyX. > > It is easy using Unicode input. Recently, also polytonic (ancient) > Greek is supported (with some remaining issues). Yes, already done, thanks! Much better now than wi

Re: LyX and the Humanities

2010-01-18 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-17, Guido Milanese wrote: > On 16/01/2010 at 09.14 -0500, rgheck wrote: >> I don't know of any, but there are plenty of humanists around the list >> if you need to ask questions. E.g., I'm a philosopher, and I know of two >> others who regularly contribute to the list. > Yes, I know,

Re: LyX and the Humanities

2010-01-17 Thread Guido Milanese
On 16/01/2010 at 09.14 -0500, rgheck wrote: > I don't know of any, but there are plenty of humanists around the list > if you need to ask questions. E.g., I'm a philosopher, and I know of two > others who regularly contribute to the list. Yes, I know, and that's why I posted the question her

Re: LyX and the Humanities

2010-01-17 Thread Guido Milanese
iginal message: > >> I read the document about LyX and linguistics [...] Thank you anyway! gm -- Guido Milanese - Professor of Latin The Catholic University, Milan and Brescia, Italy http://docenti.unicatt.it/ita/guido_fabrizio_milanese http://www.arsantiqua.org

Re: LyX and the Humanities

2010-01-16 Thread Maria Gouskova
aTeX and LyX in the field of the >> Humanities. I read the document about LyX and linguistics and also the >> "HumanitiesLyX" section in the wiki pages; can someone kindly point out >> any other good article about LyX in the Humanities? >> >> > > I do

Re: LyX and the Humanities

2010-01-16 Thread rgheck
On 01/16/2010 06:37 AM, Guido Milanese wrote: Dear all, I am writing a book on LaTeX and LyX in the field of the Humanities. I read the document about LyX and linguistics and also the "HumanitiesLyX" section in the wiki pages; can someone kindly point out any other good article about

LyX and the Humanities

2010-01-16 Thread Guido Milanese
Dear all, I am writing a book on LaTeX and LyX in the field of the Humanities. I read the document about LyX and linguistics and also the "HumanitiesLyX" section in the wiki pages; can someone kindly point out any other good article about LyX in the Humanities? Thanks a lot! Best regard

Copying from LyX and pasting to Word with $...$ and \[...\] delimiters

2010-01-06 Thread Gerard Ateshian
equations. MathType has recently added a feature to convert LaTeX equations directly from within a Word document, as long as the equation is delimited by $...$ or \[...\], so the conversion would be relatively easy to do. Unfortunately, though copying from LyX and pasting into Word produces

Re: Distributing LYX and Myxtek

2009-12-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Philip schrieb: Hi Is there a way to distribute Lyx and Myxtek using group policy (Windows Server 2003)? I don't know if this is possible because I don't have a Windows server system and never worked with group policies. What works is when you install it as admin, choosing to insta

Distributing LYX and Myxtek

2009-12-12 Thread Philip
Hi Is there a way to distribute Lyx and Myxtek using group policy (Windows Server 2003)?

Re: Working with LyX and Hebrew

2009-12-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Adam Fineberg schrieb: I've been working in LyX and writing in Hebrew for the last week or so. I have a problem - it seems that if I switch to English (to type in some code), the letters are wrong - for example, I type: "cat", and the screen prints out "tac".

Re: Working with LyX and Hebrew

2009-12-09 Thread Adam Fineberg
Yes, I've seen this website - even went to all the links on it. I'm attaching a small LyX file. Thank you! Uwe Stöhr wrote: Adam Fineberg schrieb: I've been working in LyX and writing in Hebrew for the last week or so. I have a problem - it seems that if I switch to English (t

Re: Working with LyX and Hebrew

2009-12-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Adam Fineberg schrieb: I've been working in LyX and writing in Hebrew for the last week or so. I have a problem - it seems that if I switch to English (to type in some code), the letters are wrong - for example, I type: "cat", and the screen prints out "tac".

Working with LyX and Hebrew

2009-12-09 Thread Adam Fineberg
Hi, I've been working in LyX and writing in Hebrew for the last week or so. I have a problem - it seems that if I switch to English (to type in some code), the letters are wrong - for example, I type: "cat", and the screen prints out "tac". I fixed the problem by

Re: XeLaTeX, fontenc, LyX and Stubborn fonts

2009-11-20 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Günter, Thank you for the thoughts and the links. "Unfortunately, you still did not write, how you process your document with XeTeX. (Export with File>Export>LaTeX (XeTeX) or something alike?)" I set up LyX according to the instructions on the LyX wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XeTeX Briefly,

Re: XeLaTeX, fontenc, LyX and Stubborn Fonts

2009-11-20 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-19, Rob Oakes wrote: > ... While reading through the old emails, I was able to > resolve the problem. Unfortunately, you still did not write, how you process your document with XeTeX. (Export with File>Export>LaTeX (XeTeX) or something alike?) > To solve it, I went to Tools->Prefere

RE: XeLaTeX, fontenc, LyX and Stubborn Fonts

2009-11-19 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Günter and other LyX users, Again thank you for the advice to check last week's and earlier discussions. While reading through the old emails, I was able to resolve the problem. To solve it, I went to Tools->Preferences->LaTeX and changed the TeX encoding to a null value (blank). I saw whe

RE: XeLaTeX, fontenc, LyX and Stubborn Fonts

2009-11-19 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Günter, Thank you for the thorough reply. "Seems to be the default CM. Never call it ugly on a TeX-related list." I will remember that. I should probably apologize for the rather harsh language. It's amazing what happens when you are frustrated. By the time I had emailed the list, I had

Re: XeLaTeX, fontenc, LyX and Stubborn Fonts

2009-11-18 Thread Guenter Milde
it to standard LaTeX and try and > get things to work right from the command line, I have the same > problems. Same output from LyX and hand-compiling shows that LyX is properly working. > I can get it to compile correctly if I go in and modify the > exported LaTeX. Here's what LyX e

XeLaTeX, fontenc, LyX and Stubborn Fonts

2009-11-18 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users, I've run up against a problem that I don't know how to solve. I've spent the last several days putting together a document class that matches the style of my book publisher. Because it uses an Open Type font, I created it as a XeLaTeX class. I've set up my xetex per the instruct

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-17 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: Good information here Helge... On Tuesday 10 November 2009 08:12:37 Helge Hafting wrote: ask2 wrote: Hi I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the case. So am I just

Re: CLS file not found anymore after updating LyX and MacTeX

2009-11-16 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Nov 16, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Dan Stark wrote: > Dear All, > > I updated to MacTeX 2009 and LyX 1.6.4.2 and now LyX cannot locate a CLS file > that I was using. > > I have it located in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex currently. > > Is there any way to get LyX to see the CLS file again? > Perh

CLS file not found anymore after updating LyX and MacTeX

2009-11-16 Thread Dan Stark
Dear All, I updated to MacTeX 2009 and LyX 1.6.4.2 and now LyX cannot locate a CLS file that I was using. I have it located in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex currently. Is there any way to get LyX to see the CLS file again? Thanks! Dan Stark Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2009-11-11, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Guenter Milde wrote: > >> Suggestion: > >> Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard > >> template? > > >> LM is out for some time by now and could be considered the "de-facto > >> standard" for T1-encoded C

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-13 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-11, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> Suggestion: >> Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard template? >> LM is out for some time by now and could be considered the "de-facto >> standard" for T1-encoded CM-lookalikes. > unfortunately this is mu

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-12 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Pavel Sanda wrote: Olivier Ripoll wrote: try this one: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg142386.html Damned, it's been trashed also (by gmane?) let's split the address in several parts http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel then add the "at" character (@) then the following

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
Olivier Ripoll wrote: >> try this one: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg142386.html > > Damned, it's been trashed also (by gmane?) > let's split the address in several parts > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel > then add the "at" character (@) then the following: > lis

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2009-11-11, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Guenter Milde wrote: > >> Suggestion: > >> Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard > >> template? > > >> LM is out for some time by now and could be considered the "de-facto > >> standard" for T1-encoded C

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-12 Thread Ian S. Worthington
Too much like hard work. Try http://tinyurl.com/y9dhkj5 i -- Original Message -- Received: 09:32 AM COT, 11/12/2009 From: Olivier Ripoll To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: lyx and pdf fonts > Olivier Ripoll wrote: > > Guenter Milde wrote: > >> On 2009-11-11,

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-12 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Olivier Ripoll wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-11-11, Pavel Sanda wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: [...] Unfortunatly, the link http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg142386.html shows only: Not Found The document you were looking for was not found. Günter try this one:

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2009-11-11, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Guenter Milde wrote: > >> Suggestion: > >> Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard > >> template? > > >> LM is out for some time by now and could be considered the "de-facto > >> standard" for T1-encoded C

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-12 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-11-11, Pavel Sanda wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: [...] Unfortunatly, the link http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg142386.html shows only: Not Found The document you were looking for was not found. Günter try this one: http://www.mail-arch

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-11, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> Suggestion: >> Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard template? >> LM is out for some time by now and could be considered the "de-facto >> standard" for T1-encoded CM-lookalikes. > unfortunately this is mu

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Ian S. Worthington
Perfect! Thanks Vincent. i -- Original Message -- Received: 02:28 PM COT, 11/11/2009 From: Vincent van Ravesteijn To: "Ian S. Worthington" , lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: lyx and pdf fonts > Ian S. Worthington schreef: > > Could http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ian S. Worthington schreef: Could http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 be out of date? Yes, this was out of date. I've updated it now,. regards Uwe

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:33:50PM +, Liviu Andronic wrote: > > unfortunately this is much more complex thing than it looks on the first > > sight. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg142386.html > > > Would it make sense for LyX to propose default settings based on > a

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 17:20:47 Bruce Pourciau wrote: > On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > > On 11/11/09, Pavel Sanda wrote: > >> Guenter Milde wrote: > >>> Suggestion: > >>> Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard > >>> template? > >> > >> unfort

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 11/11/09, Pavel Sanda wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: Suggestion: Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard template? unfortunately this is much more complex thing than it looks on the first sight. http://www.ma

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/11/09, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: > > Suggestion: > > Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard > template? > > > unfortunately this is much more complex thing than it looks on the first > sight. > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Ian S. Worthington schreef: Could http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 be out of date? I like the idea of replacing the bitmap fonts (even though they seem quite good to me) with T1 vector fonts, but am not sure where to specify "latin modern". On my lyx, 1.6.2, there is no Layout→Document menu ite

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Ian S. Worthington
one set me right please? Thanks, ian -- Original Message -- Received: 10:41 AM COT, 11/10/2009 From: Uwe Stöhr To: ask2 Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: lyx and pdf fonts > ask2 schrieb: > > > I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if &

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
Guenter Milde wrote: > Suggestion: > Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard template? > > LM is out for some time by now and could be considered the "de-facto > standard" for T1-encoded CM-lookalikes. unfortunately this is much more complex thing than it looks on t

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-10, Manveru wrote: > 2009/11/10 ask2 : >> I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it >> is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that >> never is the case. ... > LyX is not guilty of PDF quality as it is only editor using LaTeX to > pr

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-10, Stefano Franchi wrote: > On 11/10/09, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >>Steve Litt schrieb: If you draw something, make vector graphics rather than bitmaps, if possible. If you need screenshots, use png. Never jpeg, jpeg is only for photos. >>This is wrong! PNG is as well as JPG or

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-10 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 11/10/09, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >Stefano Franchi schrieb: >>> Only PDF and SVG are vector graphics. EPS is also a vector graphics >>> format but many EPS images are only wrapped bitmap images. >> >> Isn't the same true for PDF? You can wrap bitmap files in it, I think > >Yes, it is the same but rath

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Stefano Franchi schrieb: Only PDF and SVG are vector graphics. EPS is also a vector graphics format but many EPS images are only wrapped bitmap images. Isn't the same true for PDF? You can wrap bitmap files in it, I think Yes, it is the same but rather seldom used. So check that you have a

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-10 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
I get great PDF output, that can be scaled to any size. The only thing I did was to set the encoding to OT1. If you don't use international characters, that should enable LaTeX to use vector fonts.

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-10 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 11/10/09, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >Steve Litt schrieb: >>> If you draw something, make vector graphics rather than bitmaps, if >>> possible. If you need screenshots, use png. Never jpeg, jpeg is only >>> for photos. > >This is wrong! PNG is as well as JPG or GIF a bitmap graphic. the difference > is i

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Steve Litt schrieb: If you draw something, make vector graphics rather than bitmaps, if possible. If you need screenshots, use png. Never jpeg, jpeg is only for photos. This is wrong! PNG is as well as JPG or GIF a bitmap graphic. the difference is inly the compression method. Only PDF and SV

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-10 Thread Florian Rubach
Steve Litt schrieb: I didn't know .png is a vector graphic. It isn't. As Helge said, it's pretty useful if you need some pixel graphics with relatively large areas of similar colors like screenshots. It is relatively small and has lossless compression. For Photos, jpeg is better but has lossy

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Steve Litt wrote: I didn't know .png is a vector graphic. It's not. It's bit-mapped, or raster. Rich

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-10 Thread Steve Litt
Good information here Helge... On Tuesday 10 November 2009 08:12:37 Helge Hafting wrote: > ask2 wrote: > > Hi > > I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is > > if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never > > is the case. > > > > So am I ju

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
ask2 schrieb: I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunately that never is the case. See http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 Main purpose is to read on the computer so both images and text should be suitable f

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-10 Thread Luca Carlon
ask2 writes: > Hi > I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if > the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the > case. > > So am I just stupid or is there a way to get really high quality pdf from > LYX? > > Main purpose is to read o

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-10 Thread Helge Hafting
ask2 wrote: Hi I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the case. So am I just stupid or is there a way to get really high quality pdf from LYX? Yes. Make sure the default font is not a b

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-10 Thread Manveru
2009/11/10 ask2 : > > Hi > I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if > the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the > case. > > So am I just stupid or is there a way to get really high quality pdf from > LYX? > > Main purpose is to re

lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-10 Thread ask2
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Re: UTF-8, Lyx, and Bibtex--> SOLVED?

2009-10-11 Thread rgheck
On 10/11/2009 05:11 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: rgheck wrote: Right now, only bibtex and bibtex8 are listed. But if biber works well, then we can list it as a choice, too. Actually, biber is already listed in 2.0, provided it is installed correctly. Excellent. rh

Re: UTF-8, Lyx, and Bibtex--> SOLVED?

2009-10-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: > Right now, only bibtex > and bibtex8 are listed. But if biber works well, then we can list it as > a choice, too. Actually, biber is already listed in 2.0, provided it is installed correctly. Jürgen

Re: UTF-8, Lyx, and Bibtex--> SOLVED?

2009-10-11 Thread Alex
Recently, I had the same problem. BibTeX generated wrong characters or errors, due to bad encoding. It was complaining that it can not understand \h{o} as a control sequence! Why? I thought it is a general way to get accented letters. I have switched in the .bib file from LateX encoding to UTF8 an

Re: UTF-8, Lyx, and Bibtex--> SOLVED?

2009-10-10 Thread rgheck
On 10/10/2009 01:19 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: I have installed it and it works fine from the command line after exporting the lyx (UTF8-encoded) file to .tex. If I want to use it directly from Lyx, is it sufficient to specify "biber" instead of "bibtex" in the preferences (i.e. in Tools>>prefer

Re: UTF-8, Lyx, and Bibtex--> SOLVED?

2009-10-10 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Saturday 10 October 2009 11:41:39 am rgheck wrote: > On 10/10/2009 11:38 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: > > Problem solved, but I am even more confused than before. > > > > I did install biber and tried it out (after a rather unpleasant time > > spent fighting with perl dependencies..). The problem

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