Re: Newbie questions: templates -> Document Settings -> ?

2010-02-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Marshall Feldman wrote: 1. I'm writing a conference paper. LyX has a few conference/proceedings templates, but none suit my needs. Several document classes could work for me, but they're not complete. For example, a conference paper should list the conference, location, etc.,

Re: Newbie questions: templates -> Document Settings -> ?

2010-02-09 Thread rgheck
On 02/09/2010 01:28 AM, Marshall Feldman wrote: Hi, As a newbie to Lyx, I'm almost there in understanding how to use LyX and have a few basic questions. Here's what I think I know: Hello from down the way at Brown. 1. Templates are just LyX documents saved in the place where templates live

Newbie questions: templates -> Document Settings -> ?

2010-02-08 Thread Marshall Feldman
Hi, As a newbie to Lyx, I'm almost there in understanding how to use LyX and have a few basic questions. Here's what I think I know: 1. Templates are just LyX documents saved in the place where templates live. 2. Document classes are types of documents (books, articles, etc.) 3. But document

Re: newbie questions - URLs in PDF, graphical diff

2009-07-03 Thread rgheck
Andrew Daviel wrote: 3) Is there an HTML output filter ? latex2html is too old and fails miserably on Lyx exported latex. You can try the new elyxer output filter. Native LyX HTML output is under development. 4) Is it possible to choose which PDF output filter to use on the command line ? "

newbie questions - URLs in PDF, graphical diff

2009-07-02 Thread Andrew Daviel
I haven't used Lyx or LaTeX for some time, so things have changed, if I ever knew.. 1) If I create a document with blank style, or from the letter template, when I add a URL link it does not work, either in xdvi or PDF. If I add the following preamble (stolen from the UserGuide source) in

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
G. Milde wrote: On 12.01.08, rgheck wrote: The issue has to do with the use of color in chapter and section heading---headings, in particular, that appear as page headers. You always have to be careful with so-called "moving arguments". But the point remains: You don't really want to make

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-14 Thread Enrico Forestieri
rgheck writes: > Michael Thompson wrote: > > I see that you were trying to change the color of a Chapter Heading, in > > particular. This does seem like a mess, easily reproducible by me; > > titles and sections seem to work, > though. Evidently a problem for the masters. > > > > > The reaso

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
G. Milde wrote: > Just curious: > > * Would it be ok to define a colour for a chapter or section >   heading and give the same heading uncoloured as "short heading"? Should (theoretically) work. > * Would it help to \protect the colour def (as ERT)? No. This is not about moving arguments. The pr

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-13 Thread G. Milde
On 12.01.08, rgheck wrote: > The issue has to do with the use > of color in chapter and section heading---headings, in particular, that > appear as page headers. You always have to be careful with so-called > "moving arguments". But the point remains: You don't really want to make a > section

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-12 Thread rgheck
Michael Thompson wrote: I see that you were trying to change the color of a Chapter Heading, in particular. This does seem like a mess, easily reproducible by me; titles and sections seem to work, though. Evidently a problem for the masters. The reason, as Jurgen pointed out, is because th

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Thompson
I see that you were trying to change the color of a Chapter Heading, in particular. This does seem like a mess, easily reproducible by me; titles and sections seem to work, though. Evidently a problem for the masters.

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Thompson
(Fellow semi-beginner's response:) I tried this with the different ways of viewing text available to me on the mac with no problem. I notice the LyX manual says, discussing the text styles dialogue, (3.6.4): Color: You can adjust the color of the text with this control. Notice that not all dvi-

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-12 Thread rgheck
Scott Meyers wrote: rgheck wrote: You don't say which documents you are compiling. The LyX Tutorial -- 35 pages in the DVI file. Not a very long document, in other words. Something I'd hope could be generated in no more than a couple of seconds. The former is a weird bug that emerged fro

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-12 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: > > I just downloaded and installed LyX via the Windows installer. I've > > used LaTeX before (not recently), but never LyX. In playing around > > with the LyX Tutorial, I find that after changing some text to red or > > green and then generating DVI, I get errors such as this, > >  

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-11 Thread Scott Meyers
rgheck wrote: You don't say which documents you are compiling. The LyX Tutorial -- 35 pages in the DVI file. Not a very long document, in other words. Something I'd hope could be generated in no more than a couple of seconds. The former is a weird bug that emerged from a combination no-on

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-11 Thread rgheck
I just downloaded and installed LyX via the Windows installer. I've used LaTeX before (not recently), but never LyX. In playing around with the LyX Tutorial, I find that after changing some text to red or green and then generating DVI, I get errors such as this, LaTeX Error: Undefined color

Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-11 Thread Scott Meyers
I just downloaded and installed LyX via the Windows installer. I've used LaTeX before (not recently), but never LyX. In playing around with the LyX Tutorial, I find that after changing some text to red or green and then generating DVI, I get errors such as this, LaTeX Error: Undefined colo

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-18 Thread Gmane User
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> You solution of installing tetex-extra from cygwin works magically. It now >> takes seconds to do >> View->pdflatex from Lyx. It hasn't solved the scrbook problem, but I'm sure >> that's just a matter of >> googling the class

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-15 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Enrico, > > You solution of installing tetex-extra from cygwin works magically. It now > takes seconds to do > View->pdflatex from Lyx. It hasn't solved the scrbook problem, but I'm sure > that's just a matter of > googling the class and installing it in

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-15 Thread Gmane User
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Log line: ./Tutorial.tex:48: Font T1/cmr/m/sc/9=eccc0900 at 9.0pt not >> loadable: Metric (T > > I think that you are missing the tetex-extra package. Try issuing the > command "kpsewhich eccc.mf" and see what it says. F

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-13 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Log line: ./Tutorial.tex:48: Font T1/cmr/m/sc/9=eccc0900 at 9.0pt not > loadable: Metric (T I think that you are missing the tetex-extra package. Try issuing the command "kpsewhich eccc.mf" and see what it says. For me its output is: $ kpsewhich ecc

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-12 Thread Gmane User
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Well, I didn't have a chance to repeat the attempt on the original computer >> on which the problems was >> observed. However, I tried it on another computer, with the same apparent >> problem (Lyx goes away, >> consumes much

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-12 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I didn't have a chance to repeat the attempt on the original computer > on which the problems was > observed. However, I tried it on another computer, with the same apparent > problem (Lyx goes away, > consumes much CPU, and "never" comes back). I n

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-11 Thread Gmane User
Gmane User wrote: > Richard Heck wrote: >> Gmane User wrote: >>> I'm reading the online documentation, and see no navigation panel >>> to navigate the chapters and subsections. There is only the "Table >>> of Contents" (TOC) button, which only shows 1st level headings. >> Look at the Navigation

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-11 Thread Gmane User
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Enrico Forestieri wrote: Gmane User schrieb: > I've installed LaTex and Lyx via the Cygwin installation, > However, this always seems to crash Lyx. >>> I am using a cygwin version of LyX and have no problems

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-08 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks, Enrico. I will give it a try...will be some time this week, as > there has been a crunch lately. No problem. I would also suggest that you verify whether the problem only occurs when there are graphics. -- Enrico

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-06 Thread Gmane User
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Enrico Forestieri wrote: Gmane User schrieb: > I've installed LaTex and Lyx via the Cygwin installation, > However, this always seems to crash Lyx. >>> I am using a cygwin version of LyX and have no problems

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-06 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >> Gmane User schrieb: > >> > >>> I've installed LaTex and Lyx via the Cygwin installation, > >> > However, this always seems to crash Lyx. > > > > I am using a cygwin version of LyX and have no problems. When you say that >

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-05 Thread Gmane User
Richard Heck wrote: > Gmane User wrote: >> I'm reading the online documentation, and see no navigation panel >> to navigate the chapters and subsections. There is only the "Table >> of Contents" (TOC) button, which only shows 1st level headings. > > Look at the Navigation menu. The TOC button is

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-05 Thread Gmane User
Enrico Forestieri wrote: >> Gmane User schrieb: >> >>> I've installed LaTex and Lyx via the Cygwin installation, >> > However, this always seems to crash Lyx. > > I am using a cygwin version of LyX and have no problems. When you say that > you are trying to view the pdf, do you mean that you are

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-05 Thread Gmane User
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Gmane User schrieb: > >> I've installed LaTex and Lyx via the Cygwin installation, > > Better use LyX's native windows builds when it is possible to avoid > cygwin. Coming from a unix environment, I actually like Cygwin. > Here's a possible installer that also installs MiKTe

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-05 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Enrico Forestieri schrieb: > > > Better avoid the native windows builds if it is possible to use cygwin. > > There's no reason for this. I might be an advantage for you to use > cygwin (for what reason btw.?) but not for new users! I think that cygwin

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Enrico Forestieri schrieb: Better avoid the native windows builds if it is possible to use cygwin. There's no reason for this. I might be an advantage for you to use cygwin (for what reason btw.?) but not for new users! Or why do you think we have invested so much time to get a native Window

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-04 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gmane User schrieb: > > > I've installed LaTex and Lyx via the Cygwin installation, > > Better use LyX's native windows builds when it is possible to avoid > cygwin. ;-) Better avoid the native windows builds if it is possible to use cygwin. > > Ho

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-04 Thread Richard Heck
Gmane User wrote: > I'm reading the online documentation, and see no navigation panel to navigate > the chapters and subsections. There is only the "Table of Contents" (TOC) > button, which only shows 1st level headings. Look at the Navigation menu. The TOC button is there to insert at TOC, no

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Gmane User schrieb: I've installed LaTex and Lyx via the Cygwin installation, Better use LyX's native windows builds when it is possible to avoid cygwin. Here's a possible installer that also installs MiKTeX and configures it for LyX's needs: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller I'

Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-03 Thread Gmane User
Hello, I was advised on the tex newsgroup to post this here. Just a bit of background: I've done a graduate thesis, presentations, and conference papers in LaTex, but that was many years ago. I am highly, highly troubled by Word. I'm a fan of Framemaker 1st, and WordPerfect 2nd. However, the on

Re: Newbie questions

2005-09-30 Thread Helge Hafting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) In need to change the *subsection font to italics, how is this done? Several solutions: 1. A new layout The ideal solution is to get/make a new layout file for lyx, that sets everything up right for you. That way, you get a new document type that you might want

RE: Newbie questions

2005-09-28 Thread lewisa
Thanks all, My articles are now date free. I had found Paul Johnsons stuff searching the mail-archive, but I hadn't come across the wiki pages. I hope they provide the answers I am looking for. Alastair Lewis

Re: Newbie questions

2005-09-28 Thread chr
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Daniel Watkins wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 23:30 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 3) Biblographies. I have used pybliographic to create .bib databases. > > However, changing the order citations in the text upsets the citation > > numbering within the text. I can't find a

Re: Newbie questions

2005-09-27 Thread Daniel Watkins
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 23:30 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 3) Biblographies. I have used pybliographic to create .bib databases. > However, changing the order citations in the text upsets the citation > numbering within the text. I can't find a simple HOWTO on getting the > whole bibtext thing g

Re: Newbie questions

2005-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to lyx, and have been hooked by the concept and potential power of the application. I principally would like to use it for (surgical) journal article preparation. I have three questions that will ease the transation away from OpenOffice.

Newbie questions

2005-09-27 Thread lewisa
I am new to lyx, and have been hooked by the concept and potential power of the application. I principally would like to use it for (surgical) journal article preparation. I have three questions that will ease the transation away from OpenOffice. 1) How do I get rid of the date that follows the

Re: newbie questions about lyx/sgml

2004-12-14 Thread Bo Peng
> > 1. For whatever text in code and verbatim environment, I see [[CDATA etc > >in ps/pdf/html output. > That is a bug. Could you send me a small file showing this? #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \textclass linuxdoc \language english \input

Re: newbie questions about lyx/sgml

2004-12-13 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 13 December 2004 17:30, Bo Peng wrote: > Dear List, > > I am a long time lyx user but totally new to sgml. I am writting a > user's manual and decide to use sgml for its better style. I encountered > several problems: > > 1. For whatever text in code and verbatim environment, I see [[CDAT

newbie questions about lyx/sgml

2004-12-13 Thread Bo Peng
Dear List, I am a long time lyx user but totally new to sgml. I am writting a user's manual and decide to use sgml for its better style. I encountered several problems: 1. For whatever text in code and verbatim environment, I see [[CDATA etc in ps/pdf/html output. The tex file exported look

more lyx newbie questions

2004-10-18 Thread Raphael Clifford
Despite using lyx for a while I am still basically a newbie :) How should this single page have been done correctly for example? Basically I have kludged the footnote markers seriously. I didn't even particularly want footnotes but couldn't see any other way of doing the attributions. Any t

Re: Newbie Questions

2004-10-08 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Herbert Voss schrieb: Uwe Stöhr wrote: [...] choose Layout -> Paragraph -> left aligned this makes only sense for a few paragraphs. For the whole document a \raggedroght in ERT is better I think, \raggedright would be of more use ;-) Dominik.-

Re: Newbie Questions

2004-10-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Also, LyX is hyphenating my text when it reaches the margins. How do I disable this feature? I would rather have text not hyphenated. choose Layout -> Paragraph -> left aligned this makes only sense for a few paragraphs. For the whole document a \raggedroght in ERT is better Herbe

Re: Newbie Questions

2004-10-08 Thread N Castro
--- Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > N Castro wrote: > > > I think I would use some arrangement like Part, > > Chapter, Section, but I don't want the extra > numbers > > (such as 1.1.1 subsection, or Chapter 1- Chapter > > title), I would like to just have the names of > each > > section.

Re: Newbie Questions

2004-10-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
N Castro wrote: I think I would use some arrangement like Part, Chapter, Section, but I don't want the extra numbers (such as 1.1.1 subsection, or Chapter 1- Chapter title), I would like to just have the names of each section. How would I do this? Use the starred form of the environments, e.g. choo

Newbie Questions

2004-10-07 Thread N Castro
Hi everyone. I'm new to using LyX (and still new to using linux in general) and I have a few questions. I want to use LyX to setup the formatting for a text book I want to self publish. It will have some sections and chapters, I have been looking at the tips and tricks section on the main lyx si

Re: Newbie questions...

2004-04-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
German Riano, Ph. D. wrote: These may be FAQ, but I did not find an answer in the FAQs I checked. I am trying to get Ruurd Reitsma´s lyx windows implementation to work on a win2000 machine with MikTex. When running lyx I get: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! There is a textclass.lst

Re: Newbie questions...

2004-04-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I am trying to get Ruurd Reitsma´s lyx windows implementation to work on a win2000 machine with MikTex. When running lyx I get: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! There is a textclass.lst file located at lyx\share\lyx\ which looks fine to my untrained eye. Any idea what is wrong? Try t

Re: Newbie questions...

2004-04-15 Thread Angus Leeming
German Riano, Ph. D. wrote: > I am trying to get Ruurd Reitsma´s lyx windows implementation to > work on a win2000 machine with MikTex. When running lyx I get: > > LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! >From the command line: lyx -dbg all > lyx.log should provide you with a mass of info

Newbie questions...

2004-04-15 Thread German Riano, Ph. D.
These may be FAQ, but I did not find an answer in the FAQs I checked. I am trying to get Ruurd Reitsma´s lyx windows implementation to work on a win2000 machine with MikTex. When running lyx I get: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! There is a textclass.lst file located at lyx\share

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Rajil Saraswat
seems i am on a old version, upgrading now. Thanks - LaTeX2e <2000/06/01> Babel and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n ohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/koma-sc

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rajil Saraswat wrote: > How can i find out which version i am using? if you did a LaTeX run (view dvi/postscript), the version is mentioned in the log file (view->LaTeX Log file). Juergen.

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Rajil Saraswat
How can i find out which version i am using? The tex distribution i have is Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) Does this give some hint? Thanks On Tuesday 24 June 2003 18:29, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Rajil Saraswat wrote: > > Do i need to put this is in the preamble? > > Yes. > > > It gives me two

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rajil Saraswat wrote: > Do i need to put this is in the preamble? Yes. > It gives me two errors if i put > this in the preamble > > LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}. > \setkomafont{s >ectioning}{\normalfon

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Rajil Saraswat
Do i need to put this is in the preamble? It gives me two errors if i put this in the preamble LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}. \setkomafont{s ectioning}{\normalfont\normalcolor\bfseries} You're in trouble h

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rajil Saraswat wrote: > The koma-script reminds me of Arial font of > windows. Can this property be changed for koma-script? Shure. \setkomafont{sectioning}{\normalfont\normalcolor\bfseries} KOMA Script is one of the most flexible class bundle. Have a look at the ~300 pages documentation and yo

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Rajil Saraswat
Thanks for answering my questions. The koma-script looks to have more environments than the simple article style. However i didnt like the fonts of koma-script, i want to use the fonts as used by the article style(i think it is the Adobe Times one). The koma-script reminds me of Arial font of

Re: Some More Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-06-24, 11:38 GMT, Rajil Saraswat wrote: > 1. I exported my lyx file (which had a table using the multirow > package) to a latex file and tried importing it back. The resulting > file had a totally misfigured table. Is lyx not capable of doing this > kind of stuff? Current version of LyX

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-06-24, 08:29 GMT, Rajil Saraswat wrote: > Yesterday i started my first paper in lyx, my supervisor was taken > aback when i showed him the printout, 'it was exactly like a journal' Not only like a journal -- many journals are created with LaTeX :-). > 1. Using the article layout always

Re: Some More Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:11:32PM +0100, Rajil Saraswat wrote: > 2. I inserted a normal graphics without the float feature. Now i want to > assign a caption and refer it in my text. Not sure that 'non floating graphics' can have a caption. You could put it in a float and choose 'Here!' placemen

Re: Some More Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rajil Saraswat wrote: > 2. I inserted a normal graphics without the float feature. Now i want to > assign a caption and refer it in my text. Again a friendly pointer to Herbert's pages: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/floats/nonFloat.phtml (captions are only possible inside floats by def

Re: Some More Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Rajil Saraswat
Thanks i was able to copy the table by opening the files in the same session. I was inserting some images in my file and was stuck with the numbering. I tried two ways: 1. Using a float figure works fine and i can assign and refer captions. 2. I inserted a normal graphics without the float featur

Re: Some More Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rajil Saraswat wrote: > 1. I exported my lyx file (which had a table using the multirow package) to > a latex file and tried importing it back. The resulting file had a totally > misfigured table. Is lyx not capable of doing this kind of stuff? Not always sufficiently (unfortunately). > 2. I want

Re: Some More Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:38:24PM +0100, Rajil Saraswat wrote: > Thank you all for your help. I am slowly and steadily progressing on my lyx > experience. > I couldnt do the following things: > 1. I exported my lyx file (which had a table using the multirow package) to a > latex file and tried i

Some More Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Rajil Saraswat
Thank you all for your help. I am slowly and steadily progressing on my lyx experience. I couldnt do the following things: 1. I exported my lyx file (which had a table using the multirow package) to a latex file and tried importing it back. The resulting file had a totally misfigured table. Is l

Re: FEATURE REQUEST - Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:27:16PM +0900, Jan Peters wrote: > >What's wrong with the current TeX button? > > There was just one user saying: how can I take out the \date line out of > the article? In Latex that would be no problem and that was the answer. > But LyX should be more than a front-end

Re: FEATURE REQUEST - Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Jan Peters
Apparently it's too hard to change this, so it looks like this will be a limitation in LyX for some time now ;( . ... however, you won't find a fancy point&click interface in LyX for that. Could you just add a button: [LATEX] or [PREAMBLE] for these things? What's wrong with the current TeX button

Re: FEATURE REQUEST - Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:58:03PM +0900, Jan Peters wrote: > >>>Apparently it's too hard to change this, so it looks like this will be > >>>a limitation in LyX for some time now ;( . > >> > >>... however, you won't find a fancy point&click interface in LyX for > >>that. > > Could you just add a b

FEATURE REQUEST - Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Jan Peters
Apparently it's too hard to change this, so it looks like this will be a limitation in LyX for some time now ;( . ... however, you won't find a fancy point&click interface in LyX for that. Could you just add a button: [LATEX] or [PREAMBLE] for these things? It is completely fine from a Users point

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rajil Saraswat wrote: > I have some newbie questions here,It would be great if you can give me > hints on these: In general, I can recommend Herbert Voss' Lyx Tips. They are a treasure not only for newbies: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/index.phtml There are also a usef

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Thomas CLive Richards
> > > > Unfortunately, these things seem to be "hard coded" into Lyx. > > These things are 'hard wired' into the corresponding LaTeX class. > This can be changes easily with a line of LaTeX or two... > > > Apparently it's too hard to change this, so it looks like this will > > be a limitation in

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 08:44:21PM +1200, Thomas CLive Richards wrote: > > 2. For a particular layout, how do i change the > > default font settings for paragraph, section, subsection etc. I have > > tried exploring the Layout>Document,Character but these donot change > > setting globally for a par

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
ow :) > I have some newbie questions here,It would be great if you can give me hints > on these: > 1. Using the article layout always add the date to the rendered text. Is it > possible to turn off the date. You can make an empty paragraph with Layout 'Date' near the top of yo

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Thomas CLive Richards
Hey! > 2. For a particular layout, how do i change the > default font settings for paragraph, section, subsection etc. I have > tried exploring the Layout>Document,Character but these donot change > setting globally for a particular environmental depth. > 3. How do i change the type of numbering

Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Rajil Saraswat
Hi, Yesterday i started my first paper in lyx, my supervisor was taken aback when i showed him the printout, 'it was exactly like a journal' is what he said. So i am sticking with lyx for long time now :) I have some newbie questions here,It would be great if you can give me hints o

Re: Newbie questions

2002-11-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:28:39PM -0500, Mark Carroll wrote: > Cool, thanks. (-: It turned out that our local LaTeX person also thought > the \date{} thing would work! The searchable archive is great too. I > haven't found the answer to my removing-section-numbers question yet Can his be solved b

Re: Newbie questions

2002-11-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Christian" == Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christian> Oh, btw Mark, I just checked and there is nothing in the Christian> FAQ.lyx about this, which must be the most frequently asked Christian> question about LyX... Indeed. Christian> So I took the liberty of adding th

RE: Newbie questions

2002-11-20 Thread Jochen Wurster
-Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: Mark Carroll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. November 2002 19:03 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Newbie questions Hi. I'm using LyX 1.1.6fix4 with "latex --version" giving, TeX (Web2C 7.3.7) 3.14159 kpathsea version 3.3.7 I am writing

Re: Newbie questions

2002-11-20 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 04:52, Christian Ridderström wrote: > > You'll probably have lots of use for your "latex"-person :-) > > Here's a very hackish solution for how to get rid of the section and > subsection numbers... it's in a "wiki", so anybody who knows better can > add a better soluti

Re: Newbie questions

2002-11-19 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mark Carroll wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Christian Ridderström wrote: > (snip) > > Oh, btw Mark, I just checked and there is nothing in the FAQ.lyx about > > this, which must be the most frequently asked question about LyX... > > > > So I took the liberty of adding the small

Re: Newbie questions

2002-11-19 Thread Mark Carroll
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Christian Ridderström wrote: (snip) > Oh, btw Mark, I just checked and there is nothing in the FAQ.lyx about > this, which must be the most frequently asked question about LyX... > > So I took the liberty of adding the small piece of .lyx-code below > to the FAQ.lyx now I j

Re: Newbie questions

2002-11-19 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mark Carroll wrote: > > how to get rid of the date under the title > > Am I missing something obvious? I have all the help docs installed if I > just need to be pointed to something I missed. > Oh, btw Mark, I just checked and there is nothing in the FAQ.lyx about this, whi

Re: Newbie questions

2002-11-19 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mark Carroll wrote: > Hi. I'm using LyX 1.1.6fix4 with "latex --version" giving, > TeX (Web2C 7.3.7) 3.14159 > kpathsea version 3.3.7 > > I am writing a document - my first in LyX - where the title, section, > subsection structure of "article" seems to work well, but I can't

Newbie questions

2002-11-19 Thread Mark Carroll
Hi. I'm using LyX 1.1.6fix4 with "latex --version" giving, TeX (Web2C 7.3.7) 3.14159 kpathsea version 3.3.7 I am writing a document - my first in LyX - where the title, section, subsection structure of "article" seems to work well, but I can't work out how to get rid of the date under the title, o

Re: Newbie Questions

2001-02-17 Thread George De Bruin
On Friday 16 February 2001 18:49, Dekel Tsur wrote: > Did you put a TOC in the document using the > insert->list&toc->table_of_contents menu ? > > Maybe you did something else wrong. > See the attached example file. That was exactly it. Just inserted it and it works perfectly. I thought

Re: Newbie Questions

2001-02-16 Thread Marcus Beyer
> On Thursday 15 February 2001 18:54, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > Use Chapter instead of Chapter*. > > Then open the document dialog, and set the "section number depth" to -1. > > This is really, really close. I see now that the TOC menu and Edit->Table > of Contents do show the entries. However, whe

Re: Newbie Questions

2001-02-16 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 12:32:38PM +, George De Bruin wrote: > On Thursday 15 February 2001 18:54, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > Use Chapter instead of Chapter*. > > Then open the document dialog, and set the "section number depth" to -1. > > This is really, really close. I see now that the TOC m

Re: Newbie Questions

2001-02-16 Thread George De Bruin
On Thursday 15 February 2001 18:54, Dekel Tsur wrote: > Use Chapter instead of Chapter*. > Then open the document dialog, and set the "section number depth" to -1. This is really, really close. I see now that the TOC menu and Edit->Table of Contents do show the entries. However, when I genera

Re: Newbie Questions

2001-02-15 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:19:35AM +, George De Bruin wrote: > Hello, > > I am fairly new to LyX, and am having a bit of a problem figuring out how to > do something(s). > > What I am trying to format is a 'book' of 'poetry'. Currently I am using the > book (koma script) document class.

Re: Newbie Questions

2001-02-15 Thread Marcus Beyer
> > What I am trying to format is a 'book' of 'poetry'. Currently I am using > > the book (koma script) document class. I've marked the title of each > > poem using the \layout Chapter* formatting, as that places each piece on > > a new page and doesn't number them. (I also changed the format t

Re: Newbie Questions

2001-02-15 Thread Herbert Voss
George De Bruin wrote: > > Hello, > > I am fairly new to LyX, and am having a bit of a problem figuring out how to > do something(s). > > What I am trying to format is a 'book' of 'poetry'. Currently I am using the > book (koma script) document class. I've marked the title of each poem using

Newbie Questions

2001-02-15 Thread George De Bruin
Hello, I am fairly new to LyX, and am having a bit of a problem figuring out how to do something(s). What I am trying to format is a 'book' of 'poetry'. Currently I am using the book (koma script) document class. I've marked the title of each poem using the \layout Chapter* formatting, as t

Re: Newbie Questions

2000-07-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Kayvan" == Kayvan A Sylvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kayvan> On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 09:28:08AM -0400, Dave Rolfe wrote: >> I have just started using Lyx to create patent documents. I am >> using version 1.1.5fix1 and installed it as an rpm binary. It is >> working quite well, but I have

Re: Newbie Questions

2000-07-26 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 09:28:08AM -0400, Dave Rolfe wrote: > I have just started using Lyx to create patent documents. I am using > version 1.1.5fix1 and installed it as an rpm binary. It is working quite > well, but I have a couple questions. Right now I am printing out using > the Times font, b

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