Problem with bullets in French (LyX 1.3.4)

2004-04-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
If you select language as French, LyX uses frenchb in babel (reasonable enough!). However, this package overrides list formatting. In particular, it overrides the settings for bullets, so that customizing them in LyX has no effect. By default, LyX should override this feature of frenchb, by

Re: Problem with bullets in French (LyX 1.3.4)

2004-04-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Reuben Thomas wrote: Now, I would of course like to do this myself while I'm waiting for the next version of LyX, but I can't, because if I add \StandardLayout to the preamble, it's too early (babel hasn't been called yet) whereas if I put it in the body of the document it's too late (because

Re: Problem with bullets in French (LyX 1.3.4)

2004-04-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Load babel in the preamble before you invoke \StandardLayout Thanks. Is this general principle in the user guide? (I read the section about the preamble but didn't find anything.) -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | computation, n. automated pedantry

Re: Problem with bullets in French (LyX 1.3.4)

2004-04-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Reuben Thomas wrote: Load babel in the preamble before you invoke \StandardLayout Thanks. Is this general principle in the user guide? (I read the section about the preamble but didn't find anything.) I don't think so, because the User Guide was written at a time when lyx loaded babel

Problem with bullets in French (LyX 1.3.4)

2004-04-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
If you select language as French, LyX uses frenchb in babel (reasonable enough!). However, this package overrides list formatting. In particular, it overrides the settings for bullets, so that customizing them in LyX has no effect. By default, LyX should override this feature of frenchb, by

Re: Problem with bullets in French (LyX 1.3.4)

2004-04-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Reuben Thomas wrote: Now, I would of course like to do this myself while I'm waiting for the next version of LyX, but I can't, because if I add \StandardLayout to the preamble, it's too early (babel hasn't been called yet) whereas if I put it in the body of the document it's too late (because

Re: Problem with bullets in French (LyX 1.3.4)

2004-04-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Load babel in the preamble before you invoke \StandardLayout Thanks. Is this general principle in the user guide? (I read the section about the preamble but didn't find anything.) -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | computation, n. automated pedantry

Re: Problem with bullets in French (LyX 1.3.4)

2004-04-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Reuben Thomas wrote: Load babel in the preamble before you invoke \StandardLayout Thanks. Is this general principle in the user guide? (I read the section about the preamble but didn't find anything.) I don't think so, because the User Guide was written at a time when lyx loaded babel

Problem with bullets in French (LyX 1.3.4)

2004-04-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
If you select language as French, LyX uses frenchb in babel (reasonable enough!). However, this package overrides list formatting. In particular, it overrides the settings for bullets, so that customizing them in LyX has no effect. By default, LyX should override this feature of frenchb, by

Re: Problem with bullets in French (LyX 1.3.4)

2004-04-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Reuben Thomas wrote: > Now, I would of course like to do this myself while I'm waiting for > the next version of LyX, but I can't, because if I add > \StandardLayout to the preamble, it's too early (babel hasn't been > called yet) whereas if I put it in the body of the document it's too > late

Re: Problem with bullets in French (LyX 1.3.4)

2004-04-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
> Load babel in the preamble before you invoke \StandardLayout Thanks. Is this general principle in the user guide? (I read the section about the preamble but didn't find anything.) -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | computation, n. automated pedantry

Re: Problem with bullets in French (LyX 1.3.4)

2004-04-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Reuben Thomas wrote: >> Load babel in the preamble before you invoke \StandardLayout > > Thanks. Is this general principle in the user guide? (I read the > section about the preamble but didn't find anything.) I don't think so, because the User Guide was written at a time when lyx loaded babel