Re: Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:47:39 +0200 wrote Thomas de Grenier de Latour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Guenter Milde wrote: > > > > PS: Question to the gurus: > > > > Could I have a function or macro that does this but > > also changes the font to roman? > > > > \bind "C-S-underscore""math-inse

Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Juergen Vigna
Sorry for being late on this but it is possible to create a tabular with M-x tabular-insert 80 2 were 80 is the rows and 2 the columns! This should help to create tabulars in ANY size. Jürgen P.S.: This is with lyx-1.1.6xxx. -- -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._

Re: Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
> (Dear documenters: could I have found it somewhere in the documentation?? > ->otherwise this is a documentation request) command-sequence is an awful hack and it not being documeented is a "feature" that should prevent users from using it excessivly in case the hack will change/be removed. A

Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
Guenter Milde wrote: > > Thanks for the tip with "command-sequence". > Thanks for the tip with "font-something", I was thinking it was only a text mode feature (I don't know why, this kind of fix idea you never verify). No more mathrm{blabla} in my formulas! -- Thomas.

Re: Footnote on the next page

2001-07-12 Thread Detlev Humann
> > Detlev Humann wrote: > > > > (I know that Lyx/Latex sometimes splits a footnote over two pages, > > which isn´t very nice but acceptable. However, this is not my problem > > as I have interfootnotelinepenalty=1 in Latex preamble. The > > strange thing in my case is that it doesn´t make a d

LyX to (html,ps,pdf) script

2001-07-12 Thread Fernando Pérez
Hi Lyxers, attached is a Perl script I wrote called lyxpub (short for "lyx publish", for lack of a better name!). It borrows heavily from contributions by S. Evers, but tries to be a bit cleaner and more robust (also do more). >From the mini-documentation: A simple Perl script which takes a L

Help with Lyx for windows

2001-07-12 Thread Fabrizio Giammatteo
Hi, My Lyx for windows doesn't work and I'm terrible sad about using Ms word instead, I installed lyx 1.1.6 fix2 c,cygwin, miktex and I have two x-servers: Exceed Xwin32 When I start Lyx I receive the message: Unable to open X display - Exiting, with all the x-servers above. Anyone can help m

Re: Insert hspace in subfigure

2001-07-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:58:02AM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > But that does not work, if I want to use it only in one float environment in > the document... > > ...I think I will write the latex code. Then put the following at the beginning of the float you want to change \let\origsubfig

Re: Cannot see the invisible text

2001-07-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 06:24:11PM +, Paolo Pumilia wrote: > How to change the colour for the 'invisible text' layout, in 'slide' > document class? > The default colour is too similar to the background; i prefer to change the > former, > but I cannot find a relevant option under preferences-

Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 03:47:39PM +0200, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > > Could I have a function or macro that does this but > > also changes the font to roman? > > define strange shortcuts. Try something like this: > \bind "C-S-underscore""command-sequence math-insert _; > ma

Re: Footnote on the next page

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Detlev Humann wrote: > > > > Detlev Humann wrote: > > > > > > (I know that Lyx/Latex sometimes splits a footnote over two pages, > > > which isn´t very nice but acceptable. However, this is not my problem > > > as I have interfootnotelinepenalty=1 in Latex preamble. The > > > strange thing in

Re: Help with Lyx for windows

2001-07-12 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Fabrizio Giammatteo wrote: > When I start Lyx I receive the message: Unable to open X display - Exiting, > with all the x-servers above. You could try setting environment variables like set DISPLAY=localhost:0 and replace localhost with your computer's name if the a

Re: Help with Lyx for windows

2001-07-12 Thread Claus Hentschel
> Hi, > My Lyx for windows doesn't work and I'm terrible sad about using Ms word > instead, I installed lyx 1.1.6 fix2 c,cygwin, miktex and I have two x-servers: > > Exceed > Xwin32 > > When I start Lyx I receive the message: Unable to open X display - Exiting, > with all the x-servers above. > >

Re: menu not in German

2001-07-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Matthias" == Matthias Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthias> A little curious is that the help uses the LANG variable, Matthias> not LANGUAGE like for the menu. Indeed, gettext uses LANGUAGE and then LANG, and help only uses LANG. We may want to change that... JMarc

Re: Footnote on the next page

2001-07-12 Thread Detlev Humann
> > > > Detlev Humann wrote: > > > > > > > > (I know that Lyx/Latex sometimes splits a footnote over two pages, > > > > which isn´t very nice but acceptable. However, this is not my problem > > > > as I have interfootnotelinepenalty=1 in Latex preamble. The > > > > strange thing in my case is

Re: Footnote on the next page

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Detlev Humann wrote: > > > > > delte the whole latex preamble and all should work. > > > Well, that seems to be a radical solution. (I already tried that to find out > the reason for the behaviour.) > If I delete the whole preamble then my redefined footnote indentation gets > lost and I get a sp

Something interesting to pass along

2001-07-12 Thread Michelle Dukich
Group: You may have seen my posts about trying to get what I called "FloatNotes" to be in a certain place in a document. In my research, I found in _The Latex Companion_ by Goossens, et.al., p. 149, you can go one step more than just h,t,p,b. There is also H. h only means "try to put it here"

UPDATE: LyX to (html,ps,pdf) script

2001-07-12 Thread Fernando Pérez
Update: A. Poenitz found a dumb quoting error I made in yesterday's posting of this script (note to self: don't post code at 3am when too tired to think). The attached version is fixed and should work (I *did* check it :-) Fernando. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 200

Acknowledgements and Abstract in report class??

2001-07-12 Thread number9
I am writing a thesis in Lyx... I am finished with the thesis (I hope) but I must add an acknowledgement page at the beginning right after the title page and an abstract page at the very end. I am using the report (textcomp) class to write it, and can not figure out how to do this. Both the ack

Re: Something interesting to pass along

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Michelle Dukich wrote: > > You may have seen my posts about trying to get what I called "FloatNotes" to be > in a certain place in a document. In my research, I found in _The Latex > Companion_ by Goossens, et.al., p. 149, you can go one step more than just > h,t,p,b. There is also H. h only m

Re: Footnote on the next page

2001-07-12 Thread Detlev Humann
> \interfootnotelinepenalty=1 > > is possible > > it was your redefinition makefntext > > HErbert > Sorry for one more email: Did I get you right that there is only one alternative (((ok, latinists know that there is always one alternative))): Either my indentation and footnotes appear someti

bibtex and the natdin package using command like citet and citep

2001-07-12 Thread Arnd Geldermann
Hallo, i am using the natdin package in combination with lyx 1.1.6 fix 1 in order to get a bibliography close to the german din 1505. I use the following customizing: preamble usepackage{natbib} and the stayle natdin.bst Normal cites are working finem, but the command \citet and \citep for spe

corloured rows in tables; colortbl package

2001-07-12 Thread Arnd Geldermann
Hello, i am using lyx 1.1.6 fix 1 and i want to colour rows in tables. For columns i use the command >{\columncolor[gray]{.9}} and it works very well, but when i try to the rowcolor command i got some trouble. I add the package colortbl in the preamble. It doesn't work in lyx tables i tried >

Ispell Problem

2001-07-12 Thread Amer Abufadel
Hello all, I have just finished installing Lyx on a win2k machine running Cygwin. When I want to spell check the document, the GUI freezes and it tells me that the spell checker has died and that I should install a dictionary. I am using American/English. I thought the dictionaries for these

Re: corloured rows in tables; colortbl package

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Arnd Geldermann wrote: > > i am using lyx 1.1.6 fix 1 and i want to colour rows in tables. > For columns i use the command >{\columncolor[gray]{.9}} and it works > very well, > but when i try to the rowcolor command i got some trouble. > I add the package colortbl in the preamble. > It doesn't

Re: Ispell Problem

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Amer Abufadel wrote: > > I have just finished installing Lyx on a win2k machine running Cygwin. > When I want to spell check the document, the GUI freezes and it tells me > that the spell checker has died and that I should install a dictionary. I > am using American/English. I thought the d

Re: Ispell Problem

2001-07-12 Thread Amer Abufadel
I tried that, still it did not work.. - Original Message - From: "Herbert Voss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Amer Abufadel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 3:46 PM Subject: Re: Ispell Problem > Amer Abufadel wrote: > > > > I have just finished in

latex2html and InputIfFileExists

2001-07-12 Thread Thomas Templin
Im trying to export html via latex2html but it don't work. Remarks: I'm using a system-wide big include file with my own /newcommand definitions like \newcommand{\firma}[1]{\textbf{#1}}for word formating purposes. So I need a way to include this for a html output. This has to be done automatic

Re: latex2html and InputIfFileExists

2001-07-12 Thread Fernando Pérez
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Thomas Templin wrote: > Im trying to export html via latex2html but it don't work. > See my earlier message from a few hours ago (with subject line UPDATE: LyX to (html,ps,pdf) script). It's Perl script designed to do exactly that (plus giving you pdf and ps along the way),

Re: latex2html and InputIfFileExists

2001-07-12 Thread Thomas Templin
On Friday, 13. July 2001 00:25, Fernando Pérez wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Thomas Templin wrote: > > Im trying to export html via latex2html but it don't work. > > See my earlier message from a few hours ago (with subject line > UPDATE: LyX to (html,ps,pdf) script). It's Perl script designed > t

ps2pdf

2001-07-12 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! I'm trying to convert some foiltex to pdf for a presentation. I put \usepackage[ps2pdf]{hyperref} in the latex preamble. ps2pdf works fine but the colors and the fonts come out terrible on acroread on the pc. Any ideas? Thanks, -- myriam IM: tokujawa

Re: ps2pdf

2001-07-12 Thread Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes
if you write n your preamble: \usepackage{times} it will deliver a much more readble pdf, but you might get a 'windows-like' font-effect. cheers []s lima-lopes R.E. de Lima-Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU/Linux Registered User # 182240 On 12 Jul 2001, Myriam Abramson wrote:

Re: ps2pdf

2001-07-12 Thread Fernando Pérez
On 12 Jul 2001, Myriam Abramson wrote: > > Hi! > > I'm trying to convert some foiltex to pdf for a presentation. > I put \usepackage[ps2pdf]{hyperref} in the latex preamble. > ps2pdf works fine but the colors and the fonts come out terrible on > acroread on the pc. Any ideas? > > Thanks, He

landscape slides truncated

2001-07-12 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! Thanks for everybody who fixed my font problem. Now what do I do with those landscape slides to come out correctly? Redo them? -- myriam As seen in a coffee shop in Monterey, CA, George W. Bush's counter: 1288 days left till he's gone

LyX + WinME + MikTeX

2001-07-12 Thread Mostafa Modirrousta
Hi!   Getting LyX installed on my WinME was not really that easy :) compared to installing MikTeX + WinEdt; however, since I might recommend it for use on other PCs at work, Linux and Win2K, I tried to get a feeling of what it is and does.   1.    Cygwin installed fine 2.    X-Win32 installe

LyX + WinME + MikTeX

2001-07-12 Thread Mostafa Modirrousta
  - Original Message - From: Mostafa Modirrousta To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mostafa Modirrousta Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 12:09 AM Subject: LyX + WinME + MikTeX Hi!   Getting LyX installed on my WinME was not really that easy :) compared to installing Mi

Re: landscape slides truncated

2001-07-12 Thread Allan Rae
On 12 Jul 2001, Myriam Abramson wrote: > > Hi! > > Thanks for everybody who fixed my font problem. > > Now what do I do with those landscape slides to come out correctly? > Redo them? I am guessing that you are mixing landscape and portrait slides? I've always found that using RotateFoilhead or

RE: LyX + WinME + MikTeX

2001-07-12 Thread Saalfeld, Christoph
If you download all the necessary files from the LyX for Win32 page (including the ghostscript4.03 - version there) there should be no problem. You can extract ghostscript manually by copying gs-4.03.tar.gz to your Cygwin root directory and executing "tar -xvzf gs-4.03.tar.gz". Of course yo

Lyx source package incomplete?

2001-07-12 Thread Friedrich Graef
Is it intentionally that the file lyx-1.1.6fix2/sigc++/slot.h in the tar file lyx-1.1.6fix2 from ftp://hst33127.phys.uu.nl/pub/LyX is empty? The make procedure stops exactly at compilation of slot.cc with an error. Friedrich Graef Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg