Re: Problem with ps2pdf pdflatex

2012-07-20 Thread David L. Johnson
, in general, of graphics formats than pdlatex (I often include postscript and eps graphics, which sometimes pdflatex does not like). -- David L. Johnson Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand we like to call it something you can't understand, or indeed even pronounce

Re: Margins in LyX

2012-08-05 Thread David L. Johnson
on the document class. What class are you using? -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Re: Margins in LyX

2012-08-05 Thread David L. Johnson
On 08/05/2012 10:37 PM, Eisa Alanazi wrote: I have asked exactly the same question almost 2 years ago :) what I got: Inner= left and outer=right That would be correct for a one-sided document, but not for a two-sided document, of course. -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency

Re: ams article defect

2006-11-15 Thread David L. Johnson
packages. My current workaround is to export the TeX file, then comment out the babel package. It then seems to work correctly. -- David L. Johnson __o | Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of _`\(,_ | business. (_)/ (_) |

Re: ams article defect

2006-11-15 Thread David L. Johnson
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:13:18 +0100 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David == David L Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:55:44 -0500 David Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recall hitting this problem once before, but I forgot what the fix

Re: ams article defect

2006-11-16 Thread David L. Johnson
a piece of the tex distribution by snagging archives from CTAN, which for all I know would screw something else up. -- David L. Johnson __o | And what if you track down these men and kill them, what if you _`\(,_ | killed all of us? From every corner of Europe, hundreds

Re: Contiguous definitions in AMS article

2006-12-07 Thread David L. Johnson
, then everything works fine, but this is an awkward workaround. Does anyone know a btter way to do this? I always put a % in ERT (change to standard mode) between them. No need to change what you write to accomodate the software -- David L. Johnson __o | It is a scientifically proven

Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

2006-12-18 Thread David L. Johnson
not be compatible with the official one in terms of dependencies. Does Ubuntu come in various levels of cutting-edge-ness like pure debian does? Maybe there is already a package there you could use. -- David L. Johnson __o | Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve

Re: volume of rotation drawing

2006-12-21 Thread David L. Johnson
in setting up the graphics, ask me off-list. -- David L. Johnson __o | Let's not escape into mathematics. Let's stay with reality. -- _`\(,_ | Michael Crichton (_)/ (_) |

Re: Equations display improperly on x86-64 linux build

2006-12-27 Thread David L. Johnson
on your machine (specific distribution), and which package, if you are using a standard package, of latex (typically, it would be tetex or texlive (my favorite)). What X fonts do you have installed? -- David L. Johnson __o | If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach

Re: texlive as support for lyx

2007-01-15 Thread David L. Johnson
. In what sense is tetex required for lyx? -- David L. Johnson __o | Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can _`\(,_ | assure you that mine are all greater. -- A. Einstein (_)/ (_) |

Re: texlive as support for lyx

2007-01-15 Thread David L. Johnson
that as a precaution. This, by the way, was with debian etch. I have since upgraded the distribution several times, with no problem appearing. -- David L. Johnson __o | You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say this; but _`\(,_ | what canst thou say? -- George Fox. (_)/ (_) |

Re: Hello!

2007-01-20 Thread David L. Johnson
. If I am going to do a substantial amount of search/replace editing, I will open up the *.lyx file in a text editor, and use its find/replace. -- David L. Johnson And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I

Re: texlive math problems

2007-01-29 Thread David L. Johnson
and lyx-1.4.3, and have no such problems. Odd. What linux distribution do you use? I just wanted to see if anyone knew of any issues under ubuntu-edgy and LyX 1.4.3 with texlive. Very odd. isn't Ubuntu-edgy essentially debian etch? That is what I use. -- David L. Johnson And though I have

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread David L. Johnson
L. Johnson Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. -- J. R. R. Tolkein

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread David L. Johnson
this is even easier that ERT, and the character appears as such on the screen. John Doesn't work for me (debian linux/american keyboard). -- David L. Johnson Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. -- Douglas Adams

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread David L. Johnson
John Coppens wrote: On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:13:47 -0500 David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't work for me (debian linux/american keyboard). If you feel like it, try to check if you have a file in your home directory called .Xmodmap (it's a hidden file). If so, add the following

Re: how to pronounce LyX

2007-03-01 Thread David L. Johnson
-processor for unix systems with that name. Part of the choice of name, and spelling/case, was to be a bit ambiguous with the allusion to TeX. -- David L. Johnson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw

Re: how to pronounce LyX

2007-03-01 Thread David L. Johnson
John O'Gorman wrote: In the absence of a papal pronouncement, there will never be an authoritative answer. But there was, initially, such a pronouncement from Matthias. I was just an acolyte at the time, but it was duly recorded in the scrolls. -- David L. Johnson Accept risk. Accept

Re: Equation numbering in different document classes

2007-03-06 Thread David L. Johnson
the section number. They are simply numbered 1,2,3... Add to the preamble: \numberwithin{equation}{section} This ought to work; it's what works for the amsart class. -- David L. Johnson Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of enough typewriters and typed long enough

Re: Combination symbol

2007-03-14 Thread David L. Johnson
by (). Example attached. -- David L. Johnson A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. -- Paul Erdos choose.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: key bindings on mac os x

2007-03-16 Thread David L. Johnson
environments, but a decision was made to only use \emph{}. Of course, it may be that Mac's do this with opt-i for other programs. -- David L. Johnson As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality

Re: lyx command

2007-03-23 Thread David L. Johnson
lyx. I presume that will work. Then, to save your fingers, create a symbolic link from lyx-qt to lyx. IMO, the installation should have done that for you, and it should have had you choose between one or the other toolkit rather than cluttering up your machine with both. -- David L. Johnson

Re: ongoing numbered list?

2007-04-14 Thread David L. Johnson
. and more text Just increase the environment depth of the intervening text. -- David L. Johnson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-09 Thread David L. Johnson
to MS Word than to get the multitudes of MS Word users to switch to LyX, which many haven't heard of, don't have, and don't know how to install. This should be less of a concern for the likes of O'Reilly, who really do support open source, the antithesis of MS practice. -- David L. Johnson

Re: How to write an algebra textbook?

2007-05-11 Thread David L. Johnson
that an x is multiplication, seeing as how x is also a variable. Algebra seems to be confusing enough. You can also use \cdot to get a centered dot to denote multiplication. -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers

LyX math fonts

2007-05-13 Thread David L. Johnson
correctly, but are shown in ERT. I can live with that, but would prefer not to. So, what fonts do I need to install to get LyX really working? If anyone knows of a tetex or texlive ipkg file, I'd like that, too. -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread David L. Johnson
, not the Angstrom (zaurus) that I am setting up, so it will probably work better for you. Ignore the windows-specific Readme file in the package. -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. --Ralph Waldo

Re: Best document class for a math book?

2007-05-27 Thread David L. Johnson
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, My next book will be a math book. I assume there are better document classes to use for this than the book document class. What are some document classes that are good for math books? Try amsbook. -- David L. Johnson

Re: Question - theorem numbering

2007-06-10 Thread David L. Johnson
through those documents and there will be examples, I hope, of what you want. -- David L. Johnson It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste in the nation. -- David Sarnoff, 1939

Re: Inverted commas

2007-06-18 Thread David L. Johnson
style) with the inversions you want, at least it is correct for me. They don't appear as nicely on the LyX screen, but as long as the printout is good that should be allright. -- David L. Johnson It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists

Re: Inverted commas

2007-06-18 Thread David L. Johnson
with examples of quotes. For the correctly typeset ones, I just type . Lyx converts the strings as you see, by converting the to `` or '' depending upon position, which then TeX understands. -- David L. Johnson As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain

Odd behavior with displayed equations

2007-06-27 Thread David L. Johnson
it in between the words. I know it worked the way I expected in 1.4.3; since I have been doing solutions to HW this way all Summer session, until just now (I got 1.4.4 a couple days ago). What happened, and was it intentional? -- David L. Johnson When you are up to your ass in alligators, it's

Found how to get displaystyle!

2007-06-28 Thread David L. Johnson
changed the behavior did not update. Anyway, just on a whim I entered \displaystyle in a math inset, and a subinset appeared. Putting stuff in that subinset magically put it in displaystyle font. -- David L. Johnson Business! cried the Ghost. Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my

Theorem numbering bug in 1.4.4

2007-07-03 Thread David L. Johnson
number between sections. There were 9 statements in the previous sections. I don't know when this first appeared, but I would guess that it was fairly recently, either in 1.4.4 or 1.4.3. If this is not a known problem, I will post a sample file illustrating it. -- David L. Johnson Some people

dvi preview in 1.5.0rc2?

2007-07-11 Thread David L. Johnson
graphics did not show up on xdvi, but the text was much cleaner (under linux) than pdf previews, and ps previews seems to be overkill. Or, did I just have some bad configuration somewhere? I built it directly from the source on lyx.org. Machine: debian sid x86. -- David L. Johnson

Re: Prefix powers bind to wrong symbol

2007-08-26 Thread David L. Johnson
TeX you can put it in ERT, or use a macro to make that simpler. The smart-ass answer would be to change your notation... -- David L. Johnson Let's not escape into mathematics. Let's stay with reality. -- Michael Crichton

Re: AMS 2000 Classification

2007-08-29 Thread David L. Johnson
on the output. -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Re: AMS users: vote your preferences!

2007-09-21 Thread David L. Johnson
theorems in section 1, the first theorem in section 2 would appear on-screen as theorem (2.5). It did not print that way, though. Someone sent me layout files that fixed that (maybe you?), but in any event those changes should be incorporated. -- David L. Johnson Become MicroSoft-free forever

Re: AMS users: vote your preferences!

2007-09-22 Thread David L. Johnson
, that's in the next wave. Good. And, lest I forget, thanks for doing the original hack! And thanks to you (and many others) for making it actually work. -- David L. Johnson The motor car reflects our standard of living and gauges the speed of our present life. It long ago ran down Simple Living

Re: AMS users: vote your preferences!

2007-09-22 Thread David L. Johnson
by most people, and anyone with specific requirements outside of those choices can always use some ERT or preamble settings to get there. -- David L. Johnson It doesn't get any easier, you just go faster. --Greg LeMond

Re: DVI sem imagens

2007-09-24 Thread David L. Johnson
files, using xdvi. At the moment, though, my graphics do show up in xdvi, so this may depend upon either the version/capabilities of your dvi viewer, or the LyX version. I presume the graphics appear correctly when you print, and viewing within LyX. -- David L. Johnson It doesn't get any

Re: DVI sem imagens [displaying images in DVI]

2007-09-25 Thread David L. Johnson
won't be, unless I learn Catalan instead. BTW, LyX was not an English-developed software, Roberto. The original developer is German, the math-insets were primarily written by a Mexican, and there is this JMarc guy who probably speaks some sort of furrin lingo. -- David L. Johnson

Re: Why the list should remain as Not English only

2007-09-27 Thread David L. Johnson
par les Francophones ;-) Or for those who just don't understand the technical points being discussed. No answer, in any language, will work for everyone. We live with that. -- David L. Johnson I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system

Re: tek capacity exceeded input stack

2007-10-03 Thread David L. Johnson
with the file to find the mistake. -- David L. Johnson Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are all greater. -- A. Einstein

Re: Does anyone have templates for business letters?

2007-10-04 Thread David L. Johnson
Lance Simmons wrote: On 10/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no clue what this looks like, and perhaps others don't as well. Maybe you should explain what you'd want, or post a link to an example? The example David L. Johnson posted earlier in this thread is the sort of thing I have

Re: tetex vs texlive for latex2rtf?

2007-10-18 Thread David L. Johnson
to install latex2rtf without worrying about the dependencies, and it will probably work fine. -- David L. Johnson Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them would reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare

Re: Bad PDF-Quality

2007-10-23 Thread David L. Johnson
usually have better luck with ps2pdf than with dvipdf4 or pdflatex. Also, it may print better than it displays. -- David L. Johnson What is objectionable, and what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. --Robert F. Kennedy

Re: subscript in superscript

2007-10-23 Thread David L. Johnson
example, you will get better results in general if you use \log, but I doubt that it matters here. -- David L. Johnson Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand we like to call it something you can't understand, or indeed even pronounce. -- Douglas Adams

Re: LyX 1.5.2.'s fuzzy screen in Mac + math mode pop up

2007-10-28 Thread David L. Johnson
, but that is my experience. -- David L. Johnson What is objectionable, and what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. --Robert F. Kennedy

Re: Question for euqations

2012-08-31 Thread David L. Johnson
attach a label (a number) to one line of that multi-line formula (you can also attach separate labels to each line if needed). -- David L. Johnson What is objectionable, and what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant

Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version?

2012-09-01 Thread David L. Johnson
. But what do I know? That seems to say that you don't have access to much of anything in the system. How can that be? Maybe a regular user shouldn't be able to write to some of those directories, but read?? -- David L. Johnson Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death

Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version?

2012-09-01 Thread David L. Johnson
of Ubuntu you are looking at is a stable version, which is always pretty old. -- David L. Johnson It is a scientifically proven fact that a mid life crisis can only be cured by something racy and Italian. Bianchis and Colnagos are a lot cheaper than Maserattis and Ferraris

Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version?

2012-09-05 Thread David L. Johnson
installed automatically with ver. 2012? Maybe not. I have neither tlmgr nor leadpar in my TeXlive 2012. -- David L. Johnson Business! cried the Ghost. Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings

Re: Viewing Bold Calligraphy characters in pdf

2012-09-23 Thread David L. Johnson
, but not in the pdf. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: math bold revisited

2012-09-23 Thread David L. Johnson
to be to install the symbol package (or maybe, if that fails or if it's already installed, the ly1 package). Paul That link didn't work, but this is not just a MiKTeX issue. I use linux (debian wheezy), which has texlive, and it has the same issue. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics

Re: Change text color in output!

2012-10-02 Thread David L. Johnson
viewer issue. Try it with a postscript or dvi viewer, or send a sample file. -- David L. Johnson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw

Re: Please help!

2012-10-18 Thread David L. Johnson
to check the address to which the lists are sent to know which address to use when changing anything, since I use david.john...@lehigh.edu as an alias to my real account name. -- David L. Johnson I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system

Re: TeX capacity exceeded

2012-11-05 Thread David L. Johnson
part that you cut out. -- David L. Johnson What is objectionable, and what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. --Robert F. Kennedy

Re: Getting rid of You cannot type two spaces this way message?

2012-11-24 Thread David L. Johnson
. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Not a readable lyx document

2012-11-25 Thread David L. Johnson
. Although disk drives do seem more reliable than they used to be, it does still happen. -- David L. Johnson As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein

Re: APA6 class with LyX?

2012-12-09 Thread David L. Johnson
on Latex. I also have no idea whether this has any relevance outside of the US. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: APA6 class with LyX?

2012-12-10 Thread David L. Johnson
from the 1970s and before were works of art, but even most Springer-Verlag monographs were truly ugly. -- David L. Johnson The motor car reflects our standard of living and gauges the speed of our present life. It long ago ran down Simple Living, and never halted to inquire about

Re: APA6 class with LyX?

2012-12-10 Thread David L. Johnson
On 12/10/2012 05:51 PM, stefano franchi wrote: /really end rant Cheers, Hullabaloo, caneck, caneck. -- David L. Johnson Become MicroSoft-free forever. Ask me how.

Re: Strange Lyx Beamer error

2013-02-14 Thread David L. Johnson
command, at least when you write it with LyX. I don't know how setting up multiple chapters might change that, since I only use Beamer for lectures. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: kitr problem after R update.

2013-02-18 Thread David L. Johnson
call them Imperial, that would be almost as un-American as using the Godless metric system (yes, that really is what many people here called it when there was an abortive effort to convert, many years ago). -- David L. Johnson Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should

Re: kitr problem after R update.

2013-02-18 Thread David L. Johnson
On 02/18/2013 03:14 PM, John Kane wrote: *From:* David L. Johnson david.john...@lehigh.edu *To:* lyx-users@lists.lyx.org *Sent:* Monday, February 18, 2013 11:06:00 AM *Subject:* Re: kitr problem after R update. On 02/18

Re: install lyx 2.0.5-1 linux debian --- was: install lyx 2.0.3-3 linux debian

2013-03-04 Thread David L. Johnson
distribution, and if that doesn't, then certainly the setup that lyx does the first time you start it should find all related files and programs. -- David L. Johnson Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of business.

Re: install lyx 2.0.5-1 linux debian --- was: install lyx 2.0.3-3 linux debian

2013-03-05 Thread David L. Johnson
specify an output by the option -o outputfilename it will spit the output to stdout. So, to process a file oldfile.lyx and get an updated version newfile.lyx, enter on the command line: /full/path/to/lyx2lyx -o newfile.lyx oldfile.lyx it worked for me. -- David L. Johnson Department

Re: editing a matrix

2013-03-07 Thread David L. Johnson
for the appropriate string on the *.lyx file, using an editor. This is not the advised way, but it is quick when it works. Before doing something like this, though, do make a backup copy of the file... -- David L. Johnson Let's not escape into mathematics. Let's stay with reality

Re: Two hopefully simple lyx questions

2013-03-12 Thread David L. Johnson
. Is the function so long that it takes more than a whole line of a page? TeX sometimes has trouble with inline equations. It will not hyphenate such a line (hyphens would be interpreted as minus signs), leaving it for you to do manually. -- David L. Johnson Let's be straight here. If we find

Re: Two hopefully simple lyx questions

2013-03-12 Thread David L. Johnson
the line and shorter words surround it. I do this, too, on occasion. Rich I think the issue is that this is happening in math mode. There, lines are up to the writer entirely. -- David L. Johnson Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand we like to call it something you

Re: [off-topic] LyX as a LaTeX table editor (and other selling advice)

2013-03-13 Thread David L. Johnson
can endure, along with getting a widescreen monitor, and still at times I wish for more. Of course, this does not mean I want the text spread out over a very long line like that, only the math block (or a table, perhaps). -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: editing math in lyx

2013-03-20 Thread David L. Johnson
at that, but not until after mid-April. If no one else volunteers, send it to me and I will take a look at it to see how much work it will be. -- David L. Johnson Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of business.

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-01 Thread David L. Johnson
actually re-typeset the whole thing in LaTeX in order to print it. I would not expect to be able to effortlessly convert a 140-page thesis from Word *.docx to html. Can Word itself really do that in a way that does not mangle equations? -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh

Re: String is too long ...?

2013-05-25 Thread David L. Johnson
is accidentally in a section-style environment. Every time I have seen a similar message that was the culprit. Look at those areas where you made changes just to be sure everything is in the correct environment. -- David L. Johnson I believe that the motion picture is destined

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-18 Thread David L. Johnson
, with properly typeset equations, so I can think while I am writing. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-18 Thread David L. Johnson
On 08/18/2013 09:26 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 8/18/13 5:02 PM, Chris Menzel wrote: On Aug 18, 2013 5:10 PM, David L. Johnson d...@lehigh.edu mailto:d...@lehigh.edu wrote: ... For my papers it is of course ideal. Math journals all accept (prefer) LaTeX source, and they can change margins

Fwd: Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-21 Thread David L. Johnson
Original Message Subject:Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:22:19 -0400 From: David L. Johnson david.john...@lehigh.edu To: Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net On 08/21/2013 11:45 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote: And I

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-22 Thread David L. Johnson
know if I find anything. -- David L. Johnson And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. [1 Corinth. 13:2]

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-22 Thread David L. Johnson
to link in a musical reference, which I suggested would also apply to LyX. -- David L. Johnson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-22 Thread David L. Johnson
beyond the linux/unix base, and so these widget-set/desktop-environment distinctions are no longer important. -- David L. Johnson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-25 Thread David L. Johnson
which version) on plain MS DOS? Oh, yeah. Plus various technical-writing programs, some more wysiwyg than others, but the printout usually was horrible. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: spellchecker

2013-09-04 Thread David L. Johnson
settings, but other than that we should have the same behavior. Also the same, my configure.log file makes no mention of spell or enchant, so that may not be part of what is configured, although it seems it should be. -- David L. Johnson When you are up to your ass in alligators, it's hard

Re: Math-mode previews not showing properly

2013-09-05 Thread David L. Johnson
Hmm. The file seemed to have no problem for me. Lyx-2.0.6, linux debian testing. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Beamer in the next Lyx version: a worry?

2013-09-06 Thread David L. Johnson
appreciated. Me, too. I have all of my class presentations on beamer, created through lyx in the (admittedly clunky) way we have now. I would hate to have to re-do all of that. -- David L. Johnson Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job

Re: Lyx not saving words to personal dictionary

2013-09-09 Thread David L. Johnson
occasionally. -- David L. Johnson Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them would reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare. The internet has proven this not to be the case.

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-23 Thread David L. Johnson
, with open-source software, to actually ask for help from the person who wrote it. For example, this list is well-populated by the actual developers of LyX, who are very helpful. Commercial support will connect you with a call center full of people reading from scripts. -- David L. Johnson

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-25 Thread David L. Johnson
, and bibliographic citations, and LyX has been the perfect partner and document processor. It does everything I need, produces beautiful pdf's, and it's solid as a rock. A heartfelt thank you to JMarc and the other LyX developers. Bruce Absolutely! -- David L. Johnson And what if you track down

Re: Exporting to arXiv.org

2013-11-07 Thread David L. Johnson
will accept! The easiest is if you don't have a separate bibtex file, and if you have no diagrams. Then the export to plain LaTeX should be all they need. If it doesn't work, contact me off-list and I will try to help. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Package babel Error: Unknow option `ngerman'

2013-11-11 Thread David L. Johnson
, though, why you can't install all languages is somehow a fault of either the package maintainer, or the archive you are using. What came after where you cut this off? Did it say why it was not going to install the Latvian package? Maybe the file wasn't found? -- David L. Johnson What

Re: printing

2013-12-04 Thread David L. Johnson
in ligatures and other fancy font details, re-sets the page width and justification, and prints what you wrote. Some fonts are different, but usually better than the on-screen appearance. Why would you want it more like the screen? -- David L. Johnson And what if you track down these men and kill

Re: Maple and Lyx on Ubuntu

2013-12-30 Thread David L. Johnson
also don't recall any special set-up to get it to work. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Quick question regarding copy/paste and cut/paste

2014-01-15 Thread David L. Johnson
? Can these settings be altered? This seems to be Windows-specific, so I can't help further. Screenshot clipped to save bandwidth. -- David L. Johnson Business! cried the Ghost. Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were

Re: Math in LibreOffice/Word exported files: input needed

2014-03-13 Thread David L. Johnson
in your documents? 3. Why do you/would you need to export to LibreOffice/Word format? (to send the documents to publishers, mentors, advisors, colleagues, and so on) -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: repeated bibtex entry on 2.1-rc1

2014-04-16 Thread David L. Johnson
the years. tables and list of tables more correctly refers to the more general situation. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Beamer in Lyx 2.1.0

2014-05-08 Thread David L. Johnson
similarly to the treatment of a Section, or to treat it more like a Theorem or quotation environment. Following LaTeX treatment is probably best in the long run. Getting out of such an environment could be easier. Why does a plain frame have space for a title? -- David L. Johnson Department

Re: Bug

2014-05-13 Thread David L. Johnson
a document open in LyX 2.1.0 and then open a new one from recent documents, it works correctly. I wonder whether it is a bug in LyX, or elsewhere. Are these particularly large or complicated documents? Do you have the same problem no matter which documents you have open and opening? -- David L

Re: Bug in the Math UI

2014-05-13 Thread David L. Johnson
around the numbers, and it looks more like a binomial coefficient. Easier as well. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Probleme mit Sonderzeichen

2014-06-16 Thread David L. Johnson
In math-mode, enter the F. Highlight that F. Then, look on the menu at the bottom of the screen, for a dotted square with a hat on top. It will open up a menu with a choice of decorations you can add, including the hat you need. There are two types, smaller and larger. HTH. -- David L

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