Re: problem using beamer

2006-01-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Subir Singh Lamba wrote: Hi, I tried installing beammer. On reconfiguring lyx it show beamer package as installed. My problem is when we untar beamer distribution it has other directories such as theme, extensions etc. Where do we put these directories? Are we suppose to merge all them

Re: problem using beamer

2006-01-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Subir Singh Lamba wrote: Hi, I had seen ur posting but in lyx I ccould not find Format - Document - Page to set the page size to 96 x 128 mm. In 1.3.x it's Layout-Document-Paper, but just leave it set to default (and make sure that the orientation is set to portrait rather than

Re: idiosyncrasies with lyx and beamer (bookmarks)

2006-01-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Micha Feigin wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:45:19 -0500 Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: For some reason when I use beamer with lyx and set tocdepth to 1 I get no bookmarks for sections/subsections but setting it to 2 I get bookmarks for both sections

Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi all, I'm trying to concoct a LyX template to let me write letters on school letterhead, the last task for which I still rely on WordPerfect. Having looked at akletter, newlfm and komascript, I think komascript gives me my best shot, and I have a template that just falls short of what I

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: Letters are about the only writing I do with OO.o; everything else is on LyX. I, too, would like a business letter template (full block mode) with my logo/letterhead on the first page and the recipient's name, the date, and current page number on subsequent pages. If

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stephen Harris wrote: I was reading in Extended.lyx and Juergen mentions scrlttr2 as quite configurable for writing letters with Koma-script. I see logo mentioned in Chapter 6 of the document below (in English). http://www.math.upenn.edu/tex_docs/latex/koma-script/scrguien.pdf The scrlttr2

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Martin A. Hansen wrote: it is possible to tweak some of the distances between the blocks in a .lco file for komascript letter v2. pay attention to page 155 ff of srcguien. martin Thanks, Martin. The same tweaks can be done in the document preamble, and they do let me adjust the position of

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Paul A. Rubin writes: 1. (This is the only major issue.) Our letterhead includes logos on both the left side of the paper and along the top. Dealing with the top is not a problem, but for the life of me I cannot find a way in komascript to make the left margin two

Re: ERT Latex export

2006-01-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ernesto Posse wrote: Hi. Is there any way to tell lyx not to put empty lines when generating latex from an ERT box? I'm trying to use a latex package which for some reason doesn't like empty lines, but it looks like LyX always adds empty lines between lines written in an ERT box. This is quite

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.7 is released

2006-01-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Sven Schreiber wrote: I think this is the right time to say thank you to all the people who contributed their time and effort to this release! Absolutely! /Paul

Re: BaKoMa fonts for MS Windows

2006-01-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am trying to install LyX 1.3.7 on a MS Windows machine for a friend (I use Linux), but I do not know where to get the latest version of BaKoMa fonts and where place them on the computer. Could someone please help me ? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: BaKoMa fonts for MS Windows

2006-01-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: On 1/19/06, Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Stephen. BaKoma fonts are now working on my friend's computer. Let me give notice of the fact that the link to BaKoMa fonts on the wiki address indicated by you is broken. Strange, I just tested the link I provided,

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

2006-01-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Marc D. wrote: On 27 Jan 06, at 10:17, Herbert Voss wrote: Marc D. wrote: Any suggestions on how I can go about changing the behaviour of lyx? I was unaware that I had control over the LaTeX that LyX outputs. I'm more than willing and able to read documentation, but I'd appreciate being

Re: keybinding for typewriter and bold?

2006-01-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gunnar wrote: What should I write in the bind file if I wish to make a marked text to have typewriter style and bold letters at the same time? To bind it to, for example, Control+a: \bind C-a command-sequence font-code; font-bold; /Paul

Re: Positioning graphics in beamer

2006-02-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Declan O'Byrne wrote: One thing I cannot do, and I've spent quite a few hours trying, is position imported graphics within a slide. A picture is less than helpful when it covers the slide's text. I've tried importing as jpeg and eps. No use. All I really need is to be able to define the

Re: Positioning graphics in beamer

2006-02-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Enrico Forestieri wrote: Declan O'Byrne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks. for this. I think your instructions apply to lyx. But I'm attempting to do the same thing in kile. I suppose if I knew how to define the position according to coordinates, I'd be better off. I just want the pictures to

Re: LyX 1.3.7 Win32 + MikTeX 2.4.1461: New LyX document from template fails (for many templates) with error missing TeX class

2006-02-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Peter Hegt wrote: Hi In LyX 1.3.7 Win32 + MikTeX 2.4.1461: Trying to create a new LyX document from template fails for many templates with error missing TeX class. For example: aa.lyx results in: ``Textclass error The document uses a missing TeX class aa. LyX will not be able to produce

Re: specific float settings - what is going on?

2006-02-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Martin A. Hansen wrote: looking at the resulting lyx file, the settings is correct there (htb). i guess that there is a bug in lyx, which makes lyx forget /misread the settings. can anyone confirm this? Tried it in LyX 1.3.7 (Win XP). The settings were always correct when I right-clicked on

Re: LyX 1.3.7 Win32 + MikTeX 2.4.1461: New LyX document from template fails (for many templates) with error missing TeX class

2006-02-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Peter Hegt wrote: I wrote it more to make a point that this is confusing for a novice user: Setup, enter, enter, try feature, fails = confused (MikTeX is quite an elaborate setup so a novice cannot be confident that the setup went 100% error free/complete). True. On the positive side, you

Re: Lyx 1.3.7 Win32: Some incorrect math glyphs displayed on screen; dvi,pdf is ok

2006-02-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Peter Hegt wrote: The \spadesuit is displayed as a box. Hearts, clubs and diamonds display correctly. I can reproduce that. The cmsy10 font (from Bakoma4LyX) has the spade glyph (character 00C4). Is LyX mapping \spadesuit to the wrong character? /Paul

Re: Lyx 1.3.7 Win32: Some incorrect math glyphs displayed on screen; dvi,pdf is ok

2006-02-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: Am Montag, 6. Februar 2006 18:21 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: Peter Hegt wrote: The \spadesuit is displayed as a box. Hearts, clubs and diamonds display correctly. I can reproduce that. The cmsy10 font (from Bakoma4LyX) has the spade glyph (character 00C4). Is LyX mapping

Re: Lyx 1.3.7 Win32: Some incorrect math glyphs displayed on screen - fixed

2006-02-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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Re: An installation problem

2006-02-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eyal Rozenberg wrote: I have cygwin installed, and I've tried to install Windows LyX 1.3.7, with all binary paths pointing to the relevant cygwin files (except for GScript which is installed separately). However, the installation gives me some error message about not being able to run a

Re: An installation problem

2006-02-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eyal Rozenberg wrote: I have cygwin installed, and I've tried to install Windows LyX 1.3.7, with all binary paths pointing to the relevant cygwin files (except for GScript which is installed separately). However, the installation gives me some error message about not being able to run a

Re: Can't find eps file when exporting

2006-02-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gunnar wrote: It seems to be related to the fact that pdflatex can't handle eps and everygraphics file must be converted to pdf with the epstopdf command. How can I tell LyX to do this for me? AFAIK, at least as of version 1.3.7, you can't get LyX to do that. When you use the View menu,

Re: Can't find eps file when exporting

2006-02-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gunnar wrote: I must say, I'm not quite sure what the error is now. Suddelny things seems to work. The gremlins must have gotten bored and moved on to someone else's machine. :-) I'm sorry for trying to confuse you. No worries, it's my normal state. I'll try to understand what's

Re: 'inference rule' sign with lyx

2006-02-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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Re: Problems using figures in LyX

2006-02-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ana Lobo wrote: Hi all, I´m novice in both LyX and LateX. I´m running LyX in Windows XP. I´ve installed LyX version 1.3.7 and I´m running it with Small Miktex version 2.4.1461. I´ve started running the tutorials, and it worked nicely. Than, I tried to write my own article using a

Re: Change margin in a specified paragraph

2006-02-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ana Lobo wrote: Hi all, I´m a new LyX User and I´m facing the following problem. I´ve added a figure in my document, and although I´m using it in a reduced size (40%) in output, it does not fit inside page margins. I wouldn´t like to reduce the figure size anymore. My idea was to change the

Re: eps file in lyx

2006-02-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I can´t open an .eps figure in lyx. It does not open in gv either, is rejected by convert x.eps x.eps. I attach it, since it is a small file, and would appreciate if somebody could verify my finding and suggest a solution. The file is simply

Re: Minimal LyX installation

2006-02-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gunnar wrote: What is the bare minimum for a LyX installation if the only thing that should be done is writing new LyX documents and producing pdf's? LyX, LaTeX, ghostscript, what else? As I remember, the LyX installer installed both Perl and Python. Will LyX work without them? The reason

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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Re: Text of diagram with the font of the main document

2006-02-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have a diagram which I can export as PNG, JPG, PDF or SVG. What should I do so that the text of the diagram appears with the same font of the main document? Is that possible? Thanks in advance, Paul Whether you can annotate the diagram in the same font boils

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, Paul. In fact, the command convert myfile.eps myfile.pdf does the job correctly. Probably, the problem has to be with LyX. Paul Ok. I'm assuming you're not running Windows (if you are, there may be a problem with spaces in the path to the EPS file, although

Re: Text of diagram with the font of the main document

2006-02-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Thanks again, Paul. If one looks inside a SVG file with a text editor, one can see some names of fonts, and furthermore one can observe that SVG format looks like a programming language. Because of that, I simply wonder whether there is some program to change the fonts on a

Re: Minimal LyX installation

2006-02-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Gunnar wrote: What is the bare minimum for a LyX installation if the only thing that should be done is writing new LyX documents and producing pdf's? LyX, LaTeX, ghostscript, what else? As I remember, the LyX installer installed both Perl and Python. Will LyX work

Re: LyX-Code and Typewriter environment: how to change the font?

2006-02-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Joerg Hau wrote: Hi, How does one change the font that is used (a) for the LyX-Code environment, (b) for typewriter character markup? I would like to modify the font size, and/or eventually change the font for these two completely. Maybe I have searched in the wrong places ;-), but I have

Re: Confusion With PowerPoint

2006-02-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Paul Smith wrote: Perhaps, it is just a typo: they meant powerdot! :-) Paul, Not when it's verbal. It's an assumption 'cause they don't know there's anything else. Rich It's the Kleenex phenomenon -- a brand name gets so ingrained in the

Re: citation reference is wrong

2006-02-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
? Maybe LyX is not running latex often enough? If you export the document as LaTeX and run latex three or four times against it, does the DVI eventually come out correctly? /Paul -- ** Paul A. Rubin

Re: inserting image

2006-02-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Schwartz wrote: Good evening, I am new with Lyx 1.3.7 (French language) under Windows XP Pro installed with the help of the installer thanks. I just not installed Ghostview which seems to have a conflict with Yap when looking to launch DVI. I use Ghostview and Yap (the version that

Re: double superscript a lyx bug?

2006-02-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Sven Schreiber wrote: Daniel Watkins schrieb: LyX is creating a correct LaTeX file. If you try the same formula in a .tex file, LaTeX will complain. It's just not valid LaTeX, so you need to make it $a^{*\prime)$. This is not a LyX issue. Dan Sorry, that sounds self-contradictory, or is it

Re: Mayday: problem with french quotation marks

2006-02-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just reinstalled LyX 1.3.5 on a brand new computer. I'm writing in french and use french guillemets and for quotation. At least I try to, as they appear as spanish upside down exclamation-mark and question-mark. I remember having the problem once but can't figure out

Re: inserting image

2006-02-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Schwartz wrote: Sorry again, 1) I tried with an English language file without changing the basic language of the document, i.e. remaining in French :it appears to be the same result. I inserted three images, I got 15 errors. always trying to display PDF (pdflatex) Here is a copy of the

Re: Where did it go?

2006-02-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Srinivas Nedunuri wrote: I tried exporting my lyx file as a latex file using File | Export | Latex. It appears to be carrying out the export, at least according to the status buffer, but I am unable to locate the file! Its not in the same directory. I looked in the lyx/tmp directory, and while

Re: En: Figures location

2006-02-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ana Lobo wrote: Hi folks, Does anyone know a solution for the problem I reported previously? Thanks in advance, Ana Observação: mensagem anexa encaminhada. Yahoo! Acesso Grátis Internet rápida e grátis. Instale o discador

Re: Instant preview not instant

2006-02-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stacia Hartleben wrote: I was going to post this again in the IPA question list, but I thought I might post it here. I'm using LyX 1.3.7 on Windows. Sometimes when I'm working with instant preview (not just linguistics, when I am writing math papers with subscripts and so on), LyX will not

Re: newly downloaded font problem

2006-03-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
JeeBee wrote: Dear LyX-users, I downloaded the font AnnSton from here http://ftp.nluug.nl/textproc/tex-archive/fonts/initials/ Then I put all these files in the same directory as my .lyx file. This in the preamble: \input AnnSton.fd This somewhere in my document (a LaTeX inset):

Re: Problem with preview

2006-03-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Julio Rojas wrote: Hi, I used an older version of LyX without problems, but today I installed version 1.3.7 and sudenly when I try to preview the PDF output using pdflatex the following message is presented: Cannot view file No information for viewing (pdflatex) Any idea on this error???

Re: Spell check problem

2006-03-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Nick Kuzmik wrote: I'm trying to write some fiction involving some gutteral dialogue, specifically, chopping the g off the end of present-tense verbs. As I understand it, the correct way to be grammaticaly incorrect is to remove the g and add an appostrophe, however spellcheck pitches a major

Re: Problem with preview

2006-03-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Julio Rojas wrote: Thanx Paul, but after I did what you suggested and reconfigured LyX the following message is presented when I opened my document: Textclass error The document uses a missong TeX class book LyX will not be able to produce output I'm using OS X 10.4.5 and the application I use

Re: Uneasy coexistence of 1.3.7 and 1.4.0pre2 (Windows)

2006-03-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Paul A. Rubin a écrit : Note to beta testers: I installed 1.4.0pre2 parallel to 1.3.7 (Win XP Pro), and when 1.4.0 rewrote my preferences file, all the viewer settings were vaporized. No big deal to get them back, once the defibrillator brought *me* back

Re: german spell checking in LyX 1.3.7 for Windows

2006-03-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Marcus Glöder wrote: Hello, today I installed LyX 1.3.7 for Windows with the LyXWinInstaller and with it my old WinLyX 1.3.3 replaced. Although aspell is installed and also the german spell checking was downloaded of the aspell site and installed then, aspell in LyX - Edit - Preferences

Re: Problem with preview - Ooops

2006-03-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Julio Rojas wrote: One more thing, now in Layout - Document - Layout - Document Class, appears that all my document classes are unavailable: Unavailable: book. This was working before tweaking the PDF viewer path. Makes sense -- if the reconfigure you did after changing the PDF viewer path

Re: Truncation of sections in pdf

2006-03-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Tom Tom wrote: Dear list, right know I'm putting together the structure of my thesis - beginning from chapter down to the individual subsubsections. What I have noticed: If the amount of sections/subsection in a single chapter takes more space than a single page, the chapter gets truncated to

Re: converting to html

2006-03-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Lee Yeoh wrote: Actually, reading the terminal output, there are a whole lot of error messages around the png conversion stage, for example: System call: convert -trim +repage -density 110x110 -transparent '#FF' zzPhysics.ps Physics21x.png sh: line 1: convert: command not found I

Re: No VIEW-DVI in LyX Win32

2006-03-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Charles Schulz wrote: I have installed LyX Win32 on an XP machine including cygwin. I chose to get all the necessary prerequisite stuff through cygwin rather than having the install script download it (they all end up in $cygwin/bin). I have added $cygwin/bin and $cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin to my

Re: No VIEW-DVI in LyX Win32

2006-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Charles Schulz wrote: 2) The View/DVI menu entry is missing. I'm currently using LyX on the system since I was able to find an out of band work around by exporting the LaTeX source, using LaTeX (the version I got from cygwin) to render it to DVI, and displaying it using xdvi (also from

Re: Installing LyX 1.4 parallel to earlier version?

2006-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Andreas Busch wrote: Hi -- and congratulations to the development team for finishing LyX 1.4! I am eager to try it out and have done so on one machine, but on my production machine I am hesitant to take risks. So my question is: is it possible to install LyX 1.4 besides an older version (I am

Re: Lyx 1.4.0 Win32 binaries

2006-03-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Girotra, Karan wrote: Any windows binaries for Lyx/1.4.0 out as yet? I can't find anything on the main FTP server- Should I be looking some place else? KG A prerelease version of Angus Leeming's installer (LyX only) is on the Wiki at

Re: latex-beamer german

2006-03-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steffen Schwientek wrote: I use lyx and latex-beamer to generate my presentations. In lyx I can chose Beispiel to generate an example (In the lyx screen there it is called Beispiel in green color, but in the generated pdf it's called Example. As workaround I export the created file to latex,

Re: Reference question

2006-03-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Balthasar Indermuehle wrote: Hi all, I just started using 1.3.7 on windows, and so far am quite thrilled with it. I do have an issue with references though. When I add a new reference at the bottom in the references section, and then cite it in my text, I do get the proper label when printing

Re: optional package installation

2006-03-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John M. Robinson wrote: Dear users, Where should I install the macros from e.g. elsart to make them accessable to lyx? Put another way, what is the search path for lyx? LyX looks for LaTeX packages the same way LaTeX does. You can install the elsart package either in your texmf file

Re: lyx2lyx where?

2006-03-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Myriam Abramson wrote: Where can I get this conversion script? Sorry, I'm desperate. I have to post a midterm. Not sure with Linux, but I think it's in .../lyx/share/lyx/lyx2lyx. (On Windows it's ...\Resources\lyx2lyx.) /Paul

Re: latex export

2006-03-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Nagy Gabor wrote: Hi, I use LyX 1.3.6 (from Debian etch). I export my file in latex, and then I do this: $ latex thesis-komascript.tex Is this correct, or shall I use another command line? That looks correct. I get some warnings: TeX Warning: Citation `key-3' on page 4 undefined on input

Re: Testing WinLyX1.4.0 with some patches applied

2006-03-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Radwan JALAM wrote: That does not work form me ! This is what I have : and --Radwan. Do you have all the necessary packages (in particular, MinSYS) installed? /Paul

Re: Testing WinLyX1.4.0 with some patches applied

2006-03-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stephen Harris wrote: I used to have to run sh configure all the time and mildly complained about it. This last LyX release, Angus thought he had fixed it. And it was fixed for me. So I thought it was fixed for everybody and didn't mention it. I made too big of an assumption. The last (I

Re: insert a line in table

2006-03-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Harold Mouras wrote: Dear List, I am using the new Lyx 1.4.1 which works perfectly, but I have a very simple question: I have a table and would like to add a new line in this table wut it seems that the button I used before are not there anymore. Any idea ? Thank so much in advance,

Re: charstyle-insert

2006-03-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Markus Mayer wrote: Hi, I am having problems using the new charstyle-insert feature as per http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX14#toc5. When I try it, I always get Command disabled (charstyle-insert xxx). It doesn't matter which style I am specifying. Nobody else has reported this problem, so I am

Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

2006-03-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'd like some thoughts on the following. Someone named 'Alston' added a new heading ('CV Writing Services') and a link at the bottom of the page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Links My question now is if this is spam? The feeling I get in this particular case is

Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

2006-03-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case I forgot earlier, many thanks for running the link check! You didn't forget, but in any case you're quite welcome. Would a completely separate wiki be an option? It's not that I want a wiki for non-related LyX stuff, it's only that it'd be nice to be able

Wiki upload area

2006-03-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
First, http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x (which does not seem to be indexed anywhere I can find, although you can find it if you know to search for '14x'), there's a broken link (Christian, you reading this?) to the 19.03.2006 snapshot. Second, would it be possible (and desirable) to create

Re: Testing WinLyX1.4.0 with some patches applied

2006-03-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stacia Hartleben wrote: Is instant preview supposed to work with this version? When I open a document with math fomulas, instead of previewing, they all disapear. It seems to work with 1.4.1pre1 (Win XP Pro). Mostly. I have a recurring problem with symbols either disappearing or displaying

Re: Wiki upload area

2006-03-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote: First, http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x (which does not seem to be indexed anywhere I can find, Maybe that's because of the big fat red text Warning: This page is work in progress. Do not use According to the page's

Re: Wiki upload area

2006-03-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a more permanent solution, I'd need a snippet of PHP code that lists the contents of a directory (recursively). If someone would like to help with that, I could give a more precise specification of the function. With this function I could then very easily integrate

Re: charstyle-insert

2006-03-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stacia Hartleben wrote: How do you use the new feature charstyle-insert? I tried running it from the command buffer in the 1.4.1 pre for windows but I get Command disabled. How can I turn this back on? I was looking forward to it being an easy way to mark font styles and so on... Your layout

Re: charstyle-insert

2006-03-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stacia Hartleben wrote: Neat. I just wish there were an easier way to mark text. I posted a feature request on bugzilla that requested drop down menus for things like colors, font sizes, and hopefully char styles. That would be really cool. Agreed. Just one more question though - I put a

Re: Tables appear at the end of the document

2006-03-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Tina Le wrote: Hilo, After pressing Command D I get a latex file that has the data tables at the end of the document, after the Discussion section, instead of in the Results section where I put in the LyX file. I'm not sure if this is a problem with LaTEX or with LyX. And I hope there's a way to

Re: command sequence and strange dialog behaviour

2006-03-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Johan Blok wrote: Hello, I just created this command sequence in my bind file: \bindM-j d command-sequence footnote-insert; citation-insert; One I press the key sequence I get a footnote and the usual dialog to select an item of the bibliography. Unfortunately, when I select one and

Re: memoir (and other classes) unavailable

2006-03-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Aaron Maxwell wrote: Hi, I'm using LyX 1.3.6 on Debian Linux x86_64 (testing). I'm attempting to use the memoir document class. In the Layout - Document dialog, the line item for memoir says Unavailable: memoir. I can select that option but obviously LyX is not able to generate a document

Re: size of table and pictures and files in .lyx

2006-03-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Dominique Bünzli wrote: Hello, I have a big table and a big picture (inserted via float -- figure and then -- graphics) . The problem is that they are getting out of the page when I export to pdf. LyX isn't resizing automatically the table/picture so that it displays in whole in my output. Is

Re: Installing a .cls file

2006-03-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Pierre van der Laat Ulate wrote: I want to install a file named: siimmac.cls into my document classes. It commes with no other files. You may find the file at: http://www.emate.ucr.ac.cr/simmac/simmac.cls No, but I found it at http://www.emate.ucr.ac.cr/simmac/formatos/simmac.cls. To install

Re: floatflt

2006-03-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Lee Yeoh wrote: I had a bit more of a rummage around and I managed to export the relevant latex code for my document: --- begin quote --- \begin{floatingfigure}[r]{6cm}% \includegraphics[width=0.4\columnwidth]{\stringFigures/Fluid mosaic model\string.jpg} \caption{The fluid mosaic model of

Re: pdflatex figure size

2006-03-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Simon Goodall wrote: Hi, I've just tried using the pdflatex export option to create a pdf and my eps based figures are rendered half the size they should be, but take up twice the page area. I.e. I have a graph set to 100% col width and this should take up half a page. using pdflatex a whole

Re: floatflt

2006-04-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Lee Yeoh wrote: Hmm... well I seem to have isolated the problem a little. I tried to make an example file, and the text wrap worked perfectly this time... It seems that if I have standard text following the float, then it will display fine. Where I run into problems is when I use the itemise

Re: floatflt

2006-04-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Lee Yeoh wrote: sigh indeed... For some reason, my copy didn't come with the manual for floatflt, but I managed to track one down... The problem I described *is* a known bug, and the work around *is* to use ERT: \fltitem{text } instead of \item text I suppose I can fix this up as some

Re: Installing of LyX-win 1.4.1 on windows xp

2006-04-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Wang Xiangqi wrote: I can successfully install LyX-win 1.4.1 on my office computer under Windows xp. However, when I tried it on my notebook, it freezed when running the configuration during installing. When +checking for /Resources/../src/tex2lyx/tex2lyx..., there are no any reponses. Note that

Re: bookstab package and lyx

2006-04-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Marcelo Acuña wrote: Hello, I want to use bookstab package for nices tables, doc of this package came with example, this example work in kile but in lyx I only get errors and errors like: You haven´t defined [EMAIL PROTECTED] yet and many others. I try with example in or out ERT, in or

Re: button to add rows to tables

2006-04-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Nabil Hathout wrote: Hello, In lyx 1.3.x, I used to use the global tabular window to add and remove rows and columns (only one click was needed to add one row). In lyx 1.4.0, this functionality has become items in a sub-menu (3 clicks to add each row). It would be nice to have both options

Re: Enumerate environment too much separated from the precedent text

2006-04-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have a document only with one page ended by an enumerate environment. The enumerate environment appears with a long spacing with the precedent text. I think LaTeX does that automatically for aesthetical reasons, as the page is not entirely filled with text. How can

Re: Enumerate environment too much separated from the precedent text

2006-04-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: blah blah blah \setlength{\partopsep}{-2ex} 1. list item 2. list item back to regular text blah blah \setlength{\partopsep}{0ex} 1. list item with regular spacing 2. list item blah blah blah Thanks, Paul. Actually, I was looking for a more global solution, i.e., some code to

Re: Multiple columns, but not quite.

2006-04-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Adam Soltan wrote: I am trying to produce a kind of multicolumn text. It's about comparing some figures for two different years. Each row is giving the numbers for different variables. Something like this (best viewed in monospace): Variable 14711 1024 Variable 42 5052 The point

Re: indenting help

2006-04-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stacia Hartleben wrote: I know I asked a question like this before and I know it's a touchy subject because people go Oh lyx isn't a word processor etc but I keep running into this problem, and I know there must be some kind of solution because it's relatively simple. I want to format something

Re: prosper layout

2006-04-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Marcin Błażejowski wrote: Hi, Has anyone proper prosper layout for LyX 1.4? My old layouts, which worked with LyX 1.3, in some way doesn't comply with LyX 1.4... Marcin In the scripts directory of 1.4.x, you should find a Python script by Georg Baum named layout2layout.py. Does running

Re: Windows port: 1.3.7: document classes not available

2006-04-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Koen Verbeke wrote: Which Lyx: I just installed the windows port of Lyx (1.3.7) with the installer behind the link: LyX installer for Windows that comes with all needed third party programs http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller and then project page

Re: Aspell 6 for Lyx 1.3.7?

2006-04-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Peter Bowyer wrote: At 19:41 13/04/2006, Stephen Harris wrote: Did the AspellData and dictionary (126 files) get installed to Yes, all that side is fine. I just can't find Aspell itself. Also my Spellchecker preferences are stuck on ispell - which perhaps is the problem? Peter No.

Re: Aspell 6 for Lyx 1.3.7?

2006-04-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/w32/Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe) as Paul Rubin suggested I have binaries, but they are in the C:\aspell\bin directory. So... using C:\Aspellbin\aspell -c misspelled.txt Error: No word lists can be found for the language en_US. Then I installed the 0.5 en dictionary

Re: how to get date in header?

2006-04-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: How can I get the date automatically insert in my header? Today, I realized that a monthly newsletter I was editing had old hardcoded in my lyx preamble: \rhead{October 2005} I tried using \rhead{\date} and \rhead{\date{}} But now just blank for my right header. I

Re: BibTeX/NatBib citations in text issue

2006-04-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Maria Gouskova wrote: Dear LyX users, I am having an issue with NatBib in n LyX 1.3.7. When I cite more than one author at once using the InsertCitation option, the in-text author list breaks across lines in the final document. For example, if I select (Jones1986, Jones 1998, Jones 2000,

Re: BibTeX/NatBib citations in text issue

2006-04-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Maria Gouskova wrote: Here is an example with a .bib file. mg I think you have an error in your \bibpunct command in the preamble. Try this: \bibpunct{(}{)}{;}{a}{,}{,} Yours is missing the third argument -- the semicolon that separates multiple citations. /Paul

Re: lyx doc errors, problems running as non-admin on Windows etc.

2006-04-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Balazic wrote: Hi! I downloaded LyX 1.3.7 for Windows. After installing, when run for the first time as a normal user (not member of the group Administrators) I got several error dialogs about installing some packages, that I could only cancel. There were about a dozen of then shown one

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