Re: M$ Word -> LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Arnd Hanses wrote: > As it seems, Word 8 is now de facto the international standard for > document exchange, even in the internet and within specialized academic > contexts. LaTeX 'market share' is rapidly decreasing. Even Linux people > seem to adhere more and more (see the n

Re: sample letterhead, tfm not being found (but it used to)

1999-09-03 Thread Garst R. Reese
"Richard E. Hawkins" wrote: > > > > As it seems your dvips is misconfigured You must add parkave there. > > Browse CTAN for docu and (perhaps) pre-configured packages with *.tfm. > > mmm, we figured out that debian's dvi was misconfigured a year or two ago. I wish >they'd leave it misconf

Re: M$ Word -> LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Garst R. Reese
Arnd Hanses wrote: > > As it seems, Word 8 is now de facto the international standard for > document exchange, even in the internet and within specialized academic > contexts. LaTeX 'market share' is rapidly decreasing. Even Linux people > seem to adhere more and more (see the new xyzOffice suite

Re: sample letterhead, tfm not being found (but it used to)

1999-09-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
arnd added, > On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 13:36:54 -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > >hawkinsttyp0:Jobs>locate parkave > >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/parkave.pfb > Ha! Got you. not quite :) > This is a type 1 (postscript) font. Handling this is all > very special. You won't survive without goo

Re: M$ Word -> LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Arnd Hanses
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999 18:58:46 +0100, Duncan Simpson wrote: > Given the only way to fix bugs in word is to upgrade, which costs money, >conspiracy theorists would say I was right :-) IMHO they might not be entirely >wrong. Word 98 is avuabale without a NDA but the file format itself is just as >

Re: sample letterhead, tfm not being found (but it used to)

1999-09-03 Thread Arnd Hanses
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 13:36:54 -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > >hawkinsttyp0:Jobs>locate parkave >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/parkave.pfb Ha! Got you. This is a type 1 (postscript) font. Handling this is all very special. You won't survive without good docu. First of all you need the park

\title[foo]{bar} et al.

1999-09-03 Thread Amir Karger
Question for the latex gurus in the audience. One popular complaint about lyx 1.0 is that you can't get the equivalent of \section[short]{long section title}. Well, perhaps this has been discussed before, but couldn't you do something like this in the preamble (I don't know TeX, so this is sort

Re: M$ Word -> LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
duncan delivered, > RTF is an excellent solution to the word to something else, inclyding LyX, > problem. Not only does it support practically everything bar macro virii but > it is also documented and reasonably sensible (quite a contrast with Word > binary format, which is subject to NDAs a

Re: M$ Word -> LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Duncan Simpson
RTF is an excellent solution to the word to something else, inclyding LyX, problem. Not only does it support practically everything bar macro virii but it is also documented and reasonably sensible (quite a contrast with Word binary format, which is subject to NDAs and baroque to put it mildly

Re: sample letterhead, tfm not being found (but it used to)

1999-09-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Arnd added, > You need to tell metafont where to find parkave.mf etc. Locate this > with > locate parkave > and modifiy your environment accordingly (syntax depends on your TeX > distribution). > Here for emTeX it is: > set > mfinput=D:\XFREE86\USR\EMTEX\mfinput!!;D:\XFREE86\USR\EMT

Re: exdented paragraphs

1999-09-03 Thread mressler
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > > You might have to resort to plain TeX to get what you want. > > Huh? > > Why not \setlength{\parindent}{-.2in}, e.g.? (You could move in the left > margin first and then exdent if you want.) That was the third command. Anyway, make certain to put this

Re: exdented paragraphs

1999-09-03 Thread Amir Karger
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 08:48:17AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > I think we started on this one, too. In the latex books I've checked, > > I haven't found a way to have exdented (negative indent) paragraphs > > such as this one, whi

Re: sample letterhead, tfm not being found (but it used to)

1999-09-03 Thread Arnd Hanses
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 10:04:28 -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: >When I export as latex, and run latex, I get errors for assorted sizes >such as: > >(/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty)kpathsea: Running mktextfm >parkave >mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input parka

Re: exdented paragraphs

1999-09-03 Thread mressler
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > I think we started on this one, too. In the latex books I've checked, > I haven't found a way to have exdented (negative indent) paragraphs > such as this one, which are the natural format for a number of > things that I do. > > I woul

exdented paragraphs

1999-09-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I think we started on this one, too. In the latex books I've checked, I haven't found a way to have exdented (negative indent) paragraphs such as this one, which are the natural format for a number of things that I do. I would expect that there's a trivial way to do this, but I have

sample letterhead, tfm not being found (but it used to)

1999-09-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I've put debian on my "new" office machine--a 16mb P120, with about a 600 mb partition. I can no longer get my fonts for letterhead and the like to work. Lyx returns no errors, but the parkave stuff simply shows up as blank. When I export as latex, and run latex, I get errors for assorted s

Re: crash on 1.0.4pre4

1999-09-03 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > This is a bug I reported earlier to Alejandro, but I do not know > whether he plans to fix it. If the problem is important for you, you > should probably ask him. Harry sent me already an example lyx file. I'll have a look as soon as I have some

Re: New file patch (was: Re: Just a Matter of Style (was: LaTeX file handling))

1999-09-03 Thread Arnd Hanses
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 10:29:01 +0200, Stephan Witt wrote: >I don't think it's a real problem with "zombie-like" running xdvi's. Only minor annoyance. >1. You can see them. > You can regularily quit them. > You can decide yourself when to do so. Except they decide themselves (they crash with

Re: Feature requests

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Bas" == Bas Spitters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'll have to check this. You mean that \cite{a b} does not work? Bas> I have attached the files: test.lyx and test.bib Bas> When run they give the following error message: OK, in fact it is bibtex which does not like citations keys wi

Re: 3026 public symbol exports in LyX global name space (wa: Re: LaTeX file handling)

1999-09-03 Thread Arnd Hanses
On 3 Sep 1999 14:09:33 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Now uncommenting in figinset.C: > >It seems you have modified Makefile and use figinset.org.C Which is figinset.C. (Did some preliminary cleanup in figinset.mod.C). > >> // assert (_heapset(9) == _HEAPOK); >> printf("The empty heap is se

Re: Some support for russian (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Const" == Const Kaplinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Const> Sorry for that message, but for now I don't understand what has Const> actually happened. I'm an author of that mail and I had used my Const> usual address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Const> BTW, is *this* message looks right? Yes, your

Re: Some support for russian (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Const Kaplinsky
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Paul" == Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Paul> Hey, what's wrong here? Who is forking my email address? I > Paul> never sent this mail to the list! >:-( A little bit annoyed, > Paul> P. *8^( -- Please always reply to "Paul Seelig > Paul> <[EMAIL

Re: \textdegree and teTeX 1.0

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Fred" == Fred Hucht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Fred> On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> [...] Fred> This is the version of latex.ltx/latex.fmt. >> [...] Fred> This is the version of article.cls. >> >> Why are the dates different??? >> Fred> See above... >> I know that.

Re: crash on 1.0.4pre4

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Harry" == Harry Westfahl Junior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harry> Yes! The problem usually happens with equation arrays that Harry> are larger (in high, not in width) than the lyx window size. This is a bug I reported earlier to Alejandro, but I do not know whether he plans to fix it

Re: Some support for russian (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Paul" == Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> Hey, what's wrong here? Who is forking my email address? I Paul> never sent this mail to the list! >:-( A little bit annoyed, Paul> P. *8^( -- Please always reply to "Paul Seelig Paul> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" The one I received had Fro

Re: Some support for russian

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Const" == inria fr writes: Const> I'm maintaining LyX package for KSI Linux (russian/ukrainian Const> Linux distribution) and have to patch source to support our Const> languages. Maybe some parts of my patches will be acceptable Const> for inclusion in official source tree?... Hello,

Some support for russian (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Paul Seelig
Hey, what's wrong here? Who is forking my email address? I never sent this mail to the list! >:-( A little bit annoyed, P. *8^( -- Please always reply to "Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" -- Forwarded message (attachments deleted) -- Received: from t

Re: New file patch (was: Re: Just a Matter of Style (was: LaTeX file handling))

1999-09-03 Thread Stephan Witt
Arnd Hanses wrote: > > On 31 Aug 1999 17:57:55 +0200, Lars Gullik Bj°nnes wrote: > > >Stephan Witt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >| LaTeX and Xdvi are children of LyX and directed by LyX to the > >| internally computed hidden tmp-directory. I'm aware of that > >| effect: If I close a file an