bug concerning latex-code (?!)

2000-01-07 Thread Bjoern Gerhart
Dear LyX-friends, I think I detected a bug in lyx 1.1.2. I´m writing a "report"-document with the standard font and 11 pt in layout -> document. I need to describe signals, and signals are written in capitals. But I wanted to make the capitals smaller, as they seemed to be bigger than the other t

frame around figure

2000-01-07 Thread Bjoern Gerhart
Dear lyx-friends, when I activate the button "show frame" (or similar) in the figure window, I see a frame around this figure in lyx, but not in xdvi and not on the printed result. I´d like to have a frame around each figure. Do you know how to get this? Kind regards Bjoern -- Bjoern

Re: LyX: Using GIF Images?

2000-01-07 Thread jdd
On ven, 07 jan 2000, Nemeth Miklos à écrit images were always (much) larger than the original GIF or PNG. one must know that gif & png images are compressed ones - without loss, jpeg are also compressed ones but with some loss of quality. by the way ps and eps don't seems to be compressed. the

Re: Importing EPS images in Lyx

2000-01-07 Thread jdd
On ven, 07 jan 2000, Emanuele Gissi & Alessia Franceschi à écrit >3) qcad: it is good for me but does not export EPS as soon as qcad can print, it can export postscript... print to a file. >5) stardraw (staroffice): the EPS files are well read by gv (and ghostscript) >but if I insert them in a

Re: Importing EPS images in Lyx

2000-01-07 Thread claudio
Emanuele Gissi & Alessia Franceschi wrote: > > Hi, > > I am "yet another LyX new user" writing the Phd thesis. I read your comments on > image formats... but my problems are still not solved. > > I need to create EPS images (especially graphs and schemas) to be imported in > LyX; I tried: > >

RE: RE: Importing EPS images in Lyx

2000-01-07 Thread Emanuele Gissi & Alessia Franceschi
Hi, (hoping this message is not too long for the list) > > 5) stardraw (staroffice): the EPS files are well read by gv (and ghostscript) > > but if I insert them in a LyX (both 1.0.3 and 1.1.2) document and try to view > > the resulting PS with gv, gv complains and shows everything except the im

RE: Importing EPS images in Lyx

2000-01-07 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 07-Jan-2000 Emanuele Gissi & Alessia Franceschi wrote: > Hi, Hi Emanuele! > > 3) qcad: it is good for me but does not export EPS > Well you can print a PS image and then use ps2epsi to convert it to EPS. > 5) stardraw (staroffice): the EPS files are well read by gv (and ghostscript) > bu

Re: Importing EPS images in Lyx

2000-01-07 Thread Frank Mahler
Emanuele Gissi & Alessia Franceschi wrote: > [...] > I need to create EPS images (especially graphs and schemas) to be imported in > LyX; I tried: > > 1) xfig: it lacks of cad-like snapping function What do you mean? Do you mean the "grid mode" and "point position" functions in xfig? Every newly

Re: Importing EPS images in Lyx

2000-01-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
> I need to create EPS images (especially graphs and schemas) to be imported in > LyX; I tried: > > 1) xfig: it lacks of cad-like snapping function What is a 'cad-like snapping function'? You could pin lines to corners of rectangles for instance... > 3) qcad: it is good for me but does not exp

Importing EPS images in Lyx

2000-01-07 Thread Emanuele Gissi & Alessia Franceschi
Hi, I am "yet another LyX new user" writing the Phd thesis. I read your comments on image formats... but my problems are still not solved. I need to create EPS images (especially graphs and schemas) to be imported in LyX; I tried: 1) xfig: it lacks of cad-like snapping function 2) killustrator

Re: Citations with authorname using bibtex?

2000-01-07 Thread Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes
Hello Torsten you might use apalike, which formats your citation like: (author, year) It is just to use apalike style in your bibtex references and type \usepackage {apalike} in your preamble. It 's also possible to use AMS styles which format the citations by its initials I hope it helps []

Re: Defining a command with two parameters in a layout

2000-01-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "A" == A Rosina Bignall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: A> I'm trying to create a layout for a latex style that I use A> regularly. One of the commands has two parameters. For example, in A> LaTeX, I would write: A> \addresses{my home address}{my work address} A> How can I define this command

Re: Citations with authorname using bibtex?

2000-01-07 Thread Staffan Ringbom
What about trying some bibtex contributed packages from CTAN. Depending on your field, you probably will find something that suits U. Best, Staffan Ringbom Torsten Mueller wrote: > Hallo Lyxers, > > I would like to include citation references in the form [AUTHOR YEAR] instead > of a number (wh

Re: LyX: Using GIF Images?

2000-01-07 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 07-Jan-2000 Nemeth Miklos wrote: > I do not understand why EPS and PS image formats are used at all by > LyX/LaTeX, I don't know if you realize it, but if you want to print a document, at some time you have to translate it to PS (at least on UNIX)! So what's the problem to do this earlier?

Re: LyX: Using GIF Images?

2000-01-07 Thread Torsten Mueller
> That is a good news! Could you suggest me some sources of information > how to do > that? > I fought with GIMP for two days and no success: my eps was allwys very > ugly. > The EPS images were always (much) larger than the original GIF or PNG. > So, can you recomend me a good book, or anything e

Citations with authorname using bibtex?

2000-01-07 Thread Torsten Mueller
Hallo Lyxers, I would like to include citation references in the form [AUTHOR YEAR] instead of a number (which works fine, e.g. [BA97] instead of [3]. My bibtex file contains the information as the key. I think, I must use another style than plain. Which one do I have to choose? Thanks, Torsten