Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Tommi Rintala wrote: [...why lyx rocks...] > I'm bothered only one thing; I don't have the time to contribute > work to the project. > > Tommi Rintala As a writer, and with a group of writers working with/for you, you could contribute to the documentation or by producin

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread Tommi Rintala
Dear listmembers, I see that I was starting a holy war about ideas how one should write text. This was not intended. But I want to still give few key-points about productive writing. (And these are _my_ opinions, I'm not trying to babtize anybody to my beliefs). - I think that text, style and

LyX and MacOS X

2000-09-27 Thread gan
The time for MacOS X is closing up, and i wonder if anyone have succesfully compiled and installed LyX on MacOS X Beta? Regards Gunnar Andersson

Re: Problems with viewing dvi files

2000-09-27 Thread Tim Winter
For a new installation, LyX/LaTeX/TeX takes a while to generate fonts for printing and display. Make sure there is no font generation activity before concluding that nothing is happening. HTH Tim -- The Theorem Theorem : If If Then Then On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Tom wrote: > I have problems viewi

RedHat 7 Compile problems

2000-09-27 Thread Carl Flippin
I've recently installed RedHat 7. I'm having a great deal of trouble with the compilation of lyx-1.1.5fix1. ./configure runs without complaint but, when I try to compile, it crashes and burns. Here's the relevant error messages: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src -I../../images -I./../ -isys

Re: Problems with viewing dvi files

2000-09-27 Thread Tom
No difference. It is a new installation of both Linux and Lyx, and I tried reinstalling everything but it didn't help. I am just about to install the latest release of Lyx. Tom. -Original Message- From: Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with viewing dvi files

2000-09-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Tom wrote: > > I have problems viewing dvi files on a new installation of Lyx (v. > 1.1.4fix1) running on Suse 6.4. Lyx runs fine, but nothing happens when I > try to view dvi files. When I try to export as dvi it exports as tex. > Initially I thought is was a problem with printing as this do

Re: Problems with viewing dvi files

2000-09-27 Thread John Culleton
Tom wrote: > > I have problems viewing dvi files on a new installation of Lyx (v. > 1.1.4fix1) running on Suse 6.4. Lyx runs fine, but nothing happens when I > try to view dvi files. When I try to export as dvi it exports as tex. > Initially I thought is was a problem with printing as this do

Problems with viewing dvi files

2000-09-27 Thread Tom
I have problems viewing dvi files on a new installation of Lyx (v. 1.1.4fix1) running on Suse 6.4. Lyx runs fine, but nothing happens when I try to view dvi files. When I try to export as dvi it exports as tex. Initially I thought is was a problem with printing as this doesn't work either. I

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread John Culleton
Tommi Rintala wrote: > > On 26 Sep 2000, at 16:25, Herbert Voss wrote: > > > delete the caption-style in figure/table-float and write in > > > > If I have not-so-advanced-users using Lyx, I would like them > to know as little as possible about LaTeX, because they are > using LyX. If they start

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Tommi Rintala wrote: > If I have not-so-advanced-users using Lyx, I would like them > to know as little as possible about LaTeX, because they are > using LyX. If they start learning LaTeX, why use LyX at all? They need to know LaTeX. LyX is not a LaTeX replacement, IMHO. "Y

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread Tommi Rintala
On 27 Sep 2000, at 11:58, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Do not expect this in 1.1.6, but in 1.2.0 we will at least have the > framework that will make this easy to accomplish. Great!! > LyX can always be used as a tool in learning LaTeX if that is desired. > LyX will certanly make you able to p

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Tommi Rintala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 26 Sep 2000, at 16:25, Herbert Voss wrote: | | | > delete the caption-style in figure/table-float and write in | > standard-style and in tex (red), but always inside the float. | > | > \caption[short title]{long title} | | Yes, this is excellen

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread Tommi Rintala
On 26 Sep 2000, at 16:25, Herbert Voss wrote: > delete the caption-style in figure/table-float and write in > standard-style and in tex (red), but always inside the float. > > \caption[short title]{long title} Yes, this is excellent way for advanced user to use LaTeX functionality, but the qu