Re: Yet another lyx guide

2001-02-20 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, robin wrote: > Is there a way I can do this in Postscript? I assume there is a pdf2ps > program or the like somewhere, but I can't seem to find one on my > system. pdf2ps should come with ghostscript (it is a simple script that calls gs). Also xpdf comes with pdftops progra

Crossreferencing to references in included files

2001-02-20 Thread Robert Koehler
Hi all, In my thesis, I have a main lyx file which "includes" other lyx files. So basically I have broken my chapters up that way. I was wondering how exactly to crossreference in a chapter a reference label in one of the included lyx files. At the moment lyx can't find any references other than

New user, post RTFM

2001-02-20 Thread DAve
I did read the docs I did. The fact that they formatted and printed so well is what sold me. I've tried SO, Koffice, Word Perfect, Maxwell, Abiword, etc. Thye either act just like a Word Processor, or crash. Which is I guess, acting like a Word Processor. In any event I was in search of so

Re: What's happening with tabular in 1.1.6?

2001-02-20 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
Allan Rae wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote: > What's wrong with changing the paragraph alignment with Layout->Paragraph > like you do for every other paragraph in your document? Because it's annoying when you insert a lot of tables. I agree with a propertie of table (in its wind

Re: What's happening with tabular in 1.1.6?

2001-02-20 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > On 20-Feb-2001 Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > I still don't see why we can't add a "centered" button to the "Insert Tabular" > > dialog, and if this button is selected then a new centered paragraph is > > created to which the tabular is inserted (by default,

Re: New layout problem

2001-02-20 Thread robin
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:05:42AM +0200, robin wrote: > > I have a small but irritating problem with a new layout I've written. > > Everything works fine except for tables. I created a new environment > > called "Header", and now all tables use this as a default instead of

Re: Yet another lyx guide

2001-02-20 Thread robin
Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > When I open lyxguide.pdf with xpdf, it looks like mostly blank pages > > with dots scattered around and a few lines and rectangles. I don't > > xpdf doesn't seem to like bitmap fonts. The original author should use >

Re: Yet another lyx guide

2001-02-20 Thread robin
Marcus Beyer wrote: > > > In case anyone's interested, I've just written a very basic guide to > > lyx, available at > > > > www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin/lyxguide.pdf > > > > It's aimed at university students and staff, so doesn't have anything > > about letter class etc. - it's just something to ge

Re: PS/BibTeX errors on clean install

2001-02-20 Thread Herbert Voss
D Milburn wrote: > > I hadn't explicitly put \cite in the document, I'd used insert citation > from the menu with my own bibtex file referenced at the end. > > If I export the file as tex, I don't get any \citename tags in it, but I > still can't compile it with latex because it reports undefine

Typing in Lyx 1.1.6fix1 Win32 hangs

2001-02-20 Thread Ramon Felciano
Hi --   I'm trying to get the Win32 port of Lyx 1.1.6fix1 working. Most everything seems to be working: I can launch Lyx and open and view files (e.g. the Help files). However, if I try to type anything, Lyx hangs. Note that copy-and-paste works fine, it seems only that typing via the keyboa

Re: PS/BibTeX errors on clean install

2001-02-20 Thread D Milburn
Hi, I hadn't explicitly put \cite in the document, I'd used insert citation from the menu with my own bibtex file referenced at the end. If I export the file as tex, I don't get any \citename tags in it, but I still can't compile it with latex because it reports undefined references (points to n

Re: babel problem with lyx 1.1.6

2001-02-20 Thread Martin Gruner
> > I am writing german documents that contain greek words. > > It works fine except the TOC in the .dvi file will be greek after the > > paragraph containing the first greek word(s). > > Can you send an example file ? > > The above code is correct: the scope of the \selectlanguage command is only

Re: LyX 1.1.6fix1: EPS figures not shown

2001-02-20 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
John Levon wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > > > Of course, xdvi shows the EPS figures. I am using GhostScript 6.50. > > Surely I am doing something wrong... or not? > > Yes, ghostscript 6.50 has a bug. You will need to back down > to 5.50, or perhaps try 6.60 (see >http

Re: PS/BibTeX errors on clean install

2001-02-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Duncan Milburn wrote: > > Dear All, > > I've just taken the brave step of replacing my previous RedHat installation with a >fresh 7.0. > > Now I wish I hadn't bothered because with the simplest document including citations >from my trusty .bib file I get the following on compilation of the Po

Re: New layout problem

2001-02-20 Thread Herbert Voss
robin wrote: > > I have a small but irritating problem with a new layout I've written. > Everything works fine except for tables. I created a new environment > called "Header", and now all tables use this as a default instead of > "Standard". this depends to your lyx-layout. the table uses alway

AW: Problems using combined PS/LaTeX-figures

2001-02-20 Thread Arthaber Holger
Oops... It seems that it is some months ago I used LyX last time. Of course this fixes the problem. Thanks, Holger > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:49:04AM +0100, Arthaber Holger wrote: > > Hi Jean-Marc! > > > > I did an update to 1.1.6fix1 which just fixed the i/I-Problem. > > > > But the proble

Re: LyX 1.1.6fix1: EPS figures not shown

2001-02-20 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > Of course, xdvi shows the EPS figures. I am using GhostScript 6.50. gs 6.50 has a known bug. Use another version (older).

Re: LyX 1.1.6fix1: EPS figures not shown

2001-02-20 Thread John Levon
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > Of course, xdvi shows the EPS figures. I am using GhostScript 6.50. > Surely I am doing something wrong... or not? Yes, ghostscript 6.50 has a bug. You will need to back down to 5.50, or perhaps try 6.60 (see http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles

LyX 1.1.6fix1: EPS figures not shown

2001-02-20 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
Hello, I have just installed LyX 1.1.6 (and fix1) on my system running FreeBSD 4.2, and it fails to show included EPS figures. The message "rendering..." appears in the box, but nothing happens. I tested both old documents made with previous LyX versions, and new documents. I wiped out ~/.lyx to

PS/BibTeX errors on clean install

2001-02-20 Thread Duncan Milburn
Dear All, I've just taken the brave step of replacing my previous RedHat installation with a fresh 7.0. Now I wish I hadn't bothered because with the simplest document including citations from my trusty .bib file I get the following on compilation of the PostScript file: Undefined control seq

Re: What's happening with tabular in 1.1.6?

2001-02-20 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 20-Feb-2001 Dekel Tsur wrote: > I still don't see why we can't add a "centered" button to the "Insert Tabular" > dialog, and if this button is selected then a new centered paragraph is > created to which the tabular is inserted (by default, the button is not > selected). I would say by defau

Re: babel problem with lyx 1.1.6

2001-02-20 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 03:17:43PM +0100, Martin Gruner wrote: > Gentlemen, > > I am writing german documents that contain greek words. > It works fine except the TOC in the .dvi file will be greek after the > paragraph containing the first greek word(s). Can you send an example file ? > The p

Re: New layout problem

2001-02-20 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:05:42AM +0200, robin wrote: > I have a small but irritating problem with a new layout I've written. > Everything works fine except for tables. I created a new environment > called "Header", and now all tables use this as a default instead of > "Standard". > > The layou

Re: What's happening with tabular in 1.1.6?

2001-02-20 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 03:47:41PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > Is there a way to set this in, for example lyxrc? Personally, I also > > find this "bug fix" annoying - in almost all publishing layouts, tables > > are centred. > > But they aren't centred by default for that document class otherwis

Re: Problems using combined PS/LaTeX-figures

2001-02-20 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:49:04AM +0100, Arthaber Holger wrote: > Hi Jean-Marc! > > I did an update to 1.1.6fix1 which just fixed the i/I-Problem. > > But the problem of loosing the file extension is still there. > An include of file.pstex_t still results in the LaTeX-code > '\include(file)' w

Re: Yet another lyx guide

2001-02-20 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I open lyxguide.pdf with xpdf, it looks like mostly blank pages > with dots scattered around and a few lines and rectangles. I don't xpdf doesn't seem to like bitmap fonts. The original author should use outline fonts instead, or you should use

Re: Yet another lyx guide

2001-02-20 Thread rex
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:01:29PM +0200, robin wrote: > > > Good points - will add them when I get a free moment (though I need to > revise my own BibTeX knowledge, which I've pretty much forgotten!). When I open lyxguide.pdf with xpdf, it looks like mostly blank pages with dots scattered arou

babel problem with lyx 1.1.6

2001-02-20 Thread Martin Gruner
Gentlemen, I am writing german documents that contain greek words. It works fine except the TOC in the .dvi file will be greek after the paragraph containing the first greek word(s). The problem might be that lyx does not close the greek environment properly. The latex-code looks like {\selectla

Re: °A in pybliographic / Bibtex

2001-02-20 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | How do I get the Scandinavian °A (o on top of A) into the .bib file produced | by pybliographic? | If I use the {\AA}, | Trying to view the dvi file gives me 5 errors at the top of the lyx file | with error messages | Thanks for help At least

°A in pybliographic / Bibtex

2001-02-20 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
How do I get the Scandinavian °A (o on top of A) into the .bib file produced by pybliographic? If I use the {\AA}, Trying to view the dvi file gives me 5 errors at the top of the lyx file with error messages Thanks for help

Re: OK, it works now...

2001-02-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Michael" == Michael Rumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> The first time I saw the autogen.sh script and decided to Michael> launch the configuration by typing "autogen.sh". This fails Michael> because it couldn't find a configure.m4 script in the lib Michael> directory. and thus the

OK, it works now...

2001-02-20 Thread Michael Rumpf
When I copy the files into the lib directory and call "make install" I can launch LyX without an error. The dinbrief.lyx template functionality is great, exactly what I was looking for... I unpacked the source package from scratch, trying to reproduce the problem... #

Re: Further problems...

2001-02-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Michael" == Michael Rumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> directory `/home/mru/lyx-1.1.6fix1/lib' make[1]: *** No rule Michael> to make target `packages.lst', needed by `all-am'. Stop. Michael> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mru/lyx-1.1.6fix1/lib' Michael> make: *** [all-recursive]

Further problems...

2001-02-20 Thread Michael Rumpf
After creating an empty file textclass.lst I get the following error: Making all in reLyX make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mru/lyx-1.1.6fix1/lib/reLyX' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mru/lyx-1.1.6fix1/lib/reLyX' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mru/ly

Re: Yet another lyx guide

2001-02-20 Thread robin
George De Bruin wrote: > > > Hi Robin, > > Just took a quick look at your LyX guide, and it's very nice. I do actually > have a suggestion: Possibly add a quick ref to the templates available and > how they correspond for different types of documents -- especially research > papers. I'm cert

Next problem...

2001-02-20 Thread Michael Rumpf
Thanks for the help so far. Is it possible to run LyX with the lyxrc.example file without any changes? I'm just trying to get the app going to write german DIN letters with LyX. I hope that there is no need to dig into the details and make any changes to the lyxrc.defaults file... But here is the

Re: Helvetica.sty?

2001-02-20 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:15:42AM +0200, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > It might be a bug in LyX 1.1.6. I do the following: > > - Create a new file in LyX. Write in some text and math stuff. > - Write \usepackage{ae,aecompl} in the LaTeX preamble. > - View PDF(pdflatex) > Everything is now in vector f

Re: Can't build Lyx

2001-02-20 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Michael Rumpf wrote: > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mru/lyx-1.1.6fix1/lib' > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `lyxrc.defaults', needed by You might try copying file lib/lyxrc.example to lib/lyxrc.defaults and then try compiling again. You should check manually that

Can't build Lyx

2001-02-20 Thread Michael Rumpf
I get the following error when trying to build LyX on a RH6.2 system. I reproduced the error on both my machines at home and at work! Making all in reLyX make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mru/lyx-1.1.6fix1/lib/reLyX' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mru/ly

AW: Problems using combined PS/LaTeX-figures

2001-02-20 Thread Arthaber Holger
Hi Jean-Marc! I did an update to 1.1.6fix1 which just fixed the i/I-Problem. But the problem of loosing the file extension is still there. An include of file.pstex_t still results in the LaTeX-code '\include(file)' with the extension .pstex_t missing. Holger > > "Arthaber" == Arthaber Ho

Re: What's happening with tabular in 1.1.6?

2001-02-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Yann" == Yann Collete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yann> Hello, I also use lyx-1.1.6fix1 and encounter this kind of Yann> problem (table centering). The thing I use to fix this is to add Yann> a HFill symbol on the left of the table and on the right. Why don't you just set the paragraph ju

Re: Problems using combined PS/LaTeX-figures

2001-02-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Arthaber" == Arthaber Holger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Arthaber> But the LaTeX-code generated from LyX is faulty. Insted of Arthaber> the expected Arthaber>\include{file.pstex_t} Arthaber> I get Arthaber>\Include{file} Arthaber> BTW: I am using LaTeX2e <1998/12/01> patch leve

Re: Helvetica.sty?

2001-02-20 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > 1. add the following lines to ~/.dvipsrc (create if the file doesn't > > exist): > > p+ psfonts.cmz > > p+ psfonts.amz > > > > 2. add the following to LaTeX preamble: > > \usepackage{ae,aecompl} > > > > 3. or, the following could be added to ~/.lyxrc,