Re: diameter symbol

2001-03-23 Thread Herbert Voss
"Stephan D. Picard" wrote: > > I looked through the archive and can't find anything on how to display a > diameter symbol. Any thought? for example: package wasysym and \diameter Herbert -- http://perce.de/lyx/

Re: OFF-TOPIC: New Mac OS X

2001-03-23 Thread Rod Pinna
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > I wonder, whether after all these years it is getting time for buying Mac > > for me. The question is simple -- is the GUI based on X? > > I don't know but I doubt it. It isn't. > > If yes, does it mean, that there is day coming near when M$ Offic

diameter symbol

2001-03-23 Thread Stephan D. Picard
I looked through the archive and can't find anything on how to display a diameter symbol. Any thought? regards, Stephan

Re: OFF-TOPIC: New Mac OS X

2001-03-23 Thread Andre Poenitz
> I wonder, whether after all these years it is getting time for buying Mac > for me. The question is simple -- is the GUI based on X? I don't know but I doubt it. > If yes, does it mean, that there is day coming near when M$ Office will > run on X? MS Word 97 runs comparatively well under Wine

OFF-TOPIC: New Mac OS X

2001-03-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, sorry for off-topic question: I have heard on WBUR (my local NPR News radio), that there will be new Mac OS based on BSD on Saturday. One thing, that told is that M$ is preparing Office for it. I wonder, whether after all these years it is getting time for buying Mac for me. The question

Re: multicols and tabbing

2001-03-23 Thread Christopher Jones
Thanks so much! Since I sent that post, I had come up with the following slution: \begin{tabbing} Q. XXX \= \parbox[t]{\columnwidth}{...} \\ ... \end{tabbing} Your solution worked MUCH better, since mine, though it kept the text within the column, left the \parbox extended too far to the rig

Re: multicols and tabbing

2001-03-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Christopher Jones wrote: > > Thanks to Herr Voss for the tabbing example file. And thanks to everyone for > your suggestions. > > I decieded to go with latex tabbing. This introduces a problem which seems to > derive from my use of another package, namely the multicols package. My > document nee

Re: Figure list entries

2001-03-23 Thread Christopher von Nagy
Dekel Tsur wrote: > A nicer solution is to modify the stdlayouts.inc file (or just the layout > file you use for your document), adding to it the following lines: > ---begin- > Style ShortCaption > CopyStyle Caption > LatexName setshortcaption

multicols and tabbing

2001-03-23 Thread Christopher Jones
Thanks to Herr Voss for the tabbing example file. And thanks to everyone for your suggestions. I decieded to go with latex tabbing. This introduces a problem which seems to derive from my use of another package, namely the multicols package. My document needs to be trifold, three columns. Hence

Re: Request: quotation marks

2001-03-23 Thread Stefano Ghirlanda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jürgen Spitzmüller) writes: > Dekel Tsur wrote: > > You can use the ' and ` keys for inserting single quotes. > > You mean accent acute (or comma for German style) and accent grave? > Does not work (the accents) on my system because I have enabled dead > keys (to get french

Re: Request: quotation marks

2001-03-23 Thread Andre Poenitz
> You mean accent acute (or comma for German style) and accent grave? > Does not work (the accents) on my system because I have enabled dead > keys (to get french accents). What happens if you type a space after the ' ? Andre' -- André Pönitz [EMAIL

Re: Request: quotation marks

2001-03-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Dekel Tsur wrote: > You can use the ' and ` keys for inserting single quotes. You mean accent acute (or comma for German style) and accent grave? Does not work (the accents) on my system because I have enabled dead keys (to get french accents). Thanks, anyway. Juergen.

Re: thanks & bibtex help

2001-03-23 Thread Juha Siltala
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > > >>Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:18:44 +0200 > >>From: Juha Siltala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>cc: Lyx-users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Subject: Re: thanks & bibtex help > >> > >> > >[snip] > >> > >>Yes, someone

Re: thanks & bibtex help

2001-03-23 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:18:44 +0200 >>From: Juha Siltala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>cc: Lyx-users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: thanks & bibtex help >> >> >[snip] >> >>Yes, someone else mentioned tkbibtex too. I downloaded it and it looks >>much simpler.

Re: thanks & bibtex help

2001-03-23 Thread Juha Siltala
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Andre Berger wrote: > * Juha Siltala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010322 13:29 +0100: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Thanks for your help on the lyxserver and also on the latex configuration > > hassle. Runs cool now. > > > > The other side of my problem is still open. Is there a nice

Re: Viewers don't recoginze updates?

2001-03-23 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 04:00:08PM +0100, Friedemann Baitinger wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > with lyx-1.1.6fix1 I noticed that if I invoke 'view --> dvi' or actualy > any of the viewers listed there they always display the same content. If > I make a change to the d

Re: Figure list entries

2001-03-23 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 05:43:43PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: > Christopher von Nagy wrote: > > > > I am working with a series of large documents with relatively large numbers > > of figures and complex captions. In LaTeX the caption command allows for a > > figure or table list entry and heading

key binding and GUI

2001-03-23 Thread Nabil Hathout
Hello, I have moved recently to 1.1.6fix1 and I have got a problem to keep using some of my key bindings. For instance I use M-d to delete the word forword or M-S-i to toggle italic. In the new GUI these key sequences call the menus Document and Insert. I switched them off by removing the "|I" a

Re: FW: Use "key" field, not others!

2001-03-23 Thread Herbert Voss
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Zailong Bian wrote: > > I have all the key field in my *.bib files entered with my > special/strange format. But now I cannot force lyx to display the key I > entered as label in the generated phostscript file. I tried alpha, > apalike, etc and none of them works. Anyon

Re[2]: LyX 1.1.6fix FIles Can't Be Input into earlier versions

2001-03-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 17:25:39 +0100 Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 218 can read 216 but not vice versa! > so update all to 1.1.6fix1 or install 1.1.5 on all computers. I wonder whether it would be possible to write an import filter for 1.1.5 (i.e. a script that "downgrades" 1.1.6 fil

Re[2]: I need 'tabs' effect from LyX

2001-03-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:07:42 +0100 (MET) Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Christopher Jones wrote: > > > I need to make paragraphs appear thusly: > > > > Q. XX blah blah blah > > A. blah blah blah > > Q. XX blah blah blah > > A. blah blah blah > >

Re: I need 'tabs' effect from LyX

2001-03-23 Thread Herbert Voss
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Christopher Jones wrote: > I need to make paragraphs appear thusly: > > Q. XX blah blah blah > A. blah blah blah > Q. XX blah blah blah > A. blah blah blah > ... > > It's something like a dialogue, where each paragraph has some preceeding mark, > like in enumera