Re: thanks and pstopdf-question

2001-05-30 Thread Andre Berger
* Paul Borgermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-05-31 01:00 +0200: > > So my question is how can I specifie this "-Ppdf" inside Lyx? > > I added this option in LyX 1.1.6fix2 preferences > (Converters->Converters), with LyX 1.1.5fix1 this should be possible > by defining \dvi_to_ps_command "dvips

Re: csv2lyx-0.0.1fix1 :-)

2001-05-30 Thread Roman Maurer
"A.Gulino" wrote: > > csv2lyx-0.0.1fix1 is released ! What does it do? Creates LyX tables out of comma separated spreadsheets? -- Regards, Roman

csv2lyx-0.0.1fix1 :-)

2001-05-30 Thread A.Gulino
Hi LyX friends, csv2lyx-0.0.1fix1 is released ! a bugfix: now is the output a good LyX-file. No problems with "Senseless" and so. new features (for more infos, as usual under Linux: pod2html csv2lyx > csv2lyx.html ) --header --border --label='label for crossreferences' --output='outputfilenam

Re: Bibliographic references spilling over into margins

2001-05-30 Thread Ramon Felciano
Yep, that was the problem. I assumed that upgrading to LyX 1.1.6fix2 would either fix this problem in a backwards compatible way OR automatically all multi-citation references to remove the problematic space. In case anyone else comes across this, here's the Perl script I wrote to remove the space

Re: Need help installing a new class and style file

2001-05-30 Thread Roberto Marabini
Dear jonathan, Certainly the instructions for installing new classes and styles aren't terribly clear. This is what I did to install the layout "acmtrans2e" described in latex by acmtrans2e.cls and acmtrans.bst I hope that it will be helpfull. (Note: acmtrans2e has the same enviroments than a

Need help installing a new class and style file

2001-05-30 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Hello, I'm sorry to post such a lame question to the list but this is my situation: I'm a Linux system Administrator and as such, know a bit about using Linux, but I don't know a thing about LyX, LaTeX or TeX, or any form of typesetting. My church, after examining all the options on all plat

Re: PostScript or TrueType?

2001-05-30 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:48:21PM +0200, Beyer, Marcus wrote: > > Dear LyX-Users, > > I would like to try some other fonts like "Garamond" > and "Gill". I have the font "Garamond" in both > PostScript and TrueType flavours. > Which one (PS or TT) is easier/better to use with LyX? > > I am usi

Re: ScreenFonts

2001-05-30 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:53:01AM -0700, Michelle Dukich wrote: > Is there any way to use TrueType fonts for the screen? > > I am running RedHat's xfs font server for X. Edit->Preferences -->Look & Feel --> Screen Fonts to set what fonts are used to display the document and Edit->Preferences

Re: thanks and pstopdf-question

2001-05-30 Thread Paul Borgermans
See comments below In short gs_6.x: it has some issues for pdf generation (math and other font problems which surface when other people try to print it under Windows) > I now installed gs_6.01 (which is quite a hard work for a >non-programmer) and the pdf files are nicely small. Also the text

Re: Chapters in TOC

2001-05-30 Thread Herbert Voss
Kathryn Andersen wrote: > > On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:09:17PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 12:22:33PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > > > There's a feature in latex (I assume, rather than lyx) which I find > > > very irritating: if I have a Chapter in my document, then i

Re: Making a layout for ENTCS

2001-05-30 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 02:44:48PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: > I am currently writing a paper using entcs.cls (Elsevier's Electronic Notes > in Theoretical Computer Science style). > > It has a slightly unusual requirement: the \author, \address & so on > commands must go in a special environme

Re: lyx & xfig

2001-05-30 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 14:53:43 -0300 (ART) >>From: Matias Freytes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "Jean-Pierre.Chretien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: lyx & xfig >> >>Hello, >> >>> >>> > I´ve used xfig for a while. A few days ago I installed a >>

Re: Making a layout for ENTCS

2001-05-30 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:08:43AM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote: > Reuben Thomas wrote: > > > > I am currently writing a paper using entcs.cls (Elsevier's Electronic Notes > > in Theoretical Computer Science style). > > > > It has a slightly unusual requirement: the \author, \address & so on > > co

Re: acknowledgements environment

2001-05-30 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:47:49AM +0100, Alejandro Fernandez wrote: > I'm using lyx to write a project report, using the report style. I'd > like to add an acknowledgements page, after the title page, but I don't > have much time to spend on it. I've tried adding this stile: > Assuming you want

Re: lyx & xfig

2001-05-30 Thread Matias Freytes
Hello, > >>> > I´ve used xfig for a while. A few days ago I installed a > >>> > newer version and I couldnt export eps files any longer. > >>> > >>> What version? I don't think there has been ever any idea of taking eps > >>> export out of xfig. > >> > >>I have Xfig 3.2.3 patchlevel bet

Re: Bibliographic references spilling over into margins

2001-05-30 Thread Herbert Voss
Ramon Felciano wrote: > > > i suppose that you have something like > > \cite{me, you} > > with a space after comma. try to delete it. > > > Well, yes, but it is Lyx that created that citation entry for me since it > now allows for multiple citations in a single entry. Maybe I'm > misunderstanding

ScreenFonts

2001-05-30 Thread Michelle Dukich
Greetings: Is there any way to use TrueType fonts for the screen? I am running RedHat's xfs font server for X. Thank you. MD __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.

Re: Bibliographic references spilling over into margins

2001-05-30 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:54:48PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2001, Ramon Felciano wrote: > > > Put \usepackage{apalike} in the preamble. > > > > > I tried this but am now getting citation errors: > > > > --- > > White space in argument---line 326 of fi

Re: thanks and pstopdf-question

2001-05-30 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:08:27AM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote: > > On Wed, 30 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Hi there, > > > > the problem of getting a fine pdf-file out of LyX seems to be one of the > > most discussed topics in this mailing lists (hint hint maybe it´s worth a > > mi

Does LyX complain about broken label or citation references?

2001-05-30 Thread Ramon Felciano
Hi -- I've noticed that LyX (or LaTeX I guess) doesn't seem to complain about broken label references. Instead, the reference gets printed with a "?" indicating that the target couldn't be found. Is there any way to do a pre-flight of a LyX (LaTeX) document to check the references and make sure t

Re: Languages (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-05-30 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:09:14 +0100 >>From: Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: LyX Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Languages (was Re: sorting tables?) >>Mail-Followup-To: LyX Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i >> >>On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:58:18PM

Re: lyx & xfig

2001-05-30 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:45:59 -0300 (ART) >>From: Matias Freytes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: lyx & xfig >> >>Hello, >> >>> > I´ve used xfig for a while. A few days ago I installed a >>> > newer version and I couldnt

Re: lyx & xfig

2001-05-30 Thread Stefano Ghirlanda
Matias Freytes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > > > I´ve used xfig for a while. A few days ago I installed a > > > newer version and I couldnt export eps files any longer. > > > > What version? I don't think there has been ever any idea of taking eps > > export out of xfig. > > I ha

Re: Languages (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-05-30 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:58:18PM +0200, ben wrote: > Allan Rae a écrit : > > > [...] > > > > Anyway, past discussions have usually ended up with Python as best because > > it's readable/writable even for newbies. Scheme/Lisp usually dropped as a > > bad idea because no-one cares to type all th

Re: lyx & xfig

2001-05-30 Thread Matias Freytes
Hello, > > I´ve used xfig for a while. A few days ago I installed a > > newer version and I couldnt export eps files any longer. > > What version? I don't think there has been ever any idea of taking eps > export out of xfig. I have Xfig 3.2.3 patchlevel beta-1 (Protocol 3.2) and when I tr

Re: Re: thanks and pstopdf-question

2001-05-30 Thread Wolfgang Kilian
OK thanks for the good tips, I really tried hard and finally succeded in a certain way. First off all sorry Herbert but the linebreaks in the e-mails I can't change. I now installed gs_6.01 (which is quite a hard work for a non-programmer) and the pdf files are nicely small. Also the text char

Re: Bibliographic references spilling over into margins

2001-05-30 Thread Ramon Felciano
> i suppose that you have something like > \cite{me, you} > with a space after comma. try to delete it. > Well, yes, but it is Lyx that created that citation entry for me since it now allows for multiple citations in a single entry. Maybe I'm misunderstanding how to use this feature? Ramon

Re: acknowledgements environment

2001-05-30 Thread Alejandro Fernandez
Hi, Thanks, but I don't understand where to find a package that defines this, or how to define it with \newenvironment. Could you tell me where these packages are usually kept, or what extension or file name they might have? I've tried looking for occurrences of "Preamble", "\newenvironment" and

PostScript or TrueType?

2001-05-30 Thread Beyer, Marcus
Dear LyX-Users, I would like to try some other fonts like "Garamond" and "Gill". I have the font "Garamond" in both PostScript and TrueType flavours. Which one (PS or TT) is easier/better to use with LyX? I am using LyX 1.1.6fix1 on NT4 with pdfLaTeX (MiKTeX). Best Regards Marcus Beyer __

Re: acknowledgements environment

2001-05-30 Thread ben
Alejandro Fernandez a écrit : > Hi, > > I'm using lyx to write a project report, using the report style. I'd > like to add an acknowledgements page, after the title page, but I don't > have much time to spend on it. I've tried adding this stile: > > Style Acknowledgement > Margin

Re: Kerning in math mode (a bit OT)

2001-05-30 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>From: Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Kerning in math mode (a bit OT) >>To: Sarah Mount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:43:59 +0200 (CEST) >>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>> f's in math mode seem to be kerned strangely, is there a way round this, >>> or am I halluci

Re: Languages (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-05-30 Thread ben
Allan Rae a écrit : > [...] > > Anyway, past discussions have usually ended up with Python as best because > it's readable/writable even for newbies. Scheme/Lisp usually dropped as a > bad idea because no-one cares to type all the ()'s and Perl as a possible > second language. What are the adva

Re: thanks and pstopdf-question

2001-05-30 Thread stephan . schlierf
Uuups, sorry :-) Stephan -- Stephan E. Schlierf M.A. - chief concept & design developer - speed2web GmbH Germany FON: +49 921 99 00 86 12 FAX: +49 921 99 00 86 70 http://www.speed2web.de

Re: Bibliographic references spilling over into margins

2001-05-30 Thread Herbert Voss
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Ramon Felciano wrote: > > Put \usepackage{apalike} in the preamble. > > > I tried this but am now getting citation errors: > > --- > White space in argument---line 326 of file final-draft-v09.aux > : \citation{Cardelli1991Operations, > :

acknowledgements environment

2001-05-30 Thread Alejandro Fernandez
Hi, I'm using lyx to write a project report, using the report style. I'd like to add an acknowledgements page, after the title page, but I don't have much time to spend on it. I've tried adding this stile: Style Acknowledgement MarginStatic LatexType Environment

Re: Kerning in math mode (a bit OT)

2001-05-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
> f's in math mode seem to be kerned strangely, is there a way round this, > or am I hallucinating after too much coffee? If this is a LaTeX thingy I don't think we can/want to much about it... Andre' -- André Pönitz . [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kerning in math mode (a bit OT)

2001-05-30 Thread Michael Hanke
Am Mittwoch 30 Mai 2001 12:05 schrieben Sie: > f's in math mode seem to be kerned strangely, is there a way round this, > or am I hallucinating after too much coffee? > > Thanks! > > Sarah Hi: It's not really strange. It is the difference between math mode italics and text italics. In mathmode,

Re: solaris build problem

2001-05-30 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | Lars> Unfortunately m4 is needed... this the autogeneration of the | Lars> sigc++ files that is playing tricks on us. Some automake magic | Lars> should help here. | | You mean

Re: csv2lyx (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-05-30 Thread A.Gulino
I will change the english in the documentation (and the suggestion too, of course) When I have made the changes, I post it. The script self I will send it at you, and who ask me. If someone want, I send the script (version 0.0.0fix1 :-) in the mailinglist self. Guenter Milde wrote: <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Search popup

2001-05-30 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Matej" == Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Escape works well on 1.1.6fix2 here. Matej> Well. It really doesn't here. See attached xev.log (a lot of Matej> irrelevant stuff deleted) and lyx-key.log (I have opened a file Matej> from MRU, searched for word "v\v{s}ichni" tried three

Re: solaris build problem

2001-05-30 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> Unfortunately m4 is needed... this the autogeneration of the Lars> sigc++ files that is playing tricks on us. Some automake magic Lars> should help here. You mean the generated files are not in the dist? JMarc

Re: solaris build problem

2001-05-30 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>> >>> "Jean-Pierre" == Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>Jean-Pierre> New with fix2: compilation fails with Solaris m4, Gnu m4 >>Jean-Pierre> needed (and available BEFORE ./configure, adding it >>Jean-Pierre> afterwards failed even after distclean and I had to >>Jean-Pie

Kerning in math mode (a bit OT)

2001-05-30 Thread Sarah Mount
f's in math mode seem to be kerned strangely, is there a way round this, or am I hallucinating after too much coffee? Thanks! Sarah -- I've held on all these years now, now what medal have I got? Hold on, hold on to what? - Heaton/Rotherby

Re: solaris build problem

2001-05-30 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > "Jean-Pierre" == Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | Jean-Pierre> New with fix2: compilation fails with Solaris m4, Gnu m4 | Jean-Pierre> needed (and available BEFORE ./configure, adding it | Jean-Pierre> afterwards failed

Re: Bibliographic references spilling over into margins

2001-05-30 Thread Ramon Felciano
> Put \usepackage{apalike} in the preamble. > I tried this but am now getting citation errors: --- White space in argument---line 326 of file final-draft-v09.aux : \citation{Cardelli1991Operations, : Bracha1992Modulari

Re: PROBLEMS with REVTEX on: LyX 1.1.6fix2

2001-05-30 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Peter" == Peter D Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Thanks - Dekel, Herbert I tried Dekel Tsur's suggestion of Peter> changing the Lyx preferences. Unfortunately, these are not Peter> available on the popup menu, but have to be handcoded - I guess Peter> you would need to re-edit

Re: solaris build problem

2001-05-30 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jean-Pierre" == Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jean-Pierre> New with fix2: compilation fails with Solaris m4, Gnu m4 Jean-Pierre> needed (and available BEFORE ./configure, adding it Jean-Pierre> afterwards failed even after distclean and I had to Jean-Pierre> restart from

Re: lyx & xfig

2001-05-30 Thread Stefano Ghirlanda
Matias Freytes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I´ve used xfig for a while. A few days ago I installed a > newer version and I couldnt export eps files any longer. What version? I don't think there has been ever any idea of taking eps export out of xfig. -- Stefano Ghirlanda, Zoologiska In

Re: thanks and pstopdf-question

2001-05-30 Thread Herbert Voss
On Wed, 30 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi there, > > the problem of getting a fine pdf-file out of LyX seems to be one of the > most discussed topics in this mailing lists (hint hint maybe it´s worth a > mini-HOWTO ?). what about this site: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/pd

Re: PROBLEMS with REVTEX on: LyX 1.1.6fix2

2001-05-30 Thread Peter D Drummond
Thanks - Dekel, Herbert I tried Dekel Tsur's suggestion of changing the Lyx preferences. Unfortunately, these are not available on the popup menu, but have to be handcoded - I guess you would need to re-edit the file every time you changed preferences? The good news is that it does work. I haven

Re: solaris build problem

2001-05-30 Thread Robert Andersson
Jean-Pierre, > "JC" == Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JC> New with fix2: compilation fails with Solaris m4, Gnu m4 needed JC> (and available BEFORE ./configure, adding it afterwards failed JC> even after distclean and I had to restart from the distrib tar JC> file). huh...

Re: csv2lyx (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-05-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On Fri, 25 May 2001 08:54:50 +0200 wrote A.Gulino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi folks, > I send you my very little perlscript. If you think it is long, its not true. > there are a only 30 codelines, the rest is documentation. Hi Antonio, thanks for that little script of yours- I like it and I like

Re: thanks and pstopdf-question

2001-05-30 Thread stephan . schlierf
Hi there, the problem of getting a fine pdf-file out of LyX seems to be one of the most discussed topics in this mailing lists (hint hint maybe it´s worth a mini-HOWTO ?). To avoid people getting frustrated (as it happened to me every now and then when playing around with ps and pdf-files and u