Re: What's a better platform - win2k or Linux

2001-08-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
> I know that this sounds like a troll question, Somewhat. Yes ;-) > but I ma being serious. I am currently running a w2k setup, and most >of the software I use daily is for windoze. However, I have used lyx >before, and I think that it really makes word look like a toy, so I'd >really like to

Re: What's a better platform - win2k or Linux

2001-08-15 Thread Rod Pinna
Just a comment on VMWare. I've used it under Windows NT for awhile now, just so I can have Linux at work. (I'm not doing it the other way around, as there was no way I would have been allowed to have Linux as the primary OS). I've found it offers a very good solution. The speed has been fine. T

Re: What's a better platform - win2k or Linux

2001-08-15 Thread Piotr R. Sidorowicz
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Frank Derichsweiler wrote: > Vlad, > > Have you looked at vmware ( http://www.vmware.com gives oportunity to > download trial version)? With that tool you can run another OS "in a > window". You can use your win*#&$ software and use Linux as OS for > running lyx. Well, I

Re: What's a better platform - win2k or Linux

2001-08-15 Thread Frank Derichsweiler
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:13:03PM +0200, Vladimir Milovanovic wrote: >I am currently running a w2k setup, and most of the software I use >daily is for windoze. However, I have used lyx before, and I think > > >Please, email me directly if you have a suggestion, since I am not >

Re: A document in latex8 style doesn't produce dvi output

2001-08-15 Thread Herbert Voss
"A.Gunes Koru" wrote: > > Now I open the existing latex8 template from New -> Template or I just > create an empty document selecting latex8 document layout. When I try to > see the dvi output I get too many error messages (between 350-360) and > nothing appears. can you send a minimal lyx examp

Re: wide table float

2001-08-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Myriam Abramson wrote: > > I'm inserting a table inside a wide table float but it's not > centered. Am I missing something? Figures do come out centered in wide > figure floats though. How do I make my tables centered? cursor left or right from table layout->paragraph->center Herbert -- htt

Re: line spacing

2001-08-15 Thread Herbert Voss
James Lindenschmidt wrote: > > OK, this works, but a minor tweak is needed: > > Now, whenever I come out of the quoted environment, the next line in standard > is automatically indented, whether or not I intend a new paragraph to begin > here. This never happened before. It is only indented in t

Re: How do I increase the binding margin?

2001-08-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Steve Litt wrote: > > I want about .75in on the outside edge and about 2.0" on the inside edge. > When I set the margins to get .75 on the outside, I get only about 1.25" on > the inside edge. what do you have in layout->document->page? papersize-> margins-> and one- or twoside? Herbert -- h

wide table float

2001-08-15 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! I'm inserting a table inside a wide table float but it's not centered. Am I missing something? Figures do come out centered in wide figure floats though. How do I make my tables centered? Thanks -- myriam As seen in a coffee shop in Monterey, CA, Geor

A document in latex8 style doesn't produce dvi output

2001-08-15 Thread A . Gunes Koru
Hello, I am writing a paper to an IEEE Conference. I copied the latex8.sty file under /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base and then I ran texhash. Now I am able to produce dvi output using the latex command in the command line. Also, I get +checking for document class latex8 [article,latex8.sty,ti

Re: line spacing

2001-08-15 Thread James Lindenschmidt
OK, this works, but a minor tweak is needed: Now, whenever I come out of the quoted environment, the next line in standard is automatically indented, whether or not I intend a new paragraph to begin here. This never happened before. It is only indented in the final ps viewable version; the ind

How do I increase the binding margin?

2001-08-15 Thread Steve Litt
I want about .75in on the outside edge and about 2.0" on the inside edge. When I set the margins to get .75 on the outside, I get only about 1.25" on the inside edge. I staple my books together, and that consumes about 1 extra inch on the inside. Thanks Steve -- Steve Litt Webmaster, Trou

FYI: "pages print on top of each other" problem

2001-08-15 Thread Keeper of the Key to Time
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi... Recently I've seen a few posts from people who have trouble because their documents with embedded pictures are printing several pages on top of each other. I came across this while cleaning out old mails from the Bugtraq list: [clip

Re: What's a better platform - win2k or Linux

2001-08-15 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:13:03PM +0200, Vladimir Milovanovic wrote: > My question is this : how difficult would it be for a linux newbie (not an > idiot though, i've installed linux before) to set up Lyx on, say, RedHat 7.1? easy enough. get the xforms RPM from ftp.lyx.org:/pub/lyx/contrib and

What's a better platform - win2k or Linux

2001-08-15 Thread Vladimir Milovanovic
Hi all,   I know that this sounds like a troll question, but I ma being serious. I am currently running a w2k setup, and most of the software I use daily is for windoze. However, I have used lyx before, and I think that it really makes word look like a toy, so I'd really like to be able to us

Bug?

2001-08-15 Thread Remzi Seker
I wonder if this is a bug. I am editing a document, and after I perform the spellcheck, I can not do it again for the second time. Moreover, it gives the following error window when I close LyX: Error! Couldn't Delete Temporary Dir: ... It also takes LyX sometime to terminate after that error

Re: Multiline Mathed Bug??

2001-08-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Aaron Broad wrote: > > From reading the manual I found that you can create multiline math > functions by pressing control-enter in the mathed box. But when I do it > it doesn't seem to work. Am I misreading the manual or is this a bug. I suppose you have 1.1.6 this works only for displayed ma

Multiline Mathed Bug??

2001-08-15 Thread Aaron Broad
Hi, From reading the manual I found that you can create multiline math functions by pressing control-enter in the mathed box. But when I do it it doesn't seem to work. Am I misreading the manual or is this a bug. I'm using the version that comes with Debian SID. Its version 1.1.6fix3. Tha

Re: avoid pagebreak between normal text and list

2001-08-15 Thread Ronny Buchmann
* Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-08-15 14:45] schrieb: > Ronny Buchmann wrote: > > > single line paragraph describing the list > > > > * item > > * item > > * item > > - > > > now it happens that latex puts a pagebreak between the text line and the list, how >can i avoid this?

KOMA-Script Release

2001-08-15 Thread Herbert Voss
there is a new release with a new doc(!): ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: avoid pagebreak between normal text and list

2001-08-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Ronny Buchmann wrote: > single line paragraph describing the list > > * item > * item > * item > - > now it happens that latex puts a pagebreak between the text line and the list, how >can i avoid this? > i think the paragraph should be treated as a section heading but without special

avoid pagebreak between normal text and list

2001-08-15 Thread Ronny Buchmann
hi short expample: - 1.2 section heading paragraph spawning several lines single line paragraph describing the list * item * item * item - now it happens that latex puts a pagebreak between the text line and the list, how can i avoid this? i think the paragraph should be trea

Fwd: Re: [ideur@yahoo.com] Feedback from www.lyx.org

2001-08-15 Thread Rudy Ketterer
--- Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 18:35:47 +0300 > From: Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], LyX users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Feedback from www.lyx.org > Reply-to: Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: T

Re: enumerate indention/labelwidth

2001-08-15 Thread Ronny Buchmann
* Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-08-14 17:04] schrieb: > Ronny Buchmann wrote: > > > > is there a way to change to indention in enumerate environments? > > > > if i redefine the labels with \renewcommand\labelenumi{\arabic{enumi}. Tag} they >are way outside the left margin > > > > i kn

Re: Default packages

2001-08-15 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: > Piotrs Sidorowicz wrote: > > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} > > > > However, this package forces pdflatex to use bitmapped fonts resulting > leave it empty. but a better way is to use other fonts: > > layout->document->fonts->pslatex And even better