Re: Matrices (math environment)

2001-08-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:49:04PM -0300, William Burrow wrote: > I wonder if anybody has experience with creating matrices in Lyx or Latex. I guess somebody out there has... > Lamport's book sort of covers using matrices (arrays), but I am unable > to create a simple matrix using Lyx. If I cou

Re: LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, John O'Gorman wrote: > Allan Rae wrote: > > > This is starting to get boring isn't it? No, we've barely scratched the surface! > But I can't resist 1 more fling. The X of X Window (which was an upgrade > from the W Window system) is put at the beginning of words (Xfig, Xal

Re: LyX

2001-08-30 Thread John O'Gorman
Allan Rae wrote: > This is starting to get boring isn't it? But I can't resist 1 more fling. The X of X Window (which was an upgrade from the W Window system) is put at the beginning of words (Xfig, Xalan, Xinetd, and others). Have you ever seen it put at the end? And if it were the case that

2 versions of LyX at the same time

2001-08-30 Thread Gerhard Schuck
Hi Is it possible to install two versions of LyX at the same time without any problems with configuration files and so on? I would like to install CJK-LyX parallel to the "normal" LyX, because the cjk-version has several disadvantages for non-cjk texts, e.g. it doesn't accept umlauts, compose

Re: LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, John O'Gorman wrote: > Not so > > The letter y is not Latin at all. It was introduced into the Latin > language (along with z) to render Greek words. > > Lyric is a Greek word, not Latin. I'll consult with my local linguistic guru about other possibilities but I think you'r

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:59:33AM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > I agree -- if I install something, I want to be able to use a packaging > system (in my case, RPM not DEB); not because I can't compile things (me this thread is getting so offtopic it's like a lyx-devel thread ;) I'm sure Kayv

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 12:27:03PM -0400, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > Tuukka Toivonen Spoke Thusly: > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > > > But it can not become that if you expect users to build anything from > > > source. We at MySQL have learned that lesson 3 - 4 years ago. >

Binding font-code as a toggle

2001-08-30 Thread Steve Litt
Hi everyone, The font-code LyX function is a toggle. I added it to the menu and the toolbar in ~/ui/default.ui, which is a clone of /usr/share/lyx/ui/default.ui: In the toolbar: Icon "font-code" In the layout menu: Item "Code Style|S" "font-code" It works perfectly in both places exce

Re: What style is best for newly introduced words and terms?

2001-08-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 30 August 2001 17:38, Bobby D. Bryant wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > When writing prose (as opposed to a table of terms and definitions), the > > new word is typically in italics. Does LyX have a style just for that > > situation? > > > > If not, and if I choose to make my own style,

Re: What style is best for newly introduced words and terms?

2001-08-30 Thread Bobby D. Bryant
Steve Litt wrote: > When writing prose (as opposed to a table of terms and definitions), the new > word is typically in italics. Does LyX have a style just for that situation? > If not, and if I choose to make my own style, would it be a command or an > environment, keeping in mind that it will

PDF forms with LaTeX

2001-08-30 Thread Adolfo Pachón
Hi all!! I know this is for LyX, but if you could help me ... I'm trying to create an PDF form from LaTeX. The compiler process say to me this: ... Sorry, HyperTeX does not support FORMs Sorry, HyperTeX does not support FORM text fields ... ¿Any idea? This is my LaTeX code: \documentclass[1

Matrices (math environment)

2001-08-30 Thread William Burrow
I wonder if anybody has experience with creating matrices in Lyx or Latex. Lamport's book sort of covers using matrices (arrays), but I am unable to create a simple matrix using Lyx. If I could get instructions for creating a 3x1 matrix, I should be able to figure out what I need, e.g. [ x ]

Re: a good printer to use with LyX?

2001-08-30 Thread Paul Borgermans
If you consider HP deskjets, check also http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ They are developing drivers to work with ghostscript. HtH Renaud MICHEL wrote: > > Le Jeudi 30 Août 2001 21:52, vous avez écrit : > > Hi, > > I'm looking for good and economic printer to print files from Lyx. > > Should

Re: a good printer to use with LyX?

2001-08-30 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le Jeudi 30 Août 2001 21:52, vous avez écrit : > Hi, > I'm looking for good and economic printer to print files from Lyx. > Should be this a postscript level 3? > What recommend the Latex Gurus? You don't need to have a printer that understand postscript to print postscript documents, you just n

a good printer to use with LyX?

2001-08-30 Thread Jacobo Myerston
Hi, I'm looking for good and economic printer to print files from Lyx. Should be this a postscript level 3? What recommend the Latex Gurus? --

Re: Importing images in latex (jpg, wmf, ...)

2001-08-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 30 August 2001 13:44, Marco Allione wrote: > I have a problem! I am a new latex utilizer and I've found some problems in > inserting figures in my latex document. > How can I made to imsert a wmf image in my document? > Can I have some help in such a problem please? Does anybody can te

Importing images in latex (jpg, wmf, ...)

2001-08-30 Thread Marco Allione
I have a problem! I am a new latex utilizer and I've found some problems in inserting figures in my latex document. How can I made to imsert a wmf image in my document? Can I have some help in such a problem please? Does anybody can tell me where I could find some complete guide on the use of gr

Re: LyX

2001-08-30 Thread John O'Gorman
Not so The letter y is not Latin at all. It was introduced into the Latin language (along with z) to render Greek words. Lyric is a Greek word, not Latin. If, as you say, the upercase X of LyX is to echo the X of LaTeX, does that not strengthen my case? The argument is not really whether LyX

References to chapters???

2001-08-30 Thread Steve Litt
I'd like to refer to chapters like this: This is discussed further in chapter 12, Creating the Web Page, on page 145. The only way I could find to do this involved inserting a label, and there was no way to get the chapter name. You'd think this would be possible due to the fact that this was

Re: What about numbering in the figures/tables?

2001-08-30 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Subject: What about numbering in the figures/tables? >>From: Adolfo Pachón <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Date: 30 Aug 2001 18:19:54 +0200 >> >>Hi all!! >> >>I've an Lyx document whith images and tables, into a floats. The DVI >>output puts "figure 1.", but the latex2html output

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread James Lindenschmidt
Tuukka Toivonen Spoke Thusly: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > > But it can not become that if you expect users to build anything from > > source. We at MySQL have learned that lesson 3 - 4 years ago. > > I disagree. Compiling from source _doesn't_ mean that the user > should be

What style is best for newly introduced words and terms?

2001-08-30 Thread Steve Litt
When writing prose (as opposed to a table of terms and definitions), the new word is typically in italics. Does LyX have a style just for that situation? If not, and if I choose to make my own style, would it be a command or an environment, keeping in mind that it will influence only a few word

What about numbering in the figures/tables?

2001-08-30 Thread Adolfo Pachón
Hi all!! I've an Lyx document whith images and tables, into a floats. The DVI output puts "figure 1.", but the latex2html output writes "Figure". Why? It's a problem of my .latex2html-init configuration? Thanks -- Adolfo Pachón (Director Desarrollos).

How to get bullets (and other things) into the newlfm letter layout.

2001-08-30 Thread Pete Phillips
As mentioned to this list before, I have created a layout and template file for the newlfm latex package. I find the newlfm package superb for creating your own bespoke letter layout with logo, address information etc already canned in the letrinfo.tex configfuration file. However, I would like t

RE: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Juergen Vigna writes: > > On 30-Aug-2001 Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > > > Fair enough. Although, I never said you were BAD, nor bad ... > > No you never said I understood it like that. > God forbid me !! > > Then she has the wrong system administrator ;) > Yes, the one too busy to fix h

RE: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 30-Aug-2001 Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > Fair enough. Although, I never said you were BAD, nor bad ... No you never said I understood it like that. > Sorry, you are wrong. There is neither ksendfax nor xsendfax in SuSE > 7.2 and you can not install packages from 7.1. Check it out. I have > a

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 03:33:50PM +0300, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > Andre Poenitz writes: > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:45:39PM +0300, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > > > Have you tried to install it on SuSE 7.2 ?? > > > > > > Try it ! > > > > No. Simply because I don't have 7.2. > > > > Why doe

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le Jeudi 30 Août 2001 12:27, vous avez écrit : > Please all you developers of LyX (regardless of how it is pronounced) > don't be discouraged by the complaint replied to below. I agree, from time to time it is good that satisfied users say how they like a program and I really like LyX, it is gre

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Juha Siltala
Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > > >>But it can not become that if you expect users to build anything from >>source. We at MySQL have learned that lesson 3 - 4 years ago. >> --snip-- > > The GNU ./configure; make; make install is very good, but > for any

About the \url{} in exported PDFs

2001-08-30 Thread Adolfo Pachón
Hi all!! I have used the url & html packages in the LaTeX Preamble in Lyx. I write in the Lyx text something like this "see the homepage in \url{http://www.homepage.com} ..." and it works ok in DVI output, but in the PDFlatex output from Lyx->Export->PDF(pdflatex) it writes this "see the home pag

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > But it can not become that if you expect users to build anything from > source. We at MySQL have learned that lesson 3 - 4 years ago. I disagree. Compiling from source _doesn't_ mean that the user should be a programmer. It just has to be easy: it

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Andre Poenitz writes: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:45:39PM +0300, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > > Have you tried to install it on SuSE 7.2 ?? > > > > Try it ! > > No. Simply because I don't have 7.2. > > Why does the 7.1 package not install? > > Andre' > > -- > André Pönitz ...

Re: Check out my Warning environment

2001-08-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 30 August 2001 03:58, you wrote: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 12:20:29 -0400 wrote Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > In the final product it has a line above the word WARNING and below the > > last word of the warning text. I couldn't figure out how to do the lines > > in LyX but that's no

Re: About the print of urls in DVI/PS files from Lyx

2001-08-30 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Subject: About the print of urls in DVI/PS files from Lyx >>From: Adolfo Pachón <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: Lyx Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Date: 30 Aug 2001 11:52:26 +0200 >> >>Hi all!! >> >>I write something like this: >> >>"See the home page in http://www.homepage.com from here..." >> >>I've p

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:45:39PM +0300, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > Have you tried to install it on SuSE 7.2 ?? > > Try it ! No. Simply because I don't have 7.2. Why does the 7.1 package not install? Andre' -- André Pönitz . [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Andre Poenitz writes: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:57:08AM +0200, Juergen Vigna wrote: > SuSE 7.1 rpms are on > > http://cgi.tu-chemnitz.de/ftp-home///pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.c > om/suse/i386/7.1/suse/kpa1/ksendfax.rpm > > It took me less than a minute to locate, download, su, and install. > Hav

RE: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Juergen Vigna writes: > Dear Sinisa! > > I will Cc: this to the developers list so that all of this "BAD" people > know what you think! > Fair enough. Although, I never said you were BAD, nor bad ... > > Nonsense there are RPM packages for RedHat and I guess you can install > them also for Su

Lyx: some questions and many thanks

2001-08-30 Thread Uwe Grossmann
Hi Lyxer, first of all: Congratulation to the team, Lyx 1.1.6 is fine! I make some Icons for the taskbar. I missed there Icons for reference, label, citation, and floats. I've also some remarks: If I make a float with a table, it's a little bit difficult to place the table. I had to push RETURN

About the print of urls in DVI/PS files from Lyx

2001-08-30 Thread Adolfo Pachón
Hi all!! I write something like this: "See the home page in http://www.homepage.com from here..." I've probe in Lyx with: \url{} \htmladdnormallink{} Insert->URL When I export from Lyx to DVI or PS, the above text appears like this: "See the home pagehttp://www.homepage.comhttp://www.homepag

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Thomas Schönhoff
Hello all, I am totally agree to John's statement (although not being a professional software developer! :-) ). Hopefully no ones basic motivation has been serioussly damaged by this little crappy thread before! All the best from an (almost) totally satified user Thomas John O'Gorman wrote: >

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread John O'Gorman
Please all you developers of LyX (regardless of how it is pronounced) don't be discouraged by the complaint replied to below. I regard LyX as the best piece of software ever! For me it has changed writing documentation (the task I used to hate most) into a joy. I can produce high quality, super

Re: LyX

2001-08-30 Thread John O'Gorman
Guenter Milde wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:57:22 +1200 wrote John O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > >>in North American English -how is "LyX" pronounced? > > > For God's sake! > > > > Just pronounce it like the lych in polychromatic. > > There is no need to attempt to aspirate the CH

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:05:15AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > It took me less than a minute to locate, download, su, and install. > Haven't checked whether it works since I do not have a fax machine. > > > > I work 12 hours per day already. > > And that means what? It means he's a slacker

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:57:08AM +0200, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > SuSE 7.2 does not have ksendfax, nor does RedHat 7.*. > > > > Why have you done the above ?? > > > > It worked perfectly !! > > > > Now, I have to loose 3 hours of my work to find sources, build, > > install , tweak etc ... I d

RE: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Juergen Vigna
Dear Sinisa! I will Cc: this to the developers list so that all of this "BAD" people know what you think! On 29-Aug-2001 Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > >> The internal fax-facility has been removed from LyX so you need an >> external program (Frontend) to the faxpackage you've installed to be >> a