Re: bibliography heading

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
"Stephan D. Picard" wrote: > > Now, that required a little more work then I thought. I couldn't reproduce > that behaviour with a smaller file so I had to fiddle a little > (long) while to figure what was happening. Here's my 'discoveries' and > strangeness that I found. > send the wgole main-do

Re: How to change spacing size in itemize

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Holger Warm wrote: > > Hello, > I got to know lyx about 6 months ago and I´m still facinated of the results > you get using it, why does anyone need word o something else? > But sometimes I still have problems and I hope that anybody could help me. > 1. How can I change the spacing size within "i

Re: bibliography heading

2001-09-05 Thread Stephan D. Picard
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: > "Stephan D. Picard" wrote: > > > > Actually, I have book-class. I had tried that command you mentionned but > > LyX returned: > > " > > LaTeX Error: \refname undefined. > > \begin {document} > > > > Try typing to proceed. > > If that doesn't work, ty

Re: Coping and pasting tables from SPSS

2001-09-05 Thread Ronald Florence
Guenter Milde writes: --512586620-1804289383-999677429=:412 Content-Type: IMAGE/jpeg; NAME=csv2lyx Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64 Content-Disposition: INLINE; FILENAME=csv2lyx --512586620-1804289383-999677429=:412 Content-Type: IMAGE/jpeg; NAME=eps2eps Content-Transfer-En

How to change spacing size in itemize

2001-09-05 Thread Holger Warm
Hello, I got to know lyx about 6 months ago and I´m still facinated of the results you get using it, why does anyone need word o something else? But sometimes I still have problems and I hope that anybody could help me. 1. How can I change the spacing size within "itemize" or "enumerate", becaus

Re: Why LyX?

2001-09-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 16:09, you wrote: > John Levon writes: > > I've turned tens of normal students onto lyx instead > of word (even unix-hating students) entirely as a result of the output. > > Yes, but ... > > I've never used ms-word, and haven't used any PC word-processing > progr

Re: [tex2pdf-dev] Hypertext and PDF

2001-09-05 Thread Steffen Evers
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 17:48, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > I've tested tex2pdf 2.29 on a real life document (a PhD thesis) > with a lot of crossrefs and figures. > Original figures were included with epsf, so I wrote a short script > to substitute graphics to epsf (not generic I guess). > > I r

Re: Why LyX?

2001-09-05 Thread Ronald Florence
John Levon writes: I've turned tens of normal students onto lyx instead of word (even unix-hating students) entirely as a result of the output. Yes, but ... I've never used ms-word, and haven't used any PC word-processing program since the first version of word-perfect. For 16 years I've

Re: Bold Cell Entries in Tables/Very Simple Document Styles?

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Ralph Boland wrote: > > Actually I only want certain entries in the table to be bold. > > However, if I try setting the characters in a table cell to bold using: > > layout->character > > or > > ert: \textbf{entry} > > I do not get the affects I expect. mark the text

Re: Full width tables

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Nicholas Piper wrote: > I don't understand your last line. Could you give me an example or > point me to where I might find one ? the following all in tex (red) \noindent\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|c|X|c|}\hline one & two & three \\ 1 & 2 & 3 \\ a & b & c \\ \hline \end{tabularx} all col

Re: you made it to my thanks list!

2001-09-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 10:33, you wrote: > The one thing I lack is more a tex-thing than lyx. It is a style editor. > Does anyone of a GUI based class/style editor? Perhaps we should mount a > project to make such a software. If you do mount such a project, I'll help with the documentati

Re: bibliography heading

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
"Stephan D. Picard" wrote: > > Actually, I have book-class. I had tried that command you mentionned but > LyX returned: > " > LaTeX Error: \refname undefined. > \begin {document} > > Try typing to proceed. > If that doesn't work, type X to quit. > " > > which seems to confirm that I'm not usi

Re: bibliography heading

2001-09-05 Thread Stephan D. Picard
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: > "Stephan D. Picard" wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I know this question has been addressed before but there still is a > > problem (for me at least) that I can't seem to resolve. > > I want (me too) change the 'bibliography' for something else (say, > > 'ref

Bold Cell Entries in Tables/Very Simple Document Styles?

2001-09-05 Thread Ralph Boland
> ... Opps. OK. > > choose standard as paragraph layout for the table! if you > want the table printed in bold characters write in ert: > > \textbf{ .. your table here ... } > > Herbert > > -- > http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/ Actually I only want certain entries in the table to be b

GELLMU, GUI, Unicode

2001-09-05 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
Hi folks, Couple of questions, rather technical in nature: (1) Would it be much of a technical problem to include an export option for "LaTeX-Like Markup" (aka GELLMU, see http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/gellmu/) besides LaTeX? That would be a nice step towards integrating LyX into a SGML/XML wor

Re: Full width tables

2001-09-05 Thread Nicholas Piper
On Wed, 05 Sep 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: > Nicholas Piper wrote: > > How can I integrate this with LyX's table editor ? > this is not easy, because you have to redefine the table environment. > fouer one or two tables choose pute tex (red) code. I don't understand your last line. Could you giv

Re: Lyx1.1.5fix2 and compose key ... bug?

2001-09-05 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>To: Beaubert Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Cc: LyX users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: Lyx1.1.5fix2 and compose key ... bug? >>From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Date: 05 Sep 2001 17:56:00 +0200 >> >>> "Beaubert" == Beaubert Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hypertext and PDF

2001-09-05 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
I've tested tex2pdf 2.29 on a real life document (a PhD thesis) with a lot of crossrefs and figures. Original figures were included with epsf, so I wrote a short script to substitute graphics to epsf (not generic I guess). I ran in a Tex capacity problem when I came to thumbnails, but when this

Re: Full width tables

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Nicholas Piper wrote: > > I'd like to permit certain tables to use the full width of my A4 > page. Normally I quite like the largish margins, but trying to squish > a table which contains a lot of info into them seems silly. Can my > table go from one side of the sheet to the other ? have a look

Re: Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>From: Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: Why Lyx? >>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:51:33 +0300 >> >>On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:45, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: >>> >>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000 >>> >>From: Kathryn Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>

Full width tables

2001-09-05 Thread Nicholas Piper
Hi, I'd like to permit certain tables to use the full width of my A4 page. Normally I quite like the largish margins, but trying to squish a table which contains a lot of info into them seems silly. Can my table go from one side of the sheet to the other ? Cheers, Nick -- Part 3 MEng Cyberne

Re: Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:45, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > >>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000 > >>From: Kathryn Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: Why Lyx? > >>I wish I could use Lyx at work. Unfortunately the manual for the > >>software I work on is

Re: Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > > One thing that LyX definitely does worse is fonts -- but that's because > > of the limitations of TeX. Does anyone know if that's ever likely to > > improve? > > what do

you made it to my thanks list!

2001-09-05 Thread morten
well I'm almost done, I turn in my master thesis monday. And I have put "everybody on the lyx-user mailing list" in the thanks-section. I find the reasons to be obvious: 1) The developpers of lyx are listening in and they react to whatever happens here. I find lyx to be one of the best pieces of

Re: Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000 >>From: Kathryn Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Why Lyx? >> >>On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:30:14AM +0200, Giovanni Tummarello wrote: >>> This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is >>> free.. and that the u

Re: Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > One thing that LyX definitely does worse is fonts -- but that's because > of the limitations of TeX. Does anyone know if that's ever likely to > improve? what do you mean here ? regards john -- "This is mindless pedantism up

Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:30:14AM +0200, Giovanni Tummarello wrote: > This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is > free.. and that the underlying latex is supposely bug free. why > features does lyx offer that word doesnt? (the contrary isnt really to > be asked :) ) . I me

Re: lyx doesn't update view-ps when included figure changed on di sk.

2001-09-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:36:15AM -0400, Zailong Bian wrote: > I would probably try to recompile it, but I am just curious that the > compiler comes in with Mandrake 8.0 is outdated. Can you recommand a > version number of the gcc that gives lyx correct behaviour when compiled? 2.95.2 is e.g. o

RE: lyx doesn't update view-ps when included figure changed on disk.

2001-09-05 Thread Zailong Bian
I did compile it myself...and was really impressed by the space needed to compile it. I would probably try to recompile it, but I am just curious that the compiler comes in with Mandrake 8.0 is outdated. Can you recommand a version number of the gcc that gives lyx correct behaviour when compiled

Re: why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread petemartin
Yes, I had in mind the input markup being of use in 20 years time, as opposed to the output format de jour. I have in my collections some old files in runnof (from Prime computers amongst others) and nroff files that I can readily access with vi. This works of course only if you have the means

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 03:28:24PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > increasingly popular variants on XML. Things like 0ASE9ASDJ8923HJ894798Q374EHS90WAE7423329298UEWQJLKEFD09W4720734U [...] 09SADASDJF394RTHSAD8J34HJ8F7EWHEU89SKLIO398KDFJKF89S9SDYOEFSWEFO ? ;-) Andre' -- André Pönitz ...

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 15:02, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > > Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc. > > That does not even hold for most .ps files. Having a format using ASCII > char does not necessarily mea

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc. That does not even hold for most .ps files. Having a format using ASCII char does not necessarily mean you can read it painlessly... Andre' -- André Pönitz ..

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 14:48, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Finally, I like the idea that my work will be accessible in its source > > format in 20 or 30 years time, as long as I have a readable ascii file, I > > can get to it, I wou

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Finally, I like the idea that my work will be accessible in its source > format in 20 or 30 years time, as long as I have a readable ascii file, I > can get to it, I would be surprised if I could do the same with a Word > format doc

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Re: Unfortunately i think i am giving up :( Was : ReCoping and pasting tables from SPSS

2001-09-05 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le Mercredi 5 Septembre 2001 02:30, vous avez écrit : > This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is free.. > and that the underlying latex is supposely bug free. why features does lyx > offer that word doesnt? (the contrary isnt really to be asked :) ) . I > mean.. all the ma

Re: Coping and pasting tables from SPSS

2001-09-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:26:57PM +0200, Giovanni Tummarello wrote: > > I have tried alternative approaches.. SPSS offers me to save the table > > in "text mode" which is simply a ASCII formatted table assuming font > > is NON proportional. Needless to say LYX's "no double space, no tab, no > >

Re: Why LyX?

2001-09-05 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:57:49PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > Oh yes, and there's the pretty PS/PDF output as well. An untutored eye may > not immediately pick up on the difference between the same document in > LyX->LaTeX->PS and a standard word-processor, but I think there's a > sublimina

Re: Why LyX?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 03:30, Giovanni Tummarello wrote: > > This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is free.. > and that the underlying latex is supposely bug free. why features does lyx > offer that word doesnt? (the contrary isnt really to be asked :) ) . I > mea

Re: Bizarre symptom -- no updated Postscript view

2001-09-05 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:57:35PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > This is really bizarre. My View->Postscript, View->Update->Postscript, > View->PDF, View->Update->PDF, View->DVI, and View->Update->DVI all show the > file as it was when I started LyX. To get an accurate view I must quit

Re: Coping and pasting tables from SPSS

2001-09-05 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:26:57PM +0200, Giovanni Tummarello wrote: > I have tried alternative approaches.. SPSS offers me to save the table in "text > mode" which is simply a ASCII formatted table assuming font is NON > proportional. Needless to say LYX's "no double space, no tab, no double en

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 11:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using LyX to prepare conference papers and also my PhD thesis. What I > find really powerful is the ability to format a large document in different > ways, without having the source change in any substantial way. This is very

Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread petemartin
Having used Word (4,5 95, 97) for many years in industry (it was a corporate standard) and at home, and having also used many other document preparation tools on Windoze and Unix, I would like to add my tuppence worth to this. Just to be clear, this is not a rant against word, but a comment tha

Re: Unfortunately i think i am giving up :( Was : ReCoping andpastingtables from SPSS

2001-09-05 Thread Thomas Schönhoff
Hello, there is almost nothing left to say after Guenter's statement I agree to. But there are two more reason for prefering LyX compared to other wordprocessors: 1. In comparison to other processors there is spare use of resources (RAM) 2. additionally there is no "functional barouque" usall

Re: babel related problem?

2001-09-05 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:30:10AM -0400, Neil Berthier wrote: > \caption{Kinematic measures from Johnson and Berthier (in > prep).\foreignlanguage{english}{For > p's, size refers to object size, and condition refers to visual > condition, > no significant interactions were present.}} If you are

Re: lyx doesn't update view-ps when included figure changed on disk.

2001-09-05 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:32:45PM -0400, Zailong Bian wrote: > Hi. > > This seems to be a small problem. Lyx doesn't update the postscript > correctly when the figures have been changed but the lyx file is not. > > In this case, I have to change the file before update postscript. Is it > poss

Re: Re: ° in math-mode

2001-09-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 19:46:49 +0200 wrote Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Uwe Grossmann wrote: > > > > I can't find the "0" in math-mode on my keyboard (qwertz-latin1). So i > > hat to switch off the math-mode type "0" and switch back to math-mode. > > It's a little bit boaring. > > I know i

Re: Re: Lyx: some questions and many thanks

2001-09-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 17:52:09 +0200 wrote Uwe Grossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks, that's much better! But ispell marked a word like "Hallen" as unknown > > and shows a list of known words. One is "Halle+n" > Is there another option which I forgot to choose? I am not an expert with ispell

Re: Coping and pasting tables from SPSS

2001-09-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 19:26:57 +0200 wrote Giovanni Tummarello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello people, i am a student in engeneering trying to use lyx to write my > master thesis. > Although entusiast at the beginning of the journey (leaving "Word" behind > seemed so attractive) i am now loosing entu