Re: Math fonts

2001-09-27 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Tom Manning wrote: >Hi all, I'm new to Lyx but not to Linux. I'm currently using the 1.1.6fix1 >version installed from Mandrake 8.0 RPM on my Mandrake 8 box. > >When I use the equation editor and put in greek symbols, nothing shows up in >Lyx, but the proper symbols DO show u

Re: time for a version change?

2001-09-27 Thread Francisco Stefano Wechsler
> The file I was trying to download was lyx-1.1.5fix2tar.gz. I > found this in the stable directory. When I looked for the file on > my hard drive, it was nowhere to be found. The best way to download is to use an ftp program. I use ncftp or gftp, but this is largely a matter of taste. If by an

Math fonts

2001-09-27 Thread Tom Manning
Hi all, I'm new to Lyx but not to Linux. I'm currently using the 1.1.6fix1 version installed from Mandrake 8.0 RPM on my Mandrake 8 box. When I use the equation editor and put in greek symbols, nothing shows up in Lyx, but the proper symbols DO show up in the DVI preview. How do I fix the dis

Re: XML, Komascript....

2001-09-27 Thread ben
Jose Luis Gomez Dans a écrit : > Hi all, > I have been toying with the idea of writing some document in XML. So far, > some of it has been done in KomaScript (article, I think). I have to put > graphics and stuff, and I'd like to tranlsate it to a webpage as well. I > also want > to get to know

Hyperref and ruled floats

2001-09-27 Thread ben
Hi, I have a weird behaviour when using hyperref with ruled floats. I know this is LaTeX stuff but maybe someone can help me (Herbert are you here ;-). Without hyperref a ruled float appears with three rules, two enclosing the float an another under the caption. In addition the caption is at the

Re: Special Characters

2001-09-27 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Ronald Florence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Philipp Lehman writes: >>Actually they're not that readily available. > >Really? The only times I've tried to use PC wordprocessors, special >and foreign characters required clicking on menues or copying >characters from a clipboa

Re: time for a version change?

2001-09-27 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 06:45:51PM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote: > I did a find / -name *lyx* just to make sure the file wasn't put > in a strange place. > > Anybody know what's going on? > > If I have to download the file from my shell (bash), could > someone give me explicit instructions on ho

Re: MS Word, Lyx, and my resume

2001-09-27 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Sean LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Would you have any CV/resume classes to recommend? I was looking >around on CTAN, but that it's been pretty overwhelming... I haven't tried all of these either. I use a home-brewed one which is derived from currvita. The latter is ava

Re: time for a version change?

2001-09-27 Thread Paul Tremblay
I have spent all afternoon trying to update my version of lyx. Or rather, my computer has spent all afternoon. The file I tried to download was about 4 megs, and it should have been done by the time I got back to the library. For some reason, it was only half done. So I read a few short stories an

Re: Special Characters

2001-09-27 Thread Ronald Florence
Philipp Lehman writes: > I cannot find reference to being able to insert special characters (other >than an elipses and a few others). Specifically, I want the copyright >(circled c), registered (circled R), trademark and service mark symbols. I'm >sure these are readily available, but I

Re: Special Characters

2001-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Christopher M. Jones wrote: > In tex (red) type \copyright > > Lots of special symbols are available from standard TeX commands. Have a look > at > > Help on LaTeX commands: http://www.astro.ku.dk/help/LaTeX/ltx-2.html > > Herbert Voss's tips and tricks site: www.educat.hu-be

Re: Special Characters

2001-09-27 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot find reference to being able to insert special characters (other >than an elipses and a few others). Specifically, I want the copyright >(circled c), registered (circled R), trademark and service mark symbols. I'm >sure thes

Re: Special Characters

2001-09-27 Thread Christopher M. Jones
In tex (red) type \copyright Lots of special symbols are available from standard TeX commands. Have a look at Help on LaTeX commands: http://www.astro.ku.dk/help/LaTeX/ltx-2.html Herbert Voss's tips and tricks site: www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/. Or link to it through the LyX website.

Special Characters

2001-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
I've just started working with LyX to see if it can (eventually) replace WordPerfect for all our business documents. I've read the docs -- at least, looked carefully all of them for the answer -- and I've looked through the archives, but I cannot find the answers to a few questions I have. For s

Re: MS Word, Lyx, and my resume

2001-09-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Sean" == Sean LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sean> Would you have any CV/resume classes to recommend? I was looking Sean> around on CTAN, but that it's been pretty overwhelming... You can try the cv class, which is distributed with lyx 1.1.6fix3 but can also be found at http://www-

Re: MS Word, Lyx, and my resume

2001-09-27 Thread Sean LeBlanc
Would you have any CV/resume classes to recommend? I was looking around on CTAN, but that it's been pretty overwhelming... TIA, Sean On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 13:33:00 +0200 (CEST) Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Sean LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I'm a comp

Re: pdf bookmarks from section*

2001-09-27 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Renaud MICHEL wrote: >Le Jeudi 27 Septembre 2001 15:13, vous avez écrit : >Then instead of redefining \thesection with nothing redefine it with a >\hspace of -5mm >\renewcommand{\thesection}{\hspace{-5mm}} >But I think that you should use \hspace* instead of just \hspace as i

Re: lyx & hyperref error

2001-09-27 Thread E GCP
It seems, the problem is that hyperref redefines \contentsline, because it needs additional information. So you have to provide the extra argument. If I add the extra argument as shown below everything works fine with the hyperref package. %\addtocontents{lof}{\protect\contentsline {part}% %

Re: Intalling thesis package on LyX

2001-09-27 Thread petemartin
Recently I hada similar problem on Mandrake Linux, and I have found that the new style files installed under the TeX tree at /usr/share/texmf/ etc have permissions of 600, ie only root can read them, this of course stops lyx from noticing them. 1. make sure the class/style files have read permiss

Re: pdf bookmarks from section*

2001-09-27 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le Jeudi 27 Septembre 2001 15:13, vous avez écrit : > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Renaud MICHEL wrote: > >\renewcommand{\thesection}{} > > Thank you! This is what I was thinking myself, just didn't > know exactly how to do it. > > However, now the Section style lines get indented when compared > to the S

XML, Komascript....

2001-09-27 Thread Jose Luis Gomez Dans
Hi all, I have been toying with the idea of writing some document in XML. So far, some of it has been done in KomaScript (article, I think). I have to put graphics and stuff, and I'd like to tranlsate it to a webpage as well. I also want to get to know XML and stuff. I have found a Lyx-SGML-XML-H

Re: How to put xfig generated .pstex files into LyX documents?

2001-09-27 Thread Clodoaldo Carvalho
Hi Herbert, Thanks for your precious help. I tried psfrag and it worked fine to me. That's it. Clodoaldo. Herbert Voss wrote: > > Clodoaldo Carvalho wrote: > > > > I have some eqn's to put into a figure generated by xfig. So, I set up > > the appropriate text flags and followed the instructio

Re: Intalling thesis package on LyX

2001-09-27 Thread Christopher M. Jones
Did you 1) put the files under the TeX tree, 2) run texconfig rehash? All you need to do now is say in the preamble "\usepackage{thesis}", to make the thesis commands available to you in LyX. On Thursday 27 September 2001 07:57 am, you wrote: > Hi folks, > > At this time, I'm having a hard time

Re: pdf bookmarks from section*

2001-09-27 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Renaud MICHEL wrote: >\renewcommand{\thesection}{} Thank you! This is what I was thinking myself, just didn't know exactly how to do it. However, now the Section style lines get indented when compared to the Section* style. And this quite messes up my careful formatting. An

Picture on first chapter page

2001-09-27 Thread Bronek Baraniecki
Hi, 1. According to Herbert's LyxTips I can get it by latex command \chapterpic{} but couldn't find on CTAN the calc package. Where can I get it? 2. Picture above/under the title (part, chapter). Again LyxTips: when I use a table in title envi. and insert a picture it is possible for Part* or

Intalling thesis package on LyX

2001-09-27 Thread Clodoaldo Carvalho
Hi folks, At this time, I'm having a hard time trying to install the CTAN's thesis package on LyX. I followed the instructions of LyX customization help file but it seemed not to work at all. Is there something more I should know about that? Thanks. Clodoaldo.

Re: pdf bookmarks from section*

2001-09-27 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le Jeudi 27 Septembre 2001 14:14, vous avez écrit : > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Guenter Milde wrote: > >So, what happens if you combine the last two: > > \setcounter{secnumdepth}{0} and use Section (without *)? > > Thanks, but I guess this is just what I had already tried. > LyX allows settings sec

Re: How to put xfig generated .pstex files into LyX documents?

2001-09-27 Thread Clodoaldo Carvalho
Hello Markus, Thanks for your help. I've tried that but my eqn's could not be compiled by LaTeX this way. Clodoaldo > > Hi! > > Export from xfig to .eps and insert that. > > ciao > marksu

Re: pdf bookmarks from section*

2001-09-27 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Guenter Milde wrote: >> I also tried setting "section number depth" to 0, that >> got rid of the numbers, but it didn't create the pdf >> bookmarks. >> It works fine with Section style but then I get the number... >So, what happens if you combine the last two: > \setcount

Re: MS Word, Lyx, and my resume

2001-09-27 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Sean LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm a complete newbie to lyx. I've heard good things about >it, and I'm growing increasingly frustrated with MS Word, >esp. when trying to manipulate my resume. > [...] > >I was thinking of doing this: > >1. Converting from MS Word to

Re: vertical pstree

2001-09-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Alexis Wiasmitinow wrote: > > I got this horizontal tree code from Herbert Voss' homepage and I tried to > transform it into a vertical one. > > \newcommand{\Itemf}[1]{\Tr[ref=l]{% > \psframebox[linestyle=solid]{#1}}} > \renewcommand{\psedge}{\ncangle} > \psset{xbbd=1.5cm,treemode=R,angleB=180,

vertical pstree

2001-09-27 Thread Alexis Wiasmitinow
I got this horizontal tree code from Herbert Voss' homepage and I tried to transform it into a vertical one. \newcommand{\Itemf}[1]{\Tr[ref=l]{% \psframebox[linestyle=solid]{#1}}} \renewcommand{\psedge}{\ncangle} \psset{xbbd=1.5cm,treemode=R,angleB=180,angleA=-00,levelsep=72pt} \pstree{\Item

pdf bookmarks from section*

2001-09-27 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
I do not want to my sections be numbered, so I use section* style. Also I don't need TOC (I'm making slides, but with the koma-article class). However, I *do* want my Section* lines go into the bookmark list, shown in the left edge of Acroread. How to do that? I have hyperref package in use, of

Re: MS Word, Lyx, and my resume

2001-09-27 Thread Yannick Patois
Hi, On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Sean LeBlanc wrote: > 1. Converting from MS Word to Lyx. It looks like there is > at least one project (wv toolkit) that will let me do this. It works pretty well but will need some manual tuning sometimes. Some of the most annoying limitation I found are: - Lists of i