Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-17 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Gerhard Schuck wrote: > But is it safe to use? Are there problems to expect, e.g. if you > want to open a document with this ert-inset with a future version > of lyx? This answer is probably better aimed at the developers than yourself. The 1.1.6 ERT insets will load into 1

Re: Dictionary

2001-10-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Glauber Tomaz wrote: > > I've been working with Lyx in Portuguese(Brazil). I'd like to know where I > can find a dictionary for this language to run the Lyx spelling checker. http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/index.html#ispell Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: Pagination and current date in header

2001-10-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Rich Shepard wrote: > > I've looked at Herbert Voss' web site and some of the more recent mail > list messages without finding the answer to these questions. > > For many US business letters, the second and subsequent pages contain a > header that looks like this: > > > > page > > Fro

Re: letters & margins

2001-10-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Rodney K wrote: > > I have created a new letter from the letter template, but I have huge margins > on the top which I cannot get rid of for some reason. I would like to get 1" > margins all around if possible. layout->document->paper->usepackage geometry and than for all margins 1inch HErbert

Re: Reference for US letter layout

2001-10-17 Thread Guenter Milde
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:37:43 -0700 (PDT) wrote Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I cannot find information in the users guide (basic or advanced) or the > reference manual (not even the tutorial!) that tells me how to define the > components of a letter. > > I was sent a letter via e-mail

Re: updating dvi

2001-10-17 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Davide Cavallari wrote: > In an older version it was possible to update the DVI, without calling a > new xdvi window. In version 1.1.6 fix3 this doesn't seem to be possible > anymore. Or am I missing something..? View->Update->DVI Allan. (ARRae)

letters & margins

2001-10-17 Thread Rodney K
HI, I have created a new letter from the letter template, but I have huge margins on the top which I cannot get rid of for some reason. I would like to get 1" margins all around if possible. Thanks, Rodney

Pagination and current date in header

2001-10-17 Thread Rich Shepard
I've looked at Herbert Voss' web site and some of the more recent mail list messages without finding the answer to these questions. For many US business letters, the second and subsequent pages contain a header that looks like this: page From what I've learned, I can use either \lhead

Reference for US letter layout

2001-10-17 Thread Rich Shepard
I cannot find information in the users guide (basic or advanced) or the reference manual (not even the tutorial!) that tells me how to define the components of a letter. I was sent a letter via e-mail and imported it into LyX. I selected the "letter" document class but I cannot get the "send

Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:38:38AM -0400, Mark Esplin wrote: > My dream of the future would would be that all software that displays or > uses mathematical equations would support a common interchange format like > MathML at the clipboard level. That way we could cut and past equations fr

Re: Title customization...

2001-10-17 Thread ben
Dekel Tsur a écrit : > > A simple solution for both of the above is to put the following line in the > preamble: > \usepackage[sf,compact]{titlesec} That is exactly what I need! What a wonderful package. Thanks a lot! BG

Book class: "preface" to TOC

2001-10-17 Thread Mark Hansel
I think this is a "wish list" item. With the requisite ERT, I have the preface entry (where preface is Chapter* environment) properly entered in the TOC and the \pagenumbering{style} for front matter and regular pages set as desired. Did I miss a way to do this within lyx? -- Mark Hansel PO Bo

Dictionary

2001-10-17 Thread Glauber Tomaz
Hi, I've been working with Lyx in Portuguese(Brazil). I'd like to know where I can find a dictionary for this language to run the Lyx spelling checker. Thanks, Tomaz. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn

vcard2bib

2001-10-17 Thread Torben Lund
Has anybody got a small script for converting a collection of vcards to a bib file. This could be very useful for generating address books with hyperlinks in PDF with pdflatex. Regards torben begin:vcard n:Lund;Torben Ellegaard tel;work:+45 3632 3324 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:www.drcmr.dk org:D

Re: two column standard-style

2001-10-17 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
Use the multicols package. This is all detailed in the Extended.lyx ---Kayvan On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:34:55PM +0200, morten wrote: > > > > hi > > I would like to do the following > > Title > > Section 1 > xx xxx > xx xxx >

two column standard-style

2001-10-17 Thread morten
hi I would like to do the following Title Section 1 xx xxx xx xxx xx xx Section 2 xx xxx xx xxx xx xx Like in each section is seperated and two columns. Something like a "Standard (two column)"

Re: Longtable increases table number

2001-10-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > float environments like figure and table have their respective counters. If a > longtable occurs not within such an environment, it increases the > float-counter for tables anyway. > > A reference document ist at > > http://www.ra.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~rainer/Dow

Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Fernando Pérez
> > This is a highly non-trivial task to accomplish. The real kicker wouldn't > > be so much to integrate with a numerics-only package like octave, but > > rather with a full-fledged technical computing environment like Mathematica > > or Maple. Unfortunately there's no real open source equivalent

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Re: multiple files

2001-10-17 Thread Davide Cavallari
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 03:13:05PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:27:11PM +0200, Davide Cavallari wrote: > > > > I have used this method and till today it worked. Now I have a figure > > composed by both a .tex part and a .ps one. These parts are generated by > > gnuplot an

Longtable increases table number

2001-10-17 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, float environments like figure and table have their respective counters. If a longtable occurs not within such an environment, it increases the float-counter for tables anyway. A reference document ist at http://www.ra.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~rainer/Download/table.lyx The tables

Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Matej Cepl
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:28:16AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > LyX 1.2.0cvs already has an experimental math-extern feature. If you > provide a script which does lyx<->octave conversion, then it should do > something similar to what you need... I am probably not enough courageous to try

Re: Still having troubles with my bibliography

2001-10-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:13:21PM -0600, Kent Kostuk wrote: > I have created one citation reference in the lyx file. What I get when I > run the DVI preview is [?] and no list of references. I tried it (after adding \usepackage{natbib} to the preamble), and it worked correctly. > I want my ref

updating dvi

2001-10-17 Thread Davide Cavallari
In an older version it was possible to update the DVI, without calling a new xdvi window. In version 1.1.6 fix3 this doesn't seem to be possible anymore. Or am I missing something..? Thkz -- A presto, Davide Cavallari The price of success in philosophy is triviality. -- C. Gly

Re: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

2001-10-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:33:40AM -0400, Zailong Bian wrote: > Style ShortCaption > CopyStyle Caption > LatexName setshortcaption > LabelString "SCaption:" > LabelType Static > End > > And all the actual code goes to latex premeable (menu). Aft

Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Mark Esplin
My dream of the future would would be that all software that displays or uses mathematical equations would support a common interchange format like MathML at the clipboard level. That way we could cut and past equations from any application to any other application. MathML is an XML b

Re: Title customization...

2001-10-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 07:50:02PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote: > > * Put the chapter/section/etc. titles in Arial (or Helvetica, isn't it > > the same?). > > no! arial is something from the micros$ft world. > choose package helvet This will not change the font in the section titles. > > > * Red

Re: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

2001-10-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Zailong Bian wrote: > > Hello. I double checked, putting hyperref at the last won't fix my problem. > When you ran my sample, did you really see "This one should be there!" in > the LOF? If you saw "My figure", that's exactly my problem. can't remember, deleted all files ... Herbert -- http

Re: multiple files

2001-10-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:27:11PM +0200, Davide Cavallari wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 07:17:24PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > Even symbolic links are unnecessary. > > You can put > > > > \usepackage{graphics,epsfig} > > \newcommand{\setpath}[1]{ > > \def\input@path{{PATH/#1//}} > > \graph

RE: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

2001-10-17 Thread Zailong Bian
Hello. I double checked, putting hyperref at the last won't fix my problem. When you ran my sample, did you really see "This one should be there!" in the LOF? If you saw "My figure", that's exactly my problem. Thanks. Zailong -Original Message- From: Herbert Voss To: Zailong Bian Cc:

RE: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

2001-10-17 Thread Zailong Bian
Thanks. What I tried to do is to export to latex and edit the stuff by hand. I change the order of the usepackages and the inserted code from that trick. I discovered that I need to load the trick code last. If I put it in stdlayours.inc or scrreport.inc, that code will be loaded before hyperre

Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Tuukka" == Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tuukka> On 17 Oct 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> LyX 1.2.0cvs already has an experimental math-extern feature. If >> you provide a script which does lyx<->octave conversion, then it >> should do Tuukka> I suppose it would work a

Re: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

2001-10-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Zailong Bian wrote: > > I use the trick quiet often until recently I discovered a conflict. If I > put hyperref in the preamble, the short caption will not show up in LOF! The > long caption show up instead. If I remove hyperref, then it all becomes > normal. But I need hyperref! > > Please s

Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Ben Logan
> This is a highly non-trivial task to accomplish. The real kicker wouldn't > be so much to integrate with a numerics-only package like octave, but > rather with a full-fledged technical computing environment like Mathematica > or Maple. Unfortunately there's no real open source equivalent to thes

Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On 17 Oct 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >LyX 1.2.0cvs already has an experimental math-extern feature. If you >provide a script which does lyx<->octave conversion, then it should do I suppose it would work also with Maxima (a symbolic algebra system), given a proper conversion script? Really

Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Matej" == Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matej> Now when pressing some hotkey, I would love that LyX would Matej> insert -18 (determinant of the matrix A). I believe that such Matej> functionality would be something further moving LyX from "just Matej> better editor" to real killer

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-17 Thread Gerhard Schuck
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:42:00 +0200 (CEST) Guenter Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:54:26 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:42:05 +0200 (CEST) > > Guenter Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:19:09 +

Re: RE: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-17 Thread Guenter Milde
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:17:01 +0200 wrote "Saalfeld, Christoph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > 1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have > > a special box for latex code. I mean a box like the one for > > footnotes, which supports cut and paste and everything like > > normal te

Re: Still having troubles with my bibliography

2001-10-17 Thread Dave Chapeskie
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:13:21PM -0600, Kent Kostuk wrote: > I have attached a lyx file, 2 different bib files and a bst file. The bst > I created using makebst.tex. You only included one of the bib files in your LyX file, you can include both by separating their names with a comma in the "Bib