Re: personal LyX directory

2001-10-19 Thread Claus Hentschel
> I have finally got LyX installed on my Win2k machine, but when I start it > up it asks me the following question: > > "You don't have a personal LyX directory. It is needed to keep your own > configuration. Should I try to set it up for you (recommended)?" > > I click yes, but nothing happens.

personal LyX directory

2001-10-19 Thread Dr. Louis A. Turk
Friends, I have finally got LyX installed on my Win2k machine, but when I start it up it asks me the following question: "You don't have a personal LyX directory. It is needed to keep your own configuration. Should I try to set it up for you (recommended)?" I click yes, but nothing happens.

Merging documents

2001-10-19 Thread Rich Shepard
Now that I'm getting a good understanding of the letter class, I would like to learn how others set up for multiple-recipient mailings. Similar to the mail merge found in word processors such as WordPerfect. I looked at the index on Herbert Voss' web page of tips and didn't find anything there.

Re: Pagination and current date in header

2001-10-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: > \renewcommand\@oddhead{ what ever you want} Herbert, OK, my first attempt at writing LaTeX code has bombed. I need some tutalage here. I entered into the letter preamble: \renewcommand\@oddhead{toname\\@date\\thepage} and what I have across the t

Re: newbie question

2001-10-19 Thread Rodney K
Here's my output.. Workarea event: KEYBOARD WorkArea: Key is `' [13] WorkArea: Keysym is `Return' [65293] Using keysym [B] Workarea Diff: 2761960313 KeySym is Return[65293] State is [20] action first set to [69] meta_fake_bit is [0] action now set to [69] Key [69][C-Return] Rodney > So the ent

bibtopic

2001-10-19 Thread Remzi Seker
Hi, I am using lyx.1.1.6f3, and I was trying to make up my resume so that the publications are divided into different groups like Journal Pubs Conf. Proceedings etc... I tried bibtopic (on Dekel's suggestion, and herberts page) but it doesn't work. I also can not get the script given on Herber

tex2pdf

2001-10-19 Thread E GCP
This is a question for working with tex2pdf in LyX. I have the following in my LaTeX preamble: \usepackage[pdftex]{thumbpdf} \usepackage[pdftex,pdftitle={Main Title}, pdfauthor={Myself}, pdfsubject={My Thesis}, pdfkeywords={subject1,subject2}, plai

Re: Pagination and current date in header

2001-10-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: > \renewcommand\@oddhead{ what ever you want} I presume that I put this in the preamble. Is there a LaTeX referece I sould read to get the syntax correct for the "what ever you want" part? I don't know how to pull out the senders name. I presume that I

Re: Pagination and current date in header

2001-10-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: > > That's very close! It puts the three lines across the header rather than > > on three, separate lines along the left margin. How do I modify what this > > menu choice does? I'd like to take out the "To" and align them differently. > > I'm sure there'

Re: Blatantly wishful feature request

2001-10-19 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, George De Bruin wrote: >However, the one ability I wouldn't mind having is 'folding' at specified >nesting levels (ie, only seeing 2 or 3 levels of my outline, instead of Agreed, this is truly one of the most useful aids in a text editor (haven't never had that in a word pro

Re: newbie question

2001-10-19 Thread Rodney K
got it! Thanks! Rodney On Thursday 18 October 2001 10:42 pm, you wrote: > I used the Enter key between the backspace and shift keyI'll try the > other enter key. > > Rodney > > On Friday 19 October 2001 04:30 am, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > "Rodney" == Rodney K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: newbie question

2001-10-19 Thread Rodney K
I used the Enter key between the backspace and shift keyI'll try the other enter key. Rodney On Friday 19 October 2001 04:30 am, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Rodney" == Rodney K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rodney> Hi, I'm new to Lyx and I was reading through the manual. When >

Re: newbie question

2001-10-19 Thread Alberto Vecchiato
Actually, it seems to me that C-Enter is just CTRL+Enter. Alberto Vecchiato On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Rodney K wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to Lyx and I was reading through the manual. When I got to the part > about multi-line equations, they mention that you have to do a "C-Enter" to > start a new l

newbie question

2001-10-19 Thread Rodney K
Hi, I'm new to Lyx and I was reading through the manual. When I got to the part about multi-line equations, they mention that you have to do a "C-Enter" to start a new line. I've looked through the entire document, and I cannot find where they explain what "C-Enter" is. I tried doing "Ctrl+Ent

Okay, now this is an addiction....

2001-10-19 Thread George De Bruin
Okay, If some of you hadn't noticed: I've had a fairly lengthy absence from the mailing list. In fact, with only a short reprise at the beginning of September, I hadn't been on the list since last June. (I won't go into details, but some very chaotic problems / changes / etc. occured in my

Re: Pagination and current date in header

2001-10-19 Thread Herbert Voss
Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: > > > did you try > > layout->document->pagestyle->headings > > That's very close! It puts the three lines across the header rather than > on three, separate lines along the left margin. How do I modify what this > menu choice d