Cancel that last beer . . . .

2002-06-07 Thread tom poe
Hi: Just discovered what you folks meant by not being backward compatible. New documents are just fine. So, what's the workaround? How do I bring my old documents [text] into new documents? Thanks, Tom Reno, NV http://www.studioforrecording.org/ http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/ htt

my upgrade to 1.20 is missing dvi preview

2002-06-07 Thread tom poe
Hello: I upgraded from 1.15 to 1.20 and things have changed. I used to have dvi preview under the file menu, and was able to preview the document. With the upgrade, when I go to view->DVI and click, nothing happens. When I click and watch the status bar, it calls xdvi, and seems to be ok, but

pdf not showing up

2002-06-07 Thread Daniel Goldin
When I convert a lyx doc to pdf, nothing shows up under acroread. I'm assuming the pdf is using type 3 fonts. Is there something I can do about this? -- Daniel Goldin 323.225.1926 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Quote and spaces (OT)

2002-06-07 Thread Fabrice F-T
Jan Warnking a écrit (Fri, 7 Jun 2002 18:40:15 +0100 (WET DST)): > > Talking about quotes and spaces in French, I have an offtopic question: > Are spaces after opening << and before closing >> really good typography > in French? I know about the spaces (thin protected ones) before :;?! but > am

new document style

2002-06-07 Thread Jose Fontebasso Neto
Hi, Im using klyx to write a dissertation, the formats for document style (article, book, report,...) are different from university standart. I try adapt report format, but I cant get the standart of university. I try too get some help in university, but people there has been using latex, and d

Re: Quote and spaces (OT)

2002-06-07 Thread Jan Warnking
Talking about quotes and spaces in French, I have an offtopic question: Are spaces after opening << and before closing >> really good typography in French? I know about the spaces (thin protected ones) before :;?! but am just not sure about the <<>>. I wrote a text in french (not frenchb, what's

Re: Quote and spaces

2002-06-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Luiz" == Luiz Tadeu Fernandes Eleno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Luiz> I opened your attached file. The option to use the << >> Luiz> quotation marks was not selected. This is probably before he made a copy of a part of his document. Not a problem. Luiz> Besides, the language selected wa

Re: Quote and spaces

2002-06-07 Thread Luiz Tadeu Fernandes Eleno
I opened your attached file. The option to use the << >> quotation marks was not selected. Besides, the language selected was French(GUTenberg) .I selected the French language and the << bla >> quotation marks and all went well. Luiz. On Sex 07 Jun 2002 12:29, you wrote: > > Jean-Marc Lasgo

Re: Quote and spaces

2002-06-07 Thread Nicolas SABOURET
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Does this happen in latex output, or only on screen? In the dvi output :( I send in attachement a small .lyx file (in french) which produces such an output. Look at line 2-3 and 7-8. Nico. -- Nicolas SABOURET LIMSI-CNRS, BP133, 91403 Orsay, France http://www.li

Re: Quote and spaces

2002-06-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jean-Pierre" == Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 16:46:46 +0200 From: Nicolas SABOURET >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: >>> Quote and spaces >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> New day, new question :) >>> >>> In LyX 1.2.0, you changed th

Re: Quote and spaces

2002-06-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Nicolas" == Nicolas SABOURET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nicolas> Hi, New day, new question :) Nicolas> In LyX 1.2.0, you changed the quote insertion for the '« »' Nicolas> quote type: it automatically makes a blank between the sign Nicolas> and the word (e.g. « hello ») and that's great

Re: Quote and spaces

2002-06-07 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 16:46:46 +0200 >>From: Nicolas SABOURET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Quote and spaces >> >>Hi, >> >>New day, new question :) >> >>In LyX 1.2.0, you changed the quote insertion for the '« »' quote type: >>it automatically makes a blank between the

Quote and spaces

2002-06-07 Thread Nicolas SABOURET
Hi, New day, new question :) In LyX 1.2.0, you changed the quote insertion for the '« »' quote type: it automatically makes a blank between the sign and the word (e.g. « hello ») and that's great ! The problem is that this blank is a regular one whereas it should be a protected blank. As a conse

Re: Can I have margin notes alongside a float?

2002-06-07 Thread Helge Hafting
I managed to get what I wanted - a sort of margin notes that works from inside floats. They are one line, must be used at the beginning of a text line, and may overlap if there's many of them. Still, they work for me. \makebox and \raisebox with 0 size is used so the note won't disturb the cur

Re: texhash, TEXMF etc puzzles

2002-06-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Nelson Hogg wrote: > This is what it says: > > [root@abys ngh]# kpsepath bib > .:/usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bib//:/usr/share/texmf/bibtex/// > > I cannot find a texmf.cfg file anywhere and there is no /etc/texmf > directory. How is it created? through my teTeX installation with SuSE. I suppose

Re: texhash, TEXMF etc puzzles

2002-06-07 Thread Nelson Hogg
Herbert Voss wrote: > Nelson Hogg wrote: > >> I am having trouble with Lyx not finding installed bibtex files. I >> have defined the environment variable TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf and run >> texhash > > >> as superuser and the output from that in ls-R seems to make sense. But >> when I run Vie

Re: texhash, TEXMF etc puzzles

2002-06-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Nelson Hogg wrote: > I am having trouble with Lyx not finding installed bibtex files. I have > defined the environment variable TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf and run texhash > as superuser and the output from that in ls-R seems to make sense. But > when I run View->Tex Information there is none repo

texhash, TEXMF etc puzzles

2002-06-07 Thread Nelson Hogg
I am having trouble with Lyx not finding installed bibtex files. I have defined the environment variable TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf and run texhash as superuser and the output from that in ls-R seems to make sense. But when I run View->Tex Information there is none reported. Rescanning produces no

Re: Footnote in table cell

2002-06-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: >>Here you are. The errors are gone. Thus it must be a problem with our >>document class (We use our own derived from report). However there is no >>footnote either :) Seems to be a tricky thing. >> > > Ah, you're talking about tables inside floats. That's something d

Re: Footnote in table cell

2002-06-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Oliver Eichler wrote: > yes, I know this. I just hoped that lyx 1.2.0 offers a better solution. This > one is a real ugly tex hack. this is not a real ugly hack, it's the default for latex! And how should LyX be better than LaTeX??? Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/

Re: Footnote in table cell

2002-06-07 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Oliver Eichler wrote: > Here you are. The errors are gone. Thus it must be a problem with our > document class (We use our own derived from report). However there is no > footnote either :) Seems to be a tricky thing. Ah, you're talking about tables inside floats. That's something different. Foo

why \graphicspath not work in Windows/lyx?---solution to write a dissertation/report/book

2002-06-07 Thread Qing-Chang Zhong
A lot of thanks to Herbert Voss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), the problem is now solved. Some hints are given below for possible use: 1. disable using temporary directories. This means that you have to delete the temp files in the folders (if not, it may affect the references) 2. never use an absolute p

Re: Footnote in table cell

2002-06-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
On Friday 07 June 2002 12:45, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Oliver Eichler wrote: > > Hmm, this produces some errors about a missing '}'. > > Can you send an example file which produces this error, please? > > Juergen Here you are. The errors are gone. Thus it must be a problem with our document

Re: Footnote in table cell

2002-06-07 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Oliver Eichler wrote: > Hmm, this produces some errors about a missing '}'. Can you send an example file which produces this error, please? Juergen

Re: Footnote in table cell

2002-06-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
On Friday 07 June 2002 11:22, Nico Mock wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Oliver Eichler wrote: > > Hi > > > > > > lyx 1.2.0: > > > > It's possible to create a footnote within a table cell, however it does > > not show in the final document output. Impossible in Tex or a Lyx bug? > > Any workaround? >

Re: Footnote in table cell

2002-06-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
On Friday 07 June 2002 10:18, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Oliver Eichler wrote: > > It's possible to create a footnote within a table cell, however it does > > not show in the final document output. Impossible in Tex or a Lyx bug? > > Any workaround? > > It's sort of a LaTeX restriction, but the

Re: Footnote in table cell

2002-06-07 Thread Nico Mock
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Oliver Eichler wrote: > Hi > > > lyx 1.2.0: > > It's possible to create a footnote within a table cell, however it does not > show in the final document output. Impossible in Tex or a Lyx bug? Any > workaround? > > > oliver > Hi Oliver, have a look at http://www.lyx

RE: Mottos for each chapter

2002-06-07 Thread Daniel Danciu
The epigraph package is just great! Mottos look very nice when using this package. The way suggested by Herbert works as well. Thanks a lot, Daniel. > -Original Message- > From: Dekel Tsur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 8:11 PM > To: Daniel Danciu; LyX users

Re: Footnote in table cell

2002-06-07 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Oliver Eichler wrote: > It's possible to create a footnote within a table cell, however it does not > show in the final document output. Impossible in Tex or a Lyx bug? Any > workaround? It's sort of a LaTeX restriction, but there is an easy workaround. Insert the following two lines to the prea

Footnote in table cell

2002-06-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
Hi lyx 1.2.0: It's possible to create a footnote within a table cell, however it does not show in the final document output. Impossible in Tex or a Lyx bug? Any workaround? oliver -- Ingenieure Kellermann, Voigt, Hoepfl, Eichler, Weidner und Klinger DSP Solutions

Re: Forcing TOC to include section*

2002-06-07 Thread Helge Hafting
Chris Eliasmith wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using lyx to write a book and I'd like to > include the preface and other sections in the > table of contents. However, the TOC generated > by LyX doesn't put any sections that have a > * in the TOC. I don't want to number my preface > as a chapter, but I