Horizontal line (rule)?

2002-09-06 Thread Lars Jensen
How do I make a horizontal line of given length in LyX? Can this be done without including latex code? Thanks, Lars. %%% Lars Jensen, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno NV 89512-3999. Tel: 775.673.7113 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: A truly doofus question.

2002-09-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Craig Morehouse wrote: > I haven't been able to grasp what I need to do to nest lists inside of > lists, or enumerations inside of Lists, or lists inside of enumerations, > etc.. > > What am I missing? The trial-and-error experience I gained. :-) Block the group that

A truly doofus question.

2002-09-06 Thread Craig Morehouse
I haven't been able to grasp what I need to do to nest lists inside of lists, or enumerations inside of Lists, or lists inside of enumerations, etc.. I have read that it can be done, but am clueless as to how to do it. What am I missing? CAM

Re: Can't open .lyx file

2002-09-06 Thread Thomas Templin
On Saturday 07 September 2002 05:32, Drew wrote: [...] > A friend of mine sent me a file with an .lyx extension > in the hopes of opening it up to see what it was. It > was supposed to be some type of image file. > > So, I installed LyX on my Linux box and proceeded to > open the file, but it won

Table of Contents

2002-09-06 Thread Hisyam Lee
Hi folks, I'm writing a thesis using book class with modification to chapter numbering to Roman but the section and subsetion and other still using arabic numbering. Table of Contents produce in this format: Contents LIST OF FIGURES ... LIST OF TABLES ... ... ... I INTRODUCTION 1.1

Can't open .lyx file

2002-09-06 Thread Drew
Hi, A friend of mine sent me a file with an .lyx extension in the hopes of opening it up to see what it was. It was supposed to be some type of image file. So, I installed LyX on my Linux box and proceeded to open the file, but it won't open. Is there any way that I can tell if this is indeed

Re: Solaris 8 / 9 binaries for lyx 1.2.1

2002-09-06 Thread stefan
Guys hello, You might want to download Solaris 9 SPARC packages of: lyx 1.2.1 and netpbm library + pngtopnm from my page: http://www.extum.com/~stefan/node6.html The site is 100% under work, I haven't got time to take care of the look too much. *Description: SPlyx is a Solaris 9, SPARC ve

Re: Tabular problem

2002-09-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Collette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hello, > > I've got a problem with tabular. > I've got a table with three columns and some lines. > The title of the columns are too wide. So I set the width of the > column via the > tabular dialog (Column/Row

Re: lyx -visual truecolor crashes on loading file

2002-09-06 Thread Ronald Florence
John Levon wrote: >>when lyx >>is started with -visual truecolor, it crashes on loading a file. >>Here is the output of `-dbg 3': > > > What is the backtrace from : > > gdb ./lyx > set args "-visual truecolor -sync" > run > bt > > ? After the command `run' in gdb I get: Failed to share

Re: lyx -visual truecolor crashes on loading file

2002-09-06 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 12:07:01PM -0400, Ronald Florence wrote: > I've just moved one of our sparc-solaris-8 users from OpenWindows to > CDE. LyX fails to share the color map on the 24-bit display, and the > only cure I've found is to run `lyx -visual truecolor'. But when lyx > is started w

lyx -visual truecolor crashes on loading file

2002-09-06 Thread Ronald Florence
I've just moved one of our sparc-solaris-8 users from OpenWindows to CDE. LyX fails to share the color map on the 24-bit display, and the only cure I've found is to run `lyx -visual truecolor'. But when lyx is started with -visual truecolor, it crashes on loading a file. Here is the output of

Re: lyx to microsoft word

2002-09-06 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 10:32:29AM +, Thai DANG wrote: > Many thanks to all. > latex2rtf works very well ! See also http://www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/textopc.html

Re: pdfscreen

2002-09-06 Thread Dekel Tsur
Remzi Seker wrote: > Did anyone use pdfscreen with lyx? I did. See http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/slides/

Re: can't install it under SuSE 7.2

2002-09-06 Thread Peter Suetterlin
Vinay Ramnath wrote: > Hi, > > the installation of teTeX went fine. I put it in /usr/local/teTeX, which > was the default. However, when I tried to install LyX using rpm -Uvh > --nodeps lyx-1.2.1* it seems like the installer can't find anything of > my teTeX installation. Which sounds believ

Re: footbib bug (when the reference is included in a footnote ...)

2002-09-06 Thread Thai DANG
Did you try to delete the ~/.lyx directory before the installation ? Thiébaut wrote: > Hello, > > I was REALLY happy when I saw that we could use footbib with lyx starting > version 1.2.1 (urls is : http://www.lyx.org/help/bibtex/footbib.php) > > So I upgraded to this version and tryed this w

Importing HTML

2002-09-06 Thread Kathryn Andersen
I'm getting rather frustrated and I'm wondering if anyone here has some suggestions... I have some HTML files, I want to import into LyX (well, you might guess that from the subject line). The route I am using is to use gnuhtml2latex (that's what's available on my Debian system) to convert the HT

Preview of .ps files is not accurate

2002-09-06 Thread Jan Smid
Hi, I have a problem with the preview of .ps Files. The preview is not accurate at all, the right border seems to be cut off a bit, though in the generated postscript is all right. This makes it hard use the "bounding box"-feature because I have to compile the lyx file every time I change some

Bug in lyx 1.2.1 Bounding Box size

2002-09-06 Thread Jan Smid
Hi, when I choose a value higher than the size of the bounding box, Lyx 1.2.1 crashes. Can anybody confirm this behavior? -j

footbib bug (when the reference is included in a footnote ...)

2002-09-06 Thread Thiébaut
Hello, I was REALLY happy when I saw that we could use footbib with lyx starting version 1.2.1 (urls is : http://www.lyx.org/help/bibtex/footbib.php) So I upgraded to this version and tryed this wonderfull feature. It doesn't work unfortunately :-( I've fallowed step to step the instructions

spacing subfigures captions and captions

2002-09-06 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Hello all, Sorry if the title is not that clear, here is what I look for: I have figure floats with several figures, and I want to have letters (a) (b) etc. under each subfigure, and before the figure caption. I have done this using a label as a "title" for each figure, according to http://www.l

Re: lyx to microsoft word

2002-09-06 Thread Thai DANG
Many thanks to all. latex2rtf works very well ! Rod Pinna wrote: > There are programs such as latex2rtf, which do what you need. > > Rod > > > On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Thai DANG wrote: > > >>Kathryn Andersen wrote: >> >>>On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 05:49:29PM +, Thai DANG wrote: >>> >>> Pete

Problems to print lyx 1.2.1

2002-09-06 Thread Robert Spee
Im not using 1.2.1 but in 1.1.6fix4 i have the following printer settings: cmd: dvips page range: -pp copies: -c reverse: -r to printer: -P file extension: .ps spool command: lp papertype: -t even pages: -B odd pages: -A collated: -C landscape: -t landscape to file: -o spool printer prefix: -d pap

Re: lyx to microsoft word

2002-09-06 Thread Rod Pinna
There are programs such as latex2rtf, which do what you need. Rod On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Thai DANG wrote: > Kathryn Andersen wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 05:49:29PM +, Thai DANG wrote: > > > >>Peter Suetterlin wrote: > >> > >>>Thai DANG wrote: > >>> > >>> > Do you know if there is

Re: Problems to print lyx 1.2.1

2002-09-06 Thread Davide Anchisi
Hi Juan, maybe there are other ways, but what I'm doing is : view > postcrpt and then print from ghostview. It also works print to file (from lyx),. This give you a *.ps file that you can open and print with gv. I hope this will help, Davide Juan_Ramón_Rico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: missing table in lyx 1.2.1

2002-09-06 Thread Jos van den Oever
On Wednesday 04 September 2002 17:48, Jos van den Oever wrote: > On Wednesday 04 September 2002 17:18, Jos van den Oever wrote: > > Hello lyx-developers, > > > > I'm writing my thesis in lyx 1.2.1. I've this document, entirely witten > > in lyx 1.2.1 (no conversion problem). This document contains

Re: lyx to microsoft word

2002-09-06 Thread Thai DANG
Kathryn Andersen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 05:49:29PM +, Thai DANG wrote: > >>Peter Suetterlin wrote: >> >>>Thai DANG wrote: >>> >>> Do you know if there is a tool to convert Lyx format to Microsoft Word format ? >>> >>>Please read the LyX FAQ (Help->FAQ; Chapter 3.2) >>>In sh