Re: install latex

2002-12-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:17:12PM -, Paulo Simões wrote: > i'm a newbie in latex, could some one tell me how to install and > configure latex? LaTeX comes with most distributions, sometimes in disguise of 'tetex'. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, wil

Re: SIunits conflict with book layoutTh e

2002-12-05 Thread Herbert Voss
> The error box appears right at the top of the document, before the > title. I have tried what you advise. No luck! then send me a small example doc which shows the behaviour Herbert -- Dr.-Ing Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spell check

2002-12-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
|b|c|r|³| wrote: > i installed ispell and aspell. but there's > not /usr/lib/ispell like the faq says there should be. what do i do first > to get this running? What does "whereis ispell" say? And "ispell -v"? Jürgen.

Re: QT compile problems.

2002-12-05 Thread John Coppens
Hi John. I didn't notice the first time around this reply was turned down by the lyx mail server (happened before): On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 22:17:38 + John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 07:11:57PM -0300, John Coppens wrote: > > > > Where are the Qt 3.0.4 headers on y

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:35:14AM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:23:31PM -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote: > > I tried exporting the document as latex and running > > > > dvips -Ppdf -o outfile.ps infile.dvi > > ps2pdf outfile.ps > > Does using ps2pdf13 instead of ps2pdf help ?

Re: formatting page numbers

2002-12-05 Thread Frederic Leymarie
Jeroen Vriesman wrote: > What I did, was choosing amsbook style, I am already using another style (thesis) How to have the fancyheaders then ? (it does not show up as an option, only plain an default do). > and I've selected fancy headers in layout-document from lyx. > > Strange enough, I had

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Re: QT compile problems.

2002-12-05 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:37:59PM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: > ...is the qt frontend even usable with qt3? Yes (in fact it works a little bit better) john -- "Yeah, I woke up in the day accidentally once, the moon was on fire for some reason and I couldn't see very well and all the bandwidth di

Re: QT compile problems.

2002-12-05 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, John Coppens wrote: > On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 18:33:30 + > John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:09:20PM -0300, John Coppens wrote: > > > > > QTDIR is pointing to the 3.0.4 version, which is logical, because its > > > the latest. But LyX internally

spell check

2002-12-05 Thread =?x-unknown?q?|b|c|r|=B3|?=
so i just recently switched from redhat to debian woody, i'm running 1.1.6 and i almost got everything working agian. but still not spell checker. i installed ispell and aspell. but there's not /usr/lib/ispell like the faq says there should be. what do i do first to get this running? ===

Copy and paste problems

2002-12-05 Thread Laurie Savage
I have prepared a Prosper class presentation in Lyx and want to include some of it in a book I am preparing for my students. In Lyx I did a copy and paste and removed any Prosper specific environments and ERT. The document generated about 800 errors. These disappeared when I cut the new parts from

Re: SIunits conflict with book layoutTh e

2002-12-05 Thread Laurie Savage
The error box appears right at the top of the document, before the title. I have tried what you advise. No luck! Laurie On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:10, Herbert Voss wrote: > Laurie Savage schrieb: > > >I am trying to use SIunits in the book layout. I get an error message > >"square already defined"

Re: Changing font size on reference pages?

2002-12-05 Thread Nirmal Govind
Great! Thanks for the link.. So in this case (to answer the original question), "large" would be what is appropriate... nirmal On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 22:45:11 +0100 Jeroen Vriesman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts/fonts.phtml > > shows the size of large,

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:36:17 -0500 (EST) Diab Jerius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Dec, Paul Tremblay wrote: > > I have just done a search on the web and found that no one else has had > > this problem, or at least that I could find. > > I just had this experience last night, as a matter of

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:36:17PM -0500, Diab Jerius wrote: > I just had this experience last night, as a matter of fact. I exported > a document to PDF, sent it off to a Windows user, who complained that it > wasn't recognized (I couldn't get a more technical description than > that). I was able

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:23:31PM -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote: > I tried exporting the document as latex and running > > dvips -Ppdf -o outfile.ps infile.dvi > ps2pdf outfile.ps Does using ps2pdf13 instead of ps2pdf help ? (or 'ps2pdf -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 outfile.ps' if you don't have ps2pdf1

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread Diab Jerius
On 5 Dec, Paul Tremblay wrote: > I have just done a search on the web and found that no one else has had > this problem, or at least that I could find. I just had this experience last night, as a matter of fact. I exported a document to PDF, sent it off to a Windows user, who complained that it

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:53:06PM -0300, John Coppens wrote: > > Did you try to re-install Acrobat on the Windows machine? Even if you > can open other pdfs, the executable or libraries can be damaged or > incomplete. > I don't have access to the Windows machine. I have sent the file out to peo

Re: QT compile problems.

2002-12-05 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 07:11:57PM -0300, John Coppens wrote: > > Where are the Qt 3.0.4 headers on your system ? Please answer this, or I can't help you. > Both 3.0.4 and 2.3.1 are under /usr/lib. How do you expect us to guess which one you want then ? > FRONTEND_LDFLAGS="\$(QT_LDFLAGS)"

Re: QT compile problems.

2002-12-05 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 18:33:30 + John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:09:20PM -0300, John Coppens wrote: > > > QTDIR is pointing to the 3.0.4 version, which is logical, because its > > the latest. But LyX internally has quite a few hardwired links to the > > qt2 dir

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:23:31 -0500 Paul Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any idea what is going on here? > > Thanks > > Paul > Did you try to re-install Acrobat on the Windows machine? Even if you can open other pdfs, the executable or libraries can be damaged or incomplete. John

two questions

2002-12-05 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Hi I have two questions about style: I need to get the second (and third) line in the bibliography to be indented. Like so: Author, Author YEAR. some journal with a long name, volume ()issue etc etc etc etc ^ | The indentation here The second question is how I can get the caption s

Re: Changing font size on reference pages?

2002-12-05 Thread Jeroen Vriesman
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts/fonts.phtml shows the size of large, Large, small etc. in terms of points. Jeroen. On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 15:20:15 -0500 Nirmal Govind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > How do I force the use of 12 point font in my autogenerated reference > > pages?

Re: lyx 1.2.1 & not found lyxrc

2002-12-05 Thread =?x-unknown?q?|b|c|r|=B3|?=
didja try making it ~/.lyxrc ? that's where mins is just a thought On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Holger Zebner wrote: > Hello, > I recently upgraded from Version 1.5.1fix to 1.2.1. > Now Lyx doesn't recognize the config. file (I put it in ~/.lyx/lyxrc). > Give me a hint, please. I didn't find anything ab

Re: Changing font size on reference pages?

2002-12-05 Thread Nirmal Govind
> > How do I force the use of 12 point font in my autogenerated reference > pages? > Hi.. I was just trying to do this yesterday on some slides actually.. and this is what worked for me - right before your Bibliography inset, insert ERT and put {\large and right after the inset, insert another E

pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
I have creaed a latex file and converted it to PDF, and it won't open on a friend's machine. In my preamble I have \usepackage mathptmx In order to run the conversion, I simply exported the document using the file->export->PDF option. I have a linux box, and I can open the resulting PDF file

Changing font size on reference pages?

2002-12-05 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am writing my thesis and am required to use 12 point font throughout the document. Unfortunately, my reference pages, generated by inserting a bibliograpy, insists on using a smaller font - probably 10 point. How do I force the use of 12 point fo

Re: formatting page numbers

2002-12-05 Thread Frederic Leymarie
Jeroen Vriesman wrote: > Did you get errors? > Or did you not get what you expected? error (Undefined control sequence) I put what you suggested in the preamble. F -- > On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 00:36:10 -0500 > Frederic Leymarie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks > > > > I tried what you sugg

Re: QT compile problems.

2002-12-05 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:09:20PM -0300, John Coppens wrote: > QTDIR is pointing to the 3.0.4 version, which is logical, because its > the latest. But LyX internally has quite a few hardwired links to the > qt2 directories. There are no hardwired links at all. Where are the Qt 3.0.4 headers on

Re: QT compile problems.

2002-12-05 Thread John Coppens
Thanks John... QTDIR is pointing to the 3.0.4 version, which is logical, because its the latest. But LyX internally has quite a few hardwired links to the qt2 directories. I now defined QTDIR to point to 2.3.1, reconfigured (deleted config.log first), and in the final link, LyX still tries to acc

install latex

2002-12-05 Thread Paulo Simões
hi, i'm a newbie in latex, could some one tell me how to install and configure latex? Thank you very mutch

Re: Discussion on outline/layout mode for LyX

2002-12-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 05 December 2002 02:37 am, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:05:36PM +, John Levon wrote: > > > sorting branches on one level, binsorting of multiple branches by > > > qualitative measures, randomization of branches on one level, > > > > Why would you want any of the

Re: QT compile problems.

2002-12-05 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:02:45AM -0300, John Coppens wrote: > I'm trying to compile LyX CVS with the --with-frontend=qt option. > Configure goes quite well, but compilation fails at the end with a > long list of messages about missing references. > > Now, configure reports Qt3, which really is

Re: Discussion on outline/layout mode for LyX

2002-12-05 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:17:51PM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: > How to say it ... because they are very useful. If you haven't > tried, it is probably hard to imagine. It is more about thinking > than writing, but this kind of program was for me the first CAT > (Computer Aided Thinking) tool. I pre

Re: keyboard shortcut for document menu

2002-12-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Peter" == Peter Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> I'm working with several smallish documents that Peter> cross-reference each other and are included in one large Peter> document. I tend to jump around between the documents as I Peter> think of things to add or references to make,

AW: Lyx-1.2.1 with SuSE-8.1

2002-12-05 Thread Jochen Wurster
Hi, i think the main problem is that SuSE has different names for the rpm packages than Red Hat has. So ensure that you have a running tex/latex environment and then run: rpm -ivh --upgrade --nodeps *.rpm If this doesn't help you can add the option --force Bye Joe -Ursprüngliche Nachricht--

keyboard shortcut for document menu

2002-12-05 Thread Peter Harkins
I'm working with several smallish documents that cross-reference each other and are included in one large document. I tend to jump around between the documents as I think of things to add or references to make, but I'm hampered by needing to take my hands off the keyboard to do so.

Re: Lyx-1.2.1 with SuSE-8.1

2002-12-05 Thread Michael Abshoff
Bruce Sass wrote: On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, M. B. Schiekel wrote: Hallo everybody, beg your pardon for 2 beginner questions. Now that I went from my stable SuSE-7.3, Lyx-1.6.1 to SuSE-8.1 I'm encountering many problems - here are 2 Lyx questions. 1. SuSE-8.1 comes with Lyx-1.2.0 - and Lyx install