Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-20 Thread Owen Lucas
Although it probably goes against the LyX GUI feel I think that once you know what you want, using the keyboard is a much faster and convenient way to select the style. Paul Medwell wrote: You can manually change the ordering of the styles by using something like the following in your .layout

Re: crazy crazy symbol question

2003-02-20 Thread owen lucas
Dekel Tsur wrote: Do you try to use these symbol in math mode ? If not, give a short example file. The symbols don't work at all in Maths mode. I was entering them as ERT. An example is attached. cheers Owen #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221

Re: Changing straight quotes to left/right quotes

2003-02-20 Thread Angus Leeming
robin wrote: > Thanks, but that replaces all apostrophes with quotation marks - what I > need is something to replace straight quotes ("). Nevertheless, I think > I've got the idea - I'm not that familiar with sed, but I can probably > knock something together in Perl. It would have failed if the

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-20 Thread Ralph P. Boland
Paul Medwell wrote: You can manually change the ordering of the styles by using something like the following in your .layout file. --- #Sort the order of the styles Style Standard End Style Chapter End Style Section End Style Subsection End Style Subsubsection End Style Paragraph End Style Li

Re: paper numbers and paragraphs

2003-02-20 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi Timothy, the solution is not nice (you have to break lines of the title by hand), but I believe that it could serve your purpose. You can fiddle with the value of \my@lenaftno, but I am afraid, this is as good as you can get it. BTW, when I was in that, I have deleted date in the definition (s

Re: Changing straight quotes to left/right quotes

2003-02-20 Thread robin
Angus Leeming wrote: Nalan Turner wrote: I have a large text file which I have imported into LyX. I'd like to replace the straight ASCII quotation marks with LaTeX left/right quotation marks, but if I were to do them all by hand I'd be at it for days. Is there a way to do it automatically, an

Re: Changing straight quotes to left/right quotes

2003-02-20 Thread Angus Leeming
Nalan Turner wrote: > I have a large text file which I have imported into LyX. I'd like to > replace the straight ASCII quotation marks with LaTeX left/right > quotation marks, but if I were to do them all by hand I'd be at it for > days. Is there a way to do it automatically, and still have the

Re: runlyx.bat does not start Cygwin LyX

2003-02-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Turns out tr is not the culprit. See comments interspersed below. Milos Komarcevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > At 15:15 18/02/2003 -0800, you wrote: >> >>So any command in any of those files will be executed before >> >>calling

Re: DocBook -> HTML problem

2003-02-20 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 16:47, Surabaja Johnny wrote: > Hello, > > I am running Lyx 1.3.0 from RH8 rpm > Document Layout for manual.lyx is DocBook book (SGML) > My converter preferences for DocBook -> HTML > indicate db2html $$iwith no extra flag. > Viewer for HTML ismozilla file:/

Re: runlyx.bat does not start Cygwin LyX

2003-02-20 Thread Milos Komarcevic
At 15:15 18/02/2003 -0800, you wrote: >>So what's the difference between lyx.exe and lyxwin32.exe? >>lyxwin32.exe will do the following to ensure a proper environment: >> >> 1) Running all startup scripts, i.e. the system wide /etc/profile >> all script in /etc/profile.d as well as your per

Changing straight quotes to left/right quotes

2003-02-20 Thread Nalan Turner
I have a large text file which I have imported into LyX. I'd like to replace the straight ASCII quotation marks with LaTeX left/right quotation marks, but if I were to do them all by hand I'd be at it for days. Is there a way to do it automatically, and still have the quotes going in the corr

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-20 Thread Bo Peng
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 06:13:30PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > The ordering is the order in which layouts are read from layout file. > So there is already some order and structure (see the files > stdsections.inc, stdstruct.inc, etc.). Yes. I did notice some order but I still had a hard t

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Bo" == Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Or maybe what it considers as 'too long' is not the same as for >> you. Bo> Article/AMS has around 70 layouts which is 'too long' to me. :-) I was referring to the Navigate menu about which andre was complaining. Bo> I would propose a combin

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:07:18AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: > BTW, I have 'grep'ed lyx-devel/src but could not find relevant parts > about the layout file and drop list. Could anyone tell me where I should > look into? lib/layout and cut&paste... Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-20 Thread Bo Peng
> >> Another idea that I had (but I am not sure it would be better, and > >> it requires some extra work) was to put the list of layouts in a > >> structured menu (with toplevel entries like Sections, Lists...). > Andre> It would be sufficient to have a separator. Great idea. > Or maybe what it

Re: latex pdf and TTfonts

2003-02-20 Thread Paolo Ariano
Il mer, 2003-02-19 alle 22:15, William Adams ha scritto: > .pdf isn't really intended as an editable graphics interchange format, > and Macromedia FreeHand unfortunately doesn't have an option to place > them. You also may or may not have the fonts installed for the > document so that FH can set th

Re: spellchecking in LyX 1.3.0 for Qt

2003-02-20 Thread Matej Cepl
Kamil Anis wrote: > I don't think so. I had no troubles with spellchecking in 1.2.x. So this > either LyX or Qt problem. Note that me and people from my nbhood use > > Qt: 3.0.5 > KDE: 3.0.3-8 Red Hat > KDesktop: v1.9.8 OK, it is the same problem here (and the same language). See attached, what

Help bibliography function not working!

2003-02-20 Thread vsharma
I use ver1.3.0 Lyx support ver 1.7 on cygwin with windows XP Professional until ver 1.2.3 i was able to use the insert citation function. appropriately with version 1.3.0 i try to use the vancouver style and get the following error message Paragraph ended before \org@citex was complete. I suspect

Pybliographer 1.0.11 now working under cygwin.

2003-02-20 Thread Max Bian
Hello LyX friends, I finally got Pybliographer working under the Cygwin with the XFree server. It looks and feels the same as the one you see on your linux box. It probably runs faster, though it might be just an illusion. Pybliographer is the best reference managing utility AFAIK. It works gre

Re: Bibliography

2003-02-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Dominik" == Dominik Waßenhoven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> No option is OK, ie just "\usepackage{babel}". Dominik> That is right, but IF using options in the LyX settings (e.g. Dominik> "\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}"), then just typing Dominik> "\usepackage{babel}" in the preamble cause

Re: spellchecking in LyX 1.3.0 for Qt

2003-02-20 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:12:47PM -0500, Kamil Anis wrote: > Of course I can. By the way I subscribed the lyx-users mailing list and > got no reply whether my subscription was successfull or not. I've tried > to send an (empty) email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and got nothing. > So I do Cc: lyx-users :

Re: spellchecking in LyX 1.3.0 for Qt

2003-02-20 Thread Kamil Anis
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:05:56PM +, John Levon wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:50:02PM -0500, Kamil Anis wrote: > > > The problem is that the words in Spellchecker dialog namely in Unknown: > > and Replacement: are displayed right with diacritic marks while the > > words in the Suggestio

Re: spellchecking in LyX 1.3.0 for Qt

2003-02-20 Thread Kamil Anis
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:55:07PM +, John Levon wrote: > > Can you please reply to the list too ? Of course I can. By the way I subscribed the lyx-users mailing list and got no reply whether my subscription was successfull or not. I've tried to send an (empty) email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and

Re: LyX terrible converting images

2003-02-20 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Joao B. Oliveira wrote: > I think that adding nice to the conversion process is a good idea > that can be done in a user-by-user basis, but I believe that one > of the major problems of convert is its memory consumption. Adding > nice would reduce the CPU consumption, but afte

Re: small bugs in 1.3.0-qt?

2003-02-20 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:17:18AM +0100, Giovanni Bicz? wrote: > Now this is a bit strange... > I use the hungarian keyboard, but my LANG and similar env variables are set to > C, which seems to be EN, that causes - by default - the toc to be displayed > with small squares instead of the accent

Re: LyX terrible converting images

2003-02-20 Thread Max Bian
--- "Joao B. Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thta is why I believe that making the conversion process a serial > one would speed up things much more: memory is used for one image > at a time and thus fills up only in extreme cases. No swap, no disk > delays, etc... I think it is better to

Re: Re: Bibliography

2003-02-20 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 20.02.03 12:34:30: > > > "Dominik" == Dominik Wassenhoven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dominik> Maybe you have to add a \usepackage{babel} *before* > Dominik> \usepackage{jurabib}, because babel *has* to be loaded before > Dominik> jurabi

Re: .png images not displayed in lyx

2003-02-20 Thread Angus Leeming
vsharma wrote: > I use ver1.3.0 Lyx support ver 1.7 on cygwin with windows XP Professional > I am new to this program so excuse any silly questions You're excused ;-) > I cannot load .png images to display in lyx window Are you using the Qt or the xforms frontend? The Qt frontend should be able

Re: LyX terrible converting images

2003-02-20 Thread Joao B. Oliveira
> > > > > I have used LyX in -dbg mode and checked the conversion process. It > > > > > does not seem that LyX itself is doing things badly, but it calls > > > > > convert for every image on the current screen and convert seems to > > > > > be doing a bad job, taking up all memory and filling the s

Re: Bibliography

2003-02-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Dominik" == Dominik Wassenhoven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dominik> Maybe you have to add a \usepackage{babel} *before* Dominik> \usepackage{jurabib}, because babel *has* to be loaded before Dominik> jurabib, but LyX puts the babel-command right before Dominik> \begin{document}. Note that

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:15:53AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Andre> wrote: >> Another idea that I had (but I am not sure it would be better, and >> it requires some extra work) was to put the list of layouts in a >> structured men

Prosper

2003-02-20 Thread Luis Angel Fernández Cuadrado
Hi all, I've been using the Prosper way of making pdf presentations following the indications given in Herbert's pages. For the moment, everything is going allright because I don't need complex things (fancy steps or transitions, etc.). However, I've found a couple of things that I'd like to ge

.png images not displayed in lyx

2003-02-20 Thread vsharma
I use ver1.3.0 Lyx support ver 1.7 on cygwin with windows XP Professional I am new to this program so excuse any silly questions I cannot load .png images to display in lyx window, it informs me that there is error converting to loadable format trying to invoke view dvi gives message no informati

Re: Bibliography

2003-02-20 Thread Dominik Wassenhoven
Jade schrieb: > On Monday 17 February 2003 00:25, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:57:16PM +0100, Jade wrote: >> > I have found a package called "jurabib", that can help doing this, but >> > I wondered if there was a way to include the package automatically >> > using Lyx. >>

Re: small bugs in 1.3.0-qt?

2003-02-20 Thread Giovanni Biczó
Now this is a bit strange... I use the hungarian keyboard, but my LANG and similar env variables are set to C, which seems to be EN, that causes - by default - the toc to be displayed with small squares instead of the accented chars. If I have an accented char in the toc then the single-click-tri

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:15:53AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Another idea that I had (but I am not sure it would be better, and it > requires some extra work) was to put the list of layouts in a > structured menu (with toplevel entries like Sections, Lists...). It would be sufficient to

Re: crazy crazy symbol question

2003-02-20 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:41:27AM +1030, Owen Lucas wrote: > > Looks the same under Ghostview and acroread so its probably something else. Do you try to use these symbol in math mode ? If not, give a short example file.

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Bo" == Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bo> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:18:29PM +1030, Paul Medwell wrote: >> You can manually change the ordering of the styles by using >> something like the following in your .layout file. Bo> This might be a good solution to advanced users who want to