Re: This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Munzir Taha Obeid wrote: > ! LaTeX Error: \begin{center} on input line 11 ended by \end{document}. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225 Regards, Juergen

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:37:20PM +1200, Thomas CLive Richards wrote: > > does anyone know of any other programs like lyx? For MS Windows there is Scientific Workplace. You won't get it at the same price, though. > Personally, I think the idea behind lyx is very cool, but the > implementation

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-17 Thread Jan Peters
On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 03:37 PM, Thomas CLive Richards wrote: does anyone know of any other programs like lyx? Personally, I think the idea behind lyx is very cool, but the implementation is a little lacking. There are also some features which i would really like to see, but which aren'

Re: Vectorstyle

2003-06-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:33:57PM +0900, Jan Peters wrote: > Hi there! > > I have three more questions: > > 1. Is there a way to make the vectors in lyx on screen in bold style, > e.g., \boldsymbol{} or \bm{} > while still using \vec{} ? If you settle for another name like \v or so: Create a

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Thomas CLive Richards wrote: > does anyone know of any other programs like lyx? Personally, I think the > idea behind lyx is very cool, but the implementation is a little > lacking. There are also some features which i would really like to see, > but which aren't present. So, I'm on the hunt for an

Re: list of math shortcuts

2003-06-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:20:25AM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Hi.. is there a list of all the math shortcuts somewhere? Some lyx > configuration file maybe? look for some .../bind/math.bind > I found a document on the web by googling which had some but not all.. > for example, how do I get a

others like lyx?

2003-06-17 Thread Thomas CLive Richards
does anyone know of any other programs like lyx? Personally, I think the idea behind lyx is very cool, but the implementation is a little lacking. There are also some features which i would really like to see, but which aren't present. So, I'm on the hunt for another -- Thomi Richards, [EMA

Re: This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Munzir Taha Obeid wrote: > Open the latex file in an editor and add a space before any closing LaTeX > code within the \begin{arabtext} and the \end{arabtext}. I mean a space > should be entered before \end{arabtext} and if you have any formatting say > you centered some text you should go to the l

Re: How to edit LaTeX math in LyX?

2003-06-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:38:07AM -0700, Chris Carlen wrote: > I have tried going into math mode, then entering the following: > > \[ > f: \left( > \begin{split} > y = &&\\ > & f(x) +\\ > && +g(x) > \end{split} > \right) > \] > \end{document} > > which actually shows what I want in L

Re: toggled printing for instructor version

2003-06-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > This works for me (using \invisible instead of \unvisible). Yes, this was a typo. Sorry. > I am not sure if it is possible, but it would be great if I could make it > smarter so the blank space could be done at the bottom of the page. Right > now, I use \invisible for my i

Vectorstyle

2003-06-17 Thread Jan Peters
Hi there! I have three more questions: 1. Is there a way to make the vectors in lyx on screen in bold style, e.g., \boldsymbol{} or \bm{} while still using \vec{} ? 2. Can I configure the font for the large parentheses? On my Mac it looks kinda ugly! 3. Why are the subscript characters in a_b

Re: Toolbars

2003-06-17 Thread Jan Peters
Hearing this announcement below, I was wondering: Will we see a Mac OS X native version of LyX soon? If yes, how soon? Best wishes, -Jan Qt/Mac Free Software Edition coming to WWDC 2003 By Dennis Sellers [EMAIL PROTECTED] June 17, 2003 5:50 pm ET Trolltech will release Qt/Mac under the GPL (GNU

Toolbars

2003-06-17 Thread Jan Peters
Is there a way to make the icons on the toolbars smaller? I would like to create toolbars which are as close to scientific workplace as possible so that I have an easy switch! Best wishes, -Jan

list of math shortcuts

2003-06-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. is there a list of all the math shortcuts somewhere? Some lyx configuration file maybe? I found a document on the web by googling which had some but not all.. for example, how do I get a hat or a tilde on an existing character? I can select the character with the mouse and then get the hat or

Re: How to edit LaTeX math in LyX?

2003-06-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
> It seems I will have little choice but to learn LaTeX math editing in > depth, which I had hope to avoid by using LyX. Yes you can avoid most of the complicated Latex math stuff by using LyX.. > In other words, do you go into math mode, or type in ERT mode? You go into math mode and then typ

Re: glossary of terms?

2003-06-17 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
Hello, I have this in a Makefile to create pdf output with nomencl, maybe it works for you: meth.pdf: lyx -e latex meth.lyx latex meth.tex makeindex meth.glo -s nomencl.ist -o meth.gls lyx -e pdf2 meth.lyx Andres Becerra. On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Thomas CLive Richa

This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-17 Thread Munzir Taha Obeid
Sometime ago, I tried to write Arabic in lyx but failed to do it. I asked in the lyx mailing list and Dekel Tsur, the person behind the support, thankfully tried to help me but we couldn't figure out why it didn't work for me. He checked my preferences file and the exported TeX file to no avail.

Re: toggled printing for instructor version

2003-06-17 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > You can define a switch. Write into the preamble: > \usepackage{ifthen} > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > \usepackage[dvips]{color}} > > \newboolean{HIDE} > \newcommand\invisible > {\ifthenelse{\boolean{HIDE}}{\color{white}}{}} > \newcommand\visible > {\ifthe

Re: landscape page in a portrait document

2003-06-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
"Jihène Krichène" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hello everybody > > I have a portrait document. I want to put a page in the landscape > format inside this document. Is it possible to do so ? If yes, please > tell me how. See http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/PS/

Re: glossary of terms?

2003-06-17 Thread Thomas CLive Richards
> > You should take a look to the latex package nomencl. It automatizes > the glosary creation. > I have had a look at this, and have followed the readme instructions to the letter. Now, when i go to "view-> PDF", i don't get any errors, but nothing happens! where's my glossary? i put an ERT in t

Re: How to edit LaTeX math in LyX?

2003-06-17 Thread Chris Carlen
Chris Carlen wrote: I have tried going into math mode, then entering the following: \[ f: \left( \begin{split} y = &&\\ & f(x) +\\ && +g(x) \end{split} \right) \] \end{document} which actually shows what I want in LyX, but then gives LaTeX errors. It seems I will have little choice bu

Re: LyX 1.3.2 crashes upon startup

2003-06-17 Thread Niklas Werner
Am Dienstag, 17. Juni 2003 21:47 schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller: > Albrecht Dreß wrote: > > I upgraded from lyx 1.2.2 (which works like a dream) to 1.3.2, but > > the newly compiled version crashes every time upon startup (see gdb > > bt below). my system is a Powermac running Yellowdog Linux, kernel

Re: LyX 1.3.2 crashes upon startup

2003-06-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Albrecht Dreß wrote: > I upgraded from lyx 1.2.2 (which works like a dream) to 1.3.2, but the > newly compiled version crashes every time upon startup (see gdb bt below). > my system is a Powermac running Yellowdog Linux, kernel 2.4.20, glibc > 2.2.5, gcc 2.95.4 and xforms release 1.0. Any idea wah

Re: LyX 1.3.2 crashes upon startup

2003-06-17 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:34:05PM +0200, Albrecht Dre? wrote: > I upgraded from lyx 1.2.2 (which works like a dream) to 1.3.2, but the > newly compiled version crashes every time upon startup (see gdb bt below). > my system is a Powermac running Yellowdog Linux, kernel 2.4.20, glibc > 2.2.5, g

LyX 1.3.2 crashes upon startup

2003-06-17 Thread Albrecht Dreß
Hi! Sorry if this is a known problem, but I'm new here... I upgraded from lyx 1.2.2 (which works like a dream) to 1.3.2, but the newly compiled version crashes every time upon startup (see gdb bt below). my system is a Powermac running Yellowdog Linux, kernel 2.4.20, glibc 2.2.5, gcc 2.95.4 an

Re: Lighter Version

2003-06-17 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Preben Randhol wrote: > Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 16/06/2003 (10:54) : > > > > Never use KDE nor Gnome unless you have 64 MB or so memory. > > No unless you have 128 Mb preferably 256 Mb. At least if you look at the > latest versions. It is a matter of pati

Re: \displaysize???

2003-06-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:17:52AM -0700, Chris Carlen wrote: > Yes I see that \displaystyle makes the fractions large, but then they > overlap vertically with the other rows of the array. > > Any way to fix this? Play around with \arraystretch. Or re-think your design ;-) Andre' -- Those wh

How to edit LaTeX math in LyX?

2003-06-17 Thread Chris Carlen
I have tried going into math mode, then entering the following: \[ f: \left( \begin{split} y = &&\\ & f(x) +\\ && +g(x) \end{split} \right) \] \end{document} which actually shows what I want in LyX, but then gives LaTeX errors. It seems I will have little choice but to learn LaTeX mat

Re: \displaysize???

2003-06-17 Thread Chris Carlen
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:00:15AM -0700, Chris Carlen wrote: Hi: Is it possible to use this in LyX? You can use whatever macro you want... I want to make equations in an array appear in the same size font as the rest of my equations, not reduced. I have fractional exp

Re: Apendix numbering and bibliography formating

2003-06-17 Thread Wes Meltzer
With regard to the title-changing in your BibTeX: That depends on your bibliographic style. If you know the style you need to use well enough, there's a great package out there called 'Makebst': See http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/english/services/software/latex/localtex/localltx.html#makebst It allo

Re: external script and lyx

2003-06-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 06:00:58PM +0200, Charpentier Philippe wrote: > > Did you find out exactly why LyX crashes with vtex? > > No. I post a message on this on lyx-devel, with all the information I have. I guess you do not want to build a debug-enabled version and get a backtrace from gdb? And

Re: \displaysize???

2003-06-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:00:15AM -0700, Chris Carlen wrote: > Hi: > > Is it possible to use this in LyX? You can use whatever macro you want... > I want to make equations in an array appear in the same size font as the > rest of my equations, not reduced. I have fractional expressions in an

Re: external script and lyx

2003-06-17 Thread Charpentier Philippe
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:44:37 +0200 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Charpentier" == Charpentier Philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Charpentier> For example, the script would manage the compilation > Charpentier> process (diffrently than LyX do it) in such a way that

\displaysize???

2003-06-17 Thread Chris Carlen
Hi: Is it possible to use this in LyX? I want to make equations in an array appear in the same size font as the rest of my equations, not reduced. I have fractional expressions in an array, and they are in a smaller font when in the array. I tried to figure out how to enter \displaysize as ER

Re: external script and lyx

2003-06-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Charpentier" == Charpentier Philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charpentier> For example, the script would manage the compilation Charpentier> process (diffrently than LyX do it) in such a way that I Charpentier> would be able to use vtex without crashing lyx. Did you find out exactly wh

Re: external script and lyx

2003-06-17 Thread Charpentier Philippe
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:05:32 +0200 Charpentier Philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems that I am wrong.. the script is run on file.tex but probably after a cd > in TEMPDIR (my script needed the path to add [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the > begening of file.tex, but this is done by lyx in TEMPDIR

Lyx problem: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

2003-06-17 Thread guijun
Hello: I installed lyx-1.1.6fix4-133.i386.rpm and xforms-0.89-387.i386.rpm on my computer with SuSe8.2. When I run lyx files, everything went well except .ps image loading. Actually, it can load some .ps images but not totally; some .ps images can't be displayed (error message: Render Error). I al

Re: external script and lyx

2003-06-17 Thread Charpentier Philippe
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:46:31 +0200 Charpentier Philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:26:15 +0200 > Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:09:47PM +0200, Charpentier Philippe wrote: > > > I would like to know if it is possible to define a v

Re: how to? Curriculum Vitae

2003-06-17 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-06-17, 10:11 GMT, Marcus Beyer wrote: > I wonder why these classes are not part of MiKTeX. > Some bytes more should not matter on 500 MB ... Probably, because nobody bothered to persuade MiKTeX maintainers, that they should them to the distribution. :-) Matej -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger:

Re: how to? Curriculum Vitae

2003-06-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Marcus" == Marcus Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcus> That works. Thank you. Marcus> I wonder why these classes are not part of MiKTeX. Some bytes Marcus> more should not matter on 500 MB ... Because I have been too lazy to update this class to ctan (there is a name conflict with an

Re: external script and lyx

2003-06-17 Thread Charpentier Philippe
... >> For example, the script would manage the compilation process (diffrently >> than LyX do it) in such a way that I would be able to use vtex without >> crashing lyx. >LyX should not crash. Please send a backtrace so that we can ascertain what >is going wrong. > >Angus I posted a message on

RE: glossary of terms?

2003-06-17 Thread Remzi Seker
try http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/nomencl/nomencl.phtml If you need an example file let me know. Remzi -Original Message- From: Thomas CLive Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 4:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: glossary of terms? Is there p

Re: external script and lyx

2003-06-17 Thread Charpentier Philippe
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:26:15 +0200 Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:09:47PM +0200, Charpentier Philippe wrote: > > I would like to know if it is possible to define a viewer, a converter, > > a custom_export_command or something else such that, with one click on

Re: external script and lyx

2003-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Charpentier Philippe wrote: > > Hi, > I would like to know if it is possible to define a viewer, a converter, > a custom_export_command or something else such that, with one click on a > menu entry, the two following things are done when the file DIR/file.lyx > is open in LyX: > > 1) DIR/file.ly

Re: external script and lyx

2003-06-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:09:47PM +0200, Charpentier Philippe wrote: > I would like to know if it is possible to define a viewer, a converter, > a custom_export_command or something else such that, with one click on a > menu entry, the two following things are done when the file DIR/file.lyx > is

external script and lyx

2003-06-17 Thread Charpentier Philippe
Hi, I would like to know if it is possible to define a viewer, a converter, a custom_export_command or something else such that, with one click on a menu entry, the two following things are done when the file DIR/file.lyx is open in LyX: 1) DIR/file.lyx is exported in latex to DIR/file.tex 2) a b

Re: how to? Curriculum Vitae

2003-06-17 Thread Marcus Beyer
Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes> There is a class named cv.cls distributed (and supported) with LyX. Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes> You just have to move it from /share/lyx/tex/cv.cls to Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes> somewhere where latex will find it (as we say when we are too lazy to Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes> give the whole s

Re: Lighter Version

2003-06-17 Thread Preben Randhol
Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 16/06/2003 (10:54) : > > Never use KDE nor Gnome unless you have 64 MB or so memory. No unless you have 128 Mb preferably 256 Mb. At least if you look at the latest versions. -- «It's probably worth pointing out that C's pointer arithmetic is not

Re: Apendix numbering and bibliography formating

2003-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Marcin Bukat wrote: > 2.if I add bibliography with bibTeX all titles are formated to have > capitalic at the begining and rest lowercase. I tried tons of .bst > without luck. How can I just leave title 'as is' in database? You must wrap the letters you'd like left alone in {} braces. Eg "The {N}av

Apendix numbering and bibliography formating

2003-06-17 Thread Marcin Bukat
Hello! I have two small problems 1.if I do Layout->insert apendix new aded apendix is numbered 'A Apendix'. I would like to achive 'Apendix A'. How can I do that? 2.if I add bibliography with bibTeX all titles are formated to have capitalic at the begining and rest lowercase. I tried tons of .bs