Re: prettyref latex errors - again

2003-06-18 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:47:48PM +0200, Alexandru Ioan Cabuz wrote: > > Could you please provide minimal (complete) .lyx document showing this > > behavior? Also the version of LyX, TeX distribution, and operating > > system would be helpful. > > RedHat 9 tetex and tetex-latex 1.0.7-66 > > Lyx

Re: Dialog box

2003-06-18 Thread Jeannette Meyer
On Thursday 19 June 2003 06:34, Jan Peters wrote: > Is there any dialog box where I can set the h, b or t parameter for > a float? And specify that it should/or not have a page by itsself? Try a right mouse click in the float box. Jeannette

Re: bold greek letters

2003-06-18 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thanks a lot Angus.. I'll try the shell script.. I do have a lot of those multiple instances that you mentioned.. will manually take care of them once and for all! Thanks for the help, nirmal On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:42:58 + Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, you can try the attac

Dialog box

2003-06-18 Thread Jan Peters
Is there any dialog box where I can set the h, b or t parameter for a float? And specify that it should/or not have a page by itsself? That would be very useful! Thanx, -Jan

docstrip and doc support?

2003-06-18 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, just an idea and item to the wishlist: I know that LyX allows to work on literate programming (with weave and tangle; although, I am not sure about the status of that in the latest versions of LyX). Would it be possible to create in LyX also ``literate programming'' of LaTeX macro packages

Re: others like lyx? Start a separate project

2003-06-18 Thread Ralph P. Boland
John O'Gorman wrote: The desire to have a GUI which allows you to create new classes or styles for LaTeX could well be the basis for a completely separate (but complementary) project. John O'Gorman Agreed However, really, two projects are needed; the first is as you described and co

Re: Vectorstyle

2003-06-18 Thread Jan Peters
so, finally the instant preview puts out equations --- but they are HUGE they hardly fit on my screen! Does anybody know how to fix that? I've never seen that. They shoul have the size of the surronding text. Indeed. The size is tunable. Play with this in your preferences file: \preview_scale_fact

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Owen Lucas
Robin wrote: BTW, I'm sure that if a benevolent millionaire were to pay a team of LyX developers to implement every feature request anyone has come up with here or on Bugzilla, someone would write in to complain about LyX being bloated and say there is a need for a lightweight front-end to La

Re: others like lyx? Start a separate project

2003-06-18 Thread John O'Gorman
Andre Poenitz wrote: > Indeed. You cannot hide _all_ of LaTeX behind a slick GUI. It's just too > powerful (and too messy...). > > Andre' I think LyX is superb in meeting its intended purpose. It literally does allow a user to produce beatiful LaTeX documents with no knowlege of LaTeX at all.

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread jrpeters
>The problem is that some clue-less newbies are not >willing to take a lookat archives of the conference to find >that exactly this kind of stuff >(recreating LyX into WYSIWYG junk like SWP for those who >want SWP, but are not >willing to bite a bullet and pay its >price) repeats periodically

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:58:52PM +1200, Thomas CLive Richards wrote: > > > 3.- Spellchecker. A "replace all" button would be nice. > > > > It would not, IMHO. I have rceived student essays on Plato where > > every instance of the philosopher's name was spelt "plateau", not to > > mention a pa

Re: Vectorstyle

2003-06-18 Thread jrpeters
>The size is tunable. Play with this in your preferences file: >\preview_scale_factor 0.9 > >Nonetheless, nobody has ever had a problem with this >before... Dear Angus, the default MAGNIFACTION has to be set to roughly 5550 instead of 1000 and it works. Can it be that it is a problem with the p

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Thomas CLive Richards
> > It would be nice, but I don't know if it should be a priority. If you're making a document wich needs a long glossary, it's pretty vital. In my document for ewxample i need to define all sorts of accronyms, PC, MPG, NPC, and a whole heap more. > > 3.- Spellchecker. A "replace all" button wou

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Thomas CLive Richards
> > The problem is that some clue-less newbies are not willing to take a > look at archives of the conference to find that exactly this kind of > stuff (recreating LyX into WYSIWYG junk like SWP for those who want > SWP, but are not willing to bite a bullet and pay its price) repeats > periodicall

Re: some problems migrating from 1.1.6 to 1.3.2

2003-06-18 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-06-18, 23:17 GMT, Pedro Tejedor wrote: > - As I use some of the features of the spanish package, I had to load > babel by hand at the begining of the document, with the option > spanish. Is there a proper solution to this (or should I say a lyx > solution)? Anyway, is something I can l

Re: some problems migrating from 1.1.6 to 1.3.2

2003-06-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:17:02AM +0200, Pedro Tejedor wrote: > - As I use some of the features of the spanish package, I had to load > babel by hand at the begining of the document, with the option spanish. > Is there a proper solution to this (or should I say a lyx solution)? > Anyway, is so

some problems migrating from 1.1.6 to 1.3.2

2003-06-18 Thread Pedro Tejedor
Hello, lyx-users, I have recently finished my Ph. D. , written entirely in LyX (v. 1.1.6). 260 pages, lots of figures, formulae, cross references, not a problem. Thank you to everybody, expecially lyx developers! The first thing I have tried after was loading it to a 1.3.2 version, And I run i

Re: prosper and lyx 1.3.2

2003-06-18 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Jose' Matos wrote: > On Wednesday 18 June 2003 17:34, Raphael Clifford wrote: > > PS: I intend to add prosper to the list of supported classes, nothing fancy > but at least a working class, and with examples. > > Christian may I use your work as a base for this? Of cours

Re[2]: Lighter Version

2003-06-18 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Paco Cruz wrote: > Bruce Sass, > Con fecha martes, 17 de junio de 2003, 19:55:03, escribió: > > BS> It is a matter of patience and bells and whistles. I have KDE 3.1.2 > BS> on a 486-66MHz, once you get passed the startup times and the few > BS> seconds it takes to redraw a s

Re: prettyref latex errors - again

2003-06-18 Thread Alexandru Ioan Cabuz
> Could you please provide minimal (complete) .lyx document showing this > behavior? Also the version of LyX, TeX distribution, and operating > system would be helpful. RedHat 9 tetex and tetex-latex 1.0.7-66 Lyx 1.3.2. File is attached. It gives the same error as in my document. However if I do

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Robin
Thomas CLive Richards wrote: Like what? ok, I'll make a list of all the things I've found myself wanting. To start off with, I'll say this: I've been using Lyx to compile a 20,000+ word design document for an electronic game. It's been pretty cool, but the large document size has (i believe) stres

Re: Cannot print "Benutzerhandbuch"

2003-06-18 Thread Michael-E. Voges
Am Mittwoch, 18. Juni 2003 21:51 schrieb Gerhard Lindel: >... > Dear Jürgen, > Thank you for helping me!! > I am sorry, but the next trial ended with: > Package varioref Error: \vref at page boundary 43-45 (may loop). > Abschnitt \vref{sec:crossref} >).Einen Verweis fü

Re: bold greek letters

2003-06-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Nirmal Govind wrote: > > Thanks a lot Angus.. I see now..:-) > > I can use this from now on but is there any good way of converting all > the bold greeks (by bold greeks I mean those entered with a C-b and then > the greek letter) that I currently have in my document to these macros > without ed

Re: Cannot print "Bentzerhandbuch"

2003-06-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Gerhard Lindel wrote: > Package varioref Error: \vref at page boundary 43-45 (may loop). > Abschnitt \vref{sec:crossref} >).Einen Verweis fügen sie wie gewohnt > Please check the page in question. You might need to peplace the \vref > or \vpageref by a normal \(page)ref

Re: How to edit LaTeX math in LyX?

2003-06-18 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:18:09PM -0700, Chris Carlen wrote: > I have noticed that I cannot use X to cut and paste the text from the > Latex logfile. That is unfortunate. MAybe I should post something > about that one day. Hmm, yes. Andre, why won't mathed take middle mouse button pastes ?

Re: How to edit LaTeX math in LyX?

2003-06-18 Thread Chris Carlen
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:50:09AM -0700, Chris Carlen wrote: Ok, if I use amsmath support, it still complains "cannot use split here." "Did you forget \begin{equation} ?" Basically, the above code works as ERT, but not if it is pasted into a math mode environment. Oh, th

Re: Cannot print "Bentzerhandbuch"

2003-06-18 Thread Gerhard Lindel
Am Mittwoch, 18. Juni 2003 15:02 schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller: > Gerhard Lindel wrote: > > Hi all, > > I wanted to print Benutzerhandbuch (user-manual). : > > LaTeX Error: File "pretty.ref.sty" not found. > > > > I use SuSE 8.2 and Lyx 1.3.2, the documment-class is book. > > Yes, it seems like pret

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:21:07AM -0700, James Frye wrote: > Can I add a feature request in the other direction? Either a setting to > eliminate toolbars altogether You can eliminate the toolbar altogether in the Qt frontend I believe. It's definitely poossible with current CVS. Just edit the

Re: copy-and-paste and preserve Lyx attributes

2003-06-18 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:14:40AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > Is there a way to select Lyx content (such as several lines of bullet > lists and subsections) and copy to a buffer and then paste while > preserving those attributes? control-c control-v > I am using LyX Version 1.1.6fix5 (instal

Re: prosper and lyx 1.3.2

2003-06-18 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 17:34, Raphael Clifford wrote: > I am trying to ger prosper to work with lyx 1.3.2 and have no end of > trouble. > > 1) The installation itself doesn't seem to come with working > instructions. At least none that I could see. I downloaded the > cluster.tar.gz and after mu

Re: prosper and lyx 1.3.2

2003-06-18 Thread Raphael Clifford
Thank you very much! I did the PPRenglish.sty -> PPRdefault.sty symlink and most of the errors disappeared :) Funny that google has 0 occurrences of PPRenglish.sty! When I create a file with only a title in it as before I only get this error now. 1) Undefined control sequence. \title{hello}\

Re: prosper and lyx 1.3.2

2003-06-18 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Raphael Clifford wrote: > I am trying to ger prosper to work with lyx 1.3.2 and have no end of > trouble. > This might help you: http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/examples/prosper/readme.shtml I put together some examples while getting it to work for me (which it even

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread James Frye
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Jan Peters wrote: > If I make a list of features I really need, would you guys > really implement them? I would start with two things: > > a) The Menus in Lyx are very good --- however, the usage > of the math-panels is not nice. I would like to see that > integrated as toolb

copy-and-paste and preserve Lyx attributes

2003-06-18 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Is there a way to select Lyx content (such as several lines of bullet lists and subsections) and copy to a buffer and then paste while preserving those attributes? Right now, when I copy Itemize lists and paste, then I have to select all of it, change to "Itemize" and then manually remove all the

Re: bold greek letters

2003-06-18 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thanks a lot Angus.. I see now..:-) I can use this from now on but is there any good way of converting all the bold greeks (by bold greeks I mean those entered with a C-b and then the greek letter) that I currently have in my document to these macros without editing all of them? There are just t

Re: bold greek letters

2003-06-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Nirmal Govind wrote: >> I am sure Angus meant you should put the \begin_inset stuff >> directly in your .lyx file > > Aah.. OK, did that.. now both the solutions compile fine but I still > don't see a difference in the greek letters that should be in bold.. > am I missing something? > > Thanks,

prosper and lyx update

2003-06-18 Thread Raphael Clifford
I attach below the lyx document that fails and the errors that I receive when performaing view->dvi. If I had to guess I would say my installation is somehow broken. I am using redhat 7.3 1) LaTeX Error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on input line 36 ended by [EMAIL PROTECTED] \title{test}\maketitle

Re: Re[2]: Lighter Version

2003-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:28:55AM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > ... -- try to take a look at Small-Memory mini HOWTO (should be > part of every Linux distribution). *grin* ... except for the really small ones. Like hal91 or so ;-} Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain S

Re: Re[2]: Lighter Version

2003-06-18 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-06-18, 07:13 GMT, Paco Cruz wrote: > BS> It is a matter of patience and bells and whistles. I have KDE 3.1.2 > BS> on a 486-66MHz, once you get passed the startup times and the few > BS> seconds it takes to redraw a screen it is just fine... > > I am trying to convert a handful of this

Re: bold greek letters

2003-06-18 Thread Nirmal Govind
> I am sure Angus meant you should put the \begin_inset stuff directly > in your .lyx file Aah.. OK, did that.. now both the solutions compile fine but I still don't see a difference in the greek letters that should be in bold.. am I missing something? Thanks, nirmal

prosper and lyx 1.3.2

2003-06-18 Thread Raphael Clifford
I am trying to ger prosper to work with lyx 1.3.2 and have no end of trouble. 1) The installation itself doesn't seem to come with working instructions. At least none that I could see. I downloaded the cluster.tar.gz and after much struggling got it installed. However... 2) The example file c

Re: prettyref latex errors - again

2003-06-18 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-06-18, 13:39 GMT, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > I keep getting these pesky latex errors whenever I try using prettyref. Could you please provide minimal (complete) .lyx document showing this behavior? Also the version of LyX, TeX distribution, and operating system would be helpful. Best,

Re: prettyref latex errors - again

2003-06-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > Here is the offending part of the lyx file, if it helps. Can you please send a complete, but minimal lyx file that demonstrates the error? Juergen.

Re: bold greek letters

2003-06-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Nirmal Govind wrote: > The second solution doesn't compile. I get the following errors: Try the example attached. -- Angus#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \textclass article \language english \inputencoding auto \fontscheme default \graphics default

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-06-18, 10:09 GMT, Thomas CLive Richards wrote: > I know that, but unless someone tells developers that there are at > least a few users out there who want this, it'll never get coded in The problem is that some clue-less newbies are not willing to take a look at archives of the confere

debug lyx 1.4cvs

2003-06-18 Thread Alexei Matveev
Hello, How one can do it? gdb cannot cope with threads, as it seems. At least I was not able to find out how. What is the proper way to build the executable for dubugging purposes? I am using 1.3.2 rpm specs for SuSE. Alexei

Re: changing section numbering

2003-06-18 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-06-18, 09:26 GMT, Jihčne Krichčne wrote: > I'm writing a document (article type). I would like to change the > starting number of section numbering. Is it possible to do so ? If > yes, please tell me how. Read latex info file/hlp file in your LaTeX distribution. I would try \setcount

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Note that OSX _is_ unix, whereas windows is not. You should be careful with such staements these days ;-) http://www.macnn.com/news/19728 > It should be rather > easy. Good to hear. Juergen

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
> Do you have any proof for that claim? Allright, I take that back. I guess I am kinda still stuck in the Word Processing mode/mentality and occasionally become annoyed I can't do this one "simple" thing. And this Latex and Tex and document classes and bibtex styles and whatnot, are more compl

Re: bold greek letters

2003-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:51:26AM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Thanks for the solutions Angus.. I'm not sure if I'm implementing them > correctly since the first method (using the preamble and main body) > compiles fine but doesn't give me bold greeks and instead gives me the > following at the p

Re: bold greek letters

2003-06-18 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thanks for the solutions Angus.. I'm not sure if I'm implementing them correctly since the first method (using the preamble and main body) compiles fine but doesn't give me bold greeks and instead gives me the following at the point where I put the begin_inset commands in ERT: _inset FormulaMacro

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Thomas Templin
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 11:39, Thomas CLive Richards wrote: > 4.- Table sorting. I've brought this up here before, but I may > as well do it again. I feel that this feature is vital. I have > (in my document) tables with 300+ rows, and i have to be able to > sort them. AT the moment I'm copying t

Re: How to edit LaTeX math in LyX?

2003-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:50:09AM -0700, Chris Carlen wrote: > Ok, if I use amsmath support, it still complains "cannot use split > here." "Did you forget \begin{equation} ?" > > Basically, the above code works as ERT, but not if it is pasted into a > math mode environment. Oh, the \end{docum

Re: How to edit LaTeX math in LyX?

2003-06-18 Thread Chris Carlen
Andre Poenitz wrote: 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 LyX, but th

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Juergen" == Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juergen> Jan Peters wrote: >> I will definitly try myself, but I do not know whether I am good >> enough a Mac/QT programmer for that and whether I will have enough >> time! But it would be cool if there were a few more people >>

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:10:35PM +0200, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > > Sure. So please go searching. > > I think the basic misunderstanding here is the fact that the lyx docs > and the developers have been trying to plug Lyx to a larger audience than > it's really suitable for. Do you have any proo

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
> Sure. So please go searching. I think the basic misunderstanding here is the fact that the lyx docs and the developers have been trying to plug Lyx to a larger audience than it's really suitable for. Lyx is a perfect tool, but not for all the people it's creators claim it to be perfect for.

Re: Vectorstyle

2003-06-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:29:42PM +0900, Jan Peters wrote: >> so, finally the instant preview puts out equations --- but they are >> HUGE they >> hardly fit on my screen! >> >> Does anybody know how to fix that? > > I've never seen that. They shoul have the size of the su

Re: math mode symbol mixing

2003-06-18 Thread Jan Menzel
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:33:43PM +0200, Jan Menzel wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:26:01PM +0200, Jan Menzel wrote: > > > > I created "~/.lyx/fonts/fonts.dir" (btw: ~/.lyx/fonts did not exist) and

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:52:33AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > The moral? If you want something badly enough, then code it up or pay > someone to do it for you. And at least one of us is still available for hire ;) john

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jan" == Jan Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> b) Using the new GPL QT/Mac announced today: a Mac Native version! >> If there is anyone who is interested in doing that port. Jan> I will definitly try myself, but I do not know whether I am good Jan> enough a Mac/QT programmer for that

Re: math mode symbol mixing

2003-06-18 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:33:43PM +0200, Jan Menzel wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:26:01PM +0200, Jan Menzel wrote: > > > I created "~/.lyx/fonts/fonts.dir" (btw: ~/.lyx/fonts did not exist) and > > > > Sure that it is not called ~/.lyx/xfonts

prettyref latex errors - again

2003-06-18 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
I keep getting these pesky latex errors whenever I try using prettyref. It says. Paragraph ended before [EMAIL PROTECTED] was complete. I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this control sequence to too much text. How can we recover? My plan is to forget the whole thing an

Re: math mode symbol mixing

2003-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:33:43PM +0200, Jan Menzel wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:26:01PM +0200, Jan Menzel wrote: > > > I created "~/.lyx/fonts/fonts.dir" (btw: ~/.lyx/fonts did not exist) and > > > > Sure that it is not called ~/.lyx/xfonts

Re: math mode symbol mixing

2003-06-18 Thread Jan Menzel
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:26:01PM +0200, Jan Menzel wrote: > > I created "~/.lyx/fonts/fonts.dir" (btw: ~/.lyx/fonts did not exist) and > > Sure that it is not called ~/.lyx/xfonts/... ? > The suggestion was ".../fonts/...". ".../xfonts/..." exists and

Re: math mode symbol mixing

2003-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:26:01PM +0200, Jan Menzel wrote: > I created "~/.lyx/fonts/fonts.dir" (btw: ~/.lyx/fonts did not exist) and Sure that it is not called ~/.lyx/xfonts/... ? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, eit

Re: math mode symbol mixing

2003-06-18 Thread Jan Menzel
Hi Dekel! On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 05:51:36PM +0200, Jan Menzel wrote: > > Hi all! > > After upgrading from v1.2.x to v1.3.2 a lot of symbols are mixed > > up in math mode: > > \rho is displayed as per mil > > \epsilon as cross > > \times as pound > > \

Re: Cannot print "Bentzerhandbuch"

2003-06-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Gerhard Lindel wrote: > Hi all, > I wanted to print Benutzerhandbuch (user-manual). : > LaTeX Error: File "pretty.ref.sty" not found. > I use SuSE 8.2 and Lyx 1.3.2, the documment-class is book. Yes, it seems like prettyref has been excluded from teTeX 2 (some packages have been excluded due to

Cannot print "Bentzerhandbuch"

2003-06-18 Thread Gerhard Lindel
Hi all, I wanted to print Benutzerhandbuch (user-manual). : LaTeX Error: File "pretty.ref.sty" not found. /usepackage {amsmath=^^M ***(cannot-\read from terminal in nonstop modes) I use SuSE 8.2 and Lyx 1.3.2, the documment-class is book. Where do I find this package exactly and how

Re: external script and lyx

2003-06-18 Thread Charpentier Philippe
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 10:45:21 +0200 Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Start 'gdb lyx' in the build dir, do whatever causes the crash, and post > the output of 'bt full' here. > I finally did it. Here is attached the 'bt full' output. Ph. C. bt_full-output Description: Binary data

Re: Vectorstyle

2003-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:29:42PM +0900, Jan Peters wrote: > so, finally the instant preview puts out equations --- but they are > HUGE they > hardly fit on my screen! > > Does anybody know how to fix that? I've never seen that. They shoul have the size of the surronding text. Andre' -- Thos

Re: Vectorstyle

2003-06-18 Thread Jan Peters
so, finally the instant preview puts out equations --- but they are HUGE they hardly fit on my screen! Does anybody know how to fix that? -Jan On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 09:18 PM, Angus Leeming wrote: On Wednesday 18 June 2003 10:54 am, Jan Peters wrote: [snippet of LaTeX log file] LaTe

Re: Toolbars

2003-06-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jan" == Jan Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jan> Hearing this announcement below, I was wondering: Will we see a Jan> Mac OS X native version of LyX soon? If yes, how soon? First we need to get Qt/Mac free edition. It is now only a declaration of intent from trolltech. The we need buil

Re: How to edit LaTeX math in LyX?

2003-06-18 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:17:52PM -0700, Chris Carlen wrote: > >Clues as to what is going on would be appreciated. > > > >Finally, can \usepackage{amsmath} be used in LyX? > > > Yes, by putting it in the preamble. You should use the "Use AMS math" button in the document dialog instead.

Re: Vectorstyle

2003-06-18 Thread Angus Leeming
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 10:54 am, Jan Peters wrote: [snippet of LaTeX log file] > LaTeX Font Info:External font `cmex10' loaded for size > (Font) <7> on input line 34. > LaTeX Font Info:External font `cmex10' loaded for size > (Font) <5> on input line 34. > [1]

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Luis Seidel Gómez de Quero
El Miércoles, 18 de Junio de 2003 12:58, Thomas CLive Richards escribió: > > hmm, no i get erros in my document then, this is the message: > > "destination with the same identifier: > (name{page.1})ha > \part > {Preamble:} [1" > > not a VERY useful error message ;) Be sure to have uniquely defined

Re: Lighter Version

2003-06-18 Thread Preben Randhol
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 18/06/2003 (11:22) : > > Well, it isn't. Believe me. LaTeX runs on a 512k DOS machine. LyX certainly > does not. Comparing apples and oranges here I'd say. -- «It's probably worth pointing out that C's pointer arithmetic is not only dangerous, and a

Re: preview-latex

2003-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 07:51:47PM +0900, Jan Peters wrote: > >grep -E 'Preview: [ST]' 5lyxpreview.log > > and that produced no output. But the logfile is fine, it is below. > Do you know what it expects behind for ST ??? Not really. I attach you a preview.sty that worked for e at one point of t

Re: preview-latex

2003-06-18 Thread Jan Peters
Wait for Angus to have a look... You could try to run latex on 5lyxpreview.tex (what does it look like?) and have a look at 5lyxpreview.log (what does it look like). What happens? Already did. Works perfectly, produces a dvi and has no errors. I did the grep -E 'Preview: [ST]' 5lyxpreview.log a

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Luis Seidel Gómez de Quero
El Miércoles, 18 de Junio de 2003 11:39, Thomas CLive Richards escribió: > Things *I* would like to see: > > > 2.- Not really sure about this one, but isn't it possible to do > hyperlinks in PDF? why not have it so that lyx creates these hyperlinks > when exporting documents to either HTML or PDF?

Re: preview-latex

2003-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 07:33:51PM +0900, Jan Peters wrote: > I tried the instant preview feature and I get these results although I > have tried the newes version of preview-latex as well as the old > version. This seems to be a bug in lyx! How can I fix it? > > This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2

Re: Vectorstyle

2003-06-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Jan Peters wrote: > One last thing: even having the .sty file, lyx > reports > > Failed: grep -E 'Preview: [ST]' 4lyxpreview.log > > although the thing has compiled fine and I am > using the newest preview-latex version! Shrug. I haven't kept up with this for a while. perhaps the log messages

preview-latex

2003-06-18 Thread Jan Peters
I tried the instant preview feature and I get these results although I have tried the newes version of preview-latex as well as the old version. This seems to be a bug in lyx! How can I fix it? This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) (./5lyxpreview.tex LaTeX2e <2001/06/01> Babel and hyphenat

Re: Vectorstyle

2003-06-18 Thread Jan Peters
One last thing: even having the .sty file, lyx reports Failed: grep -E 'Preview: [ST]' 4lyxpreview.log although the thing has compiled fine and I am using the newest preview-latex version! -Jan

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:09:32PM +1200, Thomas CLive Richards wrote: > > That is exactly why LyX was designed to allow the user to input the > > raw LaTeX. People like Herbert, who know LaTeX inside out, have > > provided a collection of magic so that the final output is > > indistiguishable to t

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Thomas CLive Richards
> > > > 1.- An integration of most of the "tips and tricks" listed on the > > website. Since someone has gone to the trouble of listing them,. > > they must be being used. therefore, why not include them in the lyx > > program, > > You seem to have a fundamental misconception of how Open Source >

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:39:23PM +1200, Thomas CLive Richards wrote: > 6.- Also, I have never been able to get the QT frontend to compile with > lyx. I'm using the very latest QT libraries, and update my system > regurally, but still i run into errors. Most of the time it's "can't > find QT libra

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Thomas CLive Richards wrote: >> >> Like what? >> > ok, I'll make a list of all the things I've found myself wanting. To > start off with, I'll say this: > > I've been using Lyx to compile a 20,000+ word design document for an > electronic game. It's been pretty cool, but the large document size

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Thomas CLive Richards
> > Like what? > ok, I'll make a list of all the things I've found myself wanting. To start off with, I'll say this: I've been using Lyx to compile a 20,000+ word design document for an electronic game. It's been pretty cool, but the large document size has (i believe) stressed some of the compo

changing section numbering

2003-06-18 Thread Jihène Krichène
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Re: Vectorstyle

2003-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:03:16PM +0900, Jan Peters wrote: > >Soso. What font do you suggest for parantheses of arbitrary size? > > Hm, some truetype font? How does latex do that? It creates e.g. large parantheses from lots of smaller parts. There is no single '100 pt high left brace' glyph. >

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:59:24PM +1200, Thomas CLive Richards wrote: > > > > BTW feature requests are always welcome. > > > > where's the website for feature requests? or should i submit them to > this list? bugzilla.lyx.org is the palce to go when you want to be sure your request is not lost

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:02:15PM +1200, Thomas CLive Richards wrote: > > > > Next time I get a free meal I'll tell the people: 'Hey, the idea of > > eating is cool. But your stuff tastes like shit. Can you tell me where > > I can find something better?' > > > > I didn't meant o cause offense i

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Thomas CLive Richards wrote: > where's the website for feature requests? or should i submit them to > this list? You can submit them to http://bugzilla.lyx.org (if they are not yet listed there) or to the users or developers list (where they will probably get more/sooner attention). Juergen.

Re: Vectorstyle

2003-06-18 Thread Jan Peters
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 math macro \v with one arg, defined as \vec{#1}. In the second blue box write \mathbf{#1}. This second box is for

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Thomas CLive Richards
> > BTW feature requests are always welcome. > where's the website for feature requests? or should i submit them to this list? -- Thomi Richards, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-18 Thread Thomas CLive Richards
> > Next time I get a free meal I'll tell the people: 'Hey, the idea of > eating is cool. But your stuff tastes like shit. Can you tell me where > I can find something better?' > I didn't meant o cause offense in any way, but LuX simply doesn't meet my needs and, IMHO lacks some very vital featu

Re: lyx 1.3 vs 1.16

2003-06-18 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
by way of Roberto Bernetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > 1. when in math mode and I type a tex sequence in 1.16 it is > automatically, after a typed space, rendered as its graphic meaning. This > in 1.3 doesn't work the text changes only color to red Install ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/

Re: external script and lyx

2003-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:39:19AM +0200, Charpentier Philippe wrote: > I can do that (but it takes times...), and then what gdb option I have to use? None. Start 'gdb lyx' in the build dir, do whatever causes the crash, and post the output of 'bt full' here. Andre' -- Those who desire to giv

Re: lyx 1.3 vs 1.16

2003-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:35:36PM +0200, Roberto Bernetti wrote: > Hi > I upgrade my SuSE linux 8.0 to 8.2. One of the most used packet on my desktop > is lyx. SuSE 8.2 is shipped with lyx 1.3 and 8.0 with 1.16fix. > I noted two great differeces that leave me unhappy: > > 1. when in math mode and

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