Re: size of a table in a float

2003-09-13 Thread Herbert Voß
Nirmal Govind schrieb: Hi.. I'm trying to change the size of a table within a float to footnotesize. I tried putting \footnotesize as ERT before the table float but that doesn't have any effect. Is there a way by which I can change the size of a table that's in a float? as first line _inside_ the f

Re: Centering a figure in a float

2003-09-13 Thread Owen Lucas
Thanks Ive noticed that in the past but didn't really pay much attention to it. Herbert Voß wrote: this is the wrong way, because you'll get some more vertical space between image and caption which does not look fine. This space comes from the environment center. Use instead as first line in the

size of a table in a float

2003-09-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. I'm trying to change the size of a table within a float to footnotesize. I tried putting \footnotesize as ERT before the table float but that doesn't have any effect. Is there a way by which I can change the size of a table that's in a float? Thanks, nirmal

converting groff man pages for use in lyx documents

2003-09-13 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Can anyone share some advice or suggestions for converting man pages (in groff -mandoc format) so they can be imported into lyx documents as regular lyx content? (I mean regular lyx, so I can place footnotes, labels, cross references by different words.) I converted to html by using groff -mandoc

Re: cropping postscript?

2003-09-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Matej Cepl wrote: > The most simple way is to install a vector drawing program. If you are > on Linux, then Sketch is what I use and I am very happy with that (yes, > it can import and export EPS via pstoedit). Matej, Allow me to offer another tool for the same end: xfig.

Re: cropping postscript?

2003-09-13 Thread Michael Logies
At 17:59 10.09.2003 +0300, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: Is there a way to crop arbitrary subrectangle from a postscript file, from arbitrary position? You can use Ghostview for converting PS to EPS. Then you will be asked about the bounding box which can be placed graphically. Then open your new eps-fi

Re: cropping postscript?

2003-09-13 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-09-10, 14:59 GMT, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > I tried using psutils (pstops) but couldn't achieve that... I also tried > editing "BoundingBox" in the Postscript file by hand (is it that which > tells the printer what page size to use?). This way I was able to crop the > right half of the page

Re: image conversion tools

2003-09-13 Thread jorgen johansson
(I send this to developers news group as well since they may know more about my question below). I don't know about the lyx source code but maybe there is a possibility to directly tell LyX to use the shared libraries in its own installation path in win XP/2000/9X instead of using the ones inst