Re: Alternatives to Lyx?, was: Re: parallel.sty

2003-09-15 Thread Larry Kollar
Michael Logies wrote: Is there anything else than Framemaker (for Windows), which is a real alternative to Lyx (for Windows) for writing long documents in science? And as I understood, Framemaker cannot work with long footnotes (Lyx can continue them on the next page). Raw LaTeX and groff can

Re: Feature request

2003-09-15 Thread Robert Thorsby
On 2003.09.16 08:31 Peter Harkins wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 07:51:48AM +1000, I wrote: > I think there should be a number of dictionaries: > [big snip] > One dictionary is not enough and shortly thereafter Peter Harkins replied: Your ideas are pretty interesting (and I can think of a few situa

Re: Footnote brakes PDF-File

2003-09-15 Thread Michael Logies
At 11:03 14.09.2003 +0200, Herbert Voß wrote: >1. do not replay to an existing message and change the header. Herbert, my Eudora does not show threads, but I understand. >2. send _minimal_ testfiles. A footnote has nothing to do with > counter settings, a.s.o Who am I to decide where the pro

No footnote possible in a caption of a float?

2003-09-15 Thread Michael Logies
Can someone confirm this? (The PDF-output is wrong with dvipdfm) Thanks M. -- http://www.logies.de/ (u. a. _die_ Mailingliste für die Dentalbranche) PGP-key (RSA/IDEA) kommt mit angeforderter Empfangsbestätigung (return receipt)

Re: Feature request

2003-09-15 Thread Peter Harkins
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 07:51:48AM +1000, Robert Thorsby wrote: > I think there should be a number of dictionaries: > [big snip] > One dictionary is not enough Your ideas are pretty interesting (and I can think of a few situations for myself where it'd be pretty handy). This isn't quite the place

ArabTeX and LyX: Who is responsible of this?

2003-09-15 Thread Munzir Taha
I announced before that Prof. Dr. Klaus Lagally has recoded some very central parts of ArabTeX to make it works well with LyX. I tested the software and it solved all of our previous problems announced here. Now, there is an issue here for which I need some information: I tried to set the line s

Re: Feature request

2003-09-15 Thread Robert Thorsby
I think there should be a number of dictionaries: 1. A Global Dictionary. This is the normal dictionary. 2. A Global Additive Dictionary. This contains words (and/or phrases) that do not appear in 1 but are acceptable -- examples include names and places. The "phrases" part is important -- here

Alternatives to Lyx?, was: Re: parallel.sty

2003-09-15 Thread Michael Logies
At 23:58 15.09.2003 +0300, robin wrote: Michael Chabon wrote: Thanks for all the help, I got it installed and working, but it's just too much of a pain. I will have to spend money for software, I fear. Well, LyX isn't for everyone - I happen to think it's the best thing since sliced bread, b

Re: parallel.sty

2003-09-15 Thread robin
Michael Chabon wrote: Thanks for all the help, I got it installed and working, but it's just too much of a pain. I will have to spend money for software, I fear. Well, LyX isn't for everyone - I happen to think it's the best thing since sliced bread, but if you want something more point-and-

Re: german language and latex start error

2003-09-15 Thread Gareth Jenkins
harmel wrote: Hello Lyx'er i have download and install the lyx-port for win 1.3.2 from Ruurd Rareitsma. now i have problems to change the language from englisch to german, i have edit the preferences file and reconfigure it, but the language wars always englisch. Do you mean the language of th

Re: automatic indents in Spanish

2003-09-15 Thread ahg
Many thanks... works perfectly. Greetings, Andrew On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 23:05, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: > Onsdag 10. september 2003 06:51, skreiv ahg: > > - I want to write documents in Spanish using Lyx. > > - I want to use Indent as the separation method, and I want Lyx and > > Latex to _automa

Re: parallel.sty

2003-09-15 Thread Michael Chabon
Thanks for all the help, I got it installed and working, but it's just too much of a pain. I will have to spend money for software, I fear. MC On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 09:12 AM, robin wrote: Michael Chabon wrote: Pardon my ignorance... I have found this, but how do I install it to use

Re: Missed words during spell-check

2003-09-15 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:50:20AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > A volunteer reviewer of my book draft found two words that were not caught > by the spell checker: "seawee" (should be "seaweed") and "methoes" (should > be "methods"). > > Is this an ispell/aspell issue under control of the LyX

prosper question

2003-09-15 Thread Raphael Clifford
Sorry if these are dumb questions but I am using Weiss's prosper layout and can't seem to get a couple of things on the title page. The first is the two dots of the "e" in my name (Raphael). It is ASCII 137 if that helps and would normally be done in latex as \"{e}. The second is that I need

Missed words during spell-check

2003-09-15 Thread Rich Shepard
A volunteer reviewer of my book draft found two words that were not caught by the spell checker: "seawee" (should be "seaweed") and "methoes" (should be "methods"). Is this an ispell/aspell issue under control of the LyX development team? If not, to whom to I write with this news? Now I wonder

Re: Feature request

2003-09-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:41:59AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > A quick&dirty approach would be a inset for 'well known misspellings' ;-) > > Should be a no-brainer... > > Andre', > > I don't think this is the same thing. Well-known misspellings

Re: Feature request

2003-09-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: > A quick&dirty approach would be a inset for 'well known misspellings' ;-) > Should be a no-brainer... Andre', I don't think this is the same thing. Well-known misspellings should be corrected. But, a correctly spelled name that probably won't appear

Re: Feature request

2003-09-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:27:30AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > A feature that would make using LyX even easier and quicker would be a > document-specific list of non-dictionary words that have been accepted by > the writer. > > In almost every document there are names of individuals or places

Feature request

2003-09-15 Thread Rich Shepard
A feature that would make using LyX even easier and quicker would be a document-specific list of non-dictionary words that have been accepted by the writer. In almost every document there are names of individuals or places that do not need to be added to the dictionary because they are unique

Re: Is there a limit to number of sub-sections?

2003-09-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:03:06AM -0700, Robert Orr wrote: > > .dvi is similarly corrupted. I can only see the > title page clearly. The second page has two pages > superimposed on it. The bulk of the document is not > visible. I just had a look, this seems to be some limitation imposed b

Re: Multiline Equations

2003-09-15 Thread Rajil Saraswat
On Monday 15 September 2003 14:01, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:27:44PM +0100, Rajil Saraswat wrote: > > Hi, > >I am having a problem using multiline equations. I need to add some > > left aligned text to the multiline equations like > >a=bx This is a > >c=d

Re: How change the width of several paragraphs?

2003-09-15 Thread Herbert Voß
Arnau Rebassa i Villalonga schrieb: there should be a page break, lyx moves all the paragraphs to another page inserting a lot of space before the begining of the minipage and the result looks horrible. http://www.perce.de/LaTeX/margins.pdf Herbert

Re: Is there a limit to number of sub-sections?

2003-09-15 Thread Robert Orr
.dvi is similarly corrupted. I can only see the title page clearly. The second page has two pages superimposed on it. The bulk of the document is not visible. --- Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:07:40AM -0700, Robert Orr > wrote: > > I have a docume

Re: Multiline Equations

2003-09-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:27:44PM +0100, Rajil Saraswat wrote: > Hi, >I am having a problem using multiline equations. I need to add some left > aligned text to the multiline equations like >a=bx This is a >c=dx+c This is b You coul everything put in an \array or use the

Re: Is there a limit to number of sub-sections?

2003-09-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:07:40AM -0700, Robert Orr wrote: > I have a document that is article class, has a title, > author, one section, and 279 subsections. > > If I export-> pdf, the pdf only shows the first two > pages of the document and only the first few sections > are shown in the .pdf.

Multiline Equations

2003-09-15 Thread Rajil Saraswat
Hi, I am having a problem using multiline equations. I need to add some left aligned text to the multiline equations like a=bx This is a c=dx+c This is b The equations are appearing fine but how do i correctly space the text after the equation? Secondly, what is the correc

Re: Is there a limit to number of sub-sections?

2003-09-15 Thread Thomas Templin
On Monday 15 September 2003 13:07, Robert Orr wrote: > I have a document that is article class, has a title, > author, one section, and 279 subsections. > > If I export-> pdf, the pdf only shows the first two > pages of the document and only the first few sections > are shown in the .pdf. > > What

Is there a limit to number of sub-sections?

2003-09-15 Thread Robert Orr
I have a document that is article class, has a title, author, one section, and 279 subsections. If I export-> pdf, the pdf only shows the first two pages of the document and only the first few sections are shown in the .pdf. What I have to do is export plain text and then the entire documen

Re: How change the width of several paragraphs?

2003-09-15 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Arnau Rebassa i Villalonga wrote: > I'm very newbie in lyx and I have a doubt about how to change the width > of some paragraphs. I have tried using a minipage and setting the width to > 85% of the text, this does the trick but if between two of those paragraphs > there should be a page break, lyx

How change the width of several paragraphs?

2003-09-15 Thread Arnau Rebassa i Villalonga
Hi all, I'm very newbie in lyx and I have a doubt about how to change the width of some paragraphs. I have tried using a minipage and setting the width to 85% of the text, this does the trick but if between two of those paragraphs there should be a page break, lyx moves all the paragraphs to

german language and latex start error

2003-09-15 Thread harmel
Hello Lyx'er i have download and install the lyx-port for win 1.3.2 from Ruurd Rareitsma. now i have problems to change the language from englisch to german, i have edit the preferences file and reconfigure it, but the language wars always englisch. When i would start dvi-preview, i become the

Q: A "definition" type?

2003-09-15 Thread gofreddo
Hi All, Things are going ok with my work, but throughout my thesis I have reason to write definitions of various terms and concepts I use. So far I have been using the "description" style, but it doesn't quite do what I want it to do - I want something like Definition 1: Concept1 Concept1