Re: LyX/Mac: AppleScript error when double clicking on a LyX file

2003-09-18 Thread Jean Gosset
Thanks to Angus Leeming and Ronald Florence for answering. To Ronald: Looks like the LyXServer pipe is properly configured by the LyX/Mac install. Did you not trash an old version of Start-LyX from a previous installation of LyX on Aqua before installing LyX/Mac? As a workaround for that possibi

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
At 00:00 19.09.2003 +0200, Herbert Voß wrote: pdflatex has _no_ bugs! Herbert, this big distance between caption and graphic in floats is a bug for me. How would you call it? An option? How to change this? And it is still the better way than dvipdfm. For example: you get no hyphenated links wi

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
At 18:29 18.09.2003 -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: And no, I do not like dvipdfm (I do not see any reason why to use it), Matej, it is preinstalled on my Qt-Windows-Version of Lyx. And so far nothing is working here but the preinstalled things... Regards Michael -- http://www.logies.de/ (u. a. _die

Re: How to rotateleft caption in a pdftex document?

2003-09-18 Thread Herbert Voß
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: How do I rotateleft the figure caption in a pdftex document. Please help. maybe this helps http://www.perce.de/LaTeX/hvfloat/ Herbert

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Herbert Voß
Matej Cepl schrieb: On 2003-09-18, 22:00 GMT, Herbert Voß wrote: pdflatex has _no_ bugs! And it is still the better way than dvipdfm. For example: you get no hyphenated links with dvipdfm This is really courageous statement -- unfortunately, I am afraid not very much correct. Contrary to the ori

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Angus Leeming wrote: > How are you generating the pdf file? Angus et al.: I solved the problem by avoiding it. I used ipe to recreate the problem figure originally drawn in xfig and saved in .eps format. Ipe uses .eps as its native format (or .pdf if you're producing a

How to rotateleft caption in a pdftex document?

2003-09-18 Thread rsamurti
Hello: How do I rotateleft the figure caption in a pdftex document. Please help. Thanks for your help. Anand

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-09-18, 22:00 GMT, Herbert Voß wrote: > pdflatex has _no_ bugs! And it is still the better > way than dvipdfm. For example: you get no hyphenated > links with dvipdfm This is really courageous statement -- unfortunately, I am afraid not very much correct. Contrary to the original TeX it is

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-09-18, 15:55 GMT, Bruce wrote: > One thing I have often thought LyX would be ideal for would be for > preparing court documents, or other legal documents for that matter, that > have a set structure and elements. I particularly think of this when I am Having been a lawyer in my past life (

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus Leeming wrote: >> Now I'm lost. Within the document I created a float figure. Within that, >> I >> used Insert > Graphic and entered the name of the .eps file. Should I have >> used the .fig file? > > Why not? One less thing to worry about keeping synched. > I see that 13x comes with con

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Herbert Voß
Michael Logies schrieb: At 13:41 18.09.2003 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > How are you generating the pdf file? From within LyX: View > Pdflatex. Rich, use LyX: View > dvipdfm instead. I think, it has less bugs. This should solve the problem of the too big distance between figure and capti

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Angus Leeming wrote: > >> These are pure line drawings, right? No latex text. > > Angus, > > Correct. > >> How are you generating the pdf file? > > From within LyX: View > Pdflatex. > >> If you are going the pdflatex->pdf route, then your conver

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Michael Logies wrote: > use LyX: View > dvipdfm instead. I think, it has less bugs. This should > solve the problem of the too big distance between figure and caption. > Acrobat will respect the bounding box of your EPS-File, but there are other > PDF-Viewer which will not.

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
At 20:49 18.09.2003 +, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Not sure how to handle this if you're using the native Win32 port of LyX, I solved it by installing the other software in simple pathes for a second time. Should be the fastest solution. Regards M. -- http://www.logies.de/ (u. a. _die_ Mailinglist

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
At 13:41 18.09.2003 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > How are you generating the pdf file? From within LyX: View > Pdflatex. Rich, use LyX: View > dvipdfm instead. I think, it has less bugs. This should solve the problem of the too big distance between figure and caption. Acrobat will respect th

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
"Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > (I sent this message last week, and though received no error message > it didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the > archive). Apologies if it is a duplicate.) > ___ > > > I get this message when try to

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Angus Leeming wrote: > These are pure line drawings, right? No latex text. Angus, Correct. > How are you generating the pdf file? From within LyX: View > Pdflatex. > If you are going the pdflatex->pdf route, then your converter route should be > xfig->pdf. No intermed

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > I think this is a problem with epstopdf. > > Try removing the "%%Orientation: " line from your eps file and try > again. This is a hack, but I don't know the rigt fix yet. Kayvan, There is no such line. Here's the prefix to the .eps file: %!PS-Ad

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Angus Leeming wrote: > Why not post a minimal sample document that displays the problem... Thanks, Angus. Attached -- in pdf because that's a fraction of the size of the ps file -- is the page with my problem figure on it. It displays in both acroread and xpdf -- with the f

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > I think this is a problem with epstopdf. > > Try removing the "%%Orientation: " line from your eps file and try > again. This is a hack, but I don't know the rigt fix yet. These are pure line drawings, right? No latex text. How are you generating the pdf file? If you

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
I think this is a problem with epstopdf. Try removing the "%%Orientation: " line from your eps file and try again. This is a hack, but I don't know the rigt fix yet. On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:54:39AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > I have a line drawing I did (in xfig) that is imported into a fig

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> However, when I view the compiled document (generally pdflatex in >> acroread) the figure is rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise. This puts the >> "x" axis vertically on the right, the "y" axis horizontally along the >> bottom

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Rich Shepard wrote: > However, when I view the compiled document (generally pdflatex in > acroread) the figure is rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise. This puts the > "x" axis vertically on the right, the "y" axis horizontally along the bottom > and everything else equally

Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
I have a line drawing I did (in xfig) that is imported into a figure float. When I look at the figure within LyX it appears properly -- horizontal orientation. However, when I view the compiled document (generally pdflatex in acroread) the figure is rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise. This p

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread Ronald Florence
You will need a LaTeX class and a LyX layout file, as others have suggested, but the built-iin support for BibTeX and the availability of Jurabib should make citations in court documents a pleasure. -- Ronald Florence www.18james.com

Re: LyX/Mac: AppleScript error when double clicking on a LyX file

2003-09-18 Thread Ronald Florence
Jean Gosset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I try to open a LyX file by double clicking on its icon in the > Finder or through a "Drag and drop" of its icon onto the "Start-LyX" > application, I get the AppleScript error: "You need to setup the > LyXServer pipe in LyX > Preferences > Paths.". I

Re: mwbk bullets

2003-09-18 Thread gordon
That did it :) Thanks alot! gordon On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 18:54, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > gordon wrote: > > I'm afraid that doesn't work. All bullets on all levels are dashes. > > it works as long as you do not want the "default" buttons. If you want them, > however, write in preamble: >

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 06:58:55PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote: > then tell me which LyX layout file is (nearly) a 1:1 translation of > an existing class file ... ;-) Well, in what sense ? It's not very important IMHO for the in-lyx display to look exactly like what latex does. Can you explain fu

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread Herbert Voss
John Levon schrieb: The priority is to find a class for LaTeX. Then it's relatively easy (probably) to write a lyx layout file that can use that LaTeX class. seems to be a joke, that this is easy if you want a _real_ LyX layout file ... It's a thousand times easier writing a lyx layout file than

Re: mwbk bullets

2003-09-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
gordon wrote: > I'm afraid that doesn't work. All bullets on all levels are dashes. it works as long as you do not want the "default" buttons. If you want them, however, write in preamble: \AtBeginDocument{ \renewcommand{\labelitemi}{\textbullet} \renewcommand\labelitemii{\normalfont\bfseries \t

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 06:31:46PM +0200, Herbert Vo? wrote: > >The priority is to find a class for LaTeX. Then it's relatively easy > >(probably) to write a lyx layout file that can use that LaTeX class. > > seems to be a joke, that this is easy if you want a > _real_ LyX layout file ... It's a

Re: mwbk bullets

2003-09-18 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Subject: Re: mwbk bullets >>From: gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:27:57 +0200 >> >>Hi >> >>I'm afraid that doesn't work. All bullets on all levels are dashes. >> >>On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 15:48, Rich Shepard wrote: >>> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, gordon wrot

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 05:15:14PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > o a very small number of functions don't have key bindings or menu > items by default > o it's useful for us hackers > > in 1.4.0cvs, it's hidden by default under the Qt frontend, precisely > because it's fairly useless. Who made tha

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread Herbert Voß
John Levon schrieb: The priority is to find a class for LaTeX. Then it's relatively easy (probably) to write a lyx layout file that can use that LaTeX class. seems to be a joke, that this is easy if you want a _real_ LyX layout file ... Herbert

Re: LyX/Mac: AppleScript error when double clicking on a LyX file

2003-09-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean Gosset wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed the LyX/Mac binary package on my PowerBook, from the > "http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html"; web page. Almost everything > works properly, except the following. > > When I try to open a LyX file by double clicking on its icon in the > Finder

Re: mwbk bullets

2003-09-18 Thread gordon
Hi I'm afraid that doesn't work. All bullets on all levels are dashes. On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 15:48, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, gordon wrote: > > > I'm using the book (mwbk) document type, but all bullets (itemize) > > appear as dashes. What would be the easiest way to prevent thi

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: > Not everything LyX provides is accessible via keybindings and menus. Apart > from that, some things are faster typed in in the minibuffer than typed in > some dialog. Andre', OK. I've not yet run into this situation. Thanks, Rich Dr. Richard B. Sh

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-18 Thread Bruce
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:54:46AM -0400, Bruce wrote: >> (I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it >> didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive). >> Apologies if it is a duplicate.) > > As I seem to remember having answered it probably made

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:06:13AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > Oh. Thanks. I read the Web page and understand it as far as it goes, but I > do not -- yet? -- see the advantages. For example, I do not see the > advantage of typing "LFUN_FILE_OPEN" in the minibuffer when a ctrl-o does > the same

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:06:13AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > > > This is the "minibuffer", more or less a power user tool. You can type in so > > called lfuns like "date-insert". Have a look here for a list: > > http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/D

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rich Shepard wrote: > Oh. Thanks. I read the Web page and understand it as far as it goes, but I > do not -- yet? -- see the advantages. For example, I do not see the > advantage of typing "LFUN_FILE_OPEN" in the minibuffer when a ctrl-o does > the same thing. you do not type "LFUN_FILE_OPEN" but

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:55:19AM -0400, Bruce wrote: > It seems that court documents are really a specialized enough type of > document that they would need their own document class. Moreover, > different jurisdictions may have wildly varying layout requirements > (though the basic elements will

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > This is the "minibuffer", more or less a power user tool. You can type in so > called lfuns like "date-insert". Have a look here for a list: > http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Devel/LFUNs Juergen, Oh. Thanks. I read the Web page and understand i

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:54:46AM -0400, Bruce wrote: > (I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it > didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive). > Apologies if it is a duplicate.) As I seem to remember having answered it probably made it throu

Tesis finished

2003-09-18 Thread Andres Becerra
Greetings, I want to thank all LyX developers and users for this tool and the useful activity of this list. A few days ago I finished my tesis written with LyX (100+ pages), and it was a deligth, because I've never had real problems with the software. - I was using Carsten Heinz latex package

Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread Bruce
(I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive). Apologies if it is a duplicate.) ___ I've had a look at LyX a couple of times over the past few years, and occasionally write an article or pape

"Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-18 Thread Bruce
(I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive). Apologies if it is a duplicate.) ___ I get this message when try to preview a file that (suprise) is in a directory that has spaces in its name.

LyX/Mac: AppleScript error when double clicking on a LyX file

2003-09-18 Thread Jean Gosset
Hello, I just installed the LyX/Mac binary package on my PowerBook, from the "http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html"; web page. Almost everything works properly, except the following. When I try to open a LyX file by double clicking on its icon in the Finder or through a "Drag and drop" of i

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Am Donnerstag, 18. September 2003 17:05 schrieb Rich Shepard: > Running 1.3.2 with the Qt UI I see a data entry widget at the bottom of > the main window. To the left of this area are two buttons, one with an up > arrow the other with a down arrow. Left of the buttons is a narrow vertical > bar tha

Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
Running 1.3.2 with the Qt UI I see a data entry widget at the bottom of the main window. To the left of this area are two buttons, one with an up arrow the other with a down arrow. Left of the buttons is a narrow vertical bar that closes the entire window line. I don't see anything in the docu

Re: mwbk bullets

2003-09-18 Thread Jeannette Meyer
Hi Gordon, On Thursday 18 September 2003 16:45, gordon wrote: > I'm using the book (mwbk) document type, but all bullets (itemize) > appear as dashes. What would be the easiest way to prevent this? Did you try to change this behavior in Layout-Document-Bullets, Set Bullets? Jeannette

Re: Once more: Bibtex

2003-09-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kai Johannes Keller wrote: > But I don't like the numbers ([1] in .dvi-output) for citing an entry of > the bibtex-catalogue, I'd rather like to have something like [OLO] in > the Text to take reference to a book written by Rainer Oloff. I know > that it's possible with the "normal" Bibliography-en

mwbk bullets

2003-09-18 Thread gordon
Hi I'm using the book (mwbk) document type, but all bullets (itemize) appear as dashes. What would be the easiest way to prevent this? Regards Gordon -- gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: new paragraph after lyx-code environment?

2003-09-18 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-09-17, 17:56 GMT, Daniel M. Bikel wrote: > Hi. It seems LyX (v1.3.2) will not let me start a new, indented paragraph > after text in the LyX-Code (lyxcode) environment. This can be done in the > LaTeX code simply by making sure that there is an empty line following the > ending {/lyxcode}

Re: Some footnotes only in draft?

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
At 11:08 18.09.2003 +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: What about \newcommand{\myNote}[1]{% [EMAIL PROTECTED] \footnote{#1}}% } Andre', no, that`s even worse. Regards M. -- http://www.logies.de/ (u. a. _die_ Mailingliste für die Dentalbranche) PGP-key (RSA/IDEA) kommt mit angeforderter Em

Re: Xfig question

2003-09-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > man xfig > man transfig > > But what I like in xfig (in addition to its powerful import and > export capabilities and the batch processing features) is the > object oriented interface (update settings/update objects) > and the adaptive help and particularly the dynam

Re: Some footnotes only in draft?

2003-09-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:56:26AM +0200, Michael Logies wrote: > At 09:59 18.09.2003 +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > >Even better: '\mynote{' in ERT, then 'normal text', then the '}' in ERT > >again. > > Andre', > > I like this, because it would be easy to use on more complex footnotes. But it

Re: Some footnotes only in draft?

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
At 09:59 18.09.2003 +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: >Even better: '\mynote{' in ERT, then 'normal text', then the '}' in ERT >again. Andre', I like this, because it would be easy to use on more complex footnotes. But it does not work. I don`t see the footnote, whether draft or not: %% LyX 1.3 crea

Re: Some footnotes only in draft?

2003-09-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:50:43AM +0200, Michael Logies wrote: > Hello, > > here is described how to use some footnotes only in draft: > http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/LaTeX/misc/misc.phtml#draft > > If you want to use this option for own commands like notes, than you can use this > optio

Some footnotes only in draft?

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
Hello, here is described how to use some footnotes only in draft: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/LaTeX/misc/misc.phtml#draft If you want to use this option for own commands like notes, than you can use this option and output some notes only when the draft option is set. The following examp

Re: Once more: Bibtex

2003-09-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:29:36AM +0200, Kai Johannes Keller wrote: > But I don't like the numbers ([1] in .dvi-output) for citing an entry of > the bibtex-catalogue, I'd rather like to have something like [OLO] in > the Text to take reference to a book written by Rainer Oloff. I know > that it's

Re: Xfig question

2003-09-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:42:10PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > While this is not explicitly LyX, I'm using Xfig to prepare illustrations > for my book which is being written with LyX. If anyone knows of a more > appropriate mail list, _please_ let me know. > > I'm brand new to Xfig and I'm tr