LyX DVI troubles

2003-09-20 Thread Kent Kostuk
I am returning to LyX from a one year hiatus, so pardon me if this is a stupid question. I am in the process of writing a paper in LyX via Knoppix. Everything works well, but I would like to continue on using a desktop PC using a Debian variant (Libranet). Both machines appear to be running L

Re: problem with math display

2003-09-20 Thread Nirmal Govind
I ran into the same problem again after recompiling lyx 1.3.2 with a different Qt (the standard one with Debian unstable).. Just wanted to confirm that I applied this patch and recompiled and the math symbols show up fine now with the old qtrc. nirmal Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at

Re: Pagination in book class

2003-09-20 Thread robin
Rich Shepard wrote: [snip] If the book (or memoir) class had a style "Copyright" as does the Koma-Script book format, I would not be asking all these questions. Unfortunately, use of the latter class produces its own unintended consequences for me writing in the U.S. If I was really clever and k

Re: Pagination in book class

2003-09-20 Thread Ronald Florence
Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If the book (or memoir) class had a style "Copyright" as does the > Koma-Script book format, I would not be asking all these questions. [...] > Would you like to help me add this feature to the book class? I'm always > happy to learn more. Sounds lik

Re: Pagination in book class

2003-09-20 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rich Shepard wrote: > However, with no format codes in the book (and memoir) class I get the > copyright page information either on the bottom of the title page or on the > top of the ToC page. As neither is appropriate I'm trying to learn how to > set that page apart, but retain the proper paginat

Re: Pagination in book class

2003-09-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Ronald Florence wrote: > Try the \frontmatter, \mainmatter, and \endmatter ERT insertions to > get lowercase roman and arabic page numbering where you want them. Ronald, I have tried the above with no success. Perhaps not in the correct places in my text. > If you manuall

Re: Pagination in book class

2003-09-20 Thread Ronald Florence
Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > \pagestyle{empty} > \clearpage > %% Contents of copyright page > \clearpage > \pagenumbering{roman} > \setcounter{page}{1} > %% Table of Contents -- done by LyX > Preface %% Un-numbered chapter > %% preface contents > \pagenumbering{arabic} > Introduction

Re: button tools

2003-09-20 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 12:31:58PM -0400, William O. Bray wrote: > Dear list, I wonder if it is possible to add a tool button which will open the > delimiter and bracket dialog directly without going through the math panel. I I don't think this is possible in 1.3. However, you CAN add buttons f

Pagination in book class

2003-09-20 Thread Rich Shepard
I've gone back to the 'book' class from the 'memoir' class because I cannot clear a page number from the title page on the latter. Doesn't matter to me which class definition I use as long as I understand how to remove the little glitches. Which brings me to the reason for this message. Immedi

button tools

2003-09-20 Thread William O. Bray
Dear list, I wonder if it is possible to add a tool button which will open the delimiter and bracket dialog directly without going through the math panel. I find that I often use this as well as the insert matrix dialog and it would be convenient to reach these without going through the math pan

Re: One for the LaTeX masters

2003-09-20 Thread Herbert Voß
Herbert Voß schrieb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] \renewcommand{\include}[1]{% [EMAIL PROTECTED]@warnNotFound{#1}}% } this is not elegant, because you have a double check for the existence of the file, but it does what you want ... here is the whole example, which worked for me. Herbert \documentclas

Re: Features Request and PDF/Acrobat question

2003-09-20 Thread robin
Paul Jahshan wrote: 4. Finally, the PDF/Acrobat problem: I've read the help file on the poor quality of LyX to PDF output when displayed through Acrobat Reader and, despite my best attempts, couldn't understand how to fix this. Again, is there a "clear" 1-2-3 method to work around this rathe

Re: Once more: Bibtex

2003-09-20 Thread robin
Kai Johannes Keller wrote: Hello List, the many postings and questions about bibtex in the last time made me curious. So now I started to learn what it is, and I'm building my own Bibtex-database. But I don't like the numbers ([1] in .dvi-output) for citing an entry of the bibtex-catalogue, I'd r

Re: One for the LaTeX masters

2003-09-20 Thread Herbert Voß
Angus Leeming schrieb: am I right, that it then has only to run without errors and the tex code is not important, it is invisible to the outside LyX world?? Sorry, but I don't understand what you are asking. If you are asking, "will I, the user, be able to see what latex I'm using?", then the a

Re: Defining the 'copyright' page in memoir class

2003-09-20 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rich Shepard wrote: > The title page still has a page number (!) and I haven't yet figured that > one out. Rich, indeed, the memoir class uses a plain style (with pagination) for the title page (I don't know why). You can change this by typing \aliaspagestyle{title}{empty} in preamble. > What th

Re: Defining the 'copyright' page in memoir class

2003-09-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > I do note really understand what you are asking for, but the outline structure > of the memoir manual is as follows: > > \frontmatter > \pagestyle{empty} %% no pagination > > > \cleardoublepage %% start on recto page > > > \clearpage %% start a

Re: One for the LaTeX masters

2003-09-20 Thread Angus Leeming
Herbert Voß wrote: > Angus Leeming schrieb: > >> see what improvements could be made. I'm trying to get the external >> inset to output this... > > am I right, that it then has only to run without > errors and the tex code is not important, it is > invisible to the outside LyX world?? Sorry, bu

Re: Defining the 'copyright' page in memoir class

2003-09-20 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rich Shepard wrote: > Peter Wilson has extended the 'book' class with all sorts of nifty tweaks. > He calls his package collection the 'memoir' class. In the first section of > the book he describes the contents of \frontmatter{}, in which the > copyright page (also including the publisher, CIP, IS