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

2003-09-22 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:35:55PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > On 2003-09-22, 23:18 GMT, James Frye wrote: > > For that matter, even in Windows the real filenames don't contain > > spaces. Rather, each file has a name which follows the 8.3 rule, and > > a text label that can be used instead. That

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

2003-09-22 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-09-22, 23:18 GMT, James Frye wrote: > For that matter, even in Windows the real filenames don't contain > spaces. Rather, each file has a name which follows the 8.3 rule, and > a text label that can be used instead. That label may contain spaces > (and be quite long), but the filename doe

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > > > Unfortunately, you cannot use any key which is already taken by a menu > > shortcut (the underlined letters in the menus). So you'll have to choose > > another key. > See this URI for tips on creatin

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

2003-09-22 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:18:38PM -0700, James Frye wrote: > Which I suppose was really my point: The universe in which I think most > Lyx users spend most of their time is one in which simple, sensible > software is a desirable goal. The rule about filenames not containing > spaces is there for

\sectionmark

2003-09-22 Thread Kai Johannes Keller
Hello LyX-List, In a document I use "fancy" pagestyle and I want the chapters and sectiontitles to be printed in short form in the header, so some of the older E-mails tell that the command needed is: \sectionmark{abc} and it works for all the pages where no new section is started. But on this p

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

2003-09-22 Thread James Frye
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > > That those of us using Windows (not all voluntarily, I might add) do have > to make accommodations (such as renaming directories, or adding symbolic > links) to use LyX (and, for that matter, most any sof

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

2003-09-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Paul A. Rubin wrote: >> Sounds right for *nix, but spaces in paths are a way of life in the >> Windoze world (not sure about Macs, but I think they're legal there, >> too). > > And your point is? That those of us using Windows

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > Unfortunately, you cannot use any key which is already taken by a menu > shortcut (the underlined letters in the menus). So you'll have to choose > another key. Of course! Rich Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied E

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

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Sounds right for *nix, but spaces in paths are a way of life in the > Windoze world (not sure about Macs, but I think they're legal there, > too). And your point is? LyX could happily support spaces in paths. However, it farms out all the 'hard' work to other utilities. Sp

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Ronald Florence
Alfredo Braunstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rich Shepard wrote: > > > Still, when I press alt-e I get the edit menu. > > > > What have I missed? > > Unfortunately, you cannot use any key which is already taken by a menu > shortcut (the underlined letters in the menus). If you want to

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:36:22PM +0200, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > > Still, when I press alt-e I get the edit menu. > > Unfortunately, you cannot use any key which is already taken by a menu > shortcut (the underlined letters in the menus). So you'll have to choose > another key. Or edit th

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Rich Shepard wrote: > Still, when I press alt-e I get the edit menu. > > What have I missed? Unfortunately, you cannot use any key which is already taken by a menu shortcut (the underlined letters in the menus). So you'll have to choose another key. Alfredo

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > > \bind "M-i e" "self-insert environmental impact assessment" > > Of course, if you want it to be bound to alt-e, replace "M-i e" above by > "M-e". Alfredo, Thanks very much. I must have missed a step because it's not working as intended. F

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

2003-09-22 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 22 September 2003 13:40, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Sounds right for *nix, but spaces in paths are a way of life in the > Windoze world (not sure about Macs, but I think they're legal there, > too). Any software which allows commands with arguments has to have some way of separating command

Index creation fails

2003-09-22 Thread Nick DeClario
Hi, I just recently started having a problem generating an index using LyX. This was working just fine at one point, however now it refuses to produce an index. I was using LyX 1.1.6fix3. Once the problem started occuring I decided to finally upgrade to the latest version, 1.3.2 which didn't

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > \bind "M-i e" "self-insert environmental impact assessment" Of course, if you want it to be bound to alt-e, replace "M-i e" above by "M-e". Alfredo

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

2003-09-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James Frye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Bruce wrote: > >> I get this message when try to preview a file that (suprise) is in a >> directory that has spaces in its name. >> >> Not that this is a huge deal, I'm just curious... why is this? > > There

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Rich Shepard wrote: > Is it possible within LyX to define "hot keys" (e.g., alt-e) which will, > when invoked, enter a string of text into the document? For example, in my > book I write the string, "environmental impact assessment" many, many > times. It would be nice to press a couple of keys

Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Rich Shepard
Is it possible within LyX to define "hot keys" (e.g., alt-e) which will, when invoked, enter a string of text into the document? For example, in my book I write the string, "environmental impact assessment" many, many times. It would be nice to press a couple of keys and get the same result in th

Re: One for the LaTeX masters

2003-09-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Angus> Guys, the attached file works well enough, but it's rather Angus> inelegant. I have defined a macro, so: Angus, I am not sure what was the concusion of this thread, but let me propose a \DoOrWarn variant: %% Do command #1 if file

Re: xfig + lyx

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Voß
Herbert Voß schrieb: your code is okay, I have no problems running it with LaTeX. So I can only guess, what happens. Do you have a \usepackage{graphicx} in the preamble? sorry, it should be \usepackage{color} Herbert

Re: xfig + lyx

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Voß
Grant Goodyear schrieb: The error I get is: Undefined control sequence. The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,

Re: xfig + lyx

2003-09-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:01:36AM -0400, Grant Goodyear wrote: > My apologies if this mail gets posted twice, but I sent the original > yesterday and I haven't seen it arrive yet, so here's trying again. > > I seem to be having a rather difficult time getting xfig and lyx to play > nicely togethe

Re: xfig + lyx

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Grant Goodyear wrote: > My apologies if this mail gets posted twice, but I sent the original > yesterday and I haven't seen it arrive yet, so here's trying again. > > I seem to be having a rather difficult time getting xfig and lyx to play > nicely together when exporting pstex/pstex_t files from

xfig + lyx

2003-09-22 Thread Grant Goodyear
My apologies if this mail gets posted twice, but I sent the original yesterday and I haven't seen it arrive yet, so here's trying again. I seem to be having a rather difficult time getting xfig and lyx to play nicely together when exporting pstex/pstex_t files from xfig. I'm sure I'm doing somethi

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: > That is my understanding. lyxdoc-BRANCH_1_3_X is a true branch from the cvs > tree. Its position evolves as bugs are fixed. The lyxdoc-1_3_2 specifies a > point on this branch. Its position is immutable. Thanks for clarification, Angus. Jürgen.

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Voß
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Herbert Voß wrote: sure, I never said, that there are no chapters. I meant, that it is not a good way to have different counting of section titles in LyX gui and output. You lost me. If I have a memoir document with article option, an I use section without a chapte

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: >> What makes you think that? > > I was just gessing (wrong, obviously). > >> http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyxdoc/?only_with_tag=lyx-1_3_2 > > I see. What is the difference between lyxdoc-1_3_2 and lyxdoc > -BRANCH_1_3_X? The latter i

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voß wrote: > sure, I never said, that there are no chapters. > I meant, that it is not a good way to have different > counting of section titles in LyX gui and output. You lost me. If I have a memoir document with article option, an I use section without a chapter, I get 0.1 first section

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Voß
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Herbert Voß wrote: how would you control the different styles of memoir? book - article - ... If you write the layout file in this way, then you have chapters with the article option, too. And so the counting of the sections is wrong. from meman.tex: \item[\Lopt{art

Re: PDF Encryption for LyX Request

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Voß
Angus Leeming schrieb: Marc Jeffrey Driftmeyer wrote: I am writing several works, from a couple novels to technical documents and would really love the ability to have an Inspector View (ala OS X Cocoa) to set PDF encryption for final output. Is this a subproject being considered yet? A search

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voß wrote: > how would you control the different styles of memoir? > book - article - ... > If you write the layout file in this way, then you have > chapters with the article option, too. And so the > counting of the sections is wrong. from meman.tex: \item[\Lopt{article}] typesetting sim

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: > What makes you think that? I was just gessing (wrong, obviously). > http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyxdoc/?only_with_tag=lyx-1_3_2 I see. What is the difference between lyxdoc-1_3_2 and lyxdoc -BRANCH_1_3_X? The latter is the current stable branch while the former

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Voß
Andre Poenitz schrieb: On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 07:39:03PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Please pass me a clue here. #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass{memoir} # Memoir textclass definition file (poor man's version). # Author: Jürgen Spitzmüller

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: >> I don't have write access to lyxdoc, so ask someone else for the second >> part. > > As I understand, we have only one dosumentation tree, so apllying would > not make sense unless the layout will also be added to 1.3. What makes you think that? http://www.lyx.org/

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Andre Poenitz wrote: > Done for the lyx-devel part. Try to stick to LyX's indentation rules > (tab for indentation, spaces for in-line-adjustments) and provide a > ChangeLog entry next time. Thanks. I would have written a ChangeLog entry before applying (myself). Thanks for doing it anyway. > I

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:58:47AM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Should this be added to lib/layouts? > > IMO yes. I have sent an enhanced version to the devel list. Done for the lyx-devel part. Try to stick to LyX's indentation rules (tab for indentation, spaces f

Re: button tools

2003-09-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 12:31:58PM -0400, William O. Bray wrote: > 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 panel. > It is easy to add buttons for \sum or \int. Apart from what John said: You can ad

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Andre Poenitz wrote: > Should this be added to lib/layouts? IMO yes. I have sent an enhanced version to the devel list. Jürgen.

Re: PDF Encryption for LyX Request

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Marc Jeffrey Driftmeyer wrote: > I am writing several works, from a couple novels to technical documents > and would really love the ability to have an Inspector View (ala OS X > Cocoa) to set PDF encryption for final output. > > Is this a subproject being considered yet? A search of CTAN sugges

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 07:39:03PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > > Please pass me a clue here. > #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this > # \DeclareLaTeXClass{memoir} > # Memoir textclass definition file (poor man's version). > # Author: Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PRO

Re: IBM Selectric

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Andrew Criswell wrote: > Does anyone know of a style file that mimics IBM selectric completely or > how I can convert my LyX file to that style? I don't know how that looked, but the memoir class has an option "ms" which emulates typewriter. There is no memoir layout yet in the distribution, but