Re: Sorting of literature automatically?

2003-09-29 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Michael Logies wrote: > \begin{thebibliography}{100} > \bibitem{Aalen dependent survival}Aalen O. O., Bjertness E., Soonju T.: Any strong reason why you don't use BibTeX? Jürgen.

Re: Excel Data and importing into Lyx

2003-09-29 Thread Johan Ingvast
> > Also what is the best way to get pictures from > existing pdf documents? With power point etc I can > just select the picture in Acrobat and then paste in > but this does not work with Lyx. > If you are on a linux machine you should find a program called pdfimages which picks either

Re: Excel Data and importing into Lyx

2003-09-29 Thread Joachim Heidemeier
Am Dienstag, 30. September 2003 04:35 schrieb Nirmal Govind: > Hi.. if you're working on Linux then the gnumeric method that's been > suggested is probably the easiest.. however, if you work on Windows, you > may want to try the following link which gives an Excel add-on that > exports to Latex.. t

Re: Mathematical macro definition???

2003-09-29 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-09-30, 04:27 GMT, Herbert Voß wrote: > be sure, that you are always in mathmode! > > \newcommand{\test}[4]{ > $\left[\begin{array}{cc} > \textit{#1} & #4 \\ > \textrm{#2} & \textrm{#3} > \end{array}\right]$% > } > > > \test{verb}{VAL}{\test{SPR}{COMP}{intr}{a}}{a} >

Re: Mathematical macro definition???

2003-09-29 Thread Herbert Voß
Matej Cepl schrieb: \begin_inset FormulaMacro \newcommand{\test}[4]{\left[\begin{array}{cc} \textit{#1} & #4 \\ \textrm{#2} & \textrm{#3}\end{array}\right]} \end_inset \layout Standard \begin_inset Formula $\test{verb}{VAL}{\test{SPR}{COMP}{intr}{a}}{a}$ \end_inset be sure, that you are

Mathematical macro definition???

2003-09-29 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, trying to show what LyX can do for my wife (whom I am persuading to switch from Word :-) and I have not met success. She is a linguist, so she needs to create extremely complicated structures of bracketed matrices. Therefore I tried to create attached file with math macro definition (in Ly

Re: Excel Data and importing into Lyx

2003-09-29 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. if you're working on Linux then the gnumeric method that's been suggested is probably the easiest.. however, if you work on Windows, you may want to try the following link which gives an Excel add-on that exports to Latex.. then you can try putting the Latex code in ERT within LyX.. I have

sloppy fingers (was Re: Aspell and LyX: a difficult matrimony?)

2003-09-29 Thread Ronald Florence
I wrote earlier: > I don't know about LyX on ms-windows, but aspell works very well with > other versions of LyX. With LyX/Mac (formerly LyX on Aqua) it is even > possible to install cocoAspell as a system spelling server and have > LyX/Mac use it. The correct URL is http://www.18james.com/lyx_

Re: Aspell and LyX: a difficult matrimony?

2003-09-29 Thread Ronald Florence
"Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could somebody here please help me? Or should the divorce between > Aspell and LyX be decreed? Thank you a lot in advance! I don't know about LyX on ms-windows, but aspell works very well with other versions of LyX. With LyX/Mac (formerly LyX on Aqua) i

Re: Excel Data and importing into Lyx

2003-09-29 Thread Thomas Templin
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 01:15, Kent Kostuk wrote: > When I was working on my thesis, I would save my Excel files as > a .csv file and then open them with gnumeric. I would create an > empty table in Lyx and then cut and paste. [...] > Toby Allen wrote: [...] > > I am currently working my arse

Re: Excel Data and importing into Lyx

2003-09-29 Thread Kent Kostuk
When I was working on my thesis, I would save my Excel files as a .csv file and then open them with gnumeric. I would create an empty table in Lyx and then cut and paste. Kent Kostuk Toby Allen wrote: Hi all, I am currently working my arse off trying to get my Chemistry honours thesis writte

Excel Data and importing into Lyx

2003-09-29 Thread Toby Allen
Hi all, I am currently working my arse off trying to get my Chemistry honours thesis written and I am wondering what the best way is to get tabulated data from excel into my Lyx Document. Also what is the best way to get pictures from existing pdf documents? With power point etc I can just select

Re: Can't see Math-Mode's symbols

2003-09-29 Thread Markus Amersdorfer
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:55:19 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Spitzmueller) wrote: > > Why can't I see the symbol on the second machine? > > Any idea how to get it working? > > http://ev-en.org/wiki/moin.cgi/LyxQtFAQ?action=highlight&value=ttf#line11 Great, that fixed it perfectly and took just

Re: Toolbar positions

2003-09-29 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:23:31PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > Nirmal Govind wrote: > > Amazing.. you must have some really fast processors.. > Or machines that are on permanently and an appropriate cron job set to run > at 3am... Yup! :-) The latter. ---Kayvan

Re: Toolbar positions

2003-09-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Nirmal Govind wrote: > Amazing.. you must have some really fast processors.. Or machines that are on permanently and an appropriate cron job set to run at 3am... -- Angus

Re: Toolbar positions

2003-09-29 Thread Nirmal Govind
Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: Yes, I use tables and insets and undo. I do get crashes, but I save a lot and I just expect crashes (since I am using evolving software). Yeah, I can live with that too.. I also save pretty much continuously.. CVS software (and building it every day on three different pla

Re: Reasons to use Lyx instead of LaTex?

2003-09-29 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-09-29, 15:48 GMT, Katrin Pietzsch wrote: > The main thing i like is that i don't need to write all the code, > which always distracts me from concentrating on my text Yes, this is the main reason for me as well. I have really hard time not to fiddle with some LaTeX details when editing LaT

Re: Reasons to use Lyx instead of LaTex?

2003-09-29 Thread Marcus Beyer
mb > > >Because TeX users like to type and Word users like to click? mb > > hv > > nonsense ... :P Of cause this was strongly simplified, but more than once I heard TeX users complain about the math panel ("typing goes faster"). If you don't tell them, that typing math is also possible, they wi

Aspell and LyX: a difficult matrimony?

2003-09-29 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, I have just installed LyX for Win32 (the splendid version produced by Ruurd Reitsma) on my Windows2000 computer. LyX works immaculately, except regarding the Aspell spellchecker. I have strictly followed the instructions given on Reitsma's web-page (http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/l

Re: Reasons to use Lyx instead of LaTex?

2003-09-29 Thread Katrin Pietzsch
Am Montag, 29.09.03 um 17:14 Uhr schrieb Marcus Beyer: It looks very nice to me, but I would like to know from those who use it on a regular basis what Lyx has to offer to a LaTex user. A simple text editor also hasn't got a TOC (table of contents) to navigate easily through the document. I like

Re: Reasons to use Lyx instead of LaTex?

2003-09-29 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:39:19PM +0200, Herbert Voß wrote: > Marcus Beyer schrieb: > >>By 'math editor' I mean 'math mode', not just the math symbol panels. > >> > >>I am well aware that there are several methods to enter things there. > >> > >>Don't ask me why. > > > > > >Because TeX users like

Re: Reasons to use Lyx instead of LaTex?

2003-09-29 Thread Herbert Voß
Marcus Beyer schrieb: By 'math editor' I mean 'math mode', not just the math symbol panels. I am well aware that there are several methods to enter things there. Don't ask me why. Because TeX users like to type and Word users like to click? nonsense ... Herbert

Re: Reasons to use Lyx instead of LaTex?

2003-09-29 Thread Marcus Beyer
> By 'math editor' I mean 'math mode', not just the math symbol panels. > > I am well aware that there are several methods to enter things there. > > Don't ask me why. Because TeX users like to type and Word users like to click? Grüße, Marcus http://www.Stormlight.de

Re: Reasons to use Lyx instead of LaTex?

2003-09-29 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:14:26PM +0200, Marcus Beyer wrote: > > > It looks very nice to me, but I would like to know from those who > > > use it on a regular basis what Lyx has to offer to a LaTex user. > > > > The math editor ;-} > > Perhaps important to note that the math editor is not the on

Re: Reasons to use Lyx instead of LaTex?

2003-09-29 Thread Marcus Beyer
> > It looks very nice to me, but I would like to know from those who > > use it on a regular basis what Lyx has to offer to a LaTex user. > > The math editor ;-} Perhaps important to note that the math editor is not the only way to write math: you can still write \alpha in math mode (CTRL+M) and

Re: Toolbar positions

2003-09-29 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:14:41PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 05:10:05PM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > > I do use it every day. But my usage is not math-intensive (mostly > > literate programming documents). > > I guess you don't use tables or insets then. > > Or und

Re: Sorting of literature automatically?

2003-09-29 Thread Michael Logies
At 09:20 29.09.2003 +0200, Herbert Voss wrote: > Reviews: [45, 47, 57, 58, 64, 65, 66, 74, 81, 82, 89, 93, 100, 101, 103, > 104, 114, 115, > 116, 117, 122, 5, 51] > > Is there a way to sort these hints to the literature automatically > ascending (Lyx 1.3.2 for Qt)? \usepackage{cite} if these numbe

Re: Toolbar positions

2003-09-29 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 05:10:05PM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > I do use it every day. But my usage is not math-intensive (mostly > literate programming documents). I guess you don't use tables or insets then. Or undo etc. john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same

Re: Reasons to use Lyx instead of LaTex?

2003-09-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Andre Poenitz wrote: >> Along those lines, how difficult would it be to embed an external >> app to edit external files? > > Don't know. Not easy to an extend where I can use LyX as 'vim'. > emacs + preview-latex is closer in this area. > >> I know that the old InsetFigure used to embed >> a gs p

Re: Reasons to use Lyx instead of LaTex?

2003-09-29 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:57:41AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > The main 'con' is that you are no longer free to use a text editor > > of your liking but have to cope with what LyX offers. > > Along those lines, how difficult would it be to embed an external app > to edi

Re: Reasons to use Lyx instead of LaTex?

2003-09-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Andre Poenitz wrote: > The main 'con' is that you are no longer free to use a text editor > of your liking but have to cope with what LyX offers. Along those lines, how difficult would it be to embed an external app to edit external files? I know that the old InsetFigure used to embed a gs proce

Re: Toolbar positions

2003-09-29 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 07:36:03PM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Hi John.. how useable is 1.4cvs at the moment? The last time I tried > (probably around 6wks ago), the response to key strokes was very slow > and I was told that things were being taken apart and rewritten.. The slowness is gone,

Re: table design flaws in lyx / possible improvements (was: longtable caption again)

2003-09-29 Thread Rod Pinna
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Joachim Heidemeier wrote: > I would propose to define array.sty as a prerequisite for table > support in lyx and use the format mechanism via \newcolumntype as the > standard way for lyx. It is from the perspective of an "Office-trained" user > much easier to understand.

Re: Reasons to use Lyx instead of LaTex?

2003-09-29 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 04:56:58PM +0200, yardbird wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm about to start writing my thesis. I'm not a LaTex guru, but I've used it > during the last 2 years for everything I've written. I think I should not > have many problems doing my thesis wit LaTex, but I'm taking a loo

Re: table design flaws in lyx / possible improvements (was: longtable caption again)

2003-09-29 Thread Joachim Heidemeier
Am Sonntag, 28. September 2003 17:03 schrieb Herbert Voß: > Helge Hafting schrieb: > > You have a point. Note that the people here can change lyx but > > not latex, and part of the problem here is how latex works. > > no, the point is in which way LyX should support LaTeX > packages, should it be

Re: Sorting of literature automatically?

2003-09-29 Thread Herbert Voss
Michael Logies wrote: > In my text I have some parts like this: > > Reviews: [45, 47, 57, 58, 64, 65, 66, 74, 81, 82, 89, 93, 100, 101, 103, > 104, 114, 115, > 116, 117, 122, 5, 51] > > Is there a way to sort these hints to the literature automatically > ascending (Lyx 1.3.2 for Qt)? \usepackag