Re: Lab manual

2003-11-23 Thread Nirmal Govind
My personal opinion on this is that keeping depth with M-Enter can sometimes be unhandy. I prefer to 1. enter the text with "standard" layout 2. chose the layouts for every paragraph 3. indent them to their final places I'm not sure I understand.. currently, if the instructions on the wiki pag

Re: xforms 1.0.2

2003-11-23 Thread Owen Lucas
yep thanks that was the problem. there was one in /usr/X11R6/include/X11/forms.h and /usr/local/include/forms.h problem sorted well sort of. cheers Owen Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Owen" == Owen Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Owen> I downloaded it and installed it but I dont know

Re: Lab manual

2003-11-23 Thread Karsten Heymann
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 17:05:45 -0500 "Nirmal Govind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Um.. if you mean something like in the screenshot at this page > > http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Tips/MultipleLyxCodeInSingleEnumerate > > > > Hi Christian.. I think there's something missing in those instr

Re: Document flows off end of page!

2003-11-23 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi, a classic :) (which basically means to me that I stubled about this myself sometime ago as well ;) ) Short answer: Don't write pages full of headings without some content between them. Your problem will disappear as soon as you put some text between the headings. Long answer (hopefully c

Re: Cannot view file, Linux Mandrake 9.2

2003-11-23 Thread Nirmal Govind
LyX: Cannot view file No information for viewing PDF (pdflatex). Hello.. you need to define a viewer for the PDF (pdflatex) option .. you can do this by going to Edit -> Preferences -> File Formats (this is in the Qt frontend, I forget what it corresponds to in the xforms frontend but should be

Re: Lab manual

2003-11-23 Thread Nirmal Govind
Um.. if you mean something like in the screenshot at this page http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Tips/MultipleLyxCodeInSingleEnumerate Hi Christian.. I think there's something missing in those instructions: "increase the depth (M-p Right) and then write "and change it to" followed by M-Ente

Document flows off end of page!

2003-11-23 Thread Philip A. Viton
Interesting ... note that this is not a lyx problem: if you export to latex and run it through tex, you get the same thing. My guess is that you've given the compiler too few degrees of freedom, with a whole bunch of empty sections and subsections. Still, I'm a bit surprised that it happens. Th

Cannot view file, Linux Mandrake 9.2

2003-11-23 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Hi all, a newcomer to the list here. I am using LyX to my satisfaction for quite some time. Recently I switched to Mandrake 9.2 from the 9.1 variant a here is what happened: it looks, that the user interface has been switched to QT (from xforms). When I tried to adjust all local settings I wa

Re: Lab manual

2003-11-23 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Ed Sawicki wrote: > I need to create a book that includes hundreds of lab exercises > for students. Many exercises are formatted with steps as in this > nonsense example: > > 1. Connect to the Internet and download ... Here's an example of >how to do this: > >lynx ht

Lyx/Prosper - changing paper orientation (was Re: Need help ...)

2003-11-23 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Stefano Peluchetti wrote: > Hi, i'm Stefano Peluchetti, a student at the university of economics "Bocconi" > in Italy. I used lyx for my thesis, and i'm using it again for writing some > (12) slides for the discussion. I found the following web page very usefull: > http://wi

Lab manual

2003-11-23 Thread Ed Sawicki
I need to create a book that includes hundreds of lab exercises for students. Many exercises are formatted with steps as in this nonsense example: 1. Connect to the Internet and download ... Here's an example of how to do this: lynx http://www.blahblah.com/... Be sure to . 2. Untar

Document flows off end of page!

2003-11-23 Thread David Williams
Hi, I'm having a rather strange problem with Lyx/Latex, and I've got no idea how to solve it! The problem is that my document is more than one page long, but rather than moving some of it onto the next page it simply flows of the bottom of the first page and disappears. You can get the file causi

Re: Problem installing new document class

2003-11-23 Thread Matej Cepl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ronald Florence wrote: > If your own TeX installation does not have a texmf.local > directory, > Matej, you might want to consider updating. Be careful that > the local files you put in the tex directories are not > overwritten when you do. BTW, the

Re: Problem installing new document class

2003-11-23 Thread Matej Cepl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ronald Florence wrote: > Yes, you are wrong, both about MacOS and about TeX > installations. One software management utility (fink) puts > MacOS software in /sw; it is > not an official part of MacOS. (Many Unix versions put > optional software in /o

Re: Problem installing new document class

2003-11-23 Thread Ronald Florence
Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, I know that Mac OS X is Unix-based, but it seems to me that > operating system which puts programs in /sw tree is not exactly > most usual among Unices (nothing wrong with that -- just the > reason I think that things around directories are not exactly

Re: Add "nohyphenation" as a Language in LyX drop-downs

2003-11-23 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Henrik Edlund wrote: > I would like to add the pseudo language "nohyphenation" to the LyX > drop-down so that I can mark certain words in my text as this language, > and hence get them no to break. > > How do I do this? This is latex domain. If you really want to do this, you

Re: Problem installing new document class

2003-11-23 Thread Matej Cepl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ronald Florence wrote: >> That's probably something from Mac world. Here in Unix world >> anything in /usr/local should never be touched by any >> packager. > > Mac's run Unix, and there are quite a few teTeX installations > which overwrite /usr/local

Re: templates- question

2003-11-23 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Anca Tibor- Attila wrote: > I have bibliography related question. I actually run mysql with a few > sheets of bibliographical data, that I would like to import, some how. > The main question is, if I can get somewhere a few templates for lyx to > generate (?, I do not even know, how this functions)