Re: OT: Xfig for use with LyX

2004-01-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Rich Shepard wrote: I know that many of you use xfig and I would like pointers to two tasks I need to do frequently: 1) draw S-, Z- or bell curves that are smooth and, in the latter case, symetrical and 2) enter Greek letters, math symbols and equations on the figure. offen you get much more bett

Re: problems generating pdf files with Lyx

2004-01-23 Thread Matej Cepl
On Friday 23 of January 2004 12:00, Raphael Clifford wrote: > I know this isn't the traditional open source way but what do > you think about having lyx tell you the URL for MFAQs? I mean > presumably that wouldn't be difficult and would help a lot of > newbies and not so newbies. Something al

OT: Xfig for use with LyX

2004-01-23 Thread Rich Shepard
I know that many of you use xfig and I would like pointers to two tasks I need to do frequently: 1) draw S-, Z- or bell curves that are smooth and, in the latter case, symetrical and 2) enter Greek letters, math symbols and equations on the figure. If this is inappropriate to this list, please

bug in lyx 1.3.3

2004-01-23 Thread Kai Johannes Keller
hello list, I use lyx1.3.3 with suse8.2, lately I wanted to insert a table in book-class, but when Iwanted to format the table by right-clicking on it, lyx exits, the same with trying to edit this with the menu. Is this a bug or a mistake in configuration on my system? Thanks in advance,

Cross references between files

2004-01-23 Thread onegen
Dear all, I'm using lyx (1.3.0) to write and manage a set of files. The idea is to use the lyx-source files to make web pages and pdf-files automatically. I have trouble with cross references between files. The "extended features" document explains how to do this: open both documents and choos

Re: tables of equations

2004-01-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Jeremy Daily wrote: using lyx 1.3.3-win32. I haven't tried it on the linux machine yet. When I looked at the lyx file, there was no indication of a size change in the math formulas. I've attached a small test file that I tried. give the columns a fixed width then you can have displayed formulas as

RE: tables of equations

2004-01-23 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>From: "Jeremy Daily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "'Günter Milde'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: RE: tables of equations >>Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:59:21 -0500 > >>Günter, >> >>I did try that, but nothing happened. I saw it in the manual but I >>couldn't get it to work on my

RE: tables of equations

2004-01-23 Thread Jeremy Daily
Günter, I did try that, but nothing happened. I saw it in the manual but I couldn't get it to work on my stuff. I tried M-x math-size displaystyle then typing and typing then implementing M-x math-size displaystyle. I'm using lyx 1.3.3-win32. I haven't tried it on the linux machine yet. When I lo

Re: problems generating pdf files with Lyx

2004-01-23 Thread Raphael Clifford
Matej Cepl wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 of January 2004 09:36, Matthew Engelbert wrote: Warning: pdflatex (file cmr6): Font cmr6 at 600 not found Warning: pdflatex (file cmmi8): Font cmmi8 at 600 not found Warning: pdflatex (file cmsy8): Font cmsy8 at 600 no

Re: spacing related (for the LaTeX gurus)

2004-01-23 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Herbert Voss wrote: > > This page has some info on the units: > > http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/FAQ/Units > > > em is the width of the letter m not M I've fixed that, thx. /Christain -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: spacing related (for the LaTeX gurus)

2004-01-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Christian Ridderström wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Helge Hafting wrote: Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi... I have a few questions related to spacing: 1. What does "one blank line" correspond to in terms of pt, sp, in, cm, ex, em or any of the other options that Latex/LyX provides? (I'm This page has

pb with screen font in math mode (continued)

2004-01-23 Thread Philippe Laroque
Hello, I must add (if it can help solve the problem), that when I run LyX from the command-line, I get the following message: Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 that seems harmless, but the following doesn't, and I get it when I load a file containing the formulas I can't

Re: spacing related (for the LaTeX gurus)

2004-01-23 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Helge Hafting wrote: > Nirmal Govind wrote: > > Hi... I have a few questions related to spacing: > > > > 1. What does "one blank line" correspond to in terms of pt, sp, in, cm, > > ex, em or any of the other options that Latex/LyX provides? (I'm This page has some info on

Re: problems generating pdf files with Lyx

2004-01-23 Thread Matej Cepl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 of January 2004 09:36, Matthew Engelbert wrote: > Warning: pdflatex (file cmr6): Font cmr6 at 600 not found > Warning: pdflatex (file cmmi8): Font cmmi8 at 600 not found > Warning: pdflatex (file cmsy8): Font cmsy8 at 600 not found > Warni

Re: spacing related (for the LaTeX gurus)

2004-01-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Nirmal Govind wrote: 2. For the default spacing that LyX/Latex uses for the following (assuming article class): - above a section heading, subsection heading or abstract heading, - between any of these headings and the text corresponding to the section/subsection/abstract, I see entries

problems generating pdf files with Lyx

2004-01-23 Thread Matthew Engelbert
I'm using Lyx 1.3.1 on Redhat 8.0, and am a Lyx/Latex newbie. I've gone through the tutorial, correcting the example_raw.lyx file. My problem is when I try to generate a pdf file. When I select View->PDF, a pdf is generated with errors. Both Gv and Acrobat reader give me errors. However, when

Re: spacing related (for the LaTeX gurus)

2004-01-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi... I have a few questions related to spacing: 1. What does "one blank line" correspond to in terms of pt, sp, in, cm, ex, em or any of the other options that Latex/LyX provides? (I'm A blank line has the same height as a line containing text. It is whatever you (or some

spacing related (for the LaTeX gurus)

2004-01-23 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi... I have a few questions related to spacing: 1. What does "one blank line" correspond to in terms of pt, sp, in, cm, ex, em or any of the other options that Latex/LyX provides? (I'm guessing this mapping will be different for different default font sizes..) I looked at article.cls and some

Re: long table caption + table and figure side-by-side

2004-01-23 Thread Nirmal Govind
Never mind the first part, I found the answer in Herbert's tips and tricks page: \usepackage{ccaption} \captionstyle{\centerlastline} nirmal

Re: tables of equations

2004-01-23 Thread Günter Milde
Jeremy Daily wrote: > ... > My problem is > I would like to use displayed math in the table because if its size and > consistency with the other parts of the document where there is no > distinction between English and Metric. Is there a way to use displayed > math in a longtable? Did you try to