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2004-02-29 Thread lyx
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Re: Bringing .rtf or .doc files into Lyx

2004-02-29 Thread Raphael Clifford
Hi, In relation to wvWare and rtf2latex2e, you really need to email the developers of those application and include as small an example .rtf as you can that shows these problems. Cheers, Raphael Aric Gregson wrote: My first use of Lyx/LateX has been trying to convert a messy MS Word document f

Bringing .rtf or .doc files into Lyx

2004-02-29 Thread Aric Gregson
My first use of Lyx/LateX has been trying to convert a messy MS Word document from .rtf into Lyx. I have essentially created it anew from within Lyx, but it has been a tremendous amount of work. I tried to convert the document using wvWare and rtf2latex2e (either .doc or .rtf, respectively) to no

Re: urgent - newbi question - how to use latex/tex templates in lyx

2004-02-29 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 07:10:31PM +, Parminder Singh wrote: > hi everyone, > i want to use lyx for writting my thesis and i have got templates from my > university which i need to follow. the template is a tex template. what > would be the best way to use it from within lyx. this is extremly

urgent - newbi question - how to use latex/tex templates in lyx

2004-02-29 Thread Parminder Singh
hi everyone, i want to use lyx for writting my thesis and i have got templates from my university which i need to follow. the template is a tex template. what would be the best way to use it from within lyx. this is extremly urgent since i have to finish my thesis in 30 days. i am using linux 2.

Re: Newbie question: is there a Draft mode?

2004-02-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Stefano Franchi wrote: > I am using the standard Article class but I would like to use > something like a "draft" mode with double spaced paragraphs etc. Stefano, Go to Layout->Paragraph. On the first tab ("General"), you'll find a box for line spacing. Select the one yo

Re: Newbie question: is there a Draft mode?

2004-02-29 Thread Robert Orr
You should be able to set the skip under the document settings. --- Stefano Franchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm switching from FrameMaker to LyX and haven't > quite got the hang of > it. > I am using the standard Article class but I would > like to use > something like

Newbie question: is there a Draft mode?

2004-02-29 Thread Stefano Franchi
Hi all, I'm switching from FrameMaker to LyX and haven't quite got the hang of it. I am using the standard Article class but I would like to use something like a "draft" mode with double spaced paragraphs etc. when I'm working on the text. I would only go back to the standard, tightly pack

Re: UserGuide help wanted from "Masters of the Preamble" :-)

2004-02-29 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe Stöhr wrote: http://pc52.ifw.ing.tu-bs.de/~harders/latex/textcircled.pdf why did you load the package textcomp for this example? This is the problem. Without textcomp \textcircled works fine. To avoid this, I want to add the following to the preamble: \usepackage{lmodern} if the file textco

Re: PDFs, font misalignment in Acrobat using cm-super

2004-02-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
US> You can avoid this by using the ae fonts (Layout->Document->Font->ae). US> ae are Type 1 fonts but note, the glyphs \flq, \frq, flqq and \frqq are US> not available with ae. You can use \flqq and \frqq anyway, when you US> install the package 'aeguill' and insert \usepackage[ec]{aeguill} in the

Re: UserGuide help wanted from "Masters of the Preamble" :-)

2004-02-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
http://pc52.ifw.ing.tu-bs.de/~harders/latex/textcircled.pdf why did you load the package textcomp for this example? This is the problem. Without textcomp \textcircled works fine. To avoid this, I want to add the following to the preamble: \usepackage{lmodern} if the file textcomp.sty is used, then

Re: PDFs, font misalignment in Acrobat using cm-super

2004-02-29 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Uwe Stöhr wrote: US> You can avoid this by using the ae fonts (Layout->Document->Font->ae). US> ae are Type 1 fonts but note, the glyphs \flq, \frq, flqq and \frqq are US> not available with ae. You can use \flqq and \frqq anyway, when you US> install the package 'aeguill' and

command-sequence for converting selected text into index entry

2004-02-29 Thread Greg Hurrell
Hello all, I was trying to come up with a command-sequence that I could bind to a key to easily insert index references. The idea being that I could select the text that I wanted to have an index entry, press the command key, and LyX would insert something like this into the raw source of the

Re: PDFs, font misalignment in Acrobat using cm-super

2004-02-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I generate PDFs using pdflatex from my LyX files. I'm using cm-super; i.e. computer modern Type 1 fonts. My PDFs look great in Mac OS X Preview, but not-so-great in Adobe Acrobat. The fonts are not well-aligned to the baseline in Acrobat, and unless I magnify to 150% or 200%, the type is misa

Re: PDFs, font misalignment in Acrobat using cm-super

2004-02-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
try using the lm fonts instead of cm-super and you also get much more smaller files. http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=uselmfonts With the lm fonts you'll have the same problem: the 'A' and the 'i' are shown under the baseline until you set the magnification up to 150%. There is a bu

Re: small bug : mathematical writing of superscript is not instantaneous

2004-02-29 Thread Paul Smith
when I enter something like x^2 in math mode, the mathematical writing of superscript, x², is not done on the screen. I must close and re-open my document to have it. I am using LyX-1.3.4 with Fedora Core 1. I am using the same LyX version on Mandrake 9.2 and that does not occur. Paul

small bug : mathematical writing of superscript is not instantaneous

2004-02-29 Thread Pierrick Mellerin
Hello, when I enter something like x^2 in math mode, the mathematical writing of superscript, x², is not done on the screen. I must close and re-open my document to have it. I am using LyX-1.3.4 with Fedora Core 1. Best regards, Pierrick Mellerin.

Re: PDFs, font misalignment in Acrobat using cm-super

2004-02-29 Thread Herbert Voss
Richard Sherman wrote: I generate PDFs using pdflatex from my LyX files. I'm using cm-super; i.e. computer modern Type 1 fonts. try using the lm fonts instead of cm-super and you also get much more smaller files. http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=uselmfonts Herbert

Re: page display in seminar slides

2004-02-29 Thread Herbert Voss
Myriam Abramson wrote: \thepage is displayed as 2 numbers like that: 0-1, 0-2, etc. How can I fix that? Here's my pagestyle definition: try \renewcommand\thepage{\arabic{page}} before your page defnition Herbert