Re: presentations!

2004-08-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Aisha El Sherbiny wrote: I just started using lyx and I really loved it. I am wondeing how can I use lyx to produce presentations? I mean some thing like powerpoint. I recommend to use the LaTeX class "beamer" together with LyX. The beamer-package comes with some LyX-examples and a good documentati

RE: Accented Characters in bibtex file

2004-08-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Rob S wrote: > I use this one without problems > > B.M. Sumer and J. Freds{\o}e Rob, Thanks. I'll test it right now. The reason I did not try this is that additional brackets within a bracked value indicates to the software that the characters within are literal. For ex

Re: overpic package and pdflatex problem

2004-08-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Rob S wrote: I'm trying to use the overpic package from within Lyx to add text to a few graphics. I would prefer to finally compile using PdfLatex. - you can use package pgf Now I can get the package working fine with .ps images and compile with DVI - fine. - you can also use ps2pdf to get a nice p

RE: Accented Characters in bibtex file

2004-08-21 Thread Rob S
Rob S > > Can I use LaTeX symbol encoding, specifically \'{o} within a field of a > bibtex file and have the accented o properly typeset in the text? Sure can > > Perhaps I should ask how to enter it. The field in question is: > author = {Solnes, J.}, > and I want the o to be accented.

Re: Difference between "pdf" "dvipdfm" and "pdflatex" ?

2004-08-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe Stöhr wrote: pdf is a method which produces in _any_ case a pdf file and has only _some_ minor restrictions, e.g. no linebreaks of hyperrefs. It has also some advantages! What are the advantages? I had much problems with this method in the past. that you can use psfrag, pstricks, ... and other