Re: Index: Keeping Main- and Sub-Entries Together

2005-01-27 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:47:39 +0100 >>From: Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: Index: Keeping Main- and Sub-Entries Together >> [...] >>If you have e.g. >>-- >>Mineral Water

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:33:29 +1300, John O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You are right, Michael: Jean-Marc said so. However, he is not right, > > apparently. In fact, after having made the symbolic link suggested by > > you, I proceeded with make and make install, and the final result was >

Re: How to cross reference a float

2005-01-27 Thread G. Milde
On 27.01.05, Johan Ingvast wrote: > I find when writing that a common procedure is to first create a label and > in the next moment inserting it. Also when creating labels they often > comes in groups so I usually select labels from the same part of the list > in a sequence. > So I have a feauture

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

2005-01-27 Thread John O'Gorman
Paul Smith wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:05:33 -0500, Michael Wojcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My understanding of one of Jean-Marc's comments in this thread was that he only just now fixed the configure script to note that Aiksaurus had been found during configuration. You are right, Michael: Jea

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:05:33 -0500, Michael Wojcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My understanding of one of Jean-Marc's comments in this thread was that > he only just now fixed the configure script to note that Aiksaurus had > been found during configuration. You are right, Michael: Jean-Marc said

Spacing in "List of Tables"

2005-01-27 Thread Rich Shepard
This is one the copyeditor caught. In the list of tables, the table numbers are left-aligned and there's a small space between the number and the table caption. This works fine until it gets to Chapter 12, Table 10 and beyond. With the four digits (and separating period; e.g., 12.10) there is no

Re: beginner question: cyrillic

2005-01-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Christopher Winkler wrote: > My main text, which is going to be in German, will contain quite a lot of > cyrillic cites. Well, I am able to do that in Kile (with cyrillic.sty) > quite easily, but I can't manage to do it in Lyx. I either put the whole > document in cyrillic and write the rest in Eng

Re: LyX->TeX Log Location?

2005-01-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, G. Milde wrote: Another guess is, that you saw the standard output of LyX and programs it called (like bibtex). If you start LyX from a x-terminal emulator, you will see a lot of messages (and with the -dbg "something" option even more. Günter, I used -dbg 128 but didn't see

Re: LyX->TeX Log Location?

2005-01-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Herbert Voss wrote: it is saved together with the other temporary files in the temp dir like lyx_tempdfsd544/, which will be deleted when closing LyX and which will still be there, when you had a crash Herbert, Thanks. I did not find the same error messages as I saw on the co

Re: Index: Keeping Main- and Sub-Entries Together

2005-01-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Not that I know. I solved such problems by using additional space because LaTeX processes every command inside the index-box. ... then add some space after the "Selters" entry, like Uwe, Thanks very much. I'll check it when the index is all finished (by Mo

Re: Index: Keeping Main- and Sub-Entries Together

2005-01-27 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Uwe_St=F6hr?=
Rich Shepard wrote: I have a situation now where the main heading is at the foot of the left index column and all sub-headings are at the top of the right index column. This may well change as I build the index, but it may not. Is there a command that can be used to prevent splitting the head an

Re: Lyx Longtable

2005-01-27 Thread =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Uwe_St=F6hr?=
Roland Schmitz schrieb: while looking for infos about longtables inside of lyx, if found the folowing URL: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/table/longtable.phtml in several search engines. But since i tried (2-3 weeks) to see the page i never was so lucky to get it. Does someone knows wea

Re: follow-up: relyx / lyx2lyx problems -- next bug

2005-01-27 Thread Sven Schreiber
Jose' Matos wrote: Do you have a small example where this happens? It should be easy to fix. Alright, I can now reproduce the "hanging" in lyx2lyx, when processing a file from relyx. Consider this latex doc, which compiles fine, and must be one of the shortest ever written: \documentclass{ar

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

2005-01-27 Thread Michael Wojcik
Paul Smith wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:23:48 -0500, Michael Wojcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Presumably, the fix would be to create the missing symlink: su root ln -s libbz2.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libbz2.so but I haven't tried this myself. Thanks, Michael, but, apparently, it does not solve t

RE: Problems with LyX on Mepis

2005-01-27 Thread chr
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: > > I also use LyX on Mepis. > > 1.3.4 is the latest LyX which is on the official apt repositories. > However, I've downloaded the 1.3.5-2 .rpm package, used alien to convert it > to a .deb package, and then installed it just fine that way. So

RE: Problems with LyX on Mepis

2005-01-27 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
I also use LyX on Mepis. 1.3.4 is the latest LyX which is on the official apt repositories. However, I've downloaded the 1.3.5-2 .rpm package, used alien to convert it to a .deb package, and then installed it just fine that way. So 1.3.5 is easily done on Mepis. Make sure that ImageMagick i

Lyx Longtable

2005-01-27 Thread Roland Schmitz
Hi, while looking for infos about longtables inside of lyx, if found the folowing URL: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/table/longtable.phtml in several search engines. But since i tried (2-3 weeks) to see the page i never was so lucky to get it. Does someone knows weather it's down per

Re: beginner question: cyrillic

2005-01-27 Thread Sven Schreiber
Christopher Winkler wrote: Thank you for your help Christopher Christopher: Sorry no help here but I'm pretty sure I know you from Humboldt-Uni in the 90s; I mean who else with that name could be studying history using cyrillic, correct? Why am I posting this to the list -- I find it amazing tha

Re: follow-up: relyx / lyx2lyx problems -- solution

2005-01-27 Thread Sven Schreiber
Jose' Matos wrote: I cannot reproduce the infinite "hanging" yet with a small example, but I can reproduce an abort with error, so I'll leave the hang for later -- please note again, this is *not* win-specific, I also tried importing it on linux. Consider this latex doc: \documentclass{article} \be

Re: accents no work

2005-01-27 Thread Christopher Winkler
> There is a bug in this Qt version: the dead keys are, well, dead. > > So if you tyÃpoe an accent, say, ^, it doesn't wait for the character > to be typed that it will be an accent of. > > Very irritating. It also disables the use of ^ for superscript in math. That is really cool because that is

beginner question: cyrillic

2005-01-27 Thread Christopher Winkler
Hello, I had worked with OOo before and I am in the process of changing my office suite to LaTeX/Lyx. That means that I may bother you quite regularly now. My needs are quite basic (indeces, bibtex), since I do not need spreadsheets and formulas. In short time I am going to start to write my h

Problems with LyX on Mepis

2005-01-27 Thread chr
I don't really know exactly what this is about, since it was sent to my personal e-mail address. Anyway, I'm forwarding it to the *user's* list (posting questions on the wiki won't help). As for the actual problem, see Samar's description below (and if you reply, remember to reply to him as well

Re: Odd float placement

2005-01-27 Thread Andrew Morrison
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 13:01, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm writing my book, and have a figure inside a float. The figure is a > flowchart that takes most of a page. I inserted the float in the text > appearing on page 74, but the flowchart appears on page 77. My float > heuristic at Layou

Odd float placement

2005-01-27 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'm writing my book, and have a figure inside a float. The figure is a flowchart that takes most of a page. I inserted the float in the text appearing on page 74, but the flowchart appears on page 77. My float heuristic at Layout->Document->Float_placement is !t. I didn't put an h in t

Re: follow-up: relyx / lyx2lyx problems and tex2lyx future

2005-01-27 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 16:05, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Jose' Matos wrote: > > Do you have a small example where this happens? > > > > It should be easy to fix. > > I cannot reproduce the infinite "hanging" yet with a small example, but > I can reproduce an abort with error, so I'll leave t

Re: Can't get DVI viewer to start

2005-01-27 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 27, 2005, at 1:37 AM, James Bennett wrote: Another beginner's question: I just updated to LyX 1.3.5 and for some reason it doesn't automatically start the DVI viewer I was using (MacDviX) even after I asked LyX to reconfigure. What am I doing wrong? Two possibilities immediately come to m

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:23:48 -0500, Michael Wojcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > There is something I do not understand: you have > > > > Paul> $ locate bz | grep lib | grep -v libz > > [...] > > Paul> /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1 > > Paul> /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.0 > > > > wh

Re: Option to get Thesaurus

2005-01-27 Thread Michael Wojcik
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Paul" == Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: There is something I do not understand: you have Paul> $ locate bz | grep lib | grep -v libz [...] Paul> /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1 Paul> /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.0 whereas your config.log says: configure:5506: checking for main

Re: failed import of latex doc (relyx produces something that causes lyx2lyx to hang)

2005-01-27 Thread Michael Wojcik
Jack M. Lyon wrote: I get the same thing: "An error occurred when running the conversion script." If I add the .py extension to lyx2lyx, the program says it can't *find* the conversion script. You may have intended to send this to the list instead of me; it appears that LyX-Users sets Reply-To to

Re: line break and indentation for Lyx-Code

2005-01-27 Thread Wolfgang Hennerbichler
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 08:13 +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Splitting lines is difficult enough with ordinary text, but with various > programming languages? When I think about it - you're absolutely right. There are even situations where breaks wouldn't be allowed at all. I am too spoilt from ly

Re: dead keys (new)

2005-01-27 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Onsdag 26. januar 2005 11:40 skreiv Helge Hafting: > Did you compile lyx with qt or xforms? > Have you tried to use lyx installed from an rpm file, instead of compiling? > Also look at your X setup. Apparently, some input methods for "ÃÃÃ..." > works with lyx and some have trouble. > > I use debia

Re: How to cross reference a float

2005-01-27 Thread Johan Ingvast
Hi list I'm writing on my thesis and recognize the problem. The labeling is a bit of a problem. Not only one have to find a good name that describes the label, but also when inserting the label one have to find it in a list of maybe several hundreds. I find when writing that a common procedure is t

Re: Installing Lyx from source, without root.

2005-01-27 Thread Angus Leeming
Bren Mochocki wrote: > However, when I went to run lyx, it couldn't find the files > libflimage.so.1 or libflimage.so.1 Hi, Bren. Is it me, or did you type the same file name twice? Perhaps you mean that one of them is libforms.so.1? > the exact when attempting to run lyx is: > > lyx: error whi

Re: line break and indentation for Lyx-Code

2005-01-27 Thread G. Milde
On 27.01.05, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Wolfgang Hennerbichler writes: > > On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 16:31 +0100, G. Milde wrote: > > > [Wolfgang Hennerbichler wrote:] > > > > not line break the code. If a line is longer than a sheet of > > > > paper, it's just cut off. > > > > > > ... how should LyX knwo

Re: How to cross reference a float

2005-01-27 Thread G. Milde
On 26.01.05, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Having to label chapters doesn't bother me because there are so few > > chapters (17 in my upcoming book). But there are multiple floats per > > chapter, and I know of no sane naming convention, and labels are global,