urls in roman

2005-03-08 Thread Ben Hourigan
How can I set URLs inserted with Insert > URL in Roman instead of fixed-width? (for the whole document) Ben Hourigan

Re: Require "et al" in italics

2005-03-08 Thread Paul Medwell
Rob S wrote: I'm at the stage of minor corrections in my thesis and I am required to change the "et al" in references to italics. I'm using apalike.bst. Where and how do I ammend the .bst file? Hi Rob, If you're happy with the rest of the reference formatting, I'd simply search through your bst

Re: [pstricks] PST-Circ problem

2005-03-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Hannan Sadar wrote: Hi, I was trying to apply one of the first examples at pst-circ-doc.pdf file and I only gut 2 lines with out the element. I am using LyX and this is how my file looks like: the ert mode inside LyX is a bit crazy. You have to quit a line with ctrl-enter (see example) However t

Re: info not showing in citeref selection

2005-03-08 Thread Martin A. Hansen
eek! i did a compile of lyx 1.3.5 with qt-frontend. now the problem with the info window is back. :o/ ? ii libqt2 2.3.1-22 Qt GUI Library (runtime version). ii libqt3 3.0.3-20020329 Qt GUI Library (runtime version). ii libqt3-dev 3.0.3-20020329 Qt GUI developm

Re: Adding a color to the list of colors

2005-03-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:29:26 +0100, Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>Is it possible to add a color (e.g., brown) to the list of colors in > >>>the panel Layout -->Character --> Color? > >>> > >>No. Sorry. > Do you use all the colors already, or do you merely want a > different color? >

Re: Registerhaltigkeit [Was Re: selling lyx part 2]

2005-03-08 Thread Charles de Miramon
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > > I _think_ that the most common special case is/was with books produced > using thinner papers. Paper used in books can be more or less translucent > and lines of text on the reverse side or on the next sheet are less > disruptive when hidden directly behind the lines of

Re: info not showing in citeref selection

2005-03-08 Thread Martin A. Hansen
well, i have never compiled lyx before and the default configure uses xforms (there need to be a note in the INSTALL file that qt-frontend is preferable!). i use linux/debian and yes, lyx is precompiled but not the lyx 1.3.5 version - yet. you can add debian packages (lyx 1.3.4) to the list too:

Re: Problems with spelling checker

2005-03-08 Thread Angus Leeming
samar wrote: > Angus > >>Hello, Samar. Please don't start a new thread by replying to a message >>about something else. Those of us who's mail readers are sophisticated >>enough to group messages by thread are likely to miss your posts. > > I thought I had gone to some lengths this time to put in

Re: info not showing in citeref selection

2005-03-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > testing lyx 1.3.5 compiled with xforms. Do you not prefer the Qt interface? Is a pre-built package not available for your OS? ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.5 lyx-1.3.5-1fc2_qt.i386.rpm lyx-1.3.5-1fc2_xforms.i386.rpm lyx-1.3.5-1mdk101_qt.i586.rpm lyx-1.3.5-1mdk10_qt

Re: Problems with spelling checker

2005-03-08 Thread samar
Geoff I did do that and set up aspell including loading up the latest aspell. No luck however. samar Angus >Hello, Samar. Please don't start a new thread by replying to a message >about something else. Those of us who's mail readers are sophisticated >enough to group messages by thread are lik

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-08 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Mar 8, 2005, at 4:20 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: There is few publishers, if any at all, who will provide you with a lyx class. But it doesn't have to be the publisher, it is something any latex/lyx person could do. The publisher should really offer a discount (i.e. more pay) for a camera-ready

Re: info not showing in citeref selection

2005-03-08 Thread Martin A. Hansen
testing lyx 1.3.5 compiled with xforms. the citeref information window (now called bibliography keys) issue is no more. however, the cosmetic fix of the missing whitespace between the author and et al. is not happening? martin

Re: helvet with serifs????

2005-03-08 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Todd Denniston wrote: > Why is there only one selection for font in the dialog if > a) it is not setting the default font (and family) to be used (as normal) > in the document, > b) there are more than one type (family) of font to be set? Because no one has so far implemented this missing feature.

Re: helvet with serifs????

2005-03-08 Thread Todd Denniston
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > Todd Denniston wrote: > > > I assume in the Document Layout[1] the "Fonts:" selection of helvet is short > > for helvetica. Is this correct? > > Yes it is. > > > I also thought that helvetica was be definition a San Serif font... but when > > I change the "Fonts:" selection

Re: Problems with spelling checker

2005-03-08 Thread Angus Leeming
samar wrote: Hello, Samar. Please don't start a new thread by replying to a message about something else. Those of us who's mail readers are sophisticated enough to group messages by thread are likely to miss your posts. > Hi > > I have recently got a new machine with windows xp pro. Lyx ( Ruurd

Re: Registerhaltigkeit [Was Re: selling lyx part 2]

2005-03-08 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Helge Hafting writes: > After seeing the example, I wonder why someone would want > this "registerhaltigkeit" in the general case. (Sure, there might > be special cases I can't think of.) I _think_ that the most common special case is/was with books produced using thinner papers. Paper used in bo

Problems with spelling checker

2005-03-08 Thread samar
Hi I have recently got a new machine with windows xp pro. Lyx ( Ruurd's port) installed and is working flawlessly with Miktex. However, I then decided to install the spell checker and did so according to the instructions on the lyx wiki and ensured that aspell and the language file are installed

Re: Adding a color to the list of colors

2005-03-08 Thread Helge Hafting
Paul Smith wrote: On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 20:12:56 +, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to add a color (e.g., brown) to the list of colors in the panel Layout -->Character --> Color? No. Sorry. This part of the code is much more flexible now, however, so although you

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-08 Thread Helge Hafting
Stefano Franchi wrote: On Mar 4, 2005, at 6:21 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Well, the right publisher is the publisher that has a good reputation in your subject. Couldn't agree more. And in my field (philosophy, and especially history of philosophy) TeX is conspicuously absent. Which is bad,

Re: Registerhaltigkeit [Was Re: selling lyx part 2]

2005-03-08 Thread Helge Hafting
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Juergen Spitzmueller writes: As I said, you might get close with lots of tweaking. But IMHO the loss is greater than the gain. No, I don't mean at the user level, but as an option (programmed in, so to speak), so that within the limits this requires, that all other as

Re: selling lyx part 2

2005-03-08 Thread Helge Hafting
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: I tried to create an example with LyX and Word, both showing a layout that has been tweaked quite a bit, using the same font (Palatino) and also mostly the same settings. I tried to make the Word thing as good as possible, otherwise the comparision would not be fair.

Re: info not showing in citeref selection

2005-03-08 Thread Angus Leeming
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 11:09, you wrote: > minimal lyx file: http://130.226.106.174/~paste/cgi-bin/minimal.lyx > > bibtex ref file: http://130.226.106.174/~paste/cgi-bin/papers2.bib > > > note that the bibtex file is generated with pybliographer, which i > should say was a commonly used reference

Re: Require "et al" in italics

2005-03-08 Thread Martin A. Hansen
try "latex makebst" to tweak your own bst file. martin On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:00:55AM +, Rob S wrote: > Hi List; > > Latex help needed. > > I'm at the stage of minor corrections in my thesis and I am required to > change the "et al" in references to italics. > > I'm using apalike.b

Re: selling lyx part 2

2005-03-08 Thread Helge Hafting
Martin A. Hansen wrote: hello again thank you very much for the input. apparently noone have any slideshow presentations introducing lyx to the ignorant word user. i hereby suggest we make one - and perhaps even include it in the documentation on lyx.org? but first i will summon up the pro/con in

Re: info not showing in citeref selection

2005-03-08 Thread Martin A. Hansen
minimal lyx file: http://130.226.106.174/~paste/cgi-bin/minimal.lyx bibtex ref file: http://130.226.106.174/~paste/cgi-bin/papers2.bib note that the bibtex file is generated with pybliographer, which i should say was a commonly used reference manager. martin On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:58:2

Require "et al" in italics

2005-03-08 Thread Rob S
Hi List; Latex help needed. I'm at the stage of minor corrections in my thesis and I am required to change the "et al" in references to italics. I'm using apalike.bst. Where and how do I ammend the .bst file? Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental Eng

Re: info not showing in citeref selection

2005-03-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > using lyx 1.3.4 and layout->document->bibliography natbib selected > (cite-style author-year). > > insert->citation reference > > when i select a reference from the available window, then the info window > shows the authors and title (with {} -> the curlies could be > re

info not showing in citeref selection

2005-03-08 Thread Martin A. Hansen
small bug: using lyx 1.3.4 and layout->document->bibliography natbib selected (cite-style author-year). insert->citation reference when i select a reference from the available window, then the info window shows the authors and title (with {} -> the curlies could be removed - cosmetic feature?)

PST-Circ problem

2005-03-08 Thread Hannan Sadar
Hi, I tried to drown one of the circuit at the example and i was unable to see it correctly and i don't really know why. I try other examples of graphs (from pst-tricks package, not from pst-circ) and it works fine. If someone could tell me what i am doing wrong i would be very glad #LyX 1.3 cre