MAC OS X

2005-04-15 Thread pano karambelas
Was a wintel person until just now. Is LYX easy to install on the MAC or is it some sort of multi stage process that borders on the painful and unforgiving. I only ask the question b/c I really have zero familiarity w/MAC OS, linux, etc. Many thanks for any basic pointers, etc. Pano

Background image in Beamer

2005-04-15 Thread Eugenio Guevara
I am using Beamer with Lyx 1.3.5 on a Windows XP platform. I am preparing a presentation and can't find a way to put a background image on any frame and change it as needed. Can anyone give some light on this matter? Thanks in advance Eugenio Guevara

Re: Lyx (latex) to xml

2005-04-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 15 April 2005 03:33 pm, Andre Poenitz wrote: > XML allows proper nesting all over the place and therefore lowers the > current barrier for character styles. > > Andre' Now you're speaking my language! SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Tr

new document class

2005-04-15 Thread Trinh Pham
I'm a grad student at a UC school, and we have access to .cls and corresponding .sty files for Latex. Since I really like using Lyx, I wanted to write my dissertation in Lyx instead, but it does not recognize this document class or style files. I don't understand how to write a layout file from jus

Re: LyX and amsmath

2005-04-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:20:38PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: > > - split could be added in the 'Insert->Math' menu, > > You can do this yourself: Add the line > > Item "Split Environment" "command-sequence math-insert \split; > tabular-feature append-column" > > (all in one line) in your .ui fil

Re: Lyx (latex) to xml

2005-04-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:52:50AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Why change the LyX native language? It's incredibly readable and > parsable the way it is. It is neither. It is "sort of" readable and parsable at most. And it hampers progress in a few areas. The last step of math and non-math inset u

Re: thanks to LyX team

2005-04-15 Thread Gunnar
> Please do not talk to the rest of world in *.doc. Instead use pdf. In > that way your document cannot be modified by anybody and it cannot be > affected by any macro virus. This was written some time ago, then it was true, but what about the rumors of embeded java scripts in pdf files?

Re: include update??

2005-04-15 Thread Todd Denniston
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > > Sometimes when i alter the contents of a file that is included in the > master file the master doesnt seem to update. > > IE if i then generate a dvi or pdf, the changes havent been incorporated. > > The solution that works is to shut lyx and relaunch it. > > Is this a

include update??

2005-04-15 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Sometimes when i alter the contents of a file that is included in the master file the master doesnt seem to update. IE if i then generate a dvi or pdf, the changes havent been incorporated. The solution that works is to shut lyx and relaunch it. Is this a known bug??? Am I missing something obvio

Re: Renaming wiki pages (Was: File manager...)

2005-04-15 Thread Angus Leeming
Christian wrote: On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Angus Leeming wrote: However, I'd like to rename the page as http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/FilesWithSpecialChars is it possible to do so and retain page history? In order to retain the history, someone with administrative access to the wiki needs to do it. I'm

Re: How fonts work in lyx

2005-04-15 Thread Rex Dieter
Trond SAUE wrote: > I have seen earlier postings reporting problems with deadkeys and > accents in lyx 1.3.5 combined with Fedora Core 3, but so far no > solution. Yep: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1830 -- Rex

Thanks

2005-04-15 Thread Mark Carroll
I wanted to mention that I just used LyX for some proposals I was writing and it worked really well. So, thanks to the developers for making it so easy for me to yet again produce good-looking documents without having to use LaTeX directly. -- Mark

Renaming wiki pages (Was: File manager...)

2005-04-15 Thread chr
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Angus Leeming wrote: > Christian, > > I've added a new page to the wiki > http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexFilesWithSpaces > together with associated attachments in > http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LaTeX/LatexFilesWithSpaces > (I guess). That should be easy to check usi

Re: Lyx (latex) to xml

2005-04-15 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 15 April 2005 15:52, Steve Litt wrote: > > Why change the LyX native language? It's incredibly readable and parsable > the way it is. I'd need to rewrite my otl2lyx utility, and probably 5 or > 10 other program's I've written to process LyX native files. No need for that, you can use l

Re: Image converter and temporary files.

2005-04-15 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
LyX version: 1.3.5 OS: Fedora Linux core 2 Mandrake Linux 10.0 In both OSes, LyX was installed using the RPM package. Is there any log file I can attach, besides the usual TeX log? Thanks. On 4/15/05, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > > The first time I wa

Re: Lyx (latex) to xml

2005-04-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 15 April 2005 04:47 am, Angus Leeming wrote: > Ingar Pareliussen wrote: > > there are also work on making xml lyx native language: > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/DocumentInXMLFormat > > But i do not know how far that has come yet. > > It won't be part of LyX 1.4 and it won't use Spirit. La

Re: Image converter and temporary files.

2005-04-15 Thread Angus Leeming
Rudi Gaelzer wrote: The first time I want to print any portion of the text, or simply view it on the screen, LyX takes some time converting to EPS all the images in all the chapters included in the book. So far, so good; the problem is that every time that I make some modification and want to ta

Image converter and temporary files.

2005-04-15 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
I've been using LyX to prepare some educational material for some time already. I'm writing the text using the book class and I'm splitting the chapters into separate files. Inside the text, I include a number of figures, which I keep in JPEG format to save space. The first time I want to p

Re: File manager avaialbe for the LyX wiki

2005-04-15 Thread Angus Leeming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is now a file manager at the LyX wiki wiki site, http://wiki.lyx.org The file manager, Invision Power File Manager (IPFM), can be used both to upload files and to manage them (rename, move, delete etc). It is located here: http://wiki.lyx.org/ipfm/index.php Ch

File manager avaialbe for the LyX wiki

2005-04-15 Thread chr
There is now a file manager at the LyX wiki wiki site, http://wiki.lyx.org The file manager, Invision Power File Manager (IPFM), can be used both to upload files and to manage them (rename, move, delete etc). It is located here: http://wiki.lyx.org/ipfm/index.php The link 'Upload files' a

Re: lyx on Solaris 9 or cygwin

2005-04-15 Thread Angus Leeming
Alison Kay wrote: Can anyone give me detailed info on how to install lyx (including xforms and xpm), either on solaris or cygwin running on a Windows PC. Why not use the native Windows port? http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Windows http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/WindowsSetup It has 'issues' but most can be worked

Re: lyx on Solaris 9 or cygwin

2005-04-15 Thread Rob S
Alison Kay wrote: Can anyone give me detailed info on how to install lyx (including xforms and xpm), either on solaris or cygwin running on a Windows PC. Can any help? Alison. Alison; Have a look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/WindowsSetup There is now no real need to be troubled with the cygwin se

lyx on Solaris 9 or cygwin

2005-04-15 Thread Alison Kay
Can anyone give me detailed info on how to install lyx (including xforms and xpm), either on solaris or cygwin running on a Windows PC. I've been trying to do the latter myself, but haven't been able to get it working because I haven't been able to install xforms or xpm correctly so lyx can't find

RE : How fonts work in lyx

2005-04-15 Thread EXT / TEAMLOG MELLERIN Pierrick
Did you try to change "utf-8" to "iso-8859-1" in the "etc/sysconfig/i18n" file ? -Message d'origine- De : Trond SAUE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : vendredi 15 avril 2005 11:53 À : lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Objet : How fonts work in lyx I have seen earlier postings reporting problems

How fonts work in lyx

2005-04-15 Thread Trond SAUE
I have seen earlier postings reporting problems with deadkeys and accents in lyx 1.3.5 combined with Fedora Core 3, but so far no solution. In order to get a better understanding of the problem I would like to know a little bit more about how lyx works with fonts. With my current setup I can

Re: more about headers

2005-04-15 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
I have finally managed to sort the headers and footers of the TOC, LOF, LOT but am having real trouble with the Bibliography. Anyone know where the page format for this is?? It would also be useful to make it single spaced rather than double like the rest of the doucument so redefining the who

Re: Lyx (latex) to xml

2005-04-15 Thread Angus Leeming
Ingar Pareliussen wrote: there are also work on making xml lyx native language: http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/DocumentInXMLFormat But i do not know how far that has come yet. It won't be part of LyX 1.4 and it won't use Spirit. Lars is keen on migrating to an XML format in LyX 1.5 however. Angus

Re: Lyx (latex) to xml

2005-04-15 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Torsdag 14. april 2005 23:05 skreiv Vladimir S. Petukhov: > Hi > Sorry for my English.. > How can I convert lyx (ot latex) file into xml? > I want to use xml-data in dinamic web-content... There are several ways, but I guess depends on what you need to do and your type of document. How abou