Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge

2005-07-25 Thread samar
- Original Message - From: "Georg Baum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 12:01 PM Subject: Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge samar wrote: Actually there is not much value in 1.3.5 for unix users so it may not be worth the trouble. Both 1.3.5 and 1.3.6 fix a numb

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge

2005-07-25 Thread Georg Baum
samar wrote: > Actually there is not much value in 1.3.5 for unix users so it may not be > worth the trouble. Both 1.3.5 and 1.3.6 fix a number of bugs, so it is certainly worth it to install them also for unix users. Normally that does go smooth ithout the trouble you are having. Georg

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge

2005-07-25 Thread samar
From: "Georg Baum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 12:25 AM Subject: Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge Am Montag, 25. Juli 2005 19:55 schrieb samar j. singh: It was a dream doing so and running src/lyx brought up lyx 1.3.6. After make install, which appeared to run witho

Re: HELP! Installing new .cls file

2005-07-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, just reread your very first reply, seems I really have to create both the .cls and the .layout myself. Wonder how I missed that...hmm well, it's 1am around here so maybe that explains my dropping iq... The whole thing is getting too much for lil me since

Re: HELP! Installing new .cls file

2005-07-25 Thread l . tadros
Hi again, just reread your very first reply, seems I really have to create both the .cls and the .layout myself. Wonder how I missed that...hmm well, it's 1am around here so maybe that explains my dropping iq... The whole thing is getting too much for lil me since both have a different sy

Windows port of 1.3.6 fails to process pstricks code

2005-07-25 Thread Jeremy Daily
LyX users: I've run into a small problem. I've started a manuscript full of pstricks code on the unofficial windows port (version 1.3.3). Since I was delighted to see an official LyX port for windows, I tried version 1.3.6. This version however is giving me problems... If I pull up any of th

Re: HELP! Installing new .cls file

2005-07-25 Thread l . tadros
That line should be # \Declare... The space (character position 2) is not significant, but removing the comment symbol (#) apparently confuses the reconfiguration script. Sorry, we both posted at the same time so just missed your reply. Well, I have rewritten the file by now (followed the

Re: HELP! Installing new .cls file

2005-07-25 Thread l . tadros
Hi, Ok, I'm probably missing something here, but I can't find a class named docsummary in MiKTeX's package manager, and I can't find it on CTAN. Just to confirm, you have a class named docsummary.cls installed, right? Did you write it yourself? Yes, that's my layout file which I somehow

Re: HELP! Installing new .cls file

2005-07-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you did that, can you post your layout file so we can check it out? Here it is. Like I said, just copied the code: \DeclareLaTeXClass{docsummary} Aha. If the layout file listing was verbatim, I think I see the problem. That line should be # \Declare... The sp

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge

2005-07-25 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: "samar j. singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: "Georg Baum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 10:55 AM Subject: Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge On Monday 25 July 2005 03:00, Georg Baum wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx

Re: HELP! Installing new .cls file

2005-07-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I did change the title bit and the file name both to docsummary! Ok, I'm probably missing something here, but I can't find a class named docsummary in MiKTeX's package manager, and I can't find it on CTAN. Just to confirm, you have a class named docsummary.cls i

Re: HELP! Installing new .cls file

2005-07-25 Thread l . tadros
Hi again! The location is correct. Did you edit the contents of the layout file? Specifically, did you change the argument of the \DeclareLaTeXClass command near the top of the layout file? That tells LyX what to name the class in the list of layouts. If you don't change that, either y

Re: HELP! Installing new .cls file

2005-07-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I copied and renamed an existing layout file in lyx\share\lyx\layouts, then reconfigured lyx, but it still won't appear! Do I need to put it somewhere else as well or something? The location is correct. Did you edit the contents of the layout file? Specifically,

Re: HELP! Installing new .cls file

2005-07-25 Thread l . tadros
Hi! First thanks for replying! What you did sounds fine for getting the new class installed under MiKTeX. Just as insurance, you might open a command window and type 'kpsewhich new_class.cls' (without the quotes, and changing new_class to the name of your class file). It should spit up t

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge

2005-07-25 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 25. Juli 2005 19:55 schrieb samar j. singh: > It was a dream doing so and running src/lyx brought up lyx 1.3.6. After make > install, which appeared to run without errors, I got the following error > message when trying to run lyx from the command line. > > Xlib: connection to ":0

Re: HELP! Installing new .cls file

2005-07-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm new to Lyx and Latex in general, and I'm having trouble installing a new .cls file. I've read a previous post on this subject, and did exactly as was described, but it still wouldn't recognize the file. I'm running win2k Miktex Minimum 2.4.1461 Lyx 1.3.5 I

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge

2005-07-25 Thread samar j. singh
On Monday 25 July 2005 03:00, Georg Baum wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.4.tar.bz2 (LyX 1.3.4 source) > > > > lyx_1.3.4-2.diff.gz (from Debian) > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.5.bz2 > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-

Re: figure* in LyX?

2005-07-25 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
Ohh... thinko on my part... I kept searching for the option in the graphic's options (i.e., the dialog box you get after clicking on the image in the figure)... didn't realize you could right click in the figure, but outside the included image. Thanks! On 7/25/05, Geoffrey Lloyd <[EMAIL PRO

Re: figure* in LyX?

2005-07-25 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
If you right click the float box a load of options appear - one of which is Span Columns. Check this box and all should be ok. BTW in many cases the float will appear on the page following its position so if you want it to span two columns on page 2 make sure you place it somewhere on page 1.

figure* in LyX?

2005-07-25 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
When working with a two-column document in LyX, is there a way to specify floats which should span both columns? (i.e., \begin{figure*} in LaTeX) -- Maciej Kalisiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac

lyx-qt 1.3.4 and anti-aliasing of math preview

2005-07-25 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
I'm using LyX-Qt 1.3.4 on Linux, and it seems to me the math preview images are not properly anti-aliased, or have been scaled by a non-integer factor after having been rendered anti-aliased. Sample picture of what I get: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac/tmp/lyx-preview-non-aa-prob.png The "x" an

HELP! Installing new .cls file

2005-07-25 Thread l . tadros
Hi, I'm new to Lyx and Latex in general, and I'm having trouble installing a new .cls file. I've read a previous post on this subject, and did exactly as was described, but it still wouldn't recognize the file. I'm running win2k Miktex Minimum 2.4.1461 Lyx 1.3.5 I put the file once in mikt

Re: tex2lyx - SOLVED

2005-07-25 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jean-Pierre Chretien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 8:29 AM Subject: Re: tex2lyx - SOLVED Ok I had saved the cmd file as unicode and lyx couldnt read it. S

Re: tex2lyx

2005-07-25 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>If I do not use the script, can I still use tex2lyx from within lyx or do I >>have to go back to the command line. Sure, you just set tex2lyx $$i >$$o in the preferences, once tex2lyx is in the PATH. But you will have to call lyx from a console if you need a log of the conversions (useful w

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread chr
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "William" == William F Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > William> John's is much better though and should be enshrined in an > William> FAQ or advocacy document or something. > > What about making a page on the wiki? Sounds like a ve

Re: tex2lyx - SOLVED

2005-07-25 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Ok I had saved the cmd file as unicode and lyx couldnt read it. So it seems the cmd way of doing things still works. THanks for the suggestions and sorry that as usual pilot error was the cause! Geoff - Original Message - From: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jean-Pierre Ch

Re: tex2lyx

2005-07-25 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
From: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Subject: tex2lyx Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:03:46 +0100 Anyone managed to get this working with 1.3.6-1 for Windows I have followed the install instruction and also the instructions for activation from within Lyx which are provided on the wiki a

Re: tex2lyx

2005-07-25 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>From: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: >>Subject: tex2lyx >>Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:03:46 +0100 >> >>Anyone managed to get this working with 1.3.6-1 for Windows >> >>I have followed the install instruction and also the instructions for >>activation from within Lyx which are provide

tex2lyx

2005-07-25 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Anyone managed to get this working with 1.3.6-1 for Windows I have followed the install instruction and also the instructions for activation from within Lyx which are provided on the wiki and I keep getting an error saying Cannot convert file Error while executing tex2lyx.cmd "filename.tex" "f

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "William" == William F Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: William> John's is much better though and should be enshrined in an William> FAQ or advocacy document or something. What about making a page on the wiki? JMarc

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread William F. Adams
On Jul 24, 2005, at 9:26 PM, John O'Gorman wrote: excellent discussion of my WYSIWYM is a good view All of the above makes it easier to use LyX. You focus entirely on content. FWIW, I made a similar explanation in the Practical TeX on-line journal recently: http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/200

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "John" == John O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Sorry I didnot notice the reply-to was not the list. I did not notice at the time that this answer only went to me. It was a pity, since I really enjoyed reading it :) JMarc

\Gamma doesn't show in screen

2005-07-25 Thread JORGE A. HERNANDO
Hi: I have a weird bug and I don't know where it belongs to. The machine has FC3 installed since approximately 2 months ago and I've just found that the capital gamma is not shown in the screen (the same happens if I write \Gamma). Of all the greek alphabet is the only letter not shown. Howe

Re: change bars and lyx 1.3.6

2005-07-25 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > well angus > > i have no idea how to make such a patch. one could of cause carefully > read the diff man page, but then what? > > anyhows, id like to contribute in some way beyond documentation and > bugreports. alas, i only know perl and my second language is going to

Re: change bars and lyx 1.3.6

2005-07-25 Thread Martin A. Hansen
well angus i have no idea how to make such a patch. one could of cause carefully read the diff man page, but then what? anyhows, id like to contribute in some way beyond documentation and bugreports. alas, i only know perl and my second language is going to be c ... martin On 25/07/05, Angus

Re: change bars and lyx 1.3.6

2005-07-25 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > unfortunately change bars did not make it into the lyx 1.3.6 release. No, that would require a file format change, something that we will not countenance for a bug fix release. > i am looking forward for the change bars to move into an official > release because otherwis

change bars and lyx 1.3.6

2005-07-25 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hello unfortunately change bars did not make it into the lyx 1.3.6 release. i am looking forward for the change bars to move into an official release because otherwise i am not sure what happens to the bug reports and suggestions submitted to the list. maybe someone knows? in the mean time - is

Re: Figure numbering/labelling

2005-07-25 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 2:38 AM Subject: Re: Figure numbering/labelling Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: the figures are labelled Figure 1: caption Figure 2: caption etc I need FIG.

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge

2005-07-25 Thread Georg Baum
Angus Leeming wrote: > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.4.tar.bz2 (LyX 1.3.4 source) > > lyx_1.3.4-2.diff.gz (from Debian) > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.5.bz2 > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.6.bz2 > > and then build a Debian LyX 1.3.6 package b