Re: Spellchecker - My stupidity!

2005-09-01 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: "Michael Wojcik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 8:47 AM Subject: Re: Spellchecker - My stupidity! Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: While two open single quotes are needed - ie `` - the use of " is valid for closing quotes. Needed why?

Using Covington (problems with ERT - latex conversion!)

2005-09-01 Thread Stacia Hartleben
I am using the package Covington to make numbered linguistic examples. The following text displays fine through latex: \gll Dit is een Nederlands voorbeeld. This is a Dutch example. \glt `This is an example in Dutch.' But in Lyx, it does not line up like it should. I checked the Latex outp

Re: Spellchecker - My stupidity!

2005-09-01 Thread Michael Wojcik
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: While two open single quotes are needed - ie `` - the use of " is valid for closing quotes. Needed why? In LyX, the " character should be suitable for both. (See User's Guide 3.7.2.2 on setting quote-character options.) Consequently spellcheck was picking up an apost

Re: problem with hyphenation of underlined text

2005-09-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: I have a document that contains transcriptions of correspondence. The text contains instances where an underscore is used for emphasis which we wish to retain. Unfortunately when such words fall at the end of the line LyX (or LaTeX) no longer seems to be able to hyphenate

Re: ligatures in the footnotes

2005-09-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Googling has failed me. I'm trying to add the \OE ligature to a footnote using an ERT. This produces an error message an "undefined control sequence" error message. read your error messages carefully. It doesn't say, that \OE is unknown, but \OEwhateverfollows \OE\ or

column width problem with "Labeling" solved

2005-09-01 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
I posted this a couple weeks ago (answer follows). > I have a list that consists of keywords and explanations. I used a > paragraph environment called "Labeling" to do this. My problem is that > one keyword is so long that it runs beyond where the body text of all > other keywords start. > I l

ligatures in the footnotes

2005-09-01 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi all, Googling has failed me. I'm trying to add the \OE ligature to a footnote using an ERT. This produces an error message an "undefined control sequence" error message. Could someone confirm that this should work? Might the (otherwise not so helpful) error message have to do with the "oe"

How to not display appendix labels (A, B, C, etc.)?

2005-09-01 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
In the table of contents each "appendix chapter" is listed with a label: A. Appendix Section B. Another Appendix Section C. Etc. I want to eliminate the ABCs. I tried switching from "chapter" to "*chapter" but then in the page headings the last chapter title was carried over so that it appeare

problem with hyphenation of underlined text

2005-09-01 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi all, I have a document that contains transcriptions of correspondence. The text contains instances where an underscore is used for emphasis which we wish to retain. Unfortunately when such words fall at the end of the line LyX (or LaTeX) no longer seems to be able to hyphenate them. Is ther