Re: confusion: interword spacing vs. unbreakble space

2005-09-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > What about a situation such as this: "Fig. 26"? To my eye, the interword > space behind the abbreviating period seems too wide. Should this be a > thin space instead? It should be an unbreakable space in any case (that is, thinspace or protected space ~). I use protected s

Re: Bibliography style

2005-09-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
christiaan johannes pauw wrote: > Before I selected "use natbib" the citation style was something like > [Barth(1948), 40]. Now it is (Barth, 1948, 40). What I would like is > (Barth 1948:40). Is there something I can do to change the .bst file or > use something else to  achieve that? have a look

Re: trouble with latex2html on SuSE9.3

2005-09-09 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Sat 10 Sep 2005 02:13:11 BST, [John O'Gorman] wrote : \_ I have happily used LyX with latex2html for years to create web pages. Now I find that with the version which comes with SuSE 9.3, the latex2html is broken. Has anyone else met, and solved this problem? regards John O'Gorm

trouble with latex2html on SuSE9.3

2005-09-09 Thread John O'Gorman
I have happily used LyX with latex2html for years to create web pages. Now I find that with the version which comes with SuSE 9.3, the latex2html is broken. Has anyone else met, and solved this problem? regards John O'Gorman

Re: LyX doesn't store my PDF viewer info

2005-09-09 Thread Mark Engelberg
I was able to solve the problem by replacing my path with the non-space equivalents so I wouldn't need to put the extra quotes around it, which is definitely what was throwing things off. So now my preferences says: \viewer "pdf2" "F:\Progra~1\Adobe\Acroba~2.0\Reader\acrord32.exe" All files and

Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-09 Thread Peter Flynn
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Peter Flynn wrote: I just tried to install Lyx from the 1.3.6-1 RPMs. It can't find the commands kpsewhich and texhash, which is weird because they are both in the global path. The TeX is a new full install from the TeX Collection DVD. How do I get around this? Is the

Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-09 Thread Peter Flynn
Paul Smith wrote: On 9/9/05, Peter Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just tried to install Lyx from the 1.3.6-1 RPMs. It can't find the commands kpsewhich and texhash, which is weird because they are both in the global path. The TeX is a new full install from the TeX Collection DVD. How do I

Re: Sand out code

2005-09-09 Thread Robert Orr
--- Jordi Espasa Clofent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I use Lyx to make the techincals docs for my work. > Sometimes I include few > lines of code (v.g, shell-scripting, perl...) in > that docs, but I don't know > the way to stand out these lines. > > Until the present day I've u

Simple questions.

2005-09-09 Thread Mike Meyer
Bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Primary-Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ --text follows this line-- 1) Has anyone done a layout file for unixman.sty? Google didn't turn one up, nor did

Re: Stand out code

2005-09-09 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Jordi Espasa Clofent writes: > I use Lyx to make the techincals docs for my work. Sometimes I > include few lines of code (v.g, shell-scripting, perl...) in that > docs, but I don't know the way to stand out these lines. > > Until the present day I've used the Empashis option but it doesn't > makes

Sand out code

2005-09-09 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
Hi all, I use Lyx to make the techincals docs for my work. Sometimes I include few lines of code (v.g, shell-scripting, perl...) in that docs, but I don't know the way to stand out these lines. Until the present day I've used the Empashis option but it doesn't makes anything when I convert the

Re: LyX doesn't store my PDF viewer info

2005-09-09 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 1:24 AM Subject: Re: LyX doesn't store my PDF viewer info Vaclav Smidl wrote: I have seen similar problem on my colleagues computer, we resolved it using the workaround with PATH as

Re: CVS access down?

2005-09-09 Thread Angus Leeming
David Soukal wrote: >> CVSROOT=pserver:anoncvs AT anoncvs.us.lyx.org:/var/cvs/lyx >> export CVSROOT >> cvs login >> (the password is lyx) >> cvs checkout -d your_dir_name lyx-devel > Thank you Angus, this works perfect! I have the sources now! > However, later I ran into the following two pro

Re: LyX doesn't store my PDF viewer info

2005-09-09 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: "Jean-Marc Lasgouttes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Stephen P. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 1:22 AM Subject: Re: LyX doesn't store my PDF viewer info "Mark" == Mark Engelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes

Re: CVS access down?

2005-09-09 Thread David Soukal
However, later I ran into the following two problems: 1) tex2lyx won't compile, if fails with the following error counters.o(.text+0x1090): In function `Counters::enumLabel(std::basic_string , std::allocator > const&, Buffer const&)': /home/david/temp/lyx/lyx-devel/src/tex2lyx/c

Re: Bibunits with a master document

2005-09-09 Thread jorgen johansson
Hello, The wiki bibunits example page has a problem with the links , after some fiddling I managed to download the files from http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Examples/Bibunits/bibunits_KomaArticle.lyx http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Examples/Bibunits/refs.bib I don't seem to be able to get the exampl

Re: LyX doesn't store my PDF viewer info

2005-09-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Mark Engelberg wrote: I tried Angus' suggested work-around of setting the path to include f:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader, and then just set the viewer to acrord32.exe. Interestingly, LyX IS able to load the path from the preferences file, and the viewer of just acrord32.exe just fine.

Re: CVS access down?

2005-09-09 Thread David Soukal
CVSROOT=pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs/lyx export CVSROOT cvs login (the password is lyx) cvs checkout -d your_dir_name lyx-devel Thank you Angus, this works perfect! I have the sources now! However, later I ran into the following two problems: 1) tex2lyx won't compile, if fails wit

Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Peter Flynn wrote: I just tried to install Lyx from the 1.3.6-1 RPMs. It can't find the commands kpsewhich and texhash, which is weird because they are both in the global path. The TeX is a new full install from the TeX Collection DVD. How do I get around this? Is the postinstall script SUing

Re: CVS access down?

2005-09-09 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus Leeming wrote: > David Soukal wrote: >> I've read the thread but I still cannot figure out the whole cvs >> command. Could you, please, write it down for me? I'm sorry, I don't >> have that much experience with CVS so it's hard for me to derive the >> command + paths... That's: > CVSROOT=

Re: CVS access down?

2005-09-09 Thread Angus Leeming
David Soukal wrote: > I've read the thread but I still cannot figure out the whole cvs > command. Could you, please, write it down for me? I'm sorry, I don't > have that much experience with CVS so it's hard for me to derive the > command + paths... CVSROOT=pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs/lyx

Re: CVS access down?

2005-09-09 Thread David Soukal
Are you using the anoncvs.us.lyx.org mirror of the cvs repository? If so, then the directory has indeed changed, as described here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/47733 Please change all references of /cvs to /var/cvs when referring to cvs.sylvan.com (AKA anoncvs.us.lyx.org). I

Re: CVS access down?

2005-09-09 Thread Angus Leeming
David Soukal wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've been trying to download LyX from the CVS without any success for > several day now. Can somebody, please, confirm that the server is > unaccessible? Or is the problem on our side? Are you using the anoncvs.us.lyx.org mirror of the cvs repository? I

CVS access down?

2005-09-09 Thread David Soukal
Hello everybody, I've been trying to download LyX from the CVS without any success for several day now. Can somebody, please, confirm that the server is unaccessible? Or is the problem on our side? I don't remember the cvs command, so I tried to click on "Details can be found here" on the D

Re: colophon info for LyX/LaTeX?

2005-09-09 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Kevin Pfeiffer writes: > Is there any standardized material about LyX, etc. that I can use in > the colophon for the book I am working on? Something in German would > be even better. > > Is there anything else that needs to be (or should be) included in a > book produced using LyX (and with the he

Re: Letter. No address in Dvi/ps/pdf output

2005-09-09 Thread Axel Dessecker
Christiaan, Am Freitag, 9. September 2005 13:26 schrieb christiaan johannes pauw: > When I write a letter using the letter document class (selected under > Layout-> Document) and format text as 'My address' or 'send to address' > the don't show up in the dvi output or only one line shows up. I hav

Re: Bibliography style

2005-09-09 Thread Martin A. Hansen
try latex makebst martin On 09/09/05, christiaan johannes pauw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am writing a thesis in Afrikaans using Lyx 1.3.4 on SuSE 9.1. I use > the report document style and ampsrmp.bst form my Bibliography style. > Under layout->Document->Bibliography I selected "use natb

Letter. No address in Dvi/ps/pdf output

2005-09-09 Thread christiaan johannes pauw
I use lyx 1.3.4 on SuSE 9.1 When I write a letter using the letter document class (selected under Layout-> Document) and format text as 'My address' or 'send to address' the don't show up in the dvi output or only one line shows up. I have tried to select the address line one by one, but it do

Bibliography style

2005-09-09 Thread christiaan johannes pauw
I am writing a thesis in Afrikaans using Lyx 1.3.4 on SuSE 9.1. I use the report document style and ampsrmp.bst form my Bibliography style. Under layout->Document->Bibliography I selected "use natbib" with option Author-year. I have hacked ampsrmp.bst a bit to include al the correct Afrikaans t

Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-09 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/9/05, Peter Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just tried to install Lyx from the 1.3.6-1 RPMs. > > It can't find the commands kpsewhich and texhash, which is weird because > they are both in the global path. The TeX is a new full install from the > TeX Collection DVD. > > How do I get aro

colophon info for LyX/LaTeX?

2005-09-09 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Is there any standardized material about LyX, etc. that I can use in the colophon for the book I am working on? Something in German would be even better. Is there anything else that needs to be (or should be) included in a book produced using LyX (and with the help of the lyx-users list)? -K

Re: Setting Font

2005-09-09 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Fri 09 Sep 2005 09:07:37 BST, [s.vestli] wrote : \_ > > I seem to be unable to change the font. No matter .. Are you unable to change screen fonts? Output/printout fonts? With the cursor over text with modified font/s, can you see an alterative font name in the status bar

Re: confusion: interword spacing vs. unbreakble space

2005-09-09 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Juergen Spitzmueller writes: > David Soukal wrote: > > I'm very confused about how to properly create an interword space. > > In LaTeX the standard way is to use "\ " for an interword space and > > \@ for the end-of-sentence spacing after punctuation. I was used to > > typing > > > > bla, e.g.\ bla

Re: LyX doesn't store my PDF viewer info

2005-09-09 Thread Angus Leeming
Vaclav Smidl wrote: > I have seen similar problem on my colleagues computer, we resolved it > using the workaround with PATH as described by Angus. > To my understanding, the trouble is, that saving the full path > "F:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\acrord32.exe" > in the preferences, add

Re: LyX doesn't store my PDF viewer info

2005-09-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Mark" == Mark Engelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> I am using the full path name. When I set the preferences file Mark> to: "F:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\acrord32.exe" Mark> then everything works for the duration of that LyX session. Mark> But when I exit the program, a

Re: LyX doesn't store my PDF viewer info

2005-09-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Angus> Stephen P. Harris wrote: >> My viewer has this path, C:\reader7\Reader\AcroRd32.exe Yours is >> probably in F:\program files\adobe etc So try using the full path >> name including the drive letter. Angus> You should consider using

Re: Turabian Style?

2005-09-09 Thread Mhac Janapin
Thanks guys! I will check out all those recommendations. Mhac On 9/9/05, Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mhac Janapin writes: > > Hi Guys! > > I am new in this list, so please bear with my total ignorance. I am > > writing my Dissertation right now and *was* using a wordprocessor t

Re: LyX doesn't store my PDF viewer info

2005-09-09 Thread Vaclav Smidl
I have seen similar problem on my colleagues computer, we resolved it using the workaround with PATH as described by Angus. To my understanding, the trouble is, that saving the full path "F:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\acrord32.exe" in the preferences, adds extra " around it, so that

Re: Turabian Style?

2005-09-09 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Mhac Janapin writes: > Hi Guys! > I am new in this list, so please bear with my total ignorance. I am > writing my Dissertation right now and *was* using a wordprocessor to > do it. However, that word proc is quite lacking in doing what I > intend to do. Then I stumbled on LaTeX which logically led

Re: Turabian Style?

2005-09-09 Thread Georg Baum
Mhac Janapin wrote: > However, our Department requires us to follow the Turabian Specifications > in writing our paper. So in wanting to use Lyx, I tried to search for a > style that follows the Turabian Specifications... and I don't think I > found one. > > So: > 1) Is there an existing style av

Re: Bibunits with a master document

2005-09-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - should the "\usepackage{bibunits}" command be inserted in the master > document preamble or in the included files preamble? In the master document. If you intend to compile your child documents separately, put it also there. > - should the "\bibliographyunit[\chapter