Re: orientation of .eps figures

2005-11-23 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Richard Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:48 PM Subject: orientation of .eps figures Hi, I have not had this problem in the past, but after some upgrading ... My .eps figures are appearing in PDF output rotated 90 deg

Re: orientation of .eps figures

2005-11-23 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Richard Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:48 PM Subject: orientation of .eps figures Hi, I have not had this problem in the past, but after some upgrading ... My .eps figures are appearing in PDF output rotated 90 deg

Re: creating tables with custom alignment of individual cells

2005-11-23 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "David Soukal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LyX mailing list" Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 6:14 PM Subject: Re: creating tables with custom alignment of individual cells I still welcome any commnents & hints & tips about using tables in LyX! Thank you,

Re: orientation of .eps figures

2005-11-23 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Richard Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:48 PM Subject: orientation of .eps figures Hi, I have not had this problem in the past, but after some upgrading ... My .eps figures are appearing in PDF output rotated 90 deg

Re: creating tables with custom alignment of individual cells

2005-11-23 Thread David Soukal
Funny, I just solved the problem by accident and confirmed it by looking on the Internet: 1) the multicolumn option has another meaning, in addition to the meaning implied by its name: the allows *custom* alignment of a cell 2) multicolumn + dcolumn can be combined to solve problem 3) in my

creating tables with custom alignment of individual cells

2005-11-23 Thread David Soukal
Hello, I am still consistently working on my thesis, spreading the awarness of LyX's greatness along the way... :) yet I've run into another little problem that I was unable to solve easily with at-hands documentation. I am trying to report some data in tables and I have come across the foll

orientation of .eps figures

2005-11-23 Thread Richard Sherman
Hi, I have not had this problem in the past, but after some upgrading ... My .eps figures are appearing in PDF output rotated 90 degrees clockwise. I use LyX-Aqua 1.3.6, Mac OS X 10.4.3 Any ideas? thanks, p.s. exporting the LaTeX from LyX and then running pdflatex from the terminal give

No cmr10 with foiltex

2005-11-23 Thread Gunnar
Hi. I'm using LyX 1.3.6 and Windows and I'm having a problem with fonts and foiltex. I write a simple presentation and try to preview the dvi but the dvi file doesn't show the things that I've written. It says (when checking document properties). Making PK font: C:\texmf\miktex\bin\makepk.exe --

Re: Acrobat has problems reading parts of my PDF

2005-11-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Andrew Morrison wrote: Under Layout-->Document had the font set to "default". This means that the dfault cm-fonts (computer modern) are used that are bitmap fonts. http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#badFonts Okay...I tried all the suggestions on that page, but had the same results. Also, I trie

Re: Acrobat has problems reading parts of my PDF

2005-11-23 Thread Martin Dietz
My guess is that the font problem does not refer to the text but to text embedded in the graphic. Change this text or leave it out of the picture and check the result. Martin On 11/23/05, Andrew Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/23/05, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > And

I can not get balance columns

2005-11-23 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
Hi, I am writing a book with koma-script with two columns. I want get balance columns at the end of each chapter. I search in Google for it. I put in preamble \usepackage{balance} and, with ERT, \balance and \nobalance in accordance with manual of package. I can´t get that it

I can´t get balance columns

2005-11-23 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
Hi, I am writing a book with koma-script with two columns. I want get balance columns at the end of each chapter. I search in Google for it. I put in preamble \usepackage{balance} and, with ERT, \balance and \nobalance in accordance with manual of package. I can´t get that it work

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-23 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:> >On a linux system, you typically get all the free documentation with >your latex installation. On a debian linux system, see the file >/usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/tex-refs/makeindex-special-effects.html >On other systems, search for this file on the

Re: Index Tips & Tricks in LyX.

2005-11-23 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
>> a) I have in my book: Otto von Bismark-Schonhausen >> I put the cursor at the end of this name, click on >> Insert > Index Entry and get a dialog box with the >> word Schonhausen, then I must add the rest of name >> without any misspelling each time that this name >> appears. > > I found tha

Re: A Tool for Building Indexs of Sociology/History/etc/ Texts.

2005-11-23 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
> This isn't integrated in LyX, but is this what you want? > > https://gna.org/projects/latex-indexbuild/ > > This generates a comprehensive list of occurrences of each of the > names you specify, which is probably what you want for sociology. > (For science, I think it is more normal to on

Re: Acrobat has problems reading parts of my PDF

2005-11-23 Thread Andrew Morrison
On 11/23/05, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew Morrison wrote: > > > In xpdf, even though the text and graphics displays, the > > terminal window has several lines of the same error: > > "Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph". > > You use a bitmap font (Type 3) that makes problems.

Re: Newbie here!

2005-11-23 Thread Bonhôte, André
Folks, First, thanks all for your kind help. Here's my short resume: 1 - Is it possible to add a header/footer which is really at the edge of the page? If yes, are there examples around I could steal from? Roy kindly provided a quick and convenient way of doing that. Keyword: Background

Re: Newbie here!

2005-11-23 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Wed 23 Nov 2005 13:31:15 GMT, [Helge Hafting] wrote : \_ Bonhôte, André wrote: Hi! I am completely new to this list, and even newer to LyX. I used to work with LaTeX some years ago, but now I find LyX easier to work with. It is easier and often quicker too, i.e. it gives yo

Re: Newbie here!

2005-11-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bonhôte, André wrote: > 1 - Is it possible to add a header/footer which is really at the > edge of the page? Maybe this is of interest: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/PaperLayout http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tips/paperLayout/paperDistances.png regards Uwe

Re: Acrobat has problems reading parts of my PDF

2005-11-23 Thread Sven Schreiber
> "Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph". > Maybe you knew that already, but this seems to be a problem with the embedded font information. Maybe you could use other fonts to work around the problem, for example by switching to one of the Acrobat-standard fonts that don't need to be embedded

Re: Acrobat has problems reading parts of my PDF

2005-11-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Andrew Morrison wrote: In xpdf, even though the text and graphics displays, the terminal window has several lines of the same error: "Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph". You use a bitmap font (Type 3) that makes problems. What is the font you are currently using? In general it is better

Acrobat has problems reading parts of my PDF

2005-11-23 Thread Andrew Morrison
Recently, I switched from using gv and xpdf to read my pdf files produced in lyx. As I was proofing my thesis, I reached a page where the graphics and text would not display in Acrobat Reader (version 7 for linux) but would still display in xpdf. In Acrobat, a window pops up that says "a drawing

Re: Newbie here!

2005-11-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Bonhôte, André wrote: Hi! I am completely new to this list, and even newer to LyX. I used to work with LaTeX some years ago, but now I find LyX easier to work with. My goal is to create technical documentation in a consitent manner. We have some CI guidelines I will have to follow, like a

Re: when to use koma-script?

2005-11-23 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 23, 2005, at 2:55 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: Use komascript: * When you want the look koma-script gives. I believe it is tuned for European typography. Correct, esp. as promulgated by Jan Tschichold in his writings (_The Form of the Book_ is wonderful). * whenever you find the extr

Math in OS X

2005-11-23 Thread Alexander Gahr
Can anybody help me it seem that all Math fonts are messes. The only lock god in Latex perview though ghost script but not on screen in Lyx. Please has anybody a solution a cant't type formulas anymore. Or i have to do it blind. I installes used the lastes tex version of the i installer. Alex

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Stephen Harris wrote: I tested tex2lyx on sample.tex which has the author's picture which it displayed. It did not display the pdf test files. "error converting to loadable format" and something about "No information for converting pdf to eps" I saw ImageMagick in both Paths (prefix). Nasty!

Newbie here!

2005-11-23 Thread Bonhôte, André
Hi! I am completely new to this list, and even newer to LyX. I used to work with LaTeX some years ago, but now I find LyX easier to work with. My goal is to create technical documentation in a consitent manner. We have some CI guidelines I will have to follow, like a bitmap on top and one

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: So you have to fill in the index entry, but no need to worry about how to write the name. Just paste it. I think that this idea is not a solution well. Sure. It is not a solution, but a way of easing the work with the existing lyx. Getting your index dialo