Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]

2005-12-13 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Enrico Forestieri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 7:02 PM Subject: Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into] Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I wish I were smarter so that it would be blinding

Re: Bibliography problem

2005-12-13 Thread K. Elo
Hi, thanks for your explanations, they have been helpful. I have now exported the article I mentioned and the .tex preamble looks like this: --- cut here --- \documentclass[a4paper]{report} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \setcounter{secnumdepth}{3} \setcounter{tocdepth}{3}

Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]

2005-12-13 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 2:41 PM Subject: Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into] Think of both the registry and the PATH environment variable as simply *hints* of where to find a g

LyX 1.3.7pre5 some progress in diagnosis

2005-12-13 Thread Stephen Harris
I made my way to the backup computer for testing and noticed that LyX1.3.7pre4 was installed on it, and I hadn't fixed it with "sh.exe configure". So I uninstalled it and installed 137pre5 and it installed in both C:\LyX and in C:\Program files\LyX just fine. Both installs did exhibit the extra

Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]

2005-12-13 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I wish I were smarter so that it would be blindingly obvious to me too. > I envision four(5) scenarios: I see that Angus already answered your questions. I think that your doubts are due to a misconception of the PATH. Please, have a look here http:

Re: width of table

2005-12-13 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >i am already setting a fixed width. the problem is that using 100 with > >text%, col%, page% and line% never uses the width i'd expect (ie the same as > >the surrounding text). > > > > [...] > For a single-column table,

Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]

2005-12-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen Harris wrote: >> The installer searches the Registry in various ways in order to find the >> whereabouts of sh.exe, gswinc.exe, python.exe, etc. It's blindingly >> obvious that it should first ascertain whether these things are already >> in the PATH. Never mind ;-) By which I meant that I

Re: Decimalcomma instead of decimalpoint

2005-12-13 Thread Gunnar
> How can I automatically get a decimal comma instead of a decimal point in > math environments? > > I've tried > \AtBeginDocument{\def\extrasspanish{}} > > and even > \DeclareMathSymbol{,}{\mathpunct}{letters}{"3B} > \DeclareMathSymbol{.}{\mathord}{letters}{"3B} > \DeclareMathSymbol{\decimal}{\mat

Decimalcomma instead of decimalpoint

2005-12-13 Thread Gunnar
How can I automatically get a decimal comma instead of a decimal point in math environments? I've tried \AtBeginDocument{\def\extrasspanish{}} and even \DeclareMathSymbol{,}{\mathpunct}{letters}{"3B} \DeclareMathSymbol{.}{\mathord}{letters}{"3B} \DeclareMathSymbol{\decimal}{\mathord}{letters}{"3

Re: Bibliography problem

2005-12-13 Thread Herbert Voss
K. Elo wrote: yes, \url is only valid with a \usepackage{url} that's all. Well, can you then explain one thing to me: I have a 30-page scientific article written with LyX using the same test.bst I mailed to you. The preamble of this document is _empty_, i.e. no \usepackage{url} and there a

Re: Bibliography problem

2005-12-13 Thread K. Elo
Hi, Herbert Voss, 13.12.2005 15:28: > yes, > \url is only valid with a \usepackage{url} that's all. Well, can you then explain one thing to me: I have a 30-page scientific article written with LyX using the same test.bst I mailed to you. The preamble of this document is _empty_, i.e. no \usepac

Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]

2005-12-13 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:11 AM Subject: Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into] Stephen Harris wrote: On my computer, the contents of \path_prefix are a subset of the Windows PA

[Completely O-T] Re: There's Something About Textclass.ls

2005-12-13 Thread chr
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Angus Leeming wrote: > That's exactly what I mean. > > > The best laid plans of mice and men..., > > Stephen > > The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, > Gang aft agley, > An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, > For promis'd joy! > > Still, thou art blest, compar'd wi' me

Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]

2005-12-13 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Enrico Forestieri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:17 AM Subject: Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into] Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Formally, that's the PATH environment variable. To b

Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]

2005-12-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen Harris wrote: > On my computer, the contents of \path_prefix are a subset of the > Windows PATH environment variable because I've manually added > them. Checking the contents of PATH and comparing it to LyX's > \path_prefix to determine accuracy seems awfully smart, like AI. The installer

Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]

2005-12-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Formally, that's the PATH environment variable. To be honest, I don't >> think that I check the contents of this variable when generating the >> contents of \path_prefix. Clearly I should have > > Angus, you did a wonderfu

Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]

2005-12-13 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 4:54 AM Subject: Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into] Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: "Enrico Forestieri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]

2005-12-13 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Formally, that's the PATH environment variable. To be honest, I don't think > that I check the contents of this variable when generating the contents of > \path_prefix. Clearly I should have Angus, you did a wonderful job. I saw people which started us

Re: missing documentation ...?

2005-12-13 Thread chr
Hi Martin On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > that is pretty clear. now, it would be nice if your explanation was part of > the documentation! I didn't follow this thread to closely, but something that may help others is to the information to some of the wiki pages. Perhaps one of the

Re: Bibliography problem

2005-12-13 Thread Herbert Voss
K. Elo wrote: and the following is the reason why a \url in the bib file is not needed, because the bst file does it already ... FUNCTION {format.url} { url empty$ { "" } { "\url{" url * "}" * } if$ } Well, this is already clear to me. I do not think so As I mentioned, I have ma

Re: width of table

2005-12-13 Thread Helge Hafting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am already setting a fixed width. the problem is that using 100 with text%, col%, page% and line% never uses the width i'd expect (ie the same as the surrounding text). The problem is that you can't set the width of a table. You're setting the width of a column, ar

Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]

2005-12-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen Harris wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Enrico Forestieri" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: > Sent: Monday, > December 12, 2005 5:17 PM Subject: Re: There's Something About > Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into] > > >>> because I think it is very li

Re: width of table

2005-12-13 Thread mamato
sorry, it wasn't clear in the latter mails, i'm talking about tables... (i'm currently not able to resize images since i dont have imagemagick... even though it's possible with plain (pdf)latex and most file formats :/ ) mamato On 12/13/05, Johan Ingvast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: width of table

2005-12-13 Thread mamato
i am already setting a fixed width. the problem is that using 100 with text%, col%, page% and line% never uses the width i'd expect (ie the same as the surrounding text). mamato On 12/8/05, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > how can i make a table w

Re: keyboard customization

2005-12-13 Thread mamato
found the solution thanks to charles! put \usepackage{eurosym} in your preamble. you can then use \euro{} or \EUR{1000}... there are options and other commands described in the documentation. mamato On 12/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i'm having problems with u

Re: missing documentation ...?

2005-12-13 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Robert Orr wrote: I cant see why one would set both. I don't want to beat a dead horse, but, for instance,when experimenting to get the image just right one might enter both the H and W and some point during the process. So, if one enters both an H and a W parameter, do