Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-10 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Micha feigin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 11:02 PM Subject: Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller [...] David Carlisle Wed, 21 Nov 2001 21:03:33 - "I'm sorry but this isn't really a bug

Re: powerdot

2006-01-10 Thread L. R. Denham
On Monday 09 January 2006 22:08, Subir Singh Lamba wrote: > > For intsalling the new package of pstricks do I have to delete the old one > or I can just install the new package (without deleting the old one) in > > /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex > > When I had exactly the same problem I move

Underline added text in change-tracking enabled output.

2006-01-10 Thread Bo Peng
Dear list, I need to print a document with changes marked. Since I only have a B/W printer, the added text (in blue) does not show clearly on paper. Is there a way to underline such text? The dvipost manual is quite simple and I can not find enough information. Many thanks in advance. Bo

Re: Installing my own latex class - Resolution

2006-01-10 Thread Theofilos Strinopoulos
Adding the acm_cit_thesis.layout in ~/.lyx/layouts did not help But adding it in ~/Library/Application\ Support/Lyx/layouts solved the problem. Maybe this is a bug in the latest release of lyx, namely that it doesn't check in ~/.lyx/layouts for layouts. Thank you all, Danke Schön, theo On 1/

Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-10 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Micha Feigin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:59 AM Subject: Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:16:13 +0200 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:37:50 -0800 "Stephen Harris" <[E

Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:57:31 +0100 Martin Geisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I checked this on windows and I don't get any problem with a bib > > file that is in a path with spaces (implicitly where the lyx file is > > in a file with spaces or expl

Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:44:01 -0600 Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If the bib file is in a local user directory (with spaces) and included by > > the user browsing to it then it is very much a lyx bug. > > This is the case I reported, and I think lyx should do something about > it. Actuall

Re: quote size

2006-01-10 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi Eran, [copied to list] On Tuesday 10 January 2006 21:56, you wrote: > The simple answer is that I am bound by institutional constraints. > Nonetheless, most of the books I see set quotes in smaller point size > of the same typeface. Maybe my own logic wasn't as logical as I thought. I justed

Re: problem including tex file

2006-01-10 Thread Herbert Voss
J Greenbaum wrote: I've tried including the file both ways...that is, with Lyx's native include support and with ERT and I get the same error message. I'm using LyX version 1.3.6. Any more ideas? -Jay On 1/9/06, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Montag, 9. Januar 2006 18:31 schrieb J

Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-10 Thread Martin Geisler
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I checked this on windows and I don't get any problem with a bib > file that is in a path with spaces (implicitly where the lyx file is > in a file with spaces or explicitly where it is also in a > subdirectory with spaces). I believe the problem is the

Re: problem including tex file

2006-01-10 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 19:02 schrieb J Greenbaum: > I've tried including the file both ways...that is, with Lyx's native > include support and with ERT and I get the same error message. I'm > using LyX version 1.3.6. Any more ideas? Strange. You could disable the "Use a temporary directory

Re: Installing my own latex class

2006-01-10 Thread Anders Ekberg
Theofilos Strinopoulos Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:59:13 -0800 I made the change that you suggested and changed the first lines of acm_cit_thesis.layout to #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[acm_cit_thesis]{ACM CIT Thesis} But there is no improvement. I hav

Re: Excel-like tables

2006-01-10 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 1/10/06, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The way to add a left border to only one cell is to flag the cell as multicolumn (even though it occupies only one column) and then add the border. This should work ok in general. I don't know if it works when the cell is

Re: quote size

2006-01-10 Thread Martin Geisler
"mail.k" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Paul, > > I'd like to customize the quote environment, so that it appears in > smaller type--like footnotes--than the standard environment. I have > too many quotes to change each of them manually. To change the quote environment in LaTeX you have to re

Re: Excel-like tables

2006-01-10 Thread Paul Smith
On 1/10/06, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>The way to add a left border to only one cell is to flag the cell as > >>multicolumn (even though it occupies only one column) and then add the > >>border. This should work ok in general. I don't know if it works when > >>the cell is the up

Re: Installing my own latex class

2006-01-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Theofilos Strinopoulos wrote: But there is no improvement. I have used the acm_cit_thesis.cls and ac_cit_thesis.layout in the past successfully so I believe that the problem is not in the files but in the configuration of lyx. Please send me your .cls, .layout, and a LyX-file that uses it and

Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:16:13 +0200 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:37:50 -0800 > "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: > > S

Re: Installing my own latex class

2006-01-10 Thread Theofilos Strinopoulos
I made the change that you suggested and changed the first lines of acm_cit_thesis.layout to #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[acm_cit_thesis]{ACM CIT Thesis} But there is no improvement. I have used the acm_cit_thesis.cls and ac_cit_thesis.layout in

Re: Installing my own latex class

2006-01-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Theofilos Strinopoulos schrieb: I have created a ~/.lyx/layouts directory and added the layout file acm_cit_thesis.layout there It does begin with: #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass{ACM CIT Thesis} Sorry it must begin with > #% Do not delete the

Re: Excel-like tables

2006-01-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: On 1/10/06, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Suppose, Paul, that one wants to add a left-side vertical border only to one cell (and not more than one) of the first column, then your solution does not work, and no way is left to do that with LyX (up to a ERT solution).

Re: Installing my own latex class

2006-01-10 Thread Theofilos Strinopoulos
I have created a ~/.lyx/layouts directory and added the layout file acm_cit_thesis.layout there It does begin with: #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass{ACM CIT Thesis} Still when I go to Layout->Document->Class, I don't see ACM CIT Thesis Theo On 1/

Re: Excel-like tables

2006-01-10 Thread Paul Smith
On 1/10/06, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Suppose, Paul, that one wants to add a left-side vertical border only > > to one cell (and not more than one) of the first column, then your > > solution does not work, and no way is left to do that with LyX (up to > > a ERT solution). Thus,

Re: Installing my own latex class

2006-01-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Theofilos Strinopoulos wrote: Why does lyx not recognize acm_cit_thesis.cls? You need a layout file for your thesis class. You can take the file book.layout that comes with LyX, change its first two lines to #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass{ac

Re: Incomplete Document Opening

2006-01-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote: Works fine for me too (on both 1.3.6 and 1.4pre3 on Mac). I send you pdf-output privately along with a newly saved file (in case something is still messed up with the original. In case the problem persists, a possibility could be to do some resets (recon

Installing my own latex class

2006-01-10 Thread Theofilos Strinopoulos
Hallo everyone, I am running Lyx with Aqua interface on a mac. I have written my own latex document class called acm_cit_thesis.cls which uses cit_logo.eps. I have added it to the latex tree and I am able to compile latex documents that use this class. To make lyx recognize acm_cit_thesis I go to

Re: Incomplete Document Opening

2006-01-10 Thread Anders Ekberg
Works fine for me too (on both 1.3.6 and 1.4pre3 on Mac). I send you pdf-output privately along with a newly saved file (in case something is still messed up with the original. In case the problem persists, a possibility could be to do some resets (reconfigure, rename preference file, texhash

Re: problem including tex file

2006-01-10 Thread J Greenbaum
I've tried including the file both ways...that is, with Lyx's native include support and with ERT and I get the same error message. I'm using LyX version 1.3.6. Any more ideas? -Jay On 1/9/06, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Montag, 9. Januar 2006 18:31 schrieb J Greenbaum: > > > I

Re: Incomplete Document Opening

2006-01-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote: If you can send me the file (or post it to the list), I'll see if I can reproduce your errors. Anders/Paul, Now it's working here, too. I suspect there was some process running in the background that stopped LyX from fully loading the file for displ

Re: Incomplete Document Opening

2006-01-10 Thread Paul Smith
On 1/10/06, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you can send me the file (or post it to the list), I'll see if I can > > reproduce your errors. > >Here it is. I've not before encountered this behavior so I'm really > puzzled. BTW, I've lots of time; these comments are not due until F

Re: Incomplete Document Opening

2006-01-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote: If you can send me the file (or post it to the list), I'll see if I can reproduce your errors. Anders, Here it is. I've not before encountered this behavior so I'm really puzzled. BTW, I've lots of time; these comments are not due until February. T

Re: Typeface for Insert URL

2006-01-10 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe Stöhr wrote: mail.k schrieb: Unfortunately, that defeats the purpose: if the link is in text, it won't be typeset correctly (that's why I tuned to Insert Url in the first place. I don't won't the URL pushed to the next line and the line above justified with lots of useless whitespace).

Re: quote size

2006-01-10 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
mail.k writes: > I'd like to customize the quote environment, so that it appears in > smaller type--like footnotes--than the standard environment. Hi Eran, I will play the devil's advocate here and ask, "why?" If the quotes are important enough to appear in the main body of your doument then

Re: Typeface for Insert URL

2006-01-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
mail.k schrieb: Unfortunately, that defeats the purpose: if the link is in text, it won't be typeset correctly (that's why I tuned to Insert Url in the first place. I don't won't the URL pushed to the next line and the line above justified with lots of useless whitespace). You want hyphenati

Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-10 Thread Bo Peng
> If the bib file is in a local user directory (with spaces) and included by > the user browsing to it then it is very much a lyx bug. This is the case I reported, and I think lyx should do something about it. Actually, a label above the browse button like "File with spaces in its path may not wor

Re: Incomplete Document Opening

2006-01-10 Thread Anders Ekberg
Rich Shepard Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:43:33 -0800 On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Rich Shepard wrote: Yesterday I started a report and quite for the evening after entering a new section head. This morning, I fire up LyX and load the document and only the first 255 (of 344 total) lines display. The titlehea

Re: quote size

2006-01-10 Thread Paul Smith
On 1/10/06, mail.k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to customize the quote environment, so that it appears in > smaller type--like footnotes--than the standard environment. I have too > many quotes to change each of them manually. Eran, That is not too difficult. A semi-automatic solution f

Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:37:50 -0800 "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 7:49 PM > Subject: Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller > > >

Re: Excel-like tables

2006-01-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Suppose, Paul, that one wants to add a left-side vertical border only to one cell (and not more than one) of the first column, then your solution does not work, and no way is left to do that with LyX (up to a ERT solution). Thus, I would classify it as a bug. The way to add a

Re: quote size

2006-01-10 Thread mail.k
Hi Paul, I'd like to customize the quote environment, so that it appears in smaller type--like footnotes--than the standard environment. I have too many quotes to change each of them manually. Kindly, Eran Re: quote size Paul Smith Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:30:30 -0800 On 1/10/06, mail.k <[E

Re: Incomplete Document Opening

2006-01-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Rich Shepard wrote: Yesterday I started a report and quite for the evening after entering a new section head. This morning, I fire up LyX and load the document and only the first 255 (of 344 total) lines display. The titlehead image is also messed up (that is, there's a hug

Incomplete Document Opening

2006-01-10 Thread Rich Shepard
Perhaps it's too early here, and the caffine has not reached full titer in my NPU, but I cannot find why only part of a document displays. This is lyx-1.3.6 on linux. Yesterday I started a report and quite for the evening after entering a new section head. This morning, I fire up LyX and load

Re: Excel-like tables

2006-01-10 Thread Paul Smith
On 1/10/06, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Try right-clicking the top left cell and inserting a vertical bar (|) at > >>the very start of the LaTeX argument, i.e. > >> > >>|>{\columncolor{darkgreen}\centering}c > > > > Thanks, Paul. Your suggestion succeeds, but should not it work thr

Re: Excel-like tables

2006-01-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: On 1/10/06, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible with LyX the creation of tables like the first one shown at http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/13.html It is, have a look at http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Tables You find ther an example lyx-file in t

Re: copying and pasting a LyX environment? (like Word's Format Painter)

2006-01-10 Thread Abdel
Andre Poenitz a écrit : On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:22:48AM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Helge Hafting writes: I don't know how this "format painter" works, but here is something I imagine could be useful: * Mark the part of the document to be changed - possibly all * Use a menu (or keypress) t

Re: Excel-like tables

2006-01-10 Thread Paul Smith
On 1/10/06, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the new table, but, as I remarked in my previous post, some > > borders of the table are missing in the dvi and pdf files. > > Also in my example? For me all borders are visible. Well, it is Acrobat Reader and Kpdf fault: if I increas

Re: Excel-like tables

2006-01-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul Smith wrote: Is this bug registered on Bugzilla? I'll register it later today. Thanks for the new table, but, as I remarked in my previous post, some borders of the table are missing in the dvi and pdf files. Also in my example? For me all borders are visible. regards Uwe

Re: Excel-like tables

2006-01-10 Thread Paul Smith
On 1/10/06, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, Uwe, for the very useful link. Attached, it is an example that > > I have adapted, which seems to exhibit a bug, since it seems > > impossible to add a certain vertical border. > > Yes it is a bug. > I attached an example with a table as

Re: quote size

2006-01-10 Thread Paul Smith
On 1/10/06, mail.k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was referring to a quote style in order to format large number of quotes in > a consistent manner. > I learned how to control the spacing separately from the body text --- how > about point size? How about point size? I do not really understand w

Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-10 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Helge Hafting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Martin Geisler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:07 AM Subject: Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller It is so much easier if these bugs are fixed in the proper place - fixing the problem in

Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-10 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Georg Baum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 11:50 PM Subject: Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller Martin Geisler wrote: So please don't dismiss this as a WONTFIX bug... lots of people wont have a Linux-savy boyfriend to help

Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-10 Thread Martin Geisler
"Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > SH: I am not so sure that you followed this thread. So I'm going to > requote Bo Peng, his complaint and suggested solution which has > introduced the "path with spaces" aspect of this discussion. You're right, I have just subscribed to this list re

Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-10 Thread Martin Geisler
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin Geisler wrote: > >>Do you really mean that Microsoft decided on a default install path >>with spaces just to annoy all the future Unix-centric programs being >>ported to Windows? > > That is hard to know - I guess they simply see this as a 'bonus'

Re: Typeface for Insert URL

2006-01-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
mail.k wrote: I guess what I want is \url or \nolinkurl, since I need the text to contain the actual link. Then use the link name also as description text. Attached an example. regards Uwe newfile2.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: Excel-like tables

2006-01-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, Uwe, for the very useful link. Attached, it is an example that I have adapted, which seems to exhibit a bug, since it seems impossible to add a certain vertical border. Yes it is a bug. I attached an example with a table as you like it. regards Uwe table-color.lyx

Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-10 Thread Martin Geisler
Georg Baum writes: > Martin Geisler wrote: > >> So please don't dismiss this as a WONTFIX bug... lots of people >> wont have a Linux-savy boyfriend to help them out with these things >> :-) > > Again: The problem is with bibtex, not with LyX. I'm sorry, I didn't make that clear -- I know that thi

Re: sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-10 Thread Helge Hafting
Martin Geisler wrote: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: As it stands now, that decision [to make the default install path "C:\Program Files"] was a marketing decision, because the choice causes problem with porting programs to Windows which Microsoft doesn't gather revenue from.