Re: Mac Install Problems

2006-01-23 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 24, 2006, at 1:17 AM, Ian Stevenson wrote: Dear Lyx Users, I have just started with Lyx and am having problems with the teTex install. I need some assistance in diagnosing the problem. Here are the details: OS: Max OS X 10.3.9 Lyx Version 1.3.7 Tex and Ghostscript 8 installed (?) w

Mac Install Problems

2006-01-23 Thread Ian Stevenson
Dear Lyx Users, I have just started with Lyx and am having problems with the teTex install. I need some assistance in diagnosing the problem. Here are the details: OS: Max OS X 10.3.9 Lyx Version 1.3.7 Tex and Ghostscript 8 installed (?) with i-Installer The problem: No "View > DVI" Menu it

Re: word-wrap and itemize

2006-01-23 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Tue 24 Jan 2006 04:27:21 GMT, [Jeremy C. Reed] wrote : \_ I have a itemize list with: * Traffic from the internal LAN to the Internet is permitted (LAN_INET) and must be translated (LAN_INET_NAT). * Traffic from the internal LAN to the DMZ is permitted (LAN_DMZ). * Traffic from

Re: blank images in preview (Lyx 1.3.7, MacOSX 10.4.4)

2006-01-23 Thread Marc D.
On 23 Jan 06, at 20:03, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 7:58 PM, Marc D. wrote: The problem is that although I can see the included images in the LyX screen, I cannot see the images when I select View --> PDF (pdflatex). I can't even get Preview to show anything if I pick the other tw

word-wrap and itemize

2006-01-23 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I have a itemize list with: * Traffic from the internal LAN to the Internet is permitted (LAN_INET) and must be translated (LAN_INET_NAT). * Traffic from the internal LAN to the DMZ is permitted (LAN_DMZ). * Traffic from the Internet to servers in the DMZ is permitted (INET_DMZ). * Traffic fr

Re: blank images in preview (Lyx 1.3.7, MacOSX 10.4.4)

2006-01-23 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 23, 2006, at 7:58 PM, Marc D. wrote: The problem is that although I can see the included images in the LyX screen, I cannot see the images when I select View --> PDF (pdflatex). I can't even get Preview to show anything if I pick the other two options (dvidpdm and 'ps to pdf'). With pdfla

Re: blank images in preview (Lyx 1.3.7, MacOSX 10.4.4)

2006-01-23 Thread Marc D.
On 23 Jan 06, at 18:03, Todd Denniston wrote: Marc D. wrote: The problem is that although I can see the included images in the LyX screen, I cannot see the images when I select View --> PDF (pdflatex). I can't even get Preview to show anything if I pick the other two options (dvidpdm and 'ps t

Re: blank images in preview (Lyx 1.3.7, MacOSX 10.4.4)

2006-01-23 Thread Marc D.
On 23 Jan 06, at 17:11, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Hi Marc, One of the experts here can probably help, but in the meantime maybe some clarification might be useful. Always Marc D. writes: The problem is that although I can see the included images in the LyX screen, I cannot see the images whe

Re: blank images in preview (Lyx 1.3.7, MacOSX 10.4.4)

2006-01-23 Thread Todd Denniston
Marc D. wrote: The problem is that although I can see the included images in the LyX screen, I cannot see the images when I select View --> PDF (pdflatex). I can't even get Preview to show anything if I pick the other two options (dvidpdm and 'ps to pdf'). With pdflatex, the PDF comes up, the tex

Re: Shortcut for Typewriter

2006-01-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Christoph Nelles wrote: Has anybody a solution for adding a button to the button bar or adding a key short cut? Christoph, I don't do buttons, but if you look in ~/.lyx/bind/ you'll find a couple of files that define shortcut keys. In my case, ctrl-v is used to page dow

Re: blank images in preview (Lyx 1.3.7, MacOSX 10.4.4)

2006-01-23 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi Marc, One of the experts here can probably help, but in the meantime maybe some clarification might be useful. Marc D. writes: > The problem is that although I can see the included images > in the LyX screen, I cannot see the images when I select > View --> PDF (pdflatex). I can't even get Pr

blank images in preview (Lyx 1.3.7, MacOSX 10.4.4)

2006-01-23 Thread Marc D.
The problem is that although I can see the included images in the LyX screen, I cannot see the images when I select View --> PDF (pdflatex). I can't even get Preview to show anything if I pick the other two options (dvidpdm and 'ps to pdf'). With pdflatex, the PDF comes up, the text is there, but

Shortcut for Typewriter

2006-01-23 Thread Christoph Nelles
Hello! I need quite often the typewriter fonts for showing source code in my documents. I tried to make a button for it in the button bar, but all my tries to put the right thing into the default.ui failed. I am sure other people will need this font often too and for sure somebody got a shortc

Re: removing or reducing the indention of lyx-code

2006-01-23 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I figured it out. I found an example idea from LyX/LaTeX-Layouts as found in google cache. (The example I found offered a custom leftmargin.) I am now using: \renewenvironment{lyxcode} {\begin{list}{}{ \setlength{\leftmargin}{0in} \raggedright \setlength

Re: removing or reducing the indention of lyx-code

2006-01-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Any ideas on how to set \leftmargin to nothing when using lyx-code in my preamble? Jeremy, A quick look at TLC2 did not have anything jump out and bite my nose. You might look at the fancyvrb package to see if that helps. What I've done on occas

Re: removing or reducing the indention of lyx-code

2006-01-23 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Rich Shepard wrote: > > I have many code examples with lyx-code and they don't fit well on my > > 6-inch wide page. I don't know how much space will be needed for the > > perfect binding. I am using koma scrbook and have default left and right > > margins which appear to be: >

Re: removing or reducing the indention of lyx-code

2006-01-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I have many code examples with lyx-code and they don't fit well on my 6-inch wide page. I don't know how much space will be needed for the perfect binding. I am using koma scrbook and have default left and right margins which appear to be: Jeremy,

removing or reducing the indention of lyx-code

2006-01-23 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I have many code examples with lyx-code and they don't fit well on my 6-inch wide page. I don't know how much space will be needed for the perfect binding. I am using koma scrbook and have default left and right margins which appear to be: by default on even (left) page, left outside margin is

Re: previous headers on blank page before new chapter and using fancyhdr?

2006-01-23 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > My problem is that a header from a previous page is shown on a following page > that is at the end of a chapter and is also blank. So my blank left even page > has a header (showing the previous section name) and my right odd page is a > different chapte

Re: kerning of letters with hyphen not so great

2006-01-23 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Herbert Voss writes: > Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: [...] > > This kerns better it seems, but it is an en-dash, not a hyphen. In > > the humanities and social sciences, at least, hyphens are used for > > compound word (with a few exceptions). :-( > > The en dash (–) is used to indicate a range of just ab

Re: kerning of letters with hyphen not so great

2006-01-23 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Andre Poenitz writes: > I'd guess it's almost impossible to get kerning right in all > circumstances. That sounds like a NASA (space shuttle) answer. ;-) There can't be too many more than about 65K possible combinations I would think -- apologies in advance if my math is wrong. > Using a manua

Re: kerning of letters with hyphen not so great

2006-01-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Hi, (thanks for your always quick and helpful answers BTW) Herbert Voss writes: Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning of letter combinations such as "-W" in the word "non-Western". This is using the standard CM font. To

Re: find equation labels in a lyx document

2006-01-23 Thread David Halpern
Andre, Thanks, but I was hoping that lyx was an editor with this relatively simple capability. David Halpern On 1/22/06, Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 11:18:23AM -0600, David Halpern wrote: > > I would like to be able to find equation labels, say eq:eq1, in

Re: [announce] final release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Massimo Lucci wrote: sorry to say that when I try to execute the complete file I got the error you see in the attached picture. I just uploaded the complete version again and tested that it is this time not corrupted. Sorry for the inconvenience and regards Uwe

Re: kerning of letters with hyphen not so great

2006-01-23 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:09:10PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning of > letter combinations such as "-W" in the word "non-Western". This is > using the standard CM font. To get the hyphen to appear visually > balanced in "non-Weste

Re: aspell

2006-01-23 Thread Christopher . E
> The preferences box will always say ispell by the way. So it may be that > it is working you are just trying to change something that doesnt need to > be changed You're right! I ran the spell checker again and it worked. But I don't know why it didn't work yesterday. (Oh no, I think it was t

Re: kerning of letters with hyphen not so great

2006-01-23 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi, (thanks for your always quick and helpful answers BTW) Herbert Voss writes: > Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > > I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning > > of letter combinations such as "-W" in the word "non-Western". This > > is using the standard CM font. To get the hyphe

Re: aspell

2006-01-23 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your fast responses. I did what you said. First, I deinstalled all. After this I tried again. I istalled Lyx with the lyx-installer and aspell was installed automatically, too. afterwards I installed a german dictonary. but it didn't wor

Re: aspell

2006-01-23 Thread Christopher . E
Thank you for your fast responses. I did what you said. First, I deinstalled all. After this I tried again. I istalled Lyx with the lyx-installer and aspell was installed automatically, too. afterwards I installed a german dictonary. but it didn't work. So I deinstalled all again. now I installed

Re: kerning of letters with hyphen not so great

2006-01-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning of letter combinations such as "-W" in the word "non-Western". This is using the standard CM font. To get the hyphen to appear visually balanced in "non-Western" I am having to add -0.1em kerning between it

kerning of letters with hyphen not so great

2006-01-23 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning of letter combinations such as "-W" in the word "non-Western". This is using the standard CM font. To get the hyphen to appear visually balanced in "non-Western" I am having to add -0.1em kerning between it and the W. I also see

Re: Weird Error

2006-01-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Rich Shepard wrote: I don't have a copy of the TeXbook, but the error message reads, "Missing number, treated as zero. "A number should have been here; I inserted 0. (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number, look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)" What I did:

Re: Weird Error

2006-01-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Stephen Harris wrote: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nonum http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/novices/node96.html http://web.mit.edu/answers/latex/latex_missing_number.html I send you what is on page 298 of the "The TeXbook" Thanks, Stephen. The pr

Weird Error

2006-01-23 Thread Rich Shepard
I don't have a copy of the TeXbook, but the error message reads, "Missing number, treated as zero. "A number should have been here; I inserted 0. (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number, look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)" What I did: I took a document in t

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX - simple _working_ minipage solution

2006-01-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Helge Hafting wrote: Herbert Voss wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the box top, but there is a simple workaround. TeX offers everything ... A minipage is nothing else than a box and it is aligned in the same way as two characters a

Re: LyX 1.3.7: dependency conflict

2006-01-23 Thread K. Elo
Hi, Georg Baum wrote (19.1.2006 20:08): > K. Elo wrote: > > The obvious question is: where do I find the qt3-non-mt ver. 3.3.5? > > My question is still: where did you find the other qt3 3.3.5 > packages? Could it be that you installed them by hand? They are not > in my SuSE mirror. I use the fol

Re: LyX help please! textclass error

2006-01-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
deepa sritharan wrote: I downloaded a LyX installation from the net, on which all features are functioning except that I am unable to view the dvi output file! The following error is generated for all document classes: Textclass error The document uses a missing TeX class " " Lyx wi

Re: LyX help please! textclass error

2006-01-23 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, deepa sritharan wrote: Hi, I downloaded a LyX installation from the net, on which all features are functioning except that I am unable to view the dvi output file! The following error is generated for all document classes: Textclass error The document uses a missing Te

LyX help please! textclass error

2006-01-23 Thread deepa sritharan
Hi, I downloaded a LyX installation from the net, on which all features are functioning except that I am unable to view the dvi output file! The following error is generated for all document classes: Textclass error The document uses a missing TeX class " " Lyx will not be able to produ

Re: [announce] final release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Massimo Lucci wrote: sorry to say that when I try to execute the complete file I got the error you see in the attached picture. The complete installer is indeed corrupted. This seems to be a problem of berlios.de and its shell server, because my local version works fine. I'll upload a new ve

Re: aspell

2006-01-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: time for me writing to a mailing list. I've a problem to run aspell in lyx under windows. I can't choose aspell in the settings. There is only the default setting ispell. You can ignore the setting of the spellchecker. To get aspell working install it in C:\Aspell a

Re: Installation of LyX 1.3.7 on Mac OS X not straightforward

2006-01-23 Thread Patrick De Visschere
Thanks for the suggestion On Jan 20, 2006, at 20:07, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jan 20, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Patrick De Visschere wrote: On Mac OS X LyX 1.3.7 stores its information in a new location (~/ Library/Application support/LyX/) instead of the previous ~/.LyX folder. The LyX Installer sup

Re: aspell

2006-01-23 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 3:43 PM Subject: aspell hey guys! used software: windows xp/sp2, lyx 1.3.7-pre4, aspell0.50.3 I used the following homepage: http://homepages.fh-giessen.de/~hg8416/studium/Allgemeines/Diplomarbeit

Re: Include a lot of C++ code

2006-01-23 Thread Gunnar
> You are sure listings can't do what you want? > The defaults may not fit your needs, but this package is > very configurable. If someone can make it look like the result of the highlight program, then I'm happy. The fonts, spacings are all ugly. No code in the listings documentation looks good

Re: Include a lot of C++ code

2006-01-23 Thread Gunnar
> It seems this could be helpful for me too. I just didn't understand so > far how to do a thing of this kind. .-( > So, would you mind to post this lyx-shortcut (and the latex commands) > here? Thanks I post all I have done. There are still some undetected bugs, but it works on and decent *niix

Re: Include a lot of C++ code

2006-01-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Gunnar wrote: perhaps listings.sty ? Thanks for your reply, but I feel that highlight makes it beautiful, listings doesn't. :-( You are sure listings can't do what you want? The defaults may not fit your needs, but this package is very configurable. Helge Hafting

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX - simple _working_ minipage solution

2006-01-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Herbert Voss wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the box top, but there is a simple workaround. TeX offers everything ... A minipage is nothing else than a box and it is aligned in the same way as two characters are aligned. That offe