Re: Creating an Index

2006-02-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, John O'Gorman wrote: I am embarking on creating an index for a manual of about 200 pages (written in LyX of course). Could someone on the list who has actually created an index advise if this is really the best approach? John, If you want a good reference to read, get

Creating an Index

2006-02-15 Thread John O'Gorman
I am embarking on creating an index for a manual of about 200 pages (written in LyX of course). I studied up all the advice I could find, and as a result set out to produce a list of all the unique words in the book. Alas it came to over 3000 words. Even going through and removing the little work

Re: eps file in lyx

2006-02-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I can´t open an .eps figure in lyx. It does not open in gv either, is rejected by convert x.eps x.eps. I attach it, since it is a small file, and would appreciate if somebody could verify my finding and suggest a solution. The file is simply empty

Re: at the press!

2006-02-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you like, you can add an entry to this page, letting the rest of the world know! http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ProducedPublications Christian, I added my book to it. Also, Bruce Momjian's PostgreSQL book of a couple of years ago was writte

Re: at the press!

2006-02-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Dear LyXers, > > The last MB of the two 222-MB (compressed) postscript files was just > uploaded to the printer's server and my double-book (English/German) > LyX project is done. We got proofs back this week, made some minor > corrections to the m

DNS trubles

2006-02-15 Thread lyx
Hello, There are some DNS problems in our university, which results in reverse lookup problems for the IP 141.225.11.87, and some of you might experience problems with receiving emails from the lyx lists or seeing delayed deliveries. We are working on the problem, and hopefully it will be resolve

Re: LyX on Mac --Very first draft of a visual installation guide

2006-02-15 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:29 PM Subject: Re: LyX on Mac --Very first draft of a visual installation guide On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote: I had an idea to create a visual installation guide for absolute begin

Re: LyX on Mac --Very first draft of a visual installation guide

2006-02-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote: > I had an idea to create a visual installation guide for absolute > beginners. ... > http://www.am.chalmers.se/~anek/temp/LyX_www/LyXonMac.html > > The focus is on Mac-users. I plan on continue with how to use/install > templates, some troubleshoot

Re: installation problems

2006-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/15/06, Sebastian Gimeno Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have tried to install the LyX version LyX 1.2.2 on my PC. My operative > system ist SuSE 8.0. As warned in the README file, i suffered the > problem you mentioned there: the confugure script has deleted the > /dev/null device. After

installation problems

2006-02-15 Thread Sebastian Gimeno Garcia
Hello, i have tried to install the LyX version LyX 1.2.2 on my PC. My operative system ist SuSE 8.0. As warned in the README file, i suffered the problem you mentioned there: the confugure script has deleted the /dev/null device. After running ./configure, i got the following message:

Re: eps file in lyx

2006-02-15 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > I can´t open an .eps figure in lyx. It does not open in gv either, is > rejected by convert x.eps x.eps. I attach it, since it is a small file, > and would appreciate if somebody could verify my finding and suggest a > solution. The file is simply empty. I can open it

eps file in lyx

2006-02-15 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I can´t open an .eps figure in lyx. It does not open in gv either, is rejected by convert x.eps x.eps. I attach it, since it is a small file, and would appreciate if somebody could verify my finding and suggest a solution. By the way where can I get epstoeps? Wolfgang convert phar-li.eps pha

Re: Change margin in a specified paragraph

2006-02-15 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > From http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=paragraph/margins (slightly > modified): > > In the preamble, add the following: > \newenvironment{widePar}[2]% >   {\begin{list}{}{\leftmargin#1\rightmargin#2}\item{}}{\end{list}} > > In ERT at the start of the paragraph you want t

Re: Change margin in a specified paragraph

2006-02-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ana Lobo wrote: Hi all, I´m a new LyX User and I´m facing the following problem. I´ve added a figure in my document, and although I´m using it in a reduced size (40%) in output, it does not fit inside page margins. I wouldn´t like to reduce the figure size anymore. My idea was to change the

Re: Problems using figures in LyX

2006-02-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ana Lobo wrote: Hi all, I´m novice in both LyX and LateX. I´m running LyX in Windows XP. I´ve installed LyX version 1.3.7 and I´m running it with Small Miktex version 2.4.1461. I´ve started running the tutorials, and it worked nicely. Than, I tried to write my own article using a predefin

Re: Change margin in a specified paragraph

2006-02-15 Thread Robert Orr
What I do is us this in ERT \setlength{\evensidemargin}{-2.5cm} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-2.5cm} then set back to 0cm for the next paragraph. > My specific question is: How to change page > margins for a specific paragraph inside the document > (leaving the page margins unchanged in the r

Change margin in a specified paragraph

2006-02-15 Thread Ana Lobo
Hi all, I´m a new LyX User and I´m facing the following problem. I´ve added a figure in my document, and although I´m using it in a reduced size (40%) in output, it does not fit inside page margins. I wouldn´t like to reduce the figure size anymore. My idea was to change the margins only in th

Re: Problems using figures in LyX

2006-02-15 Thread Jonathan Vogt
Hi Ana > Cannot convert file > Error while executing > python "C:/Arquivos de programas/LyX/Resources/lyx" > Maybe you got a problem with the whitespaces in the path. I remember something about the whitespace. Some progams ported to windows have problems when there is a space in their path

Problems using figures in LyX

2006-02-15 Thread Ana Lobo
Hi all, I´m novice in both LyX and LateX. I´m running LyX in Windows XP. I´ve installed LyX version 1.3.7 and I´m running it with Small Miktex version 2.4.1461. I´ve started running the tutorials, and it worked nicely. Than, I tried to write my own article using a predefined style from m

Re: I need workaround of encoding problem

2006-02-15 Thread Helge Hafting
Marcelo Acuña wrote: Hello, I can't to use spellchecker. Accented letters and ñ, Ñ are not recognized by ispell, aspell. I try to use ispell from command line but I can't said nothing to ispell about char enconding. How I can workaround and get spellcheck my lyx file? Thanks Marcelo Common pro

Re: 'inference rule' sign with lyx

2006-02-15 Thread Helge Hafting
manuel aldana wrote: hey folks, i have got a problem, which needs to be solved urgently... i worked always with latex-plain text before, that's why i got stuck with lyx mode. too late to change to plain text editing because the deadline for my excerpt is tomorrow evening. now the problem:

Notes and colours

2006-02-15 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
Hello all, I'm writing a big lyx document and I use notes extensively for me to make the organization of text more clear. Is it possible to have in a lyx document notes in different colours ? How can I change between them ? If not, what would be the best method to differentiate between them ? Us

undefinded (and unfindable) keyboard character

2006-02-15 Thread Jonathan Vogt
Dear list, I got a problem I haven't been able to solve. The error message is: Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined \end{proof} You need to provide a definition with \DeclareInputText or \DeclareInputMath before using this key. When I delete one of the last paragraphs a