Re: 1.4.2 pdflatex viewing problem

2006-07-28 Thread Jens Noeckel
On Jul 28, 2006, at 8:35 PM, chipbrock wrote: (I have no idea how to reply to this list!) No, this does not work now in 1.4.2. First, there is no PDF file format as in the previous version. There are only file formats for the pdflatex etc flavors of viewing. If I type in the OSX pdf view

Re: 1.4.2 pdflatex viewing problem

2006-07-28 Thread chipbrock
(I have no idea how to reply to this list!) No, this does not work now in 1.4.2. First, there is no PDF file format as in the previous version. There are only file formats for the pdflatex etc flavors of viewing. If I type in the OSX pdf viewer, /Applications/Preview.app that does nothing.

Making a Poster in Lyx

2006-07-28 Thread Adrian M. Peter
Hello, Has anyone used LyX to make a 90cm wide by 120cm poster? I am trying to figure out where to get started. I am using LyX in 1.4.1 on Windows. Thank you. Adrian

Re: Noweb on windows?

2006-07-28 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 09:48:10PM -0700, Mark Engelberg wrote: > Is there any literate programming support in LyX on Windows? > > Thanks, > > Mark As long as you can run noweb and latex, LyX should be able to use its literate programming support. -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband o

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
LB wrote: Yes, moving the file test.lyx to C:\ solves the problem. The path to test.lyx is fairly long. It's located five directories deep. The path consists of 68 characters, including C: and "\", plus the file name. I have changed figure name to be only one character long, but that did not h

Re: PDF Variations

2006-07-28 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Thanks, Uwe. I was lazy and should have checked the FAQ. Bruce On Jul 28, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Bruce Pourciau schrieb: Can anyone help me understand the differences among the three PDF flavors -- dvipdfm, pdflatex, ps2pdf -- both for View and Export? http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/

Re: PDF Variations

2006-07-28 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bruce Pourciau schrieb: Can anyone help me understand the differences among the three PDF flavors -- dvipdfm, pdflatex, ps2pdf -- both for View and Export? http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#dvipdfm-vs-pdflatex regards Uwe

Re: \parbox+\vspace not working correctly

2006-07-28 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jeremy Johnson wrote: I want to have a mail closing statement like follows: #ERT#{\parindent=3.5in \parbox[c]{2.5in}{\noindent Sincerely yours, \newline \vspace{1.0in} John Doe } You don't need to use ERT for this. Attached a LyX-file showing how this is typeset with as less ERT as possible.

PDF Variations

2006-07-28 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Can anyone help me understand the differences among the three PDF flavors -- dvipdfm, pdflatex, ps2pdf -- both for View and Export? Bruce

Re: 1.4.2 pdflatex viewing problem

2006-07-28 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/28/06, chipbrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On a mac, OSX 10.4.2: I have just upgraded lyx to 1.4.2, replacing everywhere the installer said "replace"...Now, I cannot view a document in the pdf viewer. If I do View->DVI, the file happily appears through my default tex viewer (TexShop). When

\parbox+\vspace not working correctly

2006-07-28 Thread Jeremy Johnson
Hi, I want to have a mail closing statement like follows: #ERT#{\parindent=3.5in \parbox[c]{2.5in}{\noindent Sincerely yours, \newline \vspace{1.0in} John Doe } Although lyx correctly indents the closing statement block of text, it does not add the vertical space needed for signing the letter.

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-28 Thread LB
BTW, Lyx 1.4.1 displays the figure correctly. Leo LB wrote: I mentioned that editing out aiksaurus line in lyx.bat fixed the problem. It turns out that removing "SET LC_ALL=en_EN" also fixes the problem. Renaming aiksaurus directory however does not fix it. Starting Lyx.exe directly als

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-28 Thread LB
Yes, moving the file test.lyx to C:\ solves the problem. The path to test.lyx is fairly long. It's located five directories deep. The path consists of 68 characters, including C: and "\", plus the file name. I have changed figure name to be only one character long, but that did not help. This

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
LB wrote: I mentioned that editing out aiksaurus line in lyx.bat fixed the problem. It turns out that removing "SET LC_ALL=en_EN" also fixes the problem. Renaming aiksaurus directory however does not fix it. Starting Lyx.exe directly also fixes the problem. It the lyx.bat that causes this

1.4.2 pdflatex viewing problem

2006-07-28 Thread chipbrock
On a mac, OSX 10.4.2: I have just upgraded lyx to 1.4.2, replacing everywhere the installer said "replace"...Now, I cannot view a document in the pdf viewer. If I do View->DVI, the file happily appears through my default tex viewer (TexShop). When I hit View- >pdflatex...I get the error: No

Re: Previewing Beamer Presentation

2006-07-28 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 28 July 2006 14:29, Rich Shepard wrote: >  For the logo you need the full path, but I guess you are doing that > already. > > Hi, Jose', > >    Yes. The full path is given, and there is no extenstion to the file > name. I have just confirmed that it works for me. :-( I have the log

Problem with parbox+vspace

2006-07-28 Thread Jeremy Johnson
Hi, I want to have a mail closing statement like follows: #ERT#{\parindent=3.5in \parbox[c]{2.5in}{\noindent Sincerely yours, \newline \vspace{1.0in} John Doe } Although lyx correctly indents the closing statement block of text by 3.5in, it does not add the 1in vertical space needed for signing

Re: Including a figure in the title page

2006-07-28 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 28 July 2006 16:45, Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote: > Hello, > > I have a big lyx document (book format) and I want to include a graphic or > logo in the very first page of the title, and above the title. I have tried > inserting a figure float, but then the title breaks to the two fo

Order of appearance of bibliographic references

2006-07-28 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
Hello, I have a big lyx document (book format) and all my bibliographic references are in the "unsrt" style. When I compile the document I observe there is a problem in the order the bibliographic references appear. For example, at the beginning of the document I have ... bla bla bla [1,2,3]

Re: xfig external inset (pstex pstex_t mechanism)

2006-07-28 Thread Oscar Lopez
> Oscar Lopez wrote: > >> As a side note, how the external inset knows if the fig file must be >> exported as combined ps/latex, it scans the fig file looking for the >> special flag of the text? > > No. As you can see from the definition of the xfig external inset it creates > a file in pstex fo

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-28 Thread LB
Hi Other than that one missing separator, everything looked good right up to the point where Ghostscript went stupid on you. I'm assuming that the path is correct (i.e., that C:\\test.ps is really where test.ps is located). I don't know enough about ImageMagick and Ghostscript to know if th

Re: xfig external inset (pstex pstex_t mechanism)

2006-07-28 Thread Georg Baum
Oscar Lopez wrote: > As a side note, how the external inset knows if the fig file must be > exported as combined ps/latex, it scans the fig file looking for the > special flag of the text? No. As you can see from the definition of the xfig external inset it creates a file in pstex format (for lat

Including a figure in the title page

2006-07-28 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
Hello, I have a big lyx document (book format) and I want to include a graphic or logo in the very first page of the title, and above the title. I have tried inserting a figure float, but then the title breaks to the two following page. Has somebody succeed in this ? Thanks.

Re: xfig external inset (pstex pstex_t mechanism)

2006-07-28 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > Why do you need to change the C++ sources ? That's just a template to > change, as you explained. Yep, but the argument of the "Requirement" statement is not a LaTeX package name, but the name of a "LaTeXFeature" as defined by LyX. Only those features that are handle

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
LB wrote: Hello I added the "echo" line in convertDefault.sh script. The following are the error message that I see: filetools(getFormatFromContents) File type not recognised before EOF! filetools(getFormatFromContents) Couldn't find a known format! filetools(getFormatFromConte

Re: xfig external inset (pstex pstex_t mechanism)

2006-07-28 Thread Oscar Lopez
Quoting Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > >> Seems that lyx does not add the required \usepackage{xcolor} >>when an xfig >> inset is present, I had to add it manually to make it work. I added \usepackage{xcolor} to the preamble and it worked as expected > > Why xcolo

Re: Previewing Beamer Presentation

2006-07-28 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:04:16 -0700 (PDT) >>From: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: Previewing Beamer Presentation >> >>On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: >> >>> What does the log say about loading of this particular figure ? >> >>Jean-

Re: xfig external inset (pstex pstex_t mechanism)

2006-07-28 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>From: Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: xfig external inset (pstex pstex_t mechanism) >>Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:48:27 +0200 >> >>Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: >> >>> Seems that lyx does not add the required \usepackage{xcolor} when an xfig >>> inset is p

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-28 Thread LB
Hello I added the "echo" line in convertDefault.sh script. The following are the error message that I see: filetools(getFormatFromContents) File type not recognised before EOF! filetools(getFormatFromContents) Couldn't find a known format! filetools(getFormatFromContents)

Abnormal behaviour of "greyed out note"

2006-07-28 Thread Nicolás
Hi! The Greyed Out note functionality seems not to work very well in my LyX installation (LyX 1.4.2 on Windows XP; small installer) When I insert a Greyed Out note in the middle of a paragraph with Standard style, the result in DVI is a normal paragraph with the note's text in grey. That's w

Re: Previewing Beamer Presentation

2006-07-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: What does the log say about loading of this particular figure ? Jean-Pierre, Absolutely nothing. I've attached the latest log (gzipped). The only reference to 'logo' is a logobox. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Env

Re: xfig external inset (pstex pstex_t mechanism)

2006-07-28 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > Seems that lyx does not add the required \usepackage{xcolor} when an xfig > inset is present, I had to add it manually to make it work. Why xcolor? color works for me. xcolor would require to change the C++ sources ;-( Georg

Re: xfig external inset (pstex pstex_t mechanism)

2006-07-28 Thread Georg Baum
Oscar Lopez wrote: > Quoting Georg Baum > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> I thought that external inset shipped with 1.4.x was able to manage > >> this situation, perhaps I am wrong. > > > > It should. Please send a minimal example .lyx file + .fig file, so that >

Re: xfig external inset (pstex pstex_t mechanism)

2006-07-28 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Old-Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:50:33 +0200 >>From: Oscar Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: xfig external inset (pstex pstex_t mechanism) >> >>Quoting Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > >> >> I t

Re: citation style

2006-07-28 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 28. Juli 2006 12:13 schrieben Sie: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > > Is there an easier way to replace > > > cite{ > > > with > > > citealt{ > > > as to run a replace in the lyx document? > > How about: > \renewcommand{\cite}{\citealt} Good. And easy. And thanks. > > > a ps: > > The p

Re: Previewing Beamer Presentation

2006-07-28 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 06:29:05 -0700 (PDT) >>From: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: Previewing Beamer Presentation >> >>On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Jose' Matos wrote: >> >>> For the logo you need the full path, but I guess you are doing that >>> already.

Re: Previewing Beamer Presentation

2006-07-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Jose' Matos wrote: For the logo you need the full path, but I guess you are doing that already. Hi, Jose', Yes. The full path is given, and there is no extenstion to the file name. Your problem is strange, I have presentations done with beamer using eps files and it

Re: citation style

2006-07-28 Thread Stephen Harris
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Good morning Is there an easier way to replace cite{ with citealt{ as to run a replace in the lyx document? The publisher wants (Miller 2001) instead of (Miller (2001)) I am thinking of \bibpunct in the preamble, but am not sure whether appropriate here and

Re: citation style

2006-07-28 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > Is there an easier way to replace > > cite{ > > with > > citealt{ > > as to run a replace in the lyx document? How about: \renewcommand{\cite}{\citealt} > a ps: > The problem with the replace is, that it does not differentiate between >  as shown (Miller 2001) >  as

Re: xfig external inset (pstex pstex_t mechanism)

2006-07-28 Thread Oscar Lopez
Quoting Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I thought that external inset shipped with 1.4.x was able to manage >> this situation, perhaps I am wrong. > > It should. Please send a minimal example .lyx file + .fig file, so that > we can reproduce the problem. Attached a

Re: citation style

2006-07-28 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 28. Juli 2006 10:56 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: > Good morning > > Is there an easier way to replace > cite{ > with > citealt{ > as to run a replace in the lyx document? > > The publisher wants > (Miller 2001) instead of (Miller (2001)) > > I am thinking of \bibpunct in the preamble,

citation style

2006-07-28 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Good morning Is there an easier way to replace cite{ with citealt{ as to run a replace in the lyx document? The publisher wants (Miller 2001) instead of (Miller (2001)) I am thinking of \bibpunct in the preamble, but am not sure whether appropriate here and how to use it Wolfgang

Re: xfig external inset (pstex pstex_t mechanism)

2006-07-28 Thread Georg Baum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I thought that external inset shipped with 1.4.x was able to manage > this situation, perhaps I am wrong. It should. Please send a minimal example .lyx file + .fig file, so that we can reproduce the problem. Georg PS: And remove the disclaimer, that does not make se

xfig external inset (pstex pstex_t mechanism)

2006-07-28 Thread oscar
Dear Lyxers I am trying to use the xfig external inset in order to include xfig figures with latex text embbeded. When I insert an external xfig file that consists of text, lets seay, $H_2$, the postscript and pdf outputs show the text as it is, although the text was marked as special in