access privileges of new files

2006-08-04 Thread pol
As i save a lyx doc with assigned access privileges -rw-rw-r-- with a new name, resulting access privileges of the new file are -rw-r--r-- although the directory is properly set, so that when copying a file marked as -rw-rw-r-- or 'touching' new files at the command line prompt, one g

Re: Description of the different document classes

2006-08-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rainer M Krug wrote: where can I find a description and differences between the different document classes - not what they are usually used for, but what the differences are? Have a look at chapter 2 of the files "UserguidesNV.xxx" at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment regards

Re: Help with euro symbol

2006-08-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jordi Nadal wrote: I've added \usepackage{eurosym} to document preamble and pasted some euro symbols (appears «?» on LyX) and the ps/pdf output also shows «?» instead of euro. Same as without eurosym. Of course because LyX 1.4.x couldn't handle Unicode or the encoding the encodings to display

Re: Help with euro symbol

2006-08-04 Thread Jordi Nadal
2006/8/3, Marc Vinyals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Some notes: first, and also from The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List, you need to \usepackage{eurosym} to get these macros defined. I've added \usepackage{eurosym} to document preamble and pasted some euro symbols (appears «?» on LyX) and the ps/pdf o

Re: Converting Beamer to Article In LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Rich Shepard wrote: What have I left off? Sigh. I did it again. Just after sending the original message I noticed that I had the class as amsarticle rather than article. Correcting that fixed the problem. I'll leave you all alone for the weekend. Rich -- Richard B.

Converting Beamer to Article In LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Rich Shepard
I thought that I was following the instructions to convert a beamer class presentation into an article so that I could use that for my talking points. But, I cannot compile it. The document class was changed to article, and the preamble includes \usepackage{beamerarticle}. Pressing ctrl-d

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/4/06, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As you may see, the beamer fonts are respected in the xfig inset. > The inferior quality of my example as it appears on your beamer > presentation is because you took the screenshot of the kpdf output. You > will not notice any difference if

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Ingo Klöcker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:11:10 +0200 On Friday 04 August 2006 21:14, Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: >I'm not trying to side-track this discussion, but there's a bit of > an issue I'v

Telefon double definition in g-brief and mavrosym

2006-08-04 Thread Michael Hartje
dear readers, may be this is not lyx but TeX error. (I use the last Miktex WinXP) mavrosym.sty (2006/05/11 v2.1) defines \def\Telefon{{\mvchr84}} while g-brief-de.layout (and the g-brief.cls in tex) defines Style Telefon ... LatexName Telefon ... End this stops latex every tim

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

2006-08-04 Thread Stephen Harris
LB wrote: One more little experiment, if you don't mind, just to confirm symptoms: if you comment out one of the SET commands in lyx.bat, but replace it with a line of equal length (SET XXX=Y... with enough Xs and Ys to match the line you commented out), does the bug move t

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Friday 04 August 2006 21:14, Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: >I'm not trying to side-track this discussion, but there's a bit of > an issue I've had with XFig itself (before I incorporate its figures > into LyX, which works fabulously). I can start XFig so that all NEW > text has the "special" flag

Re: toc formating

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Heck
You can't put a \chapter or \addtocomments command in your preamble. That's why you're getting the error. These commands go in the document itself. What you want to do here, I think, is put \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\mbox{}\protect\hrulefill\par} as ERT immediately following the chapter tit

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

2006-08-04 Thread LB
One more little experiment, if you don't mind, just to confirm symptoms: if you comment out one of the SET commands in lyx.bat, but replace it with a line of equal length (SET XXX=Y... with enough Xs and Ys to match the line you commented out), does the bug move to a differe

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:12:06 -0700 Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Paul Smith wrote: As you may see,

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:38:52 +0200 (MEST) >>Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:58:15 +0100 >>From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lyx 1.4.2 for Win doesn't find new installed Tex packages

2006-08-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Sebastian Schetter wrote: Hello! I installed the bundle version of Lyx 1.4.2. (on a new WinXP system) Now I installed the koma-skript with the Mik-Tex Package manager. This worked well with Lyx 1.4.1. but doesn't work with 1.4.2. Lyx doesn't find any new installed package with MikTex. Has had a

Re: swapping LyX modifier keys on Mac OS X

2006-08-04 Thread Jens Noeckel
Jason, thanks much - I've also put a link to your patched version for PPC on my page. Looking at the LyX wiki, I'm also thinking I should add several little things: maybe a new page called "Modifier keys in LyX", both as a quick overview of how the default version works on a Mac, and then

toc formating

2006-08-04 Thread Kamran SHAFQAT
Hi, I am trying to write my thesis using lyx (koma-script report class). But i would like to format the toc, lof and lot to have something like the table in attachment. I tried to make use of tocloft and just having a look at titlesec/titletoc package but i am not sure if this is the best s

threeparttable in LyX?

2006-08-04 Thread Ares
Hello everyone, does someone know if it is possible to use the threeparttable package in LyX and how? Regards, Diego

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Stephen Harris
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Paul Smith wrote: As you may see, the beamer fonts are respected in the xfig inset. IMNSHO, the major point is that we have multiple ways of accomplishing the same tasks and reaching the same goals. In the end -- on paper or projected on a screen -

Lyx 1.4.2 for Win doesn't find new installed Tex packages

2006-08-04 Thread Sebastian Schetter
Hello! I installed the bundle version of Lyx 1.4.2. (on a new WinXP system) Now I installed the koma-skript with the Mik-Tex Package manager. This worked well with Lyx 1.4.1. but doesn't work with 1.4.2. Lyx doesn't find any new installed package with MikTex. Has had anybody the same Problem? Wh

Re: openoffice

2006-08-04 Thread Stephen Harris
Paul Smith wrote: On 8/4/06, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nick Thomas developed a script to convert LyX to OpenOffice called ConvTeX: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice [.sxw OOo ext.?] which probably works a bit better on Linux than Windows. Maybe, it would be helpful to ha

Re: ubuntu and lyx

2006-08-04 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:21:09PM +0200, Hartmut Haase wrote: > Can someone tell me which qt3 packages I have to install under ubuntu/debian > to get lyx configured? http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-users&m=115442632416905&w=2 and related posts ... You would be better of running a native Deb

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Paul Smith wrote: As you may see, the beamer fonts are respected in the xfig inset. The inferior quality of my example as it appears on your beamer presentation is because you took the screenshot of the kpdf output. You will not notice any difference if you use acroread. (

Re: openoffice

2006-08-04 Thread jouke hijlkema
I'm confused, The lyx version I've downloaded this morning as being stable from the lyx site contains an openoffice option in the export menu. It doesn't work ... but the option is there :-) Jouke Paul Smith wrote: On 8/4/06, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nick Thomas developed

ubuntu and lyx

2006-08-04 Thread Hartmut Haase
Can someone tell me which qt3 packages I have to install under ubuntu/debian to get lyx configured? -- Viele Grüße, Hartmut Hungerhilfe: http://www.thehungersite.com Kampagne gegen den Ausverkauf der Deutschen Bahn: http://www.bahn-fuer-alle.de Das heutige Motto: Try to value useful qualities

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/4/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>To illustrate what I said, I am sending a small svg picture with a >>> >>math formula produced with LaTeX. >> >>The inferior quality of my example as it appears on your beamer >>presentation is because you took the screenshot of th

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:59:30 +0100 >>From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX >> >>On 8/4/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>To illustrate what I said, I am sending a small svg picture with a >>>

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/4/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>To illustrate what I said, I am sending a small svg picture with a >>math formula produced with LaTeX. Thank you for this example. To illustrate the difference in handling between Xfig and Inkscape, here is a beamer slide with both fo

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:58:15 +0100 >>From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX >> >>On 8/3/06, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> >>To illustrate what I said, I am sending a small svg picture with a >>math f

Re: openoffice

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/4/06, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nick Thomas developed a script to convert LyX to OpenOffice called ConvTeX: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice [.sxw OOo ext.?] which probably works a bit better on Linux than Windows. Maybe, it would be helpful to have it integrated in

Re: openoffice

2006-08-04 Thread Stephen Harris
Rainer M Krug wrote: This sounds interesting - where can I find this functionality? Because in LyX 1.4.2 in Linux there is no option under Export for this and I would be interested in using it. Rainer jouke hijlkema wrote: Hello all, I just tried to export a lyx document to openoffice writer

Problem with 'Check TeX'

2006-08-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
I have a problem with 'Check TeX': it only runs after I pressed TOOLS > RECONFIGURE If I try to run it before, it tells me that it did not complete successfully. Even if I try to run it again. If I do a Reconfigure, it works - until I close LyX 1.4.2 (Linux) and restart it - same issue, 'Check TeX

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/3/06, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Inkscape seems particularly apt to produce flowcharts, as it has got > > the 'connectors' features, making the arrows connected even when one > > moves the connected frames. And it can save the pictures as vectorial > > eps, pdf, and so on. > >

Re: One bibliography, separated by chapter?

2006-08-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: > If I use chapterbib and do NOT > use the [gather] option, then all of the bibliographies are gathered at the > end of the document. The effect (as far as I can see) is equivalent to > including each of the bibliographies at the end of the chapters, in comment > boxes, and

Description of the different document classes

2006-08-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi where can I find a description and differences between the different document classes - not what they are usually used for, but what the differences are? Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation Biology (UCT) Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology Univers

Re: setting non-utf8 locate for lyx

2006-08-04 Thread Helge Hafting
Christopher Winkler wrote: Hello all, sorry, I keep on asking for help ... After finally being able to compile lyx (1.4.2) with Kubuntu (Dapper), there is one thing that sucks a little bit. If I want to run lyx in German, all umlauts in the menues are distorted. No problem, I thought, let's

Re: Page break bug?

2006-08-04 Thread Helge Hafting
Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: I checked that -- all pages are A4. The page with the missing break contains oa float figure oa float table osection and subsection headings oa non-floatoing table osome text Latex never breaks a float, but should instead move it to the n

Re: openoffice

2006-08-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
This sounds interesting - where can I find this functionality? Because in LyX 1.4.2 in Linux there is no option under Export for this and I would be interested in using it. Rainer jouke hijlkema wrote: > Hello all, > > I just tried to export a lyx document to openoffice writer format. All > seem

openoffice

2006-08-04 Thread jouke hijlkema
Hello all, I just tried to export a lyx document to openoffice writer format. All seems to work well but when I try to open the resulting document with openoffice 2.0 it complains about a format error in Content.xml. Any idea what that might be ?? Thanks, Jouke

Re: Language in bibliography?

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Language in bibliography? Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:10:02 +0200 Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: > In my bibliography, I notice that many of the citations contain Polish, > whereas I'd prefer everything in English

Re: Language in bibliography?

2006-08-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: > In my bibliography, I notice that many of the citations contain Polish, > whereas I'd prefer everything in English :) IIRC you use the style "plunsrt". Guess what the "pl" means? ;-) BTW, unsrt means "unsorted", i.e. the way you inserted the citation, as opposed to "al

Language in bibliography?

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Hi, all, In my bibliography, I notice that many of the citations contain Polish, whereas I'd prefer everything in English :) For example, a couple of books in the third edition have "wydanie 3rd", a doctoral dissertation contains "Praca doktorska", and an article published in 1999 has "Cze

Re: swapping LyX modifier keys on Mac OS X

2006-08-04 Thread Jason Woodard
Jens, Glad to hear you find the patch useful. It's too bad there doesn't seem to be an easy way to make the modifier keys configurable at runtime (if I recall, someone looked into this a while ago) so for now patching Qt is still the path of least resistance. I was finally able to get 1.4.2 to

Re: help with winXP installation: no textclass.lst no packages.lst

2006-08-04 Thread Michael Hartje
This is a known bug and will be fixed in the next release. For the meatime you can replace the file TeXFiles.py by the attached file in the folder ~LyXInstallDirectory~\Resources\scripts Thanks Uwe, this workaround fits my needs; yes, I did reinstall Lyx two times before but with no differenc

Re: Equation help

2006-08-04 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>From: Myriam Abramson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Equation help >>Date: 03 Aug 2006 21:35:05 -0400 >> >> >>Hi! >> >>Any ideas on how to nicely write a fairly long equation on multiple >>lines? here's an example of such an equation. Would you suggest >>to extract