Re: Multiple Choice Tests

2006-10-07 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 04:10:35PM +0200, Christian von Lani-Fischer wrote: > Hi everybody, > > i was just wondering if there is some document class that provides > support to create multiple choice tests or if there is a trick to > create some boxes in "common" document classes, where one can

Re: Hawaiian in LyX

2006-10-07 Thread Maria Gouskova
The accent you are looking for is called a "macron." A macron "a" is \={a}. The macron is on p. 50 of the TIPA manual. It's also in the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List (link on the wiki you mentioned). mg On 10/7/06, Sebastian Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, I would like to add some

Hawaiian in LyX

2006-10-07 Thread Sebastian Mohr
Hi there, I would like to add some characters of the hawaiian language into my LyX document. At this side you can see how the characters do look like: http://wehewehe.org/gsdl2.5/cgi-bin/hdict?l=en I couldn't find these characters even in the TIPA package, see: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Lingu

Multi-paragraph description

2006-10-07 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hello, Is it possible to create a multi-paragraph description in LyX, the same way you can do so in LaTex? Something like this: \begin{description} \item[Para] This is a shorter item label, and some text that talks about it. The text is wrapped into a paragraph, with successive lines indented.

Image handling on windows

2006-10-07 Thread Adinda Praditya
Dear list, I use image files on my lyx (windows version) and failed when i tried to view it. It said "No information for converting png files to eps. Define the convertor in the preferences." What should i install to handle image files on windows version? And what options should i put in the pr

Re: Multiple Choice Tests

2006-10-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Christian von Lani-Fischer schrieb: i was just wondering if there is some document class that provides support to create multiple choice tests or if there is a trick to create some boxes in "common" document classes, where one can tick the correct answer. I just didn't find anything suitable.

Re: Multiple Choice Tests

2006-10-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Christian von Lani-Fischer wrote: i was just wondering if there is some document class that provides support to create multiple choice tests or if there is a trick to create some boxes in "common" document classes, where one can tick the correct answer. I just didn't find anything suitable.

Re: pdf metadata

2006-10-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sanda Pavel schrieb: is there any possibility howto setup title and author in lyx document in the way, that generated pdf has these strings in metadata ? Yes ther is. Here is an example preamble sequence to get this: % link all cross references and URLs in pdf output \usepackage[colorlinks=

pdf metadata

2006-10-07 Thread Sanda Pavel
hi all, is there any possibility howto setup title and author in lyx document in the way, that generated pdf has these strings in metadata ? thanks pavel

The Picture Environment

2006-10-07 Thread Mario A . Abarca S .
The Math Panel is very useful to make complex formulas in a very easy way. Is there something like that for the picture environment? I mean, the picture environment is an standard, is very useful, and I can type things like: \setlength{\unitlength}{1cm} \begin{picture}(6,5) \thicklines \put(1,0.5

Re: Custom enumerated section headers?

2006-10-07 Thread Richard Heck
Yang wrote: > I know that I can have numbered section headers by choosing e.g. > "Section" or "Subsection" from the drop-down in the top-left. But > instead of having these render as: > > 1 My First Section > 1.1 My first subsection > > can I get custom headers such as the following? > > Problem 1

Multiple Choice Tests

2006-10-07 Thread Christian von Lani-Fischer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody, i was just wondering if there is some document class that provides support to create multiple choice tests or if there is a trick to create some boxes in "common" document classes, wh

Re: Font choice in LyX: adding new fonts to the menu (or preamble)

2006-10-07 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Frederic Fol Leymarie wrote: > How to set LyX to use other fonts than the ones > listed under Layout->Document->Layout ? In the preamble. See http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/fonts.html http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/psnfss/psnfss2e.pdf > In particular : th

Re: Enumerate with Figure

2006-10-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:37:58AM -0500, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > Sounds like what I need, but when I tried to open your file I saw > this message: "This file is from an earlier version of LyX, but the > lyx2lyx script failed to convert it." That' what I kept getting until I manually copied so