Re: Columns and /begin_deeper

2006-11-01 Thread Piersante Sestini
AI am probably missing something very basic, but I cannot use columns in beamer (unless I use copy/paste from the examples). I did try the following, but it didn't work: === [BeginFrame]Some title[ ->screen-> Frame: Some title [columns] -> columns [column] 5cm ->rt column: 5 cm [s

Re: LyX 1.4.3-4 DVI Error on Windows XP

2006-11-01 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Will Shattuck wrote: > > I just installed LyX on Windows XP using the lyx-143-4.exe installer. > > Everything went well and LyX opens. During the "Hello World" message that > > appears it says you can view the DVI output to see how good it is. So I

Re: LyX/Mac question

2006-11-01 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > Paul A. Rubin ...> writes: > > > >> AFAIK when LyX exports a math inset to 0lyxpreview.tex for conversion, > >> it does not pass along preamble entries from the original document. > > > > LyX uses the exact same preamb

chapter pagestyles

2006-11-01 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Hello, I'm using the memoir class under 1.4.3. I've scoured the +300 page documentation and I don't see any way to change the chapter pagestyle (like you can with koma-script just using the "\chapterpagestyle{}" command), other than inserting "\thispagestyle{myheadings}" at the start of e

Doesn't export or view PDF

2006-11-01 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Hello, I have just installed Lyx 1.4.3-4 from the lyx-143-4-bundle.exe. Some of the manuals I can export or view as PDF-file (for example ), some not (for example ). What may be the reason for this? Can I find the manuals as PDF-Files anywhere else then in the Lyx-help? -- Mit freundlichen

auto indexing?

2006-11-01 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I am attempting to index a 125 page (or so) book that documents around 320 commands. I am attempting to use the sed and awk scripts from http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/lyx-automatic-index-generation.html The first script, sedscr_list_index_items, I downloaded had two bugs -- white space a

Re: LyX/Mac question

2006-11-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Enrico Forestieri wrote: Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AFAIK when LyX exports a math inset to 0lyxpreview.tex for conversion, it does not pass along preamble entries from the original document. LyX uses the exact same preamble of the original document in 0lyxpreview.tex and this m

Re: Update to: [announce] new extended LyX manual available

2006-11-01 Thread Sven Schreiber
Without having actually looked at your manual yet, I want to thank you for this effort, and for the general idea to improve the documentation! Many open source projects underestimate the importance of accessible information and manuals. Lyx used to be a notable exception, but although 1.4 took so l

Re: LyX/Mac question SOLVED

2006-11-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
I hope someone got some use out of the "how to get a viewer on a Mac" part of this thread, because I'm afraid the original question was a false alarm. It turns out the Mac user was also using a custom LaTeX class that contained \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} in the class file, and the pdftex op

Re: LyX/Mac question

2006-11-01 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Nov 1, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Sue Kientz wrote: On Oct 31, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Jens Noeckel wrote: Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I don't know if this helps anything. Let me know if I can do something else to help out or help figure out how to get dvi viewing working under LyX

Re: .eps image not displaying in pdf document

2006-11-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ken wrote: file lock I am using WinXP Home so I can not view the security tab (which I believe is an XP Pro feature). In any case, I have rebooted and am still having the same problem. Ok, probably not a file lock issue, and Home being the insecure beast it is, almost surely not a permissi

Re: LyX/Mac question

2006-11-01 Thread Sue Kientz
On Oct 31, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Jens Noeckel wrote: Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I don't know if this helps anything. Let me know if I can do something else to help out or help figure out how to get dvi viewing working under LyX on macs. Because it is definitely faster than pdf

Re: LyX/Mac question

2006-11-01 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 09:08:36AM -0500, Bennett Helm wrote: > On Nov 1, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:00:31PM -0500, Bennett Helm wrote: > > > >> On Oct 31, 2006, at 9:27 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >> > >>> Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> write

RE: RV: Color in table rows

2006-11-01 Thread Jaime Díaz-Deus Fernández
Excuse me Uwe. The LyX file is attached in my 01.11.2006, 01.36 message. -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: miércoles, 01 de noviembre de 2006 16:27 Para: Jaime Díaz-Deus Fernández CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Asunto: Re: RV: Color in table rows

Re: Update to: [announce] new extended LyX manual available

2006-11-01 Thread Martin A. Hansen
at a glance the wiki page is quite confusing. perhaps a sentence on which files contains what - and how they are related to the build-in documentation? martin On 11/1/06, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wrote: > I'm proud to announce the new extended LyX manual about Floats, Notes,

Update to: [announce] new extended LyX manual available

2006-11-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I wrote: I'm proud to announce the new extended LyX manual about Floats, Notes, Tables, Graphics, and Boxes. The manual can be downloaded from http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#Extended-Insets I'm happily surprized that I got so much feedback about this. Beginning from now on

Re: RV: Color in table rows

2006-11-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jaime Díaz-Deus Fernández schrieb: I pretend a table with 10 rows and 7 columns, that the rows are colored. I use the package xcolor for that but I have errors when I want to view the table in DVI. My LyX version is 1.4.3-4 in a Miktex environment running in Windows XP. How to create colored t

Re: Replacing Quotation Marks

2006-11-01 Thread Martin A. Hansen
close lyx make a backup of the lyx file open the lyx file in a text editor -> notepad, wordpad, vi, emacs, whatever search and replace save martin On 11/1/06, Bruce Pourciau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A copyeditor has asked if I could find and replace all the double quotation marks with

Re: Replacing Quotation Marks

2006-11-01 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/1/06, Bruce Pourciau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A copyeditor has asked if I could find and replace all the double quotation marks with single quotation marks, so she doesn't have to mark them all. Normal find/replace in LyX doesn't seem to work. Is there a way to do this? Use a text edito

Replacing Quotation Marks

2006-11-01 Thread Bruce Pourciau
A copyeditor has asked if I could find and replace all the double quotation marks with single quotation marks, so she doesn't have to mark them all. Normal find/replace in LyX doesn't seem to work. Is there a way to do this? Bruce

Re: Trouble with Floats and Graphic centering

2006-11-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Stan Gatchel schrieb: I am using "article" and inserted a float then a graphic above the figure title. The figure title is centered and the graphic is left justified in the float box. When I view (in DVI or PDF) the graphic is off-center from the figure title. Looks kind of bad. If you havent'

Re: On roman-type enumerates

2006-11-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicolás schrieb: Can LyX be configured somehow to use the enumerate style with roman numbers instead of arabic numbers? This is not possible without redefining commands in the document preamble. You can fill out a bug report (enhancement) at bugzilla.lyx.org so that it won't get lost. So f

Re: LyX/Mac question

2006-11-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Nov 1, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:00:31PM -0500, Bennett Helm wrote: On Oct 31, 2006, at 9:27 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: "open" only works for applications that use the Mac GUI -- not including X11 app

Re: .eps image not displaying in pdf document

2006-11-01 Thread Ken
Paul, I take it that logo.gif and logo.pdf were written in the same directory where the EPS file lives Yes. You've probably already done this, but if not, I would suggest opening figure_equity_vol_smile.eps in your EPS viewer of choice (such as Ghostview, if you have that installed) just to

Re: LyX/Mac question

2006-11-01 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:00:31PM -0500, Bennett Helm wrote: > On Oct 31, 2006, at 9:27 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > > Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> "open" only works for applications that use the Mac GUI -- not > >> including X11 apps. So this solution won't work for xdv

On roman-type enumerates

2006-11-01 Thread Nicolás
Hi! Can LyX be configured somehow to use the enumerate style with roman numbers instead of arabic numbers? I actually want this just for some part of the docuemnt. So far I have been using an ERT with \renewcommand{\labelenumi}{\roman{enumi}.}. However I wonder if LyX supports this is a bette