Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane schrieb: > > > > > No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I > > normally use OOo as a WP, with "smart quotes" off, > but > > I get some very badly formatted Word documents > for > > internal use. Occasionally it is easier to

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
John Kane schrieb: No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I normally use OOo as a WP, with "smart quotes" off, but I get some very badly formatted Word documents for internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them into LyX than it is to try to reformat them into something readab

Re: Beamer and font size

2007-02-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Julio Rojas wrote: I have tried exporting the LaTeX file and using it with TeXnicCenter, with the following pieces of code: \pgfdeclareimage[height=2cm]{lub}{logo_universitat_blanco} \titlegraphic{\pgfuseimage{lub}} \pgfdeclareimage[height=2cm]{institution-logo}{logo_universitat_blanco} \logo{\

Re: Error on new lyx install

2007-02-13 Thread Bo Peng
Can anyone help me sort this out. You can search for list archives for a solution, but it may be easier to wait for the release of lyx-1.4.5 which is due tomorrow. Cheers, Bo

Error on new lyx install

2007-02-13 Thread Peter Websdell
Hello, I'm new to lyx and have just instaled 1.4.3-5 When i startit up it tells me: Lyx has been closed because an unexpected situation. This is most likely caused by a flaw in the software. The details given are: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! On first load it asked

Libre Graphics Meeting 2007

2007-02-13 Thread Christoph Schäfer
Hello all, Our 1st press release is out now! Hope to see you in Montréal! Louis LGM 2007 organiser * * * ENGLISH VERSION * * * FRENCH VERSION BELOW * * * Artists and Developers Ally to Boost Open Source Graphics Software. Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 in Montréal Announced Issue date: 12 Febru

Re: Beamer and font size

2007-02-13 Thread Julio Rojas
I have tried exporting the LaTeX file and using it with TeXnicCenter, with the following pieces of code: \pgfdeclareimage[height=2cm]{lub}{logo_universitat_blanco} \titlegraphic{\pgfuseimage{lub}} \pgfdeclareimage[height=2cm]{institution-logo}{logo_universitat_blanco} \logo{\pgfuseimage{institut

Re: Beamer and font size

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Julio Rojas wrote: > I'm on Windows, but it works exactly the same and just fine (from > command line). I don't have a clue on what's happening. Have you tried inserting the resulting file into a LaTeX document to check? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- V

Wiki: Happy new, less spam in the future

2007-02-13 Thread christian . ridderstrom
The LyX wiki is occasionally spammed. At first this was done by drug or gambling ads being inserted in the page text. I blocked this a while back by prohibiting certain words from being added to wiki pages. This seemed to be quite successful. Recently, spammers started editing page without a

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Kane wrote: > >> Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I > didn't > >> produce the document but a search and replace is > easy > >> enough. > I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you

Re: Beamer and font size

2007-02-13 Thread Julio Rojas
I'm on Windows, but it works exactly the same and just fine (from command line). I don't have a clue on what's happening. On 2/13/07, Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Julio Rojas wrote: > So, I can't use the images as JPG's??? To check, if

Re: Bibtex buffer size exceeded?

2007-02-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>From: "Miki Dovrat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Bibtex buffer size exceeded? >>Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:12:48 +0200 >>X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 >>X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original >> >>Hi, >> >>My friend is writing his Ph.D. thesis

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: >> Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I didn't >> produce the document but a search and replace is easy >> enough. I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you don't disable the Smart Quote option within Word, it may well just

Re: Beamer and font size

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Julio Rojas wrote: > So, I can't use the images as JPG's??? To check, if you're on GNU/Linux, you can use 'convert .jpg .eps', provided you have ImageMagick installed (which you should do, as I think LyX pulls it in). I would assume there's an equivale

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Kane wrote: > > My problem is that I am getting a ? for " (curly > > quotes) > LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, > so you should be > able to search and replace, in Word,

Re: Beamer and font size

2007-02-13 Thread Julio Rojas
I used this with no result: \pgfdeclareimage[width=2cm]{logo_universitat_blanco}{C:/Users/jcredberry/Desktop/Doctorado/Tesis/Presentación/logo_universitat_blanco.jpg} \titlegraphic{\pgfuseimage{logo_universitat_blanco}} Used the filename with or without extension, but nothing. On 2/13/07, Jean-

Re: Beamer and font size

2007-02-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:49:21 +0100 >>From: "Julio Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "LyX Users List" >>Subject: Re: Beamer and font size >> >>So, I can't use the images as JPG's??? >> >>On 2/13/07, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] Sorry, I always use pdf for bitmap... Yo

Re: Beamer and font size

2007-02-13 Thread Julio Rojas
So, I can't use the images as JPG's??? On 2/13/07, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:04:54 +0100 >>From: "Julio Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: Beamer and font size >>I have read in the Beamer manual that if I us

Re: Beamer and font size

2007-02-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:04:54 +0100 >>From: "Julio Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: Beamer and font size >>I have read in the Beamer manual that if I use the line: >> >>\titlegraphic{\pgfuseimage{logo_universitat_blanco}} You need to declare the image b

Re: Beamer and font size

2007-02-13 Thread Julio Rojas
Thanks, that worked just fine. Now, I would like to add a logo to the presentation. I have my JPG image in the same folders as the LyX file. I added a "titlegraph" line but I don't know how it works. I added an image in this line and it doesn't appear in the PDF. But not only that the rest of the

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: > My problem is that I am getting a ? for " (curly > quotes) LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, so you should be able to search and replace, in Word, for that (though there is a Smart Quote option or somesuch that y

Bibtex buffer size exceeded?

2007-02-13 Thread Miki Dovrat
Hi, My friend is writing his Ph.D. thesis in lyx. Lyx/Latex started showing his thesis without the references at the end. The log file shows that bibtex complains that the "buffer size exceeded", but with no reference to any offending line. This isn't a long list of references, less than 200,