Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-09 Thread Julio Rojas
What I'm really amazed of, is the quantity of technical and engineering congresses that "ask" the authors to submit their papers is Word format and don't have (and don't support) LaTeX styles. I'm doing some evangelism with my friends that are working on their PhD's to switch to LyX/LaTeX. They i

lyx-1.5 beta 2

2007-05-09 Thread Rodrigo Fresneda
Hi, list. First I would like to congratulate the development team on the many improvements made for the 1.5 version. Now I would like to state some difficulties I have encountered with it. Albeit some bizarre behaviour regarding the math editor (I have explained in a previous post), there are sti

Re: batch conversion

2007-05-09 Thread Eberhard Lisse
In the terminal for i in *.tex; do lyx -e pdf2 $i;done el on 4/24/07 4:35 PM Abdelrazak Younes said the following: > Gunnar Lindholm wrote: >>> I have many lyx files. I want to batch convert them to pdf. how can i >>> do it >>> on windows/ubuntu. please help. >> On the command line >> >> lyx -e

Re: How to modify latex classes?

2007-05-09 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 9 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Wow... that must have been your wiki premiere! ;-) It's easy if you put in all the markup and I just type in text. Thank you for that. All part of my secret^H^H^H^H^Hnow public plan of getting you to store more of your knowledge in the wiki ;-) /C -

Re: graphic for wrapping text and dealing with long lines in example output

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Orr
\newcommand{\MyHookSign}{\hbox{\ensuremath\hookleftarrow}} --- "Jeremy C. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some lyxcode examples that are just too long > for a printed page > such as Unix command line output. > > Anyone use any type of graphic arrow to say that the > line continues on

Re: book example available?

2007-05-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tom Poe schrieb: Is there a book published and available on the web to view? You can use the EmbeddedObjects manual as example since it uses the koma-script book class. The manual is included since LyX 1.4.4 and also available from here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#Embed

book example available?

2007-05-09 Thread Tom Poe
Is there a book published and available on the web to view? One that follows the lyx book template pretty closely? Tom

Re: fatal Paragraph-bug in LyX150 (OS X)

2007-05-09 Thread Bennett Helm
On May 9, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Bob Lounsbury wrote: Patrick De Visschere wrote: Hi, I dont' think this is mentionned in bugzilla. If you change the environment of a blanco line (from Standard) to Paragraph and then type text on the line LyX crashes. Regards, Patrick De Visschere Confirmed

Re: Changing font name in the middle of a document

2007-05-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ralph wrote: Attachment (font_change.lyx): application/lyx, 1529 bytes Thank you Paul. I'll look at that link. I downloaded your file and it downloaded as 38314-001.bin I'm a windows user accustomed to zip and rar. What compression program did you use? I didn't compress it; I attached

graphic for wrapping text and dealing with long lines in example output

2007-05-09 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I have some lyxcode examples that are just too long for a printed page such as Unix command line output. Anyone use any type of graphic arrow to say that the line continues on next line? -- | <-- Something like character drawing above? How did you insert in your lyxcode? In some

Re: Lyx opens Foxit 2.0 without loading PDF in it

2007-05-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Yegor Yefremov wrote: I fixed the problem by creating a link FoxitReader.lnk to Foxit Reader.exe. LyX seems to have problems with file names separated by space. Now the settings are saved in a proper way. Another question is, if it is possible to use Update pdf (pdflatex) function with Foxit

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-09 Thread David L. Johnson
Steve Litt wrote: Big publishers like O'Reilly (or in the case of my Samba Unleashed, Sams) take complete control of the book's layout. Working with a mainstream publisher is the ultimate WYSIWYM experience -- you as the author are responsible only for content. Your publisher gives you a list

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 9 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Big publishers like O'Reilly (or in the case of my Samba Unleashed, Sams) take complete control of the book's layout. Working with a mainstream publisher is the ultimate WYSIWYM experience -- you as the author are responsible only for content. Your publisher

Re: fatal Paragraph-bug in LyX150 (OS X)

2007-05-09 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Patrick De Visschere wrote: Hi, I dont' think this is mentionned in bugzilla. If you change the environment of a blanco line (from Standard) to Paragraph and then type text on the line LyX crashes. Regards, Patrick De Visschere Confirmed here with beta2 ppc. Bob Lounsbury

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 14:23, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 9 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: > > Interesting article: > > How to Spot a Word Processed Book > >What jumps out at me when I look at a processed word book is the uneven > spacing between words on each line. The interletter and interwo

fatal Paragraph-bug in LyX150 (OS X)

2007-05-09 Thread Patrick De Visschere
Hi, I dont' think this is mentionned in bugzilla. If you change the environment of a blanco line (from Standard) to Paragraph and then type text on the line LyX crashes. Regards, Patrick De Visschere

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 9 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Interesting article: How to Spot a Word Processed Book What jumps out at me when I look at a processed word book is the uneven spacing between words on each line. The interletter and interword spacing on a typeset page is much more subtle and the white s

Re: Dialog for Enumerate Symbols?

2007-05-09 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi list, I think I'm on my way to solve Oliver's problem. But for the moment I'm stuck. Three problems remain (see the attached files) 1. LaTeX Obviously I haven't found the right list parameter to indent level six ('sechs' in german) 2. LaTeX What can I do to prevent the newline after the label

How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-09 Thread Steve Litt
Interesting article: How to Spot a Word Processed Book http://www.midwestbookreview.com/bookbiz/advice/wordproc.htm Did I ever mention how glad I am that you all created LyX? Thank you! SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.c

Re: How to modify latex classes?

2007-05-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 11:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 8 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: > >>http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/DebuggingLayoutFiles > > > > It's accurate. I replaced your request for an explanation with an > > explanation :-). > > Wow... that must have been your wiki premiere! ;-

ChangeTracking with more than one reviewer

2007-05-09 Thread Tobias Krause
Hi, is there a way to use the ChangeTracking with more than one reviewer/ while still working on the document? I'd like to send my file to two ore more people and include their changes in one document. Regards, Toby

Re: Lyx in ubuntu

2007-05-09 Thread Christopher Menzel
This might be heresy, but to be honest I much prefer the way that LyX installs and works under XP. Turn in your secret Linux decoder ring NOW! :-)

Re: How to modify latex classes?

2007-05-09 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/DebuggingLayoutFiles It's accurate. I replaced your request for an explanation with an explanation :-). Wow... that must have been your wiki premiere! ;-) Thanks, /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: Beamer questions

2007-05-09 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Beamer questions >>Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 14:16:04 -0400 >> >>Myriam Abramson wrote: [...] >> >>> (2) Can movies in pdf be run "inline" for lack of a better word? I >>> mean that a separate window does not

Re: Change float figure to wrap figure and vice versa

2007-05-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Abdelrazak Younes schrieb: One more suggestion for the wish list: Wouldn't it be good to have a "Table wrap float", since the "Text wrap float" is for figures only? I am not sure this is supported by LateX but you can put an enhancement request in bugzilla in any case. LaT

Re: Change float figure to wrap figure and vice versa

2007-05-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Abdelrazak Younes schrieb: One more suggestion for the wish list: Wouldn't it be good to have a "Table wrap float", since the "Text wrap float" is for figures only? I am not sure this is supported by LateX but you can put an enhancement request in bugzilla in any case. LaTeX supports this,

Re: Lyx in ubuntu

2007-05-09 Thread Ignacio García
The problem is that if you do this you'll only get Lyx 1.4.4, at present, not Version 1.5. Perhaps that ought to be 'sudo apt-get install lyx', by the way . Eh... 1.5 hasn't been released yet... The lyx-1.5.0-beta-1 is available in debian experimental. http://packages.debian.org/experimental/e

Re: open/ close all footnotes in a selection

2007-05-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Tobias" == Tobias Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tobias> Hi, is there a way to open/ close or toggle all footnotes, Tobias> notes,... in a selected area? Not now, but the existing function should be expanded to do that when there is a selection. JMarc

Re: Change float figure to wrap figure and vice versa

2007-05-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
KTl wrote: Hi, is there a way to change a "float:figure" to a "wrap:figure" and vice versa without having to copy/paste everything. Sometimes I need to test what looks better, and if I track the changes it takes quite a few clicks more. A ui based solution would be nice indeed (you can request

Re: Lyx in ubuntu

2007-05-09 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] Easy: apt-get install lyx See man page (man apt-get). The problem is that if you do this you'll only get Lyx 1.4.4, at present, not Version 1.5. Perhaps that ought to be 'sudo apt-get install lyx', by the way . E

Re: Lyx opens Foxit 2.0 without loading PDF in it

2007-05-09 Thread Yegor Yefremov
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Yegor Yefremov wrote: I fixed the problem by changing Lyx:Preferences->File formats->PDF (pdflatex)->Viewer->PDFViewWin to Lyx:Preferences->File formats->PDF (pdflatex)->Viewer->"Foxit Reader.exe". It works fine. But when I restart Lyx this setting (Viewer->"Foxit reader.