Re: problems to show figures in LyX

2007-06-18 Thread Fernando Roig
Paul: I don't understand this. You're saying that LyX will display the PPM file properly (if you include it directly in the document) but GIMP thinks the file is bad? LyX displays the ppm file but not properly. I mean, it appears an image on the screen, but this image has less to do with th

Re: problems to show figures in LyX

2007-06-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Fernando, Fernando Roig wrote: Hi Paul: Thanks for the message. 1. Apparently, ImageMagick is correctly configured on LyX path prefix. The entry is: C:\Arquivos de programas\ImageMagick-6.3.3-Q16; which is the directory where convert.exe is found. Ok. 2. From the command prompt, I make

Re: Inverted commas

2007-06-18 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या]
I see. Thanks a lot. Very interesting. I'm not too technical (a journalist-editor-writer). So I'll need to ask my techie friend. Anyway it works for me now, the way I'm doing it. I imported the file that was set in Jstar (a clone of WordStar, and from the Joe family). It's ancient, but I love usin

Re: Inverted commas

2007-06-18 Thread David L. Johnson
Frederick Noronha [फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या] wrote: Thanks, David and Mark. No, actually I'm referring to the appearance *both* on the monitor and on the printout. My earlier attempt, done hurriedly for the first book I edited, didn't work. But thanks to you guys, I think I've got it this time. What

Re: problems to show figures in LyX

2007-06-18 Thread Fernando Roig
First two things to check: 1. Is ImageMagick (correctly) on LyX's path prefix (Tools -> Preferences... -> Paths -> PATH prefix)? 2. If so, does IM work correctly? Can you convert an image file to PPM format from a command prompt? If this doesn't help, we'll have to poke around with the conve

Re: Inverted commas

2007-06-18 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या]
Thanks, David and Mark. No, actually I'm referring to the appearance *both* on the monitor and on the printout. My earlier attempt, done hurriedly for the first book I edited, didn't work. But thanks to you guys, I think I've got it this time. What needs to be done is to use the ``quotes" .. and

Re: Inverted commas

2007-06-18 Thread David L. Johnson
Frederick Noronha [फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या] wrote: Hi Mark, That doesn't offer too many options Language: English Use language's default encoding (not selected) Encoding: Latex default Quote style: "text" [Quote style also available in ``text", ,,text``, ,,text", <>, and >>text<<] What I'm looking f

Re: Inverted commas

2007-06-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Unknown wrote: Dear all, Could you please tell me how to get a decent, shapely "set of inverted commas" instead of the rough-looking ones I get from Lyx? Thanks for all for your useful help, specially to Steve. FN By "rough looking" do you mean the ones you see in the GUI, or the ones that sho

Re: Inverted commas

2007-06-18 Thread Mark T.B. Carroll
""Frederick Noronha [फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या]"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: (snip) > [Quote style also available in ``text", ,,text``, ,,text", <>, > and >>text<<] > > What I'm looking for is something that would create the elegant, > textbook-like 66quotes99 (using 66 and 99 to explain their shape...).

Text... versus the introduction

2007-06-18 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या]
Hi all, I'm just typesetting a book. The chapters are coming out fine. My problem is with the introduction. The problem is two-fold... (1) It's not hyphenating adequately... (2) The pages seem to be splitting only after paragraphs (which means, a lot of white space between paras!) Am I doing som

Re: No Text Class Found?

2007-06-18 Thread Joost Verburg
Paniez Paykari wrote: I have tried to download lyx on my windows. After going through all the steps, it does not open lyx and the error message is 'No TextClass Found'. How can I fix this? The LyX configuration probably failed. Remove C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\lyx1.4.x and

Re: Inverted commas

2007-06-18 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या]
Hi Mark, That doesn't offer too many options Language: English Use language's default encoding (not selected) Encoding: Latex default Quote style: "text" [Quote style also available in ``text", ,,text``, ,,text", <>, and >>text<<] What I'm looking for is something that would create the elegant,

Re: Inverted commas

2007-06-18 Thread Mark T.B. Carroll
""Frederick Noronha [फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या]"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear all, Could you please tell me how to get a decent, shapely "set > of inverted commas" instead of the rough-looking ones I get from Lyx? Does the Document Settings -> Language -> Quote Style thing help at all? -- Mark

Inverted commas

2007-06-18 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या]
Dear all, Could you please tell me how to get a decent, shapely "set of inverted commas" instead of the rough-looking ones I get from Lyx? Thanks for all for your useful help, specially to Steve. FN -- FN: Frederick Noronha Phone 0091-832-2409490 http://wikiwikiweb.de/MyContacts

1.5.0 Linux install help

2007-06-18 Thread killermike
Hiya I have been having some problems installing 1.5.0beta3 on my Kubuntu 7.04 machine. I had used all of the betas on my Kubuntu 6.06lts without any problems. The problems seem to related font installation in some way. In my attempts to get things working, I have mostly been working with files

Re: problems to show figures in LyX

2007-06-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Fernando Roig wrote: Hello: I am running LyX 1.5.0rc1 on MS Windows and I am not able to view the figures in LyX. I tried several file formats like ps, eps, jpg, gif, pdf, and always get the message "Error converting to loadable format". I understand that there is some problem with the defin

Re: Can't enter extra whitespace when editing.

2007-06-18 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, LyX-svn as of 2007-06-17 still permits it. Greetings Hellmut Has a recent LyX version eliminated the author's ability to use Ctrl+Spacebar to insert multiple nonbreaking spaces? My 1.4.2 allows it. -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081

Re: Can't enter extra whitespace when editing.

2007-06-18 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Darren, thanks for your message ;-) I realised only now that your are living very far from Europe. OTOH as you can see from my signature I'm german, born 1943 and my parents have lived through all of the war (actually two of these, teh first one as little children). In many European countr

Re: Boxed graphic

2007-06-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hellmut Weber schrieb: does the graphic include dialog offer a possibility to get the graphic boxed (as if it were in a fbox) or do I have to do that myself with ERT? You have to do this by yourself. You can either set it into a single table cell or put it into a framed box, see the attached

Re: Glossary

2007-06-18 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
-- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: Re: Glossary Date: Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2007 13:46 From: Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Am Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2007 10:44 schrieb Valter Filipe Silva: > Hello, > > > Could you give me more details about using

Re: moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor

2007-06-18 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
On Thursday 14 June 2007 12:50:08 Ares wrote: > Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite > bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows, > but I realised that it runs under the Java Runtime Environment, and I > do not want to install new compone

Re: Can't enter extra whitespace when editing.

2007-06-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 18 June 2007 08:28, Darren Freeman wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 12:40 +0200, Hellmut Weber wrote: > > Hi Darren, don't you think that calling a lyx behaviour 'gestapo > > behaviour' is inappropriate? > > I don't think I spent any more than three seconds on it and hadn't > considered it

Re: Boxed graphic

2007-06-18 Thread Robert Orr
--- Rudi Gaelzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 18 June 2007 08:43:44 Hellmut Weber wrote: > > Hi, > > does the graphic include dialog offer a > possibility to get the graphic > > boxed (as if it were in a fbox) or do I have to do > that myself with ERT? > > > > TIA > > > > Hellmut > > I

Re: Boxed graphic

2007-06-18 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
On Monday 18 June 2007 08:43:44 Hellmut Weber wrote: > Hi, > does the graphic include dialog offer a possibility to get the graphic > boxed (as if it were in a fbox) or do I have to do that myself with ERT? > > TIA > > Hellmut Inside any mathematical environment, just type \boxed followed by space

Re: Can't enter extra whitespace when editing.

2007-06-18 Thread Darren Freeman
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 12:40 +0200, Hellmut Weber wrote: > Hi Darren, don't you think that calling a lyx behaviour 'gestapo > behaviour' is inappropriate? I don't think I spent any more than three seconds on it and hadn't considered it to be anything other than a little colourful. I was referring

Boxed graphic

2007-06-18 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, does the graphic include dialog offer a possibility to get the graphic boxed (as if it were in a fbox) or do I have to do that myself with ERT? TIA Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172

German grafik dialog window

2007-06-18 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi this is a remark of a 'perfectionist' ;-) When I'm working with lyx-svn (as of yesterday noon) with my german settings the graphic dialog, tab 'Grafik' shows two places where the letter o (Oh) is underlined, indicating that it could be activated with the key combination alt+o: * Tab 'LaTeX

Re: latex listings - line breaking problem

2007-06-18 Thread Helge Hafting
Jakub Suder wrote: Hi, I'm writing my MSc thesis in Lyx, and today I installed 1.5.0rc1 and tried to use code listings (I have lots of Java examples in my thesis), but I've encountered a problem. I'm using a custom class from my university - mgragh (I don't know if the list accepts attachments,

Re: Can't enter extra whitespace when editing.

2007-06-18 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Darren, don't you think that calling a lyx behaviour 'gestapo behaviour' is inappropriate? I'll send my mail certainly open to the list, I was just to quick and didn't change the address for my replay. So I send this mail to the list as cc Regards Hellmut Darren Freeman schrieb: Hellmu

Re: RC1 Dumb Question

2007-06-18 Thread Andreas K .
Mark Kortink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi > > I am writing a book in LyX and come from the Windows world. I want to download > and install RC1 with no hassels. This means download a file, double-click it > and respond to the prompts, and at the end everything is done. When I go to the

Re: No Text Class Found?

2007-06-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paniez Paykari schrieb: I have tried to download lyx on my windows. After going through all the steps, it does not open lyx and the error message is 'No TextClass Found'. How can I fix this? The easiest method it to try reinstalling LyX using this installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWi

Re: which LyX version on which Mac OSX version?

2007-06-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Bennett Helm wrote: On Jun 17, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Patrick De Visschere wrote: Hi, Since I temporarely have to switch to and older Mac (with OSX 10.2.8) I wanted to find out what version of lyx runs on which OS X version and the information on the wiki pages seems ambiguous. According to the

No Text Class Found?

2007-06-18 Thread Paniez Paykari
Dear Sir/Madam, I have tried to download lyx on my windows. After going through all the steps, it does not open lyx and the error message is 'No TextClass Found'. How can I fix this? Thank you Paniez Paykari