Re: Table column width

2007-07-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Grahame Blackwood wrote: Thanks for trying, but even changing the table specifications with a text editor does nothing when I return to LyX. I noticed in LyX Tables Setting dialogue that after making changes and then exiting without saving, it did not alert me to save the file. So that partic

Re: Table column width

2007-07-03 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:28:15 Paul A. Rubin wrote: > open the LyX file in a text editor and change one of > those zeros to, say, "2cm", when LyX opens the file is the column width > retained? Hi Paul Thanks for trying, but even changing the table specifications with a text editor does nothing

Re: Table column width

2007-07-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Grahame Blackwood wrote: Attached is a small table with three columns. No matter what I do in the table settings dialogue, the beginning of the tabular environment in the LyX file reads: width="0"> usebox="none"> I suspect that if the dialogue had worked and I had set the widths of eac

Re: Figure caption macro

2007-07-03 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Daniel Lohmann writes: > I would also like to highlight the first sentence and add some extra > space to visually separate it from the additional text. The following > shows the relevant parts of my preamble (I use koma-script): > > % Figure captions > \let\oldcaption\caption > \def\takeshort#1.#

Re[2]: problem with pdflatex to display an eps figure (MAC ppc os 1.4.10, LyX 1.50rc1 or 2)

2007-07-03 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Mael Hilléreau apparently wrote: > This problem may come from the bounding box of your EPS > figure. Maybe it is interpreted differently when using > pdflatex because the EPS is converted by LyX before > (epstopdf in fact), which AFAIK is not the case with > dvipdfm (here t

Re: problem with pdflatex to display an eps figure (MAC ppc os 1.4.10, LyX 1.50rc1 or 2)

2007-07-03 Thread Mael Hilléreau
Le 3 juil. 07 à 19:12, Jean Kaplan a écrit : I work on MAC ppc os 1.4.10, the problem occurs with both 1.50rc1 and 2 Starting from the lyx code using View>PDF (dvipdfm) gives the correct display:whereas with View>PDF (pdflatex), only the left part of the figure appears :Why is that so?

Re: Equations still appear too large in 1.5 RC2

2007-07-03 Thread Jean Kaplan
In june I sent the following message: "I found a solution to reduce (or increase) the size of math previews on the lyx screen (at least for mac os X 10.4.9, mac ppc): Go to the menu item "Preferences->Look and feel-> screen fonts", decrease (or increase) the "Screen DPI" and save. This chang

Re: bibtex - breaking line

2007-07-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Giuseppe Vitalone schrieb: Hi, Hi have a very long URL in a entry of type @misc, and Bibtex writes it "inline"... how can I force to break the line? Use the package hyperref in the preamble of your document, and put the URL into the \href{}-command. regards Uwe

problem with pdflatex to display an eps figure (MAC ppc os 1.4.10, LyX 1.50rc1 or 2)

2007-07-03 Thread Jean Kaplan
I work on MAC ppc os 1.4.10, the problem occurs with both 1.50rc1 and 2 Starting from the lyx code exemple.lyx Description: Binary data using View>PDF (dvipdfm) gives the correct display: <>whereas with View>PDF (pdflatex), only the left part of the figure appears : <> Why is that so?

Re: Equations still appear too large in 1.5 RC2

2007-07-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "James" == James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: James> Was the ³large equation² issue supposed to be fixed for RC2? It James> is still a problem on Mac. RC1 also had this problem on Linux James> (at least on the build that I did for my machine). James> Any update on this problem? There was a

Equations still appear too large in 1.5 RC2

2007-07-03 Thread James
Was the ³large equation² issue supposed to be fixed for RC2? It is still a problem on Mac. RC1 also had this problem on Linux (at least on the build that I did for my machine). Any update on this problem? There was a thread about changing settings, DPI, etc., but I never saw a clear recommendat

Theorem numbering bug in 1.4.4

2007-07-03 Thread David L. Johnson
Folks: Sorry to be reporting bugs in 1.4.4 while 1.5 is being rolled out, but at the moment I need to stick with this to get some work done. While trying to do that, to write a paper to be precise, I noticed a display bug that I had not heard tell of. I am using the amsart class (not the seq

Re: Figure caption macro

2007-07-03 Thread Lyx user
> May I ask why you want to do that? What is wrong with using > Insert>Short Title? Simple, I didn't know that Short Title worked on captions. Maybe it should be called "Short Title or Caption" or "Short Title/Caption." Nevertheless, I am going to use the macro because it will save me some effort

Re: Table column width

2007-07-03 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 15:02:49 Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Can you post a small example file? Maybe there's something in the file > causing a problem (doubtful, but you never know). > > /Paul Attached is a small table with three columns. No matter what I do in the table settings dialogue, the begi

Problem exporting to lyx1.4 (mac PPC os 10.4.10)

2007-07-03 Thread Jean Kaplan
I am working on a mac ppc with mac os 10.4.10 On trying to export a file from lyx 1.5 to lyx 1.4 (big5), I get the attached error message: <> This happens with both rc1 and rc2 versions Jean

bibtex - breaking line

2007-07-03 Thread Giuseppe Vitalone
Hi, Hi have a very long URL in a entry of type @misc, and Bibtex writes it "inline"... how can I force to break the line? Thanks

Re: Table column width

2007-07-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Grahame Blackwood wrote: Hi Steve, Paul and Uwe Thanks for your suggestions. Unfortunately I haven't had any success so far with them. Can you post a small example file? Maybe there's something in the file causing a problem (doubtful, but you never know). /Paul

LyX-1.5.0 release candidate 2 for Mac now available

2007-07-03 Thread Bennett Helm
LyX-1.5.0, release candidate 2 for Mac is now available as a universal binary. You can find the link to it off the Mac page of the wiki: Bennett

Re: LyX-0rc2 for MAC

2007-07-03 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jul 3, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Jean Kaplan wrote: I still did not see MAC binaries for LyX-0rc2 posted on ftp:// ftp.devel.lyx.org/ Is there any particular problem? Just posted, with link on the wiki put in 5 minutes ago. (I've been on vacation, so I haven't been able to make it available unt

LyX-0rc2 for MAC

2007-07-03 Thread Jean Kaplan
I still did not see MAC binaries for LyX-0rc2 posted on ftp:// ftp.devel.lyx.org/ Is there any particular problem? Thank you Jean

Re: legend at side of figure

2007-07-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: I have still difficulties with the "sidecap" Could you send me a small example LyX-file so that I can have a look? koma-script provedes its own method to set captions to the side, but normally this one and sidecap don't interfere. regards Uwe

Re: legend at side of figure

2007-07-03 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Montag, 2. Juli 2007 13:50 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: > Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: > >> This is described in section 3.7 or 3.8 in the EmbeddedObjects manual. > > > > I did not mean text floating around a figure. It's IN a float environment > > Yes, I mean that too. It's described in section "Caption P

Re: legend at side of figure

2007-07-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: working with 1.4.3 I checked Hilfe > Handbuchergänzungen and > Anpassung not realizing that the EmbeddedObjects is a separate document (in 1.4.3). This manual is shipped since LyX 1.4.4, but you can also download it from here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentatio

Re: Figure caption macro

2007-07-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Abdelrazak" == Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Abdelrazak> I am probably missing something but the objective of the Abdelrazak> short title is to replace the caption text in the list of Abdelrazak> figures or tables. What is the benefit of having the s

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Re: Figure caption macro

2007-07-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Abdelrazak" == Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Abdelrazak> I am probably missing something but the objective of the Abdelrazak> short title is to replace the caption text in the list of Abdelrazak> figures or tables. What is the benefit of having the same Abdelrazak> text? So

Re: Figure caption macro

2007-07-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Lyx" == Lyx user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lyx> I would like to insert code in my preamble that will replace Lyx> every instance of \caption{Short. Long long long long.} Lyx> with Lyx> \caption[Short]{Short. Long long long long.} May I ask

Re: Figure caption macro

2007-07-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Daniel" == Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>> "Lyx" == Lyx user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Lyx> I would like to insert code in my preamble that will replace Lyx> every instance of \caption{Short. Long long long long.} >> Lyx> with >>

Re: Figure caption macro

2007-07-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> "Lyx" == Lyx user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Lyx> I would like to insert code in my preamble that will replace > Lyx> every instance of \caption{Short. Long long long long.} > > Lyx> with > > Lyx> \caption[Short]{Short. Long long long long.} > > May I ask

Re: Figure caption macro

2007-07-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lyx" == Lyx user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lyx> I would like to insert code in my preamble that will replace Lyx> every instance of \caption{Short. Long long long long.} Lyx> with Lyx> \caption[Short]{Short. Long long long long.} May I ask why you want to do that? What is wrong with us

Re: Figure caption macro

2007-07-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Lyx user writes: > >> I would like to insert code in my preamble that will replace every instance >> of >> >> \caption{Short. Long long long long.} >> >> with >> >> \caption[Short]{Short. Long long long long.} >> >> However, I am not too familiar with LaTeX and TeX comm

Re: Table column width

2007-07-03 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi Steve, Paul and Uwe Thanks for your suggestions. Unfortunately I haven't had any success so far with them. Steve, pressing ENTER after setting the column width as 6cm still didn't work. Whatever I do in this dialogue box in relation to the fixing the width, ie clicking on the check box and