Missing Greek letters in equations on Ubuntu

2007-08-12 Thread John Pye
Hi all A note for anyone running LyX on Ubuntu Feisty. If you are using mathematical formulae/formulas in your documents, you will need to to manually install the additional package 'latex-xft-fonts' on your system. This package *should* be a dependency of LyX but is currently only a 'recommended'

Re: Custom Bibtex BST file problem

2007-08-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Servet Ahmet Cizmeli wrote: Hi everyone, I am new to Lyx and Latex, so thanks a lot for your patience. I have a custom .bst file (made by others) that works like a charm in latex, on the very same machine I now run Lyx 1.4.3 on ubuntu dapper. Now I am trying to use the same .bst file in Lyx

Custom Bibtex BST file problem

2007-08-12 Thread Servet Ahmet Cizmeli
Hi everyone, I am new to Lyx and Latex, so thanks a lot for your patience. I have a custom .bst file (made by others) that works like a charm in latex, on the very same machine I now run Lyx 1.4.3 on ubuntu dapper. Now I am trying to use the same .bst file in Lyx but could not import it. I c

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread killermike
On Sunday 12 August 2007 17:34:38 Steve Litt wrote: > > All I can tell you is the guy from my LUG who wanted on-the-fly BTW, how did that go? -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, music, geek sitcom etc.

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 12 August 2007 12:58, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > All I can tell you is the guy from my LUG who wanted on-the-fly > > spellchecking is a techogeek supreme, probably as likely to document in > > vi (Vim is too touchy feely). He uses fvwm because fvwm2 is too bloated, > > I

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: All I can tell you is the guy from my LUG who wanted on-the-fly spellchecking is a techogeek supreme, probably as likely to document in vi (Vim is too touchy feely). He uses fvwm because fvwm2 is too bloated, Icewm is a monument to bloat, and he probably thinks KDE and Gnome

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 12 August 2007 10:22, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of > >> writing. > > > > +1 > > I'm happy to just run spellcheck at the end, but I'm not sure this > discussion is on point. Assuming that a significan

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 12 August 2007 04:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one of the > >> lead developers. > > > > Me? Was that intended as some kind of in

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. +1 I'm happy to just run spellcheck at the end, but I'm not sure this discussion is on point. Assuming that a significant number of users want it on-the-fly (enough to moti

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Richard Heck
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one of the lead developers. Me? Was that intended as some kind of insult? ;=) Whoops. Sorry. Richard -- ==

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Fernando Roig
Instead of on-the-fly spellchecking, did anybody think about implmenting grammar checking (not necessarily on-the-fly)? I think that this could be a much interesting feature. Fernando Citando "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm happy to just run spellcheck at the end, but I'm not

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-12 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> > Hello, > > I have linux (opensuse 10.2) and I want to > know: > > > > 1) if I can install other distros of Tex like > XeTeX, > > Tex Live, ConTeXt, etc., instead Latex and to use > this > > with Lyx. > > > > 2) If I get a gain with this, like no package > clash > > (ConTeXt), add more e

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. +1 I'm happy to just run spellcheck at the end, but I'm not sure this discussion is on point. Assuming that a significant number of users want it on-the-fly (enough to motivate some develo

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > If you aren't an engineer, you're a humanist? ;-) Bu I don't like people, I can't be an humanist! JMarc

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Richard Heck wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. +1 /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one of the lead developers. Me? Was that intended as some kind of insult? ;=) If you aren't an engineer, you're a humanist? ;-) /C -- Chri