footnotes using numbers and letters

2007-08-15 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
My content is organized by numbered verses. I want my footnotes to be numbered for the first footnote in the verse plus the letter "a". And the superscript would just be a lowercase letter. Then subsequent footnotes within the same verse would be the next alphabetical letter. I guess I could mo

Re: Universal/Intel/PPC binaries

2007-08-15 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 15, 2007, at 4:37 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: Dear LyX users (actually, this is more a question for developers, or anyone who can clarify--) Since at least 1.5x, the download ftp directory has three .dmg files for LyX: a Universal, a PPC, and an Intel binary. Do all three get updated a

Bib2wiki question

2007-08-15 Thread Myriam Abramson
I'm building a bibliography on a wiki (mediawiki) so that other people can collaborate their bibtex entries. I then cut-and-paste the bibtex entry page from the wiki into a file and then run a script that combines bibtex2thml and html2wiki. I then cut-and-paste the output to a wiki page. All this

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-15 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> > How I can get xelatex? > > I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. > > It's not a package, but a binary format of the latex > macros processed > by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. > > http://scripts.sil.org/xetex This site give to me rpm´s for suse (I have opensuse 10.2) that no

Re: Extend picture over the whole page

2007-08-15 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Helge Hafting wrote: > >>In the float, use a \vspace command with a negative argument > >>to get to the edge of paper. (i.e. you cancel the effect of the margin.) > >>Then you insert a graphich big enough to cover the page. > >> > > > >hmm, this seems to affect only text not picture. > >any o

Universal/Intel/PPC binaries

2007-08-15 Thread Maria Gouskova
Dear LyX users (actually, this is more a question for developers, or anyone who can clarify--) Since at least 1.5x, the download ftp directory has three .dmg files for LyX: a Universal, a PPC, and an Intel binary. Do all three get updated at the same time? Which of the three would you recommend?

Re: Lyx, AGU, LaTeX export

2007-08-15 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 04:26:48PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > David Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thanks for the reply. I am still puzzled. Checking AGU's web site (for > > J. Geophys. Res. at least), I see that they > > accept only LateX, Word or Wordperfect for accepted man

Re: Read only as default.

2007-08-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
José Matos wrote: Another more general option is to change the file to be read only (I am referring to unix) in the filesystem with chmod: chmod -w file.lyx That way lyx will not overwrite the file. Also possible in Windows (right click on file, select properties, check read-only) --

Re: Computer algebra system

2007-08-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Rainer M. Krug wrote: Big AA! Helge Hafting wrote: SNIP I think LyX checks for this when trying to run them. All the computer algebra sw packages is available in that menu, even those I don't have. They are disabled only when the cursor isn't in a math region. T

Re: Lyx, AGU, LaTeX export

2007-08-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
David Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the reply. I am still puzzled. Checking AGU's web site (for > J. Geophys. Res. at least), I see that they > accept only LateX, Word or Wordperfect for accepted manuscripts. How > can lyx be used to submit to > AGU without converting to latex f

Re: Lyx, AGU, LaTeX export

2007-08-15 Thread David Simpson
Thanks for the reply. I am still puzzled. Checking AGU's web site (for J. Geophys. Res. at least), I see that they accept only LateX, Word or Wordperfect for accepted manuscripts. How can lyx be used to submit to AGU without converting to latex first? Dave Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: David Si

Re: Endnote to Jabref to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread John Kane
A very nice start is Paul Johnson's article http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/BibTeX/biblioexample.pdf It does not touch on MLA specifically though. --- Jannika Bock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the prompt and helpful replies! > > I managed to transfer my endnote database to Jabref. > Now

Re: Improving images for printing?

2007-08-15 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I am replying to two different emails here... On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: > PNG is a lossless format, so it is OK even if it is compressed. > (PNG compression does not cause any errors or blurring, > quite unlike jpeg.) So feel free to use compressed png in > order to get a smaller

Endnote to Jabref to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Jannika Bock
Thanks for the prompt and helpful replies! I managed to transfer my endnote database to Jabref. Now I would like to generate a bibliography in Lyx; it has to be in MLA format. Does anybody know how to do that? Again, I need step-by-step introductions that are geared towards a newbie... J

Re: [announce] completely revised LyX UserGuide - request for testing

2007-08-15 Thread John Kane
It seems okay now 09:08 Eastern Daylight Saving Time --- Typhoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:30:54 +0200 > Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > You can download the new UserGuide version and a > PDF-version here: > > > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDev

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Gerard Ateshian
Jannika, Here is what I suggest for Mac OS X (I have used this successfully in the past). I got part of these instructions on the web but I don't recall where. So I am paraphrasing. 1) Convert your EndNote library to BibTex format. a. Within EndNote, Edit->Output Styles->Open Style Manag

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Maria Gouskova
Follow the wiki guide for bibliographies in the humanities: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/HumanitiesLyX you'll need the MLA bibliography style, mla.bst, which is available from CTAN.org. Best, Maria On 8/15/07, Jannika Bock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Maria, > > thank you for your help. I downlo

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Fritz Bein
JabRef is quite powerful tool and provides an EndNote import function. It should work on Mac, too, as it is platform independent. Regards, Fritz Am 15.08.2007, 12:33 Uhr, schrieb Ride_Ride_Ride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, Jannika I am using Lyx and bibtex on SUSE Linux. I know little about

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-15 Thread William Adams
On Aug 14, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: How I can get xelatex? I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. It's not a package, but a binary format of the latex macros processed by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. http://scripts.sil.org/xetex or http://www.fsci.fuk.kindai.a

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Maria Gouskova
Hi, Jannika-- I would also recommend switching to JabRef from Endnote. A few years ago, I migrated from Endnote to JabRef/BibTeX and documented the steps here: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~mg152/downloads/bibtex.html This was the only method that worked for me; the others all screwed up one thing o

Re: Read only as default.

2007-08-15 Thread José Matos
On Friday 10 August 2007 19:38:57 Bernhard Roider wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: > > Emacs also have a "open read only" command. We could do something like > > that and bind it to C-S-o, but not put it in menu. > > afaics there is nothing to do in the source code: just add the following > l

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Ride_Ride_Ride
Hi, Jannika I am using Lyx and bibtex on SUSE Linux. I know little about endnote, lyx, bibtex on MacOS, so I can't make any suggestions about them. You might use other bibtex tools on Mac. BibDesk http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/ JabRef (work on JAVA, I'm not sure it can work on MacOS) http:/

EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Jannika Bock
I'm writing my thesis in LyX 1.5.1. on MAC OS X. I also use EndNote. How do I generate my bibliography from EndNote files in LyX? I tried to convert my EndNote files into BibTex, but did not suceed. I am a LyX newbie and not accustomed to programming and the like. I need an easy-to-understan