Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-12 Thread Laurent Duperval
Him, I am using Ubuntu Feisty. I want to create PDF documents with LyX that use well-defined (not fuzzy) fonts. I understand the whole pixmap thing and for printing, they're great. But in all the PDF files I produce, they look fuzzy. I tried the lmodern and the ae thing, but they are still fuzzy

Re: How do you change background color and put a frame

2007-09-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Laurent Duperval wrote: I want to create a paragraph (or two) that have a different background color. I also want them to be framed. How do I do that? The following works in LyX 1.5.x; not sure about 1.4.x. 1. Add "\usepackage{xcolor}" to the preamble. 2. Select your paragraphs and then I

How do you change background color and put a frame

2007-09-12 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, I want to create a paragraph (or two) that have a different background color. I also want them to be framed. How do I do that? L -- Prenez la parole en public en étant Speak to an audience while being moins nerveux et plus convaincant! less nervous and more convincing! Éveil

Re: pronuciation

2007-09-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Uwe wrote something about how the original name of the application was something like 'Lyrix', which I think was a play on 'lyrics'. I can't confirm this personally however. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyX History * Matthias Ettrich started developing a share

Re: pronuciation

2007-09-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Uwe wrote something about how the original name of the application was something like 'Lyrix', which I think was a play on 'lyrics'. I can't confirm this personally however. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyX History * Matthias Ettrich started developing a shareware program calle

Re: pronuciation

2007-09-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: pol wrote: Out of curiosity, should Lyx be pronounced 'lyk', as in TEX? What is the origin of the name? Apparently not, although I'm not sure even that is unanimous: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Pronunciation. Since it's written in C++, famous for ad

Re: pronuciation

2007-09-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
pol wrote: Out of curiosity, should Lyx be pronounced 'lyk', as in TEX? What is the origin of the name? Apparently not, although I'm not sure even that is unanimous: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Pronunciation. Since it's written in C++, famous for adventures in memory pointers, I suppose "leaks

pronuciation

2007-09-12 Thread pol
Out of curiosity, should Lyx be pronounced 'lyk', as in TEX? What is the origin of the name? thank you -- Pol

Re: Viewing two documents simultaneously

2007-09-12 Thread Laurent Duperval
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:34:15 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > In LyX >= 1.5.0 try "File->New Window". > Ah! Hadn't noticed that, thanks! L -- Prenez la parole en public en étant Speak to an audience while being moins nerveux et plus convaincant! less nervous and more conv

Re: math in lyx (making a wee square)

2007-09-12 Thread Donald MacKinnon
Andre Poenitz wrote: Well... type \newcommand{\sqbullet}{\vrule height .9ex width .8ex depth -.1ex } as usual text, mark it, press Ctrl-M, type in the second box \bullet Now \sqbullet in Math shows as round bullet but prints as square bullet. Not exactly Wysiwig and needs math mode...

Re: mail archives?

2007-09-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul A. Rubin wrote: >> pol wrote: >>> Where can one dowload the archives of this mailing list? >>> >> http://search.gmane.org/ to search the archives, or click the 'Reading' >> link on the left to browse them. >> > > Yes, but how to download a whole set of messa

Re: mail archives?

2007-09-12 Thread Tim Michelsen
Yes, but how to download a whole set of messages? i konw 'mailman' stores monthly archives in mbox format that can be downloaded. In case you know the exact address of the mbox file you can use wget wget -c URLTOMBOXFILE The listadmin may help you here.