Re: Unable to print from MS Windows installation

2008-01-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Tim Rowe wrote: I'm a LyX newbie, trying to set it up for the first time. When I tell it to print a document nothing comes out on my default or any other printer. I can't find anything in the documentation about setting up the printer; how do I do it? Section 3.7.4 of the User Guide explains t

Re: bug in conversion of old lyx file to 1.5.3 (uwthesis template)

2008-01-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
José Matos wrote: On Thursday 31 January 2008 00:37:44 Paul A. Rubin wrote: BTW, the traceback seems to relate to the zlib library. Were you attempting to convert the file while it was in an archive? The last line of the error dump suggests not, but I wonder why then lyx2lyx was executing some

Re: inverted iota

2008-01-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
William Seager wrote: On January 30, 2008 19:52:54 Paul A. Rubin wrote: How to install the phonetic package depends to some extent on what LaTeX distribution you're using (you didn't specify). How to use it in LyX is straightforward: \usepackage{phonetic} in the preamble and \textit{\riota} in

Re: accents and dead keys

2008-01-31 Thread Ignacio García
2008/1/31, Martin Görg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello Ignacio García, > on 1/31/2008 you wrote: > > > In my system, LyX 1.5.3, Ubuntu gutsy, Spanish keyboard with dead > > keys, to print isolated accents, caret, accute..., in the text I can > > press twice the accent key. > > In math mode, exponents

Unable to print from MS Windows installation

2008-01-31 Thread Tim Rowe
I'm a LyX newbie, trying to set it up for the first time. When I tell it to print a document nothing comes out on my default or any other printer. I can't find anything in the documentation about setting up the printer; how do I do it? -- Tim Rowe

Re: inverted iota

2008-01-31 Thread William Seager
On January 30, 2008 19:52:54 Paul A. Rubin wrote: > How to install the phonetic package depends to some extent on what LaTeX > distribution you're using (you didn't specify). > > How to use it in LyX is straightforward:  \usepackage{phonetic} in the > preamble and \textit{\riota} in a math inset or

Writing in Chinese

2008-01-31 Thread Maximilian Wollner
I recommend checking out XeTeX. You can use XeTeX in LyX quite easily. It's what I use for switching from Arabic to Arabic Transliteration to German and back and it's a solution that makes little stress, all other solutions are too complicated or buggy (though they can be even more powerful

Table of contents - breakline

2008-01-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hallo !! I've got some long titles and some long figure captions.. When making toc and table of figures, them flow over the page border. I know that exist short titles for this, but I would like to preserv titles and captions in the form they are (quite impossible to shorten them). Is it possi

Re: OT: Proof reading - usually with doc?????

2008-01-31 Thread Maximilian Wollner
I am a proof reader at a journal of my departement (political science) and I always kindly ask every author to simply send me an RTF and to do no formatting whatsoever (I always change it all in a font and format that I find easy to read as in the layout it's being changed anyway but people

Writing in Chinese

2008-01-31 Thread Martin Görg
Hey everyone, I bet some of you are frowning now. I have to bring this up again, because none of the descriptions on the web are working. Especially since LyX-CJK is integrated, now. I'm running LyX 1.5.3 with MiKTeX 2.7 on Windows (installed from the complete installer package for Lyx under Wind

Re: Table of Contents -- adding a line?

2008-01-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 31 Jan 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Thanks - that works for the Preface but I don't seem to be able to do > > the same thing for the index. No error messagd -- it's just ignored. > > For the index, do > > \usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind} > > in preamble. > > (t

Re: Table of Contents -- adding a line?

2008-01-31 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Anthony Campbell wrote: > Thanks - that works for the Preface but I don't seem to be able to do > the same thing for the index. No error messagd -- it's just ignored. For the index, do \usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind} in preamble. (this is a FAQ actually: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted#toc15)

Re: Table of Contents -- adding a line?

2008-01-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 31 Jan 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I've tried using \tableofcontents in place of the Lyx command, with the > > same effect. I also tried \addtocontents{toc}{Preface} but I get an > > error. > > Insert > \addcontentsline{toc}{chatpter}{Preface} > > in ERT just

Re: accents and dead keys

2008-01-31 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 31 January 2008 09:41:59 Ignacio García wrote: > Then, I should like to know if this behaviour also works for you, in > other GNU/Linux > flavours or O.S., and/or in other languages using dead keys for accent > keys. Fedora 8 and a Portuguese keyboard here. The dead keys work just

Re: accents and dead keys

2008-01-31 Thread Martin Görg
Hello Ignacio García, on 1/31/2008 you wrote: > In my system, LyX 1.5.3, Ubuntu gutsy, Spanish keyboard with dead > keys, to print isolated accents, caret, accute..., in the text I can > press twice the accent key. > In math mode, exponents are obtained pressing caret and space, "^space", > but I

Re: Table of Contents -- adding a line?

2008-01-31 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
> Insert > \addcontentsline{toc}{chatpter}{Preface} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Preface} Jürgen

Re: Table of Contents -- adding a line?

2008-01-31 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've tried using \tableofcontents in place of the Lyx command, with the > same effect. I also tried \addtocontents{toc}{Preface} but I get an > error. Insert \addcontentsline{toc}{chatpter}{Preface} in ERT just below the Preface heading. Jürgen

Table of Contents -- adding a line?

2008-01-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
In the Book class, if I insert the Table of Contents entry it doesn't show everything. In particular, it doesn't show the Preface or the Index. I want to add lines for these? I've tried using \tableofcontents in place of the Lyx command, with the same effect. I also tried \addtocontents{toc}{Prefa

accents and dead keys

2008-01-31 Thread Ignacio García
This is a request for lyxers using accent keys with dead keys settings. In my system, LyX 1.5.3, Ubuntu gutsy, Spanish keyboard with dead keys, to print isolated accents, caret, accute..., in the text I can press twice the accent key. In math mode, exponents are obtained pressing caret and space, "

Re: bug in conversion of old lyx file to 1.5.3 (uwthesis template)

2008-01-31 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 31 January 2008 00:37:44 Paul A. Rubin wrote: > BTW, the traceback seems to relate to the zlib library.  Were you > attempting to convert the file while it was in an archive?  The last > line of the error dump suggests not, but I wonder why then lyx2lyx was > executing something gzip-re

Re: bug in conversion of old lyx file to 1.5.3 (uwthesis template)

2008-01-31 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 23:55:02 Scott Otterson wrote: > I'm trying to use lyx 1.5.3 to read a lyx file which was created with an > older version of lyx (the University of Washington lyx thesis template: > http://staff.washington.edu/fox/tex/uwthesis_lyx.zip).  When I open the > file,  this tr