Re: Force equations to stay with the text – keep position?

2008-05-21 Thread G. Milde
On 18.05.08, Tomi Makkonen wrote: > Hi! > How do I force lyx to keep group of numbered equations together with > the text? Now I have first equation with the text and then 2 figures > and 2 tables (2 pages) later the equations will continue. Those > equations happen to be most importance in the te

Force equations to stay with the text – keep position?

2008-05-21 Thread Tomi Makkonen
Hi! How do I force lyx to keep group of numbered equations together with the text? Now I have first equation with the text and then 2 figures and 2 tables (2 pages) later the equations will continue. Those equations happen to be most importance in the text so it is not acceptable. Multiline C

Re: Can't convert graphviz DOT format to PDF

2008-05-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John Pye wrote: Well, it would not be hard for someone to provide a patch file that one could apply to the preferences file. The user would have to know how to merge in a patch file (or else LyX would have to provide a patch merge utility). Unfortunately, these things are not entirely one-size

Re: Can't convert graphviz DOT format to PDF

2008-05-21 Thread John Pye
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > John, > > John Pye wrote: >>> Works fine for me here. Keep in mind that there are at least three >>> PDF file formats defined within LyX, because different compilation >>> methods (ps2pdf, pdflatex, dvipdfm) have different requirements. On >>> my box those are designated pd

Re: Greek Fonts don't display on Screen but print out in PDF

2008-05-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: (Sorry for sending this again - if I did. I am not sure to which address to send a question to. Sorry ) Hi, I'm a new user to LyX. Just installed LyX 1.5.5 on my Windows XP. Most of the Greek Fonts such as \alpha \beta \gamma etc. come out on screen as a red empty box. H

Greek Fonts don't display on Screen but print out in PDF

2008-05-21 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
(Sorry for sending this again - if I did. I am not sure to which address to send a question to. Sorry ) Hi, I'm a new user to LyX. Just installed LyX 1.5.5 on my Windows XP. Most of the Greek Fonts such as \alpha \beta \gamma etc. come out on screen as a red empty box. However, viewing the page

Re: ModernCV in LyX broken?

2008-05-21 Thread Frank
Thanks! It works! On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, but also run texhash to register the new files that come with version > 0.6 to TeXLive. > > regards Uwe >

Re: Can't convert graphviz DOT format to PDF

2008-05-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Hi Abdel, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Maybe you could contribute this converter to LyX? I am very interested in dot but never took the time to try to integrate it within LyX. Happy to oblige, but I'm not sure what there is to contribute. These are the lines I added to the

Filename Latex (plain) export

2008-05-21 Thread Michael Brunneder
Hello! I've the following problem. I want to export my lyx file that contains some included latex files to plain latex. But the the export option suggests as filename the path and name of the first occuring included latex file. Here is a small example. New lyx file: newfile1.lyx File -> Expo

Re: ModernCV in LyX broken?

2008-05-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Frank schrieb: Hi, Uwe.Thanks! I see I am using v0.5. I'll download the moderncv package from CTAN (presuming it has v0.6). Of course it has the latest version, that is 0.6. Just to recap, though, I copy the files to their corresponding places in texlive/2007/. directories, choose

Re: Problems building lyx 1.5.5 with qt4.4

2008-05-21 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ./configure --with-extra-prefix=/data/XXX/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.4.0/qt4.4/ --prefix=/home/XXX/lyx shouldn't the configure option for qt be: --with-qt4-dir=/data/XXX/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.4.0/qt4.4 /Konrad

Re: ModernCV in LyX broken?

2008-05-21 Thread Frank
Hi, Uwe.Thanks! I see I am using v0.5. I'll download the moderncv package from CTAN (presuming it has v0.6). Just to recap, though, I copy the files to their corresponding places in texlive/2007/. directories, choose Reconfigure within LyX, and then restart, correct? Thanks for all Your

Re: LyX/Mac for 10.3

2008-05-21 Thread Honest Guvnor
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Konrad Hofbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> A few things you could still try, if you haven't yet: >> >> 1) Check permissions (in Disk Utility) >> Never hurts... ;-) >> >> 2) Change the

Problems building lyx 1.5.5 with qt4.4

2008-05-21 Thread Adolf_Panzer
Hello, I downloaded qt4.4 this week, built it with the familiar configure make make install locally to /data/XXX/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.4.0/qt4.4/ , because I am not root on this system( Debian Etch). Then I tried to configure lyx, but it always complains about qt not being found. Here are som

Re: Mysterious LaTeX Error

2008-05-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 21 May 2008, José Matos wrote: The usual culprit in these cases is the underscore. Jose, Sure was. My suggestion is to replace the calls to str(left) and str(right) by a call to a new function that escapes all the usual suspects. Good idea. I am not sure if the latex code is

Re: Mysterious LaTeX Error

2008-05-21 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 17:24:04 Rich Shepard wrote: >    The 'Missing $ inserted' error message is generated when there is a math > symbol (e.g., $) in the text string that causes LaTeX to enter math mode. I > do not have any monetary amounts in the text. What other character might be > seen by L

Re: Mysterious LaTeX Error -- SOLVED

2008-05-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 21 May 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: l.1963 IIA1 & if impervioussurface_ amount is little then goodness is greatly... What other character might be seen by LaTeX as a command to enter math mode when that's not my intention? OK. Got it. LaTeX sees the

Mysterious LaTeX Error

2008-05-21 Thread Rich Shepard
Folks here have been exceptionally helpful in seeing errors that I miss. This new error may well be the most challenging. My embedded LaTeX is trying to print a two-column table with text (strings) in each column, no numbers. Here's the relevant code: ivr.write('\\begin{tabular}{lp{7

Re: Problem with LyX 1.5.5 (WinAltInstaller)

2008-05-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Humberto Castejon schrieb: For some reason, when I open LyX, it does not remember the sate in which it was when it was closed. Any easy fix? Strange, to assure that this works, try to uninstall the existing LyX 1.5 versions you have on your system _completely_ (including personal user setting

Re: Can't convert graphviz DOT format to PDF

2008-05-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi Abdel, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Maybe you could contribute this converter to LyX? I am very interested in dot but never took the time to try to integrate it within LyX. Happy to oblige, but I'm not sure what there is to contribute. These are the lines I added to the preferences file (thr

Re: Can't convert graphviz DOT format to PDF

2008-05-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John, John Pye wrote: Works fine for me here. Keep in mind that there are at least three PDF file formats defined within LyX, because different compilation methods (ps2pdf, pdflatex, dvipdfm) have different requirements. On my box those are designated pdf, pdf2 and pdf3 respectively, and I'm p

Re: ModernCV in LyX broken?

2008-05-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Frank schrieb: I'm using LyX 1.5.5 and pdfTeX 3.141592-1.40.3-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.6). How would I find what version of moderncv I have? Open the file "moderncv.cls" with an editor. regards Uwe

Re: Help with latexcad

2008-05-21 Thread Angel Amat
G. Milde-3 wrote: > > On 15.05.08, Rich Shepard wrote: >> On Thu, 15 May 2008, Angel Amat wrote: > >>> Hello, I am using latexcad to draw some diagrams with equations. The >>> problem is that i can not insert this diagrams in the lyx document. I >>> have >>> copy the LATEXCAD.STY to the folder

Problem with LyX 1.5.5 (WinAltInstaller)

2008-05-21 Thread Humberto Castejon
Hi! I just installed LyX 1.5.5 using the alternative installer for Windows ("small" version) For some reason, when I open LyX, it does not remember the sate in which it was when it was closed. Any easy fix? On another respect, while looking at the debugging messages, I have seen plenty of me

Re: LyX/Mac for 10.3

2008-05-21 Thread Bennett Helm
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Konrad Hofbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A few things you could still try, if you haven't yet: > > 1) Check permissions (in Disk Utility) > Never hurts... ;-) > > 2) Change the tmp directory > In LyX's preferences (under "Paths") you can set the location of a

Re: ModernCV in LyX broken?

2008-05-21 Thread Frank
Hi, Uwe. I'm using LyX 1.5.5 and pdfTeX 3.141592-1.40.3-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.6). How would I find what version of moderncv I have? Thanks, Frank On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are using an old version of the modernCV LaTeX package. What is you LyX > versio

Re: ModernCV in LyX broken?

2008-05-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Frank schrieb: I opened the moderncv.lyx example in lyx, pressed the pdflatex button to see what it looks like and received the message, "Undefined control sequence," on the use of \moderncvtheme. What is wrong? You are using an old version of the modernCV LaTeX package. What is you LyX versi

Re: Packages required under Linux

2008-05-21 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
On Thursday 15 May 2008 17:06 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [...] I could post it here if someone asks, or > > maybe it could go to the Wiki page Peleg Michaeli has started. > > Please add it to the wiki page, I'd certainly appreciate it! [...] It's done: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUb

Re: +/- in a table too large

2008-05-21 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 08:05 schrieb G. Milde: > On 21.05.08, Manveru wrote: > > What I see here from those few responses different TeX distros have > > different implementation (if I can tell that) of Latin Modern typefaces > > in details. Very strange. > > To me it looks rather like a font sub

Re: +/- in a table too large

2008-05-21 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
-- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: Re: +/- in a table too large Date: Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 08:15 From: Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Am Dienstag, 20. Mai 2008 20:52 schrieben Sie: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > thanks f

Re: Personal dictionary

2008-05-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: I have just checked it thoroughly, and the personal dictionary is placed in C:\ProgramData\Aspell\Personal, which is very stupid. So why is this stupid someone might ask. Well: - First of all, this makes it a global dictionary for all users, not that personal. -

Re: Personal dictionary

2008-05-21 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Paul A. Rubin skrev: Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: I'm not sure if it's that simple on Windows. On Windows, Aspell can be installed either for "all users" or for the user logged in during the installation. I think the location of the personal dictionary depends on which choice was made

Re: Can't convert graphviz DOT format to PDF

2008-05-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John Pye wrote: FWIW, I think that rather than an all-powerful GUI for editing converters, file formats, etc, these things should be stored in flat platform-specific configuration files that can be packaged for distribution as 'plugins' eg a set of LyX configuration files + linux package dependen

Re: +/- in a table too large

2008-05-21 Thread G. Milde
On 21.05.08, Manveru wrote: > What I see here from those few responses different TeX distros have > different implementation (if I can tell that) of Latin Modern typefaces in > details. Very strange. To me it looks rather like a font substitution -- some font missing in some disttributions or old

Re: Can't convert graphviz DOT format to PDF

2008-05-21 Thread John Pye
Hi Paul Paul A. Rubin wrote: > John Pye wrote: > >> >> If I make a DOT->PNG converter and use that, it works fine. So there >> is nothing wrong with LyX's ability to make some form of file >> conversion here. It fails when I attempt to configure a conversion >> from DOT to PDF. >> > > Works fine f

Re: Can't convert graphviz DOT format to PDF

2008-05-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Paul A. Rubin wrote: John Pye wrote: If I make a DOT->PNG converter and use that, it works fine. So there is nothing wrong with LyX's ability to make some form of file conversion here. It fails when I attempt to configure a conversion from DOT to PDF. Works fine for me here. Keep in mi