Re: Any words of wisdom switching from 1.4.2 to 1.5.6?

2008-08-27 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On Saturday 23 August 2008 06:40:32 am killermike wrote: > > Steve Litt wrote: > > > I have one book written in stone age LyX in 2001, using Dekl Tsur's color > > > character style workaround. It's been upgraded to 1.4.2, and compiles on > > > 1.4.2, but it doesn't compile on 1.5.x, and I dread g

Re: Help with importing a latex file generated from texmacs

2008-08-27 Thread rgheck
rgheck wrote: Marc Mertens wrote: Hello, I'm considering to switch from texmacs to lyx but I don't want to loose my old documents, to this end I tried to export my documents from texmacs to latex format and use the import function of lyx to import it in .lyx format. I I do this then I s

Re: Please help a newbie with APA citation style in LyX

2008-08-27 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:54 AM, quiddity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you to Zan and Bob for very quick replies! They haven't shown up > directly on the forum - is this usual? > > I have managed to solve the captalisation problem with curly brackets in > Jabref, so thanks for that tip! I gu

Re: Help with importing a latex file generated from texmacs

2008-08-27 Thread rgheck
Marc Mertens wrote: Hello, I'm considering to switch from texmacs to lyx but I don't want to loose my old documents, to this end I tried to export my documents from texmacs to latex format and use the import function of lyx to import it in .lyx format. I I do this then I see that macros

Re: Bug in listings inset (Lyx 1.5.6, OS X)

2008-08-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 27.08.2008, at 19:59, Georg Baum wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi, I just discovered a "feature" of the listings inset that actually should be considered as a bug: Additional options given on the advanced page are implicitly sorted alphabetically. However, if using listing styles, the orde

Help with importing a latex file generated from texmacs

2008-08-27 Thread Marc Mertens
Hello, I'm considering to switch from texmacs to lyx but I don't want to loose my old documents, to this end I tried to export my documents from texmacs to latex format and use the import function of lyx to import it in .lyx format. I I do this then I see that macros that are added by texm

Avoiding formula breaking in multicolumnar enumerate?

2008-08-27 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, Consider the attached example. How can one move the item 10 to the left in order to avoid the formula breaking? Thanks in advance, Paul example.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: Bug in listings inset (Lyx 1.5.6, OS X)

2008-08-27 Thread Georg Baum
Daniel Lohmann wrote: > Hi, > > I just discovered a "feature" of the listings inset that actually > should be considered as a bug: Additional options given on the > advanced page are implicitly sorted alphabetically. However, if using > listing styles, the order of options is relevant. Consider t

Re: Times Roman vs Latin Modern Roman Font

2008-08-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: So you're saying that if I hand out grades printed in Palatino, I won't get the usual bitching and moaning? That's correct. They will be more polite and mature and ask for cheese with their whine. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |

Re: Please help a newbie with APA citation style in LyX

2008-08-27 Thread quiddity
Thank you to Zan and Bob for very quick replies! They haven't shown up directly on the forum - is this usual? I have managed to solve the captalisation problem with curly brackets in Jabref, so thanks for that tip! I guess I might get away with the lack of emphasis for the volume no., as it's such

Re: Conforming to a style manal

2008-08-27 Thread Richard Heck
Louis A. Turk wrote: This is my first post. I'm using the memoir class to set type for a book. I would like to make a few changes that I think are going to require changes to a file someplace. I want to make the changes just once, so that everyone in our office can get the same results (uniformit

Bug in listings inset (Lyx 1.5.6, OS X)

2008-08-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, I just discovered a "feature" of the listings inset that actually should be considered as a bug: Additional options given on the advanced page are implicitly sorted alphabetically. However, if using listing styles, the order of options is relevant. Consider the following example: In

Fwd: Times Roman vs Latin Modern Roman Font

2008-08-27 Thread William Adams
Eventually, I'll get in the habit of checking the distribution before clicking ``Send'' Begin forwarded message: On Aug 27, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Palatino, for example, was designed by Herman Zapf, one of the great type designers, and it is available (in LyX document

Re: Times Roman vs Latin Modern Roman Font

2008-08-27 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Aug 27, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: Typefaces have subtle and subconscious effects on the reader. Pick a typeface that implies professionalism (if that's the impression you want to make) and use that. My default typeface is Palatino. It's a combinatio

Re: Please help a newbie with APA citation style in LyX

2008-08-27 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:12 AM, squidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello I am very new to this ... > > I'm using LyX 1.5.5 in Windows XP. > I'm using JabRef 2.3.1 to manage my bibliography. > I'm using the document class 'article' and have bibliography set to Natbib > author-year. > > Here's my

Re: Times Roman vs Latin Modern Roman Font

2008-08-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: Typefaces have subtle and subconscious effects on the reader. Pick a typeface that implies professionalism (if that's the impression you want to make) and use that. My default typeface is Palatino. It's a combination of traditional and modern and always evokes a positive r

Re: Please help a newbie with APA citation style in LyX

2008-08-27 Thread Zan
squidy wrote: Here's my problem, I have written my Master's Thesis in the document class article but I am required to format my references according to APA manual, 5th edition. I have tried the packages called apalike and apalike2, these work but they get it almost but not quite right, (volume nu

Fwd: Times Roman vs Latin Modern Roman Font

2008-08-27 Thread William Adams
I'd thought this had gone to the list Begin forwarded message: On Aug 27, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Les Denham wrote: However, most people are very much used to Times Roman (and its clones, such as Times New Roman) \begin{typographichistorynitpicking} Actually, Monotype's Times New Roman i

Re: Times Roman vs Latin Modern Roman Font

2008-08-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Bruce Pourciau wrote: On the other hand, The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst, the current bible for serious typographers, in its list of favorite typefaces with commentaries, does not even include Times Roman! This is certainly damnation by omission. As Le

Re: Times Roman vs Latin Modern Roman Font

2008-08-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Les Denham wrote: However, most people are very much used to Times Roman (and its clones, such as Times New Roman) because it is the most common serif font today, so you won't go far wrong if you use it. Yes you will. It's the most common because it's the Microsoft defau

Please help a newbie with APA citation style in LyX

2008-08-27 Thread squidy
Hello I am very new to this ... I'm using LyX 1.5.5 in Windows XP. I'm using JabRef 2.3.1 to manage my bibliography. I'm using the document class 'article' and have bibliography set to Natbib author-year. Here's my problem, I have written my Master's Thesis in the document class article but I am

Re: Times Roman vs Latin Modern Roman Font

2008-08-27 Thread G. Milde
On 27.08.08, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > On Aug 27, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Les Denham wrote: >> On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Abe Lau wrote: >>> Hi all, I am wondering what's the difference between Times Roman and >>> Latin Modern Roman font. >>> I have read from the mailing list that the Latin Modern Roman

Re: Times Roman vs Latin Modern Roman Font

2008-08-27 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Aug 27, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Les Denham wrote: On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Abe Lau wrote: Hi all, I am wondering what's the difference between Times Roman and Latin Modern Roman font. I have read from the mailing list that the Latin Modern Roman (lmodern) package is preferred over the d

Re: Times Roman vs Latin Modern Roman Font

2008-08-27 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Abe Lau wrote: > Hi all, > I am wondering what's the difference between Times Roman and Latin Modern > Roman font. > > I have read from the mailing list that the Latin Modern Roman (lmodern) > package is preferred over the default Computer Modern Roman. However, I > ca

Re: Memoir/hyperref conflict is a known issue

2008-08-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 06:20:51 am Manveru wrote: > 2008/8/25 Eran Kaplinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Steve Litt > >> Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:43:52 -0700 > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I need your help. It turns out to be a known problem that you can't use > >> hyperref with Memoir. However, there's

Re: Memoir/hyperref conflict is a known issue

2008-08-27 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 09:39:00 José Matos wrote: > all the packages have the right license (allow us to redistribute and > modify) with the non-commercial clause (as an example). Just for correctness sake I should mention that I meant *without* any non- commercial clause, for example. Any non-

Re: Memoir/hyperref conflict is a known issue

2008-08-27 Thread Manveru
2008/8/25 Eran Kaplinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> >> Steve Litt >> Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:43:52 -0700 >> >> Hi all, >> >> I need your help. It turns out to be a known problem that you can't use >> hyperref with Memoir. However, there's supposedly a fix, known as >> memhfixc.sty. Supposedly, if you

Re: Position of chapter heading - left or right page?

2008-08-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 26 Aug 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 25 Aug 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > I'm using the default book category. > > > > > > > > The chapter headings come out on the left-hand (e

Times Roman vs Latin Modern Roman Font

2008-08-27 Thread Abe Lau
Hi all, I am wondering what's the difference between Times Roman and Latin Modern Roman font. I have read from the mailing list that the Latin Modern Roman (lmodern) package is preferred over the default Computer Modern Roman. However, I can't find any information about Times Roman. The Times Ro