Index Flash Card Template

2009-01-27 Thread Josiah
I am trying to create a template for printing school notes on index cards. I would like the notes to be two-sided like flash cards and be able to print 4 note cards on a sheet letter size paper (Avery Index Cards #3381). I am currently doing this using Word, but it is a big hassle to get the for

Hi Lyx Users

2009-01-27 Thread Guven Yuceturk
I have question. I am kind of new in using Lyx. I am PhD student in math and I really loved Lyx. It is very useful for me. I am using the version 1.6.1 (latest) I have two computer, one in my office installed Ubuntu, the other one is my laptop has Windows vista. My problem is I have some figure

Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 03:52:57 pm Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Jürgen Spitzmüller writes: > > Les Denham wrote: > >> Is there a way of making the quotes strictly ASCII?  I'm getting into > >> trouble with a mailing list which insists on plain ASCII text. > > > > Not without hacking the sourc

Re: custom fields in documents

2009-01-27 Thread rgheck
Burak Arslan wrote: hi, i used to use makefiles for compiling tex files into pdf. before invoking pdflatex et al, those makefiles incorporated various information from its context like current svn revision number, user who invokes the operation etc. i did this by writing the output of the co

Re: Corss reference and math functions shortkey.

2009-01-27 Thread rgheck
Jens Noeckel wrote: On Jan 27, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: Jens Noeckel writes: Hi, yes, some of the lfun names have changed over time. For cross- references, you now have to invoke the lengthy command "dialog-show- new-inset ref"... In LyX 1.6.x you can find these function

LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

2009-01-27 Thread Nikos Alexandris
With this phrase starts the description of LyX in Ubuntu's repositories. I think it should read: LyX is a WYSIWYM document processor. Anybody know's who should be contacted about that (if, of course, you _also_ disagree with the current description)? Kind regards, Nikos

Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-01-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jürgen Spitzmüller writes: > Les Denham wrote: >> Is there a way of making the quotes strictly ASCII?  I'm getting into >> trouble with a mailing list which insists on plain ASCII text. > > Not without hacking the source, I'm afraid. > Question to lyx-devel: is "plain text" supposed to produce ASC

Re: Corss reference and math functions shortkey.

2009-01-27 Thread Jens Noeckel
On Jan 27, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: Jens Noeckel writes: Hi, yes, some of the lfun names have changed over time. For cross- references, you now have to invoke the lengthy command "dialog-show- new-inset ref"... In LyX 1.6.x you can find these function names by searching i

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Ehud Kaplan wrote: > > Thanks, Jurgen.  Your comments were helpful. > > As for the inserted comments (item #4), sometimes one needs to insert > > comments for one's colleagues while editing a text. > > I tried to insert a Lyx note or a comment, and although they showed u

Re: Corss reference and math functions shortkey.

2009-01-27 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Jens Noeckel writes: > Hi, > yes, some of the lfun names have changed over time. For cross- > references, you now have to invoke the lengthy command "dialog-show- > new-inset ref"... In LyX 1.6.x you can find these function names by > searching in the Preferences > Editing > Shortcuts panels

Re: Corss reference and math functions shortkey.

2009-01-27 Thread Jens Noeckel
On Jan 27, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Vitalie S. wrote: Dear Lyx users, Is there a way to bind a key to the cross-reference dialog in LyX? Functions like label-insert,citation-insert,index-insert are present but ref-insert is not (but apparently existed in versions previous to 1.4). The same qu

Corss reference and math functions shortkey.

2009-01-27 Thread Vitalie S.
Dear Lyx users, Is there a way to bind a key to the cross-reference dialog in LyX? Functions like label-insert,citation-insert,index-insert are present but ref-insert is not (but apparently existed in versions previous to 1.4). The same question for math-functions like ins,lim,inf,arccos etc.

Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Les Denham wrote: > > Is there a way of making the quotes strictly ASCII?  I'm getting into > > trouble with a mailing list which insists on plain ASCII text. > > Not without hacking the source, I'm afraid. > Question to lyx-devel: is "plain t

Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-01-27 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Les Denham wrote: > Is there a way of making the quotes strictly ASCII?  I'm getting into > trouble with a mailing list which insists on plain ASCII text. Not without hacking the source, I'm afraid. Question to lyx-devel: is "plain text" supposed to produce ASCII? If so, we need to separate displ

Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
Since upgrading from LyX 1.5.4 to LyX 1.6.1 I have found that Plain Text exports from LyX are no longer Plain Text, especially when it comes to quotes. The difference is shown in the two attachments, one from my office computer, which is still running 1.5.4, and one from my laptop, which is ru

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Les Denham wrote: > On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Rainer M Krug wrote: >> >> I am using Ubuntu Hardy, texlive 2007-13 >> > >> > AFAIK, you need at least TeXLive-2008 for SyncTeX. >> >> Thank explains - now I only need some pointers, on how I can install >> it on Ubun

custom fields in documents

2009-01-27 Thread Burak Arslan
hi, i used to use makefiles for compiling tex files into pdf. before invoking pdflatex et al, those makefiles incorporated various information from its context like current svn revision number, user who invokes the operation etc. i did this by writing the output of the command (e.g. whoami >

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Rainer M Krug wrote: > >> I am using Ubuntu Hardy, texlive 2007-13 > > > > AFAIK, you need at least TeXLive-2008 for SyncTeX. > > Thank explains - now I only need some pointers, on how I can install > it on Ubuntu Rainer, There seem to be some problems integrating it w

Re: Need help for project report

2009-01-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sengottuvelavan t.p. schrieb: Now i have decided to use it for preparing my project report.But lyx doesn't have Project report document class.Please give me link from where i can download it. I would use the document class "report(KOMA-Script)". And also when i inserted a greek

Re: How to shrink the size of math formulas?

2009-01-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: You can highlight the whole formula and use the character dialog to set the size to a smaller one. I attached an example. You can also set the size only for some formula parts, see section "11.4 Font Sizes" of LyX's math manual that you find in the Help menu. regards Uwe

Re: How to shrink the size of math formulas?

2009-01-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Srinivas Nedunuri schrieb: Hello, is there a way of shrinking the overall size of a math formula, either displayed or inline? You can highlight the whole formula and use the character dialog to set the size to a smaller one. I attached an example. regards Uwe newfile1.lyx Description: app

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread E. Kaplan
You have been providing the OTHER (previously unmentioned) reason why I like Lyx-- the timely and expert advice and open discussion on this list-server. Thanks. Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Preven

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John Kane wrote: You? I use OOo all the time and 'within' OOo they work very well, people seem to be writing books with it all the time. See for example the Getting Started Guide at http://documentation.openoffice.org/. Importing a document from Word seems to often import all kinds of junk st

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread John Kane
--- On Mon, 1/26/09, Steve Litt wrote: > From: Steve Litt > Subject: Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users? > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Monday, January 26, 2009, 10:15 AM > On Monday 26 January 2009 08:33:32 am Nikos Alexandris > wrote: > > > I only want to

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Graham Smith
Olivier, This open source project is meant to enable commenting in PDFs (its Windows only and needs Net 2.0) but may provide the tools for the clever Lyx programmers to do this for Lyx http://sourceforge.net/projects/arenable/ I have searched and searched for a tool, other than Adobe Acro

Re: Need help for project report

2009-01-27 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 19:21 +0530, Sengottuvelavan t.p. wrote: > Hi. > >I am Gautham working as Mechanical engineer in Aeronauctical > company in India .I have been using Lyx quite a bit for making articles, > notes. Now i have decided to use it for preparing my project report.But lyx

Need help for project report

2009-01-27 Thread Sengottuvelavan t.p.
Hi. I am Gautham working as Mechanical engineer in Aeronauctical company in India .I have been using Lyx quite a bit for making articles, notes. Now i have decided to use it for preparing my project report.But lyx doesn't have Project report document class.Please give me link from where

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: > Rainer M Krug wrote: >> >> I am using Ubuntu Hardy, texlive 2007-13 > > AFAIK, you need at least TeXLive-2008 for SyncTeX. Thank explains - now I only need some pointers, on how I can install it on Ubuntu > > /Konrad > > > -- Rainer M

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Rainer M Krug wrote: I am using Ubuntu Hardy, texlive 2007-13 AFAIK, you need at least TeXLive-2008 for SyncTeX. /Konrad

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Yegor Yefremov
Olivier Ripoll wrote: Graham Smith wrote: For 2) what would be needed is a good cross-platform customized pdf reader with annotations possibilities and a way to link these annotations to the lyx document. I have used for my project Foxit which is not free but works with Wine on Linux. Foxit h

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Rainer M Krug wrote: >> I just installed SumatraPDF under wine, and it seems to be working. >> But how can I create a pdf with synctex information? I would really >> like to try it out. Could you give a few pointers? > > Supply the comma

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Graham Smith wrote: For 2) what would be needed is a good cross-platform customized pdf reader with annotations possibilities and a way to link these annotations to the lyx document. I have used for my project Foxit which is not free but works with Wine on Linux. Foxit has a very bad interface

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rainer M Krug wrote: > I just installed SumatraPDF under wine, and it seems to be working. > But how can I create a pdf with synctex information? I would really > like to try it out. Could you give a few pointers? Supply the command line option -synctex=1 to the pdflatex command or include \synct

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Piero Faustini wrote: >> Anyway, does anyone know if the hyperef package or any other allow to track >> back the (even approximate) position of the corresponding source file (LyX >> file, of course) when clickig somewhere in the pdf text

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Graham Smith
Pierre It could then maybe be possible to develop using PDF as the Lyx collaborative format using PDF compare/merge tools (which already exist, I think) before converting back to Lyx. For commenting on PDFs at the moment I use http://www.qoppa.com/psindex.html as it runs on Linux, Macs and

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Piero Faustini wrote: > Anyway, does anyone know if the hyperef package or any other allow to track > back the (even approximate) position of the corresponding source file (LyX > file, of course) when clickig somewhere in the pdf text? I'm sure this is > somewhat possible in PDFs in general but I c

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Piero Faustini
Graham Smith writes: > It could then maybe be possible to develop using PDF as the Lyx > collaborative format using PDF compare/merge tools (which already exist, > I think) before converting back to Lyx. > > For commenting on PDFs at the moment I use > http://www.qoppa.com/psindex.html as it

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Graham Smith
Rainer, http://sourceforge.net/projects/arenable/ But I could not find any files to be downloaded from there... There you have me, I never tried to download it as it was Windows only It could then maybe be possible to develop using PDF as the Lyx collaborative format using PDF comp

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Graham Smith wrote: > For 2) what would be needed is a good cross-platform customized pdf reader >>> >>> with annotations possibilities and a way to link these annotations to the >>> lyx document. I have used for my project Foxit which is not free but >>> works >>

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Graham Smith
For 2) what would be needed is a good cross-platform customized pdf reader with annotations possibilities and a way to link these annotations to the lyx document. I have used for my project Foxit which is not free but works with Wine on Linux. Foxit has a very bad interface. Sadly annotations sup

Re: Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: > Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: > >> >> I hope LyX will soon have some new features that will ease this >> collaboration. As we won't be able to implement everything, it would be >> nice to know which feature would satisfy most users