Re: Extra \endgroup; editing raw TeX?

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Alexy Khrabrov wrote: > (1) What's the way to delete it? Could you post a small example file? > (2) Is there a way to edit the TeX source visible when View->Source is   > selected, in the lower window? No. Jürgen

Re: text boxes in 1.6.1

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John White wrote: > I used to use text boxes all the time.  They are no longer on the insert > menu.  Rather there is minipage but I can't figure out how to change the > width of the minipage. Right mouse click on the minipage button should bring up a context menu that lets you change the border

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

2009-02-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > Piero Faustini schreef: >> >> Pavel Sanda writes: >> >> >>> >>> when you download lyx installer (not the bundled version), you are >>> enforced >>> to install miktex too? to remove export/view menu items is a piece of >>> cake. >>> t

Anyone using LyX on FreeBSD?

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Litt
Anyone using LyX on FreeBSD? How do you like it? SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US

text boxes in 1.6.1

2009-02-04 Thread John White
I use lyx 1.6.1 on a vector linux (slackware) computer. I work in either letter or article, mostly article. I used to use text boxes all the time. They are no longer on the insert menu. Rather there is minipage but I can't figure out how to change the width of the minipage. Any suggestion

Re: How to edit

2009-02-04 Thread Joachim K . Rennstich
Thanks, Ian, for the fast reply > Configuration files should handled with a text editor. I don't know > what that would be for your system but something like Vim, Gedit, Kate > etc. You will probably need to edit this file as root. I am using Lyx 1.6.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.6. Unfortunately, I don't re

Re: Use in US government agencies

2009-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Haynes Goddard wrote: Can anyone tell me is LyX is currently being used in any US Government agency? I am particularly interested to know if it is used in the USEPA. Haynes, I doubt it very much. The federal government -- and almost all lower levels, too -- are still stu

Use in US government agencies

2009-02-04 Thread Haynes Goddard
Hello: Can anyone tell me is LyX is currently being used in any US Government agency? I am particularly interested to know if it is used in the USEPA. Haynes Goddard

Extra \endgroup; editing raw TeX?

2009-02-04 Thread Alexy Khrabrov
I've selected the whole abstract of a paper, cut, and pasted to another paper instead of its own abstract, which I deleted before that. Now I'm getting an error, Extra \endgroup \end{abstract} -- and the last few words of the abstract are selected. I can't get to the raw TeX to kill the e

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

2009-02-04 Thread Pavel Sanda
Piero Faustini wrote: > want. No converters, no LaTeX. no converters -> no pictures pavel

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

2009-02-04 Thread Yago
- Original Message - From: "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:21 AM Subject: Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1) It would appear that on Jan 30, Dave Hewitt did say: Definitely use the \frontmatter and \mainmatter separat

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

2009-02-04 Thread Piero Faustini
Vincent van Ravesteijn writes: > Although I was enthusiastic when I first saw this proposal, but I do not > think it is something that solves the problem. > > 1. LyX is pretty lightweight, as you don't have to install any of the > additional stuff, > 2. You still have to convince your coauthor

Re: changing document layout

2009-02-04 Thread Witek Firlej
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Alexy Khrabrov wrote: > How do I change the layout of a LyX document? E.g. I started writing a > paper via New Document, but now want to switch to one of the conference > layouts available? > Document->Settings -- :: Witek Firlej :: :: Studencka wyprawa do Chi

Re: How to edit

2009-02-04 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:47:28 -0500 "Dr. Joachim K. Rennstich" wrote: > How exactly can I do this? Configuration files should handled with a text editor. I don't know what that would be for your system but something like Vim, Gedit, Kate etc. You will probably need to edit this file as root. Rega

How to edit

2009-02-04 Thread Dr. Joachim K. Rennstich
The Lyx Wiki for the Mac suggests the following: If at this point you are unable to save new words to the personal dictionary you will need to edit the file at /usr/local/etc/ aspell.conf. Remove the line "home-dir $HOME/Library/Preferences/ aspell" (line 38 including blanks), or disable it by

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

2009-02-04 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Piero Faustini schreef: Pavel Sanda writes: when you download lyx installer (not the bundled version), you are enforced to install miktex too? to remove export/view menu items is a piece of cake. to deny editing of certain elements would be harder. should this part of the discussion

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

2009-02-04 Thread Piero Faustini
Pavel Sanda writes: > > when you download lyx installer (not the bundled version), you are enforced > to install miktex too? to remove export/view menu items is a piece of cake. > to deny editing of certain elements would be harder. should this part of the discussion be moved to the Lyx.Devel l

changing document layout

2009-02-04 Thread Alexy Khrabrov
How do I change the layout of a LyX document? E.g. I started writing a paper via New Document, but now want to switch to one of the conference layouts available? Cheers, Alexy

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

2009-02-04 Thread Pavel Sanda
David Mertens wrote: > > > > 3. (optional, and not so inmediate) A light-weight full-view (and > > idiot-proof as well) LyX version, (I have the name: LyteX or LyghtX!) which > > is able to edit text (and structure) of conventional LyX docs, without the > > possibility of editing ERT or items expl

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 04:21:26 am Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > All I need to figure out now is: how to suppress the printing of any > page number on pages I don't want numbered??? \thispagestyle{empty} > > Well that and how to get Lyx to position the "by authorname" & copyright > in

Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-04 Thread Maria José Garcia Soldado
Here is the table When you attach a _small_ example file, I can have a look. > > regards Uwe > tabla_problema.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-04 Thread NinaNutz
Uwe Stöhr writes: > > When you attach a _small_ example file, I can have a look. > > regards Uwe > > The attach is in the next email/post...

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

2009-02-04 Thread Piero Faustini
Erez Yerushalmi writes: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi/c omputing/lyx Nice page, only that "a few other languages" seems quite unfair... above all for french, german, spanish, italian etc. etc. users!!!

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

2009-02-04 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
> Yeah, a LyX viewer/editor without document processing back-end (and > the associated 800Mb download) would be great. > I posted this "wanted feature" (let's call it this way!) in > http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Collaboration and I'm very persuaded > it could be great but I have NO idea of how muc

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

2009-02-04 Thread Piero Faustini
David Mertens writes: > Yeah, a LyX viewer/editor without document processing back-end (and the > associated 800Mb download) would be great. I posted this "wanted feature" (let's call it this way!) in http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Collaboration and I'm very persuaded it could be great but I have

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

2009-02-04 Thread David Mertens
> > 3. (optional, and not so inmediate) A light-weight full-view (and > idiot-proof as well) LyX version, (I have the name: LyteX or LyghtX!) which > is able to edit text (and structure) of conventional LyX docs, without the > possibility of editing ERT or items explicitly banned by the original >

Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
NinaNutz schrieb: I have the lyx version 1.6 and I have some problems with the tables ¿Is this usual? For example, I have the table attached and I cannot see the file that it is below the file "continúa en página siguiente", so I have some lines in my pdf that i cannot delete... When you attac

Re: Long table messes up table numbering

2009-02-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Axsuul schrieb: Anyone having this problem? It seems to be that having a long table makes the next table numbering skip. I.e. Table 1 (long table) then the next table number would be Table 3 This behaviour and the workaround is described in sec. 2.6.3 of the Embedded Objects manual that you

Re: TOC not picking up chapter names

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote: > I'm working ona  book (document class: book), but suddenly my Chapter* > titles won't show up in the table of contents. It's a feature: starred headings are not supposed to appear in the TOC. Look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted#toc22 Jürgen

TOC not picking up chapter names

2009-02-04 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
I'm working ona book (document class: book), but suddenly my Chapter* titles won't show up in the table of contents. It works fine if I switch to Chapter (with the chapter numbers). But that's not what I want. Could I correct this somehow? Thanks, FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.co

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

2009-02-04 Thread David Mertens
Oops. I only sent this to Joe. Resending to LyX list. > Well that and how to get Lyx to position the "by authorname" & copyright > information at the bottom of an otherwise blank page instead of at the > top of one??? > (there has to be a better way than inserting a bunch of hard returns. > I m

Re: Big document

2009-02-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-02, Paul Johnson wrote: > I have converted from a big document to a single small master document > that includes the separate chapters. ... > Here are some problems I've run into. > 2. It is much nicer to work on the separate chapters in separate > files. They are smaller, more manage

Re: how to force section to start on a specific number

2009-02-04 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Thanks. That is great!!! It works. Thanks for giving my this link. erez On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW < v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl> wrote: > > >How do I force a sections and all the rest (subsections, equation > numbers, > >etc...) to start on a different num

RE: how to force section to start on a specific number

2009-02-04 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>How do I force a sections and all the rest (subsections, equation numbers, >etc...) to start on a different number? http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-h tml/ltx-3.html Vincent

how to force section to start on a specific number

2009-02-04 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi all, This should be easy. (but I can't do it). How do I force a sections and all the rest (subsections, equation numbers, etc...) to start on a different number? Say, I want to start my whole document from section 4? I don't want to use the parent/child, method. But just to open a new d

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

2009-02-04 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Hi Erez, Nice promotional page! I had planned to write a page on LyX on my very slow-living blog after the release of the version 1.6, but I have not time yet. My students normally use the tips I give there Maybe during the next holidays I will try to put it in place. The promotion is important. W

Re: Puzzled

2009-02-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-02, Ehud Kaplan wrote: > I have a file with some figures. It compiles without any problem on > both a WINDOWS (with Miktex 2.7) machine and on a Kubuntu 8.10 machine, > both running Lyx 16.1. But on another WINDOWS machine (Miktex 2.7, Lyx > 1.6.1) it fails to compile (View-->pdfla

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

2009-02-04 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi all, I agree with much of what has been said. Another thing which *diffuses* LyX into the academia is just pure*advertising * - I'm using Murat's words. For example, I am advertising LyX to all my students and colleagues. Maybe a good thing is for all those that like LyX, to do something simi

Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-04 Thread Maria José Garcia Soldado
the table

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

2009-02-04 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
I definitely support Ken's proposition. SWP really makes a huge mess with the latex file (even if the file is compilable by a standar Latex engine - I use the same TexLive 2005 with SWP and LyX). The possibility of easily switching to LyX can have some importance consequences on a larger diffusion

problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-04 Thread NinaNutz
Hi all, I have the lyx version 1.6 and I have some problems with the tables ¿Is this usual? For example, I have the table attached and I cannot see the file that it is below the file "continúa en página siguiente", so I have some lines in my pdf that i cannot delete... Any idea? Thanks in advanc

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

2009-02-04 Thread Ken
It was a few months ago that I went through the hassle of import/exporting between LyX and SWP. Yes, SWP can export to "portable" latex, but it was not all that portable. However with a few tweaks it was possible to get a decent import into LyX. (I think there is a wiki page on it with regards to

Re: compatibility of two scripts

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Marie-Theres Strauss wrote: > The error message runs as follows: Argument of \...@xx has an extra > }.Paragraph ended before \...@xx was complete.Undefined control > sequence.Argument of \...@xx has an extra }.Paragraph ended before > \...@xxwas complete. Could you post a small LyX example file?

compatibility of two scripts

2009-02-04 Thread Marie-Theres Strauss
Dear developers, I have recently started using LyX and am amazed at the quality of the output - never seen better typesetting on an easy-to-use editor, truly. The problem that I can't seem to solve is the following: I commonly write in English but need to insert Chinese characters into my text eve

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

2009-02-04 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jan 30, Dave Hewitt did say: > Definitely use the \frontmatter and \mainmatter separations. > Also, to get the numbering style changes you want, put > this in ERT at the start of each of those sections: > > \pagenumbering{roman} > > \pagenumbering{arabic} Thanks Dave..

Re: Long table messes up table numbering

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Axsuul wrote: > Anyone having this problem? It seems to be that having a long table makes > the next table numbering skip. http://texnik.dante.de/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?file=table/longtable#caption Jürgen

Re: References in floats come first?

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: > Do you have a list of figures? If so, then that is the problem: This > reference DOES come first, in the list of figures. If you have a list of > tables, then the same problem will affect it. > > I think there's a workaround, but I don't know what it is. Someone else > will. The wo

Re: multiple indexes and section numbers

2009-02-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John White wrote: > 1. I would sure like to be able to make multiple indexes in the article > class.  I see an article in wikipedia about doing such in memoir class > but don't want to use Book. Have a look at the package splitidx. You have to define a specific index converter in Preferences>Outp