setting width of minipage (ver 1.6.1)

2009-02-08 Thread John White
I use Vector Linux (slackware 12) an lyx ver 1.6.1. I have been having some trouble in the switch to 1.6.1. My current (and, I hope, last) problem is that when I right click within a minipage, I no longer get a window allowing me to change the width of the box. Rather I get an error message

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

2009-02-08 Thread Blaine Erickson
Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you suggested, and got the same error message. However, when I dragged the icon onto the desktop and double-clicked it, I got the "Welcome to LyX!" window, proclaiming "LyX: The Document Processor version 1.6.1" I got the same positive result after dragging

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

2009-02-08 Thread Bennett Helm
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Blaine Erickson wrote: > Greetings all, > > I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a > simple solution. > > First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v. 10.4.11. > > I installed TeXShop (v. 2.18-svn), which

Help with lyx personal dictionaries

2009-02-08 Thread Andrew Thomson
Hi all I have been starting out with LyX and I'm having trouble with the personal dictionary settings. Basically, whenever I tell the dictionary to add a new word (eg 'dopant') it remembers the word for the duration of that spellcheck, but silently fails to add the word to the personal dictionary

Re: Spellchecking in Australian English

2009-02-08 Thread Doug Laidlaw
Not wrong. Different. My eyes are not deceiving me; neither are yours. Because Mandriva won't configure to use DVIs, it clearly has other problems. So I tried in SimplyMepis. The version is newer, but the language selection is identical. In the circumstances, it is useless taking the point

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

2009-02-08 Thread Blaine Erickson
Yes, I ran the installer when I installed LyX. I tried running it again, and when I opened LyX I got the same error message. Blaine

Re: LyX installation error on Mac OS X

2009-02-08 Thread Neil Hepburn
When you installed LyX did you run the installer as well as copying the LyX file to your applications folder? -Neil On 8-Feb-09, at 2:27 PM, Blaine Erickson wrote: Greetings all, I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a simple solution. First, my system

LyX installation error on Mac OS X

2009-02-08 Thread Blaine Erickson
Greetings all, I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a simple solution. First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v. 10.4.11. I installed TeXShop (v. 2.18-svn), which includes the MacTeX-2008 distribution. After struggling with LaTeX

Windows bundle 1.6.1; path questions about spaces and paths

2009-02-08 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm a linux user, but I have students who have this thing called MS Windows. I've not heard of that system before, I pretended to the students that they were using some weird, minority operating system :). I noticee Lyx 1.6.1 had an installer for that Windoze thing. We installed the lyx bundle t

Re: New way for SVG graphics

2009-02-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Manveru schrieb: I would like to share with you my new method of handling SVG graphics from LyX to pdflatex. Many thanks, also for your Wiki contributions. I had some issues with my early-betas of Inkscape, and this new method solved my problem. On Windows it works very well when Inkscape

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

2009-02-08 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Keller wrote: perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to demonstrate its merrit to those who care Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without installing it. I'm not

Re: graphic in fancy header causes crash with ps2pdf

2009-02-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
christiaan pauw schrieb: Thanks, I'll try using a eps image. The reason I used ps2pdf is because the resulting pdf file is much smaller (the pdflatex file is 27M for a 50 page document). Why is there such a big difference between the size of the pdf files? This is because PDF can only embed J

Re: References in floats come first?

2009-02-08 Thread rettie
Apologies! I know this is bad etiquette, I am new to mailing lists and just found that my question had been answered, sorry and thanks for the rapid response! Won't happen again. Cheers! Alex rettie wrote: > > I got an excellent e-mail from rgheck (below), which said that because I > have a L

Re: References in floats come first?

2009-02-08 Thread rettie
I got an excellent e-mail from rgheck (below), which said that because I have a List of Figures and a List of Tables, these references in the floats DO come first in the text - makes sense! Anybody know of a work-around? I've been searching google, but am obviously doing a poor job! Someone MUST h

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

2009-02-08 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, typh...@aanet.com.au wrote: I wasn't clear enough... I was actually thinking of Windows users, and that they'd be able to run LyX from the CD, but still inside Windows and not by booting into eg Knoppix. Using a virtual machine might be an idea, but then you have the probl

header title and numbering

2009-02-08 Thread Piero Faustini
A pair of question which I seem to remember to have been already discussed, but couldn't find them. I'm writing (with Koma-book) a dissertation with this structure (hope it's quite clear): Addchap "introduction" text Addsec "sec 1" text Addsec "sec 2" text Addsec "sec 3" t

Re: multiple indexes and section numbers

2009-02-08 Thread rgheck
John White wrote: I lied. The 0.1 is not in Section numbering in article class. Rather 0.1 numbering comes up, in 1.6.1 at least, only if I go directly to Subsection, without first putting something in section. I got out of the habit of doing this (using Section) in earlier versions as the f

Re: Bessere Darstellung von eingefügten PDF-S eiten

2009-02-08 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
a b wrote: ich möchte meiner Arbeit ein Deckblatt voranstellen, dass im PDF-Format vorliegt. Wenn ich die Datei über "Externes Material" > pdfpages einfüge, wird sie allerdings als Rastergrafik eingefügt und sieht sehr verpixelt aus. The preview you see in LyX is pixelated, but the PDF output s

Re: Spellchecking in Australian English

2009-02-08 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Doug Laidlaw wrote: The authors of aspell must be really parochial. To them, "English" means "American", Canadian is a distinct language, and British English just does not exist. There are dictionaries for languages with a smaller user base than British English. Wrong. Using aspell and hav

Re: Lyx won't open on OS 10.3.9

2009-02-08 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Adam Treverrow wrote: You might be able to get LyX 1.3.7 from here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/13x Or here: http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/ /Konrad

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

2009-02-08 Thread Piero Faustini
Guenter Milde writes: > Document format conversion is lossy "by a natural law". ...the Wise know this. Anyway, @LyxLyght's "oppositors": I not-LyX-nor-even-LaTeX (i.e. Word) collaborators are of 3 kind: A. Those who will never use anything different than Word (or OOo), say >50% B. Those who

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

2009-02-08 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> > perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to > > demonstrate its merrit to those who care > > Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software > on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without > installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though. I'