Re: dimensions of pictures

2009-02-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nikos Alexandris schrieb: The image format is TIFF and the pixel distance is specified in the TIFF header. I understand here "distance" as "resolution". Something like an image in which the x-dimension of a pixel is 1 metre and the y-dimension of the pixel is set to be 1.5 metre. Exactly.

Re: dimensions of pictures

2009-02-16 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 02:01 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Nikos Alexandris schrieb: > > > I am interested in this statement... > > Could you please extent a bit or give some pointers? > > This is now a bit off-topic. Once and a while it doesn't hurt :-) > I maintain at work a scanning electron mic

Re: dimensions of pictures

2009-02-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nikos Alexandris schrieb: I am interested in this statement... Could you please extent a bit or give some pointers? This is now a bit off-topic. I maintain at work a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Due to technical reasons the distance between the pixels in x-direction is different from t

Re: dimensions of pictures

2009-02-16 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 22:08 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Perhaps the distance between the pixels is different. This "feature" > is for example possible woth > TIFF images. Uwe, I am interested in this statement. I work everyday with georeferenced rasters (where distance has a meaning, i.e. you set

Paragraph and space formatting

2009-02-16 Thread Mehrdad
Hallo to all I have a short question, how come lyx sometimes doesn't take the vertical space I set. For instance it absolutely ignores the fact that I put a small skip between two paragraphs. Sometime it indents paragraphs by a minimal step in although I have set it to not indent? Its d

Re: lyx webpage doesn't load

2009-02-16 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: ok, its back up Great. Thanks for reporting the problem, even if it fixed itself. The server (aussie.lyx.org) is a bit "old" and has some issues. Best regards, Christian On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Erez Yerushalmi

Re: Two-flows text

2009-02-16 Thread Pavel Sanda
stefano franchi wrote: > that referred to work in progress for LyX support of the LaTeX package > ledmac. Has anything changed since then? no and its very unprobable i'll find the time to continue on that code. pavel

Re: Best way to re-order book

2009-02-16 Thread L Duperval
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:17:27 +, Guenter Milde wrote: > How about placing the 100+ sections into chapters first (with some > "auxiliary chapters" that are removed in the final version) to get them > grouped? The you can move your 10+ chapters and finally merge some of > them (by removing the "au

Re: Question about "Full screen" on Windows

2009-02-16 Thread Pavel Sanda
Vassil Lunchev wrote: > When Full screen is active and there is more than one screen of text, the > last line is always at the bottom of the screen. I prefer it being > somewhere in the middle of my screen. Is there a way to configure the > "view" so that it displays the last line somewhere in

Re: Two-flows text

2009-02-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/2/16 stefano franchi : > I am preparing a text that will have two different text flows on facing > pages---like in a bilingual edition. > I looked in the usual places for hints on how to do this in Lyx/LaTeX, but > all I could find was a Nov. 2007 thread on the developers' list: > > http://www

Re: dimensions of pictures

2009-02-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hubert Christiaen schrieb: I am converting a scientific wikibook to a full PDF by passing over TeX and Lyx. But some pictures suddenly show much bigger than in the wiki version. One 600 px width image just fits on the page and another is 600 px image has to be reduced to 60% to fit on the page

Re: Generating lindex entries

2009-02-16 Thread BcBob
I found a perl script on the internet that makes a concordance. http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=104604 I ran it on my windows computer using cygwin (after downloading Perl) and it works (mostly) To use: 1. export document from Lyx as text 2. convert the text file to Unix style newlines (LF on

Two-flows text

2009-02-16 Thread stefano franchi
I am preparing a text that will have two different text flows on facing pages---like in a bilingual edition. I looked in the usual places for hints on how to do this in Lyx/LaTeX, but all I could find was a Nov. 2007 thread on the developers' list: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.o

dimensions of pictures

2009-02-16 Thread Hubert Christiaen
I am converting a scientific wikibook to a full PDF by passing over TeX and Lyx. But some pictures suddenly show much bigger than in the wiki version. One 600 px width image just fits on the page and another is 600 px image has to be reduced to 60% to fit on the page. I find this quite strange.

Question about "Full screen" on Windows

2009-02-16 Thread Vassil Lunchev
I have just installed LyX 1.6.1 on Windows XP and I want to customize it the following way: When Full screen is active and there is more than one screen of text, the last line is always at the bottom of the screen. I prefer it being somewhere in the middle of my screen. Is there a way to conf

Re: Greek+English documents show English words with Greek letters

2009-02-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> That's _why_ they obscure the email addresses. It keeps the scrapers >> off their site. Those things eat more bandwidth than a good >> slashdotting. It is done to protect gmane, not to protect your email >> address! > > It is an option when you submit a list to GMane. Most lists show the email

Re: Greek+English documents show English words with Greek letters

2009-02-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dotan Cohen wrote: Ah, I see what's wrong. I'm posting through GMane and whoever has submitted this list there, chose the option to garble email addresses, so your links show up like this: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg70618.html If the one who did this is reading this

Generating lindex entries

2009-02-16 Thread BcBob
I am looking for open source tools to help generating index entries. I know Lyx has an interface to the Latex makeindex utility but I am looking for utilities to generate a list of the words, phrases etc to use in the index. Something as simple as a utility to find all unique words in the index wi

Re: Greek+English documents show English words with Greek letters

2009-02-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Ah, I see what's wrong. I'm posting through GMane and whoever has submitted > this list there, chose the option to garble email addresses, so your links > show up like this: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg70618.html > > If the one who did this is reading this, it migh

Re: Adjust fullscreen settings

2009-02-16 Thread Bennett Helm
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Timmie wrote: > Dear Lyxers, > is it possible to adjust the Fullscreen settings? > > I would like to have the text to be well centered in fullscreen mode. > Like: http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/static/writeroom/main-screen.png That's pretty much how it looks for m

Re: Greek+English documents show English words with Greek letters

2009-02-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-02-09, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm using LyX 1.6.1 with TeXLive 2007 on Linux (Gentoo). I created a new document using the "article" class and selected "Greek" as language. The document is a mix of English and Greek, but there's a problem: even though English w

Adjust fullscreen settings

2009-02-16 Thread Timmie
Dear Lyxers, is it possible to adjust the Fullscreen settings? I would like to have the text to be well centered in fullscreen mode. Like: http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/static/writeroom/main-screen.png I didn't find any hinst on that at http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Fullscreen Thanks and kind regards

Re: lyx webpage doesn't load

2009-02-16 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
ok, its back up On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Erez Yerushalmi wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> have others noticed that the LyX webpage doesn't load?? >> >> Erez >> >> >> >> >> Working here (tropical East Lansing, MI, USA). > > -- Erez Yerushalmi PhD Student Warwick Univ

Re: lyx webpage doesn't load

2009-02-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Hi all, have others noticed that the LyX webpage doesn't load?? Erez Working here (tropical East Lansing, MI, USA).

Re: lyx webpage doesn't load

2009-02-16 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 16 February 2009, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: > have others noticed that the LyX webpage doesn't load?? Works fine here (Houston, TX). -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy

Re: External commands?

2009-02-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-06, Richard Heck wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> On 2009-02-06, Matts Lindström wrote: > Actually, if you combine my suggestion with yours, there is a way to do > this: Define a new format (lyx2, say) and a converter for it that does > whatever you want to do, eventually over-writing

Re: Best way to re-order book

2009-02-16 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
L Duperval wrote: Hi, I am looking for a good way to re-order the elements of my book. There is a lot of work to do and I am looking to avoid doing cut&paste or simply moving elements up and down in the outline. I was hoping I could drag'n'drop in the outline (which would be sufficient for no

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

2009-02-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-07, Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: >> On Friday 06 February 2009 09:32:12 A B 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

Re: discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-16 Thread Manveru
2009/2/14 James C. Sutherland : > > On Feb 14, 2009, at 9:51 AM, Ralph Boland wrote: > I'm teaching a math class where the students use lyx to write down their >>> >>> ideas and proofs, and it would be nice to > have a way to use lyx to post >>> to >>> a discussion or write in a wiki. >>> >> >

Re: lyx webpage doesn't load

2009-02-16 Thread David Mertens
I can confirm this. Can't say anything more useful, but I can confirm it. :] David On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: > Hi all, > > have others noticed that the LyX webpage doesn't load?? > > Erez > > > > > -- > Erez Yerushalmi > PhD Student > Warwick University, UK > > ht

lyx webpage doesn't load

2009-02-16 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi all, have others noticed that the LyX webpage doesn't load?? Erez -- Erez Yerushalmi PhD Student Warwick University, UK http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi

Re: Greek+English documents show English words with Greek letters

2009-02-16 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 00:56 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Nikos Alexandris wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 03:29 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > Nikos Alexandris wrote: > > > > Hi Niko! > > > > > > [...] > > > So the current behavior is neither a bug nor a configuration problem? > > > > Yep!

Re: New way for SVG graphics

2009-02-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-07, Manveru wrote: > I would like to share with you my new method of handling SVG graphics > from LyX to pdflatex. I've just tested this method and it works pretty > nice. I had some issues with my early-betas of Inkscape, and this new > method solved my problem. > I tried to use Apach

Re: Greek+English documents show English words with Greek letters

2009-02-16 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 12:13 +, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2009-02-09, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > I'm using LyX 1.6.1 with TeXLive 2007 on Linux (Gentoo). > > > I created a new document using the "article" class and selected "Greek" > > as language. The document is a mix of English and Greek

Re: Greek+English documents show English words with Greek letters

2009-02-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-09, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I'm using LyX 1.6.1 with TeXLive 2007 on Linux (Gentoo). > I created a new document using the "article" class and selected "Greek" > as language. The document is a mix of English and Greek, but there's a > problem: even though English words appear corre

Re: psfrag does nothing when generating a pdf-file

2009-02-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-14, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: > Thomas Engels wrote: >> I want to replace strings in *.eps files with LaTeX code, so I finally >> found psfrag, downloaded it and its working fine - but only when I >> generate a DVI file. (inserted ERT in the figure and \usepackage{psfrag} >> to the pream

Re: Trying to use Inupiaq (Eskimo) true type font in Lyx quotes.

2009-02-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-14, elswood wrote: > I have an Inupiaq font installed on my Ubuntu 8.10 system. I need to put > some Inupiaq quotes in my Lyx document. How do I go about doing that? "Normal" latex (pdftex) cannot simply use system fonts but need special latex support files. > I install the full

Re: Best way to re-order book

2009-02-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-16, L Duperval wrote: > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:17:26 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> You write you want to move things up 50 lines. I doubt that you have >> 50 sections within one chapter. > When I originally started the book, I was planning on having 100+ > chapters, each expanding on on

Re: LyX with monospace words, code fragments

2009-02-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-16, Justin Crites wrote: ... > How can I include semantic "code fragments" in my document which are > styled monospace? >From the preceding text, > For example, I might have a "program listing" block and then discussion > surrounding it, referencing the names of variables or expressio

Re: How to give bibtex credit for Lyx program?

2009-02-16 Thread obregonmateo
EHEM, correctly with the ending curly bracket and extras for the kbibtex program: @Misc{ LyX2009LDPsm, title = {{LyX 1.6.1 - The Document Processor [Computer software and manual]}}, author = {{The LyX Team}}, howpublished = {Internet: http://www.lyx.org}, year = {

Re: How to give bibtex credit for Lyx program?

2009-02-16 Thread obregonmateo
On Monday 16 February 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > obregonma...@gmail.com schrieb: > > Doeas anyone have a bibtex reference for Lyx? How should we give credit > > for it? > > I use this BibTeX entry: > > @MISC{LyX, >author = {{The LyX Team}}, >title = {LyX 1.6.x}, >howpublished = {Internet: