Re: Configuring LyX and Sweave for R on a Windows platform

2009-02-18 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Hello, I have just spent some time to solve this configuration problem. I have been able to make it work, starting from information provided by other Lyx users and tuning them a little bit. I summarize on my blog the necessary operations: http://yildizoglu.blogspot.com/ Maybe this could help you.

Headings in Book (Koma-Script)

2009-02-18 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
Dear LyX Users I am preparing a book manuscript using Book (KOMA-Script) two-sided document, but I am not happy with the headings (Document > Settings > Page Layout). What I want is the headings of the Book class (chapter/section and page number are written as the header). Is that possible using B

Configuring LyX and Sweave for R on a Windows platform

2009-02-18 Thread Dan
Hi. I'm trying to configure Lyx to work with Sweave on a Windows XP platform. I have done various searches of the web and found some information on how to do this, but it appears as though all the information I can find is specific only to *nix systems. I don't have time to waste trying to ge

Re: How to change symbols size?

2009-02-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
francisco schrieb: Okay so I am doing integrals and have a big fraction equation, I want to know how to change the size of the symbol. But the integral sign size should automatically be adjusted. When you want to have things in the fraction a bit larger, then have a look at sec. 3.2 (\dfrac a

How to change symbols size?

2009-02-18 Thread francisco
Okay so I am doing integrals and have a big fraction equation, I want to know how to change the size of the symbol. I've tried changing the size directly but doesn't change. and haven't seen an option to increase it. thank you.

Re: Spellchecking in Australian English

2009-02-18 Thread Sam Russell
You should note that there are approximately six versions of en-gb, at least one of which approximates Australian standard use. Better results could be had he you lobbied Macquarie Dictionary for an aspell en-au On 2/19/09, Doug Laidlaw wrote: > Further to this, I installed Version 1.6.1 from the

Keyboard Shortcuts

2009-02-18 Thread Rich Shepard
In ~/.lyx/bind/my.bind (based on emacs) the binding, \bind "C-d" "char-delete-forward" works just fine. However, neither \bind "Delete" "char-delete-forward" nor \bind "Del" "char-delete-forward" works. I get a playing card spade sym

Re: An idea

2009-02-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> As a mathematician, I tend to come across many equations and more often than > not, I have to refer and cross refer between equations. Now, from my experience > with lyx, I am not able to reference an equation save for a section or a page. > Now this to me needs correction and if you could look

Re: Bibtex White space in argument

2009-02-18 Thread Richard Heck
Dirk Gorissen wrote: On Wednesday 18 February 2009 20:44:19 Manveru wrote: 2009/2/18 Dirk Gorissen : On Wednesday 18 February 2009 19:41:44 Nikos Alexandris wrote: Dirk: PS: as a sidenote, I cannot export using pdflatex because it complains about "Cannot determine size

Re: Howto downgrade LyX 1.6.1 documents to LyX 1.5.5 documents?

2009-02-18 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 02:13:13PM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Richard Heck > wrote: > > > > Better yet, upgrade to 1.5.7 (I think that's the number...last > > 1.5.x anyway), which can read 1.6. docs. > > The reason the issue about 1.5.5 came up is my switching

Re: Howto downgrade LyX 1.6.1 documents to LyX 1.5.5 documents?

2009-02-18 Thread Lance Simmons
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > > Better yet, upgrade to 1.5.7 (I think that's the number...last > 1.5.x anyway), which can read 1.6. docs. The reason the issue about 1.5.5 came up is my switching from Debian unstable to Debian stable (now that there's a new stable Debian

Re: Bibtex White space in argument

2009-02-18 Thread Dirk Gorissen
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 20:44:19 Manveru wrote: > 2009/2/18 Dirk Gorissen : > > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 19:41:44 Nikos Alexandris wrote: > >> Dirk: > >> > PS: as a sidenote, I cannot export using pdflatex because it complains > >> > about "Cannot determine size of graphic" when exportin

Re: Bibtex White space in argument

2009-02-18 Thread Manveru
2009/2/18 Dirk Gorissen : > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 19:41:44 Nikos Alexandris wrote: >> Dirk: >> > PS: as a sidenote, I cannot export using pdflatex because it complains >> > about "Cannot determine size of graphic" when exporting (I use eps >> > figures). Strange since I recall this working

Re: Bibtex White space in argument

2009-02-18 Thread Dirk Gorissen
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 19:41:44 Nikos Alexandris wrote: > Dirk: > > PS: as a sidenote, I cannot export using pdflatex because it complains > > about "Cannot determine size of graphic" when exporting (I use eps > > figures). Strange since I recall this working before with other > > papers...

Spacing around floats with centered figures - a suggestion

2009-02-18 Thread David Hewitt
This is mostly a recommendation for a small change to the User's Guide. If the change has been made in LyX 1.6 (I'm still on LyX 1.5.7, WinXP, examples in basic article class), or if I have otherwise blundered in proffering advice (known to happen), I apologize. I've been a LyX user for a long whil

Re: New way for SVG graphics

2009-02-18 Thread Manveru
2009/2/18 Pavel Sanda : > Manveru wrote: >> One of developers told us, it is already there. > > actually i dont see it there. feel free to file enhancement request or > post the patch for configure.py. Wait, We are talking about basic SVG configuration or PDF -> EPS configuration? When I asked wh

Re: Bibtex White space in argument

2009-02-18 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Dirk: > PS: as a sidenote, I cannot export using pdflatex because it complains about > "Cannot determine size of graphic" when exporting (I use eps figures). > Strange > since I recall this working before with other papers... Perhaps you should check if the file is still there where it was.

Re: Changing default fonts.

2009-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 10:08:53 am Doug Laidlaw wrote: > On Sunday 08 February 2009 12:21:52 am Doug Laidlaw wrote: > > I am writing a book. I sent my publisher a sample of what I had written > > in LyX (using the koma book template,) and he likes the appearance. But > > he disagrees with

Re: How to enter (logic) proofs?

2009-02-18 Thread stefano franchi
Hi Richard, I took a look at your example. First it didn't compile because it load a heck.sty package. If I comment that one out of the preamble, it does compile with left aligned formula and numbers on the left side. But I cannot reproduce it! I looked at the Lyx source code, and the formula star

Re: Howto downgrade LyX 1.6.1 documents to LyX 1.5.5 documents?

2009-02-18 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: I've switched from Debian unstable to the new stable release, but now now I have a few dozen LyX 1.6.1 documents that LyX 1.5.5 says it cannot convert. How can I convert the 1.6.1 documents to the older 1.5.5 format? In LyX

Bibtex White space in argument

2009-02-18 Thread Dirk Gorissen
Hello, I have been using lyx for ages and think it is a wonderful program that really fills a need. Congrats for that! However, for the first time I have run into a problem that I cant seem to fix. Note I am mainly a (linux) user and not some hard core scripting/os/.. guru :) The problem: I

Re: Howto downgrade LyX 1.6.1 documents to LyX 1.5.5 documents?

2009-02-18 Thread Richard Heck
Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: I've switched from Debian unstable to the new stable release, but now now I have a few dozen LyX 1.6.1 documents that LyX 1.5.5 says it cannot convert. How can I convert the 1.6.1 documents to the older 1.5.5 format? In LyX 1.6.1, choose File->Ex

RE: Howto downgrade LyX 1.6.1 documents to LyX 1.5.5 documents?

2009-02-18 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>I've switched from Debian unstable to the new stable release, but now >now I have a few dozen LyX 1.6.1 documents that LyX 1.5.5 says it >cannot convert. > >How can I convert the 1.6.1 documents to the older 1.5.5 format? In LyX 1.6.1, choose File->Export->LyX 1.5.x >-- >Lance Simmons Vincen

Howto downgrade LyX 1.6.1 documents to LyX 1.5.5 documents?

2009-02-18 Thread Lance Simmons
I've switched from Debian unstable to the new stable release, but now now I have a few dozen LyX 1.6.1 documents that LyX 1.5.5 says it cannot convert. How can I convert the 1.6.1 documents to the older 1.5.5 format? -- Lance Simmons

Re: Graphics in LyX

2009-02-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Stephen Buonopane schrieb: An easier solution for centering all your floats is given by Herbert Voss' Tips and Tricks page add the lines below to your preamble: \makeatletter \renewenvironment{figure}[1][]{% \...@float{figure}% \centering }{% \...@float } \mak

Re: Graphics in LyX

2009-02-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hubert Christiaen schrieb: It' s indeed a bit strange that float figures are not automatically centered. You may do it yourself by entering in an ERT frame '\begin{center}' before and '\end{center}' after the code for the picture. That's the way I solved the problem. You don't need to use ER

Re: How to enter (logic) proofs?

2009-02-18 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:35 AM, stefano franchi wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Richard Heck wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Hi all, I am tryiing to enter some very simple logic proofs in my lecture notes: propositional logic constant, symbols, etc. It was trivial to enter the si

Re: How to enter (logic) proofs?

2009-02-18 Thread Richard Heck
stefano franchi wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Richard Heck wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Hi all, I am tryiing to enter some very simple logic proofs in my lecture notes: propositional logic constant, symbols, etc. It was trivial to enter the single lines, but I cannot fi

Re: Program Listing

2009-02-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham wrote: Hi, is it possible to make a "Program Listing" that will not fit on one page, to continue onto the following page. Thanks The listings environment (Insert > Program Listing) will straddle a page boundary automatically. If you're putting the listing in a float, though, that'

Re: export to Opendocument on Windows

2009-02-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Timmie wrote: But the now generated PDF doesn't contain any text at all. Check the LaTeX log. No text usually means a LaTeX error. /Paul

Re: How to enter (logic) proofs?

2009-02-18 Thread stefano franchi
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > Stefano Franchi wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am tryiing to enter some very simple logic proofs in my lecture notes: >> propositional logic constant, symbols, etc. >> >> It was trivial to enter the single lines, but I cannot find out how to >>

Re: New way for SVG graphics

2009-02-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
Manveru wrote: > One of developers told us, it is already there. actually i dont see it there. feel free to file enhancement request or post the patch for configure.py. pavel

Re: How to enter (logic) proofs?

2009-02-18 Thread Richard Heck
Stefano Franchi wrote: Hi all, I am tryiing to enter some very simple logic proofs in my lecture notes: propositional logic constant, symbols, etc. It was trivial to enter the single lines, but I cannot find out how to have a sequence of formulas left-aligned and (automatically) numbered. I

Re: Graphics in LyX

2009-02-18 Thread Doug Laidlaw
On Thursday 19 February 2009 2:31:16 am Nikos Alexandris wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 16:18 +0100, Hubert Christiaen wrote: > > On woensdag 18 februari 2009, Doug Laidlaw wrote: > > > I anm now seeing the caption centred but the image displaced to the > > > left of center. I suppose that I could

Re: Graphics in LyX

2009-02-18 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:25 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Hubert Christiaen wrote: It' s indeed a bit strange that float figures are not automatically centered. LyX outputs whatever the class defines, and most classes define it to be raggedright (by default). You may do it yourself by

Re: Graphics in LyX

2009-02-18 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 16:18 +0100, Hubert Christiaen wrote: > On woensdag 18 februari 2009, Doug Laidlaw wrote: > > > I anm now seeing the caption centred but the image displaced to the left of > > center. I suppose that I could "fiddle" with the LaTeX afterwards - or add > > a white area to the

Re: Graphics in LyX

2009-02-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Hubert Christiaen wrote: > It' s indeed a bit strange that float figures are not automatically > centered. LyX outputs whatever the class defines, and most classes define it to be raggedright (by default). > You may do it yourself by entering in an ERT frame > '\begin{center}' before and '\end

Re: Graphics in LyX

2009-02-18 Thread Hubert Christiaen
On woensdag 18 februari 2009, Doug Laidlaw wrote: > I anm now seeing the caption centred but the image displaced to the left of > center.  I suppose that I could "fiddle" with the LaTeX afterwards - or add > a white area to the image on its left.  It won't matter for at least 12 > months. > It' s

Re: Changing default fonts.

2009-02-18 Thread Doug Laidlaw
On Sunday 08 February 2009 12:21:52 am Doug Laidlaw wrote: > I am writing a book. I sent my publisher a sample of what I had written in > LyX (using the koma book template,) and he likes the appearance. But he > disagrees with some fonts. He tells me that quotations and URLs should be > in itali

Re: Graphics in LyX

2009-02-18 Thread Doug Laidlaw
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 12:46:09 am Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > LyX 1.6.2 that wil be released on February 28. > > or some days later. > > Jürgen I anm now seeing the caption centred but the image displaced to the left of center. I suppose that I could "fiddle" with th

Re: Spellchecking in Australian English

2009-02-18 Thread Doug Laidlaw
Further to this, I installed Version 1.6.1 from the tarball. I can select British English now. I don't usually complain about a version earlier than the current one, but this did seem to be an aspell problem. Fauir enough about there not being a separate dictionary for Australian. British is

Re: New way for SVG graphics

2009-02-18 Thread Manveru
2009/2/18 G. Milde : > On 16.02.09, Manveru wrote: >> 2009/2/16 Guenter Milde : > >> > Conversion from PDF to EPS works automatically and "lossless" here with >> > a definition for >> > >> > PDF (ps2pdf) -> EPS >> > >> > using the converter >> > >> > pdftops -eps -f 1 -l 1 $$i $$o >> > >> > which

Re: Rotating floats doesn't work after upgrade to 1.6.1 on MAC OS X

2009-02-18 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
christiaan pauw wrote: Hi Everybody I recently upgraded to 1.6.1. I have a document with a number of tables in floats rotated sideways. It used to work fine in LyX 1.5. Now I cannot produce pdf output anymore. The error message reads "LaTeX Error: File `rotfloat.sty' not found." I cannot find a

Re: Rotating floats doesn't work after upgrade to 1.6.1 on MAC OS X

2009-02-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
christiaan pauw wrote: > I can see rotfloat.sty in the list of styles under Tool>Tex Information. what does "kpsewhich rotfloat.sty" return? Jürgen

Rotating floats doesn't work after upgrade to 1.6.1 on MAC OS X

2009-02-18 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi Everybody I recently upgraded to 1.6.1. I have a document with a number of tables in floats rotated sideways. It used to work fine in LyX 1.5. Now I cannot produce pdf output anymore. The error message reads "LaTeX Error: File `rotfloat.sty' not found." I cannot find a way to update packages wi

Re: Program Listing

2009-02-18 Thread Manveru
2009/2/17 Graham : > Hi, is it possible to make a "Program Listing" that will not fit on one page, > to continue onto the following page. Is it a question or statament? -- Manveru jabber: manv...@manveru.pl gg: 1624001 http://www.manveru.pl