Re: Error using pdfpages package with ERT and relative paths

2010-04-03 Thread Venable
Venable writes: > Apologies for the near-repeat of the previous post. I googled the heck of this problem and it seems yesterday's posts had not been captured yet.

Error using -pdfpages- package with ERT and relative paths

2010-04-03 Thread Venable
Dear LyX users, I am having some trouble using the -pdfpages- package to insert some external PDFs into my LyX document. Everything works fine when I use the Insert - File - External Material menu option. However, for transparency and ease of reading, I would prefer to use ERT and the -includepdf

Re: Output: Right margin problem for a section* (standard font:typewriter,italic)

2010-04-03 Thread Paul Rubin
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook writes: > However what I don't understand why, whether LaTeX can properly > justify typewriter font or not, surely such a powerful typesetting > system could detect that the line was going to exceed the intended > margin, and at least adjust "word wrap" to move the offendi

Re: Footnote location

2010-04-03 Thread Sandro Portmann
Hi guys, Thank you all for helping me. I've found the bug and fixed it. It was just, that I've not properly done the format BEFORE writing the whole text, but afterwards. So it crashed my opinions and it happened what I've explained here. Sorry for asking such silly questions, like it looks no

RE: Footnote location

2010-04-03 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
If I understand your request correctly you want the footnotes always to appear on bottom of the page? This is what usually should happen, if you do not use \raggedbottom or similar (irrc). Try to use the footmisc package. It is probably in your latex-installation, if not install it from ctan. (

Re: Output: Right margin problem for a section* (standard font:typewriter,italic)

2010-04-03 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Apr 3, Paul A. Rubin did say: > Seems to be a "quirk" of LaTeX specific to typewriter font. Since typewriter > font is intended to have fixed spacing, LaTeX can't justify things evenly. > There's a fix at > http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.text.tex/2005-0

Re: References style

2010-04-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 4/3/2010 11:32 AM, rgheck wrote: On 04/03/2010 11:23 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 4/3/2010 11:15 AM, rgheck wrote: On 04/03/2010 10:54 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Insert \renewcommand{\refname}{\rmfamily\mdseries\begin{center} References\end{center}} in ERT early in the document. Or put

Re: Output: Right margin problem for a section* (standard font:typewriter,italic)

2010-04-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 03 April 2010 02:48:12 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > I get similar, but slightly better results from setting the environment to > quotation. Like verse, the righthand margin appears the same for both the > leftside and rightside pages. But with quotation it's slightly better > becau

Re: Output: Right margin problem for a section* (standard font:typewriter,italic)

2010-04-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 03 April 2010 02:48:12 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > I get similar, but slightly better results from setting the environment to > quotation. Like verse, the righthand margin appears the same for both the > leftside and rightside pages. But with quotation it's slightly better > becaus

Re: Offer... for technical writing

2010-04-03 Thread Harun Özkan
In my humble opinion, this offer of Mr Noronha should be appreciated. A touch of an artist from a non-programming area would be a very valuable addition to LyX project. - Original Message - From: "Frederick Noronha" To: Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 2:54 AM Subject: Offer... for t

Re: References style

2010-04-03 Thread rgheck
On 04/03/2010 11:23 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 4/3/2010 11:15 AM, rgheck wrote: On 04/03/2010 10:54 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Insert \renewcommand{\refname}{\rmfamily\mdseries\begin{center} References\end{center}} in ERT early in the document. Or put it in the preamble, where it won't cl

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-04-03 Thread rgheck
On 04/03/2010 11:27 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Saturday 03 April 2010 15:13:22 schrieb rgheck: On 04/03/2010 02:27 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Just wondering: Would the following be difficult to implement in Lyx or to use it via enter>file> 'external material' ? Wolfgang

Re: References style

2010-04-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 4/3/2010 11:15 AM, rgheck wrote: On 04/03/2010 10:54 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Insert \renewcommand{\refname}{\rmfamily\mdseries\begin{center} References\end{center}} in ERT early in the document. Or put it in the preamble, where it won't clutter the text. Doesn't seem to work in the

Re: References style

2010-04-03 Thread rgheck
On 04/03/2010 10:54 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 4/1/2010 11:32 AM, Carlos Ramirez wrote: Does anyone know how to center and un-bold the "References" title using bibtext ? Insert \renewcommand{\refname}{\rmfamily\mdseries\begin{center} References\end{center}} in ERT early in the document.

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-04-03 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Saturday 03 April 2010 15:13:22 schrieb rgheck: > On 04/03/2010 02:27 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > Just wondering: > > > > Would the following be difficult to implement in Lyx or to use it via > > enter>file> 'external material' ? > > > > Wolfgang > > > > From > > http://ctan.tug.org/tex-a

Re: References style

2010-04-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 4/1/2010 11:32 AM, Carlos Ramirez wrote: Does anyone know how to center and un-bold the "References" title using bibtext ? Insert \renewcommand{\refname}{\rmfamily\mdseries\begin{center} References\end{center}} in ERT early in the document. also how to avoid the blank page after the re

Re: Bizarre file not found error using pdfpages

2010-04-03 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Richard Brown wrote: > Using pdfpages to put a pdf doc into my komabook book (lyx 1.6 on Ubuntu > 9.10), instead of inserting the file I get a bizarre file not found error, > which states > > ' Error: pdfpackages error- can't find file > 10_home_richard_Desktop_book2_form' Which version of LyX ex

Re: Bizarre file not found error using pdfpages

2010-04-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 4/3/2010 7:03 AM, Richard Brown wrote: Using pdfpages to put a pdf doc into my komabook book (lyx 1.6 on Ubuntu 9.10), instead of inserting the file I get a bizarre file not found error, which states ' Error: pdfpackages error- can't find file 10_home_richard_Desktop_book2_form' The file it

Re: Output: Right margin problem for a section* (standard font:typewriter,italic)

2010-04-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Seems to be a "quirk" of LaTeX specific to typewriter font. Since typewriter font is intended to have fixed spacing, LaTeX can't justify things evenly. There's a fix at http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.text.tex/2005-09/msg4.html that works on your document if you don't mi

Re: Offer... for technical writing

2010-04-03 Thread rgheck
On 04/02/2010 07:54 PM, Frederick Noronha wrote: Dear all: I am a journalist and writer, and a heavy user of Lyx. Please let me know if you need any help (volunteering, without fee) to help write or edit Lyx help files for users. I am not a techie, but understand the software ... with guidance I

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-04-03 Thread rgheck
On 04/03/2010 02:27 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Just wondering: Would the following be difficult to implement in Lyx or to use it via enter>file> 'external material' ? Wolfgang From http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/texdirflatten.html Collect files related to a LaTeX j

Bizarre file not found error using pdfpages

2010-04-03 Thread Richard Brown
Using pdfpages to put a pdf doc into my komabook book (lyx 1.6 on Ubuntu 9.10), instead of inserting the file I get a bizarre file not found error, which states ' Error: pdfpackages error- can't find file 10_home_richard_Desktop_book2_form' The file it should find, but obviously doesn't, is /./ho

Re: Using pdfsync with LyX

2010-04-03 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Ami wrote: > I configured LyX to use Sumatra, but now- what should I do to make the sync > work? The wiki page discusses ``reverse search", while I'm interested in > the opposite direction (line in LyX -> line [or page] in pdf when viewing > it). As I wrote in another post: this is not possible. L