Re: interesting narrowing feature in a text editor

2010-04-08 Thread Alan Tyree
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Jose Quesada wrote: > Hi, > > Since many people here edit long documents, they may have faced the > following problem. > It's difficult to keep in your mind a large chunk of content. This is why > we > divide text into sections. > In lyx/latex, you can also have a

interesting narrowing feature in a text editor

2010-04-08 Thread Jose Quesada
Hi, Since many people here edit long documents, they may have faced the following problem. It's difficult to keep in your mind a large chunk of content. This is why we divide text into sections. In lyx/latex, you can also have a master document and insert sections as \input. This is very helpful b

Re: A little help with LyX-Sweave-R

2010-04-08 Thread David Hewitt
>> I run LyX from a command window and watch what goes on in the >> background. All goes fine through the whole process, texi2dvi runs and >> finishes (and I can confirm that it finds and executes texi2dvi.exe in >> the MiKTeX bin), and then LyX pukes an error that it cannot open the >> PDF because

bibtopic usage

2010-04-08 Thread Thibaud Hulin
Hi lyx user ! I need of your assistance about a problem with multiple sectionned bibliographies. I compiled and installed bibtopic.sty, however, when I launch tex2pdf, I get this first error : \usepackage [unicode=true, The option `dot' was not declared in package `bibtopic', perhaps you

Question: making a custom Koma report with colors

2010-04-08 Thread Néstor
Hi all, I'm trying to make a document with some colors, and it's a report, so I took a look at the Customization Manual of Lyx (chapter 5), and based my new style in Koma report. I have created a new sty file, named myreport.sty, and a new layout, including both scrreprt (for Koma report) and my

Re: LyX and Aspell in spanish

2010-04-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Mchapa schrieb: Hello everyone. I have a problem with Aspell in LyX, it works pretty nice in English, but i cannot use it in spanish, i got an error message that says: The spellcheker could not be started No word list can be found for the language "es_ES". I installed both dicc. at the same ti

Re: A little help with LyX-Sweave-R

2010-04-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello I am not sure that I can help in this case, but I will still throw some ideas. On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:28 PM, David Hewitt wrote: > This is a bit of a tangent from true LyX issues, but it is related and > I suspect the expertise exists on this list to solve my problem. I > appreciate any h

Re: Track Changes with Word

2010-04-08 Thread Jack Desert
> > How do I set up a shortcut to insert a greyed out note? Tools -> Prefs -> > > Editing -> Shortcuts shows an option for "Note", but not one for > > "Greyed-out-note". > > > > -Jack > > > > > In Tools->Prefs->Editing->Shortcuts, hit "New", enter "note-insert > Greyedout", choose a shortcu

LyX and Aspell in spanish

2010-04-08 Thread Mchapa
Hello everyone. I have a problem with Aspell in LyX, it works pretty nice in English, but i cannot use it in spanish, i got an error message that says: The spellcheker could not be started No word list can be found for the language "es_ES". I installed both dicc. at the same time. I created an Al

Re: insert custom layout

2010-04-08 Thread Sajjad
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Julien Rioux wrote: > > > On 07/04/2010 7:08 PM, Sajjad wrote: > >> 6. The liuthesis.layout file contain the following: >> >> #% Do not delete this line below; configure depends on this >> # \DeclareLaTeXClass{liuthesis} >> >> > If that's all you have in there, thi

A little help with LyX-Sweave-R

2010-04-08 Thread David Hewitt
This is a bit of a tangent from true LyX issues, but it is related and I suspect the expertise exists on this list to solve my problem. I appreciate any help. For those also on the R-Help mailing list, I apologize for the duplication. I use LyX on a Windows XP machine with R 2.10.1 and a recent in

Re: A box... over two pages

2010-04-08 Thread Helge Hafting
Frederick Noronha wrote: Could someone kindly help me on how to get a box continue over two pages of a book (it's too long to fit on one page). Thanks! FN Insert->Box, if you haven't done that already. Right-click the box, and set the type to "Simple Frame, page breaks". This is the only kind

Re: Translations to nynorsk and bokmål

2010-04-08 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Helge Hafting wrote: > I use nb_NO.UTF-8, using "nb" merley falls back to english here. But I > assume your lyx came up with Norwegian menus and so on. If I use LANG=nb, the menus are English (but the dialogs are Norwegian). If I use LANG=nb_NO, everything is Norwegian (and the problem you descr

Re: Translations to nynorsk and bokmål

2010-04-08 Thread Helge Hafting
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: I try working on nb.po now and then. Unfortunately, I have run into an odd problem: I can use "M p 3" to select "section", but not "M p * 3" to select "section*". This is clearly a problem with my translation, because the problem only shows whe

Re: LaTeX Linebreaking Question

2010-04-08 Thread rgheck
On 04/08/2010 09:48 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: rgheck wrote: I need to refer to a book entitled "The Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction". I'd like to inform LaTeX that it is OK to break after the slash, but without a hyphen. How? \slash, or in LyX: Insert> Special Character> Breaka

Re: LaTeX Linebreaking Question

2010-04-08 Thread Julien Rioux
Insert > Special Chars > Breakable Slash equivalent to \slash in LaTeX -- Julien

Re: LaTeX Linebreaking Question

2010-04-08 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: > I need to refer to a book entitled "The Semantics/Pragmatics > Distinction". I'd like to inform LaTeX that it is OK to break after the > slash, but without a hyphen. How? \slash, or in LyX: Insert > Special Character > Breakable Slash I usually use the following redefinition of

LaTeX Linebreaking Question

2010-04-08 Thread rgheck
I need to refer to a book entitled "The Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction". I'd like to inform LaTeX that it is OK to break after the slash, but without a hyphen. How? rh

biblatex: no urldate

2010-04-08 Thread Bastian Ulber
Dear list, i have a problem regarding biblatex: the information about last visit of an online resource (urldate) in an @ONLINE entry isn´t in the output. Everything else looks OK. I am using Lyx 1.6.5 with MacTeX on MacOSX 10.6.3, all packages are up to date. I am using JabRef 2.5 as reference

Re: Making a presentation in LyX

2010-04-08 Thread Typhoon
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 07:24:33 + (UTC) Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2010-04-08, Typhoon wrote: > > > Well, if you are going to abandon LyX for the job, you might also > > want to take a look at S5: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ > > > Depends on how fancy your presentation needs to be, but I

Re: Error for xetex generated pdf on lulu.com: Your document could not be created: The Times-Bold font is not embedded.

2010-04-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Apr 2010, Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ wrote: > Error for xetex generated pdf on lulu.com: Your document could not > be created: The Times-Bold font is not embedded. > > How do I tell it to embed what Lulu is expecting to be embedded? > I always upload my lulu files in postscript form and let Lulu ma

Re: Translations to nynorsk and bokmål

2010-04-08 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Helge Hafting wrote: > I try working on nb.po now and then. Unfortunately, I have run into an > odd problem: > > I can use "M p 3" to select "section", but not "M p * 3" to select > "section*". > > This is clearly a problem with my translation, because the problem > only shows when using the nb

Re: Making a presentation in LyX

2010-04-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Apr 2010, Steve Litt wrote: > [snip] > As I read that doc I begin to wonder whether pure LaTeX would be the > preferred > way to make a Beamer presentation. LyX is great for 50,000 word books, but > I'm > thinking the line oriented nature of LaTeX might better match the line > oriente

Re: Track Changes with Word

2010-04-08 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Guenter Milde wrote: > Is there a way to find the valid options of an lfun (like note-insert) > except asking on this list? Help > LyX Functions. Jürgen

Re: Translations to nynorsk and bokmål

2010-04-08 Thread Helge Hafting
Ingar Pareliussen wrote: @ Ingar: LyX needs your translation help. LyX 1.6.6 comes out in 2 weeks and perhaps you find the time to update no.po and/or nn.po. Yes, I know. Sadly my schedule is the next month is quite full (edit one book, write one bookchapter and my regular work on top), and it

Re: First impressions of Beamer

2010-04-08 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Steve Litt writes: > For this little presentation I didn't need 3/4 of the features like > table of contents, hierarchical outline, and the supremely ugly header > and footer above and below the white of the presentation. So I need to > expand the white to cover the full screen, but somehow need t

Re: Track Changes with Word

2010-04-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-04-07, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > Jack Desert schreef: >> El Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:41:07 -0400 >> rgheck escribió: >> How do I set up a shortcut to insert a greyed out note? Tools -> Prefs >> -> Editing -> Shortcuts shows an option for "Note", but not one for >> "Greyed-out-note".

Re: insert custom layout

2010-04-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-04-08, Julien Rioux wrote: > On 07/04/2010 7:08 PM, Sajjad wrote: >> 6. The liuthesis.layout file contain the following: >> #% Do not delete this line below; configure depends on this >> # \DeclareLaTeXClass{liuthesis} > If that's all you have in there, this is not sufficient. As sugges

Re: Making a presentation in LyX

2010-04-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-04-08, Typhoon wrote: > Well, if you are going to abandon LyX for the job, you might also want > to take a look at S5: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ > Depends on how fancy your presentation needs to be, but I like S5 for > fairly simple ones (and I personally think that most *should*