AW: LyX format menu: short cut?

2010-11-30 Thread Jannick Asmus
Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Jannick Asmus what is the short cut to jump into the drop-down of LyX formats menu? + i + o ? No I'm afraid. This splits the screens for my document. What are the keys to undo this? :( BTW: Working on WinVista with LyX 2.0 beta1. /

Re: LyX format menu: short cut?

2010-11-30 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Jannick Asmus wrote: > Hi, > > what is the short cut to jump into the drop-down of LyX formats menu? > + i + o ? Liviu > I couldn't find it in the manual, but I am sure I saw it there a long time > ago. > > Thx. > > /J. > > -- Do you know how to read? http:/

LyX format menu: short cut?

2010-11-30 Thread Jannick Asmus
Hi, what is the short cut to jump into the drop-down of LyX formats menu? I couldn't find it in the manual, but I am sure I saw it there a long time ago. Thx. /J.

Re: Bad font (follow-up question) [Solved]

2010-11-30 Thread Daron Wilson
Emil, I'm not sure if you're still wanting Helvetica, but what works for me is to open the document settings and go to the Fonts section The first drop-down selection list is where you set the default font family, i.e. the family that LyX should use as the basic family for the whole document

Re: Bad font (follow-up question) [Solved]

2010-11-30 Thread Emil Pavlov
На 30.11.2010 09:38, Liviu Andronic написа: On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Emil Pavlov wrote: Actually, the text is not pixelled. I just HATE the default font. Although I installed a packaged called texlive-fonts-extra, I can only select Helvetica for the sans serif fonts. This means that, wh

Adding an item to LyX format menu

2010-11-30 Thread Avi Dagan
Hello, How do I add an item to LyX format menu? Usually I use "Theorem" or "Lemma" but this time I need "Question". It doesn't appear in the drop-down menu and I don't know how to add it. Thank you very much for any help, Avi

Re: Converting doc to Lyx

2010-11-30 Thread Pavel Sanda
Frederick Noronha wrote: > Let me share it with you here, while thanking Stefano for helping me > convert some of my files! another way how to thank is to create/edit lyx wiki page so others are able to reach it quickly. pavel

Converting doc to Lyx

2010-11-30 Thread Frederick Noronha
Dear all: As we work in Lyx to create our alternative books here in Goa, India, we often run into the headache of having to convert entire doc files into Lyx. This is a time-consuming and fraught-with-errors process, and a line-by-line manual method. Recently, thanks to the very efficient Lyx-Use

Point size for captions

2010-11-30 Thread Frederick Noronha
Dear all: I'm using the following setting to control the point-size and line-space of my text: \renewcommand{\normalsize}{\fontsize{10pt}{14pt}\selectfont} This works fine for me, except when it comes to captions for photographs. The spacing between lines looks too much. Can you kindly let me kn

Re: Strange Problem Importing Text File [SOLVED]

2010-11-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: In all the years I've used LyX I've not before encountered this problem and I have not yet found the solution. Fixed. User error: I need to Insert->File, not Import->File. More coffee solved the problem. Rich

Re: LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.8 Nastiness

2010-11-30 Thread Ken
On 30/11/2010 19:03, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 30.11.2010 14:04, schrieb Ken: The cause is some part of the installation process pushing MikTeX's private bin directory on the front of the system PATH env var. This is done by the MiKTeX installer. The LyX installers only start this MiKTeX-installer

Re: [sweave] additional LaTeX package needed, but which one?

2010-11-30 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Jannick Asmus wrote: > To be honest I do not have any R installed. In my MikTeX folder there is no > sweave.sty-file. > Then you cannot use Sweave. To compile the document LyX first sends it to R to process the code chunks and output the results, and then pipes it

Re: LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.8 Nastiness

2010-11-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 30.11.2010 14:04, schrieb Ken: The cause is some part of the installation process pushing MikTeX's private bin directory on the front of the system PATH env var. This is done by the MiKTeX installer. The LyX installers only start this MiKTeX-installer (which is a program of its own). There

AW: [sweave] additional LaTeX package needed, but which one?

2010-11-30 Thread Jannick Asmus
Liviu Andronic wrote: I'm surprised that LyX 2.0 ships an *sweave* beamer template. I have just double-checked: It seems to me that I must have simply taken a copy out of the version 1.6.8 template folder which I have saved somewhere on my hard drive. LyX prompts that sweave needs an addi

Re: Strange Problem Importing Text File

2010-11-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: In all the years I've used LyX I've not before encountered this problem and I have not yet found the solution. Forgot to mention that I'm running 1.6.8 here. Rich

Strange Problem Importing Text File

2010-11-30 Thread Rich Shepard
In all the years I've used LyX I've not before encountered this problem and I have not yet found the solution. I open a .lyx document. Then I select either File->Import->Text, join lines or ctrl-x i (import file) and select the text file I want to insert in the .lyx file. The open .lyx fil

Re: Stupid question about index

2010-11-30 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/30/2010 05:01 AM, Pascal Francq wrote: Hi, I am using the multiple index feature include in Lyx 2.0 (beta1). It's working well. When the index are printed, their format is "index, page1, page2...". I want that they are printed with the format "index : page1, page2...". Anyone an idea ? ht

Re: file conversions

2010-11-30 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/29/2010 03:50 PM, Paul Sutton wrote: Hi Looking around on the net i found references to the following lyxtox script - converts lyx to docbook sgml db2lyx - converts lyx to xml docbook not sure if these are mentioned anywhere on the wiki not sure if any of this is useful, converting to

LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.8 Nastiness

2010-11-30 Thread Ken
Hi, Yesterday I installed lyx and all necessary components using "LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.8", on Windows Vista. Today, after a restart, the Qt applications I am developing refused to start, not entering main. The cause is some part of the installation process pushing MikTeX's private bi

Re: Some page numbers are rendered in a wrong font

2010-11-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-29, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 11/29/2010 05:05 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: >> On 2010-11-28, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Not sure if this is a LyX problem, but I hope someone here has > encountered this issue and might know a solution. > My problem is that when a program li

Stupid question about index

2010-11-30 Thread Pascal Francq
Hi, I am using the multiple index feature include in Lyx 2.0 (beta1). It's working well. When the index are printed, their format is "index, page1, page2...". I want that they are printed with the format "index : page1, page2...". Anyone an idea ? Thanks. -- Dr. Ir. Pascal Francq BELGIUM sign

Re: Bad font (follow-up question)

2010-11-30 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Emil Pavlov wrote: > Actually, the text is not pixelled. I just HATE the default font. > Although I installed a packaged called texlive-fonts-extra, I can only > select Helvetica for the sans serif fonts. This means that, when I use book > (KOMA-script) class, only

Re: Bad font (follow-up question)

2010-11-30 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Emil Pavlov wrote: > Actually, the text is not pixelled. I just HATE the default font. > Although I installed a packaged called texlive-fonts-extra, I can only > select Helvetica for the sans serif fonts. This means that, when I use > book (KOMA-script) class, only the sections, subsetions, etc.