Re: Why a processing error under Windows but not Linux?

2020-03-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On 3/5/20 5:39 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 3/5/20 8:25 PM, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hi all, I have my students using LyX for their organic chemistry lab reports.  I use a pretty standard installation at home under Debian, while most of them use Windows or Mac.  One student in particula

Re: PDF output wrong size

2020-03-05 Thread Les
On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 18:56:43 + Paul Evans wrote: > I was struck by your observation that the memoir class ignores the > LyX page sizes. I have been using memoir as my base for most LyX > drafting and have happily used either the LyX defaults or minor > variations specified in the LyX settings

Re: Why a processing error under Windows but not Linux?

2020-03-05 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 3/5/20 8:25 PM, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have my students using LyX for their organic chemistry lab reports.  > I use a pretty standard installation at home under Debian, while most > of them use Windows or Mac.  One student in particular tried using an > example file I posted fo

Why a processing error under Windows but not Linux?

2020-03-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi all, I have my students using LyX for their organic chemistry lab reports.  I use a pretty standard installation at home under Debian, while most of them use Windows or Mac.  One student in particular tried using an example file I posted for them, added material to it, then ran into proble

Re: single quotes in xhtml output

2020-03-05 Thread Cuyahoga Falls
Thank you for your reply. It never occurred to me that LyX would have special key-strokes to obtain typographic inner quotes when it automatically inserts typographic outer quotes without a special key-stroke. Now that I know how it works, I can get the desired result. Virgil On 3/5/2020 4:2

Re: single quotes in xhtml output

2020-03-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2020-02-29, Cuyahoga Falls wrote: ... > I often want to export to xhtml. However, when I do so, single quotation > marks and apostrophes (`) and (') do not get converted to curly > typographic quotes. Double quotes get converted just fine. Which keys or key-combinations do you use to insert

Re: PDF output wrong size

2020-03-05 Thread Paul Evans
> On 3 Mar 2020, at 21:30, Les wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 11:10:42 -0700 > Richard Opheim wrote: > >> Sorry about that. It's been a while since I posted. >> I'm running LyX 2.3.4.3 on WIN10. The class is memoir. I specify that >> the paper format should be 8 x 5, but the program doggedly

Re: PDF output wrong size

2020-03-05 Thread Les
On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 09:53:36 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote: > There's a tool called pdfjam that allows a pdf document to be resized > to different paper sizes (among other tweaks.) I learned of it when > printed web pages were legal rather than letter size. Using pdfjam I > reformatted the docume

Re: PDF output wrong size

2020-03-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, Les wrote: Actually, /setstocksize alone does the trick. Les, I use the KOMA-Script classes, not memoir, but I offer information related to PDF page size that applies to existing PDF files, not generated ones in LyX. There's a tool called pdfjam that allows a pdf document

Re: PDF output wrong size

2020-03-05 Thread Les
On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 13:09:03 -0700 Richard Opheim wrote: > Thank you. That works. > Actually, /setstocksize alone does the trick. Yes. The commands I listed set up the whole of the page layout. I really like memoir, but learning it has taken me years, and I still have to look things up in the