Install lyx 2.3.6 on Mac OSx

2022-11-14 Thread Dave Ahlgren
I upgraded to Lyx 2.3.6 version from 2.1.x on two Intel Macs over the weekend—one running Mojave and the other OS Vsn 12.6.1. Lyx ran without a hitch on the Mojave machine. The Vsn 12 machine would not convert template files so I could not access my old documents. The error message said tha

Getting the Latex Europhysics Letters Template to Work on Lyx for Mac

2016-09-22 Thread Dr Dave Forrester
Dear Experts and Gurus. Thank you very much for all your help in the past. Recently, I submitted a manuscript to Europhysics Letters, and received the reply that I must re-submit the paper in the required format, which is a Latex Template given at EPL LATEX package

Problem with PDF Preview

2016-07-20 Thread Dr Dave Forrester
Dear Lyx Experts, Thanks very much in advance for your help. I recently updated Lyx only to find out that I should have updated MacTex first. I downloaded the latest MacTex and then found that the Preview Button was greyed out. From the Lyx Users Archive, I found out how to access in the Preferen

Re: LyX/Sweave on windows 7

2011-11-04 Thread Dave Hewitt
Yihui Xie yihui.name> writes: > > Thanks for the solution! I'm not sure if the author of that document > can see this email, so I guess you'd better cc Jeff or Dave. I don't think Jeff or I have either looked at that document in a while. Of course if there is a speci

Re: Lyx setup for ASA style (Americal Sociological Associoation)

2011-11-03 Thread Dave
Richard Heck comcast.net> writes: > > On 11/03/2011 06:44 AM, Dave wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I would love to use Lyx for my Phd thesis > > and academic papers but I am close to giving up > > as I don't manage to adapt it to my needs. >

Lyx setup for ASA style (Americal Sociological Associoation)

2011-11-03 Thread Dave
Dear all, I would love to use Lyx for my Phd thesis and academic papers but I am close to giving up as I don't manage to adapt it to my needs. I would like to use Lyx in combination with Bibdesk or Zotero, and use an ASA document style (American Sociological Association). This includes in-text r

Numbering the rows of a table

2011-04-18 Thread CLOSE Dave
LyX. What am I missing? -- Dave Close

Re: Random text pasting on Mac

2011-01-18 Thread Dave Bursik
Pavel Sanda lyx.org> writes: > > Dave Bursik wrote: > > I've also had the cursor randomly jump to another location in the text > > causing me to type into the wrong place. I've noticed the cursor jumping > > in other applications, but not the pasting pro

Random text pasting on Mac

2011-01-17 Thread Dave Bursik
r this problem, but it's difficult to describe succinctly. If any other Mac users have experienced this or a similar problem, I'd appreciate hearing about it (hopefully with a solution). -Dave Bursik / bur...@cs.virginia.edu

Sidewaystable infinite loop

2010-02-21 Thread Dave Dixon
dow, but then LyX goes into an infinite loop and I have to kill the process. Any effort to edit the recovered document has the same outcome. Meanwhile, if I put a barebones table in a sidewaystable and a minipage, it prints on the bottom of the page, not sideways, and running off the right margin. Workarounds? -dave

text size in mac version

2009-09-17 Thread Dave Garbutt
1343 The effect is to shrink the text size in the document view (but not in typeset output) ctrl++ does not reverse it. Every document I open in Lyx is now unreadable.. Do not try to reproduce this unless you know the solution... !!! I will be very grateful for any help, -- Dave Gar

Re: LyX Stopped Responding

2009-08-06 Thread Dave Jarvis
1.6.2. I'll upgrade. Thanks! Dave

LyX Stopped Responding

2009-08-04 Thread Dave Jarvis
-control-page-up) to try and highlight text to the top of the letter. LyX stopped responding. Dave

LyX Crash

2009-08-04 Thread Dave Jarvis
I was highlighting (with the keyboard) some text (and deleting it) using a letter (KOMA-Script v.2) class of document with LyX 1.6.2 on Linux (amd-64), when I stumbled into a bug. I only lost half a sentence. Great backup work, people! :-) Dave *** glibc detected *** lyx: corrupted double

Re: Spacing around floats with centered figures - a suggestion

2009-02-19 Thread Dave Hewitt
So is it true that the float widgets must remain left-aligned in the LyX view in order not to cause problems?

Re: page numbering

2009-02-13 Thread Dave Hewitt
> I am preparing project report ...i want to number abstract and > acknowledgment, acronyms, etc... in roman and normal numbers (arabic) for > chapters ...How to do that > > From other threads i came to know abt \frontmatter \mainmatter \backmatter > .. but i am not using koma-script..normal

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

2009-02-05 Thread Dave Hewitt
> I could > compose something of the kind as a reply to this thread. If I kept it > all in plain text, it wouldn't take that much band width... What do > you think? Why not the Wiki -- wiki.lyx.org ? Easy to use.

Re: Use in US government agencies

2009-02-05 Thread Dave Hewitt
> > Can anyone tell me is LyX is currently being used in any US Government > > agency? I am particularly interested to know if it is used in the USEPA. > >I doubt it very much. The federal government -- and almost all lower > levels, too -- are still stuck with Word. Can't even get them to use

Re: how to put an image

2009-01-30 Thread Dave Hewitt
Yakup Ayvaz writes: > I inserted an images, which also shows the image correctly in lyx, > but then I try to export in pdf format I get an error > like "... cannot determine size of graphic". > > Whats the problem here? > I tried a lot but I could not solve the problem... can somebody help...?

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

2009-01-30 Thread Dave Hewitt
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook writes: > I'm also hoping I can get the pre-chapter pages to be numbered with a > different style such as roman numerals... Definitely use the \frontmatter and \mainmatter separations. Also, to get the numbering style changes you want, put this in ERT at the start of each o

Example CVs give error

2009-01-29 Thread Dave Woodfall
I have been using lyx for letters without problem, but now want to write a CV. The problem is I always get an error when loading the example CVs. 'The layout requested by this file xxx.layout is unusable...' This is with lyx 1.6.1. I have just installed texlive thinking this might fix it but no

Way behind on upgrading (Alt Installer), need some clarification

2008-11-21 Thread Dave Hewitt
I stuck with LyX version 1.5.5 for a while now because of a big project I had going (call it superstition). I'm ready to upgrade, but I think I'll stick with 1.5.7 for a bit longer (ditto). I'm on Win XP and have a working install of MikTeX 2.7 (just updated). I have used Uwe's AltInstaller for all

Re: bibtex issues with format of authors

2008-09-19 Thread Dave Hewitt
> One additional tip... > If you are likely to use the aliases in many documents, you can put a > list of the \defcitealias commands in a tex file and then use Insert-> > File->Child Document in LyX. I noticed that you can put the \defcitealias in the main document or the Preamble. Both work,

Re: Examples of Modern and European CV classes

2008-09-19 Thread Dave Hewitt
> Do you have a sample of a cv using this class, that might give > me an idea of what goes in the preamble and how it works? There are a number of example LyX files posted on the Wiki page. Is that what you mean? There's even one TeX file, which should be readable regardless of LyX version or

Re: bibtex issues with format of authors

2008-09-18 Thread Dave Hewitt
Stephen Buonopane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I noticed that the link you show is different than what i posted > (repeated below)? > Not sure why, but it would be nice to be able to link directly to > messages in the archive, or to search by message number. Gmane apparently messes with link

Re: bibtex issues with format of authors

2008-09-18 Thread Dave Hewitt
> You need to use the citealias command > see my previous post > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users-UqbJ+GOpo4+hPH1hqNUYSQ public.gmane.org/msg43232.html This link does not work for me. Can you give the date so we can track down the post. This would be a useful tip to put on the Wiki... I've

Re: Examples of Modern and European CV classes

2008-09-18 Thread Dave Hewitt
> Could someone point me towards some examples of these classes so I can > get an idea of how you use them. > > I have tried downloading some of the modern CV examples on the Wiki > (http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/ModernCVClassIssues), but they won't > compile so I assume they are only illustrati

Re: Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-08-07 Thread Dave Hewitt
This won't be terribly helpful, but my short answer would be that there is no way that qualifies even as good, let alone best, for most figures. I hadn't made a figure in Excel in a long time, but I just did to muck around. I couldn't figure out how to save the figure (chart) by itself as an image

Re: image positioning

2008-04-25 Thread Dave Hewitt
> By default, latex positions images automatically depending on space > and this behaviour can be "corrected" ... how would you do it in lyx? See Document -> Settings -> Float Placement, and the User's Guide under "Float Placement" (section 4.6.3 for v. 1.5.3).

Using a network printer

2008-03-17 Thread Dave Wood
How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes want to print old files and not have to preview them first. I have tried using the cups printer name, the

Classes unavailable

2008-01-16 Thread Dave Wood
Hi, I've tried out a few versions of Lyx but always seem to have many doc classes unavailable. There are too many to list and there are some that I want to try. Heres a screen shot to show you which ones I mean. http://www.unrealize.co.uk/snapshot11.png Any ideas how to get these working? I have

Classes unavailable on Slackware

2008-01-16 Thread Dave Wood
Hi, I've tried out a few versions of Lyx but always seem to have many doc classes unavailable. There are too many to list and there are some that I want to try. Heres a screen shot to show you which ones I mean. http://www.unrealize.co.uk/snapshot11.png Any ideas how to get these working? I have

Password for file upload to wiki

2008-01-06 Thread Dave Hewitt
I am working on a page for the moderncv example in LyX and need to upload files. The instructions on the Wiki say to ask for it here. Dave Hewitt VA, USA

Bug? LyX "crashes" when opening Embed. Objects manual

2007-12-11 Thread Dave Hewitt
manual. Can anyone confirm? Win XP Pro, LyX 1.5.2 Dave Hewitt

Re: What are your experiences (including figures)?

2007-12-11 Thread Dave Hewitt
checking the EO manual just now I think I found a bug (sent under separate cover). Dave Hewitt

Re: Spell check on the fly?

2007-12-11 Thread Dave Hewitt
tion (http://aspell.net/), there is no mention of a desire for inline spellchecking, so if you want that you might want to look at another program and work on implementing support for it in LyX. Dave Hewitt VIMS, Gloucester Point, VA

Re: a bit more Re: Problem with segmentation fault on some versions of Solaris 10

2007-12-10 Thread Dave Price
y built both QT4 and LyX on other machines in this group and had problems so I then started again... I wonder if I should strip EVERYTHING out yet again and start again from the tar files. What do you think? Are there any obvious checks I can make first? Thanks, Dave Price [EMAIL PROTECTED

Problem with segmentation fault on some versions of Solaris 10

2007-12-10 Thread Dave Price
Dear All, I tried to post this last week, but from what I can see it did not reach list so here goes again. Dave Price Dear Lyx Folks, Can anyone offer any advice/help please. I have spent some time compiling LyX 1.5.2 and QT4 here at Aberystywth. We have a set of Unix machines running

Koma-script report, Bibliography entry in Table of Contents un-bold?

2007-12-04 Thread Dave Hewitt
Is it possible to un-bold the entry for the Bibliography in the Table of Contents and put it at the same level as a section? I'm using Koma-script (report) class with natbib (BibTeX). Dave Hewitt

LyX confused by something in a BibTeX file?

2007-11-30 Thread Dave Hewitt
d and the inline (greyed or redded out) citation lists "Tiffan et al. Variable..." (even though the other reference in the same list displays appropriately as "Author Year"). LaTeX gets it right and the final output is fine. Any ideas what's going on to create th

Re: Koma-script report TOC and Figure numbering

2007-11-30 Thread Dave Hewitt
> My uppermost level in the report is Section (Intro, Methods, Results, > etc.), and I suppress numbering within the document. I can get the Section > titles into the TOC with 'Addsec' environments, but I would also like to > get Subsection titles into the TOC. I did not find a way to do that. C

Koma-script report TOC and Figure numbering

2007-11-30 Thread Dave Hewitt
n a single "Chapter", the figures having numbers like Figure 1, Figure 2, etc. makes more sense. Perhaps there's a simple solution I'm missing. Thanks, Dave Hewitt

Re: Editing modernCV LaTeX source and style file

2007-11-28 Thread Dave Hewitt
On 11/28/07, Dave Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If not, do you have to export, change, save, and then import back to LyX? > After doing that, will the blank lines not return upon subsequent saves? This would seem the best way to go, under current conditions. Export to .tex

Editing modernCV LaTeX source and style file

2007-11-28 Thread Dave Hewitt
I create a modified style file and save it in that same directory, how do I tell LyX to use that one instead? Dave Hewitt

modernCV formatting questions

2007-11-15 Thread Dave Hewitt
because the entry runs over to two lines. Under Dissertation, the title shows on the second line for a reason I do not understand. Can I force the titles to be at the top of each Item entry? Thanks, Dave Hewitt

Re: Exporting to Rich Text Format with latex2rtf, issues and a fix

2007-10-28 Thread Dave Hewitt
Thanks Enrico. Wiki entry was changed to reflect this. Dave Hewitt writes: > >This works, try it. So, you could install to "C:\Program Files\latex2rtf" > >and then > >1) add "C:\Program Files\latex2rtf" to PATH prefix > >2) add -P "/Program File

LaTeX2rtf entry added to Wiki

2007-10-27 Thread Dave Hewitt
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ExportingRichTextFormatWithLaTeX2rtf Please edit/correct as needed. Many thanks to Enrico, Jurgen, and Wilfried.

Re: Exporting to Rich Text Format with latex2rtf, issues and a fix

2007-10-27 Thread Dave Hewitt
Dave Hewitt writes: > All I did was: > > (1) uninstall latex2rtf (to remove all my edited files), remove C:\l2r and > C:\Program Files\LyX 1.5.2 from my Windows search path, then reconfigure > LyX (RTF export disappeared) > > (2) reinstall latex2rtf to C:\l2r, put C:\l

Re: Exporting to Rich Text Format with latex2rtf, issues and a fix

2007-10-25 Thread Dave Hewitt
as always starting LyX from a desktop icon, so we return to the question just above. > For anyone with more experience with this, I'd appreciate knowing what I > did was necessary/unnecessary and any thoughts on the matter. Perhaps we > can put a final version without errors and unnecessary steps on the wiki. Here I am (thanks to Andreas Karlsson). However I don't think that we have yet got a stable solution. Thanks again Wilfried. I think we have a stable solution now, even if for reasons I don't fully understand. Perhaps we can flesh out the necessary parts and post to the wiki about the double reconfiguration thing. Dave Hewitt

Exporting to Rich Text Format with latex2rtf, issues and a fix

2007-10-24 Thread Dave Hewitt
; Converters as Latex (plain) -> Rich Text Format with the converter as: latex2rt -p -S -o $$o $$i The option shows up in Export and works fine. For anyone with more experience with this, I'd appreciate knowing what I did was necessary/unnecessary and any thoughts on the matter. Perhaps we can put a final version without errors and unnecessary steps on the wiki. Thanks, Dave

Re: Backup failure w/ LyX 1.5.2

2007-10-19 Thread Dave Hewitt
lyx~) appeared in the current working directory after 5-min with an open document, but a #...# file was also there temporarily (I think it appeared earlier). The #...# file went away after I saved and closed LyX; the '.lyx~' file did not. Dave Hewitt

Re: Backup failure w/ LyX 1.5.2

2007-10-19 Thread Dave Hewitt
From: Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Backup failure w/ LyX 1.5.2 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:37:28 + (UTC) Dave Hewitt writes: > >So you're saying you have timed backups set and, even with a valid backup > >path and having the document open past the

Re: Backup failure w/ LyX 1.5.2

2007-10-16 Thread Dave Hewitt
Marc, the directory is set to: C:\Program Files\LyX 1.5.2\backup (Recall that I created this folder to make it available and stop the error messages on every save instance.) Dave Hewitt wrote: And, no files of any type are appearing in this new backup directory I created, so where

Re: Backup failure w/ LyX 1.5.2

2007-10-16 Thread Dave Hewitt
Dave Hewitt wrote: Whenever I try to save LyX documents (File -> Save or Ctrl-S), I get a Backup Failure notification (image attached). After I hit OK, the Save option in the File menu is grayed out, indicating that the file has been saved. When I reopen the file, it looks fine, so

Backup failure w/ LyX 1.5.2

2007-10-16 Thread Dave Hewitt
ups? And, no files of any type are appearing in this new backup directory I created, so where are these backups going (i.e., what is the purpose of this folder)? Finally, are any of the other paths in the Preferences likely to be affected in this way? Dave Hewitt dhewitt[at]vims.edu<>

Re: LyXWinInstaller 1.5.2 error, Removing old version

2007-10-16 Thread Dave Hewitt
For the record, I left the User Preferences intact (unchecked that option in the uninstaller), and the installation of 1.5.2 by the small LyXWinInstaller went wonderfully. Back up and running... Dave Hewitt wrote: (Uwe, I'm posting to the list because I thought others might be cu

LyXWinInstaller 1.5.2 error, Removing old version

2007-10-15 Thread Dave Hewitt
that, obviously). Does anyone know whether I need to remove the User Preferences in order for the 1.5.2 install to work properly (i.e., fix ImageMagick)? I don't really know what's included in the Preferences, but I made some changes to defaults and would prefer not to lose that if I don&

CV and dissertation classes

2007-09-27 Thread Dave Hewitt
from other people in the natural sciences about which document class worked well for them. Anyone? We have pretty lenient guidelines for formatting, so anything would probably work, but I'd like not to have to change mid-stream. Again, examples would be great. Thanks for any help, Dave Hewitt

Re: use of various latex classes in 1.6 [was AMS users: vote your preferences!]

2007-09-24 Thread Dave Hewitt
eck wrote: Of course, what we could really use is some sort of UI for layout editing. I've thought about writing that, but my time is limited, and I've got other things on my plate, like BibLaTeX support. Is the syntax of layout files (and what they are/are not capable of supporting) documented anywhere? /Paul Dave

Re: A source for document class layouts?

2007-08-31 Thread Dave Hewitt
t change much at all, and I don't recall exactly what I did change, but at the time it seemed reasonable.) Why would LyX have an aversion to pissed-off crustaceans? Perhaps it's just mimicking? At 05:27 PM 8/30/2007 -0400, Richard Heck wrote: Dave Hewitt wrote: Paul, Yes, it re

Re: A source for document class layouts?

2007-08-30 Thread Dave Hewitt
tells me about the user directory is "~\Application Data\lyx15" Perhaps I am loading in the wrong spot? I am guessing not since it's finding the new class definition. Dave Dave Hewitt wrote: I copied "article.layout" from the LyX\Resources\layouts directory and renam

Re: A source for document class layouts?

2007-08-29 Thread Dave Hewitt
id I alter anything else down in the file. Either way, YES, the document class shows up in the LyX drop-down, but when I choose it, LyX generates an error window with a red 'X' on it and a warning that says "The document could not be converted into the document class nrc1" -- I click OK and it reverts to "article" in the drop-down. This is what happened with two other classes I tried as well. Dave

A source for document class layouts?

2007-08-29 Thread Dave Hewitt
rt files with just a single line of text into any of the three I tried (from article). So, my question is: is there a repository somewhere of layout files that people have created to work with the various document classes? Dave Hewitt

Error in MiKTeX package manager

2007-08-29 Thread Dave Hewitt
started from square one a few days ago). Once a package is installed in MiKTeX, what else does one need to do, besides Reconfigure LyX? Thanks a bunch for the ongoing help, Dave

Error in MiKTeX package manager

2007-08-29 Thread Dave Hewitt
I was trying to install the "preview" package for instant preview (as instructed by the help docs online; just turning it on in Preferences did not work)... and I got this error. I am an Admin on the machine and have the newest LyX version. LyX was closed when I was doing this. Not sure what th

Error with BibTeX

2007-08-28 Thread Dave Hewitt
I followed the instructions to the letter on the Wiki/Windows section for Tips and Tweaks regarding 'Create a Bibliography'. I am using JabRef 2.2. When I insert the Bibliography, LyX seems happy, but I get this error from LaTeX: Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined --

Re: Help for a new user

2007-08-26 Thread Dave Hewitt
al novices like me, which are the ones we want to convert with ease, eh?). At 09:53 PM 8/25/2007 +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dave Hewitt schrieb: > The LyX pop-up instructions for the GSView installer indicate that > you'll need to choose a language, but I was not offered a language &

Re: Help for a new user

2007-08-24 Thread Dave Hewitt
entries are "???". So, things aren't working. I still want this to work and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I closed all other programs, have an open, fast internet connection... What to do? Dave At 08:05 PM 8/23/2007 +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dave Hewitt schri

Help for a new user

2007-08-23 Thread Dave Hewitt
en it was all said and done. Can someone provide guidance about those pop-up DOS windows and what I should do? Everything else went very smoothly and seemed OK, so I assume the problem was there. Thanks, Dave Hewitt - Dave H

Flush Text with Graphics

2007-01-29 Thread Dave Jarvis
ed at the incorrect size, which renders it useless for printing. Also quite undesirable. Any ideas? Many thanks! Dave

Glossary Format

2006-09-18 Thread Dave Jarvis
Glossary embeds inside the PDF without a hitch. The formatting is an issue, though. Here are two screen-scrapes. The first is how it currently looks, the second is how I am trying to get it to look. http://joot.com/dave/genesis-2006-c.png (current) http://joot.com/dave/genesis-2006-d.png

Footnotes in an Appendix?

2006-09-18 Thread Dave Jarvis
Hi, I love LyX. But that's not why I'm writing. I have recently (and perhaps naively) added footnotes into a table within an Appendix. When the PDF was generated, no footnotes appeared. Two pages from the same document illustrate the issue: http://joot.com/dave/genesis-

Re: Lyx-code formatting

2005-09-12 Thread Dave Mills
p, you could try switching to another environment (standard? quote? definition?) and use Layout->Character->Family to change the font family to typewriter. Paul Thanks Paul, I assumed this was the case, but just wanted to make sure I'd not misse

Lyx-code formatting

2005-09-12 Thread Dave Mills
suggestion? I'm using Lyx 1.3.5 on OSX 10.3.9 cheers, Dave -- David Mills Queen Mary, University of London Department of Chemistry Mile End Road E1 4NS, London, UK Phone: +44 (0)20 78824764 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

1.3.3 on XP - no output

2004-12-28 Thread Dave Morgan
> Reconfigure don't help. Edit > Preferences > Converters shows latex $$i for the latex to dvi converter. Any ideas, anyone? Thanks, dave

Re: Support for Greek characters

2004-11-21 Thread Dave Augustus
Thanks for your input!! Dave On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 02:12, Amir Seginer wrote: > Hello Dave, > > Since no one else answered, I'll tell you what I know. > > Dave Augustus wrote: > > I am working with some Biblical scholars and was wondering if lyx > > supports

Support for Greek characters

2004-11-14 Thread Dave Augustus
I am working with some Biblical scholars and was wondering if lyx supports both Hebrew and Greek characters? Thanks, Dave

Curriculum Document Style

2004-10-29 Thread Dave Augustus
I am investigating options with using Lyx as a platform for developing curriculum for a college. This is brand-new material. Can anyone point me to a document style that would support this type of document? Thanks, Dave

LyX/document management/curriculum development

2004-10-15 Thread Dave Augustus
software did you use if not one of the above? Any recommendations? TIA, Dave

Repeated Word References

2004-05-23 Thread Dave Jarvis
ew my mind away. I think I'll stick with The Great Dalmuti." I want to change the words "card game" to "board game" everywhere, just by changing one instance. Does LyX support this natively? do I have to insert some TeX? is it even possible? Thanks! Sincere

Re: Content-Transfer-Encoding

2004-04-14 Thread Dave Tweten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >... wouldn't this fit rather on some mailing list related to uuencode or exmh? Obviously, you are right. A fit of brain-fade on my part caused me to send to the wrong list. My apologies to all for wasted bandwidth. -- M/S 258-5|1024-bit PGP fingerpr

Content-Transfer-Encoding

2004-04-12 Thread Dave Tweten
I'm tired of dealing with people who misconfigure their mail user agents to use x-uuencode instead of base64 as the Content-Transfer-Encoding for their MIME attachments. I'm hoping for a technological solution (i.e., capitulation). Is there some way to stitch public domain uudecode into exmh

Lyx and forms.h

2004-03-31 Thread Dave Jarvis
Hi, Looks like libxforms-devel.rpm is not installed by default on Mandrake Linux 9.2. Compiling has continued. :-) Sincerely, Dave Jarvis -- Invoq Systems Inc. t. 250.380.0304 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] w. http://www.invoqsystems.com

Mandrake 9.2 Fresh Install

2004-03-31 Thread Dave Jarvis
ke Linux 9.2 3.3.1-2mdk) What do I need to complete the build? Sincerely, Dave Jarvis -- Invoq Systems Inc. t. 250.380.0304 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] w. http://www.invoqsystems.com

Re: Gnuplot External Material

2003-12-16 Thread Dave Tweten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >... gnuplot also supports EEPIC, PSTricks, export to XFIG, etc all of >which could be handled seemlessly in the 1.4.x version of InsetExternal. Great! Any idea when 1.4.x is likely to become the "standard release?" I think 1.3.3 is now. -- M/S 258-5

Re: Gnuplot External Material

2003-12-16 Thread Dave Tweten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >My solution for this problem [of having to put "terminal" selection >gnuplot files in the same directory as gnuplot content files] is a >script that wraps the call to gnuplot, and adds the necessary >declaration for output. Usually I enter also a preamble with some >of the

Re: Gnuplot External Material

2003-12-16 Thread Dave Tweten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Those interested in adding gnuplot eps files to lyx/latex documents >should consider the egplot package. Thanks for the pointer. I looked into it and I think I'll stick to LyX External Material. For what it's worth, my reasons are: 1. Egplot's major advantage over sim

Re: Gnuplot External Material

2003-12-05 Thread Dave Tweten
Thank you all for attempting to enlighten me. Even the suggestions I didn't follow helped me understand the alternatives. I said: >... will I have to figure out the syntax well enough to roll my own? I decided to roll my own. The reason is the attraction of making LyX work off the gnuplot fil

Gnuplot External Material

2003-12-02 Thread Dave Tweten
According to "Customizing LyX: Features for the Advanced User," section 6.2, "As bundled, LyX comes with predefined tamplates for Xfig figures, Dia diagrams, various raster format images, gnuplot, and more." Not so I would notice. It also says, "Furthermore, it is

Re: Two LyX-Relate Problems

2003-11-09 Thread Dave Tweten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >the full screen acroread display comes out aparently in A3 proportions Of course, I should have said A4. -- M/S 258-5|1024-bit PGP fingerprint:|[EMAIL PROTECTED] NASA Ames Research Center| 41 B0 89 0A 8F 94 6C 59| (650) 604-4416 Moffett Field,

Two LyX-Relate Problems

2003-11-09 Thread Dave Tweten
I'm in the process of trying to get going with LyX again after a year's lack of use. I have a few problems: 1. The last document I wrote made two references to the same footnote. I used the LaTeX font to surround a LyX reference to the footnote with "\footnotemark[" on one side and "]" on

Re: LyX Won't Print its Documentation

2003-11-08 Thread Dave Tweten
Thank you both for helping me investigate my problem. As is usually the case when I have trouble, I did it to myself. About a year ago, I modified the default stdclass.inc to include a Preamble, EndPreamble paragraph that causes documents with no specified date to be printed with "DRAFT" as a

Re: LyX Won't Print its Documentation

2003-11-08 Thread Dave Tweten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Are you by any chance missing the float package in your latex >installation? I don't think so. I get my LaTeX through the FreeBSD port of teTeX, and they are defined in /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/float.sty. >Do other docs that use floats compile properly? At

LyX Won't Print its Documentation

2003-11-08 Thread Dave Tweten
I use LyX just often enough for the re-learning curve to be annoying, but it is still much less annoying than using Word. This coming week, I'll be trying to sell a group consisting of Unix/Linux users, MacOS users, and Windows users on the merits of using LyX and CVS for a few jointly develop

multi-language documents

2003-06-29 Thread Dave Brown
and pspell is not a package available via fink. When I searched the web for pspell, the aspell.net site comes up. Any help getting this set up is greatly appreciated. --Dave

Re: help with layout

2003-02-06 Thread Dave Pensato
On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 09:00 PM, Steven Homolya wrote: I just checked the link you sent. These are only style (.sty, .bst) files not document classes (.cls). You don't really need a new layout file. Just put \usepackage{mla} in your preamble, and put mla under Style in the bibtex

help with layout

2003-02-06 Thread Dave Pensato
out file on the article.layout) I've run texhash and reconfigure. thanks, dave

Re: Search Path for dvips

2002-05-20 Thread Dave Tweten
Initially quoting me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >>This suggests one way for LyX itself and for the Ports LyX >>installation to have avoided the problem, by making >>/usr/local/share/lyx/clipart and ~/.lyx/clipart be links to >>directories that are already on the correct Kpathsea search >>paths. >I

Re: Search Path for dvips

2002-05-18 Thread Dave Tweten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >A side remark before: I don't know \leftheader and \rightheader, but >your commands seem to reinsert eps code at each slide. They are built-in commands in the FoilTeX class. My impression is that they do more or less what you suggested I should do by hand, avoid reinse

Re: Search Path for dvips

2002-05-13 Thread Dave Tweten
Initially quoting me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >>What can I do to make dvips find the .eps files on some LyX search >>path that contains ~/.lyx/clipart/? >man kpsepath I tried that. It produced No manual entry for kpsepath I then used locate to find the two kpse* man pages that do ex

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