Re: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

2011-05-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 31.01.2011, at 18:17, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: > I confirm that Skim is able to autoload the pdf and keep the actual view of > the file. You have just tell it, the first time you update the PDF, that you > want it to auto-load it (I have not found a way to tell it to auto-load > without aski

Re: Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.06.2010, at 23:00, Paul Rubin wrote: > Rich Shepard appl-ecosys.com> writes: > >> >> Both source .tex and .log are attached. >> >> While the newest hyperref package does not include all the files of the >> earlier versions and throws a warning, the error that halts compilation of >>

Re: Negative indent in an enumerated list inside a theorem?

2010-06-15 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 15.06.2010, at 15:19, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > On 6/14/2010 7:35 PM, Paul Elliott wrote: >> >> How do I do in lyx, a negative indent on an enumerated list inside a Theorem? >> >> I have a math book where sometimes the theorems are written like this: >> >> -- >> Theorem. >> If all cows

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-15 Thread Daniel Lohmann
If you compile with pdflatex to pdf, you might also consider loading the microtype package in your preamble: \usepackage{microtype} Not only this improves the typographical aesthetics of your document, I have also found it reducing the number of pages slightly (by about a quarter page per ten

Re: Custom Insets with multiple arguments

2010-06-11 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 10.06.2010, at 11:02, stephen's mailinglist account wrote: >>> On 06/02/2010 10:59 AM, Rob Oakes wrote: Dear LyX-Users, >> I am in the process of creating a custom of modules for personal use > p and another for the creation of epigraphs). For the epigraph module to wor

Re: Beamer multitude problems with lyx

2010-06-09 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 08.06.2010, at 11:00, E. Kaplan wrote: > Thanks, Daniel, for sharing this solution. > Which style file are we talking about? The beamer theme I have developed for my department. Its a complete own theme that is included with \usetheme{i4} in your preamble and has to be put somewhere in

Re: Beamer multitude problems with lyx

2010-06-08 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 07.06.2010, at 19:41, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wednesday 02 June 2010 19:18:37 Ehud Kaplan wrote: >> Steve, >> To place a logo (or any other element of a template) with vfill, hfill, >> etc. is way too much work, since you have to do it on every slide, >> dodging the other important stuff that

Re: Save Date vs. Print Date

2010-05-28 Thread Daniel Lohmann
>> Nice trick. But wouldn't the final result be identical to the print date, >> since pdftex checks the modification date of a tex file created on the fly >> by lyx at print time? Or there is something more involved I don't understand? > > Stefano, you are right, of course! > > We need the pa

Re: Save Date vs. Print Date

2010-05-28 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 28.05.2010, at 21:24, stefano franchi wrote: > > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Daniel Lohmann > wrote: > > On 28.05.2010, at 00:30, Tim Wescott wrote: > > > Assuming you are compiling with pdftex as backend (which is most probably the > case, as

Re: Save Date vs. Print Date

2010-05-28 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 28.05.2010, at 00:30, Tim Wescott wrote: > Under the 'Article' document type, the title page will list the print date of > a document. > > But I vastly prefer to insert my own date, or to list the save date of the > file -- it just makes more sense for tracking changes. > > Is there a way

Re: General Question

2010-05-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 18.05.2010, at 17:02, RIchard Heck wrote: > > Sending this to user's, too > > On 05/18/2010 10:24 AM, Wes Lakenan wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> My company is looking into switching from MS Word to a less stressful >> program to create textbook-like binders. My company is a government >> c

Re: Bibtex question. How do I insert scans of covers.

2010-03-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 02.03.2010, at 09:04, mario wrote: Il giorno lun, 01/03/2010 alle 22.29 +0100, Daniel Lohmann ha scritto: On 01.03.2010, at 21:33, mario wrote: Just an untested idea: Have you tried (mis-)using the "note" field for this purpose? @book {... note={\inclu

Re: Bibtex question. How do I insert scans of covers.

2010-03-01 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 01.03.2010, at 21:33, mario wrote: Hi thanks for your reply. Il giorno lun, 01/03/2010 alle 17.14 +0100, Uwe Stöhr ha scritto: mario schrieb: My question is: I would like to include scans of covers and selected pages within my bibtex entrie (and final output), how do I do? Personally,

Re: Convert "Comment" into "Marginal Note"

2010-02-16 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Diego, I did something similar for "lyxgreyedout" in my dissertation. The caveat is that both., "lyxgreyedout" and "comment" are environments, whereas marginpar is a command. So actually you are looking for a technique to grab the content of an environment in a way it can be passed to

Re: export pdf only in certain pages

2010-01-21 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.01.2010, at 06:13, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: Dear All I am going to export lyx file to pdf, but not all pages. What I usually do: File>export>pdf(pdflatex) but it will export all pages. Is that possible to chose only at specific pages, for example page 13 to 14 only. This is not poss

Re: Why this list refuses small zip / 7z archives ?

2010-01-21 Thread Daniel Lohmann
I can recommend DropBox (http://www.dropbox.com) for this purpose. They offer 2GB of free space and their software (Linux/Mac/Windows) seamlessly integrates this storage into your file system: You just copy your files to the local "Dropbox/Public" folder (via command line, Explorer, Finder,

Re: Table Challenge

2010-01-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 20.01.2010, at 11:25, Steve Sidney wrote: Rob Thanks. Although I haven't used the longtable package, I am aware of its exsistence. My report is already some 30 odd pages and if I allow each table to take 2 pages it will make it even more bulky. There seems to be two alternatives. 1)

Re: floats and subfloats with longtables SOLVED

2010-01-14 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Rob, a clean solution might be possible using the afterpage package. Basically it provides the \afterpage{} command, which causes the expansion of to be postponed until LaTeX has shipped out the current page. If you insert your long table this way, it should (theoretically) appear on

Re: Lining up text and graphics in tables?

2010-01-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Thanks Daniel, Yeah, I tried a minipage containing three minipages just before I wrote the original email. It walked waay off the right side of the page. Hmmm, but I didn't try the textwidth and hfill. Where would I place the \textwidth, and how would I back it out once all these trip

Re: Lining up text and graphics in tables?

2010-01-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 12.01.2010, at 07:05, Steve Litt wrote: Ugh! I wanted rows with 3 columns. Column 1 is the name of the graphic. Column 2 is the graphic itself. Column 3 is a short explanation of the graphic. I used individual 1 row, 3 column tables to save room and make sure pages broke reasonably.

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 06.01.2010, at 10:58, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: In older LyX versions, you could choose to compile without temporary directory. Is this still supported? I don't think so. Which is a pity, IMHO. Not only this would be an easy workaround for all problems related to

Re: calender

2010-01-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 29.12.2009, at 19:55, Paul Sutton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Lohmann wrote: The PGF/TikZ package contains a quite decent calendar library. Within LyX you have to use ERT as it is a LaTeX package, but its relatively easy to use. Daniel Ok thanks I have

Re: LyZ: LyX plugin for Zotero

2010-01-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 30.12.2009, at 01:57, Pavel Sanda wrote: Petr Šimon wrote: Currently the citation key can be made out of 'author', 'year', 'title' and optionally from separators like '_'. I will add another keyword, 'zotero' that will create the cite key from unique identifier in zotero db. yep, this

Re: calender

2009-12-29 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 27.12.2009, at 00:41, Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 26 December 2009 18:02:09 Paul Sutton wrote: Hi Is it possible to produce a calender in LyX, I am looking for some sort of plug in or style to do it. thanks Paul I'm sure it's possible, probably with a series of tables, one for

Re: Option Clash with hyperref

2009-09-11 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 10.09.2009, at 22:58, Rob wrote: Hi, I want to use backref, but I'm getting an options clash. I read in a past post that there is some mess when trying to specify the options in hyperref since they're already set but that a work around is to add a \hyperset argument to the preamble.

Re: How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-25 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 14.08.2009, at 15:56, Pavel Sanda wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Or am I mistaken here? I am still seeking for a definite answer regarding the conversion route that to my understanding is automatically deduced by LyX (TiKZ --> PDF | PDF --> Preview). It seem that (newer?) versi

Re: How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 13.08.2009, at 11:22, Pavel Sanda wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: - to make a python script which would take the parent document dumps the preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both preview and output. Here is such a python script (although i

Re: How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 12.08.2009, at 09:53, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-08-11, Pavel Sanda wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: that mean that it is *not possible* to achieve goal (1) (the preview in LyX, everything else works) via file formats and converters only? unless imagemagick convert utility knows how to

Re: How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 13.08.2009, at 06:47, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi, So here is what I want to achieve: I have some TikZ figures (which are actually stand-alone LaTeX- documents with the extension .tikz) that I want to embed (not the source, but the

Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 11.08.2009, at 23:48, Phil wrote: You might also try excel2latex I can also recommend excel2latex. I used it quite a lot when I was writing my thesis. The nice thing about it is that it also preserves a sensible part of the formattings (e.g., bold headlines, right aligned data, ..

Re: How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-11 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 09.08.2009, at 17:31, Pavel Sanda wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Your help is highly appreciated! try to mimic http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/27914 and ask for inclusion if you succeed. you may also want to comment on bug 4882. Hi Pavel, Thanks for your answer! However, I have to

How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, Even though I consider myself a "LyX master" in many respects, the exact usage of "File Formats", "Converters" and "External Material..." have always remained a mystery to me. Today I gave it another try (LyX 1.6.3-mac) -- and failed again. So here is what I want to achieve: I have s

Re: Sty to Layout problem

2009-07-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 24.07.2009, at 02:25, Luis F. Amorim França wrote: Thanks Daniel! I tried to create a document with a ERT like \title(Paper Title) \author{Luis} but when I compile it, the document is empty. Trying to use the Lyx Title and Author, I get this message: \author{Luis}\maketitle The contr

Re: Sty to Layout problem

2009-07-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Luis, This may not be exactly the answer you are looking for :-) IMHO the front matter (the stuff that is rendered by \maketitle) is the most difficult part to get right into a LyX layout, especially with paper styles. Every paper style uses different concepts on how authors, institutio

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 17.04.2009, at 15:25, Niko Schwarz wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: 1) I like the lyx format as it is BECAUSE it is not compressed, so I would definitely not change the default format. Ok, maybe I didn't make myself clear: you can have self-contained arch

Re: Bibdesk and mutated vowels (Umlaut)

2008-12-17 Thread Daniel Lohmann
on the "BibTex generated Bibliography" inset. I have never used them, but I would guess that the "gerXXX" styles are for German bibliographies. Daniel 2008/12/17 Daniel Lohmann On 17.12.2008, at 14:08, jezZiFeR wrote: Hello, I´m using Lyx 1.6.1 on OSX 10.5.5 with B

Re: Bibdesk and mutated vowels (Umlaut)

2008-12-17 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 17.12.2008, at 14:08, jezZiFeR wrote: Hello, I´m using Lyx 1.6.1 on OSX 10.5.5 with BibDesk 1.3.18 in german language. Is there any possibility to use mutated vowels in the BibDesk- references in a way that Lyx could handle them? When I enter them the plain way I get errors in Lyx. (Fo

Re: Using pdfpages with LyX?

2008-11-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 12.11.2008, at 12:07, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: bigblop wrote: Does anybody know if its possible to use pdfpages in lyx with relative paths? LyX 1.6 has pdfpages support in External Insets. Another trick is to additionally insert the PDF as image under a relative path, but put

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between "++" in the word "C++"

2008-10-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 23.10.2008, at 00:00, Andre Poenitz wrote: Since I started to waste the evening with TeX, the final version: \def\plus{+} \def\gobble#1{} \catcode`\+=\active \def\checknextchar{% \ifx\nextchar+% \raisebox{0.6ex}{\tiny\plus\kern-.3ex\plus}% \let\next\gobble%

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between "++" in the word "C++"

2008-10-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.10.2008, at 14:07, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Any TeX gurus on this list who might help me? If you don't get any answer here, try in the comp.text.tex newsgroup. Thanks Konrad! Daniel, who is hoping nevertheless to find an expert here :-)

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between "++" in the word "C++"

2008-10-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.10.2008, at 14:12, Charles de Miramon wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: [...] occurrences with some ERT box is not an option, as this would cause too much hassle and would not work in external material, such as bibliographic entries. I am looking for a more elegant solution. The easiest way

Automagically reduce the spacing between "++" in the word "C++"

2008-10-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, I am currently in the process of polishing the typesetting of my thesis. One of the things I would like to achieve is to reduce the spacing between "++" in the words C++ and AspectC++, as this looks somewhat "strange" with the font I am using. This question is somewhat related to the

Re: Importing texinfo files

2008-10-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 20.10.2008, at 14:11, Keith Roberts wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Keith Roberts wrote: To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Keith Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Importing texinfo files Is it possible to import a Linux textinfo document and then convert it to PDF for viewing and printing

Re: Lyx 1.5.4 lof caption length

2008-09-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 23.09.2008, at 04:43, Fil wrote: Hi Daniel, Thanks for your quick reply. Your suggestion is what I was hoping for and i added it to the preamble, but I get a lot of errors which I otherwise didn't have. My setup is I have a main file the calls up all my other chapters. I'm assuming th

Re: Lyx 1.5.4 lof caption length

2008-09-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.09.2008, at 16:51, Fil wrote: Hi, Please could you advise if you can set the caption length in LOF in the TOC?? . I'm using lyx 1.5.4. I'd prefer to use the float figure caption(box) if possible so really I need to know if there is a command to cut off the text in the figure box so

LyX OS-X AppleScript

2008-09-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
LyX 1.5.5, Mac OSX 10.5.5 Hi, I found some nice AppleScripts to move windows around and attached it to a Quicksilver trigger to have window movement with the keyboard (a feature that unfortunately is totally missing in OS X...). This works with all applications I have tried, but LyX. The s

Re: List of cross references for a label

2008-09-18 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 18.09.2008, at 15:13, rgheck wrote: Martin Görg wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:27:31 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: is it correct that there is no functionality in LyX to show all cross references pointing to a specific label? [...] I'll file a feature request in case this functionalit

How to add a table column left of the first column?

2008-09-16 Thread Daniel Lohmann
LyX 1.5.6, MacOSX Hi, I have a (big and complicated) table which I need to extend by an additional column on the left side (the new column is to become the first column of the table). As far as I have figured out, the "Add column" button always inserts the new column right of the current o

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 11.09.2008, at 15:55, Ernesto Posse wrote: PS: I'm not sure how the hyperref package could help, as the document doesn't have any hyperrefs; even the minimal file I posted earlier fails... Besides dealing with hyperlinks, the hyperref package provides an interface for many other aspects

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 09.09.2008, at 11:25, G. Milde wrote: On 9.09.08, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: G. Milde wrote: Besides the bug mentionend in another reply: The default settings will use the extension ".lyx15" for the exported file and the file-open dialogue in LyX-1.5 will not show it, as it expects a ".lyx"

Re: references between child documents

2008-09-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 02.09.2008, at 01:22, Joao P Leitao wrote: Hi, I'm using Lyx for a few weeks and have a few child documents. I'd like to reference a Chapter of "child document A" in "child document B". I've a label in the chapter "of child document A" the one I want to reference. Just open both d

Re: old questions: no error message

2008-09-01 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 01.09.2008, at 14:58, wangyq wrote: Dear all: I found it is really boring that the lyx system outputs no error message. I am working a book with lyx. Now I want export it to pdf and forward it to others. But I found all export functions in lyx are dead, including exporting to d

Re: Bug in listings inset (Lyx 1.5.6, OS X)

2008-08-29 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 29.08.2008, at 20:12, Georg Baum wrote: Both problems would be fixed by a sane parameter handling that would not store all parameters in one string, but one parameter after the other in the .lyx file. Preservation of order would then be easy to implement as well. If you prefer I will

Re: Installing pgfplots on the Mac

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 28.08.2008, at 21:02, Graham Smith wrote: OK, this seems to be linked to my newness with the Mac. I have now managed to find where the the package should go, but I don't seem to have permissions to add a folder and copy the the package into it. I shall have a search for Mac help. H

Re: Bug in listings inset (Lyx 1.5.6, OS X)

2008-08-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 27.08.2008, at 19:59, Georg Baum wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi, I just discovered a "feature" of the listings inset that actually should be considered as a bug: Additional options given on the advanced page are implicitly sorted alphabetically. However, if using listing s

Bug in listings inset (Lyx 1.5.6, OS X)

2008-08-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, I just discovered a "feature" of the listings inset that actually should be considered as a bug: Additional options given on the advanced page are implicitly sorted alphabetically. However, if using listing styles, the order of options is relevant. Consider the following example: In

Re: LyX for MAC: problems in handling file images

2008-08-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 26.08.2008, at 04:15, Bennett Helm wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Pierfranco Minsenti < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have checked my installation of ImageMagick: 6.3.3. Most elements are in the .usr/local/lib Maybe I installed it when I installed the full MacTeX package containin

Re: Lyx cross platform compatability - is there a problem?

2008-08-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 19.08.2008, at 21:21, Graham Smith wrote: On 19 Aug 2008, at 19:57, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Graham Smith wrote: As you will see, from my other post, the issue was a leading comma in the preamble, setting the Komascript options. It seems that both the Mac and

Re: Koma-script letter error on Windows but not on Mac

2008-08-18 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 18.08.2008, at 18:27, Graham Smith wrote: I have a letter set up on a Mac, which works fine, but copying it to Windows and trying to compile gives me the following error: -- } You have used \KOMAoptions to set `', but KOMA-Script does not know any option name

Re: Links to external images in PDF generated by LyX.

2008-08-15 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 15.08.2008, at 21:12, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: I'd like to generate a PDF file where the figures/images are not incorporated into it, but rather have links that points to external image files (jpeg, eps, and whatnot). Doing that, I can restrict the size of each individual size instead of

Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package

2008-08-11 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 10.08.2008, at 18:24, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Burton wrote: I tried using ERT. If I got it wrong Lyx crashed. If that's reproducible, it should probably be entered into bugzilla. If I got it right it worked until I closed Lyx. When the document was re-opened Lyx spotted the list

Re: Conflict with Hyperref + Floats?

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 08.08.2008, at 08:03, Ryan Cross wrote: HI, I posted a message yesterday about a problem I was having with algorithm floats. I did a lot of debugging and finally (after very long line by line debugging) found that the problem seems to be some sort of conflict when using the hyperref pa

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-31 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 31.07.2008, at 08:55, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 04:17:29PM -0500, Denné Reed wrote: [..] I've also had problems with journal and book editors, one of which insisted I convert a book chapter written in LyX into Word format despite the fact that the publisher (Elsevier) ha

Re: Lyx functions

2008-07-28 Thread Daniel Lohmann
I really like lyx. I just find something a bit hard. Some things are easier to be done via the keyboard (otherwise it's back to MS point and click nightmare). I mean in an equation it is much easier to just do \pi for Pi or \neq for the not equal sign. What about in standard mode when I am

Size of preview image

2008-07-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, Is there any way to change the size LyX uses internally when creating the bitmaps for preview images? In many cases, the default size of the preview image is to small. I know that I can specify a preview scaling factor in the graphics settings, however, that causes the *bitmap* to be

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 20.07.2008, at 05:44, Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2008 19:57, Typhoon wrote: This is by far the best solution, in my opinion. Unfortunately for me, my only Windows machine is a 1997 Pentium II/300 with 128MB of RAM, which would be painfully slow. Steve, What happens if you i

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Steve, Have you already considered importing the Word document into OpenOffice Writer and letting one of the OO->LaTeX converters do the hard work? (http://www.hj-gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/ is one exmple, there might be others) No, I have never tried or used one of those. However, I hear

Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns

2008-06-01 Thread Daniel Lohmann
A (late) follow-up on this: I have got some good experience with an open-source Excel-Plugin named Excel2LaTeX. This plugin provides a toolbar button to convert the selected parts of an Excel table into LaTeX source code that can then either be saved into a file or into the clipboard. I

Re: includepdf

2008-05-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 05.05.2008, at 10:17, Mario Braun wrote: I think this isn't the way pdfpages is supposed to be used. If you want a caption, include a single pdf page via the graphics dialog. well, I don´t really want a caption. I just want the 3 pages of my pdf-file to start on the page where the se

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 02.05.2008, at 23:08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 2 May 2008, David A. Case wrote: 1. an article with Document->Page layout set to "US Letter" (and Document->Page Margins is set to "default") is likely to come out of pdflatex as A4 (unless, unlike me, you know enoug

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 02.05.2008, at 05:45, adam_taylor wrote: Folks, I am a new LyX user, and have a very basic question. I am using Lyx 1.5.1 under Ubuntu 7.10. I believe the TeX system is TeXLive. I created a new document (of class article), wrote a few lines in it, and then wanted to make a PDF. I

Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-30 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 29.04.2008, at 19:28, Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2008 13:11, rgheck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2008 09:00, you wrote: But I've done a little experimenting, and here's one way this can happen. First, you have to be using a "local" layout file, that is, a layo

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 07.04.2008, at 18:51, Walter H. van Holst wrote: Of course, there are also other vector drawing programs (besides Xfig), so what is outlined here is not the only option you have. If only Linux and Windows are required, I'd recommend Inkscape. It is much more polished and user friendly tha

Re: ERT to inline by command

2008-04-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 07.04.2008, at 16:01, Ethan Metsger wrote: On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:04:16 -0400, Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: AFAIK there is, unfortunately, no LFUN for this I too would really appreciate a keyboard shortcut. I was under the impression that using CTRL-I would do the j

Re: ERT to inline by command

2008-04-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 07.04.2008, at 12:44, Salát Máté wrote: Hi! What command makes the "Display" option of the active ERT to "Inline"? I want to create a key binding to this function. AFAIK there is, unfortunately, no LFUN for this I too would really appreciate a keyboard shortcut. Daniel

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 23.03.2008, at 22:53, Pavel Sanda wrote: Anybody an idea? Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) this behaviour is intended? i find the naming confusing. wouldn't be better to have clear distinction between toggling and dialog showing? also what is the relation to dialog-show lfun?

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 23.03.2008, at 13:50, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Anybody an idea? Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do

LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Anybody an idea? Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard. Thanks, Daniel Begin forwarded message: From: Daniel Lohmann <[EM

How to open the dialog for label / reference inset by keyboard

2008-03-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, Is there any LFUN or pre-assigned shortcut to open the settings dialog for the label / reference / bib reference inset under the cursor? Thanks! Daniel

Re: Experiences with biblatex?

2008-03-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 19.03.2008, at 10:26, Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Daniel Lohmann schrieb am 19.03.2008: After finding myself spending more and more time with tweaking and customizing bibliography handling I am considering switching to biblatex. [...] 1) Do you have to change your .bib-files

Experiences with biblatex?

2008-03-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, After finding myself spending more and more time with tweaking and customizing bibliography handling I am considering switching to biblatex. According to the wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex) and a thread from last December (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

Re: Literal monofont underscores?

2008-03-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 19.03.2008, at 03:01, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Doh! And here's why it worked for me and not you: I typed in the underscores, and LyX cleverly escaped them as \_\_ (ad nauseum). I'm guessing you pasted them in or imported them as text, and got just underscores, no escapes. Hm... LyX

Re: Use pdf figures without converting.

2008-03-11 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 11.03.2008, at 08:30, G. Milde wrote: On 11.03.08, Klaus Unger wrote: I am using PDF figures. Lyx does convert them to png before and chops them incorrectly. When? * display in the LyX window? * view as/export to Postscript? * view as/export to PDF (ps2pdf)? Well, I had exactly thi

Re: LyX mac customized icon

2008-03-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 05.03.2008, at 14:54, Julio Rojas wrote: Can you post a JPG? Apparently there is a JPG or GIF on Dianas blog: http://ailoan.free.fr/blog Daniel

Re: new lines disappearing in program listings

2008-03-04 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 05.03.2008, at 05:55, Bo Peng wrote: Have you checked out the support for lstlisting in LyX 1.5.x? I gather from the wiki that Bo Peng is responsible for it (props to Bo). It's not on the environment roster; you get it with Insert -> Program Listing. Right click the widget handle to see

Re: Inserting graphics of the "appropriate" type: how to?

2008-03-04 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 04.03.2008, at 22:40, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: For many plots in a sub directory "PlotFigures", I have 2 versions, one in eps version and one in pdf version. Have you tried specifying a clipping region in LyX? Might be there's an issue with reading

Re: LyX won't compile my document any more

2008-02-29 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Maximilian, Text line contains an invalid character. M^^F An1oz:8 #^^82^^Sr6'GE^^89N^^94A^^IK^^93}: 4*^^Ye:;[EMAIL PROTECTED] A funny symbol that I can't read has just been input. Continue, and I'll forget that it ever happened. I assume that you have somehow auto-magica

Re: ftp.lyx.org down?

2008-02-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 26.02.2008, at 16:14, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: It seems that the ftp server on ftp.lyx.org is down. I can ping the machine, but the ftp server does not answer requests. The server is not really down, but rather slow and sometimes unrespondable these days (it

ftp.lyx.org down?

2008-02-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, It seems that the ftp server on ftp.lyx.org is down. I can ping the machine, but the ftp server does not answer requests. I am still using 1.5.1 because of the "show stopper bugs" in the 1.5.2 and 1.5.3 releases that, according to the change log, have been fixed. Now I am desperately

Re: backref

2008-02-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 25.02.2008, at 11:48, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I try to locate some references in my document by using the package backref. I do, however, get only pages (actually Seiten, since it is a german document) behind the reference, no page number. What do I do wrong? I inserted \usepackage[ngerm

Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

2008-02-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.02.2008, at 14:13, Bennett Helm wrote: On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote: Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to find the documentation for the Beamer class. It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can be found at: /usr/

Re: Memory use

2008-02-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 13.02.2008, at 11:26, Nicolás wrote: Hi! LyX seems to make a good use of RAM just after it has been started up. When a file is closed the memory the file was using is released and when LyX is minimized, the memory used is reduced to a minimum. That's great! However, this is no longer

Emedding PDF graphcis problem - missing converter

2008-02-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
LyX 1.5.1, OS-X Hi, Whenever I insert some pdf graphics into my LyX document and compile it with pdflatex, Lyx complains about a missing converter: "No information for converting pdf format files to png. Define a converter in the preferences. " Why is LyX trying to convert the graphics into

Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac

2008-01-16 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 15.01.2008, at 19:40, Jens Noeckel wrote: Fortunately, on the Mac you can also access the menu bar by the system-wide shortcut "Control-F2" (which you can in turn customize in the System Preferences). Well, yes - so lets hope that bug 4446 gets fixed in the next release :-) ht

Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 10.01.2008, at 02:33, Bennett Helm wrote: Better yet, look at the mac-bind.pdf file that is included with the LyX/Mac distribution. Insert footnote is not defined there, but you can define it yourself by creating a file with the following: \bind_file mac.bind \bind "S-C-F"

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

2008-01-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, While I have neither used VimOutliner, nor am I a professional book writer, I usually do outline my texts before starting the actual writing. I use the mind-mapping tool FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ ) to do the outlining, which supports links, keyboard navigation, folding

Re: Some LyX 1.5.3 issues (OS-X specific?)

2007-12-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.12.2007, at 17:59, Jens Noeckel wrote: On Dec 22, 2007, at 5:12 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Dec 21, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: And finally, on LyX OS-X related question: How can I use the "Ctrl" key in LyX key bindings? "C" is apparently bound t

Some LyX 1.5.3 issues (OS-X specific?)

2007-12-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi LyX folks, On a longer train journey I had the opportunity to actually do some work with LyX on my new Mac. While doing so, I observed a couple of issues. Some of them might be related to the fact that I am still using it in a very Windows-like way, especially with respect to trying to

Re: Errors in LyX 1.5.3 installer for Mac

2007-12-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Similar problem here. It seems to be a permissions problem. In my case the lyx folder under Library/texmf/tex/latex was owned by root and the installer could not copy the "Lyx's additional classes and styles". I guess the reason is that he folder originally had been created by a LyX 1.51 i

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

2007-12-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
David Hewitt wrote: I'm not great with plain LaTeX, so could you post a piece of hacking that would work just to drop the Bibliography to a section level? Okay, the following should work with KOMA-script. Just put it in the LaTeX preamble of your document: \makeatletter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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