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

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

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

Search Path for dvips

2002-05-13 Thread Dave Tweten
I use a modified version of the FoilTeX layout file (~/.lyx/layouts/foils.layout). Among other things, it uses a Preamble/EndPreamble block to put two Encapsulated PostScript logos into my slides' left and right headers. \leftheader{\resizebox{!}{\headheight}{\includegraphics{CodeI.eps}}}

Re: LyX on a CD

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Tweten
Initially quoting me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >>Incidently, if you have something against FreeBSD, I understand that >>the ports system works with NetBSD too. >Cool. So is that just a Makefile that pulls down the tar ball and >makes the package? Ports is a skeletal directory structure of makefil

Re: LyX on a CD

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Tweten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >... mostly Unix does NOT set high standards for users or anyone else >(poor sysadmin guys?) so far as installation goes. >Basically I don't want to know about config files and environment >variables and so on and on and on when all I want is a bit of software >to do a p

U.S. Legal Briefs

2001-04-27 Thread Dave Tweten
I searched the LyX Users archives in vain for a reference to a LyX template or layout file for U.S. legal briefs, with their peculiar title pages and reference formats. I saw another question like mine in the archives, but no answers. Is there no help for a LyX fan who finds himself needing t

Re: citation of proceedings

2001-03-20 Thread Dave Tweten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Note that the address is the publisher's address, not the location of >the conference. I suggest to put the conference location in the title. Interesting. My technique has been to give proceedings references in two parts, one for the book itself, and one for the artic

Re: Any Linux -- or BSD?

2001-02-05 Thread Dave Tweten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >I'm going to install Linux (or FreeBSD) mainly for using Tetex and >LyX. I realize the packages are the same. Will things work equally >well in, say, Debian, Mandrake or FreeBSD? My experience is limited to FreeBSD, but it works very well for me on that platform. I'm

Re: Footnoteref Problem

2000-12-09 Thread Dave Tweten
footnotemark to refer to it from another section heading. In spite of the footnotemark being protected, I got the error message: Missing number, treated as zero. ...on\protect\footnotemark[\ref{foot:first}]} A number should have been here; I inserted `0'. (if yo

Re: Footnoteref Problem

2000-12-08 Thread Dave Tweten
Initially quoting me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> Missing number, treated as zero. >> ...ect\footnotemark[\protect\ref{foot:div}]} >> A number should have been here; I inserted "0". >> (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number, >> look up `wierd error' in the i

Footnoteref Problem

2000-12-07 Thread Dave Tweten
In previous situations, I've been able to use the LaTeX "\footnoteref" command with a Lyx reference to a label in another footnote, with no problems. Not surprisingly, the result is a second mark pointing to the same footnote. This time, I need for both the original footnote and the \footnoter