Re: seminar bug, geometry and a4paper

2003-12-12 Thread Herbert Voß
Günter Milde wrote: seminar.cls has a bug that prevents proper working with the "a4paper" option. (Option "a4" works). the seminar and prosper packages are still buggy. The bug prevents use of seminar as doctype from LyX together with the geometry package and a4 option, as LyX inserts: \usepackag

Re: Text in toc flowing off page

2003-12-12 Thread Herbert Voß
Anca Tibor- Attila wrote: as I remeber, there was a thread a few days ago about text off the page borders. then you have no hyphenation or the text in typewriter font, which cannot be hyphenated. Now, I have another problem: there are a few longer superscripts in my document. Inside the documen

Re: math_formula_help

2003-12-12 Thread Herbert Voß
Herbert Voß wrote: there is no error, but you still use the wrong emvironments for the problems. And in the last example you get different sizes of the equations, also no error, but looks ugly. I meant "of the parenthesis" ... Herbert

Re: math_formula_help

2003-12-12 Thread Herbert Voß
Christian Ridderström wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Karshi F.Hasanov wrote: I have a long math formula and I can't fit it on one page. How do In put such fomula in two lines? Example: F=sqrt(. ..) ? I put an example for something similar on

Re: figure float problem

2003-12-12 Thread Herbert Voß
Myriam Abramson wrote: I have 2 figure floats (eps) and it seems that the last figure overlaps with the first when printing or viewing the document. The figures are fine in Lyx and they are fine when viewing them outside of Lyx with ghostview. What could be the problem? I'm baffled. difficult

Re: math_formula_help

2003-12-12 Thread Herbert Voß
Karshi F.Hasanov wrote: I have a long math formula and I can't fit it on one page. How do In put such fomula in two lines? Example: F=sqrt(. ..) ? use the multline environment of amsmath, then you have exactly what you want (it's supported

Re: A special case of a vertical arrow

2003-12-10 Thread Herbert Voß
Paul Smith wrote: copy and paste this into LyX, then mark it with the cursor and then ctrl-m, which should convert it into math. Maybe that this causes and error, when LyX tries to convert it in the right way. Then insert it by hand. \[ |x| \underset{\makebox[0pt]{$\substack{\uparrow\\(x>0)}$}}{=}

Re: A special case of a vertical arrow

2003-12-10 Thread Herbert Voß
Herbert Voß wrote: Paul Smith wrote: I would like to type, with LyX, a vertical arrow directed to the equality sign and with (x>0) at the bottom, as described below: |x| = x ^ | (x>0) Could somebody here please help me? copy and paste this into LyX, then mark it with the curs

Re: A special case of a vertical arrow

2003-12-10 Thread Herbert Voß
Paul Smith wrote: I would like to type, with LyX, a vertical arrow directed to the equality sign and with (x>0) at the bottom, as described below: |x| = x ^ | (x>0) Could somebody here please help me? copy and paste this into LyX, then mark it with the cursor and then ctrl-m, which shou

Re: inserting bibtex generated references

2003-12-09 Thread Herbert Voß
navaja wrote: > Your .lyx-file works just fine for me (after creating a faked .bib-file, i.e. references.bib) Do you see any references at all, i.e. do you see: test [1] when you look at the PDF-file? Looking at the DVI-file? i see test [?] when i look at the pdf file. i havent configured

Re: Pstricks package

2003-12-08 Thread Herbert Voß
Hassoun Karam wrote: As requested, please find attached the log file. the logfile is absolutely ok I followed the suggested procedure and it worked fine (I am using gv for Ghostscript to view .ps files). remeber that you _must_ use view->PostScript, because View->Dvi cannot work. The xdvi viewer

Re: A special case of limit

2003-12-07 Thread Herbert Voß
Dekel Tsur wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 02:05:47PM +0100, Herbert Vo? wrote: Paul Smith wrote: I would like to add "x=0" just below a limit, as it is shown below: limf(x,y)=L (x,y)-> (0,0) (x=0) Could someone here please help me? see p.23 in http://www.perce.de/LaTeX/Mathmode-TeX.

Re: A special case of limit

2003-12-07 Thread Herbert Voß
Herbert Voß wrote: Paul Smith wrote: I would like to add "x=0" just below a limit, as it is shown below: limf(x,y)=L (x,y)-> (0,0) (x=0) Could someone here please help me? see p.23 in http://www.perce.de/LaTeX/Mathmode-TeX.pdf should be http://www.perce.de/LaTeX/

Re: A special case of limit

2003-12-07 Thread Herbert Voß
Paul Smith wrote: I would like to add "x=0" just below a limit, as it is shown below: limf(x,y)=L (x,y)-> (0,0) (x=0) Could someone here please help me? see p.23 in http://www.perce.de/LaTeX/Mathmode-TeX.pdf Herbert

Re: LyX and flowcharts

2003-12-06 Thread Herbert Voß
Robert Orr wrote: I have used xcircuit to draw my charts and then load the graphics into lyx. It works very well, not only for the flowcharts but anykind of simple drawing. For drawings, which are not too complex, PSTricks is a good choice. See http://members.aol.com/Mluque5130 http://melusine.eu

Re: LyX and flowcharts

2003-12-06 Thread Herbert Voß
Paul Smith wrote: sure, but it makes no real sense to use LyX for this. Create your flowcharts with a simple text editor and include it in LyX, if they are part of another document. http://www.pstricks.de/psmatrix/psmatrix.phtml#flowchart http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/LaTeX/layouts/nassi.pht

Re: LyX and flowcharts

2003-12-06 Thread Herbert Voß
Paul Smith wrote: I would like to ask you whether LyX can be used to draw flowcharts. sure, but it makes no real sense to use LyX for this. Create your flowcharts with a simple text editor and include it in LyX, if they are part of another document. http://www.pstricks.de/psmatrix/psmatrix.phtml#fl

Re: Paragraph with a grey background

2003-12-06 Thread Herbert Voß
Paul Smith wrote: I would like to know how to make a paragraph with a grey background colour. Could somebody here please help me? attached a demo file. Herbert #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \textclass article \begin_preamble \usepackage{color,ca

Re: Pstricks package

2003-12-06 Thread Herbert Voß
Hassoun Karam wrote: Thanks Herbert for the reply. These are the results of kpsewhich for the .pro files: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/dvips/pstricks/pst-node.pro /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/dvips/pstricks/pst-dots.pro /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/dvips/pstricks/pstricks.pro ok

Re: Pstricks package

2003-12-05 Thread Herbert Voß
Hassoun Karam wrote: I am trying the Pstricks package to create box matrices using the examples from http://www.pstricks.de/Nodes/nodes.phtml. I imported boxNode.tex into Lyx and run DVI. However i get three error messages in Xdvi and a simple matrix without the boxes: cannot find postscript f

Re: no hyphenation/word splitting

2003-12-03 Thread Herbert Voß
Raphael Clifford wrote: While I'm about it there is something else I don't know how to do. How do I turn off hyphenation so that words aren't split over different lines? - for single words: \mbox{hyphenation} or with package hyphenat and \nohyphen{ blah ...} - for a paragraph: \begin{sloppy}

Re: Format=>Document=>Page size not working

2003-12-03 Thread Herbert Voß
John Levon wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 07:31:45AM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: we were talking about page size and not page margin. Oops, sorry aehm, nevertheless, it seems to be a qt-bug ... Herbert

Re: Table-float footnote and float placement

2003-12-02 Thread Herbert Voß
Nirmal Govind wrote: I did what you suggested above but the footnote is still on the previous page. A screenshot of what my table float and the minipage within along with the footnote text look like are at: http://www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/footnotetable.jpg The float is set to use "default p

Re: Format=>Document=>Page size not working

2003-12-02 Thread Herbert Voß
Marko wrote: when trying to set the page size of a document to a custom size I notized that this does not work in Lyx 1.3.2 (QT frontend). Any custom size seems to be completely ignored! Attached are two small examples: test1 uses page size A5 (which works); test2 uses a custom page size of 13

Re: Table-float footnote and float placement

2003-12-01 Thread Herbert Voß
Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi.. I have a footnote within a table in a float. I used the method specified on Herbert's tips page to include the footnote within the table. I have the placement of the table float set to default placement. However, with this setting, the footnote appears on the page that

Re: Page numbers in upper right corner?

2003-12-01 Thread Herbert Voß
James Frye wrote: I suppose this is a more of a general latex question than a Lyx-specific one, but I haven't been able to find an answer anywhere else. The question seems pretty simple, even trivial: how can I get the page number in the upper right corner of the page, instead of at the bottom cen

Re: Oblique line connecting two corners of a cell

2003-11-30 Thread Herbert Voß
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I would like to know whether it is possible to draw an oblique line connecting two corners of a cell of a table. see example. For more information look at http://www.pstricks.de Herbert #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \

Re: 2 colums + picture

2003-11-28 Thread Herbert Voß
Hartmut Haase wrote: does someone know an easy way to get a 2-column text floating around a picture in the middle? I mean something like this: use ConTeXt Herbert

Re: Renumbering chapters

2003-11-27 Thread Herbert Voß
Rich Shepard wrote: I want to extract a couple of chapters from my book, and put them into a new document. However, I would like to retain the original numbers rather than have them renumberd "Chapter 1" and "Chapter 2". Would I use something like \renewcommand{thischapter}{5} on the copies to

Re: Problem installing new document class

2003-11-27 Thread Herbert Voß
Sander Klous wrote: I submitted this question last week, but didn't get a response. So I'll give it another try. I have lyx1.3.3 installed on RH7.3 I downloaded the elsart.layout from http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/lib/layouts/ and installed it in ~/.lyx/layouts In the same di

Re: Roman numbers in the text

2003-11-26 Thread Herbert Voß
Samuel Hammer wrote: does anyone know how to make roman numbers in the text ? write in preamble: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then in the text as ERT (TeX) \romannumber{123} \Romannumber{123} Herbert

Re: Problem installing new document class

2003-11-22 Thread Herbert Voß
Ronald Florence schrieb: Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Actually, it would be better to put new files that are not part of the normal teTeX distribution in .../share/texmf.local/tex/latex/. The .../share/texmf/tex/latex hierarchy could be overwritten by an upgrade of teTeX. That's probab

Re: Vertical spacing before and after chapter headings

2003-11-20 Thread Herbert Voß
Bradley Navarro schrieb: For example: [space] Chapter 1 [space] Introduction [space] where I need to be able to define the amount of space in the areas labeled [space]. http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/LaTeX/space/space.phtml#chapter Herbert

Re: Pagenumbers gone in pdf with lyx 1.3.2

2003-11-19 Thread Herbert Voß
Robert Neumann schrieb: > \fancyhead{} > > \fancyhead[RO,LE]{\slshape Vorwort} > > \fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage} > > \cfoot{} this is stuff which should completely go into the preamble. Then you have no pagenumbers for dvi and pdf output. But I want to have pagenumbers! sorry, I meant Then you have

Re: Future of LyX for Win32

2003-11-17 Thread Herbert Voß
Paul Smith schrieb: Many thanks to whom replied my query! I may change from MS Windows to Linux... My only hesitation is that I have some Win32 applications that I often need to use. which one? Herbert

Re: copyright symbol

2003-11-16 Thread Herbert Voß
Ed Sawicki schrieb: Is there a way to enter the copyright symbol from the keyboard using Lyx? I've search the documentation and couldn't find it, so I used the ERT button and put in \copyright. AltGr-Shift-C on a Linux machine Herbert

Re: How to change the label "theorem"?

2003-11-16 Thread Herbert Voß
Paul Smith schrieb: Could not I have the French label for Theorem in the DVI file by appropriately changing the amsmaths.inc file? If so, where should I operate the change? I can change the label for definitions, corollaries, and so on... but for theorem I do not know how to do it. amsart.layou

Re: citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-15 Thread Herbert Voß
Nirmal Govind schrieb: I prefer latin modern ... ;-) and build my PDF's in general with VTeX/Free. I tried out all the combinations again.. the ps2pdf output with cm-super looked marginally better than ps2pdf with lmodern when viewed on screen here.. pdflatex with lmodern does look great.. the re

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-15 Thread Herbert Voß
Nirmal Govind schrieb: No? Actually this point is interesting.. are there any statistics on the percentage of users in various fields (Sciences, Engg., Arts etc..) who use LaTeX? (a little bit of Googling didn't turn up anything) I've made this change to the slide in any case.. there exists no

Re: citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-15 Thread Herbert Voß
Nirmal Govind schrieb: With pdflatex still use latin modern fonts (package lmodern) or the cm-super (needs a lot of memory). There is no need to use ps2pdf. Yes, I played around with these a couple weeks ago and I can't remember why but I decided that the output from ps2pdf with cm-super was the

Re: How to change the label "theorem"?

2003-11-15 Thread Herbert Voß
Paul Smith schrieb: ok, I see. A problem with LyX. Write into the preamble: \newtheorem{theorem}{FrenchTheorem} \let\thm\theorem It works almost perfectly. Without inserting "\let\thm\theorem" in the preamble, the output DVI file displays "Theorem 0.1" whereas otherwise it appears "FrenchTheorem 1.

Re: How to change the label "theorem"?

2003-11-15 Thread Herbert Voß
Paul Smith schrieb: > The files are here, Herbert. ok, I see. A problem with LyX. Write into the preamble: \newtheorem{theorem}{FrenchTheorem} \let\thm\theorem Herbert

Re: How to change the label "theorem"?

2003-11-15 Thread Herbert Voß
Paul Smith schrieb: \newtheorem{theorem}{FrenchTheorem} into the preamble. I'd forgotten that in amsart the theorem isn't defined. Herbert, I did as you suggested and the file was perfectly compiled. However, the label "Theorem" remains on the DVI file. (FrenchTheorem label does not show up.) I

Re: Pagenumbers gone in pdf with lyx 1.3.2

2003-11-15 Thread Herbert Voß
Robert Neumann schrieb: I am normally using Lyx 1.20, but I'm planing to switch to lyx 1.3.2. When I open a document which was created with lyx 1.20 using fanyhdr I encounter a problem: When I use the pdf preview or export function, the pagenumbers (created with fancyfoot) were gone. If I'm usi

Re: LyX Code after enumeration

2003-11-15 Thread Herbert Voß
Todd O'Bryan schrieb: I actually didn't get a file. I got a bunch of text with backslashes and such. I thought you meant to send it that way. Here's the problem. If I put that in Typewriter font, but not LyX Code, I can't type spaces to indent correctly. If I put it in LyX Code, then the (a) and (

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-15 Thread Herbert Voß
Nirmal Govind schrieb: I made a presentation on LyX/LaTeX to the LUG here at Penn State yesterday. Below is the link in case someone's interested in doing something similar... http://www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/LyX_PSU_LUG.pdf some remarks: - Overview: nowadays, it is not right, that LaTeX i

Re: How to change the label "theorem"?

2003-11-15 Thread Herbert Voß
Paul Smith schrieb: Try \renewtheorem{theorem}{... the french word ...} Thanks, Herbert. But, where should I insert that command? In the preamble. Layout->Document->Preamble I did it, but I get the following error message: LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}. \renewtheorem{t

Re: How to change the label "theorem"?

2003-11-14 Thread Herbert Voß
Paul Smith schrieb: Try \renewtheorem{theorem}{... the french word ...} Thanks, Herbert. But, where should I insert that command? In the preamble. Layout->Document->Preamble I did it, but I get the following error message: LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}. \renewtheorem{t

Re: citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-14 Thread Herbert Voß
Nirmal Govind schrieb: This problem depends on your bibliography style or extra packages you use. Normally (when using natbib), long citation are broken into lines. I do use natbib.. I changed the style from asa (Amer. Stat. Assn.) to plainnat and apalike and it still persists. > > did you r

Re: How to change the label "theorem"?

2003-11-14 Thread Herbert Voß
Paul Smith schrieb: I am using AMS article document class and I would like to replace the label "theorem" (in the DVI file) by the French corresponding one. I tried to change it in amsmaths.inc, but I cannot find therein the proper place to operate the replacement. Could somebody here please help m

Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin

2003-11-14 Thread Herbert Voß
Nirmal Govind schrieb: Hi.. I'm using hyperref to generate links in my pdf document.. however, some of these links extend beyond the margin.. any option that I can set to avoid this? did you run ps2pdf or pdflatex? Herbert

Re: komascript & captionbeside

2003-11-14 Thread Herbert Voß
Katrin Pietzsch schrieb: I tried to insert a figure with a caption beside via ERT, which works but moves the figure somewhere (see sample file). Any idea, why this happens? write \begin{figure}[htb] for the second figure (caption beside) and everything will be ok. And by the way: use always ctr

Re: newspaper printing

2003-11-13 Thread Herbert Voß
Hartmut Haase schrieb: Hi, I want to print A4 pages on A3 in a newspaper fashion, i. e. the sequence should be: page 1 page n page n-1 page 2 page 3 page n-2 ... Is that with LyX or LaTeX possible? If yes, how? from within LyX create a new document, write in preamble: \usepackage{pdfpages} \usepa

Re: Help: a nice \newenvironment for Chapter

2003-11-12 Thread Herbert Voß
Daniele Medri schrieb: I'm searching a nice style \newenvironment{chapter} for a book. Could you help me? Where to browse? http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/LaTeX/layouts/examples.phtml Herbert

Re: darker table borders/lines?

2003-11-04 Thread Herbert Voß
Nirmal Govind schrieb: Hi.. how do I get darker table borders and gridlines? Is there something I can put in the LyX preamble that will be the default for all tables? booktabs.sty Herbert

Re: Graphs in LyX

2003-11-02 Thread Herbert Voß
Todd O'Bryan schrieb: In LaTeX I've been using mfpic because it seems an easy way to create PDF compatible files and had commands like \function{-8}{8}{.1}{x**2} which would draw x^2 on a coordinate plane from x=-8 to x=8 graphing a new point every .1. this is very easy to handle with pst-plot

Re: Problems with graphics

2003-11-02 Thread Herbert Voß
Kornel Benko schrieb: Yes, but for some reason this error was uncorrectable in his lyx-file. You can cut the image from the caption line and paste it into a new line with standard layout. The only problem is, that LyX doesn't realize, that there was a graphic inserted, so it doesn't write into the

Re: Problems with graphics

2003-11-02 Thread Herbert Voß
Mohamed Eldesoky schrieb: I was following the discussion because I have the same problem. Alas, your Kornel didn't show any errors, but it didn't show the graph n the generated dvi or pdf !!! Alains problem was, that he insert the image into the caption, which causes an error. It is a bit difficu

Re: Problems with graphics

2003-11-01 Thread Herbert Voß
Alain DIDIERJEAN schrieb: Thanks, Herbert, but renaming the image to von-neuman.bmp didn't make any difference. Here is the part of the file that makes a problem... ok, I see. You put the graphic into the caption, named with the label FIGURE#. Always hit enter and put the image before this captio

Re: Problems with graphics

2003-10-31 Thread Herbert Voß
Alain DIDIERJEAN schrieb: Please, help a beginner : I'm working with Lyx 1.3.1 on a Debian Woody. I've used tables with no problem. Now I try to insert a graphics (.pbm) in an article document (it's the same in a book) as such, or as a float. It won't compile and return a bunch (actually 4, or 5

Re: Some questions for the LaTeX gurus...

2003-10-28 Thread Herbert Voß
Angus Leeming schrieb: Ok, Herbert. How do I make this: \def\maketitle{% {\LARGE [EMAIL PROTECTED] {\Large [EMAIL PROTECTED] } span both columns in two column mode? this should all be possible from within LyX.There mus also be a layout for the twoculumn abstract, have a look at the mail arch

Re: Some questions for the LaTeX gurus...

2003-10-28 Thread Herbert Voß
Andre Poenitz schrieb: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:40:58PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: I have the following definition in my preamble. %% Set the sections to be bold but otherewise the same size %% as normal text [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] {\parskip}%

Re: Independent columns?

2003-10-28 Thread Herbert Voß
Biggles schrieb: So, now my question: Is there any good method in Lyx that makes this possible? I have tried putting minipages into tables, but that was getting too complicated. A normal two column layout wouldn't work either I think, unless there is some command like columnbreak, which still woul

Re: Printing only TOC

2003-10-23 Thread Herbert Voß
Rich Shepard schrieb: I can view the Table of Contents; is there a way to print (to disk) only the TOC? it is also possible from with in LyX. ???.toc is the file which holds the toc entries. \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} \def\contentsline#1#2#3#4{#2\hfill#3\hfill\\} \begin{document} \inpu

Re: Gantt chart and lyx

2003-10-21 Thread Herbert Voß
Rajil Saraswat schrieb: On Tuesday 21 October 2003 17:07, Raphael Clifford wrote: You can produce them in pstricks if you are desperate (I was and did :) ). You then end up with a nice postscript file at least. Raphael Can you provide an example which i can modify, i have never played with pst

Re: Abstract indenting

2003-10-18 Thread Herbert Voß
Bradley Navarro schrieb: Can someone tell me how I might go about getting the first line of the first paragraph in the abstract to indent? I have the indentfirst package in the preamble, but this affects all the paragraphs in my document except for the abstract. Is there some code I can enter in

Re: Starting enumerate from any number

2003-10-18 Thread Herbert Voß
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Another small query ... I need to be able to refer to an enumaration in various parts of a document, but starting from different points in the enumeration. Is there some way to do this? I mean I have an enumeration: 1. Weather forecasts 2. Items of this kind ... 3. Spo

Re: error while compiling: \dimen exceeded

2003-10-17 Thread Herbert Voß
Jerome Schretter schrieb: Actually no, I am using pictex. yes, with xy I meant pictex. http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=usepictex Herbert

Re: error while compiling: \dimen exceeded

2003-10-17 Thread Herbert Voß
Jerome Schretter schrieb: I know this problem should/could be posted to a (La)-TeX list too. But maybe some of you can help me anyway. I get this error while compiling lyx code: log file: ---snip--- Language: germanb 2001/01/26 v2.6k German support from the babel system (/usr/share/texmf/tex/gener

Re: VERY SIMPLE QUESTION (!)

2003-10-17 Thread Herbert Voß
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Herbert Voß wrote: And it is fixed in 1.4cvs. the font stuff isn't fixed ... I was not referring to the font stuff. And the thread is not about the font stuff too. sure, it was about "A VERY SIMPLE QUESTION" ... :-) Herbert

Re: VERY SIMPLE QUESTION (!)

2003-10-17 Thread Herbert Voß
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Herbert Voß wrote: _you_ find it ok, this was the reason why _all_ have to find it ok. It looks ugly and by the way it is against every LaTeX rule, if there may be any. And it is an annoying fact of LyX, just like the totally outdated font stuff And it is fixed in

Re: VERY SIMPLE QUESTION (!)

2003-10-17 Thread Herbert Voß
Lars Gullik Bjønnes schrieb: Herbert Voß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | this is the wrong way, gives too much vertical space before | the caption! Wrong is in the eye of the beholder I guess... What if I find this extra space just ok? _you_ find it ok, this was the reason why _all_ have t

Re: two more questions ...

2003-10-16 Thread Herbert Voß
Tomasz Koziara schrieb: Encouradged by the previous feedback, i have two more questions: 1. How to center a figure vertically in the page ( in case it is one and alone in the page ) ??? demo attached 2. Is it possible to have a picture next to the text ( or text next to the picture :) ) in verti

Re: VERY SIMPLE QUESTION (!)

2003-10-16 Thread Herbert Voß
John Levon schrieb: On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:10:32PM +0200, Tomasz Koziara wrote: HOW TO CENTER A TABLE OR A FIGURE (e.g. in float field) IN LYX There's no need to shout. Centre the paragraph it is in (Layout->Paragraph) this is the wrong way, gives too much vertical space before the ca

Re: PDF files from Aqua Lyx

2003-10-15 Thread Herbert Voß
Richard Sherman schrieb: I am getting fuzzy output, unaligned characters, and jaggedy-edged characters. I'm using Computer Modern, or that's the idea anyway. The output looks slightly different on Preview, Acroread, and Ghostscript, but it looks bad on all of them. The results are the same w

Re: babel

2003-10-15 Thread Herbert Voß
Luiz Eleno schrieb: I defined a new command in the preamble: \shorthandon{"} \newcommand{\RKe}{\foreignlanguage{polish}{Rafa"l K"edziorski}} \shorthandoff{"} Herbert

Re: Referencing subfigures

2003-10-14 Thread Herbert Voß
Rajil Saraswat schrieb: Any advice on this Herbert. Sorry, i am to submit my report this week so i am hurrying things a bit. If there is no straight solution, i will add an (a) and (b) manually. attached, Herbert #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \

Re: eps figures in lyx/pdfscreen

2003-10-14 Thread Herbert Voß
Katrin Pietzsch schrieb: btw. Herbert, why is convert a bad choice? _bad_ maybe the wrong word here. If you have a vector graphic file then convert creates a bitmap from the vector source. So convert should be the last choice. Herbert

Re: problem with lyx 1.3.3-qt for suse82

2003-10-14 Thread Herbert Voß
Alberto Sanchez schrieb: I just updated my system to lyx 1.3.3 using the binary available in the ftp server for suse 8.2 i386. At the beginning it was running very well, but I discovered immediatly one big problem. I am writing my PhD thesis (85 pages so far) and I tried to save the file. Lyx crash

Re: Grace

2003-10-14 Thread Herbert Voß
Les Denham schrieb: I was pleasantly surprised to find that Lyx handles Grace (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/) .agr files as figures. My discovery of this was completely accidental. Is it documented anywhere? I'm using Lyx 1.2.3 (yes, I know it's old, but it works for me). I should

Re: eps figures in lyx/pdfscreen

2003-10-14 Thread Herbert Voß
Nirmal Govind schrieb: There's nothing magic about this. You just need to define a converter eps->pdf. The preferences dialog should make this trivially easy. The converter is already defined.. it's epstopdf.. only a question: did you run pdflatex --shell-escape otherwise epstopdf cannot work H

Re: eps figures in lyx/pdfscreen

2003-10-14 Thread Herbert Voß
Nirmal Govind schrieb: So now, for a solution - I converted the eps to pdf manually using convert, that cuts off a good 1 in on the right side of the figure.. so convert is not a good choice for eps files. I converted it to jpg instead and everything seems to be fine.. I'm not sure why there's

Re: Referencing subfigures

2003-10-14 Thread Herbert Voß
Saraswat, Rajil schrieb: I am trying to reference a subfigure in my report but the label is coming out wrong in the document. For subrefencing i add \label{foo} to my subfigure and inserted \ref{foo} in the main document. Additionaly,in the preamble, i have set the command to represent labels by s

Re: Multiline delimiters

2003-10-14 Thread Herbert Voß
yardbird schrieb: how can I write multi-line equations that are split inside delimiters? I've tried using two pairs of brackets and masking one bracket in each pair. However this way it is possible that the delimiters have different sizes in each row, and if I change the equation later I may hav

Re: thesis class from John Weiss

2003-10-13 Thread Herbert Voß
Hi Laura :-) Laura schrieb: I am having trouble with the chapter heading size (thesis class from John Weiss). The word "Chapter" is nice & huge, but the chapter number and the name of the chapter are too small (they are only the size of the section headings). I cannot see this, do you have an exa

Re: Incorrect Page Numbering

2003-10-09 Thread Herbert Voß
Herbert Voß schrieb: but not with ERT, use the lyx solution with xforms: layout->paragraph->linebreak->below should be pagebreak instaed of linebreak Herbert

Re: Incorrect Page Numbering

2003-10-09 Thread Herbert Voß
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Rajil Saraswat wrote: However the page break between the Acknowledgement and the TOC seems to be lost. Maybe this is because of the stuff in preamble. This is because of the package tocloft, which does not start a new page between toc, lof, and lot. You have to ins

Re: Fwd: dvi output corrupt: texmf.cnf

2003-10-07 Thread Herbert Voß
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: in trying to run dvi I do not get an dvi output, but instead the following remark: ! Unable to read an entire line---bufsize=5. what happens, when you create a doc which only loads this file? Herbert

Re: komascript dictum

2003-10-07 Thread Herbert Voß
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Herbert Voß wrote: write into the preamble \let\dictumOld\dictum \renewcommand\dictum[1]{{\dictumOld{#1}}} This does not work with the optional argument. Any idea? the easieast way: \makeatletter \renewcommand{\dictum}[2][]{{\par% \raggeddictum\parbox

Re: komascript dictum

2003-10-07 Thread Herbert Voß
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Shrug. This looks like a KOMA bug to me. If you nest the dictum environment into a chapterpreamble, it works. You have to use some ERT like in the attached file and place the whole thing *above* the chapter heading. BTW: You can toggle dictum fonts with \setkomafon

Re: table caption width

2003-10-06 Thread Herbert Voß
Gordon Wells schrieb: Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately I'm already using a modified mwbk class and I'm a bit reluctant to change to another float system at this should be anyway no problem ... stage. I've managed to manually adjust caption width using the ccaption package though. What I would li

Re: table caption width

2003-10-06 Thread Herbert Voß
Gordon Wells schrieb: I know I've posted this before, but there was no reply. I would like to know if it is possible to make captions automatically adopt the width of their respective figures and tables in particular. I guess this can be hacked a bit using wrapfloats but they seem to be a bit unrel

Re: exported postscript error

2003-10-06 Thread Herbert Voß
Raphael Clifford schrieb: I have produced a document in lyx 1.3.2 using various postscript images (some in eps). When I export it as postscript I can view it in portrait but not in landscape (using gv). Landscape gives me a postscript interpreter error. no problem here P.S. gv 3.5.8, gs 7.05

Re: Math non old subscript for bold variables

2003-10-06 Thread Herbert Voß
Andre Poenitz schrieb: without ams you'll get the default font size, not scriptstyle. New Doc, C-m R _ R, 'show dvi' gives me two 'R' in different sizes. Am I misunderstanding the problem? okay, a misunderstanding. I meant the superscript not beeing in mathmode. Herbert

Re: Math non old subscript for bold variables

2003-10-06 Thread Herbert Voß
Andre Poenitz schrieb: On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:20:30AM +0530, Joby Joseph wrote: Sorry got it. AMS required... ? I don't think so. without ams you'll get the default font size, not scriptstyle. Herbert

Re: Consecutive definitions will appear as one.

2003-10-05 Thread Herbert Voß
David Obadia schrieb: My problem is the following: I'm trying to get 2 consecutive definitions to be considered separate ones. But if I give them the same layout, LyX will merge them (using AMS at least). I was told to ask here for a workaround. Is there a bug fix planned for this? insert a new lin

Re: Inserting a complex, multiling equation

2003-10-05 Thread Herbert Voß
Rich Shepard schrieb: While I'm becoming more familiar with LyX and LaTeX, I would like some help in entering equations such as the following: /0 if f(x) < sup f | R_i |

Re: Inserting a \dfrac into a LyX document

2003-10-04 Thread Herbert Voß
Paul Smith schrieb: as far as I know, LyX doesn't know the dfrac macro. You can write into the preamble \usepackage{amsmath} \let\frac\dfrac then every frac is written as a \dfrac macro. Splendid! It works! Just being curious: your solution affects all fractions; is there some way of having the t

Re: wrapping text around figures.

2003-10-04 Thread Herbert Voß
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: (Put \usepackage{floatflt} in the LaTeX Preamble if there are no other floats in the document) I tried several places (around the figure, around figure + legends, before and after the float) but none seems to work. Please give me a hint this I posted to comp.text.te

Re: Inserting a \dfrac into a LyX document

2003-10-03 Thread Herbert Voß
Paul Smith schrieb: Dear All, I would like to know whether it is possible to insert, by pressing a button, a \dfrac into a LyX document. Could somebody here please help me ? as far as I know, LyX doesn't know the dfrac macro. You can write into the preamble \usepackage{amsmath} \let\frac\dfrac the

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