Search for info

Hi, I was looking for some information at http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/index.html so when I use "Search" filed, I get a lot of results. I wonder if there is any way to obtain the results ordered by post-date. Sometimes it appears a lot of results, but the most relevant

Hide parts of the document

Hi, I've just installed LyX 1.4.3 since I worked a lot of time with 1.3.4. Now I wonder, if when working with the lyx file, some parts of the document can be easily hidden, for me to read the document more clear. For example, I am viewing a section, so if it is possible to hid a subsecion fas

Change font size

Hi, I use lyx 1.3.6 on suse 10.1 and I have a 200 page document in book format. I want to change font size from 12 to 14, but using the document layout menu, it is only possible to use the values 10, 11 and 12. Does somebody how to change font size from 12 to 14 in LyX ? Thanks. Horacio.

Chane font size

Hi, I use lyx 1.3.6 on suse 10.1 and I have a 200 page document in book format. I want to change font size from 12 to 14, but using the document layout menu, it is only possible to use the values 10, 11 and 12. Does somebody how to change font size from 12 to 14 in LyX ? Thanks. Horacio.

How to remove "Date" in the title page, book format

Hi, I use lyx 1.3.6 on suse 10.1 and I have a 200 page document in book format When I compile the document there is the "title page" with the "Title", "Author", "Date", etc, but I want to remove "Date". Does somebody how to do this in LyX ? Thanks. Horacio.

Irregular or non-uniform spacing between paragraphs

Hi, I use lyx 1.3.6 on suse 10.1 and I have a 200 page document with a lot of figures, tables, equations, bibliographic references, etc. My problem is that when I compile the document, sometimes, there is an irregular or non-uniform spacing between the paragraphs. The most of the times after

Re: Remove "table of contents"''s name in the last empty page

Dear Richard, I do not know a lot of lyx, sorry. Somebody helped me to define pagestyle, but in the "preamble" of the document. If I am not wrong, it is defined before the TOC, so applied for the whole document. Then I do not know who to define a different page style before the TOC and after t

Remove "table of contents"''s name in the last empty page

Hi, I have a big Latex/LyX document with a table of contents. I used fancyhdr so now in every page it appers, the chapter's name of the section's number. But in the case of the table of contents it appears "Index". This is ok for me. The only problem is that after the last page of the TOC there i

Including a figure in the title page in LyX (again)

Hello, I have a big lyx document (book format) and I want to include a graphic or logo in the very first page of the title, and above the title. I have tried inserting a figure float, but then the title breaks to the two following page. Has somebody succeed in this in LyX (not in Latex)? Tha

Order of appearance of bibliographic references

Hello, I have a big lyx document (book format) and all my bibliographic references are in the "unsrt" style. When I compile the document I observe there is a problem in the order the bibliographic references appear. For example, at the beginning of the document I have ... bla bla bla [1,2,3]

Including a figure in the title page

Hello, I have a big lyx document (book format) and I want to include a graphic or logo in the very first page of the title, and above the title. I have tried inserting a figure float, but then the title breaks to the two following page. Has somebody succeed in this ? Thanks.

Removing all the "bigskip"'s of a document

Hi, I use LyX 1.3.5, and I have a big document someone passed to me to work with. This man likes to add a lot of extra spaces using the feature "bigskip" which I don't like at all. So I want to remove all of them. Is there an easy way to do this in lyx ? Thanks!

Problem converting dvi to pdf using dvipdf

Hi, I use SuSE 9.0, LyX 1.3.5, and I want to convert a dvi document to pdf. The dvi document is generated with latex from the .tex document exported from LyX, which includes a lot of figures, in .eps format and tables. I do this way instead of directly convert to PDF in LyX because it gives me

Rename label of "table of contents"

Hi, I want to change the label of the "table of contents" section (in spanish called "Indice general") to "Indice". After searching for information, I tried using: \renewcommand\contentsname{Indice} in the preamble of my lyx document, but it doesn't work. Could somebody help me ? Thanks.

Unexpected problem when converting from dvi to pdf

Hello all, I use LyX 1.3.5 in suse 9.0. I'm writing a scientific document that will have around 200 pages or more, with a lot of equations, figures in eps format and tables. My way of working consists in, once I have my document finished, I export this to .tex format. Then, from the command li

Chapter title and section name in the left and right pages

Hello all, I am writting a big document with a lot of pages and I would want to have my document (book format), with the chapter tittle in the left pages and the section name in the right pages. Is there any way to do this in lyx ? Thanks in advance.

Managing of notes

Hello all, I'm writing a big lyx document and I use notes extensively for me to make the organization of text more clear. Is there any automated or manual way, using lyx or exporting lyx to latex and working out after with this, to make a document (in whatever format) including only the note

Notes and colours

Hello all, I'm writing a big lyx document and I use notes extensively for me to make the organization of text more clear. Is it possible to have in a lyx document notes in different colours ? How can I change between them ? If not, what would be the best method to differentiate between them ? Us

Searching for a cite in the lyx code

Hello all, How can I search for a bibliographic reference inside the lyx code ? If I use the option inside "Edit" menu, it doesn't find references I know exist in the document. Thanks in advance.

Unexpected problem for a document with a lot of pages

Hello all, I use LyX 1.3.5 in suse 9.0. I'm writing a scientific document that will have around 200 pages or more, with a lot of equations, figures and tables. One month ago there was no problem for my to work with the document, although it took some minutes to "render" the document to PDF (u

LyX 1.4 installation problem

Hola, I have just installed lyx 1.4.0pre3 in a suse 9.3 system without problem (with qt3), but I also tried to install in a suse 9.0 system, and I obtain and error when I try to build the executable (./configure says there is no problem):

LyX 1.4 test

Hola, I use lyx 1.3.5 in suse 9.0 and I would like to test the new lyx 1.4.0pre3. I would like to install this new version in my system without uninstalling/deleting/erasing the old one (lyx 1.3.5), in order to test the new features and to be able to use the old version if the new one doesn't

PDF problems

Hola, I have a 60 pages lyx document with a lot of figures (raster colour figures in jpg format). When I do "View-->PDF" it takes about five minutes to "render" completely. I've been reading the help files and I have tried with "View-->PDF(pdflatex)". Now it is more faster, it takes about 10-1

Re: tex2lyx problems

It works perfectly now. Thanks ! Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 17:27 schrieben Sie: > Here it goes the original tex file. Don't you worry is not confidential at > all, just for educational purposes. > > And if you solve the problem, please tell me or tell the forum so all of us > can learn fr

Re: tex2lyx problems

Now the script lyx2lyx works with no error messages, so I have a new lyx file supposedly for the 1.3.5 version format. When I open this file with lyx 1.3.5, there are no errors during the import process, but when I compile to pdf, there is a lot of errors. It seems to me that, unfortunately,

tex2lyx problems

Hola, I have a tex document with a lot of mathematical formulae and so on, and I want to convert this to lyx in order to be able to merge in a bigger lyx document I have. The first time I used relyx (or import from latex in lyx), but this only works with very simple latex files and no with m

Re: Less spacing in figure captions

Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote: Hello all, I use LyX 1.3.5 in suse 9.0. I need to reduce the distance between the text lines in the figure caption. Add \usepackage{setspace} to the preamble and in the figure caption start with \setstretch{X} in ERT, where X is a number less than 1. /johan

Less spacing in figure captions

Hello all, I use LyX 1.3.5 in suse 9.0. I need to reduce the distance between the text lines in the figure caption. Does anybody know how to do this in lyx ? Thanks in advance.

xdvi slow preview

Hello all, I use LyX 1.3.5 in suse 9.0. When I have a document with several figures, usually as ".eps" or ".jpg" images inserted in float figures, and I want to preview it as DVI, it takes a lot of time to render (depending on the number of figures) and sometimes it is really slow to appear th