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

Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Actually, I have an implementation of something that allows you to export a zipped archive with all figures, bibtex files, child documents, etc.etc. Put it in as Export format! :) /Konrad

Re: pdfsync and tables clash

James C. Sutherland wrote: If you use the pdfsync class and then create a table with a specified column width then the table column width becomes very wide. Removing the pdfsync package seems to fix the problem. Can anyone duplicate this? Is it a LyX bug or a LaTeX problem??? A known probl

Re: Query on new-chapters-not-on-new-page

stefano franchi wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Nikos Alexandris < nikos.alexand...@felis.uni-freiburg.de> wrote: On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 17:01 +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote: Frederick: is it possible to ensure that every new chapter doesn't start on a new page in a book format? I did

Re: How to put an end to white spaces around figures

Tal Kenig wrote: Does anyone know how to set table row separation? This would be of great help. I found this in one of my files: \newenvironment{ths_tbl}[0]{\medskip{} \begin{centering}\noindent\medskip{} \setlength{\tabcolsep}{4pt}\setlength{\extrarowheight}{2pt}\small}{\par\end{centering}}

Re: Help formatting

Mehrdad wrote: Floar Placement: here definitely THIS is very likely the cause of your problems. Select 'Use default placement' and let Latex figure out where it is best to put your images!!! Also make sure the bounding boxes of your images are correct (or use the clip option in LyX). Plus

Re: defaults.lyx, lyx2lyx error in LyX 1.6 - resolved

Joachim Osnabryg wrote: Question: What would be a correct command to "run lyx2lyx from the terminal" (for future problems)? cd /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx/ ./lyx2lyx Konrad Hofbauer schrieb weiter: 2) re-select Apple's built-in python as defau

Re: defaults.lyx, lyx2lyx error in LyX 1.6

Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Joachim Osnabryg wrote: Konrad Hofbauer schrieb: Have you changed something in your python installation (e.g., installed python3)? Months ago, I installed MacPorts, because I wanted to use rtf2latex2e (with LaTeX and LyX). I did some other install and uninstall with

Re: defaults.lyx, lyx2lyx error in LyX 1.6

Joachim Osnabryg wrote: Konrad Hofbauer schrieb: Have you changed something in your python installation (e.g., installed python3)? Months ago, I installed MacPorts, because I wanted to use rtf2latex2e (with LaTeX and LyX). I did some other install and uninstall with MacPorts meanwhile, the

Re: defaults.lyx, lyx2lyx error in LyX 1.6

Joachim Osnabryg wrote: Yesterday, I still produced lyx letters with my own templates. Today - whyever - I wanted to start with File => New and got the error message: /LyX-1.6/templates/defaults.lyx is from another LyX-Version, but the lyx2lyx script could not convert the document. Have y

Re: Problems on Mac OS 10.5.6

Hi, > LyX: reconfigurando directorio del usuario > File "/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/configure.py", line 93 > print "Failed to create directory ", dir three blind guesses: 1) have you run the installer-script in the dmg? 2) do you have python3 installed? (you should not, at

Re: Jumping back from Pdf file to LyX (Latex) source?

Stefano Franchi wrote: If I understood the bugzilla exchange correctly, the situation is: 1. Reverse seaerching (I guess that's the term) works from kdvi to a Latex file opened in a standard editor It works on the Mac using Skim as pdf-viewer and pdfsync (no synctex-support as of now in LyX)

Re: I cannot compile to a pdf

NinaNutz wrote: I have a big problem... My thesis is finished and I cannot compile the complete pdf. When I export to pdf (any option) I only export 52 pages. My thesis is 350 pages more or less... but I cannot compile the complete one. The list of contents, figures and tables doesn't appears eit

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

Steve Litt wrote: If I had to give LyX advice to a prospective author, I'd say that the minute you've committed to using LyX, learn LaTeX. I've seen people doing full PhD theses in LyX without the slightest clue of latex. Depends all on the field you are in and your requirements. But as you

Re: Spacing around floats with centered figures - a suggestion

Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Again, this is not the suggested way. See here: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=vertspacefloat So how is this to be understood wrt. LyX? Having graphics centered, is IMO a very common need, and most people probably use the paragraph-centering because

Re: Rotating floats doesn't work after upgrade to 1.6.1 on MAC OS X

christiaan pauw wrote: Hi Everybody I recently upgraded to 1.6.1. I have a document with a number of tables in floats rotated sideways. It used to work fine in LyX 1.5. Now I cannot produce pdf output anymore. The error message reads "LaTeX Error: File `rotfloat.sty' not found." I cannot find a

Re: Using LyX for a book

Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm about to start setting up my fourth book in Lyx (1.6.1). My previous three were done using the Book class in 1.5.x. Can someone kindly tell me what would be the advantages of using Memoir (or point me to somewhere that discusses this)? All the bells and whistles the

Re: psfrag does nothing when generating a pdf-file

Thomas Engels wrote: I want to replace strings in *.eps files with LaTeX code, so I finally found psfrag, downloaded it and its working fine - but only when I generate a DVI file. (inserted ERT in the figure and \usepackage{psfrag} to the preamble) I need a pdf, but when I run pdflatex, there

Re: exporting equations to openoffice/word?

Micha Feigin wrote: The problem is that equations came out terrible and that is the main part (words I can copy from the pdf). I think that lyx uses tex4ht for that. Is there a better way to do this? Can you insert the equations as graphics? At least on Mac, you can select an area in the PDF,

Re: Centring printing

Paul A. Rubin wrote: Why not set the paper to A4 and then set the margins to produce the same text area (centered on the A4 paper) that you would have with B5? (Assuming I'm understanding this correctly.) Or set up your toolchain to create the final B5 format (which might not be trivial - use

Re: cannot get LyX run on my mac

Manveru wrote: Python 3.0 is not backward compatible with 2.x series. I do not know how it is on Mac, but I think LyX has it's own python interpreter bundled. No, on Mac python is not bundled with LyX, since it is already bundled with Mac OS X. The only way I see to fix this is to install pyt

Re: Bessere Darstellung von eingefügten PDF-S eiten

a b wrote: ich möchte meiner Arbeit ein Deckblatt voranstellen, dass im PDF-Format vorliegt. Wenn ich die Datei über "Externes Material" > pdfpages einfüge, wird sie allerdings als Rastergrafik eingefügt und sieht sehr verpixelt aus. The preview you see in LyX is pixelated, but the PDF output s

Re: Spellchecking in Australian English

Doug Laidlaw wrote: The authors of aspell must be really parochial. To them, "English" means "American", Canadian is a distinct language, and British English just does not exist. There are dictionaries for languages with a smaller user base than British English. Wrong. Using aspell and hav

Re: Lyx won't open on OS 10.3.9

Adam Treverrow wrote: You might be able to get LyX 1.3.7 from here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/13x Or here: http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/ /Konrad

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

rgheck wrote: jezZiFeR wrote: Hello, I would like to avoid hyphenation in the last line of a page. How could I do that? Maybe that´s mentioned somewhere in the User Guide, but I can´t find it. I´m on OSX with Lyx 1.6.1. This is a LaTeX thing, and I don't myself know whether it's possible to

Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?

Steve Litt wrote: it just seems easier to me to change the word "Chapter" to "Tool" \renewcommand{\chaptername}{Tool} and back again, and to change the counter and then change it back again. Both unteste

Re: solved: lyx2lyx fails: OS X 10.4.11 + Texlive2008 (MacTex) + LyX 1.6.1

Samuel Russell wrote: ImportError: No module named zlib I had the same problem with a macports-installed python 2.5. The problem is that the basic macports-python packeage misses a lot of things. In this particular case, you also need to install py25-zlib from macports. HTH, Konrad

Re: Big document

Cameron Stone wrote: My PhD is 190-ish pages in English, with tables, algorithms, figures, and a nice juicy bibliography. I have it divided into 8 included child documents (basically one per chapter), some of which are broken up logically into a few input child documents. Same size here, but al

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

Rainer M Krug wrote: I am using Ubuntu Hardy, texlive 2007-13 AFAIK, you need at least TeXLive-2008 for SyncTeX. /Konrad

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

Grant Jacobs wrote: I have a suspicion that the software I used to gather the references doesn't know" the LaTeX encodings for the umlauts, etc. and just left them in their original UniCode. Ah ... I assumed your bibtex files initially came from BibDesk. Maybe it's time to switch to a referen

Re: Exporting Hebrew tex file under OS-X

Ronen Abravanel wrote: What can I do? Provide a very small minimal LyX file that shows the error (and hope that somebody competent looks at it) ... /Konrad

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

Make sure you have 'Unicode to TeX Conversion' enabled in BibDesk's 'Files' Preferences !!! HTH, Konrad

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

Grant Jacobs wrote: One thing that bothers me about this being a BibTeX issue, is that BibDesk writes these characters to RTF just fine. (It would tempt me to think that there might a work-around that gets this directly from BibDesk, avoiding BibTex.) 0) You have not understood the concept be

Re: Sequential footnote numbering in book KOMA-Script: a difficult task?

Nikos Alexandris wrote: I can't seem to find the way to get _one_ numbering of footnotes for the whole document (class book-KOMA Script) and not a per-chapter numbering, as it is the default in this document class. Is it really that difficult? I did not try, but it shouldn't be.

Re: size of math instant preview

Michel Gosse wrote: Hello I have installed lyx on my new computer (linux). I remember that there is a trick to scale the math preview within lyx, but i have lost this trick. Can anyone help my poor memory ? "Zoom %" and "Screen DPI" in the Preferences. (Restart of LyX required.) HTH, /Konra

Re: LyX does not compile file (problem with bibentry)

Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Are you sure these are the same files? Does an exported LaTeX file compile? Ahh ... the ones in the LyX-Temp-Dir were the right files, but they only compiled because of the "\batchmode" that LyX puts at the beginning (and the output was OK despite the (hidden) error)

Re: LyX does not compile file (problem with bibentry)

Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Compiling manually in LyX's temp directory, everything works just fine, but letting LyX compile results in the error "! Paragraph ended before \...@c@bibitem was complete.". Sure? It does not compile manually here. Tha

LyX does not compile file (problem with bibentry)

Hello, I have a problem with using bibentry in combination with IEEEtran in LyX. Compiling manually in LyX's temp directory, everything works just fine, but letting LyX compile results in the error "! Paragraph ended before \...@c@bibitem was complete.". If I go into LyX's temp-directory and

Re: Line wrapping in Lyx..

Nasim Mahmud wrote: Could someone tell me if it is possible make "line break/wrap" thing only for editing? I mean... the lines look too long on the editing screen for me...which is not convenient... [I am not seeking help for output formatting..] Make the window smaller (narrower) ? /Konrad

Re: Available options for maintaining a document family

Nicolas Tisserand wrote: Isn't there something else that would help me achieve my goals ? Is the LyX layout language alone expressive enough to specify what I'm trying to do? Not having had a need for this myself yet, it sounds like the new Layout Modules in LyX 1.6 are the thing you are afte

Re: math font

Pol wrote: Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Play with the the 'Zoom %' and 'Screen DPI' values in the Preferences under Screen fonts. Strangely enough, math font is the correct size as cursor is within the math area (here font size changes according to preferences), yet it takes b

Re: math font

Pol wrote: Math font is displayed by lyx (linux) smaller than the normal text (although printing is fine). How to adjust the math font size? Play with the the 'Zoom %' and 'Screen DPI' values in the Preferences under Screen fonts. HTH, Konrad

Re: Mac: cannot see graphics, classes

Anders Host-Madsen wrote: I just discovered LyX. What a great program! Welcome! :) I have been using LateX and MS Word for many years, but never been happy. This looks just like what I have been looking for. I have some basic questions 1. I use LyX on OS X 10.5.6. Graphics (eps and pdf) nev

Re: Windows Version

Christian Ridderström wrote: I tried accessing it for a week and it didn't work, and right now it doesn't work either... Certainly worth looking into. ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.1/ Works for me, I just tested it. What's the error message? It is usually a firewall issue. I have been

Re: Windows Version

Afief Halumi wrote: Hello, A lot of my friends have been asking me to install Lyx for them, unfortunately most of them use Windows and not Linux/BSD so I tried to download the Windows installer, but it seems that the ftp server is permanently down. Firewall problem? In the download-link, repl

Re: Insertion of Cross-References

Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: Idea: Add to the context-menu of the label a command like "Insert Cross-Reference at Cursor Position", or a "Copy as Cross-Reference" (which can then be pasted at the cursor postion). We already have this Oh wonderful !!! you could shout a little bit

Insertion of Cross-References

Hi, I wanted to ask if there is a more comfortable way of inserting cross-references than through the GUI ? My problem: Large document, hundreds of labels, their names not always perfectly descriptive. To insert a cross-reference to x at y, I have to scroll to x, see what the label is calle

Re: Diff two versions of document

Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: Export to LaTeX both documents, use latexdiff, ... Have not heard about this before - WOW !!! Just tried this with a complex document and with lots of changes, and the result is _awesome_ It even marks changes _inside_ formulas. Thanks for sharing! /Konrad

Re: Spellchecking / Aspell problems

jezZiFeR wrote: >> If you just type "aspell" in terminal, it should tell you what dicts it >> has. If this does not work, it's not installed properly. > > that´s what I get: > sorry, it's "aspell dump dicts" or "aspell help". > Again I don´t know how to do that as I don´t find the appropriate f

Re: Spellchecking / Aspell problems

jezZiFeR wrote: Hello Konrad, Please keep the discussion on the list! I did that (installed old german, de-alt), but I still get the same error from Lyx. BTW: I have \usepackage{babel} checked. Interestingly, the first time after reconfiguring and trying to start the spellchecker I got a di

Re: Spellchecking / Aspell problems

jezZiFeR wrote: I installed the mac developer tools and Aspell, but I couldn´t get spellchecking to work. Do I have to install dictionaries first? Yes. How? http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling /Konrad

Re: Custom Bibliography

Luca De Marini wrote: In Document>Settings>Bibliography, choose "Natbib" and then "Numerical" for "Natbib Style". Then, in Document>Settings>Document Class, under Class Options, Custom, put the word: super. Yes, uhm, but once I set all of this, and I've done it, what do I do next? I mean, how

Re: MacPort to get rtf2latex2e

Joachim Kreimer-de Fries wrote: Resolved !! both - the installation problem of MacPorts 1.6 and - the bug in rtf2latex2e on Mac-OSX-Intel. Great! Thanks for working this out and reporting back! /Konrad

Re: MacPort to get rtf2latex2e

Joachim Kreimer-de Fries wrote: But I have problems to use the MacPort at all, not even to know wether it is correctly installed. In the thread "Import RTF > Lyx 1.6 error" I had no answer from Konrad Hofbauer or someone else for my problem. So I ... must have missed that (or

Re: Import RTF > Lyx 1.6 error

Dr. Joachim K. Rennstich wrote: I am trying to import a RTF document into Lyx 1.6 (Mac OS X 10.5.5, Intel) through the "File > Import > Rich Text Format..." command but get the following error: An error occurred whilst running rtf2latex2e 'whateverfile.rtf' I have been looking up rtf2latex

Re: How to number an inline equation

Kuang Chen wrote: Hi, Konrad: Problem solved. I found the reason seems to be that spacing is big whenever I want to insert a real display equation in a separate line. However if I insert it right after a paragraph by ctrl+alt+n, a new box will also show up on a new line below the paragrap

Re: How to number an inline equation

Kuang Chen wrote: Here is the situation: I have a bunch of inline equations to number. They have \displaystyle, are centered on a separate line. So basically they look like a real display-styled equations. The ONLY difference is that those real display equations created by CTRL+SHIFT+M has a

Re: footnote problem

Erez Yerushalmi wrote: > I suddenly wished that LyX had a simple button to switch between "regular" > lyx view and a Kile-type view. Then Kile would be absolute because LyX would > be able to do both at the same time. In LyX, View -> Source. You cannot edit the Latex code, but you see it. /K

Presentation about LyX ?

Hello, has sombody ever made a presentation and/or slides _about_ LyX, for a LaTeX-savy scientific audience? I am thinking about giving one, and it would be nice to have slides to start from ... /Konrad

Re: editing problems with 1.6 and mac 10.4 intel

Brian Kidd wrote: i am a long-time LyX user and big fan of the software. i recently upgraded to 1.6 and noticed a few strange editing problems. Most likely, you have own customized bind- and/or ui-files from old versions in your user-directory, which are copied over to the new version, but do

Re: LyX can’t find sprachwerker.bst

Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Tools->TeX Information->Rescan. (Yes, this is all but obvious). Could this be included into the reconfigure-script? We discussed this before. The argument for not doing it is that scanning can take a long time if you have many bst

Re: LyX can’t find sprachwerker.bst

Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Max Nabble wrote: What more can I do? Thank you in advance for any help, Tools->TeX Information->Rescan. (Yes, this is all but obvious). Could this be included into the reconfigure-script? /Konrad

Re: Fast typing - LyX follows slowly only

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, For a long time I valued LyX for its swiftness when typing. Something changed recently, however and I do not have an idea what is causing this. When I type the letters only show up slowly on the screen. This makes working with LyX really cumbersome. I assumed

Re: autocomplete question

Steve Litt wrote: Oh PLEASE tell me there's a way to turn off autocompletion. Preferences -> Editing -> Input Completion ? /Konrad

Re: navigating to a graphic float

Guenter Milde wrote: ... It is a real show-stopper for my thesis work. Are you looking for excuses? /Konrad ... also just writing on his thesis. ;-)

Re: How to change pdf viewer?

muzzle wrote: Now it works, the only minor problem is that the button has no icon, but a long label. I am not sure if this is hardcoded, but try the following: Look in LyX's "images" folder, there is e.g. a file buffer-view_pdf2.png Make a copy of it and call it buffer-view_pdf3.png in the sam

Re: How to change pdf viewer?

muzzle wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Konrad Hofbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: muzzle wrote: Well, I do have several options in the menu, but I would like to change the default for the toolbar button, is it possible? Not with the GUI, I believe. It should be possible by cr

Re: Lyx and BibDesk connection

Bennett Helm wrote: The problem is that the SendToLyx script has not been updated for LyX-1.6, and so it's not finding your .lyxpipe. I've send a note to Mark Reid, author of the script, to see if he'll post an updated version on his website. But doesn't the latest Bibdesk have now its own and

Re: Key bindings

Guenter Milde wrote: Is there a way to "unbind" a key so that it can be used at basis for a set of multi-key bindings? In 1.6, \unbind ? /Konrad

Re: Springer Style in Lyx

bluegreengrassnow bluegreengrassnow wrote: > I'm trying to use lyx to write a document in springer lecture notes style. LyX includes a layout file for LNCS. > I created the following layout file, however it doesn't create output documents in the correct style: Why do you not just use the Ly

Re: lyx pipe and skim

Nils Becker wrote: Incidentally, it is also possible to use the option pdflatex -synctex=1 $$i for the latex to pdf converter in LyX. That's good news! Now we only need a volunteer to implement the forward search in LyX. :) /Konrad

Re: lyx pipe and skim

Konrad Hofbauer wrote: However, it WORKS for me (with or without the full path to lyxeditor, or with the LyX preference in Skim) when Shift-Option-Command-click in Skim (instead of Option-Click). Actually, only Shift-Command-Click (without Option) is needed. It is documented on the Skim Wiki

Re: lyx pipe and skim

Nick Bell wrote: I can't get it to work now either! It did not work for me either anymore - I thought. However, it WORKS for me (with or without the full path to lyxeditor, or with the LyX preference in Skim) when Shift-Option-Command-click in Skim (instead of Option-Click). Did I change m

Re: lyx pipe and skim

Nils Becker wrote: I was trying to use Skim and LyX 1.5.7 for inverse PDF searching. It did not work for me. MacOSX 10.5.5. I tried that a while ago, and what I used was in Skim: Preset: Custom Command: /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyxeditor Arguments: "%file" %line But I don't use

Re: Query on printing with 'screens'

Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Unknown wrote: He says the photos won't print because they don't have a screen. > Is it some printers' jargon, or a bad translation? The first. See: <http://www.adobe.com/studio/print/pdf/prepress_terms.pdf> Can't help you much here, so

Re: Query on printing with 'screens'

Unknown wrote: Every time I go in for a book, to be printed via offset, my printer has a problem. He takes the PDF file and attempts to do crazy things like importing it into Windows/Corel Draw, etc. Hmm... He says the photos won't print because they don't have a screen. Can you (or he) be

Re: Configure Lyx, R, Sweave on OS X

mikeandkatedunbar wrote: I am trying to get up and running with Lyx and R, using Sweave I have not tried that before, nevertheless ... I have achieved this on my Windows XP PC at work with MikTex. Great. Also using LyX 1.6 ? HOWEVER On my Mac (OSX 10.4.7 with MacTex 2008 installed) I have

Re: mac.bind/LyX-1.6

Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: An additional question to this: Is it also possible to 'delete' a key binding? In LyX 1.6.0, I think there is an "\unbind", or just use the GUI. In 1.5.7, I don't know. /Konrad

Re: mac.bind/LyX-1.6

Ivan Werning wrote: I then extracted the changes I had made to my mac.bind file and inserted them back into the new bind file This is bad practice and making your life harder than necessary. Because you won't inherit any changes made to the bind file in newer version (which is what when wron

Re: LyX 1.6: Hangs on large shift+up selection

Manveru wrote: Windows XP SP2, clean install of new LyX 1.6 (classic installer). I am working on divide&conquer with problem I have with imported document, and I want to select large fragment of my document by holding shift+up. After couple hundreds lines LyX enters infinite loop (consumes half o

Re: three problems

Bennett Helm wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Ivan Werning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. Exiting from Full Screen; when I get out of full screen the "collapse" button (not sure what it is called; I mean the little wide one that hides some menus and toolbars) that lives on the upper right

Re: three problems

Bennett Helm wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Ivan Werning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -start a new session with no files open -open file foo.lyx -this time: close this file clicking on the upper left button of the frame (the one with the "x" mark) -close LyX using CMD-Q -open LyX again

Re: German Translation of the About/Credit popup

Konrad Hofbauer wrote: [...] But I am not opposed to changing this, of course. /Kornad

Re: German Translation of the About/Credit popup

istvanst wrote: But in the german translation under the About/Credit popup there is a section "Ruhm und Ehre" I would request to change this title. This is a quite common expression in every-day german. Look on amazon, you will find a good number of book-titles with "Ruhm und Ehre", for exam

Re: Getting to the RC5 binaries

Brett Dikeman wrote: Could someone please put them up on an HTTP server, and maybe even directly link to them from the announcement? This is in my experience often related to user-side (company-)firewalls. So I think it would indeed be good if they could be put somewhere http-accessible. Al

Re: Post-processing auxiliary latex file

Konrad Hofbauer wrote: What I want to do: I have a book with 2 \part's, but I want the \chapter 1 Introducton and \chapter xx Conclusion to be outside the parts in the PDF bookmarks. Answer to self: % Move PDF-Bookmarks of all subsequent chapters onto part-level (undo after Introdu

Post-processing auxiliary latex file

Hello, I am sure somebody else must have had a similar problem already, so how did you solve this? For whatever reason, I need to manipulate one of the auxiliary files (lof/lot/out/...) that latex creates in LyX's temp directory. I could do the manipulation with a bash-script (basically just

Re: graphic files

Ivan Werning wrote: I'd appreciate any help/suggestion. OK, let's not be evil. You can do a find/replace directly in the .lyx file using a text editor. /Konrad

Re: graphic files

Ivan Werning wrote: I did this for like 10 files. ... I really hope I don't have to do this manually, ... That would be a major pain! Are you kidding? For 10 files, doing it manually would have been faster than writing the email to the list! /Konrad

Re: Biography with a box "Place your photo here" help-milkykung

milkykung wrote: Currently, I have a doubt to place my photo in my document created from IEEETran template. See IEEEtran_HOWTO.pdf what it should look like in LyX's View->Source This happens to be in "Biography" section at the end of document. I could not simply insert>float>figure both insi

Re: Skim, pdfsync and child documents in LyX. Possible?

Christopher Reeve wrote: > I used to prefer putting everything in one file but then I started > including large png images that greatly increased the compiling times. > Because I like to frequently preview my work by compiling to pdf I was > frustrated how long it was taking so broke everything to

Re: LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 5) is released

José Matos wrote: Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 5) = Compiles fine on the Mac. For those not being able to wait, I have placed a zipped Mac Universal Binary (without the installer) at

Re: [Mac 1.5.6] No information for converting xpm format files to png; Unable to add xpm to png converter

Nick Bell wrote: Hi, I'm unable to generate a PDF from the EmbeddedObjects.lyx help file: I cannot reproduce. LyX version? Can you generate a pdf from the UserGuide, for example? I get the error "No information for converting xpm format files to png. Define a converter in the preferences."

Re: Skim, pdfsync and child documents in LyX. Possible?

Christopher Reeve wrote: Hi, I just got Skim to pdfsync with LyX. It took me a while, and I think my problems were that I had defined my lyxpipe in ~/.lyx/.lyxpipe. Now I set it just as ~/.lyx. Last time I tried that, I've set in Skim the editor to custom and /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Mac

Re: bibliography style that just includes every available field? and use numbers for in reference?

Jon Bendtsen wrote: I especially want something that can show urls, but has numbers. If it is mostly about this, then IEEEtran could work > I'm looking for a bibliography style that will show any field with > co

Re: How to install LaTeX packages

Keith Roberts wrote: How do I go about installing new/required LaTeX packages from CTAN? Do I have to install them into LyX, or into my actuall LaTeX installation? Into you Latex installation. Then reconfigure LyX and restart. /Konrad

Re: bibtex/bibdesk - small letters in articles, capitol letters in book - problem

Benjamin Hentschel wrote: Needless to say that I want it to be "Japanese supply networks" instead of "japanese supply networks". The same happens with names, which should definitely be written with a capitol letter at the beginning. In Bibdesk, write: ... in {Japanese} supply networks ... (i.e

Re: How to change pdf viewer?

muzzle wrote: Well, I do have several options in the menu, but I would like to change the default for the toolbar button, is it possible? Not with the GUI, I believe. It should be possible by creating your own *.ui files. Look at what is in /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/ui/, create

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

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. /Konrad

Re: How to change pdf viewer?

muzzle wrote: Btw, how do I change the xommand used to produce the preview pdf? The default is set to pdflatex but I have some problem with it and I would like to use dvipdfm. In the View-menu, you should have different PDF() options, one of them being PDF (dvipdfm), same in File->Export.

Re: Mac Cursor and Math Mode problem

Hi Antonio, Antonio Rieser wrote: > Two problems. I'm using LyX on the Mac (OS X.3/4.?) Which Mac OS X and which LyX version? > for the > first time, and after I choose 'Section' and then type, the text on > the line I'm typing jumps to the right, but the cursor stays where it > is. It drives

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