Re: lyx 1.3.6 win32: perl on xp?

2005-08-26 Thread Marcus Beyer
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Unless you want to use relyx then you don't need perl. I suggest you go and get tex2lyx (info on the wiki) and forget about perl all together I see. Thank you! -- Grüße, Marcus "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very importa

lyx 1.3.6 win32: perl on xp?

2005-08-26 Thread Marcus Beyer
Hello all! Congrats for successfully completing the Windows port of LyX! I just installed it. Great :) (if I don't change the default path) However I could not install pearl. No matter which version I try to install, I only get a "wrong os" error message. I am using Win XP. (Although I would ra

Re: Tasten rendern?

2005-03-24 Thread Marcus Beyer
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Marcus Beyer wrote: I am currently searching for a possibility to render keys (from a computer keyboard, e.g. Ctrl) nicely. Does someone know how to do this? Should be compatible with pdfLaTeX. ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/keystroke Fine, thank

Re: url insertion and mailto:

2005-03-24 Thread Marcus Beyer
Am 24.03.2005 um 09:19 schrieb Marcus Beyer: URL insertion works fine for HTTP URLs. However if I want a functional (mail client starts on click) mail address, I have to add the "mailto:"-prefix. The problem: The prefix is displayed and some people don't understand they hav

url insertion and mailto:

2005-03-24 Thread Marcus Beyer
URL insertion works fine for HTTP URLs. However if I want a functional (mail client starts on click) mail address, I have to add the "mailto:"-prefix. The problem: The prefix is displayed and some people don't understand they have to remove the prefix on non-click use. Any idea? Grüße, Marcus <

Re: pdfLaTeX: auto fullscreen in adobe reader?

2005-03-23 Thread Marcus Beyer
P. Mellerin wrote: Marcus Beyer wrote: Does some special trick exist to start the Adobe Reader in fullscreen mode when opening a certain document? I am using pdfLaTeX. You'll find what you're searching (and more !) in this document : http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb23-3-4/tb75feu

pdfLaTeX: auto fullscreen in adobe reader?

2005-03-23 Thread Marcus Beyer
Dear List! Does some special trick exist to start the Adobe Reader in fullscreen mode when opening a certain document? I am using pdfLaTeX. thanx! Marcus

Re: Tasten rendern?

2005-03-23 Thread Marcus Beyer
Hello list! (Sorry, I forgot the language of this list is English.) I am currently searching for a possibility to render keys (from a computer keyboard, e.g. Ctrl) nicely. Does someone know how to do this? Should be compatible with pdfLaTeX. thanx! Marcus Am 23.03.2005 um 09:26 schrieb Marcus

Tasten rendern?

2005-03-23 Thread Marcus Beyer
Hallo Liste! Ich suche gerade nach einer Möglichkeit, Tasten (der Computertastatur, z.B. Strg bzw. Ctrl) hübsch zu rendern. Hat jemand einen Tipp für mich? Sollte pdfLaTeX-kompatibel sein ... Grüße, Marcus "Der Transhumanismus hat das Streben nach Transzendenz vom Kop

Re: View-PDF actions interchanged?

2005-03-22 Thread Marcus Beyer
Am 22.03.2005 um 13:03 schrieb Angus Leeming: Marcus Beyer wrote: I have the impression that the two menu entries View : PDF (pdflatex) View : PDF (ps to pdf) are intechanged, i.e. the first does what the second should and vice versa. One of the many symptoms: if I have \usepackage[pdfborder=0

View-PDF actions interchanged?

2005-03-22 Thread Marcus Beyer
Hello list! I have the impression that the two menu entries View : PDF (pdflatex) View : PDF (ps to pdf) are intechanged, i.e. the first does what the second should and vice versa. One of the many symptoms: if I have \usepackage[pdfborder=0]{hyperref} in my preamble and choose "View : PDF (pdfla

Re: lyx+tetex on mac os x / jean-marc's cv class

2005-01-08 Thread Marcus Beyer
Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff:Re: lyx+tetex on mac os x / jean-marc's cv class Datum: 9. Januar 2005 07:13:48 MEZ An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Am 09.01.2005 um 00:26 schrieb Matej Cepl: Marcus Beyer wrote: So I am wondering were to put that cv.cls

lyx+tetex on mac os x / jean-marc's cv class

2005-01-08 Thread Marcus Beyer
Hello and good evening! I installed LyX, Fink, TeTeX (via fink) on OS X and it's running at once. Cool! Now I would like to write a cv using Jean-Marc's cv class as described here: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Examples/CV. So I am wondering were to put that cv.cls file. Classes seem to live

Re: question

2003-11-05 Thread Marcus Beyer
Please choose better subjects for your postings. Marcus

Re: Reasons to use Lyx instead of LaTex?

2003-09-29 Thread Marcus Beyer
mb > > >Because TeX users like to type and Word users like to click? mb > > hv > > nonsense ... :P Of cause this was strongly simplified, but more than once I heard TeX users complain about the math panel ("typing goes faster"). If you don't tell them, that typing math is also possible, they wi

Re: Reasons to use Lyx instead of LaTex?

2003-09-29 Thread Marcus Beyer
> By 'math editor' I mean 'math mode', not just the math symbol panels. > > I am well aware that there are several methods to enter things there. > > Don't ask me why. Because TeX users like to type and Word users like to click? Grüße, Marcus http://www.Stormlight.de

Re: Reasons to use Lyx instead of LaTex?

2003-09-29 Thread Marcus Beyer
> > It looks very nice to me, but I would like to know from those who > > use it on a regular basis what Lyx has to offer to a LaTex user. > > The math editor ;-} Perhaps important to note that the math editor is not the only way to write math: you can still write \alpha in math mode (CTRL+M) and

Re: Alternatives to Lyx?, was: Re: parallel.sty

2003-09-16 Thread Marcus Beyer
> I should note that it's a long term goal to reduce the amount of such > training necessary. cool *g* > But there are some tricky problems. good luck! Grüße, Marcus http://www.Stormlight.de

Re: Alternatives to Lyx?, was: Re: parallel.sty

2003-09-16 Thread Marcus Beyer
> I am quite satisfied with Lyx though I`m using it only for 5 weeks now and > have written only about 40 pages (with some floats and tables). And I like, > that it is open source, because some parts of my thesis should be easily be > copied and integrated in other papers (I will put it on my we

Re: Bibliographic Database for Lyx-Qt for Windows?

2003-08-30 Thread Marcus Beyer
> > But I know, that a bibliographic database may offer more. Is there any > > which will work together with Lyx-Qt for Windows? Pybliographer seems > > only available for Linux. > > no, if I remember well, it is a Java based program. I think the GUI was Gnome-based. Is Gnome available (as Qt

Re: Example of CV in LyX

2003-07-30 Thread Marcus Beyer
\defskip bigskip \quotes_language german \quotes_times 2 \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle empty \layout Section \size larger Lebenslauf \layout Section Persönliche Daten \layout Topic \labelwidthstring M \shape up Anschrift: \shape default \family sans Marcus Beyer · Fichten

Re: FEATURE REQUEST

2003-07-25 Thread Marcus Beyer
> > The only strange thing is, that the clipboard seems to work only in > > one direction: LyX can write something into the System Clipboard, > > but it can't read from it, if other programs have written the content. > > Why? > > Report this to Trolltech at [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! They will > appr

Re: FEATURE REQUEST

2003-07-25 Thread Marcus Beyer
> I am not opposed to the multiple frontends: I think a gtk, gnome or even > Windows port would be more popular than xforms as well. A Windows frontend? The qt version from Ruurd feels very native: http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/ The only strange thing is, that the clipboard seems to wo

Re: FEATURE REQUEST

2003-07-24 Thread Marcus Beyer
> > The red line under misspelled words is one of the *only* things I ever > > did like about Word... It would be nice to have as an option (that > > could be turned off...) > > It's already listed on bugzilla anyhoo ah, seems to be this one: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718 But

Re: cv.cls configurable?

2003-07-12 Thread Marcus Beyer
> > I don't see encl in cv.cls. > > Perhaps you have a different one ... Oh, you are right. I have mixed everything up. It was scrlttr2 I was working with! thanx! Marcus http://www.Stormlight.de

Re: cv.cls configurable?

2003-07-12 Thread Marcus Beyer
> I don't see encl in cv.cls. Perhaps you have a different one ... > In dinbrief and scrlttr2, however, the line > \renewcommand\enclname{Anlagen} > at the beginning of the document should do. Thank you Juergen! That did work on cv! Marcus http://www.Stormlight.de

cv.cls configurable?

2003-07-11 Thread Marcus Beyer
Hello! is the cv class configurable? I have written a letter of application and naturally want it to be perfect. Now the last line is the "encl:" line, where in german it is "Anlage(n):", where "(n)" means one ore more. Because I have more than one, I want the text to be "Anlagen:". Is that possi

Re: LyX on MacOSX (binary release)

2003-07-02 Thread Marcus Beyer
ron> A binary release of LyX for MacOSX, using the native Aqua graphics ron> interface, is now available. The implementation is based on LyX-1.3.2 ron> and the GPL-licensed QT/MacOSX library. The application has the ron> typical Aqua look & feel with a menubar and icons, and does not ron> require

Re: how to? Curriculum Vitae

2003-06-17 Thread Marcus Beyer
Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes> There is a class named cv.cls distributed (and supported) with LyX. Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes> You just have to move it from /share/lyx/tex/cv.cls to Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes> somewhere where latex will find it (as we say when we are too lazy to Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes> give the whole s

how to? Curriculum Vitae

2003-06-16 Thread Marcus Beyer
Hello! I want to write a Curriculum Vitae. I remember to have seen this before on LyX. I am using LyX together with total MiKTeX, where there is a CV.sty from Philipp Maier. What is missing to write a CV on LyX? I did not find anything on http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/ thanx!

Re: Lyx Window Size

2003-03-11 Thread Marcus Beyer
Angus > I can't answer for the qt frontend. no problem (see gif) Marcus <>

Re: how to activate math preview? (on windows-lyx)

2003-03-06 Thread Marcus Beyer
> > C:/Download/lyx/native-lyx/LyX-1.3/lyx/share/lyx/scripts/lyxpreview2bitmap.sh: > > dirname: command not found > > C:/Download/lyx/native-lyx/LyX-1.3/lyx/share/lyx/scripts/lyxpreview2bitmap.sh: > > basename: command not found > > C:/Download/lyx/native-lyx/LyX-1.3/lyx/share/lyx/scripts/lyxprevie

Re: how to activate math preview? (on windows-lyx)

2003-03-06 Thread Marcus Beyer
> C:/Download/lyx/native-lyx/LyX-1.3/lyx/share/lyx/scripts/lyxpreview2bitmap.sh: d > irname: command not found Sorry, I must have been blind. It seems, that this is what Ruurd Reitsma ment with "It’s not complete" here: http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/ And below: "-Some scripts don’t work

Re: how to activate math preview? (on windows-lyx)

2003-03-06 Thread Marcus Beyer
Angus, thank you for your reply! > > On LyX I did Edit->Reconfigure. Then I restarted > > LyX, but I see no effect on math formulas. > > > > Is there a special trick to do? > > You have to tell LyX that you want these previews. There's a check > button on the Edit->Preferences dialog. Find it: >

how to activate math preview? (on windows-lyx)

2003-03-02 Thread Marcus Beyer
Hello, I just installed the windows version of LyX 1.3, more precisely the version of Ruurd Reitsma, (that needs no Cygwin and no X-Server). I have preview package version 0.7.8 (which is the lastest) on my MiKTeX system. On LyX I did Edit->Reconfigure. Then I restarted LyX, but I see no effec

how to activate math preview? (on windows-lyx)

2003-03-02 Thread Marcus Beyer
Hello, I just installed the windows version of LyX 1.3, more precisely the version of Ruurd Reitsma, (that needs no Cygwin and no X-Server). I have preview package version 0.7.8 (which is the lastest) on my MiKTeX system. On LyX I did Edit->Reconfigure. Then I restarted LyX, but I see no effec

Re: ANNOUNCE: Lyx 1.3.0 for Windows

2003-02-13 Thread Marcus Beyer
Claus Hentschel > Hopefully I can release Lyx using Claus Hentschel > a Qt3-based frontend (like that known Claus Hentschel > from KDE on Linux) the next days. Exciting! Can that be used with kde-cygwin? http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/ Marcus

Re: still unable to have quotation marks

2002-11-06 Thread Marcus Beyer
> > > I am using LyX 1.2.1 with Cygwin/XFree86 on Win2k. > > > > > > Problem: whatever quotation marks I choose in the configuration menu, > > > I get always inch symbols when I press shift-2. I solved the problem myself. Step1: Disable the keymapping stuff (this causes the strangest problems)

still unable to have quotation marks

2002-10-29 Thread Marcus Beyer
> > I am using LyX 1.2.1 with Cygwin/XFree86 on Win2k. > > > > Problem: whatever quotation marks I choose in the configuration menu, > > I get always inch symbols when I press shift-2. > > > > Any idea? > > > > Marcus > > Strange. I have never seen that. What X server? Cygwin/XFree86 > Try

quotation marks

2002-10-29 Thread Marcus Beyer
I am using LyX 1.2.1 with Cygwin/XFree86 on Win2k. Problem: whatever quotation marks I choose in the configuration menu, I get always inch symbols when I press shift-2. Any idea? Marcus

Font Antialising in LyX

2001-11-22 Thread Marcus Beyer
favorite TeX variant. Best Regards, Marcus Beyer

Re: Yet another lyx guide

2001-02-18 Thread Marcus Beyer
> In case anyone's interested, I've just written a very basic guide to > lyx, available at > > www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin/lyxguide.pdf > > It's aimed at university students and staff, so doesn't have anything > about letter class etc. - it's just something to get people started in > the right dire

Re: Newbie Questions

2001-02-16 Thread Marcus Beyer
> On Thursday 15 February 2001 18:54, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > Use Chapter instead of Chapter*. > > Then open the document dialog, and set the "section number depth" to -1. > > This is really, really close. I see now that the TOC menu and Edit->Table > of Contents do show the entries. However, whe

Re: Newbie Questions

2001-02-15 Thread Marcus Beyer
> > What I am trying to format is a 'book' of 'poetry'. Currently I am using > > the book (koma script) document class. I've marked the title of each > > poem using the \layout Chapter* formatting, as that places each piece on > > a new page and doesn't number them. (I also changed the format t

Re: How to center section--headers?

2001-02-13 Thread Marcus Beyer
Am Freitag, 9. Februar 2001 11:42 schrieben Sie: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Chris Schulbert wrote: > > I'm also looking for a way to switch off the section-numbering for only > > some of my sections (sounds crazy, I know...) > > Use "section*" instead of "section". > If you want the section to show u

Re: how to really deal with figures?

2001-02-08 Thread Marcus Beyer
Baruch Even > I'm working on InsetGraphics, a rewrite of FigInset. Dekel Tsur > The external inset will not work with pdflatex. Does this mean that LyX 1.2 will not support pdfTeX??? Marcus http://www.Stormlight.de/lyx_de.html

Re: \frenchspacing

2001-02-08 Thread Marcus Beyer
me > Why does frenchb.ldf use \frenchspacing me > but germanb.ldf and ngermanb.ldf do not? Braams > It's a bug and it is repaired in babel 3.7 JMarc > I think it was mentionned elsewhere this 3.7 is not released yet. Should LyX then do a workaround? Marcus http://www.Stormlight.de/lyx_de.ht

Re: \frenchspacing

2001-02-06 Thread Marcus Beyer
by the language setting. Now I tried "french" -- this one works well. Hmm, perhaps I should choose "french" when I write german ;-) regards, Marcus Beyer http://www.Stormlight.de/lyx_de.html

Re: Define colorlink

2001-02-05 Thread Marcus Beyer
nks,linkcolor=blue,pagebackref]{hyperref} which works well for me. regards, Marcus Beyer http://www.Stormlight.de/lyx_de.html

\frenchspacing

2001-02-05 Thread Marcus Beyer
anation: Default in TeX is to make a large space after an end-of-sentence-point. In many languages (e.g. french, german) it is not usual to do so, so we have to put "\frenchspacing" in the LaTeX-preamble of every document. Regards Marcus Beyer http://www.Stormlight.de/lyx_de.html

Re: Define colorlink

2001-02-05 Thread Marcus Beyer
wrong. Why do you specify two drivers ("ps2pdf" and "hypertex")? I think this is the problem. Without "hypertex" this should go. If not: try less parameters :-)) btw: "hypertex" is the default driver and need not to be specified anyway. One question left: what is t

Re: Problems installing LyX 1.1.6fix1 (win32)

2001-02-04 Thread Marcus Beyer
e's that problem, too. Version 1.1.5fix2 no > problems.) > > As a possible solution there was suggested an upgrade of the x-server. > > I tried X-Win32 5.1.1. build2 (demo version) and Winaxe 6.0 (demo version): > The same behaviour. Shouldn't this be mentioned in "Kno

WinLyX 1.1.6 hangs

2001-01-30 Thread Marcus Beyer
Dear users! I've just installed "WinLyX 1.1.6" to try it out, but have got a problem: After installing it and configuring it with "SetupLyx.bat" and "runconfigure.bat" etc. I started it with "runlyx.bat". At first LyX seems to work and I can open documents etc. using my mouse, but when I hit a

Re: wish for LyX 1.2

2001-01-24 Thread Marcus Beyer
lt, since > Postcript/PDF is more common. Thank you for these clear words. Is this now consensus? > How many PDF files you have seen on the web lately? > How many DVI files? > > How many Postscript printers have you seen? > How many DVI printers? That's it :-) regards, Marcus Beyer http://www.Stormlight.de/lyx_de.html

Re: wish for LyX 1.2

2001-01-23 Thread Marcus Beyer
utline fonts are nevertheless better). > | > | So where do we disagree? > > Bitmap fontes created for the resoluton and size that they are view at > are better than a scaled outline font. Why? Aren't bitmap fonts also "scaled" when created? regards, Marcus Beyer http://www.Stormlight.de/lyx_de.html

Re: wish for LyX 1.2

2001-01-23 Thread Marcus Beyer
better than others. nice :-)) _That_ is exactly what I call "device dependent". Should the user know about the resolution of the devices? Should the user "compile" his document anew, when he wants to use another printer? Citation from www.lyx.org: "LyX lets you concentrate on writing [...]" > (granted, outline fonts are nevertheless better). So where do we disagree? regards, Marcus Beyer http://www.Stormlight.de/lyx_de.html

Re: trouble exporting lyx to pdf and html

2001-01-23 Thread Marcus Beyer
e bitmap pictures, but don't want to have huge (Megabytes instead of Kilobytes) target files? Before PDFLaTeX came along this was always a reason against LyX and TeX! So what is wrong about PDF? regards, Marcus Beyer http://www.Stormlight.de/lyx_de.html

wish for LyX 1.2

2001-01-22 Thread Marcus Beyer
AFAIK this has only two important effects: 1. Almost every new LyX user has to make the "ugly-fonts-experience". 2. The target document becomes device dependent. So my wish for LyX 1.2: Please remove the support for bitmap fonts! regards, Marcus Beyer http://www.Stormlight.de

Re: trouble exporting lyx to pdf and html

2001-01-22 Thread Marcus Beyer
hink the problem is to use bitmap fonts at all. "pslatex" uses PostScript fonts, so no problems occur. Is there any good reason to use bitmap fonts??? Why in the world should Acroread support bitmap fonts? regards, Marcus Beyer http://www.Stormlight.de

Re: hyperref + pdflatex: "nested link annotations"

2001-01-22 Thread Marcus Beyer
t; to hyperref (in the latex preamble) so that the links are no longer nested. Example: \usepackage[pdftex,linktocpage]{hyperref} regards, Marcus Beyer http://www.Stormlight.de

Re: graphics in lyx 1.1.6

2001-01-21 Thread Marcus Beyer
"Pattern" from *ps to * 4. press the "enter" key 5. choose your jpg or png or pdf 6. ok, ok 7. View PDF (pdflatex) Does that work? If you don't want to use pdflatex, you can try out the new "Insert External Material". AFAIK this converts automatic