Re: underbar and greek letters

underbar is depreciated in modern typography - are you certain you want underbar? martin On 10/29/07, Alexander Sklar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, I'm having trouble getting the underbar frame decoration to work > with greek letters. > > I want to write this: > > > > \underbar{\mu}

Merge documentation into one doc!

We have discussed this before ... I wanted to find out how to adjust appendixes to replace A, B, C with Appendix A, Appendix B, Appendix C. Etc. In LyX 1.4 you did that with some ERT, but now with LyX 1.5 there is some fancy red appendix box and perhaps another way to do what I wanted. So I headed

Re: Problem with hyperref.

OK, bug found If an URL contains an anchor # then something inside LyX breaks when using hyperref! Martin On 9/6/07, Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, hyperref works fine since the lyx docs have working links after > exporting PDF. > > Then th

Re: Problem with hyperref.

Ok, hyperref works fine since the lyx docs have working links after exporting PDF. Then there must be something specific in my doc that causes this err. I suspect a clash with footnote URL's as hyperrefs or something? Martin On 9/6/07, Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Problem with hyperref.

G'day all I want all my crossrefs to be turned into hyperrefs - and in LyX 1.4 I believe I just put: \usepackage{hyperref} \usepackage{hypcol} in preamble. But now I am trapped on a Mac (LyX 1.5.1) and here I get err: Illegal parameter number in definition of [EMAIL PROTECTED] } ) fo

Re: Displaying graphics in LyX - whatever happened to the the scale option?

Found it. It just moved. Martin On 9/3/07, Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can see my graphics in LyX in gargantuan size, LaTeX output is OK. > > In older version of LyX there was an option to scale the display size - > what do you do now? > > > > Martin >

Displaying graphics in LyX - whatever happened to the the scale option?

I can see my graphics in LyX in gargantuan size, LaTeX output is OK. In older version of LyX there was an option to scale the display size - what do you do now? Martin

Re: Howto remove number from first page of article class..

something \thispagestyle{ empty } google a bit for it. check the faq too on the wiki. Martin On 9/2/07, M-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could someone please explain how I might remove numbering from the first > page > of an article class document? > > Also how to remove numbering from th

Re: qt4 dir?

As far as I can tell the compilation and installation of QT4 should be ok. moc and uic is located at ~/lib/bin Martin On 8/30/07, Jeremy C. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > > I don't want all the qt crap in my hom

Re: qt4 dir?

emy C. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > > I don't want all the qt crap in my home dir. The resulting ~/lib will > just > > contain another lib - but still I don't get the path correct. > > > > :

Re: qt4 dir?

I don't want all the qt crap in my home dir. The resulting ~/lib will just contain another lib - but still I don't get the path correct. :o/ Martin On 8/30/07, Jeremy C. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > >

qt4 dir?

I never get that --with-qt4-dir= right. I have compiled and installed qt-mac-opensource-src-4.3.1 with prefex=~/lib - so what --with-qt4-dir does lyx want? This problem have annoyed my time and time again both on Debian and now on Mac. Martin

Re: HTML Export

you need some package installed, i cant remember which on top of my head, but it is in the docs. martin On 6/29/07, Nick Kuzmik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just did a yum update and I can't seem to find the Export to HTML option. Did that get removed or am I just having a case of the stupid

Re: New lyx icon

wonderful stuff! martin On 4/3/07, Lorenzo Paulatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear lyx users, during the last years I grew increasingly annoyed by the (in my opinion) horrible lyx default icon. Finally, during last rainy sunday afternoon I draw a couple new icons in SVG (using inkscape),

Re: pdfpages

pdfpages only works with pdflatex m On 2/26/07, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:07:54 -0500 >>From: Myriam Abramson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: pdfpages >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >> >> >>Hello, >> >>I need to include some pdf pages in my out

Re: How can I enable "Show changes in output "

) in my LyX (Windows version, v1.4.3-5). How to activate it? On 11/13/06, Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > problem may be that xdvi doesnt work with colors. try using pdflatex. > > > martin > > > On 11/13/06, Wang Xiangqi < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Update to: [announce] new extended LyX manual available

at a glance the wiki page is quite confusing. perhaps a sentence on which files contains what - and how they are related to the build-in documentation? martin On 11/1/06, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wrote: > I'm proud to announce the new extended LyX manual about Floats, Notes,

Re: Replacing Quotation Marks

close lyx make a backup of the lyx file open the lyx file in a text editor -> notepad, wordpad, vi, emacs, whatever search and replace save martin On 11/1/06, Bruce Pourciau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A copyeditor has asked if I could find and replace all the double quotation marks with

peculiar over-write options ???

Exporting a lyx file to latex (plain) I am presented with a popup box: file.EPS already exists. do you want to overwrite? and then I can choose three options: 1 overwrite 2 overwrite all 3 cancel export Now, why is there no "dont overwrite" option??? Martin

Re: Inkscape SVG and LyX

there is a previous thread on this. but basically, rescaling svg, using clippath and other features results in fubar EPS. inscape developers are awere of this and they want to hire a programmer to make a new svg2ps library. martin On 9/14/06, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/14/06,

Re: Inkscape SVG and LyX

it looks good. but inkscape have major problems exporting eps! there should be some warnings about this. search the lyx-users list for inkscape martin On 9/14/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:37:33 +0200 >>From: Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Anyone with experience in pdf2rtf conversion?

I have the same version. m On 8/31/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:00:52 +0200 >>From: "Martin A. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "Juergen Spitzmueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>S

Re: Anyone with experience in pdf2rtf conversion?

i know the tricks for latex2rtf, but somehow the citation numbering in the text is missing - and i run latex, bibtex and latex again - multiple times - and still no numbers i the text. latex2rtf is also very old ... martin On 8/31/06, Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ma

Anyone with experience in pdf2rtf conversion?

I am still so disappointed by lyx->word conversion so I was looking at pdf2rtf converters. There appear to be several commercial ones and some open source ones. Anybody knows how well these works? I am in particular interested in getting body text, sections, lists, figures, references, tables an

Abbreviations ?

I noted a too wide gap after abbriviating Professor -> Prof. John Doe Apparently LateX thinks that the punctuation in the abbreviation is a full stop and inserts whitespace accordingly - but it looks stupid. So how does one abbriviate? Martin

How to get rid of the vertical line above footnotes?

i dont want that line immidiately below a table with footnotes (in a minipage), and don't have my latex companion around ... thanks martin

Re: change tracking in 1.4.2

whoops, i mistyped the original message. i have dvipost installed already, but apparently lyx is not aware. martin On 8/25/06, Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Martin A. Hansen wrote: > what can i do? Install dvipost (http://freshmeat.net/projects/dvipost/ or from your dis

change tracking in 1.4.2

my change tracking does not appear in output. i exported DVI, and ran dvips, however, it complains: dvips: Could not find figure file dvipost:; continuing dvips is installed on the box, but lyx/dvips is apparently not aware of this. what can i do? martin

Re: bottom menu bar ...

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Martin A. Hansen wrote: > sorry to bring this up - it has probably been mentioned already and i didnt > check ... > > the bottom menubar for math and tables should appear automagically when in > menu or math context, respectively. Read this: ht

bottom menu bar ...

sorry to bring this up - it has probably been mentioned already and i didnt check ... the bottom menubar for math and tables should appear automagically when in menu or math context, respectively. similarly i think that the find & replace should appear in the menu bar at the bottom instead of a

Re: input not placed correctly after linebreak

This is what I was reporting in the thread -> "bug: line-shift before line break - please confirm" martin On 8/7/06, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Todd Denniston wrote: > Replication info > A) File->New > B) set (using mouse) Enumerate as layout > C) type "first line" > D) type "

Re: bug: line-shift before line break - please confirm.

my observations correspond exactly to this thread - "input not placed correctly after linebreak" martin On 8/7/06, Jens Noeckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Aug 7, 2006, at 2:38 AM, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > reconstruct bug: > > make an enumerate list. > mak

bug: line-shift before line break - please confirm.

reconstruct bug: make an enumerate list. make a forced line break in the list. when moving the cursor towards the linebreak, the curser goes to the next line 1 char before the end of the line. martin

Re: please consolidate the documentation

once again -> pdf files are for printing and reading - not for reading online. printing the documentation may give you a nice book to keep under the pillow, but it prevents you from seeing how lyx formatting is done, using cross refereces etc. and i think that lyx is an extremely nice "editor" to

Re: please consolidate the documentation

nice plan sven! crisp and simple :o) and yes - the documentation should be a lyx document so you see for yourself how the lyx formatting is actually done - with the help of notes and cross-references. i myself would always read the documentation in lyx and not as pdf or dvi - i only use those to

Re: please consolidate the documentation

I sincerely feel that the tutorial should also be included in a single documentation file consisting of UG, extended etc. the reason for this is that you can then cross-link from the tutorial to the parts of the UG explaining a feature in depth. also, you can search the entire document for whateve

Re: please consolidate the documentation

agreed! one file would be so nice, because then you could search for a particular keyword you are looking for without having to open all the different help files. and since lyx/latex is so good at sectioning, it would be straight forward to combine them all. martin On 7/17/06, Sven Schreiber

Re: What's on YOUR BibTeX Wish List?

Hello Richard Many scientific papers have a tendency to provide a bibliography layout file in endnote format and never a .bst file. Perhaps it would be possible to convert endnote->bst config? Now, apart from this, I support your idea to make a simplified version of makebst (which is a very use

Re: using image created with inkscape

sodiprodi is now inkscape inkspace makes very nice SVG graphics and can export very nice PNG images. however, inkscape has strong limitations exporting EPS - especially if clip-path, scaling and the like is used (resulting EPS is broken - inkscape developers are aware of this). simple SVG->EPS wi

Typographical/graphical analysis of a document

Hello All, I found this document on the BBC news website, which I have reposted here: http://130.226.106.174/~paste/cgi-bin/20_06_06_iap_evolution.pdf And after reading it I thought it would be an interesting exercise to present it to the LyX-users list for thorough criticism with respect to t

Re: Confused about Lyx's goals -- isn't this supposed to increase productivity?

hello jeremy i agree with you on your observations. i find lyx a very nice editor for formatting documents, however, i also have this feeling that most of my time is spend on the steep learning slopes of latex (which is because all the lyx things are fast and easy!). in my humble oppinion, lat

Re: how many lyx users?

wow. perhaps lyx for windows have overtaken lyx for *nix? martin On 5/21/06, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andreas K. schrieb: > But it would be interesting to see the download statistics for the different > versions of LyX from ftp.lyx.org and the mirrors, especially the distributi

how many lyx users?

i was just wondering how many people uses lyx? anyone care to guess? how does the download stats look like? martin

all wiki links with respect to CV are stale

tweaking citations

hello i am doing a bst file for "genome research" using natbib and makebst. i have the reference list in perfect order (as far as i can see). now, the in-text citation style has an excess comma: (Hansen et al., 2005) should be (Hansen et al. 2005) how to fix this? martin

Re: poor resolution for svg

a word of caution! inkscape does a poor job converting to eps and pdf. inkscape developers are well aware of this and they are contemplating hiring a programmer to do a svg->ps library. among the problems are scaling, cropping, and clippaths which results in bad output. if you donnot use these f

wish for item under "insert special formatting"

i am tweaking layout for a double-sided document. i am fitting in blank pages in order to get certain sections on even pages - and i use crufty "page breaks" and "protected blanks" for this. i wish for some items under special formatting: 1) insert blank page 2) insert blank pages until even 3) ins

Re: margins in a double-sided document

unintended way. martin On 4/19/06, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 April 2006 04:25 am, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > hello > > > > using komascript article i have chosen a double-sided document with > fancy > > headers. > > &g

margins in a double-sided document

hello using komascript article i have chosen a double-sided document with fancy headers. because i include a coverpage using the eso-pic and graphicx packages, the document has an "extra page". this have the unwanted effect that the margins are switched so that the uneven pages have small left ma

Re: how to insert a blank page?

seems to rely on this: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=reallyblank martin On 4/18/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:53:47 +0200 > >>From: "Martin A. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

how to insert a blank page?

howdy all i need to insert a blank page for typographical reasons so that the back cover will be on the back of a double sided document. i have tried to use: pagebreak \thispagestyle{empty} \phantom{} the resulting pdf look ok. however, printing the document skips blank pages inserted in th

lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

hello i put sort&compress in class settings option, but "compress" is not happening with natbib numerical? martin

final touch-up to thesis layout

using koma article and fancy headers, i am wondering why the fancy headers donnot reach the margin of the page body - and how to tweak this?!? martin

status of the performance issues of lyx 1.4.0

lyx-qt 1.4.0 on linux and mac seems to have some serious performance issues. what is the state of affairs? any bugs filed? anyone working on it? any patches? or is it just me? :o) martin

Re: "page of floats" for table floats seem not work

gt; wrote: > > Thank you; that's it. It worked. I hope future Lyx will incorporate this > function to table float. > > -Frank > > Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > from the faq: > > > > > > http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=floatpages > &g

Re: "page of floats" for table floats seem not work

from the faq: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=floatpages is that it? otherwise you may need the command \clearpage which is used to make room for a page of floats when latex is not able to find enuf whitespace (happens in short documents, or if you have many floats) martin On

Re: [Announce] LyX version 1.4.0

the way gmail handles spell checking should be considered! i find that excellent! martin On 15/03/06, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Paul Smith wrote: > > >> What about inline spell checking? (with little wavy lines) I think a > >> lot of people are waiting for

Re: [Announce] LyX version 1.4.0

i really, really wish for a search scheme resembling firefox :o). currently search results often appear behind the search window, which is most annoying. also, when inserting graphics, the width & height layout menu is confusing - especially when you want to scale an image based on the height vari

bug when inserting graphics in 1.4

inserting a piece of graphics, setting scale etc - and press apply -> graphic is inserted ok. adjusting the scale and press apply again, and the graphics is inserted again on top of the first one. correct behaviour would be to replace it. can someone confirm this? martin

eeew! the ugly font problem persists

editing preferences in lyx 1.4.0 and the screen fonts get turned into the butt-ugly Andale font. Palantino is not even in the list? this is an old issue, but what was the fix? martin

some observation in the new menu layout of lyx 1.4

the now gone "layout" menu has been removed: document setting is now found under "document", and paragraph setting and text style under "edit". i guess one can get used to that, but perhaps it was a good idea to keep these settings in the same menu? the "edit" menu that is. that seems more appropri

Re: latex-beamer verbatim Text

beamer supports LyX-Code environment code afaik - why not use that? martin On 09/03/06, Steffen Schwientek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to add some verbatim Text in using the latex-beamer package. > > Unfortunately, inserting simple evil Red Text > \begin{verbatim} > Several PHP code stu

Re: LyX Mac 1.4.0 Performance Issue

hi all i also find lyx 1.4 on linux slow. i have a fairly fast box, but copy n paste is slow compared to 1.3.6. also scrolling in a document with lots of graphics seem slow. martin On 09/03/06, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 9, 2006, at 2:37 AM, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: > >

Congratulations!!!

It is certainly time to rejoice, dance, and throw flowers in the air! My deepest respect goes to the development team and all contributors. Compilation of lyx-1.4.0 on Debian Sarge went smooth with no snags whatsoever. I am looking forward to further testing! Thanks Martin

Re: two abstracts in two languages

found it. layout->char->language :o) martin On 07/02/06, Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > somehow the spellchecker doesnt figure out that the language was changed. > peculiar ... > > > martin > > On 07/02/06, Charles de Miramon < [EM

Re: two abstracts in two languages

somehow the spellchecker doesnt figure out that the language was changed. peculiar ...martinOn 07/02/06, Charles de Miramon < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Martin A. Hansen wrote:>> but this doesnt seem to work - the result is a all-danish document ... ? >>Strange, here it works. See attached file. Mayb

Re: two abstracts in two languages

at the start of the document (ERT): \selectlanguage{english} and then around the danish abstract \selectlanguage{danish} \selectlanguage{english} but this doesnt seem to work - the result is a all-danish document ... ? martin On 07/02/06, Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

two abstracts in two languages

i tried using this hint http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=layouts/abstract however, this complains that babel for language danish is not loaded. so i tried to put \usepackage[danish]{babel} in preamble, but then all of the document is apparently turned into danish - TOC is translated ... ho

Re: specific float settings - what is going on?

looking at the resulting lyx file, the settings is correct there (htb). i guess that there is a bug in lyx, which makes lyx forget /misread the settings. can anyone confirm this? martin On 06/02/06, Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin A. Hansen writes: > > i

specific float settings - what is going on?

i am tweaking float setttings for specific floats. in the float settings menu i select top-of-page, bottom-of-page, and here-if-possible, and click ok. opening the float settings menu again, and only top-of-page is selected? martin (lyx 1.3.6)

float placement

hello i am generally confused and unhappy about float placements. i experience two issues of major concern: 1) in a two column article with spanning and non-spanning floats the figures can be output in reverse order in the resulting pdf. this can to some extent be remeied by adjusting the flo

Re: floating table caption placing

if you use komascript, then try this in preamble: \setcapindent{0pt} else go to www.texnik.de where there is a hint for left aligning captions. martin On 04/02/06, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Cezary Morga wrote: > > > Could anyone tell me if there is a wa

Re: how to get address environment to span two columns in koma article?

never mind. apparrently i wanted publisher enveronment. me bad. On 01/02/06, Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well, the subject sas it all ... > > > martin >

how to get address environment to span two columns in koma article?

well, the subject sas it all ... martin

Re: list of abbreviations

gotit. very neat! martin On 31/01/06, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > > how do you the TOC displayed in the sidebar of the resulting pdf? > > This is done by the LaTeX-package "hyperref", have a look in the > preamble of my document. > > regards Uwe >

Re: translation templete for lyx - an idea?

ogImageMagick "${LYX_LANG}" "ImageMagick, en billed-konverter" only showing the strings that needs translation. martin On 31/01/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > > hello > >

Re: list of abbreviations

uwe, excellent - since i already have your stuff on my box :o) how do you the TOC displayed in the sidebar of the resulting pdf? martin On 31/01/06, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > > i need to make an appendix with a list of abb

list of abbreviations

hello i need to make an appendix with a list of abbreviations used in my thesis. ideas to layout is most welcome :o) - and can sorting be done automagically ? - and picking abbreviations (ala word index) ? martin

translation templete for lyx - an idea?

hello would it be possible and worthwhile to make a lyx template for the translation of the lyx text strings? it would be nice to have the original english version shown, perhaps with further explanation of context and screenshots, and then have any code removed from sight so one can concentrate

Re: Lyx 1.4.0pre3 + SVG + pdflatex

SVG->EPS rendering by inkscape, which this script uses, is crappy. i strongly suggest that it is not used. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PrintingConsensusPoll scribus should be way better outputting EPS, however, scribus misinterprets SVG images drawn in inkscape (and in general afaik).

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

i would love to hear the developers (and others) oppinion on the raised issues. :o) martin On 29/01/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Yaron Y. Goland wrote: > > > I wrote an article for my blog outlining > > the various thing

Re: figure caption on next page

the figure caption is written in lyx. however, since i uses figure floats, i have to be sure that the figure and caption goes on the correct pages somehow. martin On 28/01/06, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/28/06, Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &

Re: legend in koma script

try this in preamble % left align captions \makeatletter [EMAIL PROTECTED] \vskip\abovecaptionskip [EMAIL PROTECTED]: #2}% \ifdim [EMAIL PROTECTED] >\hsize #1. #2\par \else \global [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] \fi \vskip\belowcaptionskip} \makeatoth

figure caption on next page

hello i have a figure that is rather large, and the details are hard to see. if i could get the figure split so that the caption goes on the following page, i could enlarge the figure and all would be good.i have seen that done in many scientific journals. how is that done? martin

Re: how to left align author section?

i got it all together now - it looks good! i wish my server was up, so i could post the result :o) that will have to wait. thanks all! martin On 26/01/06, Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin A. Hansen writes: > > i think the most simple solution goes s

Re: how to left align author section?

i think the most simple solution goes something like this. do not enter the authors in author environment! instead place the authors in standard environment after the title. set the character to "larger", disable indentation of the paragraph, and set space-above for the paragraph to -6 em and spa

Re: how to left align author section?

distance of \and. i have the latex companion, but i have a hard time navigating it ... martin On 26/01/06, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>>> "Martin" == Martin A Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Martin> sorry, but r

Re: how to left align author section?

[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > ok - almost there > > > > now i just need to adjust the distance between the authors, which is > > rediculously large. i am trying this, but in vain. > > > >

Re: my almost finished paper - missing issues ...

i have now testet multicol it is not wise to switch multicol on and off inside a document, because you get text broken in a nasty way. regular two columns means that you read one column from top to bottom, and then the next. if you break the columns by switching off two column mode to insert a ful

Re: how to left align author section?

{tabular} \makeatletter ideas? martin On 22/01/06, Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > the behaviour is exactly what i want. but having more authors seperated > with > > \and, makes this br

Re: bibtex parser bug

try here http://www.gerd-neugebauer.de/software/TeX/BibTool.en.html (pølsetysker :o) martin On 25/01/06, Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2006 21:24 schrieb Georg Baum: > > Am Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2006 20:19 schrieb Martin A. Ha

bibtex parser bug

, lyx does work with quite a lot of temporary files already? why not one more? martin On 25/01/06, Georg Baum < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2006 21:41 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: > > the question is if the bibtex parser should be "smart"? > &

Re: bibtex parser bug

btw, bibtex syntax may seem stupid, but it is extremely flexible, which is needed in a typographic world, where there are very limited use of any standards. martin On 25/01/06, Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the question is if the bibtex parser should be "sma

Re: bibtex parser bug

the question is if the bibtex parser should be "smart"? actually, iirc bibtool provides a nice API - why doesnt lyx use the bibtool libs and API? martin On 25/01/06, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2006 20:19 schrieb Martin A. Hanse

bibtex parser bug

i have stumpled upon this ugly bibtex record, which causes peculiar behaviour. the article entry below does not contain the mandatory author field, and this causes strange things to happen in lyx 1.3.6 using natbib numerical -> the citation menu goes fubar. can someone confirm this? shouldnt the

Re: my almost finished paper - missing issues ...

good idea, but i think that conflicts with figures spanning two columns. martin On 22/01/06, Marcelo Acuÿf1a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 4) i need to make the footnotes span two columns. > I you use multicol package for get two columns instead two columns options > from menu you get

my almost finished paper - missing issues ...

hello there my paper is almost finished, and only a few layout issues are missing: 1) i need to left-align the author section (another mail-thread contains this). 2) i need to make the address section span two columns. 3) the table float gets inserted in the middle of the reference sections - tha

Re: how to left align author section?

hello the behaviour is exactly what i want. but having more authors seperated with \and, makes this break. martin On 21/01/06, Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > i am prompted to quote a perl sa

how to left align author section?

i am prompted to quote a perl saying: "perl makes easy things easy, and hard things possible" that translates to latex something like "latex makes easy things hard" ... martin

Re: is it possible to change footnotes from arabic numbers to symbols?

Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin A. Hansen writes: > > i know its a bit wierd, but this publisher wants a footnote marked > > with an asterix. > > The LaTeX Companion, page 110: > > \renewcommand\thefootnote >{\fnsymbol{footnote}} > >

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