Preferences reset?

2003-03-01 Thread Nalan Turner
I know people on this list are fed up with my tribulations trying to get LyX to write in Latin5, but this may be of more general relevance. I'm using lyx 1.3 qt under Mandrake 9.0 and KDE. For some reason, LyX will ignore previous settings and stop writing Latin5 characters. Doing an etch-a-ske

Changing straight quotes to left/right quotes

2003-02-20 Thread Nalan Turner
I have a large text file which I have imported into LyX. I'd like to replace the straight ASCII quotation marks with LaTeX left/right quotation marks, but if I were to do them all by hand I'd be at it for days. Is there a way to do it automatically, and still have the quotes going in the corr

1.2.2 RPM, anyone?

2002-12-21 Thread Nalan Turner
I've spent the best part of today trying unsuccessfully to compile 1.2.2, and now 1.2.1 won't reinstall either. If anyone has an i386/i586 RPM, could they point me to it? Thanks, Robin

problem accessing ftp.lyx.org

2002-12-20 Thread Nalan Turner
I'm trying to download the i386 rpm of lyx 1.2.2 from ftp.lyx.org/incoming that was recently uploaded there, but am getting "permission denied" messages, even though the file has -rw-r--r-- permissions. What gives? Robin