Re: Problem with \thanks in Author field

Works great! Thanks Bennett. nirmal The attached file works for me. (Note the changed placement of the "\thanks{...}" -- one after each author -- and the "\and" in ERT between authors.) [Let's try again with the attachment!] Bennett

Problem with \thanks in Author field

Hi.. I'm trying to include the \thanks in the author field but get a couple of errors related to extra brackets. Attached is a sample lyx file. Please let me know what the best way to do this would be.. thanks, nirmal #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 2

Problem with figure spanning two columns

Hi.. I have a figure float in which I've checked the option to span columns (this is a two-column paper in the article class).. the placement is set to default placement. For some reason, on the page preceding the figure, the paragraphs have an extra lineskip between them... any ideas on how I

Re: change "References" to other

Angus Leeming wrote: This one I do know ;-) Add this to your preamble: %% Print the References title in uppercase %% To get this to work we _have_ to load babel first. \usepackage{babel} \AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand\refname{Publications}} It's in Herbert's tips 'n' tricks... http://www.lyx.org/he

Re: adding new tex classes

When I opened lyx again, beamer does not appear in the Doc class choices although it does appear in the Tex configuration. You need to have a LyX .layout file corresponding to the class you're installing.. the .layout file needs to go in your .lyx/layouts/ folder. Luckily enough, the beamer clas

Re: Math numbering won't

I've used both M-m-n and Edit->Math->Numbering. Makes no difference. Are these inline eqns or displayed eqns? nirmal

Re: Bibdesk and LyX

I belive pybliographer needs to be compiled on OS X.. bibdesk seems fine in terms of functionality.. jabref works out of the box on OS X and also has the push to LyX feature (I don't know how useful this feature is since adding citations from within LyX is just as easy). Hope this helps. nirma

Re: Lyx does not run BibTeX

I found a similar problem describes twice in the mail-archive, but there has been no answer. I seem to recall having the same problem some time back.. I can't remember what the solution was but try deleting all the auxiliary files that LyX/LaTeX generates like .bbl, .blg, .aux, .dvi/ps/pdf, .te

Re: missing textclass cv?

Thanks folks for all the help.. I guess I never ran into this problem in Linux... I put the cls file in my local texmf folder (which is in /Users/myhomedirectory/ since it's easier when I do a backup to have all my files in one place) and everything's fine now.. nirmal

missing textclass cv?

Hi.. I'm trying to open a LyX document that was created using the cv layout, on LyX/Mac 1.3.4 on OS X.. I get the error message that the textclass is missing. I see that cv.cls exists in /Applications/LyXbinary.app/Contents/Resources/LyX/tex/cv.cls and cv.layout exists in /Applications/LyXbina

Re: Trouble with converting from ps to pdf in OS X

I won't pretend to give you a real solution, but I've had no problems using Gerben Wierda's distribution of teTeX and related tools, rather than fink's. You might try that instead: . Bennett Hi Bennett.. I tried your alternative solution and installed GW's teTeX... still

Re: Trouble with converting from ps to pdf in OS X

You may want to use pdflatex or dvipdfm to circumvent the problem. Thanks Paul.. I tried dvipdfm but that had the same problem... error while trying to convert from dvi to pdf.. the error from dvipdfm is: [1kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+437/600 --dpi 1037 cork-lmbx12 mk

Trouble with converting from ps to pdf in OS X

Hi.. I'm trying to generate a PDF file from a LyX document that I had written under Linux.. I'm now trying to use LyX 1.3.4 under OS X to convert this to PDF. I'm using the tetex and ghostscript installations from fink. Looks like the postscript generation goes fine but I get an error from ps2

Re: LyX Win32 installation problem

Thanks for the responses, folks. Please see my replies inline below... 3: Make sure that the two files LaTeXConfig.lyx.in and LyXConfig.lyx.in exist in the .../share/lyx/doc folder. They were missing from my last download of Ruurd's port. These do not exist it seems.. What should he do? 4: Someo

LyX Win32 installation problem

Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before installing LyX and I verified t

Re: compiling lyx-1.3.4 under cygwin

I suspect that the following site may be of help : http://www.tau.ac.il/~stoledo/lyx_cygwin.html Also check a thread started by Sivan Toledo on lyx-devel. nirmal Philip A. Viton wrote: > > I'm attempting to compile 1.3.4 under cygwin. The configure command goes > off without a hitch --- no wa

Re: include problem

...and that worked perfectly. So...I also tried saving that file and including it at the top of the body.lyx file, but again got several errors regarding missing or improper use of the curly brackets. Does your body.lyx file compile? If yes, then can you please post the errors that you get when

Re: Navigating dvi output

mechanism that permits me to go directly to a specific page. Is this possible? Guess you're using xdvi. Try kdvi, it gives you a list of the page numbers on the left sidebar, so you can click on the page you want.. nirmal

extra line after a flushleft

Hi.. When I start a new paragraph after a paragraph in which the last portion was left justified, I get an extra line between the two paragraphs. For example, I have the following: ***begin example*** Start of para1 is here, this line is indented... blah blah blah.. this is derived below:

Re: Strange printing/viewing problem

Did I do something improper here? Is there a more efficient way to produce a pdf of a designated portion of the .lyx document? I usually use pdfnup to do this... it's as easy as 'pdfnup --pages xx-yy filename.pdf', where xx and yy are the starting and ending page nos. respectively.. check it o

Re: re-defining chapter heading spacing

Hi folks... could someone please let me know if it is possible to do what is described below? I'm in the middle of a thesis submission and would greatly appreciate any help on this Thanks, nirmal Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi... I have a bunch of appendices in a lyx file called Appendice

re-defining chapter heading spacing

Hi... I have a bunch of appendices in a lyx file called Appendices.lyx, which uses the book class. Each Appendix is a chapter in the book. Now I'm trying to get the Appendix (Chapter) heading to move up on the page.. the default inserts a good quarter page space before the heading on the top...

Re: manual covers?

Hi Jane, Glad to see that you got the patch to work.. > First off, many thanks for all your help with changebars, especially > Nirmal Govind and Johnathan Burchill. With your help (and help on this Actually, John Levon and Johnathan deserve the thanks... John is the LyX developer who

Re: Math mode with Lyx Aqua

2- Also, letters in math mode are shown in italics. How does one avoid this? For example, I want to type g m-2 d-1, with "g", "m" and "d" as normal text not in italics (and, of course, "-2" and "-1" are superscripts). Don't know the answer to 1. since I'm on Linux.. but for 2., you need to eith

Re: Math mode with Lyx Aqua

2- Also, letters in math mode are shown in italics. How does one avoid this? For example, I want to type g m-2 d-1, with "g", "m" and "d" as normal text not in italics (and, of course, "-2" and "-1" are superscripts). Don't know the answer to 1. since I'm on Linux.. but for 2., you need to eith

Re: lyx-1.3.4 rpm

Btw, the rpm on my site is now the same as the one in pub/incoming. Sorry.. I meant ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.4/

Re: lyx-1.3.4 rpm

A. L. Meyers wrote: Hi! Please excuse me for asking a dumb question. Perhaps I have missed something. Would someone please post the complete URL leading to the "incoming" directory? ftp://ftp.lyx.org/incoming/

Re: lyx-1.3.4 rpm

Paul Smith wrote: I did try this but the dependency failure switched from qt >=2.2.1 to qt>=3.1.0. I also have a dependency problem with coreutils. Andrew, I think Nirmal has already repaired it in his new rpm LyX file, according to his last post. I think the problem is that he's missing Qt3? W

Re: lyx-1.3.4 rpm--compile on mandrake, 64bit AMD

The moc binary is in the /usr/lib/qt3 tree, but the qt libraries are in /usr/lib64. I can create a symbolic link (and that is my inclination) You may want to check the help for the configure script.. there's an option to specify the qt libraries directory separately.. from the qt3/lib director

Re: math-macro in preamble?

Thanks Andre' and Jean-Pierre.. should I file an enhancement request on bugzilla? I like the wrapper idea.. will use this for now.. nirmal

Re: lyx-1.3.4 rpm

Nirmal, I think the problem is the lyx.spec has a dependency on "qt", while mandrake provides "qt3". I think that you could/should replce in lyx.spec the line %define frontdep qt >= 2.2.1 with something like %define frontdep qt3 >= 3.1.0 Thanks JMarc.. I made the change above and uploaded the new r

Re: compiling on mandrake - opteron

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ./configure --with-frontend=qt --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib64 fails to find the moc binary, which is in /usr/lib/qt3/bin. The search seems to go through the /usr/lib64 directory tree and I can't find a configure was given /usr/lib64 so it searched there... you should probably

Re: lyx-1.3.4 rpm

I suspect that it needs qt, but qt seems not being in Mandrake distribution. Where could I find it? Yes, that rpm was built for the Qt version of LyX (as the name of the rpm suggests).. you should be able to get qt3 from rpmfind.net or you can download the source and compile it.. (try the former

math-macro in preamble?

Hi.. is there a way to include math-macros anywhere else other than in the main part of the lyx file? Maybe in the preamble or so? I'm trying to have a global math-macros file that can be included in all my lyx files so that I only need to update one macros file.. I tried putting all the math-m

Re: lyx-1.3.4 rpm

Can any kind soul put up a lyx-1.3.4 rpm on their site -- I can't wait to install. I don't know what distro you're using but the rpm I built for Mandrake 9.2 is at www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/ nirmal

Re: Images not viewed

Stephen Lawrence wrote: I have been trying all day to get a gif or a ps or an eps to show up when I view my document from lyx. The image shows up in the lyx window, but the export or preview to any format do not show the image. What am I doing wrong here? Do you have the appropriate converters d

Re: layout file for latex-beamer avialiable

Thanks for the info Karsten. Truly impressive package.. was really kicked to see that I can include eps figures and get a pdf out of it using dvips and ps2pdf.. plus the hyperlinked table of contents at the top is very cool.. nirmal Karsten Heymann wrote: Hi folks, I just wanted to inform you

Re: Most efficient way to reproduce a matrix

my book as a figure or a table. It comes from a document I have as a .pdf file. I've clipped out this one page (in The GIMP) and saved it as a .jpg If it's from a pdf file, why not try copying the matrix, column by column, using acroread's "Column Select Tool"? You can copy a column and paste it

Re: PDF-exports: hyperref & pdflatex

Problem: When using pdflatex, the output is not A4 but Letter sized (it seems). Have you tried setting the Layout -> Document -> Paper -> Paper Size option to A4? nirmal

Re: A bold Greek with a hat

with \usepackage{bm} in the preamble \widehat{\bm{\beta}} Thanks Herbert.. what is the difference between \bm and \boldsymbol ? It seems like the \widehat with \bm centers the hat well whereas with \boldsymbol, the hat is shifted a little to the right (for \beta i.e.) .. is this it? Also, I wa

A bold Greek with a hat

Hi.. I'm trying to get a hat (^) on a bold greek symbol such as \beta .. I have the equivalent of the following LaTeX code: \hat{\boldsymbol{\beta}} .. however, the ^ is misplaced since it's not directly above the beta as it usually is if it were just \hat{\beta} .. so I tried \boldsymbol{\hat{

Re: redlined documents

Sorry for my ignorance, but what means "being in cvs"? cvs = concurrent versions system.. in this case, the development version of LyX .. anyone can download the devel. version and compile the source though the last I checked, Angus warned me not to go near it now... (at least not for regular us

Re: Included files do not update

Jim Ragsdale wrote: I have had that same problem. I am on the windows version and have an included file. I have to shut down lyx and restart to get it to update. I'm not sure that restarting LyX makes a diff. on Linux.. just confimed it in fact.. so looks like you're slightly better off.. :-) M

Re: package for corrections usable under lyx for windows?

please could you let me know if the package at this adress http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643 is usefull with the 1.3.3 Win32 version of Lyx under windows? That's actually a patch for the source code.. so I presume it is possible to compile that patch with the source code for

Re: redlined documents

Or http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/ Dekel, What does "Note that Ldiff might not always give correct results" mean? What cases are not handled well by ldiff? Or was that just a general disclaimer for unknown bugs? Thanks, nirmal

Re: change environment using keyboard

Leo Lopes wrote: Are there keyboard shortcuts for changing the environment? Say from "Standard" to "Itemize"? Sure... take a look at the file menus.bind .. should be in the bind/ folder within your lyx installation.. Btw, the shortcut for itemize is M-p i or M-p b where M stands for the meta c

Re: Change bars

The earlier version (1.3.3) works just fine (except that it doesn't have change bars). Any ideas? Workarounds? You may want to try the patch by Johnathan Burchill at the following link.. Johnathan adapted John Levon's change tracking code in cvs and created this patch for 1.3.2 .. I used it f

Included files do not update

Hi.. I have a few files included using Insert -> Include File (with the Include option) in a master document and when I make a change in any of the included files, and update the dvi of the master document, the changes aren't shown. The archive has a mail regarding this same issue for the 1.1.6

Re: Entering a vertical vector with brackets

but I cannot get square brackets on either side of the vector. I can do this for a single cell, but not all three. It must be something simple I've missed. In math mode, first insert the square brackets, then insert a matrix with three rows and one column.. you'll see the square brackets expand v

Re: Three tables within a float

1) Spacing them evenly across the page. I have position set to middle rather than bottom, but I suspect that doesn't matter. When I expand the I believe that does matter... i.e. if you want all the captions aligned at the bottom then I think you need to have all minipages set to "Bottom"... on

Re: Three tables within a float

Rich - attached is an example of how this can be done with minipages and a table float.. note the width setting of the minipages.. you can change this setting and adapt for any # tables.. this example follows directly from Herbert's tip for figures side-by-side... nirmal Rich Shepard wrote:

Re: math fonts on knoppix (debian testing/unstable)

Could some one help me get math symbols displayed in lyx? Have you installed the latex-xft fonts? nirmal

Re: Problems with pdf ans ps - Export

When I produce a pdf, everything is fine. When I need to send a part of the pdf so my friends to read the document, there are several ways to do it. But all of them are buggy. I usually use pdfnup to do this.. it takes as input the pdf file, you can specify which pages you want to process and it

Re: Looking for a special kind of arrow

(frame decoration) with an arrow tip. As far as I could search in the document recommended by you, such a bracket does not exist in LaTeX. Paul - did you mean something like \underset{\{\}}{\rightarrow} ?? You can get this while in math mode by typing \underset and then inserting the appropr

Re: Strange characters

latex-xft-fonts-0.1.tar.gz. Even so, I can not see for instance the equal symbol. The resolution looks awful. I have tried to increase the screen DPI, but I do not notice any progress. Any ideas? How about changing your screen fonts to something else and then maybe changing them back? (you're u

Re: I can't export anymore

Kent Kostuk wrote: I ran texhash and then reconfigure LyX and no change. I need a new suggestion. 1. Did you close LyX after reconfigure and then start it up again? 2. Are you sure the upgrade went fine? Check if you have the basic cls files using kpsewhich. For example, try "kpsewhich articl

Re: long table caption + table and figure side-by-side

Thanks Andre'. nirmal Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:37:56AM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: That's intentional standard LaTeX behaviour. You can change the [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you don't like it.

Re: Math Symbols missing in Lyx

i know that this topic has been discussed before. I browsed through the archives but the solutions mentioned there did not work for me. :-\ And this includes the solution of installing the latex-xft fonts? If you haven't got these fonts, then you may want to try installing them and see if it m

Re: OT: Xfig for use with LyX

Nooo.. André has broken it badly recently. Don't go near it. Ok.. thanks for the warning... Vector-based if your version of xfig is new enough. We will ship the attached shell scripts in the lib/scripts directory. That's great.. and thanks for the scripts.. nirmal

Re: OT: Xfig for use with LyX

the final figure that's included in the pdf vector-based? Keep up the good work! nirmal Angus Leeming wrote: On Saturday 24 January 2004 4:51 pm, Nirmal Govind wrote: LyX 1.4.x will give you a truly powerful External Inset that will be able to handle export to PDF also (+ give you a previ

Re: OT: Xfig for use with LyX

LyX 1.4.x will give you a truly powerful External Inset that will be able to handle export to PDF also (+ give you a preview in the LyX window). Angus - did you mean exporting to PDF via pdflatex? And preview - you mean preview with the latex math showing up properly in LyX?? Both these feature

Re: spacing related (for the LaTeX gurus)

Thanks Helge, Herbert and Christian for the info.. A blank line has the same height as a line containing text. It is whatever you (or some file) specified in the second argument of the \fontsize{}{} command. I don't see a fontsize command in the tex file generated by LyX, neither in the article.

spacing related (for the LaTeX gurus)

Hi... I have a few questions related to spacing: 1. What does "one blank line" correspond to in terms of pt, sp, in, cm, ex, em or any of the other options that Latex/LyX provides? (I'm guessing this mapping will be different for different default font sizes..) I looked at article.cls and some

Re: long table caption + table and figure side-by-side

Never mind the first part, I found the answer in Herbert's tips and tricks page: \usepackage{ccaption} \captionstyle{\centerlastline} nirmal

Re: pb with screen font in math mode

Do you the latex-xft-fonts package installed? Yes I have. To be sure, I uninstalled and re-installed it: no change :-( I vaguely remember something like this happening a while back.. are you using Qt? Try changing the Screen Fonts (at least the top two of them) in Edit->Preferences->Look and Fe

Re: Text-mode Accents in Math Mode

this doesn't looks good, when A is a kind of variable and s'hould be in italic mode. \mathaccent`~A is the better way. By trial-and-error I worked it out. I need a combination of spaces and right-arrows (or up arrows) to get back out of \textmf mode. Very slow and -- for me -- highly error pron

Re: Inserting a complex, multiling equation

What I did, when in the right-side box, was to select the regular text mode from the text button menu on the math panel, then use ctrl-space to space the words. Selecting "normal text mode" from the math panel is the same as Ctrl-M while in the math mode. In either case, you don't need to do a

Re: Converting from PostScript to LaTex

Conversion word -> latex works quite well (far better than wvClaenLaTeX) if you use Staroffice/OpenOffice.Org to convert from word to OpenOffice.org Writer format and then use writer2latex (see http://www.hj-gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/) to convert to LaTeX. I even got formulas right. Although my OpenO

Re: Inserting a complex, multiling equation

Hi Rich, As an aside, is there a place in some documentation where the use of each little blue box in math mode is explained? That I've not seen and it would probably help me with learning new math mode entry tasks. Sounds like you got hold of some documentation already.. in this situation, enter

long table caption + table and figure side-by-side

Hi.. I have a long caption for a table and the overflow from the first line of the caption is not centered on the second line.. any way to center the second line of the caption also? Secondly, this table is alongside a figure using the table and figure side-by-side tip on Herbert's page where t

Re: Problem with figures side by side

Then do not use minipages, use package varwidth. The only, but important problem is, that LyX doesn't support this package. -> ERT Thanks Herbert.. will try this out soon.. On the other hand you can put the image into a box and then set the minipage exactly to the width of this box (image). To mak

Re: Inserting a complex, multiling equation

and press ctrl-[Enter] I do not get a new line within a vertically-expanded left-brace, but a set of three, blue boxes on the next line. What have I missed here? Not much really but a very subtle positioning of the cursor... after you've typed the content in the second blue box of the cases en

Re: Problem with figures side by side

Thank you Herbert and Paul for the file.. I used the last option with the minipages and captions within the minipages so that the two captions will show up beside one another. Also aligned the minipage to the bottom so the captions are on the same line. Now, only one problem - the block of figu

Re: Problem with figures side by side

attached Herbert Thanks Herbert... I think the one I was looking for was named FigSideBySide.lyx but assuming that it uses the same minipages-based solution as MultiImages.lyx, I am unable to vertically align the captions of the two figures that are side-by-side... I have two figures that do n

Re: Problem with figures side by side

Herbert Voss wrote: it is not easy to understand that they are vertically centered. Attached a solution which I prepared long time ago. Replace the images with any other. Or let me know, then I sent you these demo images. Herbert Herbert, Can you please resend the file that you attached with this

Re: Converting from PostScript to LaTex

But this would be the goal of it. Because originally I would like to convert from Ms Word to Latex. I found some program that can do that, but I lose some formatting. Now I tryed to print the Word document in a file. This was ok, Not sure which converter(s) you tried but did you check out wvCle

Re: break up an .pdf file into smaller files

> Here are the permissions I have set for pdftex.cfg The permissions look fine actually.. are you able to run pdflatex on a regular .tex file and generate a pdf file? Secondly, do you have the pdfpages package? "kpsewhich pdfpages.sty" should tell you if it's installed. And thirdly, you may wan

Re: break up an .pdf file into smaller files

(bringing it back onto the list) Aah.. so pdflatex doesn't work... okay, so it's a more basic problem.. I'm not sure why pdflatex can't find the cfg file... have you run texhash recently? Maybe that'll help... hope someone here can point out why pdflatex doesn't work... nirmal Robert Orr wrot

Re: break up an .pdf file into smaller files

Error: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/pdflatex (file pdftex.cfg): ca nnot open config file ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished! Obvious qn. but.. do you have read access to the pdftex.cfg file? You may need to change permissions on this file.. I was able to r

Re: break up an .pdf file into smaller files

And this is the .log file from this conversion This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b (Web2C 7.4.5) (format=pdflatex 2003.4.10) 15 JAN 2004 15:26 **temppdffile.pdf (./temppdffile.pdf Error: pdflatex (file pdftex.cfg): cannot open config file ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not f

Re: break up an .pdf file into smaller files

.pdf. How can I break up my .pdf file into smaller pieces (ideally I'd like to save each page of the .pdf as it's own separate file). pdfnup should be able to handle this.. just google for "pdfnup" and you'll get the download link. nirmal

Re: couple of questions

I hope you don't mind I have a couple of basic questions. Not at all.. :-) How would I put a small \delta over an equals sign (=) in lyx? Also, I In math mode, type \overset then a space, then enter \delta within the braces and finally after the braces, type = .. so it'll look something like "

Re: OT: XFig related...

Helge Hafting wrote: I use lyx 1.3.3, and use the xfig external inset. I create my pdf's with dvipdfm, and get both nice vector graphichs and latex math from my xfig figures. Thanks Helge... I will try dvipdfm with the xfig figure next time.. for now, I resorted to Illustrator... but will definit

Re: de_UserGuide.lyx ?

Yes. This is the procedure (qt reference dialog): --> \ref{} (native LaTeX) --> \pageref{} (native LaTeX) on page --> \vpageref{} (package varioref) on page --> \vref{} (package varioref) Formatted reference --> \prettyref{} (package prettyref) The packages are loaded automatically. Jürgen.

Re: de_UserGuide.lyx ?

Try to add \usepackage[draft]{varioref} to the preamble (you might have to save a copy first). Hi Juergen - does LyX automatically use prettyref if there exists a crossreference with the "Formatted Reference" option? It definitely seems like this is the case since all my formatted references appe

Re: problems buillding lyx on slackware 9.0

I then ran src/lyx as rboland sucessfully except that in math mode mathematical symbols are not displayed properly. They do print properly though. In redhat I had to install a fonts file which was a .rpm file to get this to work. You probably need to install latex-xft-fonts for the math to show

prettyref's page reference

Hi.. I just changed machines and on a file in which earlier the prettyref's used to just show up as Section xxx or Table xxx, I now have Section xxx on page yy ... I'm not sure what has changed but any way to get rid of the page reference but still have the "Section" and "Table"? Tried varioref

Re: OT: XFig related...

Thanks for your mail Ingar.. To sum it up, if you have clean figures without latex math, export the figures in xfig to eps, or use fig directly in LyX. This will give you a If I do the above and try to generate a pdf file using pdftex option (pstopdf), is the eps figure's format still vector base

Re: OT: XFig related...

I usually export the finished figure to eps in xfig when using the figure in LyX. This gives you a clean vector based file. How does one get the same quality in a final PDF file where an xfig figure's been included? Using the pdftex option in LyX doesn't produce good output... does LyX convert th

OT: XFig related...

Hi.. sorry for this off-topic question which is very XFig related... since LyX supports .fig I would like to stick to XFig and hence need a solution to this problem: in XFig, when I draw a line that is not horizontal or vertical, i.e. a line at an angle, then the output that appears on the scre

Re: Table-float footnote and float placement

Thanks for your reply Herbert. in general it is senseless to have footnotes in _floating_ environments. Nevertheless you can try, if the footnote is set I can understand the rationale behind this but what is a good solution to having a footnote within a table assuming that the table needs to hav

Table-float footnote and float placement

Hi.. I have a footnote within a table in a float. I used the method specified on Herbert's tips page to include the footnote within the table. I have the placement of the table float set to default placement. However, with this setting, the footnote appears on the page that preceeds the table (

Re: questions: selection

We should probably have some sort of a prize for any non-developer on this list who can provide a satisfactory answer to Alfredo.. :-) nirmal Alfredo Braunstein wrote: what's selection.mark() / what's the difference with selection.set()? why the assymetry below (text3.C) -- present in 1.3.x btw

Re: Problem installing new document class

Btw, there were a whole bunch of replies to your original posting, guess you missed them somehow.. the thread is at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10694626182&r=1&w=2 nirmal

Re: Problem installing new document class

and installed it in ~/.lyx/layouts In the same directory I have elsart.sty, elsart12.sty and elsart.cls You need to run texhash to update your tex installation after downloading the sty and cls files. Also, you may want to put these files in a folder that tex searches (such as your local texmf t

Re: Help! Lyx won't run

Sure, because it doesn't work from the rpm on the cd :) What error(s) do you get when you try to install the rpm? Also, have you tried running a backtrace using gdb? That output may help the developers identify the problem (though it doesn't sound like a LyX problem).. actually, that output may

Re: lyx under Windows

Anca Tibor- Attila wrote: Sorry, I just checked the windows site for lyx and read the prerequisites... Not sure which version you checked but there are two versions for Windows - one uses Cygwin and needs an X-server (such as Exceed or Xwin32 or Cygwin's XFree86). The other one, known as the

Re: Tables with columns with the same width

I would like to know how to set the columns having the same width. Could somebody here please help me? You can do this by setting the width of each column to be a percentage of the entire table width. So if you had 4 columns, then you can set each column's width to 25%.. To do this - with the c

Re: clearing entries in a table (feature request?)

M-x delete-forward should works as a substitute to a 'real' delete key press. Awesome! I put this in the ui file too and it all works great! Thanks, nirmal

Re: clearing entries in a table (feature request?)

Select everything with the mouse and press 'Del'. Yes, I did try that but it doesn't work here. Probably cos I use Debian-ppc on an iBook which has one "delete" key that's mapped to backspace and so no real way of getting a delete as in a PC... is there a way by which I can specify the commands

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