Re: tmp directory

What version of lyx are you using I know I use to have that problem under linux with older versions (pre 1.3 I think). Jim Ragsdale wrote: Is there a command in lyx that I can use to clear the tmp directory on windows? If I make small changes sometimes Lyx wont recompile the document. I have to

Re: Bad boolean

Angus Leeming wrote: Doesn't this suggest to you that you have rather too much cruft from earlier versions lying around? yep it does. A clean out it is then

Re: Bad boolean

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Did you do the reconfigure as normal use or as root only? Each user needs to do it separately (although it is supposed to be done automatically). Also, not that you cannot use both LyX 1.3.x (x<4) and 1.3.4 with the same .lyx directory, since they use a different syntax

Re: Bad boolean

Angus Leeming wrote: Remove ~/.lyx/textclass.lst and, as olucas, reconfigure and restart lyx. All should then be Ok. Yep did that and no joy. But why is it complaining about /usr/share/lyx/textclass.lst I removed that one too and didn make install again now it just says [EMAIL PROTECTED] olucas]

Bad boolean

I have just installed lyx-1.3.4 usual thing (as root) tar -jxf lyx-1.3.4.tar.bz2 cd lyx-1.3.4/ ./configure make make install when I run lyx as anyone other then root it spits out the following stuff and cant find any classes. anyone know why? O and I have done a reconfigure and restart. thanks oz

Re: eps versus jpg

yep I agree with that oz Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: I guess that png export is better than jpg export, as matlab creates vector-like bitmaps, so that straight lines are messed up in jpg. My personal rule: jpg for pictures png for graphics when eps is not available (screenshots, ...)

Re: eps versus jpg

I use matlab and LyX all the time. I would simply suggest staying away from jpgs. The jpg output from matlab is usually poor quality and it only gets worse when the LyX output is produced. Enlighten me if there is a reason that jpg is the only way to go. Melanie Gross wrote: Hi, I inserted tw

Re: List of Figures (Tables, etc.)

you can use a ert to do this caption simply put \caption [thing to go in tof]{thing to go under figure \cite{book}} where you want the caption to go above or below the figure oz Darin wrote: Hello, When I make a List of Figures (via Insert->Lists & TOC -> List of Figures), the list formed uses

Re: Equation numbering

I think its as simple as giving it a label. so make a displayed maths thing Ctrl-Shift-M enter something \pi then insert a label INTO the equation by going to insert then down to label. that should do it oz Rich Shepard wrote: If writing in straight LaTeX one can \begin{equation} ... \end

Re: xforms 1.0.2

yep thanks that was the problem. there was one in /usr/X11R6/include/X11/forms.h and /usr/local/include/forms.h problem sorted well sort of. cheers Owen Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Owen" == Owen Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Owen> I downloaded it and installed

Re: xforms 1.0.2

/libformsGL.so.1.0.0 /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.so.1.0 /usr/X11R6/lib/libformsGL.so /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.la /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.so.1.0.0 and when lyx compiles it still says xforms 1.0.0 is this correct or have I done something wong thanks Owen Marcin Bukat wrote: Uz.ytkownik Owen Lucas napisa

xforms 1.0.2

does anyone know where I can get xforms 1.0.2 from. The lyx 1.3.2 announcement said from http://www.nongnu.org/xforms/ but this points to another site that only has xforms 0.89 . I have found RPM's for suse and spark but not RH9. Someone was saying that the source code isnt out there but could

Re: Centering a figure in a float

Thanks Ive noticed that in the past but didn't really pay much attention to it. Herbert Voß wrote: this is the wrong way, because you'll get some more vertical space between image and caption which does not look fine. This space comes from the environment center. Use instead as first line in the

Re: Centering a figure in a float

highlight the image then go layout paragraph then select center. I belive you can automaticly centre all images but putting something in the preamble but cant remember what it is now. Have a bit of a look in the past postings cheers Owen Rich Shepard wrote: I have inserted figures in a book b

Re: Some reminder on me

at the command prompt type latex makebst if I remember correctly. Osvaldo Fornaro wrote: Hi list, Sorry for this question, but i am a bit lost. Please, someone could remember me what is the name of the program to generate bst files? I just use it and now i can not to find it! Thank you! Osv

Re: different ways of citing in article text

Yep Paul is right. There may be some extra latex options that you can use to get it cited in diferent ways. These can be seen in the .sty or bst file associated with the reference format. They generally look like [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@fcitenam}% [EMAIL PROTECTED] } [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Images and headers

Just to spell it out that is to add \lhead{\includegraphics{"graphic filename"}} in the preamble of the document not in as text and to have the "graphic filename" in its full path. Paul Medwell wrote: How can I set footer/header to a document?. Fox example, I want that in all documents I writ

Re: longtables

I think I can recall something about longtables not working properly in floats.But have a look at the online help to confirm this cheers Owen Holger Zebner wrote: Hi list, I have a problem with longtables. All tables are placed inside floats and have a caption. When I tick in the table dialog at

Re: Invisible font

I some times have a similar problem with the spell checker with lyx 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 with xforms 1. Unfortunatly I dont know the solution. I think it may be more a glitch in xforms then lyx but I dont know. David L. Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 21:05, Owen Lucas wrote: What front end

Re: Invisible font

What front end? David L. Johnson wrote: Hello again, folks. It's been a long while since I have been subscribed to these lists, since the development of LyX had well outdistanced my skills. But now I find myself with a problem I can't seem to solve. My home machine, running a current image of de

Re: others like lyx?

Robin wrote: BTW, I'm sure that if a benevolent millionaire were to pay a team of LyX developers to implement every feature request anyone has come up with here or on Bugzilla, someone would write in to complain about LyX being bloated and say there is a need for a lightweight front-end to La

Re: Improve PDF output quality

Is this just the standard problem every one has with PDF's first off? For me I did this to get good pdf fonts in lyx under documents set font to roman set encoding to standard change the file usr/share/texmf/dvips/config (as a root) and change in file updmap lines from type1_default=false #type1_de

Re: A bit of fun

I have some questions! 1 Is the temperature of the pipe wall constant or is it varying along its length. It says that is 30deg C above the mean air temperature but is this the temperature at that point or is it 30 deg about the mean air inlet temperature it 230 deg C. 2 Does the answer need to

Re: section and figure heads

here is my hatchet latex job This requires some mucking arround with some of the settings in the .cls in your preamble or at the start of your document. With the number of mods you want to do it may be worth copying the article.cls file and editing that. as for the size of the section headers

Re: Bibliography title formatting

Same sort of thing as what I suggested for the bibliography but this time but instead of inserting list of Algorithms place in ert \listof{algorithm}{\tiny List of What you want} where \tiny can be replaced with whatever formating options you want. cheers owen Myriam Abramson wrote: Thanks. That

Re: Bibliography title formatting

This is how I would do it Just before the place where the bibtex bibliography is placed put in ert \renewcommand\bibname{\tiny Bibliography} you can replace tiny with whatever latex you want to format the text cheers owen Myriam Abramson wrote: >I have to format the spacing and the font of the b

Re: nested paragraphs

I can do this in a bit of a messy way go into enumerate then type in "[description1] Some text ..." and hit return then change the enviroment depth with the third button from the left on you tool bar. Then change back into standard and type in what you want. once that is finished hit return and g

Harvard referencing and pdflatex

I am using the harvard bibtex package. I would like to use PDFlatex to produce the final pdf as it seems to do a better job then ps2pdf etc. However pdflatex does not work when I use the harvard package. I can view it in every other way but pdflatx just spits out errors like command [EMAIL PROT

Re: update to 1.3.1 problem "aclocal-1.6"

Woops worked it out. some old unupdated soft linked stuff. I have now upgraded lyx and it seems to be working cheers owen Owen Lucas wrote: Also could I point out that do have Autoconf 2.57 Owen Lucas wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] automake-1.6.2]$ ./configure > checking for a BS

Re: update to 1.3.1 problem "aclocal-1.6"

Also could I point out that do have Autoconf 2.57 Owen Lucas wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] automake-1.6.2]$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes

update to 1.3.1 problem "aclocal-1.6"

I have 1.3.0 installed and so I downloaded the patch to upgrade it first off it does the following [EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.3.0]# make distclean cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status Makefile config.status: creating Makefile Making distclean in lib make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/bin/lyx-1.3.0/lib' ma

Re: still not content with picture quality

I assume that you did try that "ps2pdf -dAutoFilterGrayImages=false -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dGrayImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode $$i" option. This usually works fine for me and the image in the PDF is as good as the file given to it. Exactly what type of images

Re: Changing Algorithm to Algoritmo

To change the algorithm header put \floatname{algorithm}{What you want} in the preamble this will change what it looks like (but probably not when looking at lyx) when you want to insert a list of algorithm in ERT put \listof{algorithm}{List of What you want} there is probably one \renewcomman

Re: graphics in lyx

The way I do this is to include the options to not filter the image when converting to pdf In lyx under edit->preferences select the conversion then converters tab and then select Postscript ->PDF then in the converter box where it says ps2pdf place the line "ps2pdf -dAutoFilterGrayImages=false

Re: really stupid simple maths keyboard command question

O wait I get it now when you go meta-m and it gived you options like slash it means "/" not "slash". Owen Lucas wrote: When in maths mode you can press meta-m and it allows you to type in commands as shown in maths.bind. I can get the single character options to work but c

really stupid simple maths keyboard command question

When in maths mode you can press meta-m and it allows you to type in commands as shown in maths.bind. I can get the single character options to work but cant get the multiple ones to key in. in the file maths.bind these multi character commands start with. "~S-" I assume that you need to press

Re: installing Bst files properly

I think that this depends on what bst you are using. In the past I have put "\usepackage [authoryear,round] {natbib}" in my preamble but there may be a better way to do it in new versions of lyx. These days I use the harvard package which uses round as standard. cheers owen mark boydell wrote:

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

Although it probably goes against the LyX GUI feel I think that once you know what you want, using the keyboard is a much faster and convenient way to select the style. Paul Medwell wrote: You can manually change the ordering of the styles by using something like the following in your .layout

Re: crazy crazy symbol question

Dekel Tsur wrote: Do you try to use these symbol in math mode ? If not, give a short example file. The symbols don't work at all in Maths mode. I was entering them as ERT. An example is attached. cheers Owen #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221

Re: crazy crazy symbol question

Looks the same under Ghostview and acroread so its probably something else. cheers owen Steven Homolya wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, owen lucas wrote: >I would like to use a symbol from the marvosym package. >i have put \usepackage{marvosym} in my preamble and some symbols work >s

crazy crazy symbol question

I would like to use a symbol from the marvosym package. i have put \usepackage{marvosym} in my preamble and some symbols work some don't Im particuarly after \Laserbeam? does anyone know how to do this? has it got anything to do with the viewer? [olucas@mechol1 olucas]$ locate marvosym /usr/s

Re: LyX WYSIWYM document processor???

*outfile; char inchar; /* take action on input arguments*/ if (argc ==1) /*case for no file name input*/ { printf("\n Created by\n"); printf(" Owen Lucas\n&q

Re: Spell checker in 1.3

I have put the latest xforms on and the spell checker still isnt working. Has anyone else got this problem? Owen Lucas wrote: I have installed lyx 1.3 on my RH7.3 box with xforms xforms-0.89-1 I ame using the british language package for aspell When using the spell checker the text boxes do not

Re: LyX-1.3.0 and Red Hat 7.3 notes

Hi I like the look and feel of xforms so are trying to install the new xforms 1.0. Try as I might I have been unable to get this to install the way lyx wants it. I first tryed building it from xforms-1.0-release.tgz This seemed to work fine but lyx didnt like it for some reason?? I followed your

Spell checker in 1.3

I have installed lyx 1.3 on my RH7.3 box with xforms xforms-0.89-1 I ame using the british language package for aspell When using the spell checker the text boxes do not update when it moves on to the next wrong word. if you click on that element it will update that element but none of the others

Re: Figure side by side

Seneschal Jerome wrote: Hi, I am new on the list. I have some problem with figure I would like to put two flottant figures side by side in Lyx as Fig 1 and Fig 2 Well I dont know if its the best way to do it but what I have done in the past is put the two images in the same float and force

Updating / refreshing images in LYX

Hi All Well the actual text isn't rolling along that well so I decided to procrastinate and put some nice images in. I have inserted and image (eps graph) and the font / line width were too small when place in the lyx document. I then went and changed the graph and saved it to the same file na

page numbering in TOC

Hi all I want to put the page number of my TOC, list of figures, list of tables in my TOC. To do this I used the \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Contents} just after the TOC all was fine till my TOC was more than one page. At this stage the \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Contents} came to live on

Re: headers problem

Well I dont know if you got a reply from anyone else but here is my sugestion (havent tryed but think it works). In the preamble you should be able to set the size with the \small \smaller \large \larger \huge commands. Having a look at the .cls files you should also be able to do something by

Re: Bibtex no longer working

things up would be appreciated. I still dont know why every thing was working ok then wasnt working at all but still. cheers owen Owen Lucas wrote: In the past my bibtex worked and worked very well but now its not. It just puts a ? where the reference should go. I must have done some

Bibtex no longer working

In the past my bibtex worked and worked very well but now its not. It just puts a ? where the reference should go. I must have done some thing to it but I cant think what. When I export the dvi it says in the debug window. ___ T

Re: latex font question

is several notations like this that if I could streem line them it could make things easyer. If Maths macros can do this then Ill look into them cheers owen Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:32:28PM +1030, Owen Lucas wrote: Thanks I was just wanting to know how this was done as I

Re: Filling tables with text

thanks that worked well I didnt even need to put the tab in. just needed to add --separator=' ' at the command line for others (particularly in Australia)I got it at ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/lyx/contrib/csv2lyx-1.0.0.tar.gz cheers owen I Wayan Warmada wrote: save your file as CSV f

Re: latex font question

scientific notation? Owen Lucas wrote: > > Thanks I was just wanting to know how this was done as I could not > find anything in the .cls or .layout files that would do this. I was > also wondering if I could use this to replace words with some > scientific notation without seeing all

Filling tables with text

I have a long text file that I wish to put in a Lyx table. Is there anyway to do this without having to cut and past individual values in to each cell? cheers owen Ag 328.07 0.0001 Al 396.15 0.1 As 193.70 0.1 Au 267.60 0.005 Be 234.86 0.01 Bi 223.06 0.005 Ca 422.67 0.02 Cd 228.80 0.0l Co

Re: latex font question

, 2002 at 04:54:28PM +1030, Owen Lucas wrote: >I want to know where and how Latex recognises Latex and puts the word >Latex in the latex wacky superscript subscript font? >ie where it sees LaTeX it puts \LaTeX{} LaTeX never does this. In case of LyX there is some braindead hard-coded m

latex font question

I want to know where and how Latex recognises Latex and puts the word Latex in the latex wacky superscript subscript font? ie where it sees LaTeX it puts \LaTeX{} cheers oz