Re: inhibit splash screen?

2000-03-11 Thread Philip Lehman
ed a very recent version of LyX for that. Hhm.. doesn't work with 1.1.4. Do you happen to know if this is included in the fix for 1.1.4? Or is it still CVS? -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: starting lyx maximized

2000-03-11 Thread Philip Lehman
Oh my, it just occured to me to take a look at the xforms manpage. Never mind. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

starting lyx maximized

2000-03-11 Thread Philip Lehman
sets the geometry and Lyx doesn't seem to accept the -geometry option. So...? TIA -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

inhibit splash screen?

2000-03-11 Thread Philip Lehman
Subject says it all, is there a way to supress the splash screen? -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Lyx problems

2000-02-25 Thread Philip Lehman
file. > > >What shall we do? Thank you for your help. Well, did you try to run the configure script as suggested in the textclass file? The script should reside in /usr/local/lyx-1.1.4/lib. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: howto type "^" ?

2000-02-15 Thread Philip Lehman
uot; seems a died-key. I don't known ... If it's a dead key and you want the accent only, you should be able to type ^ followed by a space. Is that what you mean? -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: single and double quotes

2000-02-11 Thread Philip Lehman
tes in German, the common ones and the guillemets flipped horizontally. The latter are usually used in books while the former can be found in things like newspapers and business letters. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

single and double quotes

2000-02-11 Thread Philip Lehman
for the plain ascii quote (ugh); so... any ideas? -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Logic Set signs?

2000-02-11 Thread Philip Lehman
But beware: The >backslash is NOT displayed, only the command is marked red. > >I don't know what the exact command names are, but often they are quite >simple. You could try \union, \forall, and \exists for example. But a >guide to AMS-LaTeX from the web might be very helpful. Look at your >nearest TeX site. ...or search your tex tree for symbols.dvi. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: hanging indentation in lyx

2000-02-09 Thread Philip Lehman
>it, but the feature does no harm when it is not used, anyway...). FYI: I did that with 1.1.3, if that makes a difference. I'll try 1.1.4 soon and if anything goes wrong, I'll let you know. Thanks for walking me through this ;) -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: hanging indentation in lyx (fwd)

2000-02-09 Thread Philip Lehman
>If you are not too afraid to change a bit the sources, take a look at >all the places where the function stringWidth() is called on parindent >or layout.parindent and change it with signedStringWidth(), which >honors the leading '-'. Then try it out. If it does something >reasonable, I'll be glad

Re: hanging indentation in lyx

2000-02-08 Thread Philip Lehman
it out. If it does something >reasonable, I'll be glad to accept this change [I do not have much >time to try it out myself]. It's not that I'm afraid, it's just that I don't have the foggyest idea about coding. This is going to be a blind flight, but I'll give it a shot for the fun of it -- and probably watch Lyx bomb ;) -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: 8859-15 input

2000-02-08 Thread Philip Lehman
tex . Yes, you're right, of course. But I guess it should be possible to modify the latin1.def to create a latin9.def for use with inputenc; it's still 8bit after all and the two encodings differ only in six glyphs. It's a lucky coincidence to encounter a french Latex user. How do you

Re: sharp german s (sz) w/ german keyboard

2000-02-08 Thread Philip Lehman
en typing the letter sz on >my german keyboard (sorry, can't show it here). Sadly, this doesn't >work; although the desired letter is shown in LyX itself, it produces an >SS (yes, uppercase) instead of what I want in the dvi resp. ps output. You need to set the input encoding to latin1. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

hanging indentation in lyx

2000-02-07 Thread Philip Lehman
y help appreciated... -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

8859-15 input

2000-01-31 Thread Philip Lehman
l typing 8859-15 characters work with a simple "\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}" anyway? If not, is there any Latex package that can cope with this? Oh, I'm on Debian with XF86 3.3.5, Tetex 1.0.5, and Lyx 1.1.2. TIA -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Type%203%20fonts%20in%20pdf%20files%20on%20RH%206

1999-12-11 Thread Philip Lehman
rself. Anyway, a decent FAQ is probably the best way to get started. See http://adept.cs.twsu.edu/doc/tetex-doc/texmf/help/faq/uktug-faq/ and maybe browse http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/comp-fonts-FAQ/ HTH -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Type%203%20fonts%20in%20pdf%20files%20on%20RH%206

1999-12-11 Thread Philip Lehman
provide superior print quality. If you can get your hands on type1 versions of your favorite fonts, do it. Apart from higher quality, they can save you a lot of trouble when generating PDF. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: LatexType: Def?

1999-12-09 Thread Philip Lehman
; >Something like the following untested code should work: it defines the >macro \myname with the value of the paragraph. Is that what you wanted? > >Style DefMyName > LatexTypeCommand > LatexNamedefmyname > > Preamble >\newcommand{\defmyname}{\def\myname{##

LatexType: Def?

1999-12-09 Thread Philip Lehman
Is there something like 'LatexType Def' for use in *.layout files which works like 'LatexType Command' but puts '\def\name{Text}' instead of '\commandname{Text}'? -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

auto backup off?

1999-12-06 Thread Philip Lehman
LyX creates a backup copy of every file saved. Can this be turned off? -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Adding fonts?

1999-11-25 Thread Philip Lehman
ace for feature requests? ;) -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Adding fonts?

1999-11-25 Thread Philip Lehman
I just added a bunch of fonts to my tetex config. How do I tell lyx about them, so that I can choose one of them from the layout/document pop-up? -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

keybindings for arbitrary symbols

1999-11-24 Thread Philip Lehman
Is it possible to bind arbitrary (non-math) symbols to a key, so that 'C-i less' would insert '\guilsinglleft' for example? The 'math- insert' and 'symbol-insert' functions seem to work only with a small set of math symbols. TIA -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>