Environment Depth question..

2005-09-04 Thread Pierre Marc Dumuid
Hi All, I guess this has been asked many a time, but I find the way the environment depth thing a bit strange. I find it wierd that you have to click to "increase the environment depth" for each paragraph in an environment. I.e. for entering the following into lyx: 1. Non-words * fooblog

Re: xforms question, (Trouble getting lyx 1.2.1 working...)

2002-08-21 Thread Pierre Marc Dumuid
I'm having trouble getting lyx 1.2.1 working, I'm generally an rpm person as I get scared of building binaries, (having to find the libraries etc, and knowing how to configure stuff) I downloaded the rpm's for lyx 1.2.1, but it all seems different from the release of lyx 1.2.0. With the relea

Re: Subscript text...

2002-08-14 Thread Pierre Marc Dumuid
Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:00:10AM +0930, Pierre Marc Dumuid wrote: > >>I want to write a chemical equation, ( i.e. NO_x ) > > > [which version of LyX btw?] 1.2.0 (I use linux, but my friend uses windows) >>But I don't want the text in

Subscript text...

2002-08-14 Thread Pierre Marc Dumuid
I want to write a chemical equation, ( i.e. NO_x ) But I don't want the text in math-mode font... Is there an easier way to get text to be subscript than to type: NO**mathmode _\text{x} ** ???this looks messy in lyx - surely there's a superscript for non-math mode ..asked by a friend who's not

Re: Graphics GUI for 1.2.0

2002-07-18 Thread Pierre Marc Dumuid
This is a question regarding graphics in your documentation: I notice that these pictures generally have only a few colours, (except for the title bar which is shaded). For pictures like these, it's better to use a compression that works well with few colours. What I mean is, I think jpeg wor

Re: Formatting a document

2002-07-18 Thread Pierre Marc Dumuid
> layout->document->header->fancy Is this for 1.3.??, I'm using 1.2.?? and I can't see this section...

Re: key sequence

2002-07-12 Thread Pierre Marc Dumuid
Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 12:44:41PM +0200, Yvonne Becherini wrote: > >>Hallo, >>I would like to know how to turn to latex mode directly from keyboard. >>Does anybody know the key sequence? > > > Usually Ctrl-l > > Andre' > > What about getting out of latex mode, and mi

Re: acronyms

2002-07-09 Thread Pierre Marc Dumuid
> I don't really know whether it is worth the hassle to implement > especially as it does not seem to save any typing. You have to give the > full name once anyway (be it in that "list" or at the first occurence) and > can use the abbrevation afterwards... Or do I miss your point? > > But m

acronyms

2002-07-09 Thread Pierre Marc Dumuid
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has thought of the following idea: Typically, when writing documents, any acronyms, (ie FIR for Finite Impulse Response), on first usage must be written in full followed by the acronym in short. Is it possible, that a key-stroke be made identifying the desire for

key combinations not showing up...

2002-06-28 Thread Pierre Marc Dumuid
Hey guys, this is really a very small complaint, but in the old version. 1.1.6 I remember that when I wanted to enter a math feature via the panel because I didn't know the shortcut key(like math-delim < > }, when I actually clicked the button on the math-panel, it would briefly display this co

Re: problem with xfig import

2002-06-25 Thread Pierre Marc Dumuid
In regards to the external inset, is there anyway to get lyx to show a preview of the external inset within lyx??? Or should this be a new feature? Pierre Helge Hafting wrote: > Osvaldo Fornaro wrote: > >>Hi, lyxers >> >>I have a problem to import xfig files with lyx 1.2.0. The error message

Re: Special math characters

2002-06-13 Thread Pierre Marc Dumuid
lcrm, lcry, lcrv may resolve where your font server is obtaining these respective fonts from... thanks, Pierre John Levon wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:12:15AM +0930, Pierre Marc Dumuid wrote: > > >>eufr10.pfb >>eusr10.pfb >>plcrm.pfa >>plcry.pfa >&

Re: Special math characters

2002-06-13 Thread Pierre Marc Dumuid
Pierre Marc Dumuid wrote: > Hi John, > I've read the mathed.lyx file, and found the script... My problem is, > I've got all the files except for the following: > > eufr10.pfb > eusr10.pfb > plcrm.pfa > plcry.pfa > plcrv.pfa > > I've searched fo

Re: Special math characters

2002-06-13 Thread Pierre Marc Dumuid
Hi John, I've read the mathed.lyx file, and found the script... My problem is, I've got all the files except for the following: eufr10.pfb eusr10.pfb plcrm.pfa plcry.pfa plcrv.pfa I've searched for a few on Google, and also through all the RPMS that come with RH7.3, but can seem to find these f

equations over multiple lines

2002-06-13 Thread Pierre Marc Dumuid
Hi, I'm wanting to get multiple lines of an equation because its to big... I'm having to resort to using ERT for the whole equation because I want to use the ams \begin{split} command to perform this feature. I noticed that there's a whole heap of Insert -> Maths -> AMS *** features which I a

The character "-" isn't visible??

2002-06-09 Thread Pierre Marc Dumuid
Hey guys, when I type the character, "-" it doesn't show up on the screen. But when I view the .lyx file, or the ps output it's there alright... Doesn't bother me to much... just thought I should let you know... Oh, yeah the word I'm typing is "pre-processing" Pierre -- _

Re: Changing default font size, and alignment in margin notes (repeatedQuestion)

2002-06-04 Thread Pierre Marc Dumuid
Marginal Note|M" "command-sequence math-mode ; marginalnote-insert ; font-size scriptsize" I tried it, but it doesn't work for me. It does the marginalnote bit, but not the font-size bit!!! As for changing the icon code, I wouldn't know where to start...any ideas? Pierr

Changing default font size, and alignment in margin notes (repeatedQuestion)

2002-06-04 Thread Pierre Marc Dumuid
I'd like to make the default fontsize scriptsize, and the default alignment left in the margin notes... I've tried: \renewcommand{\marginpar}[1]{\marginpar{{\fontsize scriptsize #1}} and a few others but they don't seem to work. I even tried editing my ~/.lyx/ui/default.ui to contain: Ite

Changing default font size, and alignment in Lyx

2002-06-04 Thread Pierre Marc Dumuid
I'd like to make the default fontsize scriptsize, and the default alignment left. I've tried \renewcommand{\marginpar}[1]{\marginpar{{\fontsize scriptsize #1}} and a few others but they don't seem to work. I even tried editing my ~/.lyx/ui/default.ui to contain: Item "Marginal Note|M" "comma