Re: Book niggles

2000-07-15 Thread Rachel Greenham
Ronald Florence wrote: > > Rachel Greenham writes: > > Oh, and I see I have to give chapters names, by the looks of it. Can't > just have "Chapter 1" etc... > > Try using a ctrl-space as the chapter name if you want only chapter > numbers. Though

Book niggles

2000-07-15 Thread Rachel Greenham
Well, seeing as I can't seem to unsubscribe my home address from the list, I may as well use it... I'm trying to use LyX for a book - novel-type thingy. At the moment I'm using the "book" class, and B5 paper just for playing around (procrastinating from writing). the output looks very nice, but s

Re: Itemization bullets

2000-07-13 Thread Rachel Greenham
Michael Zapf wrote: > > > > > > > When I want to produce pdf files I insert the line "\usepackage{pslatex}" in the > > > LaTeX preamble and then use ps2pdf (or distill). That works very well - except > > > for the itemization bullets which seem to not appear correctly in the pdf file. > > > > Hi,

Re: Itemization bullets

2000-07-13 Thread Rachel Greenham
Jens Stolze wrote: > > Michael Zapf wrote: > > > > Hello! > > > > When I want to produce pdf files I insert the line "\usepackage{pslatex}" in the > > LaTeX preamble and then use ps2pdf (or distill). That works very well - except > > for the itemization bullets which seem to not appear correctly

Re: Special font for title and author-lines, or Alt. How to change font in one paragrahp

2000-07-13 Thread Rachel Greenham
Christian Ridderström wrote: > > Hi > > I'm writing a conference paper that requires me to use Times New Roman > (or Times) for the main text, but 18pt Arial bold for the title, 10pt > Arial bold for the authors and 10pt Arial for author affilation. All of > this should furthermore be left-justi

Re: best way to make PDF files?

2000-07-11 Thread Rachel Greenham
C Y wrote: > > >From: Rachel Greenham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: best way to make PDF files? > >Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:37:49 +0100 > > > >Ronald Florence wrote: > > > > > > Shawn Boyette writes:

Re: best way to make PDF files?

2000-07-11 Thread Rachel Greenham
Ronald Florence wrote: > > Shawn Boyette writes: > > While we're on the subject, I've noticed that PDF output seems to > rapidly be moving towards the preferred format. Are there plans to > integrate PDF production more tightly into LyX? > > I'd second this suggestion. It's possible to c

Re: reducing Postscript file size

2000-07-05 Thread Rachel Greenham
Fred C wrote: > > Didn't find an EASY (I'm not a nerd) to use answer for that common > question : > How can i reduce the monstrous size of .eps pictures to be inserted in > my thesis written with LyX 1,0,4 on Linux 2,2,13? > A simple color picture of Linus in jpeg makes 17 kb, saved as grayscale

Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx

2000-07-05 Thread Rachel Greenham
Paul Borgermans wrote: > > Rachel, > > I had the same problem. There are two ways that work for me by changing > settings in LyX (versions 1.1.4x, 1.1.5, 1.1.6cvs, probably earlier > versions too): > > > 1) put > > \usepackage{pslatex} > > in the latex pre

poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx

2000-07-04 Thread Rachel Greenham
I want to produce my finished Lyx document as PDF, and this looks generally straightforward. The resulting PDFs, however, while they print just fine, look terrible on screen in acroread, which matters as it will be "published" on an internal website and so is most likely to be seen using the acrob

Re: Can't preview or print or even export anything other than TeX

2000-06-27 Thread Rachel Greenham
"Kayvan A. Sylvan" wrote: > > Try doing Options->Reconfigure > > Then try again. > > This may fix the problem... Whoah, that works! Thanks! :-) -- Rachel

Can't preview or print or even export anything other than TeX

2000-06-27 Thread Rachel Greenham
Subject says it: I'm having a problem with LyX. When I try to view DVI or view postscript or export as DVI etc., it fails to actually do anything. If I launch it from a console I get error output thus: Attempting to view DVI file:randomfile.dvi: No such file or directory Attempting to view Post

Re: LyX to PDF

2000-06-26 Thread Rachel Greenham
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Olof Liungman wrote: > Hi! > > I am afraid I have a newbie question, but I'm a real baby at LaTeX and LyX > (great software, by the way :). I want to convert my LyX document to PDF. The > LyX document works fine, viewing and printing. What I did was first to export to >