Re: LyX 2.0: no graphic in DVI output

2012-01-16 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Le 9 janvier 2012 à 12:16 -0800 Guenter Milde écrivait : >> For a start, make sure that the netbook has ImageMagick and >> Ghostscript. If your images are PDF (or maybe EPS), I think they will >> need conversion for DVI output but not for PDF output. > PDF, PNG, and JPG need conversion for DVI,

Re: LyX 2.0: no graphic in DVI output

2012-01-07 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Le vendredi 30 décembre 2011 23:08:49 + José Matos écrivait : > On 12/21/2011 04:02 AM, Raymond Ouellette wrote: > > How can I find what is missing to get back the graphics in DVI > > output? I prefer to preview using DVI, it's faster... > I think it the usual beh

LyX 2.0: no graphic in DVI output

2011-12-21 Thread Raymond Ouellette
I compiled and installed LyX 2.0.1 on Bodhi Linux (Ubuntu based with Enlightenment desktop). Everything work great except that there is no graphic in the DVI output, only empty rectangles. The pdf output shows graphics perfectly and any final pdf output is OK too. How can I find what is missing t

Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns

2008-05-19 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Importing a spreadsheet is something I very often do in LyX but I use quite a different way! Usually my finished product is a pdf file, harder to edit and respecting exactly the formatting I want. Here is what I do in a few words: printing the spreadsheet table in a Postscript file, convert it in

Re: LyX Qt under Gnome environment

2008-01-17 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 08:20:09 +0100 Guido Milanese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait : Questions: > (1) is compilation on Ubuntu difficult? I thinks that compiling and > installing manually should avoid the problem I mentioned; > (2) if (1) is not practical, can anyone suggest all the symlink that >

Re: LyX Qt under Gnome environment

2008-01-16 Thread RAYMOND OUELLETTE
Québec, le 16 janvier 2008 [du bureau via l'interface web] Charles de Miramon a écrit : I guess it is a bad interaction between LyX and the Gnome clipboard manager (if this thing exists) Yes, I deactivated Glipper and voilà, everything works OK ! Thanks for the tip ! Merci Charles ! Raymond

LyX Qt under Gnome environment

2008-01-15 Thread Raymond Ouellette
I compiled LyX 1.5.3 for my Linux distro Ubuntu 7.10. I'm a long time user of LyX. But since QT4 version of LyX, it is impossible for me to select anything using my mouse in LyX. Even selecting with the cursor, holding shift, etc, has erratic behavior. The mouse select something, shade in blue, t

Re: LyX 1.5.0 beta1 and UTF-8 copy/paste

2007-03-26 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Georg Baum le dimanche 25 mars 2007 23:50:31 -0800 a écrit : > Can you please run lyx with the -dbg action 2>e.log commandline flags > and send the file e.log? Here is the file, hope it helps! I copy/paste from ClawsMail 2.8.1 some text in french with accented letters. You will notice their repla

LyX 1.5.0 beta1 and UTF-8 copy/paste

2007-03-25 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Québec, le 25 mars 2007 I compiled and installed LyX 1.5.0 beta1 on Ubuntu 6.10. It seems a little faster than 1.4 series. I wanted to try it especially for UTF-8 as Ubuntu 6.10 is UTF-8 based by default (like all modern linux distros). A copy/paste from another application (Gedit, Firefox, etc)

OpenOffice vs. LyX

2007-01-23 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Lundi le 22 janvier 2007 21:01:08 -0800 Steve Litt écrivait : [...] > I was considering switching to OpenOffice because of the excessive > effort in creating/modifying styles in LyX. So as an experiment, I > began making a derivative, in OpenOffice, of a book I originally > wrote using MS Word. Ah

Lyx 143 on kubuntu dapper much slower than on Suse 9.1

2006-10-29 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Québec, le 29 octobre 2006 Robert Neumann écrivait : > Everything works fine but my computer (notebook samsung x20, Centrino > 1,6 MHZ) now needs about 3 times the time to export my lyx file to > pdf. I have files with approx. 300 pages with approx 60 eps figures, > it used to be 8 sec. now it is

French And ubuntu dapper

2006-09-06 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Le vendredi 1er septembre 2006 à 08:41:05 -0700 minet écrivait : > I install Lyx 1.4.2 with a package named lyx-1.4.2_1.4.2-1_i386.deb > [...] It works in french except for the menu bar where the accent are > lost. Here is another solution that works well for me (Ubuntu Dapper) Edit as root (sud

Re: Presentations using LyX

2005-10-13 Thread Raymond Ouellette
he page by dragging with the mouse with the left button pressed. Raymond Ouellette -- Édité et transmis avec des logiciels libres sous Linux !

Symbol in ERT

2005-10-11 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Québec, le 11 octobre 2005 I'm using beamer class for a pdf presentation of Gimp next week. In a slide, I use a block box written using ERT. My problem is that I want to insert a right triangle to mimic a right arrow. The symbol is \triangleright but I dont't know how to insert it inside the ER

No underlined URL

2005-05-21 Thread Raymond Ouellette
I updated urw-fonts to version 2.3-1.noarch.rpm and everything is now OK. I found the solution in a fedora core users list (by googling the Internet). Some urw fonnts where broken in the older urw packages. Raymond -- Édité et transmis avec des logiciels libres sous Linux !

No underlined URL

2005-05-18 Thread Raymond Ouellette
I would prefer no underlined URL in my final pdf. My pdf options in preambule: \usepackage[ps2pdf,pdftitle={},pdfauthor={RO - mis en forme avec LyX},pdfview=FitH,pdfstartview=FitH,pdfpagemode=none,urlcolor=blue,letterpaper,colorlinks=true]{hyperref} URL color is blue, which is enough for me in

Re: Rotating in Dia

2004-12-11 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Québec, le 11 décembre 2004 Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga le jeudi 9 décembre 2004 à 05:52:45 -0800 écrivait : [...] Is there any way to rotate some elements by 90 degree? There is an option, when you insert a picture, to rotate by a ceertain amount of degrees... Otherwise, export your picture (or p

Re: geometry package not working...

2004-08-30 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Hem, :-( I didn't check my preambule... I had letterpaper as an option for package hyperref, so invoking legal size in the paper size box was a bad mixture! LyX was'nt wrong! Raymond -- Édité et transmis avec des logiciels libres sous Linux !

geometry package not working...

2004-08-28 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Same behavior on two systems: Mandrake 10.0 Official + LyX 1.3.4Qt Slackware 10 + LyX1.3.4Qt I joined a gzip lyx file to this post to show the problem. Package geometry doesn't seem to work at all, margins are not respected and if I use legal paper then the text overlap towards the bottom or st

Re: KDE upgrade + accents

2004-08-28 Thread Raymond Ouellette
I had this problem (and I was the one that posted it 3 weeks ago -- see this post: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg34837.html). It was with Mandrake 10.0 Official and KDE's own Mandrake RPM. Some apps had the problem, other not. For example, no dead keys accent with LyX, Scribus

LyX 1.3.4 qt version and dead keys after KDE 3.2.3 upgrade

2004-08-09 Thread Raymond Ouellette
I decided to downgrade to KDE 3.2 Mandrake 10.0 Official. The dead keys bug was present not only in LyX and Kword but in other qt apps like Scribus. I found no comments about this possible bug on KDE's site. 158 rpm to remove and almost as much to reinstall... But everything went fine and the d

LyX 1.3.4 qt version and dead keys after KDE 3.2.3 upgrade

2004-08-09 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Québec, le 9 août 2004 I just upgrade KDE to KDE 3.2.3 (Mandrake, officials packages at kde.org). Everything went fine except 2 apps not recognising dead keys: LyX qt and Kwriter. I use ca_enhanced keyboard. The dead keys used to compose è, ù, ô, ç, ë for example work perfectly in X or in a con

pdf converter

2004-03-31 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Le 29 mars Nicolas Ferré écrivait : [...] Does it exist a pdf to lyx converter (optionally pdf to latex) ? Actually, some pdf to text converters exist, like pstotext. But I'm wondering if some programs could extract also formats or even tables from a pdf file. [...] [french follows] A pdf file

Re: compile error:missing moc binary

2003-03-21 Thread Raymond Ouellette
I had the same problem (Mandrake 9.0) even if qt3-devel was previously installed. Here is my solution if you decide to compile from rpm source. As root, after downloading lyx-1.3.1-1-qt.src.rpm, in a terminal: ln -s /usr/lib/qt3 /usr/lib/qt QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH MANPATH=$QTDIR/m

LyX 1.3.0-Qt no paragraph vertical spacing fill

2003-03-11 Thread Raymond Ouellette
I compiled and installed both Qt and XForm version of LyX 1.3.0 a few weeks ago. Qt version is really pleasing to use and the viisual comfort with aa fonts is great. I do have 2 small concerns. 1. There are some not translated options in the different combo boxes (I use it in french) -- if I no

Lyx 1.3.0 and Mandrake 9.0

2003-02-13 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Harmel écrivait : On Mandrake 9.0 -> the error "i can't find qt 2.2.1" Is is probably an error in the spec file of the rpm. I had the same message with the QT rpm on lyx.org, so I decided to compile from the LyX-QT.src.rpm but I got the same message. You simply have to install it from a consol

Re: Inserting an URL: not anyone?

2003-01-22 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Jean-Marc Lasgoutte écrivait : > I would say that the problem is in the % (comment character in latex). > Do you have the package url.sty? Yes, the package is in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/. But, whithout using this package in the preambule, I opened another LyX file and I had the "offendin

Inserting an URL: not anyone?

2003-01-21 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Using LyX 1.2.2 (my last compile of 1.2.3 src.rpm failed :-() I noticed this problem: I can't insert in a LyX document an URL if it contains certain characters. http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E73%257E1123977,00.html The above URL, for exemple, when inserted in a LyX document, make

Trying to upgrade from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2

2003-01-07 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Rich Shepard écrivait : > I've not run LyX since I upgraded my network to RH 7.3 last autumn. I just fired it up to write an article and the fonts look terrible: all jagged. Try using true type fonts in LyX GUI. These fonts are used ONLY in the GUI, not in the document in itself! My LyX appe

No images preview in LyX 1.1.6-8mdk and pdf 1.3 instead of 1.2

2001-12-13 Thread Raymond Ouellette
I'm using LyX since 15 months, what a great tool! I have two questions. 1- I recently upgraded to Mandrake Linux 8.1 which includes LyX 1.1.6fix3 (July 24th). Almost everything is fine and Ghostscript 6.51 works OK too. DVI, PDF, XDVI, everything work except that LyX can't preview any images w

cvs 1.2 and 1.1.6fix3 on the same box?

2001-11-30 Thread Raymond Ouellette
This question was probably asked but I didn't find it in the mail archives. Is it possible to install both cvs 1.2 and LyX 1.1.6fix3 on the same box? I downloaded yesterday cvs 1.2 and I want to give it a try but I want to be sure that files created with cvs 1.2 can be opened by 1.1.6fix3. Furth

Re: Newsletter with Lyx

2001-08-27 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Laurie Savage wrote: > > Does anybody know of a newsletter layout/class that will support things > like: vol#, no#; banner headlines; date in the header; sidebars; boxed > text and balanced columns. Since the old Mac died I've been using MSWord > but would like to kee

A suggestion or a wish?

2001-04-30 Thread Raymond Ouellette
I'm using LyX since a few months and I appreciate it very much. It's quite different when you are a WordPerfect user since version 4.2 for DOS! There is one thing I really missed in LyX, the reveal code window. As I understand LyX, it is a front end to LaTeX, much of the codes are hidden. But yo

Re: 2 columns document with columns of different width,

2001-02-22 Thread Raymond Ouellette
[fichier joint : testmarge.lyx 13020 octets] I enclosed with this email a test lyx file with the reverse margin note. It works with times fonts, but if I try to change the entire document to helvetica fonts (Format-->Document-->Font properties) nothing happens. I then select all the text and I d

2 columns document with columns of different width

2001-02-22 Thread Raymond Ouellette
I would like to know if it is possible to create a document wich has 2 columns of different width, for exemple a wide column at the right side of the page, approx 13 cm wide, and a smaller one of 4 cm at the left side. The main text would be in the main column, and the left column would be used on