Re: prosper error?

2003-06-20 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
>Can anyone tell me why the penultimate slide in this file is messed up? it is bizarre, you can't seem to have the letter "s" first and doubled in the slide title! If you change the slide title to something without the ss or SS at the front it works! As a quick and dirty fix, just insert a cont

Re: Lyx - error: cannot delete temporary directory

2003-03-13 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
Andre' wrote: >Maybe that's the same problem: The .pdf is "locked" by Acroread, so >the .pdf can't be updated there. Acroread is closed and lyx then is asked to do a view>pdf. Acroread starts and then it then says that the pdf file does not exist. I don't see what acroread could have to do with

Re: Lyx - error: cannot delete temporary directory

2003-03-12 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
Kayvan wrote: >> Suddently half the time I exit LyX it gives me an error "cannot delete >> temporary directory" with a buffer file in it and it says "Permission >> denied." After that, when I start up again and try to view pdflatex >> Acrobat tells me there is no file. >> >> I use cygwin on WinXP.

Re: Re: ERROR: error on running conversion script. Was: Lost Menu: Lyx 1.3.0: Windows 98

2003-03-10 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
>> find with my old lyx files. But I must say, >> I wonder how a person with no IT programming >> experience could install LyX on Windows; it >> is too difficult I think. > >What's your point? > >[;-)... or better not] Actually Lyx is not at fault here at all. Install under linux with rpms or w

Re: ERROR: error on running conversion script. Was: Lost Menu: Lyx 1.3.0: Windows 98

2003-03-10 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
Goffreddo wrote: >ERRROR: An error occured while running the >conversion script. > >What does this mean? I have a new version of >LyX running and installed. I have a new version >of Cygwin running and installed, now why the >problem of a "conversion" script? You probably don't have python and/

Antwort: Annotating eps figures

2003-02-12 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
Angus wrote: >I have a bunch of eps graphs that I'd like to annotate with LaTeX >(axis labels, stuff like that). Can anyone give me some pointers to >the best way to go about this? If your graphs are of the mathematical kind, then check out the pstricks package and pst-plot. A description is giv

RE: 1st page of chapter header with fancyhdr in Report koma-script doc class

2003-02-12 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
Remzi wrote: >http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fancy/pagenumsfancyh.lyx Thanks to Remzi and Matej for your responses. Your solution required me to define a new pagestyle "myfancy" and to duplicate this by redefining the plain pagestyle. Thus I deduce that the first page of a chapter is by

1st page of chapter header with fancyhdr in Report koma-script doc class

2003-02-10 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
Hi, I can't seem to find this in either the documentation nor in the mail archives, does somebody know how to make lyx put the header which I have defined appear on the 1st page of a chapter in the Report (koma-script) class? It appears on other pages, just not on the first page. I just want th

Re: !!Lyx Cannot find any layout description

2003-02-07 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
vsharma wrote: >I use Lyx ver 1.2.3 on cygwin XFree 86 with Windows XP Professional > >On trying to run runlyx.bat I get: >1. the x windows screen >2. a bash terminal >and >3. the message: >!Alert Lyx wasn't able to find any layout description. check the contents >of file textclass.lst Could you b

Re: cygwin+XFree86+LyX 1.2.3 simple problems (DVI viewing)

2003-01-31 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
> The most serious problem is that LyX cannot export to DVI for example, >giving me the error message "Cannot export file - No Information for >exporting to DVI". > On the other hand, starting LyX from an xterm in cygwin's XFree86 seems >to work pretty well, I can export to DVI, pdf, PS,

Re: invisible file menu options

2003-01-30 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
Lavanya wrote: > I'm new to LyX, and recently installed 1.2.2 on my Windows XP laptop. > When I run LyX (both from the command line, and by clicking on > runlyx.bat), I do have a LyX window opening up, with toolbars and main > file menu (File, Edit, Help) intact. But the sub-options are > invisib

Antwort: Re: lyx on cygwin

2003-01-29 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 06:03:32AM -0800, Max Bian wrote: > I first tried the tetex package distributed with cygwin. I works on > small files. If I throw my thesis on it, it just won't go. The errors > are something like "tex capacity exceeded". The instructions for installing Claus Hentschel'

Antwort: Re: text overlayed onto images relative to image width/height

2003-01-28 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
Andre wrote: >Neither '*' nor '+' are valid "operators" to do math in TeX. > >Have you tried > >\rput[r](0.5\wd\Imagebox,0){Lower Right} :) Thanks I didn't try that combination! Rob

text overlayed onto images relative to image width/height

2003-01-28 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
Herbert Voss wrote: >here is a better one to see what is going on. > >Herbert > >\centering\savebox{\Imagebox}{\includegraphics{/tmp/eva.eps}} > >\begin{minipage}{\wd\Imagebox} >\begin{pspicture}(\wd\Imagebox,\ht\Imagebox) > \setlength\fboxsep{0pt} > \rput[lb](0,0){\fbox{\usebox{\Imagebox}}} > \

Re: text overlayed onto images

2003-01-28 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
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fancyhdr

2003-01-22 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
Hi, does anyone know whether the fancyhdr package when invoked can be overriden by other latex commands to allow the header/footer to be formated by you? I was playing with using Herbert Voss's trick to get a table into a header via fancyhdr, but I seem to lose control over the table. Is fancyh

Antwort: Re: maths fonts in FoilTex

2003-01-21 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
paul wrote: >Here is a small LyX file that illustrates the problem with \mathtt{} in >math mode. \texttt works fine, but \mathtt (typed verbatim in a formula) >simply disappears. The example file also displays this problem on my cygwin lyx system (cygwin 1.3.17-1, winnt, miktex 2.2, lyx 1.2.3).

Antwort: Re: troubles converting to pdf [Partially solved]

2002-11-24 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
You could try the following in the preamble. It is from my thesis which I wrote in the report class. I don't know enough latex to tell you whether it is class specific or will work in your case, but give it a go! %+ % This part puts a sentence on a blank page \makeatl

Antwort: Re: Prosper and lyx 1.2.1

2002-11-21 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
>Yes, it works for me... You could try using the stuff I have in this >catalog: > > http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/presentation/simple_example/ > >the example.pdf-file contains what the output should look like. As with many others I'm trying to get prosper to work. I tried you simple exampl

Antwort: Re: Antwort: Cannot view documents

2002-11-21 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
>The File | Print option is grayed out. The File | Export menu lists only >ASCII and Latex formats, and I can export both of those. The LaTeX output >compiles correctly outside of LyX. Seems to me that I used to have the >option to export to PDF as well. With my problem I think I had just fo

Antwort: Cannot view documents

2002-11-21 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
I might have experienced the same problem. Can you tell me whether you can print, or export to something in the file menu? Rob ## Dr. Robert Köhler B.Sc. B.Eng. (Mech) Ph.D. Institut für Motorenbau Prof. Huber GmbH / DaimlerChrysler

Antwort: Installation problem

2002-11-20 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
Have you done, startmenu>programs>miktex>"miktex options" and under the tab "general", pressed "refresh now" and "update now"? Also after that edit>reconfigure in Lyx? Try those and see what happens. Rob ## Dr. Robert Köhler B.Sc.

text overlayed onto images

2002-11-20 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
Hi, I have a question with regard to overlaying text onto an image (see small example attached). The solution as presented in Herbert Voss's tips and tricks, describes using the command \rput in ERT to specify the coordinates of where the text is to go. The origin seems to be on the bottom cen

Antwort: Re: pagenumbering

2002-11-18 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
>>\pagenumbering{arabic} >>\setcounter{page}{7} >> >>where the "7" of course is to be replaced with whatever page >>you're at. >I didn't find the automatic way of seetting that number You don't need to. Just use the command \pagenumbering{arabic} in ERT where you want it to start. Rega

Antwort: Problems with dvi-update

2002-11-06 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
> I'm running lyx1.2.1 on Cygwin running on Windows XP Home. > My problem is Lyx only seems to compile with latex the first time I >run view-dvi or update-dvi (or view-ps etc). When I make subsequent >changes to the lyx document and wish to view the dvi (or ps), it doesn't >compile with late

Antwort: figures and lyx

2002-10-29 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
I had a similar problem with my thesis which was written on Lyx 1.1.5fix2 under RH7.1, and editing it again under cygwin Lyx 1.2.1. You should just know that the way Lyx deals with figures has changed and that you have to manually adjust the figure settings so that they don't go outside the page.

Re: fragile lyx when using win xp -->exceed--> linux

2002-10-08 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
I have win xp (home edn) on my notebook running exceed (v.6) hummingbird and the cygwin windows port of lyx 1.2.1. This runs fine. I'd recommend this as a possible solution. I also don't have any problems with exceed running other X applications. What version of exceed do you have? Rob #

Antwort: Re: Citations showing up as ?

2002-09-25 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
>I'm having this problem too. The "modify text, rerun view->pdf" doesn't >work for me. I also don't have spaces in my cite keys. Are there any >other suggestions? > >Thanks, > >Scott I can reproduce the behaviour on the win32 port of lyx 1.2.1. "run view pdf, then leave the acrobat window open

Antwort: Euro Symbol

2002-09-20 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
Download a latex package called "eurosym" from CTAN, its easy to install follow the instructions in the readme. Add \usepackage{eurosym} to your latex preamble in Lyx. Then use ERT, to call the symbol, I think there are a few different euro symbols to choose from. Anyhow its all explained in t

citation references from 1.16 in 1.2.0

2002-09-17 Thread Robert.R.Koehler
Hi, its been a long while since I last used lyx. However I dug up some old research work which worked fine under 1.16, but misbehaves in 1.2.0. Perhaps someone can tell me what has gone astray? Lyx 1.2.0 returns the following error on all citation references which were fine under 1.16: Packag