Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

Any idea? Perhaps something like the aqua effect suffices? Example: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/advanced/aqua_text.png Explanation: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/advanced/#gel_effects

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex? Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create such drawings for you. See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/ Best regards, Stefaan.

Re: Drawing tool for LyX

If you want to have a programming language in which you can accurately "calculate" your drawings, "asymptote"[1] is a good candidate. Best regards, Stefaan. [1] http://http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/

Re: selection bug in lyx 1.3.4, kicker

but kicker is unresponsive until i remove the selection from lyx. For some reason pressing alt on my keyboard when kicker is stuck makes kicker active again... not sure what happens, or if this is common behaviour though.

Re: typesetting an algorithm

lines in the algorithm environment. If I recall correctly this can be avoided by using ctrl-enter to go to a new line inside the algorithm environment. I normally use an external package (e.g. listings.sty if you want to typeset code) and insert everything with ert. Stefaan. Raphael Clifford wrote: I

Re: Problem with fonts

(I am writing here the solution because it may help somebody in the future... ... as have done many before you on exactly this same list. Now if only someone would look at the archives before posting... Sorry, could not resist ;-) Stefaan.

Re: What package to use to get a list of symbols?

Look in the comprehensive latex symbol list: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/ Stefaan. Ananda Murthy R S wrote: Hello: I am writing a technical book. In this I want to include list of symbols used to indicate different quantities. Is there any package which can

Re: *new* math font problem?

> I recommend downloading LyX-1.3.3 (where this bug is fixed) and compiling it yourself. Hi, Thank you for the advice. The workaround I chose for now is to install and activate the preview-latex package. But I will be looking forward to the new LyX-1.3.3 ! Bye Stefaan.

*new* math font problem?

he problem, but is about as ugly as the xforms front-end ;-) ) Best regards, Stefaan.

Re: native Windows LyX?

AFAIK there are two versions, one is GPL (but no LGPL!), so you can use it with GPL applications. Only the UNIX version is GPL-ed. For windows there's a binary only "non-commercial" version of Qt 2.x.