Re: We need documentation on using layouts in documents

2008-06-09 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Steve Litt wrote: In the 7 years I've used LyX, every book had its own layout, and every single time, I spent hours tweaking around trying to get my layout visible to the document so that I could use my specialized document class. Hi Steve, Just to be clear on the basic

Re: Lyx-users mail server error

2008-05-29 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 29 May 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I am trying to attach a example lyx file to ask a question. But my messages keep getting rejected with the error below. The example file is only 98K. Thanks. Please consider making a way smaller example. I agree. Please make the example much smal

Re: Packages required under Linux

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: Some recent threads raised this question. It's indeed one thing that did puzzle me under Linux (Ubuntu), especially when compared to a Windows install. Thanks, this helped me - now Lyx no longer complains after a recompile, and many of the classes a

LyX 1.5.5 under Ubuntu does not find LaTeX packages

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, I've downloaded LyX 1.5.5 and built it in a local directory. Then I run lyx-1.5.5/src/lyx and try to do a reconfigure. The result is a message about: The system reconfiguration has failed. Default textclass is used but LyX may not be able to work properly. P

Re: Using a network printer

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Helge Hafting wrote: Some people have "lpr" instead of "lp", consider replacing "lp" then. Cups (in debian: the package cupsys-client) provides a "lp" binary that lyx can use. This will print to whatever printer cups considers default. In case it helps someone else, it tu

Re: Lyx test site not found

2008-04-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL schrieb: I receive a lot of messages with "[LyX] recent notify posts" as subject, but when I try to go to the site ( e.g. http://www.lyx.org/test/Web.AboutLyX ), I have an error : "The requested URL /test/Web.AboutLyX wa

Re: romanizing references

2008-04-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Ernesto Posse schrieb: Hi. Is there a way to make references into roman numerals? Oh, I'm so disappointed... I read it as _romanticizing_ references.. - To view or interpret romantically; make romantic. - To think in a romantic way. ;-

The wiki now blocks 'href' as a word

2008-04-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, To prevent spam, I configured the wiki to block 'href' through the regular expression \bhref\b which should match 'href' as a separate word. I hope this will stop stupid spam bots that try to instert HTML links. Words that _contain_ 'href' should still be allowed. Cheers, Chri

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-08 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Alan G Isaac wrote: On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard apparently wrote: > I strongly recommend PSTricks. Don't forget about tikz, which is more than enough for most users but it more portable. (E.g., it can be used with pdftex.) I created a wiki

www.lyx.org/test temporarily down (renamed..)

2008-04-06 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, I've renamed all wiki pages from e.g. Main.HomePage -> Web.HomePage this means that the URI http:/www.lyx.org/test/HomePage no longer works, as it is automatically mapped to http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage

Re: Templates, 3d pages graphic, logo ideas

2008-04-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: The 'pages' are nice. However, I don't like the logo. Too far away from the current one... The 'pages' do look nice, but how are they to be used? In a splash screen? /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: LyX logo

2008-04-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, G. Milde wrote: Rather that there are bosses believing that if you have fun at work you are not seriously working. I.e. once they see the platypus on your desktop However, if you're actually using LyX to prepare documents there

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-04-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: to the URI. We do not need to restrict ourselve to one skin only. We really should not have multiple designs for our web site. One official skin is enough. I don't see why not, especially as the current site has two slightly different skins. You co

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: PS. Seriously, I would like to try and install Andrei's work. Andrei, you can contact me off-list so we can work out details. These are just a few example of open-source templates, it's not new work. I know. I mean that if Andrei wants to create a

Re: Removal from mailing list

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
@kellyservices.co.uk from this mailing list. Your email exchanges about Lyx, while informative, are clogging up our inboxes. Greetings Nicholas, CONFIDENTIAL The information contained in this email and any attachment is confidential. It is intended only for the named addressee(s). If you are n

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Thanks for your input, everyone. On second thought, it might be best to just stick with the template we have now, since Joost and Christian have put a lot of work into getting it to work right. I think th

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, G. Milde wrote: About the logo, her reaction to the current logo were along the following lines (I have to translate): * toys, playground, childish For me, this are co-notations of * funny * home made The problem I see with these associations is getting an acce

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-29 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Mael Hilléreau wrote: I agree, I like all of them! What about a real platypus? See http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SplashScreen It could work, but maybe the logotype should be there as well, making the connection stronger. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-29 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: the very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) I think it should be a kind of "portal page" that point people to the right group of wiki pages, preferably with a picture/icon for each group to make it easier to navigate and t

Does the logo look like a platypus? (Was: Primary colours of LyX? )Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, John wrote: People will remember the Platypus, though, but we already have that. But in all the time that the logo has been there it never occurred to me that it was a platypus, despite being familiar with the O'Reilly like platypus associated with the original example d

Re: Banner, Splash Screen, Logo, Mascot, Name, oh my!

2008-03-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Guys, don't you believe your "investing" way too much time in this > > line of > > "problems"? :) > It's for the first time in ten years or so. So that's a relatively > min

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, AK wrote: A graphical profile spans logo, colours, business cards, stationeries, and a range of supplies for commercial purposes. Mostly, for the project like LyX, I believe that graphical profile should be just a palette of colors and the logo. Ok. The only additiona

Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > We should call our mascot "Lydia". I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the reasoning. We need more female users, as the developers are only male, we should at least have a femal mascot ;-). I simply like the name that was first proposed in bug

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-26 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: current banner because it includes the version number. Is there a difference between 'banner' and 'splash screen'? (I'm wondering if the wiki page shold be renamed) We should call our mascot "Lydia". I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the rea

New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-26 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: I've uploaded some more designs to compare (including the current splash screen) at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SplashScreen Joost, They are all outstanding! Very well thought out and crafted. Any of them wil

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-26 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) I think that if you did some more tweaking on that splash screen it'd get quite good. I hope you'll do so! What about this one? The copyright notice is less obvious now, I think that's good. The version number is go

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-26 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, José Matos wrote: On Tuesday 25 March 2008 00:48:50 M-L wrote: I agree. The bird is good, instantly recognisable and synonymous with LyX. It is the LyX brand in that it is unique. That is not a bird. That is a platypus and is a mammal although it lays eggs. http://en.wik

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree. My girlfriend had a suggestion, could we get some design student to do a project related to this? Sounds like a great idea. Any ideas on how we find such a person? She gives the old splash screen a grade of 1 (

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Steve Litt wrote: Hi Christian, I had been talking about the website. I believe the application itself has perfect color as it exists right now. *LOL* I'll leave this particular discussion, it's just to confusing! /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Password now required to approve URIs on the wiki

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, Because of recent spam, I decided to see if it helps that we now require a password in order to "approve" a URI. What this mean is that if you edit a wiki page in order to add a link to an external web page, it does not automatically become a link. First you have click on the text "approve

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: might be that it associates to creativity, through it's childish appearance. after all i'm just a child playing with toys. Just like the rest of us:-) Guess it really comes down to the kind of users we _want_ :-) /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-7

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one here that is somewhat unique. I don't know how it represents the "LyX brand" and it may be more a mascot than a logo, but in my opinion we should not change the logo unless we get one t

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: I'd like to have "the bird" in one way or the other. Smoothing edges, adding something in the background or similar I can live with... A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one here that is somewhat unique. I don't know

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do "LyX" have some sort of "primary" colours? Or some kind of colour theme? My company spent money on letting a designer come up with a colour set, where we should try and use a certain combo of colours... Do we have somet

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Steve Litt wrote: It's more a marketing thing, you don't want your software to look too unusual at first sight. Just like with websites, people tend to quickly uninstall things they don't understand. I think the background color is something that makes LyX unique in a po

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: I think we could do a more impressive design with something fractal or a graph of some impressive-looking function.. if that makes any sense. The first design here could be good as an app icon.. -andrei there are currently two main logos - monster and th

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: nice if we give him our input, even if it would just be a modification to the existing monster/bird/? design. What do you all think? there was quite agreement the lyx-icon/document you picked now back is not better then our monster. pavel I didn't und

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kind of information do people think should be on that page? (I.e. the very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) Please give me some ideas! Take out all the text in the mi

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, AK wrote: Just for the record, when I said I didn't like pure white as a background, I was talking about the main window of the LyX application... Doh, I completely missed the point where we branched off to talk about the LyX app as well as the site.. But, it seems to

Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the wiki wasn't worst at least... Slashdot got some good comments from her though.

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, John Coppens wrote: But would you be opposed to having the usual colors as default? You can of course set your own color in the preferences. Again, FWIW, I _hate_ white backgrounds, and spend time with each program to figure out how I can reprogram it to something more 'q

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Glad to have you on the list, Andrei. Hi Andrei, Just for the record, when I said I didn't like pure white as a background, I was talking about the main window of the LyX application... /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: Regardless of what layout you choose and how you go about building it (I, too, support xhtml and css), there is one universal design criterion I urge you to follow: high contrast between text and background. I fully agree. Th

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: I also think the LyX.org site is OK except for the background and the white text... changing that alone could make a huge difference. I we have fix for this long time, but nobody on dev list commented the design so i let it die. http://195.113.31.123/~s

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs that all look nice, although there's a wide range in their design style. Hi Rex, I asked my girlfriend who

Upload screenshots to wiki! (Was: Request for screenshots)

2008-03-23 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Julio Rojas wrote: P.S.: 3rd time I try to send this message. File size limits sucks!!! ;) Hi, This is just a reminder that you can upload the screenshots (or screencasts!) directly to the wiki. Just ask me, or any other developer, for the upload password. /Christian

Re: Using a network printer

2008-03-23 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Michael Wojcik wrote: .ps-files... Personally, I think it'd be nice to be able to rpint directly from LyX. Out of curiosity, why? Different work flows I guess... I was writing a bit of math, more or less doing the derivations inside LyX. Now and then I want a hard cop

Re: feedback on LyX 1.5.1

2008-03-23 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Michael Wojcik schrieb: I believe he meant: "I have some comments regarding the LyX tutorial. I do not want to join a mailing list. I do not want my comments posted to a mailing list. I am not interested in replies to my comments. Why does he posting

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-23 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Depending on our final website design, I think it might be nice to include couple of small image snippets of what LyX looks like on the front page. I like the way the following site has several images of the software in action: http://www.r-project

Re: Using a network printer

2008-03-21 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Mark Hansel wrote: Maybe it'd be an idea to put a tip in the print dialog, that recommends the user to print via a viewer? > distribution, you might get short-hopped by the differences. I > always try to print from a viewer looking at the final distribution > versi

Re: final feedback

2008-03-21 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, William B. King wrote: After struggling with LyX for two days, I can't even get it to print out its own documentation, which was prepared in LyX! How much more retarded could it possibly get? Good idea. Let me know when you get it working. I've encountered that proble

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-21 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Manveru wrote: GMAIL is nice. However it lacks simple case when someone adds "[solved]" to the mail topics (which is quite often on lyx-users). And it does not have option to manually link threads (I need such option quite often for plenty other situations as much as chang

Re: Using a network printer

2008-03-21 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Les Denham wrote: Perhaps this is exactly the problem Paul has encountered: the error message gives the impression it is a printer problem, whereas the real problem is the difference between latex and pdflatex. That could be his problem, but mine

Re: Using a network printer

2008-03-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can > > print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would > > like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes > > want to print old files and not have to

Re: Using a network printer

2008-03-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:02:54PM +, Dave Wood wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes w

Re: Using a network printer

2008-03-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Dave Wood wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes want to print old files and not have to preview them first. I

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-11 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL wrote: I often use the GMANE site at http://dir.gmane.org/index.php?prefix=gmane.editors.lyx You can see older messages sorted by subject (threads). I like GMANE, but I actually read it through a "news reader" - I don't really like their w

Re: Please confirm your message

2008-03-07 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 07 March 2008 16:00, rgheck wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Annabelle Sack schrieb: 1. wie zentriere ich Grafiken? Die meisten Grafiken, die ich in den Fließtext eingebunden habe, sind zentriert. Andere wieder nicht, obwohl ich an der Einste

Re: Needed documentation

2008-02-29 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Steve Litt wrote: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/SurprisesForNewUsers Could you please take a look at the page now and see if I've done the first three items correctly and in a manner consistent with LyX documentation standards? Looks ok to me, although I think we nee

FAQ/ERT now requires a password (Was: [LyX wiki] recent notify posts)

2008-02-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Apache wrote: * http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ.ERT . . . 2008-02-28 10:40 CET by jspitzm Juergen has done a terrific job in revering spam, e.g. on the page http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ERT I've now given in and changed it so that a password is required to edit that passw

Re: Needed documentation

2008-02-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Steve Litt wrote: Could somebody please put the Wiki Stub in the proper place and post its location on the list? Then the rest of us can write the documentation. Here you go, http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/SurprisesForNewUsers (my internet has been down for a few days :

Re: New nice article about LyX among other things

2008-02-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/02/applications-are-open-source-too.html Could someone put it in the wiki/webpage? I added it to http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/PressAboutLyX /C Abdel. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3?

2008-02-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you be ok with making an example out of all your effort here? Christian, Not at all. I'm heading off on a business trip for most of this coming week, and will probably not have time until next w

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3?

2008-02-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: So, now the continuation page headings and the signature graphic, and it's a real letter! Hi Rich, Would you be ok with making an example out of all your effort here? (I remember trying to place a logo on the letter and in the end just giving it up,

Re: User's Guide doesn't work - workaround

2008-02-04 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: For now, I attached the flatflt.sty. To install it 1. Copy it to the folder ~ \MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex 2. open the MiKTeX settings program and click there on the button "Refresh FNDB" Should you update the wiki with this information (or do you think it is

Re: Wishlist: search and spell-check in a sidebar

2008-01-22 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, muzzle wrote: Hello, I've been lurking in the ml for a while. I remember a wishlist bug in bugzilla on moving the search/substitute/spellc-heck pop-up window to a sidebar like the one most document editor (viewer) have. This to avoid the extremely annoying problem of movin

Re: Please remove me from the list

2008-01-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Sourena Mohammadi wrote: Please remove me from this list. I do not know how to me removed. --Sourena Mohammadi You can remove yourself... the messages you get from this list contains the information you need. /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 h

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, rgheck wrote: I vote for Gentoo. If you've got a quad-core, then give it something to sink its teeth into (I'd love to know how long the openoffice compile would be)! Or how long it takes to compile LyX... :-) [*] /C [*] Seriously, I'm probably interested in the specs

Re: Alt-space on Windows?

2008-01-09 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: rgheck wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Should Alt-space work on windows to access the drowp down list that lets > you select paragraph style? > On Linux, it's Alt-P, space. Also in Windows. In Windows, alt-space opens the little control menu

Alt-space on Windows?

2008-01-09 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Should Alt-space work on windows to access the drowp down list that lets you select paragraph style? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: Password for file upload to wiki

2008-01-07 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Dave Hewitt wrote: I am working on a page for the moderncv example in LyX and need to upload files. The instructions on the Wiki say to ask for it here. I've answered Dave off-list. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~c

Re: Bug reporting and handling [was: Re: fun poll: your linux distro]

2008-01-05 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, Sven Hoexter wrote: So if some other users would like to help: You can always try to find out if bugreports are valid or not and report your results back. Possibly a stupid question, but where is the list of bugs related to the package? If you've hit a bug that seems to

Wiki page for tips on outlingin (Was: ...VimOutliner)

2008-01-05 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, Hoping that some of you will place useful tips on outlining (using, or not using LyX), on a wiki page, I created one here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Outline Hope this helps, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: Dumb LyX question (fwd)

2007-12-21 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Manveru wrote: IMVHO your viewer does not support refreshing. This is the reason why I currently use Acrobat Reader than Foxit - the second one does not refresh. Probably true, I forwarded your answer, thanks! [*] Happy holidays! /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46

Dumb LyX question (fwd)

2007-12-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
I got the following question from a friend, any ideas? (I'm not on Mac...) --- Thanks -- it's probably really stupid, so try not to laugh... When I click the pdf icon (LyX 5 but the same happens in older versions with menu commands), it opens a viewer (in my case Preview.app on

Feel free to announce new wiki pages or additions

2007-12-11 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, I see several users contribute to the wiki, so I would just like to encourage them to annouce what they've done to this list. That will allow others to use it, and perhaps even build upon it. Best regards, and thanks! /Christian PS. People who want to see what's happening on the wiki ca

Re: What are your experiences (including figures)?

2007-12-11 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Les Denham wrote: On Tuesday 11 December 2007, bigblop wrote: Does anyone actually use the LyX way to include figures/pictures? I always use the LyX way, and I frequently produce documents with tens or hundreds of figure floats. But to speed things up, once I have the

Re: Fixed?

2007-11-10 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Mate gave me an alternate mail address and I will share it with a few people. Could you share it with me? I still cannot post to lyx-announce and fail to reach Mate. Could you write the address to a file on aussie

Re: can´t send mail to the list

2007-11-06 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Hi Wolfgang, I think you and I are probably the tip of the iceberg. I wouldn't doubt that Hi Steve, I saw that Mate is now looking at the problem, so let's see if he can do something about it. Best regards /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8

Re: Does anyone have templates for business letters?

2007-10-04 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Lance Simmons wrote: Does anyone have a template for a United States business letter that includes a logo and looks decent? I have no clue what this looks like, and perhaps others don't as well. Maybe you should explain what you'd want, or post a link to an example? regard

Re: Verse margin

2007-10-02 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Donn Ingle wrote: Please give me a hand. I am thinking that OpenOffice might be the way to go, but I don't want that kind of pain! Have you searched for LaTeX packages or styles that are suitable for poems? Maybe it's better if you find those, and then try to make them w

Re: Newb - How to prevent page number on first page

2007-10-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Donn Ingle wrote: Hi Donn You'll find the answer in the wiki - it's a frequent question although I don't remember the answer right now. http://wiki.lyx.org Best regards, /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: Why the list should remain as "Not English only" (Was: Why the list is 'English only')

2007-09-27 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Med vänliga hälsningar /Christian ("With friendly greetings"... doesn't quite translate) But "With friendly greetings" translates very well into German. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, I actually thought of writing that as explation for the swedish text:-) /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39

Re: Why the list should remain as "Not English only" (Was: Why the list is 'English only')

2007-09-27 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Roberto Gorjão wrote: Now, about the issue in discussion, I must say that I resent the title that you chose to your message: "Why the list is 'English only'". The change of the subject was the last thing I did, writing at a very late time in the night. I did the change to

Why the list is "English only" (Was: DVI sem imagens [displaying images in DVI])

2007-09-26 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Roberto Gorjão wrote: With respect, where exactly is said that this is an English only speaking list? Hejsan Roberto That's a Swedish greeting since I'm a Swede:-) I've browsed thoroughly through the LyX's site and the LyX's wiki, I've asked for help to the ezmlm progra

Re: Major and minor Problems with Lyx

2007-09-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi Anja, I've forwarded your message to the users' list, you had sent it to the documentation list. /Christian On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Anja Moos wrote: Hi, I tried to use Lyx to write my master thesis but had several problems. The most severe one: !!!Lyx doesn't work any more - not at all!!

Re: pronuciation

2007-09-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: pol wrote: Out of curiosity, should Lyx be pronounced 'lyk', as in TEX? What is the origin of the name? Apparently not, although I'm not sure even that is unanimous: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Pronunciation. Since it's written in C++, famous for ad

Re: Help for a new user

2007-08-23 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dave Hewitt schrieb: I downloaded the latest LyxWinInstaller (complete) and attempted to install on a WinXP machine (fairly new, plenty or memory and speed, etc.). At a couple points in the installation a DOS window popped up, did something that seemed

Re: Bib2wiki question

2007-08-16 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Myriam Abramson wrote: I'm building a bibliography on a wiki (mediawiki) so that other people can collaborate their bibtex entries. Hi Myriam, I think you're on the wrong list... try to find a users' list for mediawiki. Cheers, /Christian I then cut-and-paste the bibt

Re: Computer algebra system

2007-08-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Rainer M. Krug wrote: Big AA! Helge Hafting wrote: SNIP I think LyX checks for this when trying to run them. All the computer algebra sw packages is available in that menu, even those I don't have. They are disabled only when the cursor isn't in a math region. T

Re: Compiling lyx 1.5 for cygwin?

2007-08-13 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, David A. Case wrote: Does anyone have information or experience about compiling LyX 1.5 for cygwin? I have really appreciated the efforts of Enrico Forestieri (and others?) who prepared distributions of LyX 1.4.x. I'm willing to spend some time compiling (or tyring to com

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Sam Lewis wrote: Of course. And anyone who wants to code this can do so. This was in response to the suggestion that LyX lacked this incredibly wonderful and painfully obvious feature. My point was that it isn't obviously wonderful. Indeed, I'd go so far as to say that, if y

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Richard Heck wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. +1 /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one of the lead developers. Me? Was that intended as some kind of insult? ;=) If you aren't an engineer, you're a humanist? ;-) /C -- Chri

Re: Where can I find better info on LyX functions?

2007-08-09 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, There's long list of LyX functions for 1.3.3 here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctions Unfortunately most of them have no explanations or argument lists, and I get the feeling the list is not complete, even for 1.3.3. I think Uwe just updated/

Re: RFC: Better name for the wiki page 'LyX for X'

2007-08-09 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Nick and Anne Hopton wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Juergen has created a nice wiki page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX.LyXForX that gives an overview on how to use LyX for specific scientific fields. I think the idea is very good, but that there is room for improvemen

Re: prefered windows Installer

2007-07-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Bo Peng wrote: I read some time ago, that the two available windows installers will be updated and merged together. Has this already been done? No, it is a larger project than we all expected so it is planned to be done 'within the 1.5.x release cycle'. If not, what is t

Re: Bibtex to Wiki

2007-07-29 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Myriam Abramson wrote: Since there is a way to have latex formula in a wiki, I was wondering if there is something for bibtex entries too? If not, what's your solution for transferring bibtex entries to a wiki? That's actually a bit tricky, depends for instance on if you

Re: RFC: Better name for the wiki page 'LyX for X'

2007-07-23 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Maria Gouskova wrote: I think "LyX for X" is less misleading than the "science" alternatives. Many people use the term "sciences" narrowly to refer only to physics, chemistry, etc. to the exclusion of humanities. So "LyX for the sciences" may give off the wrong impression th

Re: RFC: Better name for the wiki page 'LyX for X'

2007-07-23 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: Juergen has created a nice wiki page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX.LyXForX LyX for X I see an obvious misunderstanding here. To me, "LyX for X" suggests a wiki page about "LyX for the X window system", as opposed to LyX used with other wind

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