On Screen Graphics Previews in LyX 2.0 for non eps files

2011-09-07 Thread Geoffrey Ghose
Are eps files the only ones which can viewed as a preview on the screen? My debugging output from the Mac version displays this for gif and pdf files: lyx-2.0.1/src/support/InsetGraphics.cpp(145): Token: 'filename' lyx-2.0.1/src/support/InsetGraphics.cpp(145): Token: 'display' lyx-2.0.1/src/suppo

Re: Lyx + pdf + aspell problem on windows

2006-01-30 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi, I just installed the 1.3.7 on two windows machines (XP and 2000) which had aspell preinstalled in c:/aspell. I cannot get lyx to use aspell. What should I do. When you say this what do you mean? If you produce a test doc with clearly misspelled words and put the cursor at the start of the

Re: aspell

2006-01-23 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your fast responses. I did what you said. First, I deinstalled all. After this I tried again. I istalled Lyx with the lyx-installer and aspell was installed automatically, too. afterwards I installed a german dictonary. but it didn't wor

Re: LyX help please! textclass error

2006-01-23 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, deepa sritharan wrote: Hi, I downloaded a LyX installation from the net, on which all features are functioning except that I am unable to view the dvi output file! The following error is generated for all document classes: Textclass error The document uses a missing Te

1.3.7 and 1.4

2006-01-18 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I just wondered if anyone knew the timescale for 1.4 release. I know that 1.4pre3 has been available since christmas and this is nearly the final version. The reason I ask is that with the release of 1.3.7 I have to decide whether to upgrade to that, or wait a few weeks and get the ful re

Re: missing documentation ...?

2005-12-13 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Robert Orr wrote: I cant see why one would set both. I don't want to beat a dead horse, but, for instance,when experimenting to get the image just right one might enter both the H and W and some point during the process. So, if one enters both an H and a W parameter, do

Re: missing documentation ...?

2005-12-12 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Robert Orr wrote: and when to use the "maintain aspect ratio" So, on the aspect ratio, when one sets the H or W, which one of them becomes the dominant variable when the maintain aspect ratio box is checked? The H or the W? I cant see why one would set both. THe poi

Re: missing documentation ...?

2005-12-12 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
ion is locked as long as the width is set to scale%. martin On 12/12/05, Geoffrey Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i am still confused. page% -> that is the width of the page from paper edge to paper edge? line% -> that is the width f

Re: missing documentation ...?

2005-12-12 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
martin On 12/12/05, Geoffrey Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i am still confused. page% -> that is the width of the page from paper edge to paper edge? line% -> that is the width from from margin to margin? or is that text% and wh

Re: missing documentation ...?

2005-12-12 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
snese and set the others to 0 martin On 12/12/05, Geoffrey Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i have been trying to figure out how the different settings in graphic-output works. what are the meaning of these ( this is not mention

Re: missing documentation ...?

2005-12-12 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i have been trying to figure out how the different settings in graphic-output works. what are the meaning of these ( this is not mentioned in the docs?!? ) ? text% col% page% line% theight% pheight% THese allow you to scale the image as you want

Re: Superscript

2005-12-12 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 10 December 2005 02:12 pm, Charles de Miramon wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just went to write O2, as in two oxygen atoms stuck together, and saw no provision for superscripting the 2, at least not on the Sorry to be an accurate scient

WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 10:41 AM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 On Thursday 08 December 2005 00:47, you wrote: > Me neither. How

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:34 AM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: If this is a problem with Ghostscript, rather than paths with spaces, or LyX,

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "LyX-Users" Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:09 AM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "LyX-Users" Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 9:14 PM Subject: Re: WinInstall

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "LyX-Users" Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:27 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Having also run out of ide

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "LyX-Users" Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:53 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Here is the lyxrc.d

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "LyX-Users" Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:53 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Here is the lyxrc.d

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 4:15 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: The command gswin32c.exe 0lyxpreview.ps is succe

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:01 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Another message I do seem to get is this- Conside

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:05 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: Ok the debug window clearly shows an err

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:47 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: Ok the debug window clearly shows an erro

Re: WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-07 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:28 PM Subject: Re: WinInstaller 0.51 Geoffrey Lloyd schrieb: I have just installed this (version small) and

WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-06 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I have just installed this and all seems to work nicely except for Instant Preview. I have checked for all the files and the preview.sty latex package but it still doesnt seem to work. Anyone got any ideas? Geoff

WinInstaller 0.51

2005-12-06 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I have just installed this (version small) and all seems to work nicely except for Instant Preview. I have checked for all the files and the preview.sty latex package but it still doesnt seem to work. Anyone got any ideas? Geoff

WinInstaller

2005-12-04 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am having problems downloading the wininstaller (v0.4) from the berlios website. Everytime it clicks through to Cannot find Server. Does anyone know if this is a problem at their end or mine - my XP box is gently corrupting so it wouldn't surprise me. Geoff

Re: using hyperlinks?

2005-12-03 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "LyX Users" Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 9:05 PM Subject: Re: using hyperlinks? II'm using the plain PDF view, the one that creates from PS files..should I try the other PDF e

Re: Creating DocBook stuff using LyX

2005-10-23 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Daniel Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 6:48 PM Subject: Creating DocBook stuff using LyX I've just managed to get the job of putting together the documentation for a SourceForge project, and it would be exceedingly helpful if

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-18 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Georg Baum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 3:40 PM Subject: Re: Lyx command line question Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2005 16

Re: Problems with my editor's note environment

2005-10-17 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Steve Litt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 5:12 PM Subject: Problems with my editor's note environment Hi all, My editor's not environment has 2 problems: 1. I cannot center the word "Editor's Note" 2. The line spacing on the last

Re: Bug ?

2005-10-17 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Nicolas Ferré" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 2:38 PM Subject: Bug ? Dear all, could you please confirm the following bug, found in the following build of lyx: LyX 1.3.6 of Sat, Jul 16, 2005 Built on Jul 17 2005, 12:36:17 Configura

Re: More about foreign languages - No!

2005-10-16 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
On Lyx1.3.6 you simply need to go to Layout->Document->Language I dont have Edit->Text style either. Really it works if you do above.. Geoff - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lyx Contribute" Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 4:22 PM Subject: Re: More about foreign langu

pdflatex

2005-10-13 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi In trying to help with another thread (pdflatex & MacOS X) I have come across something I don't understand. It appears that when you do Export->pdflatex Lyx does not do what I expected. Here is what I think should happen: Lyx->Latex->pdf (using pdflatex) AND it should produce the same resu

Re: pdflatex & MacOS X

2005-10-13 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Bennett Helm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 1:38 AM Subject: Re: pdflatex & MacOS X the maximally simple example. Thanks, D test1.lyx Description: application

Re: Guess? Aspell working!

2005-10-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lyx Contribute" Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:24 PM Subject: Guess? Aspell working! Hey people! Thanks a lot for help me! Well, now I know why was not working before: It is necessary to download the 'lean' Aspell --

Re: xdvi slow preview

2005-10-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:17 AM Subject: xdvi slow preview Hello all, I use LyX 1.3.5 in suse 9.0. When I have a document with several figures, usually as ".eps" or ".jpg" images inserted in

1.4pre2 - windows

2005-10-10 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am keen to lend a hand testing this release but sadly do not know how to go about compiling the source on a WinXP box. Has anyone got a compiled version I could have to install.? If not could someone email me detailed instructions of how to compile my on (on or off list) Many thanks in a

Re: Both Linux and Windows

2005-10-10 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Have you installed any dictionaries?? http://aspell.net/win32/ for windows - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lyx Contribute" Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 2:50 PM Subject: Both Linux and Windows I've Lyx installed in both Windows and Linux. I need at least one

Re: How create PDF bookmarks?

2005-09-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Leon Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 9:58 PM Subject: Re: How create PDF bookmarks? Sorry forgot that... I added : \usepackage[bookmarks, bookmarkso

Re: How create PDF bookmarks?

2005-09-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Leon Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 8:36 PM Subject: How create PDF bookmarks? I have tried --- In the LaTeX preamble write: \usepackage[bookmarks]{hyperref} If you want the bookmarks numbered, load hyperref with the option:

Re: Simple questions.

2005-09-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roy Schestowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 9:08 PM Subject: Re: Simple questions. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roy Schestowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: _/ On Fri 09 Sep 2005 22:14:14 BS

Re: Help!- Windows/Linux .lyx file compatability

2005-09-06 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
I imagine you output looks fine and this is a problem with display only. Have you installed the Maths fonts (Bakoma)? These help Lyx display math properly. It is on the wiki http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136 under maths fonts Geoff - Original Message - From: "Rik Aspinall" <[EMAIL

Thanks

2005-09-05 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi Thanks to everyone on this list for the helpful advice they have provided me since I began using Lyx back in March. As a result of your efforts I now have a beautiful - (yes beauty is in the eye of the beholder but.) - Ph.D thesis which I submitted on Friday. I found Lyx a joy to use an

Latex2html

2005-09-05 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi Just wondered if anyone had any success using/installing this with WinXp and Lyx?? I tried to do an Export->Html and got an error saying it couldn't find Latex2html - I assume it doesn't come with Lyx (is this correct??) If this is the case I will go and find it and do a full install, but g

Caption widths

2005-08-31 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi When I have a page of floats in my document the figure captions do not seem to adhere to the page width set out in the rest of the text pages. Any ideas? Geoff

Re: an asthetic question

2005-08-30 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Marcelo Acuÿf1a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:59 PM Subject: an asthetic question Hi all, I writing with Koma script book style. In several books I can see that quotations appears: Smith said: "blah blah blah". in others a

Re: displaymath

2005-08-29 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
]> To: Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 8:17 PM Subject: Re: displaymath Paul A. Rubin wrote: Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Hi I am using displaymath environment and wondered whether it was possible, for a few equations only, to have this environment to be left aligned rather than the default center

Re: mathsymbols in LyX 1.3.6 in Windows XP

2005-08-29 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Gunnar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 3:00 PM Subject: mathsymbols in LyX 1.3.6 in Windows XP Hi. How do I make LyX 1.4.6 for Windows XP display mathsymbols? \sum is transformed into "P" in LyX but it looks alright in the ps/pdf f

displaymath

2005-08-29 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am using displaymath environment and wondered whether it was possible, for a few equations only, to have this environment to be left aligned rather than the default centered. Geoff

Spellchecker - My stupidity!

2005-08-29 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Clearly nothing wrong with spellcheck just my stupidity in assigning quote marks in Latex. While two open single quotes are needed - ie `` - the use of " is valid for closing quotes. I foolishly thought that the same must apply and was using two closing quotes - ie ' ' without the space. Cons

Spellchecker - possible bug??

2005-08-29 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi When using the spell checker with words in quotation marks it always flags up the last word as incorrectly spelt e.g. Here is a "good sentence" with quotes. it will flag up <> Is this a bug or just the fact that, possibly rightly, it doesn't like the use of quotes in standard text. BTW

Questions.

2005-08-26 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi It is becoming apparent that many questions on this list are being repeated and some are quite sraightforward for want of a better phrase. Could I suggest that before a question is posted the following things are done 1) Read the wiki 2) Search the mailing list archives 3) Try google to

Re: how to insert a label of a figure?

2005-08-26 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Leon Chen wrote: Hi all, I have solve this problem by restart the lyx application... Then the number shown in the Yap goes well. Thank you for your attention However I still can not get a default 'fig:' content of the label, which is 'cap:' now... So everytime I ha

Re: lyx 1.3.6 win32: perl on xp?

2005-08-26 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Unless you want to use relyx then you don't need perl. I suggest you go and get tex2lyx (info on the wiki) and forget about perl all together Geoff On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Marcus Beyer wrote: Hello all! Congrats for successfully completing the Windows port of LyX! I just installed it. Grea

Re: output refresh when only graphics change?

2005-08-19 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 8:20 PM Subject: Re: output refresh when only graphics change? Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: - Original Message - From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: output refresh when only graphics change?

2005-08-19 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 7:37 PM Subject: Re: output refresh when only graphics change? Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Ok, I think I see the problem, though not the solution. The first time you vi

Re: Adjust image width to text width

2005-08-15 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 6:32 PM Subject: Adjust image width to text width ¿How can i adjust the image width to text width? Thanks Click on the image and a grey Graphics box pops up. Under Ouput Width select text%

Re: Problem viewing PDFs

2005-08-15 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Gustavo Guerra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:02 PM Subject: Problem viewing PDFs Hi there I just installed LyX 1.3.6 for Windows. When I select View->PDF (any of the three versions), acrobat reader gives an error saying that

Re: PS -> PDF?

2005-08-13 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
The option you want is the PDF without anything in brackets. If you are using the default UI the view menu should read DraftDVI DVI PDF PDF (dvipdfm) PDF (pdflatex) Update You want the first PDF option. The same is true in File->Export The PDF without any brackets goes via the ps fil

Palatino - SOLVED (sort of!)

2005-08-12 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Ok So I started from scratch and made my own Palatino from Truetype fonts. There is a nifty little miktex thing for this which does everything you need. http://www.mtfi.drzoom.ch/ Now my on screen fonts are great, no funny bits hanging off the T and D. (they are type 3 fonts but T1 encoding s

Palatino SUMMARY

2005-08-12 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Ok I know it is bad to start a new thread but I think a number of things need to be listed so that people (me included) aren't confused.   I am using   \usepackage{palatino}   This provides Type 1 (non-bitmap) fonts.   The dvi file is perfect - to create the dvi it makes its fonts from .vf a

Re: Palatino font

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 10:54 PM Subject: Re: Palatino font Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Ok this is becoming more of a mystery. I think this is no longer a Lyx/Latex issue so I am sorry for buggi

Re: Palatino font

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
owitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 3:23 PM Subject: Re: Palatino font Quoting Geoffrey Lloyd: Hi I am having issues with the palatino font. It prints beautifully but w

Re: Author in lower right corner and no page num on first page

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Søren O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 6:25 PM Subject: Author in lower right corner and no page num on first page The standard format for the author typography is centered on the page. I need it to be left-aligned, but ind

Re: Palatino font

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Roy Schestowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 3:23 PM Subject: Re: Palatino font Quoting Geoffrey Lloyd: Hi I am having is

Palatino font

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi   I am having issues with the palatino font. It prints beautifully but when viewed in Acrobat Reader it looks awful, as if it doesn't quite scale. Things look crunched an the letters are consistently the same shape. If I zoom in then it gets better but you can't view a document at 500%!!

Lengths

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am trying to edit a sty file to set up what I want to see on the page. There are a number of lengths that are defined \vskip x\p@ where x is a number. What exactly is the unit of length here?

Re: Subject: vertical alignment (center text vertically)

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Well it works as you want if you press return after the ERT before typing - honestly - Original Message - From: "Robert Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:50 AM Subject: Re: Subject: vertical alignment (center text vertically) Precedence: fm-user Orga

Re: vertical alignment (center text vertically)

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Robert Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:22 AM Subject: vertical alignment (center text vertically) Hello, I'm looking for a way to center a multiline text horizontally and vertically on a page. (I'm planing to write s

Re: got many Error when try previewing

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Luqman H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ekkehart Schlicht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 10:50 AM Subject: Re: got many Error when try previewing really sorry for that.. maybe it caused by server frequently down i have upload my doc t

Re: Symbol

2005-08-10 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Just for future reference in the folder (or equivalent on your system) \texmf\doc\latex\comprehensive ther should be a file named symbols-a4 in both pdf and ps formats. This contains every symbol and character you could ever want. - Original Message - From: "Sreekumar Bhaskaran-Nair {m

Re: Symbol

2005-08-10 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Yes try \S in ERT - Original Message - From: "Sreekumar Bhaskaran-Nair {msbad084}" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 3:28 PM Subject: Symbol Is there a symbol in latex for the one given in the attached PDF file? It is quite useful for representing section numb

Re: Tex Information

2005-08-10 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Sreekumar Bhaskaran-Nair {msbad084}" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 4:52 AM Subject: Re: Tex Information I had msys installed in c:\MSYS\1.0\bin That was the default path for me. But the default path for lyx was in program files.

pdflatex view

2005-08-09 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi All of a sudden when I select view->>pdflatex instead of getting the document as it is I get a very old version of it. I have tried Update, I have tried closing and starting again. ANy ideas?? view dvi works fine!

Font advice

2005-08-09 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I have prepared my thesis and all is well. I just wnated some advice or guidance about fonts in Latex - I know this is a Lyx list but many latex gurus lurk here! Basically I want to use a nice modern looking font - the sort that might be found in a scientific publication. I use a large amou

Space between table columns

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I have created a table in latex and imported it into Lyx. Unfortunately there is a large amount of space between the contents of each column. I want them to almost touch. If I right align the left hand column and left align the right, then I can get what I want (albeit with the insertion of

Re: Text and figure layout - HELP!

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Herbert Voss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 8:12 PM Subject: Re: Text and figure layout - HELP! Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Ok I have been struggling with this all day and it seems to me there must be an obvious solutio

Re: doubleclicking files vs. file-open in lyx/win

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Sven Schreiber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LyX Users List" Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 6:20 PM Subject: doubleclicking files vs. file-open in lyx/win Hi, this is from a happy user of 1.3.6 on win 2000. Nevertheless, one little quirk I want to ask about:

Text and figure layout - HELP!

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Ok I have been struggling with this all day and it seems to me there must be an obvious solution.   The layout I would like is as follows:   A name and address above each other right aligned - this bit is easy as I can just align the paragraph.   Under that a rule as wide as the text above it

lengths

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am trying to make a line on a page that is as long as the actual text in the paragraph, not the width of the text on the page. This may sound confusing but it should look like this MY NAME UNIVERSITY ADDRESS DATE _ Rather than a line that goes across the whole page.

Re: ERT vs. TeX in "Insert" menu

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Kevin Pfeiffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 12:34 PM Subject: ERT vs. TeX in "Insert" menu This just tripped me up again... I couldn't remember my keyboard shortcut for adding an ERT insert and had to scan up and down the Insert m

Re: last question tonight :-)

2005-08-05 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
ctrl-enter - Original Message - From: "Søren O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 9:20 PM Subject: last question tonight :-) How do I force a newline in a section heading? Kind regards -- Soren O'Neill, kiropraktor, MSc, klinisk lektor Rygambulatoriet, Syge

Re: Multirow ... no go !

2005-08-05 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Søren O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 7:36 PM Subject: Multirow ... no go ! I've included two lyx files. One is from the wiki at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables called table-,ultirow-lyx and it demonstrates multirow support.

Re: Tex Information

2005-08-05 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Sreekumar R. Bhaskaran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 4:47 PM Subject: Tex Information I installed Lyx 1.3.6 on Win XP. I went through the steps as described in wiki website. The problem is I am not able to assign the .sh files to o

Re: Longtable

2005-08-05 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
John This can be done using the package xcolor. It envokes the colortbl package too. I will send you the docs in a private email as the package is fairly powerful giving you a lot of control over colors used. Basically In the preamble put usepackage[table]{xcolor} then at before the

Re: Longtable

2005-08-04 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
er is already at 2 and the number 3 is assigned. Sorry that is long winded but it makes sense if you read it slowly! Anyway the work around. At the end of each table put in ERT \addtocounter{table}{-1} Hope this helps Geoff On Thursday 04 August 2005 19:21, Herbert Voss wrote: Geoffrey L

Re: Longtable

2005-08-04 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 5:57 PM Subject: Re: Longtable According to the Docs captions cannot be used unless in a float. So it looks like you will have to do ALL

Re: Longtable

2005-08-04 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
According to the Docs captions cannot be used unless in a float. So it looks like you will have to do ALL this by hand in ERT. I am willing to be stood corrected though. so \begin{longtable} \caption[myfirsttable]{myfirsttable} \label{tab1} \\ ...now all the table layout commands a

Re: weird table problems in Lyx

2005-08-04 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Herbert Voss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 4:42 PM Subject: Re: weird table problems in Lyx Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: - Original Message - From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: S

Re: weird table problems in Lyx

2005-08-04 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 3:18 PM Subject: weird table problems in Lyx I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but most times when I make a table, the first row of the table is seperate than the others. I

Re: Please try this out for me...

2005-08-03 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Søren O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 8:31 PM Subject: Re: Please try this out for me... On Wednesday 03 August 2005 21:27, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: - Original Message - From: "Søren O

Re: Please try this out for me...

2005-08-03 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Søren O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 8:21 PM Subject: Please try this out for me... I'm having a persistent problem here, please try if you can reproduce it: create an empty LyX doc in preamble: \addpackage{colortbl}

Bibliography in TOC

2005-08-03 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I can add the bibliogrpahy to the TOC by simply checking the box in the Bibtex bar. However this doesn't provide the alignment I require. It look like this 5. Conclusions Bibliography What I want is 5. Conclusions Bibliography For all other lines in the TOC I can do this by using \ad

Re: center figures with paragraph skip

2005-08-03 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 11:51 AM Subject: Re: center figures with paragraph skip On 8/3/05, Søren O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually use: \centering{} Søren, I think the brackets are irrelevant an

Re: Citation Problems

2005-08-03 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Thomas Liem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 11:13 AM Subject: Citation Problems Hello ! I have installed Lyx and it`s a really nice program. So i would like write my diploma with Lyx. But i have some problems with citation. I u

SOLVED:bold math in section heading

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
In fact this is a generic solution for section and toc headings to differ in form. I simply used the Insert->Short title option. In the Heading I had bold, in the Short title normal text. Geoff

Section headings

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
By default the section heading in Latex are bold. This is fine. In the table of contents they are written in normal type. Again all this looks good. However I need to use some math in one of my section headings. If I input it as normal it appears in the heading in normal (non-bold font). If I us

center figures with paragraph skip

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I use the center paragraph option when I place figures in floats to ensure they are in the center of the page. However with this option the spacing between the figure and the caption increases relative to the default (justified). Is there any way of having centered figures without this addit

Re: Spellcheck with Windows?

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 2:36 PM Subject: Spellcheck with Windows? I'm not sure how to set up spellcheck for windows. It kind of looks like Ispell is only for Unix. How would I do this? Download and install

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