Re: per-$DISPLAY font zoom?

2004-08-24 Thread stephan beal
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 14:42, Angus Leeming wrote: > #! /bin/sh > > # A script to start lyx on a 21" screen > > LYXDIR=$HOME/.lyx > PREFERENCES=$LYXDIR/preferences > > # Tune to suit > ZOOM=120 > > test -r ${PREFERENCES} && { > grep '^\\screen_zoom' ${PREFERENCES} > /dev/null && { >

Re: [lyx-users] in the subject line

2004-08-24 Thread stephan beal
On Monday 23 August 2004 18:15, John Levon wrote: > No, this isn't going to happen. You need to find out how to get your > mail client to filter on other headers than the subject line i appologize if i'm beating a dead horse here, but could we get an explanation of why it isn't feasible? A trilli

Re: Difference between "pdf" "dvipdfm" and "pdflatex" ?

2004-08-24 Thread stephan beal
On Monday 23 August 2004 16:19, Herbert Voss wrote: > > Or if it creates incomplete PDFs. :/ i've got one doc which doesn't > > use any special features (no indexing, no images, no formulas... > > nothing but text and section numbers), but one of the pages it > > generates (out of 18 or so) is half

Re: per-$DISPLAY font zoom?

2004-08-24 Thread stephan beal
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 09:45, Helge Hafting wrote: > Of course this solution makes changing any other preferences > more difficult, as you have to update the two other files > afterwards. A better option is to write a script that modifies > the \screen_zoom setting in .lyx/preferences directly

Re: Difference between "pdf" "dvipdfm" and "pdflatex" ?

2004-08-23 Thread stephan beal
On Monday 23 August 2004 10:53, Helge Hafting wrote: > pdflatex is also a lot faster than the other alternatives, so use it > unless you really need > some feature only found in the others. Or if it creates incomplete PDFs. :/ i've got one doc which doesn't use any special features (no indexing,

Re: problem with accents after kde update

2004-08-23 Thread stephan beal
On Monday 23 August 2004 03:26, Mario Lopes wrote: > Need some help please, I really need LyX running smoothly! Well, > yes.. I'm a LyX-dependent ;-) As a temporary work around, if you have another, non-upgraded box with lyx on it, you can run it over X11 from the other machine. Not a solution,

Re: selection bug in lyx 1.3.4, kicker

2004-08-19 Thread stephan beal
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 19:28, John Levon wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 05:29:29PM +0200, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: > > I was am not certain if this has been noticed by others, but if I > > select text in lyx-1.3.4 (qt) and select another desktop in kpager, > > kicker becomes unresponsive.

Re: proposal for bug fix vis-a-vis index entries

2004-08-16 Thread stephan beal
On Monday 16 August 2004 14:56, Helge Hafting wrote: > Careful now. _Only_ autoescaping will render impossible all > the stuff we do today with _ and | and \ and so on when writing index > entries. Helge, You've made some very valid aruments. i wasn't at all aware that auto-escaping for indexe

Re: proposal for bug fix vis-a-vis index entries

2004-08-14 Thread stephan beal
On Saturday 14 August 2004 14:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting stephan beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > QString::replace("_","\\_") should do the trick, and would be > > trivial to add to the slot which handles the OK button (though i > > don'

Re: woe with indexing

2004-08-13 Thread stephan beal
On Friday 13 August 2004 03:38, Fernando Perez wrote: > stephan beal wrote: > > Now it's time for me to go hack lyxport so it can run makeindex... > > (lyxport-exported docs are missing the index). ... > If you get this to work, send the mods/patch my way, and I'll p

indexing question

2004-08-12 Thread stephan beal
Yo, i've noticed with indexing that PDF exports show the page numbers in the index and HTML exports show section numbers. Is there a way to get PDF exports to use the section number in the index, or to show both section # and page number? Not a big deal, just curious. Some pages in my docs hav

Re: woe with indexing

2004-08-12 Thread stephan beal
On Thursday 12 August 2004 16:33, William F. Adams wrote: > If you take HV up on getting the tex file, you can then re-import it > into LyX and have a good file which you can examine to learn how to > enter such special characters into index fields. That's a very good idea. Thanks :) Regarding ID

Re: woe with indexing

2004-08-12 Thread stephan beal
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 21:19, Herbert Voss wrote: > stephan beal wrote: > > But deleting the broken IDX entry just causes MORE errors. i don't > > get it Just FYI, after nuking all IDX entries i've gotten it to work, and am now happily re-indexing my document.

proposal for bug fix vis-a-vis index entries

2004-08-12 Thread stephan beal
@lyx developers, i'd look at doing this fix myself, but i'm on a dialup line, paying for each minute online, and the lyx tarball is 5M+. For the Qt interface, it seems it would be trivial to fix the Index Item entry dialog to automatically escape any illegal characters, like "_". QString::rep

Re: woe with indexing

2004-08-12 Thread stephan beal
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 21:19, Herbert Voss wrote: > you have a lot of errors in your code. It's not MY code, it's LyX's code ;). i just do the typing. i find it extremely disappointing that lyx allows me to enter invalid entries using the Index entry dialog!!! > - the underscore is _math_ c

woe with indexing

2004-08-11 Thread stephan beal
Hi, Lyx users! i'm pulling my hair out... while exporting my Lyx doc i have ONE error, something to do with an index entry. When i remove the index entry then i suddenly get tons of COMPLETELY unrelated errors, going all the way back to the very top of the doc. i'm damned if i do, damned if i d

Re: enabling index breaks export?

2004-06-01 Thread stephan beal
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 18:31, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Your index entries contain LaTeX command characters like '#', '&' and > '_'. To avoid that LaTeX use them as commands set a backslash before, > like '\_'. > > LyX inserts the backslash automatically in the background if you type > a command characte

Re: Problem with text classes

2004-06-01 Thread stephan beal
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 18:01, Ernesto Jardim wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using 1.3.4 in a suse 8.2 box. I'm getting an error about the > article class non existence ... > > This is strange because It happenend out of nothing, without any > aparent reason. > > How can I fix this ? i got this after upgra

enabling index breaks export?

2004-06-01 Thread stephan beal
Hi, Lyxers! (i'm new to this list, but have been using lyx for several years now.) i have a problem which i'm hoping someone can help me solve: i recently went through one of my docs and added a bunch of index entries. That all works fine and good. However, when i insert the INDEX down at the