Re: Features Request and PDF/Acrobat question

2003-09-20 Thread robin
Paul Jahshan wrote: 4. Finally, the PDF/Acrobat problem: I've read the help file on the poor quality of LyX to PDF output when displayed through Acrobat Reader and, despite my best attempts, couldn't understand how to fix this. Again, is there a "clear" 1-2-3 method to work around this rathe

Re: Features Request and PDF/Acrobat question

2003-09-19 Thread Michael-E. Voges
Am Freitag, 19. September 2003 18:48 schrieb Paul Jahshan: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > >Accents schould work out-of-the-box. I.e. for é press Compose, ', e. > >(Compose is someetimes 'right ctrl', or Ctrl-. or one of these funny > >Windows keys) > > Nope, none of this works, neither the two Ctrls, no

Re: Features Request and PDF/Acrobat question

2003-09-19 Thread Paul Jahshan
Thanks, Rich; Rich Shepard wrote: Paul, No. Only Microsoft OSes permit spaces, no others do. LyX started as a linux front end to LaTeX which are unix tools. The ports to Winduhs are a convenience. What I find ironic is how many Microserfs eagerly adopt all the open source applications ported f

Re: Features Request and PDF/Acrobat question

2003-09-19 Thread Paul Jahshan
Thanks, Andre. Andre Poenitz wrote: Accents schould work out-of-the-box. I.e. for é press Compose, ', e. (Compose is someetimes 'right ctrl', or Ctrl-. or one of these funny Windows keys) Nope, none of this works, neither the two Ctrls, nor the two shifts (obviously), nor the Alt keys; tried a

Re: Features Request and PDF/Acrobat question

2003-09-19 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-09-19, 13:13 GMT, Angus Leeming wrote: > I'm trying slowly to encapsulate these strings inside a FileName class > so that we only have to write code once to handle this sort of mess. I am afraid, that even that doesn't work -- I heard somewhere that TeX itself is not able to work with file

Re: Features Request and PDF/Acrobat question

2003-09-19 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-09-19, 11:50 GMT, Paul Jahshan wrote: > 2. A weird limitation doesn't allow LyX to open files in directories > containing spaces for DVI/PDF viewing "Cannot run LaTeX: The path to the > lyx file cannot contain spaces." Why? Isn't this slightly ridiculous? This is actually limitation of T

Re: Features Request and PDF/Acrobat question

2003-09-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Andre Poenitz wrote: >> 2. A weird limitation doesn't allow LyX to open files in >> directories containing spaces for DVI/PDF viewing "Cannot run >> LaTeX: The path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces." Why? Isn't >> this slightly ridiculous? > > Well, spaces have a long standing tradition as a

Re: Features Request and PDF/Acrobat question

2003-09-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:50:11PM +0300, Paul Jahshan wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been using LyX for a couple of months now and reading the list's > messages with interest. > > I've had no major problems using LyX yet (and I'm writing a book!) but I > wonder if the following can either be solved

Features Request and PDF/Acrobat question

2003-09-19 Thread Paul Jahshan
Hi all, I've been using LyX for a couple of months now and reading the list's messages with interest. I've had no major problems using LyX yet (and I'm writing a book!) but I wonder if the following can either be solved here and in this version (1.3.2) or if they can be easily added to the upc