Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
G. Milde wrote: On 12.01.08, rgheck wrote: The issue has to do with the use of color in chapter and section heading---headings, in particular, that appear as page headers. You always have to be careful with so-called "moving arguments". But the point remains: You don't really want to make

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-14 Thread Enrico Forestieri
rgheck writes: > Michael Thompson wrote: > > I see that you were trying to change the color of a Chapter Heading, in > > particular. This does seem like a mess, easily reproducible by me; > > titles and sections seem to work, > though. Evidently a problem for the masters. > > > > > The reaso

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
G. Milde wrote: > Just curious: > > * Would it be ok to define a colour for a chapter or section >   heading and give the same heading uncoloured as "short heading"? Should (theoretically) work. > * Would it help to \protect the colour def (as ERT)? No. This is not about moving arguments. The pr

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-13 Thread G. Milde
On 12.01.08, rgheck wrote: > The issue has to do with the use > of color in chapter and section heading---headings, in particular, that > appear as page headers. You always have to be careful with so-called > "moving arguments". But the point remains: You don't really want to make a > section

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-12 Thread rgheck
Michael Thompson wrote: I see that you were trying to change the color of a Chapter Heading, in particular. This does seem like a mess, easily reproducible by me; titles and sections seem to work, though. Evidently a problem for the masters. The reason, as Jurgen pointed out, is because th

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Thompson
I see that you were trying to change the color of a Chapter Heading, in particular. This does seem like a mess, easily reproducible by me; titles and sections seem to work, though. Evidently a problem for the masters.

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Thompson
(Fellow semi-beginner's response:) I tried this with the different ways of viewing text available to me on the mac with no problem. I notice the LyX manual says, discussing the text styles dialogue, (3.6.4): Color: You can adjust the color of the text with this control. Notice that not all dvi-

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-12 Thread rgheck
Scott Meyers wrote: rgheck wrote: You don't say which documents you are compiling. The LyX Tutorial -- 35 pages in the DVI file. Not a very long document, in other words. Something I'd hope could be generated in no more than a couple of seconds. The former is a weird bug that emerged fro

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-12 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: > > I just downloaded and installed LyX via the Windows installer. I've > > used LaTeX before (not recently), but never LyX. In playing around > > with the LyX Tutorial, I find that after changing some text to red or > > green and then generating DVI, I get errors such as this, > >  

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-11 Thread Scott Meyers
rgheck wrote: You don't say which documents you are compiling. The LyX Tutorial -- 35 pages in the DVI file. Not a very long document, in other words. Something I'd hope could be generated in no more than a couple of seconds. The former is a weird bug that emerged from a combination no-on

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-11 Thread rgheck
I just downloaded and installed LyX via the Windows installer. I've used LaTeX before (not recently), but never LyX. In playing around with the LyX Tutorial, I find that after changing some text to red or green and then generating DVI, I get errors such as this, LaTeX Error: Undefined color

Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-11 Thread Scott Meyers
I just downloaded and installed LyX via the Windows installer. I've used LaTeX before (not recently), but never LyX. In playing around with the LyX Tutorial, I find that after changing some text to red or green and then generating DVI, I get errors such as this, LaTeX Error: Undefined colo