Re: New User: How Best to Import Novel from Mac?

2010-02-09 Thread BH
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Hoodrio wrote: > > Just installed Lyx on my '09 iMac, on which I have saved a completed novel > (in Pages software).  How would I import this document's contents into Lyx > without making a mess of the formatting? It really depends on how much formatting you have.

Re: new user

2009-03-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Paul Sutton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I am fairly new to lyx and latex, so far its pretty good I have figured out how to do citations and chemical formulas etc, which is much easier than using a word processor for such tasks. I have been trying to work on a nice

Re: new user

2009-03-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-31, Doug Laidlaw wrote: > On Tuesday 31 March 2009 7:36:10 am Paul Sutton wrote: >> I put all the data in tables, but I think this was a bad idea, as the >> newlines etc are causing problems, what I want to go back to is a >> document without all the table tags in, so it just lists w

Re: new user

2009-03-30 Thread Doug Laidlaw
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 7:36:10 am Paul Sutton wrote: > Hi > > I am fairly new to lyx and latex, so far its pretty good I have figured > out how to do citations and chemical formulas etc, which is much easier > than using a word processor for such tasks. > > I have been trying to work on a nicel

Re: Re: [new user] hello everyone, and 2 questions..

2008-02-15 Thread assasukasse
rgheck ha scritto: If you search the archives, you'll find a lot on this. Generally, the view is that title pages are best configured manually, rather than using LaTeX's built-in title pages. Hello Thanks, I will try to configure the title page by setting it standard text This depends in part

Re: [new user] hello everyone, and 2 questions..

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
assasukasse schrieb: i am a new user, i am writing my degree thesis in lyx since i don't want to use Word (the results with lyx are far better) First of all you need to decide what document class you use. I can recommend a koma-skript class because it is highly customizable. Also the memoir c

Re: [new user] hello everyone, and 2 questions..

2008-02-14 Thread rgheck
assasukasse wrote: Hi everyone i am a new user, i am writing my degree thesis in lyx since i don't want to use Word (the results with lyx are far better) However i incurred in 3 problem that i need to solve if i want to make EVERYthing in lyx: 1. I should use a particular position for the i

Re: New user

2007-11-20 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> Hello, I am new in LyX, and I know perfectly LaTeX. > I will try to > transmit my experiences in order to improve LyX > which is, in my opinion, > incredible. Welcome. Marcelo in spanish -- Hola Antonio, ¡que bueno que puedas aportar conocimientos de Latex! muchas veces

Re: New User

2007-09-10 Thread Donald MacKinnon
Florian Hackenberger wrote: On Monday 10 September 2007, Donald MacKinnon wrote: Can I join the Lyx users list please? Welcome Donald! In order to subscribe to the list, please send an empty message to the following email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] as outlined on [1]. The mailing list manag

Re: New User

2007-09-10 Thread Florian Hackenberger
On Monday 10 September 2007, Donald MacKinnon wrote: > Can I join the Lyx users list please? Welcome Donald! In order to subscribe to the list, please send an empty message to the following email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] as outlined on [1]. The mailing list management software (ezmlm) will the

Re: New user and graphics display

2006-11-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Nathan Paxton wrote: I've reinstalled Imagemagick and reconfigured Lyx, and I still can't get inline images. Any other ideas? -- Nathan A. Paxton Ph.D. Candidate Dept. of Government, Harvard University You've checked "Show in LyX" in the dialog for each image, right? (Ordinarily

Re: New user and graphics display

2006-11-12 Thread Nathan Paxton
I've reinstalled Imagemagick and reconfigured Lyx, and I still can't get inline images. Any other ideas? Thanks. -N On 12 Nov 2006, at 1:40 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Nathan Paxton schrieb: I'm trying to include images in my documents, but I cannot figure out how to get them to bo

Re: New user and graphics display

2006-11-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nathan Paxton schrieb: I'm trying to include images in my documents, but I cannot figure out how to get them to both display inline on the screen and to printout when Lyx goes to process the document to PDF. > EPS images process to PDF nicely, but they don't display in the screen version.

Re: (new user) how to import a bibliographic database from a medline querry ?

2004-03-08 Thread tom mettner
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 09:33:48 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Spitzmueller) wrote: > under Linux, there's > the bibliography frontend pybliographic And there ist the excellent Java Tool "JabRef". Just use Google to find it. HTH too Tom

Re: (new user) how to import a bibliographic database from a medline querry ?

2004-03-07 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Patrick Pommier wrote: > Hello, > I plan to leave word/end-note for lyx, but I have a problem with the > bibliography. > > I have bibliographic database saved as a text file in the medline format > (biblio.txt). I didn't find how to use lyx in order to import this file > to insert a citation i

Re: New User needs help with the Tutorial

2003-02-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Paul" == Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: >> Paul E Condon wrote: >>> I'm working thru the Tutorial. I've gotten to the place where I'm >>> asked to type in 'Introduction' and change it's environment to >>> Section (in section 2.2.1 of the Turorial

RE: New user

2003-02-11 Thread Steven Homolya
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Vasileios Lourdas wrote: > First of all, thank you for your answer. But as i recall, my question was > about setting up LyX to produce greek documents (.dvi or whatever they are > called), instead of setting it up for Windows. I know that setting up LyX > for Windows is a rath

RE: New user

2003-02-11 Thread Vasileios Lourdas
X users mailing list > Subject: Re: New user > > > On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Vasileios Lourdas wrote: > > > partition of my hard disk (currently using Windows XP). I have > tried to find > > a LyX-like type setting program for Windows, but with no luck. Anyway, i > > If mess

Re: New User needs help with the Tutorial

2003-02-11 Thread Paul E Condon
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: I'm working thru the Tutorial. I've gotten to the place where I'm asked to type in 'Introduction' and change it's environment to Section (in section 2.2.1 of the Turorial) The Tutorial says 'LyX numbers the section "1" and typesets ...'. But no

Re: New User needs help with the Tutorial

2003-02-11 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm working thru the Tutorial. I've gotten to the place where I'm asked > to type in 'Introduction' and change it's environment to Section (in > section 2.2.1 of the Turorial) > The Tutorial says 'LyX numbers the section "1" and typesets ...'. But no > number appears on the s

Re: New user

2003-02-11 Thread Matej Cepl
Rob S wrote: > Lyx has opened my eyes to a world outside windows. I'm in the > process of change. If you do not need to install XFree86/Cygwin for other reasons, than you do not have to do it just because of LyX: http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/ You probably have to download original

Re: New user

2003-02-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 04:30:18PM +0200, robin wrote: > I was wondering whether it would be possible to have LyX use the > OpenOffice Word filters rather than wv. wv does a pretty good job on > many Word documents, but it tends to choke on complicated formatting and > some charsets. Yes, I

Re: New user

2003-02-11 Thread robin
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:20:49PM +1100, Steven Homolya wrote: If messages on this list are any indication, there are a lot of people using Lyx in MS-Windows (with Cygwin). Which begs the question where we failed... Failed to make it clear that one does not need to look

Re: New user

2003-02-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:20:49PM +1100, Steven Homolya wrote: > > > If messages on this list are any indication, there are a lot of people > > > using Lyx in MS-Windows (with Cygwin). > > > > Which begs the question where we failed... > > Failed to make it clear that one does not need to look

Re: New user

2003-02-11 Thread Steven Homolya
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:52:25PM +1100, Steven Homolya wrote: > > > partition of my hard disk (currently using Windows XP). I have tried to find > > > a LyX-like type setting program for Windows, but with no luck. Anyway, i > > > > If messages on this

RE: New user

2003-02-11 Thread Rob S
> > Which begs the question where we failed... Failed.. I don't think so; Lyx has opened my eyes to a world outside windows. I'm in the process of change. Rob S > > Andre' > > -- > Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, > will not have, nor do they deserve, either on

Re: New user

2003-02-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:52:25PM +1100, Steven Homolya wrote: > > partition of my hard disk (currently using Windows XP). I have tried to find > > a LyX-like type setting program for Windows, but with no luck. Anyway, i > > If messages on this list are any indication, there are a lot of people

Re: New user

2003-02-10 Thread Steven Homolya
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Vasileios Lourdas wrote: > partition of my hard disk (currently using Windows XP). I have tried to find > a LyX-like type setting program for Windows, but with no luck. Anyway, i If messages on this list are any indication, there are a lot of people using Lyx in MS-Windows (

Re: New user, post RTFM

2001-02-21 Thread robin
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:31:58PM -0800, DAve wrote: > > Can anyone give me clue as to what is going wrong with relyx, or am I doing the >completely wrong thing > > here. The files I downloaded did not come with 'res.layout' as the errors indicate. > > In order to use ne

Re: New user, post RTFM

2001-02-21 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:31:58PM -0800, DAve wrote: > Can anyone give me clue as to what is going wrong with relyx, or am I doing the >completely wrong thing > here. The files I downloaded did not come with 'res.layout' as the errors indicate. In order to use new document classes, LyX & reLyX