Re: Newbie questions: templates -> Document Settings -> ?

2010-02-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Marshall Feldman wrote: 1. I'm writing a conference paper. LyX has a few conference/proceedings templates, but none suit my needs. Several document classes could work for me, but they're not complete. For example, a conference paper should list the conference, location, etc.,

Re: Newbie questions: templates -> Document Settings -> ?

2010-02-09 Thread rgheck
On 02/09/2010 01:28 AM, Marshall Feldman wrote: Hi, As a newbie to Lyx, I'm almost there in understanding how to use LyX and have a few basic questions. Here's what I think I know: Hello from down the way at Brown. 1. Templates are just LyX documents saved in the place where templates live

Re: newbie questions - URLs in PDF, graphical diff

2009-07-03 Thread rgheck
Andrew Daviel wrote: 3) Is there an HTML output filter ? latex2html is too old and fails miserably on Lyx exported latex. You can try the new elyxer output filter. Native LyX HTML output is under development. 4) Is it possible to choose which PDF output filter to use on the command line ? "

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-18 Thread Gmane User
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> You solution of installing tetex-extra from cygwin works magically. It now >> takes seconds to do >> View->pdflatex from Lyx. It hasn't solved the scrbook problem, but I'm sure >> that's just a matter of >> googling the class

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-15 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Enrico, > > You solution of installing tetex-extra from cygwin works magically. It now > takes seconds to do > View->pdflatex from Lyx. It hasn't solved the scrbook problem, but I'm sure > that's just a matter of > googling the class and installing it in

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-15 Thread Gmane User
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Log line: ./Tutorial.tex:48: Font T1/cmr/m/sc/9=eccc0900 at 9.0pt not >> loadable: Metric (T > > I think that you are missing the tetex-extra package. Try issuing the > command "kpsewhich eccc.mf" and see what it says. F

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-13 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Log line: ./Tutorial.tex:48: Font T1/cmr/m/sc/9=eccc0900 at 9.0pt not > loadable: Metric (T I think that you are missing the tetex-extra package. Try issuing the command "kpsewhich eccc.mf" and see what it says. For me its output is: $ kpsewhich ecc

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-12 Thread Gmane User
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Well, I didn't have a chance to repeat the attempt on the original computer >> on which the problems was >> observed. However, I tried it on another computer, with the same apparent >> problem (Lyx goes away, >> consumes much

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-12 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I didn't have a chance to repeat the attempt on the original computer > on which the problems was > observed. However, I tried it on another computer, with the same apparent > problem (Lyx goes away, > consumes much CPU, and "never" comes back). I n

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-11 Thread Gmane User
Gmane User wrote: > Richard Heck wrote: >> Gmane User wrote: >>> I'm reading the online documentation, and see no navigation panel >>> to navigate the chapters and subsections. There is only the "Table >>> of Contents" (TOC) button, which only shows 1st level headings. >> Look at the Navigation

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-11 Thread Gmane User
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Enrico Forestieri wrote: Gmane User schrieb: > I've installed LaTex and Lyx via the Cygwin installation, > However, this always seems to crash Lyx. >>> I am using a cygwin version of LyX and have no problems

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-08 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks, Enrico. I will give it a try...will be some time this week, as > there has been a crunch lately. No problem. I would also suggest that you verify whether the problem only occurs when there are graphics. -- Enrico

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-06 Thread Gmane User
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Enrico Forestieri wrote: Gmane User schrieb: > I've installed LaTex and Lyx via the Cygwin installation, > However, this always seems to crash Lyx. >>> I am using a cygwin version of LyX and have no problems

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-06 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >> Gmane User schrieb: > >> > >>> I've installed LaTex and Lyx via the Cygwin installation, > >> > However, this always seems to crash Lyx. > > > > I am using a cygwin version of LyX and have no problems. When you say that >

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-05 Thread Gmane User
Richard Heck wrote: > Gmane User wrote: >> I'm reading the online documentation, and see no navigation panel >> to navigate the chapters and subsections. There is only the "Table >> of Contents" (TOC) button, which only shows 1st level headings. > > Look at the Navigation menu. The TOC button is

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-05 Thread Gmane User
Enrico Forestieri wrote: >> Gmane User schrieb: >> >>> I've installed LaTex and Lyx via the Cygwin installation, >> > However, this always seems to crash Lyx. > > I am using a cygwin version of LyX and have no problems. When you say that > you are trying to view the pdf, do you mean that you are

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-05 Thread Gmane User
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Gmane User schrieb: > >> I've installed LaTex and Lyx via the Cygwin installation, > > Better use LyX's native windows builds when it is possible to avoid > cygwin. Coming from a unix environment, I actually like Cygwin. > Here's a possible installer that also installs MiKTe

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-05 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Enrico Forestieri schrieb: > > > Better avoid the native windows builds if it is possible to use cygwin. > > There's no reason for this. I might be an advantage for you to use > cygwin (for what reason btw.?) but not for new users! I think that cygwin

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Enrico Forestieri schrieb: Better avoid the native windows builds if it is possible to use cygwin. There's no reason for this. I might be an advantage for you to use cygwin (for what reason btw.?) but not for new users! Or why do you think we have invested so much time to get a native Window

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-04 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gmane User schrieb: > > > I've installed LaTex and Lyx via the Cygwin installation, > > Better use LyX's native windows builds when it is possible to avoid > cygwin. ;-) Better avoid the native windows builds if it is possible to use cygwin. > > Ho

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-04 Thread Richard Heck
Gmane User wrote: > I'm reading the online documentation, and see no navigation panel to navigate > the chapters and subsections. There is only the "Table of Contents" (TOC) > button, which only shows 1st level headings. Look at the Navigation menu. The TOC button is there to insert at TOC, no

Re: Newbie questions re. Lyx

2006-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Gmane User schrieb: I've installed LaTex and Lyx via the Cygwin installation, Better use LyX's native windows builds when it is possible to avoid cygwin. Here's a possible installer that also installs MiKTeX and configures it for LyX's needs: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller I'

Re: Newbie questions

2005-09-30 Thread Helge Hafting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) In need to change the *subsection font to italics, how is this done? Several solutions: 1. A new layout The ideal solution is to get/make a new layout file for lyx, that sets everything up right for you. That way, you get a new document type that you might want

RE: Newbie questions

2005-09-28 Thread lewisa
Thanks all, My articles are now date free. I had found Paul Johnsons stuff searching the mail-archive, but I hadn't come across the wiki pages. I hope they provide the answers I am looking for. Alastair Lewis

Re: Newbie questions

2005-09-28 Thread chr
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Daniel Watkins wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 23:30 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 3) Biblographies. I have used pybliographic to create .bib databases. > > However, changing the order citations in the text upsets the citation > > numbering within the text. I can't find a

Re: Newbie questions

2005-09-27 Thread Daniel Watkins
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 23:30 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 3) Biblographies. I have used pybliographic to create .bib databases. > However, changing the order citations in the text upsets the citation > numbering within the text. I can't find a simple HOWTO on getting the > whole bibtext thing g

Re: Newbie questions

2005-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to lyx, and have been hooked by the concept and potential power of the application. I principally would like to use it for (surgical) journal article preparation. I have three questions that will ease the transation away from OpenOffice.

Re: newbie questions about lyx/sgml

2004-12-14 Thread Bo Peng
> > 1. For whatever text in code and verbatim environment, I see [[CDATA etc > >in ps/pdf/html output. > That is a bug. Could you send me a small file showing this? #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \textclass linuxdoc \language english \input

Re: newbie questions about lyx/sgml

2004-12-13 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 13 December 2004 17:30, Bo Peng wrote: > Dear List, > > I am a long time lyx user but totally new to sgml. I am writting a > user's manual and decide to use sgml for its better style. I encountered > several problems: > > 1. For whatever text in code and verbatim environment, I see [[CDAT

Re: Newbie Questions

2004-10-08 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Herbert Voss schrieb: Uwe Stöhr wrote: [...] choose Layout -> Paragraph -> left aligned this makes only sense for a few paragraphs. For the whole document a \raggedroght in ERT is better I think, \raggedright would be of more use ;-) Dominik.-

Re: Newbie Questions

2004-10-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Also, LyX is hyphenating my text when it reaches the margins. How do I disable this feature? I would rather have text not hyphenated. choose Layout -> Paragraph -> left aligned this makes only sense for a few paragraphs. For the whole document a \raggedroght in ERT is better Herbe

Re: Newbie Questions

2004-10-08 Thread N Castro
--- Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > N Castro wrote: > > > I think I would use some arrangement like Part, > > Chapter, Section, but I don't want the extra > numbers > > (such as 1.1.1 subsection, or Chapter 1- Chapter > > title), I would like to just have the names of > each > > section.

Re: Newbie Questions

2004-10-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
N Castro wrote: I think I would use some arrangement like Part, Chapter, Section, but I don't want the extra numbers (such as 1.1.1 subsection, or Chapter 1- Chapter title), I would like to just have the names of each section. How would I do this? Use the starred form of the environments, e.g. choo

Re: Newbie questions...

2004-04-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
German Riano, Ph. D. wrote: These may be FAQ, but I did not find an answer in the FAQs I checked. I am trying to get Ruurd Reitsma´s lyx windows implementation to work on a win2000 machine with MikTex. When running lyx I get: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! There is a textclass.lst

Re: Newbie questions...

2004-04-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I am trying to get Ruurd Reitsma´s lyx windows implementation to work on a win2000 machine with MikTex. When running lyx I get: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! There is a textclass.lst file located at lyx\share\lyx\ which looks fine to my untrained eye. Any idea what is wrong? Try t

Re: Newbie questions...

2004-04-15 Thread Angus Leeming
German Riano, Ph. D. wrote: > I am trying to get Ruurd Reitsma´s lyx windows implementation to > work on a win2000 machine with MikTex. When running lyx I get: > > LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! >From the command line: lyx -dbg all > lyx.log should provide you with a mass of info

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Rajil Saraswat
seems i am on a old version, upgrading now. Thanks - LaTeX2e <2000/06/01> Babel and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n ohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/koma-sc

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rajil Saraswat wrote: > How can i find out which version i am using? if you did a LaTeX run (view dvi/postscript), the version is mentioned in the log file (view->LaTeX Log file). Juergen.

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Rajil Saraswat
How can i find out which version i am using? The tex distribution i have is Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) Does this give some hint? Thanks On Tuesday 24 June 2003 18:29, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Rajil Saraswat wrote: > > Do i need to put this is in the preamble? > > Yes. > > > It gives me two

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rajil Saraswat wrote: > Do i need to put this is in the preamble? Yes. > It gives me two errors if i put > this in the preamble > > LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}. > \setkomafont{s >ectioning}{\normalfon

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Rajil Saraswat
Do i need to put this is in the preamble? It gives me two errors if i put this in the preamble LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}. \setkomafont{s ectioning}{\normalfont\normalcolor\bfseries} You're in trouble h

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rajil Saraswat wrote: > The koma-script reminds me of Arial font of > windows. Can this property be changed for koma-script? Shure. \setkomafont{sectioning}{\normalfont\normalcolor\bfseries} KOMA Script is one of the most flexible class bundle. Have a look at the ~300 pages documentation and yo

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Rajil Saraswat
Thanks for answering my questions. The koma-script looks to have more environments than the simple article style. However i didnt like the fonts of koma-script, i want to use the fonts as used by the article style(i think it is the Adobe Times one). The koma-script reminds me of Arial font of

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-06-24, 08:29 GMT, Rajil Saraswat wrote: > Yesterday i started my first paper in lyx, my supervisor was taken > aback when i showed him the printout, 'it was exactly like a journal' Not only like a journal -- many journals are created with LaTeX :-). > 1. Using the article layout always

Re: FEATURE REQUEST - Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:27:16PM +0900, Jan Peters wrote: > >What's wrong with the current TeX button? > > There was just one user saying: how can I take out the \date line out of > the article? In Latex that would be no problem and that was the answer. > But LyX should be more than a front-end

Re: FEATURE REQUEST - Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Jan Peters
Apparently it's too hard to change this, so it looks like this will be a limitation in LyX for some time now ;( . ... however, you won't find a fancy point&click interface in LyX for that. Could you just add a button: [LATEX] or [PREAMBLE] for these things? What's wrong with the current TeX button

Re: FEATURE REQUEST - Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:58:03PM +0900, Jan Peters wrote: > >>>Apparently it's too hard to change this, so it looks like this will be > >>>a limitation in LyX for some time now ;( . > >> > >>... however, you won't find a fancy point&click interface in LyX for > >>that. > > Could you just add a b

FEATURE REQUEST - Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Jan Peters
Apparently it's too hard to change this, so it looks like this will be a limitation in LyX for some time now ;( . ... however, you won't find a fancy point&click interface in LyX for that. Could you just add a button: [LATEX] or [PREAMBLE] for these things? It is completely fine from a Users point

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rajil Saraswat wrote: > I have some newbie questions here,It would be great if you can give me > hints on these: In general, I can recommend Herbert Voss' Lyx Tips. They are a treasure not only for newbies: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/index.phtml There are also a useful Lyx Wiki page

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Thomas CLive Richards
> > > > Unfortunately, these things seem to be "hard coded" into Lyx. > > These things are 'hard wired' into the corresponding LaTeX class. > This can be changes easily with a line of LaTeX or two... > > > Apparently it's too hard to change this, so it looks like this will > > be a limitation in

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 08:44:21PM +1200, Thomas CLive Richards wrote: > > 2. For a particular layout, how do i change the > > default font settings for paragraph, section, subsection etc. I have > > tried exploring the Layout>Document,Character but these donot change > > setting globally for a par

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:29:40AM +0100, Rajil Saraswat wrote: > Yesterday i started my first paper in lyx, my supervisor was taken aback when > i showed him the printout, 'it was exactly like a journal' is what he said. Good. > So i am sticking with lyx for long time now :) > I have some newb

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-06-24 Thread Thomas CLive Richards
Hey! > 2. For a particular layout, how do i change the > default font settings for paragraph, section, subsection etc. I have > tried exploring the Layout>Document,Character but these donot change > setting globally for a particular environmental depth. > 3. How do i change the type of numbering

Re: Newbie questions

2002-11-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:28:39PM -0500, Mark Carroll wrote: > Cool, thanks. (-: It turned out that our local LaTeX person also thought > the \date{} thing would work! The searchable archive is great too. I > haven't found the answer to my removing-section-numbers question yet Can his be solved b

Re: Newbie questions

2002-11-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Christian" == Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christian> Oh, btw Mark, I just checked and there is nothing in the Christian> FAQ.lyx about this, which must be the most frequently asked Christian> question about LyX... Indeed. Christian> So I took the liberty of adding th

RE: Newbie questions

2002-11-20 Thread Jochen Wurster
Hi, here is another way to get rid of the section and subsection numbering. Use Section* environment instead of Section. Same with SubSection* and so on. No numbering on the screen and no numbering on the output. But remember those sections will not be listed in the ToC. Bye Jochen -Ursprung

Re: Newbie questions

2002-11-20 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 04:52, Christian Ridderström wrote: > > You'll probably have lots of use for your "latex"-person :-) > > Here's a very hackish solution for how to get rid of the section and > subsection numbers... it's in a "wiki", so anybody who knows better can > add a better soluti

Re: Newbie questions

2002-11-19 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mark Carroll wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Christian Ridderström wrote: > (snip) > > Oh, btw Mark, I just checked and there is nothing in the FAQ.lyx about > > this, which must be the most frequently asked question about LyX... > > > > So I took the liberty of adding the small

Re: Newbie questions

2002-11-19 Thread Mark Carroll
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Christian Ridderström wrote: (snip) > Oh, btw Mark, I just checked and there is nothing in the FAQ.lyx about > this, which must be the most frequently asked question about LyX... > > So I took the liberty of adding the small piece of .lyx-code below > to the FAQ.lyx now I j

Re: Newbie questions

2002-11-19 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mark Carroll wrote: > > how to get rid of the date under the title > > Am I missing something obvious? I have all the help docs installed if I > just need to be pointed to something I missed. > Oh, btw Mark, I just checked and there is nothing in the FAQ.lyx about this, whi

Re: Newbie questions

2002-11-19 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mark Carroll wrote: > Hi. I'm using LyX 1.1.6fix4 with "latex --version" giving, > TeX (Web2C 7.3.7) 3.14159 > kpathsea version 3.3.7 > > I am writing a document - my first in LyX - where the title, section, > subsection structure of "article" seems to work well, but I can't

Re: Newbie Questions

2001-02-17 Thread George De Bruin
On Friday 16 February 2001 18:49, Dekel Tsur wrote: > Did you put a TOC in the document using the > insert->list&toc->table_of_contents menu ? > > Maybe you did something else wrong. > See the attached example file. That was exactly it. Just inserted it and it works perfectly. I thought

Re: Newbie Questions

2001-02-16 Thread Marcus Beyer
> On Thursday 15 February 2001 18:54, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > Use Chapter instead of Chapter*. > > Then open the document dialog, and set the "section number depth" to -1. > > This is really, really close. I see now that the TOC menu and Edit->Table > of Contents do show the entries. However, whe

Re: Newbie Questions

2001-02-16 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 12:32:38PM +, George De Bruin wrote: > On Thursday 15 February 2001 18:54, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > Use Chapter instead of Chapter*. > > Then open the document dialog, and set the "section number depth" to -1. > > This is really, really close. I see now that the TOC m

Re: Newbie Questions

2001-02-16 Thread George De Bruin
On Thursday 15 February 2001 18:54, Dekel Tsur wrote: > Use Chapter instead of Chapter*. > Then open the document dialog, and set the "section number depth" to -1. This is really, really close. I see now that the TOC menu and Edit->Table of Contents do show the entries. However, when I genera

Re: Newbie Questions

2001-02-15 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:19:35AM +, George De Bruin wrote: > Hello, > > I am fairly new to LyX, and am having a bit of a problem figuring out how to > do something(s). > > What I am trying to format is a 'book' of 'poetry'. Currently I am using the > book (koma script) document class.

Re: Newbie Questions

2001-02-15 Thread Marcus Beyer
> > What I am trying to format is a 'book' of 'poetry'. Currently I am using > > the book (koma script) document class. I've marked the title of each > > poem using the \layout Chapter* formatting, as that places each piece on > > a new page and doesn't number them. (I also changed the format t

Re: Newbie Questions

2001-02-15 Thread Herbert Voss
George De Bruin wrote: > > Hello, > > I am fairly new to LyX, and am having a bit of a problem figuring out how to > do something(s). > > What I am trying to format is a 'book' of 'poetry'. Currently I am using the > book (koma script) document class. I've marked the title of each poem using

Re: Newbie Questions

2000-07-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Kayvan" == Kayvan A Sylvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kayvan> On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 09:28:08AM -0400, Dave Rolfe wrote: >> I have just started using Lyx to create patent documents. I am >> using version 1.1.5fix1 and installed it as an rpm binary. It is >> working quite well, but I have

Re: Newbie Questions

2000-07-26 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 09:28:08AM -0400, Dave Rolfe wrote: > I have just started using Lyx to create patent documents. I am using > version 1.1.5fix1 and installed it as an rpm binary. It is working quite > well, but I have a couple questions. Right now I am printing out using > the Times font, b