Re: Writing tech-manuals with Lyx

2000-09-11 Thread Baruch Even
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, John Culleton wrote: > Baruch Even wrote: > > > > I don't have the context of the message so I can't really understand the > > problem you reply to. But let me try to explain the situation and what I > > think is the problem I presented and that you reply to here. > > > > T

Re: Writing tech-manuals with Lyx

2000-09-11 Thread John Culleton
Baruch Even wrote: > > I don't have the context of the message so I can't really understand the > problem you reply to. But let me try to explain the situation and what I > think is the problem I presented and that you reply to here. > > The problem I raised that I think you reply to is my reque

Re: Writing tech-manuals with Lyx

2000-09-11 Thread Baruch Even
I don't have the context of the message so I can't really understand the problem you reply to. But let me try to explain the situation and what I think is the problem I presented and that you reply to here. The problem I raised that I think you reply to is my request to be able to differentiate w

Re: Writing tech-manuals with Lyx

2000-09-11 Thread nbecker
AFAIK, you don't need any of this crap. Just don't put any extension on the includegraphics, and let latex guess. At least that works for plain old latex and pdflatex (not via lyx).

RE: Writing tech-manuals with Lyx

2000-08-24 Thread Tommi Rintala
On 24 Aug 2000, at 13:42, Baruch Even wrote: > > To the best of my knowledge, and from the little bits of playing, with > pdflatex it worked with PNG images like a charm, it didn't need the > bounding box to be specified explicitly. > > You might want to try it yourself. I _am_ using pdflate

RE: Writing tech-manuals with Lyx

2000-08-24 Thread Baruch Even
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Tommi Rintala wrote: > On 24 Aug 2000, at 9:53, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > > > > What version of lyx are you using? IMO it should be easy to add a > > I'm running 1.1.5 version of LyX. > > > patch so that if you don't use an extension on the filename .eps is > > automatica

RE: Writing tech-manuals with Lyx

2000-08-24 Thread Tommi Rintala
On 24 Aug 2000, at 9:53, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > What version of lyx are you using? IMO it should be easy to add a I'm running 1.1.5 version of LyX. > patch so that if you don't use an extension on the filename .eps is > automatically added for the preview (with gs) and none for the LaTeX >

RE: Writing tech-manuals with Lyx

2000-08-24 Thread Juergen Vigna
Hi Tommi! On 24-Aug-2000 Tommi Rintala wrote: > > Hi to everybody! > > Some of the folks on this list rememeber me telling earlier that > we are starting to use Lyx for tech-writing for our manuals. I > promised to (I forgot the name already) one person to tell a bit > about the progress. What

Re: Writing tech-manuals with Lyx

2000-08-23 Thread Baruch Even
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Tommi Rintala wrote: > I am wondering, are there any plans to support other image > formats (like JPG or PNG) in Lyx? This could make the creation > of PDF files more easier. There is already an initial support, it is currently only in 1.1.6cvs (which is a development vers

Writing tech-manuals with Lyx

2000-08-23 Thread Tommi Rintala
Hi to everybody! Some of the folks on this list rememeber me telling earlier that we are starting to use Lyx for tech-writing for our manuals. I promised to (I forgot the name already) one person to tell a bit about the progress. The self-made layout is working quite alright (with Finnish tag-