Re: Babel in LyX 1.1.6

2001-01-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Matthew Lovell wrote: > > Hi, > > Lyx1.1.6 seems to be including the babel package in the resulting > LaTeX code. Is there a way to turn off this behavior? It doesn't > appear that I can select "none" for a language in the document > settings. :) > > I have a thesis class which is not compati

LyX 1.1.6 - preferences

2001-01-13 Thread Herbert Voss
i have the german localisation and when i change any of the fontsizes i always get: # # SCREEN & FONTS SECTION # \screen_dpi 75 \screen_zoom 175 \screen_font_sizes 5,00 6,00 7,00 8,00 9,00 10,00 11,00 12,00 13,00 14,00 i put in the values 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 i

Lyx Docbook

2001-01-13 Thread Juergen Kleiminger
Dear Users, Cofiguring the new lyx 1.1.6 I cannnot find the textclass docbook. This message appears : +checking for docbook class docbook-book... no checking for docbook class docbook... no Where can I find these classes. Greetings from Emden Harbour ( Germany), Jürgen Kleiminger

Re: lyx-1.1.5fix2 on SuSE-7-PPC?

2001-01-13 Thread Niklas Werner
well, answering myself.. compiling lyx-1.1.6 works... (at least without -fno-rtti and using the system's string classes) ppc-rpm is on ftp.sylvan.com have fun* Niklas *** Niklas Werner http://www.user.tu-berlin.de/~nickgfec/ ***

Algorithm-style release (0.3)

2001-01-13 Thread ben
Hello, A new release of the Algorithm-style package for lyx is now available (0.3). It includes some new features, bug fixes, and the style file (.inc) is now splitted in two files, a latex package file (.sty) and a light style file (.inc). The previous version (0.2) is still available. You can

pdflatex error on XFig inset in 1.1.6

2001-01-13 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi! Just playing around with lyx 1.1.6 I discovered an error using the external inset with a XFig-Graphic. Lyx converts it to eps so that pdflatex returns an error because of a wrong extension. Wouldn't it be better to include a graphic without extension and to convert the XFig also to png or p

Re: Algorithm-style release (0.3)

2001-01-13 Thread Herbert Voss
ben wrote: > light style file (.inc). The previous version (0.2) is still available. > > You can find the package at: > http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/Informatik/lyx/algorithm.html sorry, it's http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/algorithm/algorithm.html Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Should Lyx allow me to introduce a mistake like this?

2001-01-13 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:46:05AM -0600, Paul E Johnson wrote: > If it is true that sections cannot be correctly modified through > layout-paragraph, shouldn't LyX block me from making those changes? Yes, it should. I'll fix this.

Re: lyx-1.1.6_Where_are_menus_?

2001-01-13 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 01:23:07PM -0500, Andreas Rau wrote: > Hi Lyxers, > > first of all: This is a very helpful mailing-list. I learned a lot by > following the discussion. > > Today I compiled the new 1.1.6 release (RH6.2) and I only get the most > basic file i/o operations in the File menu.

Re: Release LyX 1.1.6

2001-01-13 Thread Armin Geisse
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > ... > saved your changes LyX uses ~/.lyx/preferences for its settings from then > on. That is, it ignores your old ~/.lyx/.lyxrc in future if a > preferences file exists. > But it still seems to read a ~/.lyx/lyxrc-defaults file. This was the only way I fo

cdcover template missing?

2001-01-13 Thread Christopher Jones
I've heard it said on the list that there is a cdcover template included in the distribution. But I don't see it in my "templates" directory. So where do I go to get it?

reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread Christopher Jones
This is a reach, I know. But in the hopes that there is something out there for me, I'll ask the question: is there anything which reads text out of a bitmaped pdf or ps file?

Re: reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread R. E. de Lima-Lopes
yes there is a tool called ps2ascii, it extracts plain texts form *.ps files []s lima-lopes R.E. de Lima-Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU/Linux Registered User # 182240 On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Christopher Jones wrote: > Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 11:34:48 -0600 > From: Christopher Jon

Re: reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread Christopher Jones
I have that tool. But some pdf or ps files consist not of coded text but a bitmapped image. For instance, pdf and ps files which I download from journal databases are scanned images of journal pages. ps2ascii and pdftotext will not extract text from these files, since there is no ascii content to

Re: reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Christopher Jones wrote: > > I have that tool. But some pdf or ps files consist not of coded text but a > bitmapped image. For instance, pdf and ps files which I download from journal > databases are scanned images of journal pages. ps2ascii and pdftotext will not > extract text from these files,

keyboard bindings colliding?

2001-01-13 Thread Thorsten Mika
hi all, i am using lyx 1.1.6 in the german localization. i just discovered that the combination "M-a d", which formerly gave me the "description" paragraph style now produces a DVI, just like "C-d" does. i tried to override it in the *.bind files, but it does not work. each time i type "M-a" t

Re: keyboard bindings colliding?

2001-01-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
> files, but it does not work. each time i type "M-a" the view menu (in german > A|nzeigen) pops up. what can i do? You could change in /usr/share/lyx/bind/ every M-a to M-p to get access to the paragraph styles via M-p. Andre' -- André Pönitz [EMAIL

Re: reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread Matej Cepl
Christopher Jones wrote: > So my question is: is there any software out there which attempts to look at > bitmaps and guess what the ascii would be-- something like those programs which > read books through a scanner and try to match font characters to the image. And > I say this question is a rea

LyX 1.1.6 and DocBook

2001-01-13 Thread ben
Hello, I've jumpped from lyx-1.1.5fix1 to lyx-1.1.6, and I have some remarks about the DocBook class: * The docbook-book.layout doesn't define the Part style, which should be available in a DocBook book. It is possible to define it, only by removing the line 172 from the file docbook-book.layout

Re: LyX 1.1.6 and DocBook

2001-01-13 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I've jumpped from lyx-1.1.5fix1 to lyx-1.1.6, and I have some remarks | about the DocBook class: You really should have tested 1.1.6pre3, then we could have caught this before release... actually it seems that _no_ docbook users tested pre3... (seems that the s

Nested Tabs in Preferences etc.

2001-01-13 Thread Allan Rae
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza wrote: Lars has answered the first part of your question. > Besides; I was not able to enter the Look & Feel part of the > preferences menue, maybe it can be found there? Many thanks for any > recommendation! The tabs are nested. That is the top ro

Re: Release LyX 1.1.6

2001-01-13 Thread Allan Rae
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Armin Geisse wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > > > ... > > saved your changes LyX uses ~/.lyx/preferences for its settings from then > > on. That is, it ignores your old ~/.lyx/.lyxrc in future if a > > preferences file exists. > > > But it still seems to read