binary distribution for IRIX

2001-02-12 Thread alex
What about a binary distribution for SGI-IRIX 6.x with static library objects for user installation? Is it a work in progress or has anyone forgotten about IRIX users? ;) Thank you. Best regards Alex

Re: spelling

2001-02-12 Thread Eric Seynaeve
What hyphenation package are you using? The most recent one is nehyph96.tex (on my system located in /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/), look on your favorite CTAN site. Another pretty good one is nehyph.tex but it's older. Stay away from the older hyphenation patterns (nehyphx.tex, nehyph1

Tables in letter class

2001-02-12 Thread Raffael Herzog
I'm having problems with tables when using the document class "letter (g-brief, german)". I get 20 LaTeX errors as soon as I include a table in the letter. If I delete it, everything's OK again. I need tables in letters because I'm writing bills and offers with lyx. With lyx1.1.5, there was no pro

Re: no shortcut for floats

2001-02-12 Thread Peter Suetterlin
> If I try to insert a float via a shortcut the former > combination does not work. The menu tells me to use > instead (the a is underlined), but this opens the math-formual editor > (which actually should be c-m or something). This does not happen in the > help files (which are write protecte

lyx-cannot load colormap

2001-02-12 Thread Jiri Mares
I have RH 6.2 on P120 MHz and S3 videocard. When I start lyx (1.1.5fix1) I get inversion in colormap. How can I configure Lyx to avoid this? Thanks a lot -- Sincerely Jiri Mares [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses

Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-12 Thread Jim Osborn
Hi LyX experts, Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller" sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu? I'm using 1.1.5 currently, but I'll upgrade if necessary. TIA, Jim

Re: Tables in letter class

2001-02-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Raffael Herzog wrote: > > I'm having problems with tables when using the document class > "letter (g-brief, german)". I get 20 LaTeX errors as soon as I include > a table in the letter. If I delete it, everything's OK again. I need > tables in letters because I'm writing bills and offers with lyx

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Jim Osborn wrote: > > Hi LyX experts, > > Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size > in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller" > sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu? have a look at http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts.html#newfont He

Re: pageheader section and subsection not separated

2001-02-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:53:57PM +0100, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > > > I am using in an article fancy pagestyle. Section and subsection titles are > > displayed as page headers, but-, because of their length, - they overlay > > partly. How to avoid this? > > You can de

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-12 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Jim Osborn wrote: | > | > Hi LyX experts, | > | > Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size | > in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller" | > sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu? | | | have a look at |

Shadow color box

2001-02-12 Thread Beaubert Francois 0251858286
Hi, Is there a package that can do a shadow box with the following parameters: -colour of the shadow -colour of the text -colour of the frame I found the package pstricks that do that but I can't use it since I compil my tex file with pdflatex Thank's -- """

Re: Shadow color box

2001-02-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Beaubert Francois 0251858286 wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there a package that can do a shadow box with the following > parameters: > > -colour of the shadow > -colour of the text > -colour of the frame > > I found the package pstricks that do that but I can't use it since I > compil my tex file with

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-12 Thread Jim Osborn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) asks: >| > Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size >| > in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller" >| > sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu? >| > >But I still want to know _why_ you need this. My wife, who ha

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-12 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jim Osborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) asks: | >| > Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size | >| > in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller" | >| > sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu? | >| | > | >But I st

Re: Shadow color box

2001-02-12 Thread Beaubert Francois 0251858286
Herbert Voss wrote: > Beaubert Francois 0251858286 wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Is there a package that can do a shadow box with the following > > parameters: > > > > -colour of the shadow > > -colour of the text > > -colour of the frame > > > > I found the package pstricks that do that but I can't

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
> When she wants eighteen-point type, dammit, she wants eighteen > points. She says anyone who speced a type size of "huger" > would have been laughed out of a job. I guess that person would have found a position on this side of the pond ;-) Andre' -- André Pönitz ...

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-12 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Jim Osborn wrote: > When she wants eighteen-point type, dammit, she wants eighteen > points. She says anyone who speced a type size of "huger" > would have been laughed out of a job. Well put :). I guess that the reason LaTeX (and LyX) doesn't use specific numeric sizes is

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Jim Osborn wrote: > > > When she wants eighteen-point type, dammit, she wants eighteen > > points. She says anyone who speced a type size of "huger" > > would have been laughed out of a job. > > Well put :). I guess that the reason LaTeX (and LyX

Pb with new layout

2001-02-12 Thread Yves Bergeon
Hi, I am trying to create a new layout, but I have this problem. Is-it possible to get the number of item in an itemize block and to send back this number to the beginning of the itemize list (itemize is an example, my problem is for an environment named overlay). This next example will show you

Pb option in a new convertor DVI -> PDF

2001-02-12 Thread Yves Bergeon
Hi, I am trying to use a convertor DVI-> PDF, which name is dvipdf (ghost 6.50). It's OK by hand, but when I try to use it from lyx, I had a window with this message: Error while executing dvipdf -p letter 'file_name.dvi' 'file_name.pdf' This is normal, because -p letter is not an option. So, ho

Re: no shortcut for floats

2001-02-12 Thread Thies Wels
> > For the moment, you might want to download > ftp://hst33127.phys.uu.nl/pub/LyX/lyx.mo_1.1.6fix1.gz > gunzip it and copy it as lyx.mo to your locale directory, most probably > /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lyx.mo I did that but nothing changed. Do I have to configure something additional

Word Wrap in Tables

2001-02-12 Thread Stephen Carville
I am trying to create some tables that will have cells with pretty long lines. So far I have been unable to get these line to wrap on screen or on paper. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Govern

Simple equation format problem

2001-02-12 Thread Flink Del Dinky
Hello, LyX/LaTeX seems very good at displaying sophisticated mathematical problems. However, I can't seem to figure out how to display the underscore bar in a simple arithmatic problem like this: 9 x 5 40 I'm trying to figure out how to draw the line the seperates the problem from the

Re: Shadow color box

2001-02-12 Thread Miyata Shigeru
Beaubert Francois 0251858286 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes I did it before but I found only (perhaps I miss it) a color box (but > without the possibility to choose the color of the shadow under the box > like in pstricks) > This kind of box does everithing I want expect the color of shadow un

"Failed fgetpos" while using latex2rtf

2001-02-12 Thread Marco . Bravi
Dear LyX-ers, I am currently trying to export a simple document written in LyX (of which I am a longtime user) into RTF. I downloaded latex2rtf ver. 1.8aa, compiled & installed it. When running (from the command line) latex2rtf on the .tex file I get the following error (the same

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-12 Thread A . L . Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Monday 12 February 2001 22:24, Herbert Voss wrote: > Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Jim Osborn wrote: > > > When she wants eighteen-point type, dammit, she wants eighteen > > > points. She says anyone who speced a type size of "huger" > > >

Re: Some problems

2001-02-12 Thread Yann Collete
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