Re: PDF looks good

2002-11-07 Thread Matej Cepl
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:13:30AM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:53:18PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: > > pslatex is obsolete! > > I wonder whether we should set up some article layout > especially for .pdf generation. Remembering which package is > prefered and which is o

Re: Lyx notes printing?

2002-11-07 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: > > If I don't want these notes to appear in the output, I put: > > \excludecomment{contentCmt} > > in the preamble > > > > /Christian > > > > This is great Christian! Thanks a lot for sending this out.. It's very > useful.. I made a minor change in outl

Re: Antialised fonts?

2002-11-07 Thread Jacek Popławski
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:23:48PM +1100, Steven Homolya wrote: > I hate to admit it, but this is one area where M$-windows is superior to > unix-and-friends. Antialiased fonts are supported for a long time in XFree86. Just let LyX move from XForms!

Re: Lyx notes printing?

2002-11-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Christian" == Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christian> Does anybody know what the purpose is of the "Note" inset? To have some parts of the text that are viewable but not printable. See this as the equivalent of the % character in latex (comment). Christian> Are there

Re: Antialised fonts?

2002-11-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jacek" == Jacek Pop³awski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jacek> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:23:48PM +1100, Steven Homolya wrote: >> I hate to admit it, but this is one area where M$-windows is >> superior to unix-and-friends. Jacek> Antialiased fonts are supported for a long time in XFree86. J

Re: Antialised fonts?

2002-11-07 Thread Yann Collete
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: And antialiased fonts are not a panacea: you need to have good fonts and a good rasterizer. The former is only possible with the microsoft free fonts, which have been withdrawn; and the later requires to enable the bytecode interpreter of freetype (the PS rasterizer i

A Book with lyx

2002-11-07 Thread Yann Collete
Hello, The book I wrote using lyx is just published by a french editor. You can find this book at the following URL: http://www.eyrolles.com/php.informatique/Ouvrages/ouvrage.php3?ouv_ean13=9782212111682 Your sincerely, Yann COLLETTE

Re: Lyx notes printing?

2002-11-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:03:08AM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: > Does anybody know what the purpose is of the "Note" inset? Currently it is used for quite a lot of user level hacks.. > Are there any plans for making that printable in the future? I'd rather think we will have user define

Re: Lyx notes printing?

2002-11-07 Thread Christian Ridderström
On 7 Nov 2002, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Christian" == Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Christian> Does anybody know what the purpose is of the "Note" inset? > > To have some parts of the text that are viewable but not printable. > See this as the equivalent of th

Re: Lyx notes printing?

2002-11-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:31:25AM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: > Some additional thoughts I've had about notes (intended to be kept > and reread when this issue is discussed in the future): > > See > > http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/notes/ > > instead, it became longer than I thoug

Re: Antialised fonts?

2002-11-07 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:35:05AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Jacek> Antialiased fonts are supported for a long time in XFree86. > Jacek> Just let LyX move from XForms! > Antialiased fonts work in the qt port (will be in 1.3.0). We had a > patch to make them work in xforms, but it nee

Re: Antialised fonts?

2002-11-07 Thread Jacek Popławski
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:35:05AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Antialiased fonts work in the qt port (will be in 1.3.0). Will non-english keyboard input be supported in 1.3.0 too? qt port displays ISO-8859-2 documents, but I have no idea how to write them.

LyX Screen Fonts

2002-11-07 Thread Roger W. Brown
Hi, Some time ago, I installed lyx-1.2.1 from source and it was fine. I have just installed teTeX-src-beta-20021025. TeX seems to be okay but my LyX screen-fonts are not what they once where. Normal text fonts all look the same and special methematical symbols (integration and s

figures in Lyx 1.2.1

2002-11-07 Thread R.G.N. Meegama
Hi, I am using Lyx 1.2.1 in Sun OS 5.6. When a document is opened, I cannot see the figures; instead it says "Error scaling etc" inside the figure box. Also, I get the following error message in the command prompt: Error creating pixmap from xpm_image 'XpmColorFailed' I could see the figu

Re: Lyx notes printing?

2002-11-07 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:31:25AM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: > > Some additional thoughts I've had about notes (intended to be kept > > and reread when this issue is discussed in the future): > > > > See > > > > http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/

Re: figures in Lyx 1.2.1

2002-11-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "R" == R G N Meegama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: R> Hi, R> I am using Lyx 1.2.1 in Sun OS 5.6. When a document is opened, I R> cannot see the figures; instead it says "Error scaling etc" inside R> the figure box. Also, I get the following error message in the R> command prompt: R> Error

Re: figures in Lyx 1.2.1

2002-11-07 Thread Joao B. Oliveira
I have the same problem, and Takashi Soma told me that a solution would be downgrading to gs 4.03. I did not try it yet, however. In any case, I can get the "lyx -version" info at home and add it to the discussion to find out why loading images fails... joao > R> Hi, > > R> I am using Lyx 1.2

Re: figures in Lyx 1.2.1

2002-11-07 Thread R.G.N. Meegama
lyx -version gives me the following: LyX 1.2.1 of Tue, Aug 20, 2002 Built on Nov 7 2002, 15:05:39 Configuration Host type: sparc-sun-solaris2.6 Special build flags:included-libsigc C Compiler: gcc C Compiler flags: -g -O2

Re: PDF looks good

2002-11-07 Thread Nirmal Govind
> Or install the cm-super fonts, an (almost) complete type 1 replacement > of the computer modern fonts: > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/ > > Jürgen. > I just did this (warning: cm-super package is a pretty big file ~ 65MB in rpm format) and yes, the PDF output on scree

Re: figures in Lyx 1.2.1

2002-11-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "R" == R G N Meegama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: R> How can i check whether xforms image loader is in use? It is not. Therefore lyx uses its own built-in image loader, which has flaws. Another solution is to check whether your version of imagemagick is not too old. R> If not, how can I ac

Re: Lyx notes printing?

2002-11-07 Thread Max Bian
How about turn it into footnote? Max --- Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are no concrete plans, but there have been discussions on the > subjects. Ideas include > > - export notes as % latex comments (this should not be too difficult, > but there are some problems to

Re: citing full text of bibtex reference

2002-11-07 Thread Nirmal Govind
> > Have a look at the bibentry package which is bundled with natbib. > > Jürgen. > Thanks Jurgen.. bibentry is just what I needed.. nirmal

Re: A Book with lyx

2002-11-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Yann" == Yann Collete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yann> Hello, The book I wrote using lyx is just published by a french Yann> editor. You can find this book at the following URL: Yann> http://www.eyrolles.com/php.informatique/Ouvrages/ouvrage.php3?ouv_ean13=9782212111682 Congratulations!

Re: Antialised fonts?

2002-11-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Yann" == Yann Collete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yann> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> And antialiased fonts are not a panacea: you need to have good >> fonts and a good rasterizer. The former is only possible with the >> microsoft free fonts, which have been withdrawn; and the later >> re

Re: Antialised fonts?

2002-11-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jacek" == Jacek Pop³awski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jacek> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:35:05AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Jacek> wrote: >> Antialiased fonts work in the qt port (will be in 1.3.0). Jacek> Will non-english keyboard input be supported in 1.3.0 too? qt Jacek> port displays I

Re: Who has RPMs for redhat 7.x? [please!]

2002-11-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Steven" == Steven Homolya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steven> Donno, because 1.2.0 is very buggy compared with 1.1.6fix4, What would be your top pet peeves wrt 1.2.0? I'd like to have an idea of what makes people stick with 1.1.6fix4 Steven> and more importantly, because the switch from 1

Re: Lyx notes printing?

2002-11-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Max" == Max Bian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Max> How about turn it into footnote? Hmm, why not use a footnote in this case? :) JMarc

Need some help.

2002-11-07 Thread Koundinya
Hi all, I'm relatively new to Lyx. Although I have been reading the documents, but still I have some problems. I have been using Lyx to write my Thesis as well as other documents at work. With respect to my thesis, there are some latex commands that I want to try out in the preamble aft

Re: Need some help.

2002-11-07 Thread Nirmal Govind
> preamble. For example I'm trying to add a \lhead{My name}, but > when I do a layout->preamble and add my preamble, then try to > view the PS of it, I get errors. I'm guessing you need to use the fancyhdr package.. in Layout->Document->Document select "fancy" for "Pagestyle" and then it should

Re: Lyx notes printing?

2002-11-07 Thread Christian Ridderström
On 7 Nov 2002, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Max" == Max Bian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Max> How about turn it into footnote? > > Hmm, why not use a footnote in this case? :) > A footnote is an alternative (as well as figure and margin note), but how can I control wether the foot

Re: Lyx notes printing?

2002-11-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Christian" == Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christian> A footnote is an alternative (as well as figure and margin Christian> note), Why figure? You lost me... JMarc

Re: Lyx notes printing?

2002-11-07 Thread Christian Ridderström
On 7 Nov 2002, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Christian" == Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Christian> A footnote is an alternative (as well as figure and margin > Christian> note), > > Why figure? You lost me... > Sorry, I meant float.. see http://www.md.kth.se/~ch

Bug report: LyX 1.2.1 delete spaces in labels when loading a saveddocument

2002-11-07 Thread Yossi Weinstein
Hi there, I have many equation labels written as sentences with spaces (i.e. \label{eq. x axis}). when I save the document the output file contains these spaces, however when I load the document again the spaces are deleted (i.e. \label{eq.xaxis}). Now all my references to math equations are un

Re: Lyx notes printing?

2002-11-07 Thread Matej Cepl
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:31:23AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > - have the possibility to print the comments (but in which form?) I suppose the special page after the document is the most obvious (with references to the pages, where note is anchored). Matej -- Matej Cepl, [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Need some help.

2002-11-07 Thread Matej Cepl
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:59:30PM +, Koundinya wrote: > preamble. For example I'm trying to add a \lhead{My name}, but > when I do a layout->preamble and add my preamble, then try to > view the PS of it, I get errors. Be more specific about the errors and send a _short_ example lyx document

Re: LyX Screen Fonts

2002-11-07 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:56:00PM +1100, Roger W. Brown wrote: > Some time ago, I installed lyx-1.2.1 from source and > it was fine. I have just installed teTeX-src-beta-20021025. > TeX seems to be okay but my LyX screen-fonts are not what > they once where. Normal text fonts all loo

Re: Bug report: LyX 1.2.1 delete spaces in labels when loading a saved document

2002-11-07 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:44:28PM +0200, Yossi Weinstein wrote: > Hi there, > I have many equation labels written as sentences with spaces (i.e. > \label{eq. x axis}). when I save the document the output file contains > these spaces, however when I load the document again the spaces are > delet

Re: Lyx notes printing?

2002-11-07 Thread Max Bian
It is only useful if it can be turn on and off easily. Max --- Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Max" == Max Bian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Max> How about turn it into footnote? > > Hmm, why not use a footnote in this case? :) > > JMarc > __

Re: creating local texmf directory

2002-11-07 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 09:39:02PM -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote: > > For my tutorial, I need for LyX to be able to see a custom bst file. The > users of my tutorials may be novices like myself. I need to give > instructions that are straightforward and will work every time. If I > tell a user to: >

cut words at the end of line

2002-11-07 Thread Javi Castelo
Hi, I have selected "spanish" in language option but Lyx (1.1.6fix4) cut the words at the end of line without respecting the spanish grammatical rules. I'm resolving this problem by hand. It's too much heavy. What can I do? Thanks & regards. -- Javi Castelo Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 3.0

Re: Lyx notes printing?

2002-11-07 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Matej Cepl wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:31:23AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > - have the possibility to print the comments (but in which form?) > > I suppose the special page after the document is the most obvious > (with references to the pages, where note is

Re: Lyx notes printing?

2002-11-07 Thread Matej Cepl
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:03:49PM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: > > I suppose the special page after the document is the most obvious > > (with references to the pages, where note is anchored). > > > > Matej > > Now I'm lost... what special page? The same way as Acrobat and Word deal with

Re: Lyx notes printing?

2002-11-07 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Matej Cepl wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:03:49PM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: > > > I suppose the special page after the document is the most obvious > > > (with references to the pages, where note is anchored). > > > > > > Matej > > > > Now I'm lost... what spec

Re: defining heading - text in heading

2002-11-07 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:57:25PM +0100, Holger Zebner wrote: > > I already tried out fancyhdr but got too my error msgs. Where can I find a > doc > for this makro? Run 'texdoc fancyhdr' in the shell.

Re: Problems with dvi-update

2002-11-07 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 03:52:33PM +0100, Gautam Gupta wrote: > I'm running lyx1.2.1 on Cygwin running on Windows XP Home. > My problem is Lyx only seems to compile with latex the first time I > run view-dvi or update-dvi (or view-ps etc). When I make subsequent > changes to the lyx document

[Getting a bit OT] Re: PDF looks good

2002-11-07 Thread Robin Turner
Nirmal Govind wrote: Or install the cm-super fonts, an (almost) complete type 1 replacement of the computer modern fonts: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/ Jürgen. I just did this (warning: cm-super package is a pretty big file ~ 65MB in rpm format) and yes, the PDF out

Re: Bitmapped fonts on EPS incusion in 1.2.1

2002-11-07 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:56:35PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > I used to use lyx 1.6 and was able to include EPS files that would > render as full spline fonts in the output file. With 1.2.1, I find that > the file is outputting the eps file as a rasterized image of the font, > and it looks p

Re: [Getting a bit OT] Re: PDF looks good

2002-11-07 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 12:13:17AM +0200, Robin Turner wrote: > Nirmal Govind wrote: > >>Or install the cm-super fonts, an (almost) complete type 1 replacement > >>of the computer modern fonts: > >>http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/ > >> > >>Jürgen. > >> > > > > > >I just did

Re: Problem using a style file within the article.cls

2002-11-07 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 02:37:44PM +, Rochat E wrote: > Hi everybody > I want to write an article for the Optics Express journal. The journal is > based on the article.cls with the style file opex2.sty (attached). > I carefully put this file in my tex directory, in the same folder than the >

Re: Bitmapped fonts on EPS incusion in 1.2.1

2002-11-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:56:35PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I used to use lyx 1.6 and was able to include EPS files that would > > render as full spline fonts in the output file. With 1.2.1, I find that > > the file is outputting the eps file as a rasterized image of t

Re: [Getting a bit OT] Re: PDF looks good

2002-11-07 Thread Nirmal Govind
> so the requirements are different). Call me a Knuth fanatic, but CM > is still the most aesthetically pleasing font I've ever seen (I'm not Couldn't agree more with you Robin.. and CM is the only font I use.. cos the output on screen is great and cos I can live with the lighter output on my 600

Re: [Getting a bit OT] Re: PDF looks good

2002-11-07 Thread Matej Cepl
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 12:13:17AM +0200, Robin Turner wrote: > Am I alone in liking the lightness of Computer Modern? I often print > out CM documents at 600dpi and I like the almost ethereal quality. In Etheral quality is somehow heavy on my eyes (although my eyesight is perfect), so that I h

Re: LyX Screen Fonts

2002-11-07 Thread Roger W. Brown
Many thanks to those who replied and/or took the time to consider my problem. It seems that I have messed-up the font-server configuration. It this point I don't know how this could have happened but I know enough to fix the problem. Thanks again, Roger Brown --

Which drawing program?

2002-11-07 Thread Chris Carlen
Hi folks: I abandoned effort recently on a document that I was preparing in OpenOffice mostly because the equations looked really awful. Furthermore, I failed at convincing anybody in the OpenOffice/StarOffice world that they are not up to the standards that I think are needed for professional

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Chris Carlen wrote: > 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into > Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps files? Heck, no! > 2. What program is used most often, and what might you recommend? Don't know. But, if you're doing scientific pl

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-07 Thread hansel
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Chris Carlen wrote: > snip... > I am convinced there is something very wrong with .eps exported from > OpenOffice. Which brings us to my first question: > > 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into > Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps f

Howto Appendix

2002-11-07 Thread Geoff McNamara
How does one add an Appendix to the book class? -g-

Making your list of publications

2002-11-07 Thread Christian Ridderström
In a sudden urge of documentation (I'm writing my thesis...), I put some notes on how I've used bibtex2html to automatically generate a list of publications, including links to online versions. You can find it here: http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/list-of-publications/ /Christian -- Chr

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-07 Thread Matej Cepl
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:48:54PM -0800, Chris Carlen wrote: > 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into > Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps files? I know nothing about OO, but any other .eps I have met so far work very well with dvips. Most drawing/graphing

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-07 Thread Steven Homolya
Hi Chris, On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 12:48, Chris Carlen wrote: > 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into > Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps files? The postscript output from star and openoffice is full of rubbish. Most postcript printers can't cope with it, and p

my "top pet peeves wrt 1.2.0"

2002-11-07 Thread Steven Homolya
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 01:02, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Steven" == Steven Homolya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > writes: > Steven> Donno, because 1.2.0 is very buggy compared with 1.1.6fix4, > > What would be your top pet peeves wrt 1.2.0? I'd like to have an idea > of what makes people stick

Re: [Getting a bit OT] Re: PDF looks good

2002-11-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Matej Cepl schrieb: On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 12:13:17AM +0200, Robin Turner wrote: Am I alone in liking the lightness of Computer Modern? I often print out CM documents at 600dpi and I like the almost ethereal quality. In Etheral quality is somehow heavy on my eyes (although my eyesigh