What's the real name??

2002-11-17 Thread Ivan Marchesini
Hi to all. I would whant to know if I have to pronunce the name Lyx like Latex ("Latec") or simply like: "Lycs".. thank you very much!!! Bye Ivan

Re: What's the real name??

2002-11-17 Thread Matej Cepl
Ivan Marchesini wrote: > I would whant to know if I have to pronunce the name Lyx like Latex ("Latec") > or simply like: "Lycs".. > thank you very much!!! We really need that .au file ``My name is Matthias Ettrich and I pronounce LyX LyX.'' I believe that correct pronounciation is the second

Re: nesting question

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
> > > >Desc * Item1 > > * Item2 > > > start the description line as usual and then insert a minipage > with a vertical alignment of "top". In the minipage write your > itemize lines > Thanks a lot.. this works great! I tried the same when the environment was Section instead of a Desc .. but g

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-17 Thread Fernando Perez
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Fernando Perez wrote: > On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:41:02PM -0700, Fernando Perez wrote: > > > > > 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into > > > > > Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps files? >

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread |b|c|r|
this is an unsatisfying reply. why would it be difficult to cut/paste between two different lyx's? and if it is, could you say a bit more about it? Why can't you copy it into a text editor, then copy it again from there? = Have freedom, Be authentic, Put

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:43:59 -0600 (EST) |b|c|r| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this is an unsatisfying reply. why would it be difficult to cut/paste > between two different lyx's? and if it is, could you say a bit more It is possible to cut/paste between two different lyx sessions on the same co

wrapping a minipage across pages?

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. in the documentation, there's a warning that the minipages won't wrap across pages.. is there any workaround to this? Is this being implemented in 1.3? Thanks, nirmal

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-17 Thread Matej Cepl
Fernando Perez wrote: > My apologies: convert is weird. For some eps files I have made with the > old killustrator, it works fine (meaning, they remain as clean vector > files). But some gnuplot graphs are indeed damaged, meaning they end up > with ugly bitmapped fonts. It seems that the problem is

Re: PDF Export

2002-11-17 Thread Myriam Abramson
> > Does anyone knows from which version of Lyx on, > > it was possible to export to pdf? > > 1.1.6 > > > And what packages exactly do I need to do so? > > You just need ghostscript or pdflatex. Do I need to convert all the included graphics from .eps to .pdf as well or does it do it automatica

help with graphics

2002-11-17 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! I have this .eps graphics (attached) which I can see properly with ghostview. When I insert it in Lyx with insert->graphics and specifying "original size", I don't see the coordinates on the sides of the pictures. What to do? completegame7.eps Description: graphics --

Re: wrapping a minipage across pages?

2002-11-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:23:22PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Hi.. in the documentation, there's a warning that the minipages won't > wrap across pages.. is there any workaround to this? Is this being > implemented in 1.3? This is a feature of latex minipages, so it won't be changed in 1.3.

Re: PDF Export

2002-11-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:39:21PM -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote: > > > Does anyone knows from which version of Lyx on, > > > it was possible to export to pdf? > > > > 1.1.6 > > > > > And what packages exactly do I need to do so? > > > > You just need ghostscript or pdflatex. > > Do I need to co

Re: help with graphics

2002-11-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:45:50PM -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote: > > I have this .eps graphics (attached) which I can see properly with > ghostview. When I insert it in Lyx with insert->graphics and > specifying "original size", I don't see the coordinates on the sides > of the pictures. What to d

Re: Figures

2002-11-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:28:18PM +, Koundinya wrote: > Hi all Lyx Users, > Few days back, there was a talk to using xfig for figures. I'm > having some .ps files that I need to edit using xfig and then > export as .eps for use in my report. I have pstoedit installed > on my system.

Re: PDF Export

2002-11-17 Thread Matej Cepl
Myriam Abramson wrote: > Do I need to convert all the included graphics from .eps to > .pdf as well or does it do it automatically? Since 1.2.* it is done automagically, but in 1.1.6fix4 you needed to create copies of all eps files in pdf (with epstopdf) and then use the name of the picture withou

Re: help with graphics

2002-11-17 Thread Myriam Abramson
After exiting Lyx and restarting I don't have this problem anymore. Thanks anyway! -- myriam

Re: wrapping a minipage across pages?

2002-11-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Nirmal Govind schrieb: Hi.. in the documentation, there's a warning that the minipages won't wrap across pages.. is there any workaround to this? Is this being implemented in 1.3? what do you think, where the name _mini_pages comes from? Herbert

Re: wrapping a minipage across pages?

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
> what do you think, where the name _mini_pages comes from? Okay so it's supposed to be "mini".. but it doesn't naturally imply that a half-page, for example, can't start at 3/4th (from the top) of one page and end at 1/4th of the next right? Anyways, I understand that's how Latex does it but may

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 16 November 2002 11:58 pm, Bo Peng wrote: > Hi, > > I opened two lyx, one locally and one from the server. I then tried to > copy some paragraphs from one lyx application to another. The result was > disappointing. Is this something that can be improved? > > I 'solved' this problem by c

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:21:22PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: > > this is an unsatisfying reply. why would it be difficult to cut/paste > > between two different lyx's? and if it is, could you say a bit more > > It is possible to cut/paste between two different lyx sessions on the > same compu

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
> > the same computer (try it out!).. the problem that was reported was > > but no formatting is preserved I see.. > hmm, I can't test this but I really don't know how you could transfer > between two X servers well, usually it's not a problem, say if I were copying from an emacs session on a r

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 07:31:27PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: > session on a remote server that I logged into and pasted it into a LyX > session on my local machine.. and it worked.. I can't test pasting from > a remote server LyX to my local LyX though since I don't have a server > on which LyX

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread Bo Peng
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:58:30PM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: > Hi, > I opened two lyx, one locally and one from the server. I then tried to > copy some paragraphs from one lyx application to another. The result was > disappointing. Is this something that can be improved? Sorry that I should have be

Re: Figures

2002-11-17 Thread Larry Kollar
Koundinya wrote: ... I have pstoedit installed on my system. Can anyone of you help me by telling how to convert the .ps files to .fig format Try pstoedit -f fig file.ps file.fig Worked for me Larry

Page numbering

2002-11-17 Thread James Clement Bennett
Hi, I'm just learing to use LyX, so I'm sorry if this is a bit of a gumby question. I am writing a largei-sh report, and have included individual chapters as files in a master document. When I generate tables of contents, figures and tables, the page numbers begin from the start of the table of co

Re: pasting ASCII text into lyx is not possible?!

2002-11-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:11:35PM +0100, Jörn Lindmaier wrote: > This I can not do as I have set the middlebutton for "close" window. But > it should nevertheless work with ctrl+v - but it does not. Well, the "traditional way" in X apps is to paste the selection with the middle mouse button. It