Re: inserting an image and writing next to it

2003-01-08 Thread Jochen Wurster
Hi, have a look at Help->Extended Features section 3.8 Wrapping Text Around Figures. Follow these instruction and copy the Preamble (Layout->Preamble) in your Preamble. The code in the Preamble loads the floatflt package which is needed for this feature. Make sure you have the english version of E

Re: index of contents

2003-01-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Hoffmann, Rainer schrieb: I'm not sure, perhaps this is more a latex than a lyx problem, but anyway: My problem is, that if I have chapter titles, that are too long, there is no line break in the index of contents, instead the whole chapter title is squeezed in one line and the page number is shi

[WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-08 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
There is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step (e.g. xforms not found), the the script will delete the /dev/null device. This undoubtly leads to very bad effect, since /dev/null is a very basic device in any unix syst

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-08 Thread Ronny Buchmann
Am Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2003 12:32 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > There is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you > configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step > (e.g. xforms not found), the the script will delete the /dev/null > device. This undoubtly leads to v

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-08 Thread billw
For anyone who needs to recover, On my RedHat 8.0 machine /dev/null is a character device with major mode 1, minor mode 3 and mode a+rw - use mknod to make a new one. On Solaris, it's a soft link to /devices/pseudo/mm@0:null - use ln to recreate. Bill. On 8 Jan 2003, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-08 Thread Michael Abshoff
On most Linux-distros you won't be able to properly boot since the root filesystem ist usually mounted read-only. Remounting it as read-write will fail when /dev/null is not present (at least in SuSE). So start you system in single user mode, log in as root on the console, do a 'mount -o remount /

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-08 Thread Dr. Richard E. Hawkins
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:32:24PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > There is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you > configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step > (e.g. xforms not found), the the script will delete the /dev/null > device. This undoubtly l

Re: lyx and noweb - build-program on toolbar

2003-01-08 Thread Bill Welch
Found it! Section 6.5.3.2 add a conversion NoWeb -> Program. Works with build-script in my normal path. Now for the next problem - how do I get it to work with build-script only in /lyx/scripts (and not adding that directory to my normal path :-). Lyx can find listerrors, why not build-script?

HELP!

2003-01-08 Thread Gordon Wells
I've tried to compile lyx a few times now. I now know the culprit is ./configure After running it my root device becomes read-only. The first symptom is error messages reporting /dev/null is read-only. When I reboot I can do nothing, because now the entire root file system is read-only. PLEASE H

Re: HELP!

2003-01-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 02:02:19PM +0200, Gordon Wells wrote: > I don't wan't to re-install my computer a third time. There is a bad bug in the configure scripts in lyx 1.2.2 which deletes /dev/null when run as root. As a workaround, run configure as ordinary user. To recreate /dev/null, boot f

ftp.lyx.org/incoming and SUSE 8.1 rpms

2003-01-08 Thread Paul Borgermans
Hello There are some intersting binaries for SUSE8.1 of lyx 1.2.2 and xforms 1.0 posted in the incoming section of ftp.lyx.org. Are they available anywhere else? (ftp.sylvan.com doesn't conatin them either) Tx Paul

Preamble page numbering

2003-01-08 Thread Eugenio
I'm writting a theses and lyx works wonderfull. My problem is that roman numbering is giving me uppercase roman letters in preamble pages, up to the command \pagenumbering{arabic} Any idea how to get the right case in roman numbering? I already tried roman, Roman and gives the same result. I'

Re: ftp.lyx.org/incoming and SUSE 8.1 rpms

2003-01-08 Thread Luis Angel Fernández Cuadrado
El Mié 08 Ene 2003 17:55, Paul Borgermans escribió: > Hello > > There are some intersting binaries for SUSE8.1 of lyx 1.2.2 and xforms > 1.0 posted in the incoming section of ftp.lyx.org. Are they available > anywhere else? (ftp.sylvan.com doesn't conatin them either) > > Tx > > Paul Hi, Does any

Re: Preamble page numbering

2003-01-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:14:48AM -0600, Eugenio wrote: > I'm writting a theses and lyx works wonderfull. My problem is that roman numbering >is giving me uppercase roman letters in preamble pages, up to the command >\pagenumbering{arabic} > > Any idea how to get the right case in roman number

Re: Preamble page numbering

2003-01-08 Thread Eugenio
After some trial and error I isolated the "problem" in Babel. After cheking the documentation I discover that \pagenumbering{roman} is redefined to give only small caps. So now my question turns into how not to get small caps when using roman page numbering? Thanks E.G. - Original Messag

Re: Preamble page numbering

2003-01-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:58:01PM -0600, Eugenio wrote: > After some trial and error I isolated the "problem" in Babel. After cheking the >documentation I discover that \pagenumbering{roman} is redefined to give only small >caps. So now my question turns into how not to get small caps when usi

Re: Figure number in section heading

2003-01-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 10:29:48AM +1030, Paul Medwell wrote: > I am using book layout, and in the Appendices I would like to have a > section called "Description of Figure 6.9" (for example), where Figure > 6.9 is one of the figures in the document. > > Adding the reference in the section name

Re: Repositioning table

2003-01-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 02:20:08AM +0100, I Wayan Warmada wrote: > > Dear LyX-users, > how could I put a table about .75 left from the leftmargin (or > leftmargin-.75cm). I have a table with the length +1.5 cm than the > \textlength (standard for my thesis). > > Thank you very much for your sugge

insert character

2003-01-08 Thread Jim
Hi all, Can someone please tell me how to insert a long dash (not a hyphen) . I don't know what it's even called. I'm on Lyx 1.2.1 on Gentoo Linux. I have checked all the docs i could find. Thanx,

more questions about the figure float / caption bug

2003-01-08 Thread kevin rennert
Hey all, I stopped using lyx when I switched to gentoo, causing me to forcibly upgrade to lyx-1.2.x . I ran into the same problem that someone else (probably many someone else-s) recently posted about getting latex errors when processing figures inside figure floats. The short answer does seem t

label width in book class

2003-01-08 Thread Brett Dikeman
Question- why is 'label width' "senseless" in the book class? I love the Description type, and use it often- but got a big surprise when it became nearly useless in the Book class, which I need to use for a document or two. Help! Brett --

Re: insert character

2003-01-08 Thread Matej Cepl
-- is for endash and --- for emdash. Matej On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Jim wrote: > Hi all, > Can someone please tell me how to insert a long dash (not a hyphen) . I > don't know what it's even called. I'm on Lyx 1.2.1 on Gentoo Linux. I > have checked all the docs i could find. Thanx, >

Re: Repositioning table

2003-01-08 Thread I Wayan Warmada
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Dekel Tsur wrote: | Put the "\noindent\hspace{-0.75in}" in latex mode before the table. | If what you want is to center the table, then put | "\centerline{" before the table, and "}" after it. Thank's Dekel. But nothing to change for the table position, the table is still in

Re: Repositioning table

2003-01-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:30:41PM +0100, I Wayan Warmada wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > | Put the "\noindent\hspace{-0.75in}" in latex mode before the table. > | If what you want is to center the table, then put > | "\centerline{" before the table, and "}" after it. > > Th

Re: Figure number in section heading

2003-01-08 Thread Paul Medwell
Thank you for the feedback. Perhaps I didn't make my original question clear enough. The problem is not in the label, but the number reference for it. The attached document is an example of this. In the header of the last page it reads: 1.1 Explanation of Table?? Instead I would like it to rea

Re: Repositioning table

2003-01-08 Thread I Wayan Warmada
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Dekel Tsur wrote: | > Thank's Dekel. But nothing to change for the table position, the table is | > still in the margin. I put this command either befor the table float or in | > the table float (between caption and table). Is this cimmand not suitable | > for floating table?

two equations numbers.

2003-01-08 Thread Rod Pinna
Hi all, I'm not sure if this is a good idea but... I'm following a method from an article, but with some different starting assumptions. What I'm considering is numbering my equaitons, but also trying to have the number from the original article; e.g. e=mc^2 (1, A3a) Where 1 is my number, and

WG: Frage: Wann gibt es die Version 1.22 für Suse 8.1

2003-01-08 Thread Pierre Kromat
Hallo zusammen, Auf dem ftp verzeichnis incomming ist die version Suse 8.1.rpm schon vorhanden. Ab wann wird sie zum downlad frei gegeben? Bzw. gibt es irgendwo eine Anleitung wie ich unter Suse 8.1 die Sache installiere? (Es kommen immer Fehlermeldungen Besten Dank im Voraus

Re: WG: Frage: Wann gibt es die Version 1.22 für Suse 8.1

2003-01-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 08:13:09AM +0100, Pierre Kromat wrote: > Bzw. gibt es irgendwo eine Anleitung wie ich unter Suse 8.1 die Sache > installiere? > > (Es kommen immer Fehlermeldungen Welche? rpm --no-deps -i *.rpm sollte eigentlich gehen. Andre' PS: Eigentlich ist das 'ne englischsprachig

Re: more questions about the figure float / caption bug

2003-01-08 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
kevin rennert wrote: > The short answer does seem to be that you have to hit a carriage return > at the end of the caption to ensure that the figure doesn't get placed > inside the caption (thereby generating the latex error), but this would > seem to imply that you then have no choice but to have