Re: documentclass: seminar

2003-12-18 Thread Günter Milde
Kai Johannes Keller wrote: > Apparently there are problems with the documentclass seminar and > a4-paparsize, > 1. Lyx calls dvips with the option -t a4 - don't ask me why 'cause I don't > know; that's just what the pop-up-window tells. This is the papersize option (see info dvips). There are,

Re: A question: is there any way to set the language of document in Layouts?

2003-12-18 Thread Günter Milde
Pablo De Napoli wrote: > Ok, this is a work around. But I want to do that on the .layout scripts > so that if I distribute my layouts, other users don't have to do this > themselves. I'll see if I can write a patch for adding such a command. Although you cannot set it in the .layout scripts curr

Re: looking for a special document class

2003-12-18 Thread Günter Milde
Thorsten Hirsch wrote: > Hi. > > I'm looking for a special document class that features an environment > whose pages are counted in roman numbers. Or alternatively an > environment with normal page numbers, but roman enumeration AFAIK, there is no "ready-made" documentclass for this, but LaTeX al

Re: Report Class: Renaming "Abstract"

2003-12-18 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:30:34 -0800 (PST) >>From: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: Report Class: Renaming "Abstract" >>X-message-flag: Sent virus-free from a linux system. >> >>On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Henrik Edlund wrote: >> >>> Put it in its own paragraph (

equivalent?

2003-12-18 Thread Ng Pheng Siong
Hi, I'm writing an appendix for copyright notices, some of which are in C-style; using Lyx's own vspace.C as an example: /** * \file vspace.C * Copyright 1995-2002 the LyX Team * Read the file COPYING * * \author Matthias Ettrich */ I'd like to make the output look like HTML's , in a font

Re: Simple example of using BibTeX with LyX...

2003-12-18 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>From: Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Simple example of using BibTeX with LyX... >>Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 08:14:50 +0100 >>On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: >> >>> As far as the bib file is concerned, my opinion is that the >>> bib

Re: My thesis that was set in LyX

2003-12-18 Thread Paul Grimes
Henrik Edlund wrote: > My thesis that I set in LyX is available below for those who wants to see > what can be done nicely in LyX (with the help of LaTeX of course): > > http://www.ep.liu.se/exjobb/ida/2003/dd-c/019/exjobb.pdf > I'm just setting things up to write my PhD thesis, and I'd like t

Re: My thesis that was set in LyX

2003-12-18 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Paul Grimes wrote: PG> Henrik Edlund wrote: PG> PG> > My thesis that I set in LyX is available below for those who wants to see PG> > what can be done nicely in LyX (with the help of LaTeX of course): PG> > PG> > http://www.ep.liu.se/exjobb/ida/2003/dd-c/019/exjobb.pdf PG> >

Re: My thesis that was set in LyX

2003-12-18 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Henrik Edlund wrote: HE> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@twocolumn\hbox{}\newpage\fi\fi\fi} This is a redefinition of the cleardoublepage function so that empty pages will be truly empty (no page number printed).

BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) id: 33554700

2003-12-18 Thread Marco Boni
Hi everybody! I've just compiled xforms 1.0.0 and subsequenty LyX 1.3.3. The ./configure script ends with: Configuration Host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags:xforms-image-loader C Compiler: gcc C Compiler flags: -g

Re: lyx133 for win32

2003-12-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
>> May I say: if I've understood his point, I really don't think this >> ("not much point in distributing ...") is an issue. Ruurd's port >> means that people don't have to build lyx for themselves, and that, >> to many MSWindows users, is precisely the attraction of the port. >> Otherwise, one co

Re: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) id: 33554700

2003-12-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Marco Boni wrote: > That's right for me. But after installation of LyX, I started it and > I got this orrible message: > LyX: Attempting to save document newfile1.lyx > /home/maboni/newfile1.lyx.emergency > Save seems successful. Phew. > BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) i

Re: equivalent?

2003-12-18 Thread Herbert Voss
Ng Pheng Siong wrote: I'm writing an appendix for copyright notices, some of which are in C-style; using Lyx's own vspace.C as an example: /** * \file vspace.C * Copyright 1995-2002 the LyX Team * Read the file COPYING * * \author Matthias Ettrich */ I'd like to make the output look like HTM

Re: My thesis that was set in LyX

2003-12-18 Thread Christian Ridderström
> Henrik Edlund wrote: > > > My thesis that I set in LyX is available below for those who wants to see > > what can be done nicely in LyX (with the help of LaTeX of course): > > > > http://www.ep.liu.se/exjobb/ida/2003/dd-c/019/exjobb.pdf > > Hi Henrik If you'd like, you can convert your thes

Re: Simple example of using BibTeX with LyX...

2003-12-18 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > >>The example uses the .bib-file you sent me now (althoug we see this > >>differently, I prefer to use something like aux2bib to create > >>self-contained .bib-files when necessary) > > Where could I find it ? I've found two versions of aux2bi

bibweb - automatically retrieve bibliography from MathSciNet

2003-12-18 Thread Christian Ridderström
Hi Someone asked me a while back about a tool for automatically retrieving bibliography data, and since I think I just stumbled upon it, here's a link: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/bibweb.html /Christian -- Christian Ridderström htt

Re: My thesis that was set in LyX

2003-12-18 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote: >> Henrik Edlund wrote: >> > My thesis that I set in LyX is available below for those who wants to see >> > what can be done nicely in LyX (with the help of LaTeX of course): >> > http://www.ep.liu.se/exjobb/ida/2003/dd-c/019/exjobb.pdf Well, ma

Re: Simple example of using BibTeX with LyX...

2003-12-18 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > >>The example uses the .bib-file you sent me now (althoug we see this > >>differently, I prefer to use something like aux2bib to create > >>self-contained .bib-files when necessary) > > Where could I find it ? > I also added the link to this p

Re: Report Class: Renaming "Abstract"

2003-12-18 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > > Sure, stil I tried the \AtBeginDocument solution in the preamble > \AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand\abstractname{Executive Summary}} > and it works ONLY if I export to latex and put the line > after \usepackage{babel} > > I'm a bit puzzled becaus

Re: My thesis that was set in LyX

2003-12-18 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote: > > >> Henrik Edlund wrote: > >> > My thesis that I set in LyX is available below for those who wants to see > >> > what can be done nicely in LyX (with the help of LaTeX of course): > >> > http://ww

Re: equivalent?

2003-12-18 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Ng Pheng Siong wrote: > Hi, > > I'm writing an appendix for copyright notices, some of which are in > C-style; using Lyx's own vspace.C as an example: > > I'd like to make the output look like HTML's , in a font smaller than > the main text. What about the environment 'LyX

About producing backtrace

2003-12-18 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Angus Leeming wrote: > Could you recompile lyx with optimization turned off and debug on > (CXXFLAGS='-g -fno-exceptions') and then run lyx within gdb, posting > the back trace to the lyx-devel list once it crashes. > > $ gdb ./lyx > gdb> run > ... make lyx crash > gdb> bt

Re: equivalent?

2003-12-18 Thread Herbert Voss
Christian Ridderström wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Ng Pheng Siong wrote: Hi, I'm writing an appendix for copyright notices, some of which are in C-style; using Lyx's own vspace.C as an example: I'd like to make the output look like HTML's , in a font smaller than the main text. What about the e

Re: My thesis that was set in LyX

2003-12-18 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote: CR> If you'd like, you can convert your thesis into an example for others to CR> use and upload it here: CR> CR> http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Examples/Examples CR> CR> I assume that the conversion would mostly be a matter of removing the CR>

Re: My thesis that was set in LyX

2003-12-18 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote: CR> Sure, I actually thought about suggesting that, but then I thought CR> maybe he would be worried about releasing the source or whatever :) It is easier to control copyright and distribution if the content text is not floating around in Wikis a

Most-recently opened file list

2003-12-18 Thread Rich Shepard
At the bottom of the File menu is a list of the four most recently opened files for quick re-opening. However, it does not always update. I noticed this a version or two ago, and it's only a minor annoyance, but I decided to bring it to the attendion of the developers anyway. I do not know whe

Re: Most-recently opened file list

2003-12-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Rich" == Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rich> At the bottom of the File menu is a list of the four most Rich> recently opened files for quick re-opening. However, it does not Rich> always update. I noticed this a version or two ago, and it's Rich> only a minor annoyance, but I d

Re: Most-recently opened file list

2003-12-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > The list of opened documents is updated after a normal shutdown. It is > probably not updated after a forced shutdown. JMarc, I suspected as much. Well, the newest xfce does not yet have a working session manager so this may not be an issue wi

Thesaurus function

2003-12-18 Thread Bernard Schembri
I'm using the Win32 Port of LyX by Ruurd Reitsma, version 1.3.3 [http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/] I am unable to locate the Thesaurus function. Is it available?  If anyone can help, I would really appreciate it! Thanks, Bernard

Re: Thesaurus function

2003-12-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Bernard Schembri wrote: > I'm using the Win32 Port of LyX by Ruurd Reitsma, version 1.3.3 > [http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/] > > I am unable to locate the Thesaurus function. Is it available? If > anyone can help, I would really appreciate it! The necessary libraries must be installe

Re: equivalent?

2003-12-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 04:42:09PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: > >What about the environment 'LyX Code' ? > > this should be deleted in LyX, it is misleading, > because no real verbatim, no real listing, no > real parbox, no real alltt. Only lines of typewriter > format, which doesn't allow linebr

Re: My thesis that was set in LyX

2003-12-18 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Henrik Edlund wrote: > Hence, I could upload a "template" when I have time to clear out > the content text. Hmm... I wonder if it would be possible to make a script that clears out the content. It could remove all standard paragraphs that only contain text for starters... I

Re: equivalent?

2003-12-18 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 04:42:09PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: > > > >What about the environment 'LyX Code' ? > > > > this should be deleted in LyX, it is misleading, > > because no real verbatim, no real listing, no > > real parbox, no real alltt. Only li

Re: equivalent?

2003-12-18 Thread Herbert Voss
Christian Ridderström wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, John Levon wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 04:42:09PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: What about the environment 'LyX Code' ? this should be deleted in LyX, it is misleading, because no real verbatim, no real listing, no real parbox, no real alltt. On

Advice on writing a book with solved exercises

2003-12-18 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I am wanting to write a book with solved exercises. Is there a document class more appropriate for that purpose? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul

adding a relative file /href{file:./thisfile.htm}

2003-12-18 Thread Robert Orr
A quick question... I was a bit confused with how to do this, if indeed it is even possible. I want to reference a file in the current directory where my .pdf file will be located. The only way I could do it was to give the absolute file location in the /hfef{}.Is there a way to put a r

Re: Advice on writing a book with solved exercises

2003-12-18 Thread Thomas Templin
On Thursday 18 December 2003 23:41, Paul Smith wrote: [...] > I am wanting to write a book with solved exercises. Is there a document > class more appropriate for that purpose? [...] So for a book I would use book document class or koma-book which suits European standards better than book class do