Re: Windows Lyx -> Creating PDF files

2004-02-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:19:06PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've recently installed Lyx on Windows. I can view DVI files but not > PDF files. The lyxrc file is set up correctly (meaning that all of > the paths to Acrobat have been correclty specified), but when I try > View>PDF(pdflate

Re: Ragged right. Please?

2004-02-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:30:33PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > I want to have documents print out left justified, without justification > on the right. I don't want hyphenation of words either. Everything > else about the basic LyX document suits me perfectly. > > If I choose the paragraph la

Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

2004-02-12 Thread Helge Hafting
Iain Mac Donald wrote: Hello LyXers, I use LyX for producing a lot of large documents with substantial amounts of code and scripts. They all come out looking wonderful and are easy to produce. Great so far. There is one thing which would make life easier though - being able to configure the spellc

Re: Windows Lyx -> Creating PDF files

2004-02-12 Thread Helge Hafting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently installed Lyx on Windows. I can view DVI files but not PDF files. The lyxrc file is set up correctly (meaning that all of the paths to Acrobat have been correclty specified), but when I try View>PDF(pdflatex), Acrobat says 'There was an error opening this doc

Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

2004-02-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:16:16PM +, Iain Mac Donald wrote: > Hello LyXers, > > I use LyX for producing a lot of large documents with substantial > amounts of code and scripts. They all come out looking wonderful and are > easy to produce. Great so far. > > There is one thing which would mak

Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

2004-02-12 Thread Iain Mac Donald
Hello Helge, Thanks for the reply On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:04, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > > I haven't gotten this to work myself, but this is supposed to work by > marking the stuff you don't want checked and changing it to some other > language than the language used in your document. > This

Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

2004-02-12 Thread Iain Mac Donald
Hello Andre, Thanks for the reply. On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:09, Andre Poenitz wrote: > I don't think it is possible. To make sure people don't forget this > feature request please consider filing it on bugzilla.lyx.org. > Walking that way now. > In such cases I usually add the program's keyword

Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

2004-02-12 Thread Helge Hafting
Iain Mac Donald wrote: Hello Helge, Thanks for the reply On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:04, Helge Hafting wrote: I haven't gotten this to work myself, but this is supposed to work by marking the stuff you don't want checked and changing it to some other language than the language used in your docume

Re: Page number on first page

2004-02-12 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hello Maria, On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:15:52 -0800 (PST) "Maria Torres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I make a cover page so that the page numbering starts at 2 on > the second page, but has no number on the first? Or...if the paper is > for a scientific report, should it have a page number o

Re: Windows Lyx -> Creating PDF files

2004-02-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > I've recently installed Lyx on Windows. I can view DVI files but not > PDF files. The lyxrc file is set up correctly (meaning that all of the > paths to Acrobat have been correclty specified), but when I try > View>PDF(

Re: Spellchecker and LyX-Code

2004-02-12 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 12:37, Helge Hafting wrote: > >>I haven't gotten this to work myself, but this is supposed to work by > >>marking the stuff you don't want checked and changing it to some other > >>language than the language used in your document. > >>This doesn't work with ispell, but is s

Re: that bar at the bottom (fwd)

2004-02-12 Thread b c r
(sorry christian) > OK, thanks. i'm starting to get the hang of it now. I see so far that > its useful for making special characters (like umlaut) but i dont see that > its good for much else. most of the commands i can do much simpler > elsewhere. > > so my question is, what interesting things

Re: that bar at the bottom (fwd)

2004-02-12 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, b c r wrote: > (sorry christian) No problem :-) > > OK, thanks. i'm starting to get the hang of it now. I see so far that > > its useful for making special characters (like umlaut) but i dont see that > > its good for much else. most of the commands i can do much simpler >

redlined documents

2004-02-12 Thread rick
Is it possible to produce red/black lined versions of lyx documents? I would like to be able to show what's changed lawyer for the people I'm negotiating with. Thanks, Rick

Re: redlined documents

2004-02-12 Thread Rick Angell
Please forgive me if the first version of this was incomprehensible. I would like to be able to produce successive versions of a lyx document (a lease) which show changes. This is so that the lawyer for the people I am negotiating with is not forced to check 40 pages of rather leaden prose to b

Re: redlined documents

2004-02-12 Thread Angus Leeming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it possible to produce red/black lined versions of lyx documents? > I would like to be able to show what's changed lawyer for the > people I'm negotiating with. > > Thanks, > > Rick See message http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643 in the archi

A display usability question

2004-02-12 Thread Rich Shepard
I've changed the cursor color to red so that it is a bit more visible on a large screen of text. However, it sometimes gets lost in the clutter (this is the qt UI for 1.3.3). I can find the trackball pointer by holding down the Alt key while clicking the left button, but that pointer is quite vis

Re: A display usability question

2004-02-12 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: > Is there a way to make the cursor position advertise itself > vividly? Not the mouse/trackball cursor but the text > insertion point cursor. Type some text? -- Angus

Re: A display usability question

2004-02-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Angus Leeming wrote: > Type some text? Angus, That's rather a brute force solution that requires cleaning up afterward. I was hoping there'd be a more elegant solution, such as a bigger insertion point cursor option or a way of making it flash and stand out from the backgr

Re: A display usability question

2004-02-12 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Angus Leeming wrote: > >> Type some text? > > Angus, > > That's rather a brute force solution that requires cleaning up > afterward. > I was hoping there'd be a more elegant solution, such as a bigger > insertion point cursor option or a way of mak

package for corrections usable under lyx for windows?

2004-02-12 Thread Harold Mouras
Dear Lyx users, please could you let me know if the package at this adress http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643 is usefull with the 1.3.3 Win32 version of Lyx under windows? Than you very much in advance for your help, sincerely, Harold --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.

Re: redlined documents

2004-02-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:08:29PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Is it possible to produce red/black lined versions of lyx documents? > > I would like to be able to show what's changed lawyer for the > > people I'm negotiating with. > > > > See message > http://a

RE: eps figures in pdflatex

2004-02-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Paul A. Rubin wrote: >> Curious. In Edit | Preferences | Converters, what program is being >> used to >> convert EPS to PDF (probably either convert or epstopdf)? I find >> that convert works on my system (give or take some sca

Re: redlined documents

2004-02-12 Thread Nirmal Govind
Or http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/ Dekel, What does "Note that Ldiff might not always give correct results" mean? What cases are not handled well by ldiff? Or was that just a general disclaimer for unknown bugs? Thanks, nirmal

Re: package for corrections usable under lyx for windows?

2004-02-12 Thread Angus Leeming
Harold Mouras wrote: > Dear Lyx users, > please could you let me know if the package at this adress > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643 > is usefull with the 1.3.3 Win32 version of Lyx under windows? > Than you very much in advance for your help, > sincerely, > Harold Sure

Re: package for corrections usable under lyx for windows?

2004-02-12 Thread Nirmal Govind
please could you let me know if the package at this adress http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/14643 is usefull with the 1.3.3 Win32 version of Lyx under windows? That's actually a patch for the source code.. so I presume it is possible to compile that patch with the source code for

Package & Font errors after upgrading LyX

2004-02-12 Thread Russell W. Behne
I upgraded my LyX some time ago by installing a new RPM, rpm -q lyx reports: lyx-1.3.3-1_qt. LyX worked ok before this, but ever since the new rpm was installed I've been getting errors like these, which are appearing in any new document I'm typesetting. Currently I'm writing geneweb.lyx using Lay

Re: Package & Font errors after upgrading LyX

2004-02-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:09:36AM +, Russell W. Behne wrote: > I upgraded my LyX some time ago by installing a new RPM, rpm -q lyx > reports: lyx-1.3.3-1_qt. LyX worked ok before this, but ever since the > new rpm was installed I've been getting errors like these, which are > appearing in any