RE: Drowing

2004-08-24 Thread Toby Thatcher
Hannan, I believe you are looking for a vector drawing program. I have tried a few and been most satisfied with Dia (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/) so far. I have used it successfully for drawing PFD (process flow diagrams) for incorporation into latex. Best of luck, Toby -Original M

Re: [lyx-users] in the subject line

2004-08-24 Thread Helge Hafting
Johann Haarhoff wrote: I think it would be helpful (for identifying and managing messages) to have the label "[lyx-users]" automatically inserted in the subject line of the messages of this list, similarly to what happens with other mailing lists. Do you agree that it would be use

Re: per-$DISPLAY font zoom?

2004-08-24 Thread Helge Hafting
Alexis Huxley wrote: Hi, I'm using a 21" screen and a 14" laptop for LyX. I keep having to change the font zoom from the Edit/Preferences/Screen-Fonts menu when I go from one monitor to the other. Is there a way to specify a per-$DISPLAY value here? If there is an X resource for it then I can xrdb

Re: [lyx-users] in the subject line

2004-08-24 Thread Johann Haarhoff
>Stupid employer then. Perhaps you should explain all the time >wasted on manual filtering, that another client does automatically >for you? Even if your'e "nice" and don't read the lyx list on company time, >the messages still get in your way until sorted. >I can understand that they don't want

RE: Finding Labels in Text

2004-08-24 Thread Rob S
See I'm too late! Rob S > -Original Message- > From: Rich Shepard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 August 2004 02:08 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Finding Labels in Text > > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > I've somehow managed to enter a label twice. While

RE: Drowing

2004-08-24 Thread Marc J. Driftmeyer
Beside Dia, if you are running KDE use KIVIO. ala Visio. http://koffice.kde.org/kivio/ -Marc Toby Thatcher said: > Hannan, > > I believe you are looking for a vector drawing program. I have tried a > few > and been most satisfied with Dia (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/) so > far. I have

Re: per-$DISPLAY font zoom?

2004-08-24 Thread stephan beal
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 09:45, Helge Hafting wrote: > Of course this solution makes changing any other preferences > more difficult, as you have to update the two other files > afterwards. A better option is to write a script that modifies > the \screen_zoom setting in .lyx/preferences directly

Re: Difference between "pdf" "dvipdfm" and "pdflatex" ?

2004-08-24 Thread stephan beal
On Monday 23 August 2004 16:19, Herbert Voss wrote: > > Or if it creates incomplete PDFs. :/ i've got one doc which doesn't > > use any special features (no indexing, no images, no formulas... > > nothing but text and section numbers), but one of the pages it > > generates (out of 18 or so) is half

Re: [lyx-users] in the subject line

2004-08-24 Thread stephan beal
On Monday 23 August 2004 18:15, John Levon wrote: > No, this isn't going to happen. You need to find out how to get your > mail client to filter on other headers than the subject line i appologize if i'm beating a dead horse here, but could we get an explanation of why it isn't feasible? A trilli

Re: per-$DISPLAY font zoom?

2004-08-24 Thread Angus Leeming
Helge Hafting wrote: > Alexis Huxley wrote: > >>Hi, I'm using a 21" screen and a 14" laptop for LyX. >> >>I keep having to change the font zoom from the >>Edit/Preferences/Screen-Fonts menu when I go from >>one monitor to the other. >> >>Is there a way to specify a per-$DISPLAY value here? >>If t

Re: per-$DISPLAY font zoom?

2004-08-24 Thread Alexis Huxley
> The setting \screen_zoom is stored in .lyx/preferences > > So, you can keep two such preference files and have scripts called > lyx14 and lyx21 that copies one or the other into .lyx/preferences > before starting lyx. > > Of course this solution makes changing any other preferences > more difficu

Re: per-$DISPLAY font zoom?

2004-08-24 Thread Alexis Huxley
> perl -i -pe 's/screen_zoom \d+/screen_zoom XXX/' $HOME/.lyx/preferences Great minds ... :-)

Re: per-$DISPLAY font zoom?

2004-08-24 Thread stephan beal
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 14:42, Angus Leeming wrote: > #! /bin/sh > > # A script to start lyx on a 21" screen > > LYXDIR=$HOME/.lyx > PREFERENCES=$LYXDIR/preferences > > # Tune to suit > ZOOM=120 > > test -r ${PREFERENCES} && { > grep '^\\screen_zoom' ${PREFERENCES} > /dev/null && { >