Re: BiBTeX programmer's guide?

2005-10-06 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
K. Elo wrote: > Does anybody know BiBTeX hacking/programming guides/manuals (or relevant > links etc.)? I think there's not much, unfortunately, but I found this documentation quite useful: ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/info/bibtex/tamethebeast/ttb_en.pdf HTH, Jürgen

Re: Page numbers and foot-note distance

2005-10-06 Thread Jose' Matos
On Thursday 06 October 2005 04:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 2. Increase the foot-note distance from > > >the body text? (it is too close to the > > >body area) > > > > What class are you using? > > I've tried all classes :) I just think it all was so > close

Re: BiBTeX programmer's guide?

2005-10-06 Thread K. Elo
Hi (Hallo), Juergen Spitzmueller wrote (on 6 October 2005 10:10): > K. Elo wrote: > > Does anybody know BiBTeX hacking/programming guides/manuals (or > > relevant links etc.)? > > I think there's not much, unfortunately, but I found this > documentation quite useful: > ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-a

Re: BiBTeX programmer's guide?

2005-10-06 Thread Martin A. Hansen
do we have a list of "suggested reading" on the wiki? i could write an abstract of lshort and the latex companion, if need be. cheers martin On 06/10/05, Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > K. Elo wrote: > > Does anybody know BiBTeX hacking/programming guides/manuals (or relevan

Re: BiBTeX programmer's guide?

2005-10-06 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > do we have a list of "suggested reading" on the wiki? > > i could write an abstract of lshort and the latex companion, if need be. That's certainly a very good idea. Jürgen

Re: Page numbers and foot-note distance

2005-10-06 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >         2. Increase the foot-note distance from >            the body text? (it is too close to the >            body area) You can try something like: \renewcommand\footnoterule{% % distance body -- footnoterule [EMAIL PROTECTED]@width1.5cm% [EMAIL PROTECTED] % dis

Re: BiBTeX programmer's guide?

2005-10-06 Thread chr
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > do we have a list of "suggested reading" on the wiki? > > > > i could write an abstract of lshort and the latex companion, if need be. > > That's certainly a very good idea. I agree, sounds like an excellent idea. If

Re: Inserting Accented Characters easily?

2005-10-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Stacia Hartleben wrote: Is there a trick to inserting accented characters? I just copied in the chars I needed but it got tedious keeping track of all those different accented chars after a while. Sorry if it's a dumb question but I might just be missing something very obvious... Set up your

Re: Download Classes

2005-10-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Carlos Knauer wrote: Hi. From where do I download classes (or layouts) for LyX ? Thanks, -- Carlos Fernando Knauer Classes are part of your LaTeX distribution. Most of the available LyX layouts ship with LyX, but there are some user-contributed ones on the Wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layo

Re: Inserting Accented Characters easily?

2005-10-06 Thread JORGE A. HERNANDO
In my machine (linux, lyx1.3.5) with language english us_international (or something like that) if, for example, I write in french, the "accent aigu" (how is it said in english?) is '+a => á, the grave is `+a => à and so on. Hope it will help jorge On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Stacia Hartleben wro

Re: Page numbers and foot-note distance

2005-10-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
mywebs2005 wrote: How can I: 2. Increase the foot-note distance from the body text? (it is too close to the body area) Change the length \footskip e.g. \setlength{\footskip}{1cm} see http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/PaperLayout and especially http://wiki.lyx.org/

Hyphenation --- but before: Thank you!

2005-10-06 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
Thanks a lot everyone! I've never saw so good and swift answers in a mail list before this! I solved the problem again. Hence cause of you! About hyphens: I need to write the most part of my docs in portuguese and some in spanish langs. But the LaTeX always hyphenize the document. It

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-06 Thread Bo Peng
On 10/3/05, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Oh, I see, this is poor men's scientific workplace". > I get his first complain against lyx today: "The lyx file is corrupted after I edit your formula, I hope that you can open this file...". The real problem, as I later found out, is that he acci

An interesting little problem.

2005-10-06 Thread Bo Peng
Dear list, To track the changes of a lyx file, I insert $Rev$ in the text. After first 'svn ci', $Rev$ is replaced by $Rev: 40 $. However, when I open and save this file, $Rev: 40 $ is replaced by $Rev:40$ (blank spaces are removed) which can no longer be recognized by subversion. Anyone know a

Re: Hyphenation --- but before: Thank you!

2005-10-06 Thread Andre Berger
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-10-07 07:16 +0200: [...] > About hyphens: I need to write the most part of my > docs in portuguese and some in spanish langs. But the > LaTeX always hyphenize the document. It is great, and > it always do it correctly in english, but sometimes it >