Re: More support for ERT snippets?

2005-10-10 Thread chr
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Stacia Hartleben wrote: > It was made like this so you could edit the actual data that went > between those tags more easily. I started using this method for inputing > IPA text with \begin{IPA} and \end{IPA} so I can see what's going on > easier. I think you could edit the la

Re: document types on Mac OS X

2005-10-10 Thread Andre Berger
* Bernd Kulawik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-10-09 21:22 +0200: > Hello everybody, Hallo Bernd! > No (not even one!) single document type is available. I can open my > old documents, but LyX warns me, that the original document type > specified in that document (like "book", "article" etc.) is n

Re: Increase features!

2005-10-10 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 12:36:48PM -0700, Bo Peng wrote: > > I'm tired, but would like to ask a simple > > question: Is there some way to use a non-english dict > > on Lyx (not on theory, but I want some stuff that > > really works!)? > > I understand your frustration and I thank you for suppo

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-10 Thread Andre Poenitz
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:24:05AM -0700, Bo Peng wrote: > > > Have you considered adding LyX to a Knoppix cdrom and running > > > that in a Microsoft machine? > > > > Reboot, Not needed in the age of virtual machines. > > writing something that can not be viewed and printed under > > windows,

Re: Increase features!

2005-10-10 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Andre Poenitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Lyx Contribute" Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 12:30 PM Subject: Re: Increase features! On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 12:36:48PM -0700, Bo Peng wrote: > I'm ti

Re: Increase features - no!

2005-10-10 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
Such bundles exist. They are called 'SuSE 9.3', 'Fedora Core 4', 'Debian Sarge' or similarly and install nicely on top of any version of Windows. They usually even include nethack and lots of other things you might find useful. Andre' :) Hey Andre' -- I'm a Linux user. I work on Linux for ab

Pre2 is out there

2005-10-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Please check this one out, look at this stage especially for distribution problems. Also we still have some bugs to fix, so be sure to have backups of everything you play with. ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/lyx-1.4.0pre2.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/lyx-1.4.0pre2.tar.gz --

Both Linux and Windows

2005-10-10 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
I've Lyx installed in both Windows and Linux. I need at least one of these working on spellchecker. I need Spanish and Portuguese spellcheckers. Any suggestions? I tried 'aspell' on Windows and 'ispell' on Linux, but not is working. On Windows I installed aspell on C:\Aspell, and the Lyx s

Building 1.4pre2 in Ubuntu Hoary

2005-10-10 Thread ernesto
Hi, I get this messages when trying to build pre2 in hoary which is strange as I have qt3 packages installed ... any hints ? Thanks EJ creating doc/LaTeXConfig.lyx checking whether TeX allows spaces in file names... no creating lyxrc.defaults checking for a FIG -> EPS/PPM/PNG converter... +chec

Re: Both Linux and Windows

2005-10-10 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Have you installed any dictionaries?? http://aspell.net/win32/ for windows - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lyx Contribute" Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 2:50 PM Subject: Both Linux and Windows I've Lyx installed in both Windows and Linux. I need at least one

CMR font

2005-10-10 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
Do you know any version of CMR font or similar to be used at Corel Draw, Photoshop, etc. (with 'regular', 'bold', 'italic', 'bold italic' bundle)? The original one can't be used, because at this applications the italic, bold, and accent doesn't work on. I just like this font and I want to

Re: Both Linux and Windows

2005-10-10 Thread Angus Leeming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've Lyx installed in both Windows and Linux. I > need at least one of these working on spellchecker. I > need Spanish and Portuguese spellcheckers. Any > suggestions? > > I tried 'aspell' on Windows and 'ispell' on Linux, > but not is working. On Windows I inst

Re: Building 1.4pre2 in Ubuntu Hoary

2005-10-10 Thread Angus Leeming
ernesto wrote: > I get this messages when trying to build pre2 in hoary which is strange > as I have qt3 packages installed ... any hints ? Do you have the Qt headers installed also? On Debian unstable I need to configure lyx with configure --with-frontend='qt' --with-qt-includes='/usr/include/qt

R.I.P. WYSIWYG

2005-10-10 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hello all reading jacob nielsens weekly alertbox, i feel that this weeks issue would be of interest to the lyx-people. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/wysiwyg.html martin

Re: Building 1.4pre2 in Ubuntu Hoary

2005-10-10 Thread ernesto
Angus Leeming wrote: >ernesto wrote: > > >>I get this messages when trying to build pre2 in hoary which is strange >>as I have qt3 packages installed ... any hints ? >> >> > >Do you have the Qt headers installed also? On Debian unstable I need to >configure lyx with > >configure --with-front

Converting from EPS to JPG

2005-10-10 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All This may be a bit out of topic, but I would like to convert a eps picture to a jpg one with the following features: * 600 DPI for line drawing * 300 DPI for halftones (gray scale) How can I do this conversion? Or could someone please direct me to the right forum to ask my question? Tha

Re: Converting from EPS to JPG

2005-10-10 Thread Martin A. Hansen
you can use different stuff -> convert (imagemagick), xfig, or ghostcript. this below ghostscript makes 600 DPI png from a (e)ps file. gs -q -dMaxBitmap=3 -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r600 -sDEVICE="pngmono" -sOutputFile="foo.png" foo.ps martin On 10/10/05, Paul Smith <[

Re: Converting from EPS to JPG

2005-10-10 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Mon 10 Oct 2005 15:47:36 BST, [Paul Smith] wrote : \_ Dear All This may be a bit out of topic, but I would like to convert a eps picture to a jpg one with the following features: * 600 DPI for line drawing * 300 DPI for halftones (gray scale) How can I do this conversion? Or cou

Re: Both Linux and Windows

2005-10-10 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lyx Contribute" Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 6:50 AM Subject: Both Linux and Windows I've Lyx installed in both Windows and Linux. I need at least one of these working on spellchecker. I need Spanish and Portuguese spellchecke

Re: R.I.P. WYSIWYG

2005-10-10 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > reading jacob nielsens weekly alertbox, i feel that this weeks issue > would be of interest to the lyx-people. > > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/wysiwyg.html Fascinating! Word as LyX :) -- Angus

Re: Converting from EPS to JPG

2005-10-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Paul Smith wrote: This may be a bit out of topic, but I would like to convert a eps picture to a jpg one with the following features: Paul, 'man convert' Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President | Author of "Quantifying Environmental Applied Ecosystem Services,

Re: Increase features - no!

2005-10-10 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 10 October 2005 14:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >     Hey Andre' -- I'm a Linux user. I work on Linux > for about six years. I know this SO! I've installed > Lyx on it, but the spellchecker is not working yet at > spanish and portuguese! :) What distribution are you using? I don't have

Re: R.I.P. WYSIWYG

2005-10-10 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Mon 10 Oct 2005 16:07:04 BST, [Angus Leeming] wrote : \_ Martin A. Hansen wrote: reading jacob nielsens weekly alertbox, i feel that this weeks issue would be of interest to the lyx-people. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/wysiwyg.html Fascinating! Word as LyX :) This extends be

Re: More support for ERT snippets?

2005-10-10 Thread Stacia Hartleben
I am not quite sure what file to edit or where to choose the Style when I edit it...sorry I am a LyX newbie! On 10/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Stacia Hartleben wrote: > > > It was made like this so you could edit the actual data that went > > between t

Re: More support for ERT snippets?

2005-10-10 Thread chr
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Stacia Hartleben wrote: > I am not quite sure what file to edit or where to choose the Style > when I edit it...sorry I am a LyX newbie! No worries. This isn't really a topic for new users anyway :-) I just wanted to let you know that I think it's actually doable with the c

Re: Pre2 is out there

2005-10-10 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 03:40:50PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > Please check this one out, look at this stage especially for > distribution problems. > > Also we still have some bugs to fix, so be sure to have backups of > everything you play with. > > ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pr

Re: Building 1.4pre2 in Ubuntu Hoary

2005-10-10 Thread chr
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Angus Leeming wrote: > ernesto wrote: > > I get this messages when trying to build pre2 in hoary which is strange > > as I have qt3 packages installed ... any hints ? > > Do you have the Qt headers installed also? On Debian unstable I need to > configure lyx with > > configu

Re: Converting from EPS to JPG

2005-10-10 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/10/05, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This may be a bit out of topic, but I would like to convert a eps picture > > to a jpg one with the following features: > >'man convert' Thanks to all who have answered. The picture that I have got is a PS file and corresponds to a small

Re: Building 1.4pre2 in Ubuntu Hoary

2005-10-10 Thread Georg Baum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got these qt-related packages installed (I searched for 'qt'): > > libqt3c102-mt 3.3.3.4-3 > libqt3-headers3.3.3.4-3 > qt3-dev-tools 3.3.3.4-3 In addition you need at least libqt3-mt-dev, and probably also libqt3-compat-headers (assuming that the ubuntu pa

Re: Converting from EPS to JPG

2005-10-10 Thread Georg Baum
Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks to all who have answered. The picture that I have got is a PS > file and corresponds to a small rectangular part of an entire part. > How can I throw away the whole superfluous white space around the > picture? I have tried GSview to convert the PS file to EPS with > au

Re: document types on Mac OS X

2005-10-10 Thread Bernd Kulawik
thanx, but ... :-( everything seems to be ok with the permissions --- but still no templates available. Rob Managan wrote in addition: I found that after installing TeX that I needed to update my path in .cshrc to include the binaries directory for the TeX installation. Without that LyX

Re: Re: Both Linux and Windows

2005-10-10 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
Sorry! I think I sent it to another email! :) -- > Did you check Aspell independently of LyX to see > that it > was correctly installed with the correct dictionary? > So that > you created some small file containing a few > deliberately > misspelled words and A

Re: Re: Increase features - no!

2005-10-10 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
Sorry! I think I sent it to another email! -- > What distribution are you using? I don't have > problems with the > spellchecker, I don't even remember the last time I > had any trouble. :-) > > José Abílio Now I'm using Mandrake 10.1 cause it is one ea

LyX/Mac 1.4.0pre2

2005-10-10 Thread Bennett Helm
With LyX-1.4.0pre2 being released, I've created a Mac version for testing purposes, which you can find here: (8.3 MB). I am not sure if this runs on anything other than Mac OS X 10.4, since I don't have anything else to test it w

Re: Pre2 is out there

2005-10-10 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:21:21AM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > You can get RPMs built on Redhat FC4 at ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/release/ > > So far, I have x86_64 RPMs [...] Okay, these are now available: ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/release/lyx-1.4.0pre2-1_qt.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.sylv

Re: Converting from EPS to JPG

2005-10-10 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/10/05, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks to all who have answered. The picture that I have got is a PS > > file and corresponds to a small rectangular part of an entire part. > > How can I throw away the whole superfluous white space around the > > picture? I have tried GSview

Re: document types on Mac OS X

2005-10-10 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 8, 2005, at 9:12 AM, Bernd Kulawik wrote: Hello everybody, I have been using Lyx very successfully for a long time on x86 Linux (SuSE) and convinced others to do so, too. Now I have an Apple PowerBook with OSX 10.4 (Tiger) for a while and decided to work again on larger documents (up

Re: document types on Mac OS X

2005-10-10 Thread Bernd Kulawik
Hi, Am 10.10.2005 um 20:32 schrieb Bennett Helm: On Oct 8, 2005, at 9:12 AM, Bernd Kulawik wrote: Hello everybody, I have been using Lyx very successfully for a long time on x86 Linux (SuSE) and convinced others to do so, too. Now I have an Apple PowerBook with OSX 10.4 (Tiger) for a whi

pre2 is stable?

2005-10-10 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Is the the pre2 version of LyX a stable one? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: pre2 is stable?

2005-10-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Dear All | | Is the the pre2 version of LyX a stable one? Oooo... way no. But it is getting there. It shoudn't eat your documents and crash your machine all the time... | | Thanks in advance, But please try it out, but make sure you have backups... --

space between single and right double quote marks

2005-10-10 Thread Jim Osborn
I can't seem to find a way to typeset the following text correctly: "The word was `foo,'" he said. The default result is: ...foo, I'll include the entire lyx file at the end of this note, but the bit corresponding to the quote marks is: The word was `foo,' \begin_inset Quotes erd \en

Re: pre2 is stable?

2005-10-10 Thread Paul Smith
On 10 Oct 2005 21:55:49 +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Is the the pre2 version of LyX a stable one? > > Oooo... way no. But it is getting there. It shoudn't eat your > documents and crash your machine all the time... > | > | Thanks in advance, > > But please try it out, b

Re: LyX/Mac 1.4.0pre2

2005-10-10 Thread Andre Berger
* Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-10-10 22:50 +0200: > With LyX-1.4.0pre2 being released, I've created a Mac version for > testing purposes, which you can find here: bennett.helm/LyX/LyX-140pre2.app.zip> (8.3 MB). Thanks, Bennett!! -Andre

1.4pre2 - windows

2005-10-10 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am keen to lend a hand testing this release but sadly do not know how to go about compiling the source on a WinXP box. Has anyone got a compiled version I could have to install.? If not could someone email me detailed instructions of how to compile my on (on or off list) Many thanks in a

Re: Using Bibtex in windows - How?

2005-10-10 Thread David Dean
I thought I might just add something else here. I have uninstalled and re-installed Lyx to a path with no spaces in the name (c:\bin\lyx) and I still cannot get the insert citation command to work. However, the space-in-filename errors (when clicking on the "BibTeX Generated Bibliography Button")

Chapter with no title.

2005-10-10 Thread Pupeno
Hello, How do I make Chapters with no title ? by using a protected space ? Anything better ? -- Pupeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (http://pupeno.com) pgpCobG2duBpC.pgp Description: PGP signature