Re: Increase features!

2005-10-11 Thread Helge Hafting
Stephen Harris wrote: Even as easy as it has become, LyX 1.3.6 for Windows is beyond 99% of Windows users. They are not used to reading, nor do they want to learn, to read documentation. Then they shouldn't bother with computers . . . Seriously, even new versions of the windows os itself tends

Re: Both Linux and Windows

2005-10-11 Thread Helge Hafting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 miss

Re: 1.4pre2 - windows

2005-10-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > 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. I do :-) However, there're currently a couple of bugs in our (and Qt/WinFree's) font loading code which prevent lyx from firing up. > Has anyone got

Re: Using Bibtex in windows - How?

2005-10-11 Thread Angus Leeming
David Dean wrote: > Bibfile: C:/data/David/PhD/Annual Report - 2005/research.bib > TextCache: BufferView::buffer > [/debug] Sorry, David. I'm very busy ATM. Could you file BOTH bug reports on bugzilla.lyx.org so that I don't forget it. Meantime, but your research.bib file somewhere without a spac

Re: space between single and right double quote marks

2005-10-11 Thread Helge Hafting
Jim Osborn wrote: 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, This is easy in lyx-1.4, where you do this: Set the quoting style to double qoutes. You probably have that already. Then write the sentence.

Re: Chapter with no title.

2005-10-11 Thread Helge Hafting
Pupeno wrote: Hello, How do I make Chapters with no title ? by using a protected space ? Anything better ? Yes. I know of no better way. Use "Chapter*" if you also want to get rid of the chapter number and the entry in the table of contents. Helge Hafting

Re: Re: Both Linux and Windows

2005-10-11 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lyx Contribute" Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 11:04 AM Subject: Re: Re: Both Linux and Windows Sorry! I think I sent it to another email! :) -- Did you check Aspell independently of LyX to see

xdvi slow preview

2005-10-11 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
Hello all, I use LyX 1.3.5 in suse 9.0. When I have a document with several figures, usually as ".eps" or ".jpg" images inserted in float figures, and I want to preview it as DVI, it takes a lot of time to render (depending on the number of figures) and sometimes it is really slow to appear th

Re: LyX/Mac 1.4.0pre2

2005-10-11 Thread Georg Kö
Dear Bennet! Many thank's for that build. Everything works fine so far, except that the german umlauts dont show up correctly in the menus and preferences dialogues. In the text-window I can type umlauts and other special chars without any troubles. I have attached an example screenshot.

Re: xdvi slow preview

2005-10-11 Thread Blaise Li
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote: Sometimes I use the rendering to a PDF file, but I don't like it because it takes a lot of time to start the acroread program. Perhaps you could use a lighter pdf viewer, like xpdf ? Blaise Li

Re: xdvi slow preview

2005-10-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:17 AM Subject: xdvi slow preview Hello all, I use LyX 1.3.5 in suse 9.0. When I have a document with several figures, usually as ".eps" or ".jpg" images inserted in

Re: xdvi slow preview

2005-10-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > As for compiling the pdf, this does contain all the figures from the > outset, but first they must be converted from .eps or .jpg to .pdf. In my > experience this takes a long time, again longer for complicated figures. > The solution to this one is to have all your figures

pagebreaks and labeling

2005-10-11 Thread Jose Capco
Dear List, Is there something like pagebreak or newpage the lyx way? or do I have to write a latex code when I want to pagebreak or newpage. I also have problems with labels, whenever I make a reference with label and produce the dvi I get ?? instead of the label (eg. instead of "see Proposition 2

Re: xdvi slow preview

2005-10-11 Thread Alain Leroux
Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez a écrit : > Hello all, > > I use LyX 1.3.5 in suse 9.0. When I have a document with several > figures, usually as ".eps" or ".jpg" images inserted in float figures, > and I want to preview it as DVI, it takes a lot of time to render > (depending on the number of figure

some observations about lyx1.4pre2

2005-10-11 Thread Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.)
Hi, I am just playing a bit with lyx1.4pre2. some observations: 1) Compiling goes easy on Mandrake 2005 2) I did an open, modify and save from my previous docs, a master doc with several input's (this converts to the new format?). Using lyx2lyx warns: warning: malformed lyx file: missing 'c

"Oh-oh --- Aspell is not working!"

2005-10-11 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
Oh --- I see! Aspell is not working! Now I know! There is no 'aspell.com' or 'aspel.exe' or some aspell executable, and I can't use the command line aspell (DOS prompt), neither inside the exact path (c:\aspell), because the single executable there is the 'aspell-uninstall'! I tried t

Bugs in 1.4.0pre2

2005-10-11 Thread Daniel Watkins
All the developers will be glad to hear that this isn't actually a bug report! :P One of the developers is likely to say this sooner or later (and I've seen it said in a few individual bug reports), but I thought I'd add this now, to save them time (scarce resources being what they are). Bug repor

Re: pagebreaks and labeling

2005-10-11 Thread Michael-E. Voges
Hey Jose, Am Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2005 11:56 schrieb Jose Capco: > Is there something like pagebreak or newpage the lyx > way? or do I have to write a latex code when I want to > pagebreak or newpage. Just put the cursor in the (wanted) last paragraph of your page, open 'Format' 'Paragraph' of

Re: "Oh-oh --- Aspell is not working!"

2005-10-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh --- I see! Aspell is not working! Now I know! There is no 'aspell.com' or 'aspel.exe' or some aspell executable, and I can't use the command line aspell (DOS prompt), neither inside the exact path (c:\aspell), because the single executable there is the 'aspell

Guess? Aspell working!

2005-10-11 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
Hey people! Thanks a lot for help me! Well, now I know why was not working before: It is necessary to download the 'lean' Aspell -- not the spanish or the portuguese version. After installing that one, you can download the Aspell for your tongues, and to install over it! What a m

Re: Guess? Aspell working!

2005-10-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lyx Contribute" Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:24 PM Subject: Guess? Aspell working! Hey people! Thanks a lot for help me! Well, now I know why was not working before: It is necessary to download the 'lean' Aspell --

Instant Preview very slow in 1.4pre2

2005-10-11 Thread Marius Ionescu
Hi. I have been using the cvs and now the pre2 version of LyX for some time now. I think it is a wonderful program. I compile it on Ubuntu 5.04 and I use the qt frontend. Recently I noticed that LyX is very slow when the "Instant Preview" option is set to "On". For a three page document (with lots

Re: CMR font

2005-10-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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)? I recommend the latin modern fonts. They are based on computern modern and under the GPL. You find them in OpenType f

Re: pagebreaks and labeling

2005-10-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jose Capco wrote: Is there something like pagebreak or newpage the lyx way? For \newpage you can use the shortcut "Strg-ENTER" (or "C-ENTER"). \pagebreak is actually not supported in LyX, so that you have to use ERT for this. regards Uwe

Re: CMR font

2005-10-11 Thread Gour
Uwe Stöhr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I recommend the latin modern fonts. They are based on computern modern > and under the GPL. You find them in OpenType format here: This is a new stuff, it is not part of tetex? Sincerely, Gour -- Registered Linux User | #278493 GPG Public Key

Re: space between single and right double quote marks

2005-10-11 Thread Jim Osborn
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:11:39AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > This is easy in lyx-1.4... Correct spacing is added as needed, at > least that happened for me with this sort of quoting style: > «The word was » he said. > > It is also possible (but cumbersome) in lyx 1.3: > Set quoting style to

converting tex to lyx; layouts

2005-10-11 Thread Tomoki Tsuchiya
Hi there, I am using win32 lyx 1.3.6. I am wondering why I can't convert tex file to lyx file. is it possible at all? As well as that, I am searching for a good site, explaining how to create layout files. How can one make cls files for tex, usable in lyx? Related to this question. How can on

Re: converting tex to lyx; layouts

2005-10-11 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/11/05, Tomoki Tsuchiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > I am using win32 lyx 1.3.6. > I am wondering why I can't convert tex file to lyx file. is it possible at > all? Have a look at: http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx > As well as that, I am searching for a good site, explaining

Re: FW: space between single and right double quote marks

2005-10-11 Thread Daniel Watkins
> ``The word was `foo' ''[I'll call E style] style. Try using C-Shift-Space to create a thin space. The LyX is as follows: \begin_body \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Quotes eld \end_inset The word was 'foo'\InsetSpace \thinspace{} \begin_inset Quotes erd \end_inset \end_layout \e

Symbol in ERT

2005-10-11 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Québec, le 11 octobre 2005 I'm using beamer class for a pdf presentation of Gimp next week. In a slide, I use a block box written using ERT. My problem is that I want to insert a right triangle to mimic a right arrow. The symbol is \triangleright but I dont't know how to insert it inside the ER

jurabib from within lyx

2005-10-11 Thread Lachlan
Hi, I am a science student, and so the standard NatBib stuff within Lyx has been all I have ever used. However, I am doing a history subject and want more humanity-friendly references (full references as footnotes). After a while browsing and searching online, it seems that the jurabib package

Re: Symbol in ERT

2005-10-11 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
> Québec, le 11 octobre 2005 > (...) > \item Calque -> Couleurs -> Désaturer > > > > I want to replace "->" with \triangleright between > Calque, Couleurs and Désaturer but then LyX refuses > to compile the pdf. > > Raymond -- The

Re: CMR font

2005-10-11 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
I recommend the latin modern fonts. They are based on computern modern and under the GPL. You find them in OpenType format here: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/lm/fonts/opentype/public/lm/ the equivalent for CMR is lmroman. regards Uwe -

pdflatex & MacOS X

2005-10-11 Thread David Philp
Hi This is along the lines of the recent "lyx MacOS" thread. I have the same problem with the following symptoms: (1) "View PDF (pdflatex)" does nothing (nothing means it grinds away a little bit and then does nothing. Lyx is responsive.) (2) "File -> Export -> PDF (pdflatex)" does nothing (pro