Re: Am I shut out because of my windows flavour??

2005-11-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Roy Schestowitz wrote: > On Tue 22 Nov 2005 00:30:59 GMT, [Brian Lunergan] wrote: >> Evening all: >> I have been reading the material on LyX136 and I've got a concern over >> one of the listed bugs. It suggests Win98 and Lyx don't get along. I use >> Win98se on an 800mhz AMD machine, and do my down

Re: Abstracts in multiple languages, preface and acknowledgements

2005-11-22 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
On Friday 18 November 2005 16:31, Andreas Kofod-Hansen wrote: > Hi > > > > I'm writing my masters thesis in lyx, and as I'm writing the thesis in > danish, an abstract in english (as well as one in danish) is required. I > have tried using the latex directive selectlanguage to select first English

titletoc and "list of appendices"?

2005-11-22 Thread Andrew Morrison
Is it possible to have in a document a list of appendices such that the the top of the table of contents appears like: LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF APPENDICES Where the words are in all caps? I've figured out how to insert the list of tables and list of figures, and that I should proba

Lyx from the commandline, pdf creation

2005-11-22 Thread Stephen Gross
I'm new to lyx, so please bear with me. I've got a lyx document that I want to turn into a pdf. I know this is easy to do through the graphical interface; is there a way to do it via the commandline? I see that there's a '-x' option for executing a lyx command from the commandline. Can it be use

Re: Lyx from the commandline, pdf creation

2005-11-22 Thread Bo Peng
> I know this is easy to do through the graphical > interface; is there a way to do it via the commandline? lyx --export pdf xxx.lyx lyx --export pdf2 xxx.lyx The first uses latex, the second uses pdflatex. Cheers, Bo

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LyX-Users" Cc: "LyX-Devel" Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 9:25 AM Subject: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller Hello LyXers, with the help from many people I'm now able to present the new version 0.4 of

Re: Lyx from the commandline, pdf creation

2005-11-22 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Tue 22 Nov 2005 17:15:12 GMT, [Stephen Gross] wrote : \_ I'm new to lyx, so please bear with me. I've got a lyx document that I want to turn into a pdf. I know this is easy to do through the graphical interface; is there a way to do it via the commandline? I see that there's a '-x'

tex2pdf (was: Lyx from the commandline, pdf creation)

2005-11-22 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi, On Tuesday 22 November 2005 18:15, Stephen Gross wrote: > I've got a lyx document that I want to turn into a pdf. I know this is > easy to do through the graphical interface; is there a way to do it via > the commandline? Yes. Get Steffen Evers' script 'tex2pdf', it does all you need from th

Re: tex2pdf (was: Lyx from the commandline, pdf creation)

2005-11-22 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
> Yes. Get Steffen Evers' script 'tex2pdf', it does all you need from the > command line - including conversion of hyperlinks, thumbnail generation, > etc. In spite of its name, it can deal with LyX _and_ LaTeX. > > (The script used to be at http://tex2pdf.berlios.de/, but something is > wrong

Re: latex2rft / tex2rtf problems

2005-11-22 Thread K. Elo
Hi, Charles de Miramon wrote on November 21,2005, 20:45: > > I have to convert a long article with a bibtex bibliography into > > the rtf-format. I have installed both latex2rtf and tex2rtf, but I > > just cannot get it working. The problems are: > > Did you use latex2rtf like that : > > latex2rtf

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-22 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hello uwe i have had a look at your diploma thesis - its looks very nice. is it possible to have a look at the lyx file? (i dont have read permissions) maybe you would even donate it to the wiki - the thesis section is very meager -> http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Thesis i have also tried to figu

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-22 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi william the pdfpages package is indeed very cool. it did just the trick! i am a bit concerned about hacking the coverpage into place using lyx/latex, but if i really must, i am going to need some assistance. i will return with specific questions at a later point - for now i just wanted to find

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-22 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 22, 2005, at 3:18 PM, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i am a bit concerned about hacking the coverpage into place using lyx/latex, but if i really must, i am going to need some assistance. i will return with specific questions at a later point - for now i just wanted to find out if the coverpa

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-22 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:24:38PM +, Jose' Matos wrote: > I find it ironic defending a subject because it is pseudo-WYSIWYG in a lyx > list. ;-) Actually, I would suggest that HTML is actually closer in concept to LyX than it is to anything wysiwyg... but please don't take this as support

when to use koma-script?

2005-11-22 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi all i have been looking around for a fulfilling answer to this, but in vain. i have found no hints in the koma-script documentation intro, the latex companion, the tex faq, the lyx wiki, the lyx-extended-features documentation ... so perhaps somebody with experience using koma-script would sha

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-22 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
Thanks for help me, Helge! >>> I think that Lyx is very good for mathematics >>> but for history, sociology, etc. advantage is >>> reduced for difficult to learn and poor tool >>> for index entry. > >> 1) Difficult for index entry without assist. >> Examples: > >> a) I have i

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin A. Hansen wrote: i have had a look at your diploma thesis - its looks very nice. is it possible to have a look at the lyx file? (i dont have read permissions) Now you have it. i have also tried to figure why koma-script should be superiour to the standard latex classes. this seems not

Index Tips & Tricks in LyX.

2005-11-22 Thread John C. McCabe-Dansted
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 03:55, Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: > > 1) Difficult for index entry without assist. > Examples: > > a) I have in my book: Otto von Bismark-Schonhausen > I put the cursor at the end of this name, click on > Insert > Index Entry and get a dialog box with the > word

Re: Index Tips & Tricks in LyX.

2005-11-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, John C. McCabe-Dansted wrote: a) I have in my book: Otto von Bismark-Schonhausen I put the cursor at the end of this name, click on Insert > Index Entry and get a dialog box with the word Schonhausen, then I must add the rest of name without any misspelling each time

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-22 Thread John C. McCabe-Dansted
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 13:29, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > koma-script is superior because you can adjust nearly everything. You > need for example the LaTeX-package "caption" to set the caption font and > style - this can be omitted because koma-script allows you to do the same. > koma-script support

Re: when to use koma-script?

2005-11-22 Thread Helge Hafting
Martin A. Hansen wrote: hi all i have been looking around for a fulfilling answer to this, but in vain. i have found no hints in the koma-script documentation intro, the latex companion, the tex faq, the lyx wiki, the lyx-extended-features documentation ... so perhaps somebody with experience