Re: double superscript a lyx bug?

2006-02-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Uwe" == Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Uwe> Sven Schreiber schrieb: >> Hi, I just ran into the same thing reported by Bo Peng a short >> while ago -- if in math you make an explicit superscript but also >> append a "'" as a shortcut for prime (= matrix transpose sign >> here), latex

Re: Palatino leads to many overfull hbox-es

2006-02-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Peter Hegt wrote: Hi, I use the Palatino&default font&size, paper A5, margins default, but this leads to many words sticking out into the right margin. Consider the microtype package. It helps by stretching/shrinking the font width slightly, in addition to the usual stretching of whitespace.

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:36:01PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: ... how can I get this behavior with "any" word? Good question. Maybe Herbert or someone else can help. That's like the user calling the hel

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-23 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Helge Hafting writes: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:36:01PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > >>On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: [...] Dear Thread-Contributors, This is all very interesting perhaps, but please, I am subscribed to the list -- you do not need to cc me w

RE: Palatino leads to many overfull hbox-es

2006-02-23 Thread Peter Hegt
Hi, Tried \usepackage{microtype}, result looks quite nice. Much less overfull hbox-es. Maybe I could reduce the left & right margins a little to get to about 60 letters per line (or is this a sin, even for A5?) Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Hegt -Original Message- From: Helge Hafting

importing chart from excel ?

2006-02-23 Thread Luqman H
hi, i have copy-paste chart graph from excel to mspaint, and then save it to png, and open it into lyx document but the result is not as smooth when printing it in excel directly. is there any way to input the chart into lyx without loosing quality...? thanks

test - ignore

2006-02-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
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Re: lyx compatibility to MsWord etc

2006-02-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
Stephen Harris wrote: > Currently I think tex4ht will convert latex to html. Then the > html can be imported by Word. This doesn't work great. > Wrong. Tex4ht converts well to Oowriter. I've done it for a 54 pages article with footnotes, a jurabib bibliography, tables and some custom macros. With

Re: inserting image

2006-02-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul Schwartz schrieb: >> I am trying to insert image inside one document: >> - one small image of a button inside the document itself, >> - one small image of the same button inside a table >> ... >> display->PDF(pdflatex). I got five errors for each image. To fix the problem, copy the att

Re: Still: citation reference is wrong

2006-02-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
Charles de Miramon wrote: > Matthias Schmidt wrote: > >> >> well, I checked it: latex is running 3 times, and the bibliography is >> inserted within Lyx. So, the problem continues to exist! I don't >> understand, why I can see the citation reference in Lyx correct, but >> in the dvi-preview and

Re: importing chart from excel ?

2006-02-23 Thread Mael Hilléreau
is there any way to input the chart into lyx without loosing quality...? Export to PDF from excel (using PDF995, or another PDF printer or openoffice if not available) and then include the PDF into LyX. Regards, Mael. -- Mael Hilléreau

Re: importing chart from excel ?

2006-02-23 Thread John Pye
This might be useful as well -- I seem to remember that it's possible to get out a WMF file of the chart somehow. If so, you could convert using this (I haven't tried it though): http://www.skynet.ie/~caolan/Packages/libwmf.html Talking of PDF printers, I use "PDF Factory" and also "FinePrint"

Re: lyx compatibility to MsWord etc

2006-02-23 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Charles de Miramon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 4:22 AM Subject: Re: lyx compatibility to MsWord etc Stephen Harris wrote: Currently I think tex4ht will convert latex to html. Then the html can be imported by Word. This doe

Importing files written with SWP 4.0

2006-02-23 Thread Piero Pasotti
Hi, I'm a newcomer to the Lyx's world. Unfortunately I have the need to frequently exchange .tex files with people working with Scientific Workplace 4.0. I'm facing some problembs both in exporting lyx files to .tex and in importing swp .tex files to Lix. Could anybody suggest me a general solu

Re: LyX on Cygwin

2006-02-23 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > SH: The qt3 install got further this time but failed with this error: > > -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPRESS > -I/usr/local/src/qt3/mkspecs/cygwin-g++-win32 > -DAVE_QCONFIG_CPP /usr/local/src/qt3/src/tools/qglobal.cpp > In file included from /usr/local/src/q

Re: Can't find eps file when exporting

2006-02-23 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Gunnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > > The first error in the output you supplied in your initial post was > > > > dvips: Could not find figure > > file > > /tmp/lyx_tmpdir96260XiyjK/lyx_tmpbuf0/0_home_gunnar_Skola_appollonius.eps; I just ran on the same problem... The important point

Re: Importing files written with SWP 4.0

2006-02-23 Thread Nusret BALCI
I tend to think that there is no general and perfect solution yet, but I'm not an expert by any means. One thing that may alleviate the grief can be this: Scientific workplace can save files in a format called "portable latex". If your colleagues can save their files as portable latex, that would p

Re: Importing files written with SWP 4.0

2006-02-23 Thread Sven Schreiber
Piero Pasotti schrieb: > Hi, > I'm a newcomer to the Lyx's world. Unfortunately I have the need to > frequently exchange .tex files with people working with Scientific > Workplace 4.0. I'm facing some problembs both in exporting lyx files > to .tex and in importing swp .tex files to Lix. > Coul

Re: lyx compatibility to MsWord etc

2006-02-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
Stephen Harris wrote: > By "massaging" don't you mean proofreading and editing. Also > I once posted that Fabrice Popineau stated that tex4ht was the > best method (better than png) available for conversion from > Latex to Word. It is, but that still falls short of "great" when > compared to LyX

Re: inserting image

2006-02-23 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To fix the problem, copy the attached file "latex.bat" to LyX's install > subdirectory "~\LyX\bin". Uwe, the first line "$ cat latex.bat" of the latex.bat file at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2248 should be removed. -- Enrico

Re: Looking for way of writing pseudocode

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/22/06, Hannan Sadar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to write some pseudocode. Is there some specific package? Or it > > suffices LyX code? > > > You could use one of the following LaTeX package (Probably there are more): > > pseudocode > alg > algorithm2e > > you need to go to http://www

Re: Can't find eps file when exporting

2006-02-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: Gunnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] The first error in the output you supplied in your initial post was dvips: Could not find figure file /tmp/lyx_tmpdir96260XiyjK/lyx_tmpbuf0/0_home_gunnar_Skola_appollonius.eps; I just ran on the same problem... The impo

Re: lyx compatibility to MsWord etc

2006-02-23 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Charles de Miramon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 7:09 AM Subject: Re: lyx compatibility to MsWord etc But in my field of work, Medieval History, it is possible today to write an article in Lyx and at the end of the process con

Re: Can't find eps file when exporting

2006-02-23 Thread Georg Baum
Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2006 15:16 schrieb Jean-Pierre Chrétien: > If you're using TeXLive-2005, the dvips default behaviour has > shifted to secure: in particular, dvips won't accept absolute paths, > which LyX uses in the temporary. LyX will use relative paths in 1.4.0. > You should run dvip

Re: "LyX-Code" and "Typewriter" environment: how to change the font?

2006-02-23 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi, On Tuesday 21 February 2006 00:22, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > How does one change the font that is used (a) for the "LyX-Code" > > environment, (b) for "typewriter" character markup? > > If you mean you want to change LyX-Code globally (for all documents on > your system), you need to hack the f

Re: Importing files written with SWP 4.0

2006-02-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Nusret BALCI wrote: I tend to think that there is no general and perfect solution yet, but I'm not an expert by any means. One thing that may alleviate the grief can be this: Scientific workplace can save files in a format called "portable latex". If your colleagues can save their files as portab

Re: importing chart from excel ?

2006-02-23 Thread Sara Stymne
Hi! If the quality of the png-file is good, but not the quality of the the pdf-file created from lyx, the loss of quality appears when lyx converts the picture from png to eps. This can be solved by using pdflatex instead of latex, which directly uses png-images. /Sara Luqman H wrote: >hi, > >i

Re: inserting image

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Schwartz
on Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:24 AM - Uwe Stöhr schrieb : Subject: Re: inserting image Paul Schwartz schrieb: I am trying to insert image inside one document: - one small image of a button inside the document itself, - one small image of the same button inside a table ... display->PDF(pd

Re: Importing files written with SWP 4.0

2006-02-23 Thread Bo Peng
> > --- Piero Pasotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I collaborated a while back with someone using SWP. Based on that > experience, when SWP exports a file as LaTeX, the .tex file tends to > load a lot of proprietary style files that come with SWP (and not with > any standard distribution of LaTeX

Locating bibliography inside a document

2006-02-23 Thread LB
Hello I've always been using BibTex to create references. However for the next article that I preparing for submission, the publisher requires the bibliography to be inside the tex document so that they receive one complete file. The bibliography style I'm using is IEEEtran.bst which is what

Re: LyX on Cygwin

2006-02-23 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Enrico Forestieri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 6:15 AM Subject: Re: LyX on Cygwin Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SH: The qt3 install got further this time but failed with this error: -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPRES

Fw: inserting image

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Schwartz
- Original Message - From: "Paul Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on feb 23,2006 9:39 PM, paul schwartz wrote on Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:24 AM - Uwe Stöhr schrieb : Subject: Re: inserting image Paul Schwartz schrieb: I am trying to insert image inside one document: - one small

Fw: inserting image

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Schwartz
Sorry I forget to join the ".bat comparison" From: "Paul Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on feb 23,2006 9:39 PM, paul schwartz wrote on Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:24 AM - Uwe Stöhr schrieb : Subject: Re: inserting image Paul Schwartz schrieb: I am trying to insert image inside one docum

inserting image

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Schwartz
Sorry again, 1) I tried with an English language file without changing the basic language of the document, i.e. remaining in French :it appears to be the same result. I inserted three images, I got 15 errors. always trying to display PDF (pdflatex) Here is a copy of the prepared file. 2) I chan

Re: --- em dash without hyphenation, global setting

2006-02-23 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> > Jürgen, Kevin, Bruce, excuse > > me for my english, I need a > > global setting for avoid that > > latex hyphenat a comment --- > > in this manner---. In spanish > > we can include comments with > > em dash sticked to the word, > > but is not wanted that the hy- > > phen broke dash and w

Re: I need workaround of encoding problem

2006-02-23 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> >I can't to use spellchecker. Accented letters > >and ñ, Ñ are not recognized by ispell, aspell. > > > > > >>export LANG=es_ES > Then run lyx from the same xterm, so it uses the > modified language. You should still get the > lyx > GUI in your language, ass

inserting image

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Schwartz
Hi, "finally" when I select English in the format of the document, I still can type in French language including the French accentuations, display the text in pdf (pdflatex) and insert images without problem. Shall i understand that language=French is just a matter of dictionnary ? or is the

Re: I need workaround of encoding problem

2006-02-23 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Marcelo Acuña" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Helge Hafting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:40 PM Subject: Re: I need workaround of encoding problem >I can't to use spellchecker. Accented letters >and ñ, Ñ are not recognized

Re: I need workaround of encoding problem

2006-02-23 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Marcelo Acuña" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Helge Hafting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:40 PM Subject: Re: I need workaround of encoding problem >I can't to use spellchecker. Accented letters >and ñ, Ñ are not recognized

Re: LyX on Cygwin

2006-02-23 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That did the trick, Qt3 configured! You are doing all the hard work! > > There is a Cygwin icon in the upper left-hand corner of the command > window. I left-click on it and it opens a drop-down menu. Then I > choose Edit->mark and drag the mouse curso

Re: lyx compatibility to MsWord etc

2006-02-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
in my experience it will not work. time is wasted on converting documents from lyx2word and visa versa. a lot of time! its a pain in the arse working in word, but so be it. a lot about this issue is already written in the lyx wiki and in previous threads on this mail list. do check it out! sorr