Re: [Announce] LyX version 1.4.0

2006-03-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Rich" == Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rich>Now, if the F7 key was tied by default to the spelling Rich> checker as it used to be, I'd be content. What do you mean? JMarc

Re: Formatting character dialog

2006-03-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Charles de Miramon wrote: Hello, I'm slowly discovering LyX 1.4. I found that if you put your cursor in the middle of a word and select the Edit --> Text style dialog. Changes are applied to the whole word (that you have not selected). Is it a feature or a bug ? This is consistent with how th

Re: Using truetype fonts

2006-03-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Alexander Toresson wrote: Hi! Is it possible to set a truetype font that will be used for a 'paragraph class' or whatever it's called, for example Standard, Chapter* or Title? Yes, it is possible. First, make the font available for latex. If you're lucky, there is some existing latex style

Re: Formatting character dialog

2006-03-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Helge" == Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Helge> Charles de Miramon wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm slowly discovering LyX 1.4. I found that if you put your cursor >> in the middle of a word and select the Edit --> Text style dialog. >> Changes are applied to the whole word (that you

Re: Formatting character dialog

2006-03-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Georg" == Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Georg> IMO a bug. The text style should apply to the selection (if Georg> there is one), or to the current cursor position, menaing that Georg> all characters typed after the change will get the new style. The latter is what happens if the c

Re: Random error (due to reference?)

2006-03-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Nico" == Nico Jabin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nico> At the moment, I keep getting some random error (Missing $ Nico> inserted. Files1/$file/FinalReportPrinter.pdf}) when I try to Nico> compile my document (for viewing in PDF). The fact that it appears in a random place is because the er

Re: Syntax of Symbols file.

2006-03-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Stacia" == Stacia Hartleben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stacia> It would be cool if users could manipulate the Symbol files Stacia> without having to rebuild everything and hack LyX. I know it Stacia> might be useful for entering IPA symbols that I don't enter Stacia> very often. You can:

Re: lyx2lyx where?

2006-03-16 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 23:57, Myriam Abramson wrote: > Where can I get this conversion script? What operating system are you using? (Distribution and other details welcome). lyx2lyx is installed in $PATH_TO_LYX/lib/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx usually. > Sorry, I'm desperate. I have to post a midter

Re: Syntax of Symbols file.

2006-03-16 Thread Georg Baum
Stacia Hartleben wrote: > It would be cool if users could manipulate the Symbol files without > having to rebuild everything and hack LyX. You can. For example, if you defined a new command \mycommand that looks like two colons very close togther, you could write \def\mycommand{:\kern-1mu :} in

Re: lyx 1.4 - popups and menus with hebrew characters

2006-03-16 Thread Andrei Popov
> I am trying to setup lyx 1.4 at the moment. I am having a problem > with Hebrew entries in pop-ups (index) and menus (navigation with > Hebrew sections). I am using the qt version of lyx compiled locally > according to the instructions in the wiki. How do I change the > encoding of the pop-ups an

latex export

2006-03-16 Thread Nagy Gabor
Hi, I use LyX 1.3.6 (from Debian etch). I export my file in latex, and then I do this: $ latex thesis-komascript.tex Is this correct, or shall I use another command line? I get some warnings: TeX Warning: Citation `key-3' on page 4 undefined on input line 148. I don't understand this. I have i

APA style with two authors

2006-03-16 Thread Matt Ian Helgesen
Hello everyone, Has anyone been successful using the 'TwoAuthors' command in an APA style document? When I try to write an article using this instead of using 'Author', lyx can no longer export to pdf. Instead, I get several errors relating to the lack of a \maketitle command. Inserting this comma

Re: lyx 1.4.0 linking problem (missing /usr/lib/libltdl.la)

2006-03-16 Thread Rex Dieter
Jernej Barbic wrote: On my Red Hat Linux 9.0 system, lyx 1.4.0 manages to compile, but not link (see below). The missing /usr/lib/libltdl.la file doesn't exist on my system. Any ideas on how to fix this are very welcome. Install the libtool rpm. -- Rex

Re: Multi-part doc plus HTML export?

2006-03-16 Thread Jose' Matos
On Thursday 16 March 2006 07:03, Robert van der Kamp wrote: > > Hi Jose! > > > I don't think that all is in place to do what you want. > > That's too bad. Actually some of your wishes are in our todo lists for some time. :-) > > > 1. I want each of the systems have their own document, > > > e

Re: latex export

2006-03-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Nagy Gabor wrote: Hi, I use LyX 1.3.6 (from Debian etch). I export my file in latex, and then I do this: $ latex thesis-komascript.tex Is this correct, or shall I use another command line? That looks correct. I get some warnings: TeX Warning: Citation `key-3' on page 4 undefined on input l

Re: LyX Mac 1.4.0 Performance Issue

2006-03-16 Thread noeckel
On Mar 15, 2006, at 6:33 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Yaron" == Yaron Y Goland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yaron> I run Lyx 1.4 on my G5 dual proc 1.8 Ghz processors w/a gig of Yaron> ram and it's slow as molasses. It's so slow that I literally Yaron> type faster than it can handle, I oft

Re: latex export

2006-03-16 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
On Thursday 16 March 2006 11:38, Nagy Gabor wrote: > Hi, I use LyX 1.3.6 (from Debian etch). > > I export my file in latex, and then I do this: > > $ latex thesis-komascript.tex > > Is this correct, or shall I use another command line? > > I get some warnings: > TeX Warning: Citation `key-3' on pag

Re: LyX Mac 1.4.0 Performance Issue

2006-03-16 Thread noeckel
Sorry - I have to take back my remark on the page-down issue below. I thought I saw that yesterday, but today that particular behavior hasn't happened again... the delay in leaving math subscripts by cursor key is still observable, though. Jens On Mar 16, 2006, at 9:44 AM, noeckel wrote:

Re: APA style with two authors

2006-03-16 Thread Georg Baum
Am Donnerstag, 16. März 2006 07:18 schrieb Matt Ian Helgesen: > Hello everyone, > Has anyone been successful using the 'TwoAuthors' command in an APA > style document? When I try to write an article using this instead of > using 'Author', lyx can no longer export to pdf. Instead, I get several > e

Re: Formatting character dialog

2006-03-16 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > We could do a poll of how other apps (ooo, word, kword, abiword...) > and decide how to change this behaviour. > OpenOffice follows the same behaviour than LyX. Kword, Abiword and if I remember right MsWord are in the opposite group. I think LyX actual behaviour is

Re: lyx 1.4 - popups and menus with hebrew characters

2006-03-16 Thread Georg Baum
Am Donnerstag, 16. März 2006 12:42 schrieb Andrei Popov: > Unfortunately, this new problem alone makes the new LyX pretty much > unusable, however, I'm not sure everyone has it. Maybe it's a glitch > that only appears when compiling locally, according to Wiki > instructions? I doubt that. The loca

Re: APA style with two authors

2006-03-16 Thread lasgouttes
> Same here. It looks like the apa layout file needs some tweaking. Please > file a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org. Note that we have some APA bugs in bugzilla. JMarc

Re: APA style with two authors

2006-03-16 Thread Georg Baum
Am Donnerstag, 16. März 2006 21:39 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Note that we have some APA bugs in bugzilla. Indeed, I forgot to search. But Matt could have said that he already entered them :-) Georg

Re: lyx 1.4 - popups and menus with hebrew characters

2006-03-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:42:30 +0200 Andrei Popov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to setup lyx 1.4 at the moment. I am having a problem > > with Hebrew entries in pop-ups (index) and menus (navigation with > > Hebrew sections). I am using the qt version of lyx compiled locally > > accordi

Re: [Announce] LyX version 1.4.0

2006-03-16 Thread Gour
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 15:25 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > We'll try not to have other big items in order to get it out faster. > But of course, there will be smaller thing all over the place. The > goal for 1.6 will be xml-based file format. Is unicode + xml file format too big to be swall

pdflatex figure size

2006-03-16 Thread Simon Goodall
Hi, I've just tried using the pdflatex export option to create a pdf and my eps based figures are rendered half the size they should be, but take up twice the page area. I.e. I have a graph set to 100% col width and this should take up half a page. using pdflatex a whole page is used, but the gra

Unable to edit and save graphic in lyx-1.4.0 (Qt frontend)

2006-03-16 Thread Anand Rangarajan
I compiled and installed lyx-1.4.0 (Qt frontend) on a SUSE 10 x86_64 box. In lyx-1.4.0, I'm unable to edit and save a graphic. I wonder if I'm doing something stupid. Anyway, here's the problem. Open a new lyx file. Insert a graphic using the "Insert graphics" button on the toolbar. Browse and ch

Re: anybody know how to change the enumerate alignment?

2006-03-16 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> > How do you change the alignment of the > enumerate > > environment? i.e. when I get to the roman numerals > > numbering depth I find the number/label alignment > is > > to the right of the numeral which is not good for > > readability. > > With tweaklist package you get control over > enum

tex4ht, tex2rtf - all fails

2006-03-16 Thread Nagy Gabor
Hi, I would like to convert my lyx file to some m$ office editable format. You have suggested tex4ht, what I haven't used before. I have used tex2rtf already. Right now I cannot use any of the two. Can someone help? I don't care how, but I would like to have some format that my prof can open and

Pasting into tables in Lyx 1.4?

2006-03-16 Thread John Pye
Hi all It seems to me that the nifty middle-click trick for pasting text into tables is broken in the latest LyX, version 1.4. I copy some cells from Open Office, I position my LyX cursor in the first row, first column of my new LyX table (in a float) and click the middle button. All the text com

image of paper layout from koma-script

2006-03-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This page in the wiki, http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/PaperLayout, describes how to get an actual image of the current page layout with the layout package. Is there any way to get an image with actual distances like this with KOMA-Script/typearea? Thanks -- Dan Urist [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "page of floats" for table floats seem not work

2006-03-16 Thread Cheng-shan (Frank) Liu
Thank you; that's it. It worked. I hope future Lyx will incorporate this function to table float. -Frank Martin A. Hansen wrote: from the faq: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=floatpages is that it? otherwise you may need the command \clearpage which is used to make room fo

Re: LyX Mac 1.4.0 Performance Issue

2006-03-16 Thread Marc J. Driftmeyer
I'm running on an iBook G4 1Ghz with 640MB of RAM. The performance was definitely not going to match Yaron's, but may I make a suggestion to all the fellow OS X users? Download Qt4.1.1 open source Trolltech tools. I can give a configure setup that will configure, make and make install the t

Re: "page of floats" for table floats seem not work

2006-03-16 Thread Martin A. Hansen
latex goes to great length trying to place all floats. however, with many floats in a short document, latex may fail - and is not to blame IMHO. always remember the p in the default float placement setting -> !htbp without the p you risk loosing floats.use the \clearpage command in ERT to control w