Re: Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-08 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Stefano Franchi wrote: > That is, I select the > table, go into the pop-up dialog and enter a value in the 'width' > field. Did you hit the return key after that to apply the changes? Jürgen

Re: Footnote to normal text

2006-07-08 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Alex wrote: > "In additon, you can change regular text to a footnote, by selecting it > and hitting the Insert footnote button; change a footnote to regular > text by clicking the Insert footnote button when the cursor is in the > footnote." I think this was possible in earlier versions of LyX. Ho

Re: Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-08 Thread Charles de Miramon
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Did you hit the return key after that to apply the changes? > Having an 'apply' button in the Table Parameters dialog would be a nice usability enhancement. The table interface is indeed quite confusing. I think it should be split between a dialog for the general

Re: Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-08 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Charles de Miramon wrote: > Having an 'apply' button in the Table Parameters dialog would be a nice > usability enhancement. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1699 > The table interface is indeed quite confusing. I think it should be split > between a dialog for the general parameters for t

Math fonts in win32

2006-07-08 Thread Thomas Weithöner
Hi there, I have spent a number of hours trying to figure out how to get the math symbols displayed in in the win32 environment. The standard installation does not allow this. For instance, relations such as \leq result in a dot displayed instead of the symbol. I read all FAQ and online help pages

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-08 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 7. Juli 2006 18:47 schrieb Rich Shepard: >I've never used it so I have no experience of the difficulty. But, I also > assume that it's used infrequently enough to not warrant the effort to > incorporate it directly into LyX. Am I incorrect on my assumption? I suspect yes, since I

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Georg Baum wrote: I suspect yes, since I frequently need to combine rows. From a users point of view it is really strange that you can combine columns, but can't combine rows. Good point, Georg. I frequently need to combine columns, but have not yet needed to combine rows

Re: Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Stefano Franchi wrote: Leaving aside the problem of line-wrapping, how did you manage to fix the width of the columns in your tables? Stefano, That's an excellent question. :-) It's been a year since the book was published and I've not thought about the raw document for

Re: Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-08 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 8 Jul, 2006, at 1:57 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: That is, I select the table, go into the pop-up dialog and enter a value in the 'width' field. Did you hit the return key after that to apply the changes? Jürgen Thanks Jürgen, that was it. It never

Re: Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-08 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 8 Jul, 2006, at 3:00 AM, Charles de Miramon wrote: Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Did you hit the return key after that to apply the changes? Having an 'apply' button in the Table Parameters dialog would be a nice usability enhancement. I agree wholeheartedly. In my particular case, th

Re: Index more small

2006-07-08 Thread Zhenhua Wu
Hi, I think you can modify the size of the font, and the superscript will be adjusted automatically. On 2006.07.05 17:22:40 +0200, icebna wrote: > > Hi all : > I'm sorry. I lost how make that the superscript number are more small. > Is very big to my work. > Thanks advanced > Miguel > -- ---

Re: Footnote to normal text

2006-07-08 Thread Alex
Thanks for the answer. Any comments from the developers? >> "In additon, you can change regular text to a footnote, by selecting it >> and hitting the Insert footnote button; change a footnote to regular >> text by clicking the Insert footnote button when the cursor is in the >> footnote." > > I

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Harris wrote: I have LyX 1.4.2 installed and alt-f4 kills lyx but not cmd.exe My keyboard requires using an F-lock key to enable standard features. Hmm. I was going to ask John and Ed whether alt-F4 kills programs other than LyX that are being run in shells (rather than as native Win

Re: Math fonts in win32

2006-07-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Thomas Weithöner wrote: Hi there, I have spent a number of hours trying to figure out how to get the math symbols displayed in in the win32 environment. The standard installation does not allow this. For instance, relations such as \leq result in a dot displayed instead of the symbol. I read all

Re: Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Stefano Franchi wrote: I am trying to set up a multi-page, fixed width column table, but my attempts seem to be blissfully ignored by LyX. That is, I select the table, go into the pop-up dialog and enter a value in the 'width' field. I did this for all

Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx

2006-07-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: However, I never noticed that I have to close the last display of a pdf in Acrobat to be able to view the new one (I get the message "I can't write on foo.pdf" until I close foo.pdf. You might want to look at http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#toc1. Being to

Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx

2006-07-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Sven Schreiber wrote: Thanks for your reply, Paul. I loaded your document into LyX 1.4.1 here (Win XP, MiKTeX but *not* Texniccenter), substituted a PNG file I have (you didn't attach yours), and viewed it via pdflatex with no problem. I routinely use PNG images in PDF files and have not had L

Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx

2006-07-08 Thread Matej Cepl
Paul A. Rubin wrote: >> However, I never noticed that I have to close the last display >> of a pdf in Acrobat to be able to view the new one (I get the >> message "I can't write on foo.pdf" until I close foo.pdf. > You might want to look at > http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#toc1. Being too

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-08 Thread Steve Harris
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Harris wrote: I have LyX 1.4.2 installed and alt-f4 kills lyx but not cmd.exe My keyboard requires using an F-lock key to enable standard features. Hmm. I was going to ask John and Ed whether alt-F4 kills programs other than LyX that are being run in shells (rat