[announce] Windows development snaphot for LyX 1.5 (09-04-2007)

2007-04-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, the last week we made big efforts towards the LyX 1.5.0 release. To test the new features, dialog cleanups and bugfixes I've published a new development snapshot of LyX 1.5svn: https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=12620 (More infos about th

Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file

2007-04-10 Thread Pieter Bos
Hello, i'm trying to include a pdf file in a large document, a paper that was published in my MSc thesis in Lyx 1.4.4 in Windows. I tried including this with pdfpages. I first put \usepackage{pdfpages} in the preamble. I managed to get this to work, with an ERT command with the rather obscure b

Re: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file

2007-04-10 Thread Pieter Bos
I should add that running eps2pdf on my eps files exported from coreldraw gives the following error: epstopdf: Not a valid EPS file. They open just fine in ghostview. Pieter - Original Message - From: Pieter Bos To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 1:55 PM Subje

Re: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file

2007-04-10 Thread Jeremy Johnson
On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Pieter Bos wrote: > Hello, > > i'm trying to include a pdf file in a large document, a paper that was > published in my MSc thesis in Lyx 1.4.4 in Windows. I tried including this > with pdfpages. I first put \usepackage{pdfpages} in the preamble. I managed > to get this to

Re: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file

2007-04-10 Thread Pieter Bos
How exactly do i use epsfig? Lyx will still try to convert them to pdf and fail unless i manually specify it should use epsfig with an ERT command for each figure? I did find some sort of solution: using acrobat distiller to convert the eps files to pdf files, then include those. Running disti

Re: Table of Contents formatting

2007-04-10 Thread John Hughes
With the help of your example, I now understand the documentation much better! Thanks! John From: Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: John Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,LyX Subject: Re: Table of Contents formatting Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:03:58 -0600 On 4/3/07 7:05 AM, "John Hughes" <[EMA

Re: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file

2007-04-10 Thread Pieter Bos
- Original Message - From: "Pieter Bos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:51 PM Subject: Re: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file I did find some sort of solution: using acrobat distiller to convert the eps files to pdf files, then i

Re: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file

2007-04-10 Thread William Adams
On Apr 10, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Pieter Bos wrote: > Running distiller on the eps files produces great looking pdf > files. However, running pdflatex including those pdf files produces > horrible looking rasterized low-resolution images. ?!? The placed .pdf files should be wholly enclosed in th

Re: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file

2007-04-10 Thread Pieter Bos
- Original Message - From: "William Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LyX Users" Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 4:14 PM Subject: Re: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file On Apr 10, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Pieter Bos wrote: Running distiller on the eps files produces great lookin

Re: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file

2007-04-10 Thread William Adams
On Apr 10, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Pieter Bos wrote: > I think lyx might be for some reason calling a convertor. When i > run pdflatex manually on the exported tex file this small test file > works great. Correct. For some reason the nice vector / text .pdf you have (beatdetectoropdeling.pdf) i

Re: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file

2007-04-10 Thread Pieter Bos
Ok, i tried exporting a larger file to pdflatex. It will create a png file for each .pdf file i try to include. When i delete them and run pdflatex manually, everything works just as it should. That's not right, is it? There aren't any converters from pdf to png present in the preferences wind

Re[2]: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file

2007-04-10 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Pieter Bos apparently wrote: > Running distiller on the eps files produces great looking pdf files. > However, running pdflatex including those pdf files produces horrible > looking rasterized low-resolution images. > Anyone else with a solution? Sounds like an odd proble

Re: Re[2]: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file

2007-04-10 Thread Pieter Bos
- Original Message - From: "Alan G Isaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 4:53 PM Subject: Re[2]: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Pieter Bos apparently wrote: Running distiller on the eps files produces great looking pdf fil

Re: Is there any way to make "JabRef push to LyX" work in Windows XP?

2007-04-10 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Yu, James writes: > Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > The solution is "just" to replace our handmade socket (or pipe) layer > > with a portable one. > > > > It should not be very hard to implement even for a newcomer in the LyX > > project. If someone's interested, come&see us at the devel list > > >

Bibliography problems

2007-04-10 Thread Julio Rojas
Hi, my tutor wants a bibliographic style similar to APAlike: cite[1], book[2] [1] Lastname, Name (year): Article Name, Journal Name [2] Lastname, Name (year): Book Name, Publisher, Address The problem is that when I try to use the "apacite" bibliographic style on a "plain" article, a group of "

Re[4]: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file

2007-04-10 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Pieter Bos apparently wrote: > Found http://www.archivesat.com/lyx_develers_help/thread2637474-1.htm after > even more googling. Deleted the lyxrc.dist file and now it works. Good. What is your LyX version? Cheers, Alan Isaac

Re: Re[4]: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file

2007-04-10 Thread Pieter Bos
- Original Message - From: "Alan G Isaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 6:19 PM Subject: Re[4]: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Pieter Bos apparently wrote: Found http://www.archivesat.com/lyx_develers_help/thread2637474-1.

Re[6]: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file

2007-04-10 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Pieter Bos apparently wrote: > Version 1.4.4 (Sat Feb 17 11:37:59 2007) Then either - Georg and JMarc did not fix the 1.4 installer, or - they fixed it after this date (unlikely?) http://www.archivesat.com/lyx_develers_help/thread2637474-1.htm Cheers, Alan Isaac

Re: Re[6]: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file

2007-04-10 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 10. April 2007 20:50 schrieb Alan G Isaac: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Pieter Bos apparently wrote: > > Version 1.4.4 (Sat Feb 17 11:37:59 2007) > > Then either > - Georg and JMarc did not fix the 1.4 installer, or > - they fixed it after this date (unlikely?) No. Neither of us fixed it

Re: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file

2007-04-10 Thread Jeremy Johnson
On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Pieter Bos wrote: > How exactly do i use epsfig? Lyx will still try to convert them to pdf and > fail unless i manually specify it should use epsfig with an ERT command for > each figure? > > I did find some sort of solution: using acrobat distiller to convert the > eps fi

Jabref Meta comments showing up in my citation list (1.4.4)

2007-04-10 Thread Stacia Hartleben
Hi, I don't know if this is fixed in 1.5.0, but I've always been annoyed that the JabReb meta comments show up in the citation box...Does this only happen to me or does it happen to other people as well, and does anyone know the status of it? If not I'm gonna bug it on bugzilla.

Re: Is there any way to make "JabRef push to LyX" work in Windows XP?

2007-04-10 Thread James Yu
Hi, Enrico, Great you have tried something and succeeded. Will you share with us the "utility"? Thanks, James On 4/10/07, Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yu, James writes: > Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > The solution is "just" to replace our handmade socket (or pipe) layer > > with

Re: Updating index

2007-04-10 Thread Lennart
Frederick "FN" Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How do I update the index of a Lyx-generated book? I made a number of > changes in the index, but these don't seem to show up. FN Just regenerate the pdf or dvi then the index should be updated..

How to insert a blank page

2007-04-10 Thread Lennart
Hey, I have a document written in the book class. I want a white blank page after the title page. So that the table of contents isn't printed on the back of the title page when I print it double sided. I know it's against the lyx philosofy and I know how to fix it outside lyx. But I think it c

Lyx 144 on Intel Mac: problems with large documents

2007-04-10 Thread Robert Neumann
Hello, I just installed lyx 144 sucessfully on a macbook core duo. Opening and working on a document with 40 pages was no problem (well scrolling up and down was a bit sluggish...) But when I opened a document with 290 pages and about 80 figures lyx hangs itself at the first attempt. At the seco

Re: Lyx 144 on Intel Mac: problems with large documents

2007-04-10 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On 4/10/07 2:28 PM, "Robert Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I just installed lyx 144 sucessfully on a macbook core duo. Opening and > working on a document with 40 pages was no problem (well scrolling up > and down was a bit sluggish...) > But when I opened a document with 290 pages

Re: How to insert a blank page

2007-04-10 Thread Paul Smith
On 4/10/07, Lennart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a document written in the book class. I want a white blank page after the title page. So that the table of contents isn't printed on the back of the title page when I print it double sided. I know it's against the lyx philosofy and I know how

Re: Is there any way to make "JabRef push to LyX" work in Windows XP?

2007-04-10 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:11:53PM -0700, James Yu wrote: > Hi, Enrico, > Great you have tried something and succeeded. > Will you share with us the "utility"? No problem. Please find attached a tar archive containing an executable and a bash script. You can put LyXPipeWatcher.exe wherever you wa