Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-04 Thread Jean Kaplan
To put text in equations, I use \mbox Jean Le 2 juin 07 à 17:15, Steve Litt a écrit : Hi all, I'd like to have an explanation to the left of each equation, something like this: 2x +4 = 3x -14 Given 2x +4 - 4 = 3x - 14 -4 Subtract 4 from each side 2x = 3x - 18Simplify

rc1 bug status?

2007-06-04 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, I'm a bit confused now that rc1 is out. On bugzilla I find 14 critical bugs with target 1.5.0 still open (see below for the copy&paste result). What then was the reason to have a RC and not another beta? I'm not doubting that the current development version is great and has a lot of nice new f

Re: rc1 bug status?

2007-06-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Sven" == Sven Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> Hi, I'm a bit confused now that rc1 is out. On bugzilla I find Sven> 14 critical bugs with target 1.5.0 still open (see below for the Sven> copy&paste result). What then was the reason to have a RC and Sven> not another beta? I'm not

Re: rc1 bug status?

2007-06-04 Thread Sven Schreiber
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: >> "Sven" == Sven Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sven> Hi, I'm a bit confused now that rc1 is out. On bugzilla I find > Sven> 14 critical bugs with target 1.5.0 still open (see below for the > Sven> copy&paste result). What then was the reason to have a

1.5.0rc1 crash when breaking last line of paragraph

2007-06-04 Thread ubuntuuser
LyX 1.5.0rc1 crashes when I try to break part of the last line (sometimes even last 2 lines) of a paragraph into a new paragraph hitting Enter. This only happens if another paragraph is following. Can anyone confirm? I built LyX on Ubuntu 7.04. I attached a file that makes reproduction easy. p

Re: rc1 bug status?

2007-06-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Sven" == Sven Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> Thanks for the clarification! So if it's fixedintrunk, is it Sven> also fixed in rc1? Or is that a case-by-case thing? Same for the Sven> other known fixes? fixedintrunk is for bugs that also exist in 1.4 but are not fixed there. Th

Re: Wiki v.s. web site (Was: how to use custom character styles)

2007-06-04 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 02 June 2007 06:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or why does Google have Playground indexed if it is a practice sandbox? Google has no reason to _not_ index pages in the wiki group Playground. It might be possible to instruct google to ignore th

Re: Wiki v.s. web site (Was: how to use custom character styles)

2007-06-04 Thread christian . ridderstrom
p.s. Why doesn't the website have the LyX documentation? If it does, I overlooked it -- where is it linked from? I don't understand the question... which website? Official www.lyx.org. The documentation I didn't see was: doc/Customization.html doc/DocStyle.html doc/Extended.html doc/FAQ.ht

Re: Index entries: Wiki

2007-06-04 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Christian Liesen wrote: I've updated the part on formatting index entries with LyX on the Wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Indexing#toc2 Nice! You seem to know your way around pmwiki markup unusually well! I made some very minor twaking of the markup to show some alternative

Re: Plug for "TeX For the Impatient"

2007-06-04 Thread William Adams
On Jun 2, 2007, at 4:58 PM, Alan G Isaac wrote: And you can use $$ f(x) = x^{2} $$ in LaTeX if you want, even if \[ f(x) = x^{2} \] or \begin{equation*} f(x) = x^{2} \end{equation*} are more idiomatic. (The last assumes the amsmath package is loaded.) 'cept that the $$...$$ is deprecated and w

Re: rc1 bug status?

2007-06-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Sven Schreiber wrote: > (Still trying to understand if the move from beta to rc is some defined > threshold or "just" a gradual improvement.) Note that it is _in general_ not recommended to use a non-stable version for serious production work (even though 1.5rc1 is probably in a much better shap

Re: 1.5.0rc1 crash when breaking last line of paragraph

2007-06-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > LyX 1.5.0rc1 crashes when I try to break part of the last line (sometimes > even last 2 lines) of a paragraph into a new paragraph hitting Enter. This > only happens if another paragraph is following. > > Can anyone confirm? Yes, This is probably bug 3790: http://bugzill

subfiles

2007-06-04 Thread Trevor Nicholls
I'm a little confused by how LyX understands subfiles. Does it support the concept of a parent document which includes a number of subdocuments? * The documentation refers to a means of including "external material", although the available types of external material do not appear to include "o

Re: subfiles

2007-06-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Trevor" == Trevor Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Trevor> * The documentation refers to a means of including "external Trevor> material", although the available types of external material Trevor> do not appear to include "other LyX files". This one is to insert image-like objects. T

RE: subfiles

2007-06-04 Thread Trevor Nicholls
Thank you - I missed that one Cheers T -Original Message- From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 5 June 2007 12:03 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: subfiles > "Trevor" == Trevor Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tr

Re: RC1 -- more remarks 2

2007-06-04 Thread Helge Hafting
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi, two effects of the representation of my document on the screen have been observed with the betas and unfortunately haven't gone by with RC1: 1) When I switch from Lyx (maximized) to some other application and then return, only the actual paragrph is shown, the rest of

Re: RC1 -- more remarks 2

2007-06-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Helge" == Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 2) When I reopen a document which contains already some text, quite >> often (but so far I don't see any systematic behaviour) the >> uppermost line(s) are hidden. Is this an effect of the new session >> management? Helge> When you reop

Re: Index entries: Wiki

2007-06-04 Thread Christian Liesen
Looks better indeed :-), and I'll note the markup hints, many thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Christian Liesen wrote: I've updated the part on formatting index entries with LyX on the Wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Indexing#toc2 Nice! You seem to know your way around p

Re: 1.5.0rc1 crash when breaking last line of paragraph

2007-06-04 Thread ubuntuuser
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 13:52:04 +0200 Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Betreff: Re: 1.5.0rc1 crash when breaking last line of paragraph > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > LyX 1.5.0rc1 crashes when I try to break part of the last line > (sometimes

Re: 1.5.0rc1 crash when breaking last line of paragraph

2007-06-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The patch did not help, unfortunately. I see. Too bad. Could you open a new bug report, please? Jürgen

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-04 Thread Steve Litt
Thanks Jean, If have a nice automated set of environments/charstyles to do this from within LyX, so that you simply type the equation and explanation with their proper environment or charstyle, I'd like to see them. Otherwise hopefully I can make my own (and show them to the list if/when they w

Re: 1.5.0rc1 crash when breaking last line of paragraph

2007-06-04 Thread Richard Heck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LyX 1.5.0rc1 crashes when I try to break part of the last line (sometimes even last 2 lines) of a paragraph into a new paragraph hitting Enter. This only happens if another paragraph is following. Can anyone confirm? I built LyX on Ubuntu 7.04. I attached a file that m

Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-04 Thread Jean Kaplan
I found a solution to reduce (or increase) the size of math previews on the lyx screen (at least for mac os X 10.4.9, mac ppc): Go to the menu item "Preferences->Look and feel-> screen fonts", decrease (or increase) the "Screen DPI" and save this changes the size of math previews without chan

"view latex" in 1.5.0 orc1

2007-06-04 Thread Jean Kaplan
By changing the name of the .lyx directory I got back all options of the "view" menu, except "view latex". This seem to be replaced by by "view source", but this is not equivalent because the window where the source appears is not searchable and cannot be typeset. In version 1.4.4, it ope

Re: "view latex" in 1.5.0 orc1

2007-06-04 Thread Bo Peng
On 6/4/07, Jean Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: By changing the name of the .lyx directory I got back all options of the "view" menu, except "view latex". This seem to be replaced by by "view source", but this is not equivalent because the window where the source appears is not searchable and

Re: "view latex" in 1.5.0 orc1

2007-06-04 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 4, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Bo Peng wrote: On 6/4/07, Jean Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: By changing the name of the .lyx directory I got back all options of the "view" menu, except "view latex". This seem to be replaced by by "view source", but this is not equivalent because the window

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-04 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 4, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Jean Kaplan wrote: I found a solution to reduce (or increase) the size of math previews on the lyx screen (at least for mac os X 10.4.9, mac ppc): Go to the menu item "Preferences->Look and feel-> screen fonts", decrease (or increase) the "Screen DPI" and save thi

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Bennett" == Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bennett> On Jun 4, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Jean Kaplan wrote: >> I found a solution to reduce (or increase) the size of math >> previews on the lyx screen (at least for mac os X 10.4.9, mac ppc): >> Go to the menu item "Preferences->Look and f

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-04 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 4, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Bennett" == Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bennett> On Jun 4, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Jean Kaplan wrote: I found a solution to reduce (or increase) the size of math previews on the lyx screen (at least for mac os X 10.4.9, mac ppc

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-04 Thread Jean Kaplan
When I open a file in 1.4 the dpi setting is 80, which is exactly what I set up by trial and error in 1.5. I think that the initial setting in 1.5 was 150. However I do not know, but you should know, wether changing the dpi setting in 1.5 changes it in in 1.4. On mac osx , the preferences

[announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.5rc1-31-05-2007

2007-06-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, I uploaded an installer for LyX 1.5rc1: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=12890 Changelog to last development snapshot: Version LyX 1.5rc1-31-05-2007 - LyX 1.5rc1 from 31-05-2007 - support for Farsi - new Korean and Japanese translation

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-04 Thread Richard Heck
Jean Kaplan wrote: When I open a file in 1.4 the dpi setting is 80, which is exactly what I set up by trial and error in 1.5. I think that the initial setting in 1.5 was 150. However I do not know, but you should know, wether changing the dpi setting in 1.5 changes it in in 1.4. On mac osx , th

Re: "view latex" in 1.5.0 orc1

2007-06-04 Thread Jean Kaplan
Great, it works, thank you. I do not remember making this change in 1.4, but this was long ago and I probably forgot about it Jean Le 4 juin 07 à 18:18, Bennett Helm a écrit : On Jun 4, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Bo Peng wrote: On 6/4/07, Jean Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: By changing the name

1.5.0rc1 Mac PPC G3 typing lag

2007-06-04 Thread Johannes Knaus
Hello, I'm just testing the 1.5.0rc1 binary on my PPC G3 (iBook 700Mhz, 384MB RAM, 10.4.9). It is significantly slower than all 1.5betas released earlier. When I'm typing some characters there is always a lag of some seconds before it appears on the screen. This makes Lyx definetly unusabl

Upgrade problems

2007-06-04 Thread gary
Hi, I recently upgraded to the windows version 1.4.4. In the new version all the old document class are not supported for some reason. Classes like article,book,letter just don't appear in the drop down list of the document class dialog. How can I fix this? thanks, Gary

Re: Physical units

2007-06-04 Thread Tim Michelsen
Could this be adapted in the documentation, please? We aren't responsible for documentation of external packages. I know that very well. I took my example from p. 95, section: 6.6.5.2. http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/Manuals/1.4.2/UserGuide.pdf " The protected space: It is used to tell LYX (an

pdflatex postscript handling

2007-06-04 Thread LB
Hello I had a problem using hyperref. When I included this package, long section names and long captions were no longer wrapping around in TOC and LOF and ran of the page. Also pdflatex would not work for me. With Uwe suggestion, I upgraded to MiKTeX 2.6 all of these problems got resolved,

Re:1.5.0rc1 Mac PPC G3 typing lag

2007-06-04 Thread Anders Ekberg
Johannes Knaus Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:18:33 -0700 Hello, I'm just testing the 1.5.0rc1 binary on my PPC G3 (iBook 700Mhz, 384MB RAM, 10.4.9). It is significantly slower than all 1.5betas released earlier. When I'm typing some characters there is always a lag of some seconds before it appears

Re: 1.5.0rc1 crash when breaking last line of paragraph

2007-06-04 Thread ubuntuuser
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:39:03 -0400 Von: Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, Stefan Schimanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Betreff: Re: 1.5.0rc1 crash when breaking last line of paragraph > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >

Re: Upgrade problems

2007-06-04 Thread Richard Heck
gary wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded to the windows version 1.4.4. In the new version all the old document class are not supported for some reason. Classes like article,book,letter just don't appear in the drop down list of the document class dialog. How can I fix this? I don't use Windows so

Linus on GIT and SCM

2007-06-04 Thread Dov Feldstern
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/03/004214

Re: Linus on GIT and SCM

2007-06-04 Thread Dov Feldstern
Dov Feldstern wrote: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/03/004214 Sorry about this --- sent to the wrong address. ;) Some of you may still find it interesting, though --- it sounds like he trashes SVN...

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Bennett" == Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Could you try to see what is the dpi setting detected by 1.4 and >> 1.5? Bennett> With nothing set in the preferences files, 1.4 gives Screen Bennett> DPI as 80, 1.5 as 98. And which answer is the right one? JMarc

Re: Upgrade problems

2007-06-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
gary wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded to the windows version 1.4.4. In the new version all the old document class are not supported for some reason. Classes like article,book,letter just don't appear in the drop down list of the document class dialog. How can I fix this? Sounds as though the co

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-04 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 4, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Bennett" == Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Could you try to see what is the dpi setting detected by 1.4 and 1.5? Bennett> With nothing set in the preferences files, 1.4 gives Screen Bennett> DPI as 80, 1.5 as 98. And which

Re: Upgrade problems

2007-06-04 Thread gary
Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sounds as though the configuration script burped -- although usually, > when it does, LyX can't even start. Since this is an upgrade, I assume > you have MikTeX (or some other distro) installed and functioning. In > LyX, check Tools -> Preferences..

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-04 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Jean Kaplan writes: > I found a solution to reduce (or increase) the size of math previews > on the lyx screen (at least for mac os X 10.4.9, mac ppc): > Go to the menu item "Preferences->Look and feel-> screen fonts", > decrease (or increase) the "Screen DPI" and save this changes the > siz

Re: Upgrade problems

2007-06-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
gary schrieb: These are the only document calsses that were output: +checking for document class IEEEtran [IEEEtran]... yes +checking for document class aapaper [aa]... no +checking for document class aastex [aastex]... yes +checking for document class aa [aa]... no +checking for docbook class

Re: Upgrade problems

2007-06-04 Thread gary
Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I recommend to update MiKTeX first, using its "Update Wizard" program which is available in > Windows Start menu under MiKTeX (open Internet connection is required). Then reconfigure LyX also Yep, that did the trick. Thank you! Gary

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-04 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 4, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: Jean Kaplan writes: I found a solution to reduce (or increase) the size of math previews on the lyx screen (at least for mac os X 10.4.9, mac ppc): Go to the menu item "Preferences->Look and feel-> screen fonts", decrease (or increase) the "

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 04 June 2007 04:47, you wrote: > To put text in equations, I use \mbox > Jean Thanks Jean, I tested that and it works, but stuff doesn't line up the way I'd like. What I'd really like is an \eqnarray* with 4 columns instead of 3, so I could do something like this: \begin{eqnarray*}

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 04 June 2007 21:48, Steve Litt wrote: > On Monday 04 June 2007 04:47, you wrote: > > To put text in equations, I use \mbox > > Jean > > Thanks Jean, > > I tested that and it works, but stuff doesn't line up the way I'd like. > What I'd really like is an \eqnarray* with 4 columns instead

How to modify amsbook document class?

2007-06-04 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I created a test document. If I set its document class as amsbook (book (AMS)), I get environments like theorem, fact and the like. Then I set its document class to algone, where algone is a derivative of amsbook, and I don't get those environments. Here is algone.layout: #% Do not del

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-04 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:41:19PM -0400, Bennett Helm wrote: > On Jun 4, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > > Jean Kaplan writes: > > > >> I found a solution to reduce (or increase) the size of math previews > >> on the lyx screen (at least for mac os X 10.4.9, mac ppc): > >> Go to t