Re: Aspell broken

2007-11-22 Thread Nicolás
I got this message once. My problem was that, despite I had a running installation of Aspell on my computer, when I installed LyX 1.5.2 Aspell was installed again, but without the dictionaries (I think I cancelled their installation, since I already had them). You will probably have an Aspell dire

edit lyx file in text editor

2007-11-22 Thread e-letter
I use lyx at home but unable to do so at a public computer. I would like to be able to edit a lyx file in a text editor save the amended lyx file and then when at home continue using the edited lyx file in lyx. The file is stored on a network accessible via internet. I would like to help write som

DocBook Support?

2007-11-22 Thread Ryan Cross
Hi, I have seen some pointers to using Lyx for creating/editing DocBook documents. However, the wiki suggests this isn't supported any more. Does anyone know how to do this? I'd like to use it with the current version. -Ryan

Re: edit lyx file in text editor

2007-11-22 Thread Charles de Miramon
e-letter wrote: > I use lyx at home but unable to do so at a public computer. I would > like to be able to edit a lyx file in a text editor save the amended > lyx file and then when at home continue using the edited lyx file in > lyx. The file is stored on a network accessible via internet. > L

Re: edit lyx file in text editor

2007-11-22 Thread e-letter
Charles, I looked at my (basic) lyx file in a text editor and it seems a simple structure of (custom?) latex type commands (e.g. \layout). Reading the extended manual, I guess that you suggest I should export my lyx file into latex, edit the latex file and then import into lyx when I am able to u

Re: edit lyx file in text editor

2007-11-22 Thread Ryan Cross
You can also use the lyx binary without it being installed - you just won't be able have preview of equations and such. Look up some of the details of using "portable" lyx. On Nov 22, 2007 10:38 PM, e-letter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles, > > I looked at my (basic) lyx file in a text edito

re; edit lyx file in text editor

2007-11-22 Thread e-letter
Ryan, Please provide a hyperlink to the lyx portable; I can't see any reference either via web search or within lyx wiki Thanks in advance. Yours, René. linux mandrake 92 gnome 24 lyx 132 latex 2e (01-06-01) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: re; edit lyx file in text editor

2007-11-22 Thread Ryan Cross
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/FeaturePoll#toc11 Its not an officially portable release - its just the lyx binary running on a thumbdrive (or over a network drive probably too). A few comments suggest you could make it fully portable if you included all the dependencies (like a portable tex install). But

FW: lyx 1.5.2, mytabular using tabular-features of lyx

2007-11-22 Thread Keks Dose
Hello everybody, I'd like to use old-style-figures in my text and the usual arabic numerales (majuscules? For anybody reading German: Versalziffern) in tabulars. For different reasons it is not advisable to change the whole tabular-environment. I'm using the linux-libertine-fonts. Markus Koh

Re: exporting pdflatex vs. lyx->latex->pdflatex

2007-11-22 Thread Helge Hafting
Rudi Gaelzer wrote: Funny. My presentation, which I wrote using LyX, does not export to PDF running pdflatex from File -> Export -> pdflatex. The PDF it creates is tiny and obviously has errors. However, if I do File -> Export -> LaTeX (pdflatex) and run pdflatex from Kile (KDE app), the PD

description in curriculum vitae

2007-11-22 Thread Ralph Boland
Is there a way to add the description paragraph style to the curriculum vitae document class? Alternatively is there an alternative to this class that I can use that would contain the description paragraph style. I am using lyx 1.4.2 on a ubuntu system. Will upgrading my version of lyx help? Tha

Re: description in curriculum vitae

2007-11-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/22/07, Ralph Boland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to add the description paragraph style to the curriculum > vitae > document class? > Alternatively is there an alternative to this class that I can use that > would > contain the description paragraph style. Go here [1] and ente

Re: german thesis template

2007-11-22 Thread Robert Poser
Hi Sven, thank you for your reply. The backup files were not intented to be there ;-) I would like to share your example too. If you want so, feel free to send me your files (as zip + preview of titlepage). If you are interested you can also write a short description about your features (html).

Re: description in curriculum vitae

2007-11-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Ralph Boland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to add the description paragraph style to the curriculum > vitae > document class? Which cv document class? There are 3 in LyX 1.5: simplecv, modercv and europeancv. JMarc

Re: DocBook Support?

2007-11-22 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 22 November 2007 10:40:03 Ryan Cross wrote: > Hi, > > I have seen some pointers to using Lyx for creating/editing DocBook > documents. However, the wiki suggests this isn't supported any more. I think that you are referring to linuxdoc and not to docbook. > Does > anyone know how t

Re: Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-22 Thread Herve Autret
Hello I 've written Conversely, sh -c "latex file.tex" runs, as the command is search inside the string itself. Although this is true, it is not the reason why lyx didn't compile my imported LaTeX. First, I relied on the ps command in trying to figure out what was happening. But ps does not

Re: DocBook Support?

2007-11-22 Thread Ryan Cross
I don't know much about linuxdoc - but I am pretty sure I am correctly referring to docbook. Its an xml format for generating multiple types of documentation, pdf/html/chm (windows help files)/etc You can see lyx linked directly from the docbook wiki http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookAuthoringT

Getting errors with microtype

2007-11-22 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, When I insert the line \usepackage[expansion=false,spacing=true,kerning=true]{microtype} in the preamble, pdflatex produces errors. However, if I remove the above line, no error occurs. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul

Cross-referencing a table inserted into ERT.

2007-11-22 Thread michael papenfus
Hi, I am inserting a few tables I created using the ctable package. These tables are inserted into my lyx document directly as Tex (ERT). I include label=tab:Table X in the ctable options, but when I attempt to insert a cross-reference the labels I created in ctable do not appear in the cross-refer

search and replace noun style

2007-11-22 Thread William Seager
Hi all. Does anyone know if there is a way to search a document for a certain word and replace it with the same word but in noun style (small caps)? thanks -- William Seager University of Toronto Scarborough www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager

Re: Getting errors with microtype

2007-11-22 Thread Paul Smith
On Nov 22, 2007 10:59 PM, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I insert the line > > \usepackage[expansion=false,spacing=true,kerning=true]{microtype} > > in the preamble, pdflatex produces errors. However, if I remove the > above line, no error occurs. Any ideas? I am attaching an example