Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Max Bian schrieb: 1. When I do view->PDF(PDFLATEX), it will ask me if I want to create the directory for the output files. Is there a way to remove this unnecessary user input? 2. If the pdf is open in Acrobat, the update would fail. Is there a way to avoid this? Both should not occur. Wha

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-09 Thread Max Bian
I used the alternative installer. Was that the difference? Thanks. Max Uwe Stöhr wrote: Max Bian schrieb: 1. When I do view->PDF(PDFLATEX), it will ask me if I want to create the directory for the output files. Is there a way to remove this unnecessary user input? 2. If the pdf is open in

Preamble code not working

2008-02-09 Thread ashinpan
Hi! all I have been able to use XeTeX directly from Lyx by changing the pdftex command to "xelatex $$i" in LyX preferences, and declaring fonts for XeTeX in the preamble. However, I have to declare \catcode"AD=\active \def^^ad{} in the preamble to remove soft hyphens appearing mid-line. As soon

Re: Beamer: enumerate on 2 slides

2008-02-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Nicolas Ferré wrote: > In a Beamer document, how can I do this: > > New slide > 1. > 2. > New slide > 3. > 4. In the second slide, put in ERT at the very beginning of the first enumeration item: [3.] Jürgen

Re: Repeating numbered Examples

2008-02-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Manolo Martínez wrote: > I'm writing a paper using numbered examples, with Covington.sty. I would > like to repeat one example later in the text, like this > > *** > Some text > > (1) The first example > (2) The second example > > Some more text > > (3) The third example > (1) The first example > *

Re: Koma letter: make first page longer

2008-02-09 Thread Jean-Marie Pacquet
Laurent Duperval a écrit : Hi, I noticed that the first page of a Koma letter2 is shorter than the rest of the pages. How can I make it be the same length? The reason I want this is because I have two lines of text on the second page of a two-page letter. I want it all on the first page, and it

Re: Nomenclature in Table of Contens

2008-02-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Fritz Bein wrote: > \def\nompreamble{\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\nomname}\markboth{\nomname >}{\nomname} > > results in a double entry in the TOC: one on chapter level and one on   > section level. > > How can I remove the entry on chapter level? By default, nomencl does not insert anything to

Re: Exporting non-unicode characters to Latex

2008-02-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > >> As LyX 1.5.3 is Unicode-compliant, my tex editor supports unicode > >> characters, and XeTeX  can  access  all unicode fonts in the operating > >> system, I do not need in my latex file the tex formatting for > >> diacritics, e.g., \={a}, \d{m}, \~n, etc.. > >> > >> How should

Re: Repeating numbered Examples

2008-02-09 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hi, Jürgen, thanks for your reply. I'm not sure I've understood your solution: I must copy and paste the text of the repeated example and place a crossref before, enclosed by two ERT calls, one with an opening bracket, the other with a closing bracket. Is that right? The problem if I do that

Re: Repeating numbered Examples

2008-02-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Manolo Martínez wrote: > I'm not sure I've understood your solution: I must copy and paste the > text of the repeated example and place a crossref before, enclosed by > two ERT calls, one with an opening bracket, the other with a closing > bracket. Is that right? It depends how you insert the covi

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-09 Thread Julio Rojas
Same problem here using the alternate installer. While rendering PDF's using any method (translation from error in spanish): *The folder c:/Users/myuser/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir5056a...\lyx_tmpbuf0\ doesn't exist. May have been moved or deleted. Wish to create it? * If you answer "yes" nothin

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-09 Thread Julio Rojas
The folders do exist and both, the temporal files and the PDF are inside. Maybe the problem is path related. On Feb 9, 2008 12:57 PM, Julio Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Same problem here using the alternate installer. While rendering PDF's > using any method (translation from error in spani

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Max Bian schrieb: I used the alternative installer. Was that the difference? I'm the author of this installer ;-) Just joking, here's the difference: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller It should work on Vista as well. On Vista 64bit editions there are problems with this: 2. If the

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Julio Rojas schrieb: Same problem here using the alternate installer. While rendering PDF's using any method (translation from error in spanish): *The folder c:/Users/myuser/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir5056a...\lyx_tmpbuf0\ doesn't exist. May have been moved or deleted. Wish to create it? Th

Re: Beamer: enumerate on 2 slides

2008-02-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Nicolas Ferré wrote: In a Beamer document, how can I do this: New slide 1. 2. New slide 3. 4. In the second slide, put in ERT at the very beginning of the first enumeration item: [3.] You will also need \setcounter{enumi}{3} in the same ERT box; otherwise you'l

Re: Problems with picture position.

2008-02-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Gregor Skrt schrieb: I have one question concerning picture floats. I have a picture that's quite long and doesn't fit between borders very well. It seems like Lyx is obeying borders that I've set in document settings and ads some free space between border and picture on left side. Is there a

Re: Translation problems with AMS

2008-02-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dominik Böhm schrieb: Adding \newtheorem{exa}{Beispiel} \renewenvironment{example}{\begin{exa}}{\end{exa}} to my lyx file translated the example lable. But now the numbering doesn't work as expected. A "\numberwithin{exa}{theorem}"/"\numberwithin{exa}{section}" didn't help... Could you send

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-09 Thread Max Bian
I tried the official installer but I got the same problems and more. It will not launch the Acrobat program to show the pdf file when I selection View->PDF (PDFLATEX). If I open the file manually, the update will fail because LyX cannot write to the file that is open. No, I am not using Vist

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-09 Thread Julio Rojas
Thank you very much for your answer. FYI, I'm using Vista 32bit version. Before I start, I need to know if pdf updating works four you when you > install LyX using the > standard installer. > I have never used the standard installer, so I can't answer your question. On Feb 9, 2008 2:07 PM, Uwe S

Re: copy/paste from emacs/openoffice

2008-02-09 Thread Micha
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:05:52 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Micha wrote: > > > How do I copy text from emacs and openoffice into lyx under linux? I am > > trying to patch together a few sources for a presentation and I can't get > > lyx to recognize that

Re: copy/paste from emacs/openoffice

2008-02-09 Thread Micha
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 01:00:47 +0100 Pavel Sanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do I copy text from emacs and openoffice into lyx under linux? I am > > trying to patch together a few sources for a presentation and I can't get > > lyx to recognize that it has something to paste in any way (marking

Re: Beamer: enumerate on 2 slides

2008-02-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: If you are not using overlays (i.e., everything displays in one gulp on each of those slides), and if you don't mind having the same title with a Roman numeral index (e.g., "Results I" and "Results II") for the two slides, you can condense it to one slide

Re: copy/paste from emacs/openoffice

2008-02-09 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > > How do I copy text from emacs and openoffice into lyx under linux? I am > > > trying to patch together a few sources for a presentation and I can't get > > > lyx to recognize that it has something to paste in any way (marking and > > > middle mouse button or marking and using edit->copy). > >

Disable the hyphenation

2008-02-09 Thread Aitor Valle
Hello everyone, I'm running LyX 1.5.3 in Ubuntu Gutsy. Now I'm previewing a text I've written in basque, but LaTeX does not make the right separation of syllables. Do you know how to disable the hyphenation? Thanks, Aitor

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-09 Thread Julio Rojas
It seems there's a problem in the path to the default PDF viewer. If I added the full path to Acrobat Reader in the file format configuration as follows: c:\PROGRA~1\Adobe\READER~1.0\Reader\acrord32.exe after rendering the PDF, the reader is run but gets hung with about 49% of the processor used.

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-09 Thread Julio Rojas
Following what was said on: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg57937.html I decided to use "pdfview.exe" instead of "pdfviewwin.exe". It works fine, but there's the nagging problem of UAC always asking me for confirmation to run pdfview.exe, as it is not registered. At least,

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-09 Thread Julio Rojas
Another solution, installing Sumatra ( http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/) which is WAY smaller and adding the path: C:\PROGRA~1\SUMATR~1\SUMATR~1.EXE to the viewer field. On Feb 9, 2008 5:46 PM, Julio Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Following what was said on: > http://www.mail

Re: Beamer: enumerate on 2 slides

2008-02-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: If you are not using overlays (i.e., everything displays in one gulp on each of those slides), and if you don't mind having the same title with a Roman numeral index (e.g., "Results I" and "Results II") for the two slides, you can con

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-09 Thread Joost Verburg
Max Bian wrote: I am using 1.53 on Windows Vista. I found pdflatex easiest to get what I need. However I have two problems with it: 1. When I do view->PDF(PDFLATEX), it will ask me if I want to create the directory for the output files. Is there a way to remove this unnecessary user input?

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-09 Thread Max Bian
I tried both installer and updated the Acrobat. With the official installer, problem #1 is fixed. I still have problem with #2. LyX error: I cannot write on file xxx.pdf. Max Joost Verburg wrote: Max Bian wrote: I am using 1.53 on Windows Vista. I found pdflatex easiest to get what I need.