Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Les Denham wrote: If you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do, the ps2raster tool which is part of GMT (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/) does a very nice job. Les, I don't want a raster image; LyX/LaTeX prefers PostScript, particularly the encapsulated form.

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

2008-02-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: In the preamble of the template, uncomment the line "fromlogo=true", then insert a paragraph style "logo" after sender name and insert an image via Insert->Graphics (as usual). Jürgen: I modified the template, but I don't have the sender name/a

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 13:16, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Les Denham wrote: > > If you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do, the ps2raster > > tool which is part of GMT (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/) does a very nice > > job. > > Les, > >I don't want a raster ima

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: >    If I was able to insert and use a .pdf at the top of the letter's first > page I would not need to go through the exercise of converting the .pdf to > an .eps. I have the .pdf file already. Ah! Well, you need: ps2raster -A -Te file.ps which

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Donn
On Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:03:46 Rich Shepard wrote: >    I'm not trying to convert a typeface from one format to another, just > install the Type1 glyphs into LaTeX Forgive any dumb-a$$ery on my part, but it's my understanding that (most modern) distros will pick up fonts dropped into ~/.fon

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Donn wrote: Forgive any dumb-a$$ery on my part, but it's my understanding that (most modern) distros will pick up fonts dropped into ~/.fonts - could you not put your .atm .pb (and company) files in there and run Lyx again? Not as far as I know. These fonts have been ins

Re: fine-tuning equation alignment

2008-02-12 Thread winson
Once you are in the math mode, press Ctrl-Enter without inputting anything. By doing so, you will get two rows of empty boxes. Then, you can choose any box to input LHS, RHS, and =. Winson

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:08:08 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Donn wrote: > > > Forgive any dumb-a$$ery on my part, but it's my understanding that > > (most modern) distros will pick up fonts dropped into ~/.fonts - > > could you not put your .atm .pb (an

fine-tuning equation alignment

2008-02-12 Thread Manoj Rajagopalan
HI lyx users, I am writing a rather long equation and I'd like to get the = sign and the RHS on the next line. When I press Ctrl-Enter a line break is generated alright but the upper line is left aligned while the lower line is right aligned. this way the equation is still longer than the p

problem on nomenclature first page layout

2008-02-12 Thread winson
Hi there, In my class file, I have defined the layout of 'frontmatter' environment to print page numbers at the bottom middle of the pages. However, the defined layout does not work on the first page of the nomenclature. It always has the page number printed on the top right corner of page, alt

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Les Denham wrote: In spite of its name, "ps2raster" does not necessarily convert to raster format: if you choose the -Tf option it outputs PDF directly from the PS input. Les, Thanks for the clarification. If I was able to insert and use a .pdf at the top of the lett

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3?

2008-02-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: In the koma-letter2.lyx template is the line ,foldmarks=false% print foldmarks? Yet the foldmarks display along the left edge of the page. What have I missed here? The two other remaining issues that I cannot figure out from reading the koma-s

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Donn
>Not as far as I know. These fonts have been installed for a decade and > LyX/LaTeX are not aware of them. I believe one must go through the > font installation guide, step-by-step, to install them so LaTeX knows > they're there. Okay, that's strange but then so is LaTeX :) >Similarly, all

Re: Harvard style referencing

2008-02-12 Thread Jennifer Brookes
Thanks for all the help, I am using Linux, so its not a Miktex problem. I have found that changing my article class to amsart seems to work, keeping everything else the same, except there is a problem with the 'acknowledgement' section which can be remedied by changing it into a section. It ap

Re: lyx2lyx failure

2008-02-12 Thread G. Jay Kerns
Dear rh, Yes, it is working now. (hooray!) I do not know exactly what the problem was; for some reason, the way that Windows stored the .lyx file on the removable drive did not mix well with Ubuntu. Once the file is communicated to the desktop, everything is fine. My guess is that it is a prob

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3?

2008-02-12 Thread Rich Shepard
In the koma-letter2.lyx template is the line ,foldmarks=false% print foldmarks? Yet the foldmarks display along the left edge of the page. What have I missed here? Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: >When I get the syntax for cropping the .eps file using 'convert' I'll be > able to import it into the document, and that's ultimately what I need. Rich, If you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do, the ps2raster tool which is part

Re: Beamer: enumerate on 2 slides

2008-02-12 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Meaning that it is an Arabic numeral rather than a Roman numeral, or > what?  If that's it, put [iii.] rather than [3.].  (You also need to > include in the [] any punctuation that goes with the item label.) He probably uses the ugly pgf bullets that come with beamer. This i

Re: lyx2lyx failure

2008-02-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
G. Jay Kerns wrote: Thanks! As it turns out, when I copied the file from my removable SanDisk to follow your advice, then LyX read it perfectly, no lyx2lyx failure. I have other LyX files on the removable disk (created with 1.5.3 on Ubuntu) which open with no problems. I don't quite follow t

Re: lyx2lyx failure

2008-02-12 Thread rgheck
G. Jay Kerns wrote: Dear Paul, Thanks! As it turns out, when I copied the file from my removable SanDisk to follow your advice, then LyX read it perfectly, no lyx2lyx failure. I have other LyX files on the removable disk (created with 1.5.3 on Ubuntu) which open with no problems. I don't quit

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Ethan Metsger
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:28:19 -0500, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Years ago I started the long, painful process of adding an additional Type1 typeface to LaTeX. Gave up when the process took too much time, effort, and re-reading of multiple docs. Hi, Rich. I haven't done this mu

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: With classic LaTeX, it's still rather tricky. But there's a useful guide here: http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide/ Jürgen, That's the set of instructions I was following. Perhaps I should consider delving into

Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters

2008-02-12 Thread Helge Hafting
G. Milde wrote: On 5.02.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: rgheck wrote: \bind "C-apostrophe" "accent-acute" \bind "C-S-quotedbl" "accent-umlaut" Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some earlier bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change: \bind "~S-M-quotedbl""

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-12 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Julio Rojas wrote: > So, in conclusion, Should I avoid the alternate installer and stick with > the official one? I think you'll get diverging answers, depending on whether you ask Joost or Uwe ;-) Seriously, I don't think there's a definite answer. The choice is yours. Jürgen

Re: copy/paste from emacs/openoffice

2008-02-12 Thread Helge Hafting
Micha wrote: 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 recogn

Re: Beamer: enumerate on 2 slides

2008-02-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
NicoWinger wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: You will also need \setcounter{enumi}{3} in the same ERT box; otherwise you'll get 3. 1. on the second slide (I think). Ah yes. I forgot. Jürgen The [allowframebreaks]-Option doesn't work for me... I insert it at the beginning of the 2nd slide's tit

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Ethan Metsger wrote: It may involve a little bit of TeX hacking in your LyX files, but I think you can do it with considerably less work than trying to convert the typeface. Ethan, I'm not trying to convert a typeface from one format to another, just install the Type1 g

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-12 Thread Julio Rojas
So, in conclusion, Should I avoid the alternate installer and stick with the official one? On Feb 10, 2008 2:15 PM, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joost Verburg schrieb: > > > This does not interfere with > > the sleep mode of a notebook. There are many applications that have some > > ba

Emedding PDF graphcis problem - missing converter

2008-02-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
LyX 1.5.1, OS-X Hi, Whenever I insert some pdf graphics into my LyX document and compile it with pdflatex, Lyx complains about a missing converter: "No information for converting pdf format files to png. Define a converter in the preferences. " Why is LyX trying to convert the graphics into

Re: Beamer: enumerate on 2 slides

2008-02-12 Thread NicoWinger
> Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > You will also need \setcounter{enumi}{3} in the same ERT box; > > otherwise you'll get > > > > 3. > > 1. > > > > on the second slide (I think). > > Ah yes. I forgot. > > Jürgen > The [allowframebreaks]-Option doesn't work for me... I insert it at the beginning of the

Re: Disable the hyphenation

2008-02-12 Thread Helge Hafting
David Romano wrote: I'm new to LyX, but I think that if you go to Documents -> Settings -> LaTeX Preamble and type \usepackage[basque]{babel} it might work. Might work, but there is no need for latex commands. Document->settings->language Then select "Basque" in the "Language:" combobox. He

Re: Beamer: enumerate on 2 slides

2008-02-12 Thread Nicolas Ferré
NicoWinger a écrit : Paul A. Rubin wrote: You will also need \setcounter{enumi}{3} in the same ERT box; otherwise you'll get 3. 1. on the second slide (I think). Ah yes. I forgot. Jürgen The [allowframebreaks]-Option doesn't work for me... I insert it at the beginning of the 2nd slide's

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: It turns out that the logotype letterhead I use with OO.o Writer is not usable within LyX. The pdf is not accepted by LyX (I apparently lost ps4pdf during an upgrade somewhere), and I cannot translate the file to .eps because OO.o's pdf generator is not

master / child document problem

2008-02-12 Thread Pevnak
Hi, I have a problem with lyx 1.5.1 on windows. I am writing book in Lyx. Each chapter is one lyx document. The whole book is put together in master document, where child documents are included. The problem I am facing is that if I change something in child document and I recompile the master d

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3?

2008-02-12 Thread Jean-Marie Pacquet
Rich Shepard a écrit : On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: In the koma-letter2.lyx template is the line ,foldmarks=false% print foldmarks? Yet the foldmarks display along the left edge of the page. What have I missed here? My koma-letter2.lyx template has this line commented ou