Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 02.05.2008, at 05:45, adam_taylor wrote: Folks, I am a new LyX user, and have a very basic question. I am using Lyx 1.5.1 under Ubuntu 7.10. I believe the TeX system is TeXLive. I created a new document (of class article), wrote a few lines in it, and then wanted to make a PDF. I

Re: Where should this be reported.......?

2008-05-02 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
M-L wrote: I get this message when I try to open a recent or any document in LyX, but am not certain where it should be sent. To the Debian maintainer or to someone programming LyX? Both, I guess. The devel list is lyx-devel AT lists.lyx.org. Are you using LyX with the newest Qt4.4? If yes th

Re: Google Docs to LaTeX

2008-05-02 Thread nodje
Hi everyone, sorry for the late reply, I wasn't receiving alerts for the thread. Actually Charles' first reply was the only one I saw before today but was useful enough. I would give me a fairly straight forward GoogleDoc -> LaTeX process. I started working my way from that point on. I'm right

Re: [lyx 1.5.3 ubuntu hardy] No caption using the program listing feature

2008-05-02 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Axel Pospischil wrote: > What am I doing wrong? > How can I get numberd program listings without copying from the > users-guide? 1. Insert->Program Listing 2. Insert->Caption Jürgen

Re: configuring makeindex?

2008-05-02 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Steve Litt wrote: > Can anyone steer me in the right direction? IIRC you have to create a new index style file my_index_style.ist. Examples for *.ist files should be found under texmf/makeindex/. Save it in $INDEXSTYLEFILE (probably $TEXMFHOME/makeindex/ist). Then configure LyX to call the styl

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread snvv
Hello You may try the geometry package. Then you may define the page in all possible ways. Also, you may try xetex (xelatex) instead of pdftex, if you write multilingual or if you like to use all available ttf, otf fonts of your system. sn On Friday 02 May 2008 06:45:45 adam_taylor wrote: > Fol

Re: Error: Document class not available

2008-05-02 Thread awsa
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Alberto Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have just installed the LyX (version 1.5.4) bundle for Windows XP. > Everything > installed successfully. But now I cannot get LyX to produce any output > at all. > I cannot even execute the first step of the t

Re: configuring makeindex?

2008-05-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 02 May 2008 05:03, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Can anyone steer me in the right direction? > > IIRC you have to create a new index style file my_index_style.ist. Examples > for *.ist files should be found under texmf/makeindex/. Save it in > $INDEXSTYLEFILE (probably

Re: how can I adapt documents for LARGE PRINT versions?

2008-05-02 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It would appear that on May 1, William Adams did say: > On May 1, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > > But since the maximum base size is only 12 pts, I gotta ask if I'm > > missing some obvious technique to easily convert a documen

Re: how can I adapt documents for LARGE PRINT versions?

2008-05-02 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It would appear that on May 1, Marcelo Acuña did say: > koma-script book have more options for fonts sizes. > regards Well that is interesting. A quick goggle search on koma-script leads me to believe that it's a comprehensive package that I'm unlike

Re: lyx vs. winedt?

2008-05-02 Thread Micha
On Thu, 1 May 2008 10:02:30 -0400 Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 01 May 2008 09:42, Neal Becker wrote: > > I pointed one of my colleagues to lyx. She showed me winedt, which she > > uses. I'm not sure what advantages one has over the other. Any info on > > this topic? > >

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread David A. Case
On Fri, May 02, 2008, snvv wrote: > You may try the geometry package. Then you may define the page in all > possible ways >From the users' perspective, this is what happens: 1. an article with Document->Page layout set to "US Letter" (and Document->Page Margins is set to "default") is likely to

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 2 May 2008, David A. Case wrote: 1. an article with Document->Page layout set to "US Letter" (and Document->Page Margins is set to "default") is likely to come out of pdflatex as A4 (unless, unlike me, you know enough LaTeX configuration stuff to configure pdflatex to do something differ

Relative Directory References

2008-05-02 Thread Rich Shepard
This is a LaTeX question, but also applicable to LyX. Output reports from my model are written to a subdirectory, reports/, immediately below the CWD in which the model runs. Plots are generated in that report directory, and the LaTeX code goes looking for them there. But, pdflatex is not fin

Re: [lyx 1.5.3 ubuntu hardy] No caption using the program listing feature

2008-05-02 Thread Axel Pospischil
>Jürgen Spitzmüller: > 1. Insert->Program Listing > 2. Insert->Caption Never ever before noticed this feature ;) But (german) documentation should be updated - i'll post a comment on the doc list. Thanks a lot

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 2 May 2008, David A. Case wrote: 1. an article with Document->Page layout set to "US Letter" (and Document->Page Margins is set to "default") is likely to come out of pdflatex as A4 (unless, unlike me, you know enough LaTeX configuration stuff to configure pdflatex

Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0alpha2 for Windows

2008-05-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Olivier Ripoll schrieb: It works fine here (no crash yet). As for the previous versions (svn1 and svn2), the installer detects that I have the dictionaries installed (English and French), but spell checking fails complaining: The Spellchecker could not be started No words list can be found

Re: Relative Directory References

2008-05-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: This is a LaTeX question, but also applicable to LyX. Output reports from my model are written to a subdirectory, reports/, immediately below the CWD in which the model runs. Plots are generated in that report directory, and the LaTeX code goes looking for them there. But

RE: Thesis template in Lyx (including a chapter)

2008-05-02 Thread Adrian Peter
Thank you everyone for your suggestions. I have managed to get the main body lyx file setup properly. Now I am running into a small issue whenever I try to include a chapter as a child document into my main lyx file. I get the following error when I try to do a DVI preview or creating a PDF: >>