Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

Guenter Milde wrote: My proposal would be: LyX is a graphical frontend for LaTeX. ... Well, it is not _just_ that IMHO. My proposal: "LyX is a graphical word processor mainly used with a LateX backend. LyX is especially suited for structured document writing." The plain text export of L

Re: Hi Lyx Users

On Wednesday 28 January 2009, rgheck wrote: > Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Richard Heck wrote: > >>> An error occurred whilst running python -tt "C:/Program > >>> Files/Lyx/bin/../Resource" > >>> > >>> I will appreciate your help. > >> > >> I'm not sure, but I expect that whatever program LyX uses to con

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

Hi. I seem to remember that a LyX / wiki connection was discussed some time ago and it just struck me that that is also an nice way of collaborating. The ability to save LyX documents as a wiki page and load a wiki page into Lyx. In non-lyx environment there might be a wiki page for information s

Hyphenation at end of the page

Hello, I would like to avoid hyphenation in the last line of a page. How could I do that? Maybe that´s mentioned somewhere in the User Guide, but I can´t find it. I´m on OSX with Lyx 1.6.1. Best* Jess

Question : how to write vietnamese documents with LyX-1.6.1

Is it possible to write vietnamese (with viqr code for instance) with LyX-1.6.1 ? My keyboard is a french (azerty, latin 1) one. And how may I do ? Thank you, sorry for my bad English. R. J.

Re: MS Word to LyX

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > So, it seems the only solution is word2tex -- it appears to > do the conversion better than GrindEQ. But it is hard > to judge from the trial version, and the real version is > quite expensive (and risky, since it seems support is > non-existent).

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

jezZiFeR wrote: Hello, I would like to avoid hyphenation in the last line of a page. How could I do that? Maybe that´s mentioned somewhere in the User Guide, but I can´t find it. I´m on OSX with Lyx 1.6.1. This is a LaTeX thing, and I don't myself know whether it's possible to avoid this, o

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

rgheck wrote: jezZiFeR wrote: Hello, I would like to avoid hyphenation in the last line of a page. How could I do that? Maybe that´s mentioned somewhere in the User Guide, but I can´t find it. I´m on OSX with Lyx 1.6.1. This is a LaTeX thing, and I don't myself know whether it's possible to

Re: Question : how to write vietnamese documents with LyX-1.6.1

R. Josh III schrieb: Is it possible to write vietnamese (with viqr code for instance) with LyX-1.6.1 ? I don't know about "viqr", but I created a Wiki page describing the basic steps: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Vietnamese To use your french keyboard for vietnamese, you can create your own key

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

Hm, well, I really meant to avoid it for the whole document… You mean I could avoid with ERT at the hyphenated line? Like "\hyphenpenalty1"? Doesn´t seem like a long term solution, especially for longer documents. Is this going to be revised in a newer version of Latex? Thanks, best* Jess

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

On Thursday 29 January 2009 03:00:45 am Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: > > My proposal would be: > > > >LyX is a graphical frontend for LaTeX. ... > > Well, it is not _just_ that IMHO. My proposal: > > "LyX is a graphical word processor mainly used with a LateX backend. LyX Wh

How could I add a greek letter?

Dear listmembers, I would like to add the greek "ē", which is an "e" with a straight dash on the top. I do use Lyx 1.6.1. Best* Jess

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

\bar{e} all you do is control-m then \bar then e erez On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:36 PM, jezZiFeR wrote: > Dear listmembers, > > I would like to add the greek "ē", which is an "e" with a straight dash on > the top. > I do use Lyx 1.6.1. > > Best* > Jess -- Erez Yerushalmi PhD Student Warwi

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

On Jan 29, 2009, at 10:36 AM, jezZiFeR wrote: I would like to add the greek "ē", which is an "e" with a straight dash on the top. In math mode, \bar{e}

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:36 PM, jezZiFeR wrote: > Dear listmembers, > > I would like to add the greek "ē", which is an "e" with a straight dash on > the top. > I do use Lyx 1.6.1. Use Unicode -- :: Witek Firlej :: Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters. ::

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 12:30 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thursday 29 January 2009 03:00:45 am Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > Guenter Milde wrote: > > > My proposal would be: > > > > > >LyX is a graphical frontend for LaTeX. ... > > > > Well, it is not _just_ that IMHO. My proposal: > > > > "LyX

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

On Thursday 29 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote: > Yes it is, although creation and modification of styles is an order of > magnitude or two harder than with MS Word or WordPerfect. Contemplating the styles created by most MS Word "Power Users"* I can regard that "shortcoming" as a major advantage.

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

Thank you. This seems not to work in conjunction with italics. This is what I get:Best*JessAm 29.01.2009 um 18:38 schrieb Erez Yerushalmi:\bar{e}all you do is control-mthen \barthen eerezOn Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:36 PM, jezZiFeR wrote: Dear listmembers, I would like to ad

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

then maybe control M then control M again to get regular letters. Make them italic. Then get out of that box, and type a regular math equation with \bar{e} \mbox{\emph{test}}\bar{e} maybe this is better??? erez On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:07 PM, jezZiFeR wrote: > Thank you. This seems not to w

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

Title: MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL with LyX 1.6.1 and unicode I obtain this : it's character U+0113 ( e macron ) I used the character table on Windows ...but on LyX you can use Inser > Special characters > Symbols and the extended Latin A Hope it helps Siegfried. -- Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CL

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

jezZiFeR schrieb: > I would like to add the greek "ē", which is an "e" with a straight dash on the top. I do use Lyx 1.6.1. You an directly insert this character to your LyX document from the Insert->Special Character->Symbols dialog or from another program. regards Uwe

Re: How could I add a greek letter?

Great! Thanks – this works fine. Best* Jess Am 29.01.2009 um 19:29 schrieb Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel: with LyX 1.6.1 and unicode I obtain this : it's character U+0113 ( e macron ) I used the character table on Windows ...but on LyX you can use Inser > Special characters > Symbol

Re: Request for svn test on Windows

Pavel Sanda schreef: hi, i started implementing another badly missing feature for svn cooperation, which is automatical locking of files so there is possibility how to avoid merge conflicts. i need one confirmation from the windows side of the pond - please is can anybody report to me whether th

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

> Hello, > > I would like to avoid hyphenation in the last line of a > page. How could I do that? Maybe that´s mentioned somewhere > in the User Guide, but I can´t find it. I´m on OSX with > Lyx 1.6.1. > > Best* > Jess Hello, This is a Latex affair. Put in your preamble \brokenpenalty=1

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

> Hm, well, I really meant to avoid it for the whole > document… > > You mean I could avoid with ERT at the hyphenated line? > Like > "\hyphenpenalty1"? Doesn´t seem like a > long term solution, especially > for longer documents. Is this going to be revised in a > newer version of > Latex? >

Export to Open document

Hi, I am trying to export a lyx document into an open document, I press export, but then no files are created. Can someone help? The reason is I am trying to get the file into an MS Word file so my supervisor can open it. Thank you, Hesham

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

> I'm using "Document class: book (more font > sizes)" > > I'm hoping I can modify the numbering so that the pages > before > chapter one are numbered separately from the pages starting > with > chapter one. IE: I want the first page of chapter one to be > page 1 > A partial answer: at the star

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, A B wrote: I seem to remember that a LyX / wiki connection was discussed some time ago and it just struck me that that is also an nice way of collaborating. Hi, Yes, I'm the guy usually bringing this up :-) The ability to save LyX documents as a wiki page and load a wik

Re: Hi Lyx Users

Hi All; Sorry for the late answer. I did check the paths for the converters, but I couldn't find anything. In windows installation, the "scripts" folder which contains the converters, is inside of "Resources" i tried the change the path name, but i ended up getting the same error. the original c

Example CVs give error

I have been using lyx for letters without problem, but now want to write a CV. The problem is I always get an error when loading the example CVs. 'The layout requested by this file xxx.layout is unusable...' This is with lyx 1.6.1. I have just installed texlive thinking this might fix it but no

Re: Export to Open document

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:43:57 -0500 Hesham Kamel wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to export a lyx document into an open document, I press > export, but then no files are created. > Can someone help? > The reason is I am trying to get the file into an MS Word file so my > supervisor can open it. We need

Re: Export to Open document

My system is Windows On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Typhoon wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:43:57 -0500 > Hesham Kamel wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am trying to export a lyx document into an open document, I press > > export, but then no files are created. > > Can someone help? > > The reason is I