Off-topic biblatex question

2010-02-07 Thread Julio Rojas
Dear all, I have been using biblatex for my bibliography for the last year. Now, for a paper, I need to use some references that I have in this bibliography but a problem arises. In some papers that have colons in the title, I had to substitute them for "\addcolon\addspace" and when I try to use th

Re: Tikz Sparklines

2010-02-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jason Waskiewicz wrote: I've been using Tikz graphics in my LyX files for some time now, with success, I might add. Recently, I tried to include sparklines in two different LyX files. An example of what I mean can be found at: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/temperature-and-rain-sparkli

Problem with Palatino font

2010-02-07 Thread Marco Stara
HI All, Lyx 1.6.5 on XP. In a new "Book" document, I would use the Palatino font but I get this error when creating the PDFLatex: ! Font OML/zplm/m/it/12=zplmr7m at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. ! Font OML/zplm/m/it/9=zplmr7m at 9.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not foun

Re: Problem with Palatino font

2010-02-07 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 2/7/10, Marco Stara wrote: > In a new "Book" document, I would use the Palatino font but I get this > error when creating the PDFLatex: > Hmm, did you change the document class recently? I remember once having issues with font metrics after changing document classes. Never found a solution, t

Re: Tikz Sparklines

2010-02-07 Thread Jason Waskiewicz
Paul A. Rubin writes: > > You need to use an absolute path to the data files. I just set up > Fauske's example in LyX. After changing > > \def\temperaturedata{data/temperaturesOslo.txt} > \def\raindata{data/rainOslo.txt} > > to > > \def\temperaturedata{/temp/sparklines/temperaturesOslo.txt

Re: Problem with Palatino font

2010-02-07 Thread Marco Stara
> > > Hmm, did you change the document class recently? ... > Liviu > Hi Liviu, No, the document has been created of "book" class. Could you try doing the same on your system? This might help to understand if it is a problem of my installation or a general problem on Lyx (Latex)? Thanks. Marco

Re: insert a pdf in my lyx doc

2010-02-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-06, Richard Brown wrote: > However, when I do this I only get chess, lily pond and raster templates > offreed. I read somewhere that I need to update the includepdf package > if I get this problem- but I haven't a clue how to do that. Can someone > give me a pointer? Thanks! > I'm runn

Re: Language detection [was: offtopic blog]

2010-02-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-06, Hellmut Weber wrote: > Am 06.02.2010 09:30, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: >> I think the spellchecker should not do any guessing and switching. As >> long as we are using LaTeX, languages simply need be marked properly. Agreed. However, currently language switching is far too cumber

uiucthesis layout help

2010-02-07 Thread Stephen Anthony
I am new to LATEX/LYX, and I am interested in trying it out for my thesis. I have found the LATEX style and class for my thesis (http://physics.illinois.edu/grad/thesis-templates.asp). They appear to be appropriately installed, I can see them both in MiKTeX 2.8 and they also appear in LYX in To

changing font size in documents

2010-02-07 Thread robert hagge
Hi there--Could you please tell me how to increase the font size in my math equations--the sub & super scripts are way too small.  O.S. Ubuntu 9.04 lyx - 1.6.2 thank you so much - bob h

Re: uiucthesis layout help

2010-02-07 Thread rgheck
On 02/07/2010 02:14 PM, Stephen Anthony wrote: I am new to LATEX/LYX, and I am interested in trying it out for my thesis. I have found the LATEX style and class for my thesis (http://physics.illinois.edu/grad/thesis-templates.asp). They appear to be appropriately installed, I can see them both

cocoAspell with two languages in a text?

2010-02-07 Thread Peter Baumgartner
I have an English text with many German quotes. Changing always the language for spell chacking in the lyx settings is very tiresome. Is there another way to let know cocoAspell that is has to change language for spell checking? Maybe it can be done with marking the text with the "language" text

Re: Problem with Palatino font

2010-02-07 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 2/7/10, Marco Stara wrote: > No, the document has been created of "book" class. > Could you try doing the same on your system? > Yes, here it works. Debian testing, texlive 2007, lyx 1.6.5. Try using an extended Palatino set called Pagella: set Roman font to default and add in preamble \usep

Re: Problem with Palatino font

2010-02-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 07.02.2010 17:36, schrieb Marco Stara: Lyx 1.6.5 on XP. In a new "Book" document, I would use the Palatino font but I get this error when creating the PDFLatex: ! Font OML/zplm/m/it/12=zplmr7m at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. This means that the font Palatino is not in

Re: changing font size in documents

2010-02-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 07.02.2010 21:06, schrieb robert hagge: Hi there--Could you please tell me how to increase the font size in my math equations--the sub& super scripts are way too small. The LyX math manual explains some ways how to achieve this. A few days ago I noticed that I missed there to describe th

Re: Off-topic biblatex question

2010-02-07 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Julio Rojas wrote: > Dear all, I have been using biblatex for my bibliography for the last > year. Now, for a paper, I need to use some references that I have in > this bibliography but a problem arises. In some papers that have > colons in the title, I had to substitute them for "\addcolon\addspac

Re: Language detection [was: offtopic blog]

2010-02-07 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Guenter Milde wrote: > >> I think the spellchecker should not do any guessing and switching. As > >> long as we are using LaTeX, languages simply need be marked properly. > > Agreed. However, currently language switching is far too cumbersome: > > a) Edit>Text-style>Custom>...>select from an "end