LyX 1.6.7 (solved)

2010-08-21 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
I have finally figured out what was stopping LyX 1.6.7 not to respond to File->Save, File->SaveAs, File->Open,... on Windows 7 (x64). It turned out that I had disabled the "Tablet PC Input" service. Re-enabling that service fixed the issue. What I can't digest is why LyX 1.6.6 does not requires tha

creating a custom layout from scratch

2010-08-21 Thread Blaz Gersak
Dear Lyx gurus :)! I am required to create a lyx layout from scratch and myke it totally independent of other layouts. --- It's supposed to look like this in Lyx: --- author: author text author text

Re: Lyx, pdflatex and pstool

2010-08-21 Thread Pascal Francq
Thanks, it works fine. I have try to insert a ".fig" figure (since I use xfig to make my graphics), hoping that Lyx would handle it also. When I try to view the pdf document (with pdflatex) I have the following error : "Missing $ inserted" "I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I thin

Re: \left( - bracket always separated from \left-command

2010-08-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 20.08.2010 23:21, schrieb Jannick Asmus: Sorry, I was not very clear: I meant which keys do I have to type to have "|". Even for this posting I had to copy it from above. This is somehow strange to look for the sign to copy&paste every time. I don't understand. | is available on evey keyb

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-21 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-08-20, Julien Rioux wrote: > On 20/08/2010 10:49 AM, Rob Oakes wrote: >> Which brings me to the question in the front of my mind. Should we >> create another Ubuntu/Debian package for LyX that doesn't require the >> system LaTeX packages? Seconded. At least with the internal HTML export,

jabref-how to get rid of abstract

2010-08-21 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Sorry, this is slightly off topic, but if sombody is using jabref as a data base program for the bib-files of Lyx, could he/she tell me how to avoid the export of abstract, school, institutions? Those contain apparently sometimes wrong encodings, which bibtex/biblatex/biber doesn't like. I ti

Adjust space Chapter entry with the paragraph

2010-08-21 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
Dear All I use book(koma-script) and the set the option parskip=full and chapterprefix (Documents>Settings, option: parskip=full,chapterprefix). I want to have more space between the chapter entry and the first paragraph: Chapter 1 Introduction ^ | (more space here) | V The first paragraph... H

Re: Adjust space Chapter entry with the paragraph

2010-08-21 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: > I use book(koma-script) and the set the option parskip=full and > chapterprefix (Documents>Settings, option: parskip=full,chapterprefix). > I want to have more space between the chapter entry and the first > paragraph: > > Chapter 1 > Introduction > ^ > > | (more spa

AW: \left( - bracket always separated from \left-command

2010-08-21 Thread Jannick Asmus
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 20.08.2010 23:21, schrieb Jannick Asmus: Sorry, I was not very clear: I meant which keys do I have to type to have "|". Even for this posting I had to copy it from above. This is somehow strange to look for the sign to copy&paste every time. I don't understand. | is availa

Re: jabref-how to get rid of abstract

2010-08-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 8/21/2010 10:17 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Sorry, this is slightly off topic, but if sombody is using jabref as a data base program for the bib-files of Lyx, could he/she tell me how to avoid the export of abstract, school, institutions? Those contain apparently sometimes wrong encodings,

Re: creating a custom layout from scratch

2010-08-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 8/21/2010 6:26 AM, Blaz Gersak wrote: Dear Lyx gurus :)! Gurus only? Or can non-gurus respond? :-) I am required to create a lyx layout from scratch and myke it totally independent of other layouts. --- It's supposed to look like this in Lyx: -

internal references: redefined enumerators

2010-08-21 Thread Jannick Asmus
Hi, using the re-definition \renewcommand{\labelenumi}{(\roman{enumi}.)} in the preamble of my doc (class article koma-script) internal references are not displayed as, e.g., (ii.), but as 2. Can this be amended to have proper internal references? Thx. Best wishes, J.

Re: creating a custom layout from scratch

2010-08-21 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Boraz, Start by reading section 5.2 of Help > Customization. Then I would suggest looking at a couple of layout files, first something simple like the basic article class (article.layout) and then a thesis-type layout file. The layout files are located in a folder (cleverly named 'layout

Re: Adjust space Chapter entry with the paragraph

2010-08-21 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
> > \renewcommand*{\chapterheadendvskip}{% >      \vspace{1.725\baselineskip >       �...@plus .115\baselineskip \...@minus .192\baselineskip}% >    }% > Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't know these three values: 1.725, .115, .192? I tried \renewcommand*{\chapterheadendvskip}{{\vspace{3cm}} i

Re: Adjust space Chapter entry with the paragraph

2010-08-21 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't know these three values: 1.725, > .115, .192? \baselineskip is the height of a line including leading, i.e., 14pt in a 12pt line with 1.2 linespread. 1.725\baselineskip means 1.725*\baselineskip. .115 means 0.115. The \...@plus

Re: jabref-how to get rid of abstract

2010-08-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 8/21/2010 11:17 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: could he/she tell me how to avoid the export of abstract, school, institutions? Those contain apparently sometimes wrong encodings, which bibtex/biblatex/biber doesn't like. I think I just found an arguably easier (or at least less technical) meth

Re: jabref-how to get rid of abstract

2010-08-21 Thread Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux
I've had this problem myself because of a lot of german and french references in my work. My solution is as follows: 1. Use a RegExp tool like RegexBuddy (http://www.regexbuddy.com) that has a full-featured regular-expression engine and search and replace features (grep + sed + find can

Problems using script 'fig2pdftex.py'

2010-08-21 Thread Tino Langer
Hello Lyx-Users, I have some problems using .fig-files in my lyx document. Whenever I try to compile my lyx-file I get an error message that there is an error in the script-file fig2pdftex.py. On the console i see the following message: NameError: name `mkstemp` is not defined On the dialog

Re: jabref-how to get rid of abstract

2010-08-21 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Saturday 21 August 2010 18:36:25 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: > On 8/21/2010 11:17 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > >> could he/she tell me how to avoid the export of abstract, school, > >> institutions? Those contain apparently sometimes wrong encodings, which > >> bibtex/biblatex/biber doesn't like. > > I

Re: jabref-how to get rid of abstract

2010-08-21 Thread Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux
On 21 August 2010 16:51, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Article (Asher2006) Asher, G. & Schibler, U. A CLOCK-less clock. Trends > Cell > Biol, Department of Molecular Biology, Sciences III, University of Geneva, > 30 > Quai Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva-4, Switzerland., 2006, 16, 547-549 > I would

windows download links down

2010-08-21 Thread Nicholas Tung
Hi all, The Windows download links for LyX appear to be down, as with the page listing mirrors. Maybe the developers could consider using sites like legittorrents.info, or google code (they usually have a downloads section)? thanks, Nicholas — ntung at ntung —  https://ntung.com — CS major @

Re: jabref-how to get rid of abstract

2010-08-21 Thread Paul Rubin
Wolfgang Engelmann uni-tuebingen.de> writes: > > using Pauls proposal I got rid of the Abstract field, but not the school and > institution, which is shown in the preview, e.g. > > Article (Asher2006) Asher, G. & Schibler, U. A CLOCK-less clock. Trends Cell > Biol, Department of Molecular Bi

Math / Table auto-toolbars not appearing anymore

2010-08-21 Thread Noah Green
Hi, I am using LyX 1.6.7 on OS X 10.6.4. My installation has been working fine for a few days. Just recently though, the math toolbars stopped automatically appearing when entering math mode. I can bring them up manually with the View menu, but they don't automatically disappear either when

Re: Math / Table auto-toolbars not appearing anymore

2010-08-21 Thread Paul Rubin
Exactly the same thing happened to me on Mint (derivative of Ubuntu) with 1.6.5. The problem stopped when I upgraded to 1.6.7. I thought the new version fixed it, but since you're on 1.6.7 apparently that's not the case. (Plus, as with you, 1.6.5 was working properly for a while.) When you rein