Triangle of Tartaglia with Lyx

2011-10-13 Thread Rubén Jiménez
Hi Will you show me how I can draw the triangle of Tartaglia with Lyx? I searched the forums but have not found the answer. thank you very much Rubén Jiménez

Re: LyX slowness

2011-10-13 Thread Helge Hafting
On 12. okt. 2011 18:45, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hi! While LyX is fantastic in almost every way, it is slow... My LyX is slow at pretty much everything. Typing, scrolling, moving the cursor around using arrow keys, highlighting sections of texts, etc. Even for small documents. This is

Re: replace upper case acronyms with small caps case

2011-10-13 Thread Helge Hafting
On 12. okt. 2011 23:24, e-letter wrote: On 12/10/2011, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:36 PM, e-letter wrote: Readers, Is it possible to select an acronym e.g. ABC and replace all copies in a document with the latex code \textsc{abc}? It should be possible. Look into advan

Re: classicthesis spacing in list of figures

2011-10-13 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 10/11/2011 06:08 AM, PhilipPirrip wrote: "Abbildung 1.10text" -> is the second number two-digit, no space between number and text how can i change this? You might be interested: http://code.google.com/p/classicthesis/issues/detail?id=35

Re: Footnotes in longtables

2011-10-13 Thread Lastalda Felina
Found a solution: Put [\footnotemark] as ERT at the place where the footnote number should appear. Put [\footnotetext{Text of the footnote}] as ERT into one of the cells in the next row (or thereabouts). This will place the footnote text on the first page of the longtable. If you want it on the l

Re: Triangle of Tartaglia with Lyx

2011-10-13 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/13/2011 05:32 AM, Rubén Jiménez wrote: > Hi > > Will you show me how I can draw the triangle of Tartaglia with Lyx? > In most of the world, it is known as "Pascal's triangle". Perhaps that is why you couldn't find an answer. > I searched the forums but have not found the answer. > http://for

Re: Triangle of Tartaglia with Lyx

2011-10-13 Thread David L. Johnson
On 10/13/2011 10:54 AM, Richard Heck wrote: On 10/13/2011 05:32 AM, Rubén Jiménez wrote: Hi Will you show me how I can draw the triangle of Tartaglia with Lyx? In most of the world, it is known as "Pascal's triangle". I was hoping for something really exotic. The links you gave look essenti

Re: Triangle of Tartaglia with Lyx

2011-10-13 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 13/10/11 11:32, Rubén Jiménez wrote: Hi Will you show me how I can draw the triangle of Tartaglia with Lyx? If it indeed is the same as Pascal's triangle, you can use tikz and copy the code from here: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/pascals-triangle-and-sierpinski-triangle/ Just

Bold text from Sweave chunk

2011-10-13 Thread Shane Siers
I'm trying to get bold text from a cat() statement within a Sweave chunk (results=tex). None of the tricks I know to get boldface text from R or LaTeX are not working. Ideas? -- Shane

Marginal Notes Font Size

2011-10-13 Thread Tim Wescott
How do I change the font size in marginal notes? I've looked around -- I don't see much guidance in Kopka & Daly, and the only thing I found on a web search was this, which isn't helping: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg19731.html TIA. -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.c

SV: Marginal Notes Font Size

2011-10-13 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Hi I use this in the preamble: \let\oldmarginpar\marginpar \renewcommand\marginpar[1]{\-\oldmarginpar[\raggedleft\footnotesize #1]% {\raggedright\footnotesize #1}} and it works like a charm :). I guess you could use another size instead of footnotesize, but it seem to about right for me :) HTH

Re: Marginal Notes Font Size

2011-10-13 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 10/13/2011 06:59 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: How do I change the font size in marginal notes? I've looked around -- I don't see much guidance in Kopka& Daly, and the only thing I found on a web search was this, which isn't helping: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg19731.htm

Re: Marginal Notes Font Size

2011-10-13 Thread Marcus Glöder
Hello Tim, hello all together, Tim write: How do I change the font size in marginal notes? What’s your problem? Write any text and put your cursor at any place in your text. Click “insert” -> “marginal note”, type any text in the red framed box, mark this text, click “Edit” -> “Text Style” -

Re: Marginal Notes Font Size

2011-10-13 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 10/13/2011 07:36 PM, Marcus Glöder wrote: What’s your problem? Write any text and put your cursor at any place in your text. Click “insert” -> “marginal note”, type any text in the red framed box, mark this text, click “Edit” -> “Text Style” -> “Customized ...” -> “Size” -> “Very tiny”, click

Re: Marginal Notes Font Size

2011-10-13 Thread Marcus Glöder
Hello Tim, hello all together, of course, my proposed solution is only practical if you have a short text with a few marginal notes. For a text with many marginal notes, you'll do not come around to put LaTeX code in "Document" -> "Settings" -> "LaTeX Preamble". In this case have a look at th

Re: Marginal Notes Font Size

2011-10-13 Thread Marcus Glöder
Hello Philip, hello all together, you write: The problem is that this is not the way of doing things in LaTeX & LyX. How do you format your chapter and section headings? Don't misuse “Edit” -> “Text Style”... That's right, at least in principle. But for a short text with only a few marginal n

How to shorten captions in table and figure lists

2011-10-13 Thread Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci
Hi all, I am using ClassisThesis style. How to reduce the length or shorten the Figure and Table captions in the Table and Figure lists? Thank you in advance, Gian

Re: SV: Marginal Notes Font Size

2011-10-13 Thread Tim Wescott
Thanks Ingar. I just want tiny little marginal notes (so I used 'tiny') in a document to point out where I have inadequate information and must correct things before I'm really "done". It worked perfectly with \let\oldmarginpar\marginpar \renewcommand\marginpar[1]{\-\oldmarginpar[\raggedleft\tin

natbib/authordate extra white space after et al.

2011-10-13 Thread Simon Mushi
Hi, I am using Lyx 2.0.0 and have written a paper using natbib and the authordate3 bib style. All is well, apart from et al. citations in the body which appear with an extra whitespace before the comma and date, i.e "(Ahrens et al. , 2000)" How do I get rid of this space before the comma? I hav

Re: Bold text from Sweave chunk

2011-10-13 Thread Yihui Xie
You have to tell us how or what on earth you cat()ed. I do not think you need R tricks (are you talking about the tricks in demo(plotmath)?). I believe something like this should work: <>= cat('\\textbf{abc}') @ Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of

Re: natbib/authordate extra white space after et al.

2011-10-13 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/13/2011 02:50 PM, Simon Mushi wrote: > Hi, > I am using Lyx 2.0.0 and have written a paper using natbib and the > authordate3 bib style. All is well, apart from et al. citations in the > body which appear with an extra whitespace before the comma and date, > i.e "(Ahrens et al. , 2000)" > >

Re: Bold text from Sweave chunk

2011-10-13 Thread Shane Siers
Sorry, I'll be sure to include examples in the future. Here is my current example, trying your suggestion: <>= misssvl<-length(data.ind$svl[svl=="NA"]) if(misssvl>0){ cat("\\texbf{SVL }",": Of ",length(data.ind$svl), " snakes tested, snout-vent length data are missing on ", ... Returns an

Re: LyX slowness

2011-10-13 Thread Paul Rubin
For what it's worth, I have LyX installed on three machines (Dell desktop, Dell laptop, Acer desktop). All run Linux Mint with the Gnome desktop. The Dells are both Intel 32; the Acer is AMD 64. Both desktops have nVidia displays with nVidia proprietary drivers. I'm not sure about the laptop, b

Re: Bold text from Sweave chunk

2011-10-13 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Shane Siers wrote: > Sorry, I'll be sure to include examples in the future.  Here is my current > example, trying your suggestion: > > <>= > misssvl<-length(data.ind$svl[svl=="NA"]) > if(misssvl>0){ >   cat("\\texbf{SVL}",": Of ",length(data.ind$svl), > I guess th

Re: natbib/authordate extra white space after et al.

2011-10-13 Thread Simon Mushi
Richard, Coincidentally, this happens with all the authordate family of styles, i.e. 1,2,3 and 4. Do you observe the same behaviour on your system? Using the APA style gives "Ahrens et al., 2000", which is _correct_, but I prefered authordate3's presentation of the bib itself. Line 268 of author

Re: Bold text from Sweave chunk

2011-10-13 Thread Shane Siers
How embarassing. Yes, this works. Many thanks. Shane On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Shane Siers > wrote: > > Sorry, I'll be sure to include examples in the future. Here is my > current > > example, trying your suggestion: > > > > <>

Branch names with spaces

2011-10-13 Thread Graeme
According to ticket #5806 (http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5806), the bug preventing branch names with spaces was fixed in version 1.6.3, but it is still present in 2.0 (on Windows at least). As the attached LyX file shows, Branches with spaces in the names can be created, but after the LyX fil

Re: natbib/authordate extra white space after et al.

2011-10-13 Thread Julien Rioux
On 13/10/2011 11:20 PM, Simon Mushi wrote: Richard, Coincidentally, this happens with all the authordate family of styles, i.e. 1,2,3 and 4. Do you observe the same behaviour on your system? Using the APA style gives "Ahrens et al., 2000", which is _correct_, but I prefered authordate3's prese

Re: How to shorten captions in table and figure lists

2011-10-13 Thread Julien Rioux
On 13/10/2011 8:27 PM, Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci wrote: Hi all, I am using ClassisThesis style. How to reduce the length or shorten the Figure and Table captions in the Table and Figure lists? Thank you in advance, Gian Position your cursor somewhere within the caption and click Insert >

Re: natbib/authordate extra white space after et al.

2011-10-13 Thread Simon Mushi
Julien, Thanks, after fixing that line I was still having the same problem so kept looking in the style file and found a similar statement on line 1038 and took out space there too. All good now. -Simon On 10/13/11, Julien Rioux wrote: > On 13/10/2011 11:20 PM, Simon Mushi wrote: >> Richard, >

Re: Linking

2011-10-13 Thread E . Lewis
Liviu Andronic gmail.com> writes: > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Pavel Sanda lyx.org> wrote: > > Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> If I understand correctly your question, it has been discussed several > >> times in the past and there was even a patch integrating Gnumeric into > >> LyX. But I th

Re: Marginal Notes Font Size

2011-10-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 13.10.2011 18:59, schrieb Tim Wescott: How do I change the font size in marginal notes? I've looked around -- I don't see much guidance in Kopka& Daly, Well, have a look at the lyX documentation first ;-): Sec. 4.3 of the EmbeddedObjects manual you find in LyX's Help menu has some exampl

Re: LyX slowness

2011-10-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 12.10.2011 18:45, schrieb Torquil Macdonald Sørensen: While LyX is fantastic in almost every way, it is slow... My LyX is slow at pretty much everything. Typing, scrolling, moving the cursor around using arrow keys, highlighting sections of texts, etc. Even for small documents. Besides co

Re: Marginal Notes Font Size

2011-10-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 14.10.2011 02:25, schrieb Uwe Stöhr: To change the font size for a certain note, simply highlight it and use the text style dialog. I meant to highlight its content, not the note box. regards Uwe

Re: Linking

2011-10-13 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:41 PM, E. Lewis wrote: > Liviu Andronic gmail.com> writes: >> [1] Oh, well, crossing my fingers, perhaps Helge has something new on >> this front. :) >> Liviu >> >> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel lists.lyx.org/msg160372.html >> > > Obtain and install the exce

Re: mathdots.sty not found in Math-Help-file

2011-10-13 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 18:16:29 Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 19.09.2011 11:09, schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: > > I wanted to look at the pdf file of the Math-Help-File of Lyx 2.0.1 > > but get this error: > > > > ! LaTeX Error: File `mathdots.sty' not found. > > > > How do I proceed? > > Remove the

Re: document class Springer svmono for Lyx

2011-10-13 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 15:15:11 rgheck wrote: > On 10/12/2011 03:57 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 October 2011 16:18:36 Richard Heck wrote: > >> On 10/11/2011 07:58 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > >>> I would like to use the document class Springer svmono for Lyx. > >>> Unde