Possible bug in LyX and /boxed{} display?

2006-03-09 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Hi, all. First, thank you and congratulations on the new LyX release! It looks pretty slick. Now, for the nitty-gritty: I'm using the qt frontend on debian unstable. LyX 1.4 (and the 1.4-pre-series) compiles and installs just fine from source. If I want to used /boxed{} (I use E

Re: Simpler than beamer?

2006-04-01 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
On 4/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Could someone recommend to me a simpler (less sophisticated) way > > than > > > > beamer to make pdf transparencies? > > > > > >I used to use mgp, but that did not produce pdf files. Have you > > looked at > > > the OpenOffice.o

LyX and XFig: brilliant

2006-04-02 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
t time) to, and will happily do so in the future. Sincerely, Curtis Osterhoudt

footnote ends up below tables

2006-06-08 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Hi, all. I'm using LyX 1.4.1 on Debian, and writing in the koma-script book class. I'm having a problem with footnotes and table floats (it happens with figure floats, too). In the text, I have a footnote, which I *think* should go at the very bottom of the page, under everything else (except t

Re: footnote ends up below tables

2006-06-09 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: footnote ends up below tables Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:20:25 +0200 Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: > Hi, all. I'm using LyX 1.4.1 on Debian, and writing in the koma-script > book class. > I'm having a probl

Re: footnote ends up below tables

2006-06-09 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
ke headlines? :) Best, Curtis O. Original Message Follows From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: footnote ends up below tables Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:23:24 -0400 Charles de Miramon wrote: Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: Hi, all. I&#x

footnotes and floats

2006-06-09 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
rote \usepackage[bottom]{footmisc} and it appears to fix this problem. Hope this helps someone else! Curtis O. Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: Hi, all. I'm using LyX 1.4.1 on Debian, and writing in the koma-script book class. I'm having a problem with footnotes and table

Re: Removing first page number on bibtex generated bibliography

2007-07-17 Thread curtis osterhoudt
- Original Message From: Lyx Physicst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:10:36 AM Subject: Re: Removing first page number on bibtex generated bibliography On 7/17/07, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: PDF viewers for Windows

2007-07-30 Thread curtis osterhoudt
I don't know whether it features auto-updating when a LyX document is regenerated, but Foxit Reader generally seems pretty good: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php . /* Down with categorical imperative! [EMAIL P

Find-and-replace highlighting turns off

2007-08-07 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Hi, all, This is on a Debian box, running the latest v. 1.5.1 (compiled and installed from source; non-qt frontend). When I open the search dialogue, it correctly finds and highlights the characters I look for. However, about 90% of the time, the highlighting quickly (within 1/2 second?) di

Re: Find-and-replace highlighting turns off

2007-08-08 Thread curtis osterhoudt
ategorical imperative! [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] *****/ - Original Message From: curtis osterhoudt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2007 3:48:09 PM Subject: Fi

Re: Find-and-replace highlighting turns off

2007-08-08 Thread curtis osterhoudt
PROTECTED] */ - Original Message ---- From: curtis osterhoudt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2007 10:53:12 AM Subject: Re: Find-and-replace highlighting turns off Just another observation about the find dialo

Re: LyX and the lack of a "code mode"; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Roberto Gorjão wrote: > Which code editor, if any, would you recommend to edit LaTeX? > Preferably one that doesn't mess, or messes as little as possible, > with what LyX does. > > I'm on Win XP. Both JEdit (http://www.jedit.org/) and Cream (http://cream.sourceforge.net/download.html) have tr

Re: Superscripted Citations

2007-12-12 Thread curtis osterhoudt
I can't remember details, but my dissertation used the style you're looking for. You might look at details for the "overcite" package (contained in "cite", I believe) and the "citesupernumber" package. Hope that helps! /*

Re: Increasing the equation and font size for ease of creation

2007-12-12 Thread curtis osterhoudt
If I understand you correctly, changing (or adding, if not present) the line \preview_scale_factor in the "preferences" file in your ~/.lyx directory to have another value (mine is 1.25) will change the size of the math-preview fonts. So my ~/.lyx/preferences file has \preview_scale_factor 1.

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread curtis osterhoudt
I'm using sidux (based on Debian unstable) and have been since it branched off of Kanotix. It's easily stable enough for my everyday use, and yet things like the latest LyX are available quite quickly from repositories (and there's nothing stopping one from downloading and installing from the la

Re: Bibliography Numbering

2008-01-25 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Andreas, Click on the bibliography insert, and choose for the Style "unsrt". That may be what you want. Good luck! / Down with categorical imperative! [EMAIL PROTECTED] / - Orig

Re: odd mistake

2008-02-13 Thread curtis osterhoudt
The divide-and-conquer method almost always works well... except when you get into large documents, where interactions between different packages cause problems if *both* sections are around, or if *many* sections are around (such as the "no room for a new \write" error). I ran into that one whe

Re: okay, can't resist one more bit of "feedback"

2008-03-21 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Hi, Bill, It appears that your MiKTeX installation didn't go through, or was interrupted, possibly because internet connectrivity was lost or something. Can you successfully use MiKTeX on that computer? If so, I'm probably wrong. I've had no problems with LyX on either linux (Ubuntu

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread curtis osterhoudt
- Original Message From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 12:32:14 PM Subject: Re: Request for screenshots On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, John Coppens wrote: >> But would you be opposed to having the usual colors a

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread curtis osterhoudt
I don't see that "LyXia" engenders "oral" thoughts, though I'd be more strongly inclined to give the program a try if it did! Besides, would this mean that Word users suffer from dysLyXia? C.O. - Original Message From: Marc J. Driftmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread curtis osterhoudt
I like all of the page templates. My *least* favorite is "Black Box", because the text seems hard to read (gray on a black background?) and I keep peering at the page to see if there are images hidden in the background. http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage is really quite attractiv

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-04-05 Thread curtis osterhoudt
ssage From: curtis osterhoudt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 10:16:04 AM Subject: Re: Templates for the new website I like all of the page templates. My *least* favorite is "Black Box", because the text seems hard to read (gray on a bla

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-08 Thread curtis osterhoudt
If you're actually comfortable with XFig (it's almost all I need sometimes), look up JFig. It's not a 100% clone (which is a good thing, in my opinion). / Down with categorical imperative! [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lyx crash with unknown reason

2008-04-14 Thread curtis osterhoudt
- Original Message From: Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 4:52:13 AM Subject: Re: Lyx crash with unknown reason On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:21:45 +0200 Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 01:12:38PM +0300, Micha w

Re: Tex capacity exceeded

2008-05-03 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Paul's suggestion is certainly worthy of a try. However, sometimes the problem is a problem of the whole, rather than of the sum of the parts. I mean this: When I was finishing up my thesis, I ran into various TeX capacity problems, none of which would occur when each chapter (appendix, etc.) wa

Re: +/- in a table too large

2008-05-20 Thread curtis osterhoudt
I can't reproduce that (just tried 1.6.0alpha2 on Windows XP), as the table spacing looks fine. One way you might be able to work around it is using a \nicefrac{+}{-} instead of \pm. I personally don't prefer \nicefrac in this case, but it might work. Cheers, C.O

Re: +/- in a table too large

2008-05-20 Thread curtis osterhoudt
It worked here for me, too -- no problems with the \pm symbol bleeding into the table frames. ( 1.5.5 on Debian Sid and 1.6.0 svn on Windows XP ) - Original Message From: Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:

Graphics quality in PDF vs. PS, etc.

2006-06-25 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Hi, all, I'm currently producing documents using LyX, in which graphics are often XFig figures. I like the fact that LaTeX fonts can be embedded in such figures, and look great when the final document is produced*. However, if such a figure is relatively complicated (for example, a large

Re: Graphics quality in PDF vs. PS, etc.

2006-06-25 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Original Message Follows From: Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Curtis Osterhoudt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Graphics quality in PDF vs. PS, etc. Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 02:31:30 +0200 Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: I'm currently pr

Re: Graphics quality in PDF vs. PS, etc.

2006-06-26 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Graphics quality in PDF vs. PS, etc. Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:00:20 -0400 Uwe Stöhr wrote: As I understood you, you insert the graphics as EPS in LyX and produce then the PDF via pdflatex. I also use pdflat

Cross-references within an Appendix

2006-07-05 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Hi, all, I have several figures, tables, etc. within various appendices in a document. I've been writing the appendices as separate LyX files, then INCLUDEing them in a master document, with (in ERT) an "\appendixmore" before each of the included files. Because of this, my appendices are n

RE: Cross-references within an Appendix

2006-07-05 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: "Curtis Osterhoudt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Cross-references within an Appendix Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:51:15 + Hi, all, I have several figures, tables, etc. within various appendices in a document. I've been writ

RE: Cross-references within an Appendix

2006-07-05 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: "Curtis Osterhoudt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: RE: Cross-references within an Appendix Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:01:18 + From: "Curtis Osterhoudt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sub

Combining PrettyRef and "on page "

2006-07-10 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
I've come to a somewhat satisfying solution to cross-referencing Figures and Tables in my documents. I really like PrettyRef's capabilities to detect what sort of float you're referring to. On the other hand, I really like varioref's ability to say "on preceding page" or "on current page" or wh

Re: bug(?): strange behavior after ctrl-shift-left

2006-07-11 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Jose' Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: bug(?): strange behavior after ctrl-shift-left Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:18:36 +0100 On Tuesday 11 July 2006 20:50, Sven Schreiber wrote: > For me the keyboard is not responding in lyx anymore after that. Can > anybo

RE: Upgrade to 1.4.2: Semi-classic UI

2006-07-14 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Upgrade to 1.4.2: Semi-classic UI Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:24:39 -0700 (PDT) This is interesting: I just upgraded from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2 (for no particular reason), and now I h

RE: Upgrade to 1.4.2: Semi-classic UI

2006-07-14 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: RE: Upgrade to 1.4.2: Semi-classic UI Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:58:01 -0700 (PDT) On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: Thanks for pointing out the "default" vs. "classic" settings

Collect all documents used in a LyX file...revisited

2006-07-14 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
better. Does anyone have more experience with such programs? Perhaps I just need to get better organized :) Thanks, Curtis Osterhoudt

One bibliography, separated by chapter

2006-07-31 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
ompile LyX with some things changed. I have not tried these things, although I might if I can't find another solution. Is there now an easier way to get a single end-of-document sectioned bibliography with LyX? It seems to me that the "Sectioned bibliography" checkbox isn't what I want, but I could be wrong. Regards, Curtis Osterhoudt

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Christopher Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:32:38 +0200 Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 08:24 schrieb Christopher Winkler: Hello, my system: ubuntu dapper, i386 .. ,thank you for your help, but nothing helped..

Long message(s) from me showing up?

2006-07-31 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Hi, all, I posted a longish question to the list this morning. Normally I get copies of the messages immediately; this time (and a few times previously), it never showed up, either in my email Inbox, nor in the new mail archive (a message I sent in response to someone else's question AFT

RE: Long message(s) from me showing up? Ans: Yeah, sort of

2006-07-31 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: "Curtis Osterhoudt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Long message(s) from me showing up? Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:37:31 + Hi, all, I posted a longish question to the list this morning. Normally I get copies of the messages immediately

One bibliography, separated by chapter?

2006-08-02 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Hi, all, I ended up sending this message in a "reply" to another message which it has nothing to do with, so I'm re-sending it. It could be that no one had anything to say in the first place -- I apologize for cluttering up the list with a reposting if that's the case! At the end of my dis

Re: One bibliography, separated by chapter?

2006-08-03 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: One bibliography, separated by chapter? Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 10:50:17 +0200 Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: > I am using a master document, with several \included sub-documents. All of > these are o

Language in bibliography?

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Hi, all, In my bibliography, I notice that many of the citations contain Polish, whereas I'd prefer everything in English :) For example, a couple of books in the third edition have "wydanie 3rd", a doctoral dissertation contains "Praca doktorska", and an article published in 1999 has "Cze

Re: Language in bibliography?

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Language in bibliography? Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:10:02 +0200 Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: > In my bibliography, I notice that many of the citations contain Polish, > whereas I'd prefer ever

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:38:52 +0200 (MEST) >>Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:58:15 +0100 >>From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:12:06 -0700 Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Paul Smith wrote: As you may see,

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Ingo Klöcker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:11:10 +0200 On Friday 04 August 2006 21:14, Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: >I'm not trying to side-track this discussion, but there's

Re: One bibliography, separated by chapter?

2006-08-09 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
original message(s) below = Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: I just tried myself, and I couldn't get it to work as well. My guess is that you have to export your files to latex and run latex/bibtex manually. LyX doesn't seem to run bibtex on the different aux files, as needed. OK,

RE: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-19 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
> > Yes. Acrobat is a lousy pdf reader - it don't handle bitmap fonts very> > > > well.> > Simple solution - use other pdf readers.> > Oh, you can recommend > > good alternatives for Windows, the only> platform on which this problem > > appears? I am really looking for one> and so far I am onl

Only partial preview of

2006-10-19 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Hi, all, This may have shown up on the list recently, but I did a quick archive search and turned up nothing, so thought I'd ask here. I finally upgraded to LyX 1.4.3 last night (the Debian repo. I use decided -- finally -- to host it). Everything seems to work well (that I've tested thus fa

Figure float wrapfig caption

2007-01-15 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Cheers, all,This is an almost purely theoretical question, so feel free to ignore.In my preamble, I have a command to change the font for figures and tables. It works fine on "regular" floats (the captions are of smaller font and single-spaced, whereas the regular text is double-spaced).

RE: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-01-31 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Hi, Philipp and Rich (and others),On linux, at least, with the QT interface for LyX, I insert xfig figures with Insert -> File ->External Material. Then a pdflatex run includes everything nicely, including "special" text. I, too, invariably start XFig with the special flags set, because I

Too many indices, LoT, LoF?

2007-02-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Hi, all,Upon compiling my LyX document, which contains lots of Includes, a Table of Contents, Index, Lists of Figures and Tables, etc., the LyX frontend reports that there's "No room for a new \write" (similarly, using pdflatex from the command line on the .tex file fails). I've done a littl

Re: Too many indices, LoT, LoF?

2007-02-05 Thread curtis osterhoudt
- Original Message From: Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, February 5, 2007 2:53:13 AM Subject: Re: Too many indices, LoT, LoF? Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: > Hi, all,Upon compiling my LyX document, which contains lots of >

Referencing an appendix

2007-02-08 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Hi, LyXers, Questions about this have come up in the past, but I can't find an exact answer, so I'll venture to ask here. I often refer to appendices in my dissertation. They're LyX files with Chapter labels next to the chapter titles. They're included in my master document, and the gro

Re: Referencing an appendix

2007-02-09 Thread curtis osterhoudt
curtis osterhoudt wrote: > However, when I reference them from within the text, the cross-references > always say "Chapter C" or whatever, instead of "Appendix C". Is there a > LyX-based way of providing an "Appendix" label, or should I do something >

Re: Single column index?

2007-03-05 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Hi, Steve, I haven't tried it yet for single-column mode (I use it for *forcing* a 3-columned index), but the package "multicol" http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/multicol.html might work for you. In my preamble, I have the following: %%% %

Headers when using \includepdf ?

2007-03-10 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Hi, all, I have found the easiest way to include formatted source code into a LyX document is to use the \includepdf command. It works great, except that I see no way to get the master document's page numbers (or any header) on those pages. I've seen that a few other people have had th

Re: Headers when using \includepdf ? -- possibly solved

2007-03-10 Thread curtis osterhoudt
or [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ - Original Message ---- From: curtis osterhoudt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 6:04:08 PM Subject: Headers when using \includepdf ? Hi, all, I have found the easiest way to include formatted source code int

A quick LaTeX question

2007-03-27 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Hi, LyXers. I should really be asking this on a LaTeX list, but I thought I'd find out if anyone has quick answers: I'm running into the dreaded "No room for a new \write" problem. I'm at the worrisome stage of removing packages from inclusion in the preamble to see if that helps at all. Bu

Re: A quick LaTeX question

2007-03-27 Thread curtis osterhoudt
- Original Message From: Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:07:37 AM Subject: Re: A quick LaTeX question On Tuesday 27 March 2007 10:29, curtis osterhoudt wrote: > Hi, LyXers. I should really be asking this on a LaTeX li

Re: A quick LaTeX question

2007-03-27 Thread curtis osterhoudt
> I'm running into the dreaded "No room for a new \write" problem. > Thanks! > Curtis O. It looks to me as though the error is being produced by bibliography handling in LyX (I could, of course, be utterly wrong). I'm approaching 100 references being cited.

Re: A quick LaTeX question (bibliographies): temporary workaround

2007-03-28 Thread curtis osterhoudt
== original messages below - Original Message From: Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 2:16:02 AM Subject: Re: A quick LaTeX question Paul A. Rubin wrote: > curtis osterho

Re: a little help with enumerate

2007-04-08 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Dear LyXers, I was delighted to find the other day that I can put math-moded symbols in my index tags, and that they'll be typeset into a "Symbols" section at the start of my index. Unfortunately, this is not working any more for me, despite not changing my preamble in any way. Details:

Corrected Subject: Math-mode in index entries?

2007-04-08 Thread curtis osterhoudt
( Sorry about the subject of my previous message. I responded to an earlier message and forgot to change the subject line. At the risk of being considered a nuisance, here's my message again with a correct subject this time.) Dear LyXers, I was delighted to find the other day that I can pu

Congrats on the Distrowatch donation!

2007-05-07 Thread curtis osterhoudt
I've been waiting for this wonderful project to receive one of those. Best wishes, all! /* Down with categorical imperative! [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Typographical devices, instead of numbers, for footnotes

2010-05-20 Thread curtis osterhoudt
I may be wrong here, but in looking at an old preamble file I have for which typograpical footnote devices work as you'd like, try the following: \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}} /** As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the

Re: Lower-res PDFs

2010-05-21 Thread curtis osterhoudt
I suspect the full Foxit version works fine under Wine, though. From: Philiрp Rеichmuth To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 6:27:22 AM Subject: Re: Lower-res PDFs Am Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:34 +0100 schrieb Liviu Andronic: > On 5/21/10, Frederi

Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)

2010-06-16 Thread curtis osterhoudt
You might try inkscape (www.inkscape.org) for the value chain diagrams. I used to use XFig for that sort of thing, but I'm learning inkscape more. Of course, it won't automatically generate the diagrams, but it'll be a lot easier to use (in my opinion) than GiMP. 1) Running headers is no p

Re: LyX 2.0 alpha 4 - Right-Click on Mac broken

2010-07-01 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Right-click context seems to work for the QT4 version in KDE. And ditto my thanks for the spellchecker support and new features. I've been using the svn version for a while now, and like it very, very much! Curtis /** As a species, we are f

Re: lyx.org down?

2010-08-16 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Confirmed. The SVN server seems down, too. /** As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings.

Re: Lyx web site

2010-08-18 Thread curtis osterhoudt
lyx.org now responds to pings, but the attempt to svn update gives the dreaded "svn: Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error" problem. It's likely that the server's /tmp directory or / is full or corrupted. In any case, those blokes will probably have it figured out in the next cou

Re: placing the figure number

2010-11-21 Thread curtis osterhoudt
The way I do this is to press "Enter" before putting the actual xfig picture (or any picture) in the frame. This makes the figure number (and caption, if needed) go below the figure. My very rough rule-of-thumb is that if the 'figure #' appears to (say) the immediate right of the actual pictur

Re: placing the figure number

2010-11-21 Thread curtis osterhoudt
e three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable." ~~Roger Zelazny, in "Lord of Light" ***/ From: xPol To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Sun, November 21, 2010 11:05:28 AM Subject: Re: placing th

Re: Multiple references to one footnote?

2010-11-23 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Hi, Tim, I recently had occasion to do this, in a table. I ended up using the ctable package. I think there are much more elegant/robust solutions out there, but this worked for me. 1. In the preamble: \usepackage{ctable} 2. Insert a table in lyx 3. Before you make

Inserted .pdf loses active hyperlinks

2011-01-09 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Dear LyXers, I've recently discovered that some .pdf documents I produced have lost their active hyperlinks. Specifically, I produced some documents with (successfully) active hyperlinks, and included these in a "master" document via the "External Material" insertion. Once this is done, the

Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0

2011-03-30 Thread curtis osterhoudt
In order of preference, I vote: 1. Oxygen 2. The old set 3. Libreoffice On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Dear LyX users and developers, > > after long struggle the new relase contains two new icon themes and > and some people want to give to LyX 2.0 new and shiny face. >

Re: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

2011-05-12 Thread curtis osterhoudt
An _excellent_ idea, Steve. /***/ From: Steve Litt To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Thu, May 12, 2011 12:47:26 PM Subject: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages On Thursday 12 May 2011 13:02:01 Richard

Re: Single quotes

2003-09-16 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
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Eps woes, and imported figures in version 1.2.0

2002-06-01 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
ike this: *.(gif|png|ps| etc, etc ) there is no "eps" entry. It's easy enough to include when I'm wanting to find these files, but it would be nice to have it in there by default. Is there a way I can modify things to do this? Regar

Re: PDF won't generate

2011-09-26 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Yes, I've started getting this error with the 2.1 svn version. If I export the pdflatex code, that's fine, and it'll compile correctly from the command line. LyX isn't doing a step it probably should.   /** "The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge,

Re: Engineering student considering LyX for Thesis

2011-10-17 Thread curtis osterhoudt
I would second everything that Liviu has said. I'd especially like to amplify his mention of the mailing lists. 90% of the time I've had a problem, I could immediately find mention of it on the lists, and very helpful responses. 10% of the time, I figured it out myself, usually right after askin

Re: lyx 2.0.1 and relative paths to tex files

2011-10-20 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Have you tried NOT including the '.tex' extension on the \input{} command, whether or not you're using a relative path? If I remember correctly, you have to leave that bit off (for which reason I don't know, but that's how TeX expects it). Include everything else, though.   On Thu 20 Oct 20

Re: Beamer files have faint symbols at lower border

2012-01-21 Thread curtis osterhoudt
If using Okular as a viewer, either forward/up or back/down arrows, spacebar, etc. If one has left TOC-type links around (my presentations happen to have them at the top of each slide) one can use those to quickly go to the relevant sections.     ~ C > > Fr

Re: Layout: ERT alignment yet again

2012-07-29 Thread curtis osterhoudt
This *may* be what you want: http://dcwww.camd.dtu.dk/~schiotz/comp/LatexTips/LatexTips.html#captfont As it describes a more "global" way of doing things, it may override (or be overridden by?) the local ERT at each inset. It's all a bit of waving a dead chicken at it to me, though, and I could

Re: Layout: ERT alignment yet again

2012-07-29 Thread curtis osterhoudt
You're right! Mea culpa. I didn't read the original stackexchange question, and I should have. Apologies for the static. From: Michael Bach To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 9:17 AM >Subject: Re: Layout: ERT alignment yet again > >On 7/2

pdfpages inclusion with forms blanks the forms information

2012-08-07 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Dear LyXers,     I'm producing a few files (via pdflatex) in the 2.1.0 version of lyx (I grab it from the -devel git repository and compile it locally). This is on a debian system, running a 3.5 (sid) kernel.     When I include an already-produced .pdf document (via Insert --> File --> Externa

Re: Setting Up Longtable

2012-08-10 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Hi, Rich,     I recently had to do this (in the 2.1.0 development version of LyX).    I inserted a table, and got the caption typed in. Then, near that caption box (and within the demarcations marking the table), I can right-click. At the bottom of the pop-up menu is a "More..." option, which b

Re: Setting Up Longtable

2012-08-10 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Ah. A slightly easier way of getting there is to place the mouse cursor within the table, and then go to the "Edit" menu at the top of the LyX window, choose "Table Settings", and then the dialog which appears includes the "Longtable" tab.   /** "As a species,

Re: customizing bullets in lists: I got Simpsons now, you could too

2012-12-14 Thread curtis osterhoudt
"SNPP", I'm sure, is "Springfield Nuclear Power Plant". Love all of this, and the documentation you've done. It's nice to know what's possible, even if there are unsolved problems.  From: Paul Johnson >To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 1:14 PM >Subject: customizing

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-06-26 Thread curtis osterhoudt
/* original message below **/ - Original Message From: Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:55:17 AM Subject: Re: Xfig and LyX > With other words, I have to redo all my fig files and add (or copy, if I > f

Re: Zoom in LyX (like in firefox)

2008-07-15 Thread curtis osterhoudt
- Original Message From: Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Cc: Aleksandar Kanchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:27:05 PM Subject: Re: Zoom in LyX (like in firefox) Erez Yerushalmi wrote: > Hi, > > Go to > tools >

Re: Any words of wisdom switching from 1.4.2 to 1.5.6?

2008-08-23 Thread curtis osterhoudt
This doesn't answer the original question, nor directly apply to the response below it. However, I'd just like to state that I've been getting the 1.6 development version via svn every couple of days, and compiling it on linux. It's wonderful thus far: no crashes; nice interface; wonderful new

Re: opening Math help crashes lyx 1.6rc1

2008-08-30 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Seems to be stable (no crash) in the 1.6.0rc2 version on Windows XP (32 bit). / Down with categorical imperative! [EMAIL PROTECTED] / - Original Message From: James Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LyX Users Li

scaling xfig previews

2008-08-31 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Hi, LyXers, I've noticed that in the 1.6.0svn versions (for example, today's revision 26278), the External Material dialog (when inserting a figure, e.g.) gives the tab LaTeX and LyX Options. In this tab, there is the "Show in LyX" and resultant "Scale on Screen" option, where I usually hav

Re: Siunitx

2008-09-12 Thread curtis osterhoudt
If you're OK with using $\textdegree$ (some people complain about its typography in various fonts), then you may be able to get it to work with no additional packages, except perhaps 'textcomp'. Cheers, C.O. / Down with catego

Re: graphic files

2008-11-05 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Basically, yeah. This was a feature bandied about perhaps two years ago (that I last knew of; probably for some time before that, too). I know it made the requests list, but I don't know if it's been seriously worked on. / Down with categorical imperative! [

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