Re: most lyx-friendly bibtex-format?

2005-07-19 Thread Georg Baum
Sven Schreiber wrote: > afaik the weaknesses of the used simple bibtex parser are known, but not > to me, so please what are recommendations for the bibtex file format so > that the parser won't get confused? I never had any problems with .bib files that were sanitized by BibTool - see http://www

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

2005-07-19 Thread Georg Baum
Angus Leeming wrote: > Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: >> Since lyx-1.3.6 reads tex2lyx output, the wiki page could be >> simplified and suggest to replace reLyX by tex2lyx $$i >$$o in >> Edit->Preference->Conversion->Converters->LaTeX -> LyX menu >> >> I guess the tex2lyx.cmd scipt is not needed any

Re: Toolbar in 1.3.6

2005-07-19 Thread Georg Baum
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: http://www.semverteilung.vwl.uni-muenchen.de/mitarbeiter/es/software/ToolbarES.htm > > However when I use it with 1.3.6 some f the icons are not recognised and > become ? and another is just totally different. > > I have attached the .ui file. Does any one know why this is

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

2005-07-19 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > Not tested with a real life tex file, seems that I need to turn Unix EOFs > into Win EOFs before tex2lyxing. That should not be needed. What happens if you don't do that? Georg

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

2005-07-19 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > Our messages crossed themselves and don't agree, as I made it work :-( > I've got to go, to be followed to-morrow... Maybe my memory was wrong, but I remember that I had problems with 1.3.x layout files. The fact that it worked for does not neccessaryly mean that it

Re: first impressions of 1.3.6

2005-07-20 Thread Georg Baum
Olivier Ripoll wrote: > In the past, one could use the nice slanted iint and iiint in LyX, or > add the wasy package to the preamble. Now, there is no more choice in > the ui. I think it qualifies as a regression. I agree. But the old behaviour could lead to LaTeX errors. In order to solve this w

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

2005-07-20 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > Going back to testing later, but I don't really understand the layout > issues: the layouts existing in 1.4 and not in 1.3 will allow tex2lyx to > convert more latex files, but they won't be usable with 1.3 as the layout > will be missing. Yes. But the syntax of the

Re: first impressions of 1.3.6

2005-07-20 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> writes: > > Angus> I think that the wasysym documentation > Angus> > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/wasysym/wasysym.pdf > Angus> explains what we need to do. Executive summary: Angus> > \u

Re: citations and references in multi document files

2005-07-20 Thread Georg Baum
Micha Feigin wrote: > I just split my thesis into multiple documents as it became impossible to > handle after the 80 page mark without folding (which AFAIK lyx doesn't > support). Do you know View->Navigate? > Anyway, this works find except for references and citations. references to > other pa

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

2005-07-21 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > Both the Win tex2lyx bundle and the Solaris tex2lyx bundle provide 241 > format, so that copying the binary is enough. But that will change ;-) > Ignoring options 'T1' of package fontenc. > LyX: Unknown TextClass tag `MaxCounter' [around line 15 of file c:\Program >

Re: 1.3.6 for Win

2005-07-22 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > Maybe the make_tex2lyx_dist.sh could reflect this by bundling in LyX-1.4 > instead of LyX ? Good idea. Are you volunteering to do so? Georg

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge

2005-07-25 Thread Georg Baum
Angus Leeming wrote: > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.4.tar.bz2 (LyX 1.3.4 source) > > lyx_1.3.4-2.diff.gz (from Debian) > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.5.bz2 > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.6.bz2 > > and then build a Debian LyX 1.3.6 package b

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge

2005-07-25 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 25. Juli 2005 19:55 schrieb samar j. singh: > It was a dream doing so and running src/lyx brought up lyx 1.3.6. After make > install, which appeared to run without errors, I got the following error > message when trying to run lyx from the command line. > > Xlib: connection to ":0

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge

2005-07-25 Thread Georg Baum
samar wrote: > Actually there is not much value in 1.3.5 for unix users so it may not be > worth the trouble. Both 1.3.5 and 1.3.6 fix a number of bugs, so it is certainly worth it to install them also for unix users. Normally that does go smooth ithout the trouble you are having. Georg

Re: Program to edit the Wiki

2005-07-27 Thread Georg Baum
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Cut from the file, paste into the wiki's editing widget. Or is there a way > to do this via script? What does emacs do? There was an interesting article "Medienpflege im Web Wiki-Inhalte mit externen Anwendungen bearbeiten" in c't 14/05 about external editors for med

Re: debug and command line stuff

2005-07-27 Thread Georg Baum
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > Hi > > On many occasions when people have had problems with a Lyx setup the gurus > have suggested running lyx from the command line using -dbg and then > certain strings. > > I have had a poke about on the wiki but I can't find a list of possible > commands. Is there any

Re: relative paths & beamer & temp directory: possible?

2005-07-28 Thread Georg Baum
Sven Schreiber wrote: > And I have a "goethe.pdf" file in the "grafiken" directory below the > location of the lyx-file. This works only if I *don't* activate the > "temporary directory" thing. (And the relative path thing works outside > ERT; this success is new on windows, right? Great stuff, th

Re: Paste external

2005-07-28 Thread Georg Baum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks to everyone for the help. Coverting linebreaks from Mac style to > UNIX style does the trick (though might it not be possible to program LyX > to do this step for us?). It is of course possible and should be done. Could you please file a bug report on http://bug

Re: relative paths & beamer & temp directory: possible?

2005-07-28 Thread Georg Baum
Sven Schreiber wrote: > Yes, the first lines are: > > \batchmode > \makeatletter > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/Svens/testlyxtemp//}} > \makeatother > > (Are the double slashes at the end ok?) I don't know. Does it work when you remove one slash by hand and run latex by hand? > No, as you can see above.

Re: [workaround] Re: relative paths & beamer & temp directory: possible?

2005-07-29 Thread Georg Baum
Sven Schreiber wrote: > So I replaced these two ERT lines: > > \pgfdeclareimage[width=1.4cm]{goethe}{grafiken/goethe} > \logo{\pgfuseimage{goethe}} > > with the following ERT one-liner: > > \logo{\includegraphics[width=1.4cm]{grafiken/goethe}} > > ...and that works for me. Fine. Then there i

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge

2005-07-29 Thread Georg Baum
Gerhard Lindel wrote: > Hello George, I used your instructions on > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Linux and it runs in a shell. There is only one > deb. in the parent-directory and one cannot install it: This is probbaly the result of the build error below. > I send as an attachment the last few line

Re: Convert XML to LYX

2005-07-29 Thread Georg Baum
Daniel wrote: >Hello, > > Apologies by my poor English. > > I have a xml file as following: > > And I would convert this file to a lyx file. The lyx file should be > something as following: The easiest method is probably to create a small python script. Use one of the python XML parser

Re: Safe to exchange Lyx documents between Mac and Linux/PC?

2005-07-29 Thread Georg Baum
Janus Sandsgaard wrote: > I am working on a LyX document on a Linux PC, but from time to time I need > to work on a laptop. It is safe to move my document between LyX on Mac OSX > (or WinXP) and Linux? Yes. Several people I know do this on a regular basis, and the file format is the same. > Does

Re: tex2lyx Mac undefined symbols

2005-07-31 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 30. Juli 2005 04:09 schrieb Saul Gelfand: > Hello, > > I downloaded tex2lyx_MacOSX_21Jul05.zip which expanded to a directory > LyX which I then moved to /Applications (there wasnt any installation > package or Makefile so I assumed this was all that was necessary with > this precomp

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge

2005-07-31 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 29. Juli 2005 09:27 schrieb Georg Baum: > Gerhard Lindel wrote: > > > Hello George, I used your instructions on > > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Linux and it runs in a shell. There is only one > > deb. in the parent-directory and one cannot install it: > >

Re: 1.3.6 Won't Build on Slackware-10.1

2005-08-01 Thread Georg Baum
Rich Shepard wrote: >I've not before had a problem building lyx. The config.log is attached > (gzipped). Make failed after 15.5 minutes when I did not specify the qt > directories; now that I've specified them, it fails in 8 seconds: >I found nothing pertinent searching the gmane archive.

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge, something went wrong

2005-08-01 Thread Georg Baum
Gilles Mioni wrote: > When fakerout was compiling, errors ocurred as : > > *libtool: link: `package.lo' is not a valid libtool object* That should be fixed by the latest version of http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/Linux/lyx_1.3.6-0.lyx.org.1.diff (uploaded yesterday). Did you use that? Georg

Re: Multiple Document windows and unnumbered sections

2005-08-01 Thread Georg Baum
Stacia Hartleben wrote: > More newbie questions from me that might be a little easier this time! > > 1. I have found that upon opening multiple documents, I can't seem to > get the previous documents back, although it does ask me if I'd like > to save them before quitting. Look in the Documents

Re: Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge, something went wrong again

2005-08-18 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 5. August 2005 14:33 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > > "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Angus> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> Note that we have sarge debs on ftp.lyx.org now (as well as > >> Ubuntu). > > Angus> I quite like the .deb way of calling stuff >

Re: how to insert a label of a figure?

2005-08-26 Thread Georg Baum
Leon Chen wrote: > Does anyone have the same problem or just me? in the user guide, there > is some inserted figure reference, which works well. but I just can > not insert it by myself. :( Please send a small example file that demonstrates the problem. Georg

Re: how to insert a label of a figure?

2005-08-26 Thread Georg Baum
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > It makes no difference what the caption begins with, so just go on using > cap: for figures. It does make a difference if you use prettyref. I just added this in bugzilla: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1999 Georg

Re: Wrong numbers of table

2005-08-28 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 26. August 2005 22:22 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > However, now that I am getting near the end and checking details out, I > noticed that I get the wrong table numbers when I export a pdf file. The > navigation menu gives me a correct output (table 1, 2, 3) BUT the list of > table is

Re: No classes

2005-08-28 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 27. August 2005 21:31 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: > I wouldn't worry about the LyX layout files, at least for the moment. > Going back to the output from the configure script (included in your > original post), the configure script was able to find your LaTeX > executable. It did not fin

Re: gzipped patch

2005-08-29 Thread Georg Baum
Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > From the "LyX 1.3.6 released"of the LyX page, I get the following > information: > > «Please find enclosed an announcement, some sources in tar.gz format > (also .tar.bz2 ) and finally a gzipped patch (in .bz2 too). In a few > days there should also be some bina

Re: Compiling LyX 1.3.6 with qt

2005-08-31 Thread Georg Baum
Luqman H wrote: > and i got this error, when doing make.. > -- > g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../src -I../../../src > -I../../../src/fronten ds -I../../../images -I./qt2 -I/usr/lib/qt//include > -I../../../boost -I../../../ src/frontends/controllers -isys

Re: Using Covington (problems with ERT - latex conversion!)

2005-09-02 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 2. September 2005 00:02 schrieb Stacia Hartleben: > I am using the package Covington to make numbered linguistic examples. > The following text displays fine through latex: > > \gll Dit is een Nederlands voorbeeld. > This is a Dutch example. > \glt `This is an example in Dutch.'

Re: language for amsmath

2005-09-05 Thread Georg Baum
Christian Fischer wrote: > hi everybody, > i'm using the windows port of lyx 1.3.5. i'm creating a document witch > the documentclass article{ams}, language is set to german. > the problem is, when i insert a theorem, a fact or something else, all > this is english in the created dvi but i want it

Re: Turabian Style?

2005-09-09 Thread Georg Baum
Mhac Janapin wrote: > However, our Department requires us to follow the Turabian Specifications > in writing our paper. So in wanting to use Lyx, I tried to search for a > style that follows the Turabian Specifications... and I don't think I > found one. > > So: > 1) Is there an existing style av

Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Georg Baum
Peter Flynn wrote: > All that's required is for the maintainer of the tetex RPMs to use > up-to-date versions from CTAN, and for the author of the embedded > install script in the LyX RPM to test for a working kpsewhich instead > of assuming it's in the location the RH tetex RPMs install it. It d

Re: Portability to Neo/Open/Star Office?

2005-09-16 Thread Georg Baum
Mike Meyer wrote: > I haven't been able to find anything to handle the "to" part. Can > someone provide me with pointers? In a pinch, they can read MSWord doc > files in Writer. Try tex4ht. It has a mode to output OpenOffice files. Georg

Re: Portability to Neo/Open/Star Office?

2005-09-16 Thread Georg Baum
Andre Berger wrote: > BTW, how would you represent > > htlatex yourdocument.tex "xhtml,ooffice" "ooffice/! -cmozhtf" "-coo" > ^^^ > > in a LyX preference file? Untested: \converter "latex" "sxw" "\"xhtml,ooffice\" \"ooffice/! -cmo

Re: Compiling LyX 1.3.6 with qt: SegFault

2005-09-22 Thread Georg Baum
Jim Osborn wrote: > In the process of upgrading from KDE 3.4.0 to 3.4.2, I'm trying to > upgrade from LyX 1.3.5 to 1.3.6. The compile fails with these messages: > > Making all in qt2 > make[5]: Entering directory > `.../konstruct/apps/office/lyx/work/lyx-1.3.6/src/frontends/qt2' Making > all in u

Re: How to avoid "\url already defined"?

2005-09-27 Thread Georg Baum
Bo Peng wrote: > Dear list, > > I have been annoyed by two problems recently, both related to > lyx-added latex code conflicting with customized document classes. > For example, I am using manual.cls from python to produce a manual. > However, manual.cls defines \url so it will conflict with th

Re: Slow Display on 1.4cvs

2005-09-28 Thread Georg Baum
Daniel Watkins wrote: > I'm using 1.4cvs (downloaded and compiled a few hours ago) with the Qt > front-end. ATM, I'm noticing that LyX is barely keeping up with my > typing, which is something I hadn't noticed on 1.3.6. Is this just my > imagination, my computer, or are other people experiencing t

Re: \line and justification

2005-09-28 Thread Georg Baum
Christopher M. Jones wrote: > Hi, all. This is a reiteration of my previous question. Someone > responded off-list that I should try \newline. Problem with this is that > what I really want is -inline- 'blanks' that don't break justification. > If I'm asking this question in the wrong place, then

Re: Trouble with ispell

2005-09-28 Thread Georg Baum
Luis Angel Fernández Cuadrado wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using SuSE 9.3 on an AMD64 machine. Normally, I compile LyX from > source but last time I was a bit lazy and downloded and installed the > 1.3.6 binary in the LyX ftp site (bin) compiled for SuSE 9.2. Maybe this is the problem. IIRC the rpm is c

Re: \line and justification

2005-09-29 Thread Georg Baum
Christopher M. Jones wrote: > No, I am using \line because I want an horizontal line in the place of > missing words. It's what a Word user would repeatedly hit the _ to do. > \hspace just leaves an empty space, but has the same problem. Here's a > sample output so you can see the ugliness that I

Re: \line and justification

2005-09-29 Thread Georg Baum
Christopher M. Jones wrote: > justified environment. What would really be great is if I had a command > to replace typed text with a line of the same length. e.g. > \hspace{\sizeof{theword}}. This command, of course, does not work. But > could there be something like it? Maybe (untested) \underl

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-07 Thread Georg Baum
Bo Peng wrote: > I get his first complain against lyx today: "The lyx file is corrupted > after I edit your formula, I hope that you can open this file...". The > real problem, as I later found out, is that he accidentally inserted a > math symbol \times in a \textrm box, a problem I had asked for

Re: An interesting little problem.

2005-10-07 Thread Georg Baum
Bo Peng wrote: > Dear list, > > To track the changes of a lyx file, I insert $Rev$ in the text. After > first 'svn ci', $Rev$ is replaced by $Rev: 40 $. However, when I open > and save this file, $Rev: 40 $ is replaced by $Rev:40$ (blank spaces > are removed) which can no longer be recognized by

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-07 Thread Georg Baum
Bo Peng wrote: > Along the same line, is there any way to prevent a user from using a > environment in the wrong context? For example, inserting a marginal > note in a float figure is not allowed in latex, but can be done in > lyx. Maybe we can disable certain environment/menu items dynamically. >

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-07 Thread Georg Baum
Bo Peng wrote: > I was no talking about format tweaking, rather, I was complaining > about installation, configuration and erroneous error messages when > entering a small formula. These are things that drive potential lyx > users away, who I assume are trying lyx/latex exactly because they do > n

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-08 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2005 20:10 schrieb Bo Peng: > > The last time I installed LyX on winxp with a student the total installation > > time was about 20 minutes. > > Python, perl, mingw, imagemagik, tetek, lyx (and maybe ghostscript, > ghostview) in 20 min? I can not believe it. Sorry, I was a

Re: Building 1.4pre2 in Ubuntu Hoary

2005-10-10 Thread Georg Baum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got these qt-related packages installed (I searched for 'qt'): > > libqt3c102-mt 3.3.3.4-3 > libqt3-headers3.3.3.4-3 > qt3-dev-tools 3.3.3.4-3 In addition you need at least libqt3-mt-dev, and probably also libqt3-compat-headers (assuming that the ubuntu pa

Re: Converting from EPS to JPG

2005-10-10 Thread Georg Baum
Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks to all who have answered. The picture that I have got is a PS > file and corresponds to a small rectangular part of an entire part. > How can I throw away the whole superfluous white space around the > picture? I have tried GSview to convert the PS file to EPS with > au

Re: FW: space between single and right double quote marks

2005-10-12 Thread Georg Baum
Daniel Watkins wrote: > The word was 'foo'\InsetSpace \thinspace{} This is 1.4. There is no small space in 1.3, you have to use ERT. Georg

Re: Presentations using LyX

2005-10-13 Thread Georg Baum
Gour wrote: > Another option would be to use e.g. inkscape (which provides LaTeX with > PSTricks macros output format) & to have pgf backe-end so that inkscape > can integrate LaTeX fonts and macros ready for pgf & inclusion in > beamer presentation? > > What is the status of SVG support in LyX/L

Re: 1.4.0pre2/mac crashes

2005-10-15 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 15. Oktober 2005 20:51 schrieb Andre Berger: > Whenever I start 1.4.0pre2/mac on Mac OS X 10.4.2 and hit n>, the app crashes. It won't crash when I use the mouse and select > File>New. This known: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2086 Georg

Re: More about foreign languages - No!

2005-10-16 Thread Georg Baum
Am Sonntag, 16. Oktober 2005 17:09 schrieb Daniel Watkins: > What you in fact need to do is ensure that any of the items that are in > the wrong language. Select everything that needs to be in Portueguese > and go to Edit > Text Style. Choose the correct language from the > Language drop box. Tha

Re: copy and paste between lyx documents does not work

2005-10-17 Thread Georg Baum
Gunnar wrote: > I'm using Linux and if I open two LyX documents, I can't copy and paste > between the two windows. I guess you mean two LyX instances? In this case it is indeed not possible. If you open both documents in the same LyX instance, you can copy everything with C-c and C-v. > I can se

Re: copy and paste between lyx documents does not work - why not?

2005-10-17 Thread Georg Baum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I'm using Linux and if I open two LyX documents, I >> can't copy and paste >> between the two windows. > > Oh, you can! It's true! :) > >> I can select text in other windows and paste it by a >> mouseclick in a LyX >> window. >> Why can't I copy/paste

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-18 Thread Georg Baum
Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) wrote: > I try to use lyx from the command line. > > In lyx 1.4pre2 preview pdflatex goes fine. > > On the commandline I get: > > $ lyx --export latex myfile.lyx > ... lot of messages but OK > $ pdflatex myfile.tex > ... goes fine except for an gif image. I can

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-18 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2005 16:09 schrieb Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.): > Georg/Angus, > > From within the GUI things work fine. It is just the conversion on the > commandline that does not do the part where the gif file is converted to > some format pdflatex understands. Convert is present on my sy

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-18 Thread Georg Baum
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > Yes it should but you must note that Export->Pdflatex is different to > Export->latex followed by running pdflatex on the file. > > In the second case the only Export that Lyx is performing is Lyx->tex. > This will not convert any graphics file formats. This is true for 1

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-19 Thread Georg Baum
Am Mittwoch, 19. Oktober 2005 20:51 schrieb Paul Smith: > I agree, Paul. The reply address should be occupied by the list's address. I don't agree. Read http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html, and then get a decent email program (or news client, if you read the list via gmane). For exa

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-22 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 22. Oktober 2005 00:12 schrieb Rich Shepard: >No. At least, not for me. I use .eps graphics in book, article, report, and > beamer classes with no problems compiling with pdflatex. AFAIK eps can not be handled by pdflatex directly, but LyX converts included eps files to something

Re: Preamble code from the layout file gets "double linespacing"

2005-10-24 Thread Georg Baum
Helge Hafting wrote: > I just tried recompiling todays cvs. Running this lyx gave strange > results. Any latex code from the preamble gets double linespacing, > like this: > > \newcommand{\mycommand}{ > > \something > > \something > > } > > > > which go wrong, as paragraph breaks are not

Re: Where can I see what lyx is doing in the background when generating a preview?

2005-10-30 Thread Georg Baum
Am Sonntag, 30. Oktober 2005 00:05 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: > Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) wrote: > > I already found out things work again when I remove the image from the child document OR when I adjust the page margins in the preamble instead of with the menu options. Very strange. > > I am runn

Re: importing material into figures

2005-11-08 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 8. November 2005 18:32 schrieb hagit lev: > Hi > I have lots of material - such as Surfer maps, Origin graphs etc. and I > wondered if I can import them directly to Lyx or need to export them > first to jpeg and only then import ? You can import any figure material directly if you h

Re: Suggestion

2005-11-08 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 8. November 2005 17:47 schrieb Roy Schestowitz: > I noticed that too, but never complained. I re-adjusted my mind and got > accustomed *over time*. This behaviour is attributed to the LaTeX/LyX for- > mat underneath, yet a few tweaks could probably correct this. Selections > d

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 8. November 2005 22:18 schrieb John Coppens: > Anyway, I see there is some interest (mine included) for a native GTK+ > version, so I'll try and compile one (I suspect it compiles at least?). Yes, it does, and it is also somewhat useful, since it borrows xforms dialogs. > Who is th

Re: Write debug info to file

2005-11-08 Thread Georg Baum
Abel Fernández Fernández wrote: > Is there any way of write debug info in a text file? > I do this --> lyx -dbg latex > for show debug info, but this write into console. You can redirect the standard error output to a file on unix systems: lyx -dbg latex 2>err.log On windows it looks maybe diff

Re: Write debug info to file

2005-11-09 Thread Georg Baum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Georg Baum wrote: > >> lyx -dbg latex 2>err.log > > I'm guessing this assumes bash or sh as the shell? Yes. Georg

Re: Multline subscript / AMS in LyX

2005-11-12 Thread Georg Baum
Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > Well, OK, thanks anyway, but this is Lamport-style, standard LaTeX. One > of the aims of the AMS package, though, is to provide resources that > render mathematical display that is aesthetically more appealing than > standard LaTeX... And it offers a lot of useful tools. >

Re: Multline subscript / AMS in LyX

2005-11-13 Thread Georg Baum
Am Sonntag, 13. November 2005 17:14 schrieb Rudi Gaelzer: > Do you know if the package empheq: > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mh/doc/empheq.pdf > is also implemented in LyX? Among other stuff it creates a box around a > system of equations. No, it is not, but it should b

Re: about the window just above the status bar

2005-11-15 Thread Georg Baum
Nusret BALCI wrote: > Risking to sound silly, what's the window on the > bottom part of main lyx window, just above the status > bar for? It looks like kind of command line, but I'm > not sure: it certainly doesn't understand LaTeX > commands :), so it should have some other > functionality. Proba

Re: How to create a new page in Lyx?

2005-11-17 Thread Georg Baum
John C. McCabe-Dansted wrote: > Hmmm, it would make more sense to put Pagebreaks under > Insert\Special_Character together with linebreaks would it not? Right. In LyX 1.4 you will see Insert->Special Formatting->Page Break (and Line Break and a few more). Georg

Re: LyX and Mathematica

2005-11-18 Thread Georg Baum
Andrzej Tomaszewski wrote: > Hi All! > > I am asking a question on the list because I could not find anywhere any > information about integrating LyX and Mathematica. > > I am using W2K OS, LyX 1.3.6-1 and Mathematica 4.1. What exactly have I to > do in order to be able to use (math-extern mathe

RE: LyX and Mathematica

2005-11-18 Thread Georg Baum
Andrzej Tomaszewski wrote: > Does it mean LyX menu entry does nothing at all, or that it's > functionality is (very) limited? AFAIK it does nothing at all. > If the first is true, what about Maxima support? That should work. > In the "configure" script > I have found only the entries for Octa

Re: tex2lyx problems

2005-11-18 Thread Georg Baum
Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote: > Now the script lyx2lyx works with no error messages, so I have a new lyx > file supposedly for the 1.3.5 version format. > > When I open this file with lyx 1.3.5, there are no errors during the > import process, but when I compile to pdf, there is a lot of er

Re: tex2lyx problems

2005-11-18 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 17:27 schrieben Sie: > Here it goes the original tex file. Don't you worry is not confidential at > all, just for educational purposes. > > And if you solve the problem, please tell me or tell the forum so all of us > can learn from these bugs. It was very easy: You

Re: tex2lyx problems

2005-11-18 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 19:03 schrieb Jose' Matos: > This could/should go in the wiki I have seen this kind of stuff so many > times, the problem is that this varies from person. Yes. Any takers? I have no time at the moment. Georg

Re: latex import problem

2005-11-21 Thread Georg Baum
Sanda Pavel wrote: >> Did you try tex2lyx? It may give you better results. >> See http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx for available > > that produces lyx, which cant be corectly displayed by the older > version then lyx 1.4 (which is not yet :) > compiling devel release is not easy for my config

Re: full list of supported tex/latex/AMS latex commands?

2005-11-21 Thread Georg Baum
Nusret BALCI wrote: > Hi, > Is there a full chart of *all* officially supported > (in the sense that LyX can handle and render them > without resorting to ERTs) commands available > somewhere? (or all not available, especially for all > official latex packages by Latex2 team and for AMS > packages

Re: Convert png to eps automatically

2005-11-21 Thread Georg Baum
Gunnar wrote: > Hi. > I'm trying to setup a perfect LyX environment in MS windows for users that > is not very used to LyX/LaTeX. > The problem I have right now is that they make drawings in MS paint. > The question: is there any way to make LyX convert png/gif pictures to eps > automatically? The

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Georg Baum
> [André] > > Just one more question about the background image. Here, and in the doc > you > sent, too, the picture looks like a badly compressed jpeg, although we > feed a > nice clean eps. I found no information about this, neither in the > graphicx nor > in the eso-pic documentation. Do you

Re: lyx on Debian testing

2005-11-28 Thread Georg Baum
Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > Has anybody found a way to get lyx working on a Debian testing system? It > seems there is a bug that prevents one from just apt-getting it. See > http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lyx.html > > and > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=src&data=lyx&archive

Re: orientation of .eps figures

2005-11-28 Thread Georg Baum
Richard Sherman wrote: > Thanks Uwe. > > I'm using Tetex 2.0.2-34 on Mac OS X 10.4.3. > > Here's a Lyx file and the .eps file that belongs in it. I tested it, and the result is: dvipdfm fine pdflatexrotated ps2pdf fine This is the same in tetex 2.02 and tetex 3.0 on l

Re: orientation of .eps figures

2005-11-28 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 28. November 2005 19:57 schrieb Herbert Voss: > Georg Baum wrote: > > I tested it, and the result is: > > > > dvipdfm fine > > pdflatexrotated > > and how did you get a pdf file of the eps image ... ;-) > pdflatex does nothing with t

Re: lyx 1.3.6 - g-brief.layout missing ?

2005-11-28 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 28. November 2005 20:02 schrieb Stefan Brunner: > i have a latex file that uses the g-brief template so when trying to > run relyx in the command line i get > > -- snip -- > (offer_de.tex: Splitting Preamble > Creating LyX preamble > Cannot find layout file g-brief.layout in dir(s) /

Re: shared document format for multiple files

2005-11-30 Thread Georg Baum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > so i decided to break up my doc using inclusions. > but now they each have their own document format, if i change the option > in the main file the included files wont know about them and vice-versa... > > is it possible to share document format among files? Unfortunat

Re: c++2tex

2005-12-04 Thread Georg Baum
Am Sonntag, 4. Dezember 2005 17:54 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: > Use the LaTeX-package "listings". I attached an example LyX-file. > Perhaps LyX should support the listings-package in one of the next releases. Yes, it should. See http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508 Georg

Re: [Mac OS X] Problems with pdfTeX, DVI and images (EPS, PDF, PNG, whatever)

2005-12-05 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2005 14:40 schrieb Jean-Francois Roy: > Indeed, I cannot seem to include any graphics (images) in my > documents. Or rather, documents that are typeset perfectly fine on > Linux won't hear a thing on my computer. However, this only occurs > when I use the pdflatex, DVI

Re: c++2tex

2005-12-07 Thread Georg Baum
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > We (I) wanted listings support then, and do now (but not for 1.4.0 > mind you!) > > I know that Christian tried to pick up your old patch, but was never > successful with that. Any help to get this in would surely be > appreciated. Last year I had a look at the patch

Re: pictures and collaboration

2005-12-08 Thread Georg Baum
Gunnar wrote: > Hi. > If one would like to send a LyX file that contains many pictures to > another person, one has to send all files to that person. When we are > talking about users with moderate experience of compressed files/creating > archives etc. I can only see problem ahead, unfortunatly.

Re: missing documentation ...?

2005-12-12 Thread Georg Baum
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > that is too bad. i really should say that latex ought to be the best > application to calculate the height of the caption - so i can fit the > image-float on a page without overshooting anything. > > perhaps one could do a hack with some ERT? Probably. I'd suggest to as

Re: How to verify links on wiki.lyx? (Was: ...)

2005-12-15 Thread Georg Baum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Angus Leeming wrote: >> http://validator.w3.org/checklink/ > > Hmm... I have to disable 'robots.txt', and it seems awfully slow. Thanks > anyway, I'll keep it in mind while looking at other options. You can make exceptions in robots.txt for exactly

Re: How to verify links on wiki.lyx? (Was: ...)

2005-12-15 Thread Georg Baum
Todd Denniston wrote: > Did you notice the install it locally link? > http://validator.w3.org/docs/checklink.html#install > IIF you have all the prereqs installed you could mod the checker to take > out the 1 second wait it has and run that instead of the one they have > online. But you should on

Re: placing images eps/tiff

2005-12-20 Thread Georg Baum
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > I did a couple tests. For some reason I don't have tiff2ps installed, so > I am using ImageMagick's "convert" instead. (In preferences for : > "convert $$i PS:$$o") > > The DVI output looks fine, but if I view the resulting PDF file at 400% > magnification I see subtle com

Re: [prerelease] LyX 1.4.0pre3

2005-12-28 Thread Georg Baum
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 18:39, Anders Ekberg wrote: > The problem comes with LyX configure, where I get "** qt library not > found !". (Naturally subsequent compilation of LyX fails.) > Going through the log-file I see that QTDIR seems to be pointing > towards where I have the QT-code (QTDIR='/

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