Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-10 Thread John Kane
I have just tried to install LyX 1.3.6 under Windows XP. I like what I have seen but I have a problem. As the heading says: I cannot produce any output because LyX has marked all the layouts apparently as not existing. I have installed ImageMagick-6.2.5-4-Q16-windows-dll Ghostscript gs853w32 Act

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-10 Thread John Kane
--- Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:43 AM > Subject: Installation Problem. All entries in > Textclass.lst are "fals

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-10 Thread John Kane
--- Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:43 AM > Subject: Installation Problem. All entries in > Textclass.lst are "fals

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-11 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > Hang on. The ~2.8 MB file in Stephen's directory > listing is probably > the installer, which you don't need once > installation is done (and which > wouldn't necessarily

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-11 Thread John Kane
--- Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 2:05 PM > Subject: Re: Installation Problem. All entries in > Textclass.lst >

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-11 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > The file is there, all 43K of it, but “sh configure” > > simply gives me an error message > > 'sh' is not recognized as an internal or external > > command, operable progra

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-11 Thread John Kane
--- Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Users LyX" > > Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 8:57 AM > Subject: R

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-11 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > Path=C:\Perl\bin\;c:program files\imanemagick-6.2.5_q16;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;c:\WINDOWS\system32;C:WINDOWS;C;\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:Program > > Files\Common Files\MDL Shared\ISIS > > I'

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-11 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > >> I think you said that the MinSYS bin directory > >>(c:\msys\1.0\bin?) was on the LyX internal path > > > > No it was not. I've added it. Still getting the error >

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-12 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > > Obviously, as a student you, did not have the card > > reader shred your computer deck ½ hours before the > > assignment was due and all you needed was a clean > > printout.

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-15 Thread John Kane
the help so far. I certainly have learned a lot (most of it useful :) and recalled a bunch of DOS commands I would happily had remain forgotten. John Kane, Kingston ON Canada - Find your next car at Yahoo! Canada Autos

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-15 Thread John Kane
No syntax for the current directory could be found [EMAIL PROTECTED] set to: . Assuming \openin and \input have the same search path. --And much more dreck- John Kane wrote: > Updates on the continuing (non) installation

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-16 Thread John Kane
file "latex.efmt" could not be found." And as far as I can tell latex.efmt is not on my hard drive BTW I have not been able to find a Lyx file in the Applications Data file under User after I have installed, created and saved  a file in Lyx. ARRGH! John Kane, Kingston ON  Canada Find your next car at Yahoo! Canada Autos

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Installing lettrine.sty - corrupt remote site/

2007-06-12 Thread John Kane
Something tells me that this http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/corrupt.lettine.jpg is not a good sign. Is my computer the remote site? Using 1.4.3-5 on Windows XP Get news delivered with the All new Yahoo! Mail. Enjoy RSS feeds right on your Mail page. Start today at http://mrd.mail

Re: Installing lettrine.sty - corrupt remote site/

2007-06-12 Thread John Kane
Whewww, thanks --- Julio Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nope, the remote site is the selected repository. > > On 6/12/07, John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Something tells me that this > > > http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/Ly

Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.

2007-06-14 Thread John Kane
Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader called PDF-Viewer http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download (Windows only I believe) I gave it a try and it is very nice, far superior to Acrobat reader. However with both installed and PDF-Viewer as default I find that LyX does not create a pdf

Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.

2007-06-14 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader > > called PDF-Viewer > > http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download > (Windows > > only I believe) > > > > I gave i

Re: Bibtex/Citations: number of authors

2007-07-13 Thread John Kane
--- Maria Gouskova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No. You would need to modify your .bst file, > whichever one you are > > using, to do this. This is not for the faint of > heart. But look at the > > btxhak.dvi BibTeX documentation if you really want > to do it. > > For the faint of heart, custo

Re: LyX vs. Scribus

2007-07-20 Thread John Kane
I have only had a quick look at it but it is a desktop publishing program like the old pagemaker. As far as I could see it was designed to take existing text and images and produce a nice output. It seems to handle linked frames, call-outs etc well. LyX and Scribus are almost completely differ

apa styles and the dreaded (?.?)

2007-08-04 Thread John Kane
I cannot seem to get article(apa) to produce proper citations. I have tried what seems to be any possible combination of Bibliography > Citation Style, and BibTeX Style available and either I generate the infamous (?.?) or, else, some kind of error message. I have also tried adding \usepackage{ap

Re: apa styles and the dreaded (?.?)

2007-08-09 Thread John Kane
Anybody? --- John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot seem to get article(apa) to produce proper > citations. I have tried what seems to be any > possible > combination of Bibliography > Citation Style, and > BibTeX Style available and either I generate the > in

Re: apa styles and the dreaded (?.?)

2007-08-10 Thread John Kane
phy menu. > > The references show fine with this set. > > Mateo. > > > On Saturday 04 August 2007 22:04, John Kane wrote: > > I cannot seem to get article(apa) to produce > proper > > citations. I have tried what seems to be any > possible > > c

Re: apa styles and the dreaded (?.?)

2007-08-10 Thread John Kane
Thanks Richard. It looks like Mateo had the simple answer. I thought I had used that option before. Come to think of it I just did a complete registry clean etc. I may have cured something while doing that. Love Windows. :) --- Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John K

Re: apa styles and the dreaded (?.?)

2007-08-10 Thread John Kane
atbib" option with style > "Author, year" selected in the > Document|Setting|Bibliography menu. > > The references show fine with this set. > > Mateo. > > > On Saturday 04 August 2007 22:04, John Kane wrote: > > I cannot seem to get article(apa) t

Re: [announce] completely revised LyX UserGuide - request for testing

2007-08-15 Thread John Kane
It seems okay now 09:08 Eastern Daylight Saving Time --- Typhoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:30:54 +0200 > Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > You can download the new UserGuide version and a > PDF-version here: > > > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDev

Re: Endnote to Jabref to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread John Kane
A very nice start is Paul Johnson's article http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/BibTeX/biblioexample.pdf It does not touch on MLA specifically though. --- Jannika Bock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the prompt and helpful replies! > > I managed to transfer my endnote database to Jabref. > Now

Re: Help with specific class

2007-08-18 Thread John Kane
Leandro, I don't know about the overall layout but I have just started playing with LyX and as far as I can see one of the bibtex apa classes will handle the citation and referencing with no problem. I think your wife would want apacite but this may depend on which document class you use. ---

Using \include in ERT : How do I specify a path?

2007-08-23 Thread John Kane
I have a table in plain LaTex that I would like to inclulde in a LyX document. Using ERT \include{filename} works fine when I have the file in the same folder. I don't seem to see how to specify something like C:\food\table1.tex in either LaTeX or LyX. It must be obvious but I just don't see

Re: Using \include in ERT : How do I specify a path?

2007-08-24 Thread John Kane
--- Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane schrieb: > > > I have a table in plain LaTex that I would like to > > inclulde in a LyX document. > > Using ERT > > \include{filename} > > > > works fine when I have the file in the sam

Re: Exporting

2007-08-27 Thread John Kane
--- Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lars Olesen wrote: > > I have written my thesis in Lyx on Windows, and I > have no problem > > exporting to pdf. However, I have trouble > converting to other stuffÆ > > > > + when I want to export to plain text, it does not > include the bibliography

Re: Exporting

2007-08-27 Thread John Kane
--- Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > --- Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Lars Olesen wrote: > >> > >>> I have written my thesis in Lyx on Windows, and > I > >>

Re: Exporting

2007-08-27 Thread John Kane
Ah so there it is. Thanks However I don't seem much further ahead. When I select the Export > Open Document command I end up with nothing\ that resembles a OpenOffice.org (odt) file which I what I was expecting. The closest I seem to come to that is a file entitled : estimates.4od with 2 byt

Re: Exporting

2007-08-27 Thread John Kane
ECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > I don't understand your last comment. Are you > > suggeting that I should use ooolatex at a command > > prompt? > > > Yes. And see if that works. If not, then the problem > is with oolatex. If > so, then the prob

Re: Exporting

2007-08-27 Thread John Kane
gt; On 8/27/07, John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ah so there it is. Thanks > > > > However I don't seem much further ahead. When I > > select the Export > Open Document command I end > up > > with nothing\ that resembles a OpenOffice.org > (o

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

2007-08-29 Thread John Kane
Err, download from where? I think any good book on self-publishing would be useful for the LyX community and is likely to extend its use. Also I can easily see transfering from Word or OpenOffice to LyX for final publishing even if most or all of the writing has been done in a wp. I am tendi

Re: Exporting

2007-08-30 Thread John Kane
I have no idea of what version of tex4th is on the machine. Any suggestions on how to check this? I am assuming that the tex4ht was installed when I installed MiKTex 2.5 which I think was about 6 months ago. This is the first LaTeX & LyX installation on the machine that I am aware of (corporate ma

Re: date-insert again

2007-08-30 Thread John Kane
--- Pavel Sanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > date-insert command still exists in LyX 1.5.1 and > is listed in > > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctions > > it doesn't work for me. Is it my problem (I have a > ~amd64 Gentoo install) or is > > more general ? let me know... > > works on ~x86 gento

Re: Exporting

2007-08-30 Thread John Kane
Thank you Paul. I have tried your suggestion and it looks like there may be a font problem although I'm not good enough at reading the terminal output to be sure. I have posted the output at http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/lyx.ooo.pdf . I am not getting any error messages but two warnings

Re: Exporting

2007-09-01 Thread John Kane
text > that is compressed > with zip. So install zip, and try again! > > pj > > On 8/30/07, John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you Paul. > > I have tried your suggestion and it looks like > there > > may be a font problem although I&#x

Re: MS Word to LyX?

2007-09-04 Thread John Kane
Word-to-LaTex will give you a LaTeX file that you might then able to import to LyX http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-to-latex/index.html . I suspect the results will be VERY ugly. Actually OOo is usually fine. It's Word's practice of mangling styles that seems to mess it up. :) --- Steve Litt

Re: APA layout

2007-09-05 Thread John Kane
I gave APA a quick run and it does not seem be handling titles correctly. In particular the subsection* is definately messing up. The APA.CLS author's example seems to run perfectly in LaTeX. --- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roberto Gorjão wrote: > > > > I'm using apa.layout

Re: FW: Re: Pagination + long and float table?

2007-10-13 Thread John Kane
Under help. It is one of the included manuals --- Mia Pöhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > > > Von: Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Gesendet: 13.10.07 15:24:19 > > > An: Mia Pöhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > > > Betref

Re: For Lyx users, a problem in sharing a Lyx file

2007-10-14 Thread John Kane
I have run into this before and later discovered that what was happening was that my version was out of date not the one the other person was using. I would suggest checking with the other author : He or she may be using a more modern version of LyX. If so you may need to upgrade. --- "Frederi

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.3 released (for Intel, PPC, Universal)

2007-12-19 Thread John Kane
Thank you. Just upgraded about 15 minutes ago. --- Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Binaries for LyX/Mac 1.5.3 have now been posted in > all three flavors: > Intel, PPC, and Universal. All users of 1.5 are > encouraged to upgrade > to this new version. They can be found here: > >

Re: [OT] using open office

2008-01-07 Thread John Kane
--- Donn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Every now and then I get an inclination to try the > more widely used tools, > > such as OO (open office). I am always stumped > right at the start. Where > > is the template for something like a lyx or latex > article format? > Open the Lyx file in Lyx a

Re: Languages British vs English

2008-03-10 Thread John Kane
I'd agree with English (US) since it is not the normal spelling that is used in Canada. Of course we don't use the UK spelling either. :) --- David Romano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would concur and weigh in in favor "English (US)" > since British English > is more likely the official languag

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread John Kane
--- John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ever wonder why legal pads are yellow(ish)? Sulpher stains? Okay, I'm leaving. __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-13 Thread John Kane
--- Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Bruce Pourciau > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Elbow problems have begun to make it hard for me > to type a long manuscript > > into LyX. I was thinking that we could install LyX > (but not LaTeX) on my > > secretary's m

Side by site footnotes?

2006-10-26 Thread John Kane
Hi, I am not a regular LyX list user. I still cannot get LyX to install properly :( However I do recommend it at time to other people. Over on an OpenOffice.org form we have received a question about placing footnotes in a horizontal line. Example at http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.p

Re: Side by site footnotes?

2006-10-26 Thread John Kane
--- Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:21:08 -0400 (EDT) > >>From: John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Subject: Side by site footnotes? > >>To: Users LyX > >> > >>Hi, > >

It works!!!!!!!!! I finally got LyX to install

2006-10-26 Thread John Kane
I have been trying, on-and-off, for months to see if LyX would install with no luck. However today I asked a questions about side-by-side footnotes for another person (thanks for the fast answer Jean Pierre) and realised that I had not tried 1.4.3. I downloaded the Windows .exe package and it

Problem with APA and tables

2006-10-30 Thread John Kane
I am a new user and just playing around with LyX to date. I have installed LyX 1.4.3-4 with all the settings at default. I seem to have a problem with the document class APA. When I create a table I am getting an extra column/row partly defined. I created a 4X4 table and I am getting some ex

Re: visio drawings

2006-12-16 Thread John Kane
--- Valter Filipe Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > i already try to download it, but the link is dead > :8 > Regards > Give it another try. It may have been a tempory glitch. I just downloaded it with no problem. > > Nicolás wrote: > > OTEditor is your friend! > > > > Take a look

Re: volume of rotation drawing

2006-12-21 Thread John Kane
--- Gunnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > Not really lyx related but someone might perhaps > know how to produce nice eps > drawings of a volume of rotation. You know the kind > of picture you usually > find in your calculus textbook where the graph of > f(x) rotates around the > x-axis.

Re: Bibliography Style with In: for chapters in books

2006-12-21 Thread John Kane
--- Rainer M Krug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > An urgent last minute question: > > I am looking for a bibliography style which has > author-year citations in > text and the bibliography is sorted by surname, > initials and book > chapters are referenced as: Chaptername. In:book > infor

Re: Newbie windows install problem "class scrbook is unknown"

2007-01-19 Thread John Kane
--- "Andreas K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yanni papastavrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > “Using the default document class, because the > class scrbook > > is unknown” > > > Hi, > > 1. Open the MiKTeX Settings > 2. Choose Package installation: Install missing > packages on-the-f

Journal in article(APA)

2007-01-19 Thread John Kane
I am using the article(APA) doc class Options jou ,(MiKTeX WinXP) LyX 2.4.1 The class has a heading called journal that gives an error but works when I use \journal{Journal Name} in the LaTeX preamble (which the LyX error message told me to). Has anyone encountered this? ___

Kill off a heading like a date etc.

2007-01-19 Thread John Kane
I am just learning to use LyX. There are a couple for useful doc classes but they tend to insert a date or something similar when I don't need it. article(APA) is an example. I would like to use it but kill off the Author and Date. I know I have seen something like this mentioned in the list b

Re: Newbie windows install problem "class scrbook is unknown"

2007-01-21 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > > > > Just what I wanted to know since I am getting a > > warning message for hyperref when loading the LyX > > User's Guide but how do I find the MiKTeX settings >

Fwd: Re: Newbie windows install problem "class scrbook is unknown"

2007-01-22 Thread John Kane
--- John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:41:57 -0500 (EST) > From: John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Newbie windows install problem "class > scrbook is unknown" > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- "Paul A.

Fwd: Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX

2007-01-23 Thread John Kane
--- John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:34:36 -0500 (EST) > From: John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- Gunnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Unfor

Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX

2007-01-25 Thread John Kane
--- killermike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was considering switching to OpenOffice because > of the excessive effort in > > creating/modifying styles in LyX. > > > > So as an experiment, I began making a derivative, > in OpenOffice, of a book I > > origi

Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX

2007-01-26 Thread John Kane
to a standard format. It was faster to have them reentered than try to figure out what all the spaces were doing (tabs were too sophisticated). At least the CV's were not in Excel which I have seen. > > On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:37 am, John Kane > wrote: > > Beats me but th

LyX 1.3.4-4 does not load, LyX 1.5 svn loads nicely

2007-02-02 Thread John Kane
I just moved to a new (for me) computer ( 1G ram, hurray. My old one with 512K had died and I was using a clunker with 256k. Still WindowsXP but ... I had to install a lot of my personal software including LyX. I tried to install LyX 1.3.4 and first got a message that it was timing out trying

Re: cannot reqd an old lyx file

2007-02-03 Thread John Kane
--- Mouras Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > I composed several days ago a lyx file butt am not > able to read it on a > new computer running windiws vista and the new lyx > for windows. I have > attached the file. Could someone help me ? > Thnak you very much in advance, > Harold

Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-07 Thread John Kane
Having accidentally spammed 3,000 or so R-help list readers with this message I thought I might try again,hopefully in the right list this time. I just changed machines and, at first, could not get LyX 1.4.3-4 to even load. I tried 1.5 which loaded nicely but would not give me PDF output. Remove

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread John Kane
--- Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm writing a short book called "Troubleshooting: > Just the Facts". The > intention is to make it an Ebook that can be printed > and staple bound by the > customer, if so desired. I use skip rather than > indentation to separate > parag

Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-10 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > Having accidentally spammed 3,000 or so R-help > list > > readers with this message I thought I might try > > again,hopefully in the right list this time. > > Might not be spam

Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-11 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > --- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> John Kane wrote: > > >>> Could this just be a Foxit problem? > > >> Possible but

Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-11 Thread John Kane
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > >>> > >> If you have acroread32 set as the viewer for PDF > (pdflatex), that would > >> explain why View->PDF (pdflatex) now calls > Acrobat Reader. Otherwise,

MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-12 Thread John Kane
What is the current approach to importing Word documents to LyX? I don't want to do anything fancy. I have some very poorly formatted Word docs (working docs not for publication) and I have found that simply cutting and pasting the text into LyX and doing a bit of formatting can save me a lot of f

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Kane wrote: > > My problem is that I am getting a ? for " (curly > > quotes) > LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, > so

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Kane wrote: > >> Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I > didn't > >> produce the document but a search and replace is > easy > >

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane schrieb: > > > > > No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I > > normally use OOo as a WP, with "smart quotes" off, > but > > I get some very badly formatted Word documents

Re: Lyx article on OSNews

2007-02-27 Thread John Kane
--- killermike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17373/Lyx-the-Multi-Platform-Document-Editor/ > > I wrote a quick overview of Lyx for tech news site > OSNews. I enjoyed the article and have bookmarked it for passing on to others. I was particularly struck by the

Bibtex question on URL references

2007-03-03 Thread John Kane
I have been trying to use JabRef to handle references. My first experiments have been fairly successful but I am wondering how people handle a URL reference. For example I have a reference to a website ( see http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/burdett2004.pdf ) and I don't see quite how to se

Re: Bibtex question on URL references

2007-03-04 Thread John Kane
rrors. I believe he felt the system was a bit picky and arbitrary. However the format is used by about 1,000 journals and is commonly used as the basis for a lot of reports etc. And I grew up with it! > > John Kane wrote: > > I have been trying to use JabRef to handle > referen

Re: (sin asunto)

2007-03-15 Thread John Kane
--- Jorge Mario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > > i can't run my Lyx in winXP, please. > > My Lyx 1,5 works well in my office, but it does not > run in my PC, It > says to "Lyx no Started”, I can solve it? Are you trying to run LyX 1.5 on both machines? What operating system do you have at

Re: Utility to help with importing text?

2007-03-16 Thread John Kane
--- Tad Marko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy! > > I have a few manuscripts in convering to LyX for a > friend. They are > plain text files. Are there any utilities that can > help me with the > transformation of the double quotes to a `` and '' > format (or whatever > format I should be usin

Re: LyX beta 2.0 on Mac

2007-05-18 Thread John Kane
--- "A. Scottedward Hodel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to echo the praise for LyX given earlier. I > I've used LyX in > lecture and they are impressed with the quick entry > of equations, > promptly followed by a legible on-screen preview of > the equations. > It's a wonderful t

Re: LyX beta 2.0 on Mac

2007-05-18 Thread John Kane
--- Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 18, 2007, at 7:23 PM, John Kane wrote: > > > --- "A. Scottedward Hodel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >> I want to echo the praise for LyX given earlier. > I > >> I&#

Re: LyX beta 2.0 on Mac

2007-05-19 Thread John Kane
--- Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 18, 2007, at 8:45 PM, John Kane wrote: > > > > > --- Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On May 18, 2007, at 7:23 PM, John Kane wrote: > >> > >>> --- "A. Scot

Re: copying spreadsheet data into Lyx

2007-05-20 Thread John Kane
--- Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > How can spreadsheet data be copying into LyX > quickly? > I can't get Open Office or Gnumeric to do this > easily. > Surely there must be a better way than one cell at a > time? > cheers > Russell I suspect that there are better ways but try ht

Re: copying spreadsheet data into Lyx

2007-05-20 Thread John Kane
--- Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > How can spreadsheet data be copying into LyX > quickly? > I can't get Open Office or Gnumeric to do this > easily. > Surely there must be a better way than one cell at a > time? > cheers > Russel Have a look at calc2latex at http://calc2latex.s

Lyx export to OpenOffice.org

2007-05-20 Thread John Kane
I noticed that there is an export option for LyX to OOo Writer. I gave it a try and Lyx seemed to do something but I don't see any output file. Am I missing something here? I tried a TeX export on the same document and it seemed to work fine. Thanks Be smarter than spam. See how smart

Re: Fully contained lyx + miktex distribution!

2007-05-21 Thread John Kane
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > >> Therefore, I suggest that there is a big lyx > distribution in the form > >> of a single zip-file or CD .iso that contains > really everything - > >> MikTex (everything) + Lyx + pdf viewer + etc. > > > > Note that nei

Current status of Tufte style?

2010-06-14 Thread John Kane
I know that there was a problem with the Tufte handout a few months ago but between being distracted by other matters and the recent loss of the mailing list I don't know what is happening at the moment. I just did an upgrade to 1.6.6.1 and reinstalled Mixtex and I am getting some weird result

Re: Lyx on Windows without admin privileges (2010)

2010-06-27 Thread John Kane
--- On Sun, 6/27/10, Liviu Andronic wrote: > From: Liviu Andronic > Subject: Re: Lyx on Windows without admin privileges (2010) > To: "Jim Rockford" > Cc: "lyx-users" > Received: Sunday, June 27, 2010, 1:28 PM > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Jim > Rockford > wrote: > > This issue has co

Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?

2010-07-18 Thread John Kane
--- On Sat, 7/17/10, Richard Heck wrote: > From: Richard Heck > Subject: Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon? > To: "Bruce Pourciau" > Cc: "LyXFolks" > Received: Saturday, July 17, 2010, 10:07 AM > On 07/17/2010 09:43 AM, Bruce > Pourciau wrote: > > Looking at the icons in the dock of my Ma

Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?

2010-07-18 Thread John Kane
I'm suprised to say it but the one on XP looks a lot better. --- On Sun, 7/18/10, Manolo Martínez wrote: > From: Manolo Martínez > Subject: Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon? > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Sunday, July 18, 2010, 12:15 PM > In this connection, I don't know if > any

Update to 1.6.7 Lost DVI and PS output.

2010-07-21 Thread John Kane
I just updated to 1.6.7 from 1.6.6 and seem to have lost the ability out put in dvi or ps format. Downloaded the standard installation package for Windows and have an existing MiXTeX installation. I don't think I have a problem with Ghostscript etc since I can convert a pdf to ps without any p

Re: Update to 1.6.7 Lost DVI and PS output.

2010-07-21 Thread John Kane
--- On Wed, 7/21/10, Paul Rubin wrote: > From: Paul Rubin > Subject: Re: Update to 1.6.7 Lost DVI and PS output. > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 11:03 AM > John Kane > yahoo.ca> writes: > > > > > I just updated to 1.6.

Re: Update to 1.6.7 Lost DVI and PS output.

2010-07-22 Thread John Kane
--- On Wed, 7/21/10, Richard Heck wrote: > From: Richard Heck > Subject: Re: Update to 1.6.7 Lost DVI and PS output. > To: "John Kane" > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, "Paul Rubin" > Received: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 10:03 PM > On 07/21/2010 08:0

Re: Update to 1.6.7 Lost DVI and PS output.

2010-07-22 Thread John Kane
--- On Thu, 7/22/10, John Kane wrote: > From: John Kane > Subject: Re: Update to 1.6.7 Lost DVI and PS output. > To: rgh...@comcast.net > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, "Paul Rubin" > Received: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 8:03 AM > > > --- On Wed, 7/21/10,

Re: Update to 1.6.7 Lost DVI and PS output.

2010-07-22 Thread John Kane
--- On Wed, 7/21/10, Paul Rubin wrote: > From: Paul Rubin > Subject: Re: Update to 1.6.7 Lost DVI and PS output. > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 9:52 PM > Sounds like the configuration may be > hosed.  Have you tried reconfiguring LyX? Hosed? I love thos

Re: Update to 1.6.7 Lost DVI and PS output.

2010-07-22 Thread John Kane
--- On Thu, 7/22/10, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > From: Uwe Stöhr > Subject: Re: Update to 1.6.7 Lost DVI and PS output. > To: "John Kane" > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 9:10 AM > Am 22.07.2010 14:26, schrieb John > Kane: > >

Re: Update to 1.6.7 Lost DVI and PS output.

2010-07-22 Thread John Kane
I did everything you suggested and LyX look fine now. I'd forgotten how long MiXTeX takes to install!! Thanks --- On Thu, 7/22/10, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > From: Uwe Stöhr > Subject: Re: Update to 1.6.7 Lost DVI and PS output. > To: "John Kane" > Cc: lyx-users@lists.l

Re: A&A template file problem

2010-08-04 Thread John Kane
It means that you need to add to your TeX installation. What is the exact name of the template that you are using? --- On Wed, 8/4/10, Guldariya Nurbaeva wrote: > From: Guldariya Nurbaeva > Subject: A&A template file problem > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Wednesday, August 4, 2010,

Re: Bluebook

2010-08-08 Thread John Kane
I was vaguely looking for something that might handle Canadian citations and found that there was some work done on Lexitex? which addressed Blue Book issues --it morphed into Camel but I don't think any current work is being done on it. --- On Fri, 8/6/10, Julio Rojas wrote: > From: Julio

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