Re: Excel data sheets

2005-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:06:55AM -0400, samar j. singh wrote: ... > You may find it useful to try what I do normally. I've added a few more details about the sequence I have to go through to get this to work. > 1. open your xls file with gnumeric or open office. > > 2. Select the requisite

Re: Heretical question?

2005-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:00:20PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Michael Wojcik wrote: > >Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > > >>> > >>Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this > >>thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I > >>assume you see some adva

Re: Simplest approach to hanging indent paragraph?

2005-11-28 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:52:08AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > >What is the best advice now for LyX users who want paragraphs shaped > >like this > > > >X > > > > > > But we want to cont

Re: enumeration problem...

2006-03-01 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:19:51PM -0600, Mathieu Richaud wrote: > Hello all, > > What I am trying to create is the following enumerated list; > > 1. Item 1 > 2. Item 2 > 3. Item 3 > [standard text] > 4. Item 4 > 5. Item 5 > > However, Lyx reset to 1 the enumeration after the standard text. How

Problems with 1.4.1, from Re: LyX 1.4.1 binaries for Debian unstable

2006-04-22 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:23:07AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: > Hello, > > The Debian maintainers of LyX are not very active. I have therefore > created unofficial i386 binaries of LyX 1.4.1 for Debian unstable > (sid). > > You should add in your /etc/apt/sources.list the following line : >

Re: Problems with 1.4.1, from Re: LyX 1.4.1 binaries for Debian unstable

2006-04-22 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 08:04:05AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:23:07AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The Debian maintainers of LyX are not very active. I have therefore > > created unofficial i386 binaries of Ly

Re: Problems with 1.4.1, from Re: LyX 1.4.1 binaries for Debian unstable

2006-04-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
inter' if you use KDE > and get the very nice Kprinter dialog. Thank you both. This worked to bring up LyL with its new interface. Yum, yum! I still have a serious problem with my files, which I need to resolve soon. The issue I had mentioned about the enumeration still exists. I will

Enumeration/conversion issues of 1.4.1 - 1.3.x files (important exams)

2006-04-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
After some kind help from Micha and Charles, I have 1.4.1 running apparently smoothly (the screen still appears a bit sluggish, which I recall seeing in other posts about 1.4.1--but that's not an issue for me yet... ;-). An important problem I immediately encountered involves the way it interprets

Re: Enumeration/conversion issues of 1.4.1 - 1.3.x files (important exams)

2006-04-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 12:52:38AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > After some kind help from Micha and Charles, I have 1.4.1 running > > apparently smoothly (the screen still appears a bit sluggish, which I > > recall seeing in other posts

Re: Easing the editing/correction of LyX documents

2006-06-19 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:00:22PM +0100, Peter Bowyer wrote: > Hi, > > I am one of the people who cannot finds editing documents hard on > screen - I end up printing a copy and then working through it with a > pen, making changes and restructuring, and then typing the changes up. > > I didn't

Re: line break or wrapping text in tabular

2007-06-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 20:20 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I see several pages mentioning about line breaks within a tabular. > > I have tables where I have a lot of text in a cell so then the tabnle is > wider than my printed page. > > How can I get that text to wrap automatically? > > Or by m

Re: changes are not reflected to PDF anymore

2007-07-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 12:32 +0200, Giuseppe Vitalone wrote: > Hi, I'm experiencing strange problems I didn't before. To have chages to lyx > documents reflected to PDF, I have to restart Lyx; if I don't, changes are > not reflected. What could be the matter? Thanks Do you leave the viewer open whi

Re: Faster way to access Standard, Title, Section, etc

2007-08-09 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 14:24 +0200, Daniel Janzon wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm writing quite a lot of documents in LyX and am starting to > get tired of moving the mouse to the upper left selection box > in order to select what kind of text to write (Standard, Title, > Section, LyX-Code, etc). Is ther

Re: Disertations on quiz questions and answers

2007-09-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 12:53 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I've created module quizzes for my Troubleshooting Course. I'd like to create > a document containing the quiz questions, answers and a disertation on why > the correct answer is correct. This document would be given to course >

Re: Dumb LyX question (fwd)

2007-12-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 08:36 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I got the following question from a friend, any ideas? > (I'm not on Mac...) > > --- > > Thanks -- it's probably really stupid, so try not to laugh... > > When I click the pdf icon (LyX 5 but the same happens in > old

Re: fun poll: your linux distro

2007-12-28 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 15:18 -0700, Bob Lounsbury wrote: > Hi, > > I was just curious what everyone is using. If you'd like to respond > that's fine, if not, just ignore the message. Also, could you include > if you're running the latest LyX 1.5.3. Thanks in advance for anyones' > input. > > Cheer

Re: how to insert a theorem?

2008-03-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 13:55 -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Viktor Nagy wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Sorry for this stupid question, but I can't manage inserting a theorem. ... > If you are using one of the AMS classes, just start a new paragraph, > then click the drop down list of environments (lef

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

2008-03-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 14:19 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > "He has conducted research on conditioned taste aversion, and on the > > effects of amphetamines and LSD on social behavior." > > Andre', > >A friend of mine (a psychologist in private

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:10:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 01:43 am, Alex wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > One student who makes her diplom about "Comparing LyX to another Word > > processors", asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. > > Hi Alex, > > I think her in

Re: Multiple Choice Tests

2006-10-07 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 04:10:35PM +0200, Christian von Lani-Fischer wrote: > Hi everybody, > > i was just wondering if there is some document class that provides > support to create multiple choice tests or if there is a trick to > create some boxes in "common" document classes, where one can

Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

2006-12-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:01:37AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Bill Wood wrote: > > > Hi, I'm considering switching Linux distributions to Debian or Ubuntu, > > and I wanted to know what the community experience was regarding Lyx on > > either. In particular, are there any known functional

Re: Special case of enumerate

2006-12-18 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:54:11AM +, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I am trying to get the following special case of enumerate: > > - > A1. The first item; > A2. The second item; > A3. The third item; > > Here, there is some standard text and then enume

Re: Happy LyXing to Everybody in 2007...

2006-12-31 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 11:21:28AM +0100, Alex wrote: > Dear LyXers, > > I am very happy that I see how LyX and its community is growing. > This is quite friendly and helpful community. > Thanks for your support in 2006. > > I wish HAPPY NEW YEAR to all the Developers, Contributers and > to every

Re: texlive as support for lyx

2007-01-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 17:05 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > David L. Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:59:57 +0100 > > Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> abdelkader belahcene wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> since the new available latex on linux, will be texlive instead

File refuses to conform to letter size...

2007-01-28 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hello folks, I have an older LyX file for my classes which I opened for the semester, and cannot get the file to properly print out using US letter in landscape mode. It insists on being A4. I have never had this happen before, and am frustrated because I've no clue what the issue is. I'm using

Re: File refuses to conform to letter size...

2007-01-28 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 20:32 -0600, Les Denham wrote: > On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:55, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > > I have an older LyX file for my classes which I opened for the semester, > > and cannot get the file to properly print out using US l

Re: File refuses to conform to letter size...

2007-01-29 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 12:25 +, José Matos wrote: > On Monday 29 January 2007 7:37:13 am Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 20:32 -0600, Les Denham wrote: > > > On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:55, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > > Hello folks, > >

Thanks to All LyXers/developers here! Re: Orientation Problem With Output

2007-04-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 16:33 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > > Did you try adding geometry{dvips} to the preamble? It works for me (and > > the resulting file > displays in GSView 4.8 correctly). > > Paul, > >I took Uwe's suggestion and added dvips

Re: Thanks to All LyXers/developers here! Re: Orientation Problem With Output

2007-04-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 16:49 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > What gets me constantly is how helpful the people on this list are with > > questions of all levels. Sorry for using the thread, Rich, but it leapt > > to mind with

Re: Help: Newbie writing a report- Help in drawing diagrams particularly circuits

2010-07-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 07:59 -0600, Rob Oakes wrote: > Hi Bob, > > The best way to create specific types of drawings for a LyX document > is to use a program designed for that purpose (like a circuit diagram > editor) and then exporting to an appropriate image format (PDF, PNG, > JPEG, etc.). Ther

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

2010-09-09 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 16:25 +0300, Necati Demir wrote: > Hello, > > I am creating a presentation with beamer. In some slides i want to use > > 1) different theme, > 2) custom theme, > 3) no theme. > > How can i do that? If all else is the same, you might be able to generate separate pdf files

Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...

2010-11-11 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi, I've decided to give XeTeX a go as well as LyX 2.0, so have installed both on my Linux system (Debian Sid). First thing to do was to open a recent exam and change the settings to use XeTeX as the means of output, as well as the default viewer to XeTeX's pdf version. When I try to view the do

Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...

2010-11-11 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 15:31 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... > Removing the XeTeX parts from the document makes it all go away. :( > > Does anyone have thoughts about this problem? One other area I perhaps > should include is the preamble. Is one of the packages incompatible

Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...

2010-11-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 09:50 +, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: > Kenward Vaughan earthlink.net> writes: > > > > > On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 15:31 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... > > But now something else was noticed... all my beautiful eps figures have > > been raster

Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...

2010-11-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:43 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Ah. OK. Knowing that, does anyone have a suggestion for the > > transformation? I thought pdf could be a "wrapper" about an eps > > figure... If so, which utility is a good one?

Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...

2010-11-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 21:07 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:43 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > > Ah. OK. Knowing that, does anyone have a suggestion for the > > > > transfor

LyX 2.0 and framed package

2011-01-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm updating my class syllabus, which has a mandatory statement which I normally frame as follows: \begin{framed}Students with disabilities who believe they may need accommodations in this class are encouraged to contact Supportive Services in FACE 16, 395-4334, as soon as possible to better ensur

Re: LyX 2.0 and framed package

2011-01-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 22:02 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... > The .dvi file *is* written out, and I can view it from the temporary > directory /tmp/lyx_tmpdir... The framed area IS framed, and all else > seems OK from a brief scan of the result. > > Any ideas what/where the

Re: LyX 2.0 and framed package

2011-01-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 08:06 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > I'm updating my class syllabus, which has a mandatory statement which I > > normally frame as follows: > > > > \begin{framed}Students with disabilities who believe they may

Re: LyX 2.0 and framed package

2011-01-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 10:13 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > A snip of the file is attached. > > Apparently, nesting framed into quote doesn't work. It works vice versa > (nesting quote into framed). I don't think this is a LyX problem

getting LyX to see spellchecker

2011-01-20 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no av

Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker

2011-01-20 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > > > I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have > > no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) > >

Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker

2011-01-20 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > > > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > >> Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > >> > >>> I'm a tad befuddled

Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker

2011-01-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 23:39 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > > > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > >> Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > >> > >>> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at

Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker

2011-01-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 22:01 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > ... > > I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults > > came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this > > ought to be a default instead of an option. > > One thing to note

A "slash o" ?? Cannot get it...

2011-02-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Being a perfectionist, I'd love to get the name Bronsted properly spelled, with a slash through the o. Using LyX, I've inserted "\o" in ERT, but get an undefined control sequence error: ...Define a \inputencoding{latin1}{Br\onsted }\inpu

Why a processing error under Windows but not Linux?

2020-03-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi all, I have my students using LyX for their organic chemistry lab reports.  I use a pretty standard installation at home under Debian, while most of them use Windows or Mac.  One student in particular tried using an example file I posted for them, added material to it, then ran into proble

Re: Why a processing error under Windows but not Linux?

2020-03-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On 3/5/20 5:39 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 3/5/20 8:25 PM, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hi all, I have my students using LyX for their organic chemistry lab reports.  I use a pretty standard installation at home under Debian, while most of them use Windows or Mac.  One student in

Re: sub/superscipts

2000-07-06 Thread Kenward Vaughan
ces in one or the other to line them up nicely if you get picky about it.. :). HTH, Kenward Vaughan Chemistry Bakersfield College (Thankfully off for the summer! ;-) -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! --

Re: sub/superscipts

2000-07-06 Thread Kenward Vaughan
anics, at which point I use the Ochem package and my macros. Kenward On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:31:44PM +, Herbert Voss wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:16:53PM +0200, Martijn Brouwer wrote: > > > Hello, > > > Is there an ot

Re: Feature Suggestion: Highlighting large blocks of text

2000-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I usually handle them with the ole' shift-arrow or shift-pg. up[down] combo followed by a ctrl-X, etc. Hard to guess if either way is faster, since I don't get slowed down trying to grab my mouse (which is often in the cabinet eating cheese crackers... :) Kenward On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:44:

Re: Surefire method to crash Lyx 1.15fix1

2000-08-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 09:57:16AM +0300, David Martin wrote: > > I have just compiled and installed 1.15fix1 under Redhat Linux 6.2 x86 > with version 0.89 of the XForms library on my new laptop. About midnight > last night I discovered, much to my surprise, that an accidental middle > mouse bu

Re: Graphics insert - question

2000-08-19 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:13:34AM +, thomas schönhoff wrote: > Baruch Even wrote: > > My question pertains to priority settings, the current code does not yet > > support inline viewing of the image file in the document, that is it > > leaves a rectangle saying that here will be an image. I'

Re: booktabs -- please, comment

2000-08-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Sounds like someone's opinion to me. Depending on the type of document, audience, etc., they should be perfectly acceptable and serve distinct purposes (as your example implies). I don't recall ever seeing rules on their use in my grammar book either... :) Kenward On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 10:54

Re: Debian package

2000-09-20 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 10:17:23PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > BTW Debian 2.2 doesn't contain the newest version > > of Lyx ... the latest is typically in the unstable area (Woody). > I wonder that Debian includes LyX at all. > > After all, LyX is linked to the Dark Side by using xforms. >

Re: form document

2000-11-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:17:55PM +0100, Alberto Meroni wrote: > SOrry to ask such a stupid thing but how can I create a form document > with underlined space to fill, box to check and so on? I need it for > a school test document. My "hack" for underlined spaces is to define them using Ctrl-spa

Re: form document

2000-11-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Ha! I'll have to give that one a try. I've fallen in love with Lyx after finding out how easy it is to create very complex exams in my field (chemistry). And there's so much more to learn... Kenward On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 06:42:33PM -0500, Roger Williams wrote: ... > My favourite approach to

need to change default bib. format quickly...

2003-01-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
My daughter is using Lyx to write a report, and the teacher has a specific bibliographic format in mind. Jackie and I have learned on the fly how to use the simple system built into Lyx, but it doesn't fit the format. What is desired is something like XXX X

Thanks! Re: need to change default bib. format quickly...

2003-01-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Thanks to Herbert and Andre for your help! It looks great now. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be t

Re: lyx-code and box

2003-01-29 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 09:24:36PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi > > I'm using lyx for some moment but i m a novice latex user. > > I'm using lyx-code to write the content of files on my > documentation. > Now i would to customize the way lyx-code appear on the final > document. > I hav

Re: lyx-code and box

2003-01-30 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:12:23PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:35:05AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Thanks for your answer. > > > > My problem is that i really don't know how to use this framed.sty > > I m not an advanced user of latex. > > I try to put this o

Re: When are we going to get character styles

2003-02-17 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 01:57:42PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Monday 17 February 2003 10:46 am, John Levon wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 08:42:06AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Several months ago there was much agreement that LyX needed character > > > styles, and in fact character styles

Re: When are we going to get character styles

2003-02-17 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 07:19:43PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Monday 17 February 2003 03:50 pm, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... > > "Repudiation" is a bit strong, IMO. There is no suggestion in John's reply > > (including any "write it yourself") that inti

Re: Word count

2003-03-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:14:57AM -0600, Jose wrote: > Hi, all is there a way to count words on lyx? Spellcheck. Or Ascii output followed by wc on the file (if it's large)? Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have t

Re: missing display equations in HTML

2003-03-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 12:13:49PM +1100, Kristen Karsh wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to convert my Lyx document to HTML. To ensure compatibility > with previous LaTex documents I converted using latex2html, I tried > exporting my Lyx document to LaTeX, then running latex2html. All display

compiling 1.3.1 qt on Debian Sid fails. Which qt libs?

2003-03-22 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I have the same problem mentioned by a fellow in an earlier thread, but I don't have a clue where my problem is. The qt packages I have installed are: -- 11:01:11 daddy:~# dpkg -l "qt*"|grep ^i ii qt2-dev-tools 2.3.2-12 Qt2 development tools 11:01:40 daddy:~# dpkg -l "libqt*"

Re: compiling 1.3.1 qt on Debian Sid fails. Which qt libs?

2003-03-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 02:40:28PM +, John Levon wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:17:03PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > I have the same problem mentioned by a fellow in an earlier thread, but I > > don't have a clue where my problem is. > > configure

Re: compiling 1.3.1 qt on Debian Sid fails. Which qt libs?

2003-03-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Sorry. Forgot the config.log. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest

Re: compiling 1.3.1 qt on Debian Sid fails. Which qt libs?

2003-03-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:42:49PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:18:36PM +, John Levon wrote: ... > > /tmp/cckDVC0f.o(.text+0x17): In function `main': > > : undefined reference to `QString::QString[in-charge](char const*)' > > > > > > You're using the wrong compiler

problems with math formulae in 1.3.1 (xforms)

2003-03-31 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I apologize if this has been reported, but my time is limited and I can't track all the messages which flow through this list... :) I'm now using 1.3.1 with my documents and have discovered that writing a chemical formula in my usaul fashion totally screws up paragraph formatting. For example, to

Re: problems with math formulae in 1.3.1 (xforms)

2003-04-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:00:34PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > I apologize if this has been reported, but my time is limited and I can't > track all the messages which flow through this list... :) I'm now using I hope this comment didn't bother people (I don't knpow

Re: problems with math formulae in 1.3.1 (xforms)

2003-04-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:14:22PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:09:11AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... > > Some additional information: if I try the sequence below at the beginning > > of a document, it flat out fails with 6 errors about things like miss

Re: problems with math formulae in 1.3.1 (xforms)

2003-04-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:57:13PM +, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:14:22PM +0100, John Levon wrote: ... > >> > Has the input for math changed that much from 1.

Re: toggled printing for instructor version

2003-06-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:14:52AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I am interested in feature where I can select content and flag it so it > will only be printed (exported) as needed. > > For example, a single document could contain a book or handout for > students and the teacher, but the instruct

Re: toggled printing for instructor version

2003-06-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:02:52PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > > I am interested in feature where I can select content and flag it so it > > > will only be printed (exported) as needed. ... > > I just tried chan

Re: input of chemical formula's

2003-06-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:50:44PM +0200, Martijn Brouwer wrote: > Is there an alternative to mathmode to insert chemical formulas like > $C_6H_{12}O_6$. In Herberts help pages I found a few tips about chemical > drawings, but not about this issue. I am aware of none. Actually, after I had used m

small request--default "yes" to print command?

2003-06-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Is there a way I can fix a default file somewhere which would allow me to call up the print command and have it print automatically on entering an Enter? I'm trying to keep my fingers on the keyboard, and a "few thousand" tabs later doesn't fit ease-of-use. (Why would I call up the print command

Re: Reports in Lyx - Quote vs quotation

2003-08-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 11:37:20PM +0200, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: > I am working on a report in LyX (v. 1.3.2). What is the difference between > "quote" and "quotation"? Try 'em both on a selection. See what the output is like. :-) Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of u

Re: question

2003-11-03 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:53:10PM +0100, Orlando Alejo Mendez wrote: > does anybody know why my speller doesn't work? I have Lyx v. 1.1.6 fix > 4. and every time I invoke the spell checking, I got -after 1/2 minute- > the following message: > "the ispell process has died for some reason" -se

Re: integrate source code snippets (verbatim text?) into document

2003-11-19 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:02:05PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > I'd like to put short source code snippets (from 1 to 10 lines max) > into my text, in typewriter font (I am writing a coding styleguide). > I tried to just tweak the font settings but was not happy with it > becaus

Re: Tables with columns with the same width

2003-11-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:09:48PM +, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I would like to know how to set the columns having the same width. > Could somebody here please help me? Column widths are set by using the right mouse button over any one you wish to fix. A dialog will appear, with the wi

Re: Switching from the Math panel window to the document window

2003-12-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:27:10PM +0100, G?nter Milde wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:38:30AM +0100, G?nter Milde wrote: > > > > > This works nice for often used symbols or the ones with (almost) > > > non-ambiguous names (\alpha...\omega, but not \varphi) > > > > H

Re: Ugly pdf fonts

2004-01-19 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:23:04AM +0100, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: ... > You'll find lots of information in the tug faq: > http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-binhttp://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?keyword=fonts/texfaq2html?keyword=fonts ... It seems that trimming the above to http://www.tex

Re: [announce] final version of LyX/mathed documentation available

2004-01-31 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:45:01PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Go for it. The natives will correct it if they are sufficiently annoyed > | by the abuse of their[1] language. > > Here, here > > (or is it hair, hair?) Annoyed? U bet I notis

[kay_jay@earthlink.net: Re: Postscript or PDF --> html?]

2004-02-01 Thread Kenward Vaughan
- Forwarded message from Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Postscript or PDF --> html? On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 11:32:36PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > I have a Postscript document. It w

Old pkg. no good-changes in file format over last year??

2001-01-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi, I've been completely mystified by the flukey behavior of a drawing package called ochem that I use for an organic class. It worked quite well 8-12 mo. ago for me, but now (with class starting tonight... :) I've suddenly discovered some old files which no longer get processed correctly, as we

Grr... Is this _Real_?? Solution <-> Re: Old pkg. no good-changes...

2001-01-17 Thread Kenward Vaughan
guess it's pretty OT, but I was really quite stumped... Kenward On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:38:01AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Kenward" == Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Kenward> The Latex package (ochem) first run

Re: Can I pipe a text region to a shell command?

2001-01-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:35:25PM +0100, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > Hi! > > Is it possible to pipe a text region to a shell command like wc? > > I need to know how many chars a paragraph uses, so I would like to > mark it and then pipe the text to wc. >From a non-guru (I expect there's a more

trying 1.1.16.. custom export??

2001-02-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi, I've DL'd 1.1.16fix1 and compiled/installed it into /usr/local to stay ahead of the older 1.1.15 package already installed by .deb oackage. One of the major things I need to accomplish in my work is a custom export using a script which before ran perfectly well under 1.1.15. However it seem

Re: trying 1.1.16.. custom export??

2001-02-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:54:22AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > Hi, > > I've DL'd 1.1.16fix1 and compiled/installed it into /usr/local to stay ahead > of the older 1.1.15 package already installed by .deb oackage. One of the > major things I need to accomplish in m

Bug/change in exporting? was Re: trying 1.1.16.. custom export??

2001-02-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:32:00AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:54:22AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... > > I've DL'd 1.1.16fix1 and compiled/installed it into /usr/local to stay ahead > > of the older 1.1.15 package already installed by

Re: Bug/change in exporting? was Re: trying 1.1.16.. custom export??

2001-02-27 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:45:42PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... > Does anyone know if the installation makes any difference by being installed > locally vs. through the Debian package system? > > What differences exist in how a script is called using the new format vs. > th

Re: Bug/change in exporting? was Re: trying 1.1.16.. custom export??

2001-02-27 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:55:52PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:45:42PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > # > > # FORMATS SECTION ## > > # > > > > \format "ochem" "tex" "Ochem" "&

The offending line in export. was Re: Bug/change in exporting? ...

2001-02-27 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:26:35AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... > 1) If I simply export the lyx file to Latex, the Latex file works by itself > with the script in a term window. > > 2) If I first try to export through the converter script (which fails), then > export to

Solved: Re: The offending line in export.

2001-02-27 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:33:59AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... > The offending line in the "bad" file is: > >\def\input@path{{/home/daddy/Chemistry/Ochem//}} > > If I comment this out using %% then the script succeeds. > > Surely someone knows w

Re: Finding figures

2001-03-01 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Herbert, Now that I understand the function of this line :) can it be used multiple times in the same document? I have repository directories for several types of things which I use in documents found in different places. Thanks, Kenward On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 01:24:31PM +, Herbert Voss

[Re: OT: Any scriptwriting (movies) software out there?]

2001-03-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Does anyone out here in lyx-list-land :) use these layouts, and wouldn't mind "chatting" with Jonathan about it? He knows nothing about lyx in general (I pointed him to the homepage). Kenward - Forwarded message from Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date:

Re: Concerning \(...\) and $...$

2001-05-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:08:15PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote: > "Joao B. Oliveira" wrote: > > > > Once again Herbert scores a point... I was using another form of abbreviation, > > including it in a .loa file: > > > > \newcommand{\abbrev}[2]{% > > \if@abbrlistmissing > > \listofabbreviati

Re: Chemical substance in LaTeX

2001-05-11 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:37:33PM +0300, Mitrana Cristian wrote: > Hello lyxers, > I am trying to write a figure with some chemical > substances, something like : > _ > / \\ > \\_/ > and I was wondering if there is some (exotic) package > available for this kind of figures.If not, I'll have

Re: Chemical substance in LaTeX

2001-05-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 05:32:26PM -0400, Kevin Gross wrote: > On Friday 11 May 2001 16:52, you wrote: > > Ochem works quite well. It makes chemical structures which IMHO are > > distinctly superior to regular drawing programs. The syntax takes some ... > Regarding Ochem, is there a manual ava

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