Re: LyX does not insert & when inserting a "Split" environment

2010-05-17 Thread Paul Rubin
Reuven Segev bgu.ac.il> writes: > > Hi everybody,For some reason, when I insert a "Split" environment in an equation, LyX does not insert the "&" in the source and as a result, the equations are not aligned to the left. This is in contrast with the behavior for the  "Array" environment. Is this

Re: LyX does not insert & when inserting a "Split" environment

2010-05-18 Thread Paul Rubin
Pavel Sanda lyx.org> writes: > > Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > It is now (#6700). Do I get any sort of prize for entering a ticket that > > hits a century mark? > > i will buy you a beer if you come to the next devel meeting :) > I appreciate the offer, but since developer meetings tend to occ

Re: >Beamer and logo

2010-05-25 Thread Paul Rubin
Ehud Kaplan mssm.edu> writes: > > > After playing with Beamer for a while, and admiring the beautiful > "slides" it can make, > I am disappointed to discover that the style dictatorship that Latex > enforces could become > too restrictive: > Beamer allows us to place a logo on the slides, but

Re: Lightning-Symbol in Contradiction-Proofs

2010-05-26 Thread Paul Rubin
iustifico gmail.com> writes: > > How do I manage to put a "lightning" in the end of my proofs-of-contradiction? > If I use \lightning the symbol doesn't show up entirely. Only a small "apostroph" appears. And in the > exported PDF it's the same. > Which package are you loading to define \light

Re: true raw Latex commands in math mode

2010-05-27 Thread Paul Rubin
Matthias Blaicher googlemail.com> writes: > There is the sweave LaTeX command \Sexpr{ foo } which allows you to > directly insert the content of foo into the document. Let's say there > is a variable foo_bar then I can access foo_bar by inserting an ERT > \Sexpr{foo_bar}. This works fine in text

Re: in Lyx-Code quote, double quote, and back-tic not as expected.

2010-05-28 Thread Paul Rubin
Try the following: 1. In the preamble, \usepackage{textcomp}. 2. Rather than LyX-Code, Insert > Program Listing and paste the code in there. 3. Right click anywhere in the listing, pick Settings..., go the Advanced tab, and insert columns=fullflexible and upquote=true. The former gets rid of ke

Re: Trouble compiling PDF

2010-05-28 Thread Paul Rubin
M gmail.com> writes: > > I have a problem when I try to compile my beamer document in PDF, it appears a popout and the message is something like this  > > Fichier inexistant : /tmp/lyx_tmpdir.MT4489/lyx_tmpbuf9/Defensa_Tesis2.pdf The message just means that the PDF file was not created; it say

Re: Help to create some custome made encironments in Lyx

2010-05-28 Thread Paul Rubin
Have a look at the LyX Customization manual (Help > Customization), section 5.2.1, and then take a peek at some of the .module files in the LyX layout folder to see some examples. Basically, you define the environments in a module (or modules), including the LaTeX command you will use to invoke th

Re: Beamer multitude problems with lyx

2010-06-01 Thread Paul Rubin
YURENA MENDOZA gmail.com> writes: >The last one is:The file does not exit If you mean does not _exist_, this just says that something went wrong (most likely a LaTeX error) and the output file therefore was not created. Look at Document > LaTeX log to see if you can find an error message that mi

Re: Beamer multitude problems with lyx

2010-06-01 Thread Paul Rubin
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lyx.org> writes: > > Le 1 juin 10 à 22:29, José Matos a écrit : > > Add an EndFrame layout as the last paragraph of the document. > > > > If you don't do this every time you try to generate a pdf the viewer > > will say > > that the corresponding pdf does not exists. > >

Re: Beamer multitude problems with lyx

2010-06-02 Thread Paul Rubin
Ehud Kaplan mssm.edu> writes: > > I am not sure about that, but I suspect that if instead of using > PowePoint to present the slides, you create pdf from the PP presentation > and show it with Adobe acrobat or Reader, everything will be shown as it > was meant to. > EK Possibly, but will y

Re: Page os floats

2010-06-05 Thread Paul Rubin
Patrick Dupre york.ac.uk> writes: > > If I check "page of floats" in the setting of my picture, it works fine. > I get the picture at the end of the document, but if I rotate the > picture either "Rotate sideways" (but it looks like that it discards the > "page of floats" option) or by setting a

Re: Translating theorem-like statements

2010-06-07 Thread Paul Rubin
Daniel CLEMENT prepas.org> writes: > > ... he provided an archive containing seven .inc and .modules files. I > downloaded them. I reviewed each of them, replacing the Spanish > translations by the French ones. Then, I placed the modified files in > ~/.lyx/layouts/ as per I. Gaarcia's instruction

Re: Error msg

2010-06-08 Thread Paul Rubin
Frederick Noronha gmail.com> writes: > > Could someone kindly tell me what it means when I get an error message saying: > > File does not exist: /tmp/lyx_impdir.TJ6561/lyx_impbut0/June9.pdf > You were attempting to view (in PDF) a file named June9, and pdflatex failed to compile it for some r

Re: Translating theorem-like statements: 75% solved

2010-06-10 Thread Paul Rubin
Daniel CLEMENT prepas.org> writes: > > That's certainly what I missed. If there's more to translate, I'll do > it, and post about the results. Maybe I could make the translations > available on the list and/or wiki then? > Yes, please do consider putting them on the wiki. /Paul

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Paul Rubin
Jose Quesada gmail.com> writes: > > > ok, attached is an example. > > At 40 headins it is kind of too slow for actuall work. Your example file does not cause my laptop (Mint Helena, which is built on Ubuntu Karmic; dual core Intel processor) any problems. Response to the cursor keys is fine.

Re: I have some problem with exporting in Lyx

2010-06-14 Thread Paul Rubin
Xu Jiang umn.edu> writes: > > To whom it may concern, > > I was originally using the 1.6.5 version of Lyx. Suddenly it stops > exporting to any format of files while maybe 10 minutes ago it is able > to do that. I upgraded it to 1.6.6 version and it still doesn't work. It > didn't return any

Re: Getting theorems in upright or italics font

2010-06-19 Thread Paul Rubin
The theorem module uses the amsthm package. If you check check section 4.3 of the manual for ammsthm, you'll find the syntax for the \newtheoremstyle command. You will want to hack the include file to put code in the preamble creating new theorem styles with names you supply (e.g., myThm) and the

Re: Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-21 Thread Paul Rubin
Rich Shepard appl-ecosys.com> writes: > >I'm running lyx-1.6.6.1, but haven't updated the beamer class in an > tortoise's age. As I review a presentation created in 2007 I see that the > navigation links along the lower right of each slide are not visible. > They're apparently there since I

Re: Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-22 Thread Paul Rubin
Had to add some verbiage to the Section header and an EndFrame to close it off, but after that it compiled fine for me (this time on my laptop, Mint Helena w/TeXLive 2007, beamer 3.07, hyperref 6.75r). I see Julien also got it to compile. I'm pasting in the hacked version below if you want to try

Re: Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-22 Thread Paul Rubin
Rich Shepard appl-ecosys.com> writes: >Strangely, it does not compile for me. Seems pretty likely your LaTeX installation is borked (presumably either beamer or hyperref). Can you post the log file for the failed attempt to compile the stripped version (with the EndFrame added)? > > > (Che

Re: Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-22 Thread Paul Rubin
Rich Shepard appl-ecosys.com> writes: > >Both source .tex and .log are attached. > >While the newest hyperref package does not include all the files of the > earlier versions and throws a warning, the error that halts compilation of > the file is \makebeamertitle. That's where it halts

Re: Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-23 Thread Paul Rubin
Rich Shepard appl-ecosys.com> writes: >Of course, I still don't have the internal links, but that might be > corrected with a current theme. (Several themes have been dropped or > renamed; perhaps that's the problem here.) > Don't think so. I took the minimal example you posted and added a

Re: code in programlisting box goes over the right edge

2010-06-23 Thread Paul Rubin
Julien Rioux physics.utoronto.ca> writes: > > In Document > Settings > Preamble you can add > > \lstset{breaklines=true} > You can also right click on the inset (the box), click Settings..., and put a check mark next to "Break long lines" in the Style section of the Main Settings tab. Julien

Re: Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-23 Thread Paul Rubin
Does the minimal example now work for you (including showing the nav links)? If so, that suggests there's something in the full presentation that's causing the problem. /Paul

Re: Function names

2010-07-01 Thread Paul Rubin
Barak Sh gmail.com> writes: > > Hi,When using function names predefined in LaTeX, such as \sin or \log, the spacing between the name and variables before or after it (for example in the expression "x \sin \theta") is correct. However, when using \mathrm or \textrm to type functions that are not

Re: Symbol Not Placed as Superscript

2010-07-01 Thread Paul Rubin
Rich Shepard appl-ecosys.com> writes: > >In a letter I'm writing I include {\textregistered} which generates the > circled-R registered trademark symbol. However, when I preview the .dvi I > see the symbol on the base of the line and of the same size as the body > text. I thought it needed t

Re: Symbol Not Placed as Superscript

2010-07-01 Thread Paul Rubin
Rich Shepard appl-ecosys.com> writes: > > On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Paul Rubin wrote: > > > They're baseline in the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols List. > > Paul, > >I saw that but could not recall a real-life example. For what little it's worth, I&#x

Re: Lyx messing up two almost identical Citations

2010-07-02 Thread Paul Rubin
Ebbe Juel Bech Nielsen phys.au.dk> writes: > JabRef generates the following keys Jackson2006 > and Jackson2006a. If you are using natbib, here are a couple of things you can try. I'm not sure if they work in the preamble; you may need to put them in ERT prior to the first citation of either Jac

Re: article.cls

2010-07-02 Thread Paul Rubin
William Hanson umn.edu> writes: > > I'm a fairly new LyX user, and until recently I've been successful using > version 1.6.3. I've just updated to 1.6.6.1, but now I can no longer > get Yap to generate the finished document. Yap just displays the document. The error arises earlier in the foo

Re: Symbol for wrapped lines in LyX-Code

2010-07-06 Thread Paul Rubin
Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér writtenandread.net> writes: > > That is actually very good. > Is anybody putting together a Tricks with LyX guide? Because this should > be in there... > Thanks. Tips and tricks abound on the wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org), but I just had a look there and did not

Re: Return to Previous Cursor Position

2010-07-07 Thread Paul Rubin
Bruce Pourciau lawrence.edu> writes: > > It would speed up my navigating, especially when I'm going back and > forth in a long document, if I could return to the previous cursor > position with a key combination. Is this possible? > On Windows and Linux, ctrl+alt+# (where # is a single dig

Re: Subfloats cause LyX errors

2010-07-07 Thread Paul Rubin
It might help if you could post a minimal example that exhibits the errors. /Paul

Re: Greek symbols have different size from Latin in equations

2010-07-14 Thread Paul Rubin
What fonts are you using? /Paul

Re: Key-Bindings for Zoom-In and Zoom-Out

2010-07-15 Thread Paul Rubin
Stephan Witt gmx.net> writes: > > So I want to start a little poll here: > please tell your pro or cons for binding the zoom-in/-out feature to Ctrl-plus/-minus and moving the > current binding of Ctrl-minus. I do not use Ctrl-minus very often in LyX, but I zoom in and out in LyX using ctrl+mo

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

2010-07-17 Thread Paul Rubin
Yago ono.com> writes: > > > You can also see this web page: >   > http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/ > Great resource! Thanks for the link. /Paul

Re: MinionPro

2010-07-19 Thread Paul Rubin
Yago ono.com> writes: >   > Finally, after refreshing the MiKTeX Data Base ... > but the output is > incorrect because there no exists spanish accents and nor the "ñ". Did you also update formats? /Paul

Re: Update to 1.6.7 Lost DVI and PS output.

2010-07-21 Thread Paul Rubin
John Kane yahoo.ca> writes: > > 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. Buttons greyed out, or buttons live but no output? If the latter, any error messages? Do the various View > PDF (...) options work? /Paul

Re: LyX was working fine, now it stopped making pdfs.

2010-07-21 Thread Paul Rubin
Sarah McMurray mymail.mines.edu> writes: > > > Thanks for the advice Uwe,Can I do this without uninstalling Cygwin? Because I actually need it alot otherwise.Thanks,Sarah Yes, you can leave Cygwin alone, provided that you have a Windows installation of LaTeX (MiKTeX, for instance). Assuming y

Re: EPS Files Without Preview

2010-07-21 Thread Paul Rubin
Bruce Pourciau lawrence.edu> writes: > > Any thoughts? Could there be some kind of preview still attached? > EPS files are text files, so open one of the images in a text editor and look for a block of binary nonsense. I haven't done this in a while, but as I recall the last time I did the pr

Re: Update to 1.6.7 Lost DVI and PS output.

2010-07-21 Thread Paul Rubin
Sounds like the configuration may be hosed. Have you tried reconfiguring LyX? If that doesn't work, you might try deleting the local LyX subdirectory (probably C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\lyx16, but your mileage may vary), backing up any modified layouts etc. you might have there,

Re: Upgrading from getdeb (was: Location of toolbar settings)

2010-07-24 Thread Paul Rubin
E. Kaplan gmail.com> writes: > > Inspired by your post, I tried to use getdeb to upgrade Lyx from 1.6.5 > (the current Ubuntu 10.04 version) to 1.6.7, but although I had > installed getdeb, when I click on INSTALL THIS (Lyx) NOW, the browser > opens a new tab but nothing happens. I am runn

Re: Where to contribute to LyX

2010-07-26 Thread Paul Rubin
http://www.lyx.org/Donate

Re: Side by Side Figures Not Aligned

2010-08-02 Thread Paul Rubin
Bruce Pourciau lawrence.edu> writes: > > I have two figures (eps files) inserted as side by side graphics > (directly, not in floats). Each lies in its own Box (Minipage), the > boxes separated by a couple of \qquads. But one figure prints higher > than the other, I suppose because the amo

Re: Graphics in Beamer/Lyx under Windows XP

2010-08-03 Thread Paul Rubin
ehud.kaplan gmail.com gmail.com> writes: > > When I insert graphics (jpg, eps, or pdf) into a beamer presentation > (using Lyx), it works fine under > Linux (Ubuntu/gnome 10.04), but under Windows XP (sp3) the same Lyx file > (compiled with Lyx 1.6.7.4) generates numerous errors: > "undefined

Re: caption.sty problem

2010-08-04 Thread Paul Rubin
Ballard Asare-Bediako googlemail.com> writes: >But when I place two figures, i.e, when I use the subfloats the dvi and the pdf generate shows this error "file "caption.sty" not found Do you have the LaTeX caption package installed? If you're not sure, open a terminal/DOS prompt and run 'kpsewhi

Re: Fw: The 'references' title is missing in elsarticle.lyx when converted to PDF

2010-08-08 Thread Paul Rubin
Özgün Yılmaz ttmail.com> writes: > When I view the document in PDF the ‘References’ title is missing in > the PDF document. > Is this made on purpose for els articles and that's what it > is supposed to be? Looks like it might be a bug in the document class (http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Ar

Re: short cuts: fonts in math mode

2010-08-12 Thread Paul Rubin
Jannick Asmus gmail.com> writes: > > I am extensively using the math mode in LyX and 1000 times I have already > typed "\mathbb" or "\mathcal" for changing the font. Is there a short cut > for that? Not that I know of. > If not yet how can it be configured? You can bind an unused key combinat

Re: AW: short cuts: fonts in math mode

2010-08-12 Thread Paul Rubin
Jannick Asmus gmail.com> writes: > Thx for the tips. I will try that out although macros are pretty new to > me. Someplace in the document body, click Insert > Math > Macro and a new macro inset will be created. Change \newmacroname to whatever you like (say \sX for a macro to write a set X in

Re: AW: AW: short cuts: fonts in math mode

2010-08-13 Thread Paul Rubin
Jannick Asmus gmail.com> writes: > For reasons of compatibility I am asking myself how such a solution > translates to the corresponding tex file? If I use \sX as a short form of \mathcal{X}, then the .tex file will contain \global\long\def\sX{\mathcal{X}} at the point where I define it (in the

Re: AW: short cuts: fonts in math mode

2010-08-13 Thread Paul Rubin
Jannick Asmus gmail.com> writes: > > I added a column for German menus since some of the short cuts differ > from the English ones. > > Paul, could you have a look at the wiki page, because this is the first > time that I posted something there? I hope that everything is alright. > "n.a." sh

Re: Centering page numbers for a book

2010-08-13 Thread Paul Rubin
Frederick Noronha gmail.com> writes: > > Is there some way I could CENTRE all the page numbers at the bottom of > the page, on a book? Document > Settings > Page Layout, change the Headings style to fancy? /Paul

Re: Hyperlink: "No action defined!"?

2010-08-20 Thread Paul Rubin
Sam Lewis yahoo.co.uk> writes: > > What is the purpose of right clicking on a hyperlink *inside* LyX? None. > > Reproduce: [Insert] > [Hyperlink]; add a link; right click on inserted > hyperlink > icon and the following pop up message appears: "No action defined!" > > What can I define where?

Re: Hyperlink: "No action defined!"?

2010-08-20 Thread Paul Rubin
Sam Lewis yahoo.co.uk> writes: > > Why not use this > for opening the defined link? Might be useful to improve the > writing-reading-writing flow. > Not unreasonable. You might want to enter a Trac ticket for it as an enhancement (after checking to be sure there isn't already such a ticket --

Re: jabref-how to get rid of abstract

2010-08-21 Thread Paul Rubin
Wolfgang Engelmann uni-tuebingen.de> writes: > > using Pauls proposal I got rid of the Abstract field, but not the school and > institution, which is shown in the preview, e.g. > > Article (Asher2006) Asher, G. & Schibler, U. A CLOCK-less clock. Trends Cell > Biol, Department of Molecular Bi

Re: Math / Table auto-toolbars not appearing anymore

2010-08-21 Thread Paul Rubin
Exactly the same thing happened to me on Mint (derivative of Ubuntu) with 1.6.5. The problem stopped when I upgraded to 1.6.7. I thought the new version fixed it, but since you're on 1.6.7 apparently that's not the case. (Plus, as with you, 1.6.5 was working properly for a while.) When you rein

Re: test

2010-08-28 Thread Paul Rubin
Wolfgang Engelmann uni-tuebingen.de> writes: > > sorry, just a test, since I am not receiving mail from the list anymore > The list server was down for several days, and has apparently been resurrected. /Paul

Re: internal references: redefined enumerators

2010-08-28 Thread Paul Rubin
Jannick Asmus gmail.com> writes: > using the re-definition > > \renewcommand{\labelenumi}{(\roman{enumi}.)} > > in the preamble of my doc (class article koma-script) internal > references are not displayed as, e.g., (ii.), but as 2. Can this be > amended to have proper internal references? A

Re: Lyxcode too deeply nested

2010-08-28 Thread Paul Rubin
chrima.hercou laposte.net> writes: LaTeX (not LyX) limits nesting to four levels for lists, and probably for other nestable environments as well. If you are using nesting just to vary indentation level of code lines, I suggest you abandom the LyXCode environment and switch to the much more flexib

Re: latex source with line breaks

2010-08-28 Thread Paul Rubin
Jannick Asmus gmail.com> writes: > > copying the latex text from the source window provides the text, but > with a lot of line breaks. I suspect to make the view in the source > window more readable. > > But how can I get rid of the line breaks when the text goes into another > editor? > Depe

Re: Undefined control sequence: \dddot ??

2010-08-29 Thread Paul Rubin
Daniel Gross gmail.com> writes: > I already have AMS math and esint packages enabled in Document -> Settings. I suspect you have "Use AMS math package automatically" checked (and the same for esint). Uncheck the automatic load of AMS math and check "Use AMS math package". That made the differ

Re: Undefined control sequence: \dddot ??

2010-08-29 Thread Paul Rubin
By the way, you should not need to use Ctrl-L to insert the command. While in a math inset, just type \dddot and an inset with three dots over it will be created. LyX does not know \ot (four dots), though, so for that you will need Ctrl-L. /Paul

Re: print slides with notes

2010-08-30 Thread Paul Rubin
Necati Demir demir.web.tr> writes: > > I want to create a presentation and print it with notes. For example; > > here is an example[1] created with OpenOffice, how can i create with > > lyx? The Beamer class is very popular for presentations, and it includes the ability to generate handouts, sp

Re: print slides with notes

2010-08-30 Thread Paul Rubin
Necati Demir demir.web.tr> writes: > > Yeah, i know beamer. But i could not create what i need. Can you be more precise about what you need? I've uploaded a small beamer example with notes to http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9417226/beamer_notes.lyx. As configured, it prints just the notes. Change th

Re: Figure x: defaults set up

2010-09-01 Thread Paul Rubin
Graham Smith myotis.co.uk> writes: > > This has got to be simple, but how do I change the figure/table > defaults, so I get "Figure x." rather than "Figure x:" i.e. a full stop > rather than a colon. > > This is with article class if that makes a difference. > In the preamble: \usepackage{

Re: Can't compile files with .eps figures

2010-09-01 Thread Paul Rubin
Maybe Ghostscript is hosed on the new machine? (The epstopdf script uses Ghostscript to do the transformation.) The first thing to do is verify that Ghostscript is installed. Assuming it is, try running the conversion command on one of your EPS images in a terminal and see if it produces a helpf

Re: A bit OT - Jabref and citing web pages in lyx

2010-09-02 Thread Paul Rubin
If you're disinclined to move to Biblatex (per Julio's suggestion), you might try one of the workarounds at http://win.ua.ac.be/~nschloe/content/bibtex-how-cite-website. /Paul

Re: opening two tabs with outline on and closing one, crashes lyx.

2010-09-02 Thread Paul Rubin
Failed to reproduce on Mint Isadora (essentially Ubuntu 10.04). /Paul

Re: \cite, \ref

2010-09-04 Thread Paul Rubin
Hal Kierstead asu.edu> writes: > Most of the time I already know what I want. It would be really nice if I could just type the tex command > \cite{E} or \ref{d} or \eqref{w}, or something similar. > > Is there is already a way to do something similar? Embedding tex does not seem a good alter

Re: How to vertically center/align a small svg object with other graphics

2010-09-12 Thread Paul Rubin
Nikos Alexandris felis.uni-freiburg.de> writes: > > I 've already tried that (before posting) but the images have to be smaller > (too small for me) to fit in an A4 page. Is that because there is extra white space within/between table cells? That space can be reduced. > Is there really no op

Re: delete "Unser Zeichen, ..." from dinbrief

2010-09-14 Thread Paul Rubin
freenet.de> writes: > > As you will see from my question I am totally new to LyX. I tried > different searches on the web but couldn't find any help. > > I like to use the dinbrief template for my private letters but don't > want to have the entries for "Unser Zeichen", "Sachberabeiter" > and "

Re: math bold revisited

2010-09-14 Thread Paul Rubin
Jack Tanner hotmail.com> writes: > > I'm using 1.6.7 on Windows. With MiKTeX? Make sure you have the pifont and caption packages installed in MiKTeX. (You can use the MiKTeX package manager to check and, if necessary, download and install them.) /Paul

Re: Float figures and wrapping text

2010-09-15 Thread Paul Rubin
Grahame Blackwood blueyonder.co.uk> writes: > > I'm producing a document that needs some graphics to enliven the text. I > would also like the text to wrap round the graphics. However, as it isn't an > academic document, the usual references, Figure 1, Figure 2 etc aren't > needed in the finishe

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Paul Rubin
What you have in mind with automatic substitution would be a macro. LyX 1.6.x does not support macros directly; you can create them in the preamble if you know how to write LaTeX code. My impression is that LyX 2.0 will have a macro capability. As an alternative hand-coding macros in LaTeX, you

Re: Printing a beamer outline

2010-09-24 Thread Paul Rubin
First off, unless you have a specific reason to put the article-only text in child documents, I'd probably advocate including it in the original text file in branches (just to keep things together). If you have a particular reason to use child documents, then maybe put the child include statements

Re: Several references with pagenumbers

2010-09-26 Thread Paul Rubin
Påvel Nicklasson bahnhof.se> writes: > > As stated by Nicklasson (Nicklasson 2009 p. 23, Nicklasson 2010 p. 244). > > In LyX I have: > > As stated by Nicklasson (Nicklasson 2009, Nicklasson 2010 p. 244). > > It seems impossible to insert a page number for the first reference in the > refer

Re: Several references with pagenumbers

2010-09-26 Thread Paul Rubin
Påvel Nicklasson bahnhof.se> writes: > Such a simple trick! I can't understand how I overlooked it. I have spent > hours reading manuals and searching the Net... For what it's worth, it took me a long time to recognize it. I thought I knew a technical trick, but it did not work. Eventually,

Re: block matrices

2010-10-06 Thread Paul Rubin
Justin Bradley umich.edu> writes: > > I can't seem to be able to figure out how to insert a block matrix into LyX.  I see how to add a vertical bar between columns, but not a horizontal bar between rows.  Any suggestions?  Thank you very much for this wonderful community. You can type \hline fo

Re: editing source code / resume enumerate

2010-10-09 Thread Paul Rubin
Beth Skwarecki gmail.com> writes: > What am I missing? Using the enumitem module, you don't need to edit the LaTeX; the module provides you with a new environment that does it for you. First, just to be clear, Richard is not referring to the enumitem LaTeX package (which you also need and appa

Re: Display Pseudocode-Algorithms in Lyx

2010-10-14 Thread Paul Rubin
iustifico gmail.com> writes: > Thank you, that is exactly what I am looking for. I see, that it is also > possible to chose a language and lyx highlightens the keywords. That is nice! > > But I only want to write Pseudecode. Which of these available languages > suits for that? It depends on wh

Re: user-defined numbering

2010-10-15 Thread Paul Rubin
Try the titlesec package. /Paul

Re: Figure Numbering

2010-10-19 Thread Paul Rubin
Bruce Pourciau lawrence.edu> writes: > > I've looked at the manuals, but cannot find the answer to this > question: Using the Article class with unnumbered headings and > subheadings -- it's a relatively short paper, so there's no need to > number the headings -- the figures come out numbe

Re: Spellchecker bug

2010-10-27 Thread Paul Rubin
Emil Pavlov mail.bg> writes: > > На 27.10.2010 20:59, Uwe Stöhr написа: > > Am 26.10.2010 22:04, schrieb Emil Pavlov: > > > >> I have experienced a very interesting problem with the spellcheck tool. > > > > I cannot reproduce this problem with your file on LyX 1.6.7 on Windows. > > > > regards U

Re: Spellchecker bug

2010-10-27 Thread Paul Rubin
Emil Pavlov mail.bg> writes: > >> I am using Linux Mint 9, and Lyx is 1.6.7. > >> > > I failed to reproduce it on the same platform (Mint 9/LyX 1.6.7). > > > > > hm, strange. I just got an answer from a friend of mine, who also > couldn't reproduce it. Now, what should I do? > Did

Re: Spellchecker bug

2010-10-27 Thread Paul Rubin
Emil Pavlov mail.bg> writes: > My friend has everything. I have zipped it and attached it. It happens > regardless where the cursor is. Btw, I have check tex installed. The zipped document appears to have changed a bit -- in the image you provided with your original post, the source window sho

Re: Pull-down button for paragraph styles

2010-10-30 Thread Paul Rubin
LRP paisite.com> writes: > > Problem: no pull-down button to select paragraph environments. > > I've tried: > > - Selecting other document classes - no pulldown button > - Bringing up previously working files -- no pulldown button > - Closing and reopening Lyx - no pulldown button > - Closin

Re: pdfpages: remove blank page between two included pdfs?

2010-11-03 Thread Paul Rubin
Liviu Andronic gmail.com> writes: > I am using pdfpages to include pdf pages into my LyX document. > However, when I have two pdf files included this way, one immediately > after the other, the resulting pdf will include a blank page between > the two included pdfs. Is there a way to remove the

Re: where is the shortcut "CTRL+F" defined?

2010-11-10 Thread Paul Rubin
zhao_yunsong 163.com> writes: > > but this shortcut was binded to > \frac, I can not find where is this binded. The only place I can see where this occurs is in sciword.bind. Check Tools > Preferences > Editing > Shortcuts and look in the "Bind file" field. Is the bind file sciword? If so,

Re: aligned vs AMS align

2010-11-16 Thread Paul Rubin
Emil Pavlov mail.bg> writes: > > What is the difference between the aligned and the AMS align equation > environment? > I think "aligned" is AMS align. There's also AMS alignat and AMS flalign, among others. You might want to grab a copy of Herbert Voss's math mode document (http://www.ctan

Re: Paste cells into table with Math

2010-11-21 Thread Paul Rubin
I can't answer the context-aware pasting question, but I'll point out that if you paste the math content in as ordinary text, you can highlight it and hit ctrl-M to turn it into a math inset. (This works anywhere in the document, and in both directions -- you can also turn a math inset into plain

Re: limit in number of reference entries in *.bib coming from jabref and used in lyx ? entries in reference list are cut off

2010-12-02 Thread Paul Rubin
Birte Schoettker gmail.com> writes: Rainer: I would love to know that, too, how to identify non-ASCII characters in a bibtex file. On Linux (or probably most POSIX-compatible systems), you have the iconv command. So iconv -t ASCII myfile.bib | grep iconv will try to convert your .bib file t

Re: Where is the spellcheck word list kept?

2010-12-05 Thread Paul Rubin
Steve Litt troubleshooters.com> writes: . > > I think I found a personal dictionary at $HOME/.aspell.en.pws. That sound > about right? Yes, that's it. > Upon finishing the book, I'll just save a copy of that in the > book directory, and use symlinks if I ever want to use it again. That sound

Re: Removing Marker in Lyx

2010-12-06 Thread Paul Rubin
iustifico gmail.com> writes: > I have succesfully put a marker into a equation. This works fine. Somehow I can't figure out how to remove the > marker again. How do I do that? > By "marker" you mean a label? Inside the equation, type alt-M N or uncheck Edit > Math > Number Whole Formula. That

Re: Table cell vertical alignment with nested tables

2010-12-06 Thread Paul Rubin
It's a horrible kludge, but the following works: 1. Put the text you want aligned with the table in a parbox (Insert > Box, right click on the box's handle, change type to parbox -- although a minipage probably works just as well. 2. Set the vertical alignment of the _box_ (not the content) to

Re: Questions and suggestions for spellcheck

2010-12-06 Thread Paul Rubin
Steve Litt troubleshooters.com> writes: > 1) At least as relates to storing new words in the personal dictionary, my > LyX > 1.6.4 ignores the personal dictionary at Tools->Settings->Spellchecker- > >Personal_dictionary. > > 2) I set it, removed it, and then it came back. Ugh! > There's a t

Re: Questions and suggestions for spellcheck

2010-12-06 Thread Paul Rubin
(self-reply ... never a good sign) My bad. The bug is _not_ fixed in 1.6.7; you can modify the path but you cannot delete it from the preferences menu. (You can manually edit the configuration file to get rid of it.) /Paul

Re: Error when converting to a readable format

2010-12-07 Thread Paul Rubin
I suggest the following: 1. Check that ImageMagick's bin directory is on your system path. A quick way to do that is to run 'convert -version' in a DOS window. DOS cannot find the convert utility, either IM is not installed or it is not on the command path. (I think Windows has a convert.exe p

Re: Reducing indentation of enumerated lists

2010-12-13 Thread Paul Rubin
Assuming you want to do this for all enumerations, add the following to your preamble: \usepackage{enumitem} \setenumerate{leftmargin=*} This of course assumes that you have the enumitem package installed. /Paul

Re: OT: Checking the font size of text in pdf docs (in Linux)?

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Rubin
Not sure how much help this will be, but pdfedit can convert a PDF file to XML format. Here's a sample font tag from the XML output of a PDF file: You can identify the font from the basename attribute, and weight/slant from obvious attributes. Size is tricky. The difference ascent-descent map

Re: instant-preview is greyed out

2010-12-19 Thread Paul Rubin
Well, obviously LyX sees the package. You're saying that in Tools > Preferences > Look and Feel > Display, the drop-down list next to "Instant Preview" is grayed out? Or is the "Off" option alive but "On" and "No math" grayed out? In your local LyX settings directory (Help > About LyX > User dir

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