Re: Thesis formatting problems, need help

2006-03-13 Thread Richard Heck
The answers to a lot of these questions can be found in /The LaTeX Companion/ or /A Guide to LaTeX/. All of these are LaTeX issues and have nothing much to do with Lyx. How LaTeX typesets things is controlled by the class and style files you load, and it uses complicated algorithms to decide where

Re: Find and Replace with italic word

2006-03-24 Thread Richard Heck
Well, one thing you can do is export the document as Latex, run your awk script, and then import it back into Lyx. I've done that kind of thing myself to make much more complicated sorts of changes. E.g., I'm working on a book that involves a fair bit of mathematics, and I had a lot of formul

Re: Question about Bibtex - which is the best GUI?

2006-03-30 Thread Richard Heck
cl/Tk. It's a bit old now, but still works reasonably well. Richard Heck Tim Vaughan wrote: > Hi, > > I plan on using Bibtex to handle the citations needed for a series of > essays I am writing. I have come across two Java GUIs, JabRef and > Bib-it and an OS X one, BibDesk. >

Re: Question about Bibtex - which is the best GUI?

2006-03-30 Thread Richard Heck
I'd encourage everyone who's had this problem with non-ascii characters to submit bug reports. It is the ambition of most open source projects to be internationalized, but I have the sense that people are still getting up to speed with unicode. I know that, even for my own small projects, I still

Re: Different fonts in LyX 1.3.4

2006-03-31 Thread Richard Heck
You need to install the TrueType font you're trying to use into LaTeX before you can use it. There are several guides for doing so on the web, e.g.: http://www.radamir.com/tex/ttf-tex.htm. Try a google search for more. Are you sure the glyph you want to use isn't available already? Richard Pekk

Re: page break and numbering issues

2006-04-01 Thread Richard Heck
You can download the paper class from ctan.org: http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/paper/. Info about how to install it in LaTeX and then get LyX to recognize it is in Ch 5 of the Customization manual. The koma-script article class may also serve you well. It's very customizable. If

Re: Easy way to get the page number top right

2006-04-05 Thread Richard Heck
The way to do this kind of thing is to redefine the "chapter start" macro from the class file. Here's what that macro looks like in my version of book.cls: [EMAIL PROTECTED] \thispagestyle{plain}% [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@schapter} What's causing the page number to

Re: Easy way to get the page number top right

2006-04-05 Thread Richard Heck
ter the name of the chapter is shown top right too. Is there any possibility to show only the page number on this page? -- Joachim Richard Heck wrote: The way to do this kind of thing is to redefine the "chapter start" macro from the class file. Here's what that macro looks

Re: way of citations (bibtex)

2006-04-07 Thread Richard Heck
When you insert the bibliography, a button appears in your text. Click on that button, and you will see a number of options for the bibliography style. If you choose "apalike", you will get the style you want. You should also put "\usepackage{apalike}" in the preamble. If you want a lot of f

Re: Linking & referencing

2006-04-08 Thread Richard Heck
john wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 04:07:42PM -0700, Nick Kuzmik wrote: > >> Can I use Lyx's label and cross reference features across different >> documents? >> > If you have a master document A that includes subdocuments B and C then when > you typeset A cross references between thes

Re: horizontal line above and below titel-environment

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Heck
Well, one cheap way to do it is to put ERT in the title, e.g.: \hrulefill \\ This is the Title \\ \hrulefill That gives me lines above and below. They're not spaced very well, but that could be resolved. I believe there's also a package that allows such customization. Richard [EMA

Re: Simple question - howto enter macro w/args

2006-04-14 Thread Richard Heck
In Lyx 1.3.x, you can do this by typing "\[" and then "\{". Oddly enough, escaping them yourself makes Lyx not escape them! Neal Becker wrote: I want to enter the latex command: \unit[N]{symbols} in mathed. How do I do it? Simply typing this in doesn't work. The '{' is interpreted as a lite

Re: Eszett

2006-04-19 Thread Richard Heck
Maria Gouskova wrote: This is an inconsistency with many of the symbol commands. For example, \textglotstop for the glottal stop character (in TIPA) needs to be followed by a space or {}, but \textipa{?} does not, since it has brackets. Accented characters, on the other hand, work without a sp

Re: Find and replace in ERT

2006-04-27 Thread Richard Heck
I think so: F&R doesn't work inside ERT, so far as I know. If you want to do that kind of thing, try opening the LyX file in a pure text editor and making the changes there. You need to be careful not to mess up the format of the file, though. Another option is to LaTeX, make your changes to that,

Re: pushing references to LyX with lyxpipe

2006-05-02 Thread Richard Heck
It works fine under LyX on Linux. Great, actually. The problem here is that there are no "named pipes" under Windows, which is what LyX uses to communicate with the outside world. (These are things that look like files but aren't really files at all: Programs can write into them and other programs

Open File in Running Instance of LyX, If One Exists

2006-05-02 Thread Richard Heck
Here's a little script I wrote that some other people may find useful. I got annoyed after a while that, if I double-clicked on a LyX file in my file manager, it would launch a new instance of LyX rather than open the file in the old one. I figured there had to be some way to deal with this problem

Re: pushing references to LyX with lyxpipe

2006-05-02 Thread Richard Heck
Michael Abshoff wrote: > Hello, >> It works fine under LyX on Linux. Great, actually. The problem here is >> that there are no "named pipes" under Windows, >> > I disagree with you on that one. See > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ipc/base/named_pipes.asp >

Re: help with titlesec package

2006-05-03 Thread Richard Heck
Marcelo Acuña wrote: > Hello, > I am using titlesec package for customize titles, and I want to use it for > replace fancy package in header and footer because this package have an > error. But I don´t know how to use titlesec for this. Doc that became with > package is very difficult. I need p

Re: help with titlesec package

2006-05-07 Thread Richard Heck
Marcelo Acuña wrote: >> I think something close to what you want to do is >> also done in titlesec.tex, >> > I can get only titlesec.dvi > Check ctan.org. You can get titlesec.tex there. >> You might try something like: >> >> \renewpagestyle{headings}[OPTIONAL]{ >> \headrule >> \set

Re: cv - another try

2006-05-12 Thread Richard Heck
These kinds of custom-formatting issues always concern LaTeX, not LyX. But that said, yes, it's feasible, which is not to say that it is easy to do. One option (maybe a bit of a hack) would be to use a minipage for the contact details, creating the separation line with a \rule. Getting the rule in

Re: page margins

2006-05-13 Thread Richard Heck
Define a \newpagestyle that sets the margins and such as you want them for that page. Then, at the beginning of that page: \thispagestyle{whatever}. See http://www.iam.ubc.ca/~newbury/tex/page-set-up.html for information on margin setup. It's possible you can also use the geometry package to do th

Re: bibtex styles

2006-05-13 Thread Richard Heck
These errors are being thrown by LaTeX. In such cases, it is always helpful to export to LaTeX, compile manually, and look at the LaTeX source to see what the problem is. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I need to add new BibTeX sryles to that already integrated in Lyx. > How can I do that? I

Re: Change title labels

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Heck
The titlesec package does this kind of thing pretty well. I expect it works with the koma-script classes, but I don't know that for sure. david wrote: > Dear list > > I'm using the article (koma-script) class and I need to change the > title-labeling as followed: > > 1 Section (ending with no dot

Re: Using the theorem enviroment with Koma-script in 1.4.x

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Heck
And after clicking all the dialog boxes, you actually get the document processed correctly? I wouldn't think you would, since the theorem environment simply isn't defined in the koma-script book class, and I've run a short test here with just one included document. (I've attached the test files.)

Re: Basic layout questions

2006-05-26 Thread Richard Heck
Packages like titlesec and tocloft should handle this. Jerome Tuncer wrote: > Hello list, > > Here I am, back with my layout beginner questions. > > Is there a way I can have my appendixes to actually show that they are > appendixes besides being "numbererd" by letters instead of actual > numbers

Re: Help regarding lyx (AND BUG?)

2006-06-07 Thread Richard Heck
does seem to work with report, so maybe it will work for you. NOTE TO LYX MAINTAINERS: It does not work to put the above command in the preamble. I'd count that as a bug. (This is true both in 1.3.7 and in 1.4.1.) The reason seems to be that the babel package is loaded only after the rest of the preamble has been. Richard Heck

Re: Hacking bst files... [Was: Show entry type in References]

2006-06-07 Thread Richard Heck
One of the things I personally find annoying about LaTeX is the syntax, and BibTeX is even worse, frankly, but it's not that insanely complicated once you adjust to the stack-oriented character of the language. You may find it useful to keep pen and paper nearby so you can keep track of what's on

Re: LyX Title environment

2006-06-14 Thread Richard Heck
What you put in the title environment becomes a \title command. (See the stdtitle.inc file: The LatexType for Title is: Command.) So you end up with \title{Whatever} in the LaTeX file. This seems to do little more than set [EMAIL PROTECTED] to whatever, and then that variable is used in \maketitl

Re: Bibtex: how to get Book title in capital letters for german thesis?

2006-06-14 Thread Richard Heck
What bibliography style are you using? Dominik Cabrerizo wrote: > Hi! > > I am using Lyx to write my thesis and have a BibTex List in my > document. The problem is that the Book titles are all wirtten in small > letters except the first one, thats a capital. > I used JabRef to create the list. >

Re: Subtitles

2006-06-15 Thread Richard Heck
There's a difference here between \maketitle and [EMAIL PROTECTED], at least if you're modifying one of the existing classes. The former is defined using \newcommand, but the latter is defined using \def. It'd be nice if someone could explain why. Richard Steve Litt wrote: > On Thursday 15 June

Re: Bibliography Style apalike

2006-06-16 Thread Richard Heck
Look at the file apalike.bst, which will tell you want fields are defined. (There is no field "translator", by the way.) And you can use apalike2, if you wish. Just hit the "browse" button in the dialog where you choose a bibliography style, and then go find the file apalike2.bst. It is, by the w

Re: Bibliography Style apalike

2006-06-16 Thread Richard Heck
, etc? > > Bruce > > > > On Jun 16, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > >> >> Look at the file apalike.bst, which will tell you want fields are >> defined. (There is no field "translator", by the way.) And you can use >> apalike2, if you wish

Re: Confused about Lyx's goals -- isn't this supposed to increase productivity?

2006-06-19 Thread Richard Heck
and there are some issues connected with writing in the humanities that still, it seems to me, need sorting out at the level of BibTeX styles, and it's going to take some TeX coding to do that. But I expect again that this will happen, as more people in the humanities discover the advantages of Ly

Re: Easing the editing/correction of LyX documents

2006-06-19 Thread Richard Heck
When I'm doing close editing, I "View DVI" and switch back and forth between the DVI viewer and LyX. LyX now has a feature that allows you the DVI viewer effectively to inform LyX what you want to edit, and LyX will then go there automatically. I've not used that yet, however, as I can always just

Re: Where can I find better info on LyX functions?

2007-06-12 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, There's long list of LyX functions for 1.3.3 here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctions Unfortunately most of them have no explanations or argument lists, and I get the feeling the list is not complete, even for 1.3.3. Is there a better place (besides reading and u

Re: LyX Outline feature - screenshot & short explanation

2007-06-13 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: Is there a "stable" 1.5.x? Not yet. We're still in pre-release. But a lot of people are using 1.5.rc1 in a fairly serious way. Does 1.5.x use the same native format as 1.4.2? No. But you can cross-convert. Is 1.5.x as reliable and stable as 1.4.2 (meaning it never screws up)

Re: moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor

2007-06-14 Thread Richard Heck
Ares wrote: Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows, but I realised that it runs under the Java Runtime Environment, and I do not want to install new components if I do not really need them... JabR

Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.

2007-06-15 Thread Richard Heck
Les Denham wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007 08:36, Helge Hafting wrote: Acrobat certainly isn't useless, but have some problems: Precisely why I use Acrobat Reader: I don't want to create a PDF which does not work properly with the reader most people use. I performed the necessary convol

Re: moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor

2007-06-15 Thread Richard Heck
Alan G Isaac wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Richard Heck apparently wrote: BibLaTeX, soon to be the new standard Can you provide the background for this claim? It's based upon my sense of the enthusiasm that BibLaTeX has generated on comp.text.tex. There really are a lot of pro

Re: Ceiling or floor symbol in math

2007-06-16 Thread Richard Heck
Raja Zubair wrote: Hi I am using Lyx 1.5.0. beta3. I'd recommend you move to 1.5.rc1. A lot has been fixed. I have looked thoroughly in the math toolbar and I am unable to find ceiling or floor symbol in it. Can anybody any idea about how to get it. You can always enter things manually. If

Re: RC1 Dumb Question

2007-06-17 Thread Richard Heck
Mark Kortink wrote: Hi I am writing a book in LyX and come from the Windows world. I want to download and install RC1 with no hassels. Check the Windows part of the Wiki. It will explain the differences. -- == Richard G Heck, Jr

Re: LyX 1.44: Questionmarks instead of citations

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Heck
Rainer M. Krug wrote: I just managed to reproduce it with a default new file and two references. I attache the bibtex file, the lyx file, the resulting pdf and the latex log This is very strange and I don't have any ideas what could be the problem. Export it to LaTeX and try doing it manually

Re: help on keyboard shortcut

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Heck
Bob Alvarez wrote: I am trying to add a command to not indent a paragraph in Lyx 1.4.4. I do this now by inserting ERT \noindent at the start of the paragraph This works fine but it is tedious since I use this after (almost) every equation in my paper. So, I am trying to do this with a keyboard

Re: Disabling lyx socket

2007-06-21 Thread Richard Heck
Paniez Paykari wrote: When I want to do 'save' or 'accept all changes' lyx does not respond anymore and the error message 'Disabling lyx socket' comes up. How can I fix this? You'll need to give more information: What OS you are using, exactly when this happens (every time? or only s

Re: Understanding "Encoding" problems

2007-06-21 Thread Richard Heck
Rainer M. Krug wrote: Thanks for the links - so in BibTex, I have to use \"{u} which I actually prefer as it makes it universal. Yes, you should use in BibTeX whatever you would use in LaTeX. Also - is there an easy way to identify these "characters" in a bibtex file? When I import from into Ja

Re: help on keyboard shortcut

2007-06-21 Thread Richard Heck
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Richard Heck schrieb am 20.06.2007: Bob Alvarez wrote: 2. insert a space in the text after the ERT. This seems tricky, as I can't see how just to insert a space. space-insert normal That's not a normal space. I get an "inter-word" space by ins

Re: modifyng amsalpha style for Bibtex

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Heck
Giuseppe Vitalone wrote: Hi, I'd like to modify that style in a way that it doesn't write words in lower-case, is this possible? Yes. Copy amsalpha.bst to an appropriate place in your local TeX tree (e.g., /home/you/texmf/bibtex/bst/) and rename it to avoid conflicts. Open it and find this bit

Re: help on keyboard shortcut

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: If, as I suspect, Bob wants the space just to keep \noindent from running into the text, a somewhat simpler solution is "command-sequence ert-insert; self-insert \noindent{}; char-forward;" Yup. rh /Paul -- ===

Re: help on keyboard shortcut

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: This works with 'unicode-insert 0x20' from now on. Excellent! Now all I have to do is remember that. ;-) It's not so bad: 0x20 is decimal 32---ascii for a space. Richard -- == Richard

Re: "Replace all" feature in spellchecker?

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Heck
Hellmut Weber wrote: I would like to support this feature request. It would have saved me quite some time in the last weeks. When you mistype a word repeatedly (quite usual for those who are not writing in our native language), it is unconvenient to have to replace every individual ocurrenc

Re: document style ingheritance

2007-07-09 Thread Richard Heck
Giuseppe Vitalone wrote: Hi, I'm writing my thesis as a book document with the option "two face" checked. I'm using the child documents mechanism, as inputs. Is it possible to have the childs behaving differently? In other words, I would like to have the frontmatter not two faced... There may

Re: Bibtex/Citations: number of authors

2007-07-13 Thread Richard Heck
Ken wrote: Hi. I spent ages Google-ing this question without luck. Hopefully someone knows the answer at the top of their head. I am using Natbib Author-Year. In my document, if there are more than two authors, the citation is Author et al (Year). I would like to change this to use et al only

Re: LyX cannot entirely change the document language

2007-07-25 Thread Richard Heck
Paul Smith wrote: On 7/24/07, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After having written a piece of a document, there is apparently no way > of changing the overall language of the document, in the sense that > the part already written remains as written with the previous > language, i.e., loo

Re: LyX1.5.0rc2: Frame of math-insets does not dissapear

2007-07-27 Thread Richard Heck
Rodrigo Fresneda wrote: Hi, I confirm this, except not with your particular example. It occurs rather randomly with my files. (lyx 1.5 compiled under debian sid) These kinds of bugs are hard to reproduce sometimes. Pay attention to how you move the cursor out of the inset: Mouse or keyboard;

Re: Shortcut for View->pdflatex

2007-08-02 Thread Richard Heck
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Nicolás schrieb am 02.08.2007: Is there or can I create a shortcut for View->pdflatex? Thanks! Look under Preferences>File formats. There's a place to enter the shortcut you want to use. Richard -- ==

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.1 is released

2007-08-06 Thread Richard Heck
Miki Dovrat wrote: To the developers: I understand the severity of the bug concerning compression on Windows, but by the time you took the release off the site, I had already installed lyx 1.5 on one computer (home) and started working, and when I got to work and wanted to install lyx there,

Re: HTML and URLs in LYX

2007-08-07 Thread Richard Heck
Yaron Y. Goland wrote: First, to whomever made export to HTML work with bibliographies from inside of LYX in 1.5.x - THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU Until now I have had to follow http://www.goland.org/lyx/#x1-90008 every time I wanted to generate HTML output and it was awful. Now the proce

Re: LyX 1.5.1 doesn't open a document set prepared with an oldest version

2007-08-07 Thread Richard Heck
Rosati Claudio wrote: HI, I'm working on a mac, and I have a document set (actually made of a main document - Manuale_di_Fonia.lyx - and 5 chapter files) made with an older LyX version, and that the 1.5.1 is unable to open (just the chapter n. 2, the one actually containing something interes

Re: LyX Icons

2007-08-07 Thread Richard Heck
Typhoon wrote: Who owns the LyX logos? I am doing a short (about 100 pages) book "Self-publishing with LyX" which will be issued under one of the Creative Commons licences. I would like to use the LyX logo on the front. Who do I get permission from? I'm forwarding this to lyx-devel, as you'r

Re: margin problem

2007-08-07 Thread Richard Heck
John White wrote: Hi Folks, I suppose I have answered the email I sent yesterday to the effect that my margin machine would not recognize changes in margins. I "fixed" the problem by removing everything in Document-Settings-Latex Preamble. So now the question I have is: what should normal

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

2007-08-09 Thread Richard Heck
John Kane wrote: Anybody? I don't use apa so can't debug this, but here is what I'd do: Export to LaTeX, and then run the usual LaTeX chain on the file manually: latex file, bibtex file, latex file, latex file. Somewhere along the way, you'll get some error messages, I'd assume. Post them h

Re: HTML and URLs in LYX

2007-08-10 Thread Richard Heck
letter size paper so when I produce a PDF my article doesn't have insanely large margins? Richard Heck wrote: Yaron Y. Goland wrote: First, to whomever made export to HTML work with bibliographies from inside of LYX in 1.5.x - THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU Until now I have had t

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Richard Heck
Sam Lewis wrote: I also would like to express my support for a on-the-fly-spellchecker. It would bring LyX in line with other similar editors, where such a feature has been standard for many year. A feature poll in our wiki has indicated an overwhelming support for it by many LyX users. Although

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Richard Heck
Sam Lewis wrote: I think one of the crucial differences, is the "naturally" high number of mathematics, logisticians, etc. in the LyX user and developer community, who have a very different approach to *writing* than one finds humanities. This presumably has resulted in this peculiar situation th

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Richard Heck
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one of the lead developers. Me? Was that intended as some kind of insult? ;=) Whoops.

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. +1 I'm happy to just run spellcheck at the end, but I'm not sure this discussion is on point. Assuming that a significant number of users want it on-the-fly (enough to moti

Re: Layout for Jura / Law PhD Thesis

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Heck
Fritz Bein wrote: Hi, I would like to convince a friend to write her PhD thesis (Law) in Lyx. I have found some valuable resource in MikTex (package juramisc) and I wonder if there exist an equivalent layout file for Lyx. Maybe anyone has created one, or made some experiences writing law text

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Heck
Sam Lewis wrote: Of course. And anyone who wants to code this can do so. This was in response to the suggestion that LyX lacked this incredibly wonderful and painfully obvious feature. My point was that it isn't obviously wonderful. Indeed, I'd go so far as to say that, if you think you want i

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Heck
what they should like and what they shouldn't. Just an opinion ... What they like is up to them. But I teach writing, so I think I get to tell people what helps with writing and what does not. rh SB On Aug 13, 2007, at 6:44 PM, Richard Heck wrote: Sam Lewis wrote: Of course. And anyon

Re: copy and paste special characters and ERT

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Heck
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: My wife wanted to do a search and replace to replace 1/2 with � and 3/4 with � but we couldn't paste that with Ctrl-V or middle-click (in X). So I used vim to edit the lyx document. Also I wanted to replace '1/3' with the corresponding evil red text. How can I paste in

Re: Help with specific class

2007-08-18 Thread Richard Heck
leandro ribeiro wrote: Hi there! I've very recently discovered LyX and LaTeX and - must say - I'm marveled! My wife is writing a doctoral thesis in Psicology and she is going mad with MSOffice formating issues. What I wanted to do was to use LyX to reformat everything, which would be very easy

Re: Exporting

2007-08-26 Thread Richard Heck
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 + I cannot convert to either OpenOffice or HTML (it does something

Re: Exporting

2007-08-27 Thread Richard Heck
John Kane wrote: --- 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 te

Re: Exporting

2007-08-27 Thread Richard Heck
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 problem is in LyX. Of course you'll need to export to LaTeX first. Richard -- =

Re: Exporting

2007-08-27 Thread Richard Heck
x27;t know. John Kane wrote: Next question : where do I find ooolatex? Perhaps I don't have ooolatex installed? I don't see it anywhere on the harddrive and all I seem to be able to see is an ooolatex that appears to be an OOo macro that so far I cannot get to work in OOo. ---

Re: Exporting

2007-08-27 Thread Richard Heck
John Kane wrote: I'm more at the point of just doing a latex2rtf conversion which is not all that bad, but it is extremely annoying that I cannot get this to work. I use OOo a lot and the ability to move things in and out of Lyx would be a big help. It'd be nice to know if it's tex4ht or LyX t

Re: How to change date in "letter" document class?

2007-08-28 Thread Richard Heck
Lance Simmons wrote: In the document class "letter", how do I change the date from the current date to another date? There is no "Date" paragraph environment in the "letter" document class. Do I need to insert some LaTex code in the preamble, or perhaps some ERT code? I didn't find anything in

Re: How to change date in "letter" document class?

2007-08-28 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 28 August 2007 13:50, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On 8/28/07, Lance Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the document class "letter", how do I change the date from the current date to another date? There is no "Date" paragraph environment in the "letter" document

Re: Error with BibTeX

2007-08-28 Thread Richard Heck
Dave Hewitt wrote: I followed the instructions to the letter on the Wiki/Windows section for Tips and Tweaks regarding 'Create a Bibliography'. I am using JabRef 2.2. When I insert the Bibliography, LyX seems happy, but I get this error from LaTeX: Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character u

Re: Layout modules

2007-08-28 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 28 August 2007 16:06, Richard Heck wrote: By the way, Steve, you're going to love the work I've done on layouts: http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/LayoutModularity. rh * * \ o / \|/ |

Re: Layout modules

2007-08-28 Thread Richard Heck
Oh, PS: These aren't actually committed to trunk yet. It'll be a few days. rh -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ ==

Re: export--> pdf

2007-08-29 Thread Richard Heck
Helge Hafting wrote: Hauser Helmut wrote: Hello everybody, I was wondering where the the export to pdf (latex) has gone in the version 1.5.1. I am aware of two ways to get the pdf right now: - using the preview option and then save the file directly from the pdf-viewer. - or get it from the

Re: A source for document class layouts?

2007-08-29 Thread Richard Heck
Dave Hewitt wrote: Many thanks to Paul Rubin for his recent help on document classes. But, as he probably suspected, my dilemna continues (me and the wolverine are both a bit worse for wear, but we'll live) and now I think it rises to a new level... There's many wonderful document classes out

Re: \newtheorem and \newtheoremstyle

2007-08-30 Thread Richard Heck
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi, I got further ahead. I could solve 2) by using the ntheorem package instead of amsthm. 1) is partly solved: Adding a "OptionalArgs 1" line to my style definition enabled the "Insert->Short Title" command in LyX. However, the optional argument is not written out to

Re: Documentation

2007-08-30 Thread Richard Heck
Hartmut Haase wrote: Hi, to complete the UserGuide I need explanations/informations about the following items: Tools->Preferences->Colors-> command inset command inset backgroun command inset frame These three all have to do with insets like URL, that don't have any

Re: How to change Citation Style

2007-08-30 Thread Richard Heck
KTl wrote: Hello everybody, since I updated from Lyx 1.4.5 to 1.5.1 my citations look different. I used to get numbered citations ( e.g [1] ...) and now I see something like "Author et. al (2007) [1]". I used to be able to set the reference style where I included the .bib file (e.g. apsrev), and

Re: texhash

2007-08-30 Thread Richard Heck
Karen Chang wrote: Hi, I just installed LyX onto a Mac and got the following error: Cannot run texhash command to update Tex installation. Run Manually. How would I go about doing that? Have I done something wrong during the installation? Open a terminal window (maybe it has some special

Re: A source for document class layouts?

2007-08-30 Thread Richard Heck
Dave Hewitt wrote: Paul, Yes, it repeats that same error message and reversion to article with your file (and three other things I subsequently tried). Sorry, but can you say again EXACTLY what error message you are getting? That will at least let me know which error is happening here. If you'

Re: microtype package and hanging punctuation

2007-08-31 Thread Richard Heck
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: William Adams wrote: - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. I am reading the

Re: microtype package and hanging punctuation

2007-08-31 Thread Richard Heck
Paul Smith wrote: On 8/31/07, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation? When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed. I am reading the

Re: A source for document class layouts?

2007-08-31 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I'll skip over the forensic steps (and the "what was I drinking that made me even think of them" part) and cut to the chase scene. My layout file is coded (according to Notepad++) "ANSI as UTF-8". Yours is coded UTF-8. Turns out either ANSI or "ANSI as UTF-8" works fine,

Re: LyX for Literary Studies

2007-09-02 Thread Richard Heck
Adam C.M. Solove wrote: Hello all, I'm a long-time LaTeX user but new to LyX. I am currently working on a package to convert Word-using literature scholars to open formats and the benefits of TeX. Specifically, I am trying to find/write a sensible GUI to the ledmac package for typesetting critica

Re: A source for document class layouts?

2007-09-02 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: This is a huge issue, and we will have bugs here. One of the biggest changes with 1.5.x is the switch to unicode. ALL layout files need to be changed to unicode. See the release notes. Am I right that all layout files shipping with LyX 1.5.x are already unicode, and this ju

Re: LyX for Literary Studies

2007-09-04 Thread Richard Heck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For Ledmac, you don't insert a footnote at the end of a sentence but apply it to a range of the text. I doubt it is possible to do it in LyX with insets. Or only in a clumsy way. Oh, I see, this is more of a challenge. It'd be possible, though, to define two charstyle

Re: significantly broken

2007-09-04 Thread Richard Heck
Lance W. Haverkamp wrote: Unnstalled 1.3.7 reinstalled 1.5.1, no change Uninstalled 1.5.1 reinstalled 1.3.7 no change; error messages worded slightly differently, but still largely non-functional beyond the most basic commands. Try running LyX from a terminal, and then running "Reconfigure" w

Re: MS Word to LyX?

2007-09-04 Thread Richard Heck
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 13:34, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tuesday 04 September 2007 12:45, John Kane wrote: > > 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

Re: improving wrapping or hyphenation of Emphasis and /path/names

2007-09-04 Thread Richard Heck
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I have a 210 page book and a 650 page book with many Emphasis (italics) and /path/to/file/names that extend out into my margin. I think you could probably use \url for the filenames. I'm not sure what the problem with \emph would be. Does that really interfere with hyph

Re: web references

2007-09-04 Thread Richard Heck
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use JabRef to manage my references, and all seemed to go well... till I got to web page references. How may I create my entries so LyX import URLs? On LyX I'm using an APA article class and apacitex style. I'm not sure what you mean. If you want the ref

Re: web references

2007-09-04 Thread Richard Heck
Roberto Gorjão wrote: I'm also having problems with enconding... I've tryed UTF-8 and ISO8859-1, but diacritics always appear wrong on LyX. The critical thing is that the encoding match the encoding of the output LaTeX file. Other people will have the details. Richard --

Re: a way of building macros?

2007-09-06 Thread Richard Heck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andre, I have not a clue about where to begin looking for "/lib/bin/*". Could you be more specific? I'm on Win XP. Probably somewhere like c:\Program Files\LyX\..., but others will know. I've also found this page in the LyX's Wiki -- http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips

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