1.1.6-pre3 and wv

2001-01-09 Thread Robin Turner
Nice to see Word import in 1.1.6-pre3 - I never use Word myself, but people insist on sending me files in .doc format. However, I'm having trouble getting it to work. With wv versions 0.5.26 and 0.5.44, lyx won't detect wv (i.e. after reconfiguring there is still no "Import - Word" option). Wit

Re: 1.1.6-pre3 and wv

2001-01-10 Thread Robin Turner
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:59:08PM +0200, Robin Turner wrote: > > Nice to see Word import in 1.1.6-pre3 - I never use Word myself, but > > people insist on sending me files in .doc format. However, I'm having > > trouble getting it to work.

Re: Lighter Version

2003-06-16 Thread Robin Turner
r while you're running latex. Robin -- "Some guy breaking into a government computer system and wreaking havoc makes for a more interesting movie plot than some guy writing device drivers. It's hard to work in a good 10-minutes car chase scene with some guy who writes device driver

Re: teach me how to fish

2003-06-20 Thread Robin Turner
movie plot than some guy writing device drivers. It's hard to work in a good 10-minutes car chase scene with some guy who writes device drivers..." - tjc, post to LWN Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: table

2003-06-20 Thread Robin Turner
esting movie plot than some guy writing device drivers. It's hard to work in a good 10-minutes car chase scene with some guy who writes device drivers..." - tjc, post to LWN Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-20 Thread Robin Turner
nutes car chase scene with some guy who writes device drivers..." - tjc, post to LWN Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Index question

2003-06-30 Thread Robin Turner
I need to have, say, "Albigensian - see Cathar"). Thanks, Robin -- "A strategy is still being formulated." Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Index question

2003-07-01 Thread Robin Turner
James Frye wrote: On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Robin Turner wrote: or simulacra - see simulacrum simulacrum, 6, 8, 16 A bit off the track, but IMHO this is the single most annoying thing anyone can do in an index. I would love to have an option in the index generator that says A and B are equivalent

Re: Index question

2003-07-02 Thread Robin Turner
Rafa García wrote: Hello! El Martes, 1 de Julio de 2003 01:22, Robin Turner escribió: Is it possible to make different words (or forms of the same word) point to the same index entry while including all the original words in the index? For example, I can make "simulacrum" and "

Re: word count

2003-07-08 Thread Robin Turner
count feature, something that would make it really nice would be the ability to count words in only one part of a document. Very useful for those "which section to I need to cut in order to fit in the maximum wordcount?" moments! Robin -- "A strategy is still being formulated

Jurabib: my own question answered, plus another one

2003-07-07 Thread Robin Turner
's causing this problem? Robin -- "A strategy is still being formulated." Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: no bibtex style file not seen in LYX!

2003-07-29 Thread Robin Turner
break them." - Blake's 7 Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: no bibtex style file not seen in LYX!

2003-07-29 Thread Robin Turner
John Levon wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:37:20PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: There was a change in the way bibtex was referred to. Click on the bibliography box in your document and reset the database and style - your citations should come back. If you have to do this, we have a bug. I

Re: Problems installing Lyx 1.3.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2003-07-29 Thread Robin Turner
Janus Sandsgaard wrote: On Tuesday 29 July 2003 23:50, Robin Turner wrote: Use urpmi with the "allow nodeps" option. And this won't cause problems? Why does it Ask for an old qt? Bad spec file? Try it - you can always uninstall it if it doesn't work. Robin -- "T

Re: alternative BibTex styles for LyX

2003-07-29 Thread Robin Turner
work through the documentation, but once you get the hang of it, it's amazingly powerful. Robin -- "There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them." - Blake's 7 Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Problems installing Lyx 1.3.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2003-07-30 Thread Robin Turner
Janus Sandsgaard wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2003 02:57, Robin Turner wrote: Bad spec file? Try it - you can always uninstall it if it doesn't work. It seems to work just perfetc! I updated from LyX 1.2.x and I must say (among other things) it is an improvement with the QT-integr

Re: word to lyx

2003-08-04 Thread Robin Turner
find out what those are when you break them." - Blake's 7 Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Spell-as-you-type ??? am I the only one interested?

2003-12-30 Thread Robin Turner
ot;yay, go for it!" Robin -- "The other major kind of computer is the "Apple", which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer that you basically just plug in and use." - Dave Barry Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: 1.1.6-pre3 and wv

2001-01-18 Thread Robin Turner
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:43:28AM +0200, Robin Turner wrote: > > Dekel Tsur wrote: > > It was in English. Here's an example of what got generated: > > > Closer inspection revealed that I was not getting "digital garbage" as >

Re: grammar

2001-03-22 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 21 March 2001 21:38, you wrote: > * Robert Koehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010321 08:27]: > > Hi, > > > > A question for all those using Lyx to write any type of document! > > I am writing my PhD thesis in Lyx and was wondering how people > > are checking the grammar in their documents

Box environment

2001-03-24 Thread Robin Turner
I've been doing some work on a layout sheet for my workmates (assuming that I can persuade them to start using LyX!) which involves a box environment - the idea is that your text appears in a centred box (which is something we do a lot). What I have so far works OK, but the next Standard parag

Wishlist for 2.0

2001-03-31 Thread Robin Turner
Every now and then I have a look at www.lyx.org to see if new versions are pending, and since there are no release announcements at the moment, I assume that means there's still time to work in features for 2.0. If so, I have some humble petitions for the developer gods. * a GUI plugin for

Access to fonts

2001-03-31 Thread Robin Turner
An earlier posting I made to this list about installing fonts produced the response that LyX detects all fonts which have been correctly installed in TeX. However, when I look at /usr/share/texfm/fonts/afm/adobe I see a bunch of fonts which do not show up when I go to Layout -> Document -> Fon

Re: Updata PS "C-S-T" w/ cua.bind never worked?

2001-04-07 Thread Robin Turner
On Saturday 07 April 2001 15:49, you wrote: > I am running latest version of lyx on Mandrake 7.2 Linux. The key binding > file is cua.bind. > > But the bind "C-S-T", which is supposed to update postscript never worked. > I am wondering why. I changed it to "M-T", which works fine. > > Could it be

Re: Quality problems with PDF windows

2001-04-11 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 09 April 2001 21:42, you wrote: > I have to use Windows to print the documents I type in > LyX. But the problem is that when I convert it to PDF > it doesn´t look very good in Acrobat Reader or > Ghostscript for Windows. The fonts look very bad. > Does anyone knows a workaround? Maybe a

Re: Quality problems with PDF windows

2001-04-11 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 11 April 2001 14:51, EagleIce wrote: > On Wednesday 11 April 2001 12:40, EagleIce wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 April 2001 11:20, Robin Turner wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > PostScript). Given that you have Ghostscript in Windows, why not > > &g

DocBook

2001-04-13 Thread Robin Turner
Is there a way to import DocBook .xml files into LyX? Robin

Re: List of fonts in Document popup

2001-04-16 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 16 April 2001 01:13, Christopher Jones wrote: > I found something in the archives from someone who wanted to know where LyX > gets the list of fonts that shows up in the Document popup. The answer was, > well, typical of this list ;-) -- namely, 'you don't want more fonts > there-- load

Problems reinstalling LyX

2001-04-17 Thread Robin Turner
I recently reinstalled my Linux system (Mandrake 7.2) and now cannot reinstall LyX. I've tried 1.1.6.fix1, which comes up OK but gives me no menus, and 1.1.6-pre3, which crashes on opening, saying it can't read the article class. I've tried different versions of xforms (0.8.8 and 0.8.9) with

Re: Lyx*geometry not understood by 1.1.6fix1

2001-04-25 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 25 April 2001 16:25, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > since I upgraded to LyX 1.1.6fix1 (via rpm), LyX does not react on my > > ~.Xdefault setting. I had two lines telling > > > > LyX*width: 720 > > LyX*height:670 > > As far as I know LyX does not check any .X* settings. So what, if

Re: quick help needed

2001-04-26 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 26 April 2001 06:01, Myriam Abramson wrote: > Hi! > > What's the keystroke to remove all the errors? What, the error boxes or the actual errors? Error boxes can be removed with M-e, e (M is normally the left Alt key). Actually getting rid of the errors, whooo ... Robin

Re: Introduction in User Guide

2001-05-03 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 03 May 2001 08:04, Matej Cepl wrote: [snip] > I certainly know, that most of the users of _other_ wordprocessors > doesn't know about anything about styles, headlines numbering, etc. > However, it is certainly not the fault of these wordprocessors (well, > sort of, but not that these p

Re: Word2LaTex

2001-05-09 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 09 May 2001 16:41, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > >>X-Sybari-Space: > >>From: Remzi Seker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: Lyx Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Subject: Word2LaTex > >>Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 08:34:28 -0500 > >> > >>Does anyone know of a good way t

Re: Query Simple

2001-05-12 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 13 May 2001 02:07, you wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been a happy user of LyX for a while. I even write my thesis in LyX. > Now this is my problem ... my University has a standard LaTex style for > research theses, and I wonder how easy or how I can take that style and > create > a LyX equ

Re: latin2 keyboard in LyX 1.1.6fix1

2001-05-12 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 11 May 2001 17:54, Matej Cepl wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:22:29AM +0200, Roman Maurer wrote: > > What does "lyx -dbg key" say? > > Well, actually nothing -- it cores dump before, it manages to say > anything. :-) Sounds a bit like my Turkish problem, which I've been messing arou

Re: latin2 keyboard in LyX 1.1.6fix1

2001-05-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 14 May 2001 11:22, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > There is a known problem with turkish locales, which is the 'i' is not > the lower case variant of 'I'. This breaks the parsing of layout > files (where keywords are case-insensitive). Try to set the > environment variable LC_COLLATE to

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-23 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 10:12, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > >Is there any sort of Latex command that will automatically sort a table >> alphabetically by, say, the first column, leaving the header at the top? >> Barring this, is there any way to sort the table automatically or do I have >> to m

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-23 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 14:56, Baruch Even wrote: > Hopefully in the future we will have an embedded scripting language in LyX > and features like this one will be implementable with it. This will > satisfy the feature-bloat proponents and the feature-bloat opponents, you > will be able to use su

Re: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]

2001-05-23 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 15:28, Baruch Even wrote: > * Niklas Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010523 15:25]: > > > See? Does not look that bad, but an even better solution would be > > > *other* feature: import .cvs files directly as tables. This seems a > > > better solution, as data are produced in

Re: Importing text tips

2001-05-23 Thread Robin Turner
I find ReLyX is choking on .tex files generated from GChtml2latex (I'm using this rather than the standard html2latex as it suits my perl setup). Is this a problem just with this script, or have others had the same experience with .tex files (this is on fix2). Robin

Re: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]

2001-05-23 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 18:17, Allan Rae wrote: > On 23 May 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > What is .cvs? > > csv > > comma separated values Yup, that's what I meant. My tendency to reverse keys is one reason I never got very far with Prel scripting ;-) > Allan. (ARRae) > Why is it takin

Re: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]

2001-05-23 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 16:18, Juergen Vigna wrote: > On 23-May-2001 Niklas Werner wrote: > > this would allow for importing database-records as well, since dumping > > them cvs-split is fairly easy. > > I'd like to add that to the 2.0-wishlist! > > I already told here that this IS already possib

Re: csv2lyx (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-05-25 Thread Robin Turner
Just tried running it, but perl -d came out with "unrecognized character \xA0 at line 60" (which seems to be in the middle of a comment, so shouldn't apply, unless perl only numbers lines with instructions - it's been so long I can't remember). Looks pretty nifty if I can make it work though,

Re: Mandrake's RPM

2001-06-04 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 01 June 2001 17:38, German Poo Caaman~o wrote: > I don't know if mandrake's rpm are available. > > But I built some of them I uploaded to > http://cronos.dci.ubiboio.cl/~gpoo/lyx as before version. I tried to download, but got an "unrecognised server" message. How does the Mandrake ver

Re: us keyboard + compose + accent problem

2001-06-04 Thread Robin Turner
On Saturday 02 June 2001 12:36, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:59:06PM -0400, Ronald Florence wrote: > > I'm in trouble with compose keys [...] > > This feature works in all of the program I use under X, but does not > > work under LyX: if I press the sequence above I

Re: Mandrake's RPM

2001-06-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 18:48, becherini yvonne Gruppo II wrote: > Hi, > I tried to install Mandrake's RPM from > > http://cronos.dci.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/lyx > > but I got some errors: > > libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by lyx-1.1.6fix2-1mdk Which version of Mandrake are you using? On 8.0 I ha

Re: pdf error...

2001-06-09 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 08 June 2001 11:52, Michael wrote: > When I insert an eps graphic in my document pdflatex gives an error: > >unknown graphics extension .ps > > The extension doesn't matter, I allways get that error. Without graphic, > pdflatex works fine. PS2PDF also works, but doesn't look as g

Re: graphics question

2001-06-09 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 07 June 2001 08:03, Herbert Voss wrote: > Myriam Abramson wrote: > > I have a jpep picture that I converted to postscript to insert it in > > maybe a problem of the converter? Could be - works fine for me using the Gimp. What happens if you use Insert -> External Material -> Rasterim

Re: [mbmarduk@lycos.nl] Feedback from www.lyx.org

2001-06-09 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 07 June 2001 19:00, Henk Coetzee wrote: > On Thu 07 Jun 01 15:20, Emmanuel GUREGHIAN wrote: > > "A.Gulino" a écrit : > > > Helge Hafting wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > There are many reasons: There are indeed! Most of the reasons why I like LyX have been mentioned already, but on

Re: LyX on a CD

2001-06-11 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 11 June 2001 02:05, Baruch Even wrote: > A project idea I came up with after one too many requests for LyX is to > have a Linux (or any other unix for that matter) distribution complete > with LaTeX/DocBook support an X-Server and LyX to be booted into from > the CD itself. > > Basically

Dumb math question

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Turner
Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ... 1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash fraction rather than a math fraction; 2. Type a degree sign (as in "a 90 degree arc"). Am I stupid or what? Robin

Re: Dumb math question

2001-06-13 Thread Robin Turner
Alberto Vecchiato wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Robin Turner wrote: > > > Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command > > summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ... > > > > 1. Type a fraction as an

Re: Dumb math question

2001-06-13 Thread Robin Turner
Herbert Voss wrote: > > Robin Turner wrote: > > > > Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command > > summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ... > > > > 1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash f

Re: Conversion Lyx to doc

2001-06-22 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 21 June 2001 13:29, you wrote: > chebira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I would like to know if ther are some converters from Lyx documents to > > RTF or DOC format. > > I never found a better solution than this bad solution. ;-) > > 1. Convert Lyx to HTML via tth > 2. Start StarOffic

Re: Tex2lyx

2001-06-25 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 25 June 2001 11:34, ABe wrote: > Hi all Lyx-users, > > I have q question. If I have a file Tex, How can I read with Lyx ? > Go to File->Import->LaTeX and cross your fingers. This command invokes a script called reLyX, which will convert _most_ LaTeX to LyX format pretty well, but some

Re: Bibtex and apalike [off-topic]

2001-06-25 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 22 June 2001 21:31, Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes wrote: > Hi > > I et. al means and others (in latin), and it is used in some > bibliographich styles to supress authors names, when they are more than 3. One reason for any academic with a family name starting late in the alphabet to ch

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-25 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 09:05, Baruch Even wrote: > An extension of this is something i've seen in Wikis, that is the > ability of the user to say what is the url of the CSS file he wants, he > can then point it to a local file and edit the look of the site to > whatever he wants, though I believ

Re: converting klyx file

2001-06-29 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 29 June 2001 11:27, kathryn Wotton wrote: > Hey , i was just wondering whether I can convert a document so that it can > be accessed in microsoft word, because i have done a cross country report > for school and one of my teachers asked me to put it on a disk and give it > to our school

Re: Font resolution

2001-07-06 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 02 July 2001 23:26, A. Gunes Koru wrote: > Lyx fonts that I view on the screen seem like they have a low resolution. > I was wondering if it is the same for everybody. Is there any way of > improving it? Have you checked Edit->Preferences->Interface? You may have the resolution set to

LaTeX import

2001-07-18 Thread Robin Turner
Does anyone know of a utility that will clean up (La)TeX files so that ReLyX can handle them? I've a .tex file that was automatically generated (by Jade?) from a DocBook file and is too messy for LyX to import. I suppose what I'm looking for is the equivalent of the Tidy program for HTML. Tha

Re: LaTeX import

2001-07-21 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 19 July 2001 00:57, ben wrote: > Robin Turner a écrit : > > Does anyone know of a utility that will clean up (La)TeX files so that > > ReLyX can handle them? I've a .tex file that was automatically generated > > (by Jade?) from a DocBook file and is too m

Re: insert __.txt into klyx

2001-07-30 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 30 July 2001 16:49, Claudia Urschl wrote: > Hi - it's me again. > > I've tried to include a normal txt-file into my klyx-document. But the > only way I found is to use /verbatiminput{file.txt} ... but there is no > option to change the size. Maybe someone knows another possibility or can

Re: insert __.txt into klyx

2001-07-30 Thread Robin Turner
Oh yeah, I've just remembered another alternative. Open your text document in an editor like Gedit or KWrite. Copy everything to the clipboard. Open KLyX and choose (assuming it's the same as LyX) Edit -> Paste primary selection -> as paragraphs Robin

Re: LyX

2001-08-26 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 27 August 2001 07:56, John O'Gorman wrote: > Aw cmon. > > You just don't want to give up your > LyX chicks on Unix > catchphrase. LOL > > Me, I believe that once you have the Greek letter y present, that makes > the > X a CHI (else why is presented as uppercase?). > > So (in the spir

Re: Another BibTeX/Pybliographic question

2001-08-29 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 09 August 2001 09:54, Herbert Voss wrote: > robin wrote: > > but URLs don't > > show up. I can get a URL to come up by using a different field, but the > > effect is ugly. Is there any way to force this (MLA style is not the > > only culprit, BTW)? > > do a search in comp.text.tex, the

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 11:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using LyX to prepare conference papers and also my PhD thesis. What I > find really powerful is the ability to format a large document in different > ways, without having the source change in any substantial way. This is very

Re: Why LyX?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 03:30, Giovanni Tummarello wrote: > > This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is free.. > and that the underlying latex is supposely bug free. why features does lyx > offer that word doesnt? (the contrary isnt really to be asked :) ) . I > mea

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 14:48, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Finally, I like the idea that my work will be accessible in its source > > format in 20 or 30 years time, as long as I have a readable ascii file, I > > can get to it, I wou

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 15:02, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > > Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc. > > That does not even hold for most .ps files. Having a format using ASCII > char do

Re: Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > > One thing that LyX definitely does worse is fonts -- but that's because > > of the limitations of TeX. Does anyone know if that's ever likely to > > improve? > > what do

Re: Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:45, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > >>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000 > >>From: Kathryn Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: Why Lyx? > >>I wish I could use Lyx at work. Unfortunately the manual for the > >>software I work on is

Installing fonts [was: Re: Why Lyx?]

2001-09-07 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 07 September 2001 01:51, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:46:55PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > > > > One

Re: Can I name a font?

2001-09-11 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 11:08, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:52:47PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > By the way, if \textsf is sans, and \textbf is bold, anyone know how to > > make underline? > > \underline{text}. > However, underlined text won't break at line end. > For a brea

Re: lyx->word

2001-09-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 16 September 2001 17:57, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > What is the latest recommendation to convert a lyx/tex file into a word > file? I could take care of the figures manually, but would be nice to keep > the italics and, more important, the references and bibliography > > (my mistake was

Re: word to lyx

2001-09-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 16 September 2001 16:54, Herbert Voss wrote: > Javier López wrote: > > Please, I am looking for a file converter program > > from MS Word to Lyx (or another Linux' DB software). Does it exists? > > save in word to rtf, than use rtf2latex, > than try from within lyx relyx. > > the easiest

Re: user guide problem

2001-09-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 17 September 2001 16:57, davide wrote: > Hello > I've installed lyx and it's a wonderful program, *thans to developers* , > I've a problem with user guide, latex gives me many errors of the same > type: "extra /fi", i don't know latex so I don't know to solve this > please help me It's

Re: Confusing error message

2001-09-24 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 23 September 2001 18:02, Steve Litt wrote: > Divide the problem in half. Export to postscript on each machine, then > print the postscript files on the alternate machines. Does the error follow > the export to postscript, or the printing of the postscript? Seems to be coming on the firs

Re: boxing a description

2001-10-02 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 13:42, Myriam Abramson wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to put a box around a description (describing an > algorithm with keywords) but I get errors even in the tex file! \fbox is fragile, if I remember rightly. You can get out of this by using a minipage. Put something

Re: boxing a description

2001-10-02 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 14:28, Robin Turner wrote: > On Tuesday 02 October 2001 13:42, Myriam Abramson wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm trying to put a box around a description (describing an > > algorithm with keywords) but I get errors even in the tex file! >

Re: Cannot export .dvi (new user)

2001-10-22 Thread Robin Turner
U n d e r a c h i e v e r wrote: > > I've used a thousand and one page layout programs and word processors > over the years, and i'm now trying lyx out. I always end up trying to > force PLs and WPs to work in some sort of logical style order, and i > always end up exporting to something cross pl

Re: Adding new Type1 fonts: Phase I

2001-10-26 Thread Robin Turner
Rich Shepard wrote: > > I've asked for help on this partiular problem from the local linux users > group, the newsgroup comp.lang.postscript, and by reading all the > ghostscript docs I can find. So far it's been left unsolved. > > I want, ultimately, to add new Type1 fonts to LyX and the fi

Re: BibTex

2001-10-28 Thread Robin Turner
"Christopher M. Jones" wrote: > > foo.bib has to be in your TeX path. Put it under /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bib, > or the equivalent in whatever distro you are using, and run texconfig rehash. > > Name the file in your document using \bibliography{foo} (not foo.bib) in TeX > mode (red text) You

Re: tth and lyx

2001-10-28 Thread Robin Turner
"Dr. Louis A. Turk" wrote: > > Is there any way to interface tth with lyx so that tth shows up on the > File/Export menu? As far as I remember, LyX detects tth automatically and runs it in preference to later2html. Try reconfiguring LyX. Robin

Re: How to correct ugly fonts in PDF?

2001-10-28 Thread Robin Turner
I've experienced this problem when viewing with Adobe Acrobat (on Windows), but never with GhostView or Konqueror. Try using pslatex as the base font, and pdflatex to export. Robin Harry Mangalam wrote: > > Hi All, > > As a Lyx newbie (second paper using Lyx, 1st on my own) I have been pleasa

Re: Adding new Type1 fonts: Phase I

2001-10-28 Thread Robin Turner
Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > You don't need to make the fonts available to ghostscript. > > When using Postscript type 1 fonts in latex, dvips will embed the fonts into > > the Postscript file. > > Toda! I didn't realize this because I'm very new to bot

Re: LInebreaks in a table

2001-10-11 Thread Robin Turner
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 06:55:20PM +0300, Kari Ruohonen wrote: > > Hi! > > I used to manage to fix the width of a table column by giving the width > > and choosing the "linebreaks" option from the table layout display. This > > is explained in User's guide. However, with 1.1

Re: Blatantly wishful feature request

2001-10-15 Thread Robin Turner
David Green wrote: > > Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I know the developers are working on lots of necessary stuff, but here's a > > feature that would be real nice if possible. > > > > It would be wonderful if LyX could have an "outline view" similar to MS Word, > > where you coul

Re: removing the date from title

2001-10-15 Thread Robin Turner
"Kayvan A. Sylvan" wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:14:45PM -0500, Rem wrote: > > in evil red text > > \date{} > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "francesco cattaneo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 3:05 PM > > Subject: removing

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-15 Thread Robin Turner
Gerhard Schuck wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been using lyx for about one and a half year now and I'm quite happy with it. >Especially since I've changed to CJK-LyX and now am able to use Japanese and German >in the same text with the cjk-latex package (although because of missing unicode >supp

Re: KLyX -- am I missing something?

2002-01-04 Thread Robin Turner
Wayan wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: > > > no, only disadvantages when using klyx. > > Yes, but there is one feature in KLyX could not be found in LyX, i.e. > Document Structure... I prefer use KLyX and then finishing with LyX, at > least until LyX 1.1.6. Yes, I enjoyed that

Re: KLyX -- am I missing something?

2002-01-04 Thread Robin Turner
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > For the kde (actually qt2) version, you will have to wait for 1.3.0. > There have been little improvements on this fron for 1.2.0. Actually, > there have been a lot of improvement, but more in infrastructure of > GUI indepndence than in visible results. 1.3.0?

Re: KLyX -- am I missing something?

2002-01-05 Thread Robin Turner
there any plan about when these features are planned to "born"? > I'm not a developer, so I'm not sure, but would expect features wlike this will need to wait for 1.3. 1.2 is basically a nicer version of 1.* Graphics import, for example, is much better. The .lyx file format h

Re: number of the lines

2002-01-10 Thread Robin Turner
g to rule them all, one ping to bind them" - Arya Stark Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: number of the lines

2002-01-10 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 10 January 2002 18:15, Herbert Voss wrote: > Robin Turner wrote: > > On Thursday 10 January 2002 22:17, Dupas Stéphane wrote: > >>Dear all, > >>Is there a way to show the number of the lines in the PDF or DVI > >>outputs ? Stéphane > > >

Re: Resumes

2002-01-12 Thread Robin Turner
Spencer Ogden wrote: > > Is lyx an appropriate tool for resumes? Having one source with multiple > output seems very attractive. However there is no resume doc type. Anyone > have suggestions or examples of resumes done in lyx, or is there a better > tool I should look at. > There is a resume c

Re: Hmmm

2002-01-19 Thread Robin Turner
n I feel like hitting lots of punctuation keys, I write a Perl script ;-) Robin "One ping to rule them all, one ping to bind them" - Arya Stark Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: help a lazy newbie

2002-01-24 Thread Robin Turner
machine is Win2000 and I have Hummingbird installed. Thanks in > advance! It flashes?? Anyway, for a Windows installation, http://www.fh-hannover.de/mbau/tim/hentschel/lyx/index.htm#Files Robin -- "Someone who re-invents the wheel will not take driving for granted." Robin Tur

Re: Quotes within quotes

2002-01-24 Thread Robin Turner
[Apologies to Herbert for first mistakingly sending this to his personal address rather than the list. This list server could do with a "Reply to:" field!] On Wednesday 23 January 2002 17:09, Herbert Voss wrote: > Robin Turner wrote: > > How can I get LyX to handle embed

Re: French Letter Layout

2002-01-28 Thread Robin Turner
ers ;-) Robin -- "Someone who re-invents the wheel will not take driving for granted." Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

Re: Two questions

2002-01-28 Thread Robin Turner
Robin -- "Someone who re-invents the wheel will not take driving for granted." Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

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