Re: Paste external

2005-07-27 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Jul 27, 2005, at 8:57 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jul 26, 2005, at 9:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are two "Paste External" features in LyX -- "as lines" and "as paragraphs." What, exactly, is the difference supposed to be? Both of them seem to do the exact same thing. On a rel

Re: Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2

2005-10-18 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Oct 18, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Alexander Gahr wrote: Ok tried this again. I created a new Lyx file with two words, one was new for apell. So i entered a name for my personal dict /users/gahr/Documents/test.ispell. Klicked save button. But after checking adding a new word to personal dic and

Re: citing organisations

2005-11-17 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Nov 17, 2005, at 6:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone! I'm using author-year citation style with the apa style for the bibliography. I am referencing articles/studies of some organisations, like for example the "World Heath Organisation" and I would like it to appear as "WHO, yea

Re: Controling indentation of lists

2005-11-29 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Nov 29, 2005, at 8:14 AM, James Kebinger wrote: Thanks a lot! As a followup,is there a way to indent and/or single space a list/enumeration? Try the mdwlist package. It gives easier control over spacing and other options. I have used it to define a new LyX environment so that it is availa

Re: Re[2]: Controling indentation of lists

2005-11-29 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Nov 29, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Andrei Popov wrote: Hello Stephen, Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 3:37:32 PM, you wrote: Try the mdwlist package. It gives easier control over spacing and other options. I have used it to define a new LyX environment so that it is available directly from the pull-d

Re: problem with minipages...

2006-01-26 Thread Stephen Buonopane
1/ Under my name, I would like to draw a line across the page. I couldn't find an option to insert such a line. I went around this problem by inserting many hyphens. It does the trick but something tells me that Lyx has another better way to draw a line ;-) Layout ->Paragraph->Lines & Breaks

Re: OT: Converter matrix to picture

2006-02-02 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Feb 2, 2006, at 9:00 AM, Herbert Voss wrote: Paul Smith wrote: This may be a bit out of topic. I have a matrix of ones and zeros with which I would like to produce a picture in such a way that the ones would be represented in black, say, and the zeros in yellow. Does somebody know of a prog

Re: LyX is getting... very annoying.

2006-02-02 Thread Stephen Buonopane
David L. Johnson wrote: On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:30:16 +0100 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Herbert" == Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Herbert> this is nonsense! How did you insert it? 2^{Q} is a math Herbert> expression, it cannot be part of \textrm, it should be an

Re: OT: Converter matrix to picture

2006-02-02 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On 2/2/06, Stephen Buonopane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This may be a bit out of topic. I have a matrix of ones and zeros with which I would like to produce a picture in such a way that the ones would be represented in black, say, and the zeros in yellow. Does somebody know of a progra

Re: Lyx and algorithm

2006-02-03 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Feb 3, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Bruno Pinaud wrote: Hi, Is it possible to have the algorithms number working like figures number or tables number ? i.e. The number of the chapter followed by the number of the figure for example and resetting the counter at the beginning of each chapter. Add t

Re: Sequential numbering, not AMS

2006-02-03 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Feb 3, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: Hi, I was wondering whether it is possible to modify the behavior of the Enumerate style in LyX so that numbering is sequential throughout the document without embedding other environments in the Enumerate environment. Most importantly, I ne

Re: how to force a straight quote (") ??

2006-02-08 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Feb 8, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Hi all, (in a bit of a panic here) How do I force straight quote marks? As in: 5'-0" I used the Insert -> Special Character -> Ordinary Quote ... and this worked fine in a simple test doc, but while checking the last book proof I discovere

Re: pdfpages \includepdf not working

2006-05-04 Thread Stephen Buonopane
My LyX document and the PDF are saved in the same folder, and I'm using the following in an ERT: \includepdf[pages==-]{Questionnaire.pdf} I have had trouble in the past with the dash to indicate all pages. Try putting the first and last page numbers, e.g. [pages=1-5]

Re: mdwlist

2006-05-22 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On May 22, 2006, at 4:14 PM, Christian Beermann wrote: Hi, I hope I#m right with my question on this list. I use lyx since some year for nearly all stuff at university. Because the itemize list consumes a lot of space i use the package "mdwlist" in my lyx doc's. But then I have to use ERT to

Re: LyX and TeXShop

2006-06-02 Thread Stephen Buonopane
Does TeXShop make a better previewer than the default (Preview) for LyX/Mac? To change the viewer to TeXShop in LyX/Mac 1.4.1, I put -a texshop in the viewer space after doing Preferences > File formats > PDF (pdflatex). But viewing a LyX file then gave an error. Does texshop have to be by itse

Re: Printing from LyX on a mac

2008-02-08 Thread Stephen Buonopane
Hi, I've been using LyX for years -- since maybe 1.2 or earlier. I've always been able to print well-formatted out-put directly from LyX. But now on 1.5.3 I cannot. I have dvips defined as the print command in preferences. And it does print but it cuts off the footer no matter what I do. I

Re: Mac OSX LyX Install: No templates included

2008-02-19 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:33 PM, James Miller wrote: Hi all, After attempting to read through the tutorial, I noticed it mentioned that LyX included sample templates to edit and get a running start. When I go to File...New from Template the directory is empty. Am I doing something wron

Re: Mac OSX LyX Install: No templates included

2008-02-19 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:49 PM, James Miller wrote: On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:33 PM, James Miller wrote: Hi all, After attempting to read through the tutorial, I noticed it mentioned that LyX included sample templates to edit and get a running start. When I go to File...New from Template...

Re: WRB - Problems with LaTeX

2008-03-19 Thread Stephen Buonopane
I need an italic *s* character which has a prime symbol above it. I have tried variations of \emph\skew9\acute sand \it\skew9\acute s how about \acute{s} in math mode?

Re: Postscript preview

2006-08-09 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Aug 9, 2006, at 2:28 PM, TechTonics wrote: LB wrote: Having already generated the image files in MATLAB, try temporarily hiding all the Cygwin and Matlab copies of the GS executable (say by adding a $ to the start of their names, which is easy to undo afterward). Then run LyX and see if t

LyX 1.4.2 on Mac Troubles

2006-09-06 Thread Stephen Buonopane
I have finally upgraded from LyX 1.3.5 to 1.4.2 after finishing a big project in 1.3. LyX 1.4.2 seems to launch fine, but when I try to open a new document I get the "Can't load document class error". Eventually a new document opens, but every click or keystroke brings up the spinning beach

Re: LyX 1.4.2 on Mac Troubles

2006-09-06 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 6, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Sep 6, 2006, at 9:05 AM, Stephen Buonopane wrote: I have finally upgraded from LyX 1.3.5 to 1.4.2 after finishing a big project in 1.3. LyX 1.4.2 seems to launch fine, but when I try to open a new document I get the "Can't loa

Re: LyX 1.4.2 on Mac Troubles

2006-09-06 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 6, 2006, at 12:30 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Sep 6, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Stephen Buonopane wrote: On Sep 6, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Sep 6, 2006, at 9:05 AM, Stephen Buonopane wrote: I have finally upgraded from LyX 1.3.5 to 1.4.2 after finishing a big project in

Re: LyX 1.4.2 on Mac Troubles

2006-09-06 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 6, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Georg Baum wrote: Am Mittwoch, 6. September 2006 18:42 schrieb Stephen Buonopane: Yes, that was the problem. I removed my customized stdclass.inc from the Users layout folder and everything works fine. What is the difference with the new layout format? Do I just

Re: Filename in document

2006-09-08 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 8, 2006, at 6:55 AM, Susanne Gütter wrote: Dear lyx-user, how can I get the name of my document into the document or into the preview? I don't find any solution in the references. Regards Susanne The latex command is \jobname I use the following in ERT to put it in the lower rig

Re: EPS Shrinks Numerals

2006-10-04 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Oct 4, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Using Mathematica I created a figure that contains axes labeled with numerals. When this figure was saved as an eps file, included a lyx file, and then printed (after View > pdflatex), the numerals in the output appear to be about twice th

Re: Accents in LyX/Mac

2006-12-06 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Dec 6, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: > Depending on the accent you want (acute or grave), insert the > following in ERT: > > \'e > \`e > This *shouldn't* be required. I can type accents in LyX just like I can in any other application on Mac (with the exception that when I hit -e

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Dec 20, 2006, at 4:48 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 20 Dec, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Oops! here it is: It works here. It must eb a Mac specific bug. Works fo

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stephen Buonopane
More and more frustrating...can anyone on a PowerPC Mac please give it a try? Try exporting to LaTeX the enclosed lyx file and reimporting into into LyX. Does it work? Perhaps the problems I am encountering have to do with my TeX setup. Although, I did try to open the .tex file in TeXShop

Bullets menu on LyX/Mac

2007-01-18 Thread Stephen Buonopane
I just noticed that the menu for changing bullet types Documents Settings Bullets has the bullet icons inverted with white characters on a black background which makes it very difficult to see. Can anyone else confirm this? I am using LyX 1.4.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.8 steve

Repost: Bullets menu on LyX/Mac

2007-01-19 Thread Stephen Buonopane
Sorry for the repost, but the original thread seems to have been 'captured' by another poster who changed the topic. The problem with the bullets described below has been confirmed by two others on Mac. Does it occur in Windows? Linux? I looked in Preferences...Colors and did not see a way to

strange insert graphics behavior

2007-01-22 Thread Stephen Buonopane
1) Open a new file in LyX 1.4. 2) Press the insert graphics button on the toolbar 3) Select a graphics file (anything will do) 4) Press Apply and wait for the preview to appear in the LyX window. Don't close the graphics window or bring the main LyX window to the foreground. 5) Now change the

Re: FancyHDR and Horizontal Line

2007-04-17 Thread Stephen Buonopane
I've used fancy header to create decorative lines at the top and bottom of pages in a new book, but when I insert Sections first thing on my new page (followed by a horizontal line) the white space between the header and the section is bigger than the white space between the section and t

Re: 1.5.0b2 binary for Mac?

2007-04-25 Thread Stephen Buonopane
Works for me, too. PPC OS 10.4.8 On Apr 25, 2007, at 9:07 AM, James wrote: I successfully downloaded, decompressed, and executed the binary. James On 4/25/07 6:56 AM, "Bennett Helm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Apr 25, 2007, at 8:37 AM, Maria Gouskova wrote: Dear LyX users, I tried t

Re: path to .lyx on MAC

2010-05-26 Thread Stephen Buonopane
I am using Lyx 1.6.6 on Mac, I noticed I do not have $HOME/.lyx/ layouts/, so I am wondering where I put a custom made module? /Users/username/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-1.6

Re: Dumb Captioning Question

2010-06-03 Thread Stephen Buonopane
I want to have some tables in a document, and I want the tables to have captions. But I want the positions of the tables to be pinned down -- i.e. I don't want to use normal floats. So -- is there a way to have a "non-floating float" to contain my table and caption, or is there a way to

Re: EPS Files Without Preview

2010-07-21 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Jul 21, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: In the past, inserting graphics in eps format has worked beautifully in LyX, as long as the files were saved with no preview attached to them. Eps files with a preview cause an error ("An error occurred whilst running epstopdf"), and the pd

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

2010-11-04 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Nov 1, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all 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

Re: People can't read my pdf's

2011-04-12 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Apr 12, 2011, at 7:06 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:43 PM, David L. Johnson wrote: On 04/12/2011 01:52 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: Dear LyX users, For the past week or so, people have been having trouble opening and printing PDF files I generate with LyX. I am trying

Re: place figure at the end

2011-07-27 Thread Stephen Buonopane
In my lyx document I wish to put the figure approximatively where they should be in the final document. However, I wish, in a draft version, to have all the figures coming at the end of the document. Is there an option to do so ? Try the endfloat package. In the preamble put \usepackage{endflo

Re: More space for document

2023-01-13 Thread Stephen Buonopane
> On Jan 13, 2023, at 2:54 PM, Paul Stansell wrote: > > > On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 at 18:44, Richard Kimberly Heck > wrote: > > FYI, Paul, there's also a full screen mode in LyX (which I think Pavel > implemented), if you really want more space. > > I didn't know abou

Re: Removing period following section reference

2017-09-29 Thread Stephen Buonopane
> On Sep 28, 2017, at 11:09 PM, Christos Makridis wrote: > > Hey Lyx Community, > > I've spent some time searching online for a resolution to this, but haven't > found much. > > The issue is as follows. > > Suppose I write a section in the appendix (insert appendix here) like: > > \section{

Re: Formatting name/date to be filled by others

2018-04-10 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Apr 10, 2018, at 7:49 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> Of course, \hspace{} and \vspace{} will place these appropriately. What I >> seek is a way to add the solid underline for a defined length and at a >> specified place. Would \hfill{} be the appropr

Re: PDF graphics is blurred in LyX when scaled

2018-11-12 Thread Stephen Buonopane
> On Nov 12, 2018, at 7:52 AM, Baris Erkus wrote: > > On 12-Nov-18 3:38 PM, Kornel Benko wrote: >> Am Montag, 12. November 2018 13:21:58 CET schrieb Daniel : >>> On 11/11/2018 19:14, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 11/10/18 9:45 PM, Baris Erkus wrote: > Hello, > > PDF graphics appear

Re: Ventura graphics Mac

2023-01-23 Thread Stephen Buonopane
> On Jan 21, 2023, at 4:02 PM, Christopher Menzel > wrote: > > Udi wrote: >> I think this bug is already reported here >> , it seems that you can enter the >> Unix file path into the "File:" field manually. >> >> It's not a perfect solution, but it mi

Re: Ventura graphics Mac

2023-01-23 Thread Stephen Buonopane
> On Jan 23, 2023, at 3:19 PM, Chris Menzel wrote: > > For those of you facing this issue, here are two other ways to copy the full > path and file name, which I think are fewer mouse clicks than opening the Get > Info.. > > 1) In the Finder, right click on the file to bring up the contextua

Re: Problems with insert Graphics on MacOS

2023-07-18 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Jul 18, 2023, at 8:43 AM, Sarah Stelter via lyx-users wrote: > > Dear Lyx Team, > > I installed a new version of Lyx Version 2.3.7 on my MacOS Ventura Version > 13.3.1. > It worked before but now I can’t insert Graphics anymore without tipping the > path manually. > Basacly the browse f

Re: Convert Mac Word and Thesis to LyX

2024-04-18 Thread Stephen Buonopane
> On Apr 17, 2024, at 4:57 PM, Brian Kneller via lyx-users > wrote: > > Hi, > > I hope I am in the correct space. — I have prepared a thesis for a PhD (75K > words)and approx 80 figures, the text in Mac-word and the figures are in > Adobe Illustrator so I have some flexibility in Format.

Help installing Lyx 1.2.1 on Mac OS X 10.1

2002-10-20 Thread Stephen Buonopane
I have been very pleased using Lyx on RedHat 7.3 on my work PC over the last 6 months. I want to install it on my home computer which is Mac OS X 10.1. I followed the directions listed on Herbert Voss's tips page and associated links. I have installed fink, XFree86, Orobor, Tetex and Xforms. Sinc

Two LyX and Bibtex questions

2002-11-11 Thread Stephen Buonopane
1) Is there any way to control placement of parentheses in citations within LyX? i.e. can I get /shortciteN without using ERT? 2) How do I get Lyx/Bibtex to recongize *.bst files that are not in the standard texmf directory? I have a bst file in /usr/local/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/mystyle.bst. W

Re: insert filename

2011-09-23 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 23, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Horst Jurkat wrote: i use "info-insert buffer name" to insert the current filename in the document. Is there a possibility to do that without the fileextension (*.lyx)? in TexCode (ERT) \jobname

Re: LyX 2.0.1 (OS X): file with relative path name not found

2011-09-27 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 27, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Patrick De Visschere wrote: Hello, Including a .pdf file with \includegraphics and with a relative pathname like \includegraphics{../path/to/file/starting/from/parent/directory/ some_file.pdf} results in a "file not found" error from the pdftex.def package.

Re: LyX 2.0.1 (OS X): file with relative path name not found

2011-09-27 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 27, 2011, at 5:11 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 09/27/2011 04:47 PM, Patrick De Visschere wrote: Hello, Including a .pdf file with \includegraphics and with a relative pathname like \includegraphics{../path/to/file/starting/from/parent/directory/ some_file.pdf} results in a "file n

Re: Lyx 2.0.1 not working on Lion

2011-10-01 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Oct 1, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday, October 01, 2011 06:33:14 AM Mark wrote: Stephen, the error message is: "You can't open the application lyx because PowerPC applications are no longer supported." And I checked through some other applications and I do have Univers

Re: Adjusting LyX to do things by default

2011-11-17 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Nov 16, 2011, at 11:01 PM, Kenedy Torcatt wrote: 1- How to center sections, subsections and table of content tittles by default? nothing more the rest I need it on left side (no prob with that) 2- How to establish size "normalsize" for subsections and table of contents tittles by default in

Re: Adjusting LyX to do things by default

2011-11-17 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Nov 17, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Kenedy Torcatt wrote: Thankyou for your response, but I'm newbie at this, could let me know how please? how to customize that code? Here is what I have in my preamble (Document > Settings > Latex Preamble) to set all the section font sizes to 12pt \usepackag

Re: BibDesk: how to show references that are not used in text?

2012-07-30 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:07 AM, CP wrote: > CP gmail.com> writes: > >> I'm using BibDesk for my literature and am trying to add more references to > the reference list at the end of a paper without having referenced them in the > text. Any ideas? >> Thanks! > > My current 'dirty' solution is to

Re: Find and Replace window bug

2012-09-03 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 3, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Anders Høg wrote: > In mac osx, the Find and Replace (Advanced) window's upper part gets stuck > under the menubar when opened. It's extremely annoying as the only way I seem > to be able to close it, is by changing resolution. Is this is a known bug? > > Regards >

Re: Put figures in figure float in center - the best way?

2012-09-12 Thread Stephen Buonopane
You can add something like this to your preamble (does not affect how they appear in LyX preview of course)… \renewenvironment{figure}[1][]{ \@float{figure} \centering \singlespacing} {\end@float} \renewenvironment{table}[1][]{ \@float{table}

Re: Put figures in figure float in center - the best way?

2012-09-12 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 12, 2012, at 9:21 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/09/12 15:15, Rainer M Krug wrote: >> On 12/09/12 14:19, Stephen Buonopane wrote: >>> You can add something like this to your preamble (does not affect

Re: Put figures in figure float in center - the best way?

2012-09-12 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:55 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: >>> I have not used it recently, but I get the same error you do. I copied it >>> from Herbert Voss' >>> tips and tricks page many years ago. It worked then, but I am not sure what >>> has changed. >> >>> Actually…it looks like the /singlespac

pdf cropping

2012-09-19 Thread Stephen Buonopane
I have a pdf file that has /MediaBox [0 0 630 376] when I ask LyX to get the bounding box from the file it returns [0 0 611 376] which means the right edge of the image is cut off in both the LyX preview and the pdf output, unless I change the 611 to 630. I searched the pdf file in a text edito

Re: Excess Space With Tables and Figures at Chapter's End

2013-01-03 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Jan 3, 2013, at 8:01 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I've a short paragraph that concludes a chapter and this paragraph > includes two table floats and two figure floats. TeX spreads these out over > 4 pages with too much white space. The first page has the paragraph, a lot > of space, then one tabl

Re: Caption-Figure Alignment

2013-03-09 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Mar 8, 2013, at 9:28 AM, James Sutherland wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann > wrote: > > This has always been a source of frustration to me. It seems like the > default behavior should be for the paragraph style in a float to be centered. > This should be fo

lyx/mac and texshop

2008-07-09 Thread Stephen Buonopane
I have just upgraded to LyX/Mac 1.5.5 and TeXShop 2.14 on OS X 10.5.3 I use TeXShop as my pdf viewer since it automatically updates when I do View->Update in LyX. Or at least it used to automatically update. In my prior set-up (Lyx 1.4 and OS X 10.4), View->Update would automatically show t

Re: lyx/mac and texshop

2008-07-09 Thread Stephen Buonopane
Skim.app udpates in the background and leaves the LyX window in front, no clicks of any sort required So that would seem to be the best choice. I guess the change must be due to TeXShop? I will report it there. On Jul 9, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Stephen Buonopane wrote: I have just upgraded to LyX

Re: Lyx/MacTex Integration

2008-07-14 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Jul 14, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Alan Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Start by determining what isn't necessary in an integrated app, then work out how to put everything together in a package. All things considered I think you'll find such a Lyx Grand a smaller fil

Re: Figure Numbering

2008-08-06 Thread Stephen Buonopane
I'm fairly new to LyX only used it this past 6 months for my masters thesis. I have not come across a way to have it sequentially number all figures in a document. Zan, I believe that you're correct, and that my memory is faulty. Looking at my book (published 2005 and written using Ly

pdfpages and filenames

2008-08-31 Thread Stephen Buonopane
In LyX 1.4 I used to be able to just use the filename with the includepdf command in ERT, \includepdf{myfile} In LyX 1.5.5 it seems that I need to put the full pathname and filename, \includepdf{\very\long\path\myfile} which is inconvenient because the pathname is very long and some of the

Re: pdfpages and filenames

2008-09-01 Thread Stephen Buonopane
using LyX/Mac 1.5.5 with tex-live 2007 The preamble definition is an easier workaround since you only need the full path once. On Aug 31, 2008, at 9:21 PM, Stephen Buonopane wrote: In LyX 1.4 I used to be able to just use the filename with the includepdf command in ERT, \includepdf{myfile

Re: Adding a new class in Mac version

2008-09-06 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 6, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Martin Lesmana wrote: Hi there, I have followed the installation instruction here http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac (option 2) to install tetex, ghostscript and imagemagick using fink. And then I get the .dmg file for Lyx and drag that into my applications folder.

Re: OT: post-process postscript or PDF document to add page numbering and footer

2008-09-07 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 6, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Off topic: I am looking for a solution to add running page numbering to a postscript or PDF document and maybe add a footer or header (maybe with a horizontal rule). This may not be the slickest way, but I think you can do it all right

Re: Raising a Figure

2008-09-11 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 11, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: I have two figures placed side by side, but the left hand figure is taller than the right hand figure, so when they line up along their baselines, the right hand figure looks much lower. How can I move the right hand figure up, so its cen

Re: bibtex issues with format of authors

2008-09-17 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 17, 2008, at 6:54 PM, Tim Michelsen wrote: Hello, although this is not a core latex list I would like to ask for your advice on an issue with author entries in Bibtex databases. Sometimes, the author (or editor) can be an institution or organisation which could be abbreviated in te

Re: bibtex issues with format of authors

2008-09-18 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 18, 2008, at 11:29 AM, Dave Hewitt wrote: You need to use the citealias command see my previous post http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users-UqbJ+GOpo4+hPH1hqNUYSQ public.gmane.org/msg43232.html This link does not work for me. Can you give the date so we can track down the post. This

Re: bibtex issues with format of authors

2008-09-19 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 18, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Tim Michelsen wrote: This link does not work for me. Can you give the date so we can track down the post. This would be a useful tip to put on the Wiki... I've always gotten by in these situations somehow but not in any correct way. I entered the tip in the

Re: bibtex issues with format of authors

2008-09-19 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Sep 19, 2008, at 4:15 PM, Dave Hewitt wrote: One additional tip... If you are likely to use the aliases in many documents, you can put a list of the \defcitealias commands in a tex file and then use Insert-> File->Child Document in LyX. I noticed that you can put the \defcitealias in th

Re: LyX like LaTeXiT?

2008-10-22 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Oct 22, 2008, at 8:09 PM, Giorgio Zavarise wrote: Is there any possibility to use LyX just as a tool to generate equations to be included in Keynote? I am using LaTeXiT for this scope, but there you have to type the LaTeX commands (and I am using LyX just to avoid it). You can copy an

Re: Graphics in LyX

2009-02-18 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:25 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Hubert Christiaen wrote: It' s indeed a bit strange that float figures are not automatically centered. LyX outputs whatever the class defines, and most classes define it to be raggedright (by default). You may do it yourself by

Re: Extra spacing in tables

2009-08-27 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Aug 27, 2009, at 12:29 PM, John Coppens wrote: Hello all. I have a table with some math in it. The matrices were touching the borders, so I defined a default 'extra bottom space' in the properties. It seems this extra space is only added to the (bottom of) last row (even though all rows

Re: Extra spacing in tables

2009-08-27 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Aug 27, 2009, at 8:50 PM, John Coppens wrote: On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:18:41 -0400 Stephen Buonopane wrote: Did you try in ERT \renewcommand\arraystretch{1.5} Hi Stephem. That command seems to resize the entire table, with contents. It does nothing to the row-to-border spacing. I have

Re: Single Spacing in Caption

2009-08-28 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Aug 27, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Daniel Joshua Stark wrote: Dear All, I'm trying to make up my thesis, and the captions to figures are double-spaced as opposed to single-spaced, which is how the CLS directs it should be. I know I succeeded in getting single spaced subfigure captions in my

graphics preview on Mac

2010-01-18 Thread Stephen Buonopane
I recently upgraded to TeXLive 2009 and LyX 1.6.5 on Mac. On screen LyX preview of pdf graphics no longer works (other formats seem to work). convert *.pdf *.ppm works fine from the command line below is the error output Any ideas? Thanks Steve Current allocation mode is local GPL Ghostscrip

Re: graphics preview on Mac

2010-01-18 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Jan 18, 2010, at 4:49 PM, Stephen Buonopane wrote: I recently upgraded to TeXLive 2009 and LyX 1.6.5 on Mac. On screen LyX preview of pdf graphics no longer works (other formats seem to work). convert *.pdf *.ppm works fine from the command line below is the error output Any ideas

Re: graphics preview on Mac

2010-01-18 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Jan 18, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: BH wrote: I can confirm: graphics on screen cannot be viewed, though printed output is fine. I have gs version 8.70 (as does Stephen). i believe its fixed in ghostscript trunk by http://code.google.com/p/ghostscript/source/detail?r=10560 you

Re: lyx 1.6.5 can't load pdf images on Mac OS X 10.6.2

2010-02-16 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Feb 16, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Francesco Turci wrote: Hallo, i’m using Lyx on Mac OS X 10.6.2. Everything seems to work properly, but the image converters don’t seem to work: i’ve included some pdf images in my document (i tried with sme ps too) but Lyx doesn’t load them (it says “Error co

Re: Graphics Insert

2010-03-01 Thread Stephen Buonopane
This is a behavior I've not seen with previous versions of LyX but which appears more often than not with 1.6.5. When I insert a graphics figure (either pdf or jpg) and change the edges in the clipping tab of the settings dialog box, both the original and changed figure are displayed side-by-

Re: PDF error converting to loadable format

2010-03-04 Thread Stephen Buonopane
- Original Message - >I have a horrible feeling I have asked this before, but on Ubuntu 9.10 >Lyx won't show PDF images in the document (they compile OK). >They show up on Windows OK, so I assume its some set up on Linux that I >need to tweak. -- If you have ghostscript

Re: PDF error converting to loadable format

2010-03-22 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Mar 22, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Richard Brown wrote: I do > Insert External Files > PDF and select my pdf. I add the pages options for all of the pages (there are 2). Lyx burbles a little, and then spits the error message at me: error converting to loadable format. The file was prepared by a

Re: mdwlist question

2004-03-11 Thread Stephen Buonopane
> Hello. > How can I have an enumeration list and then use the mdwlist package to > suspend enumeration, insert some lyx code (yes, new enivornment), and > then resume the enumeration? It seems like that the enumeration is ended, > and then the resume command is operating outside of any > \begin¥

Re: cite a bitex file in a float

2004-03-31 Thread Stephen Buonopane
> > Is it possible to cite in floats? > thx > derNette If you mean in the caption of a float. I have done this successfully with Lyx 1.3.4 on OSX. I just used Insert Citation. Nothing special that I can remember. Here is a snippet of the resulting LaTex \begin{figure} \includegraphics[% bb = 0 0

Re: Two pictures side by side

2004-03-31 Thread Stephen Buonopane
> Hi, > > i want to have two (or more) pitures side by side placed in my document. I > already searched the net with "tex picture side by side" and found a lot of > links, but they are not wat i want. > I'm using a figure float for pictures so i can set a title for the picture, > and it will allso

Re: stacking of figures at the end of the document

2004-04-01 Thread Stephen Buonopane
> Im writing a bit big AMS unnumbered article (~20 > pages), and figures arent distributed among the > document, but they tend to stack at the end of it. I > would like that at least, figures belonging to a > section enviroment will not be displayed further than > the end of the section (ie: that

Re: Alignment of a 'word equation'

2004-04-06 Thread Stephen Buonopane
How about the attached using the multline environment? > Andre Poenitz wrote: >> Exact alignment is out-of-scope for TeX math as math always has >> 'unbounded width'. So you have to fake it by something like >> >>$Right hand side of equation in words$ \\ >>\hfill$LHS of equation in word

Re: Table formating questions

2004-04-15 Thread Stephen Buonopane
> However, I cannot get the column label "Standard Deviation" to be placed > on two lines so I abbreviated it to "Std. Dev.". Also, the columns are too > narrow so the numbers are difficult to read. Do I fix this by specifying > each column width manually? If you set a fixed column width, you can

Re: How to visually divide between Picture Captions and Test

2004-04-27 Thread Stephen Buonopane
> When I add a picture in a float this picture may be set as top on a side. > Unfortunately the caption has to be below the picture and is in the same style > as the "normal" text, so it's sometimes difficult to see where to read > further. The following will control the whitespace between the ca

Re: Dot and Cross Products

2004-06-29 Thread Stephen Buonopane
Any one know how to get a dot which is bigger than \cdot but smaller than \bullet? I need this to represent the dot product of vectors in mathematics. And how about a heavier version of \times, to represent the cross product of vectors? Can I get this by doing \times in bold? (I'd test this right

Re: centering figures

2004-07-06 Thread Stephen Buonopane
Also is there a way i can set this as a rule for all figures. AFAIK, unfortunately, not. As a hack, you can redefine the latex command that insets the graphics to include a center. From Herbert Voss' Tips & Tricks, (http://www.texnik.de) add the following to your preamble \makeatletter \renewenvi

Re: textcomp and symbols

2004-07-12 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Jul 12, 2004, at 12:06 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: So, in the book preamble I inserted '\usepackage{textcomp}'. However the circled-R is still too low I think you still need to put the circle-R into a superscript. I am not sure how to do that outside of math mode? I have always just made an inli

Re: Font problem

2004-07-20 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Jul 20, 2004, at 9:13 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jul 20, 2004, at 5:54 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Jan Peters wrote: My problem is actually a problem with the on-screen fonts only - after compiling it looks nice; already in the instant-preview! Only on screen it will always replace my greek characters

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