Re: Converting to OpenOffice-->Word with htlatex/oolatex

2007-07-04 Thread cmiramon
Stefano Franchi wrote: > Does anyone have recent experience with conversion from Lyx to Word via > htlatex/oolatex? > > It used to work very well for me in the past, but now I cannot get > OpenOffice to open the file produced by htlatex. > > My procedure: > > 1. Export from Lyx to plain Latex

Re: jurabib, how to set subsequent citations to Surname and short title.

2007-07-19 Thread cmiramon
Richard McIntosh wrote: > Hi, > > I am struggling to get the correct format for my dissertation with lyx. > > I am using Jurabib the first citation is correct full title ect. however i > also need to get the format of any following citation, if not directly > following, to be > > surname, short

Re: putting the title of book in italics for @inbook for just the footnote and changing position of editor

2007-07-20 Thread cmiramon
Richard McIntosh wrote: > Dear All, > > Thanks for all the help so far. > > I really need the inbook references to come out something like this, > > footnote first citation: > > Stephen Sykes, "P. T. Forsyth on the Church" in Justice the True and Only > Mercy (ed. Trevor Hart; Edinburgh: T&T C

re: putting the title of book in italics for @inbook for just the footnote and changing position of editor

2007-07-20 Thread cmiramon
Richard McIntosh wrote: > Charles, > > Thanks for the help there. I hope it hasn't taken up to much of you time. > yes I am doing it on English reformed theology (is this your field too). No, I fell in sin but not into heresy ;-) > Though my college use the Society of biblical literature conve

Re: Position of the Preferences menu entry (lyx v. 1.5)

2007-07-28 Thread cmiramon
Mickaël Leduque wrote: > That's not exactly a big concern, but... why is the "Preferences" entry > of the menu in the "Tools" menu instead of the more usual "Edit" place? > (not sure of the exact names, my lyx is hopefully in french). > The location of the preferences changed some time ago. The

Re: customunizing classes

2007-07-28 Thread cmiramon
pol wrote: > > > I would like to customize the 'article' class so as to use smaller fonts > for sections and subsections. > Any hints? > Any utilities to ease tasks of that kind? > The easiest way is to use the koma-script article. And then to add in the preamble something like : \addtokomaf

Re: LyX for Literary Studies

2007-09-02 Thread cmiramon
Richard Heck wrote: > 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 ledma

Re: A Question About Opening Tex files in Lyx?

2007-09-07 Thread cmiramon
Mohammad Nassir wrote: > Hi, > I have a problem importing TEX file in lyx windows. The tex file that I > have and want to open it in Lyx, is run in WinEdt only by TEX Not by > LaTex. I can easily import LaTex files into Lyx and see the output or > export Lyx files into LaTex, but can not open TEX

Re: Logo in lyx document class letter (g-brief, German)

2007-09-19 Thread cmiramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Lyx Users, > > I have the following Problem: I want to put a logo in the upper left > corner of a document of the lyx document class letter (g-brief, German). > So I added a picture to "Name". This resulted in what I desired > regarding the upper left corner, BUT

Re: Tweaking the bibliography environment in Memoir class

2007-09-23 Thread cmiramon
Declan O'Byrne wrote: > It would be great to be able to use chicago style with jurabib, or > similar. Is there any chance of somebody setting this up? > The closest I got was by including the following in the preamble: > \jurabibsetup{titleformat=italic,titleformat=commasep,commabeforerest,ibidem=

Re: Current state of OpenDocument Export?

2007-10-06 Thread cmiramon
Vinnie Boston wrote: > > Step in the right direction, though, at least from the Lyx end, as it > allows the script to finish and produce a file, even if the file isn't > actually a proper .odt file. At least with zip on the Windows machine, > if/when the oolatex or htlatex script produces the rig

Re: Fine tuning Jurabib

2007-10-28 Thread cmiramon
Maximilian Wollner wrote: > Hello everybody, > > > I am preparing my thesis (using the Memoir Document Class) with LyX > (for Political Science so don't expect me to be too great a computer > expert) and unfortunately I need to do some fine tuning on my > bibliography for which I use Jurabib. Th

Re: Hebrew on Mac OS X

2007-12-18 Thread cmiramon
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > Hello. > > When trying to view the DVI for a Hebrew (document class: "article > (Hebrew)", Language: "Hebrew") LyX file on Mac OS X I get the > following error: > > Font LHE/cmr/m/n/10=jerus10 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not > fou > > \begin{documen

Re: Moving graphics from R into LyX - best format?

2008-01-13 Thread cmiramon
David Hewitt wrote: > > I produce most of my statistical graphics in R and move them into LyX > floats. I've been exporting them as JPGs from R. Is there a better format > that plays well with LyX/LaTeX? Any suggestions are appreciated. > eps is a vector format and should have better results.

Re: Bibliography style

2008-01-27 Thread cmiramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everybody !! > > Does anybody know id exists an editor for .bst files (bibliographic style > files ? > What do you mean by editor : a graphical interface to create a custom bst file by point&click. That does not exist. There is a latex package called custombib tha

Re: How to write Commads outside of \begin{document}

2008-02-17 Thread cmiramon
Martin Ilcik wrote: > > Now how can I define some of the styles in my layout to be placed > outside of the \begin{document} in the .tex output? Currently I've all > this stuff in Document->Settings->Latex Preamble, but that's pretty > nonWYSIWYG. So is there any workaround? No Charles

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread cmiramon
JOHN CULLETON wrote: > While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12 > system I managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail. I reinstalled > on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among other things I am > giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread cmiramon
> But now I want to upgrade LyX without installing a newer operating system. > I don't think that's too much to ask. > According to this : http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?mversion=community&mversion=cooker&mversion=current&search=lyx&st=rpmname&submit=Soumettre&qcount=20 Lyx 1.5.3 is in the repos

Re: Bibliography

2008-03-10 Thread cmiramon
Bennett Helm wrote: > On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:22 PM, AndrŽas LYBERIS wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a problem with the bibliography of my report. >> I have Lyx on mac os X. >> To type it, I have been using Bibdesk, it has been ordered in >> alphabetic order and I don't like to begin a document with a 5

Re: How to save the current font in LaTeX?

2008-03-11 Thread cmiramon
Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I used to know this but forgot and couldn't quickly find it in my book. In > LaTeX, how do I find the current value of the font, so when I set > something to \tiny and then want to reset it to what it was, I can, > instead of hoping it was \normalsize before I set

Re: formatting text within a bibtex citation

2008-03-12 Thread cmiramon
Andrew Barr wrote: > I use Lyx 1.5.2 on XP with bibtex to write academic papers. I sometimes > want to cite a reference as an example of a point I am making using the > Latin expression *e.g*.. What I am going for is something like the > following. > > Many researchers have said "blah blah

Re: BibLaTeX blues

2008-03-26 Thread cmiramon
Julio Rojas wrote: > Don't worry Max. I solved the problems and BibLaTeX is running. The > last problem is the original one that got me looking into BibLaTeX. I > need a citation style that fully suits BibLaTeX (ibid., ibidem, > op.cit) but I need a bibliography style that looks like the APA style

Re: Jurabib - changind fiels order

2008-04-06 Thread cmiramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I'm writing a thesis in medieval history. Nice to see, another medievalist using LyX. > > Right nom I'm dealing with the appearance of my bibliography. > One thing I can't figure out: is it possible to change the order of the > fields in the citations and bib

Re: bibtex/makebst: address not shown in bibliography

2008-04-06 Thread cmiramon
Berthold Metz (PH-Freiburg) wrote: > hi, > > i am using natbib (author-year) with a style i created with makebst. > > i have 2 problems with my bibliography-list at the end of my article - > perhaps somebody could help me out? > > 1. when referencing an article in an editorial work, the address

Re: bibtex/makebst: address not shown in bibliography

2008-04-07 Thread cmiramon
Berthold Metz (PH-Freiburg) wrote: > as document-class i use book (koma script), when i change to book the > problem persists (was this your question?) > No, I was asking what happens if you cite a book like \cite{SachsHombach:2003c} > Are you using crossref or not ? > > yes, and the address exi

Re: Google Docs to LaTeX

2008-04-20 Thread cmiramon
nodje wrote: > > I'm trying to use other converters by defining them through Preferences, > but it wouldn't let me add one. > How come? It sounds that I could have an HTML -> LaTeX converter. > > What's your experience? What works best in terms of converting? > I would try to export to ODF an

How to reset a character style

2006-09-03 Thread cmiramon
Hello, I've been playing with the new character styles (http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX14#toc5) It is a very nice addition to LyX even if it seems a bit rough at the edges. If I create a style : mystyle I select some characters and apply 'mystyle' How do I reset the character style to no form

Re: footnote inside table

2006-09-10 Thread cmiramon
Paul Schwartz wrote: > class of document : book - LyX 1.4.1 - windows XP installation with > widows installer. > basic language : French. > when I am inserting a footnote inside a table, it is properly displayed in > the lyx document. > However, in pdf via (pdflatex) the reference of the footnote

Re: Changes to defaults

2006-12-16 Thread cmiramon
John B. Egger wrote: > I'm using 1.4.3 in Linux and Document Class: Book, and would like to > change the chapter title and page header formats from those that "book" > automatically creates. The defaults aren't bad; they just aren't my > preference. So far, I haven't figured out how to change them.

Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

2006-12-16 Thread cmiramon
Bill Wood wrote: > Hi, I'm considering switching Linux distributions to Debian or Ubuntu, > and I wanted to know what the community experience was regarding Lyx on > either. In particular, are there any known functional or performance > issues? Also, is there any difficulty staying current? >

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread cmiramon
Stefano Franchi wrote: > > On 19 Dec, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: > >> William Adams wrote: >> >>> On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: >>> Unless I could find a program/editor allowing me to do multiple replace over multiple files at once. I am not awa

Re: altering document class

2006-12-20 Thread cmiramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Charles, > > On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Charles de Miramon w >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> I need to make a minor change to the mwrep report class, so that > [...] >> >> http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted >> n° 16 >> >> Cheers, >> Charles > > I'm not sure what the

Re: Lyx to word or lyx to html (to word)

2007-06-03 Thread cmiramon
Miki Dovrat wrote: > Hi, > > How can I convert my lyx document to microsoft word (or html, which word > reads?, or openoffice, which can be exported to rtf, which word reads)? > > These converters seem to be broken on Windows (still). I have lyx 1.4.4 > with Miktex 2.5 which has htlatex. In the

Re: Is there a multiple LyX file search?

2007-06-03 Thread cmiramon
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> "Steve" == Steve Litt >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Steve> Does LyX have such a facility, either in the GUI menu, as a > Steve> --option, or as a separate utility? If not, is it something > Steve> that would be helpful? If so, would someone please volun

Re: Sumatra PDF 0.8.1 (for Windows) w/ reload and tex integration now available

2008-06-03 Thread cmiramon
William Adams wrote: > > Not sure if the pdfsync functionality will work w/ LyX or no, but if > it could be made to, that'd be fabulous. > > William > Pdfsync seems to be replaced by synctex for the next version of XeTeX and pdfTex http://www.gust.org.pl/BachoTeX/2008/presentations/XeTeX-Bach

Re: where to find scientific journal layout-files

2008-07-03 Thread cmiramon
Maarten van Iterson wrote: > Hello LyX-user, > > LyX is very handy in writing scientific documents. > But now I have to submit an article to e.g. BioMed Central or another > Bioinformatics Journal. Although most journal have LaTeX documentclass > layout files are not provided. Does anyone know of

Re: Costumizing Koma script

2008-07-08 Thread cmiramon
Guillaume Larocque wrote: > However, there are a few things I don't like about Koma-Script. First > of all, I would like to have the word "Chapter" in front of Chapter > numbers and titles and I would like to have the titles in Roman fonts. > I would also like to have my table captions appear on t

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-20 Thread cmiramon
Steve Litt wrote: > It would have been wonderful. Unfortunately, writer2latex preserves the > level class hierarchy (level1->part, level2->chapter, etc) but it dumps > all my custom made classes and does its best to reproduce them with fine > tuning. This is the second tool that's tried to do me th

Re: Reprinted material

2008-09-03 Thread cmiramon
Julio Rojas wrote: > Thank you all for your answers, they have been of great help. Still, > the main technical question, the how do I do it in BibTeX, remains > unanswered. Is there a "Note" or "Previously Published" field in > BibTeX? How do I solve this problem using the available fields? > The

Re: Formatting in-text citations

2008-09-24 Thread cmiramon
Andrew Barr wrote: > Hi Lyx Users, > > I am compiling a large annotated reading list for my PhD comprehensive > qualifying exams. I want to use lyx because of the flawless integration > with my large BibTeX database. However, all of the BibTeX style files > that > I have used previously have ab

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread cmiramon
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: > > Can anyone suggest a good drawing program? > Can Beamer do this?? I haven't used it yet (I admit). > If you want to draw / code technical drawings and plots try tikz / pgf. It will work well with beamer because both packages are done by the same author, Till Tantau.

Re: Setting two character styles at once

2008-10-15 Thread cmiramon
Michael Brown wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm currently writing up a document and I'm trying to do something > relatively simple (considering what else I've done :). > > I'd like to write text that is both in the typewriter face and bolded. > Using LyX, what I end up with is: > > \texttt{\

Re: avoiding indentation within footnotes and adding vertical space under headings

2008-11-16 Thread cmiramon
Nicolas Triart wrote: > Dear All, > > I am currently finalising my PhD dissertation in Law. I'm using Lyx 1.6 on > windows xp (no package yet for lyx 1.6 on my mandriva :-)) and would need > some help. > The class document I use is book (koma-script). The first think I would > like to do is to to

Re: configuring jurabib

2008-12-28 Thread cmiramon
jezZiFeR wrote: > Hello, > > I?m using Jurabib in a report-class-document and BibDesk. When I > import references that have multiple authors, I get lines like this in > the index: > > »Finscher, Ludwig; Hermann Danuser, Tobias Plebuch« > instead I would like to have: > »Finscher, Ludwig et. al«

Re: configuring jurabib

2008-12-29 Thread cmiramon
jezZiFeR wrote: > Thank you, so I don?t need to try to get it working. > > Would you really recommend to use biblatex? Is it stable and does it > provide german terms also? Seems a lot of work an I even don?t get the > first (pre-)step done. In the wiki I find the following sentence: Yes. Having

Re: Ligation in report(komascript)-class

2009-01-03 Thread cmiramon
jezZiFeR wrote: > As far as I understand, this function removes ligations. I want to add a > ligaton, which works automatically for many letters, but not for the > french »Oeuvre«. I tried to enter the ligature break anyway, but nothing > changed, still no ligation. > > Best* > Jess > You have t

Re: biblatex for Lyx 1.6.1, OSX

2009-01-04 Thread cmiramon
jezZiFeR wrote: > Thank you. The problem is, that Lyx still produces errors. What could > be the problem then? > This is the error-message: > > error: > LaTeX Error: File `biblatex.sty' not found. > Did you install biblatex on your computer ? If not and you are using MacTeX follow the instruct

Re: biblatex for Lyx 1.6.1, OSX

2009-01-04 Thread cmiramon
jezZiFeR wrote: >>> error: >>> LaTeX Error: File `biblatex.sty' not found. >>> >> >> Did you install biblatex on your computer ? >> >> If not and you are using MacTeX follow the instructions here : >> >> http://www.1984produkts.com/donkeyhottie/archives/2008/05/11/mla-bibliographies-in-mactex/ >

Re: Is Lyx suitable for me?

2009-01-08 Thread cmiramon
Panos Katergiathis wrote: > Hello all > > I am about to author and prepare a book on photography, which is bound > to have many... well, photos :). > I will hopefully be using Lyx on an Intel-based Mac and i am wondering > about two features (that is, if they are available or not): If you have a

Re: Fontsize of margins | report-class (KOMA-script) | Lyx 1.6.1

2009-01-10 Thread cmiramon
jezZiFeR wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to change the fontsize of margins and, if possible, also > other attributes in report-class (KOMA-script): > I would like to have them a little smaller, left adjusted, and without > serifs. > > Is the same also possible for citations, there I would like

Re: MS Word to LyX

2009-01-26 Thread cmiramon
Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > I tried to install open office (neo office). It does convert to LaTeX. > But the issue is that it seems the philosophy in the OO converter is to > make the typeset > LaTeX document look like the OO document, rather than conveying the > meaning/contents > of the document

Re: Border table in footer possible?

2009-04-07 Thread cmiramon
John Mok wrote: > Hi, > > I am preparing a user manual with a table footer (repeating on each > page). The footer is a border table which contains a company logo, page > numbers and others. I checked the documentation and found no clue how to > do that. > > I hope someone could help and advise h

Re: Question on \setkomafont{}{}

2009-04-18 Thread cmiramon
Bob Lounsbury wrote: >> From the KOMA-script doc I see that I can use the >> \setkomafont{element}{command} directive to change the typeface for >> specific >> document elements. >> >> Rather than the san-serif font for the title and section heads, I prefer >> to use the default body text typefac

Re: JurabibMLA

2009-04-18 Thread cmiramon
Tim Smeilus wrote: > hi all, > > I need to write an assignment for college and I need it in MLA format. I > just can't figure out how to make lyx use that format. All research over > the net didn't help my out yet. > I would be glad about all helpful response. > > thnx Tim Smeilus Biblatex-mla

Re: Query about formatting reverse-line text

2009-05-02 Thread cmiramon
Frederick Noronha [??? ???] wrote: > Dear all on this very helpful Lyx list: > > I'm trying to format some information with alternative lines reverse, > as follows: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/3495151790/sizes/o/ > > The above was done in Inkscape, since I couldn't get the desi

Re: OT: Pointers on how to create symbols

2009-05-03 Thread cmiramon
Stefano Franchi wrote: > Dear Lyxers, > > I realize this is way off-topic, but there is so much expertise on this > list, I thought I could ask anyway. > > I need to create a few idiosyncratic symbols (three, to be exact) and my > efforts to produce them by superimposing existing glyphs with TeX

Re: Bibliography Is really complex , or it is a bug

2009-05-25 Thread cmiramon
Marcelo Reis wrote: > I tried A LOT of styles, and finally I was able to find one that I > thought that meet my needs.it is the ALIKE2 style. I can't find anything called alike2.bst. Are you using natbib ? > I'm in this problem for weeks and I'm really tired of it, I would > appreciate a LOT if

Re: defining custom font size and indentation

2009-07-03 Thread cmiramon
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > > Seems to be a bug in the hanging package. I don't have another idea than > inserting a vertical space. > Or you could try to switch to komascript book. In my experience koma works much better when you start to tweak stuff (fonts, etc.) than the simple book class. Y

Re: something wrong with biblatex

2009-10-25 Thread cmiramon
sara teinturier wrote: > > > Thanks for your answer! Indeed, there are some "warning" in the Latex log, > but I don't understand what I have to do with them. The log file is > attached... Thanks! S. It is difficult to debug without your bib file. The main problem seems to be that there is a nee