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Dieter Jurzitza | 1 Jan 2009 13:27
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Re: Question on section - properties in the menu bar

Dear Steve,
dear listmembers,
your answer tells me that I haven't been precise enough. Imagine you have a 
section in your document you want to be centered rather than (i.e.) 
flushleft. To achieve this in LyX, you have to mark the section and then 
klick on the section menu, from where you can choose the appropriate 
orientation of the text.

Well, lazy me, what I would like to see are three little symbols for 
flush-right, flush-left or center on the top-level menu bar that help me 
avoid diving into a submenu in order to achieve this.

Such an option is very common in other text processing systems and I must 
admit that I like it because I need it every other time. So my question was 
whether some guy shares my kind of laziness and probably readily did 
something similar so I could just copy .... :-)

Thanks again,
take care

Dieter Jurzitza

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AM Alshino | 1 Jan 2009 14:52
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Languange problem: Arabi


Hi all,

I am trying to use Lyx to produce Arabic text using (Arabi). Though I followed all instructions in this site:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Arabic

 I  still got error message and the arabic was not working. 

The error message that I get after I do 'cntrl+D' is "Package babel error: You haven't specified language
option". 

Should I write anything in the Document → Settings 'option'  ?

The Lyx that I am using is version 1.5.6 on Ubuntu Interped (8.10)

Any help is welcome! 

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James C. Sutherland | 1 Jan 2009 15:38
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Re: Question on section - properties in the menu bar

In 1.6.x you can right-click to do this.  It is still not as quick as  
a button, but is quicker than digging through menus...

On Jan 1, 2009, at 5:27 AM, Dieter Jurzitza <dieter.jurzitza <at> t- 
online.de> wrote:

> Dear Steve,
> dear listmembers,
> your answer tells me that I haven't been precise enough. Imagine you  
> have a
> section in your document you want to be centered rather than (i.e.)
> flushleft. To achieve this in LyX, you have to mark the section and  
> then
> klick on the section menu, from where you can choose the appropriate
> orientation of the text.
>
> Well, lazy me, what I would like to see are three little symbols for
> flush-right, flush-left or center on the top-level menu bar that  
> help me
> avoid diving into a submenu in order to achieve this.
>
> Such an option is very common in other text processing systems and I  
> must
> admit that I like it because I need it every other time. So my  
> question was
> whether some guy shares my kind of laziness and probably readily did
> something similar so I could just copy .... :-)
>
> Thanks again,
> take care
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Peter Baumgartner | 1 Jan 2009 15:44
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Aspell - soft hyphen problem

Hello,

I have imported text from OpenOffice into LyX. After working for several
weeks with this text I wanted the report finalize with spell checking using
aspell. 
But aspell complains at every word where a soft hyphen is hidden. (hex AD).
What can I do to prevent this?

Im not sure but maybe it can be solved with the LyX Spellchecker dialog box
under preferences which says "characters to ignore". But I do not know how
to input the soft hyphen. Could someone help me?

Thanks in advance
Peter
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David C Rivas | 1 Jan 2009 15:48
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Problems with instalation

Hello, i start installing Lyx but after some hours still trying to finish
the installation box said that Miktex is trying to download missing files
and i can shut down the installation box, I am using Vista operating System,
any clue of what happend?
Thank you
David
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Steve Litt | 1 Jan 2009 16:06
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Re: Question on section - properties in the menu bar

On Thursday 01 January 2009 07:27:29 am Dieter Jurzitza wrote:
> Dear Steve,
> dear listmembers,
> your answer tells me that I haven't been precise enough. Imagine you have a
> section in your document you want to be centered rather than (i.e.)
> flushleft. To achieve this in LyX, you have to mark the section and then
> klick on the section menu, from where you can choose the appropriate
> orientation of the text.
>
> Well, lazy me, what I would like to see are three little symbols for
> flush-right, flush-left or center on the top-level menu bar that help me
> avoid diving into a submenu in order to achieve this.
>
> Such an option is very common in other text processing systems and I must
> admit that I like it because I need it every other time. So my question was
> whether some guy shares my kind of laziness and probably readily did
> something similar so I could just copy .... :-)
>
> Thanks again,
> take care

Hi Dieter,

I didn't even know about those menu options (more on why I didn't know about 
them later).

Until the LyX developers put those functions on the buttonbar, I think you can 
create a hotkey to either do the justification, or else bring up the 
justification dialog.
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Vincent van Ravesteijn | 1 Jan 2009 16:40
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Re: Question on section - properties in the menu bar


> Well, lazy me, what I would like to see are three little symbols for 
> flush-right, flush-left or center on the top-level menu bar that help me 
> avoid diving into a submenu in order to achieve this.
>   
I don't have a "red robe or a long white beard", so if you still want to 
have the four (you need justified too) items in a toolbar, you can try 
the following:

Add to Resources\ui\stdtoolbars.inc the following lines (after Item "Thesaurus" "thesaurus-entry"):

        Separator
        Item "Align justified" "paragraph-params \align block"
        Item "Align left" "paragraph-params \align left"
        Item "Align center" "paragraph-params \align center"
        Item "Align right" "paragraph-params \align right"

One problem: I don't know how to define the icons for the functions (the 
\ is not allowed in a filename). It works though.

Vincent
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Peter Baumgartner | 1 Jan 2009 19:39
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Re: Compressed format - something to know?

Thanks everybody for clearing the issue.

The reduction in file size is really not so important. But I didn't know
about the difference of these two formats and especially of the potential
dangerous disadvantages of the compress format.

As it stands now I will consciously *not* enable the compressed format and
return to the text format ;-)

Peter
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marcostara1 | 1 Jan 2009 19:44
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Re: Error: cannot determine size of graphic...


Hi List,

I am a newbie to LyX. I'm using it for almost 10 days and it solved a great deal of troubles that other WYSIWYG
word processors did not.
This software is fantastic and I would really thank all people working on it.
Now a question. I have a document of class "book" with many pictures
and several tables. A floating table is so large that requires to be rotated.
I set it up to "sideways", but this creates a problem:
PDFLatex stops working with many messages like this:
"Latex error: cannot determine size of graphic
in 0F_Folder_Subfolder_Filename.jpg".
One error for each image in the document.
Notice that both Dvipdfm and Ps2pdf work well instead.
And the problem disappears if I restore the table to non-sideways mode.
Lyx 1.6.1, Windows XP Pro. No packages loaded in the LaTeX preamble.
Any tips?
Thanks in advance.

Marco Stara
Italy

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Dieter Jurzitza | 1 Jan 2009 20:50
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Re: Question on section - properties in the menu bar

Dear listmembers,
in the meantime I created some icons for my purpose and have been putting them 
in the  directory /usr/share/lyx/images.

From the stdtoolbars.inc file I know (theoretically) that the naming 
convention for the files ought to be

<action>_<parameter>.png 

following this strategy based on i.e.
"Align left" "paragraph-params \align left"

I would follow that <action> is "paragraph-params" and <parameter> is "\align 
left".

So the filename ought to be

"paragraph-params_\align left.png"

which I can create. However, the debug mode (I tried -dbg 8 and "full" dbg, 
what is nonsense in this case) tells me:

GuiApplication.cpp(347): Cannot find icon for command "paragraph-params(\align 
left)"

but it unfortunately does not tell me the name of the game i. e. the actual 
filename it is heading for. I have been playing around with the names, 
modifiying to many versions, however, the only thing that actually works is

paragraph_params.png
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