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Joe(theWordy)Philbrook | 1 Aug 2009 06:12

RE: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???


It would appear that on Jul 31, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW did say:

> > Is there any way to get them off my screen???
> 
> Tools->Preferences->Look & Feel->Open Document in Tabs
> 

Thanks. But when I tried that the results were less than ideal.

I don't know why I didn't realize I was talking about "tabs" until
you identified the toggle. {Unless it has to do with the fact that
when I use LyX I'm always either opening just one document (in which
case there isn't one) Or I'm opening a half dozen documents with a
script where the average filename length is about 30 characters long.
(in which case the row of tabs don't all fit} and so I never discerned
the pattern of a tab beside a spot without one...}

But in any case the results are that several separate LyX windows open.
which in itself isn't bad, but since the filenames are so long it's
hard to determine which doc is which switching via the <alt>+<tab>
global shortcut. And if I try to use the <alt>+<D>[$number] method,
the tabs in that particular document window turn themselves back on...

It might be nice for keyboard centric users who switch documents via
the menu, rather than by clicking on the tab,  if they added an
additional check box or .ui file item, that toggled the graphic display
of the tabs like it was a toolbar full of tabs, while still allowing
ONE document window to switch between several [virtual tab]
documents via the pull down menu... But as feature requests go, I
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Joe(theWordy)Philbrook | 1 Aug 2009 06:12

Re: Drag and Drop


It would appear that on Jul 31, Johannes Knaus did say:

> I can't imagine how one could mark some text with the mouse hold-and-click it
> and drag it around by accident.

You have never seen *ME* try to use the mouse... Though it is
frequently the easiest way to copy/paste text between applications
when one or more of the source/destination applications do NOT
support  ^C ^V and shifted arrows for marking... I for one would
find it umm frustrating if some text automatically relocated because
I was being a klutz while attempting to drag the the mouse pointer
across a range of text to copy to the (gpm?) buffer some text I
wanted to paste into an xterm.

> I think the discussion on going on here is somewhat dogmatic. Many people use
> Ctrl+X and then Ctrl+V to shift textparts around. That's o.k. and that's what
> I do as I have no other chance in Lyx to do this.

I for one am glad many people use that technique, It means it's
unlikely that LyX's keyboard control methods will be phased out any
time soon.

> Those who don't like drag and drop are not forced to use it, it would be just
> another editing option (maybe to be activated or deactivated via GUI). Still,
# ------- ------- ------ ------ ^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^-- ------

When you said this however you got my vote. Just as long as the
feature *CAN* be deactivated by the user...
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Steve Litt | 1 Aug 2009 15:16
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Keyboard Centrism: was Drag and Drop

On Saturday 01 August 2009 00:12:51 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:

> [rant-mode]
> I might be a keyboard centric computer user who is always having
> difficulty dealing with the point N click style "dogma" that seems
> to say that if you make it easy for mouse centric users to click
> instead of keypunching, then it's OK if you can't do something
> anymore without resorting to that {many paragraphs of expletives
> deleted} rodent...
>
> But that doesn't mean that I think mouse centric users should be
> denied point n click methods I just don't want them pushed on me.
> [/rant-mode]

You, my friend, are a prime candidate for two free software offerings I use on 
a daily, no, a minutely basis: Umenu and VimOutliner.

Umenu is a keystroke driven menu, which on my system is invoked by the Ctrl+9 
keystroke combination. Then you keystroke through the menu. Unlike many lame 
menu systems, Umenu doesn't require you to needlessly press Enter after each 
choice -- simply pressing the letter corresponding to the command or submenu 
does that command or submenu. Umenu has prompted argument substitution, so it 
can ask you for arguments  which you type in. I use Umenu a heck of a lot more 
often than the system menu that comes with my distribution, and because the 
EMDL file is part of my data, it survives reinstallations.

Umenu is configured with an Easy Menu Definition Language (EMDL) file, which is 
nothing but a tab indented outline. The fastest way to author EMDL is with 
VimOutliner.
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Jannick Asmus | 1 Aug 2009 15:41
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[LyX1.6.3/Vista] Setting prefs shrinks LyX window

Changing the preferences shrinks the LyX window after hitting the OK 
button in the preference dialogue. I change the settings every now and 
then, but it is kind of annoying to scale the LyX window up every 
time.

Using LyX 1.6.3 on WinVista.

Do you have any suggestions to amend that - or is it a nice to have?

Thanks as always !!!

/J.
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Paul A. Rubin | 1 Aug 2009 15:47
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Re: [LyX1.6.3/Vista] Setting prefs shrinks LyX window

Jannick Asmus wrote:
> Changing the preferences shrinks the LyX window after hitting the OK 
> button in the preference dialogue. I change the settings every now and 
> then, but it is kind of annoying to scale the LyX window up every time.
> 
> Using LyX 1.6.3 on WinVista.
> 
> Do you have any suggestions to amend that - or is it a nice to have?
> 
> Thanks as always !!!
> 
> /J.
> 
> 

This is bug #6034 (http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6034).

/Paul
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Jannick Asmus | 1 Aug 2009 16:01
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AW: [LyX1.6.3/Vista] Setting prefs shrinks LyX window

Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Jannick Asmus wrote:
>> Changing the preferences shrinks the LyX window after hitting the 
>> OK button in the preference dialogue. I change the settings every 
>> now and then, but it is kind of annoying to scale the LyX window up 
>> every time.
>>
>> Using LyX 1.6.3 on WinVista.

> This is bug #6034 (http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6034).

Thanks. Just give me a shout if it is worth while filing a comment in 
the bug report.

Best,
J.
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Sam Liddicott | 1 Aug 2009 17:48
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Border around figure float

My "figure" is actually a text rendering of an html website layout and 
so confusingly seems to merge in with the text of the page.

How can I get a border around my figure float?

Sam
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Michael | 1 Aug 2009 20:20
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Theorems in Spanish

Hello,

I have a great problems yesterday with my Lyx's file, and I had to make again
all over again (from source code, of course). The real problem is Theorems,
Lemmas, etc appears in English and I need appears in Spanish. Now the
definitions of theorems are

Code: 
    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Textclass specific LaTeX commands.
    \theoremstyle{plain}
    \ifx\thechapter\undefined
    \newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}
    \else
    \newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}[chapter]
    \fi
      \theoremstyle{definition}
      \newtheorem{defn}[thm]{Definition}
      \theoremstyle{plain}
      \newtheorem{lem}[thm]{Lemma}
      \theoremstyle{remark}
      \newtheorem{notation}[thm]{Notation}

But I need this

Code: 
    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Textclass specific LaTeX commands.
    \theoremstyle{plain}
    \ifx\thechapter\undefined
    \newtheorem{thm}{Teorema}
    \else
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Paul A. Rubin | 1 Aug 2009 20:39
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Re: AW: [LyX1.6.3/Vista] Setting prefs shrinks LyX window

Jannick Asmus wrote:
> Paul A. Rubin wrote:
>> Jannick Asmus wrote:
>>> Changing the preferences shrinks the LyX window after hitting the OK 
>>> button in the preference dialogue. I change the settings every now 
>>> and then, but it is kind of annoying to scale the LyX window up every 
>>> time.
>>>
>>> Using LyX 1.6.3 on WinVista.
> 
>> This is bug #6034 (http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6034).
> 
> Thanks. Just give me a shout if it is worth while filing a comment in 
> the bug report.
> 

Just got an update on the ticket.  It's a bug in Qt, and there's a 
partial workaround that the LyX developers may implement in a future 
version (although hopefully the Qt developers will fix the bug before 
too long).  I don't know that a comment is necessary at the moment (but 
if it gets really annoying for you, feel free :-) ).

Meanwhile, it turns out that the bug only triggers if the window is 
maximized at the time you mess with the look and feel, so if you can 
remember to window it first, it's an extra click or two but not too 
horrible.  (I like to work with LyX maximized, but fortunately I rarely 
fiddle with the look and feel.)

/Paul
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Ignacio García | 1 Aug 2009 20:43
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Re: Border around figure float

Sam Liddicott <sam <at> ...> writes:

> 
> My "figure" is actually a text rendering of an html website layout and 
> so confusingly seems to merge in with the text of the page.
> 
> How can I get a border around my figure float?
> 
> Sam
> 

 You can insert the figure within a box and the box within a float:

Insert->Float->Figure, now you can insert the caption if you want

Then, put the cursor before the Figure label (for the caption below the figure) 
and 
Insert->Box and now Insert->Graphic

With right-click on the Box(Minipage) gray box you can choose the frame.

You can put the figure caption in the frame or out the frame.

Or you can get it in reverse order:
Select the graphic, Insert->Box, select the box, Insert->Float->Figure 

Ignacio
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