Hi everyone,
I've been helping my seven year old son sell popcorn for his cub scout troop.
Since I'm a geek and have nothing better to do, I created a
spreadsheet (in gnumeric, the GNOME spreadsheet program) which made
it easy to track the name, phone number and the various sales
that he made.
Using gnumeric, I exported the list in LaTeX2e format. I reLyXed the
resulting output and was able to read it into LyX (cool!!).
Using LyX, I was able to create customer lists with their popcorn orders
in a very nice table.
My only problem was this: The table as displayed by LyX is too wide to operate
on comfortably. I end up stretching the LyX window (wider than my screen
size) and using ALT-secound-mouse-button to move the LyX window around
so that I can operate on the far right columns of the table. It would be
nice if LyX had a horizontal scroll-bar for these types of things in addition
to the normal vertical scrollbar.
In any case, the LyX-ified popcorn sales lists are beautiful! Thanks
to the LyX team.
---Kayvan
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Kayvan Aghaiepour Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids:
Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89)
http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | | Robin Gregory (2/28/92)
