Re: lyx2kindle.py, version 0.0.2, now available

On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 10:14:44 AM Pavel Sanda wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've just put version 0.0.2 of lyx2kindle.py on the web, right > > here: > > > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/projects/lyx2kindle/ > > > >

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

ing that I'm definitely working on. The real world! Can't live with it, can't live without it. Thank you, and every other LyX developer, for making this fantastic authoring tool! SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Did I ever mention how much I like LyX?

Thanks to the developers for making this great bookmaking software, and the community for making it better and providing information. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: offtopic blog

On Friday 05 February 2010 02:39:29 Pavel Sanda wrote: > Abdel, you're gonna be famous :) > > http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2010020500435OSSW > That article sure damned LyX with faint praise. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief

Re: XML?

oked at a LyX document in VI. The LyX native file format is simple, easily understandable and parsable, and you can recover all styles. It would be trivial to write an app to convert LyX code to XML." Never underestimate the power and desirability of a native format that's readable, parseable and writeable. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Goals for alpha 1

on the user. A lot of us read and create LyX programmatically or with a text editor. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: XML?

On Monday 01 February 2010 05:25:14 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > OK, I guess my question is this: If LyX were using LuaTex, what would my > > LyX document look like in Vim? > > A LuaTeX backend would not affect the content of the LyX fil

Re: XML?

s not gonna work. One of my reasons for switching to LyX was that I *could* use Vim. A Vim-disabled LyX is just MS Word with better formatting. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: XML?

On Monday 01 February 2010 04:06:17 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: > > > On Friday 29 January 2010 18:41:57 Peter Kümmel wrote: > > >> Am Freitag, den 29.01.2010, 17:55 -0500 schrieb Steve Litt: > > > > > > This example has no conte

Re: XML?

S. That's some pretty ugly stuff. It would definitely cramp my style when it comes to programmatically reading or writing, or using Vim to tweak or troubleshoot my document. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: XML?

On Saturday 30 January 2010 11:01:46 Stefano Franchi wrote: > On 01/30/10, Peter Kümmel wrote: > >Am Freitag, den 29.01.2010, 18:03 -0600 schrieb Stefano Franchi: > >> On 01/29/10, Steve Litt wrote: > >> >On Friday 29 January 2010 18:41:57 Peter Kümmel wrote: >

Re: XML?

On Friday 29 January 2010 19:03:15 Stefano Franchi wrote: > On 01/29/10, Steve Litt wrote: > >On Friday 29 January 2010 18:41:57 Peter Kümmel wrote: > >> Am Freitag, den 29.01.2010, 17:55 -0500 schrieb Steve Litt: > >> > Hi Peter, > >> > > >>

Re: XML?

On Friday 29 January 2010 18:41:57 Peter Kümmel wrote: > Am Freitag, den 29.01.2010, 17:55 -0500 schrieb Steve Litt: > > Hi Peter, > > > > As a LyX user who often parses LyX native code in documents, > > programmatically writes LyX native code, and uses Vim to change

Re: XML?

ing looked at Javascript embedded HTML, I'm concerned. Do you have more docuemntation with examples of Luatex? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Trans-Siberian Railroad pictures - question

rather than to specify > some sort of legal rights holder. Oh, you mean your publisher demands attribution, not the original author. That's different. Anyway, I'm not a lawyer. STevET Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: xml in lyx

the need for Unicode, but there's got to be a better way than breaking stuff that's been working for 10 years and then using ERT to work around it. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: xml in lyx

r parser as a standalone command or something like that. In that way, for each release, guys like me can use your parser to read native LyX into a DOM hierarchy or SAX the thing or write it to yaml or whatever, and then if you publish your writer standalone, we can write it back with that stuff. You&#

Re: xml in lyx

On Wednesday 13 January 2010 19:39:40 José Matos wrote: > OK, that would imply to bump Qt requirement to 4.3 (not too bad) but before > doing that are we sure that this version works for our needs? How does one tell what version of Qt is on his computer? SteveT Steve Litt Recession

Re: xml in lyx

oving a decade-old feature that was handy for many, indispensible for some. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: lyx vim bindings

on skills. Bottom line: VimOutliner and LyX belong together. Even in a later version when the LyX crew implements my suggestions to make LyX a complete outliner, VimOutliner's speed make it superior for pure outlining, as opposed to rearrangement of an existing document. So Sid, keep up

Fwd: ezmlm warning

I'm here, I haven't changed a thing, as far as I know I should still be on the list. I'm sl...@troubleshooters.com. If anyone knows how to fix this, please do it. The last time this happened to me it took a month to reach the person capable of fixing it. Thanks SteveT -- Forwarded Mes

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

passed to > gs). > > Here > $ gs --version > 8.62 > What is your version ? sl...@mydesk:~$ gs --version 8.64 sl...@mydesk:~$ SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

INGS=/prepress -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dSubsetFonts=true - dEmbedAllFonts=true $1.ps What should I have done to get all the type 1 fonts embedded? Also, is NewCenturySchlbk a vector font, or a bitmap font? Thanks SteveT -- Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Scripting fun - removing unneeded headers from source code

I'm wondering if there's a less compute intensive method than the brute force method of removing a #include from a .h, and then recompiling every .cpp file. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: LyX with Google Wave?

n people and keeps the rest in line, an organization requiring the "right" economic, religious or racial stature, or Google Wave, is to go out and make my own friends. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: gcc warnings

nings is a *choice*, as a user I'd ask you to choose to eliminate them. StevET Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Simple Drawing Ability

an external editor on it) seems really the > right way to go, it would solve your particular problem, it would leave > you with the complete freedom to pick any already existing editor that > you like, or just write a new one from scratch, if you prefer. Agreed. SteveT Steve Litt Recession R

Thanks for outline mode

riple-verify I got the right stuff, triple verify that I was putting it in the right new location, and taken lots of antacid to prevent the ulcers that come from cutting and pasting whole chapters. Thanks for making outline mode. It's a truly great feature! SteveT Steve Litt Recession Reli

Re: [patch] Re: LyX indexing anomaly

hat Steve suggested: "|" are always output > verbatim inside index insets. This is more intuitive to users probably, but > it does the "LyX"/"LaTeX"-kind of magic we'd actually like to avoid. > > Opinions? > > Jürgen Before I can give an intelligent

Re: #6179: String "|(" converted to \text\textbar{}( in index tags

eally natively support the index extras > somehow. Sounds like a plan. Whatever method you use to support |( and |) would be great. In the next few weeks I'll try your ERT idea and verify that it works for T1 and for default, and report back to you. Thanks Steve Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Beware! Arsene is coming !

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 12:44:48 Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:55:56AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Some people say that good things always come to an end, but this implies > > that good things have to start at some point too. I am glad to announce > > the birt

Re: #6174: Insert and Edit buttons for outline mode

Get it when you can. Trac defaulted to 1.6.5. I figured that was optimistic. This is the first time I used Trac so I probably didn't do it right. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Outline view improvements

further, and Shift-Tab could exdent it. Up and down arrow can navigate thru the outline, and right arrow can plunge into embedded headlines. I suspect this isn't easy or you'd have done it already, but man, it would add a new and powerful level of functionality to LyX. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: [patch] new option to suppress the default date

fault date has been a thorn in my side since starting LyX in 2001. Personally I think suppression should be the default, since I can think of very few instances where a document's date should match its last compilation date, and many instances where this could be disasterous. SteveT S

Re: Gui Editor for Char-style (or Layout editor): sponsorship project?

On Wednesday 12 August 2009 12:44:02 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 August 2009 04:01:16 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I've been asked privately by a generous anonymous donator how hard would > >>

Re: Gui Editor for Char-style (or Layout editor): sponsorship project?

ccept Paypal and if the idea is what I described above. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

The case for human parsable LyX native format

Hi all, I just solved two very difficult LyX problems using Vim, and it reminded me just how lucky we are that the current LyX native format is easily readable and parsable by a normally intelligent human. In the first case, LyX would crash about 3 seconds after opening a document in 1.6.3. F

Re: Symlinks problem

would it cause some problems to distinguish between symlinks? > > pavel The whole purpose of symlinks (and hard links for that matter) is to link multiple names to the same file. Your complaint is the intended behavior. Don't symlink them, and you'll get what you want. SteveT

Re: spellcheck

spelled "LyX" "lyx" in my book about open source. I didn't know it til in the middle of spellcheck. But I can't change all "lyx" to "LyX", because in a few spots I reference "myfile.lyx", which should be all small letters. With an "ask?" checkbox, this is no problem. Thanks Steve Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: KDE 4 file dialogs integration

ation of KDE over the years is that it's a huge, crashy mess. Yeah, I know, the mailer header on this email says Kmail, but I try to use as little KDE stuff (and Gnome stuff for that matter) as I can. It sure would be nice if the configure script could include --without-kde. Thanks SteveT

Re: Unexpected Alt+F,S behavior on 1.5.6

since Win2k (my last Windows was w98). I just had the knowledge that I've used some stuff that didn't recognize Ctrl+S as save, but I can't remember what software it was. So yeah, it might have been DOS Edit or Notepad. Obviously, old habits die hard. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Unexpected Alt+F,S behavior on 1.5.6

is isn't a huge deal -- I can function with it just the way it is, but personally I think LyX would be better if it acted like other programs act. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Feature Suggestion: Specifying Exact LaTeX Preamble in LyX

course you're selling the result directly to the public). Drop-in LaTeX stylesheets would be a great LyX feature if a large number of LyX users would use it. Otherwise it should probably be a script, which you've already made. I had trouble visualizing everything your script does. Does it take into account a layout file with multiple Preample/EndPreamble pairs? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: [PATCH] Customizable Enumeration Counters

always assumed LyX could do that. It's a very expressive way of outlining, an excellent enumeration method for documentation. It would be a nice extra to be able to have some outlines in the doc follow the preceding protocol, while others follow other protocols. It wouldn't

Re: Repeatable Crash in 1.6.2, 1.6.3svn, and Trunk

, so none of the preceding looks particularly bad to me, although I can't really understand line 485. What's wrong with the preceding code? SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Starting Development

On Wednesday 13 May 2009 04:45:04 am Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > In what ways were you using too much of it? I'm considering Qt as a > > possible development environment to automate my business, so it would be > > good to know before I make the same

Re: Starting Development

On Tuesday 12 May 2009 06:39:01 pm Richard Heck wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 May 2009 03:20:17 pm Edwin Leuven wrote: > >> enrico wrote: > >>> The gcc compiler is available natively on Windows at > >>> http://www.mingw.org/ > >> &g

Re: Starting Development

ng more and more great things about Qt these days. Pretty soon I'll explore it. :-) :-) I've stopped morning the loss of xforms :-) :-) SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Starting Development

On Tuesday 12 May 2009 01:51:58 pm you wrote: > Richard Heck schreef: > > Steve Litt wrote: > >> On Tuesday 12 May 2009 08:50:32 am Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >>> I use CMake personally for Windows and Linux. On Linux, I compile LyX > >>> via QtCreator tha

Re: Starting Development

tion: QtCreator integrates the designer. Good information. Thanks. [clip] > > As far as I have tested, QtCreator is much better at gdb than kdevelop. Good information. Thanks! SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: XML: was Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

e OpenOffice docs in their native format. I have to tell you -- I sure appreciated the simplicity of the non-XML formats. STeveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

XML: was Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

eLyXer up to > date, is not trivial. Please remember, if and when you go XML, please make it simple to parse without a full blown XML parser, so we DIYers can continue to tweak our docs with Vim scripts and the like. STeveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Move the outliner from Document to Tools?

I think it works under 1.5.x, but I need to test/modify it under 1.6.x, and I need to start preparing the VimOutliner to LyX/XML. I'll write more on that in a separate email. I probably didn't answer your question, but... Steve Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US

Re: Berlin meeting

On Tuesday 02 September 2008 11:16:28 am Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Steve Litt wrote: > > I'm in Florida/USA so I can't come to the Berlin meeting :-( > > Hi Steve, > > You can collaborate over the internet, there are these things called >

Re: Berlin meeting

ic approaches become very necessary. I'm in Florida/USA so I can't come to the Berlin meeting :-( Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US

Re: CM/AE/LM fonts

On Thursday 31 July 2008 02:58, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > I personally agree with Will. Most users won't know how to change the > document font; I barely know myself. A beautiful default would be best. :s/beautiful/readable/ SteveT

Re: [Fwd: Re: Holy Moly!]

hut up :) +1 SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US

Re: I'm interested in the LyX 1.7.x XML format

On Thursday 24 July 2008 08:49, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > so i'm afraid that documenting the format means reading source code; there > won't be any specification debate. I'm pretty sure I have LyX-1.5.3 source hanging around. What would be a good plan for

I'm interested in the LyX 1.7.x XML format

Hi all, I'm Steve Litt, a regular on the user's list. Since 2001, all my books have been written in LyX. I'm not a LyX developer. Believe me, you guys wouldn't want to work with my C++ code. What brings me here is an interest, from a user point of view, in the upcomin

Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

it. If so I'll narrow it down to either a complete symptom reproduction sequence, a minimized example file, or both. Please remind me in about a week. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: LyX presentation

or xforms? > > Andre' http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/presentations/lyx_leap/toc.html However, the talk took an hour and 40 minutes. Steve -- Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Rapid Le