Re: Hollywood class

2003-12-12 Thread Garst R. Reese
"Kayvan A. Sylvan" wrote: > > In the current CVS, when writing a document with the hollywood class, > I am noticing that the author's address (entered in the "Right Address" > paragraph style) is not rendered in the final output. > > Does anyone know

Hollywood class

2003-12-11 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
In the current CVS, when writing a document with the hollywood class, I am noticing that the author's address (entered in the "Right Address" paragraph style) is not rendered in the final output. Does anyone know what is happening there? Garst, if you are reading this, can you ch

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
> PSI? Maybe 'pound per square inch'. A couple of years ago I visited a strange land were people were busy communicating in strange units. Funny when you try to check the pressure in your van's tires... Even more funny when it takes you about half an hour to figure out that not your calculatio

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Garst> Pounds per square inch, used in this case to measure gas Garst> pressure. There of course were also temperature measurements in Garst> Fahrenheit and volumes in cubic inches. The remarkable thing Garst> was that it only led to a 20

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-17 Thread Garst R. Reese
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > PSI? > > JMarc Pounds per square inch, used in this case to measure gas pressure. There of course were also temperature measurements in Fahrenheit and volumes in cubic inches. The remarkable thing was that it only led to a 20% error on the safe side. American e

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-17 Thread Angus Leeming
JMarc> PSI? Pounds per squre inch. Pressure in British Imperial Units. Remember, the British were the ones who resisted decimilisation of their monetary system because they thought that was too complicated. Imperial units are pretty well our only legacy in America and, boy, have we screwed them u

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Garst> Remember, these are the same folks that screwed up metric Garst> conversion--twice, at least. There was one on the first lunar Garst> lander which told Houston the moon walkers were running out of Garst> oxygen, so they were called

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-17 Thread Garst R. Reese
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Garst> Check-out sheet for a manned Mars lander? I would apply the > Garst> same no-page-break in mid-sentence rule there also. Garst (who > Garst> also did time with NASA) > > I'd thought they have e

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Garst> Check-out sheet for a manned Mars lander? I would apply the Garst> same no-page-break in mid-sentence rule there also. Garst (who Garst> also did time with NASA) I'd thought they have enough time to read it a few times before land

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-17 Thread Garst R. Reese
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > "Martin" == Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Martin> Only scientists can like 'interesting' things. Everybody else > Martin> hates them. > > You mean on-stage research does not exist yet? > > JMarc Check-out sheet for a manned Mars lander? I

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Martin" == Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> Only scientists can like 'interesting' things. Everybody else Martin> hates them. You mean on-stage research does not exist yet? JMarc

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-17 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 04:27:48PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Huh? I read plenty of texts where I have to turn page at > >> mid-sentence. > > Garst> On stage, for a first reading of dramatic lines? > > It probably make

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Huh? I read plenty of texts where I have to turn page at >> mid-sentence. Garst> On stage, for a first reading of dramatic lines? It probably makes things more interesting :) JMarc

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-17 Thread Garst R. Reese
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Garst> Imagine first reading of a script and having to turn pages in > Garst> mid-sentence. > > Huh? I read plenty of texts where I have to turn page at mid-sentence. > > JMarc On stage, for a first

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Garst> Imagine first reading of a script and having to turn pages in Garst> mid-sentence. Huh? I read plenty of texts where I have to turn page at mid-sentence. JMarc

Re: Hollywood class + patch

2000-05-15 Thread Garst R. Reese
Dekel Tsur wrote: > If you use the latter (and also move the dialogue layout to the top of the > file), after pressing enter in a speaker paragraph, LyX will automatically > switch to the dialogue layout. OK, I see what you are saying. The first thing in the layout is the default. A further note

Re: Hollywood class + patch

2000-05-15 Thread Garst R. Reese
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 04:08:47AM -0300, Garst R. Reese wrote: > > Some will think that it leads to too much whitespace, but in scripts > > whitespace is a Good Thing (TM). > > So, if you have a half page long dialogue, and the current page is 60% full, > you consider movi

Re: Hollywood class + patch

2000-05-15 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 04:08:47AM -0300, Garst R. Reese wrote: > Some will think that it leads to too much whitespace, but in scripts > whitespace is a Good Thing (TM). So, if you have a half page long dialogue, and the current page is 60% full, you consider moving the long dialogue to the next

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Garst> Of course. What if I put everything associated with a speaker's Garst> lines inside a minipage. Are minipages protected to go on one Garst> physical page? I'll do some testing. Garst Minipages in themselves are not intersting here

Re: Hollywood class + patch

2000-05-15 Thread Garst R. Reese
Martin Vermeer wrote: > > Reading the TeXbook page 111 I see a command \filbreak which will break > the page where it occurs, unless the stuff to the next \filbreak fits on > the page too. So you should put it between (around?) all sections that > you want not to break. > > Would this be what yo

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-14 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 12:44:35PM -0300, Garst R. Reese wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > This is definitely the way to go. Most of the intellignece should be > > in the LaTeX class, not in LyX. I tried to have a look at deja usenet > > archives to see whether this problem has been disc

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-14 Thread Garst R. Reese
"Garst R. Reese" wrote: > With the ERT version, I had some other problems. I tried making an > example to see what would happen by just holding down the x key. The > lines wrapped on the LyX screen at the expected place, but on Duh, sometimes I get really stupid. Now, what I think is Right (TM) i

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-13 Thread Garst R. Reese
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 05:57:12PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > There are some rambling about this in the fancyhdr documentation. In > > the meantime, I asked on compt.text.tex. > > I saw the following response in comp.text.tex. > The suggested tex macros indee

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-13 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 05:57:12PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > There are some rambling about this in the fancyhdr documentation. In > the meantime, I asked on compt.text.tex. I saw the following response in comp.text.tex. The suggested tex macros indeed work (note that it defines speake

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 04:04:21PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > This is definitely the way to go. Most of the intellignece should be > in the LaTeX class, not in LyX. I tried to have a look at deja usenet > archives to see whether this problem has been discussed, but found > nothing. I

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-12 Thread Garst R. Reese
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Garst> I definitely agree, but I was unable to find a solution to the > Garst> problem at the time. I'll do some more searching and thinking. > Garst> Helpful hints welcome. Especially from "intelligne

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Garst> I definitely agree, but I was unable to find a solution to the Garst> problem at the time. I'll do some more searching and thinking. Garst> Helpful hints welcome. Especially from "intellignent" peeple. There are some rambling abou

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-12 Thread Garst R. Reese
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > This is definitely the way to go. Most of the intellignece should be > in the LaTeX class, not in LyX. I tried to have a look at deja usenet > archives to see whether this problem has been discussed, but found > nothing. I am sure however that there is a package some

Re: Hollywood class

2000-05-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
>>>>> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dekel> Looking at the documention of the Hollywood class Dekel> (Extended.lyx) I saw the following: Dekel> Always preview the script to find where to insert page Dekel> breaks. Speakers' li

Hollywood class

2000-05-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
Looking at the documention of the Hollywood class (Extended.lyx) I saw the following: Always preview the script to find where to insert page breaks. Speakers' lines should NEVER break in mid-sentence. If a speaker's lines continue over a page break, repeat the Speaker title f