Re: Neede LyX Enhancements (another?)

2001-05-21 Thread Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 12:06:38PM -0400, Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: ... > > What LyX badly needs is an option to increase the font size from 12 > > point to a size much larger (like 16 or even 18 point). This is > > needed because mpage reduces the image to fit each page, mak

Re: Neede LyX Enhancements

2001-05-21 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:42:02AM +0200, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > On 19-May-2001 Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > See http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts/extsizes.html > > This seems a FAQ to me and it is a VERY elegant solution. Couldn't we > include the layouts for the extsize-documents in

Re: Neede LyX Enhancements

2001-05-21 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 19-May-2001 Dekel Tsur wrote: > See http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts/extsizes.html This seems a FAQ to me and it is a VERY elegant solution. Couldn't we include the layouts for the extsize-documents in the linux distribution? Jürgen -- -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-

Re: Neede LyX Enhancements

2001-05-20 Thread Herbert Voss
>> Even better(!) however, would be to have LyX provide the option >> to generate output directly for folded pages: front and back sides >> (4,1,2,3). In this manner, 12-point would still be 12 point (although >> larger fonts would be appreciated still). > > there are postscript utilities that

Re: Neede LyX Enhancements

2001-05-19 Thread Garst R. Reese
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > there are postscript utilities that do this. In particular, I want to > say that whatyou're looking for is "psbook". I think I found it on > debian many years ago. > > hawk > The package is called called psutils. You run psbook then psnup. Set the lyx paper size t

Re: Neede LyX Enhancements

2001-05-19 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 12:06:38PM -0400, Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > LaTeX/LyX makes it possible to do Book On Demand (BOD) > publishing, which is wonderful. By using LyX and specifying an > 5.5 x 8.5 inch page size, you can then export postscript. Then > run it through mpage to place 4 page

Re: Neede LyX Enhancements

2001-05-19 Thread dochawk
> What LyX badly needs is an option to increase the font size from 12 > point to a size much larger (like 16 or even 18 point). This is > needed because mpage reduces the image to fit each page, making > it hard to read. Even ignoring the mpage issue, I would like to > print large font. I realize

Neede LyX Enhancements

2001-05-19 Thread Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
To the volunteers I want to say -- I love LyX! I was too impatient to use LaTeX, but LyX is just what I've needed. LaTeX/LyX makes it possible to do Book On Demand (BOD) publishing, which is wonderful. By using LyX and specifying an 5.5 x 8.5 inch page size, you can then export postscript. The