Re: Hollywood, Broadway

2009-07-18 Thread rgheck
On 07/18/2009 11:57 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: rgheck schrieb: Currently I install these classes in the Windows installer together with LyX so that LaTeX can find them. Presumably we could do the same with the other installers? Both Windows Installers do this, for Linux we don't have installers

Re: Hollywood, Broadway

2009-07-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
rgheck schrieb: Currently I install these classes in the Windows installer together with LyX so that LaTeX can find them. Presumably we could do the same with the other installers? Both Windows Installers do this, for Linux we don't have installers and for Mac I don't know if doing this in

Re: Hollywood, Broadway

2009-07-18 Thread rgheck
On 07/18/2009 09:56 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > To the devels: What's the intention here? The correct solution would be to submit hollywood and broadway as new packages to CTAN. This was for example done for the cv class we once provided. JMarc created the LaTeX package simplecv out of it and subm

Re: Hollywood, Broadway

2009-07-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> To the devels: What's the intention here? The correct solution would be to submit hollywood and broadway as new packages to CTAN. This was for example done for the cv class we once provided. JMarc created the LaTeX package simplecv out of it and submitted it to CTAN. This way everyone can ins

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 what is happening there? > > Garst, if you ar

Re: hollywood template.

2000-09-04 Thread Garst R. Reese
Allan Rae wrote: > > You should take direct to the master: Garst Reece. > He built all the Hollywood and Broadway stuff. > > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, John Culleton wrote: > > > Thanks to Herb V. I have the hollywood template working now. I increased > > the right margin to one inch, to meet the stan

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' lines should NEVER break in mid-sentence. If Dekel>

Re: hollywood

2000-03-06 Thread Garst R. Reese
Amir Karger wrote: > > > From: "Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: hollywood ok > > To: Lyx Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 23:56:41 -0400 > > > > I downloaded the patch for ScriptWriter to abiWord. They have a long way > > to go before they catch up with

Re: hollywood

2000-03-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Amir> A note in LDN to remind folks about hollywood is not a bad idea Amir> BUT I don't think it should be done as a direct response to Amir> abiword. As I mentioned in my last email, I don't think a direct Amir> competition with them is a g

Re: hollywood

2000-03-06 Thread Amir Karger
> From: "Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: hollywood ok > To: Lyx Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 23:56:41 -0400 > > I downloaded the patch for ScriptWriter to abiWord. They have a long way > to go before they catch up with LyX :), but Larry is right about i

Re: hollywood

2000-03-05 Thread Garst R. Reese
Larry Marso wrote: > > No. But they're obviously bringing together widely divergent tools > for an "integrated" studio solution. Tell me this really makes > sense, from a writer's point of view? I doubt it. > It only makes sense for a "shooting script." The original writer is rarely involved

Re: hollywood

2000-03-05 Thread Larry Marso
No. But they're obviously bringing together widely divergent tools for an "integrated" studio solution. Tell me this really makes sense, from a writer's point of view? I doubt it. On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 02:15:18PM -0400, Garst R. Reese wrote: > Larry Marso wrote: > > > > Did you provide the

Re: hollywood

2000-03-05 Thread Garst R. Reese
Larry Marso wrote: > > Did you provide the wrong url, mistakenly? > > Try: > > http://freefilm.cx/software/ > > -- > lsm Yep Thanks. Sorry for the mix-up. Do you have abiWord? Garst

Re: hollywood

2000-03-05 Thread Larry Marso
Did you provide the wrong url, mistakenly? Try: http://freefilm.cx/software/ -- lsm On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 10:24:27AM -0400, Garst R. Reese wrote: > Hi folks. I noticed an announcement on freshmeat that there is a script > writing patch for abiWord. > http://www.tvwriter.com/script.html > I

Re: hollywood/broadway fixes

1999-04-13 Thread Garst R. Reese
Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > I thought the /sloppy in the layout files would take care of stopping > > hyphenation, but when I looked at the ps view there were hyphenated > > lines. > > The command you need is (from LaTeX Companion): > > \newcommand{\nohyphens}{\hyphenpenalty=1\exhyphenpenal

Re: hollywood/broadway fixes

1999-04-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Garst> Sorry, I needed some /raggedleft's in the .cls files and small Garst> fixes in the .layout files The attached file untars in Garst> hollywood and has tex and layouts subdirs. I thought the Garst> /sloppy in the layout files would