Adding A Leterhead to a Report

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Shepard
I want to use LyX for reports that should go out under my letterhead. I have the logo and address/phone information set up in an OpenOffice.org Writer page and exported as a .pdf file. I can also recreate it in The GIMP (if I can access the proper typeface). What I would like to do is have just

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-03 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Charles de Miramon wrote: >> a powerfull search&replace > | Oh yes, regexps would be nice. > >> I think that the LyX development team did not understand that a graphical >> toolkit is not a 'skin' but a source of more and more powerfull components >> and in

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-03 Thread Bo Peng
Dear list, I can not help having one or two words about lyx. Please forgive me if they seem to be in random order. Firstly, I am a graduate student in statistics and lyx is the best writing tool (I was a long time user of word, scientific workplace, latex) I can find. I use lyx everyday, for almo

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-03 Thread Herbert Voss
Steve Litt wrote: I don't like to fine tune individual pages, but before releasing my books for sale, I like to fine-tune what a warning looks like, what a tip looks like, what a story looks like, what a list looks like, what a chunk of code looks like. Such book-wide fine tuning is trivial in W

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 03 January 2005 03:06 pm, Rich Shepard wrote: > Matej, > >Scribus is desktop publishing and is ideal for graphics-heavy layout. > Good for magazines, advertising and the like. Perhaps I'm in the minority, > but I see LyX as a very easy to use front end to LaTeX for the typeset > outp

Re: math symbols

2005-01-03 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:43:40 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your help. Using lyx-1.3.5-1mdk10_qt.i586.rpm, the math > symbols showed up right away. Bye, Andy I am glad that my suggestion solved your problem. Now, you can benefit from a QT frontend for LyX, which pe

Re: 1.3.3 on XP - no output

2005-01-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Robert Orr wrote: Thanks Rob. Also, any idea where I can get these missing files? latexconfig.lyx.in and lyxconfig.lyx.in I've posted them (zipped) to the LyX Wiki at http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Windows. -- Paul *

Re: math symbols

2005-01-03 Thread amitofsk
Thanks for your help. Using lyx-1.3.5-1mdk10_qt.i586.rpm, the math symbols showed up right away. Bye, Andy

Re: math symbols

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried "urpmi fonts-ttf-latex", and the reply was "Everything already installed". I also already installed the latex-xft-fonts package ^^^ Aha! That's the one. :-) following the instructions on the

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Matej Cepl wrote: That's the question -- are we really talking about "typesetting/publication system" or authoring system? Or to say it more bluntly -- do we want PageMaker/FrameMaker (LaTeX based) or more author-friendly XMEtal/Amaya/Epic (LaTeX based, so far)? I am all for the

Re: math symbols

2005-01-03 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:13:25 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried "urpmi fonts-ttf-latex", and the reply was "Everything already > installed". I also already installed the latex-xft-fonts package > following the instructions on the wiki.lyx.org site. However, I'm still > not

Re: math symbols

2005-01-03 Thread amitofsk
I tried "urpmi fonts-ttf-latex", and the reply was "Everything already installed". I also already installed the latex-xft-fonts package following the instructions on the wiki.lyx.org site. However, I am still not able to get the math symbols to display properly. Do you have any other ideas? Thanks

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Rich Shepard wrote: >As long as it does not require KDE to run it's OK with me. I agree that You can use whichever KDE application in whatever environment if you have installed kdelibs. >In contrast to what you want in the way of fine-scale control, I like It is not about fine-scale cont

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Matej Cepl wrote: > * later ... well, actually, why not switch LyX to save its files in some > kind of subset of OASIS Document format (what is going to be a native > format of OOo 2.0, KOffice, and possibly even AbiWord)? Just throwing > the thought here -- it will certainly need a l

Re: math symbols

2005-01-03 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:38:20 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having trouble displaying math symbols on the screen with lyx. Does > someone know what I am doing wrong? I followed the help file referenced > earlier on this list, at > http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Troubl

Re: math symbols

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble displaying math symbols on the screen with lyx. Does someone know what I am doing wrong? I followed the help file referenced earlier on this list, at http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Troubleshooting#fonts and the INSTALL file, but I

math symbols

2005-01-03 Thread amitofsk
I'm having trouble displaying math symbols on the screen with lyx. Does someone know what I am doing wrong? I followed the help file referenced earlier on this list, at http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Troubleshooting#fonts and the INSTALL file, but I'm still having trouble. Details of my syste

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Charles de Miramon wrote: > a powerfull search&replace Oh yes, regexps would be nice. > I think that the LyX development team did not understand that a graphical > toolkit is not a 'skin' but a source of more and more powerfull components > and in the case of Qt of wordprocessor components. A lot

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Matej Cepl wrote: Just contrary to what Steve writes, I would think that if dropping anything then I would let XForms go and made LyX into a first-class KDE citizen. As long as it does not require KDE to run it's OK with me. I agree that it's time to drop support for xforms. H

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I'll try to answer to some of your > concerns. Thanks, Jean-Marc, for answering. I was really getting worried that my report about LyX's death were not that exaggerated (BTW, it is so over-quoted citation, that I was not able to googl

No Search & Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Shepard
In the LyX whine thread (served without cheese, unfortunately) about missing features someone commented that there is no global search and replace in 1.3.5. However, when I press ctrl-f I see a dialog box that has two text entry widgets (for search string and replace string) and four buttons: "

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-03 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Also, we have a growing interest for the native OSX and Windows > versions, and I hope this is going to help attract other people to > help. > Part of KDE has been ported to OSX and some are working on a Windows Port but it has not brought us any new developpers.

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 03 January 2005 08:23 am, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Actually, I would interested to know what your other pet peeves wrt > LyX are, besides the fact that it does not do scripting and you are > afraid it may not be there in a few years. Here are my (Steve Litt) pet peeves about LyX:

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Matej" == Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello Matej, Matej> Hi, I have occasionally guy (Bruce D'Arcus from Matej> bibliographic.openoffice.org) some of my thoughts about LyX and Matej> generally about writing and I thought that you may be Matej> interested as well (it is slightly

Re: bug? (trying to import .tex file)

2005-01-03 Thread Jose' Matos
On Sunday 02 January 2005 20:17, mario wrote: > Hi, > > is this (see below) a bug? It seems so. LyX should never crash even if the file is badly formed as it seems to be the case. > I don`t have time and competence to look at it. > If somebody needs/likes to know, here it is. > I was trying t