On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:32 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
One of publishing's great mysteries -- to me, at least -- is why
O'Reilly &
Associates insist that their authors submit manuscripts in Word
format. I
know several authors who work strictly in linux and despise having to
use
OO.o then translate t
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, William F. Adams wrote:
On Mar 3, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote:
For books: Big publishers (i.e. big UP presses) behave as journals: they
want word files and will re-typeset everything. (Actually some p. houses
will retype everything from paper...).
Well, ... Spr
On Mar 3, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote:
For books: Big publishers (i.e. big UP presses) behave as journals:
they want word files and will re-typeset everything. (Actually some p.
houses will retype everything from paper...). Smaller publishing
houses and/or imprints will want a camer
Herbert Voss wrote:
>> \raggedbottom
>
> it doesn't help, when you have for example a section
> header on one side ...
>
> Herbert
>
Is it possible to make the vertical space of a header (margin before header
+ header + margin after header) a multiple of the basic line vertical space
to keep on
Dear All
Is there a less labyrinthic way of installing TeX4ht than the following:
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/mn-unix.html
Thanks in advance,
Paul
Hello,
I'm new to lyx.
I would like to try the "Curriculum Vitae" document class, but it seems
that it is unavailable on my system. In fact, i would like to port my
actual C.V. from groff -mom to lyx/latex.
I don't know nothing at latex, but i think that there probably a missing
latex package.
I
Am Freitag, 25. Februar 2005 20:56 schrieb Rich Shepard:
>When I tried this with Koma-script report class the logo ended up on
the
> page behind the title page, not centered at the top (or bottom, I really
> don't care which) of the title page. Can this be done with a regular
report
> class d
On Mar 3, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Jack M. Lyon wrote:
Stefano Franchi wrote:
The best solution I have found is to go Lyx--> Latex-->
OpenOffice--> Word.
How do you get the LaTeX document into OpenOffice?
I use htlatex, which works very well with footnotes and, importantly,
understands jurabib and natbib
Stefano Franchi wrote:
> The best solution I have found is to go Lyx--> Latex-->
> OpenOffice--> Word.
How do you get the LaTeX document into OpenOffice?
Thanks!
Best wishes,
Jack M. Lyon
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On Mar 3, 2005, at 1:53 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
* especially in human sciences, LaTeX and LyX is almost unknown, so you
finally have to stick with word. I am not aware of a single journal in
my
subject that accepts latex files, not to speak about the proceedings.
* Some tools missing (e.g
Jack M. Lyon wrote:
Jürgen wrote:
Basically, it is a question about Scylla or Charybdis. With
some tweaking
(i.e. switching off the rubber lenghts), you can even get
LaTeX to get close
to "Registerhaltigkeit", but then you'll lose the harmonic
page design and
the intelligent widow/orphan han
> The best English equivalent I've found for this term (via
> www.proz.com) so
> far is "baseline alignment".
I think the English equivalent is "grid alignment."
In traditional typesetting, body text is set in a certain point size with a
certain leading. For example, body text might be set in 1
Jürgen wrote:
> Basically, it is a question about Scylla or Charybdis. With
> some tweaking
> (i.e. switching off the rubber lenghts), you can even get
> LaTeX to get close
> to "Registerhaltigkeit", but then you'll lose the harmonic
> page design and
> the intelligent widow/orphan handling,
Juergen Spitzmueller writes:
> [1] The con, though, is that LaTeX cannot handle what German
> typographers call "Registerhaltigkeit" (i.e. that the lines on each
> page [recto and verso] are all vertically aligned the same).
The best English equivalent I've found for this term (via www.proz.com) s
Juergen Spitzmueller writes:
> As I said, you might get close with lots of tweaking. But IMHO the loss
> is greater than the gain.
No, I don't mean at the user level, but as an option (programmed in, so to
speak), so that within the limits this requires, that all other aspects
of page control, c
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
>
> * especially in human sciences, LaTeX and LyX is almost unknown, so you
> finally have to stick with word. I am not aware of a single journal in my
> subject that accepts latex files, not to speak about the proceedings.
>
As a professional historian, I think it i
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
> It seems to me (in my naivety) that this is just a matter of granularity
> --- rounding certain values such that the vertical starting position of
> all new body text paragraphs maintains this "line grid". But you say that
> in LaTeX it's not possible (therefore also not wit
Juergen Spitzmueller writes:
> With some tweaking
> (i.e. switching off the rubber lenghts), you can even
> get LaTeX to get close to "Registerhaltigkeit", but then
> you'll lose the harmonic page design and
> the intelligent widow/orphan handling, for that matter.
Here is a nice visual exam
> Hi Marcelo
>
> mark the whole String, e.g. Arsenio Ferraces
> Rodríguez, and then select Insert
> > Index Entry. On my system i do a "Ctrl+C" (copy of
> the string) first,
> because the marked string is replaced with the index
> entry "mark". After that
> i do a "Ctrl+V" (paste).
>
> Yours
>
Lujop wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Someone knows if there are latex styles with a "more modern look and
> feel" that works well with Lyx?
try the KOMA-classes or the memoir class. They can be very much tweaked to
that direction. And maybe try some other fonts than cm (the default), e.g.
Palatino or book
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
> This strikes me as a sort of "grid alignment" based on the
> leading/linespacing of the body text. Is this commonly done?
Yes, if this is a preference.
> Looking through a page of my Langenscheidt dictionary I see that lines on
> both sides are aligned, but this is maybe
Hello,
Someone knows if there are latex styles with a "more modern look and
feel" that works well with Lyx?
--
---
Joan Jesús Pujol Espinar
Juergen Spitzmueller writes:
> AFAIK, it's a decision by design. LaTeX uses "rubber lengths", i.e. it
> shrinks and extracts the vertical spaces (between paragraphs, after and
> before the headings an so on) to fill the page consistently. This
> results in a quite "harmonic" page layout, but makes
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
> Can you explain this further? Do you mean that the lines printed on the
> "left page" are at the same vertical position as those on the right?
Yes. Unfortunately, I don't know the English term.
> Assuming that I understood this correctly, then why not?
AFAIK, it's a decis
Juergen Spitzmueller writes:
> [1] The con, though, is that LaTeX cannot handle what German
> typographers call "Registerhaltigkeit" (i.e. that the lines on each
> page [recto and verso] are all vertically aligned the same).
Can you explain this further? Do you mean that the lines printed on the
> > * the printed output is truely typeset giving nicer output
>
> I'd really focus this a bit more, since it is my personal "killer" argument:
> The LaTeX output is way better than word's output from a typographical point
> of view. Especially with pdflatex, you are able to produce highly
> pr
Martin A. Hansen wrote:
> pros:
> =
>
> * easy to use and stable
>
> * free
>
> * well written and intelligent docs
>
> * focus on content instead of layout
>
> * the printed output is truely typeset giving nicer output
I'd really focus this a bit more, since it is my personal "killer" argumen
Am Dienstag, 1. März 2005 22:09 schrieb Martin A. Hansen:
At my Lyx-presentation last night people were especially impressed by the ease
a template can be used for a start (I used g-brief-de because of its
shortness-; there is also a g-brief-en). Its just two klicks:
Load the template,
export is
Am Dienstag, 1. März 2005 23:05 schrieb Martin A. Hansen:
> its my boss :o(
get another one ;-)
Wolfgang
>
>
>
> martin
>
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 02:01:43PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
> > >i am currently writing a paper (in lyx of couse) and my coa
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