On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:00:22PM +0100, Peter Bowyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am one of the people who cannot finds editing documents hard on
> screen - I end up printing a copy and then working through it with a
> pen, making changes and restructuring, and then typing the changes up.
>
> I didn't
Dear All
Is there some tool to convert from LaTex equations to SVG? I have
tried pstoedit, but it does not apparently work here.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Peter Bowyer wrote:
Hi,
I am one of the people who cannot finds editing documents hard on screen
- I end up printing a copy and then working through it with a pen,
making changes and restructuring, and then typing the changes up.
Me too... I've always wondered if a tabl
Rudi Gaelzer wrote:
Funny! I swear it wasn't working. I could wait a whole day and nothing...
Then, I started lyx from the console in debug mode (with lyx -dbg any, as
suggested) and Instant preview worked. Then, I quitted and started from the
kde menu (lyx-qt) and voila! Here I have math p
On Monday 19 June 2006 15:21, Jeremy Wells wrote:
> I suppose what I'm hoping for is someone to say 1) "no, you're wrong,
> because..."; 2) "wait x number of years and we'll be there"; or 3)
> "if you don't like coding, use a different tool."
From my experience from writing my thesis which LyX I'd
When I'm doing close editing, I "View DVI" and switch back and forth
between the DVI viewer and LyX. LyX now has a feature that allows you
the DVI viewer effectively to inform LyX what you want to edit, and LyX
will then go there automatically. I've not used that yet, however, as I
can always just
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, A. Scottedward Hodel wrote:
I've come to LyX from the opposite end of many of the people writing: I
started with LaTeX, ideal for writing mathematical papers/bibliographies,
and now find LyX a wonderful way to simiplify document formatting and
preparation. I only use WYSIWYG
At 21:11 19/06/2006, John Coppens wrote:
Shouldn't be too difficult - if you want to read the same-as-printed
document, why don't you use the View options? View|PDF or View|postscript
or whatever equivalent to the command you use to print...
Because these don't' help me find the text I need to
On Monday 19 June 2006 18:05, Rich Shepard wrote:
>I was very pleased to learn that when Springer-Verlag asked to
> publish my book, they provided their own class (svmono) for
> monographs, and they have a TeXpert on staff in New York because they
> prefer to get documents submitted camera read
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Peter Bowyer wrote:
Do you have any tips or suggestions for making the editing process
smoother?
Peter,
I can offer what I developed as a workable solution for me over several
decades. I wear two hats, but not at the same time.
I wear my writing hat and put out a str
On Monday 19 June 2006 04:00 pm, Peter Bowyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am one of the people who cannot finds editing documents hard on
> screen - I end up printing a copy and then working through it with a
> pen, making changes and restructuring, and then typing the changes up.
>
> I didn't find this a
This ties in closely with the ongoing discussion of the goals of LyX.
The LyX editor itself is to put in the content/hierarchical
organization of a document. When I need to preview the actual
document, I use that option in LyX (cmd-T on a macintosh, View-
>update->pdf on the menu) which let
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:00:22 +0100
Peter Bowyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now I know that people have been writing documents this way for much
> longer than word processors have been around, (think of raw TeX)
> which suggests it's a problem with my approach. Do you have any tips
> or sugg
Hi,
I am one of the people who cannot finds editing documents hard on
screen - I end up printing a copy and then working through it with a
pen, making changes and restructuring, and then typing the changes up.
I didn't find this a problem when using Word because what was
on-screen looked li
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:21:44AM -0400, Jeremy Wells wrote:
> I suppose what I'm hoping for is someone to say 1) "no, you're wrong,
> because..."; 2) "wait x number of years and we'll be there"; or 3) "if you
> don't like coding, use a different tool."
It's not 1).
Could be 2) for sufficientl
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:29:00AM +0200, Georg Baum wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Do we choose BSD or GPL for the default? Out of habit I'd lean towards
> > GPL, and also because that is what I'd expect if I never bothered to read
> > the Copyrights page.
>
> I'd say GPL. I did not fol
Funny! I swear it wasn't working. I could wait a whole day and nothing...
Then, I started lyx from the console in debug mode (with lyx -dbg any, as
suggested) and Instant preview worked. Then, I quitted and started from the
kde menu (lyx-qt) and voila! Here I have math preview in lyx 1.4.1.
We've had a lot of discussion recently about layouts, page design, fine tuning
appearances, bibliographies, and so on. This makes me ask: how many of you
with needs beyond the standard own and have read Mittlebach & Goossen's "The
LaTeX Companion, 2nd edition?" How many have searched CTAN for a
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 01:57:26PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Friday 16 June 2006 11:50 am, you wrote:
> > The real first question is whether a layout file can be covered by
> > copyright to begin with.
> >
> > As I pointed out before, one good example is fonts. While their names
> > can be copy
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
so i would like to add to your post some questions about considering
alternatives to latex as layout engine. would it be possible (and feasible)
to integrate tex commands with lyx circumnavigating latex? what other
alternatives are there? xhtml and cs
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Richard Heck wrote:
I have found LyX to deliver precisely what it purports to offer: I
concentrate more on my writing and less on formatting. It seems crazy in
retrospect, but when I was using a traditional word processor
(WordPerfect, in my case), I'd spend a ridiculously l
Steve, you are correct that the layout file is *not* required to be GPL.
The BSD license is at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
NOTE that it is MUCH shorter (and thus more likely to be read!) than
the GPL. Plus, with the GPL, we have the consideration as to *which*
GPL? There i
Rudi Gaelzer wrote:
Is there some way to check out on some error messages that might come up when
lyx tries to execute the instant preview?
lyx -dbg any (and brace yourself for the flood of messages).
/Paul
Richard Heck wrote:
Speaking just for myself...and, yes, I'm an academic, a philosopher
(with mathematical interests)...
I have found LyX to deliver precisely what it purports to offer: I
concentrate more on my writing and less on formatting. It seems crazy in
retrospect, but when I was using a
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, David Neeley wrote:
I am a firm believer in creating styles and using them rather than
overriding particular pieces of a document--to the fullest possible extent.
That makes upkeep of that document over time a much more consistent effort
with much less effort involved. It al
Steve Litt wrote:
That works perfectly, and I could make a LyX environment to eliminate the ERT.
As it turned out, I just used the itemize environment for this particular
application, but your example showed me how to directly translate my tab
indented outline into LyX with a simple Ruby scr
hello jeremy
i agree with you on your observations.
i find lyx a very nice editor for formatting documents, however, i also have
this feeling that most of my time is spend on the steep learning slopes of
latex (which is because all the lyx things are fast and easy!).
in my humble oppinion, lat
Jeremy,
I'm a humanities user as well (history) so I understand your frustration
however, I'll take an approach most similar to your #1 -- "you're wrong":
Lyx requires a little more investment in document structures, formatting,
and so on, which is the point of most of the discussion on the l
Jeremy et al.:
I am a relatively new LyX user, too. Among the documents I did in the
first days of using it was a 12-page, footnoted report. It was far
simpler than using a "word processor" be it OOo, Word, WordPerfect,
WordPro, KWord, AbiWord, or various others with which I am quite
familiar.
(
On Monday 19 June 2006 09:21 am, Jeremy Wells wrote:
> For some time I have been evaluating Lyx as an academic word processor, but
> find it wanting in a few critical areas.
>
> For instance, the stated goal of Lyx is to spend more time writing, but
> less time on formatting. Based on my experience
Jeremy Wells wrote:
I suppose what I'm hoping for is someone to say 1) "no, you're wrong,
because..."; 2) "wait x number of years and we'll be there"; or 3) "if
you don't like coding, use a different tool."
1) You're wrong somewhat...
People in this list are really advanced user. I've been
Speaking just for myself...and, yes, I'm an academic, a philosopher
(with mathematical interests)...
I have found LyX to deliver precisely what it purports to offer: I
concentrate more on my writing and less on formatting. It seems crazy in
retrospect, but when I was using a traditional word proc
Hi. Sorry for the delay on the reply...
I installed both packages that are distributed by the fedora core extras
repository: lyx 1.4.1 and lyx-qt 1.4.1. The dependencies are automatically
handled by yum. Thus, yes, all dependencies are satisfied.
Is there some way to check out on some error
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Jeremy Wells wrote:
For some time I have been evaluating Lyx as an academic word processor, but
find it wanting in a few critical areas.
Jeremy,
Right there you're off on the wrong foot. LyX is a gooey front end to the
LaTeX macro layer on top of the TeX typesetting sy
Jeremy Wells wrote:
> I suppose what I'm hoping for is someone to say 1) "no, you're wrong,
> because..."; 2) "wait x number of years and we'll be there"; or 3) "if you
> don't like coding, use a different tool."
No:
4) Sit down, learn coding and implement the features you are missing. Or at
leas
For some time I have been evaluating Lyx as an academic word processor, but
find it wanting in a few critical areas.
For instance, the stated goal of Lyx is to spend more time writing, but less time on formatting. Based on my experience,
however, and from posts to this list, a great deal of tim
On Monday 19 June 2006 04:29 am, Georg Baum wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Do we choose BSD or GPL for the default? Out of habit I'd lean towards
> > GPL, and also because that is what I'd expect if I never bothered to read
> > the Copyrights page.
>
> I'd say GPL. I did not follow this thre
Hi!
I'm using Lyx with natbib and have some problems with the citations.
Some of my citations look like this "poole [5]" and some of them look
like this "[8]". I do not want the author to appear in the document,
just the numbers. I have chosen citations style: numerical in the
preferences window,
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So sorry, I didn't set clear, what I mean by "APA": http://www.apa.org/
They have special guidelines for thesis', journals, reports, etc. I
found some postings referring to these in context with LaTeX and even
LyX, but I didn't manage to find somethin
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Hi,
I'm asking on behalf of one of my users.
I need to include the APA regulations for documents into LyX on a Fedora
Core 5 box. I found several packages, but didn't manage to install it in
an easy and quick way.
Now I am asking you, if I just weren
Hi, this is a minor problem, but an annoying one. In Jurabib documentation
the format of each bibliographic reference shows:
Brox, Hans: Allgemeiner Teil des Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuches. 20th edition.
Köln, Berlin, Bonn, München, 1996
But in my document all references are show like this one:
Bobb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Do we choose BSD or GPL for the default? Out of habit I'd lean towards
> GPL, and also because that is what I'd expect if I never bothered to read
> the Copyrights page.
I'd say GPL. I did not follow this thread too closely, but as I understand
it layout files can only
Ok, I think we're reaching some general consensus here. I've tried editing
this draft page accordingly, please give me your opinions
http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/Copyrights-Draft
here, or simply add them to that page.
In David's text about default license, I replaced 'XXX' license with 'GP
Julio Rojas wrote:
> I did... I'm goint to print my work today thanks to that solution... But
> I'm curious about a more "elegant" solution...
I would have told you if I knew ;-)
The problem is that [EMAIL PROTECTED] and similar commands (like amsmath's
\numberwithin) need *two* counters. The one
I did... I'm goint to print my work today thanks to that solution... But I'm
curious about a more "elegant" solution...
On 6/19/06, Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Julio Rojas wrote:
> Yup, that's a solution... Thanks a lot... But I guess if there isn't a
> better solution???
P
On 6/19/06, Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Julio Rojas wrote:
> Yup, that's a solution... Thanks a lot... But I guess if there isn't a
> better solution???
Probably. But in the time you wait (or search) for that, you probably have
inserted the mentioned command easily. I though
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