Re: PDF Fonts

2010-03-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-29, Alan Tyree wrote: > --000e0cd118864eb5900482e8a698 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: >> Typhoon writes: >> > >> > I'm preparing a manuscript for printing. The LyX Wiki recommends Latin >> > Modern as the best choic

Re: Importing doc documents

2010-03-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-29, Tim Wescott wrote: > rgheck wrote: >> On 03/27/2010 02:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote: >>> those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert >>> sources in MS Word .doc format into .lyx format. >>> On Linux platforms there are at least AbiWord and Kword that can open

Re: PDF Fonts

2010-03-28 Thread Alan Tyree
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: > Typhoon writes: > > > > I'm preparing a manuscript for printing. The LyX Wiki recommends Latin > > Modern as the best choice of fonts for a PDF document. > > > > Is this still the font of choice for PDF documents? The MS is plain > > text with

Re: Importing doc documents

2010-03-28 Thread Paul Rubin
Tim Wescott writes: > > rgheck wrote: > > OpenOffice will also save in LaTeX format. I have used it often > > myself, but with old WordPerfect files, and you are right of course > > that the output file could use some cleaning up. Much of this can be > > done with a script, such as the exceed

Re: PDF Fonts

2010-03-28 Thread Paul Rubin
Typhoon writes: > > I'm preparing a manuscript for printing. The LyX Wiki recommends Latin > Modern as the best choice of fonts for a PDF document. > > Is this still the font of choice for PDF documents? The MS is plain > text with no diagrams or math symbols. Preparation will be with > pdflatex

Re: Importing doc documents

2010-03-28 Thread Tim Wescott
rgheck wrote: On 03/27/2010 02:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote: Dear all, those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert sources in MS Word .doc format into .lix format. On Linux platforms there are at least AbiWord and Kword that can open doc files and save them in various othe

PDF Fonts

2010-03-28 Thread Typhoon
Hi LyXers, I'm preparing a manuscript for printing. The LyX Wiki recommends Latin Modern as the best choice of fonts for a PDF document. Is this still the font of choice for PDF documents? The MS is plain text with no diagrams or math symbols. Preparation will be with pdflatex unless there is som

Re: Is there any easy way to embed ABC musical notation ? All I get is a box that says 'abc-box' :(

2010-03-28 Thread Julien Rioux
Hi! On 28/03/2010 4:56 PM, Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ wrote: Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ wrote: Is there any easy way to embed ABC musical notation ? All I get is a box that says 'abc-box' :( I had to add '-shell-escape' to the conversion command line... but... it won't work in a table cell ? What are you tryi

Re: Is there any easy way to embed ABC musical notation ? All I get is a box that says 'abc-box' :(

2010-03-28 Thread Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ
Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ wrote: Is there any easy way to embed ABC musical notation ? All I get is a box that says 'abc-box' :( I had to add '-shell-escape' to the conversion command line... but... it won't work in a table cell ? I am using XeTeX on Ubuntu. -- LyX: http://www.lyx.org/ OpenOffice: htt

Is there any easy way to embed ABC musical notation ? All I get is a box that says 'abc-box' :(

2010-03-28 Thread Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ
Is there any easy way to embed ABC musical notation ? All I get is a box that says 'abc-box' :( I am using XeTeX on Ubuntu. -- LyX: http://www.lyx.org/ OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/ Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/ Scribus: http://www.scribus.net/ GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/ PDF: http

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Re: Importing doc documents

2010-03-28 Thread E. Kaplan
From where can I download Word2Lyx? Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein/Research to Prevent Blindness/ Professor *The laboratory of Visual& Computational Neuroscience* Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical

Customizing space key behavior. Can one leave inline math and add a space with just one stroke?

2010-03-28 Thread Sebastian Kranz
Hello, I am just trying out Lyx and it is really great software. There is one small issue though. When writing papers, I often use inline math for some variables with sub- or superscripts like in the sentence: "The variable x^i is...", where x^i is inline math and the other words are simple t