Am 08.10.21 um 07:38 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse:
Everybody has Word and how difficult can it be?
not me
Wolfgang
Indeed it is very easy to write poorly looking documents in (Word and)
LibreOffice.
LaTeX enforces a lot of things, and this one of the reasons why you
really have to try hard to
Hi,
my (two-column) index should be formatted in justification (is that the correct word?), which sometimes creates ugly large gaps in the text when the line breaks. I figured I could work around this problem by left-justifying the entire index. To do this, I added the command
\raggedright
Revision Control is your friend :-)-O
el
On 2021-10-08 03:06 , Rich Shepard wrote:
On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
I think, if you use one of these you must make appropriate definitions for
the headers/footers lest nothing is being the default.
However, when using Koma Script I
Everybody has Word and how difficult can it be?
Indeed it is very easy to write poorly looking documents in (Word and)
LibreOffice.
LaTeX enforces a lot of things, and this one of the reasons why you
really have to try hard to write poorly looking documents, though I
have seen many determined
Good point about systems allowing direct formatting Virgil. It should be
prohibited. I didn't know that AbiWord had the lockdown feature ("lockdown"
being the trendy word in Oz these days!), but it is a good idea.
AbiWord is still available, the latest release for Linux was in July of
this year. T
On 10/7/2021 9:44 PM, Alan Tyree wrote:
Why is it so hard to get people to use styles? I worked recently with
a friend to convert his Word document into an ePub. My advice is don't
ever, ever do this! Even though I had advocated the use of styles, he
had spent hours using direct formatting.
A
Why is it so hard to get people to use styles? I worked recently with a
friend to convert his Word document into an ePub. My advice is don't ever,
ever do this! Even though I had advocated the use of styles, he had spent
hours using direct formatting.
And it is not just amateurs. I write for a ser
On 10/7/2021 2:50 PM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
Virgil,
how could that work in ANY program ("dorward" compatibility)?
But it's Open Source, just pull the latest version once out of beta.
No doubt that is an easy solution with FOSS. But I recall a time when I
once upgraded LyX on my Linux bo
On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
I think, if you use one of these you must make appropriate definitions for
the headers/footers lest nothing is being the default.
However, when using Koma Script I set
Document -> Settings... -> Page Layout -> Page Style: Default
and in the
Rich,
I think, if you use one of these you must make appropriate definitions
for the headers/footers lest nothing is being the default.
However, when using Koma Script I set
Document -> Settings... -> Page Layout -> Page Style: Default
and in the preamble I put something something like
I must have broken something and haven't identified what broke.
In Settings -> Page layout I've changed the page style from 'default' to
'header' and 'fancy' and none has the pages numbered when I compile the
document using pdflatex.
My web search finds help on removing page numbers and the wiki
Le 07/10/2021 à 14:05, Virgil Arrington a écrit :
I learned
that, to be truly compatible, I had to not only use the same program as
my colleague, but also the same version. This is even true with
different versions of LyX. Every new release seems to change the source
file format just enough th
Virgil,
how could that work in ANY program ("dorward" compatibility)?
But it's Open Source, just pull the latest version once out of beta.
The next one is rumored to support DocBook so you can get inti evenmore
trouble :-)-O
el
On 2021-10-07 14:05 , Virgil Arrington wrote:
[...]
This is even
On 10/6/2021 11:14 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
After importing my 300 page book from MS Word to LibreOffice, I
looked extensively in the menu system, in the help docs, and on the
Internet to resolve my magically changing styles problem, all to no
avail.
LibreOffice is just fine if you don't use styles
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