Re: Alternatives to Lyx?, was: Re: parallel.sty

2003-09-15 Thread Larry Kollar
ay (or may not!) work for you. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/

Re: word to lyx

2003-08-01 Thread Larry Kollar
& wasn't impressed, but things may well have improved since then.... -- Larry Kollark o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t "The hardest part of all this is the part that requires thinking." -- Paul Tyson, on xml-doc

Re: interleaf

2003-07-26 Thread Larry Kollar
ny of them. Depending on the format of the original documents, you may also find it hard to approximate the layout with LyX. -- Larry Kollark o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t "The hardest part of all this is the part that requires thinking." -- Paul Tyson, on xml-doc

Re: Figures

2002-11-17 Thread Larry Kollar
Koundinya wrote: ... I have pstoedit installed on my system. Can anyone of you help me by telling how to convert the .ps files to .fig format Try pstoedit -f fig file.ps file.fig Worked for me Larry

Re: FrameMaker and Lyx interoperability via XML/SGML

2002-08-08 Thread Larry Kollar
* at work these days with my current project, and sometimes I'd like to move the whole thing to groff (the other writers would scream bloody murder though). [2] You can build references that include paragraph text, numbering, page number, chapter number, on & on, with Frame. One instance w

Re: International Phonetic Alphabet wit lyx

2002-04-11 Thread Larry Kollar
it. Can any scripting language talk to LyX through the server pipes? I think that would be the best way to go; everyone could use their favorite language to script LyX. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r at a l l t e l . n e t "Content creators are the engine that drives value in the information life cycle." -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc

Re: lyx and PPC processor

2002-02-01 Thread Larry Kollar
gure make su - (root password) make install Then download the source code (and the right xforms), type the above commands, and you'll be ready to go. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r at a l l t e l . n e t "Content creators are the engine that drives value in t

Re: Image conversion

2002-01-27 Thread Larry Kollar
> > program for a very simple task that can be done with two command lines. > > Still, this might be faster than browsing tons of man-pages to find out what > exactly the right command lines are ... Using apropos capture narrows those tons of manpages down to four. Of the four,

Re: Introduction documentation

2002-01-19 Thread Larry Kollar
to process (a friend of mine wrote a 145-page book using troff -mm and it takes 10 seconds to typeset). But I like how LyX stays the heck out of my way when I'm writing. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r at a l l t e l . n e t "Strange that people always suggest commercial systems when the phrase 'mission critical' comes up." -- Sebastian Rahtz, on XML-Doc

Re: Are there NO options?

2001-09-21 Thread Larry Kollar
"Praedor Tempus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is terribly disheartening. I haven't found a single app that can be > used to make a table for publication - the problem is that it appears that > linux apps don't really understand what "monospaced font" means. What I don't understand is w

Re: LyX+DocBook confusion

2001-08-24 Thread Larry Kollar
>I'm just trying to do some documentation in LyX using the DocBook > layout style and I'm finding a few things which are making life difficult. Me too. For starters, tables outside of floats don't get wrapped properly. Looking over the code doesn't give me any obvious ways to fix things, ei

Re: Weird fix3 patch messages

2001-08-17 Thread Larry Kollar
Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > If you have the original lyx source tarball, extract it. > It should cure this. That seems to have worked. I'm make'ing fix3 now. Thanks! Larry

Weird fix3 patch messages

2001-08-13 Thread Larry Kollar
Following the directions in the patch file: cd /usr/src/lyx-1.1.6fix2 make distclean patch -p1 --dry-run <../patch-1.1.6fix3 Gives me a bunch of messages that look like this: The next patch would create the file `development/lyx.spec', which already exis

Re: sign me up

2001-07-31 Thread Larry Kollar
Herbert Voss wrote: > Larry Kollar wrote: > > > > sign me up > > send an empty mail message to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to subscribe Instead of getting started on the right foot, I put it in my mouth

sign me up

2001-07-28 Thread Larry Kollar
sign me up