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 problem when using Word because what was
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 problem when using Word because what was
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
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 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
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