Re: Lamport's book

2001-09-17 Thread Roy Dragseth
Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:05:13AM +0200, Roy Dragseth wrote: > [...] > > Of course, I still miss many of the nifty emacs features, marking > > blocks of text in one keystroke, transposing chars, words, lines, but > > all in all I'm more pr

Re: Lamport's book

2001-09-14 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 02:29:59PM +0100, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote: > > > So, kudos to the LyX team! > > Taken on behalf of the LyX team. (Since today is friday no smile.) Replying to myself: Wrong list, I can smile again. :-) ;-) -- José

Re: Lamport's book

2001-09-14 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:05:13AM +0200, Roy Dragseth wrote: [...] > Of course, I still miss many of the nifty emacs features, marking > blocks of text in one keystroke, transposing chars, words, lines, but > all in all I'm more productive using lyx than typing LaTeX directly. Can't you mark b

Re: Lamport's book

2001-09-14 Thread Roy Dragseth
"Piotr R. Sidorowicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Out of curiosity, if you're going to go through the trouble of learning > LaTeX, why bother using LyX? ;) > I see the smiley, but can't resist. Here is my 10cents, or øre as we would say in Norway. I turned to LyX after writing LaTeX direc

Re: Lamport's book

2001-09-08 Thread Matej Cepl
On 7 Sep 2001, at 10:25, Piotr R. Sidorowicz wrote: > Out of curiosity, if you're going to go through the trouble of > learning LaTeX, why bother using LyX? ;) Because LyX is better (at least for me). I am able to write in LaTeX (and occassionally do so, when not on Linux), but when I really w

Re: Lamport's book

2001-09-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 07 September 2001 10:25, Piotr R. Sidorowicz wrote: > > Out of curiosity, if you're going to go through the trouble of learning > LaTeX, why bother using LyX? ;) > Piotr An excellent question! My top priority as a writer is to use an absolutely no-brainer tool. Even with a no-brainer

Re: Lamport's book

2001-09-07 Thread Ronald Florence
Piotr R. Sidorowicz writes: Out of curiosity, if you're going to go through the trouble of learning LaTeX, why bother using LyX? ;) I used to write with LaTeX, using xemacs/auc-tex, and switched to LyX for two reasons: 1) because the LyX interface is less off-putting to others who we

Re: Lamport's book

2001-09-07 Thread Piotr R. Sidorowicz
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > > > Would you recommend Lamport's book to someone who is writing a book in Lyx > > and needs lots of custom Environments and character styles? Is it > > understandable for someone who, let'

Re: Lamport's book

2001-09-07 Thread Kathryn Andersen
nder "programming > > languages". > Would you recommend Lamport's book to someone who is writing a book in Lyx > and needs lots of custom Environments and character styles? Is it > understandable for someone who, let's put it this way -- doesn't have the &g

Re: Lamport's book

2001-09-06 Thread Herbert Voss
Steve Litt wrote: > > Would you recommend Lamport's book to someone who is writing a book in Lyx > and needs lots of custom Environments and character styles? Is it > understandable for someone who, let's put it this way -- doesn't have the > world's best atten

Lamport's book

2001-09-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 06 September 2001 18:51, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > > LyX wasn't actually free -- it cost me $72 (the price of Lamport's LaTeX > book). Oddly enough, I found the book catalogued under "programming > languages". > > Kathryn Andersen Kathryn,