Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-05 Thread Eric Weir
On Aug 4, 2012, at 11:39 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote: > I haven't used OO for some time, but as I recall the first line of an > XHTML file confuses it. Open the XHTML file with Vim or a read editor > like Emacs (sorry, couln't resist) and delete the first line. > > I think you will have better luck w

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-04 Thread Alan L Tyree
Eric Weir writes: > On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > >> If you want to export to RTF, then you need to install latex2rtf or some >> similar program. But I've had better luck lately exporting to the LyXHTML >> format, and then loading that in LibreOffice. > > I tried opening

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-04 Thread Eric Weir
On Aug 4, 2012, at 8:27 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > >> I've installed latex2rtf. On my system, that is. It's not showing up under >> 'view other formats' or 'file > export' or 'file > export > other formats. > > Tools > Reconfigure? And resta

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-04 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Aug 2, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > >>> While I'm at it, what is the "view rich text format" in the "view other >>> formats" button for? Does it become available when latex2rtf is installed? >>> >> I think so. For a more reliabl

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-04 Thread Eric Weir
As indicated in an earlier post, I've installed latex2rtf. When I do 'latex2rtf filename' I get '(Not set):1 Cannot open filename.' What else do I need to do? Thanks, -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-04 Thread Eric Weir
On Aug 2, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> While I'm at it, what is the "view rich text format" in the "view other >> formats" button for? Does it become available when latex2rtf is installed? >> > I think so. For a more reliable indicator of what works, check the > View > View (Other

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-04 Thread Eric Weir
On Aug 2, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: > You may consider to use macports. Thanks, Stephan. I was discouraged by a guy that helped on the mac support forums not to use things like macports or homebrew. I don't remember the reason, but I've played it safe since. In any case, I went ah

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-04 Thread Eric Weir
On Aug 2, 2012, at 7:25 PM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > make check&&make install Thanks Eberhard. I did 'make && make install.' Did I miss anything my not including 'check'? [I'm on a mac.] -- Eric Weir eew.

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-02 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
make check&&make install el On 2012-08-02 10:41 , Eric Weir wrote:> > Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to install latex2rtf? > > On Aug 2, 2012, at 1:51 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > >> Reconfigure. >> Reconfigure. >> Reconfigure. >> >> el

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > Thanks, Liviu. I downloaded LibO yesterday. I tried opening the xhtml file > and got nothing. > That's Richard's field of expertise. > While I'm at it, what is the "view rich text format" in the "view other > formats" button for? Does it becom

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-02 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 02.08.2012 um 19:59 schrieb Eric Weir: > > On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: > >> On 2 August 2012 21:25, Liviu Andronic wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Eric Weir wrote: Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to instal

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-02 Thread Eric Weir
On Aug 2, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Eric Weir wrote: >> I've downloaded the source, and have located a discussion with pretty clear >> instructions of how to compile it. I'll be giving it a shot, but probably >> not till the weekend. >> > In the

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > I've downloaded the source, and have located a discussion with pretty clear > instructions of how to compile it. I'll be giving it a shot, but probably not > till the weekend. > In the mean time, you might have some luck by exporting to LyXHTML

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-02 Thread Eric Weir
On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: > On 2 August 2012 21:25, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Eric Weir wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to >>> install latex2rtf? >>> >> I took a look at the project's SF

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-02 Thread Ray Rashif
On 2 August 2012 21:25, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Eric Weir wrote: >> >> Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to >> install latex2rtf? >> > I took a look at the project's SF page and it seems to me that they're > not providing binar

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > > Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to > install latex2rtf? > I took a look at the project's SF page and it seems to me that they're not providing binaries for Mac. If this is so, you may either compile the co

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-02 Thread Ray Rashif
On 2 August 2012 17:39, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Aug 2, 2012, at 1:25 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: > >> On 2 August 2012 03:23, Eric Weir wrote: >>> My document is simple. Headings and footnotes. About ten pages. I'd like to >>> see if the LaTeX to RTF convertor will handle it. >> >> For this case latex

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-02 Thread Eric Weir
On Aug 2, 2012, at 4:04 AM, Jerry wrote: > I started a new thread that might be of interest to this one (and how many > before?): > > The thread is "Anyone convert LyX to ODT or docx using pandoc?" Good. Pandoc intrigues me, too. --

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-02 Thread Eric Weir
Thanks for the reminder, Eberhard. But first I have to figure out how to install latex2rtf? On Aug 2, 2012, at 1:51 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > Reconfigure. > Reconfigure. > Reconfigure. > > el > > On 2012-07-31 20:22 , Eric Weir wrote: >> >> On Jul 31, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Liviu Andronic w

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-02 Thread Eric Weir
On Aug 2, 2012, at 1:25 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: > On 2 August 2012 03:23, Eric Weir wrote: >> My document is simple. Headings and footnotes. About ten pages. I'd like to >> see if the LaTeX to RTF convertor will handle it. > > For this case latex2rtf is the perfect tool. When you have no images,

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-02 Thread Jerry
On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:10 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > > I've been away from LyX for a while, writing in Vim. I now have a document > that I need to cut down to 3,500 words from just under 5,000, put references > in, and get into APA format in Word. Normally, I would dump the draft in > Scrivener, d

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Reconfigure. Reconfigure. Reconfigure. el On 2012-07-31 20:22 , Eric Weir wrote: > > On Jul 31, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> Importing/Exporting RTF/Word documents is usually a pain with >> LyX/LaTeX. > > Why is the RTF option under "View other formats" greyed out? > > --

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Ray Rashif
On 2 August 2012 03:23, Eric Weir wrote: > My document is simple. Headings and footnotes. About ten pages. I'd like to > see if the LaTeX to RTF convertor will handle it. For this case latex2rtf is the perfect tool. When you have no images, you're in luck. latex2rtf does the job - I've been usin

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> I have no experience with either in this context, but OOo is already >> old, and obsoleted by LibO. I guess it is worth giving LibO a shot. > > Thanks, Liviu. I'm in scattershot mode right n

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Eric Weir
On Aug 1, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > I have no experience with either in this context, but OOo is already > old, and obsoleted by LibO. I guess it is worth giving LibO a shot. Thanks, Liviu. I'm in scattershot mode right now. Trying things almost mindlessly. I guess I don't know

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > I tried opening the XHTML in OpenOffice. It reads it as a raw text document, > i.e., with the HTML code displayed instead of formatted. Would LibreOffice > handle it differently? > I have no experience with either in this context, but OOo is alr

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > If you want to export to RTF, then you need to install latex2rtf or some > similar program. But I've had better luck lately exporting to the LyXHTML > format, and then loading that in LibreOffice. I tried opening the XHTML in OpenOffice. It r

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> LyX comes with support for a lot of external tools, provided that >> these are installed and that LyX is 'reconfigured' (Tools > >> Reconfigure). A good place to check which additional pack

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > LyX comes with support for a lot of external tools, provided that > these are installed and that LyX is 'reconfigured' (Tools > > Reconfigure). A good place to check which additional packages are > supported is the Debian/Ubuntu .deb packages (

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-07-31 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Eric Weir wrote: >> In addition to >> Richard's suggestions, you could try eLyXer for HTML export (to be >> imported into Word) and the LibO-powered export to ODT (although I'm >> not seeing it in my menus right now). > > Are you suggesting that they're in the LyX

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-07-31 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 31, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Importing/Exporting RTF/Word documents is usually a pain with > LyX/LaTeX. Why is the RTF option under "View other formats" greyed out? -- Eric Weir Deca

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-07-31 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 31, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Importing/Exporting RTF/Word documents is usually a pain with > LyX/LaTeX. This has been discussed extensively in the past on the > list, and I think there is also something on the wiki. Darn, I thought I remembered otherwise. > In addition

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-07-31 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > If you want to export to RTF, then you need to install latex2rtf or some > similar program. But I've had better luck lately exporting to the LyXHTML > format, and then loading that in LibreOffice. I wouldn't have considered HTML, but if you c

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-07-31 Thread Nico Williams
Using XHTMP export has the benefit that you can then use XSLT. I've used this successfully to export LyX format to an unrelated XML schema. Nico --

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-07-31 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > > I've been away from LyX for a while, writing in Vim. I now have a document > that I need to cut down to 3,500 words from just under 5,000, put references > in, and get into APA format in Word. Normally, I would dump the draft in > Scrivener, do

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-07-31 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/31/2012 07:10 AM, Eric Weir wrote: I've been away from LyX for a while, writing in Vim. I now have a document that I need to cut down to 3,500 words from just under 5,000, put references in, and get into APA format in Word. Normally, I would dump the draft in Scrivener, do this work, th