Re: Understanding Lyx

2010-11-02 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/02/2010 04:43 PM, Jacob Bishop wrote: The second part is to make sure that you always use relative paths when inserting external references. This applies when inserting an image, a bibtex bibliography, or any other external material. Even better, put these things into a place LaTeX can

Re: Understanding Lyx

2010-11-02 Thread Frederick Noronha
On 2 November 2010 23:15, Rob Oakes wrote: > When you say, sharable templates, what do you > mean by that (templates are just LyX documents)? Dear Rob and Jacob, My apologies for not explaining myself adequately -- I'm a content person, not technical and hence the handicap. What I was looking f

Re: Understanding Lyx

2010-11-02 Thread Jacob Bishop
As Rob noted, this is a very large question. With regard to the question: * How to bring two comps (using different distros) in tandem with Lyx I do this with my computers, some running Windows, others running Linux. There are several parts to making this work. The first is to get some sort of s

Re: Understanding Lyx

2010-11-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Frederick, > My apologies for not explaining myself adequately -- I'm a content > person, not technical and hence the handicap. Please don't apologize. It would probably be a better world if content people forced technical people to explain themselves. > I know what I want the first pages

Re: Understanding Lyx

2010-11-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Frederick, This is a very large question. To narrow the scope (and provide better references), what specifically are you looking to do? When you say, sharable templates, what do you mean by that (templates are just LyX documents)? What do you mean, "convert a design from the drawingboard

Understanding Lyx

2010-11-02 Thread Frederick Noronha
Dear all: this is a note I sent to our Free Software Users' Group in Goa, India [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fsug-goa] but would like to share with you too. Thanks in advance for any tips. FN Frederick Noronha, Managing Trustee http://goa1556.goa-india.org [An alternative book publishing venture]