Brett Dikeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
>> Micha wrote:
>>> Writing a letter in lyx is a pain.
>> Eh? I think I've only ever once written a letter in LyX - because I
>> very rarely write letters on the computer - but it was trivial. I just
>> created a new document using the Koma-script letter
> Micha wrote:
>>
>> Writing a letter in lyx is a pain.
>
> Eh? I think I've only ever once written a letter in LyX - because I
> very rarely write letters on the computer - but it was trivial. I just
> created a new document using the Koma-script letter v2 template and
> filled in the blanks.
...
Micha wrote:
>
> Writing a letter in lyx is a pain.
Eh? I think I've only ever once written a letter in LyX - because I
very rarely write letters on the computer - but it was trivial. I just
created a new document using the Koma-script letter v2 template and
filled in the blanks.
The most time-c
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Manveru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Manveru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]
> To: "Micha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "LyX User"
> Received: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 5:35
> They are a pain though with word as it's very difficult to find where styles
> are not applied or are modified and it can go crazy over small modifications.
> The only sane way I found to work with styles in word is in outline mode,
> which
> is much closer to latex in approach.
Outline mode is
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:39:00 -0500
Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 November 2008 07:19:32 pm rgheck wrote:
> > Since Uwe moved this to users, I'll forward my comments here as well.
> >
> > Original Message ----
> > Subject:
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 08:11:49 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>We've read of these problems when collaborating on writing with
> others. Has anyone considered writing drafts in plain text and saving
> all formatting until everyone agrees on the content? Heretical, I
> kno
Hello LyXers,
Steve Litt schrieb:
> What I like about LyX over MS Word is:
>
> 1) LyX is rock stable.
> 2) LyX's native format is humanly readable and parsable.
> 3) LyX produces beautiful output with minimal tweaking.
> 4) LyX is free software. No license tracking.
> 5) LyX is pretty good about v
Helge Hafting wrote:
I see a lot of word/oo documents, and some faults repeat all the time:
* The section heading as the last item on a page. Other word processors
don't seem to prevent this, it is up to the user instead.
This is in large part because people don't use Styles. Most of the
hea
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Les Denham wrote:
But when I got the edited document back, in ODT format, all of my
colleague's additions were marked as hyperlinks to a non-existent target,
and were in a blue instead of black, and used a different font. One item
in an unedited Enumerate environment had the
Steve Litt wrote:
[...]
What I like about LyX over MS Word is:
1) LyX is rock stable.
2) LyX's native format is humanly readable and parsable.
3) LyX produces beautiful output with minimal tweaking.
4) LyX is free software. No license tracking.
5) LyX is pretty good about version conversion --
> From: rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]
> To: "lyx-users"
> Received: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 7:19 PM
>I know a lot of
> people who use Word, etc, and I don't know a single
> person who regularly uses styles.
I
--- On Wed, 11/5/08, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Word processor bashing
> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Received: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 9:41 AM
> On Wednesday 05 November 2008 04:24:46 am killerm
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 04:24:46 am killermike wrote:
> Obviously most word processors now have styles, for example. Ironically,
> the buggy and inconsistent styles support in Open Office 0.9x was one of
> the things made me investigate LyX. I presume that this shortcoming has
> been fixed n
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 07:19:32 pm rgheck wrote:
> Since Uwe moved this to users, I'll forward my comments here as well.
>
> Original Message
> Subject: Re: Word processor bashing
> Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:06:13 -0500
> From:
On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> I'm moving this discussion to the users list:
>
> Patrick Camilleri wrote:
> > Though I find LaTeX + LyX to be a very good typesetting system, I don’t
> > understand all this bashing at other word processors in your
> > ‘Introduction to LyX’ documen
Patrick Camilleri wrote:
Though I find LaTeX + LyX to be a very good typesetting system, I
don’t
understand all this bashing at other word processors in your
‘Introduction
to LyX’ document. In my opinion if one took at least ¼ the amount of
time
one needed to learn LaTeX, one would find out
rgheck wrote:
> I know a lot of people who use Word, etc, and I don't know a
> single person who regularly uses styles.
I do, but that's largely because I'm ornery, and will do things the
Right Way even when the tool discourages it. (I use Word for some work
documents, and Open Office for some aca
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
My experience is that you need the same time to learn Word and LyX. Many
people are using Word and don't known how it works. I get from students
lots of documents where they aren't even able to typeset a caption for an
image. Some also pretends that Word can
Since Uwe moved this to users, I'll forward my comments here as well.
Original Message
Subject: Re: Word processor bashing
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:06:13 -0500
From: RGH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Patrick Camilleri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC:
I'm moving this discussion to the users list:
Patrick Camilleri wrote:
Though I find LaTeX + LyX to be a very good typesetting system, I don’t
understand all this bashing at other word processors in your ‘Introduction
to LyX’ document. In my opinion if one took at least ¼ the amount of time
o
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