On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:00:09 +0100
Helge Hafting wrote:
> On 14. feb. 2012 13:04, Eric Weir wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> [...]
> >> with TeX), or MS Word documents for journals and proceedings. I
> >> have experienced that some of these journals and proc
On 14. feb. 2012 13:04, Eric Weir wrote:
On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
[...]
with TeX), or MS Word documents for journals and proceedings. I have
experienced that some of these journals and proceedings were in fact
produced with TeX in the end, but even then they have
On 13 Feb 2012, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
[snip]
>The typical beginner's mistake is to try to fine-tune everything at the
>beginning also if not even the first chapter is ready. The final
>formatting can be changed at every time easily for the whole document.
>(When you publish a book you have anyway to f
On 02/16/2012 05:05 PM, Colin Williams wrote:
I haven't been able to keep up with the subject. It seems there is
some division about how much latex knowledge is required to create a
book that scales many platforms. If latex is required, then it's my
opinion that lyx itself isn't quite ready for
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:05:46 -0800
Colin Williams wrote:
> I haven't been able to keep up with the subject. It seems there is
> some division about how much latex knowledge is required to create a
> book that scales many platforms.
If "how much LaTeX knowledge is needed for LyX" were the questi
I haven't been able to keep up with the subject. It seems there is some
division about how much latex knowledge is required to create a book that
scales many platforms. If latex is required, then it's my opinion that lyx
itself isn't quite ready for ebook publishing. However, that does not mean
I w
On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 02/15/2012 11:29 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
>>> I've also committed to koma-script. I would like to modify the
>>> \@maketitle command. I've located it in scrartcl.cls. Will be studying
>>> it. Will undoubtedly be checking in here later about t
On 02/15/2012 11:29 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
I've also committed to koma-script. I would like to modify the
\@maketitle command. I've located it in scrartcl.cls. Will be studying
it. Will undoubtedly be checking in here later about the changes I've
made, where to put them, and how to use them.
T
On Feb 15, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
> On 2012-02-15, Eric Weir wrote:
>
>> I've also committed to koma-script. I would like to modify the
>> \@maketitle command. I've located it in scrartcl.cls. Will be studying
>> it. Will undoubtedly be checking in here later about the changes I
On 2012-02-15, Eric Weir wrote:
> On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:27 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
>> On 02/14/2012 07:01 AM, Eric Weir wrote:
>>> On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
>> You just put them in as author and title, and fix the typography
>> later. One easy way to do it is just to copy the
2012/2/15 Marcelo Acuña :
>
> For title page I decided to do them with ERT for spacing and alignment, and
> all the material in a separate file which then included. You can also do
> with a graphic design application, create a file and then include it.
> Marcelo
>
The textpos latex package (http:/
On Feb 15, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Marcelo Acuña wrote:
> >>> In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never
> >>> apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through
> >>> styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section,
> >>> subsection, Quote, tip
>>> In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never
>>> apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through
>>> styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section,
>>> subsection, Quote, tip, warning, etc). BUT, in the front matter, feel
>>> free to
On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:27 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 02/14/2012 07:01 AM, Eric Weir wrote:
>
>> On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
>>
>>> In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never
>>> apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through
>>>
Eric Weir wrote:
> While I'm at it, do I recall correctly that you're in the humanities?
Yes (linguistics, for that matter).
Jürgen
On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:19 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> For monographs (or if I'm editing a book myself) I use LyX/LaTeX to make a
> camera-ready PDF. This works pretty well, except that I have to import
> colloborator's chapters from word usually (via LibreOffice's LaTeX export). I
> have al
On 02/14/2012 07:01 AM, Eric Weir wrote:
On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never
apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through
styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section,
subsect
On 02/14/2012 02:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX.
Me, on the contrary, I do not know a single publisher who accepts TeX
as an input format (this is in the humanities field).
Oxford.
Richard
Eric Weir wrote:
> How do you deal with this?
For monographs (or if I'm editing a book myself) I use LyX/LaTeX to make a
camera-ready PDF. This works pretty well, except that I have to import
colloborator's chapters from word usually (via LibreOffice's LaTeX export). I
have also used Word and I
On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> > I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX.
>
> Me, on the contrary, I do not know a single publisher who accepts TeX as an
> input format (this is in the humanities field). Generally, they want camer
On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never
> apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through
> styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section,
> subsection, Quote, tip, warning, etc). BUT
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX.
Me, on the contrary, I do not know a single publisher who accepts TeX as an
input format (this is in the humanities field). Generally, they want camera
ready PDF for monographs (which then can be of course done with T
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Jens Nöckel wrote:
>
> On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:58 PM, stefano franchi wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
>>> Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi:
>>>
>>>
Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the
typeset
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:53:27 -0800
Colin Williams wrote:
> I'm writing a book. I would like to consider the possibility that I
> will do a small print run of 1000-5000 copies. I am certain I'm going
> to publish it as an ebook. I would expect the printed book would be
> in paperback form. I would
On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:58 PM, stefano franchi wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
>> Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi:
>>
>>
>>> Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the
>>> typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX.
>>
>>
>> I don't kno
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi:
>
>
>> Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the
>> typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX.
>
>
> I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Also most of the
>
Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi:
Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the
typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX.
I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Also most of the humanity-linked
publishers are using it in the background. They s
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Steve Litt wrote:
Memoir is cool, but be very careful, because Memoir screws up with certain
other packages, most notably hyperref, for which you'll need the memhfixc
package, and a lot of rain dances to get it to work. Or at least that's
how I remember it. My thought is if
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> Am 13.02.2012 15:28, schrieb stefano franchi:
> I don't agree, LyX is designed that you don't need to learn LaTeX and that
> is why I designed the thesis template. You see there that you cann do almost
> all you need the LyX way. For very special
Am 13.02.2012 15:28, schrieb stefano franchi:
Another option (and one I recently used) for writing books with Lyx is
to use the memoir class.
This is one option, the other one is the KOMA-script book class. This is used for most LyX manuals
and it is my opinion a bit more flexible. But this i
> > To start writing a book I suggest to start with LyX's thesis
> > template files. You find them in LyX's installation folder under
> > \Resources\templates\thesis.
>
> Another option (and one I recently used) for writing books with Lyx is
> to use the memoir class. It is probably the most flex
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:28:30 -0600
stefano franchi wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> > Am 12.02.2012 14:53, schrieb Colin Williams:
> > To start writing a book I suggest to start with LyX's thesis
> > template files. You find them in LyX's installation folder under
> >
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> Am 12.02.2012 14:53, schrieb Colin Williams:
> To start writing a book I suggest to start with LyX's thesis template files.
> You find them in LyX's installation folder under
> \Resources\templates\thesis.
Another option (and one I recently used
Am 12.02.2012 14:53, schrieb Colin Williams:
I'm writing a book. I would like to consider the possibility that I will do
a small print run of 1000-5000 copies. I am certain I'm going to publish it
as an ebook. I would expect the printed book would be in paperback form.
If you view the LyX manu
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:53:27 -0800
Colin Williams wrote:
> I'm writing a book. I would like to consider the possibility that I
> will do a small print run of 1000-5000 copies. I am certain I'm going
> to publish it as an ebook. I would expect the printed book would be
> in paperback form. I would
> I'm writing a book. I would like to consider the possibility that I will do a
> small print run of 1000-5000 copies. I am >certain I'm going to publish it as
> an ebook. I would expect the printed book would be in paperback form. I would
> like the >lyx-users to tell me if they think its the r
I'm writing a book. I would like to consider the possibility that I will do
a small print run of 1000-5000 copies. I am certain I'm going to publish it
as an ebook. I would expect the printed book would be in paperback form. I
would like the lyx-users to tell me if they think its the right tool for
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