Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-08 Thread Declan O'Byrne
I myself have recently suspended use of lyx, after at least 3 months of daily use. I was running it on linux, and then when I needed to use Windows on a daily basis, I managed to get it installed there. What discouraged me was not the fact that I hadn't acquired the lyx mentality, but rather that I

File filter for external_templates

2005-10-08 Thread Gunnar
In ~/.lyx/external_templates I have the following Template Provresultat GuiName "[Provresultat: $$Basename]" HelpText Yadayada This template uses Nedit for editing and viewing. HelpTextEnd FileFilter "*.prov" ViewCommand "nedi

document types on Mac OS X

2005-10-08 Thread Bernd Kulawik
Hello everybody, I have been using Lyx very successfully for a long time on x86 Linux (SuSE) and convinced others to do so, too. Now I have an Apple PowerBook with OSX 10.4 (Tiger) for a while and decided to work again on larger documents (up to more than 1000 pages) with LyX. A while ago I

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-08 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2005 20:10 schrieb Bo Peng: > > The last time I installed LyX on winxp with a student the total installation > > time was about 20 minutes. > > Python, perl, mingw, imagemagik, tetek, lyx (and maybe ghostscript, > ghostview) in 20 min? I can not believe it. Sorry, I was a

Increase features!

2005-10-08 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
It's a funny affair! I just wanted to increase some features at my Lyx (like new document classes, color support on LaTeX picture, spellchecker, etc.) and I thought about to do a full install of the MikTex program (the Lyk base for LaTeX on windows systems). Then, I downloaded about 400mb

Re: Increase features!

2005-10-08 Thread Bo Peng
> I'm tired, but would like to ask a simple > question: Is there some way to use a non-english dict > on Lyx (not on theory, but I want some stuff that > really works!)? I understand your frustration and I thank you for supporting my argument that lyx should distribute a bundle windows version

Re: Increase features!

2005-10-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a funny affair! I just wanted to increase some features at my Lyx (like new document classes, color support on LaTeX picture, spellchecker, etc.) and I thought about to do a full install of the MikTex program (the Lyk base for LaTeX on windows systems). Then

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-08 Thread Helge Hafting
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:24:05AM -0700, Bo Peng wrote: > =>Have you considered adding LyX to a Knoppix cdrom and running that in a > > Microsoft machine? > > Reboot, writing something that can not be viewed and printed under > windows, no access to emails and other materials under windows, n

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-08 Thread Bo Peng
> You can easily make a pdf with lyx, the pdf is view/printable under windows. > Not editable though. And a .lyx-file is a textfile, so textual content > _can_ be extracted in an emergency without the lyx binary. I agree that it > won't be fun though. > > Lyx preferences? Set things up so they'r