Re: How to use German capital sharp s (U+1E9E)?

2009-03-29 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: >> The Linux Libertine font has a capital sharp s. See >> http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/ > > I see. And is there a corresponding LaTeX macro? libertine.sty comes with several options, including 'ss' for not using the capital sharp s.

Re: upload a custom layout

2009-03-29 Thread nick
Ok, I think that I can make a Russian translation of LyX's strings. But I wonder if I can start from russian "ru.po" instead of Ukrainian "uk.po". It seems to me that it already has many translated strings, so I could just translate fuzzy/untranslated strings in "ru.po". (And of course I can tak

Re: rotating package and float sideways tables

2009-03-29 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Robin already responded, and promised to put a new version on CTAN this > weekend: > > http://groups.google.de/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/b294c3790b >d49a92 > > It seems that adding \RequirePackage{color} is a workaround for the time > being (I haven't chec

LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread Piero Faustini
Hello, I wonder why could not these discussions been moved to a forum. I mean, the discussion list is great but is very hard to use for common users (I use GMANE for writing/browsing but I still receive daily updates in my mailbox). A forum-like interface like Nabble would be much better but...

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Piero Faustini schrieb: I wonder why could not these discussions been moved to a forum. I mean, the discussion list is great but is very hard to use for common users Why is it hard to use? You sing the mailing list and then get the emails as described here: http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists The

Re: upload a custom layout

2009-03-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
nick schrieb: Ok, I think that I can make a Russian translation of LyX's strings. But I wonder if I can start from russian "ru.po" instead of Ukrainian "uk.po". Of course you can also start from ru.po. Use what suits you the most. regards Uwe

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Piero Faustini wrote: I wonder why could not these discussions been moved to a forum. I mean, the discussion list is great but is very hard to use for common users (I use GMANE for writing/browsing but I still receive daily updates in my mailbox). You can disable the daily

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread Piero Faustini
Uwe Stöhr writes: > Why is it hard to use? You sing the mailing list and then get the emails as described here: > http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists > The whole list is archived at various websites. > How many people use mailing lists? How many use forums? Say 1 lister every 20 forumers? Say 1 t

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Sunday 29 March 2009 11:56:18 Piero Faustini wrote: > Uwe Stöhr writes: > > Why is it hard to use? You sing the mailing list and then get the emails > > as > > described here: > > http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists > > The whole list is archived at various websites. > > How many people use mailing

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Stefano Franchi schrieb: The issue though, is that the great support Lyx provides is (mostly) in the hands of a relatively small group of people who very generously share their time and expertise---Uwe himself being perhaps the most active member of this group. What they prefer is the law of l

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread Manveru
2009/3/29 Piero Faustini > [...] > Integrate doesn't mean computer-pro. Sometimes it's opposite to pro. > Children use forums. They always had, because they are very, VERY simple. > Lists > are not that simple, comparing to forums (unless you care about cookies, > which > 99% of people don't). Ev

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread Piero Faustini
Stefano Franchi writes: > Like Uwe, I am not quite sure I understand what's so difficult about lists. That > is, unless you are used to reading mail in a browser and never used a mail > client. Of course I use a webclient (M$Hotmail, the worst ever, but who cares?) and everything ends up a m

Re: upload a custom layout

2009-03-29 Thread Manveru
2009/3/29 Uwe Stöhr > nick schrieb: > > Ok, I think that I can make a Russian translation of LyX's strings. >> But I wonder if I can start from russian "ru.po" instead of Ukrainian >> "uk.po". >> > > Of course you can also start from ru.po. Use what suits you the most. > > regards Uwe > Nick yo

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Piero Faustini schrieb: How many people use mailing lists? How many use forums? Say 1 lister every 20 forumers? Say 1 to 10 (and I'm fair)? Well take a company of your choice - the workers there will use mailing lists. Every working group I know has its own mail group. So whenever you send a

Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-29 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Hello, plaese where can I find the standard installer für Lyx 1.6.2-1 (LyX-1.6.2-1-Installer.exe, 20 MB). I tried it with the link in the lyx-wiki on http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows. There I get an error message "550 LyX-1.6.2-1-Installer.exe: No such file or directory". -- Mit fr

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Piero Faustini wrote: else. What I lack most of LyX (and LaTeX)? Web-based environments, web-based bibliographies, web-based computing.. ok, we can't have EVERYTHING, but the various Google-Whatever are the best creatures of the net and this is the future, we all know it.

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: (I started supporting LyX with its mailing list btw. and I cannot think right now that anything else might be easier. And I'm 29, so not too old not to know the possibilities of forums ;-) ) I'm 35, so I don't see the advantages with forums... or lists fo

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote: Seriously though, why is a "forum" different from a list? /Christian, Two differences, as far as I know: 1.) Fora are hosted on a web site and mail lists are hosted on a server that needs no more than a mailing list manager (MLM). The for

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 04:56:18PM +, Piero Faustini wrote: > Uwe Stöhr writes: > > Why is it hard to use? You sing the mailing list and then get the > > emails as described here: > > http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists The whole list is archived at > > various websites. > > How many people use m

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 08:34:14PM +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: > [...] Seriously though, why is a "forum" different from a list? The problem seems to be that he uses a web interface to read a mails. Of course, with such a background, a well-organized forum _is_ an advantage. Like using a b

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 29 March 2009 09:15:59 am Piero Faustini wrote: > Hello, > I wonder why could not these discussions been moved to a forum. > I mean, the discussion list is great but is very hard to use for common > users (I use GMANE for writing/browsing but I still receive daily updates > in my mailbox)

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Andre Poenitz wrote: It's not me who says lists are difficoult, it's people. I never used lists before knowing LyX. Other people used mailing lists before web forums had been in use. First there was ARPANET (text based), then BitNet (text based), then Usenet (text bas

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread rgheck
Rich Shepard wrote: Books for adults (well, most adults who don't read comic books, anyway) don't have all the enhancements of a GUI; neither do newspapers. Which, I'm sad to say, may explain why newspapers all around the US are shutting their doors. Don't get me wrong, I'm one of the several

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread john
Rich Shepard wrote: > Usenet used to be OK. Now, unfortunately, it's jammed with spam and > folks > with attitudes. Mail lists tend to be more polite and helpful. Amen to that. And the LyX list is extraordinarily polite, helpful, relevant, and knowledgable. I have used several lists related to L

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Matthias Schmidt schrieb: plaese where can I find the standard installer für Lyx 1.6.2-1 (LyX-1.6.2-1-Installer.exe, 20 MB). Have a look at ftp.lyx.org alternatively you can use the alternative Windows installer. Both installers set up LyX as best as possible. regards Uwe

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread Piero Faustini
> Hello once again. I can't reply to all. I can read with my eyes not even one of you agreed with any of my arguments (not speaking of the thesis). I only want to point out that many counter- arguments where correct but quite off-topic, many where correct but weak, the most strong ones were bas

Re: new paragraph after enum or list environment

2009-03-29 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Mar 27, 2009, at 4:43 PM, rgheck wrote: James C. Sutherland wrote: Does anyone know how to tell LyX to make a new paragraph after a list? For example, if I have new paragraphs indented, then one immediately following an enum or list will not be indented. How to I change that? Have y

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread Doug Laidlaw
On Monday 30 March 2009 12:15:59 am Piero Faustini wrote: > Hello, > I wonder why could not these discussions been moved to a forum. > I mean, the discussion list is great but is very hard to use for common > users (I use GMANE for writing/browsing but I still receive daily updates > in my mailbox)

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-29 Thread Manveru
2009/3/30 Piero Faustini > > > > Hello once again. > > I can't reply to all. > [...] Of course about children, I was pointing out that forums are VERY simple. > And > it's exactly what I was trying to explain: the list concept is VERY old > (whatever this means). Yes, also e-mail is old, and alm

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-29 Thread Kornel Benko
Am 2009-03-30 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: > Matthias Schmidt schrieb: > > > plaese where can I find the standard installer für Lyx 1.6.2-1 > > (LyX-1.6.2-1-Installer.exe, 20 MB). > > Have a look at ftp.lyx.org alternatively you can use the alternative Windows > installer. Both > installers set

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-29 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Matthias Schmidt wrote: > plaese where can I find the standard installer für Lyx 1.6.2-1 > (LyX-1.6.2-1-Installer.exe, 20 MB). I tried it with the link in the > lyx-wiki on http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows. There I get an error > message "550 LyX-1.6.2-1-Installer.exe: No such file or