How to write a movie script

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Book of short stories

o head up each short story? Thanks Steve Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist Webmaster * Troubleshooters.Com * http://www.trouble

Memoir \setlrmarginsandblock{}{}{}

ands, but that changed nothing. Any ideas? SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist Webmaster * Troubleshooters.Com * http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: R.I.P. WYSIWYG

ooks. And there's only one reason I use LyX->LaTeX->TeX for full length books -- because the typeset result looks so darned good. And of course, with something as long as a book, "fine tuning" would be really obnoxious. But for day to day short stories and web pages, I'm

Problems with my editor's note environment

#x27;s Note}\\ it centers everything in the minipage -- not just the words Editor's Note. Go figure. I'm sure my mistakes are minor, but I can't find them. Anybody have an idea? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooti

Re: Chapter with numbering but without word "chapter" - more questions...

ity to get around the pagebreaks when a new > > chapter starts? > > Please have a look at the book "The LaTeX Companion 2nd edition". All > details are explained there in Chapter 2.2. > > regards Uwe Where does one get "The LaTeX Companion 2nd edition"? Steve L

Can't see my layout environments

le" and the error message did not change. I commented out the Topnote style and nothing changed. And yes, I'm doing Edit->reconfigure every time. Any ideas? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Su

Re: Can't see my layout environments

== > > There is no word "Style" anywhere near 136. I put in blank lines before the > word "Style" and the error message did not change. I commented out the > Topnote style and nothing changed. And yes, I'm doing Edit->reconfigure

Upcoming LyX versions

Hi all, I seem to remember that an upcoming LyX version will have a different native format. What will that native format be? Will it still be a front end to LaTeX, or will it go in a different direction? Also, when will we have character styles? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author

Re: Custom titlepage

ayout -- a certain design, a certain look. Ideally they'd be created with a paint program, but obviously doing so would be a huge hassle, so instead I simply fine tune with voluminous ERT, and it works out quite nicely. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process coursewa

Re: Can't see my layout environments

d LyX style. Another symptom would be wierd line numbers on LyX error messages. SteveT On Saturday 29 October 2005 10:31 pm, Steve Litt wrote: > I have more info. I deleted all references to TopNote from the file, > reperformed texhash, then went into LyX and did Edit->reconfigure and th

Re: Problems with my editor's note environment

On Monday 17 October 2005 12:12 pm, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > My editor's not environment has 2 problems: > > 1. I cannot center the word "Editor's Note" The problem was that I was doing something like this: \center{Editor's Note}\\% or this: \

Making a LyX environment with arguments

le is left out for clarity End What syntax mistakes have I made as far as passing the 1 inch and 3 inch arguments, both in the LyX style and in the LaTeX environment? Please don't worry about the uselessness of having both arguments skip space in the same place -- this is just a proof of c

Writing text on the Part page

art be the explanation. I'd like to put a few paragraphs of explanation right on the Part page. Anyone know how to do that? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Rapid Learning

Superscript

Hi all, I just went to write O2, as in two oxygen atoms stuck together, and saw no provision for superscripting the 2, at least not on the Format->Character dialog box. There was also no subscript. I know this can't be true -- how do I do it? I'm using LyX 1.3.3. Thanks Steve

Re: Superscript

On Saturday 10 December 2005 02:12 pm, Charles de Miramon wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I just went to write O2, as in two oxygen atoms stuck together, and saw > > no provision for superscripting the 2, at least not on the > > Format->Cha

Re: Superscript

On Monday 12 December 2005 05:24 am, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Saturday 10 December 2005 02:12 pm, Charles de Miramon wrote: > >> Steve Litt wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> I just went to write O2, a

What do you guys prefer

Hi all, Which you guys think is better, ragged right or justified right? It's a book of short stories. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon o

Re: I lost a very useful feature

->numbering->section to 0 (and keep on using > section). > > Jürgen That didn't work for me in LyX 1.3.3. The sections still had numbers. I use a layout derived from Memoir. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Technique

Re: What do you guys prefer

On Monday 19 December 2005 07:14 am, Herbert Voss wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Which you guys think is better, ragged right or justified > > right? It's a book of short stories. > > a short story of one page looks nicer with ragged right. &

Re: Writing text on the Part page

On Sunday 11 December 2005 03:30 pm, Herbert Voss wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > For my next book I'm using a derivative of the Memoir class. > > > > My next book has two distinct parts that have two very > > different functions in the book. Each needs an explanat

Crammed roman numerals in table of contents

short enough that the problem isn't the length of the titles. How can I put extra space between the number and the part title within the table of contents? SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Te

Fancyhdr doesn't work with Memoir

rightmark} \makeevenfoot{plain}{}{}{} \makeoddfoot{plain}{}{}{} \makeevenhead{cleared}{}{}{} \makeoddhead{cleared}{}{}{} \makeevenfoot{cleared}{}{\thepage}{} \makeoddfoot{cleared}{}{\thepage}{} \makeheadrule{plain}{\textwidth}{1pt} SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process c

Re: Crammed roman numerals in table of contents

On Thursday 22 December 2005 09:36 am, Bennett Helm wrote: > On Dec 21, 2005, at 6:10 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm using a modified Memoir document class. I have 6 parts in the > > book, and the parts numbering needs to be in the table o

Using 14 point font in Memoir

t->Font&Size. If I use Vim to strongarm the .lyx file itself to \paperfontsize 14, when I View->postscript the typesize is 10, which is Memoir's default. How do I use Memoir's 14 point size? SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware

Raising the table of contents

m using a modified Memoir document class, so I cannot\usepackage{tocloft} -- it gives 24 errors if I try. Any ideas how to raise the "Contents" header on the table of contents page? SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techni

Re: Crammed roman numerals in table of contents

On Tuesday 27 December 2005 07:08 am, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Steve Litt writes: > > On Thursday 22 December 2005 09:36 am, Bennett Helm wrote: > > > On Dec 21, 2005, at 6:10 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > [...] > > > > > How can I put extra space between the n

Re: Crammed roman numerals in table of contents

On Wednesday 28 December 2005 03:16 am, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Steve Litt writes: > > On Tuesday 27 December 2005 07:08 am, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > > [...] > > > > The package tocloft has lots of information about this (and many > > > other things one can do to

Re: Crammed roman numerals in table of contents

On Wednesday 28 December 2005 11:29 am, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > It's too bad Peter Wilson didn't include more. I REALLY could have > > used some more of the tocloft variables, especially > > \cftbeforetoctitleskip. > > could you te

Re: Crammed roman numerals in table of contents

On Thursday 29 December 2005 06:06 am, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Thanks Jürgen, > > > > I just tried both suggestions, and neither > > \renewcommand{\tocheadstart}{} > > > > nor > > > > \renewcommand{\tocheadstart}{\vsp

Book cover in LyX file

Hi all, I'm making my first Ebook, and want to have the front cover be part of the final PDF file. That means it, and a following blank page, has to come before the title page. I'd like the cover page to be a graphic. How do I do this? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: *

Re: Book cover in LyX file

> > > Cheers > > > > Bruce > > - Original Message - > > From: "Jose' Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 7:39 AM > Subject: Re: Book cover in LyX file > > On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:03, Steve Litt w

How do you make a wide footer in memoir

arted anywhere by preceding it with the proper \hspace{}. But that trick doesn't work in the footer. Any ideas? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Rapid Learning: Secret Wea

Re: Chapter title and section name in the left and right pages

7;d recommend reading the whole document to understand what's in the headers and footers section. Thanks Steve Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of t

Edge to edge footer?

arted anywhere by preceding it with the proper \hspace{}. But that trick doesn't work in the footer. Any ideas? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Rapid Learning: Secret Wea

Nonprintable text in pdf output

Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist Webmaster * Troubleshooters.Com * http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: Nonprintable text in pdf output

On Saturday 08 April 2006 03:34 pm, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way I can have something in my LyX file (maybe a comment > environment or something), and have it occur in the PDF output without > having it print or be viewable? > > If that's not possible, i

Re: Linking & referencing

f/tex/latex/tool/xr.sty I hope this helps. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist Webmaster * Troubleshooters.Com * http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: Nonprintable text in pdf output

On Saturday 08 April 2006 09:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi Steve > > I think I understand what you're doing, but would you mind explaining why? > > best regards > /Christian > > PS. Then I could add what you wr

Frontmatter aware PDF?

ve observed this behavior on the gv, xpdf and acroread (for Linux) pdf readers. Does anyone know how to produce a PDF that preserves the reader's page reset at the beginning of mainmatter? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshoot

Re: LyX 1.4.1 is released

Does 1.4.1 have character styles? SteveT On Tuesday 11 April 2006 05:57 am, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Public release of LyX version 1.4.1 > === > > We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.4.1. This is a bug fix > release, but some of the bugs were big.

Re: LyX 1.4.1 is released

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 05:05 am, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Steve> Does 1.4.1 have character styles? > > Yes. > > JMarc * *

How to turn off hyphenation in the footer only?

Hi all, How do I turn off hyphenation in a footer, while leaving hyphenation in the rest of the document on? SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the

Re: margins in a double-sided document

odd pages have an even one. The titlepage will be the only one that's off. I'll bet you need something like \cleardoublepage or something like that to do it right. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Succe

Re: FW: Header problem

about half the height of a lower case letter. Subsubsections are preceded by a hairline. Paragraphs and subparagraps are just the Book document class defaults. All three lines are the same length -- only the thickness (height) varies. In my opinion it really works out well. If anyone wants

Re: make a .pdf of part of a document

nt > to it from Acrobat Reader and extract just the pages I want. Method 4: pdftk sourcefile.pdf cat 130-140 output test.pdf You can find pdftk here: http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ It can do lots of other stuff, including merging pdfs, splitting pdfs, reading, inserting and changing metadata

Re: make a .pdf of part of a document

way LyX links do, if you include hyperref? Once again, thanks so much for the PDF FAQ. It let me do a bunch of stuff I'd wanted to do but had given up on. SteveT -- Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Su

Re: make a .pdf of part of a document

On Sunday 21 May 2006 01:32 pm, Steve Litt wrote: > On Friday 19 May 2006 11:56 am, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > May I suggest that you add these methods/tips to this page: > > > > > > http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF > > > &

How to reset page number in a lyx generated pdf?

ex or ps2pdf, the page numbering change is discarded and page numbering starts from the first physical page. Any ideas how to do preserve my frontmatter/mainmatter page number change into the pdf file? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process cours

pst-psf package didn't work for me

Has anyone successfully used pst-pdf, and if so, what did you do differently from me? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshootin

Re: make a .pdf of part of a document

k way out to the left. There was no obvious differentiating factor between when it worked and when it didn't. Lacking the time to isolate the factors determining whether it worked, I put it aside for awhile. Thanks for the suggestion. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubl

Re: How to reset page number in a lyx generated pdf?

On Sunday 21 May 2006 04:54 pm, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Like most books, my page numbering starts over when frontmatter becomes > > mainmatter. When I export to postscript, that numbering change is carried > > through an

Re: How to reset page number in a lyx generated pdf?

moir, but in a previous email I sent a small example that exhibited the symptom with the book document class. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Techni

Re: How to reset page number in a lyx generated pdf?

On Monday 22 May 2006 11:42 am, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Here's a fairly minimal test.lyx. On my system, when I View->Postscript, > > the gv page numbers reset at page 1 (gv pages 1, 1 and 2 correspond to > > logical pages i, 1 and 2). This is cor

Re: How to reset page number in a lyx generated pdf?

On Monday 22 May 2006 07:24 pm, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > On Monday 22 May 2006 11:42 am, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > >> Steve Litt wrote: > >>> Here's a fairly minimal test.lyx. On my system, when I > >>> View->Postscript, the gv pag

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

) rather than figuring out intricacies of Tk, KDE, wxPython or whatever, I'd like to be part of the crew that does it. Should we start designing it on this mailing list? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniq

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

On Thursday 25 May 2006 07:43 pm, Stephen Harris wrote: [clip] > Designing such a menu seems quite ambitious, even for a > subset of possibilities. I would have thought it impossible > if Steve Litt, who wrote the layout tutorial, hadn't said > he thought it was a good idea.

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

t; could easily enough show the > laTeX or LyX code required for the given feature (to list just one > example). That would also be extremely helpful in learning the most > commonly used commands. I know how to do that in HTML, using CSS, I think. Steve Litt Author: * Universal Tro

Re: Sharing layout files

too hard to upload. I hardly know how to use wikis at all. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting * Twenty Eight Tales of Troubles

Re: Sharing layout files

On Tuesday 30 May 2006 11:27 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 29 May 2006, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Monday 29 May 2006 02:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> You ask a very good question, and to be honest I have no idea whatsoever > >> why people aren't shari

Re: Separate articles into book chapters

Outliner, and then use a script to convert VimOutliner to a book document class's Part, Chapter, Section, Subsection, SubSubsection, Paragraph and SubParagraph environments, and then paste that into an empty document preamble. Also, I frequently make small tweaks to a LyX document

Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files

ayout just a little bit and take it proprietary, and who knows, some day sue me for using code derived from their code, and then I have to prove that mine preceded theirs. Others might like the BSD license, or the Mozilla license, or whatever -- wouldn't it be their option rather than that

Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files

stakes worldwide, but don't have a lot of time to learn the ins and outs of Wikis. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting * Twen

Subtitles

tune the dickens out of the thing to make it look the way I want, but this is a common enough thing that I bet somebody's made something to do this (hopefully a Subtitle environemnt or something like that). I'm using my own derivative of the Book environment for this project. Thanks SteveT

Box environment with variable label

t call the LaTeX environment with an argument of \breakouttext, and at the end of the paragraph before the breakout box I put ERT that says \dev\breaktouttext{This shall be my title}. My solution works fine, but Is there a more LyX like way to do this? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: *

Re: Subtitles

On Tuesday 13 June 2006 05:40 pm, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Steve Litt wrote: > > Typically, the subtitle is longer than the title and therefore is printed > > in a smaller font. What I'd like to do is have them both on the title > > page. > > &g

Re: Font size

ned hard* to implement your own environments. Another LyX benefit is that the LyX native format (at least in 1.3x) is a very simple and parsable format so that I can import, export and tweak with ease. Bottom line -- whenever someone says "you just write the content and let LyX format

Re: Subtitles

us learned what you know about LaTeX and TeX (\let is pure TeX from what I understand), we'd all be much happier LyX users if we could whip out a quick LaTeX solution to our formatting needs. Thanks so much SteveT On Wednesday 14 June 2006 09:34 am, Matej Cepl wrote: > Steve Litt wrot

Re: Subtitles

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 01:50 pm, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Steve Litt wrote: > > I know you didn't learn it in Kopka and Daly's "Guide to LaTeX", because > > I read that book cover to cover and there were no more than a few > > sente

Re: Subtitles

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 01:55 pm, Jose' Matos wrote: > At least for me "LaTeX tips and tricks" is always a nice place to start. Thanks Jose, Are you referring to http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi/? SteveT

LyX Title environment

code, and get no ideas from that. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting * Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting * Rapid Learning

Re: Subtitles

ge [EMAIL PROTECTED] > \end{center}% > \par > \vskip 1.5em} Hi Matej, Putting the preceding code into my LyX .layout file right after the preamble statement did absolutely nothing, even when I hardcoded stuff into it. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process c

Re: LyX Title environment

t; with \title{Whatever} in the LaTeX file. This seems to do little more > than set [EMAIL PROTECTED] to whatever, and then that variable is used in > \maketitle. > > Richard > > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Now that we've been discussing it, the LyX

Re: Subtitles

On Thursday 15 June 2006 06:06 am, Jose' Matos wrote: > On Wednesday 14 June 2006 20:25, Steve Litt wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I don't know what I am talking about (you have been warned) but should not > this be > > \renewcommand{\maketitle}{% >

Turning a LyX environment into a LaTeX command

-- thanks for the tip. I've been trying to do this since 2001. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting * Twenty Eight Tales

How to make home grown layouts much easier

creation a ton easier, and would kill a main source of resistance to LyX -- inability to easily make your own layout files. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide

Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files

On Thursday 15 June 2006 06:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, David Neeley wrote: > > Comments within > > > > On 6/12/06, Steve Litt > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Why can't the original author label his or her

Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files

, what would be so novel from one font to another that a patent would be issued? SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting * Twenty Eight

Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files

o prevent a Microsoft Kerberos type situation, but my layout files aren't that type of work. Thanks for the clarification and good idea. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manag

Inserting a tab indented outline into a lyx document

that I don't get too much space between lines, and it's obvious that this outline is a think in itself and not just part of the flow of the document? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successf

Re: Inserting a tab indented outline into a lyx document

On Sunday 18 June 2006 06:21 pm, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > In several places in my latest book I need to insert tab indented > > outlines. Here's an example: > > > > Whole program > > Initialize > >

Re: Copyrights of material contributed to the wiki (Was: Layout..)

can use non-gpl or even non-free data as input to a GPL program, so I don't (and I'm not a lawyer ;-) think it's legally required to have the layout file be GPL. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniq

Re: Confused about Lyx's goals -- isn't this supposed to increase productivity?

say, I feel your pain. All I can tell you is that right now I'm authoring my third LyX created book. You might find some of my LyX writings helpful, because they were made in the same mindstate you appear to be in right now. Here's a page that links to all my LyX writings: * http://www

Re: Easing the editing/correction of LyX documents

e way, if you're anything like me, you'll need to print and mark up each chapter 2 or 3 times before you get what you consider satisfactory. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * M

Re: lyx tutorium - docbook/xml

With an XML format, I'll need to hook an XML parser to Ruby. Worse yet, creating LyX programmatically (VimOutliner to LyX converter, for instance) will be challenging. Will they have a 1.5 to 1.6 converter? If so, I can continue to use my current VimOutliner to LyX converter, and then simpl

LyX Outline feature

wonderful that it compelled me to go through the pain compiling a new LyX was character styles (and thanks for that!). Where can I learn more about LyX's new outline feature? If it's anything like MS Word's outline mode, it will be a SPECTACULAR addition to already great softwa

Where can I find better info on LyX functions?

nding LyXAction.c and everything called from it) to get information on LyX functions? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: Explanations with equations?

On Monday 11 June 2007 18:59, Steve Litt wrote: > On Monday 11 June 2007 17:42, you wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 02:33:31PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > LyX math is so new to me that I don't know exactly what I want, yet I > > > need to have it pretty muc

Re: LyX Outline feature - screenshot & short explanation

n/lyx, which is 1.4.2? Many thanks SteveT On Wednesday 13 June 2007 09:16, Helge Hafting wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > >> By the way, you keep talking about the VimOutliner, may I ask if you > >> tried the new outline feature of 1.5? (Part of it is also in 1.4.4). > > >

Re: Logo

header in the preamble. The one problem with using the header is that you can't have the graphic descend into the text, if that's what you want to do. But otherwise, I think it's ideal. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.

our LyX is producing bad LaTeX -- troubleshoot the LaTeX til you find the root cause, and then go back to the LyX and fix it there. If #3 fails, that's bizarre. If none of them fail, find out what LyX is doing when you View->Pdf that's different from what you did manually.

Math book tips?

ing to start the actual authoring in about a week, and would like to have the book's riffs defined by that time. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

LyX errors when View->Postscript

But it works just fine when I: lyx --export mybook.lyx latex mybook.tex dvips -o mybook.ps mybook.tex I've had this problem in several of my books, and just used a script to compile them, but now I want to solve the problem so that I can View->Postscript. It seems to have nothing to do with my

Re: LyX errors when View->Postscript

;d still like to understand how to interpret the error message. Thanks SteveT On Friday 15 June 2007 17:49, Steve Litt wrote: > But it works just fine when I: > > lyx --export mybook.lyx > latex mybook.tex > dvips -o mybook.ps mybook.tex > > I've had this problem in se

Re: Updating index file

#nohup gv $1.pdf & #exit 0 else echo ERROR: Inspect $1.ilg and $1.ind! gvim $1.ilg $1.ind echo ERROR: Inspect $1.ilg and $1.ind! exit 1 fi SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: Can't enter extra whitespace when editing.

On Monday 18 June 2007 08:28, Darren Freeman wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 12:40 +0200, Hellmut Weber wrote: > > Hi Darren, don't you think that calling a lyx behaviour 'gestapo > > behaviour' is inappropriate? > > I don't think I spent any more than three seconds on it and hadn't > considered it

Re: LFUNs in 1.5 RC1 (Windows)

a bug. Does this include the copyright symbol and the trademark symbol? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: book - two sides

On Friday 22 June 2007 05:49, Giuseppe Vitalone wrote: > Hi, I use Lyx 1.5rc1 in Windows. The guide says that the class "book" make > the new chapters start on the right page, but in my documents it doesn't > works, new chapters start on the left (in fact, right margin is wider), > why? I can't att

Re: Puitting other things on title page

t need consistency enforced by styles. The front matter is more like a poster than like a book, and hence I always create the whole thing with fine-tuned ERT. I've used fine tuning in front matters to do things the document class authors never dreamed of. WYSIWYM is great in mainmatter and

Re: Table column width

the world, but considering that so much of LyX is engineered *just right*, I guess we can live with this bizarity. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

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