Re: My new environment

[Pavel Sanda]

Steve Litt wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I decided to put a short statement at the beginning of each chapter. I wanted 
 it to be surrounded by lines, a little bit narrower than general text, and I 
 wanted the print slightly bigger than normal. Here's how I did it:

convert to module and put it into wiki?
pavel

SENSELESS (caption outside float)

[E. Kaplan]

A little more information about the senseless warning near the captions 
of wrapfigures:

If I have the Latex code:

\begin{wrapfigure}{R}{0.29\textwidth} 
\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{cortical_image_v2}
\caption{Intrinsic optical imaging of macaque primary visual cortex 
(V1), showing the response to a uniform color patch. The image size is 
652x492 pixels (6$\mu$/pixel). Detailed information about the protocol 
can be found in Ref.~\cite{Xiao_NN2008}. }

\label{fig:monkey_cortex} \end{wrapfigure}
\hfill

and import it into Lyx, Lyx decides that it is SENSLESS, does not make 
the graphics a float
(even though the {R} after \begin{wrapfigure} indicates that it should 
float), and warns SENSELESS.  The pdf output, however, seems correct, or 
almost so.


EK

Re: SENSELESS (caption outside float)

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

E. Kaplan schreef:
A little more information about the senseless warning near the 
captions of wrapfigures:

If I have the Latex code:

\begin{wrapfigure}{R}{0.29\textwidth} 
\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{cortical_image_v2}
\caption{Intrinsic optical imaging of macaque primary visual cortex 
(V1), showing the response to a uniform color patch. The image size is 
652x492 pixels (6$\mu$/pixel). Detailed information about the protocol 
can be found in Ref.~\cite{Xiao_NN2008}. }

\label{fig:monkey_cortex} \end{wrapfigure}
\hfill

and import it into Lyx, Lyx decides that it is SENSLESS, does not make 
the graphics a float
(even though the {R} after \begin{wrapfigure} indicates that it should 
float), and warns SENSELESS.  The pdf output, however, seems correct, 
or almost so.


EK
LyX does not yet support to import latex code with wrapfigures. Said 
differently, it does not know that it should convert this environment 
into a wrap figure float. Instead, it just imports the latex code and 
put this in ERTs. Now, your document is still compilable and is (almost) 
correct.


However, the caption thinks that it is not in a float, because the ERT 
code is not parsed by LyX. That's why LyX warns you.


You can easily insert a wrap figure float yourself and copy the contents 
into this float.


Vincent

Re: SENSELESS (caption outside float)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

E. Kaplan wrote:
 and import it into Lyx, Lyx decides that it is SENSLESS, does not make
 the graphics a float

wrapfigure import is not yet supported by tex2lyx.

Jürgen

importing AGU template into LyX

[ad_ke]

Hi,
I'm trying to use an AGU template.  The default template (agu_article.lyx) 
included with my installation does not seem to work.  When selected, it says 
The layout file requested by this document, agu_dtd.layout, is not usable.  
This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not 
available.  

So I went directly to the AGU site (http://www.agu.org/pubs/helpdesk/) and 
obtained agu-ps.sty, agutex.cls, and agutmpl.tex along with  6 other .bst files 
for the literature cited section.

My question is where do I put all these files so I can import them successfully 
in .LyX.

Thanks for a speedy reply,
AMK
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Re: My new environment

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 04 April 2009 06:34:40 am Pavel Sanda wrote:
 Steve Litt wrote:
  Hi all,
 
  I decided to put a short statement at the beginning of each chapter. I
  wanted it to be surrounded by lines, a little bit narrower than general
  text, and I wanted the print slightly bigger than normal. Here's how I
  did it:

 convert to module and put it into wiki?
 pavel

How do I make it into a module? I don't have 1.6.x yet.

STeveT

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

[Anders Host-Madsen]

Steve Litt sl...@... writes:

I'm not really sure I agree that it's as easy to do semantic
markup in MS Word is in Latex. There are a number of issues
First, it's much easier not to use styles. Personally, I always used
styles, but I'm the only one I know how does that. When I put
together documents from groups of people it's always a mess
because people used their personal formatting. Want a header?
Increase font size and make bold. Furthermore, when copying
between documents in MS Word, the result is not always as
expected, even if styles are used consistently. On the other
hand, I never had problem putting together documents
from groups of people in Latex. MS Word
also tends to make anything into a style. Often document
templates have both a 'normal' style and a 'body' style,
and if you just write you never know which style is used. Take
for example the IEEE MS Word template. There are
hundreds of styles in that which makes it very
hard to use. And try to switch back and forth between
a single column an multicolumn document in
MS Word. In Latex it's just changing a single option.
In my opinion, when I started using MS Word many
year ago it was more geared toward using styles.
But MS seems to have accepted that nobody uses
styles, and made it more and more difficult to use
styles, while easier to use finger painting. In Latex you
can write a document focusing on the contents without
any thoughts to formatting, and the result is good. In
MS Word that is just impossible (for example, MS Word
has no mechanism for automatic placement of floats).

Re: importing AGU template into LyX

[Paul A. Rubin]

ad_ke wrote:

Hi, I'm trying to use an AGU template.  The default template
(agu_article.lyx) included with my installation does not seem to
work.  When selected, it says The layout file requested by this
document, agu_dtd.layout, is not usable.  This is probably because a
LaTeX class or style file required by it is not available.

So I went directly to the AGU site
(http://www.agu.org/pubs/helpdesk/) and obtained agu-ps.sty,
agutex.cls, and agutmpl.tex along with  6 other .bst files for the
literature cited section.

My question is where do I put all these files so I can import them
successfully in .LyX.

Thanks for a speedy reply, AMK


Put them in a directory under your local texmf tree (for instance,
localtexmf/tex/latex/agu), then run texhash in a terminal/shell, then 
reconfigure and restart LyX.


For any more details than that, you need to specify your operating
system (and maybe your LaTeX distribution).

/Paul

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 04 April 2009 12:57:16 pm Anders Host-Madsen wrote:
 Steve Litt sl...@... writes:

 I'm not really sure I agree that it's as easy to do semantic
 markup in MS Word is in Latex. There are a number of issues
 First, it's much easier not to use styles. 

True enough. If Al's fridge has a dozen apples, a dozen bananas, and a gallon 
of milk, and Ben's fridge has all those things plus three Macdonalds burgers 
and three orders of fries, it's just as easy for Ben to eat well, but it's 
much easier for Ben to eat badly.

When I say it's just as easy to do styles based authoring in MS Word, that 
carries an assumption that the author is a professional, which both you and I 
are, but some of our coworkers, not so much. :-)

 Personally, I always used 
 styles, but I'm the only one I know how does that. When I put
 together documents from groups of people it's always a mess
 because people used their personal formatting. Want a header?
 Increase font size and make bold. 


 Furthermore, when copying 
 between documents in MS Word, the result is not always as
 expected, even if styles are used consistently. 

I've seen that if the docs were created in two different Word versions.

By the way, no matter what I write on this subject, you'll notice I write 
nothing more than 5 pages in either MS Word or OpenOffice. If it's longer 
than 5 pages, I use LyX or Komposer (a WYSIWYG HTML editor).

SteveT
 
Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US

N00bie font issues

[John Jason Jordan]

I have spent a total of maybe eight hours in Lyx so far, and I am
impressed with a number of things. I am a linguist and being able to
create OT tableaus, PS trees and semantic notation will be great once I
learn how to do things.

However, the most fundamental thing that linguists need is IPA
characters, and I am stumbling trying to get that to work to my
satisfaction. And that means not using a font that looks like Times or
Computer Modern. Sorry, but I am fussy about what my documents look
like, and those fonts make me want to hurl. 

Furthermore, the SAMPA-like IPA insertion thing is like 15 years out of
date. Linguists today use straight Unicode insertion via the Unicode
code point. But that's OK, I have figured out how to enter the Unicode
number to get the character I want in general text without having to
use a TIPA box.

The problem is that the fonts that are installed by default in Lyx that
I find aesthetically acceptable (Bitstream Charter, Utopia) do not have
the necessary IPA and combining diacriticals blocks. There is the
possibility of Bera Serif and Concrete Roman, but they were not
installed by default and I can't figure out how to install them.

Apparently there are TeX font packages for the above two, and also
several others. I am especially interested in Nimbus because I have the
regular TT version installed and it does have the IPA characters that I
need. 

The problem is that I cannot figure out how to install these font
packages. Can someone give an idiot n00bie a step-by-step how-to?

Re: My new environment

[Pavel Sanda]

Steve Litt wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I decided to put a short statement at the beginning of each chapter. I wanted 
 it to be surrounded by lines, a little bit narrower than general text, and I 
 wanted the print slightly bigger than normal. Here's how I did it:

convert to module and put it into wiki?
pavel

SENSELESS (caption outside float)

[E. Kaplan]

A little more information about the senseless warning near the captions 
of wrapfigures:

If I have the Latex code:

\begin{wrapfigure}{R}{0.29\textwidth} 
\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{cortical_image_v2}
\caption{Intrinsic optical imaging of macaque primary visual cortex 
(V1), showing the response to a uniform color patch. The image size is 
652x492 pixels (6$\mu$/pixel). Detailed information about the protocol 
can be found in Ref.~\cite{Xiao_NN2008}. }

\label{fig:monkey_cortex} \end{wrapfigure}
\hfill

and import it into Lyx, Lyx decides that it is SENSLESS, does not make 
the graphics a float
(even though the {R} after \begin{wrapfigure} indicates that it should 
float), and warns SENSELESS.  The pdf output, however, seems correct, or 
almost so.


EK

Re: SENSELESS (caption outside float)

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

E. Kaplan schreef:
A little more information about the senseless warning near the 
captions of wrapfigures:

If I have the Latex code:

\begin{wrapfigure}{R}{0.29\textwidth} 
\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{cortical_image_v2}
\caption{Intrinsic optical imaging of macaque primary visual cortex 
(V1), showing the response to a uniform color patch. The image size is 
652x492 pixels (6$\mu$/pixel). Detailed information about the protocol 
can be found in Ref.~\cite{Xiao_NN2008}. }

\label{fig:monkey_cortex} \end{wrapfigure}
\hfill

and import it into Lyx, Lyx decides that it is SENSLESS, does not make 
the graphics a float
(even though the {R} after \begin{wrapfigure} indicates that it should 
float), and warns SENSELESS.  The pdf output, however, seems correct, 
or almost so.


EK
LyX does not yet support to import latex code with wrapfigures. Said 
differently, it does not know that it should convert this environment 
into a wrap figure float. Instead, it just imports the latex code and 
put this in ERTs. Now, your document is still compilable and is (almost) 
correct.


However, the caption thinks that it is not in a float, because the ERT 
code is not parsed by LyX. That's why LyX warns you.


You can easily insert a wrap figure float yourself and copy the contents 
into this float.


Vincent

Re: SENSELESS (caption outside float)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

E. Kaplan wrote:
 and import it into Lyx, Lyx decides that it is SENSLESS, does not make
 the graphics a float

wrapfigure import is not yet supported by tex2lyx.

Jürgen

importing AGU template into LyX

[ad_ke]

Hi,
I'm trying to use an AGU template.  The default template (agu_article.lyx) 
included with my installation does not seem to work.  When selected, it says 
The layout file requested by this document, agu_dtd.layout, is not usable.  
This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not 
available.  

So I went directly to the AGU site (http://www.agu.org/pubs/helpdesk/) and 
obtained agu-ps.sty, agutex.cls, and agutmpl.tex along with  6 other .bst files 
for the literature cited section.

My question is where do I put all these files so I can import them successfully 
in .LyX.

Thanks for a speedy reply,
AMK
-- 
View this message in context: 
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Re: My new environment

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 04 April 2009 06:34:40 am Pavel Sanda wrote:
 Steve Litt wrote:
  Hi all,
 
  I decided to put a short statement at the beginning of each chapter. I
  wanted it to be surrounded by lines, a little bit narrower than general
  text, and I wanted the print slightly bigger than normal. Here's how I
  did it:

 convert to module and put it into wiki?
 pavel

How do I make it into a module? I don't have 1.6.x yet.

STeveT

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

[Anders Host-Madsen]

Steve Litt sl...@... writes:

I'm not really sure I agree that it's as easy to do semantic
markup in MS Word is in Latex. There are a number of issues
First, it's much easier not to use styles. Personally, I always used
styles, but I'm the only one I know how does that. When I put
together documents from groups of people it's always a mess
because people used their personal formatting. Want a header?
Increase font size and make bold. Furthermore, when copying
between documents in MS Word, the result is not always as
expected, even if styles are used consistently. On the other
hand, I never had problem putting together documents
from groups of people in Latex. MS Word
also tends to make anything into a style. Often document
templates have both a 'normal' style and a 'body' style,
and if you just write you never know which style is used. Take
for example the IEEE MS Word template. There are
hundreds of styles in that which makes it very
hard to use. And try to switch back and forth between
a single column an multicolumn document in
MS Word. In Latex it's just changing a single option.
In my opinion, when I started using MS Word many
year ago it was more geared toward using styles.
But MS seems to have accepted that nobody uses
styles, and made it more and more difficult to use
styles, while easier to use finger painting. In Latex you
can write a document focusing on the contents without
any thoughts to formatting, and the result is good. In
MS Word that is just impossible (for example, MS Word
has no mechanism for automatic placement of floats).

Re: importing AGU template into LyX

[Paul A. Rubin]

ad_ke wrote:

Hi, I'm trying to use an AGU template.  The default template
(agu_article.lyx) included with my installation does not seem to
work.  When selected, it says The layout file requested by this
document, agu_dtd.layout, is not usable.  This is probably because a
LaTeX class or style file required by it is not available.

So I went directly to the AGU site
(http://www.agu.org/pubs/helpdesk/) and obtained agu-ps.sty,
agutex.cls, and agutmpl.tex along with  6 other .bst files for the
literature cited section.

My question is where do I put all these files so I can import them
successfully in .LyX.

Thanks for a speedy reply, AMK


Put them in a directory under your local texmf tree (for instance,
localtexmf/tex/latex/agu), then run texhash in a terminal/shell, then 
reconfigure and restart LyX.


For any more details than that, you need to specify your operating
system (and maybe your LaTeX distribution).

/Paul

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 04 April 2009 12:57:16 pm Anders Host-Madsen wrote:
 Steve Litt sl...@... writes:

 I'm not really sure I agree that it's as easy to do semantic
 markup in MS Word is in Latex. There are a number of issues
 First, it's much easier not to use styles. 

True enough. If Al's fridge has a dozen apples, a dozen bananas, and a gallon 
of milk, and Ben's fridge has all those things plus three Macdonalds burgers 
and three orders of fries, it's just as easy for Ben to eat well, but it's 
much easier for Ben to eat badly.

When I say it's just as easy to do styles based authoring in MS Word, that 
carries an assumption that the author is a professional, which both you and I 
are, but some of our coworkers, not so much. :-)

 Personally, I always used 
 styles, but I'm the only one I know how does that. When I put
 together documents from groups of people it's always a mess
 because people used their personal formatting. Want a header?
 Increase font size and make bold. 


 Furthermore, when copying 
 between documents in MS Word, the result is not always as
 expected, even if styles are used consistently. 

I've seen that if the docs were created in two different Word versions.

By the way, no matter what I write on this subject, you'll notice I write 
nothing more than 5 pages in either MS Word or OpenOffice. If it's longer 
than 5 pages, I use LyX or Komposer (a WYSIWYG HTML editor).

SteveT
 
Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US

N00bie font issues

[John Jason Jordan]

I have spent a total of maybe eight hours in Lyx so far, and I am
impressed with a number of things. I am a linguist and being able to
create OT tableaus, PS trees and semantic notation will be great once I
learn how to do things.

However, the most fundamental thing that linguists need is IPA
characters, and I am stumbling trying to get that to work to my
satisfaction. And that means not using a font that looks like Times or
Computer Modern. Sorry, but I am fussy about what my documents look
like, and those fonts make me want to hurl. 

Furthermore, the SAMPA-like IPA insertion thing is like 15 years out of
date. Linguists today use straight Unicode insertion via the Unicode
code point. But that's OK, I have figured out how to enter the Unicode
number to get the character I want in general text without having to
use a TIPA box.

The problem is that the fonts that are installed by default in Lyx that
I find aesthetically acceptable (Bitstream Charter, Utopia) do not have
the necessary IPA and combining diacriticals blocks. There is the
possibility of Bera Serif and Concrete Roman, but they were not
installed by default and I can't figure out how to install them.

Apparently there are TeX font packages for the above two, and also
several others. I am especially interested in Nimbus because I have the
regular TT version installed and it does have the IPA characters that I
need. 

The problem is that I cannot figure out how to install these font
packages. Can someone give an idiot n00bie a step-by-step how-to?

Re: My new environment

[Pavel Sanda]

Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I decided to put a short statement at the beginning of each chapter. I wanted 
> it to be surrounded by lines, a little bit narrower than general text, and I 
> wanted the print slightly bigger than normal. Here's how I did it:

convert to module and put it into wiki?
pavel

>SENSELESS (caption outside float)

[E. Kaplan]

A little more information about the senseless warning near the captions 
of wrapfigures:

If I have the Latex code:

\begin{wrapfigure}{R}{0.29\textwidth} 
\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{cortical_image_v2}
\caption{Intrinsic optical imaging of macaque primary visual cortex 
(V1), showing the response to a uniform color patch. The image size is 
652x492 pixels (6$\mu$/pixel). Detailed information about the protocol 
can be found in Ref.~\cite{Xiao_NN2008}. }

\label{fig:monkey_cortex} \end{wrapfigure}
\hfill

and import it into Lyx, Lyx decides that it is SENSLESS, does not make 
the graphics a float
(even though the {R} after \begin{wrapfigure} indicates that it should 
float), and warns SENSELESS.  The pdf output, however, seems correct, or 
almost so.


EK

Re: >SENSELESS (caption outside float)

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

E. Kaplan schreef:
A little more information about the senseless warning near the 
captions of wrapfigures:

If I have the Latex code:

\begin{wrapfigure}{R}{0.29\textwidth} 
\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{cortical_image_v2}
\caption{Intrinsic optical imaging of macaque primary visual cortex 
(V1), showing the response to a uniform color patch. The image size is 
652x492 pixels (6$\mu$/pixel). Detailed information about the protocol 
can be found in Ref.~\cite{Xiao_NN2008}. }

\label{fig:monkey_cortex} \end{wrapfigure}
\hfill

and import it into Lyx, Lyx decides that it is SENSLESS, does not make 
the graphics a float
(even though the {R} after \begin{wrapfigure} indicates that it should 
float), and warns SENSELESS.  The pdf output, however, seems correct, 
or almost so.


EK
LyX does not yet support to import latex code with wrapfigures. Said 
differently, it does not know that it should convert this environment 
into a wrap figure float. Instead, it just imports the latex code and 
put this in ERTs. Now, your document is still compilable and is (almost) 
correct.


However, the caption thinks that it is not in a float, because the ERT 
code is not parsed by LyX. That's why LyX warns you.


You can easily insert a wrap figure float yourself and copy the contents 
into this float.


Vincent

Re: >SENSELESS (caption outside float)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

E. Kaplan wrote:
> and import it into Lyx, Lyx decides that it is SENSLESS, does not make
> the graphics a float

wrapfigure import is not yet supported by tex2lyx.

Jürgen

importing AGU template into LyX

[ad_ke]

Hi,
I'm trying to use an AGU template.  The default template (agu_article.lyx) 
included with my installation does not seem to work.  When selected, it says 
"The layout file requested by this document, agu_dtd.layout, is not usable.  
This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not 
available".  

So I went directly to the AGU site (http://www.agu.org/pubs/helpdesk/) and 
obtained agu-ps.sty, agutex.cls, and agutmpl.tex along with  6 other .bst files 
for the literature cited section.

My question is where do I put all these files so I can import them successfully 
in .LyX.

Thanks for a speedy reply,
AMK
-- 
View this message in context: 
http://n2.nabble.com/importing-AGU-template-into-LyX-tp2585303p2585303.html
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Re: My new environment

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 04 April 2009 06:34:40 am Pavel Sanda wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I decided to put a short statement at the beginning of each chapter. I
> > wanted it to be surrounded by lines, a little bit narrower than general
> > text, and I wanted the print slightly bigger than normal. Here's how I
> > did it:
>
> convert to module and put it into wiki?
> pavel

How do I make it into a module? I don't have 1.6.x yet.

STeveT

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

[Anders Host-Madsen]

Steve Litt  writes:

I'm not really sure I agree that it's as easy to do semantic
markup in MS Word is in Latex. There are a number of issues
First, it's much easier not to use styles. Personally, I always used
styles, but I'm the only one I know how does that. When I put
together documents from groups of people it's always a mess
because people used their personal formatting. Want a header?
Increase font size and make bold. Furthermore, when copying
between documents in MS Word, the result is not always as
expected, even if styles are used consistently. On the other
hand, I never had problem putting together documents
from groups of people in Latex. MS Word
also tends to make anything into a style. Often document
templates have both a 'normal' style and a 'body' style,
and if you just write you never know which style is used. Take
for example the IEEE MS Word template. There are
hundreds of styles in that which makes it very
hard to use. And try to switch back and forth between
a single column an multicolumn document in
MS Word. In Latex it's just changing a single option.
In my opinion, when I started using MS Word many
year ago it was more geared toward using styles.
But MS seems to have accepted that nobody uses
styles, and made it more and more difficult to use
styles, while easier to use finger painting. In Latex you
can write a document focusing on the contents without
any thoughts to formatting, and the result is good. In
MS Word that is just impossible (for example, MS Word
has no mechanism for automatic placement of floats).

Re: importing AGU template into LyX

[Paul A. Rubin]

ad_ke wrote:

Hi, I'm trying to use an AGU template.  The default template
(agu_article.lyx) included with my installation does not seem to
work.  When selected, it says "The layout file requested by this
document, agu_dtd.layout, is not usable.  This is probably because a
LaTeX class or style file required by it is not available".

So I went directly to the AGU site
(http://www.agu.org/pubs/helpdesk/) and obtained agu-ps.sty,
agutex.cls, and agutmpl.tex along with  6 other .bst files for the
literature cited section.

My question is where do I put all these files so I can import them
successfully in .LyX.

Thanks for a speedy reply, AMK


Put them in a directory under your local texmf tree (for instance,
/tex/latex/agu), then run texhash in a terminal/shell, then 
reconfigure and restart LyX.


For any more details than that, you need to specify your operating
system (and maybe your LaTeX distribution).

/Paul

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 04 April 2009 12:57:16 pm Anders Host-Madsen wrote:
> Steve Litt  writes:
>
> I'm not really sure I agree that it's as easy to do semantic
> markup in MS Word is in Latex. There are a number of issues
> First, it's much easier not to use styles. 

True enough. If Al's fridge has a dozen apples, a dozen bananas, and a gallon 
of milk, and Ben's fridge has all those things plus three Macdonalds burgers 
and three orders of fries, it's just as easy for Ben to eat well, but it's 
much easier for Ben to eat badly.

When I say it's just as easy to do styles based authoring in MS Word, that 
carries an assumption that the author is a professional, which both you and I 
are, but some of our coworkers, not so much. :-)

> Personally, I always used 
> styles, but I'm the only one I know how does that. When I put
> together documents from groups of people it's always a mess
> because people used their personal formatting. Want a header?
> Increase font size and make bold. 


> Furthermore, when copying 
> between documents in MS Word, the result is not always as
> expected, even if styles are used consistently. 

I've seen that if the docs were created in two different Word versions.

By the way, no matter what I write on this subject, you'll notice I write 
nothing more than 5 pages in either MS Word or OpenOffice. If it's longer 
than 5 pages, I use LyX or Komposer (a WYSIWYG HTML editor).

SteveT
 
Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US

N00bie font issues

[John Jason Jordan]

I have spent a total of maybe eight hours in Lyx so far, and I am
impressed with a number of things. I am a linguist and being able to
create OT tableaus, PS trees and semantic notation will be great once I
learn how to do things.

However, the most fundamental thing that linguists need is IPA
characters, and I am stumbling trying to get that to work to my
satisfaction. And that means not using a font that looks like Times or
Computer Modern. Sorry, but I am fussy about what my documents look
like, and those fonts make me want to hurl. 

Furthermore, the SAMPA-like IPA insertion thing is like 15 years out of
date. Linguists today use straight Unicode insertion via the Unicode
code point. But that's OK, I have figured out how to enter the Unicode
number to get the character I want in general text without having to
use a TIPA box.

The problem is that the fonts that are installed by default in Lyx that
I find aesthetically acceptable (Bitstream Charter, Utopia) do not have
the necessary IPA and combining diacriticals blocks. There is the
possibility of Bera Serif and Concrete Roman, but they were not
installed by default and I can't figure out how to install them.

Apparently there are TeX font packages for the above two, and also
several others. I am especially interested in Nimbus because I have the
regular TT version installed and it does have the IPA characters that I
need. 

The problem is that I cannot figure out how to install these font
packages. Can someone give an idiot n00bie a step-by-step how-to?