Re: improving typography and layout in tutorial.lyx

2016-04-21 Thread mn
On 20.04.16 16:51, John Robert Hudson wrote: > On Wednesday 20 Apr 2016 15:35:24 mn wrote: >> The current English tutorial.lyx in rc1 does not yield clean PDFs >> on three levels: >> >> 1. There are a few minor typographical problems – catched with >> (bui

Re: improving typography and layout in tutorial.lyx

2016-04-23 Thread mn
lleft \textquotedblright{} % and the like to get the best results instead of shit-2. % Then, this may be suboptimal? % But then the ‘subtle’ hints in the PDF % look wrong in LyX with `subtle' hints Updated snippets of screenshots. My guess is that on no platform LyX-2.2+ is supportin

Re: de-UserGuide improvements

2016-05-09 Thread mn
On 09.05.16 01:22, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 29.04.2016 um 17:05 schrieb mn: > A plea: Please modify the files where they are . Just turn on change > tracking. This assures that the relative image paths are preserved and > this saves me time. Didn’t even know that. Sorry for that. If

Re: de-UserGuide improvements

2016-05-05 Thread mn
On 04.05.16 16:08, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 29/04/2016 à 17:05, mn a écrit : >> The shortcut for creating a single quotation mark in LyX cannot be >> as universal as the wording implies. >> On Mac with German-keyboard-layout the given shortcut Opt-" gives &

improving typography and layout in tutorial.lyx

2016-04-20 Thread mn
designating paragraphs deviates (only optically?) from the rest of the document in apparently using indention and skips. For my own documents I would insert a pagebreak there. mn Tutorial-en-c.lyx Description: application/lyx

arabic intro.lyx

2017-04-20 Thread mn
The attached file should do nothing to the contents of the file. Except that latin characters are all declared as being English, like it is done in the corresponding Hebrew files. This is to improve the on screen appearance in the editor where those words would also display RTL otherwise. This was

Re: improving docs: embedded pdfs and screenshots

2017-04-16 Thread mn
On 16.04.17 17:20, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> The attached PDFs from the docs-subdirectory have been recompressed. > > This works because you used a never PDF version. Older PDF viewers might > not be able to open them. You used PDF version 1.5 (requires Acrobat > version 6 (released in 2003) or

Arabic shortcuts.lyx does not compile / + general language assignment error?

2017-04-22 Thread mn
First of all, as shipped with 2.3 ar-shortcuts does not compile, because it errors on: Missing character: There is no ⇥ in font Scheherazade/OT:script=latn;language=D Missing character: There is no ⇤ in font Scheherazade/OT:script=latn;language=D File ended while scanning use of \shortcut. <*>

Re: Arabic shortcuts.lyx does not compile / + general language assignment error?

2017-04-22 Thread mn
On 22.04.17 19:14, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > El 22.04.2017 a las 10:27, mn escribió: > >> First of all, as shipped with 2.3 ar-shortcuts does not compile, because >> it errors on: >> >> Missing character: There is no ⇥ in font >> Scheherazade/OT:script=lat

Re: Arabic shortcuts.lyx does not compile / + general language assignment error?

2017-04-23 Thread mn
On 23.04.17 01:11, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > El 22.04.2017 a las 21:33, mn escribió: > >> Notice that in your output it is not "Control-⇥" (this is copied from >> LyX for Mac) with the missing character/symbol but "Ctrl+Tab". > > I don't understand. T

2.3: arabic tutorial.lyx RTL errors and errors with xelatex

2017-04-19 Thread mn
The Arabic tutorial seems to be unfinished: Non-arabi text passages aren't properly declared as foreign, thus being also displayed in LyX RTL. "egapnam" and XYL as examples. Further it does not compile. The log file does not show errors, only warnings. Last lines of the log: LaTeX Warning:

Re: problems with fr shortcuts.lyx

2017-05-14 Thread mn
On 14.05.17 21:01, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > El 14.05.2017 a las 11:36, mn escribió: > >> Please have a look at French shortcuts.lyx > >> The default settings for that document as shipped for 2.2.3 is nearly >> unusable when compiled; worst on a mac. >> >> The

Re: refinements for nl tutorial.lyx in 2.2.3

2017-05-15 Thread mn
On 14.05.17 20:41, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Unfortunately I cannot easily check on these since now all new files on git now seem to be in format 543, ahead of alpha1-1. Don't get me wrong here: Please, do not export all of them back to 2.2-format just for me. But is there something like just a lyx2lyx

improving looks, font-choices and type mixing: Palatino needs a scaled Helvetica

2017-05-15 Thread mn
If we will have to stick with the current choice for intro.lyx and tutorial.lyx – Palatino, Helvetica and Courier, then there is still room for improvement: Harmonize the x-heights. An example for mixing Palatino and Helvetica is found here:

Re: improving docs: embedded pdfs and screenshots

2017-05-13 Thread mn
On 16.04.17 17:20, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > El 15.04.2017 a las 11:15, mn escribió: > >> The attached EPS-files have just been resaved with inkscape, reducing >> their size. >> (But how were they created? They look quite pixelated) > > yes, the EPS images are very o

refinements to de-intro.lyx 2.2.3

2017-05-13 Thread mn
The attached file is from 2.2.3. There are two changes activated in document settings: "use true smallcaps" for Palatino and "break hyperlinks over lines". Both help with two lines violating the margings and improve the look of the output in general. Most of the other stuff is minor cleanup hunted

refinements to fr intro.lyx 2.2.3

2017-05-13 Thread mn
In the French intro.lyx there are several margin violations. Some could be fixed by activating true small caps. Some need slight rearrangements. One attempt to fix this is in the attached file greetings Mike #LyX 2.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 508

refinements to en intro.lyx 2.2.3

2017-05-13 Thread mn
There is just one chktex error in the English intro.lyx: A wrong length of dash in 3.1.1 "detailed descriptions are preferred – the more time developers have" There is one margin violation. That will be fixed miraculously by activating true small caps. greetings Mike

Re: refinements to it intro.lyx 2.2.3

2017-05-13 Thread mn
On 13.05.17 17:42, mn wrote: > The Italian intro.lyx seems to have some issues with words running > together if there is a change of language or style. > This should fix most of those incidents. On visual inspection there were some more of these. Please ignore the earlier file. greeti

refinements to it intro.lyx 2.2.3

2017-05-13 Thread mn
The Italian intro.lyx seems to have some issues with words running together if there is a change of language or style. This should fix most of those incidents. greetings Mike #LyX 2.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 508 \begin_document \begin_header

problems with fr shortcuts.lyx

2017-05-14 Thread mn
Please have a look at French shortcuts.lyx The default settings for that document as shipped for 2.2.3 is nearly unusable when compiled; worst on a mac. The tables tend not to violate the margins but running clean off the page altogether. This could be mitigated by not indenting the paragraph