Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 00:17, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written

Re: Error while importing in RC4

2008-10-25 Thread Julio Rojas
Reported as bug 5408: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5408 - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should I file this as a

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
Abdel, On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many many students in France begins with LyX to ease the path to LateX; unfortunately most of them switch to MSWord after school... How would you go about convincing French professors (or students) that LyX is a

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
In economics and mathematics in France, I have many colleagues who know very well Latex but anly a few of them have ever heard about LyX before I have asked them the question. Even myself, I have been following the development LyX for years, without switching to it (I was using pure LateX and

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 11:49, Liviu Andronic wrote: Abdel, On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Abdelrazak Younes[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many many students in France begins with LyX to ease the path to LateX; unfortunately most of them switch to MSWord after school... How would you go about convincing

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:17 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: Hi Mike of activities). In that time, I wrote two refereed journal papers and part of the concept study that led to the $100M+ mission. Way cool. keep a watchful eye on things), so I don't know how lyx's popularity has grown, but I'm fairly

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
2008/10/25 Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are most certainly right for economics and mathematics students. But French engineer school students have a (deserved) reputation of laziness; so the first thing they would do when they are confronted to LateX is to look for a Wysiwig

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 13:06, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: In economics and mathematics in France, I have many colleagues who know very well Latex but anly a few of them have ever heard about LyX before I have asked them the question. Even myself, I have been following the development LyX for years, without

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 24 October 2008 06:17:34 pm Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX?

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 13:33 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:17 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Apparently I've been using LyX since '03. I've got 300+ LyX docs relating to teaching (notes, exams, slide shows, handouts), but this might be a bit inflated since I put each chapter/lesson in a separate file, rather than compiling a book. On the scholarly output side, I've got something

lyx 1.6rc4 ultra slow to load document

2008-10-25 Thread William Seager
Hi all. I'm not sure this is a problem or just reflects the unfinished state of lyx 1.6. But I have a large-ish document (about 140 pages when output to pdf). On my old slow laptop running lyx 1.5.6 (under gentoo linux btw) this loads in 2 seconds. On my fast, dual core amd64 architecture (also

Re: lyx 1.6rc4 ultra slow to load document

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 17:49, William Seager wrote: Hi all. I'm not sure this is a problem or just reflects the unfinished state of lyx 1.6. But I have a large-ish document (about 140 pages when output to pdf). On my old slow laptop running lyx 1.5.6 (under gentoo linux btw) this loads in 2 seconds. On

Re: moderncv and bib as publications

2008-10-25 Thread B. Bogart
Thanks Xavier, Indeed it *is* working directly from lyx with the \recomputelengths command. I just did not realize my outer margin was set at 0.25! Everything is looking fine now. Thanks so much for your help. I'll send you a diff for the brown colour in another email. Thanks to Richard for

Re: lyx 1.6rc4 ultra slow to load document

2008-10-25 Thread William Seager
On October 25, 2008 12:34:14 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I guess the 37 seconds you are seeing is probably due to lyx2lyx conversion OK, I'm an idiot. Of course that was the problem - instant loading once the 1.6 format version was in place :) -- William Seager University of Toronto Scarborough

Re: lyx 1.6rc4 ultra slow to load document

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 19:26, William Seager wrote: On October 25, 2008 12:34:14 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I guess the 37 seconds you are seeing is probably due to lyx2lyx conversion OK, I'm an idiot. You are not. We should probably indicate more prominently that a conversion is taking place. Of

Change the grey tone of greyed out notes' ouput

2008-10-25 Thread knauslists
Hello, I have a large document with some greyed out notes in it. I have already printed it out on a black and white laserprinter but the grey tone in which the greyed out notes appear on the paper is simply to light and very hard to read. Is there a simple possibility to change this? Cheers.

Re: Change the grey tone of greyed out notes' ouput

2008-10-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I have a large document with some greyed out notes in it. I have already printed it out on a black and white laserprinter but the grey tone in which the greyed out notes appear on the paper is simply to light and very hard to read. Is there a simple possibility to

Problem with intext citations with custom BibTeX .bst file

2008-10-25 Thread Andrew Barr
Hi all, I have been using the java program Bib-It to put together my own custom BibTeX style file. It is working very well, but the problem I am having is that I don't seem to be able to specify in-text citation styles with Bib-It and I don't speak .bst. Right now the in-text citations only

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 00:17, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written

Re: Error while importing in RC4

2008-10-25 Thread Julio Rojas
Reported as bug 5408: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5408 - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should I file this as a

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
Abdel, On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many many students in France begins with LyX to ease the path to LateX; unfortunately most of them switch to MSWord after school... How would you go about convincing French professors (or students) that LyX is a

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
In economics and mathematics in France, I have many colleagues who know very well Latex but anly a few of them have ever heard about LyX before I have asked them the question. Even myself, I have been following the development LyX for years, without switching to it (I was using pure LateX and

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 11:49, Liviu Andronic wrote: Abdel, On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Abdelrazak Younes[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many many students in France begins with LyX to ease the path to LateX; unfortunately most of them switch to MSWord after school... How would you go about convincing

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:17 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: Hi Mike of activities). In that time, I wrote two refereed journal papers and part of the concept study that led to the $100M+ mission. Way cool. keep a watchful eye on things), so I don't know how lyx's popularity has grown, but I'm fairly

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
2008/10/25 Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are most certainly right for economics and mathematics students. But French engineer school students have a (deserved) reputation of laziness; so the first thing they would do when they are confronted to LateX is to look for a Wysiwig

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 13:06, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: In economics and mathematics in France, I have many colleagues who know very well Latex but anly a few of them have ever heard about LyX before I have asked them the question. Even myself, I have been following the development LyX for years, without

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 24 October 2008 06:17:34 pm Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX?

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 13:33 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:17 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Apparently I've been using LyX since '03. I've got 300+ LyX docs relating to teaching (notes, exams, slide shows, handouts), but this might be a bit inflated since I put each chapter/lesson in a separate file, rather than compiling a book. On the scholarly output side, I've got something

lyx 1.6rc4 ultra slow to load document

2008-10-25 Thread William Seager
Hi all. I'm not sure this is a problem or just reflects the unfinished state of lyx 1.6. But I have a large-ish document (about 140 pages when output to pdf). On my old slow laptop running lyx 1.5.6 (under gentoo linux btw) this loads in 2 seconds. On my fast, dual core amd64 architecture (also

Re: lyx 1.6rc4 ultra slow to load document

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 17:49, William Seager wrote: Hi all. I'm not sure this is a problem or just reflects the unfinished state of lyx 1.6. But I have a large-ish document (about 140 pages when output to pdf). On my old slow laptop running lyx 1.5.6 (under gentoo linux btw) this loads in 2 seconds. On

Re: moderncv and bib as publications

2008-10-25 Thread B. Bogart
Thanks Xavier, Indeed it *is* working directly from lyx with the \recomputelengths command. I just did not realize my outer margin was set at 0.25! Everything is looking fine now. Thanks so much for your help. I'll send you a diff for the brown colour in another email. Thanks to Richard for

Re: lyx 1.6rc4 ultra slow to load document

2008-10-25 Thread William Seager
On October 25, 2008 12:34:14 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I guess the 37 seconds you are seeing is probably due to lyx2lyx conversion OK, I'm an idiot. Of course that was the problem - instant loading once the 1.6 format version was in place :) -- William Seager University of Toronto Scarborough

Re: lyx 1.6rc4 ultra slow to load document

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 19:26, William Seager wrote: On October 25, 2008 12:34:14 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I guess the 37 seconds you are seeing is probably due to lyx2lyx conversion OK, I'm an idiot. You are not. We should probably indicate more prominently that a conversion is taking place. Of

Change the grey tone of greyed out notes' ouput

2008-10-25 Thread knauslists
Hello, I have a large document with some greyed out notes in it. I have already printed it out on a black and white laserprinter but the grey tone in which the greyed out notes appear on the paper is simply to light and very hard to read. Is there a simple possibility to change this? Cheers.

Re: Change the grey tone of greyed out notes' ouput

2008-10-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I have a large document with some greyed out notes in it. I have already printed it out on a black and white laserprinter but the grey tone in which the greyed out notes appear on the paper is simply to light and very hard to read. Is there a simple possibility to

Problem with intext citations with custom BibTeX .bst file

2008-10-25 Thread Andrew Barr
Hi all, I have been using the java program Bib-It to put together my own custom BibTeX style file. It is working very well, but the problem I am having is that I don't seem to be able to specify in-text citation styles with Bib-It and I don't speak .bst. Right now the in-text citations only

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 00:17, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written

Re: Error while importing in RC4

2008-10-25 Thread Julio Rojas
Reported as bug 5408: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5408 - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Julio Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Should I file

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
Abdel, On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many many students in France begins with LyX to ease the path to LateX; > unfortunately most of them switch to MSWord after school... > How would you go about convincing French professors (or students) that LyX

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
In economics and mathematics in France, I have many colleagues who know very well Latex but anly a few of them have ever heard about LyX before I have asked them the question. Even myself, I have been following the development LyX for years, without switching to it (I was using pure LateX and

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 11:49, Liviu Andronic wrote: Abdel, On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Abdelrazak Younes<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Many many students in France begins with LyX to ease the path to LateX; unfortunately most of them switch to MSWord after school... How would you go about

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:17 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: Hi Mike of activities). In that time, I wrote two refereed journal papers and part of the concept study that led to the $100M+ mission. Way cool. keep a watchful eye on things), so I don't know how lyx's popularity has grown, but I'm fairly

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
2008/10/25 Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You are most certainly right for economics and mathematics students. But > French engineer school students have a (deserved) reputation of laziness; so > the first thing they would do when they are confronted to LateX is to look > for a Wysiwig

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 13:06, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: In economics and mathematics in France, I have many colleagues who know very well Latex but anly a few of them have ever heard about LyX before I have asked them the question. Even myself, I have been following the development LyX for years, without

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 24 October 2008 06:17:34 pm Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: > > I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of > > dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers > > Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 13:33 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: > > > On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:17 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: > >> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: > >> > >>> I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Apparently I've been using LyX since '03. I've got 300+ LyX docs relating to teaching (notes, exams, slide shows, handouts), but this might be a bit inflated since I put each chapter/lesson in a separate file, rather than compiling a book. On the "scholarly output" side, I've got something

lyx 1.6rc4 ultra slow to load document

2008-10-25 Thread William Seager
Hi all. I'm not sure this is a problem or just reflects the unfinished state of lyx 1.6. But I have a large-ish document (about 140 pages when output to pdf). On my old slow laptop running lyx 1.5.6 (under gentoo linux btw) this loads in 2 seconds. On my fast, dual core amd64 architecture (also

Re: lyx 1.6rc4 ultra slow to load document

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 17:49, William Seager wrote: Hi all. I'm not sure this is a problem or just reflects the unfinished state of lyx 1.6. But I have a large-ish document (about 140 pages when output to pdf). On my old slow laptop running lyx 1.5.6 (under gentoo linux btw) this loads in 2 seconds. On

Re: moderncv and bib as "publications"

2008-10-25 Thread B. Bogart
Thanks Xavier, Indeed it *is* working directly from lyx with the "\recomputelengths" command. I just did not realize my outer margin was set at 0.25! Everything is looking fine now. Thanks so much for your help. I'll send you a diff for the brown colour in another email. Thanks to Richard for

Re: lyx 1.6rc4 ultra slow to load document

2008-10-25 Thread William Seager
On October 25, 2008 12:34:14 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > I guess the 37 seconds you are seeing is probably due to lyx2lyx > conversion OK, I'm an idiot. Of course that was the problem - instant loading once the 1.6 format version was in place :) -- William Seager University of Toronto

Re: lyx 1.6rc4 ultra slow to load document

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 19:26, William Seager wrote: On October 25, 2008 12:34:14 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I guess the 37 seconds you are seeing is probably due to lyx2lyx conversion OK, I'm an idiot. You are not. We should probably indicate more prominently that a conversion is taking place. Of

Change the grey tone of greyed out notes' ouput

2008-10-25 Thread knauslists
Hello, I have a large document with some greyed out notes in it. I have already printed it out on a black and white laserprinter but the grey tone in which the greyed out notes appear on the paper is simply to light and very hard to read. Is there a simple possibility to change this? Cheers.

Re: Change the grey tone of greyed out notes' ouput

2008-10-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I have a large document with some greyed out notes in it. I have already printed it out on a black and white laserprinter but the grey tone in which the greyed out notes appear on the paper is simply to light and very hard to read. Is there a simple possibility to

Problem with intext citations with custom BibTeX .bst file

2008-10-25 Thread Andrew Barr
Hi all, I have been using the java program Bib-It to put together my own custom BibTeX style file. It is working very well, but the problem I am having is that I don't seem to be able to specify in-text citation styles with Bib-It and I don't speak .bst. Right now the in-text citations only