Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Ken Springer snowsh...@q.com wrote: If I'm going to try out LyX in the end, would it be of any value to me to do a little experimenting with LaTeX and Tex first, or just jump in the pool? LyX strives to offer an authoring environment that requires no (or truly

Re: can't compile hello world document from tutorial

Ross Gayler wrote: I deleted ~/.lyx/templates/defaults.lyx and was able to compile a simple document. Good. I am still mystified as to how it came to be corrupted in a fresh install. Would you like me to investigate a little further? It's probably difficult to track. Please let us know if

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:29:23 +0200 Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Ken Springer snowsh...@q.com wrote: If I'm going to try out LyX in the end, would it be of any value to me to do a little experimenting with LaTeX and Tex first, or just jump in

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

I'd say a little LaTeX knowledge is useful--don't overdo it.  I put together a 14 page report in LateX that taught me enough about some of the underlying mechanics of LyX to be helpful. I don't think I'm ever going to be an exclusive LaTeX user.. From: Ken

Re: Strange behaviour of initials module aka drop-caps

Your works file works for me, although I'm missing one of the modules you loaded (short-inset-names), which apparently is not critical. Your doesn't work file had two problems when I tried to fix. The first was that it had no title (I added one). The second was that the environment where you

Re: Strange behaviour of initials module aka drop-caps

Thanks Paul. I don' know how I missed something as obvious as the Initial vs Standard Tired? Still I am good at missing the blindingly obviouw. I thought I'd removed the ShortInsertNames module. It's a new contributed module from Andrew Parsloe

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

On 9/1/13 11:06 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:29:23 +0200 Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: snip It sounds as if Lyx/LaTeX has a higher learning curve than I was hoping for. But it intrigues me. :-) I've got some simple help documents I want to create, and I want

Re: request for comments on EPUB exporting

In my opinion, language should be taken from the document settings since it is already a setting. I think for other fields such as author this should be taken from an inset defined by the module/layout. But this might be because I don't know anything about EPUB. Can I export any document in

Re: request for comments on EPUB exporting

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Josh Hieronymus josh.p.hierony...@gmail.com wrote: In my opinion, language should be taken from the document settings since it is already a setting. I think for other fields such as author this should be taken from an inset defined by the module/layout. But

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

Ken Springer writes: On 9/1/13 11:06 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:29:23 +0200 Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: snip It sounds as if Lyx/LaTeX has a higher learning curve than I was hoping for. But it intrigues me. :-) I've got some simple help documents I

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Alan L Tyree alanty...@gmail.com wrote: Ken Springer writes: On 9/1/13 11:06 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:29:23 +0200 Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: snip It sounds as if Lyx/LaTeX has a higher learning curve than I was

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

On 02/09/13 17:02, Alan L Tyree wrote: You can become productive with LyX*very* quickly without knowing anything about LaTeX. Agreed! I wish that Lyx had been available back in the 1960's when we had to produce a heap of technical training manuals - very quickly. Gordon Tauranga N.Z.

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Ken Springer snowsh...@q.com wrote: If I'm going to try out LyX in the end, would it be of any value to me to do a little experimenting with LaTeX and Tex first, or just jump in the pool? LyX strives to offer an authoring environment that requires no (or truly

Re: can't compile hello world document from tutorial

Ross Gayler wrote: I deleted ~/.lyx/templates/defaults.lyx and was able to compile a simple document. Good. I am still mystified as to how it came to be corrupted in a fresh install. Would you like me to investigate a little further? It's probably difficult to track. Please let us know if

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:29:23 +0200 Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Ken Springer snowsh...@q.com wrote: If I'm going to try out LyX in the end, would it be of any value to me to do a little experimenting with LaTeX and Tex first, or just jump in

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

I'd say a little LaTeX knowledge is useful--don't overdo it.  I put together a 14 page report in LateX that taught me enough about some of the underlying mechanics of LyX to be helpful. I don't think I'm ever going to be an exclusive LaTeX user.. From: Ken

Re: Strange behaviour of initials module aka drop-caps

Your works file works for me, although I'm missing one of the modules you loaded (short-inset-names), which apparently is not critical. Your doesn't work file had two problems when I tried to fix. The first was that it had no title (I added one). The second was that the environment where you

Re: Strange behaviour of initials module aka drop-caps

Thanks Paul. I don' know how I missed something as obvious as the Initial vs Standard Tired? Still I am good at missing the blindingly obviouw. I thought I'd removed the ShortInsertNames module. It's a new contributed module from Andrew Parsloe

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

On 9/1/13 11:06 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:29:23 +0200 Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: snip It sounds as if Lyx/LaTeX has a higher learning curve than I was hoping for. But it intrigues me. :-) I've got some simple help documents I want to create, and I want

Re: request for comments on EPUB exporting

In my opinion, language should be taken from the document settings since it is already a setting. I think for other fields such as author this should be taken from an inset defined by the module/layout. But this might be because I don't know anything about EPUB. Can I export any document in

Re: request for comments on EPUB exporting

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Josh Hieronymus josh.p.hierony...@gmail.com wrote: In my opinion, language should be taken from the document settings since it is already a setting. I think for other fields such as author this should be taken from an inset defined by the module/layout. But

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

Ken Springer writes: On 9/1/13 11:06 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:29:23 +0200 Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: snip It sounds as if Lyx/LaTeX has a higher learning curve than I was hoping for. But it intrigues me. :-) I've got some simple help documents I

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Alan L Tyree alanty...@gmail.com wrote: Ken Springer writes: On 9/1/13 11:06 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:29:23 +0200 Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: snip It sounds as if Lyx/LaTeX has a higher learning curve than I was

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

On 02/09/13 17:02, Alan L Tyree wrote: You can become productive with LyX*very* quickly without knowing anything about LaTeX. Agreed! I wish that Lyx had been available back in the 1960's when we had to produce a heap of technical training manuals - very quickly. Gordon Tauranga N.Z.

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Ken Springer wrote: > If I'm going to try out LyX in the end, would it be of any value to me to do > a little experimenting with LaTeX and Tex first, or just jump in the pool? > LyX strives to offer an authoring environment that requires no (or

Re: can't compile "hello world" document from tutorial

Ross Gayler wrote: > I deleted ~/.lyx/templates/defaults.lyx and was able to compile a simple > document. Good. > I am still mystified as to how it came to be corrupted in a fresh install. > Would you like me to investigate a little further? It's probably difficult to track. Please let us know

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:29:23 +0200 Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Ken Springer wrote: > > If I'm going to try out LyX in the end, would it be of any value to > > me to do a little experimenting with LaTeX and Tex first, or just >

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

I'd say a little LaTeX knowledge is useful--don't overdo it.  I put together a 14 page report in LateX that taught me enough about some of the underlying mechanics of LyX to be helpful. I don't think I'm ever going to be an exclusive LaTeX user.. From: Ken

Re: Strange behaviour of initials module aka drop-caps

Your "works" file works for me, although I'm missing one of the modules you loaded (short-inset-names), which apparently is not critical. Your "doesn't work" file had two problems when I tried to fix. The first was that it had no title (I added one). The second was that the environment where you

Re: Strange behaviour of initials module aka drop-caps

Thanks Paul. I don' know how I missed something as obvious as the Initial vs Standard Tired? Still I am good at missing the blindingly obviouw. I thought I'd removed the ShortInsertNames module. It's a new contributed module from Andrew Parsloe

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

On 9/1/13 11:06 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:29:23 +0200 Liviu Andronic wrote: It sounds as if Lyx/LaTeX has a higher learning curve than I was hoping for. But it intrigues me. :-) I've got some simple help documents I want to create, and I want

Re: request for comments on EPUB exporting

> > In my opinion, language should be taken from the document settings > since it is already a setting. I think for other fields such as author > this should be taken from an inset defined by the module/layout. But > this might be because I don't know anything about EPUB. Can I export > any

Re: request for comments on EPUB exporting

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Josh Hieronymus wrote: >> In my opinion, language should be taken from the document settings >> since it is already a setting. I think for other fields such as author >> this should be taken from an inset defined by the module/layout.

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

Ken Springer writes: > On 9/1/13 11:06 AM, Steve Litt wrote: >> On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:29:23 +0200 >> Liviu Andronic wrote: > > > > It sounds as if Lyx/LaTeX has a higher learning curve than I was hoping for. > > But it intrigues me. :-) I've got some simple help

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > Ken Springer writes: > > > On 9/1/13 11:06 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > >> On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:29:23 +0200 > >> Liviu Andronic wrote: > > > > > > > > It sounds as if Lyx/LaTeX has a higher

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

On 02/09/13 17:02, Alan L Tyree wrote: You can become productive with LyX*very* quickly without knowing anything about LaTeX. Agreed! I wish that Lyx had been available back in the 1960's when we had to produce a heap of technical training manuals - very quickly. Gordon Tauranga N.Z.