Re: Making first paragraphs not indented in exported HTML

2022-04-12 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Dr Eberhard W Lisse via lyx-users said on Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:22:21 +0200 >Because I am right and you are unnecessarily annoying? A simple "Thank you" would have sufficed. SteveT Steve Litt March 2022 featured book: Making Mental Models: Advanced Edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mmm --

Re: Making first paragraphs not indented in exported HTML

2022-04-12 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users said on Mon, 11 Apr 2022 18:22:54 +0200 >If you think other people have the time you don't maybe you >also not waste their time by posting this. Now how did I know that *you'd* be the guy to say this. SteveT Steve Litt March 2022 featured book: Making Mental

Re: Making first paragraphs not indented in exported HTML

2022-04-11 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Daniel via lyx-users said on Mon, 11 Apr 2022 08:13:43 +0200 >On 2022-04-11 03:44, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> In the past, some exporters have implemented the custom of not >> indenting the first of several successive paragraphs by using a >

Making first paragraphs not indented in exported HTML

2022-04-10 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Hi all, In the past, some exporters have implemented the custom of not indenting the first of several successive paragraphs by using a different class of paragraph for the first of a series of paragraphs. This way of doing things makes more work for the person writing the export, and more work

Re: [Important] New behavior for spam handling on this list

2022-04-07 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes via lyx-users said on Thu, 7 Apr 2022 12:23:13 +0200 >> And what's the supposed upside? So non-subscribers can post. Look at >> any netiquette guide and they'll roundly catcall the clowns who begin >> or end their message with "please CC me because I'm not on the >> list."

Re: [Important] New behavior for spam handling on this list

2022-04-07 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes via lyx-users said on Wed, 6 Apr 2022 16:01:16 +0200 >Dear all, > >Until now, the handling of the list was like: messages from >subscribers go through, other messages get discarded. > >There is actually a way to filter e-mails marked as spam, and I have >already changed all

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-25 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Steve Litt via lyx-users said on Fri, 25 Mar 2022 18:09:56 -0400 >And please make the output well-formed XML as well as HTML5. HTML5 can, >but doesn't have to be, well formed XML. It's a couple orders of >magnitude easier to deal with if the exported HTML has all opening tags >

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-25 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Pavel Sanda via lyx-users said on Fri, 25 Mar 2022 09:20:15 +0100 >That said, the unfortunate news is that speedy prototyping in external >python script is probably going to share the fate of other scripts of >this sort (elyxer being last but not the only one): cool and perhaps >better than the

Re: search in master

2022-03-08 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users said on Mon, 7 Mar 2022 19:16:09 +0100 >Am 07.03.22 um 19:11 schrieb Steve Litt via lyx-users: >> Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users said on Mon, 7 Mar 2022 18:46:39 >> +0100 >>> It seems that I can't search for items in child documents in

Re: search in master

2022-03-07 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users said on Mon, 7 Mar 2022 18:46:39 +0100 >It seems that I can't search for items in child documents in the >master, but have to go to the various childs in the master and repeat >there the search. Or is there something I missed? >Wolfgang grep SteveT Steve Litt

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-06 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users said on Sun, 6 Mar 2022 21:24:57 +0200 >Steve, > >Since it such a schlepp, why don't you participate in the development >or support the developers? LyX is great software by a great project. Great projects can be very bad in certain respects, and that doesn't

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-05 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Hi Ken, I suggest you put it out. The LyX project has a 15 year history of outputting pidgeon HTML incapable of building a *semantic* ePub, claiming what they've done is good enough, and treating with hostility my observations that they're prematurely converting style to appearance. The LyX

Re: Help! How do I get the File-Edit-View....Help menu back

2022-02-24 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Kornel Benko via lyx-users said on Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:03:27 +0100 >The next test would be to start lyx with different userdir > $ lyx -userdir ~/.newlyx I wish I'd known about -userdir 21 years ago when I started using LyX. Thanks for telling me now. SteveT Steve Litt March 2022

Re: Help! How do I get the File-Edit-View....Help menu back

2022-02-24 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users said on Thu, 24 Feb 2022 14:55:48 +0100 >did not help. >Shall I wait for further proposals or use Kornels proposal to remove >the confugure? >Wolfgang Move it, don't REmove it. You might need it later. SteveT Steve Litt March 2022 featured book: Making Mental

Re: Help! How do I get the File-Edit-View....Help menu back

2022-02-24 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Kornel Benko via lyx-users said on Thu, 24 Feb 2022 14:47:04 +0100 >Am Thu, 24 Feb 2022 14:43:25 +0100 >schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users : > >> Would like to add: >> >> I worked with this lyx before and it worked alright. >> >> Should I use the git-lyx for the lyx2.0.4dev version and

Inkscape Presentation at OCLUG 2/19/2022

2022-02-18 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Hi all, Many of you have various graphics and diagrams in your books, papers, magazines, etc. If you've ever wondered about using Inkscape to make them, I'm giving another Beginning and Intermediate Inkscape online (Jitsi) presentation at the monthly Orange County (California USA) LUG (OCLUG)

Re: question about "itemize"

2022-02-05 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Paul A. Rubin via lyx-users said on Sat, 5 Feb 2022 16:04:28 -0500 >On 2/5/22 15:57, Daniel via lyx-users wrote: >> On 2022-02-05 16:23, Daniel via lyx-users wrote: >>> On 2022-02-05 16:21, Daniel via lyx-users wrote: On 2022-02-05 07:25, Tom Goldring via lyx-users wrote: > Suppose

Re: question about "itemize"

2022-02-05 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Tom Goldring via lyx-users said on Sat, 5 Feb 2022 01:25:33 -0500 >Suppose I have an itemized list like > >    paragraph 1 > >   - paragraph 2 > >    paragraph 3 > >where paragraph 2 is nested. If I enter this by choosing the "itemize" >environment, then typing > >paragraph 1 paragraph 2

Inkscape Presentation at Phoenix LUG 1/13/2022

2022-01-12 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Hi all, Many of you have various graphics and diagrams in your books, papers, magazines, etc. If you've ever wondered about using Inkscape to make them, I'm giving an Beginning and Intermediate Inkscape online (Jitsi) presentation at the monthly Phoenix (Arizona USA) LUG (PLUG) meeting 1/13/2022

Re: How would LyX perform?

2021-12-31 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Herbert Voss via lyx-users said on Fri, 31 Dec 2021 11:36:44 +0100 >Am 31.12.21 um 01:41 schrieb Steve Litt via lyx-users: >> Herbert Voss via lyx-users said on Thu, 30 Dec 2021 14:52:15 +0100 >> >>> Am 30.12.21 um 14:46 schrieb Steve Litt via lyx-users: >>>&

Re: How would LyX perform?

2021-12-30 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Herbert Voss via lyx-users said on Thu, 30 Dec 2021 14:52:15 +0100 >Am 30.12.21 um 14:46 schrieb Steve Litt via lyx-users: >> Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users said on Mon, 27 Dec 2021 11:31:55 >> +0100 >>> This has shocked me >>> https://journals.plos.org/ploson

Re: How would LyX perform?

2021-12-30 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users said on Mon, 27 Dec 2021 11:31:55 +0100 >This has shocked me >https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0115069 > >Would be interesting to see how LyX performs My first two books were written in WordPerfect 5.1. The next one was written in

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-22 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users said on Wed, 22 Dec 2021 07:55:24 -0500 >On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 07:26:57AM -0500, Steve Litt via lyx-users >wrote: >> Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users said on Mon, 20 Dec 2021 20:55:18 -0500 >> >> >On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 03:49:33PM -050

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-22 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users said on Mon, 20 Dec 2021 20:55:18 -0500 >On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 03:49:33PM -0500, Steve Litt via lyx-users >wrote: > >> Because I >> personalize every book, I need to recompile for every order, so I >> might research using PDFTeX. Th

Re: Forest beyond basics

2021-12-20 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Herbert Voss via lyx-users said on Mon, 20 Dec 2021 09:30:54 +0100 >Am 19.12.21 um 22:24 schrieb Steve Litt via lyx-users: >> LyX and LaTeX were never intended to make drawings or diagrams. Not >> really. > >That is not true! From the beginning of LaTeX there was the

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-20 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users said on Mon, 20 Dec 2021 08:49:24 +0200 >PDFLaTeX is much faster that LuaLaTeX but to be hoest, nowadays the >day to day stuff is so fast anyway that that doesn't matter. I noticed that my new book, which is much shorter than most, took about triple the time,

Re: Forest beyond basics

2021-12-19 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Maria Gouskova via lyx-users said on Sun, 19 Dec 2021 12:20:15 -0500 >Dear LyX users, > >(Actually, I suspect this is a question for Jürgen S., but on the off >chance that someone else knows the answer...) > >I need to produce a diagram with the structure shown here. It was >produced using the

What does tools=>reconfigure actually do?

2021-12-17 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Hi all, Exactly what is the difference between performing Tools=>Reconfigure within the LyX IDE environment, and performing /usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py at the command prompt? The former makes LyX aware of new environments I've put in the layout file, the latter for some reason does not.

Re: User list server settings

2021-12-17 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Paul A. Rubin via lyx-users said on Thu, 16 Dec 2021 12:23:48 -0500 >In any case, while I would prefer to have the proper sender display >back, if that can't be done I can accept the "new normal" as the price >of avoiding your being spammed. :-) I know it's a lost cause but I'll say it

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-17 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Herbert Voss via lyx-users said on Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:31:15 +0100 >- no more fiddling around with the encoding, everything is UTF-8 >- no more restrictions in using fonts, all current types are supported, >    like pfb, ttf, utf, ttc, ... >- easy integration of the script language Lua into a

Word wrap in a cell?

2021-12-15 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Hi All, If I remember correctly, you can specify that a column or a cell can word-wrap, but I can't find a way to do it. I faked it by Ert'ing \\{} in the text, but this made all the vertical lines in the row incomplete and looked really ugly. How do I enable word-wrap within a cell? Thanks,

Re: Bibliography not in ToC [RESOLVED]

2021-12-15 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Rich Shepard via lyx-users said on Tue, 14 Dec 2021 13:23:05 -0800 (PST) >Why it did not take when I changed the bibliography style I've no >idea. But the reconfigure forced lyx to show me there were errors in >the .bib file. When troubleshooting, I always texhash;reconfigure; and then do

I think we need a better name than "MWE"

2021-12-14 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Hi all, Here on the LyX list we use the word MWE to mean the simplest example that still exhibits the symptom. But MWE stands for Minimum *Working* Example, and by definition, the file that exhibits the symptom does not "work". Also, I think I've seen MWE used on various LaTeX venues to mean the

Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]

2021-12-14 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users said on Tue, 14 Dec 2021 13:53:48 +0200 >Or use curly braces. > >But why would you do this with ERT in the first place? > >Instead of \textdegree{} I just used the first character from > > Insert -> Symbols -> Superscripts > >and Subscripts and get ⁰C. Maybe

Re: MWE showing one of my indexing problems [ALL PROBLEMS SOLVED]

2021-12-11 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Herbert Voss said on Fri, 10 Dec 2021 10:14:29 +0100 >Steve Litt via lyx-users schrieb: >> Attached please find mwe.lyx and mwe.pdf, which was created by >> mwe.lyx. This document is standard book class, sized 6 inches high >> by 4 inches wide to fit on reasonably

Re: MWE showing one of my indexing problems

2021-12-10 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Herbert Voss said on Fri, 10 Dec 2021 10:14:29 +0100 >Steve Litt via lyx-users schrieb: >> Attached please find mwe.lyx and mwe.pdf, which was created by >> mwe.lyx. This document is standard book class, sized 6 inches high >> by 4 inches wide to fit on reasonably

Re: Graphic file formats

2021-12-08 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Rich Shepard said on Wed, 8 Dec 2021 09:53:55 -0800 (PST) >On Wed, 8 Dec 2021, Steve Litt wrote: > >> There are ways to shrink PDF size: >> Web search: linux shrink pdf size > >SteveT, > >First hit uses ghostscript; I never dove deep into gs and didn't know >that it can effectively compress a

Re: How to find LyX' compile strategy?

2021-12-08 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Stephan Witt said on Wed, 8 Dec 2021 18:49:07 +0100 >Am 08.12.2021 um 18:16 schrieb Steve Litt : >> >> Dr Eberhard Lisse said on Wed, 8 Dec 2021 17:22:34 +0200 >> >>> What's wrong with >>> >>> lyx -f -e pdf5 lawnmower.lyx >>> >>> or if you must, with >>> >>> lyx -f -e luatex