Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-17 Thread Helge Hafting
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:10:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 05 July 2006 01:43 am, Alex wrote: Dear all, One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. I think her initial question is unfair.

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-17 Thread Helge Hafting
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 07:43:37AM +0200, Alex wrote: Dear all, One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. You'd be hard pressed to come up with a machine capable of running LyX in a bad way. First, the

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Helge Hafting wrote: When something can't be done in LyX, I resort to gimp instead. ;-) Well, gee whiz, Helge, shouldn't this be the other way around? After all, it has been written that a picture is worth a thousand words. That would make your meeting minutes a couple

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-17 Thread Steve Harris
Helge Hafting wrote: On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 07:43:37AM +0200, Alex wrote: Dear all, One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. You'd be hard pressed to come up with a machine capable of running LyX in a bad

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-17 Thread Helge Hafting
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:10:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 05 July 2006 01:43 am, Alex wrote: Dear all, One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. I think her initial question is unfair.

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-17 Thread Helge Hafting
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 07:43:37AM +0200, Alex wrote: Dear all, One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. You'd be hard pressed to come up with a machine capable of running LyX in a bad way. First, the

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Helge Hafting wrote: When something can't be done in LyX, I resort to gimp instead. ;-) Well, gee whiz, Helge, shouldn't this be the other way around? After all, it has been written that a picture is worth a thousand words. That would make your meeting minutes a couple

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-17 Thread Steve Harris
Helge Hafting wrote: On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 07:43:37AM +0200, Alex wrote: Dear all, One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. You'd be hard pressed to come up with a machine capable of running LyX in a bad

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-17 Thread Helge Hafting
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:10:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 01:43 am, Alex wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > One student who makes her diplom about "Comparing LyX to another Word > > processors", asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. > > I think her initial

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-17 Thread Helge Hafting
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 07:43:37AM +0200, Alex wrote: > Dear all, > > One student who makes her diplom about "Comparing LyX to another Word > processors", asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. > You'd be hard pressed to come up with a machine capable of running LyX in a bad way. First,

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Helge Hafting wrote: When something can't be done in LyX, I resort to gimp instead. ;-) Well, gee whiz, Helge, shouldn't this be the other way around? After all, it has been written that a picture is worth a thousand words. That would make your meeting minutes a couple

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-17 Thread Steve Harris
Helge Hafting wrote: On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 07:43:37AM +0200, Alex wrote: Dear all, One student who makes her diplom about "Comparing LyX to another Word processors", asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. You'd be hard pressed to come up with a machine capable of running LyX in a

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Alex wrote: Dear all, Thank you for the answers to everybody. I don't want to start an avalanche. :) Thanks for the HW examples, and also for the suggestions. I'd just like to say that I could work reasonably well on my phd thesis (250+ A5-pages) using LyX 1.3.x on a

Recommended hardware for running LyX (Was: Minimum HW requirement)

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
The (somewhat) recent discussion on minimum hardware requirements inspired me to create this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/RecommendedHardware I'm not quite happy with the name yet so that might change if someone comes up with a better name. My thinking is that the page should

Indexing... (Was: Minimum HW requirement)

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Steve Litt wrote: By the way, what I did for indexing on Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist was to run the LyX file through a shellscript that split it into individual words and performed a unique sort. I came up with less than 1000 words. I then

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Alex wrote: Dear all, Thank you for the answers to everybody. I don't want to start an avalanche. :) Thanks for the HW examples, and also for the suggestions. I'd just like to say that I could work reasonably well on my phd thesis (250+ A5-pages) using LyX 1.3.x on a

Recommended hardware for running LyX (Was: Minimum HW requirement)

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
The (somewhat) recent discussion on minimum hardware requirements inspired me to create this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/RecommendedHardware I'm not quite happy with the name yet so that might change if someone comes up with a better name. My thinking is that the page should

Indexing... (Was: Minimum HW requirement)

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Steve Litt wrote: By the way, what I did for indexing on Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist was to run the LyX file through a shellscript that split it into individual words and performed a unique sort. I came up with less than 1000 words. I then

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Alex wrote: Dear all, Thank you for the answers to everybody. I don't want to start an avalanche. :) Thanks for the HW examples, and also for the suggestions. I'd just like to say that I could work reasonably well on my phd thesis (250+ A5-pages) using LyX 1.3.x on a

Recommended hardware for running LyX (Was: Minimum HW requirement)

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
The (somewhat) recent discussion on minimum hardware requirements inspired me to create this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/RecommendedHardware I'm not quite happy with the name yet so that might change if someone comes up with a better name. My thinking is that the page should

Indexing... (Was: Minimum HW requirement)

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Steve Litt wrote: By the way, what I did for indexing on "Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist" was to run the LyX file through a shellscript that split it into individual words and performed a unique sort. I came up with less than 1000 words. I then

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Tomasz Łuczak
Alex wrote: One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. I run (I tried it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] without success) LyX on slow computer, but it was hard to get use it (1.3.3 with linux). As far, I can remember

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:34:18 +0200 Tomasz Łuczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex wrote: One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. I run (I tried it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] without success) LyX on slow

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 03:15 am, Micha Feigin wrote: You would need a smartly compile linux, keep X small in terms of modules and run a light window manager (like mentioned, fluxbox/windowmaker will work, probably fvwm also, for the extremist there is also ratpoison and a few others). A

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 01:43 am, Alex wrote: Dear all, One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. Hi Alex, I think her initial question is unfair. Equally unfair would be Comparing MS Word to other book

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:10:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 05 July 2006 01:43 am, Alex wrote: Dear all, One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. Hi Alex, I think her initial question

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Steve Litt wrote: In my personal opinion, one would have to have rocks in their head to use LyX for a 5 or 10 page document. In the time it takes to figure out how to change one style (Environment) in LyX, you could have completed the whole task in MS Word, WordPerfect or

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Ingo Klöcker
Am Mittwoch, 5. Juli 2006 15:56 schrieb Steve Litt: On Wednesday 05 July 2006 03:15 am, Micha Feigin wrote: You would need a smartly compile linux, keep X small in terms of modules and run a light window manager (like mentioned, fluxbox/windowmaker will work, probably fvwm also, for the

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Tomasz Łuczak
Alex wrote: One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. I run (I tried it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] without success) LyX on slow computer, but it was hard to get use it (1.3.3 with linux). As far, I can remember

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:34:18 +0200 Tomasz Łuczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex wrote: One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. I run (I tried it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] without success) LyX on slow

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 03:15 am, Micha Feigin wrote: You would need a smartly compile linux, keep X small in terms of modules and run a light window manager (like mentioned, fluxbox/windowmaker will work, probably fvwm also, for the extremist there is also ratpoison and a few others). A

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 01:43 am, Alex wrote: Dear all, One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. Hi Alex, I think her initial question is unfair. Equally unfair would be Comparing MS Word to other book

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:10:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 05 July 2006 01:43 am, Alex wrote: Dear all, One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. Hi Alex, I think her initial question

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Steve Litt wrote: In my personal opinion, one would have to have rocks in their head to use LyX for a 5 or 10 page document. In the time it takes to figure out how to change one style (Environment) in LyX, you could have completed the whole task in MS Word, WordPerfect or

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Ingo Klöcker
Am Mittwoch, 5. Juli 2006 15:56 schrieb Steve Litt: On Wednesday 05 July 2006 03:15 am, Micha Feigin wrote: You would need a smartly compile linux, keep X small in terms of modules and run a light window manager (like mentioned, fluxbox/windowmaker will work, probably fvwm also, for the

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Tomasz Łuczak
Alex wrote: One student who makes her diplom about "Comparing LyX to another Word processors", asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. I run (I tried it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] without success) LyX on slow computer, but it was hard to get use it (1.3.3 with linux). As far, I can remember

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:34:18 +0200 Tomasz Łuczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex wrote: > > > > One student who makes her diplom about "Comparing LyX to another Word > > processors", asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. > > > > I run (I tried it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] without success)

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 03:15 am, Micha Feigin wrote: > You would need a smartly compile linux, keep X small in terms of modules > and run a light window manager (like mentioned, fluxbox/windowmaker will > work, probably fvwm also, for the extremist there is also ratpoison and a > few others).

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 01:43 am, Alex wrote: > Dear all, > > One student who makes her diplom about "Comparing LyX to another Word > processors", asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. Hi Alex, I think her initial question is unfair. Equally unfair would be "Comparing MS Word to

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:10:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 01:43 am, Alex wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > One student who makes her diplom about "Comparing LyX to another Word > > processors", asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. > > Hi Alex, > > I think her

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Steve Litt wrote: In my personal opinion, one would have to have rocks in their head to use LyX for a 5 or 10 page document. In the time it takes to figure out how to change one style (Environment) in LyX, you could have completed the whole task in MS Word, WordPerfect or

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Ingo Klöcker
Am Mittwoch, 5. Juli 2006 15:56 schrieb Steve Litt: > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 03:15 am, Micha Feigin wrote: > > You would need a smartly compile linux, keep X small in terms of > > modules and run a light window manager (like mentioned, > > fluxbox/windowmaker will work, probably fvwm also, for

Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-04 Thread Alex
Dear all, One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. I run (I tried it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] without success) LyX on slow computer, but it was hard to get use it (1.3.3 with linux). As far, I can remember LyX

Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-04 Thread Alex
Dear all, One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. I run (I tried it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] without success) LyX on slow computer, but it was hard to get use it (1.3.3 with linux). As far, I can remember LyX

Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-04 Thread Alex
Dear all, One student who makes her diplom about "Comparing LyX to another Word processors", asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. I run (I tried it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] without success) LyX on slow computer, but it was hard to get use it (1.3.3 with linux). As far, I can remember LyX