bibtex in UTF8 work? How to cancel bibtexkey escape in Lyx?

2012-02-18 Thread baiwensimi
I found utf8 based bibtex works in XeTeX, even BibtexKey in utf8. But Lyx did not support it good when cite more than one items. the latex source code show that the utf8 bibtexkey will be escaped. How can I cancel this escape? I test in both linux and mac: OS: archlinux 3.2.6-2 TeX: texlive 2012

Re: Bibliography heading stranded

2012-02-18 Thread Eric Weir
On Feb 18, 2012, at 2:40 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Richard Heck wrote: With one of the fonts I've been experimenting with there was a single character outside the right-justified margin on one page. I have a feeling that wouldn't be so easy to fix. My experience is that with

Re: Bibliography heading stranded

2012-02-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Eric Weir wrote: Thanks, Jürgen. Are these used when needed or do you use them with every document? Meanwhile, I include this rather routinely. Jürgen

Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Russell D Brunelle
If you have a good idea, then there's something special (I'm almost tempted to say sacred) about committing it to paper. The emergence of abstract thinking was an early inflection point in the development of our species. The invention of written language was another. The invention of the

Re: Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Christopher Menzel
Am Feb 18, 2012 um 12:28 PM schrieb Russell D Brunelle: ... So, why do YOU love LyX? I like to point people here when they ask me that question. :-)

Re: Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:28:42 -0800 Russell D Brunelle rdb...@uw.edu wrote: If you have a good idea, then there's something special (I'm almost tempted to say sacred) about committing it to paper. The emergence of abstract thinking was an early inflection point in the development of our

Re: Mac-specific: tex2lyx won't run

2012-02-18 Thread Eric Weir
On Feb 17, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 7:47 PM, stefano franchi wrote: try this workaround to the workaround. Instead of creating a new converter, simply go to the existing LAtex(plain--lyx converter, look at the command string (the tex2lyx etc.) and stick a -e

Re: Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Eric Weir
On Feb 18, 2012, at 7:31 AM, Christopher Menzel wrote: Am Feb 18, 2012 um 12:28 PM schrieb Russell D Brunelle: ... So, why do YOU love LyX? I like to point people here when they ask me that question. That gave me a chuckle.

Re: Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Yihui Xie
Yes, that is it!! Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie xieyi...@gmail.com Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Christopher Menzel cmen...@tamu.edu wrote: Am Feb 18, 2012 um 12:28 PM

Re: Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Jens Nöckel
I see no difference between the two… (just kidding). On Feb 18, 2012, at 4:31 AM, Christopher Menzel wrote: Am Feb 18, 2012 um 12:28 PM schrieb Russell D Brunelle: ... So, why do YOU love LyX? I like to point people here when they ask me that question. :-)

Recommended third-party tools

2012-02-18 Thread Russell D Brunelle
I'm working on creating the perfect step-by-step procedure for setting up a Linux workstation for scientific writing, based on LyX and with an emphasis on selecting the best available FOSS tools for creating graphics and performing computations. Whenever possible I wanted to select tools

Re: Recommended third-party tools

2012-02-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Russell D Brunelle wrote: I'm working on creating the perfect step-by-step procedure for setting up a Linux workstation for scientific writing, based on LyX and with an emphasis on selecting the best available FOSS tools for creating graphics and performing computations.

Re: Recommended third-party tools

2012-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:45:52 -0800 Russell D Brunelle rdb...@uw.edu wrote: I'm working on creating the perfect step-by-step procedure for setting up a Linux workstation for scientific writing, based on LyX and with an emphasis on selecting the best available FOSS tools for creating graphics

Free software writing appliance -- email clients

2012-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, A few hours ago Russell Brunelle submitted a URL to his excellent blog entry on making a spectacular free software writing appliance. In it he recommended Evolution as an email client. If you want a we-do-it-all-for-you PIM type email client, then certainly Evolution is the way to go.

Re: Recommended third-party tools

2012-02-18 Thread Yihui Xie
The topic of the original post is too broad for me to comment on, but if it comes down to statistical computing and graphics, I certainly recommend R. Here are some sample documents created in LyX with R literate programming modules: https://github.com/downloads/yihui/lyx/sweave.pdf

Re: Free software writing appliance -- email clients

2012-02-18 Thread Russell D Brunelle
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Steve Litt wrote: In it he recommended Evolution as an email client. FWIW I deleted that portion: it was left over from something else, and really shouldn't have been there. At the same time I made other edits based on some of the suggestions I've received so far,

Re: Free software writing appliance -- email clients

2012-02-18 Thread Yihui Xie
Yes, LyX + R is really powerful. I have been thinking of making a video on this topic, but have not got time so far. BTW, I just noticed someone had updated the wiki page about Sweave to reflect changes in LyX 2.0. I really appreciate it. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie xieyi...@gmail.com Phone:

Re: Recommended third-party tools

2012-02-18 Thread Les Denham
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:45:52 -0800 Russell D Brunelle rdb...@uw.edu wrote: Here's the draft I have so far, which builds on something I mentioned on this list a while ago: http://russellb.livejournal.com/1335718.html I'm sure everyone has different preferences, but here are some of my

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

2012-02-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Feb 2012, Uwe Stöhr wrote: [snip] The typical beginner's mistake is to try to fine-tune everything at the beginning also if not even the first chapter is ready. The final formatting can be changed at every time easily for the whole document. (When you publish a book you have anyway to

bibtex in UTF8 work? How to cancel bibtexkey escape in Lyx?

2012-02-18 Thread baiwensimi
I found utf8 based bibtex works in XeTeX, even BibtexKey in utf8. But Lyx did not support it good when cite more than one items. the latex source code show that the utf8 bibtexkey will be escaped. How can I cancel this escape? I test in both linux and mac: OS: archlinux 3.2.6-2 TeX: texlive 2012

Re: Bibliography heading stranded

2012-02-18 Thread Eric Weir
On Feb 18, 2012, at 2:40 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Richard Heck wrote: With one of the fonts I've been experimenting with there was a single character outside the right-justified margin on one page. I have a feeling that wouldn't be so easy to fix. My experience is that with

Re: Bibliography heading stranded

2012-02-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Eric Weir wrote: Thanks, Jürgen. Are these used when needed or do you use them with every document? Meanwhile, I include this rather routinely. Jürgen

Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Russell D Brunelle
If you have a good idea, then there's something special (I'm almost tempted to say sacred) about committing it to paper. The emergence of abstract thinking was an early inflection point in the development of our species. The invention of written language was another. The invention of the

Re: Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Christopher Menzel
Am Feb 18, 2012 um 12:28 PM schrieb Russell D Brunelle: ... So, why do YOU love LyX? I like to point people here when they ask me that question. :-)

Re: Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:28:42 -0800 Russell D Brunelle rdb...@uw.edu wrote: If you have a good idea, then there's something special (I'm almost tempted to say sacred) about committing it to paper. The emergence of abstract thinking was an early inflection point in the development of our

Re: Mac-specific: tex2lyx won't run

2012-02-18 Thread Eric Weir
On Feb 17, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 7:47 PM, stefano franchi wrote: try this workaround to the workaround. Instead of creating a new converter, simply go to the existing LAtex(plain--lyx converter, look at the command string (the tex2lyx etc.) and stick a -e

Re: Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Eric Weir
On Feb 18, 2012, at 7:31 AM, Christopher Menzel wrote: Am Feb 18, 2012 um 12:28 PM schrieb Russell D Brunelle: ... So, why do YOU love LyX? I like to point people here when they ask me that question. That gave me a chuckle.

Re: Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Yihui Xie
Yes, that is it!! Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie xieyi...@gmail.com Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Christopher Menzel cmen...@tamu.edu wrote: Am Feb 18, 2012 um 12:28 PM

Re: Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Jens Nöckel
I see no difference between the two… (just kidding). On Feb 18, 2012, at 4:31 AM, Christopher Menzel wrote: Am Feb 18, 2012 um 12:28 PM schrieb Russell D Brunelle: ... So, why do YOU love LyX? I like to point people here when they ask me that question. :-)

Recommended third-party tools

2012-02-18 Thread Russell D Brunelle
I'm working on creating the perfect step-by-step procedure for setting up a Linux workstation for scientific writing, based on LyX and with an emphasis on selecting the best available FOSS tools for creating graphics and performing computations. Whenever possible I wanted to select tools

Re: Recommended third-party tools

2012-02-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Russell D Brunelle wrote: I'm working on creating the perfect step-by-step procedure for setting up a Linux workstation for scientific writing, based on LyX and with an emphasis on selecting the best available FOSS tools for creating graphics and performing computations.

Re: Recommended third-party tools

2012-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:45:52 -0800 Russell D Brunelle rdb...@uw.edu wrote: I'm working on creating the perfect step-by-step procedure for setting up a Linux workstation for scientific writing, based on LyX and with an emphasis on selecting the best available FOSS tools for creating graphics

Free software writing appliance -- email clients

2012-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, A few hours ago Russell Brunelle submitted a URL to his excellent blog entry on making a spectacular free software writing appliance. In it he recommended Evolution as an email client. If you want a we-do-it-all-for-you PIM type email client, then certainly Evolution is the way to go.

Re: Recommended third-party tools

2012-02-18 Thread Yihui Xie
The topic of the original post is too broad for me to comment on, but if it comes down to statistical computing and graphics, I certainly recommend R. Here are some sample documents created in LyX with R literate programming modules: https://github.com/downloads/yihui/lyx/sweave.pdf

Re: Free software writing appliance -- email clients

2012-02-18 Thread Russell D Brunelle
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Steve Litt wrote: In it he recommended Evolution as an email client. FWIW I deleted that portion: it was left over from something else, and really shouldn't have been there. At the same time I made other edits based on some of the suggestions I've received so far,

Re: Free software writing appliance -- email clients

2012-02-18 Thread Yihui Xie
Yes, LyX + R is really powerful. I have been thinking of making a video on this topic, but have not got time so far. BTW, I just noticed someone had updated the wiki page about Sweave to reflect changes in LyX 2.0. I really appreciate it. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie xieyi...@gmail.com Phone:

Re: Recommended third-party tools

2012-02-18 Thread Les Denham
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:45:52 -0800 Russell D Brunelle rdb...@uw.edu wrote: Here's the draft I have so far, which builds on something I mentioned on this list a while ago: http://russellb.livejournal.com/1335718.html I'm sure everyone has different preferences, but here are some of my

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

2012-02-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Feb 2012, Uwe Stöhr wrote: [snip] The typical beginner's mistake is to try to fine-tune everything at the beginning also if not even the first chapter is ready. The final formatting can be changed at every time easily for the whole document. (When you publish a book you have anyway to

bibtex in UTF8 work? How to cancel bibtexkey escape in Lyx?

2012-02-18 Thread baiwensimi
I found utf8 based bibtex works in XeTeX, even BibtexKey in utf8. But Lyx did not support it good when cite more than one items. the latex source code show that the utf8 bibtexkey will be escaped. How can I cancel this escape? I test in both linux and mac: OS: archlinux 3.2.6-2 TeX: texlive 2012

Re: Bibliography heading stranded

2012-02-18 Thread Eric Weir
On Feb 18, 2012, at 2:40 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Richard Heck wrote: > > > With one of the fonts I've been experimenting with there was a single > > > character outside the right-justified margin on one page. I have a > > > feeling that wouldn't be so easy to fix. > > My experience is

Re: Bibliography heading stranded

2012-02-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Eric Weir wrote: > Thanks, Jürgen. Are these used when needed or do you use them with every > document? Meanwhile, I include this rather routinely. Jürgen

Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Russell D Brunelle
If you have a good idea, then there's something special (I'm almost tempted to say "sacred") about committing it to paper. The emergence of abstract thinking was an early inflection point in the development of our species. The invention of written language was another. The invention of the

Re: Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Christopher Menzel
Am Feb 18, 2012 um 12:28 PM schrieb Russell D Brunelle: > ... > So, why do YOU love LyX? I like to point people here when they ask me that question. :-)

Re: Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:28:42 -0800 Russell D Brunelle wrote: > If you have a good idea, then there's something special (I'm almost > tempted to say "sacred") about committing it to paper. > > The emergence of abstract thinking was an early inflection point in > the development

Re: Mac-specific: tex2lyx won't run

2012-02-18 Thread Eric Weir
On Feb 17, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > On Feb 16, 2012, at 7:47 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > >> try this workaround to the workaround. Instead of creating a new >> converter, simply go to the existing LAtex(plain-->lyx converter, look >> at the command string (the tex2lyx etc.) and

Re: Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Eric Weir
On Feb 18, 2012, at 7:31 AM, Christopher Menzel wrote: > Am Feb 18, 2012 um 12:28 PM schrieb Russell D Brunelle: >> ... >> So, why do YOU love LyX? > > I like to point people here when they ask me that question. That gave me a chuckle.

Re: Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Yihui Xie
Yes, that is it!! Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Christopher Menzel wrote: > Am Feb 18, 2012 um 12:28 PM

Re: Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Jens Nöckel
I see no difference between the two… (just kidding). On Feb 18, 2012, at 4:31 AM, Christopher Menzel wrote: > Am Feb 18, 2012 um 12:28 PM schrieb Russell D Brunelle: >> ... >> So, why do YOU love LyX? > > I like to point people here when they ask me that question. > > :-) >

Recommended third-party tools

2012-02-18 Thread Russell D Brunelle
I'm working on creating the "perfect" step-by-step procedure for setting up a Linux workstation for scientific writing, based on LyX and with an emphasis on selecting the best available FOSS tools for creating graphics and performing computations. Whenever possible I wanted to select tools

Re: Recommended third-party tools

2012-02-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Russell D Brunelle wrote: I'm working on creating the "perfect" step-by-step procedure for setting up a Linux workstation for scientific writing, based on LyX and with an emphasis on selecting the best available FOSS tools for creating graphics and performing computations.

Re: Recommended third-party tools

2012-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:45:52 -0800 Russell D Brunelle wrote: > I'm working on creating the "perfect" step-by-step procedure for > setting up a Linux workstation for scientific writing, based on LyX > and with an emphasis on selecting the best available FOSS tools for > creating

Free software writing appliance -- email clients

2012-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, A few hours ago Russell Brunelle submitted a URL to his excellent blog entry on making a spectacular free software writing appliance. In it he recommended Evolution as an email client. If you want a we-do-it-all-for-you PIM type email client, then certainly Evolution is the way to go.

Re: Recommended third-party tools

2012-02-18 Thread Yihui Xie
The topic of the original post is too broad for me to comment on, but if it comes down to statistical computing and graphics, I certainly recommend R. Here are some sample documents created in LyX with R literate programming modules: https://github.com/downloads/yihui/lyx/sweave.pdf

Re: Free software writing appliance -- email clients

2012-02-18 Thread Russell D Brunelle
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Steve Litt wrote: In it he recommended Evolution as an email client. FWIW I deleted that portion: it was left over from something else, and really shouldn't have been there. At the same time I made other edits based on some of the suggestions I've received so far,

Re: Free software writing appliance -- email clients

2012-02-18 Thread Yihui Xie
Yes, LyX + R is really powerful. I have been thinking of making a video on this topic, but have not got time so far. BTW, I just noticed someone had updated the wiki page about Sweave to reflect changes in LyX 2.0. I really appreciate it. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie Phone:

Re: Recommended third-party tools

2012-02-18 Thread Les Denham
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:45:52 -0800 Russell D Brunelle wrote: > Here's the draft I have so far, which builds on something I mentioned > on this list a while ago: http://russellb.livejournal.com/1335718.html I'm sure everyone has different preferences, but here are some of my

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

2012-02-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Feb 2012, Uwe Stöhr wrote: [snip] >The typical beginner's mistake is to try to fine-tune everything at the >beginning also if not even the first chapter is ready. The final >formatting can be changed at every time easily for the whole document. >(When you publish a book you have anyway to