Re: Business card template

2017-06-02 Thread Joel Kulesza
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > As time permits I'll look at the available LaTeX packages. I use LaTeX/LyX > for almost all my writing and the modern CV and resume package looks highly > professional and is impressive, so I assume business card

Re: Help improve LyX's defaults by sharing your preferences

2017-06-02 Thread Joel Kulesza
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > Your preferences are in a file called "preferences", stored in your user > directory. To locate your user directory, see Help > About (I think on > Mac this is LyX > About?). If you go to your user directory and there is

Re:Help improve LyX's defaults by sharing your preferences

2017-06-02 Thread subaochen
The attachment is mine, on Ubuntu 16.04, almost the default settings. At 2017-06-02 04:07:18, "Scott Kostyshak" wrote: >Dear all, > >There are many different preferences that the user can customize. It is >difficult to think about what is the best default preferences for the

Re: Business card template

2017-06-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 3 Jun 2017, gordon cooper wrote: Like you I ran into problems with cards and labels in LO. Not yet found an easy method in Lyx so am using a free source app 'glabels'. Bit of a short learning curve but it provides for the standard commercially available sizes. Gordon, Thank you.

Re: Business card template

2017-06-02 Thread gordon cooper
Hello Rich, Like you I ran into problems with cards and labels in LO. Not yet found an easy method in Lyx so am using a free source app 'glabels'. Bit of a short learning curve but it provides for the standard commercially available sizes. Had previously used a package Delphi

Fwd: 2 error in lyx 2.3

2017-06-02 Thread edu Gpl
After i upgrade from lyx 2.2.2 to 2.3 tcolorbox not work in the title of chapter if i used it with arabic language, but work with english language. please see attachments files. Best regards -- رسالة مُعاد توجيهها -- من: *edu Gpl* التاريخ: الجمعة، ٢

Re: Business card template [RESOLVED]

2017-06-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 2 Jun 2017, David L. Johnson wrote: I haven't used this for business cards, but I use glabels to print up nametags, placecards, and the like. It is not TeX-based, but does well with graphics, and has a database of standard card formats which in my experience works well. It handles

Re: Business card template

2017-06-02 Thread David L. Johnson
On 06/02/2017 09:23 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: A web search tells me there are a few LaTeX templates for business cards. If you have experience using any of these in LyX please share your thoughts with me. I haven't used this for business cards, but I use glabels to print up nametags,

Re: Business card template

2017-06-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 2 Jun 2017, Joel Kulesza wrote: It's not LyX, but the approach I've taken and had good success with uses Inkscape. I build one card with the various elements as layers, lock and group them, then duplicate them to be the size of whatever sheet of cards I'm printing to. Joel, I

Re: Business card template

2017-06-02 Thread Joel Kulesza
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > Comments encouraged, > It's not LyX, but the approach I've taken and had good success with uses Inkscape. I build one card with the various elements as layers, lock and group them, then duplicate them to be the

Re: Error reading module basic

2017-06-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 06/02/2017 05:40 AM, Louis Turk wrote: Hi everyone, I'm a long-time user of Lyx. It is a great piece of software. Many thanks to the developers. I just installed Lyx 2.2.2 and an error message is popping up: "Error reading module basic" I find this file on my harddrive:

Business card template

2017-06-02 Thread Rich Shepard
A web search tells me there are a few LaTeX templates for business cards. If you have experience using any of these in LyX please share your thoughts with me. In the past I've used the libreoffice business card template, but this last time I ran into issues with font size, positioning of

Latex Error: There's no line here to end

2017-06-02 Thread edu Gpl
Dear Lyx users I hope you can help me in this problem in Local Layout. Errors: Latex Error: There's no line here to end Description: \begin{evaluate} Your command was ignored. Type Ito replace it with another command, orto continue without it please see lyx file in attachments.

Error reading module basic

2017-06-02 Thread Louis Turk
Hi everyone, I'm a long-time user of Lyx. It is a great piece of software. Many thanks to the developers. I just installed Lyx 2.2.2 and an error message is popping up: "Error reading module basic" I find this file on my harddrive: /usr/share/lyx/layouts/basic.module So, I did: sudo cp

Re: Help improve LyX's defaults by sharing your preferences

2017-06-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 02/06/2017 à 11:06, Guillaume MM a écrit : *\cursor_width 2 * are those which I am certain should be set for new users. Are you in a HiDPI system? Shouldn't the cursor width be computed wrt the screen DPI/zoom? instead JMarc

Re: Help improve LyX's defaults by sharing your preferences

2017-06-02 Thread Guillaume MM
Hi Scott, Le 01/06/2017 à 22:07, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : it could make a difference for the out-of-the-box experience of new LyX users. Thanks for starting this. Of interest: *\preview no_math \screen_zoom 170 *\cursor_width 2 *\paragraph_markers true \single_instance false \load_session

Re: Help improve LyX's defaults by sharing your preferences

2017-06-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 Jun 2017, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > Dear all, > > There are many different preferences that the user can customize. It is > difficult to think about what is the best default preferences for the > most amount of users. One way I've thought of to get an idea of this is > to start collecting

Re: Help improve LyX's defaults by sharing your preferences

2017-06-02 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am 01.06.2017 um 22:07 schrieb Scott Kostyshak: Dear all, There are many different preferences that the user can customize. It is difficult to think about what is the best default preferences for the most amount of users. One way I've thought of to get an idea of this is to start collecting