Re: LyX on iPad

2018-11-05 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/5/18 4:55 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote: I might well just be naive but I'm not getting this line of criticism at all. LyX has always been a frontend to LaTeX, right? That's it's /raison d'etre./ It's still the only game in town to that end, and it's fabulous at it. LaTeX creates PDFs.

Re: LyX on iPad

2018-11-05 Thread Christopher Menzel
I might well just be naive but I'm not getting this line of criticism at all. LyX has always been a frontend to LaTeX, right? That's it's raison d'etre. It's still the only game in town to that end, and it's fabulous at it. LaTeX creates PDFs. So you use LyX to create PDFs. Seems to me if

Re: LyX on iPad

2018-11-05 Thread Alan Tyree
Hi Steve, Could you elaborate a bit on your pandoc/markdown comments? What kind of formatting is it that you find difficult/deficient. My impression is that it creates pretty clean HTML so that the formatting is via CSS. I have been helping a friend produce travel diaries for his family and

Re: Problem with spreadtab module and LyX 2.3.1

2018-11-05 Thread Graeme
On 05/11/2018 09:25, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 4/11/2018 2:15 a.m., Graeme wrote: The spreadtab module is extremely useful, as it provides a wrapper around a conventional table environment, to enable some spreadsheet-like capabilities within the table (using the LaTeX package spreadtab). It

Re: LyX on iPad

2018-11-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 00:36:13 +0200 Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > Steve, > > I fundamentally disagree about the relevance. > > LyX is a front end for LaTeX, not a document format. And it is a > FANTASTIC front end, which can be twsited to do a lot of things :-)-O Sure, but LaTeX isn't the only

Re: LyX... the most important missing feature [for me]...

2018-11-05 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 11/5/18 9:15 AM, Bernt Lie wrote: > > Thanks, Joel, I will take a look at it. > >   > > Do you think there is a chance that this feature will be implemented? > I believe there is an enchancement request for this, but I can't find it at the moment. I would think it would not be that difficult,

RE: LyX... the most important missing feature [for me]...

2018-11-05 Thread Bernt Lie
Thanks, Joel, I will take a look at it. Do you think there is a chance that this feature will be implemented? -B From: Joel Kulesza Sent: mandag 5. november 2018 15.09 To: Bernt Lie Cc: mailing lyx Subject: Re: LyX... the most important missing feature [for me]... On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at

Re: LyX... the most important missing feature [for me]...

2018-11-05 Thread Joel Kulesza
On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 6:06 AM Bernt Lie wrote: > LyX is great in many ways. However, there is one thing that I really, > really miss... I write papers and notes that contain a mixture of math and > computer code/simulation results. > > First: for the "LyX: Graphics" window (double-click on

LyX... the most important missing feature [for me]...

2018-11-05 Thread Bernt Lie
LyX is great in many ways. However, there is one thing that I really, really miss... I write papers and notes that contain a mixture of math and computer code/simulation results. First: for the "LyX: Graphics" window (double-click on inserted graphics), there is a "LaTeX and LyX options" tab

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-05 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/5/18 12:31 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: El lun., 5 nov. 2018 a las 0:53, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) (>) escribió: On 11/4/18 5:08 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: > > Sorry for jumping into the discussion, but I think

Re: Problem with spreadtab module and LyX 2.3.1

2018-11-05 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 4/11/2018 2:15 a.m., Graeme wrote: The spreadtab module is extremely useful, as it provides a wrapper around a conventional table environment, to enable some spreadsheet-like capabilities within the table (using the LaTeX package spreadtab). It can be downloaded from

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-05 Thread Ricardo Berlasso
El lun., 5 nov. 2018 a las 0:53, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) () escribió: > On 11/4/18 5:08 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: > > > > Sorry for jumping into the discussion, but I think some people here > > are missing the real point of the problem > > > >> Is that mistake a