They are a pain though with word as it's very difficult to find where styles
are not applied or are modified and it can go crazy over small modifications.
The only sane way I found to work with styles in word is in outline mode,
which
is much closer to latex in approach.
Outline mode is
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]
To: Micha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: LyX User lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Received: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 5:35 AM
They are a pain though with word as it's
Micha wrote:
Writing a letter in lyx is a pain.
Eh? I think I've only ever once written a letter in LyX - because I
very rarely write letters on the computer - but it was trivial. I just
created a new document using the Koma-script letter v2 template and
filled in the blanks.
The most
Micha wrote:
Writing a letter in lyx is a pain.
Eh? I think I've only ever once written a letter in LyX - because I
very rarely write letters on the computer - but it was trivial. I just
created a new document using the Koma-script letter v2 template and
filled in the blanks.
...except
Brett Dikeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Micha wrote:
Writing a letter in lyx is a pain.
Eh? I think I've only ever once written a letter in LyX - because I
very rarely write letters on the computer - but it was trivial. I just
created a new document using the Koma-script letter v2 template
They are a pain though with word as it's very difficult to find where styles
are not applied or are modified and it can go crazy over small modifications.
The only sane way I found to work with styles in word is in outline mode,
which
is much closer to latex in approach.
Outline mode is
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]
To: Micha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: LyX User lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Received: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 5:35 AM
They are a pain though with word as it's
Micha wrote:
Writing a letter in lyx is a pain.
Eh? I think I've only ever once written a letter in LyX - because I
very rarely write letters on the computer - but it was trivial. I just
created a new document using the Koma-script letter v2 template and
filled in the blanks.
The most
Micha wrote:
Writing a letter in lyx is a pain.
Eh? I think I've only ever once written a letter in LyX - because I
very rarely write letters on the computer - but it was trivial. I just
created a new document using the Koma-script letter v2 template and
filled in the blanks.
...except
Brett Dikeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Micha wrote:
Writing a letter in lyx is a pain.
Eh? I think I've only ever once written a letter in LyX - because I
very rarely write letters on the computer - but it was trivial. I just
created a new document using the Koma-script letter v2 template
> They are a pain though with word as it's very difficult to find where styles
> are not applied or are modified and it can go crazy over small modifications.
> The only sane way I found to work with styles in word is in outline mode,
> which
> is much closer to latex in approach.
Outline mode
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Manveru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Manveru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]
> To: "Micha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "LyX User" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
> Received: Thu
Micha wrote:
>
> Writing a letter in lyx is a pain.
Eh? I think I've only ever once written a letter in LyX - because I
very rarely write letters on the computer - but it was trivial. I just
created a new document using the Koma-script letter v2 template and
filled in the blanks.
The most
> Micha wrote:
>>
>> Writing a letter in lyx is a pain.
>
> Eh? I think I've only ever once written a letter in LyX - because I
> very rarely write letters on the computer - but it was trivial. I just
> created a new document using the Koma-script letter v2 template and
> filled in the blanks.
Brett Dikeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
>> Micha wrote:
>>> Writing a letter in lyx is a pain.
>> Eh? I think I've only ever once written a letter in LyX - because I
>> very rarely write letters on the computer - but it was trivial. I just
>> created a new document using the Koma-script
Patrick Camilleri wrote:
Though I find LaTeX + LyX to be a very good typesetting system, I
don’t
understand all this bashing at other word processors in your
‘Introduction
to LyX’ document. In my opinion if one took at least ¼ the amount of
time
one needed to learn LaTeX, one would find
On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
I'm moving this discussion to the users list:
Patrick Camilleri wrote:
Though I find LaTeX + LyX to be a very good typesetting system, I don’t
understand all this bashing at other word processors in your
‘Introduction to LyX’ document. In my
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 07:19:32 pm rgheck wrote:
Since Uwe moved this to users, I'll forward my comments here as well.
Original Message
Subject: Re: Word processor bashing
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:06:13 -0500
From: RGH [EMAIL PROTECTED
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 04:24:46 am killermike wrote:
Obviously most word processors now have styles, for example. Ironically,
the buggy and inconsistent styles support in Open Office 0.9x was one of
the things made me investigate LyX. I presume that this shortcoming has
been fixed now.
--- On Wed, 11/5/08, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Word processor bashing
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Received: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 9:41 AM
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 04:24:46 am killermike wrote:
Obviously most word
From: rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]
To: lyx-users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Received: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 7:19 PM
I know a lot of
people who use Word, etc, and I don't know a single
person who regularly uses styles.
I suspect that some do
Steve Litt wrote:
[...]
What I like about LyX over MS Word is:
1) LyX is rock stable.
2) LyX's native format is humanly readable and parsable.
3) LyX produces beautiful output with minimal tweaking.
4) LyX is free software. No license tracking.
5) LyX is pretty good about version conversion
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Les Denham wrote:
But when I got the edited document back, in ODT format, all of my
colleague's additions were marked as hyperlinks to a non-existent target,
and were in a blue instead of black, and used a different font. One item
in an unedited Enumerate environment had
Helge Hafting wrote:
I see a lot of word/oo documents, and some faults repeat all the time:
* The section heading as the last item on a page. Other word processors
don't seem to prevent this, it is up to the user instead.
This is in large part because people don't use Styles. Most of the
Hello LyXers,
Steve Litt schrieb:
What I like about LyX over MS Word is:
1) LyX is rock stable.
2) LyX's native format is humanly readable and parsable.
3) LyX produces beautiful output with minimal tweaking.
4) LyX is free software. No license tracking.
5) LyX is pretty good about version
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 08:11:49 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SNIP
We've read of these problems when collaborating on writing with
others. Has anyone considered writing drafts in plain text and saving
all formatting until everyone agrees on the content? Heretical, I
know,
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:39:00 -0500
Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 07:19:32 pm rgheck wrote:
Since Uwe moved this to users, I'll forward my comments here as well.
Original Message
Subject:Re: Word processor bashing
Date: Mon
Patrick Camilleri wrote:
Though I find LaTeX + LyX to be a very good typesetting system, I
don’t
understand all this bashing at other word processors in your
‘Introduction
to LyX’ document. In my opinion if one took at least ¼ the amount of
time
one needed to learn LaTeX, one would find
On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
I'm moving this discussion to the users list:
Patrick Camilleri wrote:
Though I find LaTeX + LyX to be a very good typesetting system, I don’t
understand all this bashing at other word processors in your
‘Introduction to LyX’ document. In my
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 07:19:32 pm rgheck wrote:
Since Uwe moved this to users, I'll forward my comments here as well.
Original Message
Subject: Re: Word processor bashing
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:06:13 -0500
From: RGH [EMAIL PROTECTED
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 04:24:46 am killermike wrote:
Obviously most word processors now have styles, for example. Ironically,
the buggy and inconsistent styles support in Open Office 0.9x was one of
the things made me investigate LyX. I presume that this shortcoming has
been fixed now.
--- On Wed, 11/5/08, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Word processor bashing
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Received: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 9:41 AM
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 04:24:46 am killermike wrote:
Obviously most word
From: rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]
To: lyx-users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Received: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 7:19 PM
I know a lot of
people who use Word, etc, and I don't know a single
person who regularly uses styles.
I suspect that some do
Steve Litt wrote:
[...]
What I like about LyX over MS Word is:
1) LyX is rock stable.
2) LyX's native format is humanly readable and parsable.
3) LyX produces beautiful output with minimal tweaking.
4) LyX is free software. No license tracking.
5) LyX is pretty good about version conversion
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Les Denham wrote:
But when I got the edited document back, in ODT format, all of my
colleague's additions were marked as hyperlinks to a non-existent target,
and were in a blue instead of black, and used a different font. One item
in an unedited Enumerate environment had
Helge Hafting wrote:
I see a lot of word/oo documents, and some faults repeat all the time:
* The section heading as the last item on a page. Other word processors
don't seem to prevent this, it is up to the user instead.
This is in large part because people don't use Styles. Most of the
Hello LyXers,
Steve Litt schrieb:
What I like about LyX over MS Word is:
1) LyX is rock stable.
2) LyX's native format is humanly readable and parsable.
3) LyX produces beautiful output with minimal tweaking.
4) LyX is free software. No license tracking.
5) LyX is pretty good about version
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 08:11:49 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SNIP
We've read of these problems when collaborating on writing with
others. Has anyone considered writing drafts in plain text and saving
all formatting until everyone agrees on the content? Heretical, I
know,
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:39:00 -0500
Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 07:19:32 pm rgheck wrote:
Since Uwe moved this to users, I'll forward my comments here as well.
Original Message
Subject:Re: Word processor bashing
Date: Mon
Patrick Camilleri wrote:
Though I find LaTeX + LyX to be a very good typesetting system, I
don’t
understand all this bashing at other word processors in your
‘Introduction
to LyX’ document. In my opinion if one took at least ¼ the amount of
time
one needed to learn LaTeX, one would find
On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> I'm moving this discussion to the users list:
>
> Patrick Camilleri wrote:
> > Though I find LaTeX + LyX to be a very good typesetting system, I don’t
> > understand all this bashing at other word processors in your
> > ‘Introduction to LyX’
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 07:19:32 pm rgheck wrote:
> Since Uwe moved this to users, I'll forward my comments here as well.
>
> Original Message
> Subject: Re: Word processor bashing
> Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:06:13 -0500
> From: RGH
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 04:24:46 am killermike wrote:
> Obviously most word processors now have styles, for example. Ironically,
> the buggy and inconsistent styles support in Open Office 0.9x was one of
> the things made me investigate LyX. I presume that this shortcoming has
> been fixed
--- On Wed, 11/5/08, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Word processor bashing
> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Received: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 9:41 AM
> On Wednesday 05 November 2008 04:24:46 am killerm
> From: rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]
> To: "lyx-users" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
> Received: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 7:19 PM
>I know a lot of
> people who use Word, etc, and I don't know a single
> pe
Steve Litt wrote:
[...]
What I like about LyX over MS Word is:
1) LyX is rock stable.
2) LyX's native format is humanly readable and parsable.
3) LyX produces beautiful output with minimal tweaking.
4) LyX is free software. No license tracking.
5) LyX is pretty good about version conversion
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Les Denham wrote:
But when I got the edited document back, in ODT format, all of my
colleague's additions were marked as hyperlinks to a non-existent target,
and were in a blue instead of black, and used a different font. One item
in an unedited Enumerate environment had
Helge Hafting wrote:
I see a lot of word/oo documents, and some faults repeat all the time:
* The section heading as the last item on a page. Other word processors
don't seem to prevent this, it is up to the user instead.
This is in large part because people don't use Styles. Most of the
Hello LyXers,
Steve Litt schrieb:
> What I like about LyX over MS Word is:
>
> 1) LyX is rock stable.
> 2) LyX's native format is humanly readable and parsable.
> 3) LyX produces beautiful output with minimal tweaking.
> 4) LyX is free software. No license tracking.
> 5) LyX is pretty good about
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 08:11:49 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>We've read of these problems when collaborating on writing with
> others. Has anyone considered writing drafts in plain text and saving
> all formatting until everyone agrees on the content? Heretical, I
>
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:39:00 -0500
Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 November 2008 07:19:32 pm rgheck wrote:
> > Since Uwe moved this to users, I'll forward my comments here as well.
> >
> > Original Message ----
> > Subject:Re
I'm moving this discussion to the users list:
Patrick Camilleri wrote:
Though I find LaTeX + LyX to be a very good typesetting system, I don’t
understand all this bashing at other word processors in your ‘Introduction
to LyX’ document. In my opinion if one took at least ¼ the amount of time
Since Uwe moved this to users, I'll forward my comments here as well.
Original Message
Subject:Re: Word processor bashing
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:06:13 -0500
From: RGH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Patrick Camilleri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
My experience is that you need the same time to learn Word and LyX. Many
people are using Word and don't known how it works. I get from students
lots of documents where they aren't even able to typeset a caption for an
image. Some also pretends that Word
rgheck wrote:
I know a lot of people who use Word, etc, and I don't know a
single person who regularly uses styles.
I do, but that's largely because I'm ornery, and will do things the
Right Way even when the tool discourages it. (I use Word for some work
documents, and Open Office for some
I'm moving this discussion to the users list:
Patrick Camilleri wrote:
Though I find LaTeX + LyX to be a very good typesetting system, I don’t
understand all this bashing at other word processors in your ‘Introduction
to LyX’ document. In my opinion if one took at least ¼ the amount of time
Since Uwe moved this to users, I'll forward my comments here as well.
Original Message
Subject:Re: Word processor bashing
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:06:13 -0500
From: RGH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Patrick Camilleri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
My experience is that you need the same time to learn Word and LyX. Many
people are using Word and don't known how it works. I get from students
lots of documents where they aren't even able to typeset a caption for an
image. Some also pretends that Word
rgheck wrote:
I know a lot of people who use Word, etc, and I don't know a
single person who regularly uses styles.
I do, but that's largely because I'm ornery, and will do things the
Right Way even when the tool discourages it. (I use Word for some work
documents, and Open Office for some
I'm moving this discussion to the users list:
Patrick Camilleri wrote:
Though I find LaTeX + LyX to be a very good typesetting system, I don’t
understand all this bashing at other word processors in your ‘Introduction
to LyX’ document. In my opinion if one took at least ¼ the amount of time
Since Uwe moved this to users, I'll forward my comments here as well.
Original Message
Subject:Re: Word processor bashing
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:06:13 -0500
From: RGH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Patrick Camilleri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMA
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
My experience is that you need the same time to learn Word and LyX. Many
people are using Word and don't known how it works. I get from students
lots of documents where they aren't even able to typeset a caption for an
image. Some also pretends that Word
rgheck wrote:
> I know a lot of people who use Word, etc, and I don't know a
> single person who regularly uses styles.
I do, but that's largely because I'm ornery, and will do things the
Right Way even when the tool discourages it. (I use Word for some work
documents, and Open Office for some
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