Re: need suggestion on book

[Trevor Jenkins]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote:

 I couldn't have said it better myself. And because of what Marcelo
  said, I find LyX is a MUCH faster authoring environment than anything
  in which I need to see markup.
 
 As much as I agree with this, the one drawback of LyX is that you have
 to put up with its bugs...


That is true of *every* piece of software. I'm sure that Knuth would say
there are still bugs in TeX; not many since it's at version 3.14159... but
there are some. And when it finally comes time to bump the version number to
PI there will still be bugs in it. His old colleague Edsger Dijkstra said
you can't test for the absence of bugs only their presence.


 The big advantage of using LaTeX is its
 reliability: as long as you know exactly what you do, you only need a
 robust text editor (or another, or yet another one) to do the job.


Yup, by choice I'd use emacs (because I prefer to markup my client's
document using DOcBook and LyX's support for that is not robust or general
enough).


 LyX on the other hand can throw surprises from time to time.

 This said, LyX is generally rock-solid.


See above; emacs is usually rock solid but even that throws surprises. Hey
Adobe is finding and fixing day zero bugs in Acrobat and Flash.

Regards, Trevor.

 Re: deemed!

Re: Re: Indent picture (only)

[Dirk Heine]

Dirk Heine dirk at common-future.org writes:


 Dear list,I would like to move a picture horizontally to place it more
leftwards (towards the page edge). While moving this picture I would like to
leave the text of the document unchanged and also not move the picture
vertically. So this would basically be to negatively indent one picture; i.e. to
just push it a bit to the left.

Is the picture in a float?  If so, is it a wrap float (i.e., does text flow
around the right side of the picture)?

Do you want the left edge of the picture even with the left text margin, just
inside the margin, or outside margin (i.e., picture intrudes into left margin)?

Paul
--
Dear Paul,

Thanks for your reply. The picture is not a wrap float; it is a logo
in a letter (g-brief-2) and positioned above the text. The picture's
boundary is currently too far to the right and I would like to push it
a bit leftwards (yes, somewhat intruding into the left margin). I
would be grateful for advice how this is possible.

Many thanks,

Dirk

Footnotes... across the chapters

[Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا]

Is it possible for Lyx to offer footnote numbering across the chapters? I
mean, if there are 17 footnotes in Chapter 1, the first footnote in Chapter
2 should be #18, and not #1.

Many thanks for any help you could offer. FN

FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 (after 2pm)
#784 Nr Lourdes Convent, Saligao 403511 Goa India
http://fn.goa-india.org http://goa1556.goa-india.org

Re: Can't convert

[Paul A. Rubin]

Yes, you do have separate user directories (which is good).  The 
configuration logs in the user directories look fine.  Both of them 
found MiKTeX.  In particular, the 2.0 log shows that it has the correct 
converter path for producing PDF output, so View  PDF (pdflatex) should 
be working in 2.0.


In each version of LyX, what do you see in the Converter and Extra 
flag fields when you go to Tools  Preferences...  File Handling  
Converters and highlight LaTeX (pdflatex) - PDF (pdflatex)?  What do 
you see when you highlight LaTeX (plain) - DVI?


Paul

On 06/25/2011 07:40 PM, William Hanson wrote:
The configuration logs that I previously posted were in C:\Program 
Files\LyX16\Resources and C:\Program Files\LyX20\Resources.  I found 
them via a Windows Explorer search.  They were the only hits for 
configure.log.  Now, following your suggestion, I looked in 
C:\Documents and Settings\my login id\Application Data\lyx16 and in 
C:\Documents and Settings\my login id\Application Data\LyX2.0. There 
I found the two configure.log files from the reconfigurations I did 
yesterday and the day before.  Why the Explorer search didn't find 
them I don't know.  (I'm attaching these two logs.)


In view of the various paths mentioned in the previous paragraph it 
seems that I do have two separate user directories, right?


I can't View or DVI the help files in either 1.6.7 or 2.0.0

Bill

Re: need suggestion on book

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 25 June 2011 22:09:36 Liviu Andronic wrote:
 On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt 
sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote:
  On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote:
   2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there
   any advantages or
   writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx?
  
   If you work in plain latex, while you write it,  you get a text
  pestered with commands. That makes difficult the work to write
  up and to correct the text.
  
  Marcelo
  
  I couldn't have said it better myself. And because of what
  Marcelo said, I find LyX is a MUCH faster authoring environment
  than anything in which I need to see markup.
 
 As much as I agree with this, the one drawback of LyX is that you
 have to put up with its bugs. The big advantage of using LaTeX is
 its reliability: as long as you know exactly what you do, you only
 need a robust text editor (or another, or yet another one) to do
 the job. LyX on the other hand can throw surprises from time to
 time.

Hi Liviu,

Yes, LaTeX reliability is indeed a pro-LaTeX factor. Another pro-LaTeX 
factor is simplicity. Not simplicity from the typist's viewpoint -- 
LyX is simpler from that point of view. But when you start doing 
complex stuff and making your own commands and environments, LyX is 
more complex. Plus LyX native format is different from LaTeX, and you 
need to use both.

For all these reasons, when I create a Beamer presentation, I use 
LaTeX with Vim rather than LyX. I find the former less complex.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Can't convert

[Richard Heck]

On 06/26/2011 10:41 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
 Yes, you do have separate user directories (which is good).  The
 configuration logs in the user directories look fine.  Both of them
 found MiKTeX.  In particular, the 2.0 log shows that it has the
 correct converter path for producing PDF output, so View  PDF
 (pdflatex) should be working in 2.0.

None of the class or package files are checked for, because we have this:

INFO: checking for a Latex2e program...
INFO: +checking for latex...  yes
INFO: checking for a DVI postprocessing program...
INFO: +checking for pplatex...  yes
INFO: checking for pLaTeX, the Japanese LaTeX...
INFO: +checking for platex...  yes
DEBUG: Removing file chklatex.ltx
DEBUG: Failed to remove file chklatex.log
DEBUG: Add to RC:
\converter latex  dvi2   pplatexlatex
\converter dvi2   dvipython -tt $$s/scripts/clean_dvi.py
$$i $$o


WARNING: Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e)
DEBUG: Removing file chklatex.ltx
DEBUG: Failed to remove file chklatex.log

at the beginning. So chkconfig.ltx never gets run, I'd assume. But I do
not know why that would be, since latex itself has been found. The fact
that chklatex.log is not even created (and so can't be removed) is very
strange. Though chklatex.ltx does seem to have been created.

Paul, could you help William (temporarily) change these lines in
configure.py:

# run latex on chklatex.ltx and check result
if cmdOutput(LATEX + ' chklatex.ltx').find('ThisIsLaTeX2e') != -1:
# valid latex2e
return LATEX
else:
logger.warning(Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e) )
# remove temporary files

to:

output = cmdOutput((LATEX + ' chklatex.ltx')
logger.warning(output)
if output.find('ThisIsLaTeX2e') != -1:
# valid latex2e
return LATEX
else:
logger.warning(Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e) )
# remove temporary files

I'd really like to see what we're getting back from latex.

rh


Richard

Re: Footnotes... across the chapters

[Richard Heck]

On 06/26/2011 07:43 AM,  Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك
نورونيا  wrote:
 Is it possible for Lyx to offer footnote numbering across the
 chapters? I mean, if there are 17 footnotes in Chapter 1, the first
 footnote in Chapter 2 should be #18, and not #1. 

There is a LaTeX package called remreset that allows you to do this kind
of thing. Once you have it installed, you can put this in your preamble:

\@removefromreset{footnote}{chapter}

rh

Re: need suggestion on book

[Shantanu N Kulkarni]

* Marcelo Acu?a mv...@yahoo.com.ar [110626 09:18]:
  2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there
  any advantages or
  writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx?
 
  If you work in plain latex, while you write it,  you get a text pestered 
 with commands. That makes difficult the work to write up and to correct the 
 text.
 

Thanks all for the mails and rightly said.
I have almost decided to go ahead using tufte book class, since one of the
members of the list highly recommened it.

The book might have maximum of 100 pages, so do I write it as one document only 
or
have one main and other child documents. 
I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts
are somewhat pale.

Shantanu
-- 

Re: Font Problem with Lyx - Metric (TFM) file not found

[ölm]

same problem with lyx 2.0.0 under ubuntu 11.04 64bit
but THE SAME document is working under WinXP32bitSP3

only the (pre)view using xetex is working without error, but all greek
letters and italic are then missing.
under windows everything is working (except correct linebreaks at
inline-formulas at description style. but thats another story.
regards,
- elmar  -


--
View this message in context: 
http://lyx.475766.n2.nabble.com/Font-Problem-with-Lyx-Metric-TFM-file-not-found-tp1675343p6518091.html
Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: need suggestion on book

[Trevor Jenkins]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:

  I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts
  are somewhat pale.

 On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use Century
 Schoolbook on all my books, although I'm looking for a more screen-
 readable font for my pure eBooks.


Some recent work has suggested that readable fonts are not that useful.
Try listening to this segment of the BBC's premier morning news programme,
the Today Programme.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_936/9360166.stm

Or there's a printed report on the Telegraph's web site

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/amazon/8256899/E-readers-too-easy-to-read.html

Alternatively you can read comments from a neuroscientist about the research
on the blogs reachable from here

https://policypress.wordpress.com/tag/jonah-lehrer/

Or there's a pre-print of the original paper that started this series of
news reports to be had here

http://web.princeton.edu/sites/opplab/papers/Diemand-Yauman_Oppenheimer_2010.pdf

Regards, Trevor.

 Re: deemed!

Re: Can't convert

[William Hanson]

Richard, Paul

In response to Paul's latest message:
1.  No, I can't produce pdf output in LyX 2.0.
2.  In each version of LyX, what do you see in the Converter and Extra
flag fields when you go to Tools  Preferences...  File Handling 
Converters and highlight LaTeX (pdflatex) - PDF (pdflatex)?
In 1.6.7 I see pdflatex $$i in Converter and latex in Extra Flag.
In 2.0.0 I see pdflatex $$i in Converter and latex=pdflatex in Extra
Flag.
3.  What do you see when you highlight LaTeX (plain) - DVI?  (I assume
Paul means LaTeX (plain) - DraftDVI.)
In 1.6.7 I see pplatex in Converter and latex in Extra Flag.
In 2.0.0 I see pplatex in Converter and latex in Extra Flag.

Bill Hanson


On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:

 On 06/26/2011 10:41 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
  Yes, you do have separate user directories (which is good).  The
  configuration logs in the user directories look fine.  Both of them
  found MiKTeX.  In particular, the 2.0 log shows that it has the
  correct converter path for producing PDF output, so View  PDF
  (pdflatex) should be working in 2.0.
 
 None of the class or package files are checked for, because we have this:

 INFO: checking for a Latex2e program...
 INFO: +checking for latex...  yes
 INFO: checking for a DVI postprocessing program...
 INFO: +checking for pplatex...  yes
 INFO: checking for pLaTeX, the Japanese LaTeX...
 INFO: +checking for platex...  yes
 DEBUG: Removing file chklatex.ltx
 DEBUG: Failed to remove file chklatex.log
 DEBUG: Add to RC:
 \converter latex  dvi2   pplatexlatex
 \converter dvi2   dvipython -tt $$s/scripts/clean_dvi.py
 $$i $$o


 WARNING: Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e)
 DEBUG: Removing file chklatex.ltx
 DEBUG: Failed to remove file chklatex.log

 at the beginning. So chkconfig.ltx never gets run, I'd assume. But I do
 not know why that would be, since latex itself has been found. The fact
 that chklatex.log is not even created (and so can't be removed) is very
 strange. Though chklatex.ltx does seem to have been created.

 Paul, could you help William (temporarily) change these lines in
 configure.py:

# run latex on chklatex.ltx and check result
if cmdOutput(LATEX + ' chklatex.ltx').find('ThisIsLaTeX2e') != -1:
# valid latex2e
return LATEX
else:
logger.warning(Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e) )
# remove temporary files

 to:

output = cmdOutput((LATEX + ' chklatex.ltx')
logger.warning(output)
if output.find('ThisIsLaTeX2e') != -1:
# valid latex2e
return LATEX
else:
logger.warning(Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e) )
# remove temporary files

 I'd really like to see what we're getting back from latex.

 rh


 Richard

Re: need suggestion on book

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Shantanu N Kulkarni
m...@lists.shantanukulkarni.org wrote:
 I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts
 are somewhat pale.

In many cases the fonts pre-selected by default are indeed ghastly.
Personally I tend to stick to Palatino  Optima (URW Classico) or
Libertine  Biolinum (when using XeTeX). I'm not sure if they fit your
perceptions of pale.

Regards
Liviu

Re: need suggestion on book

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 26 June 2011 17:38:12 Trevor Jenkins wrote:
 On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt 
sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:
   I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx
   fonts are somewhat pale.
  
  On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use
  Century Schoolbook on all my books, although I'm looking for a
  more screen- readable font for my pure eBooks.
 
 Some recent work has suggested that readable fonts are not that
 useful. Try listening to this segment of the BBC's premier morning
 news programme, the Today Programme.
 
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_936/9360166.stm
 
 Or there's a printed report on the Telegraph's web site
 
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/amazon/8256899/E-readers-too-
 easy-to-read.html
 
 Alternatively you can read comments from a neuroscientist about the
 research on the blogs reachable from here
 
 https://policypress.wordpress.com/tag/jonah-lehrer/
 
 Or there's a pre-print of the original paper that started this
 series of news reports to be had here
 
 http://web.princeton.edu/sites/opplab/papers/Diemand-Yauman_Oppenhe
 imer_2010.pdf


:-)

Statistics are a funny thing.

If my readers were all between 18 and 40, paid to read and remember, 
and need only read for 90 seconds at a time, I'd indeed use a less 
readable font.

But the two studies you quote have little to do with my readers. My 
readers tend to skew 30-60, so a lot of them have very real visual 
problems. I'm not going to subject them to skinny little Times Roman 
or Paladino. My latest book, which I hope to offer for sale around 
midnight tonight, is 110,000 words. I'm not going to make the visually 
challenged pull out a software magnifying glass, or horizontal scroll 
every line for 110,000 words. That's just not the way I roll. 
Disfluent fonts will simply cause many of my readers to stop in the 
middle of an otherwise good book.

One of the quoted studies showed a 14% increase in retention with 
disfluent fonts. Fine -- I'll use fluent fonts and write 30% more 
interestingly. That way people of all visual acuities will benefit.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Indent picture (only)

[Paul Rubin]

Dirk Heine dirk at common-future.org writes:

 Thanks for your reply. The picture is not a wrap float; it is a logo
 in a letter (g-brief-2) and positioned above the text. The picture's
 boundary is currently too far to the right and I would like to push it
 a bit leftwards (yes, somewhat intruding into the left margin). I
 would be grateful for advice how this is possible.

You can position the cursor just left of the picture, click Insert  Formatting
 Horizontal Space..., set the Spacing field to Custom, set the units drop-down
to whatever units you favor, and insert a negative number in the Value field;
then click Ok.

Paul

Re: need suggestion on book

[Trevor Jenkins]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote:

 I couldn't have said it better myself. And because of what Marcelo
  said, I find LyX is a MUCH faster authoring environment than anything
  in which I need to see markup.
 
 As much as I agree with this, the one drawback of LyX is that you have
 to put up with its bugs...


That is true of *every* piece of software. I'm sure that Knuth would say
there are still bugs in TeX; not many since it's at version 3.14159... but
there are some. And when it finally comes time to bump the version number to
PI there will still be bugs in it. His old colleague Edsger Dijkstra said
you can't test for the absence of bugs only their presence.


 The big advantage of using LaTeX is its
 reliability: as long as you know exactly what you do, you only need a
 robust text editor (or another, or yet another one) to do the job.


Yup, by choice I'd use emacs (because I prefer to markup my client's
document using DOcBook and LyX's support for that is not robust or general
enough).


 LyX on the other hand can throw surprises from time to time.

 This said, LyX is generally rock-solid.


See above; emacs is usually rock solid but even that throws surprises. Hey
Adobe is finding and fixing day zero bugs in Acrobat and Flash.

Regards, Trevor.

 Re: deemed!

Re: Re: Indent picture (only)

[Dirk Heine]

Dirk Heine dirk at common-future.org writes:


 Dear list,I would like to move a picture horizontally to place it more
leftwards (towards the page edge). While moving this picture I would like to
leave the text of the document unchanged and also not move the picture
vertically. So this would basically be to negatively indent one picture; i.e. to
just push it a bit to the left.

Is the picture in a float?  If so, is it a wrap float (i.e., does text flow
around the right side of the picture)?

Do you want the left edge of the picture even with the left text margin, just
inside the margin, or outside margin (i.e., picture intrudes into left margin)?

Paul
--
Dear Paul,

Thanks for your reply. The picture is not a wrap float; it is a logo
in a letter (g-brief-2) and positioned above the text. The picture's
boundary is currently too far to the right and I would like to push it
a bit leftwards (yes, somewhat intruding into the left margin). I
would be grateful for advice how this is possible.

Many thanks,

Dirk

Footnotes... across the chapters

[Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا]

Is it possible for Lyx to offer footnote numbering across the chapters? I
mean, if there are 17 footnotes in Chapter 1, the first footnote in Chapter
2 should be #18, and not #1.

Many thanks for any help you could offer. FN

FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 (after 2pm)
#784 Nr Lourdes Convent, Saligao 403511 Goa India
http://fn.goa-india.org http://goa1556.goa-india.org

Re: Can't convert

[Paul A. Rubin]

Yes, you do have separate user directories (which is good).  The 
configuration logs in the user directories look fine.  Both of them 
found MiKTeX.  In particular, the 2.0 log shows that it has the correct 
converter path for producing PDF output, so View  PDF (pdflatex) should 
be working in 2.0.


In each version of LyX, what do you see in the Converter and Extra 
flag fields when you go to Tools  Preferences...  File Handling  
Converters and highlight LaTeX (pdflatex) - PDF (pdflatex)?  What do 
you see when you highlight LaTeX (plain) - DVI?


Paul

On 06/25/2011 07:40 PM, William Hanson wrote:
The configuration logs that I previously posted were in C:\Program 
Files\LyX16\Resources and C:\Program Files\LyX20\Resources.  I found 
them via a Windows Explorer search.  They were the only hits for 
configure.log.  Now, following your suggestion, I looked in 
C:\Documents and Settings\my login id\Application Data\lyx16 and in 
C:\Documents and Settings\my login id\Application Data\LyX2.0. There 
I found the two configure.log files from the reconfigurations I did 
yesterday and the day before.  Why the Explorer search didn't find 
them I don't know.  (I'm attaching these two logs.)


In view of the various paths mentioned in the previous paragraph it 
seems that I do have two separate user directories, right?


I can't View or DVI the help files in either 1.6.7 or 2.0.0

Bill

Re: need suggestion on book

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 25 June 2011 22:09:36 Liviu Andronic wrote:
 On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt 
sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote:
  On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote:
   2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there
   any advantages or
   writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx?
  
   If you work in plain latex, while you write it,  you get a text
  pestered with commands. That makes difficult the work to write
  up and to correct the text.
  
  Marcelo
  
  I couldn't have said it better myself. And because of what
  Marcelo said, I find LyX is a MUCH faster authoring environment
  than anything in which I need to see markup.
 
 As much as I agree with this, the one drawback of LyX is that you
 have to put up with its bugs. The big advantage of using LaTeX is
 its reliability: as long as you know exactly what you do, you only
 need a robust text editor (or another, or yet another one) to do
 the job. LyX on the other hand can throw surprises from time to
 time.

Hi Liviu,

Yes, LaTeX reliability is indeed a pro-LaTeX factor. Another pro-LaTeX 
factor is simplicity. Not simplicity from the typist's viewpoint -- 
LyX is simpler from that point of view. But when you start doing 
complex stuff and making your own commands and environments, LyX is 
more complex. Plus LyX native format is different from LaTeX, and you 
need to use both.

For all these reasons, when I create a Beamer presentation, I use 
LaTeX with Vim rather than LyX. I find the former less complex.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Can't convert

[Richard Heck]

On 06/26/2011 10:41 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
 Yes, you do have separate user directories (which is good).  The
 configuration logs in the user directories look fine.  Both of them
 found MiKTeX.  In particular, the 2.0 log shows that it has the
 correct converter path for producing PDF output, so View  PDF
 (pdflatex) should be working in 2.0.

None of the class or package files are checked for, because we have this:

INFO: checking for a Latex2e program...
INFO: +checking for latex...  yes
INFO: checking for a DVI postprocessing program...
INFO: +checking for pplatex...  yes
INFO: checking for pLaTeX, the Japanese LaTeX...
INFO: +checking for platex...  yes
DEBUG: Removing file chklatex.ltx
DEBUG: Failed to remove file chklatex.log
DEBUG: Add to RC:
\converter latex  dvi2   pplatexlatex
\converter dvi2   dvipython -tt $$s/scripts/clean_dvi.py
$$i $$o


WARNING: Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e)
DEBUG: Removing file chklatex.ltx
DEBUG: Failed to remove file chklatex.log

at the beginning. So chkconfig.ltx never gets run, I'd assume. But I do
not know why that would be, since latex itself has been found. The fact
that chklatex.log is not even created (and so can't be removed) is very
strange. Though chklatex.ltx does seem to have been created.

Paul, could you help William (temporarily) change these lines in
configure.py:

# run latex on chklatex.ltx and check result
if cmdOutput(LATEX + ' chklatex.ltx').find('ThisIsLaTeX2e') != -1:
# valid latex2e
return LATEX
else:
logger.warning(Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e) )
# remove temporary files

to:

output = cmdOutput((LATEX + ' chklatex.ltx')
logger.warning(output)
if output.find('ThisIsLaTeX2e') != -1:
# valid latex2e
return LATEX
else:
logger.warning(Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e) )
# remove temporary files

I'd really like to see what we're getting back from latex.

rh


Richard

Re: Footnotes... across the chapters

[Richard Heck]

On 06/26/2011 07:43 AM,  Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك
نورونيا  wrote:
 Is it possible for Lyx to offer footnote numbering across the
 chapters? I mean, if there are 17 footnotes in Chapter 1, the first
 footnote in Chapter 2 should be #18, and not #1. 

There is a LaTeX package called remreset that allows you to do this kind
of thing. Once you have it installed, you can put this in your preamble:

\@removefromreset{footnote}{chapter}

rh

Re: need suggestion on book

[Shantanu N Kulkarni]

* Marcelo Acu?a mv...@yahoo.com.ar [110626 09:18]:
  2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there
  any advantages or
  writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx?
 
  If you work in plain latex, while you write it,  you get a text pestered 
 with commands. That makes difficult the work to write up and to correct the 
 text.
 

Thanks all for the mails and rightly said.
I have almost decided to go ahead using tufte book class, since one of the
members of the list highly recommened it.

The book might have maximum of 100 pages, so do I write it as one document only 
or
have one main and other child documents. 
I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts
are somewhat pale.

Shantanu
-- 

Re: Font Problem with Lyx - Metric (TFM) file not found

[ölm]

same problem with lyx 2.0.0 under ubuntu 11.04 64bit
but THE SAME document is working under WinXP32bitSP3

only the (pre)view using xetex is working without error, but all greek
letters and italic are then missing.
under windows everything is working (except correct linebreaks at
inline-formulas at description style. but thats another story.
regards,
- elmar  -


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Re: need suggestion on book

[Trevor Jenkins]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:

  I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts
  are somewhat pale.

 On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use Century
 Schoolbook on all my books, although I'm looking for a more screen-
 readable font for my pure eBooks.


Some recent work has suggested that readable fonts are not that useful.
Try listening to this segment of the BBC's premier morning news programme,
the Today Programme.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_936/9360166.stm

Or there's a printed report on the Telegraph's web site

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/amazon/8256899/E-readers-too-easy-to-read.html

Alternatively you can read comments from a neuroscientist about the research
on the blogs reachable from here

https://policypress.wordpress.com/tag/jonah-lehrer/

Or there's a pre-print of the original paper that started this series of
news reports to be had here

http://web.princeton.edu/sites/opplab/papers/Diemand-Yauman_Oppenheimer_2010.pdf

Regards, Trevor.

 Re: deemed!

Re: Can't convert

[William Hanson]

Richard, Paul

In response to Paul's latest message:
1.  No, I can't produce pdf output in LyX 2.0.
2.  In each version of LyX, what do you see in the Converter and Extra
flag fields when you go to Tools  Preferences...  File Handling 
Converters and highlight LaTeX (pdflatex) - PDF (pdflatex)?
In 1.6.7 I see pdflatex $$i in Converter and latex in Extra Flag.
In 2.0.0 I see pdflatex $$i in Converter and latex=pdflatex in Extra
Flag.
3.  What do you see when you highlight LaTeX (plain) - DVI?  (I assume
Paul means LaTeX (plain) - DraftDVI.)
In 1.6.7 I see pplatex in Converter and latex in Extra Flag.
In 2.0.0 I see pplatex in Converter and latex in Extra Flag.

Bill Hanson


On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:

 On 06/26/2011 10:41 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
  Yes, you do have separate user directories (which is good).  The
  configuration logs in the user directories look fine.  Both of them
  found MiKTeX.  In particular, the 2.0 log shows that it has the
  correct converter path for producing PDF output, so View  PDF
  (pdflatex) should be working in 2.0.
 
 None of the class or package files are checked for, because we have this:

 INFO: checking for a Latex2e program...
 INFO: +checking for latex...  yes
 INFO: checking for a DVI postprocessing program...
 INFO: +checking for pplatex...  yes
 INFO: checking for pLaTeX, the Japanese LaTeX...
 INFO: +checking for platex...  yes
 DEBUG: Removing file chklatex.ltx
 DEBUG: Failed to remove file chklatex.log
 DEBUG: Add to RC:
 \converter latex  dvi2   pplatexlatex
 \converter dvi2   dvipython -tt $$s/scripts/clean_dvi.py
 $$i $$o


 WARNING: Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e)
 DEBUG: Removing file chklatex.ltx
 DEBUG: Failed to remove file chklatex.log

 at the beginning. So chkconfig.ltx never gets run, I'd assume. But I do
 not know why that would be, since latex itself has been found. The fact
 that chklatex.log is not even created (and so can't be removed) is very
 strange. Though chklatex.ltx does seem to have been created.

 Paul, could you help William (temporarily) change these lines in
 configure.py:

# run latex on chklatex.ltx and check result
if cmdOutput(LATEX + ' chklatex.ltx').find('ThisIsLaTeX2e') != -1:
# valid latex2e
return LATEX
else:
logger.warning(Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e) )
# remove temporary files

 to:

output = cmdOutput((LATEX + ' chklatex.ltx')
logger.warning(output)
if output.find('ThisIsLaTeX2e') != -1:
# valid latex2e
return LATEX
else:
logger.warning(Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e) )
# remove temporary files

 I'd really like to see what we're getting back from latex.

 rh


 Richard

Re: need suggestion on book

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Shantanu N Kulkarni
m...@lists.shantanukulkarni.org wrote:
 I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts
 are somewhat pale.

In many cases the fonts pre-selected by default are indeed ghastly.
Personally I tend to stick to Palatino  Optima (URW Classico) or
Libertine  Biolinum (when using XeTeX). I'm not sure if they fit your
perceptions of pale.

Regards
Liviu

Re: need suggestion on book

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 26 June 2011 17:38:12 Trevor Jenkins wrote:
 On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt 
sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:
   I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx
   fonts are somewhat pale.
  
  On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use
  Century Schoolbook on all my books, although I'm looking for a
  more screen- readable font for my pure eBooks.
 
 Some recent work has suggested that readable fonts are not that
 useful. Try listening to this segment of the BBC's premier morning
 news programme, the Today Programme.
 
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_936/9360166.stm
 
 Or there's a printed report on the Telegraph's web site
 
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/amazon/8256899/E-readers-too-
 easy-to-read.html
 
 Alternatively you can read comments from a neuroscientist about the
 research on the blogs reachable from here
 
 https://policypress.wordpress.com/tag/jonah-lehrer/
 
 Or there's a pre-print of the original paper that started this
 series of news reports to be had here
 
 http://web.princeton.edu/sites/opplab/papers/Diemand-Yauman_Oppenhe
 imer_2010.pdf


:-)

Statistics are a funny thing.

If my readers were all between 18 and 40, paid to read and remember, 
and need only read for 90 seconds at a time, I'd indeed use a less 
readable font.

But the two studies you quote have little to do with my readers. My 
readers tend to skew 30-60, so a lot of them have very real visual 
problems. I'm not going to subject them to skinny little Times Roman 
or Paladino. My latest book, which I hope to offer for sale around 
midnight tonight, is 110,000 words. I'm not going to make the visually 
challenged pull out a software magnifying glass, or horizontal scroll 
every line for 110,000 words. That's just not the way I roll. 
Disfluent fonts will simply cause many of my readers to stop in the 
middle of an otherwise good book.

One of the quoted studies showed a 14% increase in retention with 
disfluent fonts. Fine -- I'll use fluent fonts and write 30% more 
interestingly. That way people of all visual acuities will benefit.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Indent picture (only)

[Paul Rubin]

Dirk Heine dirk at common-future.org writes:

 Thanks for your reply. The picture is not a wrap float; it is a logo
 in a letter (g-brief-2) and positioned above the text. The picture's
 boundary is currently too far to the right and I would like to push it
 a bit leftwards (yes, somewhat intruding into the left margin). I
 would be grateful for advice how this is possible.

You can position the cursor just left of the picture, click Insert  Formatting
 Horizontal Space..., set the Spacing field to Custom, set the units drop-down
to whatever units you favor, and insert a negative number in the Value field;
then click Ok.

Paul

Re: need suggestion on book

[Trevor Jenkins]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

> I couldn't have said it better myself. And because of what Marcelo
> > said, I find LyX is a MUCH faster authoring environment than anything
> > in which I need to see markup.
> >
> As much as I agree with this, the one drawback of LyX is that you have
> to put up with its bugs...


That is true of *every* piece of software. I'm sure that Knuth would say
there are still bugs in TeX; not many since it's at version 3.14159... but
there are some. And when it finally comes time to bump the version number to
PI there will still be bugs in it. His old colleague Edsger Dijkstra said
you can't test for the absence of bugs only their presence.


> The big advantage of using LaTeX is its
> reliability: as long as you know exactly what you do, you only need a
> robust text editor (or another, or yet another one) to do the job.


Yup, by choice I'd use emacs (because I prefer to markup my client's
document using DOcBook and LyX's support for that is not robust or general
enough).


> LyX on the other hand can throw surprises from time to time.
>
> This said, LyX is generally rock-solid.


See above; emacs is usually rock solid but even that throws surprises. Hey
Adobe is finding and fixing day zero bugs in Acrobat and Flash.

Regards, Trevor.

<>< Re: deemed!

Re: Re: Indent picture (only)

[Dirk Heine]

Dirk Heine  common-future.org> writes:

>
> Dear list,I would like to move a picture horizontally to place it more
leftwards (towards the page edge). While moving this picture I would like to
leave the text of the document unchanged and also not move the picture
vertically. So this would basically be to negatively indent one picture; i.e. to
just push it a bit to the left.

Is the picture in a float?  If so, is it a wrap float (i.e., does text flow
around the right side of the picture)?

Do you want the left edge of the picture even with the left text margin, just
inside the margin, or outside margin (i.e., picture intrudes into left margin)?

Paul
--
Dear Paul,

Thanks for your reply. The picture is not a wrap float; it is a logo
in a letter (g-brief-2) and positioned above the text. The picture's
boundary is currently too far to the right and I would like to push it
a bit leftwards (yes, somewhat intruding into the left margin). I
would be grateful for advice how this is possible.

Many thanks,

Dirk

Footnotes... across the chapters

[Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا]

Is it possible for Lyx to offer footnote numbering across the chapters? I
mean, if there are 17 footnotes in Chapter 1, the first footnote in Chapter
2 should be #18, and not #1.

Many thanks for any help you could offer. FN

FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 (after 2pm)
#784 Nr Lourdes Convent, Saligao 403511 Goa India
http://fn.goa-india.org http://goa1556.goa-india.org

Re: Can't convert

[Paul A. Rubin]

Yes, you do have separate user directories (which is good).  The 
configuration logs in the user directories look fine.  Both of them 
found MiKTeX.  In particular, the 2.0 log shows that it has the correct 
converter path for producing PDF output, so View > PDF (pdflatex) should 
be working in 2.0.


In each version of LyX, what do you see in the "Converter" and "Extra 
flag" fields when you go to Tools > Preferences... > File Handling > 
Converters and highlight "LaTeX (pdflatex) -> PDF (pdflatex)"?  What do 
you see when you highlight "LaTeX (plain) -> DVI"?


Paul

On 06/25/2011 07:40 PM, William Hanson wrote:
The configuration logs that I previously posted were in C:\Program 
Files\LyX16\Resources and C:\Program Files\LyX20\Resources.  I found 
them via a Windows Explorer search.  They were the only hits for 
"configure.log".  Now, following your suggestion, I looked in 
C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\lyx16 and in 
C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\LyX2.0. There 
I found the two configure.log files from the reconfigurations I did 
yesterday and the day before.  Why the Explorer search didn't find 
them I don't know.  (I'm attaching these two logs.)


In view of the various paths mentioned in the previous paragraph it 
seems that I do have two separate user directories, right?


I can't View or DVI the help files in either 1.6.7 or 2.0.0

Bill

Re: need suggestion on book

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 25 June 2011 22:09:36 Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt 
 wrote:
> > On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote:
> >> > 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there
> >> > any advantages or
> >> > writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx?
> >> 
> >>  If you work in plain latex, while you write it,  you get a text
> >> pestered with commands. That makes difficult the work to write
> >> up and to correct the text.
> >> 
> >> Marcelo
> > 
> > I couldn't have said it better myself. And because of what
> > Marcelo said, I find LyX is a MUCH faster authoring environment
> > than anything in which I need to see markup.
> 
> As much as I agree with this, the one drawback of LyX is that you
> have to put up with its bugs. The big advantage of using LaTeX is
> its reliability: as long as you know exactly what you do, you only
> need a robust text editor (or another, or yet another one) to do
> the job. LyX on the other hand can throw surprises from time to
> time.

Hi Liviu,

Yes, LaTeX reliability is indeed a pro-LaTeX factor. Another pro-LaTeX 
factor is simplicity. Not simplicity from the typist's viewpoint -- 
LyX is simpler from that point of view. But when you start doing 
complex stuff and making your own commands and environments, LyX is 
more complex. Plus LyX native format is different from LaTeX, and you 
need to use both.

For all these reasons, when I create a Beamer presentation, I use 
LaTeX with Vim rather than LyX. I find the former less complex.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Can't convert

[Richard Heck]

On 06/26/2011 10:41 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Yes, you do have separate user directories (which is good).  The
> configuration logs in the user directories look fine.  Both of them
> found MiKTeX.  In particular, the 2.0 log shows that it has the
> correct converter path for producing PDF output, so View > PDF
> (pdflatex) should be working in 2.0.
>
None of the class or package files are checked for, because we have this:

INFO: checking for a Latex2e program...
INFO: +checking for "latex"...  yes
INFO: checking for a DVI postprocessing program...
INFO: +checking for "pplatex"...  yes
INFO: checking for pLaTeX, the Japanese LaTeX...
INFO: +checking for "platex"...  yes
DEBUG: Removing file chklatex.ltx
DEBUG: Failed to remove file chklatex.log
DEBUG: Add to RC:
\converter latex  dvi2   "pplatex""latex"
\converter dvi2   dvi"python -tt $$s/scripts/clean_dvi.py
$$i $$o"""


WARNING: Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e)
DEBUG: Removing file chklatex.ltx
DEBUG: Failed to remove file chklatex.log

at the beginning. So chkconfig.ltx never gets run, I'd assume. But I do
not know why that would be, since latex itself has been found. The fact
that chklatex.log is not even created (and so can't be removed) is very
strange. Though chklatex.ltx does seem to have been created.

Paul, could you help William (temporarily) change these lines in
configure.py:

# run latex on chklatex.ltx and check result
if cmdOutput(LATEX + ' chklatex.ltx').find('ThisIsLaTeX2e') != -1:
# valid latex2e
return LATEX
else:
logger.warning("Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e) ")
# remove temporary files

to:

output = cmdOutput((LATEX + ' chklatex.ltx')
logger.warning(output)
if output.find('ThisIsLaTeX2e') != -1:
# valid latex2e
return LATEX
else:
logger.warning("Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e) ")
# remove temporary files

I'd really like to see what we're getting back from latex.

rh


Richard

Re: Footnotes... across the chapters

[Richard Heck]

On 06/26/2011 07:43 AM,  Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك
نورونيا  wrote:
> Is it possible for Lyx to offer footnote numbering across the
> chapters? I mean, if there are 17 footnotes in Chapter 1, the first
> footnote in Chapter 2 should be #18, and not #1. 
>
There is a LaTeX package called remreset that allows you to do this kind
of thing. Once you have it installed, you can put this in your preamble:

\@removefromreset{footnote}{chapter}

rh

Re: need suggestion on book

[Shantanu N Kulkarni]

* Marcelo Acu?a  [110626 09:18]:
> > 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there
> > any advantages or
> > writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx?
> 
>  If you work in plain latex, while you write it,  you get a text pestered 
> with commands. That makes difficult the work to write up and to correct the 
> text.
> 

Thanks all for the mails and rightly said.
I have almost decided to go ahead using tufte book class, since one of the
members of the list highly recommened it.

The book might have maximum of 100 pages, so do I write it as one document only 
or
have one main and other child documents. 
I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts
are somewhat "pale".

Shantanu
-- 

Re: Font Problem with Lyx - Metric (TFM) file not found

[ölm]

same problem with lyx 2.0.0 under ubuntu 11.04 64bit
but THE SAME document is working under WinXP32bitSP3

only the (pre)view using xetex is working without error, but all greek
letters and italic are then missing.
under windows everything is working (except correct linebreaks at
inline-formulas at "description" style. but thats another story.
regards,
- elmar  -


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Re: need suggestion on book

[Trevor Jenkins]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

> > I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts
> > are somewhat "pale".
>
> On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use Century
> Schoolbook on all my books, although I'm looking for a more screen-
> readable font for my pure eBooks.
>

Some recent work has suggested that "readable" fonts are not that useful.
Try listening to this segment of the BBC's premier morning news programme,
the Today Programme.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_936/9360166.stm

Or there's a printed report on the Telegraph's web site

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/amazon/8256899/E-readers-too-easy-to-read.html

Alternatively you can read comments from a neuroscientist about the research
on the blogs reachable from here

https://policypress.wordpress.com/tag/jonah-lehrer/

Or there's a pre-print of the original paper that started this series of
news reports to be had here

http://web.princeton.edu/sites/opplab/papers/Diemand-Yauman_Oppenheimer_2010.pdf

Regards, Trevor.

<>< Re: deemed!

Re: Can't convert

[William Hanson]

Richard, Paul

In response to Paul's latest message:
1.  No, I can't produce pdf output in LyX 2.0.
2.  "In each version of LyX, what do you see in the "Converter" and "Extra
flag" fields when you go to Tools > Preferences... > File Handling >
Converters and highlight "LaTeX (pdflatex) -> PDF (pdflatex)"?"
In 1.6.7 I see "pdflatex $$i" in Converter and "latex" in Extra Flag.
In 2.0.0 I see "pdflatex $$i" in Converter and "latex=pdflatex" in Extra
Flag.
3.  "What do you see when you highlight "LaTeX (plain) -> DVI"?"  (I assume
Paul means "LaTeX (plain) -> DraftDVI".)
In 1.6.7 I see "pplatex" in Converter and "latex" in Extra Flag.
In 2.0.0 I see "pplatex" in Converter and "latex" in Extra Flag.

Bill Hanson


On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Richard Heck  wrote:

> On 06/26/2011 10:41 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> > Yes, you do have separate user directories (which is good).  The
> > configuration logs in the user directories look fine.  Both of them
> > found MiKTeX.  In particular, the 2.0 log shows that it has the
> > correct converter path for producing PDF output, so View > PDF
> > (pdflatex) should be working in 2.0.
> >
> None of the class or package files are checked for, because we have this:
>
> INFO: checking for a Latex2e program...
> INFO: +checking for "latex"...  yes
> INFO: checking for a DVI postprocessing program...
> INFO: +checking for "pplatex"...  yes
> INFO: checking for pLaTeX, the Japanese LaTeX...
> INFO: +checking for "platex"...  yes
> DEBUG: Removing file chklatex.ltx
> DEBUG: Failed to remove file chklatex.log
> DEBUG: Add to RC:
> \converter latex  dvi2   "pplatex""latex"
> \converter dvi2   dvi"python -tt $$s/scripts/clean_dvi.py
> $$i $$o"""
>
>
> WARNING: Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e)
> DEBUG: Removing file chklatex.ltx
> DEBUG: Failed to remove file chklatex.log
>
> at the beginning. So chkconfig.ltx never gets run, I'd assume. But I do
> not know why that would be, since latex itself has been found. The fact
> that chklatex.log is not even created (and so can't be removed) is very
> strange. Though chklatex.ltx does seem to have been created.
>
> Paul, could you help William (temporarily) change these lines in
> configure.py:
>
># run latex on chklatex.ltx and check result
>if cmdOutput(LATEX + ' chklatex.ltx').find('ThisIsLaTeX2e') != -1:
># valid latex2e
>return LATEX
>else:
>logger.warning("Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e) ")
># remove temporary files
>
> to:
>
>output = cmdOutput((LATEX + ' chklatex.ltx')
>logger.warning(output)
>if output.find('ThisIsLaTeX2e') != -1:
># valid latex2e
>return LATEX
>else:
>logger.warning("Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e) ")
># remove temporary files
>
> I'd really like to see what we're getting back from latex.
>
> rh
>
>
> Richard
>
>

Re: need suggestion on book

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Shantanu N Kulkarni
 wrote:
> I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts
> are somewhat "pale".
>
In many cases the fonts pre-selected by default are indeed ghastly.
Personally I tend to stick to Palatino & Optima (URW Classico) or
Libertine & Biolinum (when using XeTeX). I'm not sure if they fit your
perceptions of pale.

Regards
Liviu

Re: need suggestion on book

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 26 June 2011 17:38:12 Trevor Jenkins wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt 
wrote:
> > > I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx
> > > fonts are somewhat "pale".
> > 
> > On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use
> > Century Schoolbook on all my books, although I'm looking for a
> > more screen- readable font for my pure eBooks.
> 
> Some recent work has suggested that "readable" fonts are not that
> useful. Try listening to this segment of the BBC's premier morning
> news programme, the Today Programme.
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_936/9360166.stm
> 
> Or there's a printed report on the Telegraph's web site
> 
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/amazon/8256899/E-readers-too-
> easy-to-read.html
> 
> Alternatively you can read comments from a neuroscientist about the
> research on the blogs reachable from here
> 
> https://policypress.wordpress.com/tag/jonah-lehrer/
> 
> Or there's a pre-print of the original paper that started this
> series of news reports to be had here
> 
> http://web.princeton.edu/sites/opplab/papers/Diemand-Yauman_Oppenhe
> imer_2010.pdf


:-)

Statistics are a funny thing.

If my readers were all between 18 and 40, paid to read and remember, 
and need only read for 90 seconds at a time, I'd indeed use a less 
readable font.

But the two studies you quote have little to do with my readers. My 
readers tend to skew 30-60, so a lot of them have very real visual 
problems. I'm not going to subject them to skinny little Times Roman 
or Paladino. My latest book, which I hope to offer for sale around 
midnight tonight, is 110,000 words. I'm not going to make the visually 
challenged pull out a software magnifying glass, or horizontal scroll 
every line for 110,000 words. That's just not the way I roll. 
Disfluent fonts will simply cause many of my readers to stop in the 
middle of an otherwise good book.

One of the quoted studies showed a 14% increase in retention with 
disfluent fonts. Fine -- I'll use fluent fonts and write 30% more 
interestingly. That way people of all visual acuities will benefit.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Indent picture (only)

[Paul Rubin]

Dirk Heine  common-future.org> writes:

> Thanks for your reply. The picture is not a wrap float; it is a logo
> in a letter (g-brief-2) and positioned above the text. The picture's
> boundary is currently too far to the right and I would like to push it
> a bit leftwards (yes, somewhat intruding into the left margin). I
> would be grateful for advice how this is possible.

You can position the cursor just left of the picture, click Insert > Formatting
> Horizontal Space..., set the Spacing field to Custom, set the units drop-down
to whatever units you favor, and insert a negative number in the Value field;
then click Ok.

Paul