Re: Finding packages............
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On 14/01/13 03:09, aries...@skymesh.com.au wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:12:10 -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 07:52:03 +1100, Charlie said:
Hi all,
A lot of you are able to instantly find LaTeX packages to solve random
problems. I can't
do that and want to learn how. I know of the existence of ctan.org just
like everyone
else, but there's something in my mental makeup that's different from
yours, and I want
to adopt your beliefs and your mindset in order to produce your results.
I know to most of you this sounds trivial and self-explanatory, but to me
it's anything
but, so please tell me your beliefs, mindset and techniques as you search
for a package
to solve a specific problem.
Thanks so much,
SteveT
I have taken the liberty of starting a new thread because it's a good
question, though I
would expand that by asking where the packages should be placed in the
/home/{user}/.lyx
or the /usr/share/lyx directories. I don't know where they should go but
just guess, by
file association.
Place them where .sty, or whatever files exist, and if they are in more
than one directory
try them in several places till Reconfigure or texhash does it's work
and finds them.
In reply to the above: in http://ctan.org/ type into the Search aperture
what it is you
need and allow it to be found.
Doing that with vancouver for instance, takes you on the journey to the
files. Which of
them is required and where to put them is another question?
In my case I would seek out where .bib, bst, and .tex files reside and
place each there.
Probably doesn't help at all.
Charlie
Thanks Charlie,
It's definitely a start.
Let me ask you this: If you needed to have all lines with monospace type
break correctly,
and didn't want to use \begin{sloppy} and \end{sloppy} on every paragraph
with monospace,
what would be your thought process in attempting to find a package to
accommodate this? I'm
not at all interested in the package name, I'm asking about your thought
process in the
search.
Thanks
SteveT
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:12:10 -0500 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com
suggested this:
Let me ask you this: If you needed to have all lines with monospace type
break correctly,
and didn't want to use \begin{sloppy} and \end{sloppy} on every paragraph
with monospace,
what would be your thought process in attempting to find a package to
accommodate this? I'm
not at all interested in the package name, I'm asking about your thought
process in the
search.
Firstly, I must admit that I didn't know what monospace font was, so I
googled it, which is
always my first port of call for any unknown. Using all manner of search
terms rather than
trolling through the pages of links that Google puts up.
Then I see what you're talking about, as a document in Latin Modern
Typewriter is created.
Now that I have an idea what monospace fonts are, and see the ragged edge at
the right of the
page, I can move on. So would firstly see what LyX has to offer in the
document settings with
regard to “justify”.
Finding that, failing to create the desired result, would probably use the
search term
“justify words in a sentence” using Google. Because if someone were writing
about monospace in
a document for someone like me who has no idea how to do it, they might use a
dumbed down
term. I'm an uneducated man. Later I would use the word monospace to ensure
that some of the
more technical solutions would be visible.
Now it depends just how much I want the effect of in line text on both sides
of the page. If I
was really bloody minded I would try different document classes first.
I would try all the options and the ERT's and the preamble inserts and look
for the results on
each attempt. I would place some of the preamble commands in different places
in the preamble
and even try the preamble commands in ERT's.
I would keep writing and polishing my document, so all this experimenting
might happen over a
period of days or weeks, coming upon a writing abyss and needing to move away
from it to find
the solution. Try new search terms used on Google any new wrinkle thought of
would be tried.
I would post on this list and ask if anyone had any ideas/solutions or off
the wall
suggestions.
If I found a package during my Googling that looks promising I may download
it, then try to
put it where it should be and give it a larrup. But being a Debian user, tend
to stay with
what's available and installed by default, but not devoutly.
When crafting the text has finished I would try the various document classes,
view them,
select the one I liked best, after accepting the limitations of each and give
up trying for my
prejudice of perfection.
And don't forget tex stackexchange (http://tex.stackexchange.com/) - has helped
Re: Finding packages............
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On 14/01/13 03:09, aries...@skymesh.com.au wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:12:10 -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 07:52:03 +1100, Charlie said:
Hi all,
A lot of you are able to instantly find LaTeX packages to solve random
problems. I can't
do that and want to learn how. I know of the existence of ctan.org just
like everyone
else, but there's something in my mental makeup that's different from
yours, and I want
to adopt your beliefs and your mindset in order to produce your results.
I know to most of you this sounds trivial and self-explanatory, but to me
it's anything
but, so please tell me your beliefs, mindset and techniques as you search
for a package
to solve a specific problem.
Thanks so much,
SteveT
I have taken the liberty of starting a new thread because it's a good
question, though I
would expand that by asking where the packages should be placed in the
/home/{user}/.lyx
or the /usr/share/lyx directories. I don't know where they should go but
just guess, by
file association.
Place them where .sty, or whatever files exist, and if they are in more
than one directory
try them in several places till Reconfigure or texhash does it's work
and finds them.
In reply to the above: in http://ctan.org/ type into the Search aperture
what it is you
need and allow it to be found.
Doing that with vancouver for instance, takes you on the journey to the
files. Which of
them is required and where to put them is another question?
In my case I would seek out where .bib, bst, and .tex files reside and
place each there.
Probably doesn't help at all.
Charlie
Thanks Charlie,
It's definitely a start.
Let me ask you this: If you needed to have all lines with monospace type
break correctly,
and didn't want to use \begin{sloppy} and \end{sloppy} on every paragraph
with monospace,
what would be your thought process in attempting to find a package to
accommodate this? I'm
not at all interested in the package name, I'm asking about your thought
process in the
search.
Thanks
SteveT
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:12:10 -0500 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com
suggested this:
Let me ask you this: If you needed to have all lines with monospace type
break correctly,
and didn't want to use \begin{sloppy} and \end{sloppy} on every paragraph
with monospace,
what would be your thought process in attempting to find a package to
accommodate this? I'm
not at all interested in the package name, I'm asking about your thought
process in the
search.
Firstly, I must admit that I didn't know what monospace font was, so I
googled it, which is
always my first port of call for any unknown. Using all manner of search
terms rather than
trolling through the pages of links that Google puts up.
Then I see what you're talking about, as a document in Latin Modern
Typewriter is created.
Now that I have an idea what monospace fonts are, and see the ragged edge at
the right of the
page, I can move on. So would firstly see what LyX has to offer in the
document settings with
regard to “justify”.
Finding that, failing to create the desired result, would probably use the
search term
“justify words in a sentence” using Google. Because if someone were writing
about monospace in
a document for someone like me who has no idea how to do it, they might use a
dumbed down
term. I'm an uneducated man. Later I would use the word monospace to ensure
that some of the
more technical solutions would be visible.
Now it depends just how much I want the effect of in line text on both sides
of the page. If I
was really bloody minded I would try different document classes first.
I would try all the options and the ERT's and the preamble inserts and look
for the results on
each attempt. I would place some of the preamble commands in different places
in the preamble
and even try the preamble commands in ERT's.
I would keep writing and polishing my document, so all this experimenting
might happen over a
period of days or weeks, coming upon a writing abyss and needing to move away
from it to find
the solution. Try new search terms used on Google any new wrinkle thought of
would be tried.
I would post on this list and ask if anyone had any ideas/solutions or off
the wall
suggestions.
If I found a package during my Googling that looks promising I may download
it, then try to
put it where it should be and give it a larrup. But being a Debian user, tend
to stay with
what's available and installed by default, but not devoutly.
When crafting the text has finished I would try the various document classes,
view them,
select the one I liked best, after accepting the limitations of each and give
up trying for my
prejudice of perfection.
And don't forget tex stackexchange (http://tex.stackexchange.com/) - has helped
Re: Finding packages............
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On 14/01/13 03:09, aries...@skymesh.com.au wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:12:10 -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 07:52:03 +1100, Charlie said:
>>>
Hi all,
A lot of you are able to instantly find LaTeX packages to solve random
problems. I can't
do that and want to learn how. I know of the existence of ctan.org just
like everyone
else, but there's something in my mental makeup that's different from
yours, and I want
to adopt your beliefs and your mindset in order to produce your results.
I know to most of you this sounds trivial and self-explanatory, but to me
it's anything
but, so please tell me your beliefs, mindset and techniques as you search
for a package
to solve a specific problem.
Thanks so much,
SteveT
>>>
>>> I have taken the liberty of starting a new thread because it's a good
>>> question, though I
>>> would expand that by asking where the packages should be placed in the
>>> /home/{user}/.lyx
>>> or the /usr/share/lyx directories. I don't know where they should go but
>>> just guess, by
>>> file association.
>>>
>>> Place them where .sty, or whatever files exist, and if they are in more
>>> than one directory
>>> try them in several places till "Reconfigure" or "texhash" does it's work
>>> and finds them.
>>>
>>> In reply to the above: in http://ctan.org/ type into the "Search" aperture
>>> what it is you
>>> need and allow it to be found.
>>>
>>> Doing that with vancouver for instance, takes you on the journey to the
>>> files. Which of
>>> them is required and where to put them is another question?
>>>
>>> In my case I would seek out where .bib, bst, and .tex files reside and
>>> place each there.
>>>
>>> Probably doesn't help at all.
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>
>> Thanks Charlie,
>>
>> It's definitely a start.
>>
>> Let me ask you this: If you needed to have all lines with monospace type
>> break correctly,
>> and didn't want to use \begin{sloppy} and \end{sloppy} on every paragraph
>> with monospace,
>> what would be your thought process in attempting to find a package to
>> accommodate this? I'm
>> not at all interested in the package name, I'm asking about your thought
>> process in the
>> search.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> SteveT
>
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:12:10 -0500 "Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com"
> suggested this:
>
>> Let me ask you this: If you needed to have all lines with monospace type
>> break correctly,
>> and didn't want to use \begin{sloppy} and \end{sloppy} on every paragraph
>> with monospace,
>> what would be your thought process in attempting to find a package to
>> accommodate this? I'm
>> not at all interested in the package name, I'm asking about your thought
>> process in the
>> search.
>
> Firstly, I must admit that I didn't know what monospace font was, so I
> googled it, which is
> always my first port of call for any unknown. Using all manner of search
> terms rather than
> trolling through the pages of links that Google puts up.
>
> Then I see what you're talking about, as a document in Latin Modern
> Typewriter is created.
>
> Now that I have an idea what monospace fonts are, and see the ragged edge at
> the right of the
> page, I can move on. So would firstly see what LyX has to offer in the
> document settings with
> regard to “justify”.
>
> Finding that, failing to create the desired result, would probably use the
> search term
> “justify words in a sentence” using Google. Because if someone were writing
> about monospace in
> a document for someone like me who has no idea how to do it, they might use a
> dumbed down
> term. I'm an uneducated man. Later I would use the word monospace to ensure
> that some of the
> more technical solutions would be visible.
>
> Now it depends just how much I want the effect of in line text on both sides
> of the page. If I
> was really bloody minded I would try different document classes first.
>
> I would try all the options and the ERT's and the preamble inserts and look
> for the results on
> each attempt. I would place some of the preamble commands in different places
> in the preamble
> and even try the preamble commands in ERT's.
>
> I would keep writing and polishing my document, so all this experimenting
> might happen over a
> period of days or weeks, coming upon a writing abyss and needing to move away
> from it to find
> the solution. Try new search terms used on Google any new wrinkle thought of
> would be tried.
>
> I would post on this list and ask if anyone had any ideas/solutions or off
> the wall
> suggestions.
>
> If I found a package during my Googling that looks promising I may download
> it, then try to
> put it where it should be and give it a larrup. But being a Debian user, tend
> to stay with
> what's available and installed by default, but not devoutly.
>
> When
Finding packages............
Hi all,
A lot of you are able to instantly find LaTeX packages to solve random
problems. I can't do that and want to learn how. I know of the
existence of ctan.org just like everyone else, but there's something in
my mental makeup that's different from yours, and I want to adopt your
beliefs and your mindset in order to produce your results.
I know to most of you this sounds trivial and self-explanatory, but to
me it's anything but, so please tell me your beliefs, mindset and
techniques as you search for a package to solve a specific problem.
Thanks so much,
SteveT
I have taken the liberty of starting a new thread because it's a good
question, though I would expand that by asking where the packages
should be placed in the /home/{user}/.lyx or the /usr/share/lyx
directories. I don't know where they should go but just guess, by file
association.
Place them where .sty, or whatever files exist, and if they are in more
than one directory try them in several places till Reconfigure
or texhash does it's work and finds them.
In reply to the above: in http://ctan.org/ type into the Search
aperture what it is you need and allow it to be found.
Doing that with vancouver for instance, takes you on the journey to the
files. Which of them is required and where to put them is another
question?
In my case I would seek out where .bib, bst, and .tex files reside and
place each there.
Probably doesn't help at all.
Charlie
--
Registered Linux User:- 329524
***
At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that,
during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. - Ugo Betti
***
Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic
-
Re: Finding packages............
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 07:52:03 +1100, Charlie said:
Hi all,
A lot of you are able to instantly find LaTeX packages to solve
random problems. I can't do that and want to learn how. I know of the
existence of ctan.org just like everyone else, but there's something
in my mental makeup that's different from yours, and I want to adopt
your beliefs and your mindset in order to produce your results.
I know to most of you this sounds trivial and self-explanatory, but
to me it's anything but, so please tell me your beliefs, mindset and
techniques as you search for a package to solve a specific problem.
Thanks so much,
SteveT
I have taken the liberty of starting a new thread because it's a good
question, though I would expand that by asking where the packages
should be placed in the /home/{user}/.lyx or the /usr/share/lyx
directories. I don't know where they should go but just guess, by file
association.
Place them where .sty, or whatever files exist, and if they are in
more than one directory try them in several places till Reconfigure
or texhash does it's work and finds them.
In reply to the above: in http://ctan.org/ type into the Search
aperture what it is you need and allow it to be found.
Doing that with vancouver for instance, takes you on the journey to
the files. Which of them is required and where to put them is another
question?
In my case I would seek out where .bib, bst, and .tex files reside and
place each there.
Probably doesn't help at all.
Charlie
Thanks Charlie,
It's definitely a start.
Let me ask you this: If you needed to have all lines with monospace
type break correctly, and didn't want to use \begin{sloppy} and
\end{sloppy} on every paragraph with monospace, what would be your
thought process in attempting to find a package to accommodate this?
I'm not at all interested in the package name, I'm asking about your
thought process in the search.
Thanks
SteveT
Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/
* http://twitter.com/stevelitt
Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
Re: Finding packages............
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:12:10 -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 07:52:03 +1100, Charlie said:
Hi all,
A lot of you are able to instantly find LaTeX packages to solve
random problems. I can't do that and want to learn how. I know of
the
existence of ctan.org just like everyone else, but there's
something
in my mental makeup that's different from yours, and I want to
adopt
your beliefs and your mindset in order to produce your results.
I know to most of you this sounds trivial and self-explanatory, but
to me it's anything but, so please tell me your beliefs, mindset
and
techniques as you search for a package to solve a specific problem.
Thanks so much,
SteveT
I have taken the liberty of starting a new thread because it's a
good
question, though I would expand that by asking where the packages
should be placed in the /home/{user}/.lyx or the /usr/share/lyx
directories. I don't know where they should go but just guess, by
file
association.
Place them where .sty, or whatever files exist, and if they are in
more than one directory try them in several places till
Reconfigure
or texhash does it's work and finds them.
In reply to the above: in http://ctan.org/ type into the Search
aperture what it is you need and allow it to be found.
Doing that with vancouver for instance, takes you on the journey to
the files. Which of them is required and where to put them is
another
question?
In my case I would seek out where .bib, bst, and .tex files reside
and
place each there.
Probably doesn't help at all.
Charlie
Thanks Charlie,
It's definitely a start.
Let me ask you this: If you needed to have all lines with monospace
type break correctly, and didn't want to use \begin{sloppy} and
\end{sloppy} on every paragraph with monospace, what would be your
thought process in attempting to find a package to accommodate this?
I'm not at all interested in the package name, I'm asking about your
thought process in the search.
Thanks
SteveT
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:12:10 -0500 Steve Litt
sl...@troubleshooters.com suggested this:
Let me ask you this: If you needed to have all lines with monospace
type break correctly, and didn't want to use \begin{sloppy} and
\end{sloppy} on every paragraph with monospace, what would be your
thought process in attempting to find a package to accommodate this?
I'm not at all interested in the package name, I'm asking about your
thought process in the search.
Firstly, I must admit that I didn't know what monospace font was, so I
googled it, which is always my first port of call for any unknown.
Using
all manner of search terms rather than trolling through the pages of
links that Google puts up.
Then I see what you're talking about, as a document in Latin Modern
Typewriter is created.
Now that I have an idea what monospace fonts are, and see the ragged
edge at the right of the page, I can move on. So would firstly see what
LyX has to offer in the document settings with regard to “justify”.
Finding that, failing to create the desired result, would probably use
the search term “justify words in a sentence” using Google. Because if
someone were writing about monospace in a document for someone like me
who has no idea how to do it, they might use a dumbed down term. I'm an
uneducated man. Later I would use the word monospace to ensure that
some of the more technical solutions would be visible.
Now it depends just how much I want the effect of in line text on both
sides of the page. If I was really bloody minded I would try different
document classes first.
I would try all the options and the ERT's and the preamble inserts and
look for the results on each attempt. I would place some of the
preamble commands in different places in the preamble and even try the
preamble commands in ERT's.
I would keep writing and polishing my document, so all this
experimenting might happen over a period of days or weeks, coming upon
a writing abyss and needing to move away from it to find the solution.
Try new search terms used on Google any new wrinkle thought of would be
tried.
I would post on this list and ask if anyone had any ideas/solutions or
off the wall suggestions.
If I found a package during my Googling that looks promising I may
download it, then try to put it where it should be and give it a
larrup. But being a Debian user, tend to stay with what's available and
installed by default, but not devoutly.
When crafting the text has finished I would try the various document
classes, view them, select the one I liked best, after accepting the
limitations of each and give up trying for my prejudice of perfection.
Charlie
--
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
Registered Linux User:- 329524
***
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. -Voltaire
***
Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic
___
Finding packages............
Hi all,
A lot of you are able to instantly find LaTeX packages to solve random
problems. I can't do that and want to learn how. I know of the
existence of ctan.org just like everyone else, but there's something in
my mental makeup that's different from yours, and I want to adopt your
beliefs and your mindset in order to produce your results.
I know to most of you this sounds trivial and self-explanatory, but to
me it's anything but, so please tell me your beliefs, mindset and
techniques as you search for a package to solve a specific problem.
Thanks so much,
SteveT
I have taken the liberty of starting a new thread because it's a good
question, though I would expand that by asking where the packages
should be placed in the /home/{user}/.lyx or the /usr/share/lyx
directories. I don't know where they should go but just guess, by file
association.
Place them where .sty, or whatever files exist, and if they are in more
than one directory try them in several places till Reconfigure
or texhash does it's work and finds them.
In reply to the above: in http://ctan.org/ type into the Search
aperture what it is you need and allow it to be found.
Doing that with vancouver for instance, takes you on the journey to the
files. Which of them is required and where to put them is another
question?
In my case I would seek out where .bib, bst, and .tex files reside and
place each there.
Probably doesn't help at all.
Charlie
--
Registered Linux User:- 329524
***
At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that,
during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. - Ugo Betti
***
Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic
-
Re: Finding packages............
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 07:52:03 +1100, Charlie said:
Hi all,
A lot of you are able to instantly find LaTeX packages to solve
random problems. I can't do that and want to learn how. I know of the
existence of ctan.org just like everyone else, but there's something
in my mental makeup that's different from yours, and I want to adopt
your beliefs and your mindset in order to produce your results.
I know to most of you this sounds trivial and self-explanatory, but
to me it's anything but, so please tell me your beliefs, mindset and
techniques as you search for a package to solve a specific problem.
Thanks so much,
SteveT
I have taken the liberty of starting a new thread because it's a good
question, though I would expand that by asking where the packages
should be placed in the /home/{user}/.lyx or the /usr/share/lyx
directories. I don't know where they should go but just guess, by file
association.
Place them where .sty, or whatever files exist, and if they are in
more than one directory try them in several places till Reconfigure
or texhash does it's work and finds them.
In reply to the above: in http://ctan.org/ type into the Search
aperture what it is you need and allow it to be found.
Doing that with vancouver for instance, takes you on the journey to
the files. Which of them is required and where to put them is another
question?
In my case I would seek out where .bib, bst, and .tex files reside and
place each there.
Probably doesn't help at all.
Charlie
Thanks Charlie,
It's definitely a start.
Let me ask you this: If you needed to have all lines with monospace
type break correctly, and didn't want to use \begin{sloppy} and
\end{sloppy} on every paragraph with monospace, what would be your
thought process in attempting to find a package to accommodate this?
I'm not at all interested in the package name, I'm asking about your
thought process in the search.
Thanks
SteveT
Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/
* http://twitter.com/stevelitt
Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
Re: Finding packages............
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:12:10 -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 07:52:03 +1100, Charlie said:
Hi all,
A lot of you are able to instantly find LaTeX packages to solve
random problems. I can't do that and want to learn how. I know of
the
existence of ctan.org just like everyone else, but there's
something
in my mental makeup that's different from yours, and I want to
adopt
your beliefs and your mindset in order to produce your results.
I know to most of you this sounds trivial and self-explanatory, but
to me it's anything but, so please tell me your beliefs, mindset
and
techniques as you search for a package to solve a specific problem.
Thanks so much,
SteveT
I have taken the liberty of starting a new thread because it's a
good
question, though I would expand that by asking where the packages
should be placed in the /home/{user}/.lyx or the /usr/share/lyx
directories. I don't know where they should go but just guess, by
file
association.
Place them where .sty, or whatever files exist, and if they are in
more than one directory try them in several places till
Reconfigure
or texhash does it's work and finds them.
In reply to the above: in http://ctan.org/ type into the Search
aperture what it is you need and allow it to be found.
Doing that with vancouver for instance, takes you on the journey to
the files. Which of them is required and where to put them is
another
question?
In my case I would seek out where .bib, bst, and .tex files reside
and
place each there.
Probably doesn't help at all.
Charlie
Thanks Charlie,
It's definitely a start.
Let me ask you this: If you needed to have all lines with monospace
type break correctly, and didn't want to use \begin{sloppy} and
\end{sloppy} on every paragraph with monospace, what would be your
thought process in attempting to find a package to accommodate this?
I'm not at all interested in the package name, I'm asking about your
thought process in the search.
Thanks
SteveT
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:12:10 -0500 Steve Litt
sl...@troubleshooters.com suggested this:
Let me ask you this: If you needed to have all lines with monospace
type break correctly, and didn't want to use \begin{sloppy} and
\end{sloppy} on every paragraph with monospace, what would be your
thought process in attempting to find a package to accommodate this?
I'm not at all interested in the package name, I'm asking about your
thought process in the search.
Firstly, I must admit that I didn't know what monospace font was, so I
googled it, which is always my first port of call for any unknown.
Using
all manner of search terms rather than trolling through the pages of
links that Google puts up.
Then I see what you're talking about, as a document in Latin Modern
Typewriter is created.
Now that I have an idea what monospace fonts are, and see the ragged
edge at the right of the page, I can move on. So would firstly see what
LyX has to offer in the document settings with regard to “justify”.
Finding that, failing to create the desired result, would probably use
the search term “justify words in a sentence” using Google. Because if
someone were writing about monospace in a document for someone like me
who has no idea how to do it, they might use a dumbed down term. I'm an
uneducated man. Later I would use the word monospace to ensure that
some of the more technical solutions would be visible.
Now it depends just how much I want the effect of in line text on both
sides of the page. If I was really bloody minded I would try different
document classes first.
I would try all the options and the ERT's and the preamble inserts and
look for the results on each attempt. I would place some of the
preamble commands in different places in the preamble and even try the
preamble commands in ERT's.
I would keep writing and polishing my document, so all this
experimenting might happen over a period of days or weeks, coming upon
a writing abyss and needing to move away from it to find the solution.
Try new search terms used on Google any new wrinkle thought of would be
tried.
I would post on this list and ask if anyone had any ideas/solutions or
off the wall suggestions.
If I found a package during my Googling that looks promising I may
download it, then try to put it where it should be and give it a
larrup. But being a Debian user, tend to stay with what's available and
installed by default, but not devoutly.
When crafting the text has finished I would try the various document
classes, view them, select the one I liked best, after accepting the
limitations of each and give up trying for my prejudice of perfection.
Charlie
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Finding packages............
>Hi all,
>
>A lot of you are able to instantly find LaTeX packages to solve random
>problems. I can't do that and want to learn how. I know of the
>existence of ctan.org just like everyone else, but there's something in
>my mental makeup that's different from yours, and I want to adopt your
>beliefs and your mindset in order to produce your results.
>
>I know to most of you this sounds trivial and self-explanatory, but to
>me it's anything but, so please tell me your beliefs, mindset and
>techniques as you search for a package to solve a specific problem.
>
>Thanks so much,
>
>SteveT
I have taken the liberty of starting a new thread because it's a good
question, though I would expand that by asking where the packages
should be placed in the /home/{user}/.lyx or the /usr/share/lyx
directories. I don't know where they should go but just guess, by file
association.
Place them where .sty, or whatever files exist, and if they are in more
than one directory try them in several places till "Reconfigure"
or "texhash" does it's work and finds them.
In reply to the above: in http://ctan.org/ type into the "Search"
aperture what it is you need and allow it to be found.
Doing that with vancouver for instance, takes you on the journey to the
files. Which of them is required and where to put them is another
question?
In my case I would seek out where .bib, bst, and .tex files reside and
place each there.
Probably doesn't help at all.
Charlie
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-
Re: Finding packages............
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 07:52:03 +1100, Charlie said:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >A lot of you are able to instantly find LaTeX packages to solve
> >random problems. I can't do that and want to learn how. I know of the
> >existence of ctan.org just like everyone else, but there's something
> >in my mental makeup that's different from yours, and I want to adopt
> >your beliefs and your mindset in order to produce your results.
> >
> >I know to most of you this sounds trivial and self-explanatory, but
> >to me it's anything but, so please tell me your beliefs, mindset and
> >techniques as you search for a package to solve a specific problem.
> >
> >Thanks so much,
> >
> >SteveT
>
> I have taken the liberty of starting a new thread because it's a good
> question, though I would expand that by asking where the packages
> should be placed in the /home/{user}/.lyx or the /usr/share/lyx
> directories. I don't know where they should go but just guess, by file
> association.
>
> Place them where .sty, or whatever files exist, and if they are in
> more than one directory try them in several places till "Reconfigure"
> or "texhash" does it's work and finds them.
>
> In reply to the above: in http://ctan.org/ type into the "Search"
> aperture what it is you need and allow it to be found.
>
> Doing that with vancouver for instance, takes you on the journey to
> the files. Which of them is required and where to put them is another
> question?
>
> In my case I would seek out where .bib, bst, and .tex files reside and
> place each there.
>
> Probably doesn't help at all.
>
> Charlie
Thanks Charlie,
It's definitely a start.
Let me ask you this: If you needed to have all lines with monospace
type break correctly, and didn't want to use \begin{sloppy} and
\end{sloppy} on every paragraph with monospace, what would be your
thought process in attempting to find a package to accommodate this?
I'm not at all interested in the package name, I'm asking about your
thought process in the search.
Thanks
SteveT
Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/
* http://twitter.com/stevelitt
Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
Re: Finding packages............
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:12:10 -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 07:52:03 +1100, Charlie said:
>Hi all,
>
>A lot of you are able to instantly find LaTeX packages to solve
>random problems. I can't do that and want to learn how. I know of
the
>existence of ctan.org just like everyone else, but there's
something
>in my mental makeup that's different from yours, and I want to
adopt
>your beliefs and your mindset in order to produce your results.
>
>I know to most of you this sounds trivial and self-explanatory, but
>to me it's anything but, so please tell me your beliefs, mindset
and
>techniques as you search for a package to solve a specific problem.
>
>Thanks so much,
>
>SteveT
I have taken the liberty of starting a new thread because it's a
good
question, though I would expand that by asking where the packages
should be placed in the /home/{user}/.lyx or the /usr/share/lyx
directories. I don't know where they should go but just guess, by
file
association.
Place them where .sty, or whatever files exist, and if they are in
more than one directory try them in several places till
"Reconfigure"
or "texhash" does it's work and finds them.
In reply to the above: in http://ctan.org/ type into the "Search"
aperture what it is you need and allow it to be found.
Doing that with vancouver for instance, takes you on the journey to
the files. Which of them is required and where to put them is
another
question?
In my case I would seek out where .bib, bst, and .tex files reside
and
place each there.
Probably doesn't help at all.
Charlie
Thanks Charlie,
It's definitely a start.
Let me ask you this: If you needed to have all lines with monospace
type break correctly, and didn't want to use \begin{sloppy} and
\end{sloppy} on every paragraph with monospace, what would be your
thought process in attempting to find a package to accommodate this?
I'm not at all interested in the package name, I'm asking about your
thought process in the search.
Thanks
SteveT
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:12:10 -0500 "Steve Litt
sl...@troubleshooters.com" suggested this:
Let me ask you this: If you needed to have all lines with monospace
type break correctly, and didn't want to use \begin{sloppy} and
\end{sloppy} on every paragraph with monospace, what would be your
thought process in attempting to find a package to accommodate this?
I'm not at all interested in the package name, I'm asking about your
thought process in the search.
Firstly, I must admit that I didn't know what monospace font was, so I
googled it, which is always my first port of call for any unknown.
Using
all manner of search terms rather than trolling through the pages of
links that Google puts up.
Then I see what you're talking about, as a document in Latin Modern
Typewriter is created.
Now that I have an idea what monospace fonts are, and see the ragged
edge at the right of the page, I can move on. So would firstly see what
LyX has to offer in the document settings with regard to “justify”.
Finding that, failing to create the desired result, would probably use
the search term “justify words in a sentence” using Google. Because if
someone were writing about monospace in a document for someone like me
who has no idea how to do it, they might use a dumbed down term. I'm an
uneducated man. Later I would use the word monospace to ensure that
some of the more technical solutions would be visible.
Now it depends just how much I want the effect of in line text on both
sides of the page. If I was really bloody minded I would try different
document classes first.
I would try all the options and the ERT's and the preamble inserts and
look for the results on each attempt. I would place some of the
preamble commands in different places in the preamble and even try the
preamble commands in ERT's.
I would keep writing and polishing my document, so all this
experimenting might happen over a period of days or weeks, coming upon
a writing abyss and needing to move away from it to find the solution.
Try new search terms used on Google any new wrinkle thought of would be
tried.
I would post on this list and ask if anyone had any ideas/solutions or
off the wall suggestions.
If I found a package during my Googling that looks promising I may
download it, then try to put it where it should be and give it a
larrup. But being a Debian user, tend to stay with what's available and
installed by default, but not devoutly.
When crafting the text has finished I would try the various document
classes, view them, select the one I liked best, after accepting the
limitations of each and give up trying for my prejudice of perfection.
Charlie
--
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
Registered Linux User:- 329524
***
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. -Voltaire
***
Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic
