Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]
On Wed, 15 Dec 2021, Virgil Arrington Jr. via lyx-users wrote: And, then there was my even-older brother-in-law, who always ended his emails with LOL (as in Lots of Love) until my wife asked him what he was always laughing about. Virgil, If he were a reporter/journalist he would have ended his emails with --30--. :-) Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]
On 12/15/2021 8:47 AM, Rich Shepard via lyx-users wrote: I don't know about others, but I'm a touch-typist (thanks to the Army decades ago) and I use a laptop-size keyboard with my desktops. That's one reason I prefer to type. And, while many moons ago I objected to the devs that I found nothing evil in typing LaTeX code in the document body so perhaps some other name than Evil Red Text would be appropriate, I learned to just ignore what ERT abbreiated and use it for my convenience. So, *that's* what ERT stands for. I had gathered that it referred to LaTeX code inserted into a LyX document, but I never knew how it got the initials ERT. Echoes of the recent discussion about MWE (it took me a while to figure out how an attached file would earn the acronym MWE). And, then there was my even-older brother-in-law, who always ended his emails with LOL (as in Lots of Love) until my wife asked him what he was always laughing about. Virgil -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]
On Wed, 15 Dec 2021, Virgil Arrington Jr. via lyx-users wrote: I do the same, but I think that Rich makes a valid point about using the keyboard vs. the mouse. Virgil, I don't know about others, but I'm a touch-typist (thanks to the Army decades ago) and I use a laptop-size keyboard with my desktops. That's one reason I prefer to type. And, while many moons ago I objected to the devs that I found nothing evil in typing LaTeX code in the document body so perhaps some other name than Evil Red Text would be appropriate, I learned to just ignore what ERT abbreiated and use it for my convenience. And, yes, back in the 1980's I, too, used DOS and WordPerfect regularly. Regards, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]
On 12/15/2021 7:46 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users wrote: Rich, Steve, that was a rhetorical question of course :-)-O I do however find that whenever I find myself using ERT I always try and look for a LyX way to do it, because I don't like ERT :-)-O I do the same, but I think that Rich makes a valid point about using the keyboard vs. the mouse. In my experience, there are many LyX functions for which it appears the only way to access them is through a mouse (or trackpad, etc.). I'm old enough to remember working with DOS and WordStar style keystroke combinations and I learned to fly on the keyboard. Even when learning GUIs in the early days of Windows, I always looked for keyboard shortcuts as I hated the interruption of taking my fingers off the home row and onto a mouse. This is especially true in a function like word processing that is heavy on typing. I'm always frustrated when I can't easily find a keyboard shortcut for a LyX function, so I can understand why someone might resort to ERT just to avoid interrupting the flow of the work. Virgil -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]
Rich, Steve,
that was a rhetorical question of course :-)-O
I do however find that whenever I find myself using ERT I always try and
look for a LyX way to do it, because I don't like ERT :-)-O
I just found out myself, that on the Mac I can just do Option-0 :-)-O
BTW, it should be \textdegree{}
el
On 14/12/2021 22:22, Rich Shepard via lyx-users wrote:
On Tue, 14 Dec 2021, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote:
Maybe because he didn't know about Insert -> Symbols -> Superscripts.
I didn't know it either, but now I do, and will use it. Thanks for
the information!
I frequently use Insert -> Formatting -> Superscripts (or Subscripts,
but just type ctrl-l and insert \textdegree because a) I don't need to
move my hands from the keyboard and use the trackball, and b) I've
used it many times over the past decades.
When there are multiple ways of doing things all work while each of us
prefers one way. Same with OSes, text editors, etc.
Rich
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Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]
On Tue, 14 Dec 2021, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: Maybe because he didn't know about Insert -> Symbols -> Superscripts. I didn't know it either, but now I do, and will use it. Thanks for the information! I frequently use Insert -> Formatting -> Superscripts (or Subscripts, but just type ctrl-l and insert \textdegree because a) I don't need to move my hands from the keyboard and use the trackball, and b) I've used it many times over the past decades. When there are multiple ways of doing things all work while each of us prefers one way. Same with OSes, text editors, etc. Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]
Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users said on Tue, 14 Dec 2021 13:53:48 +0200
>Or use curly braces.
>
>But why would you do this with ERT in the first place?
>
>Instead of \textdegree{} I just used the first character from
>
> Insert -> Symbols -> Superscripts
>
>and Subscripts and get ⁰C.
Maybe because he didn't know about Insert -> Symbols -> Superscripts. I
didn't know it either, but now I do, and will use it. Thanks for the
information!
SteveT
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Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]
Or use curly braces.
But why would you do this with ERT in the first place?
Instead of \textdegree{} I just used the first character from
Insert -> Symbols -> Superscripts
and Subscripts and get ⁰C.
Never mind that this not only was not an MWE. as you not only don't need
the graphic, it also had an absolute path so wasn't found until manually
changed and a number of lines in the Preamble, some of which are even
superfluous during the non MWE run (like the graphicx one)
greetings, el
On 10/12/2021 00:08, Rich Shepard via lyx-users wrote:
On Thu, 9 Dec 2021, Paul A. Rubin via lyx-users wrote:
"For want of a nail the shoe was lost. ..." Here, substitute space
for nail. You need to put a space between the ERT and the letter C.
The error message is because LaTeX thinks you are invoking the
nonexistent command \textdegreeC.
Paul,
Well, shame on me for not seeing that! I've used a space elsewhere in
the document and missed the lack of a space in the figure caption.
Thanks for successfully applying the fresh eyes solution.
Regards,
Rich
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Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]
On Thu, 9 Dec 2021, Paul A. Rubin via lyx-users wrote: "For want of a nail the shoe was lost. ..." Here, substitute space for nail. You need to put a space between the ERT and the letter C. The error message is because LaTeX thinks you are invoking the nonexistent command \textdegreeC. Paul, Well, shame on me for not seeing that! I've used a space elsewhere in the document and missed the lack of a space in the figure caption. Thanks for successfully applying the fresh eyes solution. Regards, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
