Re: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

2011-05-14 Thread Liviu Andronic 
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote:
 How about http://wiki.lyx.org ? It also has a search box on the front page.
 And anyone can improve it - feeding back the advise from the list,
 structuring the information available, cleaning up and updating after
 new releases...

Yes, my first thought was also teh Wiki, particularly the FAQ [1]
pages. Previously it was a messy collection of 'Unsorted FAQ', but it
has since been cleaned up a bit. It contains tons of useful tips and
could probably be improved. It might need to get advertised more, so
that people knew where to look.
Liviu

[1] http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/FAQ

Re: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

2011-05-14 Thread Liviu Andronic 
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote:
 How about http://wiki.lyx.org ? It also has a search box on the front page.
 And anyone can improve it - feeding back the advise from the list,
 structuring the information available, cleaning up and updating after
 new releases...

Yes, my first thought was also teh Wiki, particularly the FAQ [1]
pages. Previously it was a messy collection of 'Unsorted FAQ', but it
has since been cleaned up a bit. It contains tons of useful tips and
could probably be improved. It might need to get advertised more, so
that people knew where to look.
Liviu

[1] http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/FAQ

Re: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

2011-05-14 Thread Liviu Andronic 
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Guenter Milde  wrote:
> How about http://wiki.lyx.org ? It also has a search box on the front page.
> And anyone can improve it - feeding back the advise from the list,
> structuring the information available, cleaning up and updating after
> new releases...
>
Yes, my first thought was also teh Wiki, particularly the FAQ [1]
pages. Previously it was a messy collection of 'Unsorted FAQ', but it
has since been cleaned up a bit. It contains tons of useful tips and
could probably be improved. It might need to get advertised more, so
that people knew where to look.
Liviu

[1] http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/FAQ

Re: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

2011-05-13 Thread Alain DIDIERJEAN 

- Mail Original -
De: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com
À: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Envoyé: Jeudi 12 Mai 2011 20h47:26 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome 
/ Stockholm / Vienne
Objet: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

On Thursday 12 May 2011 13:02:01 Richard Heck wrote:
 On 05/12/2011 11:56 AM, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
  I'm working on a book. Consist of ordinary text and poems, each
  poem having to be in its own chapter. I'd like these chapters to
  start on odd or even page, without eventually leaving blank
  pages between them. How to achieve that ?
 
 Add the option openany to the class options under
 DocumentSettings.
 
 rh

See Richard, you and probably 20 other people on this list ALWAYS know 
what's available. I've used Openany but didn't remember it. People 
regularly reply to a question How do I make it do such and such?, 
you guys reply oh, you just \usepackage{so_and_so} and you're right, 
it works. You guys have spectacular memories.

Frustrating for me is I have no such memory, and unless I can review 
all my layout files and find an answer, I'll have to re-ask the 
question. CTAN is no help because it lists hundreds of packages, but 
not by function. For whatever reason Google ends up listing solutions 
like I do -- writing a bunch of LaTeX to do the job because the author 
didn't know about a simple package.

I'm thinking if there's a way we can create a document that lists 
packages and other little tricks (openany for instance) **BY 
FUNCTIONALITY**, newbies stand a fighting chance, people like me can 
remember in a matter of minutes rather than hours (or worse yet, 
reinventing the wheel), and people like you will get less of the same 
old questions.

I think the format of this resource should be a single web page with 
lots of links, arranged in a hierarchy. A good example is my Linux 
Library page:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/index.htm

The beautiful thing about this page is you can either drill down, or 
if that doesn't work, you can search the single page for keywords.

Another wonderful thing about it is it's actually maintained as a tab 
indented outline (by VimOutliner or Emacs org mode or with any text 
editor). So adding a new resource is almost instantaneous. Then you 
just run an export program that turns it into an HTML page. In my 
opinion this is much cleaner, easier, and faster than the traditional 
Wiki page.

If you guys want to do it this way I'll be glad to give you the source 
for Linux Library's HTML export, and I'll modify it so that for each 
group you see the navigation down to it. I'll also take a primary role 
in putting this hierarchical list of links together and pointing to 
existing documentation resources, and maybe writing some new ones for 
the project.

If we do this, people with great memories won't be the only ones who 
know everything, and people with great memories will have much more 
time to do real work rather than ask repetitive questions.


Bright idea. I support it.

-- 

Alain DIDIERJEAN  Puisque ces mystères nous dépassent
   Feignons d'en être l'organisateur

Re: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

2011-05-13 Thread Guenter Milde 
On 2011-05-13, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
 De: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com
 On Thursday 12 May 2011 13:02:01 Richard Heck wrote:

 Add the option openany to the class options under
 DocumentSettings.

...
 not by function. For whatever reason Google ends up listing solutions 
 like I do -- writing a bunch of LaTeX to do the job because the author 
 didn't know about a simple package.

 I'm thinking if there's a way we can create a document that lists 
 packages and other little tricks (openany for instance) **BY 
 FUNCTIONALITY**, newbies stand a fighting chance, people like me can 
 remember in a matter of minutes rather than hours (or worse yet, 
 reinventing the wheel), and people like you will get less of the same 
 old questions.

 I think the format of this resource should be a single web page with 
 lots of links, arranged in a hierarchy.

How about http://wiki.lyx.org ? It also has a search box on the front page.
And anyone can improve it - feeding back the advise from the list,
structuring the information available, cleaning up and updating after
new releases...

For LaTeX, the LaTeX faq http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
is a good starting point (with 1 web page per
question and many links to the packages...) It's actively maintained
and the maintainer is responsive to questions and hints.

Günter

Re: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

2011-05-13 Thread Alain DIDIERJEAN 

- Mail Original -
De: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com
À: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Envoyé: Jeudi 12 Mai 2011 20h47:26 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome 
/ Stockholm / Vienne
Objet: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

On Thursday 12 May 2011 13:02:01 Richard Heck wrote:
 On 05/12/2011 11:56 AM, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
  I'm working on a book. Consist of ordinary text and poems, each
  poem having to be in its own chapter. I'd like these chapters to
  start on odd or even page, without eventually leaving blank
  pages between them. How to achieve that ?
 
 Add the option openany to the class options under
 DocumentSettings.
 
 rh

See Richard, you and probably 20 other people on this list ALWAYS know 
what's available. I've used Openany but didn't remember it. People 
regularly reply to a question How do I make it do such and such?, 
you guys reply oh, you just \usepackage{so_and_so} and you're right, 
it works. You guys have spectacular memories.

Frustrating for me is I have no such memory, and unless I can review 
all my layout files and find an answer, I'll have to re-ask the 
question. CTAN is no help because it lists hundreds of packages, but 
not by function. For whatever reason Google ends up listing solutions 
like I do -- writing a bunch of LaTeX to do the job because the author 
didn't know about a simple package.

I'm thinking if there's a way we can create a document that lists 
packages and other little tricks (openany for instance) **BY 
FUNCTIONALITY**, newbies stand a fighting chance, people like me can 
remember in a matter of minutes rather than hours (or worse yet, 
reinventing the wheel), and people like you will get less of the same 
old questions.

I think the format of this resource should be a single web page with 
lots of links, arranged in a hierarchy. A good example is my Linux 
Library page:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/index.htm

The beautiful thing about this page is you can either drill down, or 
if that doesn't work, you can search the single page for keywords.

Another wonderful thing about it is it's actually maintained as a tab 
indented outline (by VimOutliner or Emacs org mode or with any text 
editor). So adding a new resource is almost instantaneous. Then you 
just run an export program that turns it into an HTML page. In my 
opinion this is much cleaner, easier, and faster than the traditional 
Wiki page.

If you guys want to do it this way I'll be glad to give you the source 
for Linux Library's HTML export, and I'll modify it so that for each 
group you see the navigation down to it. I'll also take a primary role 
in putting this hierarchical list of links together and pointing to 
existing documentation resources, and maybe writing some new ones for 
the project.

If we do this, people with great memories won't be the only ones who 
know everything, and people with great memories will have much more 
time to do real work rather than ask repetitive questions.


Bright idea. I support it.

-- 

Alain DIDIERJEAN  Puisque ces mystères nous dépassent
   Feignons d'en être l'organisateur

Re: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

2011-05-13 Thread Guenter Milde 
On 2011-05-13, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
 De: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com
 On Thursday 12 May 2011 13:02:01 Richard Heck wrote:

 Add the option openany to the class options under
 DocumentSettings.

...
 not by function. For whatever reason Google ends up listing solutions 
 like I do -- writing a bunch of LaTeX to do the job because the author 
 didn't know about a simple package.

 I'm thinking if there's a way we can create a document that lists 
 packages and other little tricks (openany for instance) **BY 
 FUNCTIONALITY**, newbies stand a fighting chance, people like me can 
 remember in a matter of minutes rather than hours (or worse yet, 
 reinventing the wheel), and people like you will get less of the same 
 old questions.

 I think the format of this resource should be a single web page with 
 lots of links, arranged in a hierarchy.

How about http://wiki.lyx.org ? It also has a search box on the front page.
And anyone can improve it - feeding back the advise from the list,
structuring the information available, cleaning up and updating after
new releases...

For LaTeX, the LaTeX faq http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
is a good starting point (with 1 web page per
question and many links to the packages...) It's actively maintained
and the maintainer is responsive to questions and hints.

Günter

Re: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

2011-05-13 Thread Alain DIDIERJEAN 

- Mail Original -
De: "Steve Litt" <sl...@troubleshooters.com>
À: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Envoyé: Jeudi 12 Mai 2011 20h47:26 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome 
/ Stockholm / Vienne
Objet: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

On Thursday 12 May 2011 13:02:01 Richard Heck wrote:
> On 05/12/2011 11:56 AM, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
> > I'm working on a book. Consist of "ordinary" text and poems, each
> > poem having to be in its own chapter. I'd like these chapters to
> > start on odd or even page, without eventually leaving blank
> > pages between them. How to achieve that ?
> 
> Add the option "openany" to the class options under
> Document>Settings.
> 
> rh

See Richard, you and probably 20 other people on this list ALWAYS know 
what's available. I've used Openany but didn't remember it. People 
regularly reply to a question "How do I make it do such and such?", 
you guys reply "oh, you just \usepackage{so_and_so}" and you're right, 
it works. You guys have spectacular memories.

Frustrating for me is I have no such memory, and unless I can review 
all my layout files and find an answer, I'll have to re-ask the 
question. CTAN is no help because it lists hundreds of packages, but 
not by function. For whatever reason Google ends up listing solutions 
like I do -- writing a bunch of LaTeX to do the job because the author 
didn't know about a simple package.

I'm thinking if there's a way we can create a document that lists 
packages and other little tricks (openany for instance) **BY 
FUNCTIONALITY**, newbies stand a fighting chance, people like me can 
remember in a matter of minutes rather than hours (or worse yet, 
reinventing the wheel), and people like you will get less of the same 
old questions.

I think the format of this resource should be a single web page with 
lots of links, arranged in a hierarchy. A good example is my Linux 
Library page:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/index.htm

The beautiful thing about this page is you can either drill down, or 
if that doesn't work, you can search the single page for keywords.

Another wonderful thing about it is it's actually maintained as a tab 
indented outline (by VimOutliner or Emacs org mode or with any text 
editor). So adding a new resource is almost instantaneous. Then you 
just run an export program that turns it into an HTML page. In my 
opinion this is much cleaner, easier, and faster than the traditional 
Wiki page.

If you guys want to do it this way I'll be glad to give you the source 
for Linux Library's HTML export, and I'll modify it so that for each 
group you see the navigation down to it. I'll also take a primary role 
in putting this hierarchical list of links together and pointing to 
existing documentation resources, and maybe writing some new ones for 
the project.

If we do this, people with great memories won't be the only ones who 
know everything, and people with great memories will have much more 
time to do real work rather than ask repetitive questions.


Bright idea. I support it.

-- 

Alain DIDIERJEAN  Puisque ces mystères nous dépassent
   Feignons d'en être l'organisateur

Re: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

2011-05-13 Thread Guenter Milde 
On 2011-05-13, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
> De: "Steve Litt" 
> On Thursday 12 May 2011 13:02:01 Richard Heck wrote:

>> Add the option "openany" to the class options under
>> Document>Settings.

...
> not by function. For whatever reason Google ends up listing solutions 
> like I do -- writing a bunch of LaTeX to do the job because the author 
> didn't know about a simple package.

> I'm thinking if there's a way we can create a document that lists 
> packages and other little tricks (openany for instance) **BY 
> FUNCTIONALITY**, newbies stand a fighting chance, people like me can 
> remember in a matter of minutes rather than hours (or worse yet, 
> reinventing the wheel), and people like you will get less of the same 
> old questions.

> I think the format of this resource should be a single web page with 
> lots of links, arranged in a hierarchy.

How about http://wiki.lyx.org ? It also has a search box on the front page.
And anyone can improve it - feeding back the advise from the list,
structuring the information available, cleaning up and updating after
new releases...

For LaTeX, the LaTeX faq http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
is a good starting point (with 1 web page per
question and many links to the packages...) It's actively maintained
and the maintainer is responsive to questions and hints.

Günter

Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

2011-05-12 Thread Steve Litt 
On Thursday 12 May 2011 13:02:01 Richard Heck wrote:
 On 05/12/2011 11:56 AM, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
  I'm working on a book. Consist of ordinary text and poems, each
  poem having to be in its own chapter. I'd like these chapters to
  start on odd or even page, without eventually leaving blank
  pages between them. How to achieve that ?
 
 Add the option openany to the class options under
 DocumentSettings.
 
 rh

See Richard, you and probably 20 other people on this list ALWAYS know 
what's available. I've used Openany but didn't remember it. People 
regularly reply to a question How do I make it do such and such?, 
you guys reply oh, you just \usepackage{so_and_so} and you're right, 
it works. You guys have spectacular memories.

Frustrating for me is I have no such memory, and unless I can review 
all my layout files and find an answer, I'll have to re-ask the 
question. CTAN is no help because it lists hundreds of packages, but 
not by function. For whatever reason Google ends up listing solutions 
like I do -- writing a bunch of LaTeX to do the job because the author 
didn't know about a simple package.

I'm thinking if there's a way we can create a document that lists 
packages and other little tricks (openany for instance) **BY 
FUNCTIONALITY**, newbies stand a fighting chance, people like me can 
remember in a matter of minutes rather than hours (or worse yet, 
reinventing the wheel), and people like you will get less of the same 
old questions.

I think the format of this resource should be a single web page with 
lots of links, arranged in a hierarchy. A good example is my Linux 
Library page:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/index.htm

The beautiful thing about this page is you can either drill down, or 
if that doesn't work, you can search the single page for keywords.

Another wonderful thing about it is it's actually maintained as a tab 
indented outline (by VimOutliner or Emacs org mode or with any text 
editor). So adding a new resource is almost instantaneous. Then you 
just run an export program that turns it into an HTML page. In my 
opinion this is much cleaner, easier, and faster than the traditional 
Wiki page.

If you guys want to do it this way I'll be glad to give you the source 
for Linux Library's HTML export, and I'll modify it so that for each 
group you see the navigation down to it. I'll also take a primary role 
in putting this hierarchical list of links together and pointing to 
existing documentation resources, and maybe writing some new ones for 
the project.

If we do this, people with great memories won't be the only ones who 
know everything, and people with great memories will have much more 
time to do real work rather than ask repetitive questions.

Thanks

SteveT

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

Re: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

2011-05-12 Thread curtis osterhoudt 
An _excellent_ idea, Steve.


/***/





From: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thu, May 12, 2011 12:47:26 PM
Subject: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

On Thursday 12 May 2011 13:02:01 Richard Heck wrote:
 On 05/12/2011 11:56 AM, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
  I'm working on a book. Consist of ordinary text and poems, each
  poem having to be in its own chapter. I'd like these chapters to
  start on odd or even page, without eventually leaving blank
  pages between them. How to achieve that ?
 
 Add the option openany to the class options under
 DocumentSettings.
 
 rh

See Richard, you and probably 20 other people on this list ALWAYS know 
what's available. I've used Openany but didn't remember it. People 
regularly reply to a question How do I make it do such and such?, 
you guys reply oh, you just \usepackage{so_and_so} and you're right, 
it works. You guys have spectacular memories.

Frustrating for me is I have no such memory, and unless I can review 
all my layout files and find an answer, I'll have to re-ask the 
question. CTAN is no help because it lists hundreds of packages, but 
not by function. For whatever reason Google ends up listing solutions 
like I do -- writing a bunch of LaTeX to do the job because the author 
didn't know about a simple package.

I'm thinking if there's a way we can create a document that lists 
packages and other little tricks (openany for instance) **BY 
FUNCTIONALITY**, newbies stand a fighting chance, people like me can 
remember in a matter of minutes rather than hours (or worse yet, 
reinventing the wheel), and people like you will get less of the same 
old questions.

I think the format of this resource should be a single web page with 
lots of links, arranged in a hierarchy. A good example is my Linux 
Library page:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/index.htm

The beautiful thing about this page is you can either drill down, or 
if that doesn't work, you can search the single page for keywords.

Another wonderful thing about it is it's actually maintained as a tab 
indented outline (by VimOutliner or Emacs org mode or with any text 
editor). So adding a new resource is almost instantaneous. Then you 
just run an export program that turns it into an HTML page. In my 
opinion this is much cleaner, easier, and faster than the traditional 
Wiki page.

If you guys want to do it this way I'll be glad to give you the source 
for Linux Library's HTML export, and I'll modify it so that for each 
group you see the navigation down to it. I'll also take a primary role 
in putting this hierarchical list of links together and pointing to 
existing documentation resources, and maybe writing some new ones for 
the project.

If we do this, people with great memories won't be the only ones who 
know everything, and people with great memories will have much more 
time to do real work rather than ask repetitive questions.

Thanks

SteveT

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

Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

2011-05-12 Thread Steve Litt 
On Thursday 12 May 2011 13:02:01 Richard Heck wrote:
 On 05/12/2011 11:56 AM, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
  I'm working on a book. Consist of ordinary text and poems, each
  poem having to be in its own chapter. I'd like these chapters to
  start on odd or even page, without eventually leaving blank
  pages between them. How to achieve that ?
 
 Add the option openany to the class options under
 DocumentSettings.
 
 rh

See Richard, you and probably 20 other people on this list ALWAYS know 
what's available. I've used Openany but didn't remember it. People 
regularly reply to a question How do I make it do such and such?, 
you guys reply oh, you just \usepackage{so_and_so} and you're right, 
it works. You guys have spectacular memories.

Frustrating for me is I have no such memory, and unless I can review 
all my layout files and find an answer, I'll have to re-ask the 
question. CTAN is no help because it lists hundreds of packages, but 
not by function. For whatever reason Google ends up listing solutions 
like I do -- writing a bunch of LaTeX to do the job because the author 
didn't know about a simple package.

I'm thinking if there's a way we can create a document that lists 
packages and other little tricks (openany for instance) **BY 
FUNCTIONALITY**, newbies stand a fighting chance, people like me can 
remember in a matter of minutes rather than hours (or worse yet, 
reinventing the wheel), and people like you will get less of the same 
old questions.

I think the format of this resource should be a single web page with 
lots of links, arranged in a hierarchy. A good example is my Linux 
Library page:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/index.htm

The beautiful thing about this page is you can either drill down, or 
if that doesn't work, you can search the single page for keywords.

Another wonderful thing about it is it's actually maintained as a tab 
indented outline (by VimOutliner or Emacs org mode or with any text 
editor). So adding a new resource is almost instantaneous. Then you 
just run an export program that turns it into an HTML page. In my 
opinion this is much cleaner, easier, and faster than the traditional 
Wiki page.

If you guys want to do it this way I'll be glad to give you the source 
for Linux Library's HTML export, and I'll modify it so that for each 
group you see the navigation down to it. I'll also take a primary role 
in putting this hierarchical list of links together and pointing to 
existing documentation resources, and maybe writing some new ones for 
the project.

If we do this, people with great memories won't be the only ones who 
know everything, and people with great memories will have much more 
time to do real work rather than ask repetitive questions.

Thanks

SteveT

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

Re: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

2011-05-12 Thread curtis osterhoudt 
An _excellent_ idea, Steve.


/***/





From: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thu, May 12, 2011 12:47:26 PM
Subject: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

On Thursday 12 May 2011 13:02:01 Richard Heck wrote:
 On 05/12/2011 11:56 AM, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
  I'm working on a book. Consist of ordinary text and poems, each
  poem having to be in its own chapter. I'd like these chapters to
  start on odd or even page, without eventually leaving blank
  pages between them. How to achieve that ?
 
 Add the option openany to the class options under
 DocumentSettings.
 
 rh

See Richard, you and probably 20 other people on this list ALWAYS know 
what's available. I've used Openany but didn't remember it. People 
regularly reply to a question How do I make it do such and such?, 
you guys reply oh, you just \usepackage{so_and_so} and you're right, 
it works. You guys have spectacular memories.

Frustrating for me is I have no such memory, and unless I can review 
all my layout files and find an answer, I'll have to re-ask the 
question. CTAN is no help because it lists hundreds of packages, but 
not by function. For whatever reason Google ends up listing solutions 
like I do -- writing a bunch of LaTeX to do the job because the author 
didn't know about a simple package.

I'm thinking if there's a way we can create a document that lists 
packages and other little tricks (openany for instance) **BY 
FUNCTIONALITY**, newbies stand a fighting chance, people like me can 
remember in a matter of minutes rather than hours (or worse yet, 
reinventing the wheel), and people like you will get less of the same 
old questions.

I think the format of this resource should be a single web page with 
lots of links, arranged in a hierarchy. A good example is my Linux 
Library page:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/index.htm

The beautiful thing about this page is you can either drill down, or 
if that doesn't work, you can search the single page for keywords.

Another wonderful thing about it is it's actually maintained as a tab 
indented outline (by VimOutliner or Emacs org mode or with any text 
editor). So adding a new resource is almost instantaneous. Then you 
just run an export program that turns it into an HTML page. In my 
opinion this is much cleaner, easier, and faster than the traditional 
Wiki page.

If you guys want to do it this way I'll be glad to give you the source 
for Linux Library's HTML export, and I'll modify it so that for each 
group you see the navigation down to it. I'll also take a primary role 
in putting this hierarchical list of links together and pointing to 
existing documentation resources, and maybe writing some new ones for 
the project.

If we do this, people with great memories won't be the only ones who 
know everything, and people with great memories will have much more 
time to do real work rather than ask repetitive questions.

Thanks

SteveT

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

Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

2011-05-12 Thread Steve Litt 
On Thursday 12 May 2011 13:02:01 Richard Heck wrote:
> On 05/12/2011 11:56 AM, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
> > I'm working on a book. Consist of "ordinary" text and poems, each
> > poem having to be in its own chapter. I'd like these chapters to
> > start on odd or even page, without eventually leaving blank
> > pages between them. How to achieve that ?
> 
> Add the option "openany" to the class options under
> Document>Settings.
> 
> rh

See Richard, you and probably 20 other people on this list ALWAYS know 
what's available. I've used Openany but didn't remember it. People 
regularly reply to a question "How do I make it do such and such?", 
you guys reply "oh, you just \usepackage{so_and_so}" and you're right, 
it works. You guys have spectacular memories.

Frustrating for me is I have no such memory, and unless I can review 
all my layout files and find an answer, I'll have to re-ask the 
question. CTAN is no help because it lists hundreds of packages, but 
not by function. For whatever reason Google ends up listing solutions 
like I do -- writing a bunch of LaTeX to do the job because the author 
didn't know about a simple package.

I'm thinking if there's a way we can create a document that lists 
packages and other little tricks (openany for instance) **BY 
FUNCTIONALITY**, newbies stand a fighting chance, people like me can 
remember in a matter of minutes rather than hours (or worse yet, 
reinventing the wheel), and people like you will get less of the same 
old questions.

I think the format of this resource should be a single web page with 
lots of links, arranged in a hierarchy. A good example is my Linux 
Library page:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/index.htm

The beautiful thing about this page is you can either drill down, or 
if that doesn't work, you can search the single page for keywords.

Another wonderful thing about it is it's actually maintained as a tab 
indented outline (by VimOutliner or Emacs org mode or with any text 
editor). So adding a new resource is almost instantaneous. Then you 
just run an export program that turns it into an HTML page. In my 
opinion this is much cleaner, easier, and faster than the traditional 
Wiki page.

If you guys want to do it this way I'll be glad to give you the source 
for Linux Library's HTML export, and I'll modify it so that for each 
group you see the navigation down to it. I'll also take a primary role 
in putting this hierarchical list of links together and pointing to 
existing documentation resources, and maybe writing some new ones for 
the project.

If we do this, people with great memories won't be the only ones who 
know everything, and people with great memories will have much more 
time to do real work rather than ask repetitive questions.

Thanks

SteveT

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

Re: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

2011-05-12 Thread curtis osterhoudt 
An _excellent_ idea, Steve.


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From: Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com>
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thu, May 12, 2011 12:47:26 PM
Subject: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

On Thursday 12 May 2011 13:02:01 Richard Heck wrote:
> On 05/12/2011 11:56 AM, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
> > I'm working on a book. Consist of "ordinary" text and poems, each
> > poem having to be in its own chapter. I'd like these chapters to
> > start on odd or even page, without eventually leaving blank
> > pages between them. How to achieve that ?
> 
> Add the option "openany" to the class options under
> Document>Settings.
> 
> rh

See Richard, you and probably 20 other people on this list ALWAYS know 
what's available. I've used Openany but didn't remember it. People 
regularly reply to a question "How do I make it do such and such?", 
you guys reply "oh, you just \usepackage{so_and_so}" and you're right, 
it works. You guys have spectacular memories.

Frustrating for me is I have no such memory, and unless I can review 
all my layout files and find an answer, I'll have to re-ask the 
question. CTAN is no help because it lists hundreds of packages, but 
not by function. For whatever reason Google ends up listing solutions 
like I do -- writing a bunch of LaTeX to do the job because the author 
didn't know about a simple package.

I'm thinking if there's a way we can create a document that lists 
packages and other little tricks (openany for instance) **BY 
FUNCTIONALITY**, newbies stand a fighting chance, people like me can 
remember in a matter of minutes rather than hours (or worse yet, 
reinventing the wheel), and people like you will get less of the same 
old questions.

I think the format of this resource should be a single web page with 
lots of links, arranged in a hierarchy. A good example is my Linux 
Library page:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/index.htm

The beautiful thing about this page is you can either drill down, or 
if that doesn't work, you can search the single page for keywords.

Another wonderful thing about it is it's actually maintained as a tab 
indented outline (by VimOutliner or Emacs org mode or with any text 
editor). So adding a new resource is almost instantaneous. Then you 
just run an export program that turns it into an HTML page. In my 
opinion this is much cleaner, easier, and faster than the traditional 
Wiki page.

If you guys want to do it this way I'll be glad to give you the source 
for Linux Library's HTML export, and I'll modify it so that for each 
group you see the navigation down to it. I'll also take a primary role 
in putting this hierarchical list of links together and pointing to 
existing documentation resources, and maybe writing some new ones for 
the project.

If we do this, people with great memories won't be the only ones who 
know everything, and people with great memories will have much more 
time to do real work rather than ask repetitive questions.

Thanks

SteveT

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