Re: about custom key bindings
Thank you Paul, people in the mailing list (including you, of course) are really helpful. I appreciate it. I also know and acknowledge that this is a big plus. Regards, Nusret --- Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/14/05, Nusret BALCI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know Scientific workplace from my MS thesis: It's reasonably well, but sometimes you need to tweak the Latex code anyway. For some reason you should be extremely careful doing that, because it tried to eat my document a couple of times when I was trying to write the abstract and bibliography. Thanks God I had multiple backups :). It sometimes does not cooperate well with other editors, and I guess that's the reason for incompatibility. You're right in that, it's not very reliable for sharing documents (at least I feel so). This is true even when you save the file as portable LaTeX and avoid all those TCI macros. Anyway, it's in fact a good piece of software, but if someone requests hundreds of dollars for something, they should be ready for all kinds of moaning and whining (like mine :)). And to be fair I used it a couple of years ago, so probably newer versions may be more robust. I don't know if you mean that, but I tried to set up emacs and auctex with preview mode but for some reason emacs keeps freezing and crushing on my machine: I'm not a big fan of it anyways:). Therefore I couldn't get to the preview mode at all:). Searching for a solution, I've seen an article on the web which mentioned LyX in just one line (it was about Vim vs. Emacs; namely something alien for a Windows user like me:) LyX fares well as the time being though, and I'm fairly impressed. Nusret, I was an user of Scientific WorkPlace, and I was extremely hesitant before migrating to LyX. Now, using LyX, I can tell you that I feel as having done the best choice. In short, LyX is an intelligent program made by intelligent people. Welcome to LyX and to this very helpful mailing list! Paul __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com
Re: about custom key bindings
Thank you Paul, people in the mailing list (including you, of course) are really helpful. I appreciate it. I also know and acknowledge that this is a big plus. Regards, Nusret --- Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/14/05, Nusret BALCI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know Scientific workplace from my MS thesis: It's reasonably well, but sometimes you need to tweak the Latex code anyway. For some reason you should be extremely careful doing that, because it tried to eat my document a couple of times when I was trying to write the abstract and bibliography. Thanks God I had multiple backups :). It sometimes does not cooperate well with other editors, and I guess that's the reason for incompatibility. You're right in that, it's not very reliable for sharing documents (at least I feel so). This is true even when you save the file as portable LaTeX and avoid all those TCI macros. Anyway, it's in fact a good piece of software, but if someone requests hundreds of dollars for something, they should be ready for all kinds of moaning and whining (like mine :)). And to be fair I used it a couple of years ago, so probably newer versions may be more robust. I don't know if you mean that, but I tried to set up emacs and auctex with preview mode but for some reason emacs keeps freezing and crushing on my machine: I'm not a big fan of it anyways:). Therefore I couldn't get to the preview mode at all:). Searching for a solution, I've seen an article on the web which mentioned LyX in just one line (it was about Vim vs. Emacs; namely something alien for a Windows user like me:) LyX fares well as the time being though, and I'm fairly impressed. Nusret, I was an user of Scientific WorkPlace, and I was extremely hesitant before migrating to LyX. Now, using LyX, I can tell you that I feel as having done the best choice. In short, LyX is an intelligent program made by intelligent people. Welcome to LyX and to this very helpful mailing list! Paul __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com
Re: about custom key bindings
Thank you Paul, people in the mailing list (including you, of course) are really helpful. I appreciate it. I also know and acknowledge that this is a big plus. Regards, Nusret --- Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/14/05, Nusret BALCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > I know Scientific workplace from my MS thesis: > It's > > reasonably well, but sometimes you need to tweak > the > > Latex code anyway. For some reason you should be > > extremely careful doing that, because it tried to > eat > > my document a couple of times when I was trying to > > write the abstract and bibliography. Thanks God I > had > > multiple backups :). It sometimes does not > cooperate > > well with other editors, and I guess that's the > reason > > for incompatibility. You're right in that, it's > not > > very reliable for sharing documents (at least I > feel > > so). > > This is true even when you save the file as > portable > > LaTeX and avoid all those TCI macros. Anyway, it's > in > > fact a good piece of software, but if someone > requests > > hundreds of dollars for something, they should be > > ready for all kinds of moaning and whining (like > mine > > :)). And to be fair I used it a couple of years > ago, > > so probably newer versions may be more robust. > > > > I don't know if you mean that, but I tried to set > up > > emacs and auctex with preview mode but for some > reason > > emacs keeps freezing and crushing on my machine: > I'm > > not a big fan of it anyways:). Therefore I > couldn't > > get to the preview mode at all:). Searching for a > > solution, I've seen an article on the web which > > mentioned LyX in just one line (it was about Vim > vs. > > Emacs; namely something alien for a Windows user > like > > me:) > > > > LyX fares well as the time being though, and I'm > > fairly impressed. > > Nusret, > > I was an user of Scientific WorkPlace, and I was > extremely hesitant > before migrating to LyX. Now, using LyX, I can tell > you that I feel as > having done the best choice. In short, LyX is an > intelligent program > made by intelligent people. Welcome to LyX and to > this very helpful > mailing list! > > Paul > __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com
Re: about custom key bindings
Nusret BALCI wrote: Hi, Is there a way to instruct LyX to treat C-i as a request for italic font in text mode and for integral sign in math mode? It does one or the other always regardless of the mode here :) (I'm new, a 2-days long LyX user, on Windows XP). Regards, Nusret No, key bindings are global, not mode-specific. However, you can certainly bind something else to the integral sign, perhaps S-C-i or C-m i or C-M-i? (Or you can just type \int in math mode for the integral sign.) Paul
Re: about custom key bindings
Oops, I replied to the message, but I'm afraid it went to Paul's inbox directly. Sorry, I'll be more careful in the future. Regards, Nusret --- Nusret BALCI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a way to instruct LyX to treat C-i as a request for italic font in text mode and for integral sign in math mode? It does one or the other always regardless of the mode here :) (I'm new, a 2-days long LyX user, on Windows XP). Regards, Nusret __ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com
Re: about custom key bindings
I know Scientific workplace from my MS thesis: It's reasonably well, but sometimes you need to tweak the Latex code anyway. For some reason you should be extremely careful doing that, because it tried to eat my document a couple of times when I was trying to write the abstract and bibliography. Thanks God I had multiple backups :). It sometimes does not cooperate well with other editors, and I guess that's the reason for incompatibility. You're right in that, it's not very reliable for sharing documents (at least I feel so). This is true even when you save the file as portable LaTeX and avoid all those TCI macros. Anyway, it's in fact a good piece of software, but if someone requests hundreds of dollars for something, they should be ready for all kinds of moaning and whining (like mine :)). And to be fair I used it a couple of years ago, so probably newer versions may be more robust. I don't know if you mean that, but I tried to set up emacs and auctex with preview mode but for some reason emacs keeps freezing and crushing on my machine: I'm not a big fan of it anyways:). Therefore I couldn't get to the preview mode at all:). Searching for a solution, I've seen an article on the web which mentioned LyX in just one line (it was about Vim vs. Emacs; namely something alien for a Windows user like me:) LyX fares well as the time being though, and I'm fairly impressed. Nusret --- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nusret BALCI wrote: Alright, not a big deal. I was struggling with LaTeX front ends: Winedt seems to be best among them, but even that is not much more than a text editor, say Scintilla. Right, AFAIK Winedt does nothing to insulate you from LaTeX. LyX may be a real savior if it is as good as my first impression--we'll see :) It is. (Literally: it may save me a couple of hundreds of bucks: I was about to buy Scientific Workplace :). I was on the cusp of that myself before I came across LyX. There are a couple of other open-source projects out there doing front-ends to LaTeX, including at least one or two that try to render the document on the fly (WYSIWYG). I tried one, and it's pretty slow. LyX does not completely eliminate a need for LaTeX, but it handles 80-90% of the job, and you can stick in raw LaTeX where needed. I think you're going to like it, and the price is certainly attractive. I did a co-authored paper with a Scientific Workplace user. Turns out SW lards up the LaTeX file with custom (SW-specific) styles and/or commands. Not a problem if two SW users are swapping a document back and forth, but I imagine that trying to send the exported LaTeX file to a publisher might be an adventure. Thank you for help, paul: i appreciate it. You're welcome. Paul __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com
Re: about custom key bindings
On 11/14/05, Nusret BALCI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know Scientific workplace from my MS thesis: It's reasonably well, but sometimes you need to tweak the Latex code anyway. For some reason you should be extremely careful doing that, because it tried to eat my document a couple of times when I was trying to write the abstract and bibliography. Thanks God I had multiple backups :). It sometimes does not cooperate well with other editors, and I guess that's the reason for incompatibility. You're right in that, it's not very reliable for sharing documents (at least I feel so). This is true even when you save the file as portable LaTeX and avoid all those TCI macros. Anyway, it's in fact a good piece of software, but if someone requests hundreds of dollars for something, they should be ready for all kinds of moaning and whining (like mine :)). And to be fair I used it a couple of years ago, so probably newer versions may be more robust. I don't know if you mean that, but I tried to set up emacs and auctex with preview mode but for some reason emacs keeps freezing and crushing on my machine: I'm not a big fan of it anyways:). Therefore I couldn't get to the preview mode at all:). Searching for a solution, I've seen an article on the web which mentioned LyX in just one line (it was about Vim vs. Emacs; namely something alien for a Windows user like me:) LyX fares well as the time being though, and I'm fairly impressed. Nusret, I was an user of Scientific WorkPlace, and I was extremely hesitant before migrating to LyX. Now, using LyX, I can tell you that I feel as having done the best choice. In short, LyX is an intelligent program made by intelligent people. Welcome to LyX and to this very helpful mailing list! Paul
Re: about custom key bindings
Nusret BALCI wrote: Hi, Is there a way to instruct LyX to treat C-i as a request for italic font in text mode and for integral sign in math mode? It does one or the other always regardless of the mode here :) (I'm new, a 2-days long LyX user, on Windows XP). Regards, Nusret No, key bindings are global, not mode-specific. However, you can certainly bind something else to the integral sign, perhaps S-C-i or C-m i or C-M-i? (Or you can just type \int in math mode for the integral sign.) Paul
Re: about custom key bindings
Oops, I replied to the message, but I'm afraid it went to Paul's inbox directly. Sorry, I'll be more careful in the future. Regards, Nusret --- Nusret BALCI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a way to instruct LyX to treat C-i as a request for italic font in text mode and for integral sign in math mode? It does one or the other always regardless of the mode here :) (I'm new, a 2-days long LyX user, on Windows XP). Regards, Nusret __ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com
Re: about custom key bindings
I know Scientific workplace from my MS thesis: It's reasonably well, but sometimes you need to tweak the Latex code anyway. For some reason you should be extremely careful doing that, because it tried to eat my document a couple of times when I was trying to write the abstract and bibliography. Thanks God I had multiple backups :). It sometimes does not cooperate well with other editors, and I guess that's the reason for incompatibility. You're right in that, it's not very reliable for sharing documents (at least I feel so). This is true even when you save the file as portable LaTeX and avoid all those TCI macros. Anyway, it's in fact a good piece of software, but if someone requests hundreds of dollars for something, they should be ready for all kinds of moaning and whining (like mine :)). And to be fair I used it a couple of years ago, so probably newer versions may be more robust. I don't know if you mean that, but I tried to set up emacs and auctex with preview mode but for some reason emacs keeps freezing and crushing on my machine: I'm not a big fan of it anyways:). Therefore I couldn't get to the preview mode at all:). Searching for a solution, I've seen an article on the web which mentioned LyX in just one line (it was about Vim vs. Emacs; namely something alien for a Windows user like me:) LyX fares well as the time being though, and I'm fairly impressed. Nusret --- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nusret BALCI wrote: Alright, not a big deal. I was struggling with LaTeX front ends: Winedt seems to be best among them, but even that is not much more than a text editor, say Scintilla. Right, AFAIK Winedt does nothing to insulate you from LaTeX. LyX may be a real savior if it is as good as my first impression--we'll see :) It is. (Literally: it may save me a couple of hundreds of bucks: I was about to buy Scientific Workplace :). I was on the cusp of that myself before I came across LyX. There are a couple of other open-source projects out there doing front-ends to LaTeX, including at least one or two that try to render the document on the fly (WYSIWYG). I tried one, and it's pretty slow. LyX does not completely eliminate a need for LaTeX, but it handles 80-90% of the job, and you can stick in raw LaTeX where needed. I think you're going to like it, and the price is certainly attractive. I did a co-authored paper with a Scientific Workplace user. Turns out SW lards up the LaTeX file with custom (SW-specific) styles and/or commands. Not a problem if two SW users are swapping a document back and forth, but I imagine that trying to send the exported LaTeX file to a publisher might be an adventure. Thank you for help, paul: i appreciate it. You're welcome. Paul __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com
Re: about custom key bindings
On 11/14/05, Nusret BALCI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know Scientific workplace from my MS thesis: It's reasonably well, but sometimes you need to tweak the Latex code anyway. For some reason you should be extremely careful doing that, because it tried to eat my document a couple of times when I was trying to write the abstract and bibliography. Thanks God I had multiple backups :). It sometimes does not cooperate well with other editors, and I guess that's the reason for incompatibility. You're right in that, it's not very reliable for sharing documents (at least I feel so). This is true even when you save the file as portable LaTeX and avoid all those TCI macros. Anyway, it's in fact a good piece of software, but if someone requests hundreds of dollars for something, they should be ready for all kinds of moaning and whining (like mine :)). And to be fair I used it a couple of years ago, so probably newer versions may be more robust. I don't know if you mean that, but I tried to set up emacs and auctex with preview mode but for some reason emacs keeps freezing and crushing on my machine: I'm not a big fan of it anyways:). Therefore I couldn't get to the preview mode at all:). Searching for a solution, I've seen an article on the web which mentioned LyX in just one line (it was about Vim vs. Emacs; namely something alien for a Windows user like me:) LyX fares well as the time being though, and I'm fairly impressed. Nusret, I was an user of Scientific WorkPlace, and I was extremely hesitant before migrating to LyX. Now, using LyX, I can tell you that I feel as having done the best choice. In short, LyX is an intelligent program made by intelligent people. Welcome to LyX and to this very helpful mailing list! Paul
Re: about custom key bindings
Nusret BALCI wrote: Hi, Is there a way to instruct LyX to treat "C-i" as a request for italic font in text mode and for integral sign in math mode? It does one or the other always regardless of the mode here :) (I'm new, a 2-days long LyX user, on Windows XP). Regards, Nusret No, key bindings are "global", not mode-specific. However, you can certainly bind something else to the integral sign, perhaps S-C-i or C-m i or C-M-i? (Or you can just type \int in math mode for the integral sign.) Paul
Re: about custom key bindings
Oops, I replied to the message, but I'm afraid it went to Paul's inbox directly. Sorry, I'll be more careful in the future. Regards, Nusret --- Nusret BALCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Is there a way to instruct LyX to treat "C-i" as a > request for italic font in text mode and for > integral > sign in math mode? It does one or the other always > regardless of the mode here :) (I'm new, a 2-days > long > LyX user, on Windows XP). > Regards, > > Nusret > > > > __ > Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! > > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com
Re: about custom key bindings
I know Scientific workplace from my MS thesis: It's reasonably well, but sometimes you need to tweak the Latex code anyway. For some reason you should be extremely careful doing that, because it tried to eat my document a couple of times when I was trying to write the abstract and bibliography. Thanks God I had multiple backups :). It sometimes does not cooperate well with other editors, and I guess that's the reason for incompatibility. You're right in that, it's not very reliable for sharing documents (at least I feel so). This is true even when you save the file as portable LaTeX and avoid all those TCI macros. Anyway, it's in fact a good piece of software, but if someone requests hundreds of dollars for something, they should be ready for all kinds of moaning and whining (like mine :)). And to be fair I used it a couple of years ago, so probably newer versions may be more robust. I don't know if you mean that, but I tried to set up emacs and auctex with preview mode but for some reason emacs keeps freezing and crushing on my machine: I'm not a big fan of it anyways:). Therefore I couldn't get to the preview mode at all:). Searching for a solution, I've seen an article on the web which mentioned LyX in just one line (it was about Vim vs. Emacs; namely something alien for a Windows user like me:) LyX fares well as the time being though, and I'm fairly impressed. Nusret --- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nusret BALCI wrote: > > >Alright, not a big deal. I was struggling with > LaTeX > >front ends: Winedt seems to be best among them, but > >even that is not much more than a text editor, say > >Scintilla. > > > Right, AFAIK Winedt does nothing to insulate you > from LaTeX. > > > LyX may be a real savior if it is as good > >as my first impression--we'll see :) > > > It is. > > > (Literally: it > >may save me a couple of hundreds of bucks: I was > about > >to buy Scientific Workplace :). > > > > > I was on the cusp of that myself before I came > across LyX. There are a > couple of other open-source projects out there doing > front-ends to > LaTeX, including at least one or two that try to > render the document on > the fly (WYSIWYG). I tried one, and it's pretty > slow. LyX does not > completely eliminate a need for LaTeX, but it > handles 80-90% of the job, > and you can stick in raw LaTeX where needed. I > think you're going to > like it, and the price is certainly attractive. > > I did a co-authored paper with a Scientific > Workplace user. Turns out > SW lards up the LaTeX file with custom (SW-specific) > styles and/or > commands. Not a problem if two SW users are > swapping a document back > and forth, but I imagine that trying to send the > exported LaTeX file to > a publisher might be an adventure. > > >Thank you for help, paul: i appreciate it. > > > > > You're welcome. > > Paul > __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com
Re: about custom key bindings
On 11/14/05, Nusret BALCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know Scientific workplace from my MS thesis: It's > reasonably well, but sometimes you need to tweak the > Latex code anyway. For some reason you should be > extremely careful doing that, because it tried to eat > my document a couple of times when I was trying to > write the abstract and bibliography. Thanks God I had > multiple backups :). It sometimes does not cooperate > well with other editors, and I guess that's the reason > for incompatibility. You're right in that, it's not > very reliable for sharing documents (at least I feel > so). > This is true even when you save the file as portable > LaTeX and avoid all those TCI macros. Anyway, it's in > fact a good piece of software, but if someone requests > hundreds of dollars for something, they should be > ready for all kinds of moaning and whining (like mine > :)). And to be fair I used it a couple of years ago, > so probably newer versions may be more robust. > > I don't know if you mean that, but I tried to set up > emacs and auctex with preview mode but for some reason > emacs keeps freezing and crushing on my machine: I'm > not a big fan of it anyways:). Therefore I couldn't > get to the preview mode at all:). Searching for a > solution, I've seen an article on the web which > mentioned LyX in just one line (it was about Vim vs. > Emacs; namely something alien for a Windows user like > me:) > > LyX fares well as the time being though, and I'm > fairly impressed. Nusret, I was an user of Scientific WorkPlace, and I was extremely hesitant before migrating to LyX. Now, using LyX, I can tell you that I feel as having done the best choice. In short, LyX is an intelligent program made by intelligent people. Welcome to LyX and to this very helpful mailing list! Paul
