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
about custom key bindings
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
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
about custom key bindings
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
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
about custom key bindings
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
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
