Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-21 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 21, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i have been looking around for examples of other phd thesis with very little success. any pointers would be most welcome! Have you checked w/ your math/physics/comp-sci department to see if they've a LaTeX template? There're a couple

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-21 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 21, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i have been looking around for examples of other phd thesis with very little success. any pointers would be most welcome! Have you checked w/ your math/physics/comp-sci department to see if they've a LaTeX template? There're a couple

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-21 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 21, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i have been looking around for examples of other phd thesis with very little success. any pointers would be most welcome! Have you checked w/ your math/physics/comp-sci department to see if they've a LaTeX template? There're a couple

Re: WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005

2005-11-18 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 18, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: So I haven't tested with a pre-existing Miktex install for the Small installer I did this last night, and was able to view the manual as a .dvi and a .pdf (made using dvips / ghostscript). It seemed to work well, though I didn't do much

Re: pointers to descriptions of various document layouts?

2005-11-18 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 18, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Alexis Huxley wrote: Hi, this isn't a LyX-specific question, but as a LyX user, and seeing how well LyX is orientated to specific document classes, I figured the people here would understand the question or be able to refer me to others places to ask ... Have you

Re: WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005

2005-11-18 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 18, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: So I haven't tested with a pre-existing Miktex install for the Small installer I did this last night, and was able to view the manual as a .dvi and a .pdf (made using dvips / ghostscript). It seemed to work well, though I didn't do much

Re: pointers to descriptions of various document layouts?

2005-11-18 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 18, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Alexis Huxley wrote: Hi, this isn't a LyX-specific question, but as a LyX user, and seeing how well LyX is orientated to specific document classes, I figured the people here would understand the question or be able to refer me to others places to ask ... Have you

Re: WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005

2005-11-18 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 18, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: So I haven't tested with a pre-existing Miktex install for the Small installer I did this last night, and was able to view the manual as a .dvi and a .pdf (made using dvips / ghostscript). It seemed to work well, though I didn't do much

Re: pointers to descriptions of various document layouts?

2005-11-18 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 18, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Alexis Huxley wrote: Hi, this isn't a LyX-specific question, but as a LyX user, and seeing how well LyX is orientated to specific document classes, I figured the people here would understand the question or be able to refer me to others places to ask ... Have you

Re: Latin Modern in Dropped Capitals

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
For the record, here's what I sent to Jim privately dropping is a really old package. I'd suggest using the newer lettrine instead: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/lettrine/ Esp. note what's said here on it in the FAQ:

Re: about font

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 14, 2005, at 6:56 AM, Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: I need to use font Garamond Condensed, How I can get and install that font? This is a commercial font. Purchase it from your favourite font vendor, then install the font using fontinst (rename the files according to the Karl Berry

OT: mulitvalent (was Re: Pdf utilities and fonts, an off topic iota recanted)

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
Glad to see that all is settled on the emotional front here. I found the original post quite interesting, and see something of a corollary in it (that all letterforms could be meta-ized and described algorithmically) with that of LyX (that all documents can be worked on by displaying a visual

OT?:dynamic typography and references (was Re: mulitvalent (was Re: Pdf utilities and fonts, an off topic iota recanted))

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 14, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: I am developing an interest in digital typography where a few well chosen fonts are placed in a page design to mutually enhance some theme which of course represents an intended message to impart. A concern to a LyXer choosing fonts and

Re: OT?:dynamic typography and references

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 14, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Very interesting age, thanks. You're welcome! BTW, the link for fontinstallationguide.pdf is wrong, it seems that the file has been moved. Sorry 'bout that. New location is: ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/

Re: Latin Modern in Dropped Capitals

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
For the record, here's what I sent to Jim privately dropping is a really old package. I'd suggest using the newer lettrine instead: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/lettrine/ Esp. note what's said here on it in the FAQ:

Re: about font

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 14, 2005, at 6:56 AM, Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: I need to use font Garamond Condensed, How I can get and install that font? This is a commercial font. Purchase it from your favourite font vendor, then install the font using fontinst (rename the files according to the Karl Berry

OT: mulitvalent (was Re: Pdf utilities and fonts, an off topic iota recanted)

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
Glad to see that all is settled on the emotional front here. I found the original post quite interesting, and see something of a corollary in it (that all letterforms could be meta-ized and described algorithmically) with that of LyX (that all documents can be worked on by displaying a visual

OT?:dynamic typography and references (was Re: mulitvalent (was Re: Pdf utilities and fonts, an off topic iota recanted))

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 14, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: I am developing an interest in digital typography where a few well chosen fonts are placed in a page design to mutually enhance some theme which of course represents an intended message to impart. A concern to a LyXer choosing fonts and

Re: OT?:dynamic typography and references

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 14, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Very interesting age, thanks. You're welcome! BTW, the link for fontinstallationguide.pdf is wrong, it seems that the file has been moved. Sorry 'bout that. New location is: ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/

Re: Latin Modern in Dropped Capitals

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
For the record, here's what I sent to Jim privately dropping is a really old package. I'd suggest using the newer lettrine instead: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/lettrine/ Esp. note what's said here on it in the FAQ:

Re: about font

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 14, 2005, at 6:56 AM, Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: I need to use font Garamond Condensed, How I can get and install that font? This is a commercial font. Purchase it from your favourite font vendor, then install the font using fontinst (rename the files according to the Karl Berry

OT: mulitvalent (was Re: Pdf utilities and fonts, an off topic iota recanted)

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
Glad to see that all is settled on the emotional front here. I found the original post quite interesting, and see something of a corollary in it (that all letterforms could be meta-ized and described algorithmically) with that of LyX (that all documents can be worked on by displaying a visual

OT?:dynamic typography and references (was Re: mulitvalent (was Re: Pdf utilities and fonts, an off topic iota recanted))

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 14, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: I am developing an interest in digital typography where a few well chosen fonts are placed in a page design to mutually enhance some theme which of course represents an intended message to impart. A concern to a LyXer choosing fonts and

Re: OT?:dynamic typography and references

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 14, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Very interesting age, thanks. You're welcome! BTW, the link for fontinstallationguide.pdf is wrong, it seems that the file has been moved. Sorry 'bout that. New location is: ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/

Re: Latin Modern in Dropped Capitals

2005-11-10 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 9, 2005, at 11:11 PM, Jim Osborn wrote: I installed teTeX-3.0 some time after building LyX-1.3.5 (Qt). I had been running teTeX-1.0.7. The Latin Modern fonts are installed as part of the teTeX-3.0 installation, and I can use them in the normal text of a LyX document via the FAQ

Re: Latin Modern in Dropped Capitals

2005-11-10 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 9, 2005, at 11:11 PM, Jim Osborn wrote: I installed teTeX-3.0 some time after building LyX-1.3.5 (Qt). I had been running teTeX-1.0.7. The Latin Modern fonts are installed as part of the teTeX-3.0 installation, and I can use them in the normal text of a LyX document via the FAQ

Re: Latin Modern in Dropped Capitals

2005-11-10 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 9, 2005, at 11:11 PM, Jim Osborn wrote: I installed teTeX-3.0 some time after building LyX-1.3.5 (Qt). I had been running teTeX-1.0.7. The Latin Modern fonts are installed as part of the teTeX-3.0 installation, and I can use them in the normal text of a LyX document via the FAQ

internationalization issues (was Re: Forget Windows)

2005-11-09 Thread William F. Adams
(Thanks to whoever did it for re-subscribing me to the dev list) I'm making this last post to both lists and then will try to find the time to look into things on the lyx-devel side. As I alluded to before, NeXT/OPEN/GNUstep/Cocoa allows one to dynamically add and remove language support

internationalization issues (was Re: Forget Windows)

2005-11-09 Thread William F. Adams
(Thanks to whoever did it for re-subscribing me to the dev list) I'm making this last post to both lists and then will try to find the time to look into things on the lyx-devel side. As I alluded to before, NeXT/OPEN/GNUstep/Cocoa allows one to dynamically add and remove language support

internationalization issues (was Re: Forget Windows)

2005-11-09 Thread William F. Adams
(Thanks to whoever did it for re-subscribing me to the dev list) I'm making this last post to both lists and then will try to find the time to look into things on the lyx-devel side. As I alluded to before, NeXT/OPEN/GNUstep/Cocoa allows one to dynamically add and remove language support

internationalization issues (was Re: Forget Windows)

2005-11-09 Thread William F. Adams
(Thanks to whoever did it for re-subscribing me to the dev list) I'm making this last post to both lists and then will try to find the time to look into things on the lyx-devel side. As I alluded to before, NeXT/OPEN/GNUstep/Cocoa allows one to dynamically add and remove language support

internationalization issues (was Re: Forget Windows)

2005-11-09 Thread William F. Adams
(Thanks to whoever did it for re-subscribing me to the dev list) I'm making this last post to both lists and then will try to find the time to look into things on the lyx-devel side. As I alluded to before, NeXT/OPEN/GNUstep/Cocoa allows one to dynamically add and remove language support

Please don't (was Re: Forget Windows)

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
While I agree w/ Marc in wanting a Cocoa / GNUstep front-end for LyX, I would like to echo the statements of Banibrata and others that it's better to have a wide variety, and please don't abandon people who need to use Windows for one reason or other. Having Windows as an option makes LyX far

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 8, 2005, at 10:07 AM, Angus Leeming wrote: However, before any eager soul jumps on this frontend bandwagon, I'd like to introduce a note of caution and suggest that you really, really shouldn't create yet another frontend to LyX. Time is limited, there are only so many of us and another

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 8, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Angus Leeming wrote: You have a strange definition of ``for free'', William. There are 295 files in the Qt frontend totalling some 27,000 lines of code. And that's neglecting the .ui files that define the dialog structure. Yes, but all those lines and the QT

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 8, 2005, at 1:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create a translation code internally, to handle the differences in GUIs? I have (almost) finshed the translation of Qt strings. It would be useful, If I could reuse all of them, without doublecating thoose strings. This

Please don't (was Re: Forget Windows)

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
While I agree w/ Marc in wanting a Cocoa / GNUstep front-end for LyX, I would like to echo the statements of Banibrata and others that it's better to have a wide variety, and please don't abandon people who need to use Windows for one reason or other. Having Windows as an option makes LyX far

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 8, 2005, at 10:07 AM, Angus Leeming wrote: However, before any eager soul jumps on this frontend bandwagon, I'd like to introduce a note of caution and suggest that you really, really shouldn't create yet another frontend to LyX. Time is limited, there are only so many of us and another

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 8, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Angus Leeming wrote: You have a strange definition of ``for free'', William. There are 295 files in the Qt frontend totalling some 27,000 lines of code. And that's neglecting the .ui files that define the dialog structure. Yes, but all those lines and the QT

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 8, 2005, at 1:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create a translation code internally, to handle the differences in GUIs? I have (almost) finshed the translation of Qt strings. It would be useful, If I could reuse all of them, without doublecating thoose strings. This

Please don't (was Re: Forget Windows)

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
While I agree w/ Marc in wanting a Cocoa / GNUstep front-end for LyX, I would like to echo the statements of Banibrata and others that it's better to have a wide variety, and please don't abandon people who need to use Windows for one reason or other. Having Windows as an option makes LyX far

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 8, 2005, at 10:07 AM, Angus Leeming wrote: However, before any eager soul jumps on this frontend bandwagon, I'd like to introduce a note of caution and suggest that you really, really shouldn't create yet another frontend to LyX. Time is limited, there are only so many of us and another

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 8, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Angus Leeming wrote: You have a strange definition of ``for free'', William. There are 295 files in the Qt frontend totalling some 27,000 lines of code. And that's neglecting the .ui files that define the dialog structure. Yes, but all those lines and the QT

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 8, 2005, at 1:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create a translation code internally, to handle the differences in GUIs? I have (almost) finshed the translation of Qt strings. It would be useful, If I could reuse all of them, without doublecating thoose strings. This

Re: IANA Blackhole Servers Ill?

2005-10-21 Thread William F. Maton Sotomayor
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Crist Clark wrote: 2) They've been going up and down, so even if you go check and it works that one time, you may have caught it up. Something's definitely going on, as the server at ISC seems to be coming and going in operation. 3) I'd try to ask it which anycast

[Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2005-10-08 Thread William F. Hill, Jr.
Is it possible to download the membership list? If so, how? When I go to my administration panel and select Membership Options I only see members that are subscribed under the alphabetical heading. I would like to be able to see the whole list at once. Is this possible? Coram Deo, William F

Re: LaTeX for the printers ?

2005-08-29 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 29, 2005, at 11:31 AM, Søren O'Neill wrote: a general question - If I set a document up in LaTeX, would one expect it to be readily accepted by professional printshops? As others have noted, if one provides a .pdf, w/ appropriate embedded graphics and all fonts embedded, one can send

Re: LaTeX for the printers ?

2005-08-29 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 29, 2005, at 11:31 AM, Søren O'Neill wrote: a general question - If I set a document up in LaTeX, would one expect it to be readily accepted by professional printshops? As others have noted, if one provides a .pdf, w/ appropriate embedded graphics and all fonts embedded, one can send

Re: LaTeX for the printers ?

2005-08-29 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 29, 2005, at 11:31 AM, Søren O'Neill wrote: a general question - If I set a document up in LaTeX, would one expect it to be readily accepted by professional printshops? As others have noted, if one provides a .pdf, w/ appropriate embedded graphics and all fonts embedded, one can send

Re: How to make a unique cover (first page)

2005-08-22 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 21, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Leon Chen wrote: How can I make a unique cover page? For example, I have to make it according to the specification our college demmanded. The formats available in the lyx are not enough to make it... such as some text have to be aligned to bottom and write my name.

Re: How to make a unique cover (first page)

2005-08-22 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 21, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Leon Chen wrote: How can I make a unique cover page? For example, I have to make it according to the specification our college demmanded. The formats available in the lyx are not enough to make it... such as some text have to be aligned to bottom and write my name.

Re: How to make a unique cover (first page)

2005-08-22 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 21, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Leon Chen wrote: How can I make a unique cover page? For example, I have to make it according to the specification our college demmanded. The formats available in the lyx are not enough to make it... such as some text have to be aligned to bottom and write my name.

img, src, content-id, content-location, RFC, 2557 etc. (Was: A problem about mml)

2005-08-16 Thread William F Hammond
Yuan MEI [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 23 July 2005: I am using multipart, part type=text/html to compose a mail with html embedded in. And img src=http://www.host.../1.jpg; / works well for inserting pictures into a mail. Aside: images attached to text/plain messages will be displayed

a hint (was Re: Palatino SUMMARY)

2005-08-12 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 12, 2005, at 7:57 AM, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Ok I know it is bad to start a new thread but I think a number of things need to be listed so that people (me included) aren't confused.   I am using   \usepackage{palatino}   This provides Type 1 (non-bitmap) fonts.   The dvi file is perfect 

a hint (was Re: Palatino SUMMARY)

2005-08-12 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 12, 2005, at 7:57 AM, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Ok I know it is bad to start a new thread but I think a number of things need to be listed so that people (me included) aren't confused.   I am using   \usepackage{palatino}   This provides Type 1 (non-bitmap) fonts.   The dvi file is perfect 

a hint (was Re: Palatino SUMMARY)

2005-08-12 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 12, 2005, at 7:57 AM, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Ok I know it is bad to start a new thread but I think a number of things need to be listed so that people (me included) aren't confused.   I am using   \usepackage{palatino}   This provides Type 1 (non-bitmap) fonts.   The dvi file is perfect 

Re: Font advice

2005-08-09 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 9, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: I have prepared my thesis and all is well. I just wnated some advice or guidance about fonts in Latex - I know this is a Lyx list but many latex gurus lurk here! Basically I want to use a nice modern looking font - the sort that might be

Re: Font advice

2005-08-09 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 9, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: I have prepared my thesis and all is well. I just wnated some advice or guidance about fonts in Latex - I know this is a Lyx list but many latex gurus lurk here! Basically I want to use a nice modern looking font - the sort that might be

Re: Font advice

2005-08-09 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 9, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: I have prepared my thesis and all is well. I just wnated some advice or guidance about fonts in Latex - I know this is a Lyx list but many latex gurus lurk here! Basically I want to use a nice modern looking font - the sort that might be

secret key not available

2005-08-08 Thread William F Holmes
try to decrypt: gpg: Warning: using insecure memory! gpg: encrypted with ELG-E key, ID 7725AAB6 gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available We're using GnuPG version 1.0.6. What have we done wrong? William F. Holmes Sr. PeopleSoft Oracle Database Administrator Desk: 703-818-5635 E-mail

1.3.6 install on Win98SE crash logs

2005-08-03 Thread William F. Adams
I've not had much luck doing this (had 1.3.4 up fine). I'm going to try zipping up a successful install here at work and seeing if that works at home. In the meanwhile, here're the two logs w/ I saved of crashes on two different attempts to install: LYX-1 caused a general protection fault

Re: 1.3.6 install on Win98SE crash logs

2005-08-03 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 3, 2005, at 10:34 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Ouch! that is not very informative, is it? Is it dureing the install or when running LyX? It's during the install, right after I've okayed all of the programs / file locations c. and it actually starts the install. Are there any

1.3.6 install on Win98SE crash logs

2005-08-03 Thread William F. Adams
I've not had much luck doing this (had 1.3.4 up fine). I'm going to try zipping up a successful install here at work and seeing if that works at home. In the meanwhile, here're the two logs w/ I saved of crashes on two different attempts to install: LYX-1 caused a general protection fault

Re: 1.3.6 install on Win98SE crash logs

2005-08-03 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 3, 2005, at 10:34 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Ouch! that is not very informative, is it? Is it dureing the install or when running LyX? It's during the install, right after I've okayed all of the programs / file locations and it actually starts the install. Are there any

Re: Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

2005-08-02 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 1, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Roy Schestowitz wrote: All I can contribute is the fact that I ran it successfully under Windows 98 SE. have you tried re-installing? When I downloaded it last (2+ years ago), it was from a small and obscure page offering the Win32 port. I can't be sure if the

Re: Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

2005-08-02 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 1, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Roy Schestowitz wrote: All I can contribute is the fact that I ran it successfully under Windows 98 SE. have you tried re-installing? When I downloaded it last (2+ years ago), it was from a small and obscure page offering the Win32 port. I can't be sure if the

Re: Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

2005-08-02 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 1, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Roy Schestowitz wrote: All I can contribute is the fact that I ran it successfully under Windows 98 SE. have you tried re-installing? When I downloaded it last (2+ years ago), it was from a small and obscure page offering the Win32 port. I can't be sure if the

Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

2005-08-01 Thread William F. Adams
The install keeps crashing on me --- where should I send the crash log? Or should I give up until I'm running something made in this century? William -- William Adams, publishing specialist voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708 www.atlis.com

Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

2005-08-01 Thread William F. Adams
The install keeps crashing on me --- where should I send the crash log? Or should I give up until I'm running something made in this century? William -- William Adams, publishing specialist voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708 www.atlis.com

Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

2005-08-01 Thread William F. Adams
The install keeps crashing on me --- where should I send the crash log? Or should I give up until I'm running something made in this century? William -- William Adams, publishing specialist voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708 www.atlis.com

LyX on www.apple.com (was Re: Heretical question?)

2005-07-26 Thread William F. Adams
On Jul 25, 2005, at 11:35 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: William == William F Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William John's is much better though and should be enshrined in an William FAQ or advocacy document or something. What about making

LyX on www.apple.com (was Re: Heretical question?)

2005-07-26 Thread William F. Adams
On Jul 25, 2005, at 11:35 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: William == William F Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William John's is much better though and should be enshrined in an William FAQ or advocacy document or something. What about making

LyX on www.apple.com (was Re: Heretical question?)

2005-07-26 Thread William F. Adams
On Jul 25, 2005, at 11:35 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "William" == William F Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: William> John's is much better though and should be enshrined in an William> FAQ or advocacy document or

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread William F. Adams
On Jul 24, 2005, at 9:26 PM, John O'Gorman wrote: snip excellent discussion of my WYSIWYM is a good view All of the above makes it easier to use LyX. You focus entirely on content. FWIW, I made a similar explanation in the Practical TeX on-line journal recently:

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread William F. Adams
On Jul 24, 2005, at 9:26 PM, John O'Gorman wrote: snip excellent discussion of my WYSIWYM is a good view All of the above makes it easier to use LyX. You focus entirely on content. FWIW, I made a similar explanation in the Practical TeX on-line journal recently:

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread William F. Adams
On Jul 24, 2005, at 9:26 PM, John O'Gorman wrote: excellent discussion of my WYSIWYM is a good view All of the above makes it easier to use LyX. You focus entirely on content. FWIW, I made a similar explanation in the Practical TeX on-line journal recently:

Re: Create Formula Sheet

2005-05-13 Thread William F. Adams
On May 13, 2005, at 3:56 PM, Hannan Sadar wrote: I would like to create a formula sheet. The problem is that latex is not what you see is what you get and the LyX interface isn't that good for thus kind of things, so i will need to write it in LaTeX. What i would like to ask is, if someone had

Re: Create Formula Sheet

2005-05-13 Thread William F. Adams
On May 13, 2005, at 3:56 PM, Hannan Sadar wrote: I would like to create a formula sheet. The problem is that latex is not what you see is what you get and the LyX interface isn't that good for thus kind of things, so i will need to write it in LaTeX. What i would like to ask is, if someone had

Re: Create Formula Sheet

2005-05-13 Thread William F. Adams
On May 13, 2005, at 3:56 PM, Hannan Sadar wrote: I would like to create a formula sheet. The problem is that latex is not what you see is what you get and the LyX interface isn't that good for thus kind of things, so i will need to write it in LaTeX. What i would like to ask is, if someone had

Re: [NTG-context] Bookmarking a \title

2005-05-06 Thread William F. Adams
On May 6, 2005, at 7:35 AM, John R. Culleton wrote: Let me try again. How do I bookmark a \title? What? Isn't the answer for this in a book listed in your signature? The answers to all your publishing questions are found in the excellent books listed in the word-famous shortlist!

Re: [NTG-context] Old-style figures throughout the document

2005-04-27 Thread William F. Adams
Idris asked me about this during the previous thread, before I'd joined this list. Here's a slightly edited version of my reply about osf in documents with math: Well, I did the second-pass macros, and most of the math markup / editing of a recent translation of Thomas Harriot's _Artis

perlfaq6 - stripping C++ style comments from a file

2005-04-22 Thread William F. Mann
This FAQ is needlessly obscure, even with Fred Curtis's modifications. Nobody needs a version which strips just C style comments. How about substituting the attached version which does both C and C++ style? (The C spec requires /*...*/ to act as white space. DOS format text needs the \r.) I

Re: Registerhaltigkeit

2005-03-10 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 10, 2005, at 10:42 AM, Jack M. Lyon wrote: G. Milde wrote: I realized, that a package will not work properly, as Registerhaltigkeit requires a change in the working of the TeX core regarding the computation of the vertical layout.) Nevertheless, ConTeXt, which is built on top of TeX,

Re: Registerhaltigkeit

2005-03-10 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 10, 2005, at 10:42 AM, Jack M. Lyon wrote: G. Milde wrote: I realized, that a package will not work properly, as Registerhaltigkeit requires a change in the working of the TeX core regarding the computation of the vertical layout.) Nevertheless, ConTeXt, which is built on top of TeX,

Re: Registerhaltigkeit

2005-03-10 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 10, 2005, at 10:42 AM, Jack M. Lyon wrote: G. Milde wrote: I realized, that a package will not work properly, as Registerhaltigkeit requires a change in the working of the TeX core regarding the computation of the vertical layout.) Nevertheless, ConTeXt, which is built on top of TeX,

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-04 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:47 AM, William F. Adams wrote: They did do one book on TeX, Norman Walsh's _Making TeX work_ (and may've been put out that they didn't get some TeX books they wanted early on) but have since been said to've likened it to ``wombat sex'' for its obscurity. You can find MTW

Re: selling lyx part 2

2005-03-04 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 4:06 AM, G. Milde wrote: I would really like a set of with LyX vs. with other examples on http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ProsAndCons Maarten Sneep just posted this to the Mac OS X TeX mailing list: http://www.nat.vu.nl/~sneep/ars/type/overview.html William -- William Adams, publishing

Re: Seeking Resource Recommendations

2005-03-04 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: What I would really appreciate is recommendations for references on creating/modifying document classes. There is an appendix in Guide to LaTeX, Fourth Edition, but it has no discussion of several commands (such as \makeatletter, \makeother) I've

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-04 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:47 AM, William F. Adams wrote: They did do one book on TeX, Norman Walsh's _Making TeX work_ (and may've been put out that they didn't get some TeX books they wanted early on) but have since been said to've likened it to ``wombat sex'' for its obscurity. You can find MTW

Re: selling lyx part 2

2005-03-04 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 4:06 AM, G. Milde wrote: I would really like a set of with LyX vs. with other examples on http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ProsAndCons Maarten Sneep just posted this to the Mac OS X TeX mailing list: http://www.nat.vu.nl/~sneep/ars/type/overview.html William -- William Adams, publishing

Re: Seeking Resource Recommendations

2005-03-04 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: What I would really appreciate is recommendations for references on creating/modifying document classes. There is an appendix in Guide to LaTeX, Fourth Edition, but it has no discussion of several commands (such as \makeatletter, \makeother) I've

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-04 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:47 AM, William F. Adams wrote: They did do one book on TeX, Norman Walsh's _Making TeX work_ (and may've been put out that they didn't get some TeX books they wanted early on) but have since been said to've likened it to ``wombat sex'' for its obscurity. You can find MTW

Re: selling lyx part 2

2005-03-04 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 4:06 AM, G. Milde wrote: I would really like a set of "with LyX" vs. "with other" examples on http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ProsAndCons Maarten Sneep just posted this to the Mac OS X TeX mailing list: http://www.nat.vu.nl/~sneep/ars/type/overview.html William -- William Adams,

Re: Seeking Resource Recommendations

2005-03-04 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: What I would really appreciate is recommendations for references on creating/modifying document classes. There is an appendix in "Guide to LaTeX, Fourth Edition", but it has no discussion of several commands (such as \makeatletter, \makeother)

possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-03 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 3, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: For books: Big publishers (i.e. big UP presses) behave as journals: they want word files and will re-typeset everything. (Actually some p. houses will retype everything from paper...). Smaller publishing houses and/or imprints will want a

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-03 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:32 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: One of publishing's great mysteries -- to me, at least -- is why O'Reilly Associates insist that their authors submit manuscripts in Word format. I know several authors who work strictly in linux and despise having to use OO.o then translate

possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-03 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 3, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: For books: Big publishers (i.e. big UP presses) behave as journals: they want word files and will re-typeset everything. (Actually some p. houses will retype everything from paper...). Smaller publishing houses and/or imprints will want a

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-03 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:32 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: One of publishing's great mysteries -- to me, at least -- is why O'Reilly Associates insist that their authors submit manuscripts in Word format. I know several authors who work strictly in linux and despise having to use OO.o then translate

possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-03 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 3, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: For books: Big publishers (i.e. big UP presses) behave as journals: they want word files and will re-typeset everything. (Actually some p. houses will retype everything from paper...). Smaller publishing houses and/or imprints will want a

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-03 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:32 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: One of publishing's great mysteries -- to me, at least -- is why O'Reilly & Associates insist that their authors submit manuscripts in Word format. I know several authors who work strictly in linux and despise having to use OO.o then translate

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