Thanks all for your discussion on Lyx vs LaTex (and Word).
I've been traveling and now pouring through a month's worth of emails.
Just before I left, after reading all the documents that come with the
TexLive system on Debian, I took 30 minutes and translated a few Lout
letters into Latex. It
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:13:39PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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Ron Johnson wrote:
There's no Law Of Nature that says you can't have your greenbar
printout next to your terminal.
I prefer 2 screens
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote:
what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or do easy
stuff with the wysiwig, then modify the latex files if there's stuff not
easily handled by a wysiwig.
Lyx, but why?
Discovered 'gnuhtml2latex'. What a *neat*
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:54:30PM +1300 or thereabouts, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote:
what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or do easy
stuff with the wysiwig, then modify the latex files if there's stuff not
On Saturday 24 February 2007 01:54, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote:
what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or do easy
stuff with the wysiwig, then modify the latex files if there's stuff not
easily handled by a
* tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070224 17:28]:
On Saturday 24 February 2007 01:54, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote:
what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or
do easy stuff with the wysiwig, then modify the latex files if
On Saturday 24 February 2007 16:15, Russell L. Harris wrote:
* tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070224 17:28]:
On Saturday 24 February 2007 01:54, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote:
what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/21/07 23:19, Steve Lamb wrote:
Because I asked? Why do I have to justify why I asked that question?
Because I asked? Why do I have to justify why I asked that question?
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On 02/22/07 02:00, Steve Lamb wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/21/07 23:19, Steve Lamb wrote:
Because I asked? Why do I have to justify why I asked that question?
Because I asked? Why do I have to justify why I asked that question?
It's
Ron Johnson wrote:
It's not Polite (nay, it's downright stupid) to ask Why do you want
to know that? on a -user mailing list.
Erm, it's impolite to ask pertinent questions? Personally I find it
impolite to be offended on when other people question you on why you are
questioning them.
Am 2007-02-14 10:44:48, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez:
That depends on how you define usable. Word might handle a 25 page
document. The experience of many of my friends has been that big
documents (25 pages is not big) are a real pain Word. One friend of
mine did his thesis (350-400 pages) in
Am 2007-02-16 09:30:36, schrieb Greg Folkert:
Not permanently and not in your normal.dot. At least *I* could never
Hmmm, in the german and french versions it CAN be switched off.
Maybe you have a special version of the DHS which correct US-
American if they do not follow the party line. :-))
Am 2007-02-14 11:33:04, schrieb Greg Folkert:
Install Cygwin, its the only way to semi-fix it.
???
bash.exe, perl.exe and python.exe can run definitivly in a
DOS-Box since I use it for DJGPP http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 01:15 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:05:24AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
Actually, I'm serious about the utility of big line printers. The
large print and *wide*, lined paper made it easy to step thru your
program, making notes, side
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:51:40AM -0800, Michael M. wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 01:15 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:05:24AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
Actually, I'm serious about the utility of big line printers. The
large print and *wide*, lined paper made it easy
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On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:51:40AM -0800, Michael M. wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 01:15 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:05:24AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
Actually, I'm serious about the
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 15:49, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:45:16PM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
I no longer have anything to do with that area - but I would say today
that we still cannot produce documents with the consistency and
completeness (proper version
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote:
what a great thread. hopefully we can begin 'subject'ing it properly with
this
mail.
what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or do easy
stuff with the wysiwig, then modify the latex files if there's
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 11:52, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote:
what a great thread. hopefully we can begin 'subject'ing it properly with
this mail.
what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or do easy
stuff
Ron Johnson wrote:
There's no Law Of Nature that says you can't have your greenbar
printout next to your terminal.
I prefer 2 screens now. Left screen is the on-line Python manual, right
screen is my code in vim, fully expanded.
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Ron Johnson wrote:
There's no Law Of Nature that says you can't have your greenbar
printout next to your terminal.
I prefer 2 screens now. Left screen is the on-line Python manual, right
screen is my
Ron Johnson wrote:
fully expanded?
Yes, I am using vim in a wicked GUI and click on the leetle button which
expands the window to the entire screen. :P
Although I pine for the day I can give Wing IDE a try. :)
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Ron Johnson wrote:
fully expanded?
Yes, I am using vim in a wicked GUI and click on the leetle button which
expands the window to the entire screen. :P
Although I pine for the day I can give Wing
Ron Johnson wrote:
What GUI would that be?
The relevance being? I figured since you didn't know the terms of fully
expanded you were one of dem d'ere CLI people who think GUIs are da werk uf da
debil!
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On 02/21/07 23:19, Steve Lamb wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
What GUI would that be?
The relevance being?
Because I asked? Why do I have to justify why I asked that question?
I figured since you didn't know the terms
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 16:29, Miles Fidelman wrote:
FYI: Just for perspective, I'm also old enough to remember designing
control logic for film processors used for in preparing print the
old-fashioned way (you know, half-tone separations, prepared with
screens and cameras) - and, for
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:45:16PM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
I no longer have anything to do with that area - but I would say today
that we still cannot produce documents with the consistency and
completeness (proper version control of all documentation, with the
version numbers
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On Tuesday 13 February 2007 16:29, Miles Fidelman wrote:
[snip]
in about 1982 I was in the market for a line printer so that my team
could print out their software listings and was pursuaded by the our HP
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:24:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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[snip]
in about 1982 I was in the market for a line printer so that my team
could
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Kevin Mark wrote:
I recall they are huge, requiring a lot of floor space and required a
noise cover otherwise you'd hear ear-splitting, griding noise. X-(
Yup, yup and yup. Of course having to work on some model or another of
green-bar printer for the past year-and-a-half lemme tell you,
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On 02/20/07 23:52, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:24:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/20/07 15:45, Alan Chandler wrote:
On
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Kevin Mark wrote:
I recall they are huge, requiring a lot of floor space and required a
noise cover otherwise you'd hear ear-splitting, griding noise. X-(
Yup, yup and yup. Of course having to work on
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 00:33 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/21/07 00:09, Steve Lamb wrote:
Kevin Mark wrote:
I recall they are huge, requiring a lot of floor space and required a
noise cover otherwise you'd hear ear-splitting, griding noise. X-(
Yup, yup and yup. Of course having
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On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 00:33 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/21/07 00:09, Steve Lamb wrote:
Kevin Mark wrote:
I recall they are huge, requiring a lot of floor space and required a
noise cover otherwise you'd
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:22:30 -0500
Miles Fidelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I said - there are plenty of reasons to hate word. Personally, I
hate some of the auto-corrections it makes.
AOL! But you can turn them off.
Celejar
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On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 22:12 -0500, Celejar wrote:
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:22:30 -0500
Miles Fidelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I said - there are plenty of reasons to hate word. Personally, I
hate some of the auto-corrections it makes.
AOL! But you can turn them off.
Not permanently
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:30:36 -0500
Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 22:12 -0500, Celejar wrote:
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:22:30 -0500
Miles Fidelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I said - there are plenty of reasons to hate word. Personally, I
hate some of
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Chris Bannister wrote:
Oh come on. At the company we just left, we generated 2-3 proposals a
month, each at
25 pages or so, using Word. There are lots of reasons to dislike Word,
but get real, it's usable
and it works.
Just looking at the number of word documents
For me the main advantages of LaTeX over Word is the easy incorporation
of references, citations and numbering figures and tables. Offcourse
Word is also able to do this, but with a lot more trouble. Something
like 'headings' always want to do things differently then the author. I
wrote several
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:08:13PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Oh come on. At the company we just left, we generated 2-3 proposals a
month, each at
25 pages or so, using Word. There are lots of reasons to dislike Word,
but get real, it's usable
That depends on
Stephen wrote:
The other fella Miles Fieldman, (I think) mentioned that corporations
use word templates etc. Sure, for filling in a form letter, however it's
been my experience that the majority of corporate branding is done in
design and typesetting shops, not by Suzy or Joe using MSFT Word.
I
Miles Fidelman said...
Stephen wrote:
The other fella Miles Fieldman, (I think) mentioned that corporations
use word templates etc. Sure, for filling in a form letter, however it's
been my experience that the majority of corporate branding is done in
design and typesetting shops, not by
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:08:13PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Oh come on. At the company we just left, we generated 2-3 proposals a
month, each at
25 pages or so, using Word. There are lots of reasons to dislike Word,
but get real, it's usable
That depends on how you define usable.
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:38:03AM -0500, Stephen wrote:
You don't know MSFT Word well do you ? It's relatively easy to create a
TOC from a structured Word document. Doesn't take much skill at all. The
key is structure, and to work in outline view.
Have you actually verified that the TOC is
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:08:13PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Oh come on. At the company we just left, we generated 2-3 proposals a
month, each at 25 pages or so, using Word. There are lots of reasons to dislike Word,
but get real, it's usable
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 10:44 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
[snip]
That depends on how you define usable. Word might handle a 25 page
document. The experience of many of my friends has been that big
documents (25 pages is not big) are a real pain Word. One friend of
mine did his thesis
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:33:04AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 10:44 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
I mean, people often complain about the lack of uniformity in GUI
programs targetted at Linux. Windows is just as bad, but people
choose to overlook it for some
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:48:21AM -0500 or thereabouts, Roberto C. Sanchez
wrote:
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:38:03AM -0500, Stephen wrote:
You don't know MSFT Word well do you ? It's relatively easy to create a
TOC from a structured Word document. Doesn't take much skill at all. The
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Outside of high academia the publishing industry, most people don't
care how ugly their printed documents look.
I think there are an awful lot of us in business, non-profits, and
government who'd contest this.
Not to mention those in the advertising and marketing
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Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Outside of high academia the publishing industry, most people
don't care how ugly their printed documents look.
I think there are an awful lot of us in business, non-profits,
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Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/12/07 11:49, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200 Micha Feigin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
I might be a
On 2007-02-13, Miles Fidelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Outside of high academia the publishing industry, most people don't
care how ugly their printed documents look.
I think there are an awful lot of us in business, non-profits, and
government who'd contest
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On 2007-02-13, Miles Fidelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Outside of high academia the publishing industry, most people don't
care how ugly their printed documents look.
I think
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Outside of high academia the publishing industry, most people don't
care how ugly their printed documents look.
I think there are an awful lot of us in business, non-profits, and
government who'd contest this.
Not to mention those in the
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Outside of high academia the publishing industry, most people don't
care how ugly their printed documents look.
I think there are an awful lot of us in business, non-profits, and
government who'd
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:05:26 -0500
Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[... snip ...]
On Sunday 11 February 2007 11:41, Micha Feigin wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:06:15 -0500
If Office is the issue, and not Windows overall, then why should
she buy office when she can use OpenOffice
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:17:41 -0500
Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 06:41:55PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx, but that's a hard sell for office fans.
I'm just starting down the LaTex and Lyx road (from Lout since I want
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:08:14 -0500
cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 12:17:41PM EST, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 06:41:55PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx, but that's a hard sell for office fans.
I'm just
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:48:40 -0500
Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 21:16 +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx, but that's a hard sell
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:40:45 -0600
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Outside of high academia the publishing industry, most people
don't care how ugly their printed
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:49:14PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
I might be a bit of a purist, but I would say that even for one page of
a document you will be better of with LaTeX. Word output might be ok for
a quick fax, but the printed text from a half-way decent printer will
always
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 08:35:15AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Outside of high academia the publishing industry, that amount of
precision doesn't really matter.
Outside of high academia the publishing industry, most people don't
care how ugly their printed documents look. They
Chris Bannister wrote:
If an M$ Word user has the skill to automatically generate a TOC from a
reasonably sized document, then I take my hat off to them. I have seen
the results of an unsuccessful attempt, unfortunately it was a team
report. :-(
There are a lot of maschoists out there. If I see
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:59:45PM +0100 or thereabouts, Johannes Wiedersich
wrote:
[ ...]
To take this further, one would have to argue about what is ugly. There
is a continuous scale from very ugly to very beautiful. Products like M$
Word cover the range from very ugly to somewhere in
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:46:35PM +1300 or thereabouts, Chris Bannister wrote:
If an M$ Word user has the skill to automatically generate a TOC from a
reasonably sized document, then I take my hat off to them. I have seen
the results of an unsuccessful attempt, unfortunately it was a team
Greg Folkert wrote:
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 21:22 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/11/07 19:48, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 21:16 +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:03:18 +0100
Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Damn, did it again. I am so used to hitting reply. I have to
remember Reply to ALL...
'Reply to list' would be better. There was just recently a thread about
Icedove/Thundebird extensions
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:27:13AM +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
How can anyone outside of MS support the software? If one does not
understand the internal workings, one cannot adequately support the
software.
s/MS/Ford/
s/software/automobile/
I would submit that most mechanics are not
Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
lyx is good for big documents, or when you already have a class to use.
If you are doing something small (one or two pages) and atypical it
might be faster to just use abiword.
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Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
I might be a bit of a purist, but I would say that even for one page of
a
Joe Hart wrote:
Talk about smart software.
Thanks for the tip.
OHOOO :-)
Yes this one is awesome !!
And it works perfectly here!
And if someone is looking for the url, it's right here ;-):
http://www.asoftsite.org/s9y/archives/114-thunderbird-+-reply-to-list-...-here-it-comes.html
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On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:08:14PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
If you are a vim user insist on working in something gui you may want
to take a peek at this:
http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net
Have you managed to get it working with vim7.x?
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Chris.
==
Don't forget to check that your
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 10:12:42PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
If you want a GUI, use Lyx. If you want to just use Vim, then use
straight LaTex.
Or auctex with emacs.
Thanks Doug. I will definately have to check it out. Most of my work
is fiction and doesn't need to TOC or the index, but does
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/12/07 11:49, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200 Micha Feigin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
I might be a bit of a purist, but I would say that even for one
page of a document you will be better of
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:03:18 +0100
Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Damn, did it again. I am so used to hitting reply. I have to
remember Reply to ALL...
'Reply to list' would be better. There was just recently a thread about
Icedove/Thundebird extensions to achieve that.
Regards,
Andrei
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:03:18 +0100
Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Damn, did it again. I am so used to hitting reply. I have to
remember Reply to ALL...
'Reply to list' would be better. There was just recently a thread about
Icedove/Thundebird extensions to
On Sunday 11 February 2007 04:43, Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:03:18 +0100
Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Damn, did it again. I am so used to hitting reply. I have to
remember Reply to ALL...
'Reply to list' would be better. There was just
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 07:03:18AM +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
Guillermo Garron wrote:
On 2/11/07, Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Guillermo Garron wrote:
tom arnall wrote:
Yes, it works that way because Debian Testing is constantly being
updated with packages. The latest release of Ubuntu
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:06:15 -0500
Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 11 February 2007 04:43, Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:03:18 +0100
Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Damn, did it again. I am so used to hitting reply. I have to
On Sunday 11 February 2007 11:41, Micha Feigin wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:06:15 -0500
Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 11 February 2007 04:43, Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:03:18 +0100
Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Damn,
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 06:41:55PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx, but that's a hard sell for office fans.
I'm just starting down the LaTex and Lyx road (from Lout since I want
html output option). Is there anything that you _can't_ do with Lyx
that you can do with
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Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:03:18 +0100
Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Damn, did it again. I am so used to hitting reply. I have to
remember Reply to ALL...
'Reply to list'
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 12:17:41PM EST, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 06:41:55PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx, but that's a hard sell for office fans.
I'm just starting down the LaTex and Lyx road (from Lout since I want
html output
Hal Vaughan wrote:
If Office is the issue, and not Windows overall, then why should she buy
office when she can use OpenOffice for free and it will read and write
all MS Office files?
Why pay for Microsoft when there's a FOSS program that is not going to
be an infection vector for viruses?
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx, but that's a hard sell for office
fans.
lyx is good for big documents, or when you already have a class to use.
If you are doing something small (one or two pages) and atypical it
might
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
So Ubuntu in effect Freezes the release sooner and then just does bug fixes
until they figure it is stable enough, whereas Debian doesn't freeze
testing untill more stuff is ready?
No. Ubuntu takes a snapshot, then does bugfixes/modifications for a
specific
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx, but that's a hard sell for office
fans.
lyx is good for big documents, or when you already have a class to use.
If you are doing something small (one or
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On 02/11/07 14:16, Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx, but that's a hard sell for office
fans.
lyx is good for big
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:03:14PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
The MS Office is already bought. The issue is when she opens a .doc
file that she created on another computer with OO, it doesn't look the
same. If she creates a .doc file with OO and uses MS Word to open it,
it doesn't look the
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:16:50PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx, but that's a hard sell for office
fans.
lyx is good for big documents, or when you already have a class
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:16:50PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx, but that's a hard sell for office
fans.
lyx is good
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 07:03:18AM +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
Yes, it works that way because Debian Testing is constantly being
updated with packages. The latest release of Ubuntu is always a
snapshot of Unstable a few months before they release. By the time they
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:35:48 -0500
Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
as Peter Parker's uncle said, With great power there must also come
great responsibility.
That's a good quote for the novice-doc project ;)
Regards,
Andrei
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand
Michael Pobega wrote:
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 07:03:18AM +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
Yes, it works that way because Debian Testing is constantly being
updated with packages. The latest release of Ubuntu is always a
snapshot of Unstable a few months before
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 23:50 +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
[...snip...]
Exactly. The policy for Ubuntu is 18 month support for normal versions,
36 month for Dapper, which was released in June 2006.
Normal releases
18 months for Desktop and Server
For LTS releases:
36 months for Desktop
60 months
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 21:16 +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx, but that's a hard sell for office
fans.
lyx is good for big documents, or when you already
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On 02/11/07 19:48, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 21:16 +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
The document was the production scheduling system...
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 21:22 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/11/07 19:48, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 21:16 +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
The document was the production
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