On 3 March 2012 22:37, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
I type text, and latex makes a layout that is 99% perfect; I really don't
care about the last 1%.
I've never been able to achieve the same speed with any wordprocessor.
Make no mistake, latex makes beautiful documents (so can OpenOffice),
but
On 3 March 2012 22:20, Marco van de Voort wrote:
With OO I'm always thinking about how I got the effect
in that way. In Latex if I have something the way it
should look, I at the same time have the way to duplicate it.
If the effect was applied using a Style (which is what you should
have
On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 3 March 2012 22:37, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
I type text, and latex makes a layout that is 99% perfect; I really don't
care about the last 1%.
I've never been able to achieve the same speed with any wordprocessor.
Make no mistake, latex
On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb:
I type text, and latex makes a layout that is 99% perfect; I really don't
care about the last 1%.
I've never been able to achieve the same speed with any wordprocessor.
I don't see a difference here. In a
On Sunday, 4 March 2012, Michael Van Canneyt michae.org wrote:
Latex applies the styles
automatically, which is one of the reasons I forced it on the help
writers here in the company.
Technically, in is not done automatically. You have to tell latex that you
are working on a chapter,
I've have to check the version for you when I am back at work on
Monday, but I think I have LibreOffice 3.5.0 (not 100% sure though).
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On 03/03/2012, Alexsander Rosa alexsander.r...@gmail.com wrote:
The problem with secretary's editors like MS Word or Open/LibreOffice is
that they waste user's time with formatting and other non-content related
activities. With LaTeX and derivatives such as LyX, the user is free to be
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
I can honestly say, in my experience LaTeX just
made me slower. I had to fight to figure out how
to get certain text to display correctly, because
it was constantly some or other reserved LaTeX
tag some something.
For me it is the other way
On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 03/03/2012, Alexsander Rosa alexsander.r...@gmail.com wrote:
The problem with secretary's editors like MS Word or Open/LibreOffice is
that they waste user's time with formatting and other non-content related
activities. With LaTeX and
On 03/03/2012 03:37 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
If you want everything placed just there with just that width and
whatnot, then LaTeX is indeed not your tool, you need a desktop
publishing tool.
I type text, and latex makes a layout that is 99% perfect; I really
don't care about the last
On 3/3/12 4:14 PM, Andrew Haines wrote:
I of course recommend WordPerfect though the Windows version never
achieved the same usability as the dos version :)
+1000
I've even found the recent Windows versions to be equal to the DOS version.
Ignoring WordPerfect has been one of the biggest
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb:
I type text, and latex makes a layout that is 99% perfect; I really
don't care about the last 1%.
I've never been able to achieve the same speed with any wordprocessor.
I don't see a difference here. In a wordprocessor I define templates
which can be applied to
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys
graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote:
Trying to do a 'svn diff' might be an issue. Git has a filter that
converts ODT files to text before it shows such a diff, so in Git it
is not a problem either. I don't know if svn supports such a feature.
If you
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com wrote:
If you use tortoiseSVN it does support showing the differences between
document files. I was amazed when I first saw and it clearly something
new (maybe 1 or 2 years, dont know)
Oh yes, and it
On 02/03/2012 09:04, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com wrote:
If you use tortoiseSVN it does support showing the differences between
document files. I was amazed when I first saw and it clearly
Oh yes, and it shows them grafically, not as raw text.
Now that's something I don't know :)
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I suggest convert it to LyX format.
2012/3/2 leledumbo leledumbo_c...@yahoo.co.id
Oh yes, and it shows them grafically, not as raw text.
Now that's something I don't know :)
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2012/3/2 Alexsander Rosa :
I suggest convert it to LyX format.
No need really. The newer OpenOffice and LibreOffice also supports the
Flattened ODT format (older versions of OOo can install the plugin for
this too). That is basically just an XML file (no zip archive like
ODT). This makes it much
The problem with secretary's editors like MS Word or Open/LibreOffice is
that they waste user's time with formatting and other non-content related
activities. With LaTeX and derivatives such as LyX, the user is free to be
productive. When I was working on my MSc paper, ages ago, I wrote some 40
Am Freitag, den 02.03.2012, 23:49 +0200 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
2012/3/2 Alexsander Rosa :
I suggest convert it to LyX format.
No need really. The newer OpenOffice and LibreOffice also supports the
Flattened ODT format (older versions of OOo can install the plugin for
this too). That is
Hi list,
Noticed some people said they don't want to contribute to the Lazarus
wiki for various reasons.
If those people want to contribute their knowledge and help others with
it, there are alternatives, such as the Object Pascal/Lazarus book by
forum member motaz (Motaz Abdel Azeem):
On 1-3-2012 12:05, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
Hi list,
Noticed some people said they don't want to contribute to the Lazarus
wiki for various reasons.
If those people want to contribute their knowledge and help others with
it, there are alternatives,
Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
Essentially the same problem: where to search for existing documentation?
I don't really see your problem.
What do you mean with existing documentation? Link/refer from the book
to the wiki and vice versa.
Okay, so far, but how many documentation sources will be
On 1-3-2012 16:54, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
Essentially the same problem: where to search for existing
documentation?
I don't really see your problem.
What do you mean with existing documentation? Link/refer from the book
to the wiki and vice versa.
Okay,
The book seems to be written with OpenOffice.org / LibreOffice, that would be
difficult to track changes.
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