Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Steve, Have you already considered importing the Word document into OpenOffice Writer and letting one of the OO-LaTeX converters do the hard work? (http://www.hj-gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/ is one exmple, there might be others) No, I have never tried or used one of those. However, I

Re: Subtitle in Koma-script

2008-07-19 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Guillaume Larocque wrote: Hi, I must be missing something pretty obvious but I can't seem to find how to add a Subtitle to my book(Koma-Script) document. I have found information on the \subtitle command in the Koma-script documentation, but I can't find the equivalent option in the Lyx

Re: export to latex(plain) not working in lyx1.6.0Beta4

2008-07-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Olivier Ripoll wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: This will be fixed for 1.6.0 eventually. But there is a work-around as Uwe said in his announcement: Important note: Due to a bug in LyX you are first be able to export documents to e.g. PDF after opening the preferences dialog and clicking

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: However, I agree the encoding switch is a hack, and we should at least limit the hack to the case where it is needed, i.e. only switch to latin1 if we actually are in a multibyte encoding. So fundamentally, I think, it's a question of whether protecting the user

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-19 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I saw the patch you proposed on the developer list, and I think it's a reasonable compromise.  The only limitation I can see is that users writing in a language that needs multibyte encoding won't be able to embed native language comments in a listing.  If that's

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 07:08:19PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 18 July 2008 15:43, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:28:55PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Hi Steve. If anyone has a better idea for converting a 300 page MS Word document to LyX, style for

Re: Subtitle in Koma-script

2008-07-19 Thread rgheck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Guillaume Larocque wrote: Hi, I must be missing something pretty obvious but I can't seem to find how to add a Subtitle to my book(Koma-Script) document. I have found information on the \subtitle command in the Koma-script documentation, but I can't find the

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 19 July 2008 04:19, Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi Steve, Have you already considered importing the Word document into OpenOffice Writer and letting one of the OO-LaTeX converters do the hard work? (http://www.hj-gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/ is one exmple, there might be others) No, I

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 18 July 2008 19:15, Typhoon wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:08:19 -0400 Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 18 July 2008 15:43, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:28:55PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, SNIP I tried it. Unfortunately, unrtf

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 18 July 2008 16:55, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: I had styles for everything -- almost no appearance was fine tuned. You would, wouldn't you! :-D So heres what my plan, unless someone else has a better idea. First, I'll export to RTF.

Re: More on 1.6 beta4 crashing on Ubuntu

2008-07-19 Thread Pavel Sanda
Hi Michael and all list members I posted the following question to the list: I have just compiled Lyx 1.6 beta4 on Ubuntu (8.04) and installed it. When I tried to open my Lyx documents, one document is constantly crashing when I click on the title in the document (very strange). Can

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Pavel Sanda
Hi all, I have a 300 page book written in MS Word version 97, and I have to convert it to LyX in order to make the second edition. I'll accept all condolences now :-) Believe it or not, the MS Word version was written very much what you guys would call WYSIWYM. I had styles for

Re: Ugly output in PDF

2008-07-19 Thread Acme
Hi, I already solved the problem after I installed some missing components for LYX and Latex. Thanks any way to those who try to help me. Best Acme:-D -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Ugly-output-in-PDF-tp529343p573379.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: My only suggestion would be to use one of the programming tools rather than do your replacement in Vim. Awk, sed, perl - It would allow you to gradually build up some regexps through trial and error. Alan The RTF code is too wierd and complex to do

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 18 July 2008 16:55, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: I had styles for everything -- almost no appearance was fine tuned. You would, wouldn't you! :-D So heres what my plan, unless someone else has a better

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: I saw the patch you proposed on the developer list, and I think it's a reasonable compromise. The only limitation I can see is that users writing in a language that needs multibyte encoding won't be able to embed native language comments in a

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 19 July 2008 13:52, Pavel Sanda wrote: Hi all, I have a 300 page book written in MS Word version 97, and I have to convert it to LyX in order to make the second edition. I'll accept all condolences now :-) Believe it or not, the MS Word version was written very much

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 19 July 2008 14:51, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: My only suggestion would be to use one of the programming tools rather than do your replacement in Vim. Awk, sed, perl - It would allow you to gradually build up some regexps through trial

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: Believe me, it's not easy at all. RTF is much too wierd. The style identifier occurs in the middle of a complex string. The text to which to apply it occurs at the end, but there's no reasonable, consistant way to identify where the markup ends and the

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Typhoon
SNIP This is by far the best solution, in my opinion. Unfortunately for me, my only Windows machine is a 1997 Pentium II/300 with 128MB of RAM, which would be painfully slow. Steve, What happens if you import the RTF file into OO and then follow the procedures suggested? Alan

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 19 July 2008 19:57, Typhoon wrote: SNIP This is by far the best solution, in my opinion. Unfortunately for me, my only Windows machine is a 1997 Pentium II/300 with 128MB of RAM, which would be painfully slow. Steve, What happens if you import the RTF file into OO and then

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Steve, Have you already considered importing the Word document into OpenOffice Writer and letting one of the OO-LaTeX converters do the hard work? (http://www.hj-gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/ is one exmple, there might be others) No, I have never tried or used one of those. However, I

Re: Subtitle in Koma-script

2008-07-19 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Guillaume Larocque wrote: Hi, I must be missing something pretty obvious but I can't seem to find how to add a Subtitle to my book(Koma-Script) document. I have found information on the \subtitle command in the Koma-script documentation, but I can't find the equivalent option in the Lyx

Re: export to latex(plain) not working in lyx1.6.0Beta4

2008-07-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Olivier Ripoll wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: This will be fixed for 1.6.0 eventually. But there is a work-around as Uwe said in his announcement: Important note: Due to a bug in LyX you are first be able to export documents to e.g. PDF after opening the preferences dialog and clicking

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: However, I agree the encoding switch is a hack, and we should at least limit the hack to the case where it is needed, i.e. only switch to latin1 if we actually are in a multibyte encoding. So fundamentally, I think, it's a question of whether protecting the user

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-19 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I saw the patch you proposed on the developer list, and I think it's a reasonable compromise.  The only limitation I can see is that users writing in a language that needs multibyte encoding won't be able to embed native language comments in a listing.  If that's

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 07:08:19PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 18 July 2008 15:43, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:28:55PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Hi Steve. If anyone has a better idea for converting a 300 page MS Word document to LyX, style for

Re: Subtitle in Koma-script

2008-07-19 Thread rgheck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Guillaume Larocque wrote: Hi, I must be missing something pretty obvious but I can't seem to find how to add a Subtitle to my book(Koma-Script) document. I have found information on the \subtitle command in the Koma-script documentation, but I can't find the

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 19 July 2008 04:19, Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi Steve, Have you already considered importing the Word document into OpenOffice Writer and letting one of the OO-LaTeX converters do the hard work? (http://www.hj-gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/ is one exmple, there might be others) No, I

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 18 July 2008 19:15, Typhoon wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:08:19 -0400 Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 18 July 2008 15:43, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:28:55PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, SNIP I tried it. Unfortunately, unrtf

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 18 July 2008 16:55, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: I had styles for everything -- almost no appearance was fine tuned. You would, wouldn't you! :-D So heres what my plan, unless someone else has a better idea. First, I'll export to RTF.

Re: More on 1.6 beta4 crashing on Ubuntu

2008-07-19 Thread Pavel Sanda
Hi Michael and all list members I posted the following question to the list: I have just compiled Lyx 1.6 beta4 on Ubuntu (8.04) and installed it. When I tried to open my Lyx documents, one document is constantly crashing when I click on the title in the document (very strange). Can

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Pavel Sanda
Hi all, I have a 300 page book written in MS Word version 97, and I have to convert it to LyX in order to make the second edition. I'll accept all condolences now :-) Believe it or not, the MS Word version was written very much what you guys would call WYSIWYM. I had styles for

Re: Ugly output in PDF

2008-07-19 Thread Acme
Hi, I already solved the problem after I installed some missing components for LYX and Latex. Thanks any way to those who try to help me. Best Acme:-D -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Ugly-output-in-PDF-tp529343p573379.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: My only suggestion would be to use one of the programming tools rather than do your replacement in Vim. Awk, sed, perl - It would allow you to gradually build up some regexps through trial and error. Alan The RTF code is too wierd and complex to do

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 18 July 2008 16:55, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: I had styles for everything -- almost no appearance was fine tuned. You would, wouldn't you! :-D So heres what my plan, unless someone else has a better

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: I saw the patch you proposed on the developer list, and I think it's a reasonable compromise. The only limitation I can see is that users writing in a language that needs multibyte encoding won't be able to embed native language comments in a

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 19 July 2008 13:52, Pavel Sanda wrote: Hi all, I have a 300 page book written in MS Word version 97, and I have to convert it to LyX in order to make the second edition. I'll accept all condolences now :-) Believe it or not, the MS Word version was written very much

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 19 July 2008 14:51, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: My only suggestion would be to use one of the programming tools rather than do your replacement in Vim. Awk, sed, perl - It would allow you to gradually build up some regexps through trial

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: Believe me, it's not easy at all. RTF is much too wierd. The style identifier occurs in the middle of a complex string. The text to which to apply it occurs at the end, but there's no reasonable, consistant way to identify where the markup ends and the

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Typhoon
SNIP This is by far the best solution, in my opinion. Unfortunately for me, my only Windows machine is a 1997 Pentium II/300 with 128MB of RAM, which would be painfully slow. Steve, What happens if you import the RTF file into OO and then follow the procedures suggested? Alan

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 19 July 2008 19:57, Typhoon wrote: SNIP This is by far the best solution, in my opinion. Unfortunately for me, my only Windows machine is a 1997 Pentium II/300 with 128MB of RAM, which would be painfully slow. Steve, What happens if you import the RTF file into OO and then

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Steve, Have you already considered importing the Word document into OpenOffice Writer and letting one of the OO->LaTeX converters do the hard work? (http://www.hj-gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/ is one exmple, there might be others) No, I have never tried or used one of those. However, I

Re: Subtitle in Koma-script

2008-07-19 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Guillaume Larocque wrote: > Hi, I must be missing something pretty obvious but I can't seem to > find how to add a Subtitle to my book(Koma-Script) document. I have > found information on the \subtitle command in the Koma-script > documentation, but I can't find the equivalent option in the Lyx >

Re: export to latex(plain) not working in lyx1.6.0Beta4

2008-07-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Olivier Ripoll wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: This will be fixed for 1.6.0 eventually. But there is a work-around as Uwe said in his announcement: " Important note: Due to a bug in LyX you are first be able to export documents to e.g. PDF after opening the preferences dialog and clicking

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: However, I agree the encoding switch is a hack, and we should at least limit the hack to the case where it is needed, i.e. only switch to latin1 if we actually are in a multibyte encoding. So fundamentally, I think, it's a question of whether protecting the user

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-19 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > I saw the patch you proposed on the developer list, and I think it's a > reasonable compromise.  The only limitation I can see is that users > writing in a language that needs multibyte encoding won't be able to > embed native language comments in a listing.  If that's

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 07:08:19PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Friday 18 July 2008 15:43, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:28:55PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Hi Steve. > > > > > If anyone has a better idea for converting a 300 page MS Word document > > > to

Re: Subtitle in Koma-script

2008-07-19 Thread rgheck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Guillaume Larocque wrote: Hi, I must be missing something pretty obvious but I can't seem to find how to add a Subtitle to my book(Koma-Script) document. I have found information on the \subtitle command in the Koma-script documentation, but I can't find the

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 19 July 2008 04:19, Daniel Lohmann wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Have you already considered importing the Word document into > OpenOffice Writer and letting one of the OO->LaTeX converters do the > hard work? > (http://www.hj-gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/ is one exmple, there might be > others) >

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 18 July 2008 19:15, Typhoon wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:08:19 -0400 > > Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 18 July 2008 15:43, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:28:55PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > I tried it. > > > >

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 18 July 2008 16:55, Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: > > I had styles for everything -- almost no appearance was fine tuned. > > You would, wouldn't you! :-D > > > So heres what my plan, unless someone else has a better idea. > > > > First, I'll

Re: More on 1.6 beta4 crashing on Ubuntu

2008-07-19 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Hi Michael and all list members > > I posted the following question to the list: > > "I have just compiled Lyx 1.6 beta4 on Ubuntu (8.04) and installed it. When > I tried to open my Lyx documents, one document is constantly crashing when I > click on the title in the document (very strange).

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Hi all, > > I have a 300 page book written in MS Word version 97, and I have to convert > it > to LyX in order to make the second edition. > > I'll accept all condolences now :-) > > Believe it or not, the MS Word version was written very much what you guys > would call WYSIWYM. I had

Re: Ugly output in PDF

2008-07-19 Thread Acme
Hi, I already solved the problem after I installed some missing components for LYX and Latex. Thanks any way to those who try to help me. Best Acme:-D -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Ugly-output-in-PDF-tp529343p573379.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: My only suggestion would be to use one of the programming tools rather than do your replacement in Vim. Awk, sed, perl - It would allow you to gradually build up some regexps through trial and error. Alan The RTF code is too wierd and complex to do

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 18 July 2008 16:55, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: I had styles for everything -- almost no appearance was fine tuned. You would, wouldn't you! :-D So heres what my plan, unless someone else has a better

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: I saw the patch you proposed on the developer list, and I think it's a reasonable compromise. The only limitation I can see is that users writing in a language that needs multibyte encoding won't be able to embed native language comments in a

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 19 July 2008 13:52, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a 300 page book written in MS Word version 97, and I have to > > convert it to LyX in order to make the second edition. > > > > I'll accept all condolences now :-) > > > > Believe it or not, the MS Word version was

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 19 July 2008 14:51, Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: > >> My only suggestion would be to use one of the programming tools rather > >> than do your replacement in Vim. Awk, sed, perl - It would allow you to > >> gradually build up some regexps

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: Believe me, it's not easy at all. RTF is much too wierd. The style identifier occurs in the middle of a complex string. The text to which to apply it occurs at the end, but there's no reasonable, consistant way to identify where the markup ends and the

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Typhoon
> > This is by far the best solution, in my opinion. > > Unfortunately for me, my only Windows machine is a 1997 Pentium > II/300 with 128MB of RAM, which would be painfully slow. Steve, What happens if you import the RTF file into OO and then follow the procedures suggested? Alan > >

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 19 July 2008 19:57, Typhoon wrote: > > > > This is by far the best solution, in my opinion. > > > > Unfortunately for me, my only Windows machine is a 1997 Pentium > > II/300 with 128MB of RAM, which would be painfully slow. > > Steve, > What happens if you import the RTF file into OO