Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Barak Sh
Hello all, An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page contains only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to reduce the article to 6 pages? I know it's possible to make fonts a bit smaller throughout the entire article. This will get the job done, but I have noticed that

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Ehud Kaplan
Here are a few tricks that might help: 1. In your preamble, put: \usepackage[small, compact]{titlesec} 2. Hunt for very short lines at the ends of paragraphs and change the wording in the paragraph to eliminate them 3. If the journal allows two columns, use that option. It saves ~10%

Re: How do I create this character in lyx?

2010-06-12 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
I think the character Rich needs is readily available in LyX: miscellaneous-AMS palette, 6th row, 2nd column, complement character. I can use it (in LyX 1.6.5) without any special package. Regards, Daniel Paul Elliott wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 07:29:56PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On

Wiki upload password

2010-06-12 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
Hi, I'd like to upload my French translations for the theorems modules to the wiki. This page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/AboutUploading provides the username. Could someone kindly send me the current password? TIA, -- Daniel CLEMENT

Re: Wiki upload password

2010-06-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 6/12/2010 8:39 AM, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: I'd like to upload my French translations for the theorems modules to the wiki. This page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/AboutUploading provides the username. Could someone kindly send me the current password? Sent via e-mail. /Paul

Translating theorem-like statements: 100%

2010-06-12 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
Hi, I have uploaded my translations of the theorems-related modules to the wiki. You can find them on this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/ThmsFr You're welcome to move or improve the page in any way. In particular, the step 2 would need to be adapted to other OSes than Linux: I don't have

Re: How do I create this character in lyx?

2010-06-12 Thread Paul Elliott
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:10:05AM +0200, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: miscellaneous-AMS palette, 6th row, 2nd column, complement character. That character is not the wierd script C character used in Dugunji. I can use it (in LyX 1.6.5) without any special package. Regards, Daniel Paul

lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Jose Quesada
Hi, I'm not sure if this is only on my particular doc, but it seems to me that lyx chokes on documents with many subsections? It's a notes doc. It may have close to a hundred headinds (section, subsection etc). Typing becomes slow. Even moving around with the arrow keys shows a noticeable delay.

Re: Translating theorem-like statements: 100%

2010-06-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 6/12/2010 10:55 AM, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: You're welcome to move or improve the page in any way. In particular, the step 2 would need to be adapted to other OSes than Linux: I don't have a Windows PC at hand with LyX installed, so I'm not sure how to replace ~/.lyx/layouts. Thanks for

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Jose Quesada ques...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this is only on my particular doc, but it seems to me that lyx chokes on documents with many subsections? It's a notes doc. It may have close to a hundred headinds (section, subsection etc).

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Jose Quesada
nope, no tables, just a long, complicated outline. Maybe I could flatten it a little... Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin http://www.josequesada.name/ http://twitter.com/Quesada On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Liviu Andronic

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 6/12/2010 1:13 PM, Jose Quesada wrote: nope, no tables, just a long, complicated outline. Maybe I could flatten it a little... If you're in the mood to experiment, you might try putting different sections in different branches (which you can color-code). Then collapse the branches you're

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 12 June 2010 03:55:23 Barak Sh wrote: Hello all, An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page contains only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to reduce the article to 6 pages? I know it's possible to make fonts a bit smaller throughout the entire

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 12 June 2010 11:55:20 Jose Quesada wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this is only on my particular doc, but it seems to me that lyx chokes on documents with many subsections? It's a notes doc. It may have close to a hundred headinds (section, subsection etc). Typing becomes slow. Even

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Julien Rioux
On 12/06/2010 11:55 AM, Jose Quesada wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this is only on my particular doc, but it seems to me that lyx chokes on documents with many subsections? It's a notes doc. It may have close to a hundred headinds (section, subsection etc). Typing becomes slow. Even moving around

Lyx 2 WORD

2010-06-12 Thread E. Kaplan
I know this is an often-discussed issue, but like the weather, it seems to be always relevant. In converting from Lyx to MS WORD I found the path through html to work quite well, even for documents with figures, except for the paragraph environment, which somehow is treated as regular text:

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Jose Quesada
@Steve,16 Gb of ram, cpu iddle... I don't think it's a matter of resources. @Julien, you narrowed down the problem! when I close the outline pane, everything is fast. Unfortunately, for my use case I need it open... I wonder if Rob Oakes, who has been working on the outliner code, could improve

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Jose Quesada
ok, attached is an example. At 40 headins it is kind of too slow for actuall work. Turning autocompletion off doesn't help. Neither does turning off inline spelling. htop shows lyx using little memory and cpu. Performance degrades lineally with number of headings. If you could reproduce this on

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Jose Quesada
update: using branches does not help. Moving around in a large doc (example: userGuide) is sluggy too. Weird. This must be something in my config... I tried 1.6.4 (ubuntu) 1.6.6 (sabayon) and 2alpha 3 (ubuntu). Same problem. The problem is that moving the cursor (not even typing, as usersGuide is

Re: Lyx 2 WORD

2010-06-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-12, E. Kaplan wrote: I know this is an often-discussed issue, but like the weather, it seems to be always relevant. In converting from Lyx to MS WORD I found the path through html to work quite well, even for documents with figures, except for the paragraph environment, which

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-12, Barak Sh wrote: --0050450156d81d9ee90488d09573 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page contains only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to reduce the article to 6 pages? ... I have noticed that there

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.
Hi, Jose Quesada wrote: ok, attached is an example. At 40 headins it is kind of too slow for actuall work. Turning autocompletion off doesn't help. Neither does turning off inline spelling. htop shows lyx using little memory and cpu. Performance degrades lineally with number of headings.

Re: blanks don't get saved in math-text mode

2010-06-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-11, hinten hoch wrote: --0016364265755e94760488bff732 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear all, I'm trying to use the qtree package in lyx to generate some trees in math-text mode. In principle it's working fine, but when I save the document or copy and paste the

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Barak Sh
Guenter Milde milde at users.berlios.de writes: On 2010-06-12, Barak Sh wrote: --0050450156d81d9ee90488d09573 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page contains only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to reduce

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Paul Rubin
Jose Quesada quesada at gmail.com writes: ok, attached is an example. At 40 headins it is kind of too slow for actuall work. Your example file does not cause my laptop (Mint Helena, which is built on Ubuntu Karmic; dual core Intel processor) any problems. Response to the cursor keys is

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Jose Quesada
Thanks Paul, It makes me sad when I face situations like this. LyX is a great tool, that should work well under linux (open source, qt, etc). But what I find is the contrary. Obscure bug that I have no time to track (I know first hand this could be a time sink, going down the rabbit hole...).

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:01:26 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Saturday 12 June 2010 03:55:23 Barak Sh wrote: Hello all, An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page contains only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to reduce the article to 6

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:22 PM, [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC. ricardo.rodrig...@ebiotic.net wrote: I am not able to reproduce this behaviour in a 2.0.0alpha3 (MacTeX-2009) installation running on a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.5.8. Reaction to typing is quite normal here. What I've not

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 12 June 2010 19:10:31 Alan L Tyree wrote: On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:01:26 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Saturday 12 June 2010 03:55:23 Barak Sh wrote: Hello all, An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page contains only a small

Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Barak Sh
Hello all, An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page contains only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to reduce the article to 6 pages? I know it's possible to make fonts a bit smaller throughout the entire article. This will get the job done, but I have noticed that

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Ehud Kaplan
Here are a few tricks that might help: 1. In your preamble, put: \usepackage[small, compact]{titlesec} 2. Hunt for very short lines at the ends of paragraphs and change the wording in the paragraph to eliminate them 3. If the journal allows two columns, use that option. It saves ~10%

Re: How do I create this character in lyx?

2010-06-12 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
I think the character Rich needs is readily available in LyX: miscellaneous-AMS palette, 6th row, 2nd column, complement character. I can use it (in LyX 1.6.5) without any special package. Regards, Daniel Paul Elliott wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 07:29:56PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On

Wiki upload password

2010-06-12 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
Hi, I'd like to upload my French translations for the theorems modules to the wiki. This page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/AboutUploading provides the username. Could someone kindly send me the current password? TIA, -- Daniel CLEMENT

Re: Wiki upload password

2010-06-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 6/12/2010 8:39 AM, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: I'd like to upload my French translations for the theorems modules to the wiki. This page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/AboutUploading provides the username. Could someone kindly send me the current password? Sent via e-mail. /Paul

Translating theorem-like statements: 100%

2010-06-12 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
Hi, I have uploaded my translations of the theorems-related modules to the wiki. You can find them on this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/ThmsFr You're welcome to move or improve the page in any way. In particular, the step 2 would need to be adapted to other OSes than Linux: I don't have

Re: How do I create this character in lyx?

2010-06-12 Thread Paul Elliott
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:10:05AM +0200, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: miscellaneous-AMS palette, 6th row, 2nd column, complement character. That character is not the wierd script C character used in Dugunji. I can use it (in LyX 1.6.5) without any special package. Regards, Daniel Paul

lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Jose Quesada
Hi, I'm not sure if this is only on my particular doc, but it seems to me that lyx chokes on documents with many subsections? It's a notes doc. It may have close to a hundred headinds (section, subsection etc). Typing becomes slow. Even moving around with the arrow keys shows a noticeable delay.

Re: Translating theorem-like statements: 100%

2010-06-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 6/12/2010 10:55 AM, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: You're welcome to move or improve the page in any way. In particular, the step 2 would need to be adapted to other OSes than Linux: I don't have a Windows PC at hand with LyX installed, so I'm not sure how to replace ~/.lyx/layouts. Thanks for

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Jose Quesada ques...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this is only on my particular doc, but it seems to me that lyx chokes on documents with many subsections? It's a notes doc. It may have close to a hundred headinds (section, subsection etc).

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Jose Quesada
nope, no tables, just a long, complicated outline. Maybe I could flatten it a little... Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin http://www.josequesada.name/ http://twitter.com/Quesada On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Liviu Andronic

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 6/12/2010 1:13 PM, Jose Quesada wrote: nope, no tables, just a long, complicated outline. Maybe I could flatten it a little... If you're in the mood to experiment, you might try putting different sections in different branches (which you can color-code). Then collapse the branches you're

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 12 June 2010 03:55:23 Barak Sh wrote: Hello all, An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page contains only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to reduce the article to 6 pages? I know it's possible to make fonts a bit smaller throughout the entire

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 12 June 2010 11:55:20 Jose Quesada wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this is only on my particular doc, but it seems to me that lyx chokes on documents with many subsections? It's a notes doc. It may have close to a hundred headinds (section, subsection etc). Typing becomes slow. Even

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Julien Rioux
On 12/06/2010 11:55 AM, Jose Quesada wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this is only on my particular doc, but it seems to me that lyx chokes on documents with many subsections? It's a notes doc. It may have close to a hundred headinds (section, subsection etc). Typing becomes slow. Even moving around

Lyx 2 WORD

2010-06-12 Thread E. Kaplan
I know this is an often-discussed issue, but like the weather, it seems to be always relevant. In converting from Lyx to MS WORD I found the path through html to work quite well, even for documents with figures, except for the paragraph environment, which somehow is treated as regular text:

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Jose Quesada
@Steve,16 Gb of ram, cpu iddle... I don't think it's a matter of resources. @Julien, you narrowed down the problem! when I close the outline pane, everything is fast. Unfortunately, for my use case I need it open... I wonder if Rob Oakes, who has been working on the outliner code, could improve

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Jose Quesada
ok, attached is an example. At 40 headins it is kind of too slow for actuall work. Turning autocompletion off doesn't help. Neither does turning off inline spelling. htop shows lyx using little memory and cpu. Performance degrades lineally with number of headings. If you could reproduce this on

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Jose Quesada
update: using branches does not help. Moving around in a large doc (example: userGuide) is sluggy too. Weird. This must be something in my config... I tried 1.6.4 (ubuntu) 1.6.6 (sabayon) and 2alpha 3 (ubuntu). Same problem. The problem is that moving the cursor (not even typing, as usersGuide is

Re: Lyx 2 WORD

2010-06-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-12, E. Kaplan wrote: I know this is an often-discussed issue, but like the weather, it seems to be always relevant. In converting from Lyx to MS WORD I found the path through html to work quite well, even for documents with figures, except for the paragraph environment, which

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-12, Barak Sh wrote: --0050450156d81d9ee90488d09573 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page contains only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to reduce the article to 6 pages? ... I have noticed that there

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.
Hi, Jose Quesada wrote: ok, attached is an example. At 40 headins it is kind of too slow for actuall work. Turning autocompletion off doesn't help. Neither does turning off inline spelling. htop shows lyx using little memory and cpu. Performance degrades lineally with number of headings.

Re: blanks don't get saved in math-text mode

2010-06-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-11, hinten hoch wrote: --0016364265755e94760488bff732 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear all, I'm trying to use the qtree package in lyx to generate some trees in math-text mode. In principle it's working fine, but when I save the document or copy and paste the

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Barak Sh
Guenter Milde milde at users.berlios.de writes: On 2010-06-12, Barak Sh wrote: --0050450156d81d9ee90488d09573 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page contains only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to reduce

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Paul Rubin
Jose Quesada quesada at gmail.com writes: ok, attached is an example. At 40 headins it is kind of too slow for actuall work. Your example file does not cause my laptop (Mint Helena, which is built on Ubuntu Karmic; dual core Intel processor) any problems. Response to the cursor keys is

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Jose Quesada
Thanks Paul, It makes me sad when I face situations like this. LyX is a great tool, that should work well under linux (open source, qt, etc). But what I find is the contrary. Obscure bug that I have no time to track (I know first hand this could be a time sink, going down the rabbit hole...).

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:01:26 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Saturday 12 June 2010 03:55:23 Barak Sh wrote: Hello all, An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page contains only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to reduce the article to 6

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:22 PM, [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC. ricardo.rodrig...@ebiotic.net wrote: I am not able to reproduce this behaviour in a 2.0.0alpha3 (MacTeX-2009) installation running on a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.5.8. Reaction to typing is quite normal here. What I've not

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 12 June 2010 19:10:31 Alan L Tyree wrote: On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:01:26 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Saturday 12 June 2010 03:55:23 Barak Sh wrote: Hello all, An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page contains only a small

Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Barak Sh
Hello all, An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page contains only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to reduce the article to 6 pages? I know it's possible to make fonts a bit smaller throughout the entire article. This will get the job done, but I have noticed that

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Ehud Kaplan
Here are a few tricks that might help: 1. In your preamble, put: \usepackage[small, compact]{titlesec} 2. Hunt for very short lines at the ends of paragraphs and change the wording in the paragraph to eliminate them 3. If the journal allows two columns, use that option. It saves ~10%

Re: How do I create this character in lyx?

2010-06-12 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
I think the character Rich needs is readily available in LyX: "miscellaneous-AMS" palette, 6th row, 2nd column, "complement" character. I can use it (in LyX 1.6.5) without any special package. Regards, Daniel Paul Elliott wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 07:29:56PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: >

Wiki upload password

2010-06-12 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
Hi, I'd like to upload my French translations for the theorems modules to the wiki. This page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/AboutUploading provides the username. Could someone kindly send me the current password? TIA, -- Daniel CLEMENT

Re: Wiki upload password

2010-06-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 6/12/2010 8:39 AM, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: I'd like to upload my French translations for the theorems modules to the wiki. This page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/AboutUploading provides the username. Could someone kindly send me the current password? Sent via e-mail. /Paul

Translating theorem-like statements: 100%

2010-06-12 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
Hi, I have uploaded my translations of the theorems-related modules to the wiki. You can find them on this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/ThmsFr You're welcome to move or improve the page in any way. In particular, the "step 2" would need to be adapted to other OSes than Linux: I don't

Re: How do I create this character in lyx?

2010-06-12 Thread Paul Elliott
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:10:05AM +0200, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: > > "miscellaneous-AMS" palette, 6th row, 2nd column, "complement" > character. That character is not the wierd script "C" character used in Dugunji. > > I can use it (in LyX 1.6.5) without any special package. > > Regards,

lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Jose Quesada
Hi, I'm not sure if this is only on my particular doc, but it seems to me that lyx chokes on documents with many subsections? It's a notes doc. It may have close to a hundred headinds (section, subsection etc). Typing becomes slow. Even moving around with the arrow keys shows a noticeable delay.

Re: Translating theorem-like statements: 100%

2010-06-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 6/12/2010 10:55 AM, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: You're welcome to move or improve the page in any way. In particular, the "step 2" would need to be adapted to other OSes than Linux: I don't have a Windows PC at hand with LyX installed, so I'm not sure how to replace "~/.lyx/layouts". Thanks

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Jose Quesada wrote: > Hi, > I'm not sure if this is only on my particular doc, but it seems to me > that lyx chokes on documents with many subsections? > It's a notes doc. It may have close to a hundred headinds (section, > subsection

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Jose Quesada
nope, no tables, just a long, complicated outline. Maybe I could flatten it a little... Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin http://www.josequesada.name/ http://twitter.com/Quesada On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Liviu Andronic

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 6/12/2010 1:13 PM, Jose Quesada wrote: nope, no tables, just a long, complicated outline. Maybe I could flatten it a little... If you're in the mood to experiment, you might try putting different sections in different branches (which you can color-code). Then collapse the branches you're

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 12 June 2010 03:55:23 Barak Sh wrote: > Hello all, > An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page contains > only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to reduce the article to 6 > pages? I know it's possible to make fonts a bit smaller throughout the > entire

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 12 June 2010 11:55:20 Jose Quesada wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this is only on my particular doc, but it seems to me > that lyx chokes on documents with many subsections? > It's a notes doc. It may have close to a hundred headinds (section, > subsection etc). > Typing becomes

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Julien Rioux
On 12/06/2010 11:55 AM, Jose Quesada wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this is only on my particular doc, but it seems to me that lyx chokes on documents with many subsections? It's a notes doc. It may have close to a hundred headinds (section, subsection etc). Typing becomes slow. Even moving around

Lyx 2 WORD

2010-06-12 Thread E. Kaplan
I know this is an often-discussed issue, but like the weather, it seems to be always relevant. In converting from Lyx to MS WORD I found the path through html to work quite well, even for documents with figures, except for the paragraph environment, which somehow is treated as regular text:

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Jose Quesada
@Steve,16 Gb of ram, cpu iddle... I don't think it's a matter of resources. @Julien, you narrowed down the problem! when I close the outline pane, everything is fast. Unfortunately, for my use case I need it open... I wonder if Rob Oakes, who has been working on the outliner code, could improve

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Jose Quesada
ok, attached is an example. At 40 headins it is kind of too slow for actuall work. Turning autocompletion off doesn't help. Neither does turning off inline spelling. htop shows lyx using little memory and cpu. Performance degrades lineally with number of headings. If you could reproduce this on

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Jose Quesada
update: using branches does not help. Moving around in a large doc (example: userGuide) is sluggy too. Weird. This must be something in my config... I tried 1.6.4 (ubuntu) 1.6.6 (sabayon) and 2alpha 3 (ubuntu). Same problem. The problem is that moving the cursor (not even typing, as usersGuide is

Re: Lyx 2 WORD

2010-06-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-12, E. Kaplan wrote: > I know this is an often-discussed issue, but like the weather, it seems > to be always relevant. > In converting from Lyx to MS WORD I found the path through html to work > quite well, even for documents with figures, except for the paragraph > environment,

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-12, Barak Sh wrote: > --0050450156d81d9ee90488d09573 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page contains > only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to reduce the article to > 6 pages? > ... I have noticed that

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.
Hi, Jose Quesada wrote: ok, attached is an example. At 40 headins it is kind of too slow for actuall work. Turning autocompletion off doesn't help. Neither does turning off inline spelling. htop shows lyx using little memory and cpu. Performance degrades lineally with number of headings.

Re: blanks don't get saved in math-text mode

2010-06-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-11, hinten hoch wrote: > --0016364265755e94760488bff732 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Dear all, > I'm trying to use the qtree package in lyx to generate some trees in > math-text mode. In principle it's working fine, but when I save the document > or copy and paste

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Barak Sh
Guenter Milde users.berlios.de> writes: > > On 2010-06-12, Barak Sh wrote: > > --0050450156d81d9ee90488d09573 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page contains > > only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Paul Rubin
Jose Quesada gmail.com> writes: > > > ok, attached is an example. > > At 40 headins it is kind of too slow for actuall work. Your example file does not cause my laptop (Mint Helena, which is built on Ubuntu Karmic; dual core Intel processor) any problems. Response to the cursor keys is

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Jose Quesada
Thanks Paul, It makes me sad when I face situations like this. LyX is a great tool, that should work well under linux (open source, qt, etc). But what I find is the contrary. Obscure bug that I have no time to track (I know first hand this could be a time sink, going down the rabbit hole...).

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:01:26 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > On Saturday 12 June 2010 03:55:23 Barak Sh wrote: > > Hello all, > > An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page > > contains only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to reduce > > the

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:22 PM, [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC. wrote: > I am not able to reproduce this behaviour in a 2.0.0alpha3 (MacTeX-2009) > installation running on a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.5.8. Reaction to > typing is quite normal here. > > What I've

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 12 June 2010 19:10:31 Alan L Tyree wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:01:26 -0400 > > Steve Litt wrote: > > On Saturday 12 June 2010 03:55:23 Barak Sh wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page > > > contains