Zapf typefaces in LaTeX (was: 'Re: No ligatures in Palatino?')

2011-04-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hey Bruce On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > Other faces designed by Herman Zapf would do as well -- such as Aldus or > Renaissance > As far as I understand, Aldus is a book weight version of Palatino, hence more readable. Do you know if URW++ or TeX Gyre (or anyone else) pro

Re: Friends, Fellows, Comrades!

2011-04-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-04-08, Ron McMillan wrote: > Still, I have one question which is hoping for a simple answer: Is there > a way to label the notes and comments in a LyX document? > What I mean is when you go to 'Insert > Note > Comment' for example, you > get a comment icon on the page. It is called 'Com

Re: Friends, Fellows, Comrades!

2011-04-08 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/08/2011 10:52 AM, Ron McMillan wrote: Thank you for your replies. I believe it is a trifle early for me to be customizing, though I did go to section 5.3 to have a look. And it is not much work to label the comment by putting a description in front of it. The LyX comments beat the heck out

Re: Translations of Math environments in LyX output - last call for LyX 2.0

2011-04-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: > He suggested to raise the question on fr.comp.text.tex, but I declined the > proposal because I guess I will end wity 50/50 rating between table and > tableau, not to speak of possible flame wars. so as i read it this change didn't went it into babel since its contr

Re: No ligatures in Palatino?

2011-04-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Bruce Pourciau wrote: This is one of the many, many reasons why the typographic world would be a prettier place if Word folks would use Palatino, rather than Times, Bruce, They either use Times or the default san-serif face as a body text font. Ugly and hard to read.

Re: No ligatures in Palatino?

2011-04-08 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Apr 8, 2011, at 1:31 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: Because there are no ligatures in Palatino -- by design. This is one of the many, many reasons why the typographic world would be a prettier place if Word folks would use Palatino, rather than Times, as the default typeface. Not only then

Re: Translations of Math environments in LyX output - last call for LyX 2.0

2011-04-08 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Pavel Sanda a écrit : Julien Rioux wrote: Actually, I think we should, eventually :) why not fix it in french babel if its wrong? I had an exchange about this issue with Daniel Flipo, the maintainer of French babel. I asked him about the inconsitency, and more generally about the translat

Re: Translations of Math environments in LyX output - last call for LyX 2.0

2011-04-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
Julien Rioux wrote: > Actually, I think we should, eventually :) why not fix it in french babel if its wrong? pavel

Re: Translations of Math environments in LyX output - last call for LyX 2.0

2011-04-08 Thread Julien Rioux
On 08/04/2011 8:33 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: Hello Pavel, I don't unserstand what happened, a lot of strings which are not translated in frenchb.ldf have disappeared. do they really stopped working when you typeset the french document? i see those strings in http://f

Re: Translations of Math environments in LyX output - last call for LyX 2.0

2011-04-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > Moreover, I would like to suggest some different translations that should > sound better in brazilian portuguese (in fact, they don't even appear in > modern dictionaries of pt_br): > > Assumption => Suposiç?o > Fact => Fato Rudi, please check with RC3 that the output look

Re: Friends, Fellows, Comrades!

2011-04-08 Thread Ron McMillan
Thank you for your replies. I believe it is a trifle early for me to be customizing, though I did go to section 5.3 to have a look. And it is not much work to label the comment by putting a description in front of it. The LyX comments beat the heck out of both writer and word by a country mile.

Re: No ligatures in Palatino?

2011-04-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Guenter Milde wrote: Because there are no ligatures in Palatino -- by design. There is not much change in the standard Postscript fonts. Especially, considering the emphasis that TeX puts on consistent rendering of unchanged documents, there will be no change without a new

Re: Translations of Math environments in LyX output - last call for LyX 2.0

2011-04-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: > Hello Pavel, > > I don't unserstand what happened, a lot of strings which are not translated > in frenchb.ldf have disappeared. do they really stopped working when you typeset the french document? i see those strings in http://ftp.cvut.cz/tex-archive/macros/latex/re

Re: dontprintsection heading

2011-04-08 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/08/2011 03:45 AM, george legge wrote: Dear LyX Listers, Is there a simple way to prevent a section heading from printing out in the text? I am using memoir and companion. I wish to place my section headings in the margin and also have them appear in the TOC and in the appropriate header

Re: Friends, Fellows, Comrades!

2011-04-08 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/08/2011 05:52 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Ron McMillan wrote: Hi, first let me say that I have started using LyX for studying Spanish because it is easier to use and less distracting than word or writer. Of course there are always thing one wants done better

Re: Crash in rc_2

2011-04-08 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: > > I have gone through the translation for nn I could not find any errors in > > connection to %1$s. (many others: like missing : and to many spaces, > > though, more work for me :) ) > > > > > > > > However: I did try saving some more files (with the old translation) and > > e

Re: Friends, Fellows, Comrades!

2011-04-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Ron McMillan wrote: > Hi, first let me say that I have started using LyX for studying Spanish > because it is easier to use and less distracting than word or writer. Of > course there are always thing one wants done better but if one isn't doing > them oneself and

Re: lmodern?

2011-04-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Sam Lewis wrote: > >> LyX already departs from LaTeX defaults by changing the font encoding >> from OT1 to T1. (See the line >>   \usepackage[T1]{inputenc} > > Is this not absurd for a default setting: I.e. T1 and CM? If the majority of > users supposedly not prima

Re: Friends, Fellows, Comrades!

2011-04-08 Thread Sam Lewis
> What I mean is when you go to 'Insert > Note > Comment' for example, you > get a comment icon on the page. It is called 'Comment' but I would like > to change that to say 'May Ideas' 'Important Page Numbers' or whatever. Don't think so. You have to use "Label" that you place before the note.

Re: lmodern?

2011-04-08 Thread Sam Lewis
> LyX already departs from LaTeX defaults by changing the font encoding > from OT1 to T1. (See the line > \usepackage[T1]{inputenc} Is this not absurd for a default setting: I.e. T1 and CM? If the majority of users supposedly not primarily write in English, should it not be T1 + LM? If howeve

Friends, Fellows, Comrades!

2011-04-08 Thread Ron McMillan
Hi, first let me say that I have started using LyX for studying Spanish because it is easier to use and less distracting than word or writer. Of course there are always thing one wants done better but if one isn't doing them oneself and as the program is free... Still, I have one question which

dontprintsection heading

2011-04-08 Thread george legge
Dear LyX Listers, Is there a simple way to prevent a section heading from printing out in the text? I am using memoir and companion. I wish to place my section headings in the margin and also have them appear in the TOC and in the appropriate headers. LyX was not happy when I inserted one as a mar

Re: Dissertation Finished! Thank you LyXers!

2011-04-08 Thread Sam Lewis
Excellent! > > I also have a number of tips/tricks I accumulated along the way. If > > interested I'd be happy to combine these and post them here. This would be useful, particularly any kind on using LyX in the Humanities. Please add them to the wiki and post the link here. Many thanks! Cheer

Re: Translations of Math environments in LyX output - last call for LyX 2.0

2011-04-08 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Pavel Sanda a écrit : Pavel Sanda wrote: Please go through all entries in the attached file for your language and ensure that they are correctly translated. Make any needed update in the .po files as usual. The lib/layouttranslations file will be regenerated automatically from the .po files be