On 2012-02-02, John O'Gorman wrote:
With more recent versions of LyX (e.g. 1.6.4.2 on a Mac and 1.6.5 on
Linux) this seems to be broken,
I get the error messages:
command \cedover unavailable in encoding T1
command \uunderer unavailable in encoding T1
...
On 2012-02-02, stefano franchi wrote:
Is this a tool that would prove useful to yourselves, your collaborators,
and others?
What features would you consider essential?
...
Math, on the other hand, would not be very important. That is: I
assume math would be finally produced by Latex, if
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On 02/02/12 04:25, stefano franchi wrote:
Hi Rob,
Hi Rob
I reply to Stefano's mail, as I agree with many points and don't want
to repeat them.
first: great project! I constantly struggle with converting file
to and from MS Word. I now use the
On 02/02/12 21:47, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2012-02-02, John O'Gorman wrote:
With more recent versions of LyX (e.g. 1.6.4.2 on a Mac and 1.6.5 on
Linux) this seems to be broken,
I get the error messages:
command \cedover unavailable in encoding T1
command \uunderer unavailable in encoding T1
Hey guys!
I'm writing a report for 15 ECTS project at my university using LyX
that has to be formated so that if follows my institutions guidelines.
I managed to get most of it working properly, by using XeTeX for fonts
etc, but I cant figure out how to format the table of contents
properly.
Hey guys!
I'm writing a report for 15 ECTS project at my university using LyX
that has to be formated so that if follows my institutions guidelines.
I managed to get most of it working properly, by using XeTeX for fonts
etc, but I cant figure out how to format the table of contents
properly.
Hi,
When I add Program Listing section (Insert - Program Listing) and paste
source code from IDE or a text editor the EOL characters are removed.
For example:
usedArgument.setValue1();
usedArgument.getValue2();
becase:
usedArgument.setValue1(); usedArgument.getValue2();
Is it necessary to
I got the same results with a new user account.
(except 22:24:24.362 in the Progress/Debug messages below.)
Thanks,
stiv.
When I typed control + b, I got
On 02/01/2012 03:11 PM, Xu Wang wrote:
Hey Rob, that sounds like quite a nice project you have in mind!
My two cents: it's not worth carrying it out if you can't get the math
to import somewhat well. That seems to be the biggest problem with
most ways of converting doc to lyx. I understand
IMHO it is unlikely that math-heavy documents are produced by anything
but Latex/Lyx.
I applaud the initiative to make MS-WORD/Lyx conversion easier. I am
sure it will have
many appreciative users.
EK
On 02/02/2012 10:55 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
On 02/01/2012 03:11 PM, Xu Wang wrote:
Hey
On 02/02/2012 11:04 AM, UD wrote:
IMHO it is unlikely that math-heavy documents are produced by anything
but Latex/Lyx.
I applaud the initiative to make MS-WORD/Lyx conversion easier. I am
sure it will have
many appreciative users.
Unfortunately, there are math-heavy documents that are
/I guess that was my point.
Thanks for stating more clearly than I did, Ehud.
Guenter: I am curious about your comment. As a physicist, do you have
the need to cooperate with colleagues/students using Word? I would have
thought most physicists would be using Latex both in everyday work and
in
On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:59:33 -0700
Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote:
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
One thing you do not mention is handling figures. The documents I work
with tend to be very heavily illustrated, and I like LyX because it
handles figures so much better than
Hello Rob
To echo others, it's great that you'd like to work on this.
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote:
What features would you consider essential?
(Right now, styles based conversion looks pretty easy -- going from Heading
1 in Word to Chapter, for
No easy solution then…
I looked at the Qt bug tracker and didn't find anything that could explain
this, except for this entry:
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-14381
Since I can't reproduce this problem, I'm currently out of ideas. Maybe you
could still check what happens if you
Thank you everyone for the comments so far. I really appreciate hearing from
others as it helps me to build out a more detailed use-case. In addition to the
earlier questions, I have one more:
How important is support of .doc?
I know that it is the standard upon which the publishing industry
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:50:05 -0700
Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote:
In the meantime, hearing about what features should be supported
would be very nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus
only docx support) would also be very helpful.
I would be quite happy with only .docx
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote:
very nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus only docx
support) would also be very helpful.
If .docx-only support simplifies your task and helps ensure that your
tool would support a good deal of functionality,
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote:
very nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus only docx
support) would also be very helpful.
If .docx-only support simplifies your
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On 02/02/12 19:27, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us
wrote:
very nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus only
docx support) would also be very helpful.
If .docx-only support
On Feb 2, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Les Denham wrote:
Supporting Styles and Figures is a major achievement as far as I am
concerned. I assume you don't do much in deciphering the fingerpainting
favored by most Word users. Such crass formatting is probably best left
as Standard in LyX anyway.
On 2012-02-02, UD wrote:
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/I guess that was my point.
Thanks for stating more clearly than I did, Ehud.
Guenter: I am curious about your comment. As a physicist, do you have
the need to cooperate with colleagues/students using Word? I would have
On 2012-02-02, Rob Oakes wrote:
How important is support of .doc?
IMO, you should concentrate on docx - lyx. One tool for one task.
If it turns out that parts can be reused for doc-lyx later, fine.
How good/bad is the doc - docx conversion in OpenOffice/LibreOffice?
If I go ahead with
On 2012-02-02, John O'Gorman wrote:
On 02/02/12 21:47, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2012-02-02, John O'Gorman wrote:
How can I set LyX to use OT1 encoding (or is that undesirable)?
You can set the font encoding (called latex encoding by LyX) in the
settings:
1.6.x only allows global setting
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.sf.net wrote:
How good/bad is the doc - docx conversion in OpenOffice/LibreOffice?
My experience with OpenOffice and .docx isn't very good: I always had
the feeling that .doc support was better than .docx. The issues
concerned mainly
How are you doing the pasting? The edit menu gives a couple of options for
pasting external content, one of which preserves line breaks.
Paul
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
How are you doing the pasting? The edit menu gives a couple of options for
pasting external content, one of which preserves line breaks.
... which is the LyX code environment.
Rich
In addition to the other request for feedback, I was wondering if I might
pester the community for one other favor. I'm currently putting together
materials for a workshop. It's meant to introduce students (math, science,
graduate, medical) to open tools and how they can be used for writing.
On 2012-02-02, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
How are you doing the pasting? The edit menu gives a couple of options for
pasting external content, one of which preserves line breaks.
... which is the LyX code environment.
The LyX code environment is a
On 2012-02-02, John O'Gorman wrote:
With more recent versions of LyX (e.g. 1.6.4.2 on a Mac and 1.6.5 on
Linux) this seems to be broken,
I get the error messages:
command \cedover unavailable in encoding T1
command \uunderer unavailable in encoding T1
...
On 2012-02-02, stefano franchi wrote:
Is this a tool that would prove useful to yourselves, your collaborators,
and others?
What features would you consider essential?
...
Math, on the other hand, would not be very important. That is: I
assume math would be finally produced by Latex, if
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On 02/02/12 04:25, stefano franchi wrote:
Hi Rob,
Hi Rob
I reply to Stefano's mail, as I agree with many points and don't want
to repeat them.
first: great project! I constantly struggle with converting file
to and from MS Word. I now use the
On 02/02/12 21:47, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2012-02-02, John O'Gorman wrote:
With more recent versions of LyX (e.g. 1.6.4.2 on a Mac and 1.6.5 on
Linux) this seems to be broken,
I get the error messages:
command \cedover unavailable in encoding T1
command \uunderer unavailable in encoding T1
Hey guys!
I'm writing a report for 15 ECTS project at my university using LyX
that has to be formated so that if follows my institutions guidelines.
I managed to get most of it working properly, by using XeTeX for fonts
etc, but I cant figure out how to format the table of contents
properly.
Hey guys!
I'm writing a report for 15 ECTS project at my university using LyX
that has to be formated so that if follows my institutions guidelines.
I managed to get most of it working properly, by using XeTeX for fonts
etc, but I cant figure out how to format the table of contents
properly.
Hi,
When I add Program Listing section (Insert - Program Listing) and paste
source code from IDE or a text editor the EOL characters are removed.
For example:
usedArgument.setValue1();
usedArgument.getValue2();
becase:
usedArgument.setValue1(); usedArgument.getValue2();
Is it necessary to
I got the same results with a new user account.
(except 22:24:24.362 in the Progress/Debug messages below.)
Thanks,
stiv.
When I typed control + b, I got
On 02/01/2012 03:11 PM, Xu Wang wrote:
Hey Rob, that sounds like quite a nice project you have in mind!
My two cents: it's not worth carrying it out if you can't get the math
to import somewhat well. That seems to be the biggest problem with
most ways of converting doc to lyx. I understand
IMHO it is unlikely that math-heavy documents are produced by anything
but Latex/Lyx.
I applaud the initiative to make MS-WORD/Lyx conversion easier. I am
sure it will have
many appreciative users.
EK
On 02/02/2012 10:55 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
On 02/01/2012 03:11 PM, Xu Wang wrote:
Hey
On 02/02/2012 11:04 AM, UD wrote:
IMHO it is unlikely that math-heavy documents are produced by anything
but Latex/Lyx.
I applaud the initiative to make MS-WORD/Lyx conversion easier. I am
sure it will have
many appreciative users.
Unfortunately, there are math-heavy documents that are
/I guess that was my point.
Thanks for stating more clearly than I did, Ehud.
Guenter: I am curious about your comment. As a physicist, do you have
the need to cooperate with colleagues/students using Word? I would have
thought most physicists would be using Latex both in everyday work and
in
On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:59:33 -0700
Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote:
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
One thing you do not mention is handling figures. The documents I work
with tend to be very heavily illustrated, and I like LyX because it
handles figures so much better than
Hello Rob
To echo others, it's great that you'd like to work on this.
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote:
What features would you consider essential?
(Right now, styles based conversion looks pretty easy -- going from Heading
1 in Word to Chapter, for
No easy solution then…
I looked at the Qt bug tracker and didn't find anything that could explain
this, except for this entry:
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-14381
Since I can't reproduce this problem, I'm currently out of ideas. Maybe you
could still check what happens if you
Thank you everyone for the comments so far. I really appreciate hearing from
others as it helps me to build out a more detailed use-case. In addition to the
earlier questions, I have one more:
How important is support of .doc?
I know that it is the standard upon which the publishing industry
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:50:05 -0700
Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote:
In the meantime, hearing about what features should be supported
would be very nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus
only docx support) would also be very helpful.
I would be quite happy with only .docx
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote:
very nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus only docx
support) would also be very helpful.
If .docx-only support simplifies your task and helps ensure that your
tool would support a good deal of functionality,
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote:
very nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus only docx
support) would also be very helpful.
If .docx-only support simplifies your
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On 02/02/12 19:27, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us
wrote:
very nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus only
docx support) would also be very helpful.
If .docx-only support
On Feb 2, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Les Denham wrote:
Supporting Styles and Figures is a major achievement as far as I am
concerned. I assume you don't do much in deciphering the fingerpainting
favored by most Word users. Such crass formatting is probably best left
as Standard in LyX anyway.
On 2012-02-02, UD wrote:
[-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit --]
/I guess that was my point.
Thanks for stating more clearly than I did, Ehud.
Guenter: I am curious about your comment. As a physicist, do you have
the need to cooperate with colleagues/students using Word? I would have
On 2012-02-02, Rob Oakes wrote:
How important is support of .doc?
IMO, you should concentrate on docx - lyx. One tool for one task.
If it turns out that parts can be reused for doc-lyx later, fine.
How good/bad is the doc - docx conversion in OpenOffice/LibreOffice?
If I go ahead with
On 2012-02-02, John O'Gorman wrote:
On 02/02/12 21:47, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2012-02-02, John O'Gorman wrote:
How can I set LyX to use OT1 encoding (or is that undesirable)?
You can set the font encoding (called latex encoding by LyX) in the
settings:
1.6.x only allows global setting
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.sf.net wrote:
How good/bad is the doc - docx conversion in OpenOffice/LibreOffice?
My experience with OpenOffice and .docx isn't very good: I always had
the feeling that .doc support was better than .docx. The issues
concerned mainly
How are you doing the pasting? The edit menu gives a couple of options for
pasting external content, one of which preserves line breaks.
Paul
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
How are you doing the pasting? The edit menu gives a couple of options for
pasting external content, one of which preserves line breaks.
... which is the LyX code environment.
Rich
In addition to the other request for feedback, I was wondering if I might
pester the community for one other favor. I'm currently putting together
materials for a workshop. It's meant to introduce students (math, science,
graduate, medical) to open tools and how they can be used for writing.
On 2012-02-02, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
How are you doing the pasting? The edit menu gives a couple of options for
pasting external content, one of which preserves line breaks.
... which is the LyX code environment.
The LyX code environment is a
On 2012-02-02, John O'Gorman wrote:
> With more recent versions of LyX (e.g. 1.6.4.2 on a Mac and 1.6.5 on
> Linux) this seems to be broken,
> I get the error messages:
> command \cedover unavailable in encoding T1
> command \uunderer unavailable in encoding T1
...
>
On 2012-02-02, stefano franchi wrote:
>> Is this a tool that would prove useful to yourselves, your collaborators,
>> and others?
>> What features would you consider essential?
...
> Math, on the other hand, would not be very important. That is: I
> assume math would be finally produced by
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On 02/02/12 04:25, stefano franchi wrote:
> Hi Rob,
Hi Rob
I reply to Stefano's mail, as I agree with many points and don't want
to repeat them.
>
> first: great project! I constantly struggle with converting file
> to and from MS Word. I now use
On 02/02/12 21:47, Guenter Milde wrote:
> On 2012-02-02, John O'Gorman wrote:
>
>> With more recent versions of LyX (e.g. 1.6.4.2 on a Mac and 1.6.5 on
>> Linux) this seems to be broken,
>> I get the error messages:
>> command \cedover unavailable in encoding T1
>> command \uunderer unavailable in
Hey guys!
I'm writing a report for 15 ECTS project at my university using LyX
that has to be formated so that if follows my institutions guidelines.
I managed to get most of it working properly, by using XeTeX for fonts
etc, but I cant figure out how to format the table of contents
properly.
>Hey guys!
>
>I'm writing a report for 15 ECTS project at my university using LyX
>that has to be formated so that if follows my institutions guidelines.
>I managed to get most of it working properly, by using XeTeX for fonts
>etc, but I cant figure out how to format the table of contents
Hi,
When I add Program Listing section (Insert -> Program Listing) and paste
source code from IDE or a text editor the EOL characters are removed.
For example:
usedArgument.setValue1();
usedArgument.getValue2();
becase:
usedArgument.setValue1(); usedArgument.getValue2();
Is it necessary to
I got the same results with a new user account.
(except "22:24:24.362" in the Progress/Debug messages below.)
Thanks,
stiv.
When I typed control + b, I got
On 02/01/2012 03:11 PM, Xu Wang wrote:
Hey Rob, that sounds like quite a nice project you have in mind!
My two cents: it's not worth carrying it out if you can't get the math
to import somewhat well. That seems to be the biggest problem with
most ways of converting doc to lyx. I understand
IMHO it is unlikely that math-heavy documents are produced by anything
but Latex/Lyx.
I applaud the initiative to make MS-WORD/Lyx conversion easier. I am
sure it will have
many appreciative users.
EK
On 02/02/2012 10:55 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
On 02/01/2012 03:11 PM, Xu Wang wrote:
Hey
On 02/02/2012 11:04 AM, UD wrote:
IMHO it is unlikely that math-heavy documents are produced by anything
but Latex/Lyx.
I applaud the initiative to make MS-WORD/Lyx conversion easier. I am
sure it will have
many appreciative users.
Unfortunately, there are math-heavy documents that are
/"I guess that was my point.
Thanks for stating more clearly than I did, Ehud.
Guenter: I am curious about your comment. As a physicist, do you have
the need to cooperate with colleagues/students using Word? I would have
thought most physicists would be using Latex both in everyday work and
in
On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:59:33 -0700
Rob Oakes wrote:
> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
One thing you do not mention is handling figures. The documents I work
with tend to be very heavily illustrated, and I like LyX because it
handles figures so much better than
Hello Rob
To echo others, it's great that you'd like to work on this.
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Rob Oakes wrote:
> What features would you consider essential?
>
> (Right now, styles based conversion looks pretty easy -- going from Heading
> 1 in Word to Chapter, for
No easy solution then…
I looked at the Qt bug tracker and didn't find anything that could explain
this, except for this entry:
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-14381
Since I can't reproduce this problem, I'm currently out of ideas. Maybe you
could still check what happens if you
Thank you everyone for the comments so far. I really appreciate hearing from
others as it helps me to build out a more detailed use-case. In addition to the
earlier questions, I have one more:
How important is support of .doc?
I know that it is the standard upon which the publishing industry
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:50:05 -0700
Rob Oakes wrote:
> In the meantime, hearing about what features should be supported
> would be very nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus
> only docx support) would also be very helpful.
I would be quite happy with only
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Rob Oakes wrote:
> very nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus only docx
> support) would also be very helpful.
>
If .docx-only support simplifies your task and helps ensure that your
tool would support a good deal of
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Rob Oakes wrote:
>> very nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus only docx
>> support) would also be very helpful.
>>
> If .docx-only support
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On 02/02/12 19:27, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Rob Oakes
> wrote:
>> very nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus only
>> docx support) would also be very helpful.
>>
> If .docx-only
On Feb 2, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Les Denham wrote:
> Supporting Styles and Figures is a major achievement as far as I am
> concerned. I assume you don't do much in deciphering the fingerpainting
> favored by most Word users. Such crass formatting is probably best left
> as Standard in LyX anyway.
On 2012-02-02, UD wrote:
> [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit --]
> /"I guess that was my point.
> Thanks for stating more clearly than I did, Ehud.
> Guenter: I am curious about your comment. As a physicist, do you have
> the need to cooperate with colleagues/students using Word? I would
On 2012-02-02, Rob Oakes wrote:
> How important is support of .doc?
IMO, you should concentrate on docx <-> lyx. One tool for one task.
If it turns out that parts can be reused for doc<->lyx later, fine.
How good/bad is the doc <-> docx conversion in OpenOffice/LibreOffice?
> If I go ahead
On 2012-02-02, John O'Gorman wrote:
> On 02/02/12 21:47, Guenter Milde wrote:
>> On 2012-02-02, John O'Gorman wrote:
>>> How can I set LyX to use OT1 encoding (or is that undesirable)?
>> You can set the font encoding (called "latex encoding" by LyX) in the
>> settings:
>> 1.6.x only allows
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:
> How good/bad is the doc <-> docx conversion in OpenOffice/LibreOffice?
>
My experience with OpenOffice and .docx isn't very good: I always had
the feeling that .doc support was better than .docx. The issues
concerned
How are you doing the pasting? The edit menu gives a couple of options for
pasting external content, one of which preserves line breaks.
Paul
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
How are you doing the pasting? The edit menu gives a couple of options for
pasting external content, one of which preserves line breaks.
... which is the LyX code environment.
Rich
In addition to the other request for feedback, I was wondering if I might
pester the community for one other favor. I'm currently putting together
materials for a workshop. It's meant to introduce students (math, science,
graduate, medical) to open tools and how they can be used for writing.
On 2012-02-02, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
>> How are you doing the pasting? The edit menu gives a couple of options for
>> pasting external content, one of which preserves line breaks.
>... which is the LyX code environment.
The "LyX code" environment is
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