Re: Trouble with Egyptian Hieroglyphs

2012-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
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 ...

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Trouble with Egyptian Hieroglyphs: SOLVED

2012-02-02 Thread John O'Gorman
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

Formating the Table of Contents

2012-02-02 Thread Kim Lindgren
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.

Re: Formating the Table of Contents

2012-02-02 Thread Marcelo Acuña
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.

EOL characters removed when pasting a source code into a program listing section

2012-02-02 Thread Marcin Zajączkowski
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

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-02-02 Thread stiv. djobz.
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Richard Heck
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread UD
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread David L. Johnson
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

WORD 2 Lyx

2012-02-02 Thread UD
/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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Les Denham
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
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

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-02-02 Thread Jens Nöckel
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Rob Oakes
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Les Denham
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
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,

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread stefano franchi
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Rob Oakes
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.

Re: WORD 2 Lyx

2012-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
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

Re: Trouble with Egyptian Hieroglyphs: SOLVED

2012-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
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

Re: EOL characters removed when pasting a source code into a program listing section

2012-02-02 Thread Paul A . Rubin
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

Re: EOL characters removed when pasting a source code into a program listing section

2012-02-02 Thread Rich Shepard
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

Request for Feedback (OpenSource Materials)

2012-02-02 Thread Rob Oakes
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.

Re: EOL characters removed when pasting a source code into a program listing section

2012-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
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

Re: Trouble with Egyptian Hieroglyphs

2012-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
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 ...

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Trouble with Egyptian Hieroglyphs: SOLVED

2012-02-02 Thread John O'Gorman
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

Formating the Table of Contents

2012-02-02 Thread Kim Lindgren
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.

Re: Formating the Table of Contents

2012-02-02 Thread Marcelo Acuña
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.

EOL characters removed when pasting a source code into a program listing section

2012-02-02 Thread Marcin Zajączkowski
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

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-02-02 Thread stiv. djobz.
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Richard Heck
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread UD
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread David L. Johnson
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

WORD 2 Lyx

2012-02-02 Thread UD
/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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Les Denham
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
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

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-02-02 Thread Jens Nöckel
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Rob Oakes
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Les Denham
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
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,

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread stefano franchi
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Rob Oakes
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.

Re: WORD 2 Lyx

2012-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
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

Re: Trouble with Egyptian Hieroglyphs: SOLVED

2012-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
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

Re: EOL characters removed when pasting a source code into a program listing section

2012-02-02 Thread Paul A . Rubin
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

Re: EOL characters removed when pasting a source code into a program listing section

2012-02-02 Thread Rich Shepard
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

Request for Feedback (OpenSource Materials)

2012-02-02 Thread Rob Oakes
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.

Re: EOL characters removed when pasting a source code into a program listing section

2012-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
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

Re: Trouble with Egyptian Hieroglyphs

2012-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
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 ... >

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Trouble with Egyptian Hieroglyphs: SOLVED

2012-02-02 Thread John O'Gorman
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

Formating the Table of Contents

2012-02-02 Thread Kim Lindgren
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.

Re: Formating the Table of Contents

2012-02-02 Thread Marcelo Acuña
>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

EOL characters removed when pasting a source code into a program listing section

2012-02-02 Thread Marcin Zajączkowski
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

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-02-02 Thread stiv. djobz.
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Richard Heck
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread UD
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread David L. Johnson
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

WORD 2 Lyx

2012-02-02 Thread UD
/"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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Les Denham
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
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

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-02-02 Thread Jens Nöckel
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Rob Oakes
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Les Denham
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread stefano franchi
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Rob Oakes
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.

Re: WORD 2 Lyx

2012-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
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

Re: Trouble with Egyptian Hieroglyphs: SOLVED

2012-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
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

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
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

Re: EOL characters removed when pasting a source code into a program listing section

2012-02-02 Thread Paul A . Rubin
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

Re: EOL characters removed when pasting a source code into a program listing section

2012-02-02 Thread Rich Shepard
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

Request for Feedback (OpenSource Materials)

2012-02-02 Thread Rob Oakes
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.

Re: EOL characters removed when pasting a source code into a program listing section

2012-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
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