Re: How many are left handed

2009-09-16 Thread Les Denham
if it can be moved to the left side of the keyboard. Les -- .. Les Denham

Re: How Many use linux

2009-09-13 Thread Les Denham
Lyx on Gentoo Linux at work and on my laptop, and Lyx on Kubuntu at home. -- Les Denham --- http://www.hal-pc.org/~ldenham --- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See

Re: How Many use linux

2009-09-13 Thread Les Denham
Lyx on Gentoo Linux at work and on my laptop, and Lyx on Kubuntu at home. -- Les Denham --- http://www.hal-pc.org/~ldenham --- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See

Re: How Many use linux

2009-09-13 Thread Les Denham
Lyx on Gentoo Linux at work and on my laptop, and Lyx on Kubuntu at home. -- Les Denham --- http://www.hal-pc.org/~ldenham --- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See

Re: breaking long url

2009-09-04 Thread Les Denham
file showing the possibilities. . . . regards Uwe Another simple alternative is to reduce the font size for the URL so it fits. However, in this case even reducing it to Tiny doesn't do the job for default Memoir A4 fonts and margins. I'd use tinyurl.com. -- .. Les Denham

Re: breaking long url

2009-09-04 Thread Les Denham
file showing the possibilities. . . . regards Uwe Another simple alternative is to reduce the font size for the URL so it fits. However, in this case even reducing it to Tiny doesn't do the job for default Memoir A4 fonts and margins. I'd use tinyurl.com. -- .. Les Denham

Re: breaking long url

2009-09-04 Thread Les Denham
ing it to Tiny doesn't do the job for default Memoir A4 fonts and margins. I'd use tinyurl.com. -- .. Les Denham

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-20 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 20 August 2009 10:09:21 am Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2009 10:00:01 Helge Hafting wrote: I tested 30pt once just for fun - it looked fine. I believe LaTeX is limited by 32-bit numbers, and fail on distances longer than about 6 meters Unless of course you have a

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-20 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 20 August 2009 02:38:08 pm José Matos wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2009 16:09:21 Steve Litt wrote: Unless of course you have a 64 bit computer. And the data type used is long. For most of the 64-bit linux the memory layout is LP-64 that means that only long and pointer are 64

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-20 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 20 August 2009 10:09:21 am Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2009 10:00:01 Helge Hafting wrote: I tested 30pt once just for fun - it looked fine. I believe LaTeX is limited by 32-bit numbers, and fail on distances longer than about 6 meters Unless of course you have a

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-20 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 20 August 2009 02:38:08 pm José Matos wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2009 16:09:21 Steve Litt wrote: Unless of course you have a 64 bit computer. And the data type used is long. For most of the 64-bit linux the memory layout is LP-64 that means that only long and pointer are 64

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-20 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 20 August 2009 10:09:21 am Steve Litt wrote: > On Thursday 20 August 2009 10:00:01 Helge Hafting wrote: > > I tested 30pt once just for fun - it looked fine. > > > > I believe LaTeX is limited by 32-bit numbers, and fail on distances > > longer than about 6 meters > > Unless of course

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-20 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 20 August 2009 02:38:08 pm José Matos wrote: > On Thursday 20 August 2009 16:09:21 Steve Litt wrote: > > Unless of course you have a 64 bit computer. > > And the data type used is long. For most of the 64-bit linux the memory > layout is LP-64 that means that only long and pointer are

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-17 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 17 August 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:  But, he asked if LaTeX (or TeX itself) can scale type to 60-120pt and have it look as smooth as smaller sizes. I've never done this, nor am I sure just how to go about testing whether it can be done, so I'm asking here. I have a vague recollection

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-17 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 17 August 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:  But, he asked if LaTeX (or TeX itself) can scale type to 60-120pt and have it look as smooth as smaller sizes. I've never done this, nor am I sure just how to go about testing whether it can be done, so I'm asking here. I have a vague recollection

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-17 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 17 August 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: >  But, he asked if LaTeX (or TeX itself) can scale type to 60-120pt and have > it look as smooth as smaller sizes. I've never done this, nor am I sure > just how to go about testing whether it can be done, so I'm asking here. I > have a vague

Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-12 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Dynamic link (user sees a table in the LyX doc, and can interact with it, making changes in the spreadsheet).  This would typically occur with the user reading the finished product (PDF, DVI) in a viewer, not reading it in LyX, so you get into

Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-12 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Dynamic link (user sees a table in the LyX doc, and can interact with it, making changes in the spreadsheet).  This would typically occur with the user reading the finished product (PDF, DVI) in a viewer, not reading it in LyX, so you get into

Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-12 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Dynamic link (user sees a table in the LyX doc, and can interact > with it, making changes in the spreadsheet).  This would typically occur > with the user reading the finished product (PDF, DVI) in a viewer, not > reading it in LyX, so you get

Re: How do i plot a function?

2009-06-25 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 25 June 2009, Murray Eisenberg wrote: Another possible option is to use PiCTeX, available at CTAN. With LaTeX, you have to load the PiCTeX macros and then insert the code for your graph within a \beginpicture...\endpicture environment. I've used this with LaTeX, but never with

Re: How do i plot a function?

2009-06-25 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 25 June 2009, Murray Eisenberg wrote: Another possible option is to use PiCTeX, available at CTAN. With LaTeX, you have to load the PiCTeX macros and then insert the code for your graph within a \beginpicture...\endpicture environment. I've used this with LaTeX, but never with

Re: How do i plot a function?

2009-06-25 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 25 June 2009, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > Another possible option is to use PiCTeX, available at CTAN. With > LaTeX, you have to load the PiCTeX macros and then insert the code for > your graph within a \beginpicture...\endpicture environment. I've used > this with LaTeX, but never

Re: Posters in LyX

2009-06-19 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 18 June 2009, Daniel Joshua Stark wrote: Dear All, I was wondering if LyX can handle making posters. I've looked around some, and I don't believe it can. However, I wanted to ask you all first before giving up on using it to make one. Daniel, I assume you're talking about a

Re: Posters in LyX

2009-06-19 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 18 June 2009, Daniel Joshua Stark wrote: Dear All, I was wondering if LyX can handle making posters. I've looked around some, and I don't believe it can. However, I wanted to ask you all first before giving up on using it to make one. Daniel, I assume you're talking about a

Re: Posters in LyX

2009-06-19 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 18 June 2009, Daniel Joshua Stark wrote: > Dear All, > > I was wondering if LyX can handle making posters. I've looked around > some, and I don't believe it can. However, I wanted to ask you all > first before giving up on using it to make one. > Daniel, I assume you're talking

Re: Lyx Print-out?

2009-05-28 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Bruhtesfa Ebrahim wrote: But, I still have one problem. I am using a report document class for my thesis. It has only topic page. So, how can i create the front pages of my thesis such as the topic page, logo,acknowledgment page etc. in Lyx? The other option, Can I

Re: Lyx Print-out?

2009-05-28 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Bruhtesfa Ebrahim wrote: But, I still have one problem. I am using a report document class for my thesis. It has only topic page. So, how can i create the front pages of my thesis such as the topic page, logo,acknowledgment page etc. in Lyx? The other option, Can I

Re: Lyx Print-out?

2009-05-28 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Bruhtesfa Ebrahim wrote: > But, I still have one problem. I am using a report document class for my > thesis. It has only topic page. So, how can i create the front pages of my > thesis such as the topic page, logo,acknowledgment page etc. in Lyx? > > The other option, Can

Re: Is PDF the best graphic format for LyX?

2009-05-21 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 21 May 2009, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Is it my imagination, or do things go MUCH better when graphics included in a LyX diagram are PDFs? That's what I've found. I've found them infinitely and continuously scalable, and if I create the PDF with embed fonts, I think they work

Re: Is PDF the best graphic format for LyX?

2009-05-21 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 21 May 2009, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Is it my imagination, or do things go MUCH better when graphics included in a LyX diagram are PDFs? That's what I've found. I've found them infinitely and continuously scalable, and if I create the PDF with embed fonts, I think they work

Re: Is PDF the best graphic format for LyX?

2009-05-21 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 21 May 2009, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it my imagination, or do things go MUCH better when graphics included in > a LyX diagram are PDFs? That's what I've found. I've found them infinitely > and continuously scalable, and if I create the PDF with "embed fonts", I > think they

Re: Chapter styles...

2009-05-04 Thread Les Denham
On Saturday 02 May 2009, Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote: Could someone point me to any Latex chapter styles, like the ones below, which I find vey useful in creating books: http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html Thanks in advance! FN The memoir class has good

Re: Chapter styles...

2009-05-04 Thread Les Denham
On Saturday 02 May 2009, Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote: Could someone point me to any Latex chapter styles, like the ones below, which I find vey useful in creating books: http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html Thanks in advance! FN The memoir class has good

Re: Chapter styles...

2009-05-04 Thread Les Denham
On Saturday 02 May 2009, Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote: > Could someone point me to any Latex chapter styles, like the ones > below, which I find vey useful in creating books: > http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html > Thanks in advance! FN The memoir class has

Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

2009-04-09 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 09 April 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: I've not used the memoir(book) class before and thought that I'd give it a try for workshop attendee material. I'm having problems with page numbering: -- The title page is numbered '1' but should be blank. -- I set the default

Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

2009-04-09 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 09 April 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: Les,    That looks very familiar; I don't do book class documents often enough to remember how. I just assumed the class took care of everything. :-) Rich, Neither do I do books often. Or at least, I don't set up books often: once I get it set

Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

2009-04-09 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 09 April 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: I've not used the memoir(book) class before and thought that I'd give it a try for workshop attendee material. I'm having problems with page numbering: -- The title page is numbered '1' but should be blank. -- I set the default

Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

2009-04-09 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 09 April 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: Les,    That looks very familiar; I don't do book class documents often enough to remember how. I just assumed the class took care of everything. :-) Rich, Neither do I do books often. Or at least, I don't set up books often: once I get it set

Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

2009-04-09 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 09 April 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: >I've not used the memoir(book) class before and thought that I'd give it > a try for workshop attendee material. I'm having problems with page > numbering: > >-- The title page is numbered '1' but should be blank. >-- I set the default

Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

2009-04-09 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 09 April 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: > Les, > >    That looks very familiar; I don't do book class documents often enough > to remember how. I just assumed the class took care of everything. :-) Rich, Neither do I do books often. Or at least, I don't set up books often: once I get it

Re: Position of tilde

2009-04-02 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 02 April 2009, rettie wrote: Hello all! I apologise if this has been asked to death, but is there any way to get a normal looking tilde? Like this -- ~? I want to use it instead of saying approximately but when I use the keyboard tilde (\textasciitilde) it appears at the top of the

Re: Position of tilde

2009-04-02 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 02 April 2009, rettie wrote: Hello all! I apologise if this has been asked to death, but is there any way to get a normal looking tilde? Like this -- ~? I want to use it instead of saying approximately but when I use the keyboard tilde (\textasciitilde) it appears at the top of the

Re: Position of tilde

2009-04-02 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 02 April 2009, rettie wrote: > Hello all! I apologise if this has been asked to death, but is there any > way to get a normal looking tilde? Like this --> ~? I want to use it > instead of saying "approximately" but when I use the keyboard tilde > (\textasciitilde) it appears at the top

Re: beamer with default settings is ugly

2009-03-27 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 27 March 2009, Neal Becker wrote: Not a lyx question, but a beamer question: When used with all default settings, beamer will produce navigation symbols at the bottom right of the page. If hyperlinks are used in the document, all hyperlinks will have boxes drawn around them. The

Re: beamer with default settings is ugly

2009-03-27 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 27 March 2009, Neal Becker wrote: Not a lyx question, but a beamer question: When used with all default settings, beamer will produce navigation symbols at the bottom right of the page. If hyperlinks are used in the document, all hyperlinks will have boxes drawn around them. The

Re: beamer with default settings is ugly

2009-03-27 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 27 March 2009, Neal Becker wrote: > Not a lyx question, but a beamer question: > When used with all default settings, beamer will produce navigation symbols > at the bottom right of the page. If hyperlinks are used in the document, > all hyperlinks will have boxes drawn around them.

Re: Help for paper about LaTeX/LyX and the meaning of life

2009-03-25 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 03:32:56 am Manveru wrote: All that and previous discussion leads me to the conclusion, that every publisher preparing books for the market (in does not matter wheter it is a book for bookstore or some publication for professors), who does not invest in professional

Re: Help for paper about LaTeX/LyX and the meaning of life

2009-03-25 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 03:32:56 am Manveru wrote: All that and previous discussion leads me to the conclusion, that every publisher preparing books for the market (in does not matter wheter it is a book for bookstore or some publication for professors), who does not invest in professional

Re: Help for paper about LaTeX/LyX and the meaning of life

2009-03-25 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 03:32:56 am Manveru wrote: > All that and previous discussion leads me to the conclusion, that every > publisher preparing books for the market (in does not matter wheter it is a > book for bookstore or some publication for professors), who does not invest > in

Re: Help for paper about LaTeX/LyX and the meaning of life

2009-03-23 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 23 March 2009, Piero Faustini wrote: Any help would be apreciated and - if possible - referenced. Piero, Here are some on-line resources: http://www.lyx.org/PressAboutLyX http://www.linux.com/feature/56471 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9085 -- Les

Re: Help for paper about LaTeX/LyX and the meaning of life

2009-03-23 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 23 March 2009, Piero Faustini wrote: Any help would be apreciated and - if possible - referenced. Piero, Here are some on-line resources: http://www.lyx.org/PressAboutLyX http://www.linux.com/feature/56471 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9085 -- Les

Re: Help for paper about LaTeX/LyX and the meaning of life

2009-03-23 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 23 March 2009, Piero Faustini wrote: > Any help would be apreciated and - if possible - referenced. Piero, Here are some on-line resources: http://www.lyx.org/PressAboutLyX http://www.linux.com/feature/56471 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9085 -- Les

Re: Black box over image when printing pdf

2009-03-12 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 12 March 2009, rettie wrote: Hello everyone! I use Lyx 1.6.1 on Arch linux and I've been having trouble with a .png image in a figure of mine, this one specifically: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Terephthalic-acid-2D-skeletal.png

Re: Black box over image when printing pdf

2009-03-12 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 12 March 2009, rettie wrote: Hello everyone! I use Lyx 1.6.1 on Arch linux and I've been having trouble with a .png image in a figure of mine, this one specifically: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Terephthalic-acid-2D-skeletal.png

Re: Black box over image when printing pdf

2009-03-12 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 12 March 2009, rettie wrote: > Hello everyone! I use Lyx 1.6.1 on Arch linux and I've been having trouble > with a .png image in a figure of mine, this one specifically: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Terephthalic-acid-2D-skeletal.png >

Re: nested numbering?

2009-03-04 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 08:40:16 am Martijn Wisse wrote: Can someone please help me? Thanks a lot! So here is the example: 2)      Milieubelasting (geluidshinder, landschapvervuiling) 2.1          De milieuklasse voor betonconstructies moet milieuklasse   You can change the way nested

Re: Page Headings

2009-03-04 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Paulina Restrepo wrote: Dear Lyx users, I'm writing a statement of purpose and one of the requirements is that my name and title appear at the top of each page. How can I do this in Lyx? Right now I'm using document class article. Does anyone have any ideas?

Re: nested numbering?

2009-03-04 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 08:40:16 am Martijn Wisse wrote: Can someone please help me? Thanks a lot! So here is the example: 2)      Milieubelasting (geluidshinder, landschapvervuiling) 2.1          De milieuklasse voor betonconstructies moet milieuklasse   You can change the way nested

Re: Page Headings

2009-03-04 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Paulina Restrepo wrote: Dear Lyx users, I'm writing a statement of purpose and one of the requirements is that my name and title appear at the top of each page. How can I do this in Lyx? Right now I'm using document class article. Does anyone have any ideas?

Re: nested numbering?

2009-03-04 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 08:40:16 am Martijn Wisse wrote: > Can someone please help me? Thanks a lot! > > So here is the example: > > 2)      Milieubelasting (geluidshinder, landschapvervuiling) > > 2.1          De milieuklasse voor betonconstructies moet milieuklasse   You can change the way

Re: Page Headings

2009-03-04 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Paulina Restrepo wrote: > Dear Lyx users, > > I'm writing a statement of purpose and one of the requirements is > that my name and title appear at the top of each page. > How can I do this in Lyx? Right now I'm using document class article. > > Does anyone have any

Re: How to import separate chapters into document?

2009-02-20 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 20 February 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: Is there no way to add it to the foot of the first chapter? Do I have to do it with the mouse? I assume you are using the Import function under File. You need to use the FilePlain Text function under Insert. -- Les

Re: How to import separate chapters into document?

2009-02-20 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 20 February 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: Is there no way to add it to the foot of the first chapter? Do I have to do it with the mouse? I assume you are using the Import function under File. You need to use the FilePlain Text function under Insert. -- Les

Re: How to import separate chapters into document?

2009-02-20 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 20 February 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Is there no way to add it to the foot of the first chapter? Do I have to > do it with the mouse? I assume you are using the "Import" function under "File". You need to use the "File>Plain Text" function under "Insert". -- Les

Re: Trouble getting a powerdot output in landscape

2009-02-19 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 19 February 2009, Robert Orr wrote: Hi list, Has anyone had trouble getting a powerdot doc to create a landscape .pdf? I just upgraded to 1.6.1 and re-installed everything (miktex, gv, gs, jabref,etc) but now my powerdot .lyx files display portrait instead of landscape in the

Re: Trouble getting a powerdot output in landscape

2009-02-19 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 19 February 2009 08:40:59 pm Robert Orr wrote: I found that I needed to remove this from the class options nopsheader Have to go back to the powerdot manual and see what that does, but apparenty it has to be removed to get a landscape .pdf, at least for me. Robert, That

Re: Trouble getting a powerdot output in landscape

2009-02-19 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 19 February 2009, Robert Orr wrote: Hi list, Has anyone had trouble getting a powerdot doc to create a landscape .pdf? I just upgraded to 1.6.1 and re-installed everything (miktex, gv, gs, jabref,etc) but now my powerdot .lyx files display portrait instead of landscape in the

Re: Trouble getting a powerdot output in landscape

2009-02-19 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 19 February 2009 08:40:59 pm Robert Orr wrote: I found that I needed to remove this from the class options nopsheader Have to go back to the powerdot manual and see what that does, but apparenty it has to be removed to get a landscape .pdf, at least for me. Robert, That

Re: Trouble getting a powerdot output in landscape

2009-02-19 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 19 February 2009, Robert Orr wrote: > Hi list, > > Has anyone had trouble getting a powerdot doc to create a landscape .pdf? > > I just upgraded to 1.6.1 and re-installed everything (miktex, gv, gs, > jabref,etc) but now my powerdot .lyx files display portrait instead of > landscape in

Re: Trouble getting a powerdot output in landscape

2009-02-19 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 19 February 2009 08:40:59 pm Robert Orr wrote: > I found that I needed to remove this from the class options > > > > nopsheader > > > Have to go back to the powerdot manual and see what that does, but > apparenty it has > > to be removed to get a landscape .pdf, at least for me.

Re: Using LyX for a book

2009-02-17 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm about to start setting up my fourth book in Lyx (1.6.1). My previous three were done using the Book class in 1.5.x. Can someone kindly tell me what would be the advantages of using Memoir (or point me to somewhere that discusses this)?

Re: Using LyX for a book

2009-02-17 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm about to start setting up my fourth book in Lyx (1.6.1). My previous three were done using the Book class in 1.5.x. Can someone kindly tell me what would be the advantages of using Memoir (or point me to somewhere that discusses this)?

Re: Using LyX for a book

2009-02-17 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm about to start setting up my fourth book in Lyx (1.6.1). My previous > three were done using the Book class in 1.5.x. Can someone kindly tell > me what would be the advantages of using Memoir (or point me to > somewhere that discusses

Re: lyx webpage doesn't load

2009-02-16 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 16 February 2009, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: have others noticed that the LyX webpage doesn't load?? Works fine here (Houston, TX). -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See

Re: lyx webpage doesn't load

2009-02-16 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 16 February 2009, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: have others noticed that the LyX webpage doesn't load?? Works fine here (Houston, TX). -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See

Re: lyx webpage doesn't load

2009-02-16 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 16 February 2009, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: > have others noticed that the LyX webpage doesn't load?? Works fine here (Houston, TX). -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See

Re: Using LyX for a book

2009-02-14 Thread Les Denham
On Saturday 14 February 2009 04:09:25 pm Typhoon wrote: Memoir comes with superb documentation. Have a careful look through it and you should find the answer to all of your problems. I'll second that. The Memoir documentation is beyond just documentation: it is a superb monograph on page

Re: Using LyX for a book

2009-02-14 Thread Les Denham
On Saturday 14 February 2009 04:09:25 pm Typhoon wrote: Memoir comes with superb documentation. Have a careful look through it and you should find the answer to all of your problems. I'll second that. The Memoir documentation is beyond just documentation: it is a superb monograph on page

Re: Using LyX for a book

2009-02-14 Thread Les Denham
On Saturday 14 February 2009 04:09:25 pm Typhoon wrote: > Memoir comes with superb documentation. Have a careful look through it > and you should find the answer to all of your problems. I'll second that. The Memoir documentation is beyond just documentation: it is a superb monograph on page

Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-02-02 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 02 February 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: If quotes is the only problem, take a look at the dialog for selecting quote styles. There are many options there. Perhaps a ascii-only style could be added there, and solve this particular problem.  It could have double and 'single' quotes

Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-02-02 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 02 February 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: If quotes is the only problem, take a look at the dialog for selecting quote styles. There are many options there. Perhaps a ascii-only style could be added there, and solve this particular problem.  It could have double and 'single' quotes

Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-02-02 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 02 February 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: > If quotes is the only problem, take a look at the dialog for selecting > quote styles. There are many options there. Perhaps a "ascii-only" style > could be added there, and solve this particular problem.  It could have > "double" and 'single'

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-30 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 29 January 2009, Christian Ridderström wrote: Add a html/wiki -- LyX converter and we are all done! Heck, with the current LyX format it feels like replacing \section with == Well, in principle, yes. One further complication I haven't seen mentioned here is that HTML is

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-30 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 29 January 2009, Christian Ridderström wrote: Add a html/wiki -- LyX converter and we are all done! Heck, with the current LyX format it feels like replacing \section with == Well, in principle, yes. One further complication I haven't seen mentioned here is that HTML is

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-30 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 29 January 2009, Christian Ridderström wrote: > > Add a html/wiki <--> LyX converter and we are all done! Heck, with the > > current LyX format it feels like replacing \section with == > > Well, in principle, yes. One further complication I haven't seen mentioned here is that HTML is

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

2009-01-29 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 29 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote: Yes it is, although creation and modification of styles is an order of magnitude or two harder than with MS Word or WordPerfect. Contemplating the styles created by most MS Word Power Users* I can regard that shortcoming as a major advantage. *

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

2009-01-29 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 29 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote: Yes it is, although creation and modification of styles is an order of magnitude or two harder than with MS Word or WordPerfect. Contemplating the styles created by most MS Word Power Users* I can regard that shortcoming as a major advantage. *

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

2009-01-29 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 29 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote: > Yes it is, although creation and modification of styles is an order of > magnitude or two harder than with MS Word or WordPerfect. Contemplating the styles created by most MS Word "Power Users"* I can regard that "shortcoming" as a major

Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?

2009-01-28 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote: Any ideas how to do this? Steve, I don't remember the details, but I believe this kind of manipulation is covered in the Memoir manual (http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/latex/memoir/memman.pdf and probably also somewhere

Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?

2009-01-28 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote: Any ideas how to do this? Steve, I don't remember the details, but I believe this kind of manipulation is covered in the Memoir manual (http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/latex/memoir/memman.pdf and probably also somewhere

Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?

2009-01-28 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote: > Any ideas how to do this? Steve, I don't remember the details, but I believe this kind of manipulation is covered in the Memoir manual (http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/latex/memoir/memman.pdf and probably also

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Rainer M Krug wrote: I am using Ubuntu Hardy, texlive 2007-13 AFAIK, you need at least TeXLive-2008 for SyncTeX. Thank explains - now I only need some pointers, on how I can install it on Ubuntu Rainer, There seem to be some problems integrating it with apt

Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
Since upgrading from LyX 1.5.4 to LyX 1.6.1 I have found that Plain Text exports from LyX are no longer Plain Text, especially when it comes to quotes. The difference is shown in the two attachments, one from my office computer, which is still running 1.5.4, and one from my laptop, which is

Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Les Denham wrote: Is there a way of making the quotes strictly ASCII?  I'm getting into trouble with a mailing list which insists on plain ASCII text. Not without hacking the source, I'm afraid. Question to lyx-devel: is plain text

Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 03:52:57 pm Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller juer...@spitzmueller.org writes: Les Denham wrote: Is there a way of making the quotes strictly ASCII?  I'm getting into trouble with a mailing list which insists on plain ASCII text. Not without

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Rainer M Krug wrote: I am using Ubuntu Hardy, texlive 2007-13 AFAIK, you need at least TeXLive-2008 for SyncTeX. Thank explains - now I only need some pointers, on how I can install it on Ubuntu Rainer, There seem to be some problems integrating it with apt

Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
Since upgrading from LyX 1.5.4 to LyX 1.6.1 I have found that Plain Text exports from LyX are no longer Plain Text, especially when it comes to quotes. The difference is shown in the two attachments, one from my office computer, which is still running 1.5.4, and one from my laptop, which is

Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Les Denham wrote: Is there a way of making the quotes strictly ASCII?  I'm getting into trouble with a mailing list which insists on plain ASCII text. Not without hacking the source, I'm afraid. Question to lyx-devel: is plain text

Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 03:52:57 pm Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller juer...@spitzmueller.org writes: Les Denham wrote: Is there a way of making the quotes strictly ASCII?  I'm getting into trouble with a mailing list which insists on plain ASCII text. Not without

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Rainer M Krug wrote: > >> I am using Ubuntu Hardy, texlive 2007-13 > > > > AFAIK, you need at least TeXLive-2008 for SyncTeX. > > Thank explains - now I only need some pointers, on how I can install > it on Ubuntu Rainer, There seem to be some problems integrating it

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