Re: LyX Forum?

switch to LyX if it were more like Word. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: LyX Forum?

switch to LyX if it were more like Word. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: LyX Forum?

sn't prove Word is easier; it doesn't prove that more people would switch to LyX if it were more like Word. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Hyperlink question

Uwe Stöhr wrote: Michael Wojcik schrieb: As said this is a bug in LyX I will fix soon. The LyX will automatically translate \ to / etc. I don't see how that's a LyX bug. It is a bug, because \ is not allowed as argument of \href and therefore you get LaTeX errors. Ah, I see. Thanks

Re: Hyperlink question

Uwe Stöhr wrote: Michael Wojcik schrieb: As said this is a bug in LyX I will fix soon. The LyX will automatically translate \ to / etc. I don't see how that's a LyX bug. It is a bug, because \ is not allowed as argument of \href and therefore you get LaTeX errors. Ah, I see. Thanks

Re: Hyperlink question

Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Michael Wojcik schrieb: >>> As said this is a bug in LyX I will fix soon. The LyX will automatically >>> translate "\" to "/" etc. >> >> I don't see how that's a LyX bug. > > It is a bug, because \ is not allowed as arg

Re: Hyperlink question: URL syntax

component separator for a hierarchical path. A valid file-scheme URL must use the forward slash (/). There's nothing OS-dependent about that; it's required by the URI specification. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Hyperlink question

of c:. That's no longer allowed by the current URI specification. A strictly-correct file-scheme URL on Windows would use c%3a for the drive letter and colon. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Hyperlink question

know if those characters are being used for their reserved purpose. Personally, I'd rather see a documentation update, and not have LyX try to monkey with the URL contents. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Hyperlink question: URL syntax

component separator for a hierarchical path. A valid file-scheme URL must use the forward slash (/). There's nothing OS-dependent about that; it's required by the URI specification. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Hyperlink question

of c:. That's no longer allowed by the current URI specification. A strictly-correct file-scheme URL on Windows would use c%3a for the drive letter and colon. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Hyperlink question

know if those characters are being used for their reserved purpose. Personally, I'd rather see a documentation update, and not have LyX try to monkey with the URL contents. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Hyperlink question: URL syntax

is not a valid URI character, nor is it the URI component separator for a hierarchical path. A valid file-scheme URL must use the forward slash (/). There's nothing OS-dependent about that; it's required by the URI specification. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Hyperlink question

supposed to be difficult to circumvent. By the way, you can ignore the bit I wrote above about using "c|" instead of "c:". That's no longer allowed by the current URI specification. A strictly-correct file-scheme URL on Windows would use "c%3a" for the drive letter and colon. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Hyperlink question

the URL, for example, because it can't know if those characters are being used for their reserved purpose. Personally, I'd rather see a documentation update, and not have LyX try to monkey with the URL contents. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Hyperlink question

:.) -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Hyperlink question

:.) -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Hyperlink question

even that isn't strictly valid; the "c:" ought to be "c|". But everyone uses and supports "c:".) -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Show pagebreaks in the editor?

. That doesn't mean it's not useful to ask these questions, of course. Understanding why LyX doesn't show page breaks means understanding the principle of late rendering, and hopefully why it's valuable. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Show pagebreaks in the editor?

. That doesn't mean it's not useful to ask these questions, of course. Understanding why LyX doesn't show page breaks means understanding the principle of late rendering, and hopefully why it's valuable. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Show pagebreaks in the editor?

ng. Trying to make one tool do both is likely to produce something with the faults of each. That doesn't mean it's not useful to ask these questions, of course. Understanding why LyX doesn't show page breaks means understanding the principle of late rendering, and hopefully why it's valuable.

Re: Does the version management work under windows?

things. LyX is one of the few exceptions.) -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Does the version management work under windows?

things. LyX is one of the few exceptions.) -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Does the version management work under windows?

I like to work from the command line for most things. LyX is one of the few exceptions.) -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

This has gone on far too long, and I'm not really interested in arguing the point. But some of your response is simply factually incorrect. So, for the record: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:21:27AM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

This has gone on far too long, and I'm not really interested in arguing the point. But some of your response is simply factually incorrect. So, for the record: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:21:27AM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

This has gone on far too long, and I'm not really interested in arguing the point. But some of your response is simply factually incorrect. So, for the record: Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:21:27AM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: >> Andre Poenitz wrote: >>> On

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

no way to coordinate versions among unrelated applications. People build and distribute binaries, and they carry with them MSVC version requirements. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:47:45PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: What's wrong with static linking? At least it goes away when the application goes away. Completely infeasible on Windows. ... Many people have done back-of-the-envelope

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:42:52PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I've worked on many projects that maintained backward compatibility with new releases of the API, and seen a great many more

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

no way to coordinate versions among unrelated applications. People build and distribute binaries, and they carry with them MSVC version requirements. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:47:45PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: What's wrong with static linking? At least it goes away when the application goes away. Completely infeasible on Windows. ... Many people have done back-of-the-envelope

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:42:52PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I've worked on many projects that maintained backward compatibility with new releases of the API, and seen a great many more

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

versions you already have installed. There's no way to coordinate versions among unrelated applications. People build and distribute binaries, and they carry with them MSVC version requirements. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:47:45PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: >> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>> What's wrong with static linking? At least it goes away when the >>> application goes away. >> Completely infeasible on Windows. ...

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:42:52PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: >> Andre Poenitz wrote: >>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: >> I've worked on many projects that maintained backward compatibility >> with new release

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

for tying it to the old version of the DLL. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

. It's worked very well on a number of OSes. It would work on Windows if Microsoft could figure out 1) how to version properly, and 2) how to maintain backward compatibility. And it's not like those are unsolved problems. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

for tying it to the old version of the DLL. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

. It's worked very well on a number of OSes. It would work on Windows if Microsoft could figure out 1) how to version properly, and 2) how to maintain backward compatibility. And it's not like those are unsolved problems. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

nd for the rare application that does, there are other Windows mechanisms for tying it to the old version of the DLL. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

ood thing. It's worked very well on a number of OSes. It would work on Windows if Microsoft could figure out 1) how to version properly, and 2) how to maintain backward compatibility. And it's not like those are unsolved problems. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

the Python binaries are updated, since they might be linked with a different MSVC version. Sure makes SVR4 shared object versioning look good, doesn't it? -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

the Python binaries are updated, since they might be linked with a different MSVC version. Sure makes SVR4 shared object versioning look good, doesn't it? -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

istributable in Uwe's LyX installer. Note that it may have to be updated any time the Python binaries are updated, since they might be linked with a different MSVC version. Sure makes SVR4 shared object versioning look good, doesn't it? -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

Re: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]

(and word processors for only slightly longer), so perhaps I'm simply used to doing so. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]

(and word processors for only slightly longer), so perhaps I'm simply used to doing so. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]

ouple of decades (and word processors for only slightly longer), so perhaps I'm simply used to doing so. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

Re: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]

composition today. Word processing - and specifically Word - is essentially a general-ed skill in itself, in today's job market. In advanced composition and digital-rhetoric classes, many people are teaching other writing tools. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State

Re: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]

composition today. Word processing - and specifically Word - is essentially a general-ed skill in itself, in today's job market. In advanced composition and digital-rhetoric classes, many people are teaching other writing tools. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State

Re: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]

ion for general-education composition today. Word processing - and specifically Word - is essentially a general-ed skill in itself, in today's job market. In advanced composition and digital-rhetoric classes, many people are teaching other writing tools. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writ

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

, that I have 16 substantial LyX documents. Not bad, considering I'm often forced to work in Office or OO for interop reasons. And I haven't tried LyX for presentations yet, and those represent a substantial portion of my document output. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

, that I have 16 substantial LyX documents. Not bad, considering I'm often forced to work in Office or OO for interop reasons. And I haven't tried LyX for presentations yet, and those represent a substantial portion of my document output. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

X? It appears, from my CVS archives, that I have 16 substantial LyX documents. Not bad, considering I'm often forced to work in Office or OO for interop reasons. And I haven't tried LyX for presentations yet, and those represent a substantial portion of my document output. -- Michael Wojcik Mic

Re: Reprinted material

and style guides; there are the whims of individuals. So no one can give you a universal rule for a specific sort of citation. It depends on who's going to be reading it, and what they'll accept. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Reprinted material

and style guides; there are the whims of individuals. So no one can give you a universal rule for a specific sort of citation. It depends on who's going to be reading it, and what they'll accept. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Reprinted material

ike; there are guidelines and style guides; there are the whims of individuals. So no one can give you a universal rule for a specific sort of citation. It depends on who's going to be reading it, and what they'll accept. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

Re: math tool

and this part-time Master's degree I'm working on. What I really *should* do is send in a financial contribution. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: math tool

and this part-time Master's degree I'm working on. What I really *should* do is send in a financial contribution. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: math tool

and this part-time Master's degree I'm working on. What I really *should* do is send in a financial contribution. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

Re: math tool

missing something? I only read through four or five source files. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: math tool

missing something? I only read through four or five source files. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: math tool

missing something? I only read through four or five source files. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

hammers for different tasks. Sometimes I use a hammer where someone else might use a nailgun. You want to use an appropriate tool, but that still leaves you with choices, and different users prefer different trade-offs. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

hammers for different tasks. Sometimes I use a hammer where someone else might use a nailgun. You want to use an appropriate tool, but that still leaves you with choices, and different users prefer different trade-offs. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

hammers for different tasks. Sometimes I use a hammer where someone else might use a nailgun. You want to use an appropriate tool, but that still leaves you with choices, and different users prefer different trade-offs. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

fine. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

, and to be honest I'm a bit puzzled by all the worrying. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

fine. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

, and to be honest I'm a bit puzzled by all the worrying. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

fine. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

oblems, and to be honest I'm a bit puzzled by all the worrying. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Footnote without numbering (new)

not surprised that Adrian's college uses the same convention when documenting prior publication. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Footnote without numbering (new)

not surprised that Adrian's college uses the same convention when documenting prior publication. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric Writing, Michigan State University

Re: Footnote without numbering (new)

So I'm not surprised that Adrian's college uses the same convention when documenting prior publication. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

Re: question about lyx

Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Michael Wojcik wrote: It's an attribute, not a tag. And it's deprecated in HTML 4.0, and omitted entirely in XHTML 1.0. The correct way to specify justification in contemporary HTML is with a style. That's because xhtml has moved toward separation

Re: WRB - Observations

, does have some weight in evaluating its importance. -- Michael Wojcik

Re: question about lyx

Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Michael Wojcik wrote: It's an attribute, not a tag. And it's deprecated in HTML 4.0, and omitted entirely in XHTML 1.0. The correct way to specify justification in contemporary HTML is with a style. That's because xhtml has moved toward separation

Re: WRB - Observations

, does have some weight in evaluating its importance. -- Michael Wojcik

Re: question about lyx

Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Michael Wojcik wrote: It's an attribute, not a tag. And it's deprecated in HTML 4.0, and omitted entirely in XHTML 1.0. The correct way to specify justification in contemporary HTML is with a style. That's because xhtml has moved toward separation

Re: WRB - Observations

he problem, does have some weight in evaluating its importance. -- Michael Wojcik

Re: question about lyx

the style sheet (the CSS file) after generating the content. (You can also create a style sheet ahead of time and just substitute it for the one generated by htlatex.) HTML layout is properly done through a stylesheet (using floats, positioning, widths and heights, etc) anyway. -- Michael Wojcik

Re: WRB - Observations

rgheck wrote: Michael Wojcik wrote: I don't think this is a bug in Qt, though arguably it's a missing feature. Shortcuts are not first-class filesystem objects in Windows. They're files that are treated in a special manner by Windows Explorer. LyX uses Qt for its file dialogs, etc, so

Re: question about lyx

the style sheet (the CSS file) after generating the content. (You can also create a style sheet ahead of time and just substitute it for the one generated by htlatex.) HTML layout is properly done through a stylesheet (using floats, positioning, widths and heights, etc) anyway. -- Michael Wojcik

Re: WRB - Observations

rgheck wrote: Michael Wojcik wrote: I don't think this is a bug in Qt, though arguably it's a missing feature. Shortcuts are not first-class filesystem objects in Windows. They're files that are treated in a special manner by Windows Explorer. LyX uses Qt for its file dialogs, etc, so

Re: question about lyx

(and LyX), or edit the style sheet (the CSS file) after generating the content. (You can also create a style sheet ahead of time and just substitute it for the one generated by htlatex.) HTML layout is properly done through a stylesheet (using floats, positioning, widths and heights, etc) a

Re: WRB - Observations

rgheck wrote: Michael Wojcik wrote: I don't think this is a bug in Qt, though arguably it's a missing feature. Shortcuts are not first-class filesystem objects in Windows. They're files that are treated in a special manner by Windows Explorer. LyX uses Qt for its file dialogs, etc, so

Re: WRB - Observations

, as far as I can see. -- Michael Wojcik

Re: WRB - Observations

, as far as I can see. -- Michael Wojcik

Re: WRB - Observations

, as far as I can see. -- Michael Wojcik

Re: feedback on LyX 1.5.1

not particularly good at composing clear email messages. -- Michael Wojcik

Re: Using a network printer

something like Print (Postscript) or Print (dvips). An unqualified Print menu action isn't meaningful for LyX. -- Michael Wojcik

Re: feedback on LyX 1.5.1

not particularly good at composing clear email messages. -- Michael Wojcik

Re: Using a network printer

something like Print (Postscript) or Print (dvips). An unqualified Print menu action isn't meaningful for LyX. -- Michael Wojcik

Re: feedback on LyX 1.5.1

I am not particularly good at composing clear email messages." -- Michael Wojcik

Re: Using a network printer

em should be named something like "Print (Postscript)" or "Print (dvips)". An unqualified "Print" menu action isn't meaningful for LyX. -- Michael Wojcik

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

available, and there are advantages to doing it with XSLT: you can export from within Freemind, and you're using an engine designed for this purpose, so you can concentrate on the transformations rather than the implementation.) -- Michael Wojcik

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

available, and there are advantages to doing it with XSLT: you can export from within Freemind, and you're using an engine designed for this purpose, so you can concentrate on the transformations rather than the implementation.) -- Michael Wojcik

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

hat converts Freemind documents to LaTeX, but it's apparently no longer available, and there are advantages to doing it with XSLT: you can export from within Freemind, and you're using an engine designed for this purpose, so you can concentrate on the transformations rather than the implementation.) -- Michael Wojcik

Re: Handy word list program for indexing

, by the way - it's not specific to Linux. -- Michael Wojcik

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