Re: APA6 class with LyX?

2012-12-11 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Wolfgang, I'm glad they were helpful: On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 10:36 +0100, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Montag, 10. Dezember 2012, 21:31:25 schrieben Sie: Hi, Rob, has this been done already: TeXLive 2009 is included with Ubuntu 10.04, if you are able to update your Linux

Re: APA6 class with LyX?

2012-12-11 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Wolfgang, I'm glad they were helpful: On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 10:36 +0100, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Montag, 10. Dezember 2012, 21:31:25 schrieben Sie: Hi, Rob, has this been done already: TeXLive 2009 is included with Ubuntu 10.04, if you are able to update your Linux

Re: APA6 class with LyX?

2012-12-11 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Wolfgang, I'm glad they were helpful: On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 10:36 +0100, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Am Montag, 10. Dezember 2012, 21:31:25 schrieben Sie: > > Hi, Rob, > > has this been done already: > > TeXLive 2009 is included with Ubuntu 10.04, if you are able to update your > Linux

Re: APA6 class with LyX?

2012-12-10 Thread Rob Oakes
If you're going to go the customization route, this might be of help: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2009/11/02/custom-lyx-nih It talks about creating a custom layout for an existing document class. Related posts with more examples can be found at:

Re: APA6 class with LyX?

2012-12-10 Thread Rob Oakes
If you're going to go the customization route, this might be of help: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2009/11/02/custom-lyx-nih It talks about creating a custom layout for an existing document class. Related posts with more examples can be found at:

Re: APA6 class with LyX?

2012-12-10 Thread Rob Oakes
If you're going to go the customization route, this might be of help: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2009/11/02/custom-lyx-nih It talks about creating a custom layout for an existing document class. Related posts with more examples can be found at:

Re: Getting rid of You cannot type two spaces this way message?

2012-11-21 Thread Rob Oakes
On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 16:36 +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Alan R. Bleier ar...@cornell.edu wrote: I agree completely with Trevor. I completely disagree with Trevor. Hitting double space [to get a full stop] is as unnatural and unhelpful as it gets. This may

Re: Getting rid of You cannot type two spaces this way message?

2012-11-21 Thread Rob Oakes
On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 16:36 +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Alan R. Bleier ar...@cornell.edu wrote: I agree completely with Trevor. I completely disagree with Trevor. Hitting double space [to get a full stop] is as unnatural and unhelpful as it gets. This may

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-21 Thread Rob Oakes
On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 16:36 +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Alan R. Bleier wrote: > > I agree completely with Trevor. > > > I completely disagree with Trevor. Hitting double space [to get a full > stop] is as unnatural and unhelpful as it gets.

LaTeX Question

2012-10-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Group, This is more of a LaTeX question rather than a LyX question, but I know there are many LaTeX experts here, too, so here goes. I'm currently working with a set of fluids equations which have both velocity and volume terms. Given how frequently the variable v appears in both (by

LaTeX Question

2012-10-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Group, This is more of a LaTeX question rather than a LyX question, but I know there are many LaTeX experts here, too, so here goes. I'm currently working with a set of fluids equations which have both velocity and volume terms. Given how frequently the variable v appears in both (by

LaTeX Question

2012-10-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Group, This is more of a LaTeX question rather than a LyX question, but I know there are many LaTeX experts here, too, so here goes. I'm currently working with a set of fluids equations which have both velocity and volume terms. Given how frequently the variable v appears in both (by

Re: SageTeX and LyX

2012-10-03 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Scott, On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 06:16 -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: I've been meaning to checkout SAGE + LyX so if no one comes along to help you I might take a look. I appreciate the offer. After some quality time looking into how the module works and how SageTeX processes documents, I was

Re: SageTeX and LyX

2012-10-03 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Scott, On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 06:16 -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: I've been meaning to checkout SAGE + LyX so if no one comes along to help you I might take a look. I appreciate the offer. After some quality time looking into how the module works and how SageTeX processes documents, I was

Re: SageTeX and LyX

2012-10-03 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Scott, On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 06:16 -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > I've been meaning to checkout SAGE + LyX so if no one comes along to > help you I might take a look. I appreciate the offer. After some quality time looking into how the module works and how SageTeX processes documents, I

SageTeX and LyX

2012-10-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users, I've just started playing around with SAGE (www.sagemath.org) and was very happy to see that there is a module which can be used with LyX. However, in trying to get the module to work, I've run into a snag. I have it installed, and I can even successfully compile the example

SageTeX and LyX

2012-10-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users, I've just started playing around with SAGE (www.sagemath.org) and was very happy to see that there is a module which can be used with LyX. However, in trying to get the module to work, I've run into a snag. I have it installed, and I can even successfully compile the example

SageTeX and LyX

2012-10-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users, I've just started playing around with SAGE (www.sagemath.org) and was very happy to see that there is a module which can be used with LyX. However, in trying to get the module to work, I've run into a snag. I have it installed, and I can even successfully compile the example

Re: Longtable captions

2012-05-08 Thread Rob Oakes
On 5/8/2012 8:45 AM, John Tapsell wrote: At the moment adding captions to longtables requires manually adding lyx code. Hi John, While the offer is much appreciated, in this case, it's unnecessary. You *can* add captions to longtables. It's available from the Table properties dialog. Right

Re: Longtable captions

2012-05-08 Thread Rob Oakes
On 5/8/2012 8:45 AM, John Tapsell wrote: At the moment adding captions to longtables requires manually adding lyx code. Hi John, While the offer is much appreciated, in this case, it's unnecessary. You *can* add captions to longtables. It's available from the Table properties dialog. Right

Re: Longtable captions

2012-05-08 Thread Rob Oakes
On 5/8/2012 8:45 AM, John Tapsell wrote: > At the moment adding captions to longtables requires manually adding lyx > code. Hi John, While the offer is much appreciated, in this case, it's unnecessary. You *can* add captions to longtables. It's available from the Table properties dialog.

Re: Spaces in the title of descriptions

2012-04-20 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Manolo, On 4/20/2012 9:34 AM, Manolo Martínez wrote: This has probably been discussed before, although I don't quite recall the suggestion I'm about to make. As most LyXers, I use a short space (C-Space) as a substitute for spaces in the title of descriptions in LyX. As many, I take

Re: Spaces in the title of descriptions

2012-04-20 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Manolo, On 4/20/2012 9:34 AM, Manolo Martínez wrote: This has probably been discussed before, although I don't quite recall the suggestion I'm about to make. As most LyXers, I use a short space (C-Space) as a substitute for spaces in the title of descriptions in LyX. As many, I take

Re: Spaces in the title of descriptions

2012-04-20 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Manolo, On 4/20/2012 9:34 AM, Manolo Martínez wrote: > This has probably been discussed before, although I don't quite recall the > suggestion I'm about to make. > > As most LyXers, I use a short space (C-Space) as a substitute for spaces in > the > title of descriptions in LyX. As many, I

Re: LyX on Ubuntu Precise (12.04): big download size!

2012-04-03 Thread Rob Oakes
On 4/3/2012 10:01 AM, BOB Merhebi wrote: Hello all, I've been testing Ubuntu12.04 lately just now I was thinking of using LyX on it. TO my big surprise the LyX requires a large download of ~450 MB+. I am shocked!!! IS that the true size? If not mistaken I recall that on 10.04 it required ~

Re: LyX on Ubuntu Precise (12.04): big download size!

2012-04-03 Thread Rob Oakes
On 4/3/2012 10:01 AM, BOB Merhebi wrote: Hello all, I've been testing Ubuntu12.04 lately just now I was thinking of using LyX on it. TO my big surprise the LyX requires a large download of ~450 MB+. I am shocked!!! IS that the true size? If not mistaken I recall that on 10.04 it required ~

Re: LyX on Ubuntu Precise (12.04): big download size!

2012-04-03 Thread Rob Oakes
On 4/3/2012 10:01 AM, BOB Merhebi wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been testing Ubuntu12.04 lately & just now I was thinking of > using LyX on it. TO my big surprise the LyX requires a large download > of ~450 MB+. I am shocked!!! IS that the true size? If not mistaken I > recall that on 10.04 it

Re: word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-09 Thread Rob Oakes
On 3/9/2012 7:04 AM, Steve Litt wrote: Can one import HTML, with its styles, into MSWord or Libreoffice? If so, then it sounds to me like eLyXer has already accomplished this, without any added work from you, Alex. You've already done the hard part, and Rob's done the other end of the hard

Re: word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-09 Thread Rob Oakes
On 3/9/2012 7:04 AM, Steve Litt wrote: Can one import HTML, with its styles, into MSWord or Libreoffice? If so, then it sounds to me like eLyXer has already accomplished this, without any added work from you, Alex. You've already done the hard part, and Rob's done the other end of the hard

Re: word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-09 Thread Rob Oakes
On 3/9/2012 7:04 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > Can one import HTML, with its styles, into MSWord or Libreoffice? If > so, then it sounds to me like eLyXer has already accomplished this, > without any added work from you, Alex. You've already done the hard > part, and Rob's done the other end of the hard

Re: word2lyx: Word to LyX Document Converter

2012-03-08 Thread Rob Oakes
On Mar 8, 2012, at 6:56 AM, BH wrote: I'm very interested in this -- thanks for undertaking the project. However, I can't even get it started. On Mac (10.6.8), calling word2lyx from the Terminal, I get the following: ./word2lyx.py ./Example-Word2LyX.docx test.lyx Traceback (most recent

Re: word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-08 Thread Rob Oakes
On Mar 8, 2012, at 2:21 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would love to agree, but round-trip is what is needed most of the time. An import word2lyx is perfect, but in most cases only half the story. I would use it extensively if the round trip is

word2lyx Fixes: Python Import Error

2012-03-08 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Users, If you were trying to test word2lyx and got an import error, I've fixed the underlying issue (I hope). You can download the updated sources from http://oak-tree.us/stuff/LyX/word2lyx-01.zip. I've also posted all of the source code and revision history to:

Re: word2lyx: Word to LyX Document Converter

2012-03-08 Thread Rob Oakes
On Mar 8, 2012, at 6:56 AM, BH wrote: I'm very interested in this -- thanks for undertaking the project. However, I can't even get it started. On Mac (10.6.8), calling word2lyx from the Terminal, I get the following: ./word2lyx.py ./Example-Word2LyX.docx test.lyx Traceback (most recent

Re: word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-08 Thread Rob Oakes
On Mar 8, 2012, at 2:21 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would love to agree, but round-trip is what is needed most of the time. An import word2lyx is perfect, but in most cases only half the story. I would use it extensively if the round trip is

word2lyx Fixes: Python Import Error

2012-03-08 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Users, If you were trying to test word2lyx and got an import error, I've fixed the underlying issue (I hope). You can download the updated sources from http://oak-tree.us/stuff/LyX/word2lyx-01.zip. I've also posted all of the source code and revision history to:

Re: word2lyx: Word to LyX Document Converter

2012-03-08 Thread Rob Oakes
On Mar 8, 2012, at 6:56 AM, BH wrote: > I'm very interested in this -- thanks for undertaking the project. > However, I can't even get it started. On Mac (10.6.8), calling > word2lyx from the Terminal, I get the following: > >> ./word2lyx.py ./Example-Word2LyX.docx test.lyx > Traceback (most

Re: word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-08 Thread Rob Oakes
On Mar 8, 2012, at 2:21 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > I would love to agree, but round-trip is what is needed most of the > time. An import word2lyx is perfect, but in most cases only half the > story. I would use it extensively if the round trip

word2lyx Fixes: Python Import Error

2012-03-08 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Users, If you were trying to test word2lyx and got an import error, I've fixed the underlying issue (I hope). You can download the updated sources from http://oak-tree.us/stuff/LyX/word2lyx-01.zip. I've also posted all of the source code and revision history to:

Re: word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-07 Thread Rob Oakes
On 3/5/2012 2:01 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: Actualy one more question - it might have been mentioned, but are you also looking into a lyx2word converter which would provide round-trips with track changes and notes? I'd really like to provide for that, yes. However, there is something of a

word2lyx: Word to LyX Document Converter

2012-03-07 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Users and Developers, First off, thank you to everyone who sent me documents over the weekend. I was able to make a lot of tweaks to word2lyx based on what you sent me. With that hurdle out of the way, I think it's ready to release it into the wild. If you'd like to download a copy of it,

Re: word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-07 Thread Rob Oakes
On 3/5/2012 2:01 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: Actualy one more question - it might have been mentioned, but are you also looking into a lyx2word converter which would provide round-trips with track changes and notes? I'd really like to provide for that, yes. However, there is something of a

word2lyx: Word to LyX Document Converter

2012-03-07 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Users and Developers, First off, thank you to everyone who sent me documents over the weekend. I was able to make a lot of tweaks to word2lyx based on what you sent me. With that hurdle out of the way, I think it's ready to release it into the wild. If you'd like to download a copy of it,

Re: word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-07 Thread Rob Oakes
On 3/5/2012 2:01 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > Actualy one more question - it might have been mentioned, but are you > also looking into a lyx2word converter which would provide > round-trips with track changes and notes? I'd really like to provide for that, yes. However, there is something of a

word2lyx: Word to LyX Document Converter

2012-03-07 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Users and Developers, First off, thank you to everyone who sent me documents over the weekend. I was able to make a lot of tweaks to word2lyx based on what you sent me. With that hurdle out of the way, I think it's ready to release it into the wild. If you'd like to download a copy of it,

Import/Export Error Information (word2lyx)

2012-03-06 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Developers, I'm getting ready to publish the source for Word2LyX, but ran into one last problem. I created an input filter/filetype to completely automate the conversion of Word documents. However, when run, I'm getting an error: An error occurred while running: python inputfile.docx

Import/Export Error Information (word2lyx)

2012-03-06 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Developers, I'm getting ready to publish the source for Word2LyX, but ran into one last problem. I created an input filter/filetype to completely automate the conversion of Word documents. However, when run, I'm getting an error: An error occurred while running: python inputfile.docx

Import/Export Error Information (word2lyx)

2012-03-06 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Developers, I'm getting ready to publish the source for Word2LyX, but ran into one last problem. I created an input filter/filetype to completely automate the conversion of Word documents. However, when run, I'm getting an error: An error occurred while running: python "inputfile.docx"

word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Users and Developers, I wanted to give everyone a quick status update on what I've been doing with the Word to LyX importer. Over the past couple of weeks, I've been working on it full steam and it's now pretty functional. It supports: 1. Translating Word paragraph and character styles to

Re: word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi James, On 3/2/2012 4:18 PM, James Sutherland wrote: This sounds very nice! Thanks. I appreciate that. Any ideas about whether you will be able to support cross references and translate that into LyX/LaTeX labels/references? James Short answer, yes. It's one of the three or four things I

word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Users and Developers, I wanted to give everyone a quick status update on what I've been doing with the Word to LyX importer. Over the past couple of weeks, I've been working on it full steam and it's now pretty functional. It supports: 1. Translating Word paragraph and character styles to

Re: word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi James, On 3/2/2012 4:18 PM, James Sutherland wrote: This sounds very nice! Thanks. I appreciate that. Any ideas about whether you will be able to support cross references and translate that into LyX/LaTeX labels/references? James Short answer, yes. It's one of the three or four things I

word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Users and Developers, I wanted to give everyone a quick status update on what I've been doing with the Word to LyX importer. Over the past couple of weeks, I've been working on it full steam and it's now pretty functional. It supports: 1. Translating Word paragraph and character styles to

Re: word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi James, On 3/2/2012 4:18 PM, James Sutherland wrote: > This sounds very nice! Thanks. I appreciate that. > Any ideas about whether you will be able to support cross references > and translate that into LyX/LaTeX labels/references? > James Short answer, yes. It's one of the three or four things

Re: eLyXer for Document Parsing

2012-02-09 Thread Rob Oakes
On 2/9/2012 11:42 AM, Alex Fernandez wrote: Ah, OK. Always hated DOM. eLyXer's in-memory representation is for the LyX document, not of the resulting HTML document. Much tighter this way, IMHO. Is there an example of how I might be able to access the in-memory representation for the LyX

Re: eLyXer for Document Parsing

2012-02-09 Thread Rob Oakes
On 2/9/2012 11:42 AM, Alex Fernandez wrote: Ah, OK. Always hated DOM. eLyXer's in-memory representation is for the LyX document, not of the resulting HTML document. Much tighter this way, IMHO. Is there an example of how I might be able to access the in-memory representation for the LyX

Re: eLyXer for Document Parsing

2012-02-09 Thread Rob Oakes
On 2/9/2012 11:42 AM, Alex Fernandez wrote: > Ah, OK. Always hated DOM. eLyXer's in-memory representation is for the > LyX document, not of the resulting HTML document. Much tighter this > way, IMHO. Is there an example of how I might be able to access the in-memory representation for the LyX

Re: eLyXer for Document Parsing

2012-02-05 Thread Rob Oakes
On Feb 5, 2012, at 2:04 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Strong suggestion: use LyX proper. I am quite sure you already know that because I saw some patches from you in this area but I'll explain anyway: LyX's html own export is so good and fast because it effectively knows the in-memory

Re: eLyXer for Document Parsing

2012-02-05 Thread Rob Oakes
On Feb 5, 2012, at 2:04 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Strong suggestion: use LyX proper. I am quite sure you already know that because I saw some patches from you in this area but I'll explain anyway: LyX's html own export is so good and fast because it effectively knows the in-memory

Re: eLyXer for Document Parsing

2012-02-05 Thread Rob Oakes
On Feb 5, 2012, at 2:04 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Strong suggestion: use LyX proper. I am quite sure you already know that > because I saw some patches from you in this area but I'll explain anyway: > LyX's html own export is so good and fast because it effectively knows the > in-memory

eLyXer for Document Parsing

2012-02-04 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear eLyXer Users and Developers, I'm still at work on the import/export module for Microsoft Word documents. I'm making pretty good progress. I've got a rough prototype that works pretty well and I'm now starting to refine it. My approach up to now has been to use regular expressions to match

Re: eLyXer for Document Parsing

2012-02-04 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Steve, Not only possible but easy if you do things the Steve Litt way. eLyXer quickly punches out HTML that's clean enough to read with an XML parser, I think. So, eLyXer converts to HTML, and then your program's DOMbuilder module converts that HTML to in-memory DOM. No muss, no fuss, no

eLyXer for Document Parsing

2012-02-04 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear eLyXer Users and Developers, I'm still at work on the import/export module for Microsoft Word documents. I'm making pretty good progress. I've got a rough prototype that works pretty well and I'm now starting to refine it. My approach up to now has been to use regular expressions to match

Re: eLyXer for Document Parsing

2012-02-04 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Steve, Not only possible but easy if you do things the Steve Litt way. eLyXer quickly punches out HTML that's clean enough to read with an XML parser, I think. So, eLyXer converts to HTML, and then your program's DOMbuilder module converts that HTML to in-memory DOM. No muss, no fuss, no

eLyXer for Document Parsing

2012-02-04 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear eLyXer Users and Developers, I'm still at work on the import/export module for Microsoft Word documents. I'm making pretty good progress. I've got a rough prototype that works pretty well and I'm now starting to refine it. My approach up to now has been to use regular expressions to match

Re: eLyXer for Document Parsing

2012-02-04 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Steve, > Not only possible but easy if you do things the Steve Litt way. eLyXer > quickly punches out HTML that's clean enough to read with an XML > parser, I think. So, eLyXer converts to HTML, and then your program's > DOMbuilder module converts that HTML to in-memory DOM. No muss, no >

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 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.

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: 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 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.

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: 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 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.

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.

Import into LyX

2012-02-01 Thread Rob Oakes
you consider round-tripping a document, e.g., going from LyX to Word and back to LyX. 6. Is there anyone who might be interested in collaborating on this? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Rob Oakes

Import into LyX

2012-02-01 Thread Rob Oakes
you consider round-tripping a document, e.g., going from LyX to Word and back to LyX. 6. Is there anyone who might be interested in collaborating on this? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Rob Oakes

Import into LyX

2012-02-01 Thread Rob Oakes
portant do you consider "round-tripping" a document, e.g., going from LyX to Word and back to LyX. 6. Is there anyone who might be interested in collaborating on this? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Rob Oakes

Updated Kindle Tools

2012-01-12 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users, Given the recent discussion about publishing to the Kindle format, I thought that this announcement might be of interest to you. Amazon just recently updated its suite of KindleGen tools to support HTML5 and CSS.

Updated Kindle Tools

2012-01-12 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users, Given the recent discussion about publishing to the Kindle format, I thought that this announcement might be of interest to you. Amazon just recently updated its suite of KindleGen tools to support HTML5 and CSS.

Updated Kindle Tools

2012-01-12 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users, Given the recent discussion about publishing to the Kindle format, I thought that this announcement might be of interest to you. Amazon just recently updated its suite of KindleGen tools to support HTML5 and CSS.

HTML Footnotes as Endnotes

2011-12-06 Thread Rob Oakes
appreciate any comments. Cheers, Rob Oakes htmlendnotelist.diff Description: Binary data

Re: Pass LyX comments through eLyXer?

2011-12-06 Thread Rob Oakes
I for one would like for the topic to remain here. I don't follow the discussion on the eLyXer list, but knowing what developments happen with this topic are useful for things I'm working on. Especially if whatever Steve and Alex create can be adapted to work with the native XHTML modifications

Re: HTML Footnotes as Endnotes

2011-12-06 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Richard, Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it. On Dec 6, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Richard Heck wrote: I wonder if we'd be better just outputting footnotes as endnotes all the time. The inline version we now use is cool, but maybe it's too cool for it's own good. I actually think that

HTML Footnotes as Endnotes

2011-12-06 Thread Rob Oakes
appreciate any comments. Cheers, Rob Oakes htmlendnotelist.diff Description: Binary data

Re: Pass LyX comments through eLyXer?

2011-12-06 Thread Rob Oakes
I for one would like for the topic to remain here. I don't follow the discussion on the eLyXer list, but knowing what developments happen with this topic are useful for things I'm working on. Especially if whatever Steve and Alex create can be adapted to work with the native XHTML modifications

Re: HTML Footnotes as Endnotes

2011-12-06 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Richard, Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it. On Dec 6, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Richard Heck wrote: I wonder if we'd be better just outputting footnotes as endnotes all the time. The inline version we now use is cool, but maybe it's too cool for it's own good. I actually think that

HTML Footnotes as Endnotes

2011-12-06 Thread Rob Oakes
appreciate any comments. Cheers, Rob Oakes htmlendnotelist.diff Description: Binary data

Re: Pass LyX comments through eLyXer?

2011-12-06 Thread Rob Oakes
I for one would like for the topic to remain here. I don't follow the discussion on the eLyXer list, but knowing what developments happen with this topic are useful for things I'm working on. Especially if whatever Steve and Alex create can be adapted to work with the native XHTML modifications

Re: HTML Footnotes as Endnotes

2011-12-06 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Richard, Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it. On Dec 6, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > I wonder if we'd be better just outputting footnotes as endnotes > all the time. The inline version we now use is cool, but maybe it's too > cool for it's own good. I actually think

Re: LyX and Kindle books

2011-12-02 Thread Rob Oakes
I am working on an ePub compatible module right now (document class at any rate). It's for a talk I'm giving at a publishing conference next week. I will try and post something about it next week. Does anyone know of a visual CSS editor that is open source? I'm trying to find something that

Re: LyX and Kindle books

2011-12-02 Thread Rob Oakes
I am working on an ePub compatible module right now (document class at any rate). It's for a talk I'm giving at a publishing conference next week. I will try and post something about it next week. Does anyone know of a visual CSS editor that is open source? I'm trying to find something that

Re: LyX and Kindle books

2011-12-02 Thread Rob Oakes
I am working on an ePub compatible module right now (document class at any rate). It's for a talk I'm giving at a publishing conference next week. I will try and post something about it next week. Does anyone know of a visual CSS editor that is open source? I'm trying to find something that

Subfigures in Memoir

2011-11-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Does anyone know if it is possible to use memoir's subfloat environment inside of LyX for subfigures and sub-tables? Or if there is a way to override the loading of the subfig pacakge? There appears to be an incompatability between subfig and many of the font customization macros, and I'm not

Re: LyX-Produced Book

2011-11-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Congratulations on finishing your book. It's beautifully produced and looks very interesting. While I was looking through it, I found myself with a couple of craft questions: Did you write the document class from scratch, or is it based on one of the larger classes (e.g., Koma-Script, Memoir,

Subfigures in Memoir

2011-11-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Does anyone know if it is possible to use memoir's subfloat environment inside of LyX for subfigures and sub-tables? Or if there is a way to override the loading of the subfig pacakge? There appears to be an incompatability between subfig and many of the font customization macros, and I'm not

Re: LyX-Produced Book

2011-11-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Congratulations on finishing your book. It's beautifully produced and looks very interesting. While I was looking through it, I found myself with a couple of craft questions: Did you write the document class from scratch, or is it based on one of the larger classes (e.g., Koma-Script, Memoir,

Subfigures in Memoir

2011-11-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Does anyone know if it is possible to use memoir's subfloat environment inside of LyX for subfigures and sub-tables? Or if there is a way to override the loading of the subfig pacakge? There appears to be an incompatability between subfig and many of the font customization macros, and I'm not

Re: LyX-Produced Book

2011-11-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Congratulations on finishing your book. It's beautifully produced and looks very interesting. While I was looking through it, I found myself with a couple of "craft" questions: Did you write the document class from scratch, or is it based on one of the larger classes (e.g., Koma-Script, Memoir,

Re: Lualatex and Lyx.

2011-11-18 Thread Rob Oakes
On Nov 18, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: I found it easier to have two latex distributions. I have lyx and texlive from debian, as well as a direct install of texlive-2011. There is nothing to manage - the direct install of texlive takes precedence because it is earlier in my

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