Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Georg Baum
Rich Shepard wrote: A-ha! That makes sense. When might I want to use the latter (a two-step process) rather than the former (a one-step process)? Normally you want the first. You might want the latter if you need to do manual tweaks to the .tex file, or if you need to give your document to

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Georg Baum wrote: Normally you want the first. You might want the latter if you need to do manual tweaks to the .tex file, or if you need to give your document to somebody who does not have LyX and needs the .tex file. Or you might use special packages that require more

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread mail.k
Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Rich Shepard wrote: Gentlemen: Is there something I can read to learn how this differs from the current

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: I think that since pdflatex doesn't use the .eps format this might mean an automatic conversion of any (mixed) eps files to pdflatex compatible formats. Maybe I'm wrong but I thought this was done manually. I don't know, Steve.

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
mail.k wrote: Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Rich Shepard wrote: Gentlemen: Is there something I can read to learn how this differs from the current Yes sir, except for the occasional madam Im adam. ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.2/ These contain Joost's new files for

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, mail.k wrote: Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Usually. AFAIK, all the developers are male, and I cannot recall flames or other obnoxious behaviors on this mail list. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting Applied

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, mail.k wrote: Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Usually. AFAIK, all the developers are male, and I cannot recall flames or other obnoxious behaviors on this mail list. Rich Ah, but this is the *user* list, where (a) not all users are male

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Hello LyXers, lyx -x reconfigure takes 10s instead of 45 with 1.4.1 on Sun/Solaris... really great ! However, I noticed a few minor things while installing: - the prefernce file is not created any more in the home dir. lyxrc.default refers to a custom lyxrc file, but it seems that the name

ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Public release of LyX version 1.4.2 === We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.4.2. This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include: - LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: - A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps. Gentlemen: Is there something I can read to

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Georg Baum
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> - A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output >> format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including >> figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps. > > Gentlemen: > >

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: - A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps. Gentlemen: Is there

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Georg Baum wrote: ctrl-h must be a custom shortcut. I guess you mean Georg, Must be, but I've used it so long it's just part of LyX. What is the difference between "PDF (pdflatex)" and "LaTeX (pdflatex)"? The answer is simple: "PDF (pdflatex)" produces a .pdf file

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > - A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output > > format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including > > figure

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: I think that since pdflatex doesn't use the .eps format this might mean an automatic conversion of any (mixed) eps files to pdflatex compatible formats. Maybe I'm wrong but I thought this was done manually. I don't know, Steve. I used only .eps

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Georg Baum
Rich Shepard wrote: >A-ha! That makes sense. When might I want to use the latter (a two-step > process) rather than the former (a one-step process)? Normally you want the first. You might want the latter if you need to do manual tweaks to the .tex file, or if you need to give your document

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Georg Baum wrote: Normally you want the first. You might want the latter if you need to do manual tweaks to the .tex file, or if you need to give your document to somebody who does not have LyX and needs the .tex file. Or you might use special packages that require more

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread mail.k
Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Rich Shepard wrote: Gentlemen: Is there something I can read to learn how this differs from the current

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: I think that since pdflatex doesn't use the .eps format this might mean an automatic conversion of any (mixed) eps files to pdflatex compatible formats. Maybe I'm wrong but I thought this was done manually. I don't know, Steve.

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
mail.k wrote: Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Rich Shepard wrote: Gentlemen: Is there something I can read to learn how this differs from the current Yes sir, except for the occasional madam Im adam. ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.2/ These contain Joost's new files for

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, mail.k wrote: Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Usually. AFAIK, all the developers are male, and I cannot recall flames or other obnoxious behaviors on this mail list. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting Applied

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, mail.k wrote: Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... Usually. AFAIK, all the developers are male, and I cannot recall flames or other obnoxious behaviors on this mail list. Rich Ah, but this is the *user* list, where (a) not all users are male

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Hello LyXers, lyx -x reconfigure takes 10s instead of 45 with 1.4.1 on Sun/Solaris... really great ! However, I noticed a few minor things while installing: - the prefernce file is not created any more in the home dir. lyxrc.default refers to a custom lyxrc file, but it seems that the name

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