And my grandfather said "Not one of them ever dies. "
On Sun, 10 Oct 2021, 7:06 pm Steve Litt, wrote:
> Alan Tyree said on Sun, 10 Oct 2021 08:06:24 +1100
>
> >Oh, Steve, how I wish that were true!
> >
> >What really happens is that they see a word they would like to
> >emphasise, so they use
Alan Tyree said on Sun, 10 Oct 2021 08:06:24 +1100
>Oh, Steve, how I wish that were true!
>
>What really happens is that they see a word they would like to
>emphasise, so they use direct formatting to do it. No need to use a
>style when you only want to change one word, right? Then another
On Sun, 10 Oct 2021, Alan Tyree wrote:
Pretty soon you have 15 different fonts on every page, because if you give
these people 15 fonts, they will use them all.
Alan,
In the 1980s when desktop page layout applications came out for DOS many
people bought them and advertised themselves as
Oh, Steve, how I wish that were true!
What really happens is that they see a word they would like to emphasise,
so they use direct formatting to do it. No need to use a style when you
only want to change one word, right? Then another word. Then a paragraph.
And this one page should be different
Alan Tyree said on Fri, 8 Oct 2021 12:44:22 +1100
>I know that this is preaching to the choir here, but I wondered if
>anyone had a strategy that convinced others to work with styles.
Have them write a book without styles, then show them what styles do
for them, and they'll use styles for the
On Friday, October 8, 2021 12:14:12 AM PDT Charlie wrote:
> Wolfgang Engelmann informed me regarding: Re: LibreOffice to
> LyX on Fri, 8 Oct 2021 08:18:55 +0200
>
> > > Everybody has Word and how difficult can it be?
> >
> > not me
> &
Wolfgang Engelmann informed me regarding: Re: LibreOffice to
LyX on Fri, 8 Oct 2021 08:18:55 +0200
> > Everybody has Word and how difficult can it be?
> not me
> Wolfgang
Replied thus:
Or me. What is it?
Charlie
East Gippsland Wildlife Re
Am 08.10.21 um 07:38 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse:
Everybody has Word and how difficult can it be?
not me
Wolfgang
Indeed it is very easy to write poorly looking documents in (Word and)
LibreOffice.
LaTeX enforces a lot of things, and this one of the reasons why you
really have to try hard
Everybody has Word and how difficult can it be?
Indeed it is very easy to write poorly looking documents in (Word and)
LibreOffice.
LaTeX enforces a lot of things, and this one of the reasons why you
really have to try hard to write poorly looking documents, though I
have seen many determined
Good point about systems allowing direct formatting Virgil. It should be
prohibited. I didn't know that AbiWord had the lockdown feature ("lockdown"
being the trendy word in Oz these days!), but it is a good idea.
AbiWord is still available, the latest release for Linux was in July of
this year.
On 10/7/2021 9:44 PM, Alan Tyree wrote:
Why is it so hard to get people to use styles? I worked recently with
a friend to convert his Word document into an ePub. My advice is don't
ever, ever do this! Even though I had advocated the use of styles, he
had spent hours using direct formatting.
>
> In a different context, file compatibility was the original issue in
> this thread. Osman had asked how to convert his LibreOffice letterhead
> to LyX format. Both you and Steve (wisely I believe) advised him against
> trying. LibreOffice and LyX are just two v
had asked how to convert his LibreOffice letterhead
to LyX format. Both you and Steve (wisely I believe) advised him against
trying. LibreOffice and LyX are just two very different systems with
different workflows and ways of getting tasks done.
But, then Steve went one step further and shared
Le 07/10/2021 à 14:05, Virgil Arrington a écrit :
I learned
that, to be truly compatible, I had to not only use the same program as
my colleague, but also the same version. This is even true with
different versions of LyX. Every new release seems to change the source
file format just enough
Virgil,
how could that work in ANY program ("dorward" compatibility)?
But it's Open Source, just pull the latest version once out of beta.
The next one is rumored to support DocBook so you can get inti evenmore
trouble :-)-O
el
On 2021-10-07 14:05 , Virgil Arrington wrote:
[...]
This is
On 10/6/2021 11:14 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
After importing my 300 page book from MS Word to LibreOffice, I
looked extensively in the menu system, in the help docs, and on the
Internet to resolve my magically changing styles problem, all to no
avail.
LibreOffice is just fine if you don't use
On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 23:14:10 -0400
Steve Litt wrote:
Hello from Croatia and thank you for very informative and inspiring thread?
> LibreOffice is just fine if you don't use styles, but who would not
> use styles when working with a large document?
>
> Working with LibreOffice reminds me of
Virgil Arrington said on Tue, 5 Oct 2021 13:24:04 +
> LibreOffice makes learning new things much
>easier than LyX/LaTeX. Generally speaking, every LO function can be
>found by exploring its extensive menus and/or toolbars. Like a
>multiple choice test, the right answer is somewhere on the
On 10/5/2021 6:07 PM, Charlie wrote:
Nor can I say sticking with all the eggs in one program basket is
necessarily a good thing. But someone once said, "Linux, the lifetime
learning experience" In my autumn years; believe this to be correct,
and find it keeps my mind active.
I began using
From my early days in private practice I have about 185 surgery reports
which I wrote then in Open Office.
They are in table form and when I am really bored I copy and paste them
over into LyX files, review them and if it is correct I remove the
original (ODT).
In true Perl fashion I was
Charlie,
you are welcome.
I have 2 years and 3 months on the clock :-) and I am probably going to
start learning Python then, when I will not need 30 years worth of perl
scripts any longer for day-to-day :-)-O
el
On 06/10/2021 00:07, Charlie wrote:
[...]
I would like to thank you
On 05/10/2021 22:51, Virgil Arrington wrote:
On 10/5/2021 2:45 PM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
[...]
Actually constant misunderimprovements are one of the mistakes one
often makes in presentations.
I suspect you're right, but I just can't leave things alone.
Once of my CPD/CME presentations
Virgil Arrington informed me regarding: Re: LibreOffice to LyX
on Tue, 5 Oct 2021 16:51:44 -0400
> On 10/5/2021 2:45 PM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
> > Virgil,
> >
> > I have shortened and reformatted slightly for ease of reference.
> >
> > Actua
Virgil,
I have shortened and reformatted slightly for ease of reference.
On 2021-10-05 15:24 , Virgil Arrington wrote:
[...]
Unlike our good Dr. E.L., I can't leave my slide designs alone.
[...]
Actually constant misunderimprovements are one of the mistakes one
often makes in
On October 4, Charlie wrote:
> However, if I read this correctly Beamer is fine, even good.
> However, your problem stated above, seems to be that you have to
> do a lot of searching, reading and learning to get it to do
> more than what is standard and easy?
> Isn't that what you have to do if
Virgil Arrington informed me regarding: RE: LibreOffice to LyX
on Mon, 4 Oct 2021 12:55:34 +
> But, I usually find myself getting very frustrated when I want to
> change some design detail. It often requires a Google search to learn
> the right LaTeX command t
Steve,
I do all my slides in Beamer. I have settled on a modified metropolis
theme and that works very well and I haven't changed that in years
years.
I am a fan of 10-20-20 and bullet points and do my tables and graphs
usually with knitR.
If you have a clean pandoc template you can
heck out Rstudio and Slidy. Thanks!
[snip]
> Sometimes it’s LyX, sometimes it’s LibreOffice and sometimes
>it’s RMarkdown.
Speaking of Markdown (in general), in theory I have a process stack
that can add custom styles to Markdown (or Asciidoc if the programs are
written differently). This brin
the entire thing in Beamer.
>
> At the risk of joining in a flame war, I feel a need to share my experiences
> with LyX and LibreOffice. As I am on both LyX’s and LibreOffice’s user lists,
> I am posting this message to both lists.
>
> I have used both LyX and LibreOffi
which contained the 90+ slide presentation I
> license to companies for their internal Universal Troubleshooting
> Process course, that now I need to rewrite the entire thing in Beamer.
At the risk of joining in a flame war, I feel a need to share my experiences
with LyX and LibreOffice. As
It would probably easier to translate from LyX/LaTeX to
LibreOffice/Word/RTF, but I have no idea (and of course no interest
whatsoever) to find out (how to template the front page and page
numbering.
But, it is probably not worth the effort to even try :-)-O there must
be gazillions of ugly Word
This list should be kept free from responses such as the one below
because for many people they just do not care. Abstain from trying to
continue stupid flame wars.
el
On 01/10/2021 19:07, Tobias Hilbricht wrote:
Am Donnerstag, den 30.09.2021, 21:38 -0400 schrieb Steve Litt:
[...]
This
their internal Universal Troubleshooting
> Process course, that now I need to rewrite the entire thing in Beamer.
>
> So, based on my personal problems, my advice remains the same: If your
> document exceeds a couple thousand words, I'd recommend LyX over
> LibreOffice Writer, and if
the entire thing in Beamer.
So, based on my personal problems, my advice remains the same: If your
document exceeds a couple thousand words, I'd recommend LyX over
LibreOffice Writer, and if your presentation file exceeds four pages,
I'd recommend Beamer over LibreOffice Impress.
Hopefully, by post
Am Donnerstag, den 30.09.2021, 21:38 -0400 schrieb Steve Litt:
>
> converting to LyX, the answer is don't. LibreOffice is a bug ridden
> program that tries to be all things to all people and fails
> miserably.
> You need a 170 IQ and a doctorate to be able to deal with the quirky,
> often
To go into even more detail:
Look on CTAN for letterhead templates, of which they are galore.
Then refine to those that do this in KomaScript and find one that is as
close to your ideas as possible.
This (probably a letter class options file *.LCO, the name of which you
then add to LyX's
Osman Kemal Kadiroğlu said on Thu, 30 Sep 2021 08:21:46 +
>Hi,
>
>I am a bit inexperienced LyX user. I have a letter format with a
>header and a graphical signature created with LibreOffice. How can I
>convert it to a LyX letter template?
>
>Best regards
>
>Osman Kemal Kadiroğlu
If you're
You can't.
Ad you should not :-)-O
You need to create the header manually with KomaScript, which has a
gazillion possibilities, and then you can save the signature image and
add that image to the signature field.
el
On 30/09/2021 10:21, Osman Kemal Kadiroğlu wrote:
Hi,
I am a bit
Hi,
I am a bit inexperienced LyX user. I have a letter format with a header and a
graphical signature created with LibreOffice. How can I convert it to a LyX
letter template?
Best regards
Osman Kemal Kadiroğlu
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