Hi,
Here's an ide for those wishing to promote LyX within their particular
field or organisation:
Create one or more simple example documents that use reasonable
formatting and layout for your area.
I think that if the starting threshold to actually being productive is
lowered by being able to start from a suitable template or example
document, it'll be much easier for people to be converted.
The infrastructure for such examples is even in place... you can just
create your own wiki page(s) and upload examples. When creating an
example, remember to upload not only the .lyx-file, but also the .pdf.
It's probably the PDF that they'll look at first to see the result.
You're welcome to ask for help on how to create the wiki page or on how to
upload examples.
As for creating such examples, you can base them on documents you've
already prepared. And, of course, you can ask for help on this list. It
might also be a good idea to ask people on the list to scrutinize the
methods used in the document to produce the required layout.
Best regards
/Christian
PS. My thinking here was greatly inspired by noticing how much more
productive I became when I used a template document as a starting point.
This template document already has suitable headers, footers etc with
logotype and whatnot.
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Murat Yildizoglu wrote:
Nice promotional page! I had planned to write a page on LyX on my very
slow-living blog after the release of the version 1.6, but I have not
time yet. My students normally use the tips I give there Maybe during
the next holidays I will try to put it in place. The promotion is
important. What about the publication in economic journals of articles
exported from LyX? I slowly begin to switch to LyX but I keep SWP for
professional issues since I know that it is accepted by international
journals...
Regards,
Murat
2009/2/4 Erez Yerushalmi <erezyerusha...@gmail.com>:
Hi all,
I agree with much of what has been said.
Another thing which *diffuses* LyX into the academia is just pure*advertising
* - I'm using Murat's words.
For example, I am advertising LyX to all my students and colleagues.
Maybe a good thing is for all those that like LyX, to do something similar.
See example:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi/computing/lyx
In the economics department at Warwick University we have many LyX
"converts".
I really love LyX and thanks to it, have stopped writing by hand.
Erez
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Murat Yildizoglu <
murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr> wrote:
I definitely support Ken's proposition. SWP really makes a huge mess
with the latex file (even if the file is compilable by a standar Latex
engine - I use the same TexLive 2005 with SWP and LyX). The
possibility of easily switching to LyX can have some importance
consequences on a larger diffusion of LyX in the academia.
Murat
2009/2/4 Ken <kmai...@googlemail.com>:
It was a few months ago that I went through the hassle of
import/exporting
between LyX and SWP. Yes, SWP can export to "portable" latex, but it was
not all that portable. However with a few tweaks it was possible to get
a
decent import into LyX. (I think there is a wiki page on it with regards
to
custom macros and images and I recall having a few other small issues).
The much harder problem was getting LyX documents into SWP. I can't
remember exactly but SWP didn't like certain table formats. Any attempt
to
import the tex file would cause SWP to balloon in memory requirements and
hog the CPU until it either crashed the machine or I killed the process.
In the end the inflexible SWP won as the default application. But it is
so
hard to go from amazing-and-free LyX to cumbersome-buggy-and-expensive
SWP.
In fact, I would have much much rather just edited the raw text file than
use SWP (but even that was a nightmare as SWP adds line breaks to its
text
file making 'diff' imposible to use).
Again, I suppose my recommendation would be to make it as easy as
possible
to have users move from SWP to LyX (and it isnt that bad at the moment)
but
it probably isnt worth the time or energy to make LyX documents
compatible
with SWP. I honestly think that once one writes a single paper with LyX
they will never go back SWP (but getting them to do that first paper is
the
hard bit).
-Ken
2009/2/3 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org>
I have worked with a co-author that insists on using Scientific Word.
My
experience is that not only is SW/SWP very expensive, I also find it a
far
inferior product to LyX. It is not easy to import documents from SWP
and
even
harder to export them to SWP even though they are both LaTeX editors.
At
the
university, SWP is available as a standard install on machines but not
LyX.
Is it still true that swp is able to export 'portable latex' or
whatever,
that
is easier to import? How does LyX fare with that?
JMarc
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