Why LyX formats digits as small font size

2022-02-25 Thread tush via lyx-users
I have created a module that creates a custom inset for marginal paragraphs. This inset is typed inside the Marginal Note inset. When I type Hebrew text inside this inset, digits are converted to small font size: instead of 1​, it is formatted as `{\small{}1}`. Why is it? This is the module:

Re: Why Lyx seems to arbitrarily align left margins in the officicial tutorial?

2009-10-05 Thread Helge Hafting
fabio de francesco wrote: My interest for Lyx's philosophy has been caught up by a recent article on the power of WYSIWYM. So I am a perfect newbie asking for something that could be perfectly obvious to you all. I started by opening the tutorial and making pdf of it. I have immediately

Re: Why Lyx seems to arbitrarily align left margins in the officicial tutorial?

2009-10-05 Thread Helge Hafting
fabio de francesco wrote: My interest for Lyx's philosophy has been caught up by a recent article on the power of WYSIWYM. So I am a perfect newbie asking for something that could be perfectly obvious to you all. I started by opening the tutorial and making pdf of it. I have immediately

Re: Why Lyx seems to arbitrarily align left margins in the officicial tutorial?

2009-10-05 Thread Helge Hafting
fabio de francesco wrote: My interest for Lyx's philosophy has been caught up by a recent article on the power of WYSIWYM. So I am a perfect newbie asking for something that could be perfectly obvious to you all. I started by opening the tutorial and making pdf of it. I have immediately

Why Lyx seems to arbitrarily align left margins in the officicial tutorial?

2009-09-28 Thread fabio de francesco
My interest for Lyx's philosophy has been caught up by a recent article on the power of WYSIWYM. So I am a perfect newbie asking for something that could be perfectly obvious to you all. I started by opening the tutorial and making pdf of it. I have immediately noticed that Lyx seems to

Re: Why Lyx seems to arbitrarily align left margins in the officicial tutorial?

2009-09-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
fabio de francesco wrote: My interest for Lyx's philosophy has been caught up by a recent article on the power of WYSIWYM. So I am a perfect newbie asking for something that could be perfectly obvious to you all. I started by opening the tutorial and making pdf of it. I have immediately

Why Lyx seems to arbitrarily align left margins in the officicial tutorial?

2009-09-28 Thread fabio de francesco
My interest for Lyx's philosophy has been caught up by a recent article on the power of WYSIWYM. So I am a perfect newbie asking for something that could be perfectly obvious to you all. I started by opening the tutorial and making pdf of it. I have immediately noticed that Lyx seems to

Re: Why Lyx seems to arbitrarily align left margins in the officicial tutorial?

2009-09-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
fabio de francesco wrote: My interest for Lyx's philosophy has been caught up by a recent article on the power of WYSIWYM. So I am a perfect newbie asking for something that could be perfectly obvious to you all. I started by opening the tutorial and making pdf of it. I have immediately

Why Lyx seems to arbitrarily align left margins in the officicial tutorial?

2009-09-28 Thread fabio de francesco
My interest for Lyx's philosophy has been caught up by a recent article on the power of WYSIWYM. So I am a perfect newbie asking for something that could be perfectly obvious to you all. I started by opening the tutorial and making pdf of it. I have immediately noticed that Lyx seems to

Re: Why Lyx seems to arbitrarily align left margins in the officicial tutorial?

2009-09-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
fabio de francesco wrote: My interest for Lyx's philosophy has been caught up by a recent article on the power of WYSIWYM. So I am a perfect newbie asking for something that could be perfectly obvious to you all. I started by opening the tutorial and making pdf of it. I have immediately

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-18 Thread Helge Hafting
Julio Rojas wrote: Now my problem is that my tutor only uses Word. He doesn't want to expend his time learning LyX, even thou there's really nothing to learn (I'll do all the LaTeX job and he'll only do some writing). How about: You write with LyX, and sends him PDF. Anybody can read PDF. He

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-18 Thread Julio Rojas
Well, that could work and some of that is what we've using, but for the thesis I don't think that's plausible. Notes for text already written and ideas about moving paragraphs, are better seen in the actual document. At least from an editorial point of view. I think that for my theisis I'll stick

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-18 Thread Charles de Miramon
Julio Rojas wrote: Anyway, thanks Helge. I'll keep you guys informed on the process. Not a solution for now but okular the next generation KDE pdf reader will have annotations support. http://kpdf.kde.org/okular/screenies/okular-annotations.png KDE 4 applications should also work under

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-18 Thread Helge Hafting
Julio Rojas wrote: Now my problem is that my tutor only uses Word. He doesn't want to expend his time learning LyX, even thou there's really nothing to learn (I'll do all the LaTeX job and he'll only do some writing). How about: You write with LyX, and sends him PDF. Anybody can read PDF. He

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-18 Thread Julio Rojas
Well, that could work and some of that is what we've using, but for the thesis I don't think that's plausible. Notes for text already written and ideas about moving paragraphs, are better seen in the actual document. At least from an editorial point of view. I think that for my theisis I'll stick

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-18 Thread Charles de Miramon
Julio Rojas wrote: Anyway, thanks Helge. I'll keep you guys informed on the process. Not a solution for now but okular the next generation KDE pdf reader will have annotations support. http://kpdf.kde.org/okular/screenies/okular-annotations.png KDE 4 applications should also work under

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-18 Thread Helge Hafting
Julio Rojas wrote: Now my problem is that my tutor only uses Word. He doesn't want to expend his time "learning" LyX, even thou there's really nothing to learn (I'll do all the LaTeX job and he'll only do some writing). How about: You write with LyX, and sends him PDF. Anybody can read PDF. He

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-18 Thread Julio Rojas
Well, that could work and some of that is what we've using, but for the thesis I don't think that's plausible. Notes for text already written and ideas about moving paragraphs, are better seen "in" the actual document. At least from an editorial point of view. I think that for my theisis I'll

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-18 Thread Charles de Miramon
Julio Rojas wrote: > Anyway, thanks Helge. I'll keep you guys informed on the process. > Not a solution for now but okular the next generation KDE pdf reader will have annotations support. http://kpdf.kde.org/okular/screenies/okular-annotations.png KDE 4 applications should also work under

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... I've never done it, but: LyX is my preferred tool for all word processing / typesetting tasks. Anything I need to write with formatting - a letter, a report, a book, a pdf file, I

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Richard Heck wrote: Hey, I loved WordPerfect back when you had the blue background and stuff. Note that LyX has color preferences - so you can get that white on blue feeling. :-) Helge Hafting

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-16 Thread Graham Smith
As indeed modern versions of Wordperfect, for the last few version you have been able to run in classic view which emulates the DOS version. Graham Helge Hafting wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Hey, I loved WordPerfect back when you had the blue background and stuff. Note that LyX has color

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... I've never done it, but: LyX is my preferred tool for all word processing / typesetting tasks. Anything I need to write with formatting - a letter, a report, a book, a pdf file, I

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Richard Heck wrote: Hey, I loved WordPerfect back when you had the blue background and stuff. Note that LyX has color preferences - so you can get that white on blue feeling. :-) Helge Hafting

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-16 Thread Graham Smith
As indeed modern versions of Wordperfect, for the last few version you have been able to run in classic view which emulates the DOS version. Graham Helge Hafting wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Hey, I loved WordPerfect back when you had the blue background and stuff. Note that LyX has color

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... I've never done it, but: LyX is my preferred tool for all word processing / typesetting tasks. Anything I need to write with formatting - a letter, a report, a book, a pdf file, I

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Richard Heck wrote: Hey, I loved WordPerfect back when you had the blue background and stuff. Note that LyX has color preferences - so you can get that white on blue feeling. :-) Helge Hafting

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-16 Thread Graham Smith
As indeed modern versions of Wordperfect, for the last few version you have been able to run in classic view which emulates the DOS version. Graham Helge Hafting wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Hey, I loved WordPerfect back when you had the blue background and stuff. Note that LyX has color

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Jan Peters
One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or resuse your old text? For my party: I deny using Word and am not willing to use it or an OSF clone of word

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Julio Rojas
Wonderful Dave, except for users who don't have or don't want to have or can't have Word installed in their computers. Tex2word and word2tex only work within Word, so it's not really a good solution for most of us. As for myself, after years of using Word and hating the bugs that change the

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Daniel Lohmann
I used to use Word quite a lot and was -- overall -- not too unhappy with it. I used it, for instance, to typeset my diploma with 120 pages and plenty of figures. All this worked quite well, but as I said, I already was an experienced Word user at that time so I knew how to do it. I guess the

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Daniel Lohmann schrieb: Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still draw tables with Word or Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document... There's a tool that could be interesting for you, excel2latex: http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/xl2latex.zip

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Julio Rojas
Now Dom, that last one was a really useful tip. Thx!!! On 5/15/07, Dominik Waßenhoven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Lohmann schrieb: Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still draw tables with Word or Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document... There's a tool that could be

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Daniel Lohmann schrieb: Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still draw tables with Word or Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document... There's a tool that could be interesting for you, excel2latex: Yes, I know it. Unfortunately it does *exactly not*

Table layout (was Re: Why Lyx-Word?)

2007-05-15 Thread William Adams
On May 15, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: While I know how to build some table in LyX/LaTeX, I get frequently frustrated when I have to tweak and optimize the layout (individual cell width, border styles, inner-cell margins, fonts, ...) Read Edward Tufte's _The Visual Display of

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Richard Heck
Daniel Lohmann wrote: I guess the main (non political nor domain-specific) problem many people have with Word is its /pretended/ simplicity. Yes it is simple to get a good-looking, personal letter out of it. However, if one wants to use it to write a more complex document, one really has to

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 12:04, Richard Heck wrote: Yes, but of course LaTeX isn't designed for end-users to do this kind of thing. The class is supposed to handle all of that, and the end-user is supposed to worry about content. True, there are times when one does want to do that kind of

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Bo Peng
Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient, available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) Bo

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient, available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf After reading that book, I've never again been intimidated by LaTeX (confused, yes, but not intimidated). LaTeX has

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:24:31PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient,available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) You found one of the propblems of TeX.

Re[2]: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Alan G Isaac
Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient,available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:24:31PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) On Tue, 15 May 2007, Andre Poenitz

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 13:24, Bo Peng wrote: Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient, available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) Bo Hi Bo, Yeah, but it's an easy read, at

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 16:51, Steve Litt wrote: If you are *mega* impatient, you can read my article, LyX, LaTeX and TeX at http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm. Oops, I meant http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm. SteveT

Re: Table layout (was Re: Why Lyx-Word?)

2007-05-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
William Adams schrieb: use booktabs (support has been added in v1.5) and read its documentation as well: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/ LyX 1.5 will support booktabs. you can check out the beta3 for LyX 1.5.0 that is released tomorrow. For infos about table

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 15 May, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Jan Peters wrote: One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or resuse your old text? For me, this is THE reason. I

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 17:51, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 15 May, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Jan Peters wrote: One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Jan Peters
One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or resuse your old text? For my party: I deny using Word and am not willing to use it or an OSF clone of word

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Julio Rojas
Wonderful Dave, except for users who don't have or don't want to have or can't have Word installed in their computers. Tex2word and word2tex only work within Word, so it's not really a good solution for most of us. As for myself, after years of using Word and hating the bugs that change the

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Daniel Lohmann
I used to use Word quite a lot and was -- overall -- not too unhappy with it. I used it, for instance, to typeset my diploma with 120 pages and plenty of figures. All this worked quite well, but as I said, I already was an experienced Word user at that time so I knew how to do it. I guess the

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Daniel Lohmann schrieb: Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still draw tables with Word or Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document... There's a tool that could be interesting for you, excel2latex: http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/xl2latex.zip

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Julio Rojas
Now Dom, that last one was a really useful tip. Thx!!! On 5/15/07, Dominik Waßenhoven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Lohmann schrieb: Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still draw tables with Word or Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document... There's a tool that could be

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Daniel Lohmann schrieb: Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still draw tables with Word or Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document... There's a tool that could be interesting for you, excel2latex: Yes, I know it. Unfortunately it does *exactly not*

Table layout (was Re: Why Lyx-Word?)

2007-05-15 Thread William Adams
On May 15, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: While I know how to build some table in LyX/LaTeX, I get frequently frustrated when I have to tweak and optimize the layout (individual cell width, border styles, inner-cell margins, fonts, ...) Read Edward Tufte's _The Visual Display of

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Richard Heck
Daniel Lohmann wrote: I guess the main (non political nor domain-specific) problem many people have with Word is its /pretended/ simplicity. Yes it is simple to get a good-looking, personal letter out of it. However, if one wants to use it to write a more complex document, one really has to

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 12:04, Richard Heck wrote: Yes, but of course LaTeX isn't designed for end-users to do this kind of thing. The class is supposed to handle all of that, and the end-user is supposed to worry about content. True, there are times when one does want to do that kind of

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Bo Peng
Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient, available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) Bo

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient, available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf After reading that book, I've never again been intimidated by LaTeX (confused, yes, but not intimidated). LaTeX has

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:24:31PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient,available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) You found one of the propblems of TeX.

Re[2]: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Alan G Isaac
Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient,available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:24:31PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) On Tue, 15 May 2007, Andre Poenitz

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 13:24, Bo Peng wrote: Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient, available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) Bo Hi Bo, Yeah, but it's an easy read, at

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 16:51, Steve Litt wrote: If you are *mega* impatient, you can read my article, LyX, LaTeX and TeX at http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm. Oops, I meant http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm. SteveT

Re: Table layout (was Re: Why Lyx-Word?)

2007-05-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
William Adams schrieb: use booktabs (support has been added in v1.5) and read its documentation as well: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/ LyX 1.5 will support booktabs. you can check out the beta3 for LyX 1.5.0 that is released tomorrow. For infos about table

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 15 May, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Jan Peters wrote: One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or resuse your old text? For me, this is THE reason. I

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 17:51, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 15 May, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Jan Peters wrote: One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Jan Peters
One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or resuse your old text? For my party: I deny using Word and am not willing to use it or an OSF clone of word

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Julio Rojas
Wonderful Dave, except for users who don't have or don't want to have or can't have Word installed in their computers. Tex2word and word2tex only work within Word, so it's not really a good solution for most of us. As for myself, after years of using Word and hating the "bugs" that change the

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Daniel Lohmann
I used to use Word quite a lot and was -- overall -- not too unhappy with it. I used it, for instance, to typeset my diploma with >120 pages and plenty of figures. All this worked quite well, but as I said, I already was an experienced Word user at that time so I knew how to do it. I guess the

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Daniel Lohmann schrieb: Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still "draw" tables with Word or Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document... There's a tool that could be interesting for you, excel2latex: http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/xl2latex.zip

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Julio Rojas
Now Dom, that last one was a really useful tip. Thx!!! On 5/15/07, Dominik Waßenhoven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Daniel Lohmann schrieb: > Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still "draw" tables with Word or > Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document... There's a tool that could

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: > Daniel Lohmann schrieb: > >> Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still "draw" tables with Word or >> Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document... > > There's a tool that could be interesting for you, excel2latex: Yes, I know it. Unfortunately it does

Table layout (was Re: Why Lyx->Word?)

2007-05-15 Thread William Adams
On May 15, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: While I know how to build some table in LyX/LaTeX, I get frequently frustrated when I have to tweak and optimize the layout (individual cell width, border styles, inner-cell margins, fonts, ...) Read Edward Tufte's _The Visual Display of

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Richard Heck
Daniel Lohmann wrote: > I guess the main (non political nor domain-specific) problem many people have > with Word is its /pretended/ simplicity. Yes it is simple to get a > good-looking, personal letter out of it. However, if one wants to use it to > write a more complex document, one really

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 12:04, Richard Heck wrote: > Yes, but of course LaTeX isn't designed for end-users to do this kind of > thing. The class is supposed to handle all of that, and the end-user is > supposed to worry about content. True, there are times when one does > want to do that kind of

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Bo Peng
Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read "TeX for the Impatient", available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) Bo

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: > Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read "TeX for the Impatient", > available here: > > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf > > After reading that book, I've never again been intimidated by LaTeX > (confused, > yes, but not intimidated). >

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:24:31PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > >Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read "TeX for the > >Impatient",available here: > > > >http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf > > A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) You found one of the

Re[2]: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Alan G Isaac
>>> Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read >>> "TeX for the Impatient",available here: >>> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:24:31PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: >> A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) On Tue, 15 May 2007,

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 13:24, Bo Peng wrote: > > Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read "TeX for the > > Impatient", available here: > > > > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf > > A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) > > Bo Hi Bo, Yeah, but it's an

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 16:51, Steve Litt wrote: > If you are *mega* impatient, you can read my article, "LyX, LaTeX and TeX" > at http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm. Oops, I meant http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm. SteveT

Re: Table layout (was Re: Why Lyx->Word?)

2007-05-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
William Adams schrieb: use booktabs (support has been added in v1.5) and read its documentation as well: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/ LyX 1.5 will support booktabs. you can check out the beta3 for LyX 1.5.0 that is released tomorrow. For infos about table

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 15 May, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Jan Peters wrote: One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or resuse your old text? For me, this is THE reason. I

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 17:51, Stefano Franchi wrote: > On 15 May, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Jan Peters wrote: > > One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you > > are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by > > cut-and-paste, would you write everything

Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? AFAIK once you convert to Word (or rtf or whatever), you can't really get it back into LyX. Once you're in Word, you don't have LyX-LaTeX-TeX ability to lay out

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. Interface preference. Or availability (maybe author has limited access to Word). Jeremy C. Reed

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? [snip] But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. I don't

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 14 May 2007 13:42, you wrote: Of course, OOo is an option, but then OOo to Word conversions aren't always trivial, either, and I still vastly prefer writing in LyX to writing in OOo. One man's opinion: OOo word processing (as opposed to presentation) is an abomination. If my only

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 14 May 2007 13:33, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. Interface preference. Or availability (maybe author has limited access to Word).

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Sven Schreiber
Richard Heck schrieb: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? [snip] But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Steve Litt apparently wrote: I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. Interface, interoperability, and reliability. I cannot write in Word. Too slow. Large equations are a nightmare. Not every publisher

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Andreas K .
Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? Because it sucks writing math in MS Word. Andreas

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Ricardo Rodríguez - Your XEN ICT Team
I've been playing around with Lyx for about three months now. I am coming from a FrameMaker environment. I can not tell you why Lyx-Word, but I've been doing FM-Word for years. And the reason was/is clear to me: it is far easy accomplish Word requirements working with FM (I do hope

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 14 May 2007 12:30, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? Steve, The documents I write tend to be technical reports with lots of figures. The report I'm working on at

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread David A. Case
On Mon, May 14, 2007, Steve Litt wrote: But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. As others have said, one doesn't always know where a manuscript will end up when you start writing. Or you may be working with a

Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? AFAIK once you convert to Word (or rtf or whatever), you can't really get it back into LyX. Once you're in Word, you don't have LyX-LaTeX-TeX ability to lay out

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. Interface preference. Or availability (maybe author has limited access to Word). Jeremy C. Reed

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? [snip] But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. I don't

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 14 May 2007 13:42, you wrote: Of course, OOo is an option, but then OOo to Word conversions aren't always trivial, either, and I still vastly prefer writing in LyX to writing in OOo. One man's opinion: OOo word processing (as opposed to presentation) is an abomination. If my only

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 14 May 2007 13:33, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. Interface preference. Or availability (maybe author has limited access to Word).

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Sven Schreiber
Richard Heck schrieb: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? [snip] But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Steve Litt apparently wrote: I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. Interface, interoperability, and reliability. I cannot write in Word. Too slow. Large equations are a nightmare. Not every publisher

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