Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-27 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-26, Steve Litt wrote: On Sunday 26 June 2011 15:09:41 Shantanu N Kulkarni wrote: On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use Century Schoolbook on all my books, although I'm looking for a more screen- readable font for my pure eBooks. Free screen-optimized fonts

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-27 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-26, Steve Litt wrote: On Sunday 26 June 2011 15:09:41 Shantanu N Kulkarni wrote: On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use Century Schoolbook on all my books, although I'm looking for a more screen- readable font for my pure eBooks. Free screen-optimized fonts

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-27 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-26, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sunday 26 June 2011 15:09:41 Shantanu N Kulkarni wrote: > On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use Century > Schoolbook on all my books, although I'm looking for a more screen- > readable font for my pure eBooks. Free screen-optimized

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote: I couldn't have said it better myself. And because of what Marcelo said, I find LyX is a MUCH faster authoring environment than anything in which I need to see markup. As much as I agree with this, the one

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 25 June 2011 22:09:36 Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Shantanu N Kulkarni
* Marcelo Acu?a mv...@yahoo.com.ar [110626 09:18]: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text pestered with commands. That makes difficult

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote: I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts are somewhat pale. On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use Century Schoolbook on all my books, although I'm looking for a

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Shantanu N Kulkarni m...@lists.shantanukulkarni.org wrote: I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts are somewhat pale. In many cases the fonts pre-selected by default are indeed ghastly. Personally I tend to stick to Palatino Optima

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 26 June 2011 17:38:12 Trevor Jenkins wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote: I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts are somewhat pale. On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote: I couldn't have said it better myself. And because of what Marcelo said, I find LyX is a MUCH faster authoring environment than anything in which I need to see markup. As much as I agree with this, the one

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 25 June 2011 22:09:36 Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Shantanu N Kulkarni
* Marcelo Acu?a mv...@yahoo.com.ar [110626 09:18]: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text pestered with commands. That makes difficult

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote: I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts are somewhat pale. On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use Century Schoolbook on all my books, although I'm looking for a

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Shantanu N Kulkarni m...@lists.shantanukulkarni.org wrote: I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts are somewhat pale. In many cases the fonts pre-selected by default are indeed ghastly. Personally I tend to stick to Palatino Optima

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 26 June 2011 17:38:12 Trevor Jenkins wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote: I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts are somewhat pale. On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > I couldn't have said it better myself. And because of what Marcelo > > said, I find LyX is a MUCH faster authoring environment than anything > > in which I need to see markup. > > > As much as I agree with this, the

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 25 June 2011 22:09:36 Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: > >> > 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there > >> > any advantages or > >> >

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Shantanu N Kulkarni
* Marcelo Acu?a [110626 09:18]: > > 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there > > any advantages or > > writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? > > If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text pestered > with commands. That makes

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts > > are somewhat "pale". > > On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use Century > Schoolbook on all my books, although I'm

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Shantanu N Kulkarni wrote: > I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts > are somewhat "pale". > In many cases the fonts pre-selected by default are indeed ghastly. Personally I tend to stick to Palatino &

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 26 June 2011 17:38:12 Trevor Jenkins wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > > I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx > > > fonts are somewhat "pale". > > > > On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale

need suggestion on book

2011-06-25 Thread Shantanu N Kulkarni
Hi all, I am going to write a small (100 pages) book on specific Perl topics. This will be given as notes in my session. Can anyone please help me with these queries? 1. I plan to make it 5x7 or 5x8 with class as memoir or koma. I want to avoid tufte book cos I do not have many footnotes and I

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-25 Thread Marcelo Acuña
2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text pestered with commands. That makes difficult the work to write up and to correct the text. Marcelo

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text pestered with commands. That makes difficult

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx?  If you work in plain latex,

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-25 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:09:36 +0200 Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or

need suggestion on book

2011-06-25 Thread Shantanu N Kulkarni
Hi all, I am going to write a small (100 pages) book on specific Perl topics. This will be given as notes in my session. Can anyone please help me with these queries? 1. I plan to make it 5x7 or 5x8 with class as memoir or koma. I want to avoid tufte book cos I do not have many footnotes and I

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-25 Thread Marcelo Acuña
2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text pestered with commands. That makes difficult the work to write up and to correct the text. Marcelo

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text pestered with commands. That makes difficult

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx?  If you work in plain latex,

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-25 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:09:36 +0200 Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or

need suggestion on book

2011-06-25 Thread Shantanu N Kulkarni
Hi all, I am going to write a small (100 pages) book on specific Perl topics. This will be given as notes in my session. Can anyone please help me with these queries? 1. I plan to make it 5x7 or 5x8 with class as memoir or koma. I want to avoid tufte book cos I do not have many footnotes and I

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-25 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there > any advantages or > writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text pestered with commands. That makes difficult the work to write up and to correct the text. Marcelo

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: > > 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there > > any advantages or > > writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? > > If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text > pestered with commands. That makes

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: >> > 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there >> > any advantages or >> > writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? >> >>  If you work in

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-25 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:09:36 +0200 Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt > wrote: > > On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: > >> > 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there > >> >