Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
numbering. What it CAN'T do, is painless formatting changes - your
reference database should be configured to reflect the desired format.
Which actually made me to run out of it -- it sucks!!! The most important of
all BibTeX/MODS qualities is that you have
Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
numbering. What it CAN'T do, is painless formatting changes - your
reference database should be configured to reflect the desired format.
Which actually made me to run out of it -- it sucks!!! The most important of
all BibTeX/MODS qualities is that you have
Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
> numbering. What it CAN'T do, is painless formatting changes - your
> reference database should be configured to reflect the desired format.
Which actually made me to run out of it -- it sucks!!! The most important of
all BibTeX/MODS qualities is that you have
--- Luis Rivera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hum...
This looks to me like another Holy War.
Yup...just to remain completely off topic, the one big
feature of latex over word for me is the handling of
pictures and other floating objects. Word has a
tendency (or a positive need) to move them
--- Luis Rivera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hum...
This looks to me like another Holy War.
Yup...just to remain completely off topic, the one big
feature of latex over word for me is the handling of
pictures and other floating objects. Word has a
tendency (or a positive need) to move them
--- Luis Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hum...
>
> This looks to me like another Holy War.
>
>
Yup...just to remain completely off topic, the one big
feature of latex over word for me is the handling of
pictures and other floating objects. Word has a
tendency (or a positive need) to move
Steve Litt wrote:
On Monday 18 April 2005 02:33 am, Alexander Blm wrote:
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've infected a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the
layout -
G. Milde wrote:
On 18.04.05, Alexander Blm wrote:
They say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with
WORD2000...
I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it
already. Any good arguments why one should use LyX instead of word?
I think, the days of only
On Thursday 28 April 2005 07:13 am, Helge Hafting wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
On Monday 18 April 2005 02:33 am, Alexander Blm wrote:
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've infected a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
now and gets
Hum...
This looks to me like another Holy War.
Let me add my little bit of flame. To give everyone his due, let me
say that I also despise MSW*rd, precisely because I know how to use it
(I used to work with it as the formatter of a couple of tiny little
journals, and its most recent feat is
Here's an example. I need a URL style for my book. I want it small, bold and
underlined. This would be 2 minutes in WordPerfect 5.1 (the wordprocessor
whose styles I'm most familiar with).
In LyX, I don't have it yet, in spite of trying all the suggestions on the LyX
list. Herbert's came
Steve Litt wrote:
By the way, I finally just gave up on the underlining.
By the way, did you take a look at package soul?
matj
--
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138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
Steve Litt wrote:
On Monday 18 April 2005 02:33 am, Alexander Blm wrote:
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've infected a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the
layout -
G. Milde wrote:
On 18.04.05, Alexander Blm wrote:
They say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with
WORD2000...
I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it
already. Any good arguments why one should use LyX instead of word?
I think, the days of only
On Thursday 28 April 2005 07:13 am, Helge Hafting wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
On Monday 18 April 2005 02:33 am, Alexander Blm wrote:
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've infected a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
now and gets
Hum...
This looks to me like another Holy War.
Let me add my little bit of flame. To give everyone his due, let me
say that I also despise MSW*rd, precisely because I know how to use it
(I used to work with it as the formatter of a couple of tiny little
journals, and its most recent feat is
Here's an example. I need a URL style for my book. I want it small, bold and
underlined. This would be 2 minutes in WordPerfect 5.1 (the wordprocessor
whose styles I'm most familiar with).
In LyX, I don't have it yet, in spite of trying all the suggestions on the LyX
list. Herbert's came
Steve Litt wrote:
By the way, I finally just gave up on the underlining.
By the way, did you take a look at package soul?
matj
--
Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej
GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC
138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
Steve Litt wrote:
On Monday 18 April 2005 02:33 am, Alexander BlÃm wrote:
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've "infected" a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the
G. Milde wrote:
On 18.04.05, Alexander BlÃm wrote:
They say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with
WORD2000...
I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it
already. Any good arguments why one should use LyX instead of word?
I think, the days of
On Thursday 28 April 2005 07:13 am, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
> >On Monday 18 April 2005 02:33 am, Alexander BlÃm wrote:
> >>hello,
> >>
> >>I am still a convinced LyX user and I've "infected" a few people around
> >>me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of
Hum...
This looks to me like another Holy War.
Let me add my little bit of flame. To give everyone his due, let me
say that I also despise MSW*rd, precisely because I know how to use it
(I used to work with it as the formatter of a couple of tiny little
journals, and its most recent feat is
> Here's an example. I need a URL style for my book. I want it small, bold and
> underlined. This would be 2 minutes in WordPerfect 5.1 (the wordprocessor
> whose styles I'm most familiar with).
>
> In LyX, I don't have it yet, in spite of trying all the suggestions on the LyX
> list. Herbert's
Steve Litt wrote:
> By the way, I finally just gave up on the underlining.
By the way, did you take a look at package soul?
matěj
--
Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej
GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC
138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617)
Rich Drewes wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
One big issue here is that such third party add-ons for Word are usually paid
their LOC in gold.
(LOC?)
Another problem is the quite frequent instabillity derived
by overloading word with such bells and whistles. I
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
(snip)
Although Lyx provides another language layer over LaTeX (which works over
plain TeX) its files still maintain a rather simple structure that becomes
life-saving over crashes and glitches both Lyx-related and system-wide.
(snip)
On Friday 22 April 2005 14:36, Mark Carroll wrote:
True. (-: It'd be nice if the structure were documented somewhere, though
- whenever I want to write software that generates LyX files, I have to
reverse-engineer the format by inspecting various LyX files. At least, if
I'm using software
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Ernesto Jardim wrote:
And for last, your arguments are very much depending on the use of
pybliographic.
That was the best free open source GUI bibliographic manager I had found
at the time that could insert references into a Lyx doc with a click and
also launch a
Rich Drewes wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Ernesto Jardim wrote:
And for last, your arguments are very much depending on the use of
pybliographic.
That was the best free open source GUI bibliographic manager I had found
at the time that could insert references into a Lyx doc with a click and
also
Rich Drewes wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
One big issue here is that such third party add-ons for Word are usually paid
their LOC in gold.
(LOC?)
Another problem is the quite frequent instabillity derived
by overloading word with such bells and whistles. I
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
(snip)
Although Lyx provides another language layer over LaTeX (which works over
plain TeX) its files still maintain a rather simple structure that becomes
life-saving over crashes and glitches both Lyx-related and system-wide.
(snip)
On Friday 22 April 2005 14:36, Mark Carroll wrote:
True. (-: It'd be nice if the structure were documented somewhere, though
- whenever I want to write software that generates LyX files, I have to
reverse-engineer the format by inspecting various LyX files. At least, if
I'm using software
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Ernesto Jardim wrote:
And for last, your arguments are very much depending on the use of
pybliographic.
That was the best free open source GUI bibliographic manager I had found
at the time that could insert references into a Lyx doc with a click and
also launch a
Rich Drewes wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Ernesto Jardim wrote:
And for last, your arguments are very much depending on the use of
pybliographic.
That was the best free open source GUI bibliographic manager I had found
at the time that could insert references into a Lyx doc with a click and
also
Rich Drewes wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
One big issue here is that such third party add-ons for Word are usually paid
their LOC in gold.
(LOC?)
Another problem is the quite frequent instabillity derived
by "overloading" word with such bells and whistles. I
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
(snip)
> Although Lyx provides another language layer over LaTeX (which works over
> plain TeX) its files still maintain a rather simple structure that becomes
> life-saving over crashes and glitches both Lyx-related and system-wide.
(snip)
On Friday 22 April 2005 14:36, Mark Carroll wrote:
>
> True. (-: It'd be nice if the structure were documented somewhere, though
> - whenever I want to write software that generates LyX files, I have to
> reverse-engineer the format by inspecting various LyX files. At least, if
> I'm using
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Ernesto Jardim wrote:
> And for last, your arguments are very much depending on the use of
> pybliographic.
That was the best free & open source GUI bibliographic manager I had found
at the time that could insert references into a Lyx doc with a click and
also launch a
Rich Drewes wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Ernesto Jardim wrote:
And for last, your arguments are very much depending on the use of
pybliographic.
That was the best free & open source GUI bibliographic manager I had found
at the time that could insert references into a Lyx doc with a click and
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 19:44, Rich Drewes wrote:
Serious Word users would point to EndNote and say that tools like
BibTex/Pybliographic are toys in comparison. (EndNote supports importing
BibTex, BTW.) For certain things they are right--BibTex+Pybliographic
handles the basics well, but
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
One big issue here is that such third party add-ons for Word are usually paid
their LOC in gold.
(LOC?)
Another problem is the quite frequent instabillity derived
by overloading word with such bells and whistles. I can't tell anything
On Thursday 21 April 2005 19:41, Rich Drewes wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
One big issue here is that such third party add-ons for Word are usually
paid their LOC in gold.
(LOC?)
Lines Of Code :-) It's certainly not their weight (10-20 grams per cd more or
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 19:44, Rich Drewes wrote:
Serious Word users would point to EndNote and say that tools like
BibTex/Pybliographic are toys in comparison. (EndNote supports importing
BibTex, BTW.) For certain things they are right--BibTex+Pybliographic
handles the basics well, but
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
One big issue here is that such third party add-ons for Word are usually paid
their LOC in gold.
(LOC?)
Another problem is the quite frequent instabillity derived
by overloading word with such bells and whistles. I can't tell anything
On Thursday 21 April 2005 19:41, Rich Drewes wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
One big issue here is that such third party add-ons for Word are usually
paid their LOC in gold.
(LOC?)
Lines Of Code :-) It's certainly not their weight (10-20 grams per cd more or
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 19:44, Rich Drewes wrote:
> Serious Word users would point to EndNote and say that tools like
> BibTex/Pybliographic are toys in comparison. (EndNote supports importing
> BibTex, BTW.) For certain things they are right--BibTex+Pybliographic
> handles the basics well, but
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
> One big issue here is that such third party add-ons for Word are usually paid
> their LOC in gold.
(LOC?)
> Another problem is the quite frequent instabillity derived
> by "overloading" word with such bells and whistles. I can't tell
On Thursday 21 April 2005 19:41, Rich Drewes wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
> > One big issue here is that such third party add-ons for Word are usually
> > paid their LOC in gold.
>
> (LOC?)
Lines Of Code :-) It's certainly not their weight (10-20 grams per cd
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Rich Drewes wrote:
For my thesis I chose to go with Lyx and Pybliographic
...
It has been quite a bit of work getting Lyx to conform to my
University's formatting conventions but I managed it all, finally, with
appropriate ERT in the Lyx doc.
Perhaps it'd be a good idea
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:44:08AM -0700, Rich Drewes wrote:
There are good equation packages (third party) for Word as well, I am
told.
I've seen a couple of them. I would even admit that most of them look
better than LyX _on screen_. But when the criteria are either quality of
print output or
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 08:33:56AM +0200, Alexander Blüm wrote:
But I've also met a few very stubborn people, like most of my school.
They say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with
WORD2000...
I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it
already.
Steve Litt wrote:
I think a person should use Word (or in my case OpenOffice) for most stuff.
Oh, goody. Now we start the Battle of Improperly-Generalized Anecdotes.
Here's mine:
If
it's under 10,000 words, LyX is a hassle unless you're willing to accept ALL
LyX's defaults. Here's why...
In
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Rich Drewes wrote:
For my thesis I chose to go with Lyx and Pybliographic
...
It has been quite a bit of work getting Lyx to conform to my
University's formatting conventions but I managed it all, finally, with
appropriate ERT in the Lyx doc.
Perhaps it'd be a good idea
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:44:08AM -0700, Rich Drewes wrote:
There are good equation packages (third party) for Word as well, I am
told.
I've seen a couple of them. I would even admit that most of them look
better than LyX _on screen_. But when the criteria are either quality of
print output or
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 08:33:56AM +0200, Alexander Blüm wrote:
But I've also met a few very stubborn people, like most of my school.
They say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with
WORD2000...
I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it
already.
Steve Litt wrote:
I think a person should use Word (or in my case OpenOffice) for most stuff.
Oh, goody. Now we start the Battle of Improperly-Generalized Anecdotes.
Here's mine:
If
it's under 10,000 words, LyX is a hassle unless you're willing to accept ALL
LyX's defaults. Here's why...
In
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Rich Drewes wrote:
> For my thesis I chose to go with Lyx and Pybliographic
...
> It has been quite a bit of work getting Lyx to conform to my
> University's formatting conventions but I managed it all, finally, with
> appropriate ERT in the Lyx doc.
Perhaps it'd be a good
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:44:08AM -0700, Rich Drewes wrote:
> There are good equation packages (third party) for Word as well, I am
> told.
I've seen a couple of them. I would even admit that most of them look
better than LyX _on screen_. But when the criteria are either quality of
print output
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 08:33:56AM +0200, Alexander Blüm wrote:
> But I've also met a few very stubborn people, like most of my school.
> They say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with
> WORD2000...
> I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it
>
Steve Litt wrote:
I think a person should use Word (or in my case OpenOffice) for most stuff.
Oh, goody. Now we start the Battle of Improperly-Generalized Anecdotes.
Here's mine:
> If
it's under 10,000 words, LyX is a hassle unless you're willing to accept ALL
LyX's defaults. Here's why...
On Monday 18 April 2005 07:00 pm, pano karambelas wrote:
Steve -
Just to understand, do your comments apply to mathematical/technical
documents that are 10 K words as well ?
Mathematical, no. MS Word has no reasonable way to do equations. Other tech
docs, yes. Prose and screenshots are easy
Tysdag 19. april 2005 14:27 skreiv Steve Litt:
On Monday 18 April 2005 07:00 pm, pano karambelas wrote:
Steve -
Just to understand, do your comments apply to mathematical/technical
documents that are 10 K words as well ?
Mathematical, no. MS Word has no reasonable way to do equations.
Steve Litt wrote:
I think a person should use Word (or in my case OpenOffice) for most
stuff. If it's under 10,000 words, LyX is a hassle unless you're willing
to accept ALL LyX's defaults. Here's why...
I would respectfully disagree with my honorable colleague from Florida :-)
Steve, you used
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Matej Cepl wrote:
etc., where Word's instability goes into author's way. However, there are
other factors where Word's inadequacy shows up -- somebody mentioned
mathematics, I would add missing support for BibTeX
Serious Word users would point to EndNote and say that
On Monday 18 April 2005 07:00 pm, pano karambelas wrote:
Steve -
Just to understand, do your comments apply to mathematical/technical
documents that are 10 K words as well ?
Mathematical, no. MS Word has no reasonable way to do equations. Other tech
docs, yes. Prose and screenshots are easy
Tysdag 19. april 2005 14:27 skreiv Steve Litt:
On Monday 18 April 2005 07:00 pm, pano karambelas wrote:
Steve -
Just to understand, do your comments apply to mathematical/technical
documents that are 10 K words as well ?
Mathematical, no. MS Word has no reasonable way to do equations.
Steve Litt wrote:
I think a person should use Word (or in my case OpenOffice) for most
stuff. If it's under 10,000 words, LyX is a hassle unless you're willing
to accept ALL LyX's defaults. Here's why...
I would respectfully disagree with my honorable colleague from Florida :-)
Steve, you used
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Matej Cepl wrote:
etc., where Word's instability goes into author's way. However, there are
other factors where Word's inadequacy shows up -- somebody mentioned
mathematics, I would add missing support for BibTeX
Serious Word users would point to EndNote and say that
On Monday 18 April 2005 07:00 pm, pano karambelas wrote:
> Steve -
>
> Just to understand, do your comments apply to mathematical/technical
> documents that are < 10 K words as well ?
Mathematical, no. MS Word has no reasonable way to do equations. Other tech
docs, yes. Prose and screenshots are
Tysdag 19. april 2005 14:27 skreiv Steve Litt:
> On Monday 18 April 2005 07:00 pm, pano karambelas wrote:
> > Steve -
> >
> > Just to understand, do your comments apply to mathematical/technical
> > documents that are < 10 K words as well ?
>
> Mathematical, no. MS Word has no reasonable way to do
Steve Litt wrote:
> I think a person should use Word (or in my case OpenOffice) for most
> stuff. If it's under 10,000 words, LyX is a hassle unless you're willing
> to accept ALL LyX's defaults. Here's why...
I would respectfully disagree with my honorable colleague from Florida :-)
Steve, you
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Matej Cepl wrote:
> etc., where Word's instability goes into author's way. However, there are
> other factors where Word's inadequacy shows up -- somebody mentioned
> mathematics, I would add missing support for BibTeX
Serious Word users would point to EndNote and say that
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've infected a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the
layout - hehe).
But I've also met a few very stubborn people, like most of my
Quoting Alexander Blüm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've infected a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the
layout - hehe).
But I've also met
On 18.04.05, Alexander Blüm wrote:
They say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with
WORD2000...
I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it
already. Any good arguments why one should use LyX instead of word?
I think, the days of only LaTeX can have
Alexander Blüm wrote:
I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it
already. Any good arguments why one should use LyX instead of word?
An argument is that when you have created your own set of favorite templates
or classes, it is much faster to do it in LyX.
Cheers,
Alexander Blüm wrote:
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've infected a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the
layout - hehe).
But I've also met a few very stubborn
Alexander Blüm wrote:
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've infected a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents now
and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the layout -
hehe).
But I've also met a few very stubborn
Is Word good at positioning floats yet? It always used to annoy me because
I'd have to shift figures and tables around by hand so that things would
paginate agreeably, and then redo it if things changed. Having to approach
positioning-for-good-pagination somewhat manually was dreadful because
G. Milde wrote:
I think, the days of only LaTeX can have proper logical layout (with
\section instead of bold large text for section titles etc) are gone.
Proper used word will do this too. (And in many cases, using a publisher
provided style will be easier with word than with LyX.)
Can I
On Monday 18 April 2005 02:33 am, Alexander Blüm wrote:
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've infected a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the
layout - hehe).
But
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Alexander Blüm wrote:
But I've also met a few very stubborn people, like most of my school. They
say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with WORD2000...
I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it
already. Any good arguments why one
Steve -
Just to understand, do your comments apply to mathematical/technical
documents that are 10 K words as well ?
thanks
-Original Message-
From: Steve Litt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 9:55 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: why lyx when there's
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've infected a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the
layout - hehe).
But I've also met a few very stubborn people, like most of my
Quoting Alexander Blüm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've infected a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the
layout - hehe).
But I've also met
On 18.04.05, Alexander Blüm wrote:
They say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with
WORD2000...
I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it
already. Any good arguments why one should use LyX instead of word?
I think, the days of only LaTeX can have
Alexander Blüm wrote:
I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it
already. Any good arguments why one should use LyX instead of word?
An argument is that when you have created your own set of favorite templates
or classes, it is much faster to do it in LyX.
Cheers,
Alexander Blüm wrote:
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've infected a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the
layout - hehe).
But I've also met a few very stubborn
Alexander Blüm wrote:
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've infected a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents now
and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the layout -
hehe).
But I've also met a few very stubborn
Is Word good at positioning floats yet? It always used to annoy me because
I'd have to shift figures and tables around by hand so that things would
paginate agreeably, and then redo it if things changed. Having to approach
positioning-for-good-pagination somewhat manually was dreadful because
G. Milde wrote:
I think, the days of only LaTeX can have proper logical layout (with
\section instead of bold large text for section titles etc) are gone.
Proper used word will do this too. (And in many cases, using a publisher
provided style will be easier with word than with LyX.)
Can I
On Monday 18 April 2005 02:33 am, Alexander Blüm wrote:
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've infected a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the
layout - hehe).
But
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Alexander Blüm wrote:
But I've also met a few very stubborn people, like most of my school. They
say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with WORD2000...
I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it
already. Any good arguments why one
Steve -
Just to understand, do your comments apply to mathematical/technical
documents that are 10 K words as well ?
thanks
-Original Message-
From: Steve Litt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 9:55 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: why lyx when there's
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've "infected" a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the
layout - hehe).
But I've also met a few very stubborn people, like most of my
Quoting Alexander Blüm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> hello,
>
> I am still a convinced LyX user and I've "infected" a few people around
> me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
> now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the
> layout - hehe).
> But
On 18.04.05, Alexander Blüm wrote:
> They say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with
> WORD2000...
> I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it
> already. Any good arguments why one should use LyX instead of word?
I think, the days of "only LaTeX can
Alexander Blüm wrote:
> I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it
> already. Any good arguments why one should use LyX instead of word?
>
An argument is that when you have created your own set of favorite templates
or classes, it is much faster to do it in LyX.
Alexander Blüm wrote:
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've "infected" a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the
layout - hehe).
But I've also met a few very stubborn
Alexander Blüm wrote:
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've "infected" a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents now
and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the layout -
hehe).
But I've also met a few very stubborn
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