Re: unsubscribe...

2000-10-01 Thread Gunnar Lindholm
Everybody knows that word sucks but most people use it...:P Same goes for SuckOffice. And there is no win32 LYX yet.. Isn't there? My work is finished with lyx...great program! And the text looks very nice too... unfortunately univ.chair wants me writing my next documents in MS WORD...

Re: unsubscribe...

2000-10-01 Thread John Culleton
"R. Lahaye" wrote: Gunnar Lindholm wrote: Everybody knows that word sucks but most people use it...:P Same goes for SuckOffice. And there is no win32 LYX yet.. Isn't there? I've never had Window$ on my PC (lucky me, never had to argue about that), but I've seen here and there

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-10-01 Thread Werner Brück
I strongly believe that when I remove -- from our tech-writers -- the possibility to make decicions how things should look, that increases the productivity. People tend to use too much time on, the look of the document -- even, when somebody else is responsible for that. This is why I think

Re: unsubscribe...

2000-10-01 Thread Gunnar Lindholm
A thought: prepare a typical document both ways and then show management the differences. Point out the difference between letter kerning and blank space kerning. Worth a shot. Probably won't work. Oh.. I like this topic. Another thing is the archiving. If you want to use a computer for

Re: unsubscribe...

2000-10-01 Thread Lior Silberman
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, R. Lahaye wrote: Gunnar Lindholm wrote: Everybody knows that word sucks but most people use it...:P Same goes for SuckOffice. And there is no win32 LYX yet.. Isn't there? I've never had Window$ on my PC (lucky me, never had to argue about that), but I've

A small bug

2000-10-01 Thread sinisa
Hi! Please reply to me directly, as I am not a member of the list. I am using latest LyX package, but a bug that is teasing me is still there. Simply when I insert a picture in a Letter - derived document, at the very start of it, it gets printed on a separate page , actually on the first

xdvi with XFree86-4.* problem

2000-10-01 Thread Mate Wierdl
Apparently, this is a bug people who upgrade to RedHat 7.0 will see: xdvi will not have its buttons anymore. Thomas Esser of teTeX thinks it is some problem with the new shared libs in XFree86-4.*. They are working on it. Apparently, the latest pure xdvi does not have the problem, xdvik does

Re: unsubscribe...

2000-10-01 Thread Gunnar Lindholm
Everybody knows that word sucks but most people use it...:P Same goes for SuckOffice. And there is no win32 LYX yet.. Isn't there? My work is finished with lyx...great program! And the text looks very nice too... unfortunately univ.chair wants me writing my next documents in MS WORD...

Re: unsubscribe...

2000-10-01 Thread John Culleton
"R. Lahaye" wrote: Gunnar Lindholm wrote: Everybody knows that word sucks but most people use it...:P Same goes for SuckOffice. And there is no win32 LYX yet.. Isn't there? I've never had Window$ on my PC (lucky me, never had to argue about that), but I've seen here and there

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-10-01 Thread Werner Brück
I strongly believe that when I remove -- from our tech-writers -- the possibility to make decicions how things should look, that increases the productivity. People tend to use too much time on, the look of the document -- even, when somebody else is responsible for that. This is why I think

Re: unsubscribe...

2000-10-01 Thread Gunnar Lindholm
A thought: prepare a typical document both ways and then show management the differences. Point out the difference between letter kerning and blank space kerning. Worth a shot. Probably won't work. Oh.. I like this topic. Another thing is the archiving. If you want to use a computer for

Re: unsubscribe...

2000-10-01 Thread Lior Silberman
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, R. Lahaye wrote: Gunnar Lindholm wrote: Everybody knows that word sucks but most people use it...:P Same goes for SuckOffice. And there is no win32 LYX yet.. Isn't there? I've never had Window$ on my PC (lucky me, never had to argue about that), but I've

A small bug

2000-10-01 Thread sinisa
Hi! Please reply to me directly, as I am not a member of the list. I am using latest LyX package, but a bug that is teasing me is still there. Simply when I insert a picture in a Letter - derived document, at the very start of it, it gets printed on a separate page , actually on the first

xdvi with XFree86-4.* problem

2000-10-01 Thread Mate Wierdl
Apparently, this is a bug people who upgrade to RedHat 7.0 will see: xdvi will not have its buttons anymore. Thomas Esser of teTeX thinks it is some problem with the new shared libs in XFree86-4.*. They are working on it. Apparently, the latest pure xdvi does not have the problem, xdvik does

Re: unsubscribe...

2000-10-01 Thread Gunnar Lindholm
> Everybody knows that word sucks but most people use it...:P Same goes for SuckOffice. > And there is no win32 LYX yet.. Isn't there? > > My work is finished with lyx...great program! > And the text looks very nice too... > unfortunately univ.chair wants me writing my next documents > in MS

Re: unsubscribe...

2000-10-01 Thread John Culleton
"R. Lahaye" wrote: > > Gunnar Lindholm wrote: > > > > > Everybody knows that word sucks but most people use it...:P > > Same goes for SuckOffice. > > > And there is no win32 LYX yet.. > > Isn't there? > > I've never had Window$ on my PC (lucky me, never had to argue > about that), but I've seen

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-10-01 Thread Werner Brück
> I strongly believe that when I remove -- from our tech-writers -- the > possibility to make decicions how things should look, that increases > the productivity. People tend to use too much time on, the look of the > document -- even, when somebody else is responsible for that. This is > why I

Re: unsubscribe...

2000-10-01 Thread Gunnar Lindholm
> A thought: prepare a typical document both ways and then show management > the differences. Point out the difference between letter kerning and > blank space kerning. Worth a shot. Probably won't work. Oh.. I like this topic. Another thing is the archiving. If you want to use a computer for

Re: unsubscribe...

2000-10-01 Thread Lior Silberman
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, R. Lahaye wrote: > Gunnar Lindholm wrote: > > > > > Everybody knows that word sucks but most people use it...:P > > Same goes for SuckOffice. > > > And there is no win32 LYX yet.. > > Isn't there? > > I've never had Window$ on my PC (lucky me, never had to argue > about

A small bug

2000-10-01 Thread sinisa
Hi! Please reply to me directly, as I am not a member of the list. I am using latest LyX package, but a bug that is teasing me is still there. Simply when I insert a picture in a Letter - derived document, at the very start of it, it gets printed on a separate page , actually on the first

xdvi with XFree86-4.* problem

2000-10-01 Thread Mate Wierdl
Apparently, this is a bug people who upgrade to RedHat 7.0 will see: xdvi will not have its buttons anymore. Thomas Esser of teTeX thinks it is some problem with the new shared libs in XFree86-4.*. They are working on it. Apparently, the latest pure xdvi does not have the problem, xdvik does