Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-20 Thread Nicolás
All that seems like too much work! I would first try to convert Word to Latex, import into LyX and chechk the result. You will still probably have to do some manual adjustment, but they will hopefully be less. I recently use this application: http://www.grindeq.com/index.php?p=word2latex It

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: If you mean an example for doing a listing in ERT, the OP (Álvaro) had one in his original message.  If you mean an example using multibyte encoding, Yes, I mean the latter. I don't think so -- the closest I come to a foreign language is some long-forgotten German,

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-20 Thread cmiramon
Steve Litt wrote: It would have been wonderful. Unfortunately, writer2latex preserves the level class hierarchy (level1-part, level2-chapter, etc) but it dumps all my custom made classes and does its best to reproduce them with fine tuning. This is the second tool that's tried to do me the

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 20.07.2008, at 05:44, Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2008 19:57, Typhoon wrote: SNIP This is by far the best solution, in my opinion. Unfortunately for me, my only Windows machine is a 1997 Pentium II/300 with 128MB of RAM, which would be painfully slow. Steve, What happens if

Re: More on 1.6 beta4 crashing on Ubuntu

2008-07-20 Thread Michael Beckmann
Hi Pandita your document did not cause any problems on my computer, however, since the bug you found seems to be reproducible under certain circumstances it'll probably be fixed in one of the next releases. If you are in the need to work with lyx in the meantime I suggest that you compile and

Re: export to latex(plain) not working in lyx1.6.0Beta4

2008-07-20 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Olivier Ripoll wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: [...] I have by the way no problem to export to pdf (pdflatex or ps2pdf) on Windows. Olivier, Could you please look at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4693 There is a question for you. Thanks in advance,

Re: Ugly output in PDF

2008-07-20 Thread Acme
Hi, It worked fine a couple of times, and then it went wrong again. When I was about to go crazy today, I checked the emails, which I forget to do during the past one week, and found some replies from forum users. I followed the suggestion from Richard to CHANGE THE FONT FROM ROMAN TO TIMES

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 20 July 2008 06:50, Daniel Lohmann wrote: On 20.07.2008, at 05:44, Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2008 19:57, Typhoon wrote: SNIP This is by far the best solution, in my opinion. Unfortunately for me, my only Windows machine is a 1997 Pentium II/300 with 128MB of

Re: .kmap ortography

2008-07-20 Thread Pavel Sanda
I just want to write this lines \kmap ?? \kmap ?? in my personal.kmap file to have a chevrons or guillemets marks (I use also double quotes) at worst you can alway use key binding instead, i.e. to bind shift+ to unicode-insert 0x0bb lfun. pavel But it doesn't work, perhaps due to

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Anyway, I don't think you'll find a working example. As listings fails with multibyte glyphs, it will also fail when multibyte glyphs are used in ERT, no? Not according to the documentation. You can define an escape to LaTeX character, and anything bracketed by

Converting msword to LyX: Lessons learned so far

2008-07-20 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, One way or another, within the text of the .doc file I've written tags for the following: * The whole heading hierarchy * Major (and all home grown) paragraph styles * Major (and all home grown) character styles * Lists, both numbered and unnumbered * Markers for graphics, summarizing

Re: Converting msword to LyX: Lessons learned so far

2008-07-20 Thread Richard heck
Steve Litt wrote: By the way, if I ever write a second edition of Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist, I'll need to convert all my uses of LyX color based character styles (Dekl Tsur's pre-characterstyle workaround) to modern character styles. That should be a laugh a

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-20 Thread Nicolás
All that seems like too much work! I would first try to convert Word to Latex, import into LyX and chechk the result. You will still probably have to do some manual adjustment, but they will hopefully be less. I recently use this application: http://www.grindeq.com/index.php?p=word2latex It

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: If you mean an example for doing a listing in ERT, the OP (Álvaro) had one in his original message.  If you mean an example using multibyte encoding, Yes, I mean the latter. I don't think so -- the closest I come to a foreign language is some long-forgotten German,

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-20 Thread cmiramon
Steve Litt wrote: It would have been wonderful. Unfortunately, writer2latex preserves the level class hierarchy (level1-part, level2-chapter, etc) but it dumps all my custom made classes and does its best to reproduce them with fine tuning. This is the second tool that's tried to do me the

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 20.07.2008, at 05:44, Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2008 19:57, Typhoon wrote: SNIP This is by far the best solution, in my opinion. Unfortunately for me, my only Windows machine is a 1997 Pentium II/300 with 128MB of RAM, which would be painfully slow. Steve, What happens if

Re: More on 1.6 beta4 crashing on Ubuntu

2008-07-20 Thread Michael Beckmann
Hi Pandita your document did not cause any problems on my computer, however, since the bug you found seems to be reproducible under certain circumstances it'll probably be fixed in one of the next releases. If you are in the need to work with lyx in the meantime I suggest that you compile and

Re: export to latex(plain) not working in lyx1.6.0Beta4

2008-07-20 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Olivier Ripoll wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: [...] I have by the way no problem to export to pdf (pdflatex or ps2pdf) on Windows. Olivier, Could you please look at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4693 There is a question for you. Thanks in advance,

Re: Ugly output in PDF

2008-07-20 Thread Acme
Hi, It worked fine a couple of times, and then it went wrong again. When I was about to go crazy today, I checked the emails, which I forget to do during the past one week, and found some replies from forum users. I followed the suggestion from Richard to CHANGE THE FONT FROM ROMAN TO TIMES

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 20 July 2008 06:50, Daniel Lohmann wrote: On 20.07.2008, at 05:44, Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2008 19:57, Typhoon wrote: SNIP This is by far the best solution, in my opinion. Unfortunately for me, my only Windows machine is a 1997 Pentium II/300 with 128MB of

Re: .kmap ortography

2008-07-20 Thread Pavel Sanda
I just want to write this lines \kmap ?? \kmap ?? in my personal.kmap file to have a chevrons or guillemets marks (I use also double quotes) at worst you can alway use key binding instead, i.e. to bind shift+ to unicode-insert 0x0bb lfun. pavel But it doesn't work, perhaps due to

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Anyway, I don't think you'll find a working example. As listings fails with multibyte glyphs, it will also fail when multibyte glyphs are used in ERT, no? Not according to the documentation. You can define an escape to LaTeX character, and anything bracketed by

Converting msword to LyX: Lessons learned so far

2008-07-20 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, One way or another, within the text of the .doc file I've written tags for the following: * The whole heading hierarchy * Major (and all home grown) paragraph styles * Major (and all home grown) character styles * Lists, both numbered and unnumbered * Markers for graphics, summarizing

Re: Converting msword to LyX: Lessons learned so far

2008-07-20 Thread Richard heck
Steve Litt wrote: By the way, if I ever write a second edition of Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist, I'll need to convert all my uses of LyX color based character styles (Dekl Tsur's pre-characterstyle workaround) to modern character styles. That should be a laugh a

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-20 Thread Nicolás
All that seems like too much work! I would first try to convert Word to Latex, import into LyX and chechk the result. You will still probably have to do some manual adjustment, but they will hopefully be less. I recently use this application: http://www.grindeq.com/index.php?p=word2latex It

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > If you mean an example for doing a listing in ERT, the OP (Álvaro) had > one in his original message.  If you mean an example using multibyte > encoding, Yes, I mean the latter. > I don't think so -- the closest I come to a "foreign" language > is some long-forgotten

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-20 Thread cmiramon
Steve Litt wrote: > It would have been wonderful. Unfortunately, writer2latex preserves the > level class hierarchy (level1->part, level2->chapter, etc) but it dumps > all my custom made classes and does its best to reproduce them with fine > tuning. This is the second tool that's tried to do me

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 20.07.2008, at 05:44, Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2008 19:57, Typhoon wrote: This is by far the best solution, in my opinion. Unfortunately for me, my only Windows machine is a 1997 Pentium II/300 with 128MB of RAM, which would be painfully slow. Steve, What happens if you

Re: More on 1.6 beta4 crashing on Ubuntu

2008-07-20 Thread Michael Beckmann
Hi Pandita your document did not cause any problems on my computer, however, since the bug you found seems to be reproducible under certain circumstances it'll probably be fixed in one of the next releases. If you are in the need to work with lyx in the meantime I suggest that you compile and

Re: export to latex(plain) not working in lyx1.6.0Beta4

2008-07-20 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Olivier Ripoll wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: [...] I have by the way no problem to export to pdf (pdflatex or ps2pdf) on Windows. Olivier, Could you please look at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4693 There is a question for you. Thanks in advance,

Re: Ugly output in PDF

2008-07-20 Thread Acme
Hi, It worked fine a couple of times, and then it went wrong again. When I was about to go crazy today, I checked the emails, which I forget to do during the past one week, and found some replies from forum users. I followed the suggestion from Richard to CHANGE THE FONT FROM ROMAN TO TIMES

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 20 July 2008 06:50, Daniel Lohmann wrote: > On 20.07.2008, at 05:44, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Saturday 19 July 2008 19:57, Typhoon wrote: > >> > >> > >>> This is by far the best solution, in my opinion. > >>> > >>> Unfortunately for me, my only Windows machine is a 1997 Pentium > >>>

Re: .kmap ortography

2008-07-20 Thread Pavel Sanda
> I just want to write this lines > > \kmap < ?? > \kmap > ?? > > in my personal.kmap file to have a "chevrons" or "guillemets" marks (I use > also double quotes) at worst you can alway use key binding instead, i.e. to bind shift+> to unicode-insert 0x0bb lfun. pavel > But it doesn't work,

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Anyway, I don't think you'll find a working example. As listings fails with multibyte glyphs, it will also fail when multibyte glyphs are used in ERT, no? Not according to the documentation. You can define an "escape to LaTeX" character, and anything bracketed

Converting msword to LyX: Lessons learned so far

2008-07-20 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, One way or another, within the text of the .doc file I've written tags for the following: * The whole heading hierarchy * Major (and all home grown) paragraph styles * Major (and all home grown) character styles * Lists, both numbered and unnumbered * Markers for graphics, summarizing

Re: Converting msword to LyX: Lessons learned so far

2008-07-20 Thread Richard heck
Steve Litt wrote: By the way, if I ever write a second edition of "Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist", I'll need to convert all my uses of LyX color based "character styles" (Dekl Tsur's pre-characterstyle workaround) to modern character styles. That should be a laugh a