Re: How to make a clone of the Enumerate environment?

2008-07-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 00:54, Dirk Markert wrote: > 2008/7/22 Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Günter (and everyone else), > > > > Your response contains one of the most useful LyX idioms I've ever seen, > > limiting my biggest objection to LyX. It will lead to vastly improved > > productivit

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 19:24, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Moreover, if you're editing by hand, you can use > > something that recognizes XML. > > of course it will work, but it will take x-times more time. > quite difference to write sed one-liner or start doing some > xslt templ

Re: Refernces

2008-07-22 Thread Nicolás
Use Refworks to export your references as Bibtex. A .bib file should be generated. Then follow the intructions in LyX's User's Guide (Help->User's Guide, section 6.5.1) to insert your references in the document. Cheers, Nicolás Hesham Kamel wrote: Hello, I am writing my thesis now, and just kn

Re: How to make a clone of the Enumerate environment?

2008-07-22 Thread Dirk Markert
2008/7/22 Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Günter (and everyone else), > > Your response contains one of the most useful LyX idioms I've ever seen, > limiting my biggest objection to LyX. It will lead to vastly improved > productivity for me. > > Can anyone guess which part of Günter's email is s

Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-22 Thread Pavel Sanda
Dear LyXers, I'm proud to announce that the LFUNs documentation project has been finished. If you are interested in mastering LyX this documentation could be useful for your needs. Some technical speech: * All documentation is orginally written as doxygen comments in our source code, so thi

Hollywood template author's address

2008-07-22 Thread Thomas King
I looked through the archives and wiki, and didn't find an answer to this issue (although it was mentioned on the devel list). The hollywood.lyx template doesn't render the author's address. Is there something I need to tweak first? Thank you, Tom King signature.asc Description: This is a digi

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-22 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Pavel Sanda wrote: > Moreover, if you're editing by hand, you can use > something that recognizes XML. of course it will work, but it will take x-times more time. quite difference to write sed one-liner or start doing some xslt templating. pavel

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-22 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On Tuesday 22 July 2008 22:54:14 Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > > now you are joking right? :) i just see all the bugs just because '>' is > > redirection. and imho manually generate \begin_layout Standard is more > > simpler > > then typing . > > You are welcome to reimplement lyx in shell, good luck

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion

2008-07-22 Thread John
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 08:04:59 am Steve Litt wrote: > On Tuesday 22 July 2008 11:32, rgheck wrote: > > Steve Litt wrote: > > > I don't know how it will be after LyX goes XML, but right now at 1.5.3, > > > converting my LyX code to something else by parsing the LyX native code > > > would be tri

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-22 Thread rgheck
José Matos wrote: now imagine those regexps where you need to escape all those \" in conclusion xml will be pain for people trying to use .lyx files directly with scripts etc. Clearly you did not had to deal with the lyx file format like I did. :-) If your idea of a parser is a set of re

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-22 Thread rgheck
Pavel Sanda wrote: Steve Litt wrote: this. Just as easy to parse, I hope. Maybe even easier. now you are joking right? :) i just see all the bugs just because '>' is redirection. Only in the shell, right? now imagine those regexps where you need to escape all those \" Th

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-22 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 22:54:14 Pavel Sanda wrote: > > now you are joking right? :) i just see all the bugs just because '>' is > redirection. and imho manually generate \begin_layout Standard is more > simpler > then typing . You are welcome to reimplement lyx in shell, good luck. :-) > now ima

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion

2008-07-22 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 21:04:59 Steve Litt wrote: > One more thing -- if you're going XML and don't want to reinvent the wheel, > you'll be using someone else's XML parser. Please, please, PLEASE, don't > make it some parser with tons of dependency so that the guy with a 2 year > old distro can't

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-22 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Steve Litt wrote: > > this. > > > > > > > Just as easy to parse, I hope. Maybe even easier. now you are joking right? :) i just see all the bugs just because '>' is redirection. and imho manually generate \begin_layout Standard is more simpler then typing . now imagine those regexps wher

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion

2008-07-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 11:32, rgheck wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > I don't know how it will be after LyX goes XML, but right now at 1.5.3, > > converting my LyX code to something else by parsing the LyX native code > > would be trivial. > > My understanding is that, whatever happens with the LyX

Re: pdfsync problems with Skim

2008-07-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Ivan Werning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all, thanks for your help Bennett. See below. You're welcome. > One last thing: everything I reported above, notwithstanding, I just tested > it now with the default LyX settings in Skim and it works! Given t

Re: pdfsync problems with Skim

2008-07-22 Thread Ivan Werning
First of all, thanks for your help Bennett. See below. On Jul 22, 2008, at 1:52 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: Actually, this is not a bug in Skim, as far as I can see. I have been testing LyX-1.6, and so /Applications/LyX.app on my system is a developmental build of LyX-1.6. There's a line in the

Re: pdfsync problems with Skim

2008-07-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Ivan Werning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 22, 2008, at 12:07 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: > >> >> I can get it working if I specify in Skim's preferences the complete path >> to lyxeditor by selecting a custom preset for PDFSync support: >> >> /Applications/Ly

Re: pdfsync problems with Skim

2008-07-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Ivan Werning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 22, 2008, at 12:07 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: > >> >> I can get it working if I specify in Skim's preferences the complete path >> to lyxeditor by selecting a custom preset for PDFSync support: >> >> /Applications/Ly

Re: replace text

2008-07-22 Thread Sylvain
> If they are all chemical formulae, I suspect the package Nicolas Ferre' > recommended is the answer. If they are something else, and assuming you > use them frequently, I would suggest either putting them all in a text > file that you can \include in any document where you need them, or else

Re: pdfsync problems with Skim

2008-07-22 Thread Ivan Werning
On Jul 22, 2008, at 12:07 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: I can get it working if I specify in Skim's preferences the complete path to lyxeditor by selecting a custom preset for PDFSync support: /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyxeditor If that works for you, then it looks like the problem is

Re: Life changing LyX idiom gives me new productivity

2008-07-22 Thread rgheck
Steve Litt wrote: When I have time I'll check whether I can actually change appearances in LyX like this: Style MyNewStyle CopyStyle Standard LeftMarginMMM RightMargin MMM Font SizeLarger EndFont End If t

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion

2008-07-22 Thread rgheck
Steve Litt wrote: I don't know how it will be after LyX goes XML, but right now at 1.5.3, converting my LyX code to something else by parsing the LyX native code would be trivial. My understanding is that, whatever happens with the LyX file format, we want it to remain possible to do the s

Re: replace text

2008-07-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Sylvain wrote: Try this in the preamble: \usepackage{fixltx2e} \newcommand{\HHO}{H\textsubscript{2}O} Then in your text, put \HHO{} in ERT. /Paul What happens when there are plenty of different formulas? Any clever way of dealing with it? Thanks, Sylvain If they are all chemical formulae

Life changing LyX idiom gives me new productivity

2008-07-22 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, In a different thread, Gunter Milde penned these words: > You need to clone both, LyX layout:: > > Style Questions > CopyStyle Enumeration > That is THE most powerful LyX idiom I've ever seen. As most of you know, my biggest objection to LyX is the excruciating pain required t

Re: Refernces

2008-07-22 Thread Kamran SHAFQAT
Hesham Kamel wrote: Hello, I am writing my thesis now, and just knew about LATEX. I downloaded LyX, and started to work with, however I have a concern. In MS Word, I am using a citation manager, Refworks to insert citations, and at the end it produces a bibliography numbered list, while in the ma

Re: How to make a clone of the Enumerate environment?

2008-07-22 Thread Steve Litt
Günter (and everyone else), Your response contains one of the most useful LyX idioms I've ever seen, limiting my biggest objection to LyX. It will lead to vastly improved productivity for me. Can anyone guess which part of Günter's email is so useful? I'll reveal it in another email, coming up

Refernces

2008-07-22 Thread Hesham Kamel
Hello, I am writing my thesis now, and just knew about LATEX. I downloaded LyX, and started to work with, however I have a concern. In MS Word, I am using a citation manager, Refworks to insert citations, and at the end it produces a bibliography numbered list, while in the main document itself, it

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion

2008-07-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 06:32, Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: > > This morning I got an acceptably tagged text file out of MS Word. From > > that moment on, things got much easier. > > Congratulations! > > I put a reference to your post on a wiki page, giving

Re: pdfsync problems with Skim

2008-07-22 Thread Ivan Werning
On Jul 22, 2008, at 12:07 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: I can get it working if I specify in Skim's preferences the complete path to lyxeditor by selecting a custom preset for PDFSync support: /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyxeditor If that works for you, then it looks like the problem is

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion

2008-07-22 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: This morning I got an acceptably tagged text file out of MS Word. From that moment on, things got much easier. Congratulations! I put a reference to your post on a wiki page, giving others that need to do this a starting point. (If you want to summarize

Re: replace text

2008-07-22 Thread Sylvain
> Try this in the preamble: > > \usepackage{fixltx2e} > \newcommand{\HHO}{H\textsubscript{2}O} > > Then in your text, put \HHO{} in ERT. > > /Paul > > What happens when there are plenty of different formulas? Any clever way of dealing with it? Thanks, Sylvain