Disable line numbering in listing

2008-07-30 Thread bigblop
I have inserted a few lines of code in a listing environment. I have right-clicked the Listing tab and made sure that the Line numbering is set to none. But still the line numbers appear in the left side. How do I disable linenumbering? -- View this message in context:

Re: Disable line numbering in listing

2008-07-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
bigblop schrieb: I have inserted a few lines of code in a listing environment. I have right-clicked the Listing tab and made sure that the Line numbering is set to none. But still the line numbers appear in the left side. I can't reproduce this. This works fine in the examples given in

Re: Holy Moly!

2008-07-30 Thread Rudi van der Linde
Hey, @sshole? You still breathing?! Have you seen my original posts and attempts at un-subscibing? If yes, then you must be a moron b/c it's clear that my actions were in alignment with the directions. If you haven't, then, well, you're a moron for speaking out of turn. Its nice to see

Re: Holy Moly

2008-07-30 Thread vette0419
FYI: I have begun to overtly express my disapproval of the the rude and vulgar behaviors I have experienced with the LyX group - via the many well-known public forums. I firmly believe that the public at large should always be aware of shady practices by any entity, whether organizational or

Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread killermike
The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0039201 -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk Michael Reed -- technology, gender, and geek culture freelance

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/7/30 killermike [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0039201 That thread is how I discovered Lyx and why I signed

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
That thread is how I discovered Lyx and why I signed up for the list yesterday. I will now go back to lurking, and I hope to read less threads of the 'holy moly' type. It has been a long time since I've seen that kind of behaviour on a FOSS mailing list. The LyX developers and mailing list

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 08:21, killermike wrote: The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0039201 I find this response quite topical

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 08:21, killermike wrote: The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0039201 Having read most of the responses, they can

Re: Math Macro

2008-07-30 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jul 24, 2008, at 8:29 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: rgheck wrote: Bruce Pourciau wrote: A paper I'm writing has a googolplex of symbols with an \overrightarrow overhead. What would be the best way to make these insertions in math mode as quick as possible? Well, you can shorten

Re: Holy Moly!

2008-07-30 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Rudi van der Linde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, @sshole? You still breathing?! Have you seen my original posts and attempts at un-subscibing? If yes, then you must be a moron b/c it's clear that my actions were in alignment with the directions. If you

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/7/30 Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 30 July 2008 08:21, killermike wrote: The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0039201

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/7/30 Steve Litt[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 30 July 2008 08:21, killermike wrote: The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments.

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: Is LyX only good for writing books, then? Nope. I write letters, articles, reports, and presentations using LyX. Of course, I did use it to write my book (using Springer's monograph class) and that's where I really learned LaTeX, too. As I needed the

Re: Math Macro

2008-07-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: However, I'd be tempted to take a different route. Pick a key combination you don't have much use for and bind it to 'math-insert \overrightarrow'. Then whack that key combo while you're in a math inset and type whatever your vectorizing under the arrow. /Paul

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: Is LyX only good for writing books, then? I use LyX for most writing of any kind. I find it most useful for writing technical reports, where I find on average it reduces the total time I spend on the writing by about 50%. My most recent report,

Re: Math Macro

2008-07-30 Thread rgheck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Bruce Pourciau wrote: However, I'd be tempted to take a different route. Pick a key combination you don't have much use for and bind it to 'math-insert \overrightarrow'. Then whack that key combo while you're in a math inset and type whatever your vectorizing under the

Re: Finding Bad characters

2008-07-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:45:38PM +0200, G. Milde wrote: On 25.07.08, Sebastian Rohrer wrote: Hi, I have a relatively large lyx document that does not compile. The error message is: Some characters of your document are probably not representable in the chosen encoding. Changing

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 11:24, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/7/30 Steve Litt[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 30 July 2008 08:21, killermike wrote: The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX

Re: Holy Moly!

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 11:00, Bob Lounsbury wrote: I say we just treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] as spam and block his email from all LyX mailing lists. Obviously, the emailer is a robot, not capable of reading or following instructions or providing intelligent feedback if something is wrong.

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2008 11:24, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: technical documents, Again, a great application for LyX assuming the tech doc is over 10,000 words long. Shorter docs are easier in quick and dirty OO. I beg to differ, quite strongly. The moment you write something

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
FWIW, my rule of thumb is that if it's not a job for a text editor (NoteTab Light or Notepad++ on Windows, GEdit on Ubuntu), and it's not a letter, then it's a job for LyX. The only reason I don't use LyX for letters is that our office stationary has boilerplate in both the top margin and the

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Denné Reed
I use LyX for scientific papers but have had problems with both collaborators and editors. Many collaborators are unfamiliar with LyX / LaTeX and it lacks strong collaboration tools (change tracking etc.). I've tried sharing drafts with PDF but that requires colleagues to purchase full

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread rgheck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: FWIW, my rule of thumb is that if it's not a job for a text editor (NoteTab Light or Notepad++ on Windows, GEdit on Ubuntu), and it's not a letter, then it's a job for LyX. The only reason I don't use LyX for letters is that our office stationary has boilerplate in both

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread rgheck
Denné Reed wrote: I use LyX for scientific papers but have had problems with both collaborators and editors. Many collaborators are unfamiliar with LyX / LaTeX and it lacks strong collaboration tools (change tracking etc.). LyX does have change tracking. I've used it. Unfamiliarity is of

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread killermike
Steve Litt wrote: Again, a great application for LyX assuming the tech doc is over 10,000 words long. Shorter docs are easier in quick and dirty OO. I don't want to come off as someone who is purely defensive of LyX but I beg to differ with this point. I write all of my articles in LyX and I

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 16:42, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2008 11:24, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: technical documents, Again, a great application for LyX assuming the tech doc is over 10,000 words long. Shorter docs are easier in quick and dirty OO.

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 17:17, Denné Reed wrote: I use LyX for scientific papers but have had problems with both collaborators and editors. Many collaborators are unfamiliar with LyX / LaTeX and it lacks strong collaboration tools (change tracking etc.). I've tried sharing drafts with PDF

Re: failures converting to HTML

2008-07-30 Thread Travis
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:04:42PM -0500, Travis wrote: I tried to add some graphics to my security_concepts paper, but when I try to convert to HTML I get: lyx -e html security_concepts.lyx Including LaTeX commands Unknown command \batchmode, (0 user-defined) Line 1 Unknown

numbered environments of section, etc. not working in LyX 1.6 beta4

2008-07-30 Thread Soe Naung
Hi! all I have been testing the LyX 1.6 beta4 and I have found that numbered environments do not respond while unnumbered ones (e.g., section*, etc) do work. Can someone help me to find a workaround? My beta software has been compiled on Ubuntu 8.04. Thanking in advance Ven. Pandita

Disable line numbering in listing

2008-07-30 Thread bigblop
I have inserted a few lines of code in a listing environment. I have right-clicked the Listing tab and made sure that the Line numbering is set to none. But still the line numbers appear in the left side. How do I disable linenumbering? -- View this message in context:

Re: Disable line numbering in listing

2008-07-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
bigblop schrieb: I have inserted a few lines of code in a listing environment. I have right-clicked the Listing tab and made sure that the Line numbering is set to none. But still the line numbers appear in the left side. I can't reproduce this. This works fine in the examples given in

Re: Holy Moly!

2008-07-30 Thread Rudi van der Linde
Hey, @sshole? You still breathing?! Have you seen my original posts and attempts at un-subscibing? If yes, then you must be a moron b/c it's clear that my actions were in alignment with the directions. If you haven't, then, well, you're a moron for speaking out of turn. Its nice to see

Re: Holy Moly

2008-07-30 Thread vette0419
FYI: I have begun to overtly express my disapproval of the the rude and vulgar behaviors I have experienced with the LyX group - via the many well-known public forums. I firmly believe that the public at large should always be aware of shady practices by any entity, whether organizational or

Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread killermike
The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0039201 -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk Michael Reed -- technology, gender, and geek culture freelance

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/7/30 killermike [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0039201 That thread is how I discovered Lyx and why I signed

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
That thread is how I discovered Lyx and why I signed up for the list yesterday. I will now go back to lurking, and I hope to read less threads of the 'holy moly' type. It has been a long time since I've seen that kind of behaviour on a FOSS mailing list. The LyX developers and mailing list

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 08:21, killermike wrote: The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0039201 I find this response quite topical

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 08:21, killermike wrote: The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0039201 Having read most of the responses, they can

Re: Math Macro

2008-07-30 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jul 24, 2008, at 8:29 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: rgheck wrote: Bruce Pourciau wrote: A paper I'm writing has a googolplex of symbols with an \overrightarrow overhead. What would be the best way to make these insertions in math mode as quick as possible? Well, you can shorten

Re: Holy Moly!

2008-07-30 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Rudi van der Linde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, @sshole? You still breathing?! Have you seen my original posts and attempts at un-subscibing? If yes, then you must be a moron b/c it's clear that my actions were in alignment with the directions. If you

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/7/30 Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 30 July 2008 08:21, killermike wrote: The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0039201

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/7/30 Steve Litt[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 30 July 2008 08:21, killermike wrote: The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments.

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: Is LyX only good for writing books, then? Nope. I write letters, articles, reports, and presentations using LyX. Of course, I did use it to write my book (using Springer's monograph class) and that's where I really learned LaTeX, too. As I needed the

Re: Math Macro

2008-07-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: However, I'd be tempted to take a different route. Pick a key combination you don't have much use for and bind it to 'math-insert \overrightarrow'. Then whack that key combo while you're in a math inset and type whatever your vectorizing under the arrow. /Paul

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: Is LyX only good for writing books, then? I use LyX for most writing of any kind. I find it most useful for writing technical reports, where I find on average it reduces the total time I spend on the writing by about 50%. My most recent report,

Re: Math Macro

2008-07-30 Thread rgheck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Bruce Pourciau wrote: However, I'd be tempted to take a different route. Pick a key combination you don't have much use for and bind it to 'math-insert \overrightarrow'. Then whack that key combo while you're in a math inset and type whatever your vectorizing under the

Re: Finding Bad characters

2008-07-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:45:38PM +0200, G. Milde wrote: On 25.07.08, Sebastian Rohrer wrote: Hi, I have a relatively large lyx document that does not compile. The error message is: Some characters of your document are probably not representable in the chosen encoding. Changing

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 11:24, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/7/30 Steve Litt[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 30 July 2008 08:21, killermike wrote: The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX

Re: Holy Moly!

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 11:00, Bob Lounsbury wrote: I say we just treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] as spam and block his email from all LyX mailing lists. Obviously, the emailer is a robot, not capable of reading or following instructions or providing intelligent feedback if something is wrong.

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2008 11:24, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: technical documents, Again, a great application for LyX assuming the tech doc is over 10,000 words long. Shorter docs are easier in quick and dirty OO. I beg to differ, quite strongly. The moment you write something

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
FWIW, my rule of thumb is that if it's not a job for a text editor (NoteTab Light or Notepad++ on Windows, GEdit on Ubuntu), and it's not a letter, then it's a job for LyX. The only reason I don't use LyX for letters is that our office stationary has boilerplate in both the top margin and the

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Denné Reed
I use LyX for scientific papers but have had problems with both collaborators and editors. Many collaborators are unfamiliar with LyX / LaTeX and it lacks strong collaboration tools (change tracking etc.). I've tried sharing drafts with PDF but that requires colleagues to purchase full

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread rgheck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: FWIW, my rule of thumb is that if it's not a job for a text editor (NoteTab Light or Notepad++ on Windows, GEdit on Ubuntu), and it's not a letter, then it's a job for LyX. The only reason I don't use LyX for letters is that our office stationary has boilerplate in both

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread rgheck
Denné Reed wrote: I use LyX for scientific papers but have had problems with both collaborators and editors. Many collaborators are unfamiliar with LyX / LaTeX and it lacks strong collaboration tools (change tracking etc.). LyX does have change tracking. I've used it. Unfamiliarity is of

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread killermike
Steve Litt wrote: Again, a great application for LyX assuming the tech doc is over 10,000 words long. Shorter docs are easier in quick and dirty OO. I don't want to come off as someone who is purely defensive of LyX but I beg to differ with this point. I write all of my articles in LyX and I

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 16:42, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2008 11:24, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: technical documents, Again, a great application for LyX assuming the tech doc is over 10,000 words long. Shorter docs are easier in quick and dirty OO.

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 17:17, Denné Reed wrote: I use LyX for scientific papers but have had problems with both collaborators and editors. Many collaborators are unfamiliar with LyX / LaTeX and it lacks strong collaboration tools (change tracking etc.). I've tried sharing drafts with PDF

Re: failures converting to HTML

2008-07-30 Thread Travis
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:04:42PM -0500, Travis wrote: I tried to add some graphics to my security_concepts paper, but when I try to convert to HTML I get: lyx -e html security_concepts.lyx Including LaTeX commands Unknown command \batchmode, (0 user-defined) Line 1 Unknown

numbered environments of section, etc. not working in LyX 1.6 beta4

2008-07-30 Thread Soe Naung
Hi! all I have been testing the LyX 1.6 beta4 and I have found that numbered environments do not respond while unnumbered ones (e.g., section*, etc) do work. Can someone help me to find a workaround? My beta software has been compiled on Ubuntu 8.04. Thanking in advance Ven. Pandita

Disable line numbering in listing

2008-07-30 Thread bigblop
I have inserted a few lines of code in a listing environment. I have right-clicked the Listing tab and made sure that the Line numbering is set to none. But still the line numbers appear in the left side. How do I disable linenumbering? -- View this message in context:

Re: Disable line numbering in listing

2008-07-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
bigblop schrieb: I have inserted a few lines of code in a listing environment. I have right-clicked the Listing tab and made sure that the Line numbering is set to none. But still the line numbers appear in the left side. I can't reproduce this. This works fine in the examples given in

Re: Holy Moly!

2008-07-30 Thread Rudi van der Linde
Hey, @sshole? You still breathing?! Have you seen my original posts and "attempts" at un-subscibing? If yes, then you must be a moron b/c it's clear that my actions were "in alignment" with the directions. If you haven't, then, well, you're a moron for speaking out of turn. Its nice to

Re: Holy Moly

2008-07-30 Thread vette0419
FYI: I have begun to overtly express my disapproval of the the rude and vulgar behaviors I have experienced with the LyX group - via the many well-known public forums. I firmly believe that the public at large should always be aware of shady practices by any entity, whether organizational or

Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread killermike
The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0039201 -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk Michael Reed -- technology, gender, and geek culture freelance

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/7/30 killermike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot > thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments. > > http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0039201 > That thread is how I discovered Lyx and why I

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
> That thread is how I discovered Lyx and why I signed up for the list > yesterday. I will now go back to lurking, and I hope to read less > threads of the 'holy moly' type. It has been a long time since I've seen > that kind of behaviour on a FOSS mailing list. The LyX developers and mailing

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 08:21, killermike wrote: > The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot > thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments. > > http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0039201 I find this response quite topical

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 08:21, killermike wrote: > The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot > thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments. > > http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0039201 Having read most of the responses, they

Re: Math Macro

2008-07-30 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jul 24, 2008, at 8:29 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: rgheck wrote: Bruce Pourciau wrote: A paper I'm writing has a googolplex of symbols with an \overrightarrow overhead. What would be the best way to make these insertions in math mode as quick as possible? Well, you can shorten

Re: Holy Moly!

2008-07-30 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Rudi van der Linde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Hey, @sshole? You still breathing?! >>> >>> Have you seen my original posts and "attempts" at un-subscibing? If >>> yes, then you must be a moron b/c it's clear that my actions were "in >>> alignment" with the

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/7/30 Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 30 July 2008 08:21, killermike wrote: >> The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot >> thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments. >> >>

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/7/30 Steve Litt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wednesday 30 July 2008 08:21, killermike wrote: The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments.

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: Is LyX only good for writing books, then? Nope. I write letters, articles, reports, and presentations using LyX. Of course, I did use it to write my book (using Springer's monograph class) and that's where I really learned LaTeX, too. As I needed the

Re: Math Macro

2008-07-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: However, I'd be tempted to take a different route. Pick a key combination you don't have much use for and bind it to 'math-insert \overrightarrow'. Then whack that key combo while you're in a math inset and type whatever your vectorizing under the arrow. /Paul

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Is LyX only good for writing books, then? I use LyX for most writing of any kind. I find it most useful for writing technical reports, where I find on average it reduces the total time I spend on the writing by about 50%. My most recent report,

Re: Math Macro

2008-07-30 Thread rgheck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Bruce Pourciau wrote: However, I'd be tempted to take a different route. Pick a key combination you don't have much use for and bind it to 'math-insert \overrightarrow'. Then whack that key combo while you're in a math inset and type whatever your vectorizing under the

Re: Finding "Bad" characters

2008-07-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:45:38PM +0200, G. Milde wrote: > On 25.07.08, Sebastian Rohrer wrote: > > Hi, > > > I have a relatively large lyx document that does not compile. The error > > message is: > > > "Some characters of your document are probably not representable in the > > chosen

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 11:24, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > 2008/7/30 Steve Litt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Wednesday 30 July 2008 08:21, killermike wrote: > >>> The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot > >>> thread brings up quite a lot of

Re: Holy Moly!

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 11:00, Bob Lounsbury wrote: > I say we just treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] as spam and block his > email from all LyX mailing lists. Obviously, the emailer is a robot, > not capable of reading or following instructions or providing > intelligent feedback if something is wrong.

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2008 11:24, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: technical documents, Again, a great application for LyX assuming the tech doc is over 10,000 words long. Shorter docs are easier in quick and dirty OO. I beg to differ, quite strongly. The moment you write something

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
FWIW, my rule of thumb is that if it's not a job for a text editor (NoteTab Light or Notepad++ on Windows, GEdit on Ubuntu), and it's not a letter, then it's a job for LyX. The only reason I don't use LyX for letters is that our office stationary has boilerplate in both the top margin and the

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Denné Reed
I use LyX for scientific papers but have had problems with both collaborators and editors. Many collaborators are unfamiliar with LyX / LaTeX and it lacks strong collaboration tools (change tracking etc.). I've tried sharing drafts with PDF but that requires colleagues to purchase full

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread rgheck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: FWIW, my rule of thumb is that if it's not a job for a text editor (NoteTab Light or Notepad++ on Windows, GEdit on Ubuntu), and it's not a letter, then it's a job for LyX. The only reason I don't use LyX for letters is that our office stationary has boilerplate in both

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread rgheck
Denné Reed wrote: I use LyX for scientific papers but have had problems with both collaborators and editors. Many collaborators are unfamiliar with LyX / LaTeX and it lacks strong collaboration tools (change tracking etc.). LyX does have change tracking. I've used it. Unfamiliarity is of

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread killermike
Steve Litt wrote: Again, a great application for LyX assuming the tech doc is over 10,000 words long. Shorter docs are easier in quick and dirty OO. I don't want to come off as someone who is purely defensive of LyX but I beg to differ with this point. I write all of my articles in LyX and I

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 16:42, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 July 2008 11:24, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >> technical > >> documents, > > > > Again, a great application for LyX assuming the tech doc is over 10,000 > > words long. Shorter docs are easier in

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 17:17, Denné Reed wrote: > I use LyX for scientific papers but have had problems with both > collaborators and editors. Many collaborators are unfamiliar with > LyX / LaTeX and it lacks strong collaboration tools (change tracking > etc.). I've tried sharing drafts with

Re: failures converting to HTML

2008-07-30 Thread Travis
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:04:42PM -0500, Travis wrote: > I tried to add some graphics to my security_concepts paper, but when I try > to convert to HTML I get: > > lyx -e html security_concepts.lyx > Including LaTeX commands > Unknown command \batchmode, (0 user-defined) Line 1 >

numbered environments of section, etc. not working in LyX 1.6 beta4

2008-07-30 Thread Soe Naung
Hi! all I have been testing the LyX 1.6 beta4 and I have found that numbered environments do not respond while unnumbered ones (e.g., "section*", etc) do work. Can someone help me to find a workaround? My beta software has been compiled on Ubuntu 8.04. Thanking in advance Ven. Pandita