Re: 403 forbidden access to lyx.org

2012-08-01 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:33 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: For me it was back up for a bit and now I'm back to getting a timeout. I have been unable to get on the site since yesterday afternoon. -- Eric Weir

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: LyX comes with support for a lot of external tools, provided that these are installed and that LyX is 'reconfigured' (Tools Reconfigure). A good place to check which additional packages are supported is the Debian/Ubuntu .deb packages (the

Re: 403 forbidden access to lyx.org

2012-08-01 Thread Richard Heck
On 08/01/2012 08:19 AM, Eric Weir wrote: On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:33 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: For me it was back up for a bit and now I'm back to getting a timeout. I have been unable to get on the site since yesterday afternoon. Obviously, we have some problem. I'll see if I can sort out

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: LyX comes with support for a lot of external tools, provided that these are installed and that LyX is 'reconfigured' (Tools Reconfigure). A good place to check which

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Richard Heck wrote: If you want to export to RTF, then you need to install latex2rtf or some similar program. But I've had better luck lately exporting to the LyXHTML format, and then loading that in LibreOffice. I tried opening the XHTML in OpenOffice. It

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: I tried opening the XHTML in OpenOffice. It reads it as a raw text document, i.e., with the HTML code displayed instead of formatted. Would LibreOffice handle it differently? I have no experience with either in this

beamer question

2012-08-01 Thread paul sutton
Hi Now we have the raspberry PI out, I can perhaps use a raspberry Pi as part of a display system for a TV, sort of scroll through slides etc. if i create a presentation in beamer does this allow for auto changing of slides as in if I set the pi to auto boot to x, auto login and start a

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Eric Weir
On Aug 1, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: I have no experience with either in this context, but OOo is already old, and obsoleted by LibO. I guess it is worth giving LibO a shot. Thanks, Liviu. I'm in scattershot mode right now. Trying things almost mindlessly. I guess I don't know

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On Aug 1, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: I have no experience with either in this context, but OOo is already old, and obsoleted by LibO. I guess it is worth giving LibO a shot. Thanks, Liviu. I'm in scattershot

Re: beamer question

2012-08-01 Thread Les Denham
On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:15:29 +0100 paul sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: Hi Now we have the raspberry PI out, I can perhaps use a raspberry Pi as part of a display system for a TV, sort of scroll through slides etc. if i create a presentation in beamer does this allow for auto changing of

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Ray Rashif
On 2 August 2012 03:23, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: My document is simple. Headings and footnotes. About ten pages. I'd like to see if the LaTeX to RTF convertor will handle it. For this case latex2rtf is the perfect tool. When you have no images, you're in luck. latex2rtf does the

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Reconfigure. Reconfigure. Reconfigure. el On 2012-07-31 20:22 , Eric Weir wrote: On Jul 31, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Importing/Exporting RTF/Word documents is usually a pain with LyX/LaTeX. Why is the RTF option under View other formats greyed out?

Re: 403 forbidden access to lyx.org

2012-08-01 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:33 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: For me it was back up for a bit and now I'm back to getting a timeout. I have been unable to get on the site since yesterday afternoon. -- Eric Weir

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: LyX comes with support for a lot of external tools, provided that these are installed and that LyX is 'reconfigured' (Tools Reconfigure). A good place to check which additional packages are supported is the Debian/Ubuntu .deb packages (the

Re: 403 forbidden access to lyx.org

2012-08-01 Thread Richard Heck
On 08/01/2012 08:19 AM, Eric Weir wrote: On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:33 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: For me it was back up for a bit and now I'm back to getting a timeout. I have been unable to get on the site since yesterday afternoon. Obviously, we have some problem. I'll see if I can sort out

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: LyX comes with support for a lot of external tools, provided that these are installed and that LyX is 'reconfigured' (Tools Reconfigure). A good place to check which

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Richard Heck wrote: If you want to export to RTF, then you need to install latex2rtf or some similar program. But I've had better luck lately exporting to the LyXHTML format, and then loading that in LibreOffice. I tried opening the XHTML in OpenOffice. It

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: I tried opening the XHTML in OpenOffice. It reads it as a raw text document, i.e., with the HTML code displayed instead of formatted. Would LibreOffice handle it differently? I have no experience with either in this

beamer question

2012-08-01 Thread paul sutton
Hi Now we have the raspberry PI out, I can perhaps use a raspberry Pi as part of a display system for a TV, sort of scroll through slides etc. if i create a presentation in beamer does this allow for auto changing of slides as in if I set the pi to auto boot to x, auto login and start a

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Eric Weir
On Aug 1, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: I have no experience with either in this context, but OOo is already old, and obsoleted by LibO. I guess it is worth giving LibO a shot. Thanks, Liviu. I'm in scattershot mode right now. Trying things almost mindlessly. I guess I don't know

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On Aug 1, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: I have no experience with either in this context, but OOo is already old, and obsoleted by LibO. I guess it is worth giving LibO a shot. Thanks, Liviu. I'm in scattershot

Re: beamer question

2012-08-01 Thread Les Denham
On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:15:29 +0100 paul sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: Hi Now we have the raspberry PI out, I can perhaps use a raspberry Pi as part of a display system for a TV, sort of scroll through slides etc. if i create a presentation in beamer does this allow for auto changing of

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Ray Rashif
On 2 August 2012 03:23, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: My document is simple. Headings and footnotes. About ten pages. I'd like to see if the LaTeX to RTF convertor will handle it. For this case latex2rtf is the perfect tool. When you have no images, you're in luck. latex2rtf does the

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Reconfigure. Reconfigure. Reconfigure. el On 2012-07-31 20:22 , Eric Weir wrote: On Jul 31, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Importing/Exporting RTF/Word documents is usually a pain with LyX/LaTeX. Why is the RTF option under View other formats greyed out?

Re: 403 forbidden access to lyx.org

2012-08-01 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:33 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > For me it was back up for a bit and now I'm back to getting a timeout. I have been unable to get on the site since yesterday afternoon. -- Eric Weir

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > LyX comes with support for a lot of external tools, provided that > these are installed and that LyX is 'reconfigured' (Tools > > Reconfigure). A good place to check which additional packages are > supported is the Debian/Ubuntu .deb packages

Re: 403 forbidden access to lyx.org

2012-08-01 Thread Richard Heck
On 08/01/2012 08:19 AM, Eric Weir wrote: On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:33 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: For me it was back up for a bit and now I'm back to getting a timeout. I have been unable to get on the site since yesterday afternoon. Obviously, we have some problem. I'll see if I can sort out

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> LyX comes with support for a lot of external tools, provided that >> these are installed and that LyX is 'reconfigured' (Tools > >> Reconfigure). A good place to

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > If you want to export to RTF, then you need to install latex2rtf or some > similar program. But I've had better luck lately exporting to the LyXHTML > format, and then loading that in LibreOffice. I tried opening the XHTML in OpenOffice. It

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > I tried opening the XHTML in OpenOffice. It reads it as a raw text document, > i.e., with the HTML code displayed instead of formatted. Would LibreOffice > handle it differently? > I have no experience with either in this

beamer question

2012-08-01 Thread paul sutton
Hi Now we have the raspberry PI out, I can perhaps use a raspberry Pi as part of a display system for a TV, sort of scroll through slides etc. if i create a presentation in beamer does this allow for auto changing of slides as in if I set the pi to auto boot to x, auto login and start a

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Eric Weir
On Aug 1, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > I have no experience with either in this context, but OOo is already > old, and obsoleted by LibO. I guess it is worth giving LibO a shot. Thanks, Liviu. I'm in scattershot mode right now. Trying things almost mindlessly. I guess I don't know

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> I have no experience with either in this context, but OOo is already >> old, and obsoleted by LibO. I guess it is worth giving LibO a shot. > > Thanks, Liviu. I'm in

Re: beamer question

2012-08-01 Thread Les Denham
On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:15:29 +0100 paul sutton wrote: > Hi > > Now we have the raspberry PI out, I can perhaps use a raspberry Pi as > part of a display system for a TV, sort of scroll through slides etc. > > if i create a presentation in beamer does this allow for auto

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Ray Rashif
On 2 August 2012 03:23, Eric Weir wrote: > My document is simple. Headings and footnotes. About ten pages. I'd like to > see if the LaTeX to RTF convertor will handle it. For this case latex2rtf is the perfect tool. When you have no images, you're in luck. latex2rtf does

Re: Working in LyX from the get-go---more or less

2012-08-01 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Reconfigure. Reconfigure. Reconfigure. el On 2012-07-31 20:22 , Eric Weir wrote: > > On Jul 31, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> Importing/Exporting RTF/Word documents is usually a pain with >> LyX/LaTeX. > > Why is the RTF option under "View other formats" greyed out? > >