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: 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 the job - I've been usin

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 changing > of slides a

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 scattershot mode right n

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

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 present

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 context, but OOo is alr

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 r

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 check which additional pack

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 w

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 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 "Y