Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 07/10/2021 à 14:05, Virgil Arrington a écrit : I learned that, to be truly compatible, I had to not only use the same program as my colleague, but also the same version. This is even true with different versions of LyX. Every new release seems to change the source file format just enough

Re: KOMA-Script Report: page numbers not displaying

2021-10-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Rich, I think, if you use one of these you must make appropriate definitions for the headers/footers lest nothing is being the default. However, when using Koma Script I set Document -> Settings... -> Page Layout -> Page Style: Default and in the preamble I put something something

KOMA-Script Report: page numbers not displaying

2021-10-07 Thread Rich Shepard
I must have broken something and haven't identified what broke. In Settings -> Page layout I've changed the page style from 'default' to 'header' and 'fancy' and none has the pages numbered when I compile the document using pdflatex. My web search finds help on removing page numbers and the

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-07 Thread Alan Tyree
Why is it so hard to get people to use styles? I worked recently with a friend to convert his Word document into an ePub. My advice is don't ever, ever do this! Even though I had advocated the use of styles, he had spent hours using direct formatting. And it is not just amateurs. I write for a

Re: KOMA-Script Report: page numbers not displaying

2021-10-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: I think, if you use one of these you must make appropriate definitions for the headers/footers lest nothing is being the default. However, when using Koma Script I set Document -> Settings... -> Page Layout -> Page Style: Default and in

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-07 Thread Alan Tyree
Good point about systems allowing direct formatting Virgil. It should be prohibited. I didn't know that AbiWord had the lockdown feature ("lockdown" being the trendy word in Oz these days!), but it is a good idea. AbiWord is still available, the latest release for Linux was in July of this year.

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Everybody has Word and how difficult can it be? Indeed it is very easy to write poorly looking documents in (Word and) LibreOffice. LaTeX enforces a lot of things, and this one of the reasons why you really have to try hard to write poorly looking documents, though I have seen many determined

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-07 Thread Virgil Arrington
On 10/7/2021 2:50 PM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Virgil, how could that work in ANY program ("dorward" compatibility)? But it's Open Source, just pull the latest version once out of beta. No doubt that is an easy solution with FOSS. But I recall a time when I once upgraded LyX on my Linux

Re: KOMA-Script Report: page numbers not displaying

2021-10-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Revision Control is your friend :-)-O el On 2021-10-08 03:06 , Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: I think, if you use one of these you must make appropriate definitions for the headers/footers lest nothing is being the default. However, when using Koma Script I

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-07 Thread Virgil Arrington
On 10/7/2021 9:44 PM, Alan Tyree wrote: Why is it so hard to get people to use styles? I worked recently with a friend to convert his Word document into an ePub. My advice is don't ever, ever do this! Even though I had advocated the use of styles, he had spent hours using direct formatting.

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-07 Thread Virgil Arrington
On 10/6/2021 11:14 PM, Steve Litt wrote: After importing my 300 page book from MS Word to LibreOffice, I looked extensively in the menu system, in the help docs, and on the Internet to resolve my magically changing styles problem, all to no avail. LibreOffice is just fine if you don't use

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Virgil, how could that work in ANY program ("dorward" compatibility)? But it's Open Source, just pull the latest version once out of beta. The next one is rumored to support DocBook so you can get inti evenmore trouble :-)-O el On 2021-10-07 14:05 , Virgil Arrington wrote: [...] This is