Re: Lyx and prosper
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 06:11:32PM +0200, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: I remember that Lyx tricks (www.lyx.org - Tricks and Tips.) has a prosper link and point to the style files. Good luck. Bo Hi everybody I recently moved to linux (currently running red hat 7.3) and I discovered LYX. Great! Now, I am preparing a presentation and found that prosper.cls could be very helpful. Unfortunately, I can't have it running properly. I did the folowing - copy the .cls and .sty files into ...tex/latex/prosper - did texconfig and texhash - started LYX, edit-reconfigure - started LYX again: the new class is not there. I checked with kpsewhich format=tex prosper.cls and received /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/prosper/prosper.cls so that seems alright. I then read the mail archives and found the discussion between Bo Peng and Kayvan A. Sylvan (March 17, 2002), followed there advices but still nothing. I can't see that prosper class from within LYX. I checked with Kile if I could compile any example, and it does work perfectly. Now, what next The deadline is getting close and I am not going to use P...P... again. Can anybody please help me? Thanks. Etienne Rochat You need the layout as well, which points to the class. I can send you separately what I've got there, unless you retrieved already the cluster example. I'm afraid you will need some ERT to be able to use the overlay facility. But basic viewgraphs are all right.
Re: Lyx and prosper
I forgot to tell you. I once put a prosper guide on the departmental helpdesk. You can find it via http://www.stat.rice.edu/~helpdesk/howto. Hope it helps. I can send you the layout files if you can not find them. Bo On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 04:03:32PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 06:11:32PM +0200, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: I remember that Lyx tricks (www.lyx.org - Tricks and Tips.) has a prosper link and point to the style files. Good luck. Bo Hi everybody I recently moved to linux (currently running red hat 7.3) and I discovered LYX. Great! Now, I am preparing a presentation and found that prosper.cls could be very helpful. Unfortunately, I can't have it running properly. I did the folowing - copy the .cls and .sty files into ...tex/latex/prosper - did texconfig and texhash - started LYX, edit-reconfigure - started LYX again: the new class is not there. I checked with kpsewhich format=tex prosper.cls and received /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/prosper/prosper.cls so that seems alright. I then read the mail archives and found the discussion between Bo Peng and Kayvan A. Sylvan (March 17, 2002), followed there advices but still nothing. I can't see that prosper class from within LYX. I checked with Kile if I could compile any example, and it does work perfectly. Now, what next The deadline is getting close and I am not going to use P...P... again. Can anybody please help me? Thanks. Etienne Rochat You need the layout as well, which points to the class. I can send you separately what I've got there, unless you retrieved already the cluster example. I'm afraid you will need some ERT to be able to use the overlay facility. But basic viewgraphs are all right.
Re: Does LyX 1.2.0 support character styles?
Thomas Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| For my own documents i am using a file with a lot of \newcommand's
| like
| \newcommand{\company} [1] {\textbf{#1}}
yes...
| and then
| \newcommand{\redhat} {\company{RedHat}\xspace}
but this would be a combination of what I call (static)
abbreviations and character styles.
| so what I get are two things. First a Character style \company and
| an acronym \redhat,
nahh... redhat is not an acronym. PINE is an acronym (a recursive
acronym even ... Pine Is Not Elm)
| a better example should be DNA for
| Desoxyribonucleinacid :).
| This could be placed somwhere in the ~/.lyx path or the user LaTeX
| path and then nested to a character pulldown menu and a shorttag
| pulldown menu in LyX.
To have these defined as LaTeX (be it character styles, acronyms or
abbreviation), is something I would be against. I do not want LyX to
be any more (La)TeX specific than it already is. To be able to import
these kind of definitions might be good though.
| The only problem is that this tags will not be used for a html
| output with pdflatex (up to now).
We need to translate them into some LyX specific format.
| May be a standalone preamble file could be an other way to get this
| behaviour. Then the files could be packed into a tgz file
| including the original lyx file and the preamble file.
Naahh... not unless we have to.
| Another
| benefit would be to use a user customizable editor for the
| preamble. To my opinion the pramble window is at least a painfull
| thing. :) (German: Ich finde, dass Arbeiten mit dem Präambel
| Fenster ist zumindestens als schmerzhaft zu bezeichnen.)
Abbrevs, acronyms and character styles will not be settable from the
preamble... unless you also use ERT of course...
--
Lgb
indexing
Hi, I am new in lyx and latex, and i been trying to create an index like A Agent, Cognitive, 13 Definition, 4 Reactive, 12 B Ball, ... ... Although i've searched in the lyx site and serveral other latex/lyx sites a couldn't find a solution to my problem. Please let me know of any solutions. Best regards, Rodriguez
Re: indexing
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 08:22:54PM -0300, Rodriguez wrote: Hi, I am new in lyx and latex, and i been trying to create an index like A Agent, Cognitive, 13 Definition, 4 Reactive, 12 B Ball, ... ... Although i've searched in the lyx site and serveral other latex/lyx sites a couldn't find a solution to my problem. Please let me know of any solutions. Enter Agent!Cognitive where you want the Cognitive entry to be. See the index documentation for more details (makeindex.dvi under /usr/share/texmf/doc/ etc.) regards john -- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle
Re: FrameMaker and Lyx interoperability via XML/SGML
Gal Aviel wrote: [wants to switch from FrameMaker 5.5 to LyX] I wrote a proposal a couple of years ago to do just that where I work, kind of tongue-in-cheek but it got this -| |- close to being approved. However this morning I saw that FrameMaker has a newer version, namely 7.0, and it's suppose to support DTD/XML/SGML. [...] The restriction which is imposed on me, is that I must supply other uses with valid FrameMaker files. My suggested intended flow is to write with Lyx/SGML, and when I'm done - open in FrameMaker and save as FrameMaker native .fm file, thus distributing to other users to continue to maintain my documents. It's possible to set up a DocBook-based interchange between Frame and LyX, but if you're not familar with SGML/XML it will be difficult. There are several factors: First, you have to get used to writing in a fairly strict, structured environment. I've been doing this (using Frame and a homegrown DTD) for several months now. It's hard at first, not being able to use any paragraph/character style anywhere you want to, but it does enforce consistency and makes the document easier to maintain over time. The really hard part is setting up the environment. The good news is that (I think) Frame 7 comes with a fairly complete DocBook application (the files it uses to drive the transform between DocBook Frame). The bad news is that LyX does not provide the same strict structure for editing DocBook, so you have to make sure that files from LyX are valid before importing them into FrameMaker. Finally, you should assume that once you import your file into FrameMaker, that it may be hard to return the file to LyX without losing some formatting information. Speaking as a technical writer, FrameMaker is about as good as *graphical* writing tools get[1]. If you push it beyond basics, not even LyX can match it -- and LyX is one of the finest open-source tools around. To be specific, Frame's cross-reference support is extensive and very flexible[2], not to mention things like document variables and conditional text support... or the very flexible page layout (especially compared to LaTeX, which I personally find too rigid). It also does a fair job of typesetting; not as good as (La)TeX but much better than Word. (But Frame's footnote support is rather poor for heavy use -- I don't use footnotes at work though.) I assume that LyX is a good fit for the type of documents you're writing... but converting those documents to Frame may turn out to be non-trivial or require too much hand- editing afterwards to be of much use. It's certainly worth trying, and I hope it works for you. [1] Note the qualifier, graphical. It's kind of frustrating that after 17+ years of WYSIWYG, there are still things that troff TeX can do that are difficult or impossible with GUI tools. I'm pushing Frame *hard* at work these days with my current project, and sometimes I'd like to move the whole thing to groff (the other writers would scream bloody murder though). [2] You can build references that include paragraph text, numbering, page number, chapter number, on on, with Frame. One instance where Frame beats the text-based tools for ease of use even for complex cases. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r at a l l t e l . n e t Content creators are the engine that drives value in the information life cycle. -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc
Instability of Lyx-1.2.0
Hello everyone, as an ardent usr of LyX I was very happy to use all those new features when LyX-1.2.0 came out. Now we are in the process of advertizing its use on a larger scale at our institution. Only problem is: LyX is very unstable and slow so that we will scare people away more than convince them to use LyX. This instability pertains to mostly to table as does the really slow speed. When cutting and pasting for instance lyx bombs out kind of regularly. We have a RedHat 7.3 system with xforms-0.89-3 Also, there do not seem to be rpms of a higher patchlevel around. We have lyx-1.2.0-1 installed. Is this a general problem? greetings Eildert Groeneveld == Institute for Animal Science Mariensee 31535 Neustadt Germany Tel : (+49)(0)5034 871155 Fax : (+49)(0)5034 92579 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tzv.fal.de/~eg/ ==
Re: Lyx and prosper
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 06:11:32PM +0200, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: I remember that Lyx tricks (www.lyx.org - Tricks and Tips.) has a prosper link and point to the style files. Good luck. Bo Hi everybody I recently moved to linux (currently running red hat 7.3) and I discovered LYX. Great! Now, I am preparing a presentation and found that prosper.cls could be very helpful. Unfortunately, I can't have it running properly. I did the folowing - copy the .cls and .sty files into ...tex/latex/prosper - did texconfig and texhash - started LYX, edit-reconfigure - started LYX again: the new class is not there. I checked with kpsewhich format=tex prosper.cls and received /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/prosper/prosper.cls so that seems alright. I then read the mail archives and found the discussion between Bo Peng and Kayvan A. Sylvan (March 17, 2002), followed there advices but still nothing. I can't see that prosper class from within LYX. I checked with Kile if I could compile any example, and it does work perfectly. Now, what next The deadline is getting close and I am not going to use P...P... again. Can anybody please help me? Thanks. Etienne Rochat You need the layout as well, which points to the class. I can send you separately what I've got there, unless you retrieved already the cluster example. I'm afraid you will need some ERT to be able to use the overlay facility. But basic viewgraphs are all right.
Re: Lyx and prosper
I forgot to tell you. I once put a prosper guide on the departmental helpdesk. You can find it via http://www.stat.rice.edu/~helpdesk/howto. Hope it helps. I can send you the layout files if you can not find them. Bo On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 04:03:32PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 06:11:32PM +0200, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: I remember that Lyx tricks (www.lyx.org - Tricks and Tips.) has a prosper link and point to the style files. Good luck. Bo Hi everybody I recently moved to linux (currently running red hat 7.3) and I discovered LYX. Great! Now, I am preparing a presentation and found that prosper.cls could be very helpful. Unfortunately, I can't have it running properly. I did the folowing - copy the .cls and .sty files into ...tex/latex/prosper - did texconfig and texhash - started LYX, edit-reconfigure - started LYX again: the new class is not there. I checked with kpsewhich format=tex prosper.cls and received /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/prosper/prosper.cls so that seems alright. I then read the mail archives and found the discussion between Bo Peng and Kayvan A. Sylvan (March 17, 2002), followed there advices but still nothing. I can't see that prosper class from within LYX. I checked with Kile if I could compile any example, and it does work perfectly. Now, what next The deadline is getting close and I am not going to use P...P... again. Can anybody please help me? Thanks. Etienne Rochat You need the layout as well, which points to the class. I can send you separately what I've got there, unless you retrieved already the cluster example. I'm afraid you will need some ERT to be able to use the overlay facility. But basic viewgraphs are all right.
Re: Does LyX 1.2.0 support character styles?
Thomas Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| For my own documents i am using a file with a lot of \newcommand's
| like
| \newcommand{\company} [1] {\textbf{#1}}
yes...
| and then
| \newcommand{\redhat} {\company{RedHat}\xspace}
but this would be a combination of what I call (static)
abbreviations and character styles.
| so what I get are two things. First a Character style \company and
| an acronym \redhat,
nahh... redhat is not an acronym. PINE is an acronym (a recursive
acronym even ... Pine Is Not Elm)
| a better example should be DNA for
| Desoxyribonucleinacid :).
| This could be placed somwhere in the ~/.lyx path or the user LaTeX
| path and then nested to a character pulldown menu and a shorttag
| pulldown menu in LyX.
To have these defined as LaTeX (be it character styles, acronyms or
abbreviation), is something I would be against. I do not want LyX to
be any more (La)TeX specific than it already is. To be able to import
these kind of definitions might be good though.
| The only problem is that this tags will not be used for a html
| output with pdflatex (up to now).
We need to translate them into some LyX specific format.
| May be a standalone preamble file could be an other way to get this
| behaviour. Then the files could be packed into a tgz file
| including the original lyx file and the preamble file.
Naahh... not unless we have to.
| Another
| benefit would be to use a user customizable editor for the
| preamble. To my opinion the pramble window is at least a painfull
| thing. :) (German: Ich finde, dass Arbeiten mit dem Präambel
| Fenster ist zumindestens als schmerzhaft zu bezeichnen.)
Abbrevs, acronyms and character styles will not be settable from the
preamble... unless you also use ERT of course...
--
Lgb
indexing
Hi, I am new in lyx and latex, and i been trying to create an index like A Agent, Cognitive, 13 Definition, 4 Reactive, 12 B Ball, ... ... Although i've searched in the lyx site and serveral other latex/lyx sites a couldn't find a solution to my problem. Please let me know of any solutions. Best regards, Rodriguez
Re: indexing
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 08:22:54PM -0300, Rodriguez wrote: Hi, I am new in lyx and latex, and i been trying to create an index like A Agent, Cognitive, 13 Definition, 4 Reactive, 12 B Ball, ... ... Although i've searched in the lyx site and serveral other latex/lyx sites a couldn't find a solution to my problem. Please let me know of any solutions. Enter Agent!Cognitive where you want the Cognitive entry to be. See the index documentation for more details (makeindex.dvi under /usr/share/texmf/doc/ etc.) regards john -- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle
Re: FrameMaker and Lyx interoperability via XML/SGML
Gal Aviel wrote: [wants to switch from FrameMaker 5.5 to LyX] I wrote a proposal a couple of years ago to do just that where I work, kind of tongue-in-cheek but it got this -| |- close to being approved. However this morning I saw that FrameMaker has a newer version, namely 7.0, and it's suppose to support DTD/XML/SGML. [...] The restriction which is imposed on me, is that I must supply other uses with valid FrameMaker files. My suggested intended flow is to write with Lyx/SGML, and when I'm done - open in FrameMaker and save as FrameMaker native .fm file, thus distributing to other users to continue to maintain my documents. It's possible to set up a DocBook-based interchange between Frame and LyX, but if you're not familar with SGML/XML it will be difficult. There are several factors: First, you have to get used to writing in a fairly strict, structured environment. I've been doing this (using Frame and a homegrown DTD) for several months now. It's hard at first, not being able to use any paragraph/character style anywhere you want to, but it does enforce consistency and makes the document easier to maintain over time. The really hard part is setting up the environment. The good news is that (I think) Frame 7 comes with a fairly complete DocBook application (the files it uses to drive the transform between DocBook Frame). The bad news is that LyX does not provide the same strict structure for editing DocBook, so you have to make sure that files from LyX are valid before importing them into FrameMaker. Finally, you should assume that once you import your file into FrameMaker, that it may be hard to return the file to LyX without losing some formatting information. Speaking as a technical writer, FrameMaker is about as good as *graphical* writing tools get[1]. If you push it beyond basics, not even LyX can match it -- and LyX is one of the finest open-source tools around. To be specific, Frame's cross-reference support is extensive and very flexible[2], not to mention things like document variables and conditional text support... or the very flexible page layout (especially compared to LaTeX, which I personally find too rigid). It also does a fair job of typesetting; not as good as (La)TeX but much better than Word. (But Frame's footnote support is rather poor for heavy use -- I don't use footnotes at work though.) I assume that LyX is a good fit for the type of documents you're writing... but converting those documents to Frame may turn out to be non-trivial or require too much hand- editing afterwards to be of much use. It's certainly worth trying, and I hope it works for you. [1] Note the qualifier, graphical. It's kind of frustrating that after 17+ years of WYSIWYG, there are still things that troff TeX can do that are difficult or impossible with GUI tools. I'm pushing Frame *hard* at work these days with my current project, and sometimes I'd like to move the whole thing to groff (the other writers would scream bloody murder though). [2] You can build references that include paragraph text, numbering, page number, chapter number, on on, with Frame. One instance where Frame beats the text-based tools for ease of use even for complex cases. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r at a l l t e l . n e t Content creators are the engine that drives value in the information life cycle. -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc
Instability of Lyx-1.2.0
Hello everyone, as an ardent usr of LyX I was very happy to use all those new features when LyX-1.2.0 came out. Now we are in the process of advertizing its use on a larger scale at our institution. Only problem is: LyX is very unstable and slow so that we will scare people away more than convince them to use LyX. This instability pertains to mostly to table as does the really slow speed. When cutting and pasting for instance lyx bombs out kind of regularly. We have a RedHat 7.3 system with xforms-0.89-3 Also, there do not seem to be rpms of a higher patchlevel around. We have lyx-1.2.0-1 installed. Is this a general problem? greetings Eildert Groeneveld == Institute for Animal Science Mariensee 31535 Neustadt Germany Tel : (+49)(0)5034 871155 Fax : (+49)(0)5034 92579 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tzv.fal.de/~eg/ ==
Re: Lyx and prosper
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 06:11:32PM +0200, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: I remember that Lyx tricks (www.lyx.org -> Tricks and Tips.) has a prosper link and point to the style files. Good luck. Bo > >> > >>Hi everybody > >>I recently moved to linux (currently running red hat 7.3) and I discovered > >>LYX. Great! > >>Now, I am preparing a presentation and found that prosper.cls could be very > >>helpful. Unfortunately, I can't have it running properly. I did the folowing > >>- copy the .cls and .sty files into ...tex/latex/prosper > >>- did texconfig and texhash > >>- started LYX, edit-reconfigure > >>- started LYX again: the new class is not there. > >>I checked with kpsewhich format=tex prosper.cls and received > >>/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/prosper/prosper.cls > >>so that seems alright. > >>I then read the mail archives and found the discussion between Bo Peng and > >>Kayvan A. Sylvan (March 17, 2002), followed there advices but still nothing. > >>I can't see that prosper class from within LYX. I checked with Kile if I > >>could compile any example, and it does work perfectly. > >>Now, what next The deadline is getting close and I am not going to use > >>P...P... again. Can anybody please help me? > >>Thanks. > >>Etienne Rochat > >> > You need the layout as well, which points to the class. > I can send you separately what I've got there, unless you retrieved already > the cluster example. > I'm afraid you will need some ERT to be able to use the overlay facility. > But basic viewgraphs are all right.
Re: Lyx and prosper
I forgot to tell you. I once put a prosper guide on the departmental helpdesk. You can find it via http://www.stat.rice.edu/~helpdesk/howto. Hope it helps. I can send you the layout files if you can not find them. Bo On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 04:03:32PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 06:11:32PM +0200, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > I remember that Lyx tricks (www.lyx.org -> Tricks and Tips.) has a > prosper link and point to the style files. Good luck. > Bo > > >> > > >>Hi everybody > > >>I recently moved to linux (currently running red hat 7.3) and I discovered > > >>LYX. Great! > > >>Now, I am preparing a presentation and found that prosper.cls could be very > > >>helpful. Unfortunately, I can't have it running properly. I did the folowing > > >>- copy the .cls and .sty files into ...tex/latex/prosper > > >>- did texconfig and texhash > > >>- started LYX, edit-reconfigure > > >>- started LYX again: the new class is not there. > > >>I checked with kpsewhich format=tex prosper.cls and received > > >>/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/prosper/prosper.cls > > >>so that seems alright. > > >>I then read the mail archives and found the discussion between Bo Peng and > > >>Kayvan A. Sylvan (March 17, 2002), followed there advices but still nothing. > > >>I can't see that prosper class from within LYX. I checked with Kile if I > > >>could compile any example, and it does work perfectly. > > >>Now, what next The deadline is getting close and I am not going to use > > >>P...P... again. Can anybody please help me? > > >>Thanks. > > >>Etienne Rochat > > >> > > You need the layout as well, which points to the class. > > I can send you separately what I've got there, unless you retrieved already > > the cluster example. > > I'm afraid you will need some ERT to be able to use the overlay facility. > > But basic viewgraphs are all right.
Re: Does LyX 1.2.0 support character styles?
Thomas Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| For my own documents i am using a file with a lot of \newcommand's
| like
| \newcommand{\company} [1] {\textbf{#1}}
yes...
| and then
| \newcommand{\redhat} {\company{RedHat}\xspace}
but this would be a combination of what I call (static)
"abbreviations" and character styles.
| so what I get are two things. First a Character style \company and
| an acronym \redhat,
nahh... redhat is not an acronym. PINE is an acronym (a recursive
acronym even ... Pine Is Not Elm)
| a better example should be DNA for
| Desoxyribonucleinacid :).
| This could be placed somwhere in the ~/.lyx path or the user LaTeX
| path and then nested to a character pulldown menu and a shorttag
| pulldown menu in LyX.
To have these defined as LaTeX (be it character styles, acronyms or
abbreviation), is something I would be against. I do not want LyX to
be any more (La)TeX specific than it already is. To be able to import
these kind of definitions might be good though.
| The only problem is that this tags will not be used for a html
| output with pdflatex (up to now).
We need to translate them into some LyX specific format.
| May be a standalone preamble file could be an other way to get this
| behaviour. Then the files could be packed into a tgz file
| including the original lyx file and the preamble file.
Naahh... not unless we have to.
| Another
| benefit would be to use a user customizable editor for the
| preamble. To my opinion the pramble window is at least a painfull
| thing. :) (German: Ich finde, dass Arbeiten mit dem Präambel
| Fenster ist zumindestens als schmerzhaft zu bezeichnen.)
Abbrevs, acronyms and character styles will not be settable from the
preamble... unless you also use ERT of course...
--
Lgb
indexing
Hi, I am new in lyx and latex, and i been trying to create an index like A Agent, Cognitive, 13 Definition, 4 Reactive, 12 B Ball, ... ... Although i've searched in the lyx site and serveral other latex/lyx sites a couldn't find a solution to my problem. Please let me know of any solutions. Best regards, Rodriguez
Re: indexing
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 08:22:54PM -0300, Rodriguez wrote: > Hi, > I am new in lyx and latex, and i been trying to create an index like > A > Agent, > Cognitive, 13 > Definition, 4 > Reactive, 12 > B > Ball, > ... > ... > Although i've searched in the lyx site and serveral other latex/lyx sites a couldn't >find a solution to my problem. > Please let me know of any solutions. Enter Agent!Cognitive where you want the Cognitive entry to be. See the index documentation for more details (makeindex.dvi under /usr/share/texmf/doc/ etc.) regards john -- "It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims." - Aristotle
Re: FrameMaker and Lyx interoperability via XML/SGML
Gal Aviel wrote: [wants to switch from FrameMaker 5.5 to LyX] I wrote a proposal a couple of years ago to do just that where I work, kind of tongue-in-cheek but it got this -| |- close to being approved. > However this morning I saw that FrameMaker has a newer version, > namely 7.0, and it's suppose to support DTD/XML/SGML. [...] > > The restriction which is imposed on me, is that I must supply other uses > with valid FrameMaker files. > > My suggested intended flow is to write with Lyx/SGML, and when I'm done - > open in FrameMaker and save as FrameMaker native .fm file, thus distributing > to other users to continue to maintain my documents. It's possible to set up a DocBook-based interchange between Frame and LyX, but if you're not familar with SGML/XML it will be difficult. There are several factors: First, you have to get used to writing in a fairly strict, structured environment. I've been doing this (using Frame and a homegrown DTD) for several months now. It's hard at first, not being able to use any paragraph/character style anywhere you want to, but it does enforce consistency and makes the document easier to maintain over time. The really hard part is setting up the environment. The good news is that (I think) Frame 7 comes with a fairly complete DocBook "application" (the files it uses to drive the transform between DocBook & Frame). The bad news is that LyX does not provide the same strict structure for editing DocBook, so you have to make sure that files from LyX are valid before importing them into FrameMaker. Finally, you should assume that once you import your file into FrameMaker, that it may be hard to return the file to LyX without losing some formatting information. Speaking as a technical writer, FrameMaker is about as good as *graphical* writing tools get[1]. If you push it beyond basics, not even LyX can match it -- and LyX is one of the finest open-source tools around. To be specific, Frame's cross-reference support is extensive and very flexible[2], not to mention things like document variables and conditional text support... or the very flexible page layout (especially compared to LaTeX, which I personally find too rigid). It also does a fair job of typesetting; not as good as (La)TeX but much better than Word. (But Frame's footnote support is rather poor for heavy use -- I don't use footnotes at work though.) I assume that LyX is a good fit for the type of documents you're writing... but converting those documents to Frame may turn out to be non-trivial or require too much hand- editing afterwards to be of much use. It's certainly worth trying, and I hope it works for you. [1] Note the qualifier, "graphical." It's kind of frustrating that after 17+ years of WYSIWYG, there are still things that troff & TeX can do that are difficult or impossible with GUI tools. I'm pushing Frame *hard* at work these days with my current project, and sometimes I'd like to move the whole thing to groff (the other writers would scream bloody murder though). [2] You can build references that include paragraph text, numbering, page number, chapter number, on & on, with Frame. One instance where Frame beats the text-based tools for ease of use even for complex cases. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r at a l l t e l . n e t "Content creators are the engine that drives value in the information life cycle." -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc
Instability of Lyx-1.2.0
Hello everyone, as an ardent usr of LyX I was very happy to use all those new features when LyX-1.2.0 came out. Now we are in the process of advertizing its use on a larger scale at our institution. Only problem is: LyX is very unstable and slow so that we will scare people away more than convince them to use LyX. This instability pertains to mostly to table as does the really slow speed. When cutting and pasting for instance lyx bombs out kind of regularly. We have a RedHat 7.3 system with xforms-0.89-3 Also, there do not seem to be rpms of a higher patchlevel around. We have lyx-1.2.0-1 installed. Is this a general problem? greetings Eildert Groeneveld == Institute for Animal Science Mariensee 31535 Neustadt Germany Tel : (+49)(0)5034 871155 Fax : (+49)(0)5034 92579 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tzv.fal.de/~eg/ ==
