Paul wrote:
> Suppose I have some text that has a lot of quoted speech in it, but it's
> supplied using standard (") straight single and double quotes.
>
> Is there some pre-processing tool that will try to convert them to
> proper curly quotes suitable for LaTeX (``) and ('')?
Here's some post-pr
On Oct 19, 2005, at 8:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everybody,
I've just installed Lyx and even though things went fairly smooth,
I'm struggling with a bunch of minor issues.
(Using the latest Lyx version, Mac OS 10.4.2, Powerbook with a
german keyboard. Gerben Wierda's TeX, ghostscrip
I realized that export using the pdflatex do not
produce the same pdf output that the dvipdfm. The
difference lay between the size of up and bottom
margins and the size of the files. Why, PDF (pdflatex)
-- build an output with about (e.g. 29kb) and PDF
(dvipdfm) -- build an output with about (e
Mike Meyer wrote:
>>> Is there a command-line tool that does this using some heuristics to
>>> cover most areas that could be problematic?
>> sed. tr, too, but sed would work. Something like s/"[A-Z,a-z]?/``?/g.
>> I didn't look at my sed book, but that reads, "substitute two single
>> backqotes w
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Paul wrote:
>
> > Is there a command-line tool that does this using some heuristics to cover
> > most areas that could be problematic?
>
> Paul
>
>sed. tr, too, but sed would work. Something like s/"[A-Z,a
Paul wrote:
> Suppose I have some text that has a lot of quoted speech in it, but it's
> supplied using standard (") straight single and double quotes.
>
> Is there some pre-processing tool that will try to convert them to
> proper curly quotes suitable for LaTeX (``) and ('')?
>
> I know it can
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> > | The problem is that "for" splits the returned list of files using
> > | whitespace...
> >
> > find foo -name \*.gif -print -exec convert {} `basename {}`.png \;
> > then (ha!)
>
> Thanks. I've just
Hi everybody,
I've just installed Lyx and even though things went fairly smooth,
I'm struggling with a bunch of minor issues.
(Using the latest Lyx version, Mac OS 10.4.2, Powerbook with a german
keyboard. Gerben Wierda's TeX, ghostscript8, Freetype2, libiconf,
libwmf, ImaheMagick, cm-super
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Paul wrote:
Is there a command-line tool that does this using some heuristics to cover
most areas that could be problematic?
Paul
sed. tr, too, but sed would work. Something like s/"[A-Z,a-z]?/``?/g. I
didn't look
at my sed book, but that reads, "substitute two single
Suppose I have some text that has a lot of quoted speech in it, but it's
supplied using standard (") straight single and double quotes.
Is there some pre-processing tool that will try to convert them to
proper curly quotes suitable for LaTeX (``) and ('')?
I know it can't be done perfectly and wi
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> | The problem is that "for" splits the returned list of files using
> | whitespace...
>
> find foo -name \*.gif -print -exec convert {} `basename {}`.png \;
> then (ha!)
Thanks. I've just learnt something.
Don't you have to quote the args passed to convert? Bet you s
Paul Smith wrote:
>> I don't agree. Read http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html, and
>> then get a decent email program (or news client, if you read the list
>> via gmane). For example, I press L in kmail when I want to answer to the
>> list.
>
> I ignored all those details (discussed at t
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| The problem is that "for" splits the returned list of files using
| whitespace...
find foo -name \*.gif -print -exec convert {} `basename {}`.png \;
then (ha!)
| > (and you forgot a '$')
|
| Right :) (And restricted the search to the foo directory ra
[drifting off-topic]
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> The problem is that "for" splits the returned list of files using
> whitespace...
>
> Perhaps the bigger problem is that you can overrun the internal array size
> used by "for" to store the list of returne
On 10/19/05, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I agree, Paul. The reply address should be occupied by the list's
> address.
>
> I don't agree. Read http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html, and
> then get a decent email program (or news client, if you read the list via
> gmane). For e
Am Mittwoch, 19. Oktober 2005 20:51 schrieb Paul Smith:
> I agree, Paul. The reply address should be occupied by the list's
address.
I don't agree. Read http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html, and
then get a decent email program (or news client, if you read the list via
gmane). For exa
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> Angus Leeming writes:
> | find foo -name '*.gif' | while read file
> | do
> | pngfile=`basename "$file" .gif`.png
> | convert "$file" "pngfile"
> | done
> Hmm... I thought thiw was usually written as a for-loop.
> for file in `find foo -name \*.gif` ; do
>
- Original Message -
From: "Alexander Gahr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:03 AM
Subject: Add Function Aspell (was Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2)
Hm tried this before but gave it another try.
I installed lyx cocoaspell or aspell only.
Removed
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 08:32:06PM +0100, Paul wrote:
> My experience of lists is that 99% of the time I want to reply to the
> whole list, so it makes sense to me to have that as the default.
>
> > If someone really decides to make the change, please set the rewriter to put
> > both the originato
- Original Message -
From: "Alexander Gahr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:03 AM
Subject: Add Function Aspell (was Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2)
Hm tried this before but gave it another try.
I installed lyx cocoaspell or aspell only.
Removed
Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On 10/19/05, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > >>> PS: Please always reply to the list
| > >
| > > I second that. I noticed a tendency to reply off-list. This leaves
| > > gaps in the mailing list archives and puts off a subset of list
| > > subscribers.
Todd Denniston wrote:
>>I agree, Paul. The reply address should be occupied by the list's address.
>
> I could agree ... if I had not seen the problems it can cause.
> example: the MUSCLE list (smart cards)
> http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
>
> First: to me this breaks the rule
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| find foo -name '*.gif' | while read file
| do
| pngfile=`basename "$file" .gif`.png
| convert "$file" "pngfile"
| done
Hmm... I thought thiw was usually written as a for-loop.
for file in `find foo -name \*.gif` ; do
pngfile=`basename "
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| >>> PS: Please always reply to the list
| >
| > I second that. I noticed a tendency to reply off-list. This leaves
| > gaps in the mailing list archives and puts off a subset of list
| > subscribers. css-discuss, on the contrary, adopted some different
| > habit
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Maybe it's just my mail client, but this list seems to default for a
> reply to the sender instead of to the list, unlike all the other lists
> I've ever been on. I accidently sent a reply intended for the list to
> the sender and didn't rea
Paul Smith wrote:
>
> On 10/19/05, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >>> PS: Please always reply to the list
> > >
> > > I second that. I noticed a tendency to reply off-list. This leaves
> > > gaps in the mailing list archives and puts off a subset of list
> > > subscribers. css-discuss, on the
On 10/19/05, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> PS: Please always reply to the list
> >
> > I second that. I noticed a tendency to reply off-list. This leaves
> > gaps in the mailing list archives and puts off a subset of list
> > subscribers. css-discuss, on the contrary, adopted some different
>>> PS: Please always reply to the list
>
> I second that. I noticed a tendency to reply off-list. This leaves
> gaps in the mailing list archives and puts off a subset of list
> subscribers. css-discuss, on the contrary, adopted some different
> habits. The main question to ask is "would the grou
Hm tried this before but gave it another try.
I installed lyx cocoaspell or aspell only.
Removed /Users/gahr/Library/Application Support/LyX this is the place
where in the apple installation the perferences are stored.
But i have the same problem i can't add word to a dictionary from within
lyx.
* Alexander Gahr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-10-19 17:40 +0200:
> So i tried some more and i'm thinking that cocoaspell is working again and
> i have choosen the en.pws file that cocaspell creates.
>
> I can perfectly add some word to this personal word list from outside of
> lyx but
>
> I
So i tried some more and i'm thinking that cocoaspell is working again and
i have choosen the en.pws file that cocaspell creates.
I can perfectly add some word to this personal word list from outside of
lyx but
If i try it from within lyx the situation is that lyx know all new words
coco
- Original Message - From: "Alexander Gahr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 1:29 AM
Subject: Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2
>>How do I get a Personal dictionnaires in Aspell to use with lyx.
>>I don't want to tell the program every time it starts my sp
Mike Meyer wrote:
>> 2) run, before you run pdflatex, something like
>> for FILE in `find . -name '*\.gif'`; do convert $FILE `echo $FILE |
>> sed 's/\(.*\.\)gif/\1png/'`; done
>
> basename is safer:
>
> for file in $(find . -name *.gif)
> do
> convert $file $(basename $file .gif).png
> done
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> 2) run, before you run pdflatex, something like
> for FILE in `find . -name '*\.gif'`; do convert $FILE `echo $FILE | sed
> 's/\(.*\.\)gif/\1png/'`; done
basename is safer:
for file in $(find . -name *.gif)
do
conv
Thank you for all the contribution,
Summarized:
The latex export command line option works fine for regular latex, latex
myfile.tex generates a valid dvi file.
If you want to use pdflatex you should either:
1) edit the resulting .tex file and replace \usepackage{graphicx} with
\usepackage[dvips
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 13:13, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> > Its great that you are visualising putting this on the wiki.
> >
> >
> > I just wonder if it might be a better idea to scan through the lists and
> > summarize all cut and paste tips and put them together on the wiki if you
> > can spare
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 06:04, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> That said, I can't understand why people steer away from encapsulated
> PostScript, which in most cases ought to be used as it preserves and
> incorporates vectors rather than pixels. If used properly, it is also far
> smaller in terms of
> Its great that you are visualising putting this on the wiki.
>
>
> I just wonder if it might be a better idea to scan through the lists and
> summarize all cut and paste tips and put them together on the wiki if you can
> spare the time.
In principle I could do that, but with the (hopefull
Gunnar wrote:
> I've written a simple C++ program that can make eepic graphs of
> polynomials. So if you need to do this you can get my program here:
>
> http://web.comhem.se/~u46307480/RitaGraf.tgz
>
> There is a very short postscript manual in the tgz-file for those who
> can't speak swedish.
39 matches
Mail list logo
