Re: PDF Fonts
On 2010-03-29, Alan Tyree wrote: > --000e0cd118864eb5900482e8a698 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: >> Typhoon writes: >> > >> > I'm preparing a manuscript for printing. The LyX Wiki recommends Latin >> > Modern as the best choice of fonts for a PDF document. Latin Modern is the recommended choice if you want the "look and feel" of Computer Modern. >> > Is this still the font of choice for PDF documents? Font choice depends on so many factors that a general advise is not possible. >> > The MS is plain text with no diagrams or math symbols. Preparation >> > will be with pdflatex unless there is some particular reason to use >> > a different method. This opens a wide choice of fonts to select from. I found the "LaTeX Font Catalogue" (http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/) a valuable ressource. Most fonts will need "manual" setup in the LaTeX preamble (with the GUI font selector set to [Default]. Günter
Re: Importing doc documents
On 2010-03-29, Tim Wescott wrote: > rgheck wrote: >> On 03/27/2010 02:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote: >>> those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert >>> sources in MS Word .doc format into .lyx format. >>> On Linux platforms there are at least AbiWord and Kword that can open >>> doc files and save them in various other formats, .tex included. >>> Unfortunately the LaTeX file thus obtained is pittyful. >> OpenOffice will also save in LaTeX format. ... > My version of OpenOffice -- 3.1, on Ubuntu 9.10, did not seem to have > this capability, either as a "save as" or "export to". The latex export is in a separate Debian package openoffice.org-writer2latex I expect the same to be true on Ubuntu. Günter
Re: PDF Fonts
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: > Typhoon writes: > > > > I'm preparing a manuscript for printing. The LyX Wiki recommends Latin > > Modern as the best choice of fonts for a PDF document. > > > > Is this still the font of choice for PDF documents? The MS is plain > > text with no diagrams or math symbols. Preparation will be with > > pdflatex unless there is some particular reason to use a different > > method. > > > > The Latin Modern glyphs used in the document should be embedded in the PDF > file, > so they should display properly. Embedding them will expand the size of > the > file a bit. > > An alternative is to use Times Roman/Helvetica/Courier, which are the Adobe > standard fonts. They don't need to be embedded, since they're built into > Acrobat > Reader. I do that fairly frequently. > > /Paul > > Thanks Paul. I like the Latin Modern better than Times Roman for a book. It only goes to the printer, so file size is not too important. Cheers, Alan -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206
Re: Importing doc documents
Tim Wescott writes: > > rgheck wrote: > > OpenOffice will also save in LaTeX format. I have used it often > > myself, but with old WordPerfect files, and you are right of course > > that the output file could use some cleaning up. Much of this can be > > done with a script, such as the exceedingly trivial sed script attached. > My version of OpenOffice -- 3.1, on Ubuntu 9.10, did not seem to have > this capability, either as a "save as" or "export to". > Haven't used it myself, but you might try http://writer2latex.sourceforge.net/. /Paul
Re: PDF Fonts
Typhoon writes: > > I'm preparing a manuscript for printing. The LyX Wiki recommends Latin > Modern as the best choice of fonts for a PDF document. > > Is this still the font of choice for PDF documents? The MS is plain > text with no diagrams or math symbols. Preparation will be with > pdflatex unless there is some particular reason to use a different > method. > The Latin Modern glyphs used in the document should be embedded in the PDF file, so they should display properly. Embedding them will expand the size of the file a bit. An alternative is to use Times Roman/Helvetica/Courier, which are the Adobe standard fonts. They don't need to be embedded, since they're built into Acrobat Reader. I do that fairly frequently. /Paul
Re: Importing doc documents
rgheck wrote: On 03/27/2010 02:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote: Dear all, those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert sources in MS Word .doc format into .lix format. On Linux platforms there are at least AbiWord and Kword that can open doc files and save them in various other formats, .tex included. Unfortunately the LaTeX file thus obtained is pittyful. OpenOffice will also save in LaTeX format. I have used it often myself, but with old WordPerfect files, and you are right of course that the output file could use some cleaning up. Much of this can be done with a script, such as the exceedingly trivial sed script attached. My version of OpenOffice -- 3.1, on Ubuntu 9.10, did not seem to have this capability, either as a "save as" or "export to". Abi word imports an odt file, mangles it, and exports it as LaTeX that can then be cleaned up -- but it takes _lots_ of cleaning, and the equations don't come through. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services Voice: 503-631-7815 Cell: 503-349-8432 http://www.wescottdesign.com
PDF Fonts
Hi LyXers, I'm preparing a manuscript for printing. The LyX Wiki recommends Latin Modern as the best choice of fonts for a PDF document. Is this still the font of choice for PDF documents? The MS is plain text with no diagrams or math symbols. Preparation will be with pdflatex unless there is some particular reason to use a different method. Thanks for any advice, Alan -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206
Re: Is there any easy way to embed ABC musical notation ? All I get is a box that says 'abc-box' :(
Hi! On 28/03/2010 4:56 PM, Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ wrote: Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ wrote: Is there any easy way to embed ABC musical notation ? All I get is a box that says 'abc-box' :( I had to add '-shell-escape' to the conversion command line... but... it won't work in a table cell ? What are you trying to accomplish? What have you tried? How does it "not work"? Cheers, Julien
Re: Is there any easy way to embed ABC musical notation ? All I get is a box that says 'abc-box' :(
Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ wrote: Is there any easy way to embed ABC musical notation ? All I get is a box that says 'abc-box' :( I had to add '-shell-escape' to the conversion command line... but... it won't work in a table cell ? I am using XeTeX on Ubuntu. -- LyX: http://www.lyx.org/ OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/ Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/ Scribus: http://www.scribus.net/ GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/ PDF: http://www.pdfforge.org/ -- LyX: http://www.lyx.org/ OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/ Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/ Scribus: http://www.scribus.net/ GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/ PDF: http://www.pdfforge.org/
Is there any easy way to embed ABC musical notation ? All I get is a box that says 'abc-box' :(
Is there any easy way to embed ABC musical notation ? All I get is a box that says 'abc-box' :( I am using XeTeX on Ubuntu. -- LyX: http://www.lyx.org/ OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/ Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/ Scribus: http://www.scribus.net/ GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/ PDF: http://www.pdfforge.org/
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Re: Importing doc documents
From where can I download Word2Lyx? Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein/Research to Prevent Blindness/ Professor *The laboratory of Visual& Computational Neuroscience* Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical& Structural Biology The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029 On 3/27/2010 2:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote: Dear all, those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert sources in MS Word .doc format into .lix format. On Linux platforms there are at least AbiWord and Kword that can open doc files and save them in various other formats, .tex included. Unfortunately the LaTeX file thus obtained is pittyful. >From the wiki page of LyX it is possible to download of a Word2LyXMacro that works well for on Windows platformas, but I did not succeed to make it work on a Mac with MSOffice2004. On Windows the macro performs very well and the LyX code produced allows LyX to view the file without problems and possibly to save it in .lyx format, of course but also in a pretty good LaTeX format, which in general requires just a few minor adjustments, for language, input encoding, output font encoding, font usage (Latin Modern would be a better default then EC if the pdflatex option is selected), and few other small things. Somewhere on the package description for the Debian/Ubuntu package the wv software is suggested; apparently this software has so many dependencies that even on a Ubuntu platform it's difficult to compile and install it, even if the wv libraries are already installed. I would kindly suggest to examine the possibility of integrating into LyX the necessary code to open, read, edit a .doc file on any LyX implementation (Linux, Mac, Windows), so as to be able to save it in .lyx format. Any user can reopen the .lyx file and do with it anything LyX is capable of. Thanks for your attention Claudio Beccari PS, as a member of the Italian TeX Users Group (GuIT) I edited (in Italian) a Guide for the usage of LaTeX as a typesetting tool; see the GuIT web site http://www.guit.sssup.it; I wrote a specific paragraph on LyX; I would be pleased if I could add the information that LyX is the /*only* instrument for converting, editing and typesetting/ a source document originally in doc format. ;-) CB
Customizing space key behavior. Can one leave inline math and add a space with just one stroke?
Hello, I am just trying out Lyx and it is really great software. There is one small issue though. When writing papers, I often use inline math for some variables with sub- or superscripts like in the sentence: "The variable x^i is...", where x^i is inline math and the other words are simple text. In the moment, I have to press the space key 3 times to perform the following standard operation: "leave inline math, add a space and continue in text mode". If x would not have a superscript, I have to press the space only 2 times. Does anybody know whether there is some way to customize space key behavior such that a single keystroke always automatically leaves inline math and adds a space? (Of course, at the same time the space key should work regularly within the text mode). I guess other users who are acustomed to Scientific Workplace might find such a feature also useful. Thanks for any help, Sebastian
