Re: To Quit, or Not To Quit

2013-10-25 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 13:57:45 +1300 "gordon_cooper hughgord...@gmail.com" sent this: >Too many people merely click on the Reply button, resulting in posts >that are far too long. I have to disagree. I like to read the "long repetitions" and I am on an Internet connection very slow and flaky, no

To Quit, or Not To Quit

2013-10-25 Thread gordon_cooper
(With an apology to Will Shakespeare.) Proposed by Alan, Seconded by Liviu, That I do not quit. After a night's sleep and time to think, I accept Alan's proposal. Thank you gentlemen. I will stay, but for how long is probably out of my hands. I was teaching digital and solid state basics in th

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:55:37 -0600 Richard Talley wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Ken Springer > wrote: > > > > > I can't speak for Rich, but it was not my intent to leave an > > impression of "mass exodus". Just my pulling back from the > > potential promise I saw that open source

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-25 Thread Bryan Baldwin
On 10/26/2013 02:08 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote: And that may be the origin of the problem, SINCE IN ALL CAPS IT IS PLAIN UNREADABLE AND THUS NO ONE WILL ACTUALLY READ IT. That's backwards. Its part of the solution. It doesn't matter if you read it

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-25 Thread John O'Gorman
On 26/10/13 04:12, Bruce Pourciau wrote: On Oct 25, 2013, at 2:49 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: For me, LyX is in fact a killer app, in the sense that it has killed any need or desire to have an affair, a one night stand, or even flirt with any other app. I write long, structured papers tha

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-25 Thread David L. Johnson
On 10/25/2013 11:12 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: For me, LyX is in fact a killer app, in the sense that it has killed any need or desire to have an affair, a one night stand, or even flirt with any other app. I write long, structured papers that contain mathematics, figures, cross-references, and

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-25 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Oct 25, 2013, at 2:49 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > 25/10/2013 02:37, Ken Springer: >> Just a question, does viable equate something that will be successful in >> the long run? > > It is already successful. We have users, LyX continues to advance, although > at a frustratingly slow pace

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-25 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> You think you are owed an explanation of how everything you download > and run works. That could be a mistake. These licenses generally > state, "AS IS WITH NO WARRANTY OR MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A > PARTICULAR PURPOSE". Its usually printed all or in part in all > captial letters. And tha

Re: Mavericks troubles

2013-10-25 Thread Ken Springer
On 10/25/13 2:52 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: 25/10/2013 10:13, Scott Kostyshak: ... except that, for a Mac user, doing that requires to find the lyx binary. From the top of my head, it is at /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOSX/ly

Re: Mavericks troubles

2013-10-25 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > 25/10/2013 10:13, Scott Kostyshak: > >>> ... except that, for a Mac user, doing that requires to find the lyx >>> binary. >>> From the top of my head, it is at >>> /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOSX/lyx >> >> >> Thanks for the corr

Re: Mavericks troubles

2013-10-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
25/10/2013 10:13, Scott Kostyshak: ... except that, for a Mac user, doing that requires to find the lyx binary. From the top of my head, it is at /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOSX/lyx Thanks for the correction. Why doesn't the PATH environment variable take care of this? Because Mac appl

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > What I mean is that I do not want personally to create some kind of killer > app, > ..which LyX already is. I like the gasp of people, who have been inflicted with LaTeX, when I show them how easy and straightforward it is to create do

Re: Mavericks troubles

2013-10-25 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > 25/10/2013 03:08, Scott Kostyshak: > >> I just reread and saw the crashing part of your email. I thought the >> problem was only when you were exporting. In that case, exporting from >> the command line will not help. But just for refe

Re: Mavericks troubles

2013-10-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
25/10/2013 03:08, Scott Kostyshak: I just reread and saw the crashing part of your email. I thought the problem was only when you were exporting. In that case, exporting from the command line will not help. But just for reference, you can export your .lyx file to a pdf with lyx -e pdf2 yourly

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
25/10/2013 02:37, Ken Springer: Just a question, does viable equate something that will be successful in the long run? It is already successful. We have users, LyX continues to advance, although at a frustratingly slow pace these days. But in some sense, the fact that we continue to advance i