Re: How many use Linux:

2009-09-11 Thread Richard Talley
I use LyX on OS X. However, I was able to get it added to 350 university lab PCs (Windows) that already had LaTeX on them due to a departmental request. Now any time I get asked, "How did you make that pdf?" or "You don't use Word? What do you use?", I can say, "Let me show you something

Re: aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

2009-08-28 Thread Richard Talley
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Joachim Osnabryg o...@jpberlin.de wrote: = Has anyone installed Aspell or CocoAspell under Mac-OSX and has got them working with LyX in a reasonable manner? Would you please describe how you installed and configured it? joachim I'm glad you asked this

Re: aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

2009-08-28 Thread Richard Talley
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Joachim Osnabryg o...@jpberlin.de wrote: But nevertheless I regard this complicated procedure as unreasonable and unacceptable for a normal LyX user. Yes. Like so many things with computers. Sorry you couldn't get it working. Perhaps things will be better

Re: aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

2009-08-28 Thread Richard Talley
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Joachim Osnabryg o...@jpberlin.de wrote: = Has anyone installed Aspell or CocoAspell under Mac-OSX and has got them working with LyX in a reasonable manner? Would you please describe how you installed and configured it? joachim I'm glad you asked this

Re: aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

2009-08-28 Thread Richard Talley
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Joachim Osnabryg o...@jpberlin.de wrote: But nevertheless I regard this complicated procedure as unreasonable and unacceptable for a normal LyX user. Yes. Like so many things with computers. Sorry you couldn't get it working. Perhaps things will be better

Re: aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

2009-08-28 Thread Richard Talley
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Joachim Osnabryg wrote: > > => Has anyone installed Aspell or CocoAspell under Mac-OSX and has got them > working with LyX in a reasonable manner? > Would you please describe how you installed and configured it? > > joachim > I'm glad you

Re: aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

2009-08-28 Thread Richard Talley
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Joachim Osnabryg wrote: > > But nevertheless I regard this complicated procedure as unreasonable and > unacceptable for a normal LyX user. Yes. Like so many things with computers. Sorry you couldn't get it working. Perhaps things will be

Re: lyx 1.6.2 + Ubuntu 9.04 = slow typing

2009-08-12 Thread Richard Talley
I'd be very interested in knowing what your Xorg CPU utilization is like now. I'm having a similar problem on an old server running Xubuntu 9.04, where Xorg is hogging the CPU. Thanks. -- Rich On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Alex Mm...@mail.ru wrote: Hi! I would like to share my experience

Re: lyx 1.6.2 + Ubuntu 9.04 = slow typing

2009-08-12 Thread Richard Talley
I'd be very interested in knowing what your Xorg CPU utilization is like now. I'm having a similar problem on an old server running Xubuntu 9.04, where Xorg is hogging the CPU. Thanks. -- Rich On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Alex Mm...@mail.ru wrote: Hi! I would like to share my experience

Re: lyx 1.6.2 + Ubuntu 9.04 = slow typing

2009-08-12 Thread Richard Talley
I'd be very interested in knowing what your Xorg CPU utilization is like now. I'm having a similar problem on an old server running Xubuntu 9.04, where Xorg is hogging the CPU. Thanks. -- Rich On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Alex M wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to share my

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

2009-06-13 Thread Richard Talley
Other than being sans serif typefaces, Helvetica (along with Arial) have little in common with Verdana. Consulting both Wikipedia and Bringhurst's 'The Elements of Typographic Style', Helvetica is in the humanist family of typefaces and was designed in the 1950's, before digital typography.

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

2009-06-13 Thread Richard Talley
Other than being sans serif typefaces, Helvetica (along with Arial) have little in common with Verdana. Consulting both Wikipedia and Bringhurst's 'The Elements of Typographic Style', Helvetica is in the humanist family of typefaces and was designed in the 1950's, before digital typography.

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

2009-06-13 Thread Richard Talley
Other than being sans serif typefaces, Helvetica (along with Arial) have little in common with Verdana. Consulting both Wikipedia and Bringhurst's 'The Elements of Typographic Style', Helvetica is in the humanist family of typefaces and was designed in the 1950's, before digital typography.

Re: Adding a non-numbered chapter to Table of Contents

2009-05-12 Thread Richard Talley
I had this problem recently and it was discussed on this list. I have a Chapter* with a title of 'Preface' in a document that I don't want numbered (it doesn't make sense to number a preface as chapter 1), but I do want it in the TOC. The solution was to insert this TeX code immediately after the

Re: Adding a non-numbered chapter to Table of Contents

2009-05-12 Thread Richard Talley
I had this problem recently and it was discussed on this list. I have a Chapter* with a title of 'Preface' in a document that I don't want numbered (it doesn't make sense to number a preface as chapter 1), but I do want it in the TOC. The solution was to insert this TeX code immediately after the

Re: Adding a non-numbered chapter to Table of Contents

2009-05-12 Thread Richard Talley
I had this problem recently and it was discussed on this list. I have a Chapter* with a title of 'Preface' in a document that I don't want numbered (it doesn't make sense to number a preface as chapter 1), but I do want it in the TOC. The solution was to insert this TeX code immediately after the

Big Thanks! was: how to stop TeX and LaTeX from being typeset with the special logo?

2009-04-20 Thread Richard Talley
A big thanks to everybody for the quick, useful replies. There is no doubt that one of the best things about LyX is the LyX community. -- Rich On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no wrote: Richard Talley wrote: LyX automagically typesets words like TeX and LaTeX

Big Thanks! was: how to stop TeX and LaTeX from being typeset with the special logo?

2009-04-20 Thread Richard Talley
A big thanks to everybody for the quick, useful replies. There is no doubt that one of the best things about LyX is the LyX community. -- Rich On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no wrote: Richard Talley wrote: LyX automagically typesets words like TeX and LaTeX

Big Thanks! was: how to stop TeX and LaTeX from being typeset with the special logo?

2009-04-20 Thread Richard Talley
A big thanks to everybody for the quick, useful replies. There is no doubt that one of the best things about LyX is the LyX community. -- Rich On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Helge Hafting <helge.haft...@hist.no> wrote: > Richard Talley wrote: >> >> LyX automagically ty

Re: cocoAspell works with Lyx in Tiger, not Leopard

2009-04-19 Thread Richard Talley
on Leopard. -- Rich On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Anders Host-Madsen ahostmad...@yahoo.com wrote: Richard Talley rich.tal...@... writes: Any suggestions? Anybody on the list successfully using cocoAspell with LyX on Leopard? It works fine for me under Leopard. I don't believe I did anything

how to stop TeX and LaTeX from being typeset with the special logo?

2009-04-19 Thread Richard Talley
LyX automagically typesets words like TeX and LaTeX using the special logo for those words. How do I turn this behavior off? There are a couple of places, such as an instruction to navigate to /Applications/TeX, where I want the words to appear more like they actually do in the computer

Re: Spell check on Mac?

2009-04-19 Thread Richard Talley
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Sophie (itsme213) itsme...@hotmail.com wrote: Is there a way to get spell checking on Mac? Any pointers to more info appreciated. Yes. Install cocoAspell. http://cocoaspell.leuski.net/ On Leopard, I've had to move the service folder cocoAspell.service from

Re: cocoAspell works with Lyx in Tiger, not Leopard

2009-04-19 Thread Richard Talley
on Leopard. -- Rich On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Anders Host-Madsen ahostmad...@yahoo.com wrote: Richard Talley rich.tal...@... writes: Any suggestions? Anybody on the list successfully using cocoAspell with LyX on Leopard? It works fine for me under Leopard. I don't believe I did anything

how to stop TeX and LaTeX from being typeset with the special logo?

2009-04-19 Thread Richard Talley
LyX automagically typesets words like TeX and LaTeX using the special logo for those words. How do I turn this behavior off? There are a couple of places, such as an instruction to navigate to /Applications/TeX, where I want the words to appear more like they actually do in the computer

Re: Spell check on Mac?

2009-04-19 Thread Richard Talley
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Sophie (itsme213) itsme...@hotmail.com wrote: Is there a way to get spell checking on Mac? Any pointers to more info appreciated. Yes. Install cocoAspell. http://cocoaspell.leuski.net/ On Leopard, I've had to move the service folder cocoAspell.service from

Re: cocoAspell works with Lyx in Tiger, not Leopard

2009-04-19 Thread Richard Talley
on Leopard. -- Rich On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Anders Host-Madsen <ahostmad...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Richard Talley <rich.tal...@...> writes: > >> Any suggestions? Anybody on the list successfully using cocoAspell >> with LyX on Leopard? > > It works fine for me

how to stop TeX and LaTeX from being typeset with the special logo?

2009-04-19 Thread Richard Talley
LyX automagically typesets words like TeX and LaTeX using the special logo for those words. How do I turn this behavior off? There are a couple of places, such as an instruction to navigate to /Applications/TeX, where I want the words to appear more like they actually do in the computer

Re: Spell check on Mac?

2009-04-19 Thread Richard Talley
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Sophie (itsme213) wrote: > Is there a way to get spell checking on Mac? Any pointers to more info > appreciated. Yes. Install cocoAspell. http://cocoaspell.leuski.net/ On Leopard, I've had to move the service folder cocoAspell.service

cocoAspell works with Lyx in Tiger, not Leopard

2009-04-18 Thread Richard Talley
Hello LyX-Users, I installed MacTeX 2008, cocoAspell 2.0.4.i86, Skim 1.2.1, and LyX 1.6.2 on an Intel Mac running Leopard (10.5.6). I have almost exactly the same setup on my personal machine except it's MacTeX 2007, Tiger (10.4.11) and, obviously, cocoAspell 2.0.4.ppc. Works like a charm on

Re: JurabibMLA

2009-04-18 Thread Richard Talley
An alternative solution might be mla-paper. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mla-paper/ -- Rich On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Stefano Franchi fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu wrote: On Saturday 18 April 2009 16:25:29 cmira...@kde-france.org wrote: Tim Smeilus wrote: hi

cocoAspell works with Lyx in Tiger, not Leopard

2009-04-18 Thread Richard Talley
Hello LyX-Users, I installed MacTeX 2008, cocoAspell 2.0.4.i86, Skim 1.2.1, and LyX 1.6.2 on an Intel Mac running Leopard (10.5.6). I have almost exactly the same setup on my personal machine except it's MacTeX 2007, Tiger (10.4.11) and, obviously, cocoAspell 2.0.4.ppc. Works like a charm on

Re: JurabibMLA

2009-04-18 Thread Richard Talley
An alternative solution might be mla-paper. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mla-paper/ -- Rich On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Stefano Franchi fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu wrote: On Saturday 18 April 2009 16:25:29 cmira...@kde-france.org wrote: Tim Smeilus wrote: hi

cocoAspell works with Lyx in Tiger, not Leopard

2009-04-18 Thread Richard Talley
Hello LyX-Users, I installed MacTeX 2008, cocoAspell 2.0.4.i86, Skim 1.2.1, and LyX 1.6.2 on an Intel Mac running Leopard (10.5.6). I have almost exactly the same setup on my personal machine except it's MacTeX 2007, Tiger (10.4.11) and, obviously, cocoAspell 2.0.4.ppc. Works like a charm on

Re: JurabibMLA

2009-04-18 Thread Richard Talley
An alternative solution might be mla-paper. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mla-paper/ -- Rich On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: > On Saturday 18 April 2009 16:25:29 cmira...@kde-france.org wrote: >> Tim Smeilus wrote: >>

Re: Lyx and DocBook

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Talley
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Ian S. Worthington ianworthing...@usa.net wrote: It also lists Lyx which seems a mature and usable tool for Latex, and produces highly attractive PDF documents. I read though that getting attractive HTML out of it is difficult. I''m getting good results out

Re: Lyx and DocBook

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Talley
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Ian S. Worthington ianworthing...@usa.net wrote: It also lists Lyx which seems a mature and usable tool for Latex, and produces highly attractive PDF documents. I read though that getting attractive HTML out of it is difficult. I''m getting good results out

Re: Lyx and DocBook

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Talley
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Ian S. Worthington wrote: > > It also lists Lyx which seems a mature and usable tool for Latex, > and produces highly attractive PDF documents. I read though that getting > attractive HTML out of it is difficult. > I''m getting good

Re: interface questions: navigator and view source

2009-04-01 Thread Richard Talley
1. When I first launched Lyx 1.6.2, the view source window was at the bottom of the main Lyx window. I clicked on the button to make it move to its own separate window. Now I'd like the view source window to move back into the main LyX window, but I can't find a way to do that. It should dock

Re: interface questions: navigator and view source

2009-04-01 Thread Richard Talley
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: On 2009-03-31, Richard Talley wrote: Running Lyx 1.6.2 on OS X 10.4.11 PPC. 1. When I first launched Lyx 1.6.2, the view source window was at the bottom of the main Lyx window. I clicked on the button to make it move

Re: interface questions: navigator and view source

2009-04-01 Thread Richard Talley
1. When I first launched Lyx 1.6.2, the view source window was at the bottom of the main Lyx window. I clicked on the button to make it move to its own separate window. Now I'd like the view source window to move back into the main LyX window, but I can't find a way to do that. It should dock

Re: interface questions: navigator and view source

2009-04-01 Thread Richard Talley
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: On 2009-03-31, Richard Talley wrote: Running Lyx 1.6.2 on OS X 10.4.11 PPC. 1. When I first launched Lyx 1.6.2, the view source window was at the bottom of the main Lyx window. I clicked on the button to make it move

Re: interface questions: navigator and view source

2009-04-01 Thread Richard Talley
1. When I first launched Lyx 1.6.2, the view source window was at the bottom of the main Lyx window. I clicked on the button to make it move to its own separate window. Now I'd like the view source window to move back into the main LyX window, but I can't find a way to do that.

Re: interface questions: navigator and view source

2009-04-01 Thread Richard Talley
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Guenter Milde <mi...@users.berlios.de> wrote: > On 2009-03-31, Richard Talley wrote: >> Running Lyx 1.6.2 on OS X 10.4.11 PPC. > >> 1. When I first launched Lyx 1.6.2, the view source window was at the >> bottom of the main Lyx w

interface questions: navigator and view source

2009-03-31 Thread Richard Talley
Running Lyx 1.6.2 on OS X 10.4.11 PPC. 1. When I first launched Lyx 1.6.2, the view source window was at the bottom of the main Lyx window. I clicked on the button to make it move to its own separate window. Now I'd like the view source window to move back into the main LyX window, but I can't

Re: interface questions: navigator and view source

2009-03-31 Thread Richard Talley
Thanks, Vincent. 1. When I first launched Lyx 1.6.2, the view source window was at the bottom of the main Lyx window. I clicked on the button to make it move to its own separate window. Now I'd like the view source window to move back into the main LyX window, but I can't find a way to do that.

interface questions: navigator and view source

2009-03-31 Thread Richard Talley
Running Lyx 1.6.2 on OS X 10.4.11 PPC. 1. When I first launched Lyx 1.6.2, the view source window was at the bottom of the main Lyx window. I clicked on the button to make it move to its own separate window. Now I'd like the view source window to move back into the main LyX window, but I can't

Re: interface questions: navigator and view source

2009-03-31 Thread Richard Talley
Thanks, Vincent. 1. When I first launched Lyx 1.6.2, the view source window was at the bottom of the main Lyx window. I clicked on the button to make it move to its own separate window. Now I'd like the view source window to move back into the main LyX window, but I can't find a way to do that.

interface questions: navigator and view source

2009-03-31 Thread Richard Talley
Running Lyx 1.6.2 on OS X 10.4.11 PPC. 1. When I first launched Lyx 1.6.2, the view source window was at the bottom of the main Lyx window. I clicked on the button to make it move to its own separate window. Now I'd like the view source window to move back into the main LyX window, but I can't

Re: interface questions: navigator and view source

2009-03-31 Thread Richard Talley
Thanks, Vincent. > >>1. When I first launched Lyx 1.6.2, the view source window >>was at the bottom of the main Lyx window. I clicked on the >>button to make it move to its own separate window. Now I'd >>like the view source window to move back into the main LyX >>window, but I can't find a way

Re: Introducing eLyXer: LyX to HTML converter

2009-03-13 Thread Richard Talley
Thank you for elyxer. Running OS X 10.4.11 Tiger PPC with a Fink installed Python 2.5.2 in /sw/bin/python. I dropped a copy of elyxer into /usr/local/bin with the appropriate owners and permissions. I tried to process ~60 page document, book class, dozens of PNG floating graphics, TOC, List of

Re: Introducing eLyXer: LyX to HTML converter

2009-03-13 Thread Richard Talley
Thank you for elyxer. Running OS X 10.4.11 Tiger PPC with a Fink installed Python 2.5.2 in /sw/bin/python. I dropped a copy of elyxer into /usr/local/bin with the appropriate owners and permissions. I tried to process ~60 page document, book class, dozens of PNG floating graphics, TOC, List of

Re: Introducing eLyXer: LyX to HTML converter

2009-03-13 Thread Richard Talley
Thank you for elyxer. Running OS X 10.4.11 Tiger PPC with a Fink installed Python 2.5.2 in /sw/bin/python. I dropped a copy of elyxer into /usr/local/bin with the appropriate owners and permissions. I tried to process ~60 page document, book class, dozens of PNG floating graphics, TOC, List of

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