Re: Published with lyx

2010-05-29 Thread Steve Litt
ing and publishing a book, and doing it in LyX, which I consider the best book-writing software in the world. I've been off the LyX-Users list for a month and didn't even know it, but I'm back now. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Environments and layouts

2010-06-01 Thread Steve Litt
st put the right stuff where it belongs. I believe that the frontmatter is typically a one-off affair that needn't be consistent throughout, whereas the mainmatter must be consistent throughout, which is why I use almost no ERT in the mainmatter. YMMV. StevET Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Beamer multitude problems with lyx

2010-06-01 Thread Steve Litt
t of LyX. I find that much simpler. Your mileage may vary. I wrote an article on doing Beamer straight from LaTeX here: http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201005/201005.htm SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Beamer multitude problems with lyx

2010-06-02 Thread Steve Litt
make sure the document is letter sized Landscape, author it, then convert to PDF. I'll write more as I discover more about Beamer. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Beamer multitude problems with lyx

2010-06-02 Thread Steve Litt
Acroread. Acroread DOES have a way to set right click to "go back a slide". Everything worked perfectly. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Beamer multitude problems with lyx

2010-06-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 19:18:37 Ehud Kaplan wrote: > Steve, > To place a logo (or any other element of a template) with vfill, hfill, > etc. is way too much work, since you have to do it on every slide, > dodging the other important stuff that the slide is to carry-- that is >

Re: Beamer multitude problems with lyx

2010-06-03 Thread Steve Litt
n. > Not an issue in powerpoint. Not an issue with LaTeX either, assuming you have some form of LaTeX and Beamer on your computers, which is a pretty good assumption. StevET Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Beamer multitude problems with lyx

2010-06-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 12:07:51 Steve Litt wrote: > On Wednesday 02 June 2010 08:33:42 EK wrote: > > A BIG problem with the current Beamer is its inability to easily (by > > mere mortals) configure templates, or even determine the location of an > > institutional logo.

Re: How to Print Chapter Names on Seperate Page - Koma Script Report

2010-06-07 Thread Steve Litt
quot;end" environment: \let\endoldfoot\endfootnote Without that, an environment whose "end" part actually does something will either do the wrong thing or fail. It's rare, but I've seen it happen. Also, the hint above works well if you want the new functionality to come before the original, after the original, or both. Where if fails is if you want to insert something in the middle of the original. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Beamer multitude problems with lyx

2010-06-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 19:18:37 Ehud Kaplan wrote: > Steve, > To place a logo (or any other element of a template) with vfill, hfill, > etc. is way too much work, since you have to do it on every slide, > dodging the other important stuff that the slide is to carry-- that is >

Re: Beamer multitude problems with lyx

2010-06-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 08 June 2010 03:24:01 Daniel Lohmann wrote: > Steve (and others), > > I know that you a are a friend of pragmatic solutions (recalling the > recurring discussion on how to do the front matter), so here is mine with > respect to beamer, which kind of resembles yo

Re: Beamer multitude problems with lyx

2010-06-09 Thread Steve Litt
such subtle dependencies, especially those that do not show up > at compilation time, but just make the result looking weird, are hard to > debug. This is a problem all through LaTeXdom and LyXdom. I think it's probably a problem in all styles-based content. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: what is a good lyx layout for notetaking?

2010-06-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 10 June 2010 17:58:56 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 10/06/2010 23:14, Steve Litt a écrit : > > I wouldn't be caught dead taking notes with any software other than > > VimOutliner. > > Except emacs' org-mode, of course :) http://www.ninds.

Re: what is a good lyx layout for notetaking?

2010-06-10 Thread Steve Litt
in VimOutliner form. Once again, when it comes to realtime notetaking, VimOutliner is much faster than LyX. LyX's long suit is authoring documents with lots of body text, not realtime notetaking where most of what you write is part of the hierarchy. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Steve Litt
bigger graphics (and probably formulas), the more inter- paragraph variations become. It's hard to defeat this LaTeX behavior without a lot of micromanaging. I've found you can change the pagecount by changing the margins just a little. If you want this to be a six page document, I

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-12 Thread Steve Litt
opy of the doc in half and see whether it's just as slow, half as slow, or not slow at all. Continue doing this half splitting until you discover the factors corresponding to slow behavior. StevET Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 12 June 2010 19:10:31 Alan L Tyree wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:01:26 -0400 > > Steve Litt wrote: > > On Saturday 12 June 2010 03:55:23 Barak Sh wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page >

Re: Problems with lines in EPS Figure

2010-06-14 Thread Steve Litt
h 3 pixel thick lines (including the circles and rectangles) and see whether you get the same problems. If not, I recommend using 3px lines. Another thing I've done successfully is convert it to a .pdf and use that in LyX. For whatever reasons, .pdf graphics seem to scale better within LyX.

Re: I have some problem with exporting in Lyx

2010-06-14 Thread Steve Litt
exploit the differences between that doc and the one that wouldn't export. If that one doesn't work, it's either a bug or an intermittent problem "cured" by rebooting, so try rebooting. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-15 Thread Steve Litt
happening on kde, but I'm not sure anymore. I'm not surprised at it happening most on KDE. I've never had a lot of trust for KDE or its apps. KDE and its apps impress me as fragile, glitchy and slow. And yes, this email's X-mailer header does say Kmail -- I never said I wasn&

Re: can anyone help me get moving with LyX?

2010-06-17 Thread Steve Litt
e. I've written some docs about making your own environments. The table of contents for those docs is at: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm HTH SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: can anyone help me get moving with LyX?

2010-06-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 17 June 2010 14:59:36 Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:42:53AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Thursday 17 June 2010 02:46:53 Gary Kline wrote: > > > People, > > > > > > Appended is a greatly abbreviated sample of the novel that I w

Re: Drag and drop text support on Lyx 1.6.6.1

2010-06-22 Thread Steve Litt
o implement this feature, please include a switch to turn it off. Personally I'd prefer it be turned off by default, and if it's turned on by default, please widely publicize the change. The way I work, dragging and dropping of text is a sure way to garble a document. SteveT Stev

Re: eLyXer 0.99 released

2010-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
ry. If they're in the current directory (ugly way to do things, but just saying), copy them into a new directory hard code named elyxer_images. I know probably eLyXer has code to prevent overwriting, but the user who wants to use eLyXer naively would appreciate the new directories being used

Re: Help with positioning of figures in the middle of a paragraph

2010-06-26 Thread Steve Litt
Float. > > Vincent That's good info Vincent. Thanks. I'm going to try that in my next book. I didn't know it was possible in LyX. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Conversion of LyX to word - read-only - idea from other mailing list

2010-07-07 Thread Steve Litt
That's the funniest thing I've ever read, and it's the perfect thing to give these bozos who insist on MS Word. I'm pretty sure for big documents this could be automated with pdftk and convert plus a program to generate an abiword file from the page pictures. The abiword file can then be conver

Trademark usage symbol

2010-07-21 Thread Steve Litt
ter it. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Trademark usage symbol

2010-07-21 Thread Steve Litt
Richard Heck wrote me off list and told me how to do it. Thanks Richard! His solution is so good I'm putting it at the bottom of this email... On Wednesday 21 July 2010 18:27:50 Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to make a character style or command to put a regi

Re: Trademark usage symbol

2010-07-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 22 July 2010 07:52:41 Richard Heck wrote: > On 07/22/2010 02:18 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Note that in order to achieve relativity I used \baselineskip, when > > I really should have used something relative to > > character width, but I didn't know such a me

Where to contribute to LyX

2010-07-26 Thread Steve Litt
math. Does the LyX project have a Paypal account for taking in contributions? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Where to contribute to LyX

2010-07-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 26 July 2010 16:55:59 Paul Rubin wrote: > http://www.lyx.org/Donate > Done. Thanks! SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: SuperscriptLc character style: Close but no cigar

2010-07-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 22 July 2010 17:00:02 Richard Heck wrote: > On 07/22/2010 02:54 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > So I made the following character style to make superscripts on words > > that end with a lowercase, half height character (I'll make the UC &g

How to view outline mode without clicking the table of contents?

2010-07-28 Thread Steve Litt
mode from the menu system. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: How to view outline mode without clicking the table of contents?

2010-07-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 28 July 2010 17:46:16 Liviu Andronic wrote: > Steve > > On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:26:21 -0400 > > Steve Litt wrote: > > How do I view outline mode without clicking the table of contents? I > > know it's a dumb question with a simple answer, but I'

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
ragraph and character styles? If so, this is VERY useful. Note that I don't even care if it translates the style defs -- I can just make a layout. What I want is a final doc with the styles applied, and a list of all the character and paragraph styles so I can put em all in the layout. Does

Re: Trademark usage symbol

2010-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 06 August 2010 05:25:44 Helge Hafting wrote: > On 22. juli 2010 00:27, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to make a character style or command to put a registered > > trademark symbol smaller and up from the normal text line. This is ALMOST &

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 07 August 2010 06:57:18 Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use > with LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel > less. As of 8/8/2...@8:02 New York time, here is an alp

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Steve Litt
t, or perhaps have a more LaTeX aware person help you with it. I make my new styles in layout files, and I've documented a lot of it here: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm Since you're under a time crunch, try to get by with LyX's default styles, but if you need

How to convert to MS Word?

2010-08-16 Thread Steve Litt
or's suggestions back in my LyX doc. By the way, if any of you do proofing/copy-editing for a living, please feel free to email me off list. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Pure Promotion - LyX Talk at University of Utah

2010-08-18 Thread Steve Litt
ess Self Promotion Rob, I'm 1500 miles away. Will there be a video? SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Shorttoc tight problem

2010-08-31 Thread Steve Litt
mand tableofcontents and simply tweaked its lengths. Note that the setstretch{} command requires a special package, I think it's the setspace package. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Thanks for LyX

2010-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
built for speed. I've had a 6000 word day using LyX, a couple 5000 word days, and several 4000 word days. Thanks so much for this spectacular writing tool. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Many questions about typesetting

2010-09-14 Thread Steve Litt
f layouts. Here's the set of links for my LyX documentations and tutorials: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm I'll give you one more word of wisdom. It gets better. As time goes on you learn the in's and out's of making environments and character style

Re: a few questions regarding lyx

2010-09-16 Thread Steve Litt
istently recommend that a document's front matter be done with custom environments and/or ERT (Evil Red Text, insert LaTeX), etc). That way you can make every element of your title, copyright, and other front pages EXACTLY how you want them. IMHO relying on your document class and trying to wre

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Steve Litt
ept a tech > demonstration. Aw contrair. Google Wave was techs greatest status symbol. Who got it first? How many invitations did you get? This was the first time since the IPO of VA Linux that you could be a true tech snob. :-) SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Steve Litt
should be collaborative above and beyond being able to farm out chapters to different people, which it can already do. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Using Lyx 2.0 and 1.6

2010-09-29 Thread Steve Litt
line mode, which is darned useful. StevET SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Plot dates in footer?

2010-10-01 Thread Steve Litt
header? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

How to have headers and footers print on the chapter intro pages?

2010-10-01 Thread Steve Litt
prints its page number on the bottom instead of in the header. Thanks StevET Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Variables showing top-of-page values?

2010-10-01 Thread Steve Litt
trouble in paradise. These variables are dates, and I want the variable value in the header to be the value on entry to the page. Instead, it's the value on exit from the page. Is there any way to make it the value on entry to the page? Maybe some sort of LaTeX break logic? Thanks STeveT St

Re: Variables showing top-of-page values?

2010-10-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 02 October 2010 08:42:55 Richard Heck wrote: > On 10/02/2010 12:49 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm using a document class derived from the Book class, and that can't > > change. > > > > I created a character style that

Re: Variables showing top-of-page values?

2010-10-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 02 October 2010 11:54:46 Paul A. Rubin wrote: > On 10/2/2010 11:16 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Saturday 02 October 2010 08:42:55 Richard Heck wrote: > >> On 10/02/2010 12:49 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> I

Re: Variables showing top-of-page values?

2010-10-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 02 October 2010 14:55:14 Steve Litt wrote: > On Saturday 02 October 2010 11:54:46 Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > On 10/2/2010 11:16 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > What happens if you load the afterpage package and put the macro > > inside \afterpage{}? Hopefully that wo

How to show two images side by side?

2010-10-02 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I know in LyX there's some way to show two images side by side but I forgot how to do it. How do I do it? Thanks StgevET Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Variables showing top-of-page values?

2010-10-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 02 October 2010 18:24:01 Julien Rioux wrote: > On 02/10/2010 4:25 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Ugh! Afterpage appears not to work for reasons unknown. I did this: > > > > \newcommand{\plotdatebodyL}[1]{% > >\renewcommand\plotdateondeck[0]{#1}% >

Re: Variables showing top-of-page values?

2010-10-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 03 October 2010 04:33:43 Steve Litt wrote: > On Saturday 02 October 2010 18:24:01 Julien Rioux wrote: > > On 02/10/2010 4:25 PM, Steve Litt wrote: [clip] > > > The \renewcommand inside the afterpage doesn't work. \afterpage is > > > firing because I get

Re: Variables showing top-of-page values?

2010-10-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 03 October 2010 12:44:05 Julien Rioux wrote: > On 03/10/2010 4:57 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > U D Man Julien!!! > > Well, to be fair the main hint of using afterpage came from Paul. > > > \gdef didn't work, but \xdef sure did. I replaced this: >

Re: Plot dates in footer?

2010-10-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 01 October 2010 15:46:12 Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > My new business novel has a timeline, and I don't want the reader confused > about what day it is. Part of that is a writing task, but I was thinking of > having the day and date of the action in the footer. &g

Re: Variables showing top-of-page values?

2010-10-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 02 October 2010 00:49:20 Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using a document class derived from the Book class, and that can't > change. > > I created a character style that in LyX shows the text, but in the PDF > doesn't show the text and simp

Re: How to have headers and footers print on the chapter intro pages?

2010-10-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 01 October 2010 19:01:10 Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using a document class derived from the Book class, and that can't > change. > > Given that, how can I get headers and footers to show up on the chapter > intro pages as well as the other

Re: what is a good lyx layout for notetaking?

2010-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
VimOutliner http://www.vimoutliner.net

Re: OT: should learning materials be hard to read?

2010-10-16 Thread Steve Litt
your audience will appear to be "young and modern." > > Does this make sense to any of you? Should I start preparing my > presentations in grey colour? Absolutely. Gray print on gray background is fantastic for keeping your audience in a questioning mood. :-) St

Re: OT: should learning materials be hard to read?

2010-10-19 Thread Steve Litt
familiar to the unknown." You start with something completely familiar to the exercise taker, and then add in one new thing to learn. I go over this a great deal in my book "Rapid Learning For the 21st Century". For an example, look at any of the exercise tutorials on Troublesh

Re: Page numbering x of y

2010-11-01 Thread Steve Litt
tpage: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/lastpage/ When I have the time I'm going to try your label/reference way. It's a *very* slick idea. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: indexing helpers

2010-11-03 Thread Steve Litt
e procedure I would like to follow here: > http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/lyx-automatic-index-generation.html. > Unfortunately, the awk script it describes seems linked to an old version > of Lyx. > > Steve Litt describes the same technique in an old post, but he seems to &

Re: Page headers problem... LaTeX rather

2010-11-04 Thread Steve Litt
d then work to toggle the problem on and off and isolate the root cause. I'd also take steps to verify that only the first page works. I wouldn't be surprised if every Part or Section page works. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Page headers problem... LaTeX rather

2010-11-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 05 November 2010 07:31:52 Manveru wrote: > 2010/11/5 Steve Litt : > > On Thursday 04 November 2010 18:26:22 Manveru wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I know this is rather LaTeX related problem, but maybe someone from > >> this list is able to h

Re: Page headers problem... LaTeX rather

2010-11-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 06 November 2010 09:45:47 Manveru wrote: > > I just had to set page style to fancy, and redefine everything. * * \ o / \|/ |T O O C O O L / \ _ / \/ / - SteveT

Re: lyx single instance

2010-11-06 Thread Steve Litt
nd hopefully not the default. I've found single-instance to be a pain in the posterior in most situations, especially if you use lots of desktops. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Automating sequence of beamer exports to pdf

2010-11-08 Thread Steve Litt
, you can take out the viewing and have them consecutively execute. It would probably take a couple minutes -- a trip to the water fountain. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Fonts in LyX (and LaTeX and TeX)

2010-11-09 Thread Steve Litt
7;m mistaken, fonts other than the ones packaged with your LaTeX are incredibly difficult to do in LyX/LaTeX/TeX. Is there documentation on how to take a random font and make it ready to use in LyX, LaTeX or TeX? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recessio

Re: Automating sequence of beamer exports to pdf

2010-11-10 Thread Steve Litt
my opinion a presentation's LaTeX source is much simpler and self-evident than the same presentation in LyX. The way I do Beamer is do it in LaTeX, and then use a script to convert it to PDF. You could use a similar script to output your three PDFs. See this URL for details: http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201005/201005.htm SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...

2010-11-12 Thread Steve Litt
I use .pdf figures in my LyX documents -- that usually turns out very well. If you guys can figure out a way so that LyX treats .eps as a vector, that will be wonderful. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

"Replace" without "Next"

2010-11-13 Thread Steve Litt
s would be more work, so the current Replace button must be kept, but for occasions like mine, the new button would GREATLY reduce the work. SteeT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Suitable point size

2010-11-13 Thread Steve Litt
way to get 14 that's what I'd use. As your audience skews older, you need to skew bigger. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: examdesign layout, or multiple-choice questions in LyX

2010-11-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 14 November 2010 06:03:35 Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Jason Waskiewicz > > wrote: > > I hope you find something here that you can use. The limitation I see > > with LyX is the ability to nest in a layout file. > > Yes, Steve

Re: Reconfiguring Lyx from a command line

2010-11-18 Thread Steve Litt
re.py > > [--with-version-suffix=] > > > > Vincent > > I though you had to do this from within the user-dir. Is that not so? That's always been my understanding. I've tried, and if my current directory isn't /home/slitt/.lyx, the reconfigure command silen

Re: I just lost a footnote in a table

2010-11-22 Thread Steve Litt
have used them ever since. So when you say "I could whine and say that should happen automagically, but I won't, because this is very fine", I know EXACTLY what you mean. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Fwd: [Pub-forum] Lyx justification problem

2010-11-24 Thread Steve Litt
-- Subject: [Pub-forum] Lyx justification problem Date: Wednesday 24 November 2010 To: "Publisher's Forum" John or Steve: I guess you are the two TeX authorities but anybody else can pop in with an answer. I have just installed Lyx on a MacBook and have tried to format some test c

Re: Texshade package with lyx

2010-12-05 Thread Steve Litt
l is not here" error, and searching CTAN for package Texshade produces no result. Could you please post the complete URL? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Where is the spellcheck word list kept?

2010-12-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 05 December 2010 19:56:59 Julien Rioux wrote: > On 05/12/2010 7:51 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Where is the LyX spellcheck word list kept? I'd like to maintain a > > distinct list for each book, so that character names don't t

Re: Where is the spellcheck word list kept?

2010-12-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 05 December 2010 22:33:07 Paul Rubin wrote: > Steve Litt troubleshooters.com> writes: > > . > > > I think I found a personal dictionary at $HOME/.aspell.en.pws. That sound > > about right? > > Yes, that's it. > > > Upon finishing

Re: Where is the spellcheck word list kept?

2010-12-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 06 December 2010 00:09:15 Steve Litt wrote: > On Sunday 05 December 2010 22:33:07 Paul Rubin wrote: > > Steve Litt troubleshooters.com> writes: > > > > . > > > > > I think I found a personal dictionary at $HOME/.aspell.en.pws. That > >

Questions and suggestions for spellcheck

2010-12-06 Thread Steve Litt
x27;s hard to say what needs to be done in order that it take effect. It thus presents as an intermittent. Detailed documentation is needed. 6) YMMV, but I could get only aspell to work with LyX -- ispell and hspell errored out. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Questions and suggestions for spellcheck

2010-12-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 06 December 2010 17:18:33 Paul Rubin wrote: > Steve Litt troubleshooters.com> writes: > > 2) I set it, removed it, and then it came back. Ugh! > > There's a ticket about #2 in the bug tracker (#6688 -- I filed it), and I > just saw a status update on it

Re: Questions and suggestions for spellcheck

2010-12-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 07 December 2010 01:33:03 Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 07.12.2010 um 00:18 schrieb Richard Heck: > > On 12/06/2010 06:06 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > >> On Monday 06 December 2010 17:18:33 Paul Rubin wrote: > >>> Steve Litt troubleshooters.com> writes: > &g

Re: New Page Breaks

2010-12-10 Thread Steve Litt
Blue Font End # %%% Plotdate charstyle for insertion in body of chapter. # Sets variable that gets fed into var for header # Text should not show up in body of PDF, only in header CharStyle PlotDateBody LatexName plotdatebodyL LatexType Command Font Size Tiny Color Red

Re: PDF output question

2010-12-11 Thread Steve Litt
hoolbook. I have no idea if that's bitmapped or scalable. If I had to switch to Palatino or Latin Modern to get scalable fonts, I'd be one of those resisting making scalable fonts the default. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

How to change margins on LyX to Text exports?

2010-12-14 Thread Steve Litt
w how to change the linelengths of the exported text file? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

LyX and editors?

2010-12-14 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Perhaps some of you author in LyX but have editors go over your material. My experience is most editors don't have LyX and don't have the technical chops to use LyX. So how do you interface with your editors when writing a book in LyX? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recess

Re: Extreme speed difference between 1.4.5.1 and 1.6.8

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Litt
ndle my book's structure and even some text in VimOutliner, and when the structure's correct, move it into LyX. All these things require an easy to edit LyX native file format. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Extreme speed difference between 1.4.5.1 and 1.6.8

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:32:43 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > On 15/12/2010 18:59, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:54:01 Michael Joyner wrote: [clip] > >> One of our initial goals was to try and maintain an easy to edit file > >> format sh

Re: Extreme speed difference between 1.4.5.1 and 1.6.8

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:32:43 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > On 15/12/2010 18:59, Steve Litt wrote: > > Mike, > > > > I REALLY appreciate your making easy to edit file format as a goal. I'd > > estimate that half my full-length LyX projects involve editing ei

Possible SVG gotcha

2010-12-16 Thread Steve Litt
ation. My LyX is 1.6.4. I'm going to be troubleshooting this today. If anyone has dealt with this before, please let me know. And if you're putting SVG images into your books, be aware of that until this thing gets solved. I'll continue letting you know as I find out more. SteveT

Re: Possible SVG gotcha

2010-12-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 16 December 2010 13:13:46 Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > My book personalization script magically stopped working today, for two of > my six eBooks. Some of the error messages concerned images. I found that > on one book the SVG images in the book got horribly garbl

Re: Possible SVG gotcha

2010-12-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 16 December 2010 15:07:01 Steve Litt wrote: > On Thursday 16 December 2010 13:13:46 Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > My book personalization script magically stopped working today, for two > > of my six eBooks. Some of the error messages concerned imag

Re: Possible SVG gotcha

2010-12-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 16 December 2010 15:49:16 Marc J. Driftmeyer wrote: > On 12/16/2010 12:42 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Thursday 16 December 2010 15:07:01 Steve Litt wrote: > >> On Thursday 16 December 2010 13:13:46 Steve Litt wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> >

Re: Lyx forgets document settings

2010-12-19 Thread Steve Litt
etting happens: 1) In the saving 2) When exiting LyX or closing the file 3) When opening the file in LyX again Once you know that, you can narrow it down again and again until your description makes it a 2 minute fix for the developers, who hopefully can give you a temporary fix until you upgr

Re: Lyx forgets document settings

2010-12-19 Thread Steve Litt
ot that this is a solution, but are you able to finish your project without "Use non-TeX fonts (via XeteX/LuaTeX)"? If so, it gets you out of harms way, and the root cause can be addressed later. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Is there a lyx style that bolds only the first sentence of a paragraph?

2011-01-07 Thread Steve Litt
d bold to a period, although heaven help you if you have to use an abbreviation in the sentence. Anyway, given the existence of Description, what you're describing has to be possible. StevET Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

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