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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
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> http://www.lyx.org/Donate
>
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math.
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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
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
ter it.
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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
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.
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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
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.
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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
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
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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&
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.
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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.
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
>
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.
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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
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.
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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.
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.
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nd{columns}
\vskip 10pt
\item This is line 3
\item This is line 4
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
%===
Daniel -- thanks so much for solving this problem. It was really bothering me.
Now I feel a lot better about moving forward with Beamer.
e identified a serious shortcoming of Beamer, and I'm trying very hard to
find a way around it, because I plan on using Beamer a lot.
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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.
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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.
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.
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that's a pretty tall order.
Could Powerpoint do that?
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Acroread. Acroread DOES have a way to set right click to "go back a slide".
Everything worked perfectly.
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make sure the document is
letter sized Landscape, author it, then convert to PDF.
I'll write more as I discover more about Beamer.
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t of LyX. I
find that much simpler. Your mileage may vary.
I wrote an article on doing Beamer straight from LaTeX here:
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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.
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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.
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nds with a presentation than does LyX. However, those
who prefer LyX can certainly gain benefit from this introductory tutorial.
Thanks to all of you who helped me gain the information necessary to write
this tutorial.
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John,
I don't recall meeting you. Can you please refresh my memory as to where we
met or how we know each other?
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On Monday 19 April 2010 14:55:00 John Niekrasz wrote:
> LinkedIn
> John Niekrasz requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn:
> ---
atural margins
and save their values, and then use them after the custom margins. The
\enlargethispage is necessary only if your margins are very close to the edges
of the paper. In my case I used this to put a full page graphic on the cover
page.
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t to renumber in LaTeX. This is
one of the real powers of LyX -- you can use UNIX commands and computer
programs to insert things that just aren't known within LaTeX.
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On Monday 12 April 2010 08:23:29 Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> On 4/11/2010 8:56 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Your code was almost exactly what I wanted, but it left white spaces at
> > the slide's margins.
>
> I saw that when I experimented with it, but I figured it needed som
On Sunday 11 April 2010 20:00:38 Paul Rubin wrote:
> Steve Litt writes:
> > When I do this:
> >
> > \setbeamercolor{headline}{fg=blue,bg=red}
> > \setbeamertemplate{headline}[text line]{I love that dirty water}
> >
> > Indeed the header says "I
Hi all,
When I do this:
\setbeamercolor{headline}{fg=blue,bg=red}
\setbeamertemplate{headline}[text line]{I love that dirty water}
Indeed the header says "I love that dirty water" in blue type, but the
background remains white. How do I turn the header's background red?
I'm looking for a LaTeX
On Friday 09 April 2010 07:37:18 rgheck wrote:
> On 04/09/2010 03:49 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> > On 04/09/2010 07:31 AM, Jose Quesada wrote:
> >> What I would like to know is... is this narrowing feature interesting
> >> for
> >> people here?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> >> Or is it just me who thinks t
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 13:28:04 Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Which PDF guide -- what's the URL, filename, or mouse click path to get
> > to it?
>
> Steve,
>
>Here it's: /usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/beamer/beamerusergui
gerpainting. But Beamer isn't bad for 15 minutes without reading
documentation :-)
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On Wednesday 07 April 2010 12:55:07 Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Steve Litt wrote:
> > I've never made a presentation in LyX, but I'd like to try it out on a
> > ten minute presentation. What do I use, Beamer? Could someone point me to
> > a Beamer tuto
Hi all,
I've never made a presentation in LyX, but I'd like to try it out on a ten
minute presentation. What do I use, Beamer? Could someone point me to a Beamer
tutorial or Beamer proof of concept, or a tutorial or proof of concept for
another presentation making tool?
Thanks
Ste
ips, then converts to pdf via ps2pdf.
I do stuff like this all the time. This is how my eBook personalization
scripts work.
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us way when you do that. I always put my LaTeX in
the upper part of my layout file and the LyX code in the lower part so I don't
have these problems.
As far as how to make a layout file, I have a bunch of documentation on the
subject here:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ind
to frame the preceding paragraph and send it to everyone I know. In a
world where most people jam in codes everywhere, you actually try to make your
styles represent the intent of the writing.
There's an easy answer to your problem, and I'll tell it to you in another
email.
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rtmann wrote:
> That doesn't work properly. It puts a space enter the number of the
> footnote and its text.
>
> How I can construct a character style, I unfortunately don't know. I need
> the whole footnote on the bottom of the page.
>
> SP
>
> Am 02.04.2
:
> I didn't get the clue. In you're idea, I should put that TeX-Code in to the
> footnote or before the footnote marker appears in the text? I'm really new
> in using LyX and I'm not having much experience in customizing it.
>
> SP
>
> Am 02.04.2010
Kludge alert:
Put LaTeX ~\\[2cm] at the start of each footnote's text, or perhaps change the
footnote environment to place that before the footnote's text, or if that
doesn't work perhaps construct a character style that does the same thing.
These are ugly kludges that should be considered last
alled
> --Separator--
>
> Cheers,
> Julien
Thanks for that info Julien! I've always ERT'ed a gratuitous ~\\ or something
like that. Your way is much more professional, and also easier.
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On Tuesday 30 March 2010 21:21:24 Steve Litt wrote:
> There are several excellent LaTeX books, all fairly expensive. The seminal
> TeX document on the web is this:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/opinion/21shulman.html
Oops! I was doing some research for a post to GoLUG, and
On Tuesday 30 March 2010 15:15:14 Sajjad wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Steve Litt
wrote:
> > The way I do this type of thing is to construct the frontmatter,
> > including the cover, in LyX using ERT and custom environments. That's a
> > few hours of LaTeX
side, is,
> unfortunately that you won't get the automatic headers and footers
> unless you add the appropriate macros in your document preamble:
>
> \author{}
> \title{}
> ...
>
> On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 15:04 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > The way I do this type of th
The way I do this type of thing is to construct the frontmatter, including
the cover, in LyX using ERT and custom environments. That's a few hours of
LaTeX ERT work to get it looking just how you want it to, but I think it's
worth it.
A second way you can do it is to use pdftk to tack the Word
conversion, that's a huge win, or as VP Biden would say, "a big bleepin deal!"
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rs and formats are put in LyX, LyX will become big and bloated, and
that will give bugs more places to hide. My suggestion would be to put
converter interfaces in a separate executable that outputs either LyX or
LaTeX, and maybe have that callable from LyX.
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Wordperfect and MSWord have layout editors of sorts, but their tags are so
much simpler than LaTeX.
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have consistency and is the equivalent of a document). I wouldn't use it for a
five page document -- OpenOffice and AbiWord are much easier for that, whether
you're doing fingerpainting or limited styles-based. To me, adding features
like autocap and especially rich/XML paste would be
illustration", rather than have LyX write "As you can see from graphic 3.4 on
the opposite page". Floats theoretically offer a "here no matter what"
facility which should place the graphic and its float exactly where it is in
the text. "Ummm, maybe."
SteveT
!
The workaround I found is to put \par before the \end{sloppy}, so the ERT at
the end of the paragraph looks like this:
\par\end{sloppy}
Works great, no sweat, but I'm wondering if this workaround has some side
effects I'll suffer from later on. What do you think?
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time, I'd advise anyone opening the same
doc in two different windows to save early and often.
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er style. But when you
add to that the need to preface it with Edit->Text_style, it becomes downright
painful. Character styles are a fundamental part of what the LyX community
calls WYSIWYM, so the easier it is the more true it is to LyX.
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What's a bookmark in LyX? I
see there's Navigate->Bookmark. See what bookmarks you have, clear them all
and try again.
If none of this solves it, I'll leave you with this one last thought:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/199902/199902.htm
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t the LyXFun level, but I
haven't a clue how to do it.
This functionality will be needed when LyX has full outlining capability and
VimOutliner assumes secondary importance.
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ok making script copy the LyX file to a temp file,
search/replace "Warning: Illegal copy!" with the reader's name prefixed by
"Prepared exclusively for ", and compile.
Obviously, \licensee goes in the footer.
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ions/lyx_leap/toc.html
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/latex_laboratory.htm
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/surefire_layout.htm
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the beginnings of
lines on odd number pages and ends of lines on even number pages.
You can set the margins with the Book document class also, and probably all of
them. From within LyX, Document->Settings->Page_Margins, then uncheck the
Default box and put the desired stuff in Inner and O
>
> Have you already tried Document > Settings > Text Layout > Vertical
> space (choose what you like) under "Separate paragraphs with" ?
>
> Cheers, Nikos
>
That only works if he doesn't indent paragraphs. Otherwise he has to use a
simple LaTeX c
t problem here:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/surefire_layout.htm
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and a text box? Basically the change involves the addition of a couple
buttons and a text box.
Like I said, I doubt it will come to this. Nobody wants Steve Litt writing LyX
code -- I'm neither a C++ guy nor a Qt guy, and the biggest free software
project I've worked on has about 5 develo
On Friday 26 February 2010 07:31:49 Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> On 02/26/2010 05:18 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > In August I put in a request for a couple improvements to LyX outline
> > mode that would stratospherically launch productivity. See it here:
> >
> > http://
es, which probably means there's LOTS of
customization that can be done at the style level.
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:
./configure --with-version-suffix=-svn20100225 --enable-build-type=release &&
make && make install
?
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reopened with an earlier version.
>
>I understand that it won't be released until it's ready, but for me,
> it's ready.
Fascinating!
Curtis -- Is LyX 2.0 still like old ones where you can compile it as, let's
say, lyx-20 and it will run parallel to the LyX that c
r custom environments or ERT. Only the \mainmatter should depend on
features of the document class.
For the past three years I've been following this advice and it's made my book
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ided a
switch (*copyrightwanted =) to remove it. If that's true, I personally would
have no problem with your removing it, and although I'm not a lawyer I'd bet
heavily that removing it is perfectly legal.
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books, the idea of people removing copyright
information makes me very nervous.
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On Tuesday 02 February 2010 21:31:20 0 wrote:
> Liviu Andronic and Vincent van Ravesteijn refuse to solve the problem and
> says it's "external tools". Liviu Andronic says "it's problematic".
> Vincent van Ravesteijn says "it is certainly not a LyX problem".
This is an all time first. For the fi
e, even if one page has substantially less text
because of how a graphic pagebroke. Be sure that even on tightly packed pages
there's too much space around section headers, before trying to "fix" it.
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On Tuesday 26 January 2010 05:07:37 Rainer M Krug wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Steve Litt
wrote:
> > On Monday 25 January 2010 16:53:30 Rainer M Krug wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Steve Litt
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > On Mon
On Monday 25 January 2010 16:53:30 Rainer M Krug wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Steve Litt
wrote:
> > On Monday 25 January 2010 15:24:26 Rainer M Krug wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I would like to have, instead of the standard numbering in the Append
t book has an Appendix called "Example: SSH".
On the Appendix's chapter page, it looks like this:
Appendix A
Example: SSH
In the table of contents, it looks like this:
A Example: SSH
Is this what you're already getting, what you'd like to get, or neither?
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On Thursday 21 January 2010 09:14:50 Sam Liddicott wrote:
> Sorry guys... wrong list "again"
>
> Sam
>
I've been out of the loop. Where does one ask user type questions for elyxer,
and how does one sign up?
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htt
e service is free, and they'll delete the
> files after some time automatically.
>
> John
Yeah, and that way you don't have to take the time to mess around with the
wiki. I'm like you Oliver -- my days are too short to be wikiing around just
to distribute a few files.
Ste
t;>> Richard
>
> I'm interested to know if there is a more 'LyX' way of doing this
Humor me for a second...
If exactly one page is landscape, that page must involve special content that
must remain together always. If that's the case, maybe make that content w
te:
> Hello.
>
> See the attached files lyx and tex. I began with the tex file and then this
> was imported to lyx; this is more easy for me. The command
> \renewcommand{\tablename}{Table} is because I work in spanish language.
>
> Regards.
> - Original Message -
On Tuesday 12 January 2010 03:47:03 Daniel Lohmann wrote:
> On 12.01.2010, at 07:05, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Ugh!
> >
> > I wanted rows with 3 columns. Column 1 is the name of the graphic.
> > Column 2 is
> > the graphic itself. Column 3 is a short expla
correctly,
vertically, within their respective cells? Does anyone have any idea what
would cause the behavior I describe?
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e to see a similar LFUN_REREAD_CONFIGURATION to do what Tools-
>Reconfigure does but without necessitating leaving and reentering LyX.
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On Monday 11 January 2010 19:31:15 Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I think the user interface for setting keyboard bindings can use
> consid
the "principle of least surprise" -- the interface is just so weird
that documenting it would take pages and pages of explanations and warnings.
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at is it
called?
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Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
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og giving the date,
time, and wordcount, and you can continue working while the words are being
counted.
SteveT
Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
ased operating system, you can get a reasonable
approximation of wordcount with a simple shellscript, even if you're adding
the wordcount of multiple files.
SteveT
Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
ing, spellchecking and indexing are done. I've found it
easier to deal with books as a whole, and with all that work done you won't be
messing with the file all that much after that.
SteveT
Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
is a cleaner hack
Yeah, I've been using the protected space gambit for years, and once you
remember to do it it's not particularly painful to do.
SteveT
Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
The one situation where I'd split into chapters is if different people were
working on different chapters. That would necessitate splitting, and LyX is
ready, willing and able to handle that. Otherwise, I personally stick to one
file for the whole book.
Your mileage may vary, consult ever
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