tool.
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On Tuesday 22 July 2008 11:32, rgheck wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
I don't know how it will be after LyX goes XML, but right now at 1.5.3,
converting my LyX code to something else by parsing the LyX native code
would be trivial.
My understanding is that, whatever happens with the LyX file
dialect, and Like I
said I'm willing to help with that documentation.
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On Wednesday 23 July 2008 00:54, Dirk Markert wrote:
2008/7/22 Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Günter (and everyone else),
Your response contains one of the most useful LyX idioms I've ever seen,
limiting my biggest objection to LyX. It will lead to vastly improved
productivity for me
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problem, of course, is that angle brackets within the text would be linefed,
which may or may not be a problem depending on the XML dialect you come up
with.
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and an
XML file. That way, once they actually specify what they're going to do,
we'll have the technology for the XML-YAML-XML round trip, and only the
details will require coding.
What do you think?
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, XML is by
far the best way to go, and I would never suggest rewriting LyX in awk :-).
My interest is in quick writes/tweaks of LyX native format files in order to
do things that LyX isn't equipped to do, like my VimOutliner to LyX script.
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On Wednesday 23 July 2008 11:05, José Matos wrote:
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 15:33:16 Steve Litt wrote:
The trouble is, XML tags can be anywhere -- spacing and linefeeds are
immaterial. That means you can no longer parse based on position, such
as:
/^begin_layout/
because
Hi all,
One feature I think would be really helpful in LyX would be
search-for-environment and search-for-character-style. That way I wouldn't
need to go into Vim every time I wanted to locate a specific character style.
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and haven't noticed anything all that slow on my 300 page books.
Where is it slow for you, and how slow?
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this
error?
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lyxcodebug.lyx
Description: application/lyx
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[book]{lyxcodebug}
Input stdclass.inc
Input numreport.inc
Preamble
EndPreamble
On Sunday 27 July 2008 17:09, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
I'm not calling this a bug because maybe it was never intended to work this
way, but if I create and use two LyX styles, Code1 and Code2, each of them
with CopyStyle LyX-Code, then on conversion to PDF I get the following
error message
writing the program. I assume unicode is a 16 bit representation of
characters.
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as the
mainmatter of the MS Word book, so as soon as I do a few final checks, I'll
begin making my 2008 revision of the book.
Thanks for all of your help.
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new level of
difficulty.
Like I said, nothing that XML-YAML and YAML-XML can't solve, but those would
be required. Incidentally, I just heard there are already standalone programs
that do those conversions, so before writing code myself, I'll investigate.
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On Monday 28 July 2008 03:22, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
I'm not calling this a bug because maybe it was never intended to work
this way, but if I create and use two LyX styles, Code1 and Code2, each
of them with CopyStyle LyX-Code, then on conversion to PDF I
On Monday 28 July 2008 11:35, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
On Monday 28 July 2008 03:22, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
I'm not calling this a bug because maybe it was never intended to work
this way, but if I create and use two LyX styles, Code1
that XML wouldn't make the LyX developers' job much
easier or that we shouldn't go to XML. I'm merely putting this forth as a
different way of describing the POWERUSER problems created by XML (yes, I'm
looking in to YAML as an intermediate parsing format).
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. For me, the payoff has come over
multiple books.
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On Wednesday 30 July 2008 11:24, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
2008/7/30 Steve Litt[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 08:21, killermike wrote:
The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot
thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX
the lists!
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On Wednesday 30 July 2008 16:42, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 11:24, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
technical
documents,
Again, a great application for LyX assuming the tech doc is over 10,000
words long. Shorter docs are easier in quick and dirty OO
, but the writing) a simple secretarial task.
It was wonderful.
Just think how much better it would be using LyX.
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:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm
IMHO what you want to do is fairly easy.
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On Thursday 21 February 2008 15:03, Steve Litt wrote:
On Thursday 21 February 2008 12:20, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
After what I went through, I'd recommend that someone strongarm ALL
variables to the Qt4 values, and not leave anything to chance
of the office.
Date: Monday 18 August 2008 20:01
From: Melissa Woolston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I will be out of the office starting 13/08/2008 and will not return until
28/08/2008.
Thank-you for your email, I am currently on annual leave and nobody will
have access to my account
Thanks Oliver,
I still don't understand the underlying philosophy of layout modules:
0) What is a layout module?
1) Why are they better than just writing your own layout file?
2) How do you decide when to use them?
3) By what design methodology do you create them?
4) What are the attributes of a
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On Thursday 21 August 2008 10:24, Helge Hafting wrote:
killermike wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
Again, a great application for LyX assuming the tech doc is over
10,000 words long. Shorter docs are easier in quick and dirty OO.
I don't want to come off as someone who is purely defensive
directory is a huge benefit to me.
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been upgraded to 1.4.2, and compiles on
1.4.2, but it doesn't compile on 1.5.x, and I dread getting it running in
1.5.6. But it has to be done :-)
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On Saturday 23 August 2008 06:40:32 am killermike wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
I have one book written in stone age LyX in 2001, using Dekl Tsur's color
character style workaround. It's been upgraded to 1.4.2, and compiles on
1.4.2, but it doesn't compile on 1.5.x, and I dread getting
within Acroread 8.
In my case, an old, lowest common denominator PDF is best. YMMV.
But be aware, if your properties start screwing up in Acroread 8 (or maybe
other acroreads), it might be as simple as your version of ps2pdf.
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layout files, I'm hoping one of you has seen this before so I don't
need to keep carving things in half til I can toggle the problem with
something other than the hyperref package.
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On Saturday 23 August 2008 07:43:30 pm Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
One of my books, that used to compile, now gives me the following error
message:
Package ifpdf Error: Name clash, \ifpdf is already defined.
I can toggle the symptom on and off by including or excluding the
following
have colored, clickable table of
contents in my Ebook.
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of contents (and
cross references) in a Memoir derived document?
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wrote:
Steve Litt
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:43:52 -0700
Hi all,
I need your help. It turns out to be a known problem that you can't use
hyperref with Memoir. However, there's supposedly a fix, known as
memhfixc.sty. Supposedly, if you \usepackage{memhfixc} AFTER you
\usepackage{hyperref
On Monday 25 August 2008 02:41:41 pm you wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Steve Litt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
snip
So I did that, but my LaTeX program still got a couple hundred errors.
This time, however, most of the errors seemed to be associated with
Enumerate, so
I commented
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 04:39:00 am José Matos wrote:
On Monday 25 August 2008 19:15:38 Steve Litt wrote:
Second, I'm really bent out of shape (American idiom for extremely angry)
because those fool packagers at Mandriva put in a 2004 Memoir package
into Mandriva 2008.1. I've got nine
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 06:20:51 am Manveru wrote:
2008/8/25 Eran Kaplinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Steve Litt
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:43:52 -0700
Hi all,
I need your help. It turns out to be a known problem that you can't use
hyperref with Memoir. However, there's supposedly a fix
of the things the
developers should prioritize.
In the meantime, what I do is paste into Vim, and then paste from Vim into
LyX. Kludgy? Yes. Ugly? Yes. Slow? Yes. Error prone? yes.
But it gets the job done.
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://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ownlists.htm
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On Saturday 06 September 2008 09:27:07 pm Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
Off topic:
I am looking for a solution to add running page numbering to a postscript
or PDF document and maybe add a footer or header (maybe with a horizontal
rule).
Any tools or suggestions would be appreciated. Or if you know
invoices
will be readable.
Personally, when I hear the words PDF and archive in the same sentence, I
become very skeptical.
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my thesis to this format...
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 12:54:38 pm Ernesto Posse wrote:
This question is not a LyX-only question, but I thought maybe someone
here could have an idea on this issue.
Has anyone succeeded
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 06:25:54 pm Ernesto Posse wrote:
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
What a nightmare!
Indeed.
What does the university say about validators -- any validator, all
validators, Adobe's validator?
They use Acrobat's. It seems
relies only on the symlink copy in /home/myuid/.lyx/layouts.
HTH
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On Thursday 11 September 2008 12:02:05 pm Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Steve Litt wrote:
It seems to me that from the dawn of time (2001 for me), getting LyX to
work with a layout file anywhere but /home/myuid/.lyx/layouts was
extremely difficult, with no reproducible procedure
On Thursday 11 September 2008 11:51:59 am Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
It seems to me that from the dawn of time (2001 for me), getting LyX to
work with a layout file anywhere but /home/myuid/.lyx/layouts was extremely
difficult, with no reproducible procedure. You'd create a symlink from
where
On Thursday 11 September 2008 08:02:34 pm Travis wrote:
So I really like lyx for writing; I'm using it in a book which you may view
here:
http://www.subspacefield.org/security/security_concepts.html
In any case, I want to be able to use lyx for editing, but have a script
or Makefile for
On Friday 12 September 2008 10:46:04 am you wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
Anyway, the following is a script I use to compile a LyX book. It erases
all the intermediate files, exports to LaTeX, runs latex on that, then
runs dvips and ps2pdf to create the PDF. It also checks for compile
errors
Hi Richard,
If I read your script correctly, LyX creates pipe files ~/.lyx/lyxpipe.in and
~/.lyx/lyxpipe.out. I ran LyX and didn't see those pipe files, or anything
remotely resembling them. I What am I missing?
I'm using LyX 1.5.6, configured as binary lyx1.5.6 with user directory
-paste the wrong quote but it does not
work, either.
Any ideas how to solve this?
Personally, I'd do it in Vim. In order to know the replacement character,
within LyX type the beginning and ending code, and then look at them in Vim
and use them for replacements.
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is a good one if it's reasonably easy to do.
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.
Everybody,
This is one of many situations where it's vitally important to be able to edit
a LyX file in a text editor, which is why it's necessary to make sure our new
XML format is as text editor friendly as possible.
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(and maybe bibtex and latex again and
again) by hand.
Günter
Günter,
Would it work if he made a little layout file with the statement in there, and
used the layout file?
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these are
easy checks to make, and should be made on ANY computer to assure continued
efficient running.
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On Monday 13 October 2008 02:44:39 pm Alex wrote:
Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm not saying any of my suspicions are right -- I'm just saying these
are easy checks to make, and should be made on ANY computer to assure
continued efficient running.
SteveT
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On Monday 13 October 2008 04:23:06 pm TheOldFellow wrote:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:55:24 +0200
Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
TheOldFellow wrote:
How do I set the spellchecker to English-English (i.e. as written in
England) instead of American-English?
You should set the
of the office.
Date: Monday 13 October 2008
From: Tracey Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I will be out of the office starting 09/25/2008 and will not return until
10/17/2008.
Due to ill health I am not in the business until 17th October. In the
meantime please do
2008 had the necessary version of qt4.
HTH
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the Facts (82 pages)
* Rapid Learning for the 21st Century (136 pages)
* Learn Vim Tonight (94 pages)
Some of my earlier books were written in WordPerfect and MS Word, but once I
discovered LyX, all further books were written in LyX.
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Depth command. See attached
LyX file.
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test.lyx
Description: application/lyx
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 01:36:29 pm Richard Heck wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 01:10:56 pm Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
wrote:
Jon Bendtsen wrote:
Hi
I want to make an enumerated list, interrupt it by some text and
continue the enumerated list
document with which to test it.
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On Wednesday 05 November 2008 04:24:46 am killermike wrote:
Obviously most word processors now have styles, for example. Ironically,
the buggy and inconsistent styles support in Open Office 0.9x was one of
the things made me investigate LyX. I presume that this shortcoming has
been fixed now.
it all look
right.
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request to bugzilla.lyx.org and add me to the CC list. I'll create this
file for the next release when I find the time.
regards Uwe
I'm thinking it would be cool to have an exam layout MODULE, so exams and
quizes and the like can be embedded in books and the like.
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into the mainmatter, I'm just the opposite -- no ERT, all
environments and character styles, because consistence is the name of the game
in the mainmatter.
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for the great idea!
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.
I think you might need to \usepackage{setspace} to get it done right, or maybe
another style -- I don't remember.
HTH
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find it impossible
to work with OO native format. Contrast this with LyX, which so far is fairly
easy to write and parse from a Perl or Lua program.
Friends don't let friends use OO.
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is common enough that it should be a fast
process, and people's priorities differ enough that the default number of
words should be changeable.
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. Sure, it's easier for the
programmer, but the user has to hit double the keystrokes, and he'll hate the
end product.
I wrote an article about some of this ten years ago:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/bestandworst.htm
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On Wednesday 23 March 2011 09:04:05 you wrote:
On 03/22/2011 07:33 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com
wrote:
Hi all,
I'm now labelling all 57 chapters of my new book, and what a PITA!
First of all, there's no hotkey -- I
in Word is five
minutes, not five hours.
This is a wonderful idea. Now if we can only go the other direction...
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On Thursday 24 March 2011 07:01:19 Rainer M Krug wrote:
On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
This is a wonderful idea. Now if we can only go the other direction...
I think we should have semantic import/export filters in addition to
visual ones
, and nothing worked.
I need to find a way around this, either by fixing the clickability of
Chapter* within PDFs, or using Chapter and somehow suppressing chapter
numbering and the use of the word Chapter. Any ideas?
Thanks
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Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
My book has 57 chapters whose environment is Chapter. THen it has an
Epilogue and three Appendices whose environments are Chapter* because I
don't want them to have chapter numbers. The book's table of contents gets
the page numbers right, but the PDF's clickable
deconstructing this 110,000 word
book to form a small test case, does anyone have any ideas why some cross
references would screw up?
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\thechapter and
\chaptername and the like.
Any ideas?
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testbug.lyx
Description: application/lyx
.
You do have daily backups, don't you?
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Schoolbook and that
problem goes away.
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complex use cases that seem not
applicable for document-based repositories with individual- or small
team access. I may be wrong, of course.
Any suggestions is very welcome.
I haven't started using version control yet, but all my friends love Git.
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On Sunday 27 March 2011 19:52:42 Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
Yet another problem with Chapter*. I have some appendices at the end of the
book which I put as Chapter* instead of Chapter so they wouldn't be
identified as Chapter 58: Appendex A on the page header or in the table
of contents
On Thursday 24 March 2011 17:28:57 Jacob Bishop wrote:
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Steve Litt
sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:
Hi all,
I have an appendix listing the several processes in my book, with cross
references pointing to the pages on which these processes are discussed
a
professional editor I'd HATE working directly in LaTeX, and I'd LOVE working
in LyX, always assuming I could agree with the author on which LyX version.
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) and LyX 2.0.0rc2.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Chris Hulme-Lowe
University of Minnesota
Department of Psychology
--
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otl2lyx.awk
Description: application/awk
0: Part
a solution.
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than the 5 of going to dvi.
HTH
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tilde), but I'm hoping there's a more automatic way to do
it. Maybe there's a package somewhere?
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On Tuesday 26 April 2011 05:46:02 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
I have an entire 110,000 word book in which single quotes don't pair up,
but instead both the opening and closing single quote look exactly like
the character on the key of my keyboard. How can I get LyX
On Tuesday 26 April 2011 08:22:14 you wrote:
On 04/26/2011 05:33 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
I have an entire 110,000 word book in which single quotes don't pair up,
but instead both the opening and closing single quote look exactly like
the character on the key of my keyboard. How
On Tuesday 26 April 2011 17:38:15 Steve Litt wrote:
On Tuesday 26 April 2011 08:22:14 you wrote:
On 04/26/2011 05:33 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
I have an entire 110,000 word book in which single quotes don't pair
up, but instead both the opening and closing single quote look
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but on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 (Lucid).
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real work rather than ask repetitive questions.
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, and hope they give better (or even as good) tech
support than the LyX crew has.
Nothing scientific, but on projects I'm involved with it seems like
more and more people are saying I can't write code, but please do
this you fill in the major job for me.
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