Please don't (was Re: Forget Windows)

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
While I agree w/ Marc in wanting a Cocoa / GNUstep front-end for LyX, I would like to echo the statements of Banibrata and others that it's better to have a wide variety, and please don't abandon people who need to use Windows for one reason or other. Having Windows as an option makes LyX far

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 8, 2005, at 10:07 AM, Angus Leeming wrote: However, before any eager soul jumps on this frontend bandwagon, I'd like to introduce a note of caution and suggest that you really, really shouldn't create yet another frontend to LyX. Time is limited, there are only so many of us and another

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 8, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Angus Leeming wrote: You have a strange definition of ``for free'', William. There are 295 files in the Qt frontend totalling some 27,000 lines of code. And that's neglecting the .ui files that define the dialog structure. Yes, but all those lines and the QT

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 8, 2005, at 1:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create a translation code internally, to handle the differences in GUIs? I have (almost) finshed the translation of Qt strings. It would be useful, If I could reuse all of them, without doublecating thoose strings. This

internationalization issues (was Re: Forget Windows)

2005-11-09 Thread William F. Adams
(Thanks to whoever did it for re-subscribing me to the dev list) I'm making this last post to both lists and then will try to find the time to look into things on the lyx-devel side. As I alluded to before, NeXT/OPEN/GNUstep/Cocoa allows one to dynamically add and remove language support

Re: Latin Modern in Dropped Capitals

2005-11-10 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 9, 2005, at 11:11 PM, Jim Osborn wrote: I installed teTeX-3.0 some time after building LyX-1.3.5 (Qt). I had been running teTeX-1.0.7. The Latin Modern fonts are installed as part of the teTeX-3.0 installation, and I can use them in the normal text of a LyX document via the FAQ

Re: Latin Modern in Dropped Capitals

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
For the record, here's what I sent to Jim privately dropping is a really old package. I'd suggest using the newer lettrine instead: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/lettrine/ Esp. note what's said here on it in the FAQ:

Re: about font

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 14, 2005, at 6:56 AM, Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: I need to use font Garamond Condensed, How I can get and install that font? This is a commercial font. Purchase it from your favourite font vendor, then install the font using fontinst (rename the files according to the Karl Berry

OT: mulitvalent (was Re: Pdf utilities and fonts, an off topic iota recanted)

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
Glad to see that all is settled on the emotional front here. I found the original post quite interesting, and see something of a corollary in it (that all letterforms could be meta-ized and described algorithmically) with that of LyX (that all documents can be worked on by displaying a visual

OT?:dynamic typography and references (was Re: mulitvalent (was Re: Pdf utilities and fonts, an off topic iota recanted))

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 14, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: I am developing an interest in digital typography where a few well chosen fonts are placed in a page design to mutually enhance some theme which of course represents an intended message to impart. A concern to a LyXer choosing fonts and

Re: OT?:dynamic typography and references

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 14, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Very interesting age, thanks. You're welcome! BTW, the link for fontinstallationguide.pdf is wrong, it seems that the file has been moved. Sorry 'bout that. New location is: ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/

Re: WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005

2005-11-18 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 18, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: So I haven't tested with a pre-existing Miktex install for the Small installer I did this last night, and was able to view the manual as a .dvi and a .pdf (made using dvips / ghostscript). It seemed to work well, though I didn't do much

Re: pointers to descriptions of various document layouts?

2005-11-18 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 18, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Alexis Huxley wrote: Hi, this isn't a LyX-specific question, but as a LyX user, and seeing how well LyX is orientated to specific document classes, I figured the people here would understand the question or be able to refer me to others places to ask ... Have you

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-21 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 21, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i have been looking around for examples of other phd thesis with very little success. any pointers would be most welcome! Have you checked w/ your math/physics/comp-sci department to see if they've a LaTeX template? There're a couple

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-22 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 22, 2005, at 3:18 PM, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i am a bit concerned about hacking the coverpage into place using lyx/latex, but if i really must, i am going to need some assistance. i will return with specific questions at a later point - for now i just wanted to find out if the

Re: when to use koma-script?

2005-11-23 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 23, 2005, at 2:55 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: Use komascript: * When you want the look koma-script gives. I believe it is tuned for European typography. Correct, esp. as promulgated by Jan Tschichold in his writings (_The Form of the Book_ is wonderful). * whenever you find the

batch page composition feature request

2004-06-09 Thread William F. Adams
I think I alluded to this a long while ago, but never followed up. Anyway, here's a feature request --- perhaps the ERT inset could instead be a little pop-up menu populated w/ the number of lines one could gain / lose and the initial value being a comment w/ the number of lines? Say something

Re: woe with indexing

2004-08-12 Thread William F. Adams
On Thursday, August 12, 2004, at 09:36 AM, stephan beal wrote: But if i delete it or rename it to, e.g., foo i get even MORE errors. As Herbert noted, special characters which have special meanings aren't changed by LyX when entered into an index field --- this probably qualifies as a bug, or

Re: woe with indexing

2004-08-12 Thread William F. Adams
On Thursday, August 12, 2004, at 07:55 PM, stephan beal wrote: Right, but by putting it into the section head, it'll then _also_ appear in the ToC, and that will appear in the index as well, which you probably don't want, possibly also in the running head (this depends on the documentclass and

Re: Entering equations

2004-08-12 Thread William F. Adams
On Thursday, August 12, 2004, at 08:38 PM, zong chen wrote: I am trying out LyX, but find it a bit difficult to enter equations, as the boxes for entering sub and super script on e.g. summations, are very small. Is there a way to magnify the equation editor? I'd like this too --- didn't we

Re: Change equation, the fonts

2004-10-01 Thread William F. Adams
On Friday, October 1, 2004, at 03:20 AM, Pep Roca wrote: In my documents I use avant font (I have in the preamble \renewcommand\familydefault{\sfdefault}). But in the equation, the fonts are, not avant. There are any easy way to configure that in all the equations LyX use avant fonts, instead

Re: LaTex study recommendations?

2004-10-05 Thread William F. Adams
On Monday, October 4, 2004, at 02:18 PM, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:52:50AM +0200, mario wrote: some time ago, I was looking for - and could't find - a decent self-contained (possibly, on-line) tutorial on how TeX works. I mean, an explanation on how the underlying algorith

Re: Printing a Pocket Paramedic Protocol Booklet: Is Lyx the right tool?

2004-12-18 Thread William F. Adams
On Dec 16, 2004, at 10:05 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote: Would it be possible to use Lyx for the typesetting, and printing the booklet in 133mm x 85mm dimensions with the text still being legible? I was hoping to be able to print four pages per letter size paper and using a paper cutter to trim the

Re: about apple font

2005-01-10 Thread William F. Adams
On Jan 10, 2005, at 4:46 AM, Zeng Zeng wrote: Could someone tell me how to install some kind of apple fonts in lyx under linux environment? I have an old version of applegar, a version of ten years ago. Many thanks. Look at the license this font was distributed under. It's only for use by Apple,

possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-03 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 3, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: For books: Big publishers (i.e. big UP presses) behave as journals: they want word files and will re-typeset everything. (Actually some p. houses will retype everything from paper...). Smaller publishing houses and/or imprints will want a

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-03 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:32 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: One of publishing's great mysteries -- to me, at least -- is why O'Reilly Associates insist that their authors submit manuscripts in Word format. I know several authors who work strictly in linux and despise having to use OO.o then translate

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-04 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:47 AM, William F. Adams wrote: They did do one book on TeX, Norman Walsh's _Making TeX work_ (and may've been put out that they didn't get some TeX books they wanted early on) but have since been said to've likened it to ``wombat sex'' for its obscurity. You can find MTW

Re: selling lyx part 2

2005-03-04 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 4:06 AM, G. Milde wrote: I would really like a set of with LyX vs. with other examples on http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ProsAndCons Maarten Sneep just posted this to the Mac OS X TeX mailing list: http://www.nat.vu.nl/~sneep/ars/type/overview.html William -- William Adams, publishing

Re: Seeking Resource Recommendations

2005-03-04 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: What I would really appreciate is recommendations for references on creating/modifying document classes. There is an appendix in Guide to LaTeX, Fourth Edition, but it has no discussion of several commands (such as \makeatletter, \makeother) I've

Re: Registerhaltigkeit

2005-03-10 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 10, 2005, at 10:42 AM, Jack M. Lyon wrote: G. Milde wrote: I realized, that a package will not work properly, as Registerhaltigkeit requires a change in the working of the TeX core regarding the computation of the vertical layout.) Nevertheless, ConTeXt, which is built on top of TeX,

Re: Create Formula Sheet

2005-05-13 Thread William F. Adams
On May 13, 2005, at 3:56 PM, Hannan Sadar wrote: I would like to create a formula sheet. The problem is that latex is not what you see is what you get and the LyX interface isn't that good for thus kind of things, so i will need to write it in LaTeX. What i would like to ask is, if someone had

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread William F. Adams
On Jul 24, 2005, at 9:26 PM, John O'Gorman wrote: snip excellent discussion of my WYSIWYM is a good view All of the above makes it easier to use LyX. You focus entirely on content. FWIW, I made a similar explanation in the Practical TeX on-line journal recently:

LyX on www.apple.com (was Re: Heretical question?)

2005-07-26 Thread William F. Adams
On Jul 25, 2005, at 11:35 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: William == William F Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William John's is much better though and should be enshrined in an William FAQ or advocacy document or something. What about making

Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

2005-08-01 Thread William F. Adams
The install keeps crashing on me --- where should I send the crash log? Or should I give up until I'm running something made in this century? William -- William Adams, publishing specialist voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708 www.atlis.com

Re: Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

2005-08-02 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 1, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Roy Schestowitz wrote: All I can contribute is the fact that I ran it successfully under Windows 98 SE. have you tried re-installing? When I downloaded it last (2+ years ago), it was from a small and obscure page offering the Win32 port. I can't be sure if the

Re: Font advice

2005-08-09 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 9, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: I have prepared my thesis and all is well. I just wnated some advice or guidance about fonts in Latex - I know this is a Lyx list but many latex gurus lurk here! Basically I want to use a nice modern looking font - the sort that might be

a hint (was Re: Palatino SUMMARY)

2005-08-12 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 12, 2005, at 7:57 AM, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Ok I know it is bad to start a new thread but I think a number of things need to be listed so that people (me included) aren't confused.   I am using   \usepackage{palatino}   This provides Type 1 (non-bitmap) fonts.   The dvi file is perfect 

Re: How to make a unique cover (first page)

2005-08-22 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 21, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Leon Chen wrote: How can I make a unique cover page? For example, I have to make it according to the specification our college demmanded. The formats available in the lyx are not enough to make it... such as some text have to be aligned to bottom and write my name.

Re: LaTeX for the printers ?

2005-08-29 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 29, 2005, at 11:31 AM, Søren O'Neill wrote: a general question - If I set a document up in LaTeX, would one expect it to be readily accepted by professional printshops? As others have noted, if one provides a .pdf, w/ appropriate embedded graphics and all fonts embedded, one can send

New features / interworkability of LyX

2003-12-16 Thread William F. Adams
I'm afraid I dropped of the LyX devel list (couldn't keep up, way over my head). And I've recently embarrassed myself somewhat thereby (see recent thread on LyX in Mac OS X on usenet:comp.text.tex). Anyway, I'd like to ask that preserving comments (at least) in imported LaTeX files have at

Re: New features / interworkability of LyX

2003-12-17 Thread William F. Adams
Marc said: Early I asked since LyX is UI Independent whether or not a desire for a Cocoa UI has been posted besides from myself. With much of the UI available by AppKit already it would seem if someone has ObjC experience they could ObjC++ LyX and offer this as well as other benefits. My

Re: LaTeX algorithms in InDesign: how well are they implemented?

2003-12-29 Thread William F. Adams
Peter Ringwood asked: I've read in a few articles that InDesign now uses LaTeX algorithms for its typesetting and am curious to find out how well they are implemented. AIUI, InDesign uses the HZ algorithm developed by Peter Karow of URW w/ the assistance / consultation of Prof. Hermann Zapf.

Re: Future of Win32 native port?

2004-03-03 Thread William F. Adams
On Wednesday, March 3, 2004, at 01:50 PM, Patrick Ruckstuhl wrote: Hm, I think for most users it may be too much work to install the cygwin environment and an xserver. Of greater moment, is that the free QT version for Win32 had _very_ good support for the Windows environment --- even

Please don't (was Re: Forget Windows)

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
While I agree w/ Marc in wanting a Cocoa / GNUstep front-end for LyX, I would like to echo the statements of Banibrata and others that it's better to have a wide variety, and please don't abandon people who need to use Windows for one reason or other. Having Windows as an option makes LyX far

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 8, 2005, at 10:07 AM, Angus Leeming wrote: However, before any eager soul jumps on this frontend bandwagon, I'd like to introduce a note of caution and suggest that you really, really shouldn't create yet another frontend to LyX. Time is limited, there are only so many of us and another

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 8, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Angus Leeming wrote: You have a strange definition of ``for free'', William. There are 295 files in the Qt frontend totalling some 27,000 lines of code. And that's neglecting the .ui files that define the dialog structure. Yes, but all those lines and the QT

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 8, 2005, at 1:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create a translation code internally, to handle the differences in GUIs? I have (almost) finshed the translation of Qt strings. It would be useful, If I could reuse all of them, without doublecating thoose strings. This

internationalization issues (was Re: Forget Windows)

2005-11-09 Thread William F. Adams
(Thanks to whoever did it for re-subscribing me to the dev list) I'm making this last post to both lists and then will try to find the time to look into things on the lyx-devel side. As I alluded to before, NeXT/OPEN/GNUstep/Cocoa allows one to dynamically add and remove language support

Re: Latin Modern in Dropped Capitals

2005-11-10 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 9, 2005, at 11:11 PM, Jim Osborn wrote: I installed teTeX-3.0 some time after building LyX-1.3.5 (Qt). I had been running teTeX-1.0.7. The Latin Modern fonts are installed as part of the teTeX-3.0 installation, and I can use them in the normal text of a LyX document via the FAQ

Re: Latin Modern in Dropped Capitals

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
For the record, here's what I sent to Jim privately dropping is a really old package. I'd suggest using the newer lettrine instead: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/lettrine/ Esp. note what's said here on it in the FAQ:

Re: about font

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 14, 2005, at 6:56 AM, Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: I need to use font Garamond Condensed, How I can get and install that font? This is a commercial font. Purchase it from your favourite font vendor, then install the font using fontinst (rename the files according to the Karl Berry

OT: mulitvalent (was Re: Pdf utilities and fonts, an off topic iota recanted)

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
Glad to see that all is settled on the emotional front here. I found the original post quite interesting, and see something of a corollary in it (that all letterforms could be meta-ized and described algorithmically) with that of LyX (that all documents can be worked on by displaying a visual

OT?:dynamic typography and references (was Re: mulitvalent (was Re: Pdf utilities and fonts, an off topic iota recanted))

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 14, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: I am developing an interest in digital typography where a few well chosen fonts are placed in a page design to mutually enhance some theme which of course represents an intended message to impart. A concern to a LyXer choosing fonts and

Re: OT?:dynamic typography and references

2005-11-14 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 14, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Very interesting age, thanks. You're welcome! BTW, the link for fontinstallationguide.pdf is wrong, it seems that the file has been moved. Sorry 'bout that. New location is: ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/

Re: WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005

2005-11-18 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 18, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: So I haven't tested with a pre-existing Miktex install for the Small installer I did this last night, and was able to view the manual as a .dvi and a .pdf (made using dvips / ghostscript). It seemed to work well, though I didn't do much

Re: pointers to descriptions of various document layouts?

2005-11-18 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 18, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Alexis Huxley wrote: Hi, this isn't a LyX-specific question, but as a LyX user, and seeing how well LyX is orientated to specific document classes, I figured the people here would understand the question or be able to refer me to others places to ask ... Have you

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-21 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 21, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i have been looking around for examples of other phd thesis with very little success. any pointers would be most welcome! Have you checked w/ your math/physics/comp-sci department to see if they've a LaTeX template? There're a couple

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-22 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 22, 2005, at 3:18 PM, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i am a bit concerned about hacking the coverpage into place using lyx/latex, but if i really must, i am going to need some assistance. i will return with specific questions at a later point - for now i just wanted to find out if the

Re: when to use koma-script?

2005-11-23 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 23, 2005, at 2:55 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: Use komascript: * When you want the look koma-script gives. I believe it is tuned for European typography. Correct, esp. as promulgated by Jan Tschichold in his writings (_The Form of the Book_ is wonderful). * whenever you find the

batch page composition feature request

2004-06-09 Thread William F. Adams
I think I alluded to this a long while ago, but never followed up. Anyway, here's a feature request --- perhaps the ERT inset could instead be a little pop-up menu populated w/ the number of lines one could gain / lose and the initial value being a comment w/ the number of lines? Say something

Re: woe with indexing

2004-08-12 Thread William F. Adams
On Thursday, August 12, 2004, at 09:36 AM, stephan beal wrote: But if i delete it or rename it to, e.g., foo i get even MORE errors. As Herbert noted, special characters which have special meanings aren't changed by LyX when entered into an index field --- this probably qualifies as a bug, or

Re: woe with indexing

2004-08-12 Thread William F. Adams
On Thursday, August 12, 2004, at 07:55 PM, stephan beal wrote: Right, but by putting it into the section head, it'll then _also_ appear in the ToC, and that will appear in the index as well, which you probably don't want, possibly also in the running head (this depends on the documentclass and

Re: Entering equations

2004-08-12 Thread William F. Adams
On Thursday, August 12, 2004, at 08:38 PM, zong chen wrote: I am trying out LyX, but find it a bit difficult to enter equations, as the boxes for entering sub and super script on e.g. summations, are very small. Is there a way to magnify the equation editor? I'd like this too --- didn't we

Re: Change equation, the fonts

2004-10-01 Thread William F. Adams
On Friday, October 1, 2004, at 03:20 AM, Pep Roca wrote: In my documents I use avant font (I have in the preamble \renewcommand\familydefault{\sfdefault}). But in the equation, the fonts are, not avant. There are any easy way to configure that in all the equations LyX use avant fonts, instead

Re: LaTex study recommendations?

2004-10-05 Thread William F. Adams
On Monday, October 4, 2004, at 02:18 PM, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:52:50AM +0200, mario wrote: some time ago, I was looking for - and could't find - a decent self-contained (possibly, on-line) tutorial on how TeX works. I mean, an explanation on how the underlying algorith

Re: Printing a Pocket Paramedic Protocol Booklet: Is Lyx the right tool?

2004-12-18 Thread William F. Adams
On Dec 16, 2004, at 10:05 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote: Would it be possible to use Lyx for the typesetting, and printing the booklet in 133mm x 85mm dimensions with the text still being legible? I was hoping to be able to print four pages per letter size paper and using a paper cutter to trim the

Re: about apple font

2005-01-10 Thread William F. Adams
On Jan 10, 2005, at 4:46 AM, Zeng Zeng wrote: Could someone tell me how to install some kind of apple fonts in lyx under linux environment? I have an old version of applegar, a version of ten years ago. Many thanks. Look at the license this font was distributed under. It's only for use by Apple,

possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-03 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 3, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: For books: Big publishers (i.e. big UP presses) behave as journals: they want word files and will re-typeset everything. (Actually some p. houses will retype everything from paper...). Smaller publishing houses and/or imprints will want a

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-03 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:32 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: One of publishing's great mysteries -- to me, at least -- is why O'Reilly Associates insist that their authors submit manuscripts in Word format. I know several authors who work strictly in linux and despise having to use OO.o then translate

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-04 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:47 AM, William F. Adams wrote: They did do one book on TeX, Norman Walsh's _Making TeX work_ (and may've been put out that they didn't get some TeX books they wanted early on) but have since been said to've likened it to ``wombat sex'' for its obscurity. You can find MTW

Re: selling lyx part 2

2005-03-04 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 4:06 AM, G. Milde wrote: I would really like a set of with LyX vs. with other examples on http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ProsAndCons Maarten Sneep just posted this to the Mac OS X TeX mailing list: http://www.nat.vu.nl/~sneep/ars/type/overview.html William -- William Adams, publishing

Re: Seeking Resource Recommendations

2005-03-04 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: What I would really appreciate is recommendations for references on creating/modifying document classes. There is an appendix in Guide to LaTeX, Fourth Edition, but it has no discussion of several commands (such as \makeatletter, \makeother) I've

Re: Registerhaltigkeit

2005-03-10 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 10, 2005, at 10:42 AM, Jack M. Lyon wrote: G. Milde wrote: I realized, that a package will not work properly, as Registerhaltigkeit requires a change in the working of the TeX core regarding the computation of the vertical layout.) Nevertheless, ConTeXt, which is built on top of TeX,

Re: Create Formula Sheet

2005-05-13 Thread William F. Adams
On May 13, 2005, at 3:56 PM, Hannan Sadar wrote: I would like to create a formula sheet. The problem is that latex is not what you see is what you get and the LyX interface isn't that good for thus kind of things, so i will need to write it in LaTeX. What i would like to ask is, if someone had

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread William F. Adams
On Jul 24, 2005, at 9:26 PM, John O'Gorman wrote: snip excellent discussion of my WYSIWYM is a good view All of the above makes it easier to use LyX. You focus entirely on content. FWIW, I made a similar explanation in the Practical TeX on-line journal recently:

LyX on www.apple.com (was Re: Heretical question?)

2005-07-26 Thread William F. Adams
On Jul 25, 2005, at 11:35 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: William == William F Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William John's is much better though and should be enshrined in an William FAQ or advocacy document or something. What about making

Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

2005-08-01 Thread William F. Adams
The install keeps crashing on me --- where should I send the crash log? Or should I give up until I'm running something made in this century? William -- William Adams, publishing specialist voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708 www.atlis.com

Re: Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

2005-08-02 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 1, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Roy Schestowitz wrote: All I can contribute is the fact that I ran it successfully under Windows 98 SE. have you tried re-installing? When I downloaded it last (2+ years ago), it was from a small and obscure page offering the Win32 port. I can't be sure if the

Re: Font advice

2005-08-09 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 9, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: I have prepared my thesis and all is well. I just wnated some advice or guidance about fonts in Latex - I know this is a Lyx list but many latex gurus lurk here! Basically I want to use a nice modern looking font - the sort that might be

a hint (was Re: Palatino SUMMARY)

2005-08-12 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 12, 2005, at 7:57 AM, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Ok I know it is bad to start a new thread but I think a number of things need to be listed so that people (me included) aren't confused.   I am using   \usepackage{palatino}   This provides Type 1 (non-bitmap) fonts.   The dvi file is perfect 

Re: How to make a unique cover (first page)

2005-08-22 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 21, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Leon Chen wrote: How can I make a unique cover page? For example, I have to make it according to the specification our college demmanded. The formats available in the lyx are not enough to make it... such as some text have to be aligned to bottom and write my name.

Re: LaTeX for the printers ?

2005-08-29 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 29, 2005, at 11:31 AM, Søren O'Neill wrote: a general question - If I set a document up in LaTeX, would one expect it to be readily accepted by professional printshops? As others have noted, if one provides a .pdf, w/ appropriate embedded graphics and all fonts embedded, one can send

New features / interworkability of LyX

2003-12-16 Thread William F. Adams
I'm afraid I dropped of the LyX devel list (couldn't keep up, way over my head). And I've recently embarrassed myself somewhat thereby (see recent thread on LyX in Mac OS X on usenet:comp.text.tex). Anyway, I'd like to ask that preserving comments (at least) in imported LaTeX files have at

Re: New features / interworkability of LyX

2003-12-17 Thread William F. Adams
Marc said: Early I asked since LyX is UI Independent whether or not a desire for a Cocoa UI has been posted besides from myself. With much of the UI available by AppKit already it would seem if someone has ObjC experience they could ObjC++ LyX and offer this as well as other benefits. My

Re: LaTeX algorithms in InDesign: how well are they implemented?

2003-12-29 Thread William F. Adams
Peter Ringwood asked: I've read in a few articles that InDesign now uses LaTeX algorithms for its typesetting and am curious to find out how well they are implemented. AIUI, InDesign uses the HZ algorithm developed by Peter Karow of URW w/ the assistance / consultation of Prof. Hermann Zapf.

Re: Future of Win32 native port?

2004-03-03 Thread William F. Adams
On Wednesday, March 3, 2004, at 01:50 PM, Patrick Ruckstuhl wrote: Hm, I think for most users it may be too much work to install the cygwin environment and an xserver. Of greater moment, is that the free QT version for Win32 had _very_ good support for the Windows environment --- even

Re: woe with indexing

2004-08-12 Thread William F. Adams
On Thursday, August 12, 2004, at 09:36 AM, stephan beal wrote: But if i delete it or rename it to, e.g., "foo" i get even MORE errors. As Herbert noted, special characters which have special meanings aren't changed by LyX when entered into an index field --- this probably qualifies as a bug, or

Re: woe with indexing

2004-08-12 Thread William F. Adams
On Thursday, August 12, 2004, at 07:55 PM, stephan beal wrote: Right, but by putting it into the section head, it'll then _also_ appear in the ToC, and that will appear in the index as well, which you probably don't want, possibly also in the running head (this depends on the documentclass and

Re: Entering equations

2004-08-12 Thread William F. Adams
On Thursday, August 12, 2004, at 08:38 PM, zong chen wrote: I am trying out LyX, but find it a bit difficult to enter equations, as the boxes for entering sub and super script on e.g. summations, are very small. Is there a way to magnify the equation editor? I'd like this too --- didn't we

Re: Change equation, the fonts

2004-10-01 Thread William F. Adams
On Friday, October 1, 2004, at 03:20 AM, Pep Roca wrote: In my documents I use avant font (I have in the preamble "\renewcommand\familydefault{\sfdefault}"). But in the equation, the fonts are, not avant. There are any easy way to configure that in all the equations LyX use avant fonts, instead

Re: LaTex study recommendations?

2004-10-05 Thread William F. Adams
On Monday, October 4, 2004, at 02:18 PM, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:52:50AM +0200, mario wrote: some time ago, I was looking for - and could't find - a decent self-contained (possibly, on-line) tutorial on how TeX works. I mean, an explanation on how the underlying algorith

Re: Printing a Pocket Paramedic Protocol Booklet: Is Lyx the right tool?

2004-12-18 Thread William F. Adams
On Dec 16, 2004, at 10:05 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote: Would it be possible to use Lyx for the typesetting, and printing the booklet in 133mm x 85mm dimensions with the text still being legible? I was hoping to be able to print four pages per letter size paper and using a paper cutter to trim the

Re: about apple font

2005-01-10 Thread William F. Adams
On Jan 10, 2005, at 4:46 AM, Zeng Zeng wrote: Could someone tell me how to install some kind of apple fonts in lyx under linux environment? I have an old version of applegar, a version of ten years ago. Many thanks. Look at the license this font was distributed under. It's only for use by Apple,

possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-03 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 3, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: For books: Big publishers (i.e. big UP presses) behave as journals: they want word files and will re-typeset everything. (Actually some p. houses will retype everything from paper...). Smaller publishing houses and/or imprints will want a

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-03 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:32 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: One of publishing's great mysteries -- to me, at least -- is why O'Reilly & Associates insist that their authors submit manuscripts in Word format. I know several authors who work strictly in linux and despise having to use OO.o then translate

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-04 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:47 AM, William F. Adams wrote: They did do one book on TeX, Norman Walsh's _Making TeX work_ (and may've been put out that they didn't get some TeX books they wanted early on) but have since been said to've likened it to ``wombat sex'' for its obscurity. You can find MTW

Re: selling lyx part 2

2005-03-04 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 4:06 AM, G. Milde wrote: I would really like a set of "with LyX" vs. "with other" examples on http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ProsAndCons Maarten Sneep just posted this to the Mac OS X TeX mailing list: http://www.nat.vu.nl/~sneep/ars/type/overview.html William -- William Adams,

Re: Seeking Resource Recommendations

2005-03-04 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: What I would really appreciate is recommendations for references on creating/modifying document classes. There is an appendix in "Guide to LaTeX, Fourth Edition", but it has no discussion of several commands (such as \makeatletter, \makeother)

Re: Registerhaltigkeit

2005-03-10 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 10, 2005, at 10:42 AM, Jack M. Lyon wrote: G. Milde wrote: I realized, that a package will not work properly, as Registerhaltigkeit requires a change in the working of the TeX core regarding the computation of the vertical layout.) Nevertheless, ConTeXt, which is built on top of TeX,

Re: Create Formula Sheet

2005-05-13 Thread William F. Adams
On May 13, 2005, at 3:56 PM, Hannan Sadar wrote: I would like to create a formula sheet. The problem is that latex is not what you see is what you get and the LyX interface isn't that good for thus kind of things, so i will need to write it in LaTeX. What i would like to ask is, if someone had

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