Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-08 Thread William R . Buckley
I have need for the LNCS layout, and am having trouble using this with LyX. You will perhaps like to know that my prior experience with any TeX is zero. In the past, I have used WYSIWYG systems (Ventura Publisher is my first choice, though I am also passingly familiar with Quark XPress and Aldus

RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-10 Thread William R. Buckley
To: William R. Buckley Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution William R. Buckley schrieb: What is less clear is the use of texhash, as it is not part of the LyX distribution. You don't need to use this cind of command line commands

FW: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-14 Thread William R. Buckley
-Original Message- From: William R. Buckley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 3:32 PM To: 'rgheck' Subject: RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution -Original Message- From: rgheck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March

RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-14 Thread William R. Buckley
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul A. Rubin Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 11:16 AM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution William R. Buckley wrote: I have need for the LNCS layout, and am

RE: Languages British vs English

2008-03-14 Thread William R. Buckley
Actually, I have had a number of discussions with British nationals, and to a person, they suggest that American English is generally practiced better, with a high degree of attention to the details of grammar, as compared with their British counterparts. It would perhaps be rude of me to

RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-15 Thread William R. Buckley
To all who have responded to my enquiries, thank you very much. This posting details my experiences, and should assist others to both provide such further assistance as will make it possible for me to effectively use LyX, and also should find utility in the development of LyX documentation.

RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-15 Thread William R. Buckley
Much good information has come from Bob Lounsbury. Thank you for the attention to detail. Where would I have been expected to read of the requirement to create such a texmf sub-directory, given that it was not created automatically by either MiKTeX or LyX? Indeed, why was such a directory not

RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-16 Thread William R. Buckley
Respecting what follows, your corrections of my misunderstandings are solicited. OK. The digest goes like this: 1. It is the case that all installs to my single user computer are for use by all users. 2. MiKTeX has a requirement that the user maintain any *custom* class, style, include, other

RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-16 Thread William R. Buckley
, March 16, 2008 6:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX User Subject: Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 3:31 PM, William R. Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Respecting what follows, your corrections of my misunderstandings are solicited. OK

RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-16 Thread William R. Buckley
-Original Message- From: Bob Lounsbury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:51 PM To: LyX User Subject: Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 8:10 PM, William R. Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more comment

WRB - Problems with LaTeX

2008-03-19 Thread William R. Buckley
without error upon pdflatex or the proper result. At best, there are errors reported, and the output text is converted to italic after production of the desired italic s' symbol. Has anyone any idea as to the solution of this problem? William R. Buckley

RE: WRB - Problems with LaTeX

2008-03-19 Thread William R. Buckley
Thanks for the solution! I elect to use Stephens solution, as I am not using LyX (making the changes directly to the LaTeX source). When I learn the proper use of LyX, I'll try the other suggested solution. the command I use is $\skew9\acute{s}\thinspace$ The thinspace is to accommodate the

RE: WRB - Problems with LaTeX

2008-03-20 Thread William R. Buckley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the command I use is $\skew9\acute{s}\thinspace$ This command works just fine in math mode in LyX for me. Displaying an italic s with a prime symbol. See the attached file. Cheers, /Bob As mentioned earlier, I am not using LyX. Instead, the .tex file is

RE: WRB - Problems with LaTeX

2008-03-20 Thread William R. Buckley
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX User Subject: Re: WRB - Problems with LaTeX On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:36 AM, William R. Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As mentioned earlier, I am not using LyX. Instead, the .tex file is being edited with NotePad. I'll get to learning LyX after I get

WRB - Discoveries

2008-03-20 Thread William R. Buckley
Well, I just learned that the .tex file that I have been laboring over can be imported into LyX, and it produces upon request the same document as does pdflatex (no wonder here though, since LyX must be orchestrating execution of pdflatex), with the erroneously presented graphic image. So,

RE: WRB - Problems with LaTeX

2008-03-20 Thread William R. Buckley
PROTECTED] Cc: LyX User Subject: Re: WRB - Problems with LaTeX On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:09 AM, William R. Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried, and had some difficulties working with the interface. It is probably just differences in the way things are done, versus Ventura

WRB - On the dimensions of graphic files.

2008-03-20 Thread William R. Buckley
OK. One last question tonight. The image which Dominik sent me has dimensions of 7.97 by 1.72 inches. Now, if memory serves me right, there are exactly 2.54cm per inch. Dominik set the width of the graphic include to be 10 centimeters in the .tex file. My image has dimensions of 8.5 by 11

RE: WRB - On the dimensions of graphic files.

2008-03-20 Thread William R. Buckley
Paul (and the rest of the group): William R. Buckley wrote: My image has dimensions of 8.5 by 11 inches, though the actual image that I want is much smaller. Right-click the image and use the Output Size portion of the dialog (Graphics tab) to scale the image. If you want

WRB - Installing LyX

2008-03-20 Thread William R. Buckley
My experience, by using the complete install, about 105MBytes, is that the process is easy. Of course, I use the Windows version, so there may be some differences in the install process. My problems are with the details of LyX usage, not getting it to run. Also, I could load the documentation

RE: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-03-20 Thread William R. Buckley
See Manfred Mertens post. wrb -Original Message- From: Andre Poenitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 4:06 PM To: William R. Buckley Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: WRB - Installing LyX On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:53:55PM -0700, William R

WRB - Image Importation

2008-03-20 Thread William R. Buckley
At this point, I get the caption on a page, at the top, but without the graphic image. Perhaps I do not understand the cropping process. Still looking for help with PDF graphics. Turning to read Steve Litt's website. wrb

WRB - Observations

2008-03-26 Thread William R. Buckley
Reminder - WindowsXP installation of LyX1.5.4/MikTeX2.7 I noticed that when trying to browse for the graphic file of a figure inserted into a document via the LyX user interface, and upon trying to utilise a shortcut (as the means to more efficiently select the proper directory that is to be

RE: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-03-26 Thread William R. Buckley
On this note, add my pipe. If the speed with which LaTeX could operate were such that output could be produced and displayed within the timeframe of a human keystroke (for fun, lets say you're a really good 150 wpm typist), how would this differ from WYSIWYG? LyX is not WYSIWYG, unless your

RE: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-03-26 Thread William R. Buckley
William R. Buckley schrieb: If the speed with which LaTeX could operate were such that output could be produced and displayed within the timeframe of a human keystroke (for fun, lets say you're a really good 150 wpm typist), how would this differ from WYSIWYG? WYSIWYM only

RE: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-03-26 Thread William R. Buckley
-Original Message- From: Rich Shepard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:38 PM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: RE: WRB - Installing LyX On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, William R. Buckley wrote: LyX/LaTeX are not WYSIWYM because it makes decisions about

RE: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-03-26 Thread William R. Buckley
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: WRB - Installing LyX William R. Buckley schrieb: Don't know what a *nomenclature* is with regard

RE: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-03-26 Thread William R. Buckley
-Original Message- From: rgheck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: WRB - Installing LyX William R. Buckley wrote: On this note, add my pipe. If the speed with which LaTeX could

RE: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-03-26 Thread William R. Buckley
Is it really overkill to drive a Mercedes versus a Fiat? And, the formatting details are not distracting, except for distractible minds. And, no, I do not suggest that the bibliography feature is as capable as BibTeX. Indeed, this is perhaps my biggest complaint with Ventura Publisher, that

WRB - More Observations

2008-03-26 Thread William R. Buckley
It would be much better to open a dialog box that allows PDF and other images to be viewed, and with crosshairs, select a bounding box, adjustable to the image and user taste. This is much better means in view of user interface goals, I should think. I do not seem to be able to find means to

RE: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread William R. Buckley
-Original Message- From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:35 PM To: LyX User Subject: Re: WRB - More Observations I do not seem to be able to find means to cause a single overscore bar to span more than one character. For

WRB - No More Questions, For Now

2008-03-27 Thread William R. Buckley
To all of you, I must say that I get lots of good advice, even from you Uwe. Two problems I have in the short term. One is time, and the other is eyesight problems. I need the quick answers now in order to meet the submission deadline. Turn-around from journal rejection to conference acceptance

RE: WRB - Observations

2008-03-30 Thread William R. Buckley
: William R. Buckley wrote: I noticed that when trying to browse for the graphic file of a figure inserted into a document via the LyX user interface, and upon trying to utilise a shortcut (as the means to more efficiently select the proper directory that is to be browsed), it happens

RE: WRB - Observations

2008-03-30 Thread William R. Buckley
am reminded of the biblical warning, of not casting pearls. wrb -Original Message- From: Rich Shepard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 2:35 PM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: RE: WRB - Observations On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, William R. Buckley wrote

RE: WRB - Observations

2008-03-31 Thread William R. Buckley
Rich Shepard wrote: However, if you want to use open source applications built to open standards, then understand that almost all of these were originally build for linux or one of the *BSDs, those are the platforms the developers use, and making them available to the Windows

RE: WRB - Observations

2008-03-31 Thread William R. Buckley
-Original Message- From: Michael Wojcik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:46 PM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: WRB - Observations rgheck wrote: Michael Wojcik wrote: I don't think this is a bug in Qt, though arguably it's a missing

RE: WRB - Observations

2008-03-31 Thread William R. Buckley
PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WRB - Observations On Monday 31 March 2008 19:19, William R. Buckley wrote: Please, it is not about how I would like things. Rather, it is not what one would expect, given familiarity with Windows

RE: WRB - Observations

2008-03-31 Thread William R. Buckley
using? -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joost Verburg Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 8:37 PM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: WRB - Observations William R. Buckley wrote: Well, the open source tool Maxima has no problem following a Windows

RE: WRB - Observations

2008-04-01 Thread William R. Buckley
On 31.03.08, William R. Buckley wrote: Well, the open source tool Maxima has no problem following a Windows shortcut in its browsing function. So, your position is therefore that LyX should be less than it might be, when other open source tools have no problem with a simple

WRB - Summary of Experience with LyX

2008-04-07 Thread William R. Buckley
First, I vote for LICK. If the goal is to be a TeX product, then extend the language, and avoid the sound of plurality, Second, I think LyX has a wonderful potential, and a magnificently executed actual. I have learned from where most of the text formatting is controlled, and it is surprisingly

Graphics Tools

2012-07-16 Thread William R. Buckley
Working with TeX is a bit of a challenge, since it seems not to include much support for abstract drawing. I have need for figures to appear in a paper, and am not familiar with the toolset usually employed for use to make drawn images suitable for use with TeX. Can you please make a few

RE: Graphics Tools

2012-07-16 Thread William R. Buckley
R. Buckley said: Working with TeX is a bit of a challenge, since it seems not to include much support for abstract drawing. I have need for figures to appear in a paper, and am not familiar with the toolset usually employed for use to make drawn images suitable for use with TeX. Can you

RE: Graphics Tools

2012-07-17 Thread William R. Buckley
Thank you all for the list of tools. As my need was urgent, I tried IPE, and it works well, though is a bit clunky. Will try the others, and return a quick sense of utility for each. wrb -Original Message- From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] On Behalf Of

Layout File Location

2010-06-06 Thread William R. Buckley
is the language given in the product not consistent with the language given in the Wiki and the documentation? Thank you for your attention to this matter. William R. Buckley Equipment used - Toshiba with 2GB and an AMD Turion 64. OS used - Windows Vista Home Premium with service pack 2.

Fwd: Layout File Location

2010-06-15 Thread William R. Buckley
I've not seen a reply. Perhaps my original post was not delivered to lyx.org; please excuse any duplication. wrb -- Forwarded message -- From: William R. Buckley bill.buck...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:47 AM Subject: Layout File Location To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

WRB - LyX, TeXLive and Windows

2010-07-06 Thread William R. Buckley
Is there any reason that I should shy away from the notion of using LyX with TeX Live in a Windows environment? If not, are there any suggestions or observations suitable to configuring LyX and TeX Live to work together under Windows? Thanks. wrb

RE: article title 3 authors and affiliations

2012-08-09 Thread William R. Buckley
I use this form for one of my papers: \author{William R. Buckley\inst{1}\email{w...@wrb.org} \and Joe Thomas\inst{2}\email{jtho...@gmail.com} } -Original Message- From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] On Behalf Of Wolfgang Engelmann Sent: Thursday, August

llncs.layout

2009-05-21 Thread William R. Buckley
is that LyX generally works well, even if a few gotcha's occur early in the process. Since I have used LyX for only one paper, and that about one year ago, I don't remember many details of the gotcha's I then faced, nor how to overcome them. William R. Buckley

Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-08 Thread William R . Buckley
I have need for the LNCS layout, and am having trouble using this with LyX. You will perhaps like to know that my prior experience with any TeX is zero. In the past, I have used WYSIWYG systems (Ventura Publisher is my first choice, though I am also passingly familiar with Quark XPress and Aldus

RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-10 Thread William R. Buckley
To: William R. Buckley Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution William R. Buckley schrieb: What is less clear is the use of texhash, as it is not part of the LyX distribution. You don't need to use this cind of command line commands

FW: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-14 Thread William R. Buckley
-Original Message- From: William R. Buckley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 3:32 PM To: 'rgheck' Subject: RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution -Original Message- From: rgheck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March

RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-14 Thread William R. Buckley
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul A. Rubin Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 11:16 AM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution William R. Buckley wrote: I have need for the LNCS layout, and am

RE: Languages British vs English

2008-03-14 Thread William R. Buckley
Actually, I have had a number of discussions with British nationals, and to a person, they suggest that American English is generally practiced better, with a high degree of attention to the details of grammar, as compared with their British counterparts. It would perhaps be rude of me to

RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-15 Thread William R. Buckley
To all who have responded to my enquiries, thank you very much. This posting details my experiences, and should assist others to both provide such further assistance as will make it possible for me to effectively use LyX, and also should find utility in the development of LyX documentation.

RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-15 Thread William R. Buckley
Much good information has come from Bob Lounsbury. Thank you for the attention to detail. Where would I have been expected to read of the requirement to create such a texmf sub-directory, given that it was not created automatically by either MiKTeX or LyX? Indeed, why was such a directory not

RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-16 Thread William R. Buckley
Respecting what follows, your corrections of my misunderstandings are solicited. OK. The digest goes like this: 1. It is the case that all installs to my single user computer are for use by all users. 2. MiKTeX has a requirement that the user maintain any *custom* class, style, include, other

RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-16 Thread William R. Buckley
, March 16, 2008 6:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX User Subject: Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 3:31 PM, William R. Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Respecting what follows, your corrections of my misunderstandings are solicited. OK

RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-16 Thread William R. Buckley
-Original Message- From: Bob Lounsbury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:51 PM To: LyX User Subject: Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 8:10 PM, William R. Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more comment

WRB - Problems with LaTeX

2008-03-19 Thread William R. Buckley
without error upon pdflatex or the proper result. At best, there are errors reported, and the output text is converted to italic after production of the desired italic s' symbol. Has anyone any idea as to the solution of this problem? William R. Buckley

RE: WRB - Problems with LaTeX

2008-03-19 Thread William R. Buckley
Thanks for the solution! I elect to use Stephens solution, as I am not using LyX (making the changes directly to the LaTeX source). When I learn the proper use of LyX, I'll try the other suggested solution. the command I use is $\skew9\acute{s}\thinspace$ The thinspace is to accommodate the

RE: WRB - Problems with LaTeX

2008-03-20 Thread William R. Buckley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the command I use is $\skew9\acute{s}\thinspace$ This command works just fine in math mode in LyX for me. Displaying an italic s with a prime symbol. See the attached file. Cheers, /Bob As mentioned earlier, I am not using LyX. Instead, the .tex file is

RE: WRB - Problems with LaTeX

2008-03-20 Thread William R. Buckley
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX User Subject: Re: WRB - Problems with LaTeX On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:36 AM, William R. Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As mentioned earlier, I am not using LyX. Instead, the .tex file is being edited with NotePad. I'll get to learning LyX after I get

WRB - Discoveries

2008-03-20 Thread William R. Buckley
Well, I just learned that the .tex file that I have been laboring over can be imported into LyX, and it produces upon request the same document as does pdflatex (no wonder here though, since LyX must be orchestrating execution of pdflatex), with the erroneously presented graphic image. So,

RE: WRB - Problems with LaTeX

2008-03-20 Thread William R. Buckley
PROTECTED] Cc: LyX User Subject: Re: WRB - Problems with LaTeX On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:09 AM, William R. Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried, and had some difficulties working with the interface. It is probably just differences in the way things are done, versus Ventura

WRB - On the dimensions of graphic files.

2008-03-20 Thread William R. Buckley
OK. One last question tonight. The image which Dominik sent me has dimensions of 7.97 by 1.72 inches. Now, if memory serves me right, there are exactly 2.54cm per inch. Dominik set the width of the graphic include to be 10 centimeters in the .tex file. My image has dimensions of 8.5 by 11

RE: WRB - On the dimensions of graphic files.

2008-03-20 Thread William R. Buckley
Paul (and the rest of the group): William R. Buckley wrote: My image has dimensions of 8.5 by 11 inches, though the actual image that I want is much smaller. Right-click the image and use the Output Size portion of the dialog (Graphics tab) to scale the image. If you want

WRB - Installing LyX

2008-03-20 Thread William R. Buckley
My experience, by using the complete install, about 105MBytes, is that the process is easy. Of course, I use the Windows version, so there may be some differences in the install process. My problems are with the details of LyX usage, not getting it to run. Also, I could load the documentation

RE: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-03-20 Thread William R. Buckley
See Manfred Mertens post. wrb -Original Message- From: Andre Poenitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 4:06 PM To: William R. Buckley Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: WRB - Installing LyX On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:53:55PM -0700, William R

WRB - Image Importation

2008-03-20 Thread William R. Buckley
At this point, I get the caption on a page, at the top, but without the graphic image. Perhaps I do not understand the cropping process. Still looking for help with PDF graphics. Turning to read Steve Litt's website. wrb

WRB - Observations

2008-03-26 Thread William R. Buckley
Reminder - WindowsXP installation of LyX1.5.4/MikTeX2.7 I noticed that when trying to browse for the graphic file of a figure inserted into a document via the LyX user interface, and upon trying to utilise a shortcut (as the means to more efficiently select the proper directory that is to be

RE: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-03-26 Thread William R. Buckley
On this note, add my pipe. If the speed with which LaTeX could operate were such that output could be produced and displayed within the timeframe of a human keystroke (for fun, lets say you're a really good 150 wpm typist), how would this differ from WYSIWYG? LyX is not WYSIWYG, unless your

RE: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-03-26 Thread William R. Buckley
William R. Buckley schrieb: If the speed with which LaTeX could operate were such that output could be produced and displayed within the timeframe of a human keystroke (for fun, lets say you're a really good 150 wpm typist), how would this differ from WYSIWYG? WYSIWYM only

RE: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-03-26 Thread William R. Buckley
-Original Message- From: Rich Shepard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:38 PM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: RE: WRB - Installing LyX On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, William R. Buckley wrote: LyX/LaTeX are not WYSIWYM because it makes decisions about

RE: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-03-26 Thread William R. Buckley
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: WRB - Installing LyX William R. Buckley schrieb: Don't know what a *nomenclature* is with regard

RE: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-03-26 Thread William R. Buckley
-Original Message- From: rgheck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: WRB - Installing LyX William R. Buckley wrote: On this note, add my pipe. If the speed with which LaTeX could

RE: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-03-26 Thread William R. Buckley
Is it really overkill to drive a Mercedes versus a Fiat? And, the formatting details are not distracting, except for distractible minds. And, no, I do not suggest that the bibliography feature is as capable as BibTeX. Indeed, this is perhaps my biggest complaint with Ventura Publisher, that

WRB - More Observations

2008-03-26 Thread William R. Buckley
It would be much better to open a dialog box that allows PDF and other images to be viewed, and with crosshairs, select a bounding box, adjustable to the image and user taste. This is much better means in view of user interface goals, I should think. I do not seem to be able to find means to

RE: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread William R. Buckley
-Original Message- From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:35 PM To: LyX User Subject: Re: WRB - More Observations I do not seem to be able to find means to cause a single overscore bar to span more than one character. For

WRB - No More Questions, For Now

2008-03-27 Thread William R. Buckley
To all of you, I must say that I get lots of good advice, even from you Uwe. Two problems I have in the short term. One is time, and the other is eyesight problems. I need the quick answers now in order to meet the submission deadline. Turn-around from journal rejection to conference acceptance

RE: WRB - Observations

2008-03-30 Thread William R. Buckley
: William R. Buckley wrote: I noticed that when trying to browse for the graphic file of a figure inserted into a document via the LyX user interface, and upon trying to utilise a shortcut (as the means to more efficiently select the proper directory that is to be browsed), it happens

RE: WRB - Observations

2008-03-30 Thread William R. Buckley
am reminded of the biblical warning, of not casting pearls. wrb -Original Message- From: Rich Shepard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 2:35 PM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: RE: WRB - Observations On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, William R. Buckley wrote

RE: WRB - Observations

2008-03-31 Thread William R. Buckley
Rich Shepard wrote: However, if you want to use open source applications built to open standards, then understand that almost all of these were originally build for linux or one of the *BSDs, those are the platforms the developers use, and making them available to the Windows

RE: WRB - Observations

2008-03-31 Thread William R. Buckley
-Original Message- From: Michael Wojcik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:46 PM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: WRB - Observations rgheck wrote: Michael Wojcik wrote: I don't think this is a bug in Qt, though arguably it's a missing

RE: WRB - Observations

2008-03-31 Thread William R. Buckley
PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WRB - Observations On Monday 31 March 2008 19:19, William R. Buckley wrote: Please, it is not about how I would like things. Rather, it is not what one would expect, given familiarity with Windows

RE: WRB - Observations

2008-03-31 Thread William R. Buckley
using? -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joost Verburg Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 8:37 PM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: WRB - Observations William R. Buckley wrote: Well, the open source tool Maxima has no problem following a Windows

RE: WRB - Observations

2008-04-01 Thread William R. Buckley
On 31.03.08, William R. Buckley wrote: Well, the open source tool Maxima has no problem following a Windows shortcut in its browsing function. So, your position is therefore that LyX should be less than it might be, when other open source tools have no problem with a simple

WRB - Summary of Experience with LyX

2008-04-07 Thread William R. Buckley
First, I vote for LICK. If the goal is to be a TeX product, then extend the language, and avoid the sound of plurality, Second, I think LyX has a wonderful potential, and a magnificently executed actual. I have learned from where most of the text formatting is controlled, and it is surprisingly

Graphics Tools

2012-07-16 Thread William R. Buckley
Working with TeX is a bit of a challenge, since it seems not to include much support for abstract drawing. I have need for figures to appear in a paper, and am not familiar with the toolset usually employed for use to make drawn images suitable for use with TeX. Can you please make a few

RE: Graphics Tools

2012-07-16 Thread William R. Buckley
R. Buckley said: Working with TeX is a bit of a challenge, since it seems not to include much support for abstract drawing. I have need for figures to appear in a paper, and am not familiar with the toolset usually employed for use to make drawn images suitable for use with TeX. Can you

RE: Graphics Tools

2012-07-17 Thread William R. Buckley
Thank you all for the list of tools. As my need was urgent, I tried IPE, and it works well, though is a bit clunky. Will try the others, and return a quick sense of utility for each. wrb -Original Message- From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] On Behalf Of

Layout File Location

2010-06-06 Thread William R. Buckley
is the language given in the product not consistent with the language given in the Wiki and the documentation? Thank you for your attention to this matter. William R. Buckley Equipment used - Toshiba with 2GB and an AMD Turion 64. OS used - Windows Vista Home Premium with service pack 2.

Fwd: Layout File Location

2010-06-15 Thread William R. Buckley
I've not seen a reply. Perhaps my original post was not delivered to lyx.org; please excuse any duplication. wrb -- Forwarded message -- From: William R. Buckley bill.buck...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:47 AM Subject: Layout File Location To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

WRB - LyX, TeXLive and Windows

2010-07-06 Thread William R. Buckley
Is there any reason that I should shy away from the notion of using LyX with TeX Live in a Windows environment? If not, are there any suggestions or observations suitable to configuring LyX and TeX Live to work together under Windows? Thanks. wrb

RE: article title 3 authors and affiliations

2012-08-09 Thread William R. Buckley
I use this form for one of my papers: \author{William R. Buckley\inst{1}\email{w...@wrb.org} \and Joe Thomas\inst{2}\email{jtho...@gmail.com} } -Original Message- From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] On Behalf Of Wolfgang Engelmann Sent: Thursday, August

llncs.layout

2009-05-21 Thread William R. Buckley
is that LyX generally works well, even if a few gotcha's occur early in the process. Since I have used LyX for only one paper, and that about one year ago, I don't remember many details of the gotcha's I then faced, nor how to overcome them. William R. Buckley

Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-08 Thread William R . Buckley
I have need for the LNCS layout, and am having trouble using this with LyX. You will perhaps like to know that my prior experience with any TeX is zero. In the past, I have used WYSIWYG systems (Ventura Publisher is my first choice, though I am also passingly familiar with Quark XPress and Aldus

RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-10 Thread William R. Buckley
8 8:33 AM > To: William R. Buckley > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Subject: Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution > > William R. Buckley schrieb: > > > What is less clear is the use of texhash, as it is not part > of the LyX > > distribution. > >

FW: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-14 Thread William R. Buckley
> -Original Message- > From: William R. Buckley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 3:32 PM > To: 'rgheck' > Subject: RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: rghec

RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-14 Thread William R. Buckley
> -Original Message- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul A. Rubin > Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 11:16 AM > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Subject: Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution > > William R. Buckley wrote: > > I ha

RE: Languages British vs English

2008-03-14 Thread William R. Buckley
Actually, I have had a number of discussions with British nationals, and to a person, they suggest that American English is generally practiced better, with a high degree of attention to the details of grammar, as compared with their British counterparts. It would perhaps be rude of me to

RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-15 Thread William R. Buckley
To all who have responded to my enquiries, thank you very much. This posting details my experiences, and should assist others to both provide such further assistance as will make it possible for me to effectively use LyX, and also should find utility in the development of LyX documentation.

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