Re: Lyx and Ubuntu Hardy

2009-09-16 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:32:51 -0400 Myriam Abramson dijo: > > Sorry, I'm new to Ubuntu (I was using Fedora before). Ubuntu comes > with 1.5.3 and apt-get refuses to let me upgrade to a newer version. > I've tried to put that in the /etc/apt/sources.list but it didn't > work: > > deb ftp://ftp.l

Re: How many are left handed (was: How Many use linux)

2009-09-13 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:00:02 -0400 Andrew Sullivan dijo: > But it seems to me that knowing how many are left handed would, > naturally, lead to enhancements targetted at the left-hand community. Seven percent. Documented at least as far back as the Christian bible. A far more useful discussion

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-07 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 08:10:20 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: > On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Juergen Spitzm?ller wrote: > > > XeTeX does not support PostScript. > >However, all distributions should have pdf2ps. Indeed, I am (for perhaps the first time in my life) one step ahead of you. :) However, I

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-07 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:12:49 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller dijo: > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > So I'm getting closer, but still not quite there. I guess this is a > > problem in XeLaTeX, but I don't know what to do next. > > It works for me with the DejaVu font.

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-06 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:12:49 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller dijo: > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > So I'm getting closer, but still not quite there. I guess this is a > > problem in XeLaTeX, but I don't know what to do next. > > It works for me with the DejaVu font.

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-06 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:42:49 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller dijo: > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > Suppose I have a font that contains a character at a certain code > > point. I want to insert this character directly into text. There is an > > lfun "insert-unicode," but

Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
The Lyx wiki leads me to believe this is possible, but I can't get it to work. Suppose I have a font that contains a character at a certain code point. I want to insert this character directly into text. There is an lfun "insert-unicode," but it doesn't work. Could someone who is smart give me a

Re: N00bie font issues

2009-04-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:20:40 +0200 Abdelrazak Younes dijo: > On 05/04/2009 22:04, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:12:28 +0200 > > Abdelrazak Younes dijo: > > I must have poor googling skills, because I have spent an hour looking > > for documenta

Re: N00bie font issues

2009-04-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 13:11:29 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller dijo: > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > Furthermore, the SAMPA-like IPA insertion thing is like 15 years out of > > date. Linguists today use straight Unicode insertion via the Unicode > > code point. But that's OK,

N00bie font issues

2009-04-04 Thread John Jason Jordan
I have spent a total of maybe eight hours in Lyx so far, and I am impressed with a number of things. I am a linguist and being able to create OT tableaus, PS trees and semantic notation will be great once I learn how to do things. However, the most fundamental thing that linguists need is IPA char