a slanted face out of an MM font?
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a slanted face out of an MM font?
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In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sam Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> (I assumed the Reply-to: would be the list)
Bad assumption. The list isn't broken.
> Knuth also argues in METAFONT that slanted will make it easier for
> typeface designers to produce multiple faces from a single style.
So can
$file $(basename $file .gif).png
done
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until a few days later. So maybe other
people have the same problem.
Thoe other lists are (probably) in violation of RFC-2822. You should
get into the habit of hitting Reply All to reply to the list.
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, not the
convert command that comes with Imagemagick. That just happens to
do the right thing in this case.
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filename.
Ain't scripting fun ;)
Your scripts work much better if you start them with #!/usr/bin/env python
:-).
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didn't look
at my sed book, but that reads, substitute two single backqotes when there's
a plain double quote followed by a single character; do this globally. You
want to test that it's not a period, but a letter.
You want 's/\([A-Za-z]\)/``\1/g'.
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$file $(basename $file .gif).png
done
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until a few days later. So maybe other
people have the same problem.
Thoe other lists are (probably) in violation of RFC-2822. You should
get into the habit of hitting Reply All to reply to the list.
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, not the
convert command that comes with Imagemagick. That just happens to
do the right thing in this case.
mike
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filename.
Ain't scripting fun ;)
Your scripts work much better if you start them with #!/usr/bin/env python
:-).
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didn't look
at my sed book, but that reads, substitute two single backqotes when there's
a plain double quote followed by a single character; do this globally. You
want to test that it's not a period, but a letter.
You want 's/\([A-Za-z]\)/``\1/g'.
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In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> 2) run, before you run pdflatex, something like
> for FILE in `find . -name '*\.gif'`; do convert $FILE `echo $FILE | sed
> 's/\(.*\.\)gif/\1png/'`; done
basename is safer:
for file in $(find . -name *.gif)
do
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Maybe it's just my mail client, but this list seems to default for a
> reply to the sender instead of to the list, unlike all the other lists
> I've ever been on. I accidently sent a reply intended for the list to
> the sender and didn't
[drifting off-topic]
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> The problem is that "for" splits the returned list of files using
> whitespace...
>
> Perhaps the bigger problem is that you can overrun the internal array size
> used by "for" to store the list of
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> > | The problem is that "for" splits the returned list of files using
> > | whitespace...
> >
> > find foo -name \*.gif -print -exec convert {} `basename {}`.png \;
> > then (ha!)
>
> Thanks. I've
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Paul wrote:
>
> > Is there a command-line tool that does this using some heuristics to cover
> > most areas that could be problematic?
>
> Paul
>
>sed. tr, too, but sed would work. Something like
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
Mike Meyer wrote:
Is there an easy way to redefine paragraph styles in Lyx?
...
Well, you have sort of overlooked what I think is the point of
LyX/LaTeX. But we'll skip that.
The point being that authors should concentrate on content
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
Mike Meyer wrote:
Is there an easy way to redefine paragraph styles in Lyx?
...
Well, you have sort of overlooked what I think is the point of
LyX/LaTeX. But we'll skip that.
The point being that authors should concentrate on content
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
> >>Is there an easy way to redefine paragraph styles in Lyx?
> ...
> > Well, you have sort of overlooked what I think is the point of
> > LyX/LaTeX. But we'll skip that.
> The p
in LyX.
So the only changes you need to make to the layout file are to get it
to use the correct class file for the output.
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in LyX.
So the only changes you need to make to the layout file are to get it
to use the correct class file for the output.
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In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Is there an easy way to redefine paragraph styles in Lyx?
>
> I'm new to LyX and TeX, and I'm just trying to use it to typeset a book.
> It's going well, I'm using the "book" document class, I get a nice
> output, but now I want to change
to. LaTeX/LyX makes it easy to get professional looking
pages. Unless you're a professional designer of such, the two will be
unrelated. Decide which you want, and use the right tool for the job.
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to. LaTeX/LyX makes it easy to get professional looking
pages. Unless you're a professional designer of such, the two will be
unrelated. Decide which you want, and use the right tool for the job.
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In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
>One of the biggest hurdles for users to pass is the compulsion to tweak
> minor appearance details.
My explanation of the LaTeX/LyX philosphy is:
Word processors make it easy to get the pages that look exactly like
you want
a very good job for me.
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Luis Rivera [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Nicol
[EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
Can someone please point me to a tool that will convert a LyX document
to a soffice document, no matter how rough the tool
a very good job for me.
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Luis Rivera [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Nicol
[EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
Can someone please point me to a tool that will convert a LyX document
to a soffice document, no matter how rough the tool
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Nicol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Can someone please point me to a tool that will convert a LyX document
> to a soffice document, no matter how rough the tool is?
When I asked this earli this month, the only thing that came up was
tex4ht. I tried it, but it didn't
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Luis Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >
> > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Nicol
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> > > Can someone please point me to a tool that wil
filename, and let open sort it out.
It's not got it's own web page yet. The tarball can be found at URL:
http://www.mired.org/downloads/open-0.2.tar.gz . Discussionn shold
take place off-list.
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sophisticated determination of a files type. But that's for
later.
Thanks,
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
* Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2005-09-19 06:40 +0200:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
[...]
And under OS X, it's called open, but it's not as powerful as what
I've written.
Give it a different name
filename, and let open sort it out.
It's not got it's own web page yet. The tarball can be found at URL:
http://www.mired.org/downloads/open-0.2.tar.gz . Discussionn shold
take place off-list.
Thanks,
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sophisticated determination of a files type. But that's for
later.
Thanks,
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
* Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2005-09-19 06:40 +0200:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
[...]
And under OS X, it's called open, but it's not as powerful as what
I've written.
Give it a different name
Ok, I know this is a strange place to announce a new Unix tool. But
LyX is the inspiration for this, and workinng well with LyX is a high
priority. I'd like to get feedback from LyX users early, so please
bear with me. To provide some motivation for looking at this, here's
an excerpt from my
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> > "open" is designed to provide Unix users with a single tool for
> > dealing with the multitude of applications that deal with data files.
> > Without open - or something like it
> Under windows/dos, this is called start. Anyway, how
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> * Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-09-19 06:40 +0200:
> > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> [...]
> > And under OS X, it's called open, but it's
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
Mike Meyer wrote:
I haven't been able to find anything to handle the to part. Can
someone provide me with pointers? In a pinch, they can read MSWord doc
files in Writer.
Try tex4ht. It has a mode to output OpenOffice files
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
Mike Meyer wrote:
I haven't been able to find anything to handle the to part. Can
someone provide me with pointers? In a pinch, they can read MSWord doc
files in Writer.
Try tex4ht. It has a mode to output OpenOffice files
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
> > I haven't been able to find anything to handle the "to" part. Can
> > someone provide me with pointers? In a pinch, they can read MSWord doc
> > files in Writer.
>
to handle the to part. Can
someone provide me with pointers? In a pinch, they can read MSWord doc
files in Writer.
Thanks,
mike
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to handle the to part. Can
someone provide me with pointers? In a pinch, they can read MSWord doc
files in Writer.
Thanks,
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I've got a project that requires exchanging documents with others
using StarOffice Writer (or one of it's children). Part of the
requirement is to get change bars as the document moves back and
forth.
1.4.0 apparently has change bar support - I haven't tried it
yet. That's excellent, and I have
.
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. LyX also
needs to deal with commands that convert files between types, like
pdflatex, latex2html, dvipdf2m, gif2pdf, etc. The unix open will deal
with this (well, the CVS version will). The OS X open won't. Will the
Windows open?
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. LyX also
needs to deal with commands that convert files between types, like
pdflatex, latex2html, dvipdf2m, gif2pdf, etc. The unix open will deal
with this (well, the CVS version will). The OS X open won't. Will the
Windows open?
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In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> > * sh for the configure script. It would be nice to rewrite it in
> > python, but nobody is brave enough to do it
> It is not terribly long (1600 lines) and most of the code are simple
> test/if/else that can
> be replaced by
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> >> Open file by extension is a very common practice
> >> under windows. Under linux/unix, we also only need to keep track of
> >> command names, not their pathes.
> >
> > BTW, it is very un-windows when someone has to set
> >
. There's a GUI plist editor
available, but the file is just XML text, so you can use your favorite
text editor on it as well.
mike
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
On Sep 13, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Mike Meyer wrote:
the configure script walks your $PATH looking for sgmltools and/or
db2dvi to decide whether or not to configure docbook support
- an get the behavior I
want. This means it's a pain for me to move back and forth between the
two.
Can someone suggest a way to make the control key in MacLyX be the
control key, instead of the command key?
Thanks,
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
On Sep 13, 2005, at 5:31 PM, Mike Meyer wrote:
I use LyX on both Unix and the Mac. The Mac version does a marvelous
job of looking like a Mac application (at least to my
not-very-mac-enabled-eyes), but it does so by mapping
. There's a GUI plist editor
available, but the file is just XML text, so you can use your favorite
text editor on it as well.
mike
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[Apologies to those of you who are seeing this twice.]
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
On Sep 13, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Mike Meyer wrote:
the configure script walks your $PATH looking for sgmltools and/or
db2dvi to decide whether or not to configure docbook support
- an get the behavior I
want. This means it's a pain for me to move back and forth between the
two.
Can someone suggest a way to make the control key in MacLyX be the
control key, instead of the command key?
Thanks,
mike
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
On Sep 13, 2005, at 5:31 PM, Mike Meyer wrote:
I use LyX on both Unix and the Mac. The Mac version does a marvelous
job of looking like a Mac application (at least to my
not-very-mac-enabled-eyes), but it does so by mapping
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Rolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> I am new to this forum, but have used lyx a little bit over a
> longish period of time. I now run on OS X tiger and installed the
> Tex bundle with fink (which appears to include a bunch of
> sgml/docbook stuff) and the Aqua version
[Apologies to those of you who are seeing this twice.]
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> On Sep 13, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > the configure script walks your $PATH looking for sgmltools and/or
> > db2dvi to decide whether
I use LyX on both Unix and the Mac. The Mac version does a marvelous
job of looking like a Mac application (at least to my
not-very-mac-enabled-eyes), but it does so by mapping the control key
bindings to the command key. This means I can't use the non-Mac
bindings - especially the emacs bindings
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> On Sep 13, 2005, at 5:31 PM, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > I use LyX on both Unix and the Mac. The Mac version does a marvelous
> > job of looking like a Mac application (at least to my
> > not-very-
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roy Schestowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
_/ On Fri 09 Sep 2005 22:14:14 BST, [Mike Meyer] wrote : \_
Bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Primary-Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-face:
5Mnwy%?jIIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`(,SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1RG%
*h+%X^n0EZdTM8_IB
and open it.
Thanks,
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roy Schestowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
_/ On Fri 09 Sep 2005 22:14:14 BST, [Mike Meyer] wrote : \_
Bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Primary-Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-face:
5Mnwy%?jIIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`(,SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1RG%
*h+%X^n0EZdTM8_IB
and open it.
Thanks,
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In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roy Schestowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> _/ On Fri 09 Sep 2005 22:14:14 BST, [Mike Meyer] wrote : \_
>
> > Bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > X-Primary-Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > X-face:
> > "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rj
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roy Schestowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> > What I mean is that most applications let you open multiple windows
> > for "editing" puproses, with each window usually restricted to a
> > specific file. So when you open multiple documents, you get a window
> > per document,
get it from URL: http://www.mired.org/downloads/open-0.1.tgz
. I'd appreciate comments and feedback.
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roy Schestowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
_/ On Sun 11 Sep 2005 01:14:55 BST, [Mike Meyer] wrote : \_
Based on discussion regarding the configuration process on lyx-devel,
I started working on a generic file opener for Unix, ala open on
OS X and start
get it from URL: http://www.mired.org/downloads/open-0.1.tgz
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roy Schestowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
_/ On Sun 11 Sep 2005 01:14:55 BST, [Mike Meyer] wrote : \_
Based on discussion regarding the configuration process on lyx-devel,
I started working on a generic file opener for Unix, ala open on
OS X and start
Based on discussion regarding the configuration process on lyx-devel,
I started working on a generic "file opener" for Unix, ala "open" on
OS X and "start" on Windows. A first release is ready. I've tested it
on a number of different things, including using it to launch all my
viewers from LyX.
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roy Schestowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> _/ On Sun 11 Sep 2005 01:14:55 BST, [Mike Meyer] wrote : \_
>
> > Based on discussion regarding the configuration process on lyx-devel,
> > I started working on a generic "file opene
window
instead of the far more common multiple window approach? Or even tabs?
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window
instead of the far more common multiple window approach? Or even tabs?
Thanks,
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1) Has anyone done a layout file for unixman.sty? Google didn't turn
one up, nor did google
in advance.
See URL:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fonts/x141.html
for instructions on adding fonts to fonts.dir and fonts.scale.
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in advance.
See URL:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fonts/x141.html
for instructions on adding fonts to fonts.dir and fonts.scale.
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In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, /* jsha */ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> I've got a directory filled with Type1 fonts (.afm, .inf, .pfa, .pfb and .pfm
> accompanying each font release) which I'm trying to install on X11. However,
> in order to make mkfontdir work I seem to need a fonts.alias and/or
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