Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

On 20 Feb 2009, Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 20 February 2009 09:35:27 am Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm just starting to prepare my fourth book with Lyx, this time using 1.6.1 instead of 1.5.x. Anthony, What were your other three books? Are you self-publishing them, were they published

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

On 21/02/2009 09:53, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 20 Feb 2009, Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 20 February 2009 09:35:27 am Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm just starting to prepare my fourth book with Lyx, this time using 1.6.1 instead of 1.5.x. Anthony, What were your other three books? Are you

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

1. I've seen your web site, Steve, and I must say it's a remarkable body of work and a great resource! 2. I think I'm going to be closer to Rich in the ebooks I write. I'll take the defaults whenever possible. I do a lot with the latex-beamer package, but I also use the R - LyX Sweave interface.

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

On 20 Feb 2009, Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 20 February 2009 09:35:27 am Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm just starting to prepare my fourth book with Lyx, this time using 1.6.1 instead of 1.5.x. Anthony, What were your other three books? Are you self-publishing them, were they published

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

On 21/02/2009 09:53, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 20 Feb 2009, Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 20 February 2009 09:35:27 am Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm just starting to prepare my fourth book with Lyx, this time using 1.6.1 instead of 1.5.x. Anthony, What were your other three books? Are you

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

1. I've seen your web site, Steve, and I must say it's a remarkable body of work and a great resource! 2. I think I'm going to be closer to Rich in the ebooks I write. I'll take the defaults whenever possible. I do a lot with the latex-beamer package, but I also use the R - LyX Sweave interface.

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

On 20 Feb 2009, Steve Litt wrote: > On Friday 20 February 2009 09:35:27 am Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I'm just starting to prepare my fourth book with Lyx, this time using > > 1.6.1 instead of 1.5.x. > > Anthony, > > What were your other three books? Are you self-publishing them, were they >

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

On 21/02/2009 09:53, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 20 Feb 2009, Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 20 February 2009 09:35:27 am Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm just starting to prepare my fourth book with Lyx, this time using 1.6.1 instead of 1.5.x. Anthony, What were your other three books? Are you

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

1. I've seen your web site, Steve, and I must say it's a remarkable body of work and a great resource! 2. I think I'm going to be closer to Rich in the ebooks I write. I'll take the defaults whenever possible. I do a lot with the "latex-beamer" package, but I also use the R - LyX "Sweave"

Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

On Friday 20 February 2009 09:35:27 am Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm just starting to prepare my fourth book with Lyx, this time using 1.6.1 instead of 1.5.x. Anthony, What were your other three books? Are you self-publishing them, were they published by others, or were they books used

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

Steve Litt wrote: If I had to give LyX advice to a prospective author, I'd say that the minute you've committed to using LyX, learn LaTeX. I've seen people doing full PhD theses in LyX without the slightest clue of latex. Depends all on the field you are in and your requirements. But as you

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

Steve Litt sl...@... writes: If I had to give LyX advice to a prospective author, I'd say that the minute you've committed to using LyX, learn LaTeX. In my opionion, the VERY FIRST STEP in learning LaTeX is to learn TeX, which is about 1000 times easier. I'd advise the new LyX-using book

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, David Hewitt wrote: I tend to agree with Konrad. I happily wrote my dissertation in LyX and only stumbled into LaTeX on an as-needed basis, primarily using the Koma-script documentation, package documentation at CTAN, and the LyX mailing list. I quite frankly don't even

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

On Friday 20 February 2009 01:55:00 pm Rich Shepard wrote: [clip] A lot depends on how we approach our writing. I use LyX for almost all my writing, and I accept the default classes and layouts because they were designed by folks much more knowledgeable than I about typography, page layout,

Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

On Friday 20 February 2009 09:35:27 am Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm just starting to prepare my fourth book with Lyx, this time using 1.6.1 instead of 1.5.x. Anthony, What were your other three books? Are you self-publishing them, were they published by others, or were they books used

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

Steve Litt wrote: If I had to give LyX advice to a prospective author, I'd say that the minute you've committed to using LyX, learn LaTeX. I've seen people doing full PhD theses in LyX without the slightest clue of latex. Depends all on the field you are in and your requirements. But as you

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

Steve Litt sl...@... writes: If I had to give LyX advice to a prospective author, I'd say that the minute you've committed to using LyX, learn LaTeX. In my opionion, the VERY FIRST STEP in learning LaTeX is to learn TeX, which is about 1000 times easier. I'd advise the new LyX-using book

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, David Hewitt wrote: I tend to agree with Konrad. I happily wrote my dissertation in LyX and only stumbled into LaTeX on an as-needed basis, primarily using the Koma-script documentation, package documentation at CTAN, and the LyX mailing list. I quite frankly don't even

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

On Friday 20 February 2009 01:55:00 pm Rich Shepard wrote: [clip] A lot depends on how we approach our writing. I use LyX for almost all my writing, and I accept the default classes and layouts because they were designed by folks much more knowledgeable than I about typography, page layout,

Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

On Friday 20 February 2009 09:35:27 am Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm just starting to prepare my fourth book with Lyx, this time using > 1.6.1 instead of 1.5.x. Anthony, What were your other three books? Are you self-publishing them, were they published by others, or were they books used

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

Steve Litt wrote: If I had to give LyX advice to a prospective author, I'd say that the minute you've committed to using LyX, learn LaTeX. I've seen people doing full PhD theses in LyX without the slightest clue of latex. Depends all on the field you are in and your requirements. But as you

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

Steve Litt writes: > If I had to give LyX advice to a prospective author, I'd say that the minute > you've committed to using LyX, learn LaTeX. In my opionion, the VERY FIRST > STEP in learning LaTeX is to learn TeX, which is about 1000 times easier. I'd > advise the new LyX-using

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, David Hewitt wrote: I tend to agree with Konrad. I happily wrote my dissertation in LyX and only stumbled into LaTeX on an as-needed basis, primarily using the Koma-script documentation, package documentation at CTAN, and the LyX mailing list. I quite frankly don't even

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

On Friday 20 February 2009 01:55:00 pm Rich Shepard wrote: [clip] >A lot depends on how we approach our writing. I use LyX for almost all > my writing, and I accept the default classes and layouts because they were > designed by folks much more knowledgeable than I about typography, page >