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On 24/03/11 19:09, Steve Litt wrote:
On Thursday 24 March 2011 07:01:19 Rainer M Krug wrote:
On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
This is a wonderful idea. Now if we can only go the other direction...
I
On 23 March 2011 23:01, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:
However,
many in the Microsoft Word world just don't care. And, frankly, I don't want
them to switch unless they're willing to take the time to learn a different
paradigm and understand what is underneath what they do.
On 23 March 2011 06:20, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote:
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 23:27:45 David L. Johnson wrote:
On 03/22/2011 10:58 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
3) Not WYSIWYG. Normal users clearly expect WYSIWYG. WYSIWYG and
WYSIWYM don't need to be mutually exclusive.
On 23 March 2011 08:12, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote:
One possible approach is to write an introduction to Lyx specifically aimed
at Word users.
This has been done for R at
http://chartsgraphs.wordpress.com/learnr-toolkit/ where the tutorials assume
familiarity with Excel and
Stephen
There was a version for LaTeX
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/latex4wp/latex4wp.pdf
This looks useful, thanks.
Graham
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On 24/03/11 19:09, Steve Litt wrote:
On Thursday 24 March 2011 07:01:19 Rainer M Krug wrote:
On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
This is a wonderful idea. Now if we can only go the other direction...
I
On 23 March 2011 23:01, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:
However,
many in the Microsoft Word world just don't care. And, frankly, I don't want
them to switch unless they're willing to take the time to learn a different
paradigm and understand what is underneath what they do.
On 23 March 2011 06:20, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote:
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 23:27:45 David L. Johnson wrote:
On 03/22/2011 10:58 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
3) Not WYSIWYG. Normal users clearly expect WYSIWYG. WYSIWYG and
WYSIWYM don't need to be mutually exclusive.
On 23 March 2011 08:12, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote:
One possible approach is to write an introduction to Lyx specifically aimed
at Word users.
This has been done for R at
http://chartsgraphs.wordpress.com/learnr-toolkit/ where the tutorials assume
familiarity with Excel and
Stephen
There was a version for LaTeX
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/latex4wp/latex4wp.pdf
This looks useful, thanks.
Graham
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On 24/03/11 19:09, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thursday 24 March 2011 07:01:19 Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote:
>>> On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
>
This is a wonderful idea. Now if we can only go the other
On 23 March 2011 23:01, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
However,
> many in the Microsoft Word world just don't care. And, frankly, I don't want
> them to switch unless they're willing to take the time to learn a different
> paradigm and understand what is underneath what they
On 23 March 2011 06:20, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 March 2011 23:27:45 David L. Johnson wrote:
>> On 03/22/2011 10:58 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
>
>> > 3) Not WYSIWYG. Normal users clearly expect WYSIWYG. WYSIWYG and
>> > WYSIWYM don't need to be mutually
On 23 March 2011 08:12, Graham Smith wrote:
> One possible approach is to write an introduction to Lyx specifically aimed
> at Word users.
>
> This has been done for R at
> http://chartsgraphs.wordpress.com/learnr-toolkit/ where the tutorials assume
> familiarity with Excel
Stephen
> There was a version for LaTeX
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/latex4wp/latex4wp.pdf
>
>
This looks useful, thanks.
Graham
On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 09:54:29 you wrote:
As for Word/OO--LyX interoperability, that seems a chimera. How can
LyX ever be interoperable with Word, when even the LaTeX/LyX roundtrip
will not get you back the document you started from? It seems to me
that
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On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 09:54:29 you wrote:
As for Word/OO--LyX interoperability, that seems a chimera. How can
LyX ever be interoperable with Word, when even the
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote:
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On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 09:54:29 you wrote:
As for Word/OO--LyX interoperability, that seems a
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote:
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On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
On Wednesday 23
Translated my stuff to english:
http://technion.ac.il/~ronen/lyxlecture2/en/
probably there are some grammar problems. use freely.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Ronen Abravanel ron...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 24 March 2011 07:01:19 Rainer M Krug wrote:
On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
This is a wonderful idea. Now if we can only go the other direction...
I think we should have semantic import/export filters in addition to
visual ones for
On 24/03/2011 2:09 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
On Thursday 24 March 2011 07:01:19 Rainer M Krug wrote:
On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
This is a wonderful idea. Now if we can only go the other direction...
I think we should have semantic import/export
Hi Steve,
I'm not quite sure what you guys mean by semantic import/export, but if you
mean exporting the text marked up with (empty) styles and the (empty) style
definitions so all I have to do with the MSWord file is fill in the styles,
then I'm on it like a squirrel on a tree. Let me
On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 09:54:29 you wrote:
As for Word/OO--LyX interoperability, that seems a chimera. How can
LyX ever be interoperable with Word, when even the LaTeX/LyX roundtrip
will not get you back the document you started from? It seems to me
that
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On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 09:54:29 you wrote:
As for Word/OO--LyX interoperability, that seems a chimera. How can
LyX ever be interoperable with Word, when even the
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote:
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On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 09:54:29 you wrote:
As for Word/OO--LyX interoperability, that seems a
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote:
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On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
On Wednesday 23
Translated my stuff to english:
http://technion.ac.il/~ronen/lyxlecture2/en/
probably there are some grammar problems. use freely.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Ronen Abravanel ron...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 24 March 2011 07:01:19 Rainer M Krug wrote:
On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
This is a wonderful idea. Now if we can only go the other direction...
I think we should have semantic import/export filters in addition to
visual ones for
On 24/03/2011 2:09 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
On Thursday 24 March 2011 07:01:19 Rainer M Krug wrote:
On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
This is a wonderful idea. Now if we can only go the other direction...
I think we should have semantic import/export
Hi Steve,
I'm not quite sure what you guys mean by semantic import/export, but if you
mean exporting the text marked up with (empty) styles and the (empty) style
definitions so all I have to do with the MSWord file is fill in the styles,
then I'm on it like a squirrel on a tree. Let me
On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 March 2011 09:54:29 you wrote:
>> As for Word/OO<-->LyX interoperability, that seems a chimera. How can
>> LyX ever be interoperable with Word, when even the LaTeX/LyX roundtrip
>> will not get you back the document you started from? It seems to
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On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote:
> On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
>> On Wednesday 23 March 2011 09:54:29 you wrote:
>
>>> As for Word/OO<-->LyX interoperability, that seems a chimera. How can
>>> LyX ever be interoperable with Word, when
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Rainer M Krug wrote:
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> On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote:
>> On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 23 March 2011 09:54:29 you wrote:
>>
As for Word/OO<-->LyX
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Rainer M Krug wrote:
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>> On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote:
>>> On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
Translated my stuff to english:
http://technion.ac.il/~ronen/lyxlecture2/en/
probably there are some grammar problems. use freely.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Ronen Abravanel wrote:
> >> >
On Thursday 24 March 2011 07:01:19 Rainer M Krug wrote:
> On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote:
> > On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
> >> This is a wonderful idea. Now if we can only go the other direction...
> >
> > I think we should have "semantic" import/export filters in addition to
> >
On 24/03/2011 2:09 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
On Thursday 24 March 2011 07:01:19 Rainer M Krug wrote:
On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote:
This is a wonderful idea. Now if we can only go the other direction...
I think we should have "semantic" import/export
Hi Steve,
> I'm not quite sure what you guys mean by "semantic import/export", but if you
> mean exporting the text marked up with (empty) styles and the (empty) style
> definitions so all I have to do with the MSWord file is fill in the styles,
> then I'm on it like a squirrel on a tree. Let
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 23:27:45 David L. Johnson wrote:
On 03/22/2011 10:58 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
3) Not WYSIWYG. Normal users clearly expect WYSIWYG. WYSIWYG and
WYSIWYM don't need to be mutually exclusive.
They are to an extent, since WYSIWYG really means that all the
1) Compile Errors. Normal users aren't used to dealing with compile
errors and shouldn't be expected to fix them. Even I don't like
dealing with compile errors all that much.
1a) Perhaps we could do some sort of bisect to determine where the
error is (either over the file itself or some
One possible approach is to write an introduction to Lyx specifically aimed
at Word users.
This has been done for R at
http://chartsgraphs.wordpress.com/learnr-toolkit/ where the tutorials assume
familiarity with Excel and demonstrate how things differ (or are the same)
in R. There have also been
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote:
One possible approach is to write an introduction to Lyx specifically aimed
at Word users.
This has been done for R at
http://chartsgraphs.wordpress.com/learnr-toolkit/ where the tutorials assume
familiarity with Excel
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote:
One possible approach is to write an introduction to Lyx specifically aimed
at Word users.
This makes a lot of sense to me. Most of all we probably need an
introduction for those coming from the world of Word (highest
Rainer,
I completely agree and this would be a very usefull document - but the
issue is not to provide an easy transition from Word to LyX, but to
enable an easy co-operation with Word or OO / LibreOffice users, in
the sense that:
Ah OK, I obviously misunderstood the basis of the thread, I
Steve, I like your list of good things about LyX;
but you have omitted what to me is the most significant:
Try using Word to compile a long book with many illustrations, often with 3
graphics to a page.
Word has a shocking reputation for using a master document with many child
documents,
On 2011-03-22, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote:
4.) It seems that there are people willing to help promote/evangelize
LyX, but I'm not sure we offer much in the way of promotional
materials to help. Would it be worthwhile to create
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com
wrote:
If I were going to enumerate the good things about
LyX, it would be something like this:
* It typesets better and more consistently than its non-TeX based
competitors.
* It deletes unintentional double spaces and
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Ronen Abravanel ron...@gmail.com
wrote:
How long should it be? A year ago I had one hour workshop on LyX in my
I highly doubt that it would exceed an hour.
department, and I
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Ronen Abravanel ron...@gmail.com wrote:
department, and I started with very short into on LaTeX and in what
scene
LyX is different from word, and then about 40 minutes of demonstration
of
what can I do and how can I do that.
If there is nothing
--- On Wed, 3/23/11, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: LyX Promotion
To: Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com
Cc: LyX Devel lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org, lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Received: Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 4:34 AM
On Wed
On 2011-03-23, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote:
While I have some ideas about why it may have happened, I think that
Pavel hit the nail on the head. When I talk to people about LyX, they
seem to think of it as a specialized
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 09:54:29 you wrote:
As for Word/OO--LyX interoperability, that seems a chimera. How can
LyX ever be interoperable with Word, when even the LaTeX/LyX roundtrip
will not get you back the document you started from? It seems to me
that a more reasonable goal would be to
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, John Kane wrote:
Logic splitting here but I would be coming, well am, from an
SGML,OOo/AmiPro, FullWrite Professional background and there still seem to
be quite a few WordPerfect people still out there.
Agreed that the majority of people are likely to be Word or Latex
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 23:27:45 David L. Johnson wrote:
On 03/22/2011 10:58 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
3) Not WYSIWYG. Normal users clearly expect WYSIWYG. WYSIWYG and
WYSIWYM don't need to be mutually exclusive.
They are to an extent, since WYSIWYG really means that all the
1) Compile Errors. Normal users aren't used to dealing with compile
errors and shouldn't be expected to fix them. Even I don't like
dealing with compile errors all that much.
1a) Perhaps we could do some sort of bisect to determine where the
error is (either over the file itself or some
One possible approach is to write an introduction to Lyx specifically aimed
at Word users.
This has been done for R at
http://chartsgraphs.wordpress.com/learnr-toolkit/ where the tutorials assume
familiarity with Excel and demonstrate how things differ (or are the same)
in R. There have also been
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote:
One possible approach is to write an introduction to Lyx specifically aimed
at Word users.
This has been done for R at
http://chartsgraphs.wordpress.com/learnr-toolkit/ where the tutorials assume
familiarity with Excel
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote:
One possible approach is to write an introduction to Lyx specifically aimed
at Word users.
This makes a lot of sense to me. Most of all we probably need an
introduction for those coming from the world of Word (highest
Rainer,
I completely agree and this would be a very usefull document - but the
issue is not to provide an easy transition from Word to LyX, but to
enable an easy co-operation with Word or OO / LibreOffice users, in
the sense that:
Ah OK, I obviously misunderstood the basis of the thread, I
Steve, I like your list of good things about LyX;
but you have omitted what to me is the most significant:
Try using Word to compile a long book with many illustrations, often with 3
graphics to a page.
Word has a shocking reputation for using a master document with many child
documents,
On 2011-03-22, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote:
4.) It seems that there are people willing to help promote/evangelize
LyX, but I'm not sure we offer much in the way of promotional
materials to help. Would it be worthwhile to create
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com
wrote:
If I were going to enumerate the good things about
LyX, it would be something like this:
* It typesets better and more consistently than its non-TeX based
competitors.
* It deletes unintentional double spaces and
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Ronen Abravanel ron...@gmail.com
wrote:
How long should it be? A year ago I had one hour workshop on LyX in my
I highly doubt that it would exceed an hour.
department, and I
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Ronen Abravanel ron...@gmail.com wrote:
department, and I started with very short into on LaTeX and in what
scene
LyX is different from word, and then about 40 minutes of demonstration
of
what can I do and how can I do that.
If there is nothing
--- On Wed, 3/23/11, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: LyX Promotion
To: Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com
Cc: LyX Devel lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org, lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Received: Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 4:34 AM
On Wed
On 2011-03-23, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote:
While I have some ideas about why it may have happened, I think that
Pavel hit the nail on the head. When I talk to people about LyX, they
seem to think of it as a specialized
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 09:54:29 you wrote:
As for Word/OO--LyX interoperability, that seems a chimera. How can
LyX ever be interoperable with Word, when even the LaTeX/LyX roundtrip
will not get you back the document you started from? It seems to me
that a more reasonable goal would be to
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, John Kane wrote:
Logic splitting here but I would be coming, well am, from an
SGML,OOo/AmiPro, FullWrite Professional background and there still seem to
be quite a few WordPerfect people still out there.
Agreed that the majority of people are likely to be Word or Latex
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 23:27:45 David L. Johnson wrote:
> On 03/22/2011 10:58 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> > 3) Not WYSIWYG. Normal users clearly expect WYSIWYG. WYSIWYG and
> > WYSIWYM don't need to be mutually exclusive.
>
> They are to an extent, since WYSIWYG really means that all the
> 1) Compile Errors. Normal users aren't used to dealing with compile
> errors and shouldn't be expected to fix them. Even I don't like
> dealing with compile errors all that much.
> 1a) Perhaps we could do some sort of bisect to determine where the
> error is (either over the file itself or some
One possible approach is to write an introduction to Lyx specifically aimed
at Word users.
This has been done for R at
http://chartsgraphs.wordpress.com/learnr-toolkit/ where the tutorials assume
familiarity with Excel and demonstrate how things differ (or are the same)
in R. There have also been
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Graham Smith wrote:
> One possible approach is to write an introduction to Lyx specifically aimed
> at Word users.
>
> This has been done for R at
> http://chartsgraphs.wordpress.com/learnr-toolkit/ where the tutorials assume
> familiarity
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Graham Smith wrote:
> One possible approach is to write an introduction to Lyx specifically aimed
> at Word users.
>
This makes a lot of sense to me. Most of all we probably need an
introduction for those coming from the world of Word (highest
Rainer,
I completely agree and this would be a very usefull document - but the
> issue is not to provide an easy transition from Word to LyX, but to
> enable an easy co-operation with Word or OO / LibreOffice users, in
> the sense that:
>
Ah OK, I obviously misunderstood the basis of the thread,
Steve, I like your list of good things about LyX;
but you have omitted what to me is the most significant:
Try using Word to compile a long book with many illustrations, often with 3
graphics to a page.
Word has a shocking reputation for using a master document with many child
documents,
On 2011-03-22, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Rob Oakes wrote:
>> 4.) It seems that there are people willing to help promote/evangelize
>> LyX, but I'm not sure we offer much in the way of promotional
>> materials to help. Would it be worthwhile
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Steve Litt
> wrote:
>>
>> If I were going to enumerate the good things about
>> LyX, it would be something like this:
>>
>> * It typesets better and more consistently than its non-TeX based
>> competitors.
>> * It deletes unintentional
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Ronen Abravanel
> wrote:
> > How long should it be? A year ago I had one hour workshop on LyX in my
> >
> I highly doubt that it would exceed an hour.
>
>
> >
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Ronen Abravanel wrote:
>> > department, and I started with very short into on LaTeX and "in what
>> > scene
>> > LyX is different from word", and then about 40 minutes of demonstration
>> > of
>> > what can I do and how can I do that.
>> >
>> >
--- On Wed, 3/23/11, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: LyX Promotion
> To: "Graham Smith" <myotis...@gmail.com>
> Cc: "LyX Devel" <lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org>, lyx-u
On 2011-03-23, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Rob Oakes wrote:
>> While I have some ideas about why it may have happened, I think that
>> Pavel hit the nail on the head. When I talk to people about LyX, they
>> seem to think of it as a
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 09:54:29 you wrote:
> As for Word/OO<-->LyX interoperability, that seems a chimera. How can
> LyX ever be interoperable with Word, when even the LaTeX/LyX roundtrip
> will not get you back the document you started from? It seems to me
> that a more reasonable goal would
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, John Kane wrote:
Logic splitting here but I would be coming, well am, from an
SGML,OOo/AmiPro, FullWrite Professional background and there still seem to
be quite a few WordPerfect people still out there.
Agreed that the majority of people are likely to be Word or Latex
Dear Users and Developers,
Thank you to both Pavel and Stefano for ollowing up with Google about why the
GSoC application was turned down. Is there any way that I could help in that
review? Stefano, will you be attending the IRC meeting to be held later today?
I think it's very important that
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Rob Oakes wrote:
When I talk to people about LyX, they seem to think of it as a specialized
academic writing tool. Basically, a program which helps professors and
students write a thesis or articles. (To be even more narrow, it seems
like many think it is for math and
There is something that might help: wouldn't it be possible to add a
made with LyX tag alongside TeX and pdfTeX in the properties of the
resulting pdf?
It'd be an easy way to communicate that a nice document -that gets you
looking into its properties- was made with LyX.
M
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Manolo Martínez
man...@austrohungaro.com wrote:
There is something that might help: wouldn't it be possible to add a
made with LyX tag alongside TeX and pdfTeX in the properties of the
resulting pdf?
Yes, I always thought that LyX should tag PDFs by 'Created
Dear all
I think this is a very good idea.
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote:
4.) It seems that there are people willing to help promote/evangelize LyX,
but I'm not sure we offer much in the way of promotional materials to help.
Would it be worthwhile to
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 11:58:22 Rich Shepard wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Rob Oakes wrote:
When I talk to people about LyX, they seem to think of it as a
specialized academic writing tool. Basically, a program which helps
professors and students write a thesis or articles. (To be even more
On 22/03/11 15:51, Rob Oakes wrote:
Dear Users and Developers,
Thank you to both Pavel and Stefano for ollowing up with Google about why the
GSoC application was turned down. Is there any way that I could help in that
review? Stefano, will you be attending the IRC meeting to be held later
The next major revision of my courseware will be All-Beamer-All-The-Time (no
LyX, just Beamer LaTeX). It's 1000 times easier to maintain and personalize
than OOImpress viewed on MS Powerpoint.
Nowadays, all my letters are LyX letter template. Yeah, it's a PITA, and I
think it's a silly
Op 22-3-2011 17:59, Steve Litt schreef:
The next major revision of my courseware will be All-Beamer-All-The-Time (no
LyX, just Beamer LaTeX). It's 1000 times easier to maintain and personalize
than OOImpress viewed on MS Powerpoint.
You would have loved the new LyX Presentation Mode:
On 22/03/11 16:38, Liviu Andronic wrote:
Dear all
I think this is a very good idea.
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote:
4.) It seems that there are people willing to help promote/evangelize LyX,
but I'm not sure we offer much in the way of promotional
How long should it be? A year ago I had one hour workshop on LyX in my
department, and I started with very short into on LaTeX and in what scene
LyX is different from word, and then about 40 minutes of demonstration of
what can I do and how can I do that.
If there is nothing better, I can
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Ronen Abravanel ron...@gmail.com wrote:
How long should it be? A year ago I had one hour workshop on LyX in my
I highly doubt that it would exceed an hour.
department, and I started with very short into on LaTeX and in what scene
LyX is different from word,
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote:
While I have some ideas about why it may have happened, I think that Pavel
hit the nail on the head. When I talk to people about LyX, they seem to think
of it as a specialized academic writing tool. Basically, a program
On 03/22/2011 10:58 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
1) Compile Errors. Normal users aren't used to dealing with compile
errors and shouldn't be expected to fix them. Even I don't like
dealing with compile errors all that much.
With LyX you should not get compile errors unless you are doing
Dear Users and Developers,
Thank you to both Pavel and Stefano for ollowing up with Google about why the
GSoC application was turned down. Is there any way that I could help in that
review? Stefano, will you be attending the IRC meeting to be held later today?
I think it's very important that
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Rob Oakes wrote:
When I talk to people about LyX, they seem to think of it as a specialized
academic writing tool. Basically, a program which helps professors and
students write a thesis or articles. (To be even more narrow, it seems
like many think it is for math and
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