Re: Question about tools

2007-10-04 Thread Helge Hafting
Les Denham wrote: On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Richard Heck wrote: Les Denham wrote: My current ideas of how to do this are the following: 3. Write a Perl script to generate the same LaTeX, pulling the parts that vary in each of the reports from the various databases. Take the

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Les Denham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm facing a similar, but different problem. I need to revise a series of 28 > reports which are largely identical except for coverage of different > geographical areas. Much of the information is in several databases. The > revision is needed because

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-04 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 04 October 2007, you wrote: > The .lyx file format is a text format, modifying it should be no harder > than modifying latex. LyX can even import latex files, if you > prefer to modify/generate latex code. > > LyX has enough batch features that a script can create pdf/ps without >

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-04 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 04 October 2007, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > put the files specific to the areas in directories area1 area2, etc > (or another name). Do a > ln -s area1 area > > Prepare the report by including all special files as area/file1.eps or > whatever. > > The to create the reports you can

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-04 Thread Shawn Willden
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 07:47:54 am Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > Or generate XML and use Passepartout's typesetting engine xml2ps to > generate your Postscript. Doh! After spending several hours fiddling with passepartout and verifying that it will do everything I need I discovered that xml2ps

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Sorry, I don't have an answer for you.. but here are two other suggestions: Generate SVG and use inkscape to generate the Postscript (via command line). Or generate XML and use Passepartout's typesetting engine xml2ps to generate your Postscript. Since you mentioned small chunks of text I

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Shawn Willden wrote: Hi, Please excuse this somewhat offtopic question. I'm posting it here because I expect that some of the people on this list may have dabbled with all of these technologies, and might have some useful experience to share. You may wish to reply off-list. Suggestions of

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Shawn Willden
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 07:47:54 am Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Or generate XML and use Passepartout's typesetting engine xml2ps to generate your Postscript. I really like this idea. It looks like I might even be able to use passepartout's GUI to address another part of my problem: How to

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Pavel Sanda
What I need to do is to programmatically generate a postscript document, placing images and small chunks of text at locations specified by a template, with specific values pulled from a database. I'm trying to determine what i'm not sure what exactly you mean by the 'locations specified by

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Shawn Willden wrote: What I need to do is to programmatically generate a postscript document, placing images and small chunks of text at locations specified by a template, with specific values pulled from a database. I'm facing a similar, but different problem. I

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Richard Heck
Les Denham wrote: My current ideas of how to do this are the following: 3. Write a Perl script to generate the same LaTeX, pulling the parts that vary in each of the reports from the various databases. Take the common parts out into separate files, and include them. You can do this in LyX

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Richard Heck wrote: Les Denham wrote: My current ideas of how to do this are the following: 3. Write a Perl script to generate the same LaTeX, pulling the parts that vary in each of the reports from the various databases. Take the common parts out into

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Pavel Sanda
2. Export to LaTeX. this step has both advantages and disadvantages. keeping .lyx for generating let you edit any of the files lately with lyx, generating with lyx can make some steps more comfortable such as converting from various formats via its converter sections etc. comprehend lyx file

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Sorry, I don't have an answer for you.. but here are two other suggestions: Generate SVG and use inkscape to generate the Postscript (via command line). Or generate XML and use Passepartout's typesetting engine xml2ps to generate your Postscript. Since you mentioned small chunks of text I

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Shawn Willden wrote: Hi, Please excuse this somewhat offtopic question. I'm posting it here because I expect that some of the people on this list may have dabbled with all of these technologies, and might have some useful experience to share. You may wish to reply off-list. Suggestions of

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Shawn Willden
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 07:47:54 am Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Or generate XML and use Passepartout's typesetting engine xml2ps to generate your Postscript. I really like this idea. It looks like I might even be able to use passepartout's GUI to address another part of my problem: How to

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Pavel Sanda
What I need to do is to programmatically generate a postscript document, placing images and small chunks of text at locations specified by a template, with specific values pulled from a database. I'm trying to determine what i'm not sure what exactly you mean by the 'locations specified by

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Shawn Willden wrote: What I need to do is to programmatically generate a postscript document, placing images and small chunks of text at locations specified by a template, with specific values pulled from a database. I'm facing a similar, but different problem. I

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Richard Heck
Les Denham wrote: My current ideas of how to do this are the following: 3. Write a Perl script to generate the same LaTeX, pulling the parts that vary in each of the reports from the various databases. Take the common parts out into separate files, and include them. You can do this in LyX

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Richard Heck wrote: Les Denham wrote: My current ideas of how to do this are the following: 3. Write a Perl script to generate the same LaTeX, pulling the parts that vary in each of the reports from the various databases. Take the common parts out into

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Pavel Sanda
2. Export to LaTeX. this step has both advantages and disadvantages. keeping .lyx for generating let you edit any of the files lately with lyx, generating with lyx can make some steps more comfortable such as converting from various formats via its converter sections etc. comprehend lyx file

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Sorry, I don't have an answer for you.. but here are two other suggestions: Generate SVG and use inkscape to generate the Postscript (via command line). Or generate XML and use Passepartout's typesetting engine xml2ps to generate your Postscript. Since you mentioned "small chunks of text" I

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Shawn Willden wrote: Hi, Please excuse this somewhat offtopic question. I'm posting it here because I expect that some of the people on this list may have dabbled with all of these technologies, and might have some useful experience to share. You may wish to reply off-list. Suggestions of

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Shawn Willden
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 07:47:54 am Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > Or generate XML and use Passepartout's typesetting engine xml2ps to > generate your Postscript. I really like this idea. It looks like I might even be able to use passepartout's GUI to address another part of my problem: How to

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Pavel Sanda
> What I need to do is to programmatically generate a postscript document, > placing images and small chunks of text at locations specified by a template, > with specific values pulled from a database. I'm trying to determine what i'm not sure what exactly you mean by the 'locations specified

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Shawn Willden wrote: > What I need to do is to programmatically generate a postscript document, > placing images and small chunks of text at locations specified by a > template, with specific values pulled from a database. I'm facing a similar, but different problem.

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Richard Heck
Les Denham wrote: My current ideas of how to do this are the following: 3. Write a Perl script to generate the same LaTeX, pulling the parts that vary in each of the reports from the various databases. Take the common parts out into separate files, and include them. You can do this in LyX

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Richard Heck wrote: > Les Denham wrote: > > My current ideas of how to do this are the following: > > 3. Write a Perl script to generate the same LaTeX, pulling the parts that > > vary in each of the reports from the various databases. > > Take the common parts out

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Pavel Sanda
> 2. Export to LaTeX. this step has both advantages and disadvantages. keeping .lyx for generating let you edit any of the files lately with lyx, generating with lyx can make some steps more comfortable such as converting from various formats via its converter sections etc. comprehend lyx file

Re: question: a way of tying paragraphs together

2007-08-24 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
killermike wrote: Is there a way of tying two paragraphs together in Lyx? That is, assuring that the page will not be broken at a certain point. For example, I quite often have something along the lines of Consider this example: followed by a new paragraph that uses the quote environment.

Re: question: a way of tying paragraphs together

2007-08-24 Thread Helge Hafting
killermike wrote: Is there a way of tying two paragraphs together in Lyx? That is, assuring that the page will not be broken at a certain point. For example, I quite often have something along the lines of Consider this example: followed by a new paragraph that uses the quote environment.

Re: question: a way of tying paragraphs together

2007-08-24 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
killermike wrote: Is there a way of tying two paragraphs together in Lyx? That is, assuring that the page will not be broken at a certain point. For example, I quite often have something along the lines of Consider this example: followed by a new paragraph that uses the quote environment.

Re: question: a way of tying paragraphs together

2007-08-24 Thread Helge Hafting
killermike wrote: Is there a way of tying two paragraphs together in Lyx? That is, assuring that the page will not be broken at a certain point. For example, I quite often have something along the lines of Consider this example: followed by a new paragraph that uses the quote environment.

Re: question: a way of tying paragraphs together

2007-08-24 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
killermike wrote: Is there a way of tying two paragraphs together in Lyx? That is, assuring that the page will not be broken at a certain point. For example, I quite often have something along the lines of "Consider this example:" followed by a new paragraph that uses the quote environment.

Re: question: a way of tying paragraphs together

2007-08-24 Thread Helge Hafting
killermike wrote: Is there a way of tying two paragraphs together in Lyx? That is, assuring that the page will not be broken at a certain point. For example, I quite often have something along the lines of "Consider this example:" followed by a new paragraph that uses the quote environment.

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-23 Thread William Adams
On Aug 22, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Nick and Anne Hopton wrote: One other question about XeTeX, will it happily co-exist on the same XP machine as MikTeX? Yes. I use the w32tex install in addition to MikTeX and it works fine (MikTeX was installed first, so comes before w32tex in the path

Re: question: a way of tying paragraphs together

2007-08-23 Thread Ethan Metsger
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:13:39 -0400, killermike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way of tying two paragraphs together in Lyx? That is, assuring that the page will not be broken at a certain point. For example, I quite often have something along the lines of Consider this example: followed

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-23 Thread William Adams
On Aug 22, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Nick and Anne Hopton wrote: One other question about XeTeX, will it happily co-exist on the same XP machine as MikTeX? Yes. I use the w32tex install in addition to MikTeX and it works fine (MikTeX was installed first, so comes before w32tex in the path

Re: question: a way of tying paragraphs together

2007-08-23 Thread Ethan Metsger
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:13:39 -0400, killermike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way of tying two paragraphs together in Lyx? That is, assuring that the page will not be broken at a certain point. For example, I quite often have something along the lines of Consider this example: followed

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-23 Thread William Adams
On Aug 22, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Nick and Anne Hopton wrote: One other question about XeTeX, will it happily co-exist on the same XP machine as MikTeX? Yes. I use the w32tex install in addition to MikTeX and it works fine (MikTeX was installed first, so comes before w32tex in the path

Re: question: a way of tying paragraphs together

2007-08-23 Thread Ethan Metsger
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:13:39 -0400, killermike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a way of tying two paragraphs together in Lyx? That is, assuring that the page will not be broken at a certain point. For example, I quite often have something along the lines of "Consider this example:"

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-22 Thread William Adams
On Aug 21, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: I download from xetex site rpm with bin and with sources. None work. In that case, I'd suggest joining the xetex mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex Or you could try TeXlive which now includes xetex. William -- William

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-22 Thread Marcelo Acuña
I download from xetex site rpm with bin and with sources. None work. In that case, I'd suggest joining the xetex mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex Or you could try TeXlive which now includes xetex. William Thanks William Los referentes más importantes

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-22 Thread Nick and Anne Hopton
One other question about XeTeX, will it happily co-exist on the same XP machine as MikTeX? I like the idea of being able to use ttf fonts without the grief of trying to install them in MikTeX. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-22 Thread William Adams
On Aug 21, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: I download from xetex site rpm with bin and with sources. None work. In that case, I'd suggest joining the xetex mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex Or you could try TeXlive which now includes xetex. William -- William

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-22 Thread Marcelo Acuña
I download from xetex site rpm with bin and with sources. None work. In that case, I'd suggest joining the xetex mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex Or you could try TeXlive which now includes xetex. William Thanks William Los referentes más importantes

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-22 Thread Nick and Anne Hopton
One other question about XeTeX, will it happily co-exist on the same XP machine as MikTeX? I like the idea of being able to use ttf fonts without the grief of trying to install them in MikTeX. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-22 Thread William Adams
On Aug 21, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: I download from xetex site rpm with bin and with sources. None work. In that case, I'd suggest joining the xetex mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex Or you could try TeXlive which now includes xetex. William -- William

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-22 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> > I download from xetex site rpm with bin and with > > sources. None work. > > In that case, I'd suggest joining the xetex mailing > list: > > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > Or you could try TeXlive which now includes xetex. > > William > Thanks William Los referentes

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-22 Thread Nick and Anne Hopton
One other question about XeTeX, will it happily co-exist on the same XP machine as MikTeX? I like the idea of being able to use ttf fonts without the grief of trying to install them in MikTeX. Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-21 Thread Marcelo Acuña
How I can get xelatex? I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. It's not a package, but a binary format of the latex macros processed by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. http://scripts.sil.org/xetex This site give to me rpm´s for suse (I have opensuse 10.2) that no

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-21 Thread Marcelo Acuña
How I can get xelatex? I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. It's not a package, but a binary format of the latex macros processed by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. http://scripts.sil.org/xetex This site give to me rpm´s for suse (I have opensuse 10.2) that no

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-21 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> >>> How I can get xelatex? > >>> I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. > >> > >> It's not a package, but a binary format of the > latex > >> macros processed > >> by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. > >> > >> http://scripts.sil.org/xetex > > > > This site give to me rpm´s for suse (I

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-20 Thread William Adams
On Aug 15, 2007, at 5:02 PM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: How I can get xelatex? I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. It's not a package, but a binary format of the latex macros processed by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. http://scripts.sil.org/xetex This site give to me rpm´s for

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-20 Thread William Adams
On Aug 15, 2007, at 5:02 PM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: How I can get xelatex? I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. It's not a package, but a binary format of the latex macros processed by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. http://scripts.sil.org/xetex This site give to me rpm´s for

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-20 Thread William Adams
On Aug 15, 2007, at 5:02 PM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: How I can get xelatex? I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. It's not a package, but a binary format of the latex macros processed by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. http://scripts.sil.org/xetex This site give to me rpm´s for

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-15 Thread William Adams
On Aug 14, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: How I can get xelatex? I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. It's not a package, but a binary format of the latex macros processed by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. http://scripts.sil.org/xetex or

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-15 Thread Marcelo Acuña
How I can get xelatex? I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. It's not a package, but a binary format of the latex macros processed by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. http://scripts.sil.org/xetex This site give to me rpm´s for suse (I have opensuse 10.2) that no work at

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-15 Thread William Adams
On Aug 14, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: How I can get xelatex? I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. It's not a package, but a binary format of the latex macros processed by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. http://scripts.sil.org/xetex or

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-15 Thread Marcelo Acuña
How I can get xelatex? I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. It's not a package, but a binary format of the latex macros processed by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. http://scripts.sil.org/xetex This site give to me rpm´s for suse (I have opensuse 10.2) that no work at

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-15 Thread William Adams
On Aug 14, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: How I can get xelatex? I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. It's not a package, but a binary format of the latex macros processed by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. http://scripts.sil.org/xetex or

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-15 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> > How I can get xelatex? > > I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. > > It's not a package, but a binary format of the latex > macros processed > by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. > > http://scripts.sil.org/xetex This site give to me rpm´s for suse (I have opensuse 10.2) that

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-14 Thread Helge Hafting
Marcelo Acuña wrote: Hello, I have linux (opensuse 10.2) and I want to know: 1) if I can install other distros of Tex like XeTeX, Tex Live, ConTeXt, etc., instead Latex and to use this with Lyx. 2) If I get a gain with this, like no package clash (ConTeXt), add more easy font (XeTeX),

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-14 Thread Marcelo Acuña
On Aug 12, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: I am interested in XeTeX because it promise easy font handling which allows the usage of TrueType and OpenType fonts. It delivers too. Add new fonts for Latex and Lyx is very dificult for me. I don´t understand instrucction

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-14 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello, I have linux (opensuse 10.2) and I want to know: 1) if I can install other distros of Tex like XeTeX, Tex Live, ConTeXt, etc., instead Latex and to use this with Lyx. 2) If I get a gain with this, like no package clash (ConTeXt), add more easy font (XeTeX), etc.

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-14 Thread Marcelo Acuña
XeTeX work with Lyx? W/ xelatex, yes. How I can get xelatex? I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. Marcelo ¡Sé un mejor fotógrafo! Perfeccioná tu técnica y encontrá las mejores

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-14 Thread Helge Hafting
Marcelo Acuña wrote: Hello, I have linux (opensuse 10.2) and I want to know: 1) if I can install other distros of Tex like XeTeX, Tex Live, ConTeXt, etc., instead Latex and to use this with Lyx. 2) If I get a gain with this, like no package clash (ConTeXt), add more easy font (XeTeX),

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-14 Thread Marcelo Acuña
On Aug 12, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: I am interested in XeTeX because it promise easy font handling which allows the usage of TrueType and OpenType fonts. It delivers too. Add new fonts for Latex and Lyx is very dificult for me. I don´t understand instrucction

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-14 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello, I have linux (opensuse 10.2) and I want to know: 1) if I can install other distros of Tex like XeTeX, Tex Live, ConTeXt, etc., instead Latex and to use this with Lyx. 2) If I get a gain with this, like no package clash (ConTeXt), add more easy font (XeTeX), etc.

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-14 Thread Marcelo Acuña
XeTeX work with Lyx? W/ xelatex, yes. How I can get xelatex? I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. Marcelo ¡Sé un mejor fotógrafo! Perfeccioná tu técnica y encontrá las mejores

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-14 Thread Helge Hafting
Marcelo Acuña wrote: Hello, I have linux (opensuse 10.2) and I want to know: 1) if I can install other distros of Tex like XeTeX, Tex Live, ConTeXt, etc., instead Latex and to use this with Lyx. 2) If I get a gain with this, like no package clash (ConTeXt), add more easy font (XeTeX),

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-14 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> On Aug 12, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: > > > I am interested in XeTeX because it promise easy > > "font handling which allows the usage of TrueType > and > > OpenType fonts". > > It delivers too. > > > Add new fonts for Latex and Lyx is > > very dificult for me. I don´t

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-14 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> > Hello, > > I have linux (opensuse 10.2) and I want to > know: > > > > 1) if I can install other distros of Tex like > XeTeX, > > Tex Live, ConTeXt, etc., instead Latex and to use > this > > with Lyx. > > > > 2) If I get a gain with this, like no package > clash > > (ConTeXt), add more

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-14 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> > > XeTeX work with Lyx? > > W/ xelatex, yes. > How I can get xelatex? I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. Marcelo ¡Sé un mejor fotógrafo! Perfeccioná tu técnica y encontrá las

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-13 Thread William Adams
On Aug 12, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: I am interested in XeTeX because it promise easy font handling which allows the usage of TrueType and OpenType fonts. It delivers too. Add new fonts for Latex and Lyx is very dificult for me. I don´t understand instrucction for it. For me

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-13 Thread William Adams
On Aug 12, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: I am interested in XeTeX because it promise easy font handling which allows the usage of TrueType and OpenType fonts. It delivers too. Add new fonts for Latex and Lyx is very dificult for me. I don´t understand instrucction for it. For me

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-13 Thread William Adams
On Aug 12, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: I am interested in XeTeX because it promise easy "font handling which allows the usage of TrueType and OpenType fonts". It delivers too. Add new fonts for Latex and Lyx is very dificult for me. I don´t understand instrucction for it. For

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-12 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello, I have linux (opensuse 10.2) and I want to know: 1) if I can install other distros of Tex like XeTeX, Tex Live, ConTeXt, etc., instead Latex and to use this with Lyx. 2) If I get a gain with this, like no package clash (ConTeXt), add more easy font (XeTeX),

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-12 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello, I have linux (opensuse 10.2) and I want to know: 1) if I can install other distros of Tex like XeTeX, Tex Live, ConTeXt, etc., instead Latex and to use this with Lyx. 2) If I get a gain with this, like no package clash (ConTeXt), add more easy font (XeTeX),

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-12 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> > Hello, > > I have linux (opensuse 10.2) and I want to > know: > > > > 1) if I can install other distros of Tex like > XeTeX, > > Tex Live, ConTeXt, etc., instead Latex and to use > this > > with Lyx. > > > > 2) If I get a gain with this, like no package > clash > > (ConTeXt), add more

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-11 Thread Helge Hafting
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 07:07:08PM -0300, Marcelo Acuña wrote: Hello, I have linux (opensuse 10.2) and I want to know: 1) if I can install other distros of Tex like XeTeX, Tex Live, ConTeXt, etc., instead Latex and to use this with Lyx. 2) If I get a gain with this, like no package

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-11 Thread Helge Hafting
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 07:07:08PM -0300, Marcelo Acuña wrote: Hello, I have linux (opensuse 10.2) and I want to know: 1) if I can install other distros of Tex like XeTeX, Tex Live, ConTeXt, etc., instead Latex and to use this with Lyx. 2) If I get a gain with this, like no package

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-11 Thread Helge Hafting
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 07:07:08PM -0300, Marcelo Acuña wrote: > Hello, > I have linux (opensuse 10.2) and I want to know: > > 1) if I can install other distros of Tex like XeTeX, > Tex Live, ConTeXt, etc., instead Latex and to use this > with Lyx. > > 2) If I get a gain with this, like no

Re: Question about preview converters

2007-06-23 Thread killermike
On Friday 22 June 2007 22:25:25 Paul A. Rubin wrote: If you want to define your own route for converting SVG to something LyX can display, you might try either defining an SVG-PPM converter rather than SVG-PNG, or else define SVG-PNG and also PNG-PPM. For most user-definable conversions,

Re: Question about preview converters

2007-06-23 Thread killermike
On Friday 22 June 2007 22:25:25 Paul A. Rubin wrote: If you want to define your own route for converting SVG to something LyX can display, you might try either defining an SVG-PPM converter rather than SVG-PNG, or else define SVG-PNG and also PNG-PPM. For most user-definable conversions,

Re: Question about preview converters

2007-06-23 Thread killermike
On Friday 22 June 2007 22:25:25 Paul A. Rubin wrote: > If you want to define your own route for converting SVG to something LyX > can display, you might try either defining an SVG->PPM converter rather > than SVG->PNG, or else define SVG->PNG and also PNG->PPM. For most > user-definable

Re: Question about preview converters

2007-06-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
killermike wrote: I am still having problems with the use of .svg files on 1.5.0beta on my new Linux install (scroll down to previous message if interested). Hmm. Not a lot of scrolling to be done here. I think the original message didn't make it. It would seem that LyX is ignoring my

Re: Question about preview converters

2007-06-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
killermike wrote: I am still having problems with the use of .svg files on 1.5.0beta on my new Linux install (scroll down to previous message if interested). Hmm. Not a lot of scrolling to be done here. I think the original message didn't make it. It would seem that LyX is ignoring my

Re: Question about preview converters

2007-06-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
killermike wrote: I am still having problems with the use of .svg files on 1.5.0beta on my new Linux install (scroll down to previous message if interested). Hmm. Not a lot of scrolling to be done here. I think the original message didn't make it. It would seem that LyX is ignoring my

Re: Question - theorem numbering

2007-06-16 Thread Nicolás
Well, Google can help you. Here there are some links that may help you: http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~hildebr/tex/theorems.html http://www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_21.html http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Theorems If you use the ntheorem package you may find some more info here:

Re: Question - theorem numbering

2007-06-16 Thread Nicolás
Well, Google can help you. Here there are some links that may help you: http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~hildebr/tex/theorems.html http://www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_21.html http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Theorems If you use the ntheorem package you may find some more info here:

Re: Question - theorem numbering

2007-06-16 Thread Nicolás
Well, Google can help you. Here there are some links that may help you: http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~hildebr/tex/theorems.html http://www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_21.html http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Theorems If you use the ntheorem package you may find some more info here:

using rc1 (was: Re: Question wrt to key board use)

2007-06-15 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hellmut Weber schrieb: BTW I'm using RC1 now for two weeks without problems ;-) I'm also using rc1 regularly now, but I repeatedly get bitten by known (and fixed in trunk) crash bugs http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3790, http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3801,

Re: Question wrt to key board use

2007-06-15 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi, I'm beginning to use the new TOC with the outlining faetures more often. Absolutely great for me. Questions: 1) Is there a key kombination to switch between the text pane and the TOC pane, if not how can I define one? From TOC to text pane yes: just hit the Tab

using rc1 (was: Re: Question wrt to key board use)

2007-06-15 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hellmut Weber schrieb: BTW I'm using RC1 now for two weeks without problems ;-) I'm also using rc1 regularly now, but I repeatedly get bitten by known (and fixed in trunk) crash bugs http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3790, http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3801,

Re: Question wrt to key board use

2007-06-15 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi, I'm beginning to use the new TOC with the outlining faetures more often. Absolutely great for me. Questions: 1) Is there a key kombination to switch between the text pane and the TOC pane, if not how can I define one? From TOC to text pane yes: just hit the Tab

using rc1 (was: Re: Question wrt to key board use)

2007-06-15 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hellmut Weber schrieb: > > BTW I'm using RC1 now for two weeks without problems ;-) > I'm also using rc1 regularly now, but I repeatedly get bitten by known (and fixed in trunk) crash bugs http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3790, http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3801,

Re: Question wrt to key board use

2007-06-15 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi, I'm beginning to use the new TOC with the outlining faetures more often. Absolutely great for me. Questions: 1) Is there a key kombination to switch between the text pane and the TOC pane, if not how can I define one? From TOC to text pane yes: just hit the Tab

Re: Question - theorem numbering

2007-06-14 Thread Nathan Russell
Hmm, I think it's interacting weirdly with some other stuff. Also, I want definitions to be numbered within chapters (and not within sections). Is there a good general guide to numbering somewhere? Thanks much again! Nathan On 6/12/07, Nicolás [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I am not wrong,

Re: Question - theorem numbering

2007-06-14 Thread Nathan Russell
Hmm, I think it's interacting weirdly with some other stuff. Also, I want definitions to be numbered within chapters (and not within sections). Is there a good general guide to numbering somewhere? Thanks much again! Nathan On 6/12/07, Nicolás [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I am not wrong,

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