Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-12 Thread Marcelo Acuña 
 Very important packages:
 
 lettrine
 tweaklist
 rotating
 
 Marcelo

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr 

 To the wiki! And then people can/should add descriptions of what all these 
packages do,
 and how they should be used.

This will be double work. We already have such a list for all packages LyX supports, including a 
short description in the Help menu in the file LaTeXConfig.lyx.


Besides this, the TeX catalogue has this information for all! packages:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/alpha.html

To find out what package can be used for special purposes that LyX does not yet support, one should 
at first have a look at the EmbeddedObjects or Math manual. If one cannot find a solution, the TeX 
FAQ describes what packages can be used to solve a certain problem:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

regards Uwe

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-12 Thread Marcelo Acuña 
 Very important packages:
 
 lettrine
 tweaklist
 rotating
 
 Marcelo

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr 

 To the wiki! And then people can/should add descriptions of what all these 
packages do,
 and how they should be used.

This will be double work. We already have such a list for all packages LyX supports, including a 
short description in the Help menu in the file LaTeXConfig.lyx.


Besides this, the TeX catalogue has this information for all! packages:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/alpha.html

To find out what package can be used for special purposes that LyX does not yet support, one should 
at first have a look at the EmbeddedObjects or Math manual. If one cannot find a solution, the TeX 
FAQ describes what packages can be used to solve a certain problem:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

regards Uwe

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-12 Thread Marcelo Acuña 
 Very important packages:
 
 lettrine
 tweaklist
 rotating
 
 Marcelo

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr 

> To the wiki! And then people can/should add descriptions of what all these 
packages do,
> and how they should be used.

This will be double work. We already have such a list for all packages LyX supports, including a 
short description in the Help menu in the file LaTeXConfig.lyx.


Besides this, the TeX catalogue has this information for all! packages:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/alpha.html

To find out what package can be used for special purposes that LyX does not yet support, one should 
at first have a look at the EmbeddedObjects or Math manual. If one cannot find a solution, the TeX 
FAQ describes what packages can be used to solve a certain problem:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

regards Uwe

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-11 Thread Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér 
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:11:30 -0400
Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:

 To the wiki! And then people can/should add descriptions of what all 
 these packages do,
 and how they should be used.
 
 rh
 

That was my thought exactly - I just saw a lot of package names hinting
at useful things, and it would be great to have a list of tips.

Yours,
Morten

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-11 Thread Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér 
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:11:30 -0400
Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:

 To the wiki! And then people can/should add descriptions of what all 
 these packages do,
 and how they should be used.
 
 rh
 

That was my thought exactly - I just saw a lot of package names hinting
at useful things, and it would be great to have a list of tips.

Yours,
Morten

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-11 Thread Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér 
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:11:30 -0400
Richard Heck  wrote:

> To the wiki! And then people can/should add descriptions of what all 
> these packages do,
> and how they should be used.
> 
> rh
> 

That was my thought exactly - I just saw a lot of package names hinting
at useful things, and it would be great to have a list of tips.

Yours,
Morten

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-09 Thread Guenter Milde 
On 2010-08-07, Richard Heck wrote:
 On 08/07/2010 12:17 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:

 fixltx2e % LaTeX patches, \textsubscript

 I've been wondering recently if LyX ought to provide native support for 
 this.

I would welcome this. The package description says:

  LaTeX policy is that things should not change, between releases, in a
  way that will cause incompatibility with old documents, or will cause
  typesetting of an unchanged document to change.

  Nevertheless, there are problems in LaTeX that it “would be nice” to
  correct; fixltx2e provides a home for these corrections.  

If LyX policy allows for subtle changes (improvements) to existing
documents with e.g. the step from 1.x to 2.0, fixltx2e could be used
for all documents. Otherwise it could become an option.

Günter

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-09 Thread Guenter Milde 
On 2010-08-07, Richard Heck wrote:
 On 08/07/2010 12:17 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:

 fixltx2e % LaTeX patches, \textsubscript

 I've been wondering recently if LyX ought to provide native support for 
 this.

I would welcome this. The package description says:

  LaTeX policy is that things should not change, between releases, in a
  way that will cause incompatibility with old documents, or will cause
  typesetting of an unchanged document to change.

  Nevertheless, there are problems in LaTeX that it “would be nice” to
  correct; fixltx2e provides a home for these corrections.  

If LyX policy allows for subtle changes (improvements) to existing
documents with e.g. the step from 1.x to 2.0, fixltx2e could be used
for all documents. Otherwise it could become an option.

Günter

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-09 Thread Guenter Milde 
On 2010-08-07, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 08/07/2010 12:17 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:

>> fixltx2e % LaTeX patches, \textsubscript

> I've been wondering recently if LyX ought to provide native support for 
> this.

I would welcome this. The package description says:

  LaTeX policy is that things should not change, between releases, in a
  way that will cause incompatibility with old documents, or will cause
  typesetting of an unchanged document to change.

  Nevertheless, there are problems in LaTeX that it “would be nice” to
  correct; fixltx2e provides a home for these corrections.  

If LyX policy allows for subtle changes (improvements) to existing
documents with e.g. the step from 1.x to 2.0, fixltx2e could be used
for all documents. Otherwise it could become an option.

Günter

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-08 Thread Julio Rojas 
I didn't know about cmap. I believe this should be one of the
packages loaded by default. Another one should be dcolumn, which
provides decimal point alignment for columns of entries in a tabular.

I also like:
biblatex
undertilde %Some particular notation I use
enumitem
mathpazo
bbm %Which I use for the notation of the indicator function.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:
 On 08/07/2010 12:17 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:

 fixltx2e % LaTeX patches, \textsubscript



 I've been wondering recently if LyX ought to provide native support for
 this.

 rh

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-08 Thread Steve Litt 
On Saturday 07 August 2010 06:57:18 Steve Litt wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use
  with LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel
  less.

As of 8/8/2...@8:02 New York time, here is an alpha sorted -uniq list of what 
everyone's submitted:

a0poster-kh
algpseudocode
amssymb
array
babel
babelbib
bbding
bbm %Which I use for the notation of the indicator function.
biblatex
caption3
cmap % fix search and cut-and-paste in PDF
color
colortbl
csquotes
dinbrief
enumitem
eurosym
fancybox
fancyhdr
fixltx2e % LaTeX patches, \textsubscript
framed
graphicx
hyperref
ifthen
koma-script
KOMA script classes
listings
mathpazo
microtype
multicol
multirow
nomencl
parskip
pdfpages
rcs
setspace
subfig
textcomp
tikz (no doubt setting off the inevitable debate about graphing/drawing 
packages)
titlesec
undertilde %Some particular notation I use
url
varioref
xypic (no doubt extending said debate)


SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-08 Thread Richard Heck 

On 08/08/2010 08:04 AM, Steve Litt wrote:

On Saturday 07 August 2010 06:57:18 Steve Litt wrote:
   

Hi all,

As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use
  with LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel
  less.
 

As of 8/8/2...@8:02 New York time, here is an alpha sorted -uniq list of what
everyone's submitted:

   
To the wiki! And then people can/should add descriptions of what all 
these packages do,

and how they should be used.

rh

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-08 Thread Julio Rojas 
I didn't know about cmap. I believe this should be one of the
packages loaded by default. Another one should be dcolumn, which
provides decimal point alignment for columns of entries in a tabular.

I also like:
biblatex
undertilde %Some particular notation I use
enumitem
mathpazo
bbm %Which I use for the notation of the indicator function.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:
 On 08/07/2010 12:17 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:

 fixltx2e % LaTeX patches, \textsubscript



 I've been wondering recently if LyX ought to provide native support for
 this.

 rh

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-08 Thread Steve Litt 
On Saturday 07 August 2010 06:57:18 Steve Litt wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use
  with LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel
  less.

As of 8/8/2...@8:02 New York time, here is an alpha sorted -uniq list of what 
everyone's submitted:

a0poster-kh
algpseudocode
amssymb
array
babel
babelbib
bbding
bbm %Which I use for the notation of the indicator function.
biblatex
caption3
cmap % fix search and cut-and-paste in PDF
color
colortbl
csquotes
dinbrief
enumitem
eurosym
fancybox
fancyhdr
fixltx2e % LaTeX patches, \textsubscript
framed
graphicx
hyperref
ifthen
koma-script
KOMA script classes
listings
mathpazo
microtype
multicol
multirow
nomencl
parskip
pdfpages
rcs
setspace
subfig
textcomp
tikz (no doubt setting off the inevitable debate about graphing/drawing 
packages)
titlesec
undertilde %Some particular notation I use
url
varioref
xypic (no doubt extending said debate)


SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-08 Thread Richard Heck 

On 08/08/2010 08:04 AM, Steve Litt wrote:

On Saturday 07 August 2010 06:57:18 Steve Litt wrote:
   

Hi all,

As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use
  with LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel
  less.
 

As of 8/8/2...@8:02 New York time, here is an alpha sorted -uniq list of what
everyone's submitted:

   
To the wiki! And then people can/should add descriptions of what all 
these packages do,

and how they should be used.

rh

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-08 Thread Julio Rojas 
I didn't know about "cmap". I believe this should be one of the
packages loaded by default. Another one should be "dcolumn", which
provides decimal point alignment for columns of entries in a tabular.

I also like:
biblatex
undertilde %Some particular notation I use
enumitem
mathpazo
bbm %Which I use for the notation of the indicator function.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Richard Heck  wrote:
> On 08/07/2010 12:17 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:
>>
>> fixltx2e % LaTeX patches, \textsubscript
>>
>>
>
> I've been wondering recently if LyX ought to provide native support for
> this.
>
> rh
>
>

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-08 Thread Steve Litt 
On Saturday 07 August 2010 06:57:18 Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use
>  with LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel
>  less.

As of 8/8/2...@8:02 New York time, here is an alpha sorted -uniq list of what 
everyone's submitted:

a0poster-kh
algpseudocode
amssymb
array
babel
babelbib
bbding
bbm %Which I use for the notation of the indicator function.
biblatex
caption3
cmap % fix search and cut-and-paste in PDF
color
colortbl
csquotes
dinbrief
enumitem
eurosym
fancybox
fancyhdr
fixltx2e % LaTeX patches, \textsubscript
framed
graphicx
hyperref
ifthen
koma-script
KOMA script classes
listings
mathpazo
microtype
multicol
multirow
nomencl
parskip
pdfpages
rcs
setspace
subfig
textcomp
tikz (no doubt setting off the inevitable debate about graphing/drawing 
packages)
titlesec
undertilde %Some particular notation I use
url
varioref
xypic (no doubt extending said debate)


SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-08 Thread Richard Heck 

On 08/08/2010 08:04 AM, Steve Litt wrote:

On Saturday 07 August 2010 06:57:18 Steve Litt wrote:
   

Hi all,

As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use
  with LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel
  less.
 

As of 8/8/2...@8:02 New York time, here is an alpha sorted -uniq list of what
everyone's submitted:

   
To the wiki! And then people can/should add descriptions of what all 
these packages do,

and how they should be used.

rh

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller 
Steve Litt wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use
 with LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel
 less.

biblatex
csquotes
babel
enumitem
varioref

Jürgen

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread kaplae01 

 titlesec
graphicx
fancyhdr


On 8/7/2010 7:17 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

Steve Litt wrote:

Hi all,

As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use
with LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel
less.

biblatex
csquotes
babel
enumitem
varioref

Jürgen

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread Marcelo Acuña 
 As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30
 packages to use with 
 LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent
 the wheel less.

 koma-script
 microtype
 titlesec
 
Marcelo

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin 

Alpha-ordered (not sorted by frequency):

algpseudocode
amssymb
bbding
hyperref
multirow
subfig
textcomp
tikz (no doubt setting off the inevitable debate about graphing/drawing 
packages)

xypic (no doubt extending said debate)

/Paul

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread Stephan Witt 
Am 07.08.2010 um 12:57 schrieb Steve Litt:

 Hi all,
 
 As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use with 
 LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel less.
 
 I'll start it off. Here are some packages I use on a regular basis:

rcs
listings
hyperref
fancyhdr
array
multicol
eurosym


Stephan

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread Guenter Milde 
On 2010-08-07, Steve Litt wrote:
 Hi all,

 As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use with 
 LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel less.

 Here are some packages I use on a regular basis:

Document classes
-

KOMA script classes
dinbrief
a0poster-kh

Helper
--

fixltx2e % LaTeX patches, \textsubscript
babel
babelbib
nomencl
enumitem
url
hyperref
ifthen
cmap % fix search and cut-and-paste in PDF

Typography
--

microtype
parskip

Math


AMS math packages
isomath

Fonts
-

TeX Gyre Fonts
Latin Modern
mathpazo
fourier

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread Richard Heck 

On 08/07/2010 12:17 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:


fixltx2e % LaTeX patches, \textsubscript

   
I've been wondering recently if LyX ought to provide native support for 
this.


rh

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller 
Steve Litt wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use
 with LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel
 less.

biblatex
csquotes
babel
enumitem
varioref

Jürgen

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread kaplae01 

 titlesec
graphicx
fancyhdr


On 8/7/2010 7:17 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

Steve Litt wrote:

Hi all,

As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use
with LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel
less.

biblatex
csquotes
babel
enumitem
varioref

Jürgen

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread Marcelo Acuña 
 As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30
 packages to use with 
 LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent
 the wheel less.

 koma-script
 microtype
 titlesec
 
Marcelo

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin 

Alpha-ordered (not sorted by frequency):

algpseudocode
amssymb
bbding
hyperref
multirow
subfig
textcomp
tikz (no doubt setting off the inevitable debate about graphing/drawing 
packages)

xypic (no doubt extending said debate)

/Paul

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread Stephan Witt 
Am 07.08.2010 um 12:57 schrieb Steve Litt:

 Hi all,
 
 As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use with 
 LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel less.
 
 I'll start it off. Here are some packages I use on a regular basis:

rcs
listings
hyperref
fancyhdr
array
multicol
eurosym


Stephan

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread Guenter Milde 
On 2010-08-07, Steve Litt wrote:
 Hi all,

 As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use with 
 LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel less.

 Here are some packages I use on a regular basis:

Document classes
-

KOMA script classes
dinbrief
a0poster-kh

Helper
--

fixltx2e % LaTeX patches, \textsubscript
babel
babelbib
nomencl
enumitem
url
hyperref
ifthen
cmap % fix search and cut-and-paste in PDF

Typography
--

microtype
parskip

Math


AMS math packages
isomath

Fonts
-

TeX Gyre Fonts
Latin Modern
mathpazo
fourier

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread Richard Heck 

On 08/07/2010 12:17 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:


fixltx2e % LaTeX patches, \textsubscript

   
I've been wondering recently if LyX ought to provide native support for 
this.


rh

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller 
Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use
> with LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel
> less.

biblatex
csquotes
babel
enumitem
varioref

Jürgen

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread kaplae01 

 titlesec
graphicx
fancyhdr


On 8/7/2010 7:17 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

Steve Litt wrote:

Hi all,

As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use
with LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel
less.

biblatex
csquotes
babel
enumitem
varioref

Jürgen

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread Marcelo Acuña 
> As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30
> packages to use with 
> LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent
> the wheel less.

 koma-script
 microtype
 titlesec
 
Marcelo

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin 

Alpha-ordered (not sorted by frequency):

algpseudocode
amssymb
bbding
hyperref
multirow
subfig
textcomp
tikz (no doubt setting off the inevitable debate about graphing/drawing 
packages)

xypic (no doubt extending said debate)

/Paul

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread Stephan Witt 
Am 07.08.2010 um 12:57 schrieb Steve Litt:

> Hi all,
> 
> As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use with 
> LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel less.
> 
> I'll start it off. Here are some packages I use on a regular basis:

rcs
listings
hyperref
fancyhdr
array
multicol
eurosym


Stephan

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread Guenter Milde 
On 2010-08-07, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,

> As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use with 
> LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel less.

> Here are some packages I use on a regular basis:

Document classes
-

KOMA script classes
dinbrief
a0poster-kh

Helper
--

fixltx2e % LaTeX patches, \textsubscript
babel
babelbib
nomencl
enumitem
url
hyperref
ifthen
cmap % fix search and cut-and-paste in PDF

Typography
--

microtype
parskip

Math


AMS math packages
isomath

Fonts
-

TeX Gyre Fonts
Latin Modern
mathpazo
fourier

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread Richard Heck 

On 08/07/2010 12:17 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:


fixltx2e % LaTeX patches, \textsubscript

   
I've been wondering recently if LyX ought to provide native support for 
this.


rh