Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 14. feb. 2012 13:04, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: [...] with TeX), or MS Word documents for journals and proceedings. I have experienced that some of these journals and proceedings were in fact produced with TeX in the end, but even then they have

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:00:09 +0100 Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no wrote: On 14. feb. 2012 13:04, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: [...] with TeX), or MS Word documents for journals and proceedings. I have experienced that some of these

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 14. feb. 2012 13:04, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: [...] with TeX), or MS Word documents for journals and proceedings. I have experienced that some of these journals and proceedings were in fact produced with TeX in the end, but even then they have

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:00:09 +0100 Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no wrote: On 14. feb. 2012 13:04, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: [...] with TeX), or MS Word documents for journals and proceedings. I have experienced that some of these

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 14. feb. 2012 13:04, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: [...] with TeX), or MS Word documents for journals and proceedings. I have experienced that some of these journals and proceedings were in fact produced with TeX in the end, but even then they have

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:00:09 +0100 Helge Hafting wrote: > On 14. feb. 2012 13:04, Eric Weir wrote: > > > > On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > [...] > >> with TeX), or MS Word documents for journals and proceedings. I > >> have experienced that some of

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 13 Feb 2012, Uwe Stöhr wrote: [snip] The typical beginner's mistake is to try to fine-tune everything at the beginning also if not even the first chapter is ready. The final formatting can be changed at every time easily for the whole document. (When you publish a book you have anyway to

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 13 Feb 2012, Uwe Stöhr wrote: [snip] The typical beginner's mistake is to try to fine-tune everything at the beginning also if not even the first chapter is ready. The final formatting can be changed at every time easily for the whole document. (When you publish a book you have anyway to

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 13 Feb 2012, Uwe Stöhr wrote: [snip] >The typical beginner's mistake is to try to fine-tune everything at the >beginning also if not even the first chapter is ready. The final >formatting can be changed at every time easily for the whole document. >(When you publish a book you have anyway to

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 02/16/2012 05:05 PM, Colin Williams wrote: I haven't been able to keep up with the subject. It seems there is some division about how much latex knowledge is required to create a book that scales many platforms. If latex is required, then it's my opinion that lyx itself isn't quite ready

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 02/16/2012 05:05 PM, Colin Williams wrote: I haven't been able to keep up with the subject. It seems there is some division about how much latex knowledge is required to create a book that scales many platforms. If latex is required, then it's my opinion that lyx itself isn't quite ready

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 02/16/2012 05:05 PM, Colin Williams wrote: I haven't been able to keep up with the subject. It seems there is some division about how much latex knowledge is required to create a book that scales many platforms. If latex is required, then it's my opinion that lyx itself isn't quite ready

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

I haven't been able to keep up with the subject. It seems there is some division about how much latex knowledge is required to create a book that scales many platforms. If latex is required, then it's my opinion that lyx itself isn't quite ready for ebook publishing. However, that does not mean I

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:05:46 -0800 Colin Williams co...@seattlesoft.com wrote: I haven't been able to keep up with the subject. It seems there is some division about how much latex knowledge is required to create a book that scales many platforms. If how much LaTeX knowledge is needed for

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

I haven't been able to keep up with the subject. It seems there is some division about how much latex knowledge is required to create a book that scales many platforms. If latex is required, then it's my opinion that lyx itself isn't quite ready for ebook publishing. However, that does not mean I

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:05:46 -0800 Colin Williams co...@seattlesoft.com wrote: I haven't been able to keep up with the subject. It seems there is some division about how much latex knowledge is required to create a book that scales many platforms. If how much LaTeX knowledge is needed for

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

I haven't been able to keep up with the subject. It seems there is some division about how much latex knowledge is required to create a book that scales many platforms. If latex is required, then it's my opinion that lyx itself isn't quite ready for ebook publishing. However, that does not mean I

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:05:46 -0800 Colin Williams wrote: > I haven't been able to keep up with the subject. It seems there is > some division about how much latex knowledge is required to create a > book that scales many platforms. If "how much LaTeX knowledge is needed

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:27 AM, Richard Heck wrote: On 02/14/2012 07:01 AM, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Steve Litt wrote: In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through styles that

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section, subsection, Quote, tip, warning, etc). BUT, in the front matter, feel free to apply

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 15, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section, subsection, Quote, tip, warning,

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

2012/2/15 Marcelo Acuña mv...@yahoo.com.ar: For title page I decided to do them with ERT for spacing and alignment, and all the material in a separate file which then included. You can also do with a graphic design application, create a file and then include it. Marcelo The textpos latex

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 2012-02-15, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:27 AM, Richard Heck wrote: On 02/14/2012 07:01 AM, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Steve Litt wrote: You just put them in as author and title, and fix the typography later. One easy way to do it is just to copy the code that

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 15, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2012-02-15, Eric Weir wrote: I've also committed to koma-script. I would like to modify the \@maketitle command. I've located it in scrartcl.cls. Will be studying it. Will undoubtedly be checking in here later about the changes I've

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 02/15/2012 11:29 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: I've also committed to koma-script. I would like to modify the \@maketitle command. I've located it in scrartcl.cls. Will be studying it. Will undoubtedly be checking in here later about the changes I've made, where to put them, and how to use them.

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 02/15/2012 11:29 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: I've also committed to koma-script. I would like to modify the \@maketitle command. I've located it in scrartcl.cls. Will be studying it. Will undoubtedly be checking in here later about the

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:27 AM, Richard Heck wrote: On 02/14/2012 07:01 AM, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Steve Litt wrote: In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through styles that

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section, subsection, Quote, tip, warning, etc). BUT, in the front matter, feel free to apply

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 15, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section, subsection, Quote, tip, warning,

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

2012/2/15 Marcelo Acuña mv...@yahoo.com.ar: For title page I decided to do them with ERT for spacing and alignment, and all the material in a separate file which then included. You can also do with a graphic design application, create a file and then include it. Marcelo The textpos latex

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 2012-02-15, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:27 AM, Richard Heck wrote: On 02/14/2012 07:01 AM, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Steve Litt wrote: You just put them in as author and title, and fix the typography later. One easy way to do it is just to copy the code that

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 15, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2012-02-15, Eric Weir wrote: I've also committed to koma-script. I would like to modify the \@maketitle command. I've located it in scrartcl.cls. Will be studying it. Will undoubtedly be checking in here later about the changes I've

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 02/15/2012 11:29 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: I've also committed to koma-script. I would like to modify the \@maketitle command. I've located it in scrartcl.cls. Will be studying it. Will undoubtedly be checking in here later about the changes I've made, where to put them, and how to use them.

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 02/15/2012 11:29 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: I've also committed to koma-script. I would like to modify the \@maketitle command. I've located it in scrartcl.cls. Will be studying it. Will undoubtedly be checking in here later about the

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:27 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 02/14/2012 07:01 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > >> On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Steve Litt wrote: >> >>> In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never >>> apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

>>> In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never >>> apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through >>> styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section, >>> subsection, Quote, tip, warning, etc). BUT, in the front matter, feel >>> free to

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 15, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: > >>> In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never > >>> apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through > >>> styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section, > >>> subsection, Quote,

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

2012/2/15 Marcelo Acuña : > > For title page I decided to do them with ERT for spacing and alignment, and > all the material in a separate file which then included. You can also do > with a graphic design application, create a file and then include it. > Marcelo > The textpos

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 2012-02-15, Eric Weir wrote: > On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:27 AM, Richard Heck wrote: >> On 02/14/2012 07:01 AM, Eric Weir wrote: >>> On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Steve Litt wrote: >> You just put them in as author and title, and fix the typography >> later. One easy way to do it is just to copy the

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 15, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2012-02-15, Eric Weir wrote: > >> I've also committed to koma-script. I would like to modify the >> \@maketitle command. I've located it in scrartcl.cls. Will be studying >> it. Will undoubtedly be checking in here later about the changes

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 02/15/2012 11:29 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: I've also committed to koma-script. I would like to modify the \@maketitle command. I've located it in scrartcl.cls. Will be studying it. Will undoubtedly be checking in here later about the changes I've made, where to put them, and how to use them.

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 02/15/2012 11:29 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: >>> I've also committed to koma-script. I would like to modify the >>> \@maketitle command. I've located it in scrartcl.cls. Will be studying >>> it. Will undoubtedly be checking in here later about

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Steve Litt wrote: In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section, subsection, Quote, tip, warning, etc). BUT,

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Me, on the contrary, I do not know a single publisher who accepts TeX as an input format (this is in the humanities field). Generally, they want camera

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

Eric Weir wrote: How do you deal with this? For monographs (or if I'm editing a book myself) I use LyX/LaTeX to make a camera-ready PDF. This works pretty well, except that I have to import colloborator's chapters from word usually (via LibreOffice's LaTeX export). I have also used Word and

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 02/14/2012 02:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Me, on the contrary, I do not know a single publisher who accepts TeX as an input format (this is in the humanities field). Oxford. Richard

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 02/14/2012 07:01 AM, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Steve Litt wrote: In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section,

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:19 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: For monographs (or if I'm editing a book myself) I use LyX/LaTeX to make a camera-ready PDF. This works pretty well, except that I have to import colloborator's chapters from word usually (via LibreOffice's LaTeX export). I have also

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

Eric Weir wrote: While I'm at it, do I recall correctly that you're in the humanities? Yes (linguistics, for that matter). Jürgen

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Steve Litt wrote: In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section, subsection, Quote, tip, warning, etc). BUT,

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Me, on the contrary, I do not know a single publisher who accepts TeX as an input format (this is in the humanities field). Generally, they want camera

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

Eric Weir wrote: How do you deal with this? For monographs (or if I'm editing a book myself) I use LyX/LaTeX to make a camera-ready PDF. This works pretty well, except that I have to import colloborator's chapters from word usually (via LibreOffice's LaTeX export). I have also used Word and

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 02/14/2012 02:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Me, on the contrary, I do not know a single publisher who accepts TeX as an input format (this is in the humanities field). Oxford. Richard

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 02/14/2012 07:01 AM, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Steve Litt wrote: In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section,

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:19 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: For monographs (or if I'm editing a book myself) I use LyX/LaTeX to make a camera-ready PDF. This works pretty well, except that I have to import colloborator's chapters from word usually (via LibreOffice's LaTeX export). I have also

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

Eric Weir wrote: While I'm at it, do I recall correctly that you're in the humanities? Yes (linguistics, for that matter). Jürgen

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never > apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through > styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section, > subsection, Quote, tip, warning, etc).

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. > > Me, on the contrary, I do not know a single publisher who accepts TeX as an > input format (this is in the humanities field). Generally, they want

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

Eric Weir wrote: > How do you deal with this? For monographs (or if I'm editing a book myself) I use LyX/LaTeX to make a camera-ready PDF. This works pretty well, except that I have to import colloborator's chapters from word usually (via LibreOffice's LaTeX export). I have also used Word and

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 02/14/2012 02:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: > I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Me, on the contrary, I do not know a single publisher who accepts TeX as an input format (this is in the humanities field). Oxford. Richard

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On 02/14/2012 07:01 AM, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Steve Litt wrote: In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section,

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:19 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > For monographs (or if I'm editing a book myself) I use LyX/LaTeX to make a > camera-ready PDF. This works pretty well, except that I have to import > colloborator's chapters from word usually (via LibreOffice's LaTeX export). I > have

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

Eric Weir wrote: > While I'm at it, do I recall correctly that you're in the humanities? Yes (linguistics, for that matter). Jürgen

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 12.02.2012 14:53, schrieb Colin Williams: To start writing a book I suggest to start with LyX's thesis template files. You find them in LyX's installation folder under \Resources\templates\thesis. Another option (and one I

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:28:30 -0600 stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 12.02.2012 14:53, schrieb Colin Williams: To start writing a book I suggest to start with LyX's thesis template files. You find them in

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

To start writing a book I suggest to start with LyX's thesis template files. You find them in LyX's installation folder under \Resources\templates\thesis. Another option (and one I recently used) for writing books with Lyx is to use the memoir class. It is probably the most flexible

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

Am 13.02.2012 15:28, schrieb stefano franchi: Another option (and one I recently used) for writing books with Lyx is to use the memoir class. This is one option, the other one is the KOMA-script book class. This is used for most LyX manuals and it is my opinion a bit more flexible. But this

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 13.02.2012 15:28, schrieb stefano franchi: I don't agree, LyX is designed that you don't need to learn LaTeX and that is why I designed the thesis template. You see there that you cann do almost all you need the LyX way. For

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Steve Litt wrote: Memoir is cool, but be very careful, because Memoir screws up with certain other packages, most notably hyperref, for which you'll need the memhfixc package, and a lot of rain dances to get it to work. Or at least that's how I remember it. My thought is if

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX. I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Also most of the humanity-linked publishers are using it in the background. They

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX. I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Also most of

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:58 PM, stefano franchi wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX. I don't know

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:53:27 -0800 Colin Williams co...@seattlesoft.com wrote: I'm writing a book. I would like to consider the possibility that I will do a small print run of 1000-5000 copies. I am certain I'm going to publish it as an ebook. I would expect the printed book would be in

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Jens Nöckel noec...@uoregon.edu wrote: On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:58 PM, stefano franchi wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

Uwe Stöhr wrote: I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Me, on the contrary, I do not know a single publisher who accepts TeX as an input format (this is in the humanities field). Generally, they want camera ready PDF for monographs (which then can be of course done with

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 12.02.2012 14:53, schrieb Colin Williams: To start writing a book I suggest to start with LyX's thesis template files. You find them in LyX's installation folder under \Resources\templates\thesis. Another option (and one I

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:28:30 -0600 stefano franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 12.02.2012 14:53, schrieb Colin Williams: To start writing a book I suggest to start with LyX's thesis template files. You find them in

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

To start writing a book I suggest to start with LyX's thesis template files. You find them in LyX's installation folder under \Resources\templates\thesis. Another option (and one I recently used) for writing books with Lyx is to use the memoir class. It is probably the most flexible

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

Am 13.02.2012 15:28, schrieb stefano franchi: Another option (and one I recently used) for writing books with Lyx is to use the memoir class. This is one option, the other one is the KOMA-script book class. This is used for most LyX manuals and it is my opinion a bit more flexible. But this

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 13.02.2012 15:28, schrieb stefano franchi: I don't agree, LyX is designed that you don't need to learn LaTeX and that is why I designed the thesis template. You see there that you cann do almost all you need the LyX way. For

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Steve Litt wrote: Memoir is cool, but be very careful, because Memoir screws up with certain other packages, most notably hyperref, for which you'll need the memhfixc package, and a lot of rain dances to get it to work. Or at least that's how I remember it. My thought is if

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX. I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Also most of the humanity-linked publishers are using it in the background. They

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX. I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Also most of

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:58 PM, stefano franchi wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX. I don't know

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:53:27 -0800 Colin Williams co...@seattlesoft.com wrote: I'm writing a book. I would like to consider the possibility that I will do a small print run of 1000-5000 copies. I am certain I'm going to publish it as an ebook. I would expect the printed book would be in

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Jens Nöckel noec...@uoregon.edu wrote: On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:58 PM, stefano franchi wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

Uwe Stöhr wrote: I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Me, on the contrary, I do not know a single publisher who accepts TeX as an input format (this is in the humanities field). Generally, they want camera ready PDF for monographs (which then can be of course done with

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 12.02.2012 14:53, schrieb Colin Williams: > To start writing a book I suggest to start with LyX's thesis template files. > You find them in LyX's installation folder under > \Resources\templates\thesis. Another option (and

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:28:30 -0600 stefano franchi wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > Am 12.02.2012 14:53, schrieb Colin Williams: > > To start writing a book I suggest to start with LyX's thesis > > template files. You

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

> > To start writing a book I suggest to start with LyX's thesis > > template files. You find them in LyX's installation folder under > > \Resources\templates\thesis. > > Another option (and one I recently used) for writing books with Lyx is > to use the memoir class. It is probably the most

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

Am 13.02.2012 15:28, schrieb stefano franchi: Another option (and one I recently used) for writing books with Lyx is to use the memoir class. This is one option, the other one is the KOMA-script book class. This is used for most LyX manuals and it is my opinion a bit more flexible. But this

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 13.02.2012 15:28, schrieb stefano franchi: > I don't agree, LyX is designed that you don't need to learn LaTeX and that > is why I designed the thesis template. You see there that you cann do almost > all you need the LyX

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On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Steve Litt wrote: Memoir is cool, but be very careful, because Memoir screws up with certain other packages, most notably hyperref, for which you'll need the memhfixc package, and a lot of rain dances to get it to work. Or at least that's how I remember it. My thought is if

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX. I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Also most of the humanity-linked publishers are using it in the background. They

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: > > >> Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the >> typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX. > > > I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX.

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On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:58 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: >> >> >>> Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the >>> typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX. >>

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On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:53:27 -0800 Colin Williams wrote: > I'm writing a book. I would like to consider the possibility that I > will do a small print run of 1000-5000 copies. I am certain I'm going > to publish it as an ebook. I would expect the printed book would be > in

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On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Jens Nöckel wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:58 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >>> Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: >>> >>> Well, that's exactly the issue.

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Uwe Stöhr wrote: > I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Me, on the contrary, I do not know a single publisher who accepts TeX as an input format (this is in the humanities field). Generally, they want camera ready PDF for monographs (which then can be of course done with

is lyx really appropriate for my book.

I'm writing a book. I would like to consider the possibility that I will do a small print run of 1000-5000 copies. I am certain I'm going to publish it as an ebook. I would expect the printed book would be in paperback form. I would like the lyx-users to tell me if they think its the right tool

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