Re: LyX as editor -- Was: available templates and their names
On 18/11/11 04:41:57, Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday, November 17, 2011 08:22:49 AM Richard Heck wrote: As Helge sometimes points out, this is important. You can install LyX without LaTeX if you like (say, on a netbook with a 4GB SSD), and it will work just fine for editing. Richard And in my opinion LyX is one of the most productive long-document editors the world has ever seen. Little things like rejecting double- spaces and double-newlines make me much faster as I worry less about mistakes. Its low-crashability and low-corruptability make for fast, confident working conditions. Its steadfast adherance to styles-based authoring makes it easy to build documents the right way. LyX's beige default background is easy on the eyes and yet easily contrasty enough for bad vision -- I should know, my vision's horrible. And, in spite of all the publicity, LyX is WYSIWYG enough that a single glance tells you which pieces of text are special styles. Contrast that with old WordPerfect 5.1, where the whole doc was courier, and if you wanted to see any evidence of styles you'd need to do the WordPerfect equivalent of LyX's View-PDF. Oh, one more thing. I'm now using LyX to author Kindle books -- no PDF involved anywhere. It goes like this: LyX-eLyXer-metadata tweaks-Kindlegen-Upload But LyX is such a great editor, and so styles adherant, that it was the obvious choice. I tried editing eBooks in Sigil for a little while, but that was a migration to Pity City. LyX is a GREAT editor. Steve others, I found these comments to be very interesting. LyX is a great editor, and it seems that it is moving gradually away from its roots as a LaTeX front end. How much effort would it be to incorporate the metadata tweaks directly into the LyX document? It would mean that LyX could become a major method of writing eBooks. Cheers, Alan SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 sip:172...@iptel.org
Re: LyX as editor -- Was: available templates and their names
On 11/18/2011 05:41 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote: On 18/11/11 04:41:57, Steve Litt wrote: Oh, one more thing. I'm now using LyX to author Kindle books -- no PDF involved anywhere. It goes like this: LyX-eLyXer-metadata tweaks-Kindlegen-Upload But LyX is such a great editor, and so styles adherant, that it was the obvious choice. I tried editing eBooks in Sigil for a little while, but that was a migration to Pity City. LyX is a GREAT editor. Steve others, I found these comments to be very interesting. LyX is a great editor, and it seems that it is moving gradually away from its roots as a LaTeX front end. How much effort would it be to incorporate the metadata tweaks directly into the LyX document? It would mean that LyX could become a major method of writing eBooks. I would expect that allowing direct entry of appropriate metadata within LyX, and then using LyX's own XHTML export routine, would be fairly simple to do. Rob Oakes has also been using LyX for epubs, so there is interest in moving LyX further in that direction. It's just a matter of enough people getting involved Richard
Re: LyX as editor -- Was: available templates and their names
On 18/11/11 04:41:57, Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday, November 17, 2011 08:22:49 AM Richard Heck wrote: As Helge sometimes points out, this is important. You can install LyX without LaTeX if you like (say, on a netbook with a 4GB SSD), and it will work just fine for editing. Richard And in my opinion LyX is one of the most productive long-document editors the world has ever seen. Little things like rejecting double- spaces and double-newlines make me much faster as I worry less about mistakes. Its low-crashability and low-corruptability make for fast, confident working conditions. Its steadfast adherance to styles-based authoring makes it easy to build documents the right way. LyX's beige default background is easy on the eyes and yet easily contrasty enough for bad vision -- I should know, my vision's horrible. And, in spite of all the publicity, LyX is WYSIWYG enough that a single glance tells you which pieces of text are special styles. Contrast that with old WordPerfect 5.1, where the whole doc was courier, and if you wanted to see any evidence of styles you'd need to do the WordPerfect equivalent of LyX's View-PDF. Oh, one more thing. I'm now using LyX to author Kindle books -- no PDF involved anywhere. It goes like this: LyX-eLyXer-metadata tweaks-Kindlegen-Upload But LyX is such a great editor, and so styles adherant, that it was the obvious choice. I tried editing eBooks in Sigil for a little while, but that was a migration to Pity City. LyX is a GREAT editor. Steve others, I found these comments to be very interesting. LyX is a great editor, and it seems that it is moving gradually away from its roots as a LaTeX front end. How much effort would it be to incorporate the metadata tweaks directly into the LyX document? It would mean that LyX could become a major method of writing eBooks. Cheers, Alan SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 sip:172...@iptel.org
Re: LyX as editor -- Was: available templates and their names
On 11/18/2011 05:41 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote: On 18/11/11 04:41:57, Steve Litt wrote: Oh, one more thing. I'm now using LyX to author Kindle books -- no PDF involved anywhere. It goes like this: LyX-eLyXer-metadata tweaks-Kindlegen-Upload But LyX is such a great editor, and so styles adherant, that it was the obvious choice. I tried editing eBooks in Sigil for a little while, but that was a migration to Pity City. LyX is a GREAT editor. Steve others, I found these comments to be very interesting. LyX is a great editor, and it seems that it is moving gradually away from its roots as a LaTeX front end. How much effort would it be to incorporate the metadata tweaks directly into the LyX document? It would mean that LyX could become a major method of writing eBooks. I would expect that allowing direct entry of appropriate metadata within LyX, and then using LyX's own XHTML export routine, would be fairly simple to do. Rob Oakes has also been using LyX for epubs, so there is interest in moving LyX further in that direction. It's just a matter of enough people getting involved Richard
Re: LyX as editor -- Was: available templates and their names
On 18/11/11 04:41:57, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thursday, November 17, 2011 08:22:49 AM Richard Heck wrote: > > As Helge sometimes points out, this is > > important. You can install LyX without LaTeX if you like (say, on > > a netbook with a 4GB SSD), and it will work just fine for editing. > > > > Richard > > And in my opinion LyX is one of the most productive long-document > editors the world has ever seen. Little things like rejecting double- > spaces and double-newlines make me much faster as I worry less about > mistakes. Its low-crashability and low-corruptability make for fast, > confident working conditions. Its steadfast adherance to styles-based > authoring makes it easy to build documents the right way. LyX's beige > default background is easy on the eyes and yet easily contrasty > enough > > for bad vision -- I should know, my vision's horrible. And, in spite > of all the publicity, LyX is WYSIWYG enough that a single glance > tells > > you which pieces of text are special styles. Contrast that with old > WordPerfect 5.1, where the whole doc was courier, and if you wanted > to > > see any evidence of styles you'd need to do the WordPerfect > equivalent > > of LyX's View->PDF. > > Oh, one more thing. I'm now using LyX to author Kindle books -- no > PDF > > involved anywhere. It goes like this: > > LyX->eLyXer->metadata tweaks->Kindlegen->Upload > > But LyX is such a great editor, and so styles adherant, that it was > the obvious choice. I tried editing eBooks in Sigil for a little > while, but that was a migration to Pity City. > > LyX is a GREAT editor. Steve & others, I found these comments to be very interesting. LyX is a great editor, and it seems that it is moving gradually away from its roots as a LaTeX "front end". How much effort would it be to incorporate the "metadata tweaks" directly into the LyX document? It would mean that LyX could become a major method of writing eBooks. Cheers, Alan > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence > http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt > > -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 sip:172...@iptel.org
Re: LyX as editor -- Was: available templates and their names
On 11/18/2011 05:41 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote: > On 18/11/11 04:41:57, Steve Litt wrote: >> >> Oh, one more thing. I'm now using LyX to author Kindle books -- no >> PDF >> >> involved anywhere. It goes like this: >> >> LyX->eLyXer->metadata tweaks->Kindlegen->Upload >> >> But LyX is such a great editor, and so styles adherant, that it was >> the obvious choice. I tried editing eBooks in Sigil for a little >> while, but that was a migration to Pity City. >> >> LyX is a GREAT editor. > Steve & others, > I found these comments to be very interesting. LyX is a great editor, > and it seems that it is moving gradually away from its roots as a LaTeX > "front end". > > How much effort would it be to incorporate the "metadata tweaks" > directly into the LyX document? It would mean that LyX could become a > major method of writing eBooks. > I would expect that allowing direct entry of appropriate metadata within LyX, and then using LyX's own XHTML export routine, would be fairly simple to do. Rob Oakes has also been using LyX for epubs, so there is interest in moving LyX further in that direction. It's just a matter of enough people getting involved Richard
LyX as editor -- Was: available templates and their names
On Thursday, November 17, 2011 08:22:49 AM Richard Heck wrote: As Helge sometimes points out, this is important. You can install LyX without LaTeX if you like (say, on a netbook with a 4GB SSD), and it will work just fine for editing. Richard And in my opinion LyX is one of the most productive long-document editors the world has ever seen. Little things like rejecting double- spaces and double-newlines make me much faster as I worry less about mistakes. Its low-crashability and low-corruptability make for fast, confident working conditions. Its steadfast adherance to styles-based authoring makes it easy to build documents the right way. LyX's beige default background is easy on the eyes and yet easily contrasty enough for bad vision -- I should know, my vision's horrible. And, in spite of all the publicity, LyX is WYSIWYG enough that a single glance tells you which pieces of text are special styles. Contrast that with old WordPerfect 5.1, where the whole doc was courier, and if you wanted to see any evidence of styles you'd need to do the WordPerfect equivalent of LyX's View-PDF. Oh, one more thing. I'm now using LyX to author Kindle books -- no PDF involved anywhere. It goes like this: LyX-eLyXer-metadata tweaks-Kindlegen-Upload But LyX is such a great editor, and so styles adherant, that it was the obvious choice. I tried editing eBooks in Sigil for a little while, but that was a migration to Pity City. LyX is a GREAT editor. SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
LyX as editor -- Was: available templates and their names
On Thursday, November 17, 2011 08:22:49 AM Richard Heck wrote: As Helge sometimes points out, this is important. You can install LyX without LaTeX if you like (say, on a netbook with a 4GB SSD), and it will work just fine for editing. Richard And in my opinion LyX is one of the most productive long-document editors the world has ever seen. Little things like rejecting double- spaces and double-newlines make me much faster as I worry less about mistakes. Its low-crashability and low-corruptability make for fast, confident working conditions. Its steadfast adherance to styles-based authoring makes it easy to build documents the right way. LyX's beige default background is easy on the eyes and yet easily contrasty enough for bad vision -- I should know, my vision's horrible. And, in spite of all the publicity, LyX is WYSIWYG enough that a single glance tells you which pieces of text are special styles. Contrast that with old WordPerfect 5.1, where the whole doc was courier, and if you wanted to see any evidence of styles you'd need to do the WordPerfect equivalent of LyX's View-PDF. Oh, one more thing. I'm now using LyX to author Kindle books -- no PDF involved anywhere. It goes like this: LyX-eLyXer-metadata tweaks-Kindlegen-Upload But LyX is such a great editor, and so styles adherant, that it was the obvious choice. I tried editing eBooks in Sigil for a little while, but that was a migration to Pity City. LyX is a GREAT editor. SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
LyX as editor -- Was: available templates and their names
On Thursday, November 17, 2011 08:22:49 AM Richard Heck wrote: > As Helge sometimes points out, this is > important. You can install LyX without LaTeX if you like (say, on > a netbook with a 4GB SSD), and it will work just fine for editing. > > Richard And in my opinion LyX is one of the most productive long-document editors the world has ever seen. Little things like rejecting double- spaces and double-newlines make me much faster as I worry less about mistakes. Its low-crashability and low-corruptability make for fast, confident working conditions. Its steadfast adherance to styles-based authoring makes it easy to build documents the right way. LyX's beige default background is easy on the eyes and yet easily contrasty enough for bad vision -- I should know, my vision's horrible. And, in spite of all the publicity, LyX is WYSIWYG enough that a single glance tells you which pieces of text are special styles. Contrast that with old WordPerfect 5.1, where the whole doc was courier, and if you wanted to see any evidence of styles you'd need to do the WordPerfect equivalent of LyX's View->PDF. Oh, one more thing. I'm now using LyX to author Kindle books -- no PDF involved anywhere. It goes like this: LyX->eLyXer->metadata tweaks->Kindlegen->Upload But LyX is such a great editor, and so styles adherant, that it was the obvious choice. I tried editing eBooks in Sigil for a little while, but that was a migration to Pity City. LyX is a GREAT editor. SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
