Lyx article on OSNews

[killermike]

http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17373/Lyx-the-Multi-Platform-Document-Editor/

I wrote a quick overview of Lyx for tech news site OSNews. It's not a 
comprehensive overview as I decided to focus on some of the features 
that I personally make the most use of.


Most of the article was written in 1.5.0beta. I started it in 1.4.4 
while 1.5.0beta was compiling in the background (although I had some 
experience with 1.5.0SVN). OSNews require submissions to be web ready 
with only a subset of tags. I use the following converter string to 
export 2.0 HTML.


noexist $$i ;latex2html -no_auto_link -no_navigation -html_version 2.0 
-no_subdir -info 0 --split 0 $$i


At that point, I still have to do a bit of hand editing. To begin with, 
OSNews don't accept h1 etc tags so I have to change them to b tags 
instead. As I am working with mark-up, this isn't a big deal as I can 
simply do a find and replace on H1 to change it to B.


OSNews require that the HTML have no line breaks in the middle of 
paragraphs. Basically, using Kwrite, I have to highlight each paragraph 
by hand and do a ctrl+j on it to make it into one line.


Another problem is that the html exporter creates paragraphs that open 
with P but with not corrisponding /P tag to close. This isn't 
strictly in keeping with the OSNews submissions guidelines but they have 
not complained so far (four articles for that site).


I added plain English remarks to indicate where I wanted the images to 
be inserted. I have to hand add HTML hyper links as I have not found a 
tool that can export them intact from HTML. I usually add them as 
hypertext URLs from within Lyx and then hand correct them in the text 
editor.


Quick tip for anyone who might be attempting a similar exercise in Lyx: 
don't be tempted to hand create section headings with the bold attribute 
to ease HTML conversion. I made that mistake with an earlier, 6,000 word 
article. In short, I ended up going through hell on earth, simply to 
save five minutes of search and replace and hand-checking at the end.


BTW, I also used a mind mapping tool called Kdissert to plan the 
article. Picture of the mind map here:

http://www.rhyder.34sp.com/lyx_tree.png

As ever, much gratitude to the Lyx team.

--
http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, music, geek sitcom etc.
http://www.unmusic.co.uk/amhs/ - alt.music.home-studio 

Re: Lyx article on OSNews

[John Kane]

--- killermike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17373/Lyx-the-Multi-Platform-Document-Editor/
 
 I wrote a quick overview of Lyx for tech news site
 OSNews. 

I enjoyed the article and have bookmarked it for
passing on to others.  

I was particularly struck by the paragarph: 

  To use an analogy, often, when teaching someone how
to use a word-processor, it is difficult to convince
them of the importance of using tabs as opposed to
spaces. To the novice they are both equivalent as they
look the same on screen.

I had just finished looking at a 25+ page CV that we
need to include in a submission.  It was in Word but I
opened it in OOoWriter as a preliminary to exporting
to PDF.  I had a quick look at it and found such
things as 
you may see at
http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/images/cvpic.jpg

Note the inspired use of tabs to the left and right on
the second line.

Luckily the doc could go as it was.  


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Re: Lyx article on OSNews

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 killermike == killermike  [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

killermike 
http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17373/Lyx-the-Multi-Platform-Document-Editor/
killermike I wrote a quick overview of Lyx for tech news site OSNews.
killermike It's not a comprehensive overview as I decided to focus on
killermike some of the features that I personally make the most use
killermike of.


Nice article. Could you get them to replace the word Lyx with LyX?

JMarc

Lyx article on OSNews

[killermike]

http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17373/Lyx-the-Multi-Platform-Document-Editor/

I wrote a quick overview of Lyx for tech news site OSNews. It's not a 
comprehensive overview as I decided to focus on some of the features 
that I personally make the most use of.


Most of the article was written in 1.5.0beta. I started it in 1.4.4 
while 1.5.0beta was compiling in the background (although I had some 
experience with 1.5.0SVN). OSNews require submissions to be web ready 
with only a subset of tags. I use the following converter string to 
export 2.0 HTML.


noexist $$i ;latex2html -no_auto_link -no_navigation -html_version 2.0 
-no_subdir -info 0 --split 0 $$i


At that point, I still have to do a bit of hand editing. To begin with, 
OSNews don't accept h1 etc tags so I have to change them to b tags 
instead. As I am working with mark-up, this isn't a big deal as I can 
simply do a find and replace on H1 to change it to B.


OSNews require that the HTML have no line breaks in the middle of 
paragraphs. Basically, using Kwrite, I have to highlight each paragraph 
by hand and do a ctrl+j on it to make it into one line.


Another problem is that the html exporter creates paragraphs that open 
with P but with not corrisponding /P tag to close. This isn't 
strictly in keeping with the OSNews submissions guidelines but they have 
not complained so far (four articles for that site).


I added plain English remarks to indicate where I wanted the images to 
be inserted. I have to hand add HTML hyper links as I have not found a 
tool that can export them intact from HTML. I usually add them as 
hypertext URLs from within Lyx and then hand correct them in the text 
editor.


Quick tip for anyone who might be attempting a similar exercise in Lyx: 
don't be tempted to hand create section headings with the bold attribute 
to ease HTML conversion. I made that mistake with an earlier, 6,000 word 
article. In short, I ended up going through hell on earth, simply to 
save five minutes of search and replace and hand-checking at the end.


BTW, I also used a mind mapping tool called Kdissert to plan the 
article. Picture of the mind map here:

http://www.rhyder.34sp.com/lyx_tree.png

As ever, much gratitude to the Lyx team.

--
http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, music, geek sitcom etc.
http://www.unmusic.co.uk/amhs/ - alt.music.home-studio 

Re: Lyx article on OSNews

[John Kane]

--- killermike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17373/Lyx-the-Multi-Platform-Document-Editor/
 
 I wrote a quick overview of Lyx for tech news site
 OSNews. 

I enjoyed the article and have bookmarked it for
passing on to others.  

I was particularly struck by the paragarph: 

  To use an analogy, often, when teaching someone how
to use a word-processor, it is difficult to convince
them of the importance of using tabs as opposed to
spaces. To the novice they are both equivalent as they
look the same on screen.

I had just finished looking at a 25+ page CV that we
need to include in a submission.  It was in Word but I
opened it in OOoWriter as a preliminary to exporting
to PDF.  I had a quick look at it and found such
things as 
you may see at
http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/images/cvpic.jpg

Note the inspired use of tabs to the left and right on
the second line.

Luckily the doc could go as it was.  


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Re: Lyx article on OSNews

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 killermike == killermike  [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

killermike 
http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17373/Lyx-the-Multi-Platform-Document-Editor/
killermike I wrote a quick overview of Lyx for tech news site OSNews.
killermike It's not a comprehensive overview as I decided to focus on
killermike some of the features that I personally make the most use
killermike of.


Nice article. Could you get them to replace the word Lyx with LyX?

JMarc

Lyx article on OSNews

[killermike]

http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17373/Lyx-the-Multi-Platform-Document-Editor/

I wrote a quick overview of Lyx for tech news site OSNews. It's not a 
comprehensive overview as I decided to focus on some of the features 
that I personally make the most use of.


Most of the article was written in 1.5.0beta. I started it in 1.4.4 
while 1.5.0beta was compiling in the background (although I had some 
experience with 1.5.0SVN). OSNews require submissions to be web ready 
with only a subset of tags. I use the following converter string to 
export 2.0 HTML.


noexist $$i ;latex2html -no_auto_link -no_navigation -html_version 2.0 
-no_subdir -info 0 --split 0 $$i


At that point, I still have to do a bit of hand editing. To begin with, 
OSNews don't accept  etc tags so I have to change them to  tags 
instead. As I am working with mark-up, this isn't a big deal as I can 
simply do a find and replace on "H1" to change it to "B".


OSNews require that the HTML have no line breaks in the middle of 
paragraphs. Basically, using Kwrite, I have to highlight each paragraph 
by hand and do a  on it to make it into one line.


Another problem is that the html exporter creates paragraphs that open 
with  but with not corrisponding  tag to close. This isn't 
strictly in keeping with the OSNews submissions guidelines but they have 
not complained so far (four articles for that site).


I added plain English remarks to indicate where I wanted the images to 
be inserted. I have to hand add HTML hyper links as I have not found a 
tool that can export them intact from HTML. I usually add them as 
hypertext URLs from within Lyx and then hand correct them in the text 
editor.


Quick tip for anyone who might be attempting a similar exercise in Lyx: 
don't be tempted to hand create section headings with the bold attribute 
to ease HTML conversion. I made that mistake with an earlier, 6,000 word 
article. In short, I ended up going through hell on earth, simply to 
save five minutes of search and replace and hand-checking at the end.


BTW, I also used a mind mapping tool called Kdissert to plan the 
article. Picture of the mind map here:

http://www.rhyder.34sp.com/lyx_tree.png

As ever, much gratitude to the Lyx team.

--
http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, music, geek sitcom etc.
http://www.unmusic.co.uk/amhs/ - alt.music.home-studio 

Re: Lyx article on OSNews

[John Kane]

--- killermike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17373/Lyx-the-Multi-Platform-Document-Editor/
> 
> I wrote a quick overview of Lyx for tech news site
> OSNews. 

I enjoyed the article and have bookmarked it for
passing on to others.  

I was particularly struck by the paragarph: 

  "To use an analogy, often, when teaching someone how
to use a word-processor, it is difficult to convince
them of the importance of using tabs as opposed to
spaces. To the novice they are both equivalent as they
look the same on screen."

I had just finished looking at a 25+ page CV that we
need to include in a submission.  It was in Word but I
opened it in OOoWriter as a preliminary to exporting
to PDF.  I had a quick look at it and found such
things as 
you may see at
http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/images/cvpic.jpg

Note the inspired use of tabs to the left and right on
the second line.

Luckily the doc could go as it was.  


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Re: Lyx article on OSNews

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "killermike" == killermike  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

killermike> 
http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17373/Lyx-the-Multi-Platform-Document-Editor/
killermike> I wrote a quick overview of Lyx for tech news site OSNews.
killermike> It's not a comprehensive overview as I decided to focus on
killermike> some of the features that I personally make the most use
killermike> of.


Nice article. Could you get them to replace the word "Lyx" with "LyX"?

JMarc