Re : MS Word, Lyx, and my resume

2001-09-28 Thread David Fong
Dear Sean LeBlanc, I use LyX to type up my fairly simple resume (I am a medical doctor, and have changed jobs every almost every three to six months for the past six years). However, before using LyX I used LaTeX, so I guess I can hardly call myself a newbie! Having said that, LyX is far eas

Re: MS Word, Lyx, and my resume

2001-09-27 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Sean LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Would you have any CV/resume classes to recommend? I was looking >around on CTAN, but that it's been pretty overwhelming... I haven't tried all of these either. I use a home-brewed one which is derived from currvita. The latter is ava

Re: MS Word, Lyx, and my resume

2001-09-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Sean" == Sean LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sean> Would you have any CV/resume classes to recommend? I was looking Sean> around on CTAN, but that it's been pretty overwhelming... You can try the cv class, which is distributed with lyx 1.1.6fix3 but can also be found at http://www-

Re: MS Word, Lyx, and my resume

2001-09-27 Thread Sean LeBlanc
Would you have any CV/resume classes to recommend? I was looking around on CTAN, but that it's been pretty overwhelming... TIA, Sean On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 13:33:00 +0200 (CEST) Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Sean LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I'm a comp

Re: MS Word, Lyx, and my resume

2001-09-27 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Sean LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm a complete newbie to lyx. I've heard good things about >it, and I'm growing increasingly frustrated with MS Word, >esp. when trying to manipulate my resume. > [...] > >I was thinking of doing this: > >1. Converting from MS Word to

Re: MS Word, Lyx, and my resume

2001-09-27 Thread Yannick Patois
Hi, On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Sean LeBlanc wrote: > 1. Converting from MS Word to Lyx. It looks like there is > at least one project (wv toolkit) that will let me do this. It works pretty well but will need some manual tuning sometimes. Some of the most annoying limitation I found are: - Lists of i

Re: MS Word, Lyx, and my resume

2001-09-26 Thread Gerhard Schuck
> 1. Converting from MS Word to Lyx. It looks like there is > at least one project (wv toolkit) that will let me do this. Try word2tex: http://www.word2tex.com/ Gerhard Schuck

MS Word, Lyx, and my resume

2001-09-26 Thread Sean LeBlanc
I'm a complete newbie to lyx. I've heard good things about it, and I'm growing increasingly frustrated with MS Word, esp. when trying to manipulate my resume. I have a few things I'd like to try, but I'm wondering if they are possible, or are the best way to go about this. Basically, I want to pu