Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-27 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written something like 10-20

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-27 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 24 October 2008, Christian Ridderström wrote: Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written something like 10-20 documents (not counting presentations created with LyX). If ten documents is a typical number, and LyX has hundreds of users,

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-27 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written something like 10-20

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-27 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 24 October 2008, Christian Ridderström wrote: Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written something like 10-20 documents (not counting presentations created with LyX). If ten documents is a typical number, and LyX has hundreds of users,

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-27 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written something like 10-20

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-27 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 24 October 2008, Christian Ridderström wrote: > Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using > LyX? > > I've written something like 10-20 documents (not counting presentations > created with LyX). If ten documents is a typical number, and LyX has > hundreds of

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 00:17, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
Abdel, On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many many students in France begins with LyX to ease the path to LateX; unfortunately most of them switch to MSWord after school... How would you go about convincing French professors (or students) that LyX is a

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
In economics and mathematics in France, I have many colleagues who know very well Latex but anly a few of them have ever heard about LyX before I have asked them the question. Even myself, I have been following the development LyX for years, without switching to it (I was using pure LateX and

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 11:49, Liviu Andronic wrote: Abdel, On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Abdelrazak Younes[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many many students in France begins with LyX to ease the path to LateX; unfortunately most of them switch to MSWord after school... How would you go about convincing

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:17 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: Hi Mike of activities). In that time, I wrote two refereed journal papers and part of the concept study that led to the $100M+ mission. Way cool. keep a watchful eye on things), so I don't know how lyx's popularity has grown, but I'm fairly

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
2008/10/25 Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are most certainly right for economics and mathematics students. But French engineer school students have a (deserved) reputation of laziness; so the first thing they would do when they are confronted to LateX is to look for a Wysiwig

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 13:06, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: In economics and mathematics in France, I have many colleagues who know very well Latex but anly a few of them have ever heard about LyX before I have asked them the question. Even myself, I have been following the development LyX for years, without

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 24 October 2008 06:17:34 pm Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX?

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 13:33 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:17 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Apparently I've been using LyX since '03. I've got 300+ LyX docs relating to teaching (notes, exams, slide shows, handouts), but this might be a bit inflated since I put each chapter/lesson in a separate file, rather than compiling a book. On the scholarly output side, I've got something

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 00:17, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
Abdel, On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many many students in France begins with LyX to ease the path to LateX; unfortunately most of them switch to MSWord after school... How would you go about convincing French professors (or students) that LyX is a

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
In economics and mathematics in France, I have many colleagues who know very well Latex but anly a few of them have ever heard about LyX before I have asked them the question. Even myself, I have been following the development LyX for years, without switching to it (I was using pure LateX and

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 11:49, Liviu Andronic wrote: Abdel, On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Abdelrazak Younes[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many many students in France begins with LyX to ease the path to LateX; unfortunately most of them switch to MSWord after school... How would you go about convincing

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:17 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: Hi Mike of activities). In that time, I wrote two refereed journal papers and part of the concept study that led to the $100M+ mission. Way cool. keep a watchful eye on things), so I don't know how lyx's popularity has grown, but I'm fairly

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
2008/10/25 Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are most certainly right for economics and mathematics students. But French engineer school students have a (deserved) reputation of laziness; so the first thing they would do when they are confronted to LateX is to look for a Wysiwig

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 13:06, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: In economics and mathematics in France, I have many colleagues who know very well Latex but anly a few of them have ever heard about LyX before I have asked them the question. Even myself, I have been following the development LyX for years, without

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 24 October 2008 06:17:34 pm Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX?

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 13:33 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:17 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Apparently I've been using LyX since '03. I've got 300+ LyX docs relating to teaching (notes, exams, slide shows, handouts), but this might be a bit inflated since I put each chapter/lesson in a separate file, rather than compiling a book. On the scholarly output side, I've got something

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 00:17, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
Abdel, On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many many students in France begins with LyX to ease the path to LateX; > unfortunately most of them switch to MSWord after school... > How would you go about convincing French professors (or students) that LyX

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
In economics and mathematics in France, I have many colleagues who know very well Latex but anly a few of them have ever heard about LyX before I have asked them the question. Even myself, I have been following the development LyX for years, without switching to it (I was using pure LateX and

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 11:49, Liviu Andronic wrote: Abdel, On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Abdelrazak Younes<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Many many students in France begins with LyX to ease the path to LateX; unfortunately most of them switch to MSWord after school... How would you go about

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:17 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: Hi Mike of activities). In that time, I wrote two refereed journal papers and part of the concept study that led to the $100M+ mission. Way cool. keep a watchful eye on things), so I don't know how lyx's popularity has grown, but I'm fairly

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
2008/10/25 Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You are most certainly right for economics and mathematics students. But > French engineer school students have a (deserved) reputation of laziness; so > the first thing they would do when they are confronted to LateX is to look > for a Wysiwig

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 25/10/2008 13:06, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: In economics and mathematics in France, I have many colleagues who know very well Latex but anly a few of them have ever heard about LyX before I have asked them the question. Even myself, I have been following the development LyX for years, without

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 24 October 2008 06:17:34 pm Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: > > I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of > > dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers > > Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 13:33 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: > > > On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:17 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: > >> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: > >> > >>> I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Apparently I've been using LyX since '03. I've got 300+ LyX docs relating to teaching (notes, exams, slide shows, handouts), but this might be a bit inflated since I put each chapter/lesson in a separate file, rather than compiling a book. On the "scholarly output" side, I've got something

Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-24 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written something like 10-20 documents (not counting

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-24 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:17 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-24 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote: Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written something like 10-20 documents (not counting presentations created with LyX). If ten documents is a typical number, and LyX has hundreds of users, we'd

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-24 Thread Michael Wojcik
Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? It appears, from my CVS archives,

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-24 Thread Mike Ressler
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? Since I threw out

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-24 Thread M-L
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Christian Ridderström engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: --} Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using --} LyX? Too numerous to mention, and not enough time to count - letters to politicians alone, huge numbers? - articles - essays

Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-24 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written something like 10-20 documents (not counting

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-24 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:17 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-24 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote: Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written something like 10-20 documents (not counting presentations created with LyX). If ten documents is a typical number, and LyX has hundreds of users, we'd

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-24 Thread Michael Wojcik
Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? It appears, from my CVS archives,

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-24 Thread Mike Ressler
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? Since I threw out

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-24 Thread M-L
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Christian Ridderström engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: --} Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using --} LyX? Too numerous to mention, and not enough time to count - letters to politicians alone, huge numbers? - articles - essays

Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-24 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written something like 10-20 documents (not counting

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-24 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:17 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: > > > I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of > > dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers > > Interesting question... how many such documents have been written

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-24 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote: > Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? > > I've written something like 10-20 documents (not counting presentations > created with LyX). If ten documents is a typical number, and LyX has hundreds > of users,

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-24 Thread Michael Wojcik
Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: > >> I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of >> dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers > > Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using > LyX? It appears, from my CVS

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-24 Thread Mike Ressler
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Ressler wrote: I can assure you that LyX has been used to write hundreds of dissertations, theses, and scholarly papers >> Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? Since I threw out

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-24 Thread M-L
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Christian Ridderström engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using >--} LyX? Too numerous to mention, and not enough time to count - letters to politicians alone, huge numbers? - articles - essays