Re: Short caption to figures

2000-10-01 Thread Werner Brück
I strongly believe that when I remove -- from our tech-writers -- the possibility to make decicions how things should look, that increases the productivity. People tend to use too much time on, the look of the document -- even, when somebody else is responsible for that. This is why I think

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-10-01 Thread Werner Brück
I strongly believe that when I remove -- from our tech-writers -- the possibility to make decicions how things should look, that increases the productivity. People tend to use too much time on, the look of the document -- even, when somebody else is responsible for that. This is why I think

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-10-01 Thread Werner Brück
> I strongly believe that when I remove -- from our tech-writers -- the > possibility to make decicions how things should look, that increases > the productivity. People tend to use too much time on, the look of the > document -- even, when somebody else is responsible for that. This is > why I

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-28 Thread Tommi Rintala
Dear listmembers, I see that I was starting a holy war about ideas how one should write text. This was not intended. But I want to still give few key-points about productive writing. (And these are _my_ opinions, I'm not trying to babtize anybody to my beliefs). - I think that text, style and

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-28 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Tommi Rintala wrote: [...why lyx rocks...] I'm bothered only one thing; I don't have the time to contribute work to the project. Tommi Rintala As a writer, and with a group of writers working with/for you, you could contribute to the documentation or by producing

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-28 Thread John Culleton
Tommi Rintala wrote: Here are some points why _WE_ are using LyX: Tommi Rintala You forgot the most important one IMHO! The typesetting is done by LaTeX which uses the superb TeX typesetting engine. This means superior typesetting of course, but it also means you can mix WYSIWYM

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-28 Thread Tommi Rintala
Dear listmembers, I see that I was starting a holy war about ideas how one should write text. This was not intended. But I want to still give few key-points about productive writing. (And these are _my_ opinions, I'm not trying to babtize anybody to my beliefs). - I think that text, style and

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-28 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Tommi Rintala wrote: [...why lyx rocks...] I'm bothered only one thing; I don't have the time to contribute work to the project. Tommi Rintala As a writer, and with a group of writers working with/for you, you could contribute to the documentation or by producing

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-28 Thread John Culleton
Tommi Rintala wrote: Here are some points why _WE_ are using LyX: Tommi Rintala You forgot the most important one IMHO! The typesetting is done by LaTeX which uses the superb TeX typesetting engine. This means superior typesetting of course, but it also means you can mix WYSIWYM

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-28 Thread Tommi Rintala
Dear listmembers, I see that I was starting a holy war about ideas how one should write text. This was not intended. But I want to still give few key-points about productive writing. (And these are _my_ opinions, I'm not trying to babtize anybody to my beliefs). - I think that text, style and

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-28 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Tommi Rintala wrote: [...why lyx rocks...] > I'm bothered only one thing; I don't have the time to contribute > work to the project. > > Tommi Rintala As a writer, and with a group of writers working with/for you, you could contribute to the documentation or by

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-28 Thread John Culleton
Tommi Rintala wrote: > > Here are some points why _WE_ are using LyX: > > > > Tommi Rintala You forgot the most important one IMHO! The typesetting is done by LaTeX which uses the superb TeX typesetting engine. This means superior typesetting of course, but it also means you can mix WYSIWYM

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread Tommi Rintala
On 26 Sep 2000, at 16:25, Herbert Voss wrote: delete the caption-style in figure/table-float and write in standard-style and in tex (red), but always inside the float. \caption[short title]{long title} Yes, this is excellent way for advanced user to use LaTeX functionality, but the

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Tommi Rintala" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On 26 Sep 2000, at 16:25, Herbert Voss wrote: | | | delete the caption-style in figure/table-float and write in | standard-style and in tex (red), but always inside the float. | | \caption[short title]{long title} | | Yes, this is excellent way

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread Tommi Rintala
On 27 Sep 2000, at 11:58, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Do not expect this in 1.1.6, but in 1.2.0 we will at least have the framework that will make this easy to accomplish. Great!! LyX can always be used as a tool in learning LaTeX if that is desired. LyX will certanly make you able to

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Tommi Rintala wrote: If I have not-so-advanced-users using Lyx, I would like them to know as little as possible about LaTeX, because they are using LyX. If they start learning LaTeX, why use LyX at all? They need to know LaTeX. LyX is not a LaTeX replacement, IMHO. "You

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread John Culleton
Tommi Rintala wrote: On 26 Sep 2000, at 16:25, Herbert Voss wrote: delete the caption-style in figure/table-float and write in If I have not-so-advanced-users using Lyx, I would like them to know as little as possible about LaTeX, because they are using LyX. If they start learning

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread Tommi Rintala
On 26 Sep 2000, at 16:25, Herbert Voss wrote: delete the caption-style in figure/table-float and write in standard-style and in tex (red), but always inside the float. \caption[short title]{long title} Yes, this is excellent way for advanced user to use LaTeX functionality, but the

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Tommi Rintala" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On 26 Sep 2000, at 16:25, Herbert Voss wrote: | | | delete the caption-style in figure/table-float and write in | standard-style and in tex (red), but always inside the float. | | \caption[short title]{long title} | | Yes, this is excellent way

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread Tommi Rintala
On 27 Sep 2000, at 11:58, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Do not expect this in 1.1.6, but in 1.2.0 we will at least have the framework that will make this easy to accomplish. Great!! LyX can always be used as a tool in learning LaTeX if that is desired. LyX will certanly make you able to

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Tommi Rintala wrote: If I have not-so-advanced-users using Lyx, I would like them to know as little as possible about LaTeX, because they are using LyX. If they start learning LaTeX, why use LyX at all? They need to know LaTeX. LyX is not a LaTeX replacement, IMHO. "You

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread John Culleton
Tommi Rintala wrote: On 26 Sep 2000, at 16:25, Herbert Voss wrote: delete the caption-style in figure/table-float and write in If I have not-so-advanced-users using Lyx, I would like them to know as little as possible about LaTeX, because they are using LyX. If they start learning

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread Tommi Rintala
On 26 Sep 2000, at 16:25, Herbert Voss wrote: > delete the caption-style in figure/table-float and write in > standard-style and in tex (red), but always inside the float. > > \caption[short title]{long title} Yes, this is excellent way for advanced user to use LaTeX functionality, but the

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Tommi Rintala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 26 Sep 2000, at 16:25, Herbert Voss wrote: | | | > delete the caption-style in figure/table-float and write in | > standard-style and in tex (red), but always inside the float. | > | > \caption[short title]{long title} | | Yes, this is

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread Tommi Rintala
On 27 Sep 2000, at 11:58, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Do not expect this in 1.1.6, but in 1.2.0 we will at least have the > framework that will make this easy to accomplish. Great!! > LyX can always be used as a tool in learning LaTeX if that is desired. > LyX will certanly make you able to

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Tommi Rintala wrote: > If I have not-so-advanced-users using Lyx, I would like them > to know as little as possible about LaTeX, because they are > using LyX. If they start learning LaTeX, why use LyX at all? They need to know LaTeX. LyX is not a LaTeX replacement, IMHO.

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-27 Thread John Culleton
Tommi Rintala wrote: > > On 26 Sep 2000, at 16:25, Herbert Voss wrote: > > > delete the caption-style in figure/table-float and write in > > > > If I have not-so-advanced-users using Lyx, I would like them > to know as little as possible about LaTeX, because they are > using LyX. If they

Short caption to figures

2000-09-26 Thread Tommi Rintala
I tried to find information, but I couldn't find it, so I ask it here. I am often guilty for writing too long captions for figures (long captions don't look nice in figure list). At LaTeX it is easy to give figure a short caption too. Are there plans to include a text field into figure

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Tommi Rintala wrote: I tried to find information, but I couldn't find it, so I ask it here. I am often guilty for writing too long captions for figures (long captions don't look nice in figure list). At LaTeX it is easy to give figure a short caption too. Are there plans to include a

Short caption to figures

2000-09-26 Thread Tommi Rintala
I tried to find information, but I couldn't find it, so I ask it here. I am often guilty for writing too long captions for figures (long captions don't look nice in figure list). At LaTeX it is easy to give figure a short caption too. Are there plans to include a text field into figure

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Tommi Rintala wrote: I tried to find information, but I couldn't find it, so I ask it here. I am often guilty for writing too long captions for figures (long captions don't look nice in figure list). At LaTeX it is easy to give figure a short caption too. Are there plans to include a

Short caption to figures

2000-09-26 Thread Tommi Rintala
I tried to find information, but I couldn't find it, so I ask it here. I am often guilty for writing too long captions for figures (long captions don't look nice in figure list). At LaTeX it is easy to give figure a short caption too. Are there plans to include a text field into figure

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Tommi Rintala wrote: > > I tried to find information, but I couldn't find > it, so I ask it here. > > I am often guilty for writing too long captions for > figures (long captions don't look nice in figure list). > At LaTeX it is easy to give figure a short > caption too. Are there plans to