Absolutely!
Did my PhD thesis with LyX: around 170 pages with lots of figures, formulas, ...
Paul
Juergen Fenn wrote:
Hello,
is LyX a good choice for writing long documents?
Has anybody ever tried to write a paper in LyX that is longer than 100
pages?
TIA.
Regards,
Juergen.
I'm writing my MSc thesis with LyX. Only 69 pages so far, but it works just
as well as for shorter documents. I don't see any problem here.
Hello,
nearly everybody gave an answer to your request if long documentation
could be manged by LyX. I only can agree that LyX is after my
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 02:51:59PM -0800, Mohammad Reza Danesh wrote:
I'm still stuck with the problem I posted couple of days before and can not
find a solution for it. The problem is that I don't want the content entry
in the TOC. I have 2 included files before TOC and 8 files after that,
Hi, I need to put two images of different sizes in a row of a table. I'd
like to be able to choose the vertical alignment of the shortest image (by
default it's on the bottom).
Anybody can help?
Thanks!
Stefano
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On Thursday 15 November 2001 16:52, Juergen Fenn wrote:
Hello,
is LyX a good choice for writing long documents?
Has anybody ever tried to write a paper in LyX that is longer than 100
pages?
TIA.
Regards,
Juergen.
I just remembered something about long documents. As you go past 100,000
On Yesterday, +0100, Juergen Fenn wrote:
is LyX a good choice for writing long documents?
Has anybody ever tried to write a paper in LyX that is longer than 100
pages?
One book with 450 pages, now I'm preparing the second one - only 350
pages :-)
I cannot imagine writing WITHOUT LyX.
Sasa
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:54:06PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
Most modern technical books have two tables of contents -- one that lists the
chapters, and one that goes down a couple more levels.
I tried this with LyX, using but the second table of contents comes out
blank. Any
Steve == Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve I just remembered something about long documents. As you go
Steve past 100,000 words, rendering time starts escalating with
Steve increasing rapidity. Thus at 100,000 it renders in about 10
Steve seconds. At 117,000 it's about 15. I did tests
Hello people,
I was wondering if anybody has experiences to run Lyx with the new MAC
OS X. OS X is based on Unix so I would guess it should be possible but I
have no idea how to install and to compile it. Any idea?
Best regards
Christian
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:07:33AM -0500, Christian Sandmann wrote:
I was wondering if anybody has experiences to run Lyx with the new MAC
OS X. OS X is based on Unix so I would guess it should be possible but I
have no idea how to install and to compile it. Any idea?
Does Mac OS X have an X
||Does Mac OS X have an X server?
It seems one could use http://www.xfree86.org/,
following instructions given at http://www.macosxhints.com/.
Info from a fellow Darwin user (not me).
Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:07:33AM -0500, Christian Sandmann wrote:
I was wondering if anybody has experiences to run Lyx with the new MAC
OS X. OS X is based on Unix so I would guess it should be possible but I
have no idea how to install and to compile it. Any idea?
DUVAL Laurent wrote:
||Does Mac OS X have an X server?
It seems one could use http://www.xfree86.org/,
following instructions given at http://www.macosxhints.com/.
Info from a fellow Darwin user (not me).
also have a look at http://www.lyx.org/help/misc/mac.html
Herbert
On Friday 16 November 2001 09:15, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Steve == Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve I just remembered something about long documents. As you go
Steve past 100,000 words, rendering time starts escalating with
Steve increasing rapidity. Thus at 100,000 it renders
Steve == Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve My program to generate a test LyX doc is called
Steve makelyxbook.cpp, which you can copy from
Steve http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm. The
Steve makelyxbook.cpp program is licensed GPL, so you're free to
Steve copy, modify
Am 16.11.01, 14:04:17, schrieb thomas schönhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] zum Thema Re: Using LyX for Long
Documents:
nearly everybody gave an answer to your request if long documentation
could be manged by LyX. I only can agree that LyX is after my
experiences much better to handle large docs than
Hi,
I have again been urged to use vim for editing some
document on my archaic notebook (where I use M$-DOS and vim) and
I was against unpleasantly surprised, that LyX still does not
provide interoperability between LyX and LaTeX in terms of
comments. Do you think, that it would be really so
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:52:59PM -0700, John Boik wrote:
I want to get table text to be \rightragged, not horizontally
centered. If I type in \rightragged in the alignment box of
the table popup, it does not work. Any other ideas?
Yes, and that is exactly what I have written to you.
Richard A. Bilonick wrote:
Why is it so difficult to place figures and tables in a sensible location?
I have placed the tables and figures exactly where I want them to be.
LyX (or
Latex) puts them in ridiculous locations. It places tables very far from
where they are inserted. It often
Steve Litt wrote:
On Friday 16 November 2001 09:10, Dekel Tsur wrote:
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:54:06PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
Most modern technical books have two tables of contents -- one that lists
the chapters, and one that goes down a couple more levels.
I tried this with
Richard A. Bilonick wrote:
Why is it so difficult to place figures and tables in a sensible location?
I have placed the tables and figures exactly where I want them to be. LyX (or
Latex) puts them in ridiculous locations. It places tables very far from
where they are inserted. It often puts
Paul Borgermans wrote:
I also used some more raw LaTeX in the main document:
\frontmatter for the introductory part
\mainmatter for the body
\renewcommand{\chaptername}{Appendix} inside the appendix (defined
with the LyX menus Layout-Toggle Appendix)
this should be the default in
Hi:
does anyone know what can I do to be able to check
spelling within table floats in lyx 1.1.6.fix3
Thanks
Herbert Voss wrote:
if you don't need the floating, than use package nonfloat if you
need captions. On the hand you can use package float with option H
^ other ...
Herbert, who needs weekend
--
http://www.lyx.org/help/
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:47:52AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
On Friday 16 November 2001 09:10, Dekel Tsur wrote:
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:54:06PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
Most modern technical books have two tables of contents -- one that lists
the chapters, and one that
Herbert Voss wrote:
\renewcommand{\chaptername}{Appendix} inside the appendix (defined
with the LyX menus Layout-Toggle Appendix)
This was necessary because I used the titlesec package to mimic the
koma-script lay-out and added some enhancements on the fly (like the option to
have
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 06:15:12PM +0100, Salvador Olmos wrote:
does anyone know what can I do to be able to check
spelling within table floats in lyx 1.1.6.fix3
you can't sorry - it's a missing feature in 1.1.6
As a workaround you can export to another format such as
latex or ascii, then
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:03:14PM +0100, ben wrote:
Thanks very much! That's what I need, even if I must patch some
things because the package expects to use external bib files
(and I must have the bibliography items in the main file).
No problem -- the .bbl file (there may be more of them
Absolutely!
Did my PhD thesis with LyX: around 170 pages with lots of figures, formulas, ...
Paul
Juergen Fenn wrote:
Hello,
is LyX a good choice for writing long documents?
Has anybody ever tried to write a paper in LyX that is longer than 100
pages?
TIA.
Regards,
Juergen.
I'm writing my MSc thesis with LyX. Only 69 pages so far, but it works just
as well as for shorter documents. I don't see any problem here.
Hello,
nearly everybody gave an answer to your request if long documentation
could be manged by LyX. I only can agree that LyX is after my
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 02:51:59PM -0800, Mohammad Reza Danesh wrote:
I'm still stuck with the problem I posted couple of days before and can not
find a solution for it. The problem is that I don't want the content entry
in the TOC. I have 2 included files before TOC and 8 files after that,
Hi, I need to put two images of different sizes in a row of a table. I'd
like to be able to choose the vertical alignment of the shortest image (by
default it's on the bottom).
Anybody can help?
Thanks!
Stefano
_
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On Thursday 15 November 2001 16:52, Juergen Fenn wrote:
Hello,
is LyX a good choice for writing long documents?
Has anybody ever tried to write a paper in LyX that is longer than 100
pages?
TIA.
Regards,
Juergen.
I just remembered something about long documents. As you go past 100,000
On Yesterday, +0100, Juergen Fenn wrote:
is LyX a good choice for writing long documents?
Has anybody ever tried to write a paper in LyX that is longer than 100
pages?
One book with 450 pages, now I'm preparing the second one - only 350
pages :-)
I cannot imagine writing WITHOUT LyX.
Sasa
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:54:06PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
Most modern technical books have two tables of contents -- one that lists the
chapters, and one that goes down a couple more levels.
I tried this with LyX, using but the second table of contents comes out
blank. Any
Steve == Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve I just remembered something about long documents. As you go
Steve past 100,000 words, rendering time starts escalating with
Steve increasing rapidity. Thus at 100,000 it renders in about 10
Steve seconds. At 117,000 it's about 15. I did tests
Hello people,
I was wondering if anybody has experiences to run Lyx with the new MAC
OS X. OS X is based on Unix so I would guess it should be possible but I
have no idea how to install and to compile it. Any idea?
Best regards
Christian
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:07:33AM -0500, Christian Sandmann wrote:
I was wondering if anybody has experiences to run Lyx with the new MAC
OS X. OS X is based on Unix so I would guess it should be possible but I
have no idea how to install and to compile it. Any idea?
Does Mac OS X have an X
||Does Mac OS X have an X server?
It seems one could use http://www.xfree86.org/,
following instructions given at http://www.macosxhints.com/.
Info from a fellow Darwin user (not me).
Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:07:33AM -0500, Christian Sandmann wrote:
I was wondering if anybody has experiences to run Lyx with the new MAC
OS X. OS X is based on Unix so I would guess it should be possible but I
have no idea how to install and to compile it. Any idea?
DUVAL Laurent wrote:
||Does Mac OS X have an X server?
It seems one could use http://www.xfree86.org/,
following instructions given at http://www.macosxhints.com/.
Info from a fellow Darwin user (not me).
also have a look at http://www.lyx.org/help/misc/mac.html
Herbert
On Friday 16 November 2001 09:15, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Steve == Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve I just remembered something about long documents. As you go
Steve past 100,000 words, rendering time starts escalating with
Steve increasing rapidity. Thus at 100,000 it renders
Steve == Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve My program to generate a test LyX doc is called
Steve makelyxbook.cpp, which you can copy from
Steve http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm. The
Steve makelyxbook.cpp program is licensed GPL, so you're free to
Steve copy, modify
Am 16.11.01, 14:04:17, schrieb thomas schönhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] zum Thema Re: Using LyX for Long
Documents:
nearly everybody gave an answer to your request if long documentation
could be manged by LyX. I only can agree that LyX is after my
experiences much better to handle large docs than
Hi,
I have again been urged to use vim for editing some
document on my archaic notebook (where I use M$-DOS and vim) and
I was against unpleasantly surprised, that LyX still does not
provide interoperability between LyX and LaTeX in terms of
comments. Do you think, that it would be really so
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:52:59PM -0700, John Boik wrote:
I want to get table text to be \rightragged, not horizontally
centered. If I type in \rightragged in the alignment box of
the table popup, it does not work. Any other ideas?
Yes, and that is exactly what I have written to you.
Richard A. Bilonick wrote:
Why is it so difficult to place figures and tables in a sensible location?
I have placed the tables and figures exactly where I want them to be.
LyX (or
Latex) puts them in ridiculous locations. It places tables very far from
where they are inserted. It often
Steve Litt wrote:
On Friday 16 November 2001 09:10, Dekel Tsur wrote:
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:54:06PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
Most modern technical books have two tables of contents -- one that lists
the chapters, and one that goes down a couple more levels.
I tried this with
Richard A. Bilonick wrote:
Why is it so difficult to place figures and tables in a sensible location?
I have placed the tables and figures exactly where I want them to be. LyX (or
Latex) puts them in ridiculous locations. It places tables very far from
where they are inserted. It often puts
Paul Borgermans wrote:
I also used some more raw LaTeX in the main document:
\frontmatter for the introductory part
\mainmatter for the body
\renewcommand{\chaptername}{Appendix} inside the appendix (defined
with the LyX menus Layout-Toggle Appendix)
this should be the default in
Hi:
does anyone know what can I do to be able to check
spelling within table floats in lyx 1.1.6.fix3
Thanks
Herbert Voss wrote:
if you don't need the floating, than use package nonfloat if you
need captions. On the hand you can use package float with option H
^ other ...
Herbert, who needs weekend
--
http://www.lyx.org/help/
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:47:52AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
On Friday 16 November 2001 09:10, Dekel Tsur wrote:
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:54:06PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
Most modern technical books have two tables of contents -- one that lists
the chapters, and one that
Herbert Voss wrote:
\renewcommand{\chaptername}{Appendix} inside the appendix (defined
with the LyX menus Layout-Toggle Appendix)
This was necessary because I used the titlesec package to mimic the
koma-script lay-out and added some enhancements on the fly (like the option to
have
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 06:15:12PM +0100, Salvador Olmos wrote:
does anyone know what can I do to be able to check
spelling within table floats in lyx 1.1.6.fix3
you can't sorry - it's a missing feature in 1.1.6
As a workaround you can export to another format such as
latex or ascii, then
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:03:14PM +0100, ben wrote:
Thanks very much! That's what I need, even if I must patch some
things because the package expects to use external bib files
(and I must have the bibliography items in the main file).
No problem -- the .bbl file (there may be more of them
Absolutely!
Did my PhD thesis with LyX: around 170 pages with lots of figures, formulas, ...
Paul
Juergen Fenn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is LyX a good choice for writing long documents?
>
> Has anybody ever tried to write a paper in LyX that is longer than 100
> pages?
>
> TIA.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
>>
>
>I'm writing my MSc thesis with LyX. Only 69 pages so far, but it works just
>as well as for shorter documents. I don't see any problem here.
>
>
>
Hello,
nearly everybody gave an answer to your request if long documentation
could be manged by LyX. I only can agree that LyX is after my
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 02:51:59PM -0800, Mohammad Reza Danesh wrote:
> I'm still stuck with the problem I posted couple of days before and can not
> find a solution for it. The problem is that I don't want the "content" entry
> in the TOC. I have 2 included files before TOC and 8 files after
Hi, I need to put two images of different sizes in a row of a table. I'd
like to be able to choose the vertical alignment of the shortest image (by
default it's on the bottom).
Anybody can help?
Thanks!
Stefano
_
Do You Yahoo!?
Get
On Thursday 15 November 2001 16:52, Juergen Fenn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is LyX a good choice for writing long documents?
>
> Has anybody ever tried to write a paper in LyX that is longer than 100
> pages?
>
> TIA.
>
> Regards,
> Juergen.
I just remembered something about long documents. As you go
On Yesterday, +0100, Juergen Fenn wrote:
> is LyX a good choice for writing long documents?
>
> Has anybody ever tried to write a paper in LyX that is longer than 100
> pages?
One book with 450 pages, now I'm preparing the second one - only 350
pages :-)
I cannot imagine writing WITHOUT LyX.
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:54:06PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Most modern technical books have two tables of contents -- one that lists the
> chapters, and one that goes down a couple more levels.
>
> I tried this with LyX, using but the second table of contents comes out
> blank.
> "Steve" == Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> I just remembered something about long documents. As you go
Steve> past 100,000 words, rendering time starts escalating with
Steve> increasing rapidity. Thus at 100,000 it renders in about 10
Steve> seconds. At 117,000 it's about 15.
Hello people,
I was wondering if anybody has experiences to run Lyx with the new MAC
OS X. OS X is based on Unix so I would guess it should be possible but I
have no idea how to install and to compile it. Any idea?
Best regards
Christian
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:07:33AM -0500, Christian Sandmann wrote:
> I was wondering if anybody has experiences to run Lyx with the new MAC
> OS X. OS X is based on Unix so I would guess it should be possible but I
> have no idea how to install and to compile it. Any idea?
Does Mac OS X have
||Does Mac OS X have an X server?
It seems one could use http://www.xfree86.org/,
following instructions given at http://www.macosxhints.com/.
Info from a fellow Darwin user (not me).
Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:07:33AM -0500, Christian Sandmann wrote:
>
>>I was wondering if anybody has experiences to run Lyx with the new MAC
>>OS X. OS X is based on Unix so I would guess it should be possible but I
>>have no idea how to install and to compile it. Any
DUVAL Laurent wrote:
>||Does Mac OS X have an X server?
>
>It seems one could use http://www.xfree86.org/,
>following instructions given at http://www.macosxhints.com/.
>Info from a fellow Darwin user (not me).
>
also have a look at http://www.lyx.org/help/misc/mac.html
Herbert
On Friday 16 November 2001 09:15, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > "Steve" == Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Steve> I just remembered something about long documents. As you go
> Steve> past 100,000 words, rendering time starts escalating with
> Steve> increasing rapidity. Thus at
> "Steve" == Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> My program to generate a test LyX doc is called
Steve> makelyxbook.cpp, which you can copy from
Steve> http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm. The
Steve> makelyxbook.cpp program is licensed GPL, so you're free to
Steve>
Am 16.11.01, 14:04:17, schrieb thomas schönhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zum Thema Re: Using LyX for Long
Documents:
> nearly everybody gave an answer to your request if long documentation
> could be manged by LyX. I only can agree that LyX is after my
> experiences much better to handle large docs
Hi,
I have again been urged to use vim for editing some
document on my archaic notebook (where I use M$-DOS and vim) and
I was against unpleasantly surprised, that LyX still does not
provide interoperability between LyX and LaTeX in terms of
comments. Do you think, that it would be really so
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:52:59PM -0700, John Boik wrote:
> I want to get table text to be \rightragged, not horizontally
> centered. If I type in "\rightragged" in the alignment box of
> the table popup, it does not work. Any other ideas?
Yes, and that is exactly what I have written to you.
Richard A. Bilonick wrote:
>Why is it so difficult to place figures and tables in a sensible location?
>
>I have placed the tables and figures exactly where I want them to be.
LyX (or
>Latex) puts them in ridiculous locations. It places tables very far from
>where they are inserted. It
Steve Litt wrote:
>On Friday 16 November 2001 09:10, Dekel Tsur wrote:
>
>>On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:54:06PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>Most modern technical books have two tables of contents -- one that lists
>>>the chapters, and one that goes down a couple more levels.
Richard A. Bilonick wrote:
>Why is it so difficult to place figures and tables in a sensible location?
>
>I have placed the tables and figures exactly where I want them to be. LyX (or
>Latex) puts them in ridiculous locations. It places tables very far from
>where they are inserted. It often
Paul Borgermans wrote:
>
> I also used some more raw LaTeX in the main document:
>
> \frontmatter for the introductory part
>
> \mainmatter for the body
>
> \renewcommand{\chaptername}{Appendix} inside the appendix (defined
> with the LyX menus Layout->Toggle Appendix)
this should be the
Hi:
does anyone know what can I do to be able to check
spelling within table floats in lyx 1.1.6.fix3
Thanks
Herbert Voss wrote:
> if you don't need the floating, than use package nonfloat if you
> need captions. On the hand you can use package float with option H
^ other ...
Herbert, who needs weekend
--
http://www.lyx.org/help/
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:47:52AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Friday 16 November 2001 09:10, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:54:06PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Most modern technical books have two tables of contents -- one that lists
> > > the chapters,
Herbert Voss wrote:
>> \renewcommand{\chaptername}{Appendix} inside the appendix (defined
>> with the LyX menus Layout->Toggle Appendix)
>
This was necessary because I used the titlesec package to mimic the
koma-script lay-out and added some enhancements on the fly (like the option to
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 06:15:12PM +0100, Salvador Olmos wrote:
> does anyone know what can I do to be able to check
> spelling within table floats in lyx 1.1.6.fix3
you can't sorry - it's a missing feature in 1.1.6
As a workaround you can export to another format such as
latex or ascii, then
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:03:14PM +0100, ben wrote:
> Thanks very much! That's what I need, even if I must patch some
> things because the package expects to use external bib files
> (and I must have the bibliography items in the main file).
No problem -- the .bbl file (there may be more of
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