Re: Why Lyx-Word?

One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or resuse your old text? For my party: I deny using Word and am not willing to use it or an OSF clone of word

docbook-style document/character classes, problems

Hello Hello This is a bit of a novice question, I'm afraid. It's also very long because at this stage I don't really know what's important and what's peripheral, so please forgive me the verbal overload. I'm fervently hoping that sometime soon lots of hitherto disparate pieces of information

Re: Creating a document class

From: NicoWinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Creating a document class Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 23:36:37 +0200 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/Il0imjugoveyKNidQpbz/x2yCR01Aulp1KfyZ FwCTBWCbGjmf8YPC3X36R5RXP9hI/JU3bTO+47MQNR+fKjd+C9 lUgecqu+c= Hello, I'm

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

Wonderful Dave, except for users who don't have or don't want to have or can't have Word installed in their computers. Tex2word and word2tex only work within Word, so it's not really a good solution for most of us. As for myself, after years of using Word and hating the bugs that change the

Re: How to detect current font size, shape, series and the like?

From: Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: How to detect current font size, shape, series and the like? Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 19:16:10 -0400 On Friday 11 May 2007 15:09, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: [...] This didn't work for me. Here's a tiny LaTeX

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

I used to use Word quite a lot and was -- overall -- not too unhappy with it. I used it, for instance, to typeset my diploma with 120 pages and plenty of figures. All this worked quite well, but as I said, I already was an experienced Word user at that time so I knew how to do it. I guess the

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

Daniel Lohmann schrieb: Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still draw tables with Word or Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document... There's a tool that could be interesting for you, excel2latex: http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/xl2latex.zip

Language

Dear users, I am writing a book in Italian (the style is book-AMS) with LyX 1.5 beta2. I have accordingly modified Document-Setting-Language and Tools-Preferences-Langauge setting. While Chapter and Part correctly appear in the DVI as Capitolo and Parte (in Italian), theorems, corollaries and

Re: html (oolatex/word) conversions not working. Font problem

Rudi Gaelzer wrote: I'm trying to convert a lyx file to MS word format. Trying export directly from lyx gives no output file and no indication about what the problem is. Exporting to tex and then using the ConvTex utility from http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice crashes with the

Re: Language

From: Francesco Menoncin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Language Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:46:44 +0200 X-EcoUnibs-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-EcoUnibs-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-EcoUnibs-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam,

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

Now Dom, that last one was a really useful tip. Thx!!! On 5/15/07, Dominik Waßenhoven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Lohmann schrieb: Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still draw tables with Word or Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document... There's a tool that could be

[SOLVED] Re: using pdflatex with pagebackref option

Richard Heck schrieb: It's just a guess at the moment, but I expect that there's something problematic on one of your citation keys that is causing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] macro to expand incorrectly. To debug this, (a) export to LaTeX, (b) run it manually, (c) try to figure out exactly where the

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Daniel Lohmann schrieb: Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still draw tables with Word or Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document... There's a tool that could be interesting for you, excel2latex: Yes, I know it. Unfortunately it does *exactly not*

Table layout (was Re: Why Lyx-Word?)

On May 15, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: While I know how to build some table in LyX/LaTeX, I get frequently frustrated when I have to tweak and optimize the layout (individual cell width, border styles, inner-cell margins, fonts, ...) Read Edward Tufte's _The Visual Display of

Re: Lyx with Texlive?

Urtzi Jauregi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: switch to Texlive LyX, will I find any surprises the evening before I submit my thesis to press? What are your experiences? TexLive2007 work well for me! Cheers, Sam

Re: Creating a document class

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 04:00, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: From: NicoWinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Creating a document class Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 23:36:37 +0200 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/Il0imjugoveyKNidQpbz/x2yCR01Aulp1KfyZ

[SLOVED] Re: RTF export not present on Ubunutu (Lyx 1.4.3) [was: Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book]

Tim Michelsen schrieb: I believe that there is also an option to export as rtf. Not in my 1.4.3on Ubuntu Lyx-Qt. What program is used for that export? Maybe I missed to install it... You need latex2rtf at http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/ I did install it and reconfigured it. But the

Re: Creating a document class

From: Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Creating a document class Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 09:54:46 -0400 Here is a solution using xfig to perform the required placement - create an xfig layout of the cover page, What's an xfig layout? Is it an image? Is it

How to change the typeface at any size?

Hi all, I have a character style that I want to have a funky typeface*. Something like cmff. I can change the typeface in pure TeX, but I must name a size. What I'd like is for the typeface change to occur at the current size, so if the character style is used in a heading its size will be

Re: Creating a document class

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: http://www.xfig.org/ which indicates that development reached an end with version 3.2.5, but this software is pretty mature. As its name says, works under X11 :-( Try Jfig: http://tams-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/applets/jfig/ Abdel.

Re: Creating a document class

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Creating a document class Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:31:29 +0200 Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: http://www.xfig.org/ which indicates that development reached an end with version 3.2.5, but this software is pretty

Re: Creating a document class

On Tue, 15 May 2007, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: http://www.xfig.org/ which indicates that development reached an end with version 3.2.5, but this software is pretty mature. As its name says, works under X11 :-( Try Jfig:

indexing filenames stopped working

I have several terms indexed like /etc/named.conf. But when I make them italics, I get errors like: Missing $ Inserted \item /etc/rndc.conf, 25 I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed. I tried manually moving the

Re: How to change the typeface at any size?

Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a character style that I want to have a funky typeface*. Something like cmff. I can change the typeface in pure TeX, but I must name a size. What I'd like is for the typeface change to occur at the current size, so if the character style is used in a

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

Daniel Lohmann wrote: I guess the main (non political nor domain-specific) problem many people have with Word is its /pretended/ simplicity. Yes it is simple to get a good-looking, personal letter out of it. However, if one wants to use it to write a more complex document, one really has to

Re: How to detect current font size, shape, series and the like?

Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 11 May 2007 15:09, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: This didn't work for me. Here's a tiny LaTeX file incorporating it: % \documentclass[12pt]{book} [EMAIL PROTECTED] \begin{document} mysize is \mysize

Re: indexing filenames stopped working

So I removed all my index entries that had /path/names or add a $ dollar sign. I added just one /path/name index entry and it worked. Then I added a index entry for $ORIGIN and the error was for the /path/name index entry I added. So the $ index entry made problem with the next entry. I

Re: How to change the typeface at any size?

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 11:56, Richard Heck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a character style that I want to have a funky typeface*. Something like cmff. I can change the typeface in pure TeX, but I must name a size. What I'd like is for the typeface change to occur at the

Re: How to change the typeface at any size?

Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007 11:56, Richard Heck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a character style that I want to have a funky typeface*. Something like cmff. I can change the typeface in pure TeX, but I must name a size. What I'd like is for the typeface

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 12:04, Richard Heck wrote: Yes, but of course LaTeX isn't designed for end-users to do this kind of thing. The class is supposed to handle all of that, and the end-user is supposed to worry about content. True, there are times when one does want to do that kind of

Re: How to change the typeface at any size?

Richard Heck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: My code, and yours, work well assuming the charcter style is applied to body text or something of a similar size. However, if applied to a section heading, it will print out at 12 point when the rest of the section heading prints out at 24 point or

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient, available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) Bo

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

Steve Litt wrote: Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient, available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf After reading that book, I've never again been intimidated by LaTeX (confused, yes, but not intimidated). LaTeX has

Re: lyx-1.5 beta 2

On Thursday 10 May 2007 06:23:08 Rodrigo Fresneda wrote: Anyway, it'd be nice if more people could confirm them. We will release beta-3 today, if the problem persists there I would like to hear about it again. thanks, rodrigo. -- José Abílio

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:24:31PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient,available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) You found one of the propblems of TeX.

Re[2]: Why Lyx-Word?

Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient,available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:24:31PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) On Tue, 15 May 2007, Andre Poenitz

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 13:24, Bo Peng wrote: Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient, available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) Bo Hi Bo, Yeah, but it's an easy read, at

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 16:51, Steve Litt wrote: If you are *mega* impatient, you can read my article, LyX, LaTeX and TeX at http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm. Oops, I meant http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm. SteveT

Re: Table layout (was Re: Why Lyx-Word?)

William Adams schrieb: use booktabs (support has been added in v1.5) and read its documentation as well: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/ LyX 1.5 will support booktabs. you can check out the beta3 for LyX 1.5.0 that is released tomorrow. For infos about table

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

On 15 May, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Jan Peters wrote: One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or resuse your old text? For me, this is THE reason. I

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

Trenton Schulz wrote: So, I fired up Shark and Quartz Debug to take a look at why things are so slow when moving around in a math formula. It seems that when I'm moving around in normal text, the area around the cursor is updated, which is what I would expect and why moving through

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 17:51, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 15 May, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Jan Peters wrote: One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or resuse your old text? For my party: I deny using Word and am not willing to use it or an OSF clone of word

docbook-style document/character classes, problems

Hello Hello This is a bit of a novice question, I'm afraid. It's also very long because at this stage I don't really know what's important and what's peripheral, so please forgive me the verbal overload. I'm fervently hoping that sometime soon lots of hitherto disparate pieces of information

Re: Creating a document class

From: NicoWinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Creating a document class Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 23:36:37 +0200 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/Il0imjugoveyKNidQpbz/x2yCR01Aulp1KfyZ FwCTBWCbGjmf8YPC3X36R5RXP9hI/JU3bTO+47MQNR+fKjd+C9 lUgecqu+c= Hello, I'm

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

Wonderful Dave, except for users who don't have or don't want to have or can't have Word installed in their computers. Tex2word and word2tex only work within Word, so it's not really a good solution for most of us. As for myself, after years of using Word and hating the bugs that change the

Re: How to detect current font size, shape, series and the like?

From: Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: How to detect current font size, shape, series and the like? Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 19:16:10 -0400 On Friday 11 May 2007 15:09, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: [...] This didn't work for me. Here's a tiny LaTeX

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

I used to use Word quite a lot and was -- overall -- not too unhappy with it. I used it, for instance, to typeset my diploma with 120 pages and plenty of figures. All this worked quite well, but as I said, I already was an experienced Word user at that time so I knew how to do it. I guess the

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

Daniel Lohmann schrieb: Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still draw tables with Word or Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document... There's a tool that could be interesting for you, excel2latex: http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/xl2latex.zip

Language

Dear users, I am writing a book in Italian (the style is book-AMS) with LyX 1.5 beta2. I have accordingly modified Document-Setting-Language and Tools-Preferences-Langauge setting. While Chapter and Part correctly appear in the DVI as Capitolo and Parte (in Italian), theorems, corollaries and

Re: html (oolatex/word) conversions not working. Font problem

Rudi Gaelzer wrote: I'm trying to convert a lyx file to MS word format. Trying export directly from lyx gives no output file and no indication about what the problem is. Exporting to tex and then using the ConvTex utility from http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice crashes with the

Re: Language

From: Francesco Menoncin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Language Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:46:44 +0200 X-EcoUnibs-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-EcoUnibs-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-EcoUnibs-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam,

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

Now Dom, that last one was a really useful tip. Thx!!! On 5/15/07, Dominik Waßenhoven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Lohmann schrieb: Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still draw tables with Word or Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document... There's a tool that could be

[SOLVED] Re: using pdflatex with pagebackref option

Richard Heck schrieb: It's just a guess at the moment, but I expect that there's something problematic on one of your citation keys that is causing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] macro to expand incorrectly. To debug this, (a) export to LaTeX, (b) run it manually, (c) try to figure out exactly where the

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Daniel Lohmann schrieb: Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still draw tables with Word or Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document... There's a tool that could be interesting for you, excel2latex: Yes, I know it. Unfortunately it does *exactly not*

Table layout (was Re: Why Lyx-Word?)

On May 15, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: While I know how to build some table in LyX/LaTeX, I get frequently frustrated when I have to tweak and optimize the layout (individual cell width, border styles, inner-cell margins, fonts, ...) Read Edward Tufte's _The Visual Display of

Re: Lyx with Texlive?

Urtzi Jauregi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: switch to Texlive LyX, will I find any surprises the evening before I submit my thesis to press? What are your experiences? TexLive2007 work well for me! Cheers, Sam

Re: Creating a document class

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 04:00, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: From: NicoWinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Creating a document class Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 23:36:37 +0200 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/Il0imjugoveyKNidQpbz/x2yCR01Aulp1KfyZ

[SLOVED] Re: RTF export not present on Ubunutu (Lyx 1.4.3) [was: Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book]

Tim Michelsen schrieb: I believe that there is also an option to export as rtf. Not in my 1.4.3on Ubuntu Lyx-Qt. What program is used for that export? Maybe I missed to install it... You need latex2rtf at http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/ I did install it and reconfigured it. But the

Re: Creating a document class

From: Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Creating a document class Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 09:54:46 -0400 Here is a solution using xfig to perform the required placement - create an xfig layout of the cover page, What's an xfig layout? Is it an image? Is it

How to change the typeface at any size?

Hi all, I have a character style that I want to have a funky typeface*. Something like cmff. I can change the typeface in pure TeX, but I must name a size. What I'd like is for the typeface change to occur at the current size, so if the character style is used in a heading its size will be

Re: Creating a document class

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: http://www.xfig.org/ which indicates that development reached an end with version 3.2.5, but this software is pretty mature. As its name says, works under X11 :-( Try Jfig: http://tams-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/applets/jfig/ Abdel.

Re: Creating a document class

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Creating a document class Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:31:29 +0200 Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: http://www.xfig.org/ which indicates that development reached an end with version 3.2.5, but this software is pretty

Re: Creating a document class

On Tue, 15 May 2007, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: http://www.xfig.org/ which indicates that development reached an end with version 3.2.5, but this software is pretty mature. As its name says, works under X11 :-( Try Jfig:

indexing filenames stopped working

I have several terms indexed like /etc/named.conf. But when I make them italics, I get errors like: Missing $ Inserted \item /etc/rndc.conf, 25 I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed. I tried manually moving the

Re: How to change the typeface at any size?

Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a character style that I want to have a funky typeface*. Something like cmff. I can change the typeface in pure TeX, but I must name a size. What I'd like is for the typeface change to occur at the current size, so if the character style is used in a

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

Daniel Lohmann wrote: I guess the main (non political nor domain-specific) problem many people have with Word is its /pretended/ simplicity. Yes it is simple to get a good-looking, personal letter out of it. However, if one wants to use it to write a more complex document, one really has to

Re: How to detect current font size, shape, series and the like?

Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 11 May 2007 15:09, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: This didn't work for me. Here's a tiny LaTeX file incorporating it: % \documentclass[12pt]{book} [EMAIL PROTECTED] \begin{document} mysize is \mysize

Re: indexing filenames stopped working

So I removed all my index entries that had /path/names or add a $ dollar sign. I added just one /path/name index entry and it worked. Then I added a index entry for $ORIGIN and the error was for the /path/name index entry I added. So the $ index entry made problem with the next entry. I

Re: How to change the typeface at any size?

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 11:56, Richard Heck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a character style that I want to have a funky typeface*. Something like cmff. I can change the typeface in pure TeX, but I must name a size. What I'd like is for the typeface change to occur at the

Re: How to change the typeface at any size?

Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007 11:56, Richard Heck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a character style that I want to have a funky typeface*. Something like cmff. I can change the typeface in pure TeX, but I must name a size. What I'd like is for the typeface

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 12:04, Richard Heck wrote: Yes, but of course LaTeX isn't designed for end-users to do this kind of thing. The class is supposed to handle all of that, and the end-user is supposed to worry about content. True, there are times when one does want to do that kind of

Re: How to change the typeface at any size?

Richard Heck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: My code, and yours, work well assuming the charcter style is applied to body text or something of a similar size. However, if applied to a section heading, it will print out at 12 point when the rest of the section heading prints out at 24 point or

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient, available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) Bo

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

Steve Litt wrote: Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient, available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf After reading that book, I've never again been intimidated by LaTeX (confused, yes, but not intimidated). LaTeX has

Re: lyx-1.5 beta 2

On Thursday 10 May 2007 06:23:08 Rodrigo Fresneda wrote: Anyway, it'd be nice if more people could confirm them. We will release beta-3 today, if the problem persists there I would like to hear about it again. thanks, rodrigo. -- José Abílio

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:24:31PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient,available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) You found one of the propblems of TeX.

Re[2]: Why Lyx-Word?

Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient,available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:24:31PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) On Tue, 15 May 2007, Andre Poenitz

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 13:24, Bo Peng wrote: Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read TeX for the Impatient, available here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) Bo Hi Bo, Yeah, but it's an easy read, at

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 16:51, Steve Litt wrote: If you are *mega* impatient, you can read my article, LyX, LaTeX and TeX at http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm. Oops, I meant http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm. SteveT

Re: Table layout (was Re: Why Lyx-Word?)

William Adams schrieb: use booktabs (support has been added in v1.5) and read its documentation as well: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/ LyX 1.5 will support booktabs. you can check out the beta3 for LyX 1.5.0 that is released tomorrow. For infos about table

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

On 15 May, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Jan Peters wrote: One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or resuse your old text? For me, this is THE reason. I

Re: Some feedback on LyX 1.5 beta

Trenton Schulz wrote: So, I fired up Shark and Quartz Debug to take a look at why things are so slow when moving around in a math formula. It seems that when I'm moving around in normal text, the area around the cursor is updated, which is what I would expect and why moving through

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 17:51, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 15 May, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Jan Peters wrote: One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or resuse your old text? For my party: I deny using Word and am not willing to use it or an OSF clone of word

docbook-style document/character classes, problems

Hello Hello This is a bit of a novice question, I'm afraid. It's also very long because at this stage I don't really know what's important and what's peripheral, so please forgive me the verbal overload. I'm fervently hoping that sometime soon lots of hitherto disparate pieces of information

Re: Creating a document class

>>From: "NicoWinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: , <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Creating a document class >>Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 23:36:37 +0200 >>X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/Il0imjugoveyKNidQpbz/x2yCR01Aulp1KfyZ FwCTBWCbGjmf8YPC3X36R5RXP9hI/JU3bTO+47MQNR+fKjd+C9

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

Wonderful Dave, except for users who don't have or don't want to have or can't have Word installed in their computers. Tex2word and word2tex only work within Word, so it's not really a good solution for most of us. As for myself, after years of using Word and hating the "bugs" that change the

Re: How to detect current font size, shape, series and the like?

>>From: Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: How to detect current font size, shape, series and the like? >>Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 19:16:10 -0400 >> >>On Friday 11 May 2007 15:09, Paul A. Rubin wrote: >>> Steve Litt wrote: [...] >>This didn't work for me.

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

I used to use Word quite a lot and was -- overall -- not too unhappy with it. I used it, for instance, to typeset my diploma with >120 pages and plenty of figures. All this worked quite well, but as I said, I already was an experienced Word user at that time so I knew how to do it. I guess the

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

Daniel Lohmann schrieb: Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still "draw" tables with Word or Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document... There's a tool that could be interesting for you, excel2latex: http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/xl2latex.zip

Language

Dear users, I am writing a book in Italian (the style is book-AMS) with LyX 1.5 beta2. I have accordingly modified "Document"->"Setting"->"Language" and "Tools"->"Preferences"->"Langauge setting". While "Chapter" and "Part" correctly appear in the DVI as "Capitolo" and "Parte" (in Italian),

Re: html (oolatex/word) conversions not working. Font problem

Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > I'm trying to convert a lyx file to MS word format. > > Trying export directly from lyx gives no output file and no indication > about what the problem is. > > Exporting to tex and then using the ConvTex utility from > http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice > crashes

Re: Language

>>From: "Francesco Menoncin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: >>Subject: Language >>Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:46:44 +0200 >>X-EcoUnibs-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information >>X-EcoUnibs-MailScanner: Found to be clean

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

Now Dom, that last one was a really useful tip. Thx!!! On 5/15/07, Dominik Waßenhoven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Daniel Lohmann schrieb: > Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still "draw" tables with Word or > Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document... There's a tool that could

[SOLVED] Re: using pdflatex with pagebackref option

Richard Heck schrieb: It's just a guess at the moment, but I expect that there's something problematic on one of your citation keys that is causing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] macro to expand incorrectly. To debug this, (a) export to LaTeX, (b) run it manually, (c) try to figure out exactly where the

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: > Daniel Lohmann schrieb: > >> Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still "draw" tables with Word or >> Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document... > > There's a tool that could be interesting for you, excel2latex: Yes, I know it. Unfortunately it does

Table layout (was Re: Why Lyx->Word?)

On May 15, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: While I know how to build some table in LyX/LaTeX, I get frequently frustrated when I have to tweak and optimize the layout (individual cell width, border styles, inner-cell margins, fonts, ...) Read Edward Tufte's _The Visual Display of

Re: Lyx with Texlive?

Urtzi Jauregi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > switch to Texlive & LyX, will I find any surprises the evening before I > submit my thesis to press? What are your experiences? TexLive2007 work well for me! Cheers, Sam

Re: Creating a document class

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 04:00, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > >>From: "NicoWinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: , <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Subject: Creating a document class > >>Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 23:36:37 +0200 > >>X-Provags-ID:

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