2013/10/24 Ken Springe
>
> Not professional ? Right, don't use it then.
>>
>
> Not sure how you feel, so no reply.
He's serious, and so am I: if you want "professional" software and think
LyX is not professional (or if it does not fit your needs for other
reasons), don't use it. Sine ira et studi
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 18:31:48 -0600
Ken Springer wrote:
> On 10/23/13 2:31 PM, Richard Talley wrote:
> > Interesting comments. I too have found small vendors to be much more
> > helpful. Often the developers help with or even do all of the tech
> > support at small vendors. And they actually read
You do seem to have very strong opinions about open-source, and demand very
high standards. Would you care to tell us how many open-source projects
have you created or at least been an active developer in?
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
> I do, but that's no excuse for bei
Hi, Jürgen,
Interspersed reply...
On 10/24/13 1:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
2013/10/24 Ken Springe
Not professional ? Right, don't use it then.
Not sure how you feel, so no reply.
He's serious, and so am I: if you want "professional" software and think
LyX is not profession
24/10/2013 15:59, Ken Springer:
There is also the segment of the open source area where they actively
ask you to file bugs that can be fixed. Then the bugs just sit there,
never getting fixed. If you aren't going to actively fix the bugs, then
don't ask for help in identifying those bugs. This
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
> Hi, Jürgen,
>
> Interspersed reply...
>
>
> On 10/24/13 1:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
>
>> 2013/10/24 Ken Springe
>>
>> Not professional ? Right, don't use it then.
>>
>>
>> Not sure how you feel, so no reply.
>>
>> He's seri
On 10/24/13 4:38 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 18:31:48 -0600
Ken Springer wrote:
On 10/23/13 2:31 PM, Richard Talley wrote:
Interesting comments. I too have found small vendors to be much more
helpful. Often the developers help with or even do all of the tech
support at small ven
On 2013-10-23, Richard Talley wrote:
...
> Run the example that comes with LyX. Note in example says, 'The moderncv
> class offers lots of customization possibilities; some are explained in the
> preamble of this document; for more information look at the documentation
> of the LaTeX-package mode
On 24/10/2013 07:32, Richard Talley wrote:
> I've read good things about Scrivener. It's more a 'book project
> management' program than a word processor. I know some people use it for
> everything until it's time to print, then they export to LaTeX. Good
> luck with it.
A somewhat close analog to
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Ken Springer wrote:
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> I can't speak for Rich, but it was not my intent to leave an impression of
> "mass exodus". Just my pulling back from the potential promise I saw that
> open source has, but IMO is not doing a good job of meeting. I think
> Canonical is
I appreciate the useful links. Thanks.
-- Rich
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
> On 2013-10-23, Richard Talley wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > Run the example that comes with LyX. Note in example says, 'The moderncv
> > class offers lots of customization possibilities; some are exp
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:32:55 -0600
Ken Springer wrote:
> Product support, customer service, in general, sucks. Online,
> offline, commercial, open source, just about everywhere. For
> software these days, you are supposed to join a forum. If I went
> back through all my forum posts asking for
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Walter van Holst
wrote:
> On 24/10/2013 07:32, Richard Talley wrote:
>> I've read good things about Scrivener. It's more a 'book project
>> management' program than a word processor. I know some people use it for
>> everything until it's time to print, then they ex
On 25/10/2013 3:32 a.m., Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
I cannot speak for other free (as in freedom) software, but the deal is
simple: programmers do what they can and scratch their own itches,
either because they need a feature or they want to implement it, and
users do what they want and scrat
On 10/25/2013 05:32 AM, Ken Springer
wrote:
We know your argument. Seriously, We've heard it everywhere all the
time...end-less-ly. Everybody wishes that their software was robust
with magic documentation and free specialists that will fix your
On 10/24/13 9:03 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Ken Springer mailto:snowsh...@q.com>> wrote:
Hi, Jürgen,
Interspersed reply...
On 10/24/13 1:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
2013/10/24 Ken Springe
Not professional ? R
I'm not a programmer, learned many years ago that is not for me. But I
did contribute, for free, to writing the help files of a commercial
program for a platform now long gone.
But, as I wrote in news://news.gmane.org:119/l4bi37$vh$1...@ger.gmane.org,
if I help by reporting bugs I find in a p
On 10/24/13 11:35 AM, Walter van Holst wrote:
On 24/10/2013 07:32, Richard Talley wrote:
I've read good things about Scrivener. It's more a 'book project
management' program than a word processor. I know some people use it for
everything until it's time to print, then they export to LaTeX. Good
On 10/24/13 5:13 PM, Bryan Baldwin wrote:
On 10/25/2013 05:32 AM, Ken Springer wrote:
We know your argument. Seriously, We've heard it everywhere all the
time...end-less-ly. Everybody wishes that their software was robust with
magic documentation and free specialists that will fix your problem
On 10/24/13 12:55 PM, Richard Talley wrote:
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Ken Springer mailto:snowsh...@q.com>> wrote:
I can't speak for Rich, but it was not my intent to leave an
impression of "mass exodus". Just my pulling back from the
potential promise I saw that open so
On 10/24/13 8:32 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
24/10/2013 15:59, Ken Springer:
There is also the segment of the open source area where they actively
ask you to file bugs that can be fixed. Then the bugs just sit there,
never getting fixed. If you aren't going to actively fix the bugs, then
d
LyX folk,
I upgraded my MacBook Pro to Mavericks a couple days ago and have encountered
no problems whatever except that LyX 2.1 beta 1 is now regularly crashing on a
large file I’m working on, and in a rather catastrophic way, as it truncates
the 390k file I’m working on down to around 150k. F
Hi Chris,
You might be running into a nasty threading-related bug. A big one was
just fixed (but after 2.1 beta 1):
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8854
Hopefully the thread-safety related improvements regarding that bug
will address the bug you're fighting with as well.
beta 2 should be out soon
Thanks for the quick response, Scott. I await beta 2 with beta’d breath! :-D
One question: I’m not sure what you mean by “exporting from the command line”.
Do you mean exporting the .lyx file to a .tex file? Sorry if that’s dense.
-chris
On October 24, 2013 at 7:58:39 PM, Scott Kostyshak (skost
I just reread and saw the crashing part of your email. I thought the
problem was only when you were exporting. In that case, exporting from
the command line will not help. But just for reference, you can export
your .lyx file to a pdf with
lyx -e pdf2 yourlyxfile.lyx
Scott
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013
On 10/25/2013 01:29 PM, Ken Springer
wrote:
On
10/24/13 5:13 PM, Bryan Baldwin wrote:
On 10/25/2013 05:32 AM, Ken Springer
wrote:
We know your argument. Seriously, We've heard it everywhere all
On 10/24/13 1:27 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:32:55 -0600
Ken Springer wrote:
Product support, customer service, in general, sucks. Online,
offline, commercial, open source, just about everywhere. For
software these days, you are supposed to join a forum. If I went
back thro
Hello to all,
I have been a Lyx user for a year or so and regarded
this Group as place to find help. I am saddened to see it descend
into a slanging session.
I quit,
Gordon
New Zealand
gordon_cooper writes:
> Hello to all,
> I have been a Lyx user for a year or so and regarded
> this Group as place to find help. I am saddened to see it descend
> into a slanging session.
>
> I quit,
> Gordon
> New Zealand
Don't let one bad thread drive you away, Gordon. Mos
Yes, please don't leave.
You can always just ignore the thread that you consider a 'slanging
session' - just delete them unread. ;o)
I'm not sorry I triggered the thread in question - less heat and more
discussion than I've seen elsewhere.
Some days I just hate computers, and I let it show. Don'
On 10/25/2013 04:55 PM, gordon_cooper
wrote:
I quit
I thought the very same thing, except 99% of the time the LYX list
has interesting news, is genuinely helpful, and quitting only would
only be a punishment to myself because the <1% hurt my delicate
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Alan L Tyree wrote:
>
> gordon_cooper writes:
>
>> Hello to all,
>> I have been a Lyx user for a year or so and regarded
>> this Group as place to find help. I am saddened to see it descend
>> into a slanging session.
>>
>> I quit,
>> Gordon
>>
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