Re: Preamble header issues

2021-10-09 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Rich, you need to figure out a way of updating KOMA Script to the latest version (the versions coming with the linux distributions are years behind). And if that doesn't work you need to post a MWE here, and I mean MINIMAL :-)-O el On 2021-10-08 22:06 , Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 8 Oct 20

Re: Preamble header issues

2021-10-09 Thread Herbert Voss
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> Ah, they are difficult to distinguish with the light typeface stroke >> on a white background.  It was the \usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}; >> fixing that did not resolve the problem of pdflatex not finding that >> .sty file. > > Now I'm back to these

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-09 Thread Steve Litt
Alan Tyree said on Fri, 8 Oct 2021 12:44:22 +1100 >I know that this is preaching to the choir here, but I wondered if >anyone had a strategy that convinced others to work with styles. Have them write a book without styles, then show them what styles do for them, and they'll use styles for the res

Re: Preamble header issues

2021-10-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 9 Oct 2021, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: you need to figure out a way of updating KOMA Script to the latest version (the versions coming with the linux distributions are years behind). EL, Installed here are texlive-2020.200608-x86_64-2_SBo texlive-extra-2020.200608-x86_64-1_SBo These

Re: Preamble header issues

2021-10-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 9 Oct 2021, Herbert Voss wrote: the default pagestyle is plain, not default. Herbert, Oh. I changed it to plain. headsepline=on should appear as option and not command! \documentclass[headsepline=on,...]{scrartcl} Both headsspline and footsepline are commented out in the preamble.

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-09 Thread Alan Tyree
Oh, Steve, how I wish that were true! What really happens is that they see a word they would like to emphasise, so they use direct formatting to do it. No need to use a style when you only want to change one word, right? Then another word. Then a paragraph. And this one page should be different f

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 10 Oct 2021, Alan Tyree wrote: Pretty soon you have 15 different fonts on every page, because if you give these people 15 fonts, they will use them all. Alan, In the 1980s when desktop page layout applications came out for DOS many people bought them and advertised themselves as graph

Re: Preamble header issues

2021-10-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 9 Oct 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: See attached. What puzzles me is that pdflatex produces output but also shows errors. And there are no page numbers. Sigh. Error display attached. Rich-- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Preamble header issues

2021-10-09 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Rich, "Only a year" means a lot in computer terms, and not only coma script has been updated significantly in the meantime. Secondly, that was actually not a minimal working example. An MWE reduces ALL additional choices to the defaults, empties out the preamble, one line by one and removes all

Re: Preamble header issues

2021-10-09 Thread Charlie
Dr Eberhard W Lisse informed me regarding: Re: Preamble header issues on Sat, 9 Oct 2021 23:36:30 +0200 > "Only a year" means a lot in computer terms, and not only coma script > has been updated significantly in the meantime. Replied thus: Probably only pointing