Heretical question?

2005-08-04 Thread Luis Rivera
Thanks to all who responded to my requests for help to get LyX working. It's now functioning fine... but tex2lyx has problems translating my sample file so... Having looked at Latex stuff a lot over the past few weeks as a Latex newbie, could I ask a (heretical!?) question? Why isn't LyX

Heretical question?

2005-08-04 Thread Luis Rivera
Thanks to all who responded to my requests for help to get LyX working. It's now functioning fine... but tex2lyx has problems translating my sample file so... Having looked at Latex stuff a lot over the past few weeks as a Latex newbie, could I ask a (heretical!?) question? Why isn't LyX

Heretical question?

2005-08-04 Thread Luis Rivera
>Thanks to all who responded to my requests for help to get LyX >working. It's now functioning fine... but tex2lyx has problems >translating my sample file so... > >Having looked at Latex stuff a lot over the past few weeks as a Latex >newbie, could I ask a (heretical!?) quest

Re: Heretical question?

2005-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Wojcik wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I assume you see some advantages to LyX, right? [This is late, but Paul's query doesn't seem to have

Re: Heretical question?

2005-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:00:20PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Michael Wojcik wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I assume you see some advantages to LyX,

Re: Heretical question?

2005-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Wojcik wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I assume you see some advantages to LyX, right? [This is late, but Paul's query doesn't seem to have

Re: Heretical question?

2005-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:00:20PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Michael Wojcik wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I assume you see some advantages to LyX,

Re: Heretical question?

2005-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Wojcik wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I assume you see some advantages to LyX, right? [This is late, but Paul's query doesn't seem to have

Re: Heretical question?

2005-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:00:20PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Michael Wojcik wrote: > >Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > > >>> > >>Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this > >>thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I > >>assume you see some

Re: Heretical question?

2005-08-01 Thread Michael Wojcik
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I assume you see some advantages to LyX, right? [This is late, but Paul's query doesn't seem to have garnered much response.] One

Re: Heretical question?

2005-08-01 Thread Michael Wojcik
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I assume you see some advantages to LyX, right? [This is late, but Paul's query doesn't seem to have garnered much response.] One

Re: Heretical question?

2005-08-01 Thread Michael Wojcik
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I assume you see some advantages to LyX, right? [This is late, but Paul's query doesn't seem to have garnered much response.] One

LyX on www.apple.com (was Re: Heretical question?)

2005-07-26 Thread William F. Adams
On Jul 25, 2005, at 11:35 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: William == William F Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William John's is much better though and should be enshrined in an William FAQ or advocacy document or something. What about making a

LyX on www.apple.com (was Re: Heretical question?)

2005-07-26 Thread William F. Adams
On Jul 25, 2005, at 11:35 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: William == William F Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William John's is much better though and should be enshrined in an William FAQ or advocacy document or something. What about making a

LyX on www.apple.com (was Re: Heretical question?)

2005-07-26 Thread William F. Adams
On Jul 25, 2005, at 11:35 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "William" == William F Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: William> John's is much better though and should be enshrined in an William> FAQ or advocacy document or something. What about

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
John == John O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Sorry I didnot notice the reply-to was not the list. I did not notice at the time that this answer only went to me. It was a pity, since I really enjoyed reading it :) JMarc

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread William F. Adams
On Jul 24, 2005, at 9:26 PM, John O'Gorman wrote: snip excellent discussion of my WYSIWYM is a good view All of the above makes it easier to use LyX. You focus entirely on content. FWIW, I made a similar explanation in the Practical TeX on-line journal recently:

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
William == William F Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William John's is much better though and should be enshrined in an William FAQ or advocacy document or something. What about making a page on the wiki? JMarc

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread chr
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: William == William F Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William John's is much better though and should be enshrined in an William FAQ or advocacy document or something. What about making a page on the wiki? Sounds like a very good idea.

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
John == John O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Sorry I didnot notice the reply-to was not the list. I did not notice at the time that this answer only went to me. It was a pity, since I really enjoyed reading it :) JMarc

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread William F. Adams
On Jul 24, 2005, at 9:26 PM, John O'Gorman wrote: snip excellent discussion of my WYSIWYM is a good view All of the above makes it easier to use LyX. You focus entirely on content. FWIW, I made a similar explanation in the Practical TeX on-line journal recently:

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
William == William F Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William John's is much better though and should be enshrined in an William FAQ or advocacy document or something. What about making a page on the wiki? JMarc

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread chr
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: William == William F Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William John's is much better though and should be enshrined in an William FAQ or advocacy document or something. What about making a page on the wiki? Sounds like a very good idea.

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "John" == John O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Sorry I didnot notice the reply-to was not the list. I did not notice at the time that this answer only went to me. It was a pity, since I really enjoyed reading it :) JMarc

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread William F. Adams
On Jul 24, 2005, at 9:26 PM, John O'Gorman wrote: excellent discussion of my WYSIWYM is a good view All of the above makes it easier to use LyX. You focus entirely on content. FWIW, I made a similar explanation in the Practical TeX on-line journal recently:

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "William" == William F Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: William> John's is much better though and should be enshrined in an William> FAQ or advocacy document or something. What about making a page on the wiki? JMarc

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-25 Thread chr
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "William" == William F Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > William> John's is much better though and should be enshrined in an > William> FAQ or advocacy document or something. > > What about making a page on the wiki? Sounds like a

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-24 Thread John O'Gorman
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Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-24 Thread John O'Gorman
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Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-24 Thread John O'Gorman
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Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-22 Thread Axel Rasche
Most of the mentioned projects seem to be quite young. Let us see how they develop. What I like about LyX is that standard work (typing, structure, basic figures/floats, bibtex/references) is done by an easy editor (although not completely wysiwyG). At the same time the whole LaTeX world is

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-22 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 22 July 2005 09:33, Axel Rasche wrote: What I like about LyX is that standard work (typing, structure, basic figures/floats, bibtex/references) is done by an easy editor (although not completely wysiwyG). At the same time the whole LaTeX world is open to you. One can add any

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-22 Thread Herbert Voss
Jose' Matos wrote: On Friday 22 July 2005 09:33, Axel Rasche wrote: What I like about LyX is that standard work (typing, structure, basic figures/floats, bibtex/references) is done by an easy editor (although not completely wysiwyG). At the same time the whole LaTeX world is open to you. One

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-22 Thread Axel Rasche
Most of the mentioned projects seem to be quite young. Let us see how they develop. What I like about LyX is that standard work (typing, structure, basic figures/floats, bibtex/references) is done by an easy editor (although not completely wysiwyG). At the same time the whole LaTeX world is

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-22 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 22 July 2005 09:33, Axel Rasche wrote: What I like about LyX is that standard work (typing, structure, basic figures/floats, bibtex/references) is done by an easy editor (although not completely wysiwyG). At the same time the whole LaTeX world is open to you. One can add any

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-22 Thread Herbert Voss
Jose' Matos wrote: On Friday 22 July 2005 09:33, Axel Rasche wrote: What I like about LyX is that standard work (typing, structure, basic figures/floats, bibtex/references) is done by an easy editor (although not completely wysiwyG). At the same time the whole LaTeX world is open to you. One

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-22 Thread Axel Rasche
Most of the mentioned projects seem to be quite young. Let us see how they develop. What I like about LyX is that standard work (typing, structure, basic figures/floats, bibtex/references) is done by an easy editor (although not completely wysiwyG). At the same time the whole LaTeX world is

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-22 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 22 July 2005 09:33, Axel Rasche wrote: > What I like about LyX is that standard work (typing, structure, basic > figures/floats, bibtex/references) is done by an easy editor (although > not completely wysiwyG). At the same time the whole LaTeX world is open > to you. One can add any

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-22 Thread Herbert Voss
Jose' Matos wrote: On Friday 22 July 2005 09:33, Axel Rasche wrote: What I like about LyX is that standard work (typing, structure, basic figures/floats, bibtex/references) is done by an easy editor (although not completely wysiwyG). At the same time the whole LaTeX world is open to you. One

Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Peter Rockett
Thanks to all who responded to my requests for help to get LyX working. It's now functioning fine... but tex2lyx has problems translating my sample file so... Having looked at Latex stuff a lot over the past few weeks as a Latex newbie, could I ask a (heretical!?) question? Why isn't LyX

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Peter Rockett writes: Why isn't LyX (or something else) a fully fledged WYSIWYG word processor? Or a structured document processor, etc. Short answer: if you build it, they'll come -- i.e. someone has to have the time and inclination and skills to do this. In the meantime, it remains what

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Peter Rockett wrote: tex2lyx has problems translating my sample file Then post your sample so that tex2lyx can be improved. Why isn't LyX (or something else) a fully fledged WYSIWYG word processor? Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ -- Angus

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ or (if you're on win) http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ Jürgen

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Juergen == Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Juergen Angus Leeming wrote: Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ Juergen or (if you're on win) Juergen http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ I did not know this one. I guess there is also BaKoMa YeX

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ or (if you're on win) http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ works also with wine under *nix and has an own homepage and is a _real_ wysiwyg TeX

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread samar j. singh
On Thursday 21 July 2005 06:59, Herbert Voss wrote: Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ or (if you're on win) http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ works also with wine under *nix and has an own

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Juergen == Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Juergen Angus Leeming wrote: Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ Juergen or (if you're on win) Juergen http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ I did not know this one.

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Mark Carroll
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I assume you see some advantages to LyX, right? I like it as a LaTeX front-end with a much shallower learning

Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Peter Rockett
Thanks to all who responded to my requests for help to get LyX working. It's now functioning fine... but tex2lyx has problems translating my sample file so... Having looked at Latex stuff a lot over the past few weeks as a Latex newbie, could I ask a (heretical!?) question? Why isn't LyX

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Peter Rockett writes: Why isn't LyX (or something else) a fully fledged WYSIWYG word processor? Or a structured document processor, etc. Short answer: if you build it, they'll come -- i.e. someone has to have the time and inclination and skills to do this. In the meantime, it remains what

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Peter Rockett wrote: tex2lyx has problems translating my sample file Then post your sample so that tex2lyx can be improved. Why isn't LyX (or something else) a fully fledged WYSIWYG word processor? Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ -- Angus

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ or (if you're on win) http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ Jürgen

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Juergen == Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Juergen Angus Leeming wrote: Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ Juergen or (if you're on win) Juergen http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ I did not know this one. I guess there is also BaKoMa YeX

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ or (if you're on win) http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ works also with wine under *nix and has an own homepage and is a _real_ wysiwyg TeX

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread samar j. singh
On Thursday 21 July 2005 06:59, Herbert Voss wrote: Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ or (if you're on win) http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ works also with wine under *nix and has an own

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Juergen == Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Juergen Angus Leeming wrote: Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ Juergen or (if you're on win) Juergen http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ I did not know this one.

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Mark Carroll
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I assume you see some advantages to LyX, right? I like it as a LaTeX front-end with a much shallower learning

Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Peter Rockett
Thanks to all who responded to my requests for help to get LyX working. It's now functioning fine... but tex2lyx has problems translating my sample file so... Having looked at Latex stuff a lot over the past few weeks as a Latex newbie, could I ask a (heretical!?) question? Why isn't LyX

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Peter Rockett writes: > Why isn't LyX (or > something else) a fully fledged WYSIWYG word processor? Or a structured document processor, etc. Short answer: "if you build it, they'll come" -- i.e. someone has to have the time and inclination and skills to do this. In the meantime, it remains

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Peter Rockett wrote: > tex2lyx has problems translating my sample file Then post your sample so that tex2lyx can be improved. > Why isn't LyX (or something else) a fully fledged WYSIWYG word processor? Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ -- Angus

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: > Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ or (if you're on win) http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ Jürgen

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Juergen" == Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juergen> Angus Leeming wrote: >> Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ Juergen> or (if you're on win) Juergen> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ I did not know this one. I guess there is

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ or (if you're on win) http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ works also with wine under *nix and has an own homepage and is a _real_ wysiwyg TeX

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread samar j. singh
On Thursday 21 July 2005 06:59, Herbert Voss wrote: > Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > > Angus Leeming wrote: > >>Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ > > > > or (if you're on win) > > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ > > works also with wine under *nix and has

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Juergen" == Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juergen> Angus Leeming wrote: Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ Juergen> or (if you're on win) Juergen> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ I did not know

Re: Heretical question?

2005-07-21 Thread Mark Carroll
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this > thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I > assume you see some advantages to LyX, right? I like it as a LaTeX front-end with a much shallower