Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Areas I would particularly like comments about are the following: Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record documents" (read it - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118 page thesis? Anyone write a proposal for more than $1 M (US)? etc. My colleague just finished a thesis with 260 pages in a single LyX-document. My thesis at 217 pages now but I'm using include-files now. Section 1.4 - Looking for machines/OS's known to run LyX. I use RedHat Linux 6.0 and Sun Solaris 2.6. I know there are a ton of others, including OS/2 and Windows - what are they and what special things (if any) do they need? Solaris 2.7 and HP-UX compilied without any problems. Of cource you need to specify xforms- and xpm-librarypaths for the configure skript. In our configuration we try to make a multi-platform installation so that Linux, Solaris and HP-UX share the platform independent files. However, reconfigure is now working only on HP-UX, as the configure-script is not platform independent enough in finding the LaTeX-distribution (ie. uses absolute paths). Well, this is true at least for 1.04, we haven't tried newer versions. Best regards, -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Kimmo Koli Helsinki University of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electronic Circuit Design Laboratory http://www.ecdl.hut.fi/~kimmo P.O.Box 3000 Tel: +358 9 451 2273 FIN-02015 HUT Fax: +358 9 451 2269 Finland =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:09:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record documents" (read it - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118 page thesis? Anyone write a proposal for more than $1 M (US)? etc. My lecture notes "Gravity field of the Earth" are 133 pages (Book class) with 27 figures. In (poor) Finnish. No problem for either LyX nor LaTeX, but a bit slow on a 486 at 33 MHz. Then there is the Proceedings of the Second Continental Workshop on the Geoid in Europe, (Finnish Geodetic Institute Report 98:4), 292 pages, most of which passed through LyX. But not as a single doc so it doesn't count. Yet, I wonder if it is the largest published single effort using LyX. [...] Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin -- Martin Vermeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +358 9 295 55 215 Fax +358 9 295 55 200 Finnish Geodetic InstituteGeodeetinrinne 2FIN-02430 Masala FINLAND :wq
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
Martin Vermeer writes: Then there is the Proceedings of the Second Continental Workshop on the Geoid in Europe, (Finnish Geodetic Institute Report 98:4), 292 pages, most of which passed through LyX. But not as a single doc so it doesn't count. Yet, I wonder if it is the largest published single effort using LyX. I've completed an 836 page novel in LyX. There are 30 included chapters. It is still with my agent, so not yet in the category of `largest published single effort using LyX.' But I have a 400+ page novel coming out in September that was done with LyX. -- Ronald Florence http://members.home.net/18james
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:09:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record documents" (read it - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118 page thesis? Anyone write a proposal for more than $1 M (US)? etc. chaos and fractals, bookstyle 362 pages with 207 images, 27 tables and a lot of math stuff. printing one page, e.g. 182, takes about 20 minutes with winword8.0 in fact of the complicated formating process and 4 minutes with lyx! anyway, for one page and ???page only lyx! Herbert :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/voss
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Martin Vermeer wrote: | | On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:09:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | [...] | | Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record documents" (read it | - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118 page thesis? | Anyone write a proposal for more than $1 M (US)? etc. | | chaos and fractals, bookstyle | 362 pages with 207 images, 27 tables and a lot of math stuff. | | printing one page, e.g. 182, takes about 20 minutes with winword8.0 | in fact of the complicated formating process and 4 minutes with lyx! I'd really like to see ISBN numbers for published books/papers etc. Would be nice to have in the FAQ and on the WWW site. Lgb
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
Lars Gullik Bjønnes writes: No, use the copyright symbol directly or write it out - "Copyright", the strange thingie paranthesis-C-paranthesis have noe meaning legally. (it just looks kindo similar to the copyright symbol). Actually, under the Bern Convention, which governs copyright in the US, most of Western Europe, and Latin America, any statement that indicates `ownership' of the work is equally valid. Using the word copyright of the © symbol are traditional, and may be more readily recognized as symbols of ownership by a reader, but they have no legal significance. -- Ronald Florence http://members.home.net/18james
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
"Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oops! I sent the message by mistake. I have more complaints... Jean-Marc * 6.5: what's wrong with "math-insert root" (M-m r)? * 8.1: explicitely point to the Tutorial as minimum reading. * 9.4: why don't you want to use the nice math-text-mode feature that you just described to enter units? * 9.4: you could maybe use directly © for copyright. If you think this will be bad for our non-western countries readers, use (C). That's all for now. JMarc
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
"Kimmo" == Kimmo Koli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kimmo In our configuration we try to make a multi-platform Kimmo installation so that Linux, Solaris and HP-UX share the Kimmo platform independent files. However, reconfigure is now working Kimmo only on HP-UX, as the configure-script is not platform Kimmo independent enough in finding the LaTeX-distribution (ie. uses Kimmo absolute paths). Well, this is true at least for 1.04, we Kimmo haven't tried newer versions. Could you elaborate? JMarc
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just placed "Version 0.3.0pre0.build000, Alpha" of the LyX FAQ into the lyxdoc CVS module. It's not "finished" by any stretch, but I wanted people to have a chance to see it and offer comments before it gets too much bigger. The format is loosely based on the Linux FAQ. I did have a look at version 0.2.2 of the LyX FAQ, but it actually isn't very relevant anymore (good news, not bad!). It is a simple LyX document; hopefully it won't be too hard to export it as a decent looking HTML file. Also, I didn't write this with too straight a face (see 9.4 Disclaimer and Copyright for an example, amongst many). If this tone doesn't sit well with you, let me know and I'll tame it down a bit. Areas I would particularly like comments about are the following: Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record documents" (read it - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118 page thesis? Anyone write a proposal for more than $1 M (US)? etc. i wrote a ~300 pages document... the latex FAQ en french from the Text version from fr.comp.text.tex (you can have it on my homepage ) without problems, and with a heavy latex preamble (several included packages) Section 1.4 - Looking for machines/OS's known to run LyX. I use RedHat Linux 6.0 and Sun Solaris 2.6. I know there are a ton of others, including OS/2 and Windows - what are they and what special things (if any) do they need? I compiled and ran LyX 1.1.4 on a Sparc IPX sun station with RH 6.0 and on an Alpha ev6 under OSF1 flore V4.0 1091 alpha Ian -- "Y faut liiirrreee, Arlequin, Champion de l'amou" Dany Boon --- (Yann MORERE mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ) (Doctorant Automatique http://www.multimania.com/ymorere/ )
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
On 7 Apr 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Kimmo" == Kimmo Koli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kimmo In our configuration we try to make a multi-platform Kimmo installation so that Linux, Solaris and HP-UX share the Kimmo platform independent files. However, reconfigure is now working Kimmo only on HP-UX, as the configure-script is not platform Kimmo independent enough in finding the LaTeX-distribution (ie. uses Kimmo absolute paths). Well, this is true at least for 1.04, we Kimmo haven't tried newer versions. Could you elaborate? The Reconfigure in the Options-menu reruns the configure-script if I understand corrently. And this script seems to need the LaTeX binary path defined inside the script. So the start of the script is: --- #! /bin/sh # This script is a hand-made configure script. It contains a lot of # code stolen from GNU autoconf. I removed all the code that was not # useful for configuring a LyX installation. PATH=/prog/teTeX/bin/hppa1.1-hpux10:$PATH export PATH --- The default shell for user is tcsh and because we have "too many" applications in our system, we don't place all applications in the shell default search path but use a separate command to set the correct paths and enviroment variables only when required. So before starting LyX we issue a command "use lyx" which sets LyX and LaTeX paths. So although the paths are correctly set for LyX somehow the configure-script seem to get the plain path. Of cource we could add some architecture sensing into the script but as LyX gets updated quite often we would want to keep the amount of manually edited files to a minimum. Best regards, -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Kimmo Koli Helsinki University of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electronic Circuit Design Laboratory http://www.ecdl.hut.fi/~kimmo P.O.Box 3000 Tel: +358 9 451 2273 FIN-02015 HUT Fax: +358 9 451 2269 Finland =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 11:05:34AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: * 5: explain what the LaTeX preamble is. Note maybe that ERT and preamble work for SGML too (am I right wrt the preamble?). Both (ert and preamble) work with linuxdoc and docbook! -- José
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Areas I would particularly like comments about are the following: Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record documents" (read it - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118 page thesis? Anyone write a proposal for more than $1 M (US)? etc. My colleague just finished a thesis with 260 pages in a single LyX-document. My thesis at 217 pages now but I'm using include-files now. Section 1.4 - Looking for machines/OS's known to run LyX. I use RedHat Linux 6.0 and Sun Solaris 2.6. I know there are a ton of others, including OS/2 and Windows - what are they and what special things (if any) do they need? Solaris 2.7 and HP-UX compilied without any problems. Of cource you need to specify xforms- and xpm-librarypaths for the configure skript. In our configuration we try to make a multi-platform installation so that Linux, Solaris and HP-UX share the platform independent files. However, reconfigure is now working only on HP-UX, as the configure-script is not platform independent enough in finding the LaTeX-distribution (ie. uses absolute paths). Well, this is true at least for 1.04, we haven't tried newer versions. Best regards, -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Kimmo Koli Helsinki University of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electronic Circuit Design Laboratory http://www.ecdl.hut.fi/~kimmo P.O.Box 3000 Tel: +358 9 451 2273 FIN-02015 HUT Fax: +358 9 451 2269 Finland =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:09:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record documents" (read it - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118 page thesis? Anyone write a proposal for more than $1 M (US)? etc. My lecture notes "Gravity field of the Earth" are 133 pages (Book class) with 27 figures. In (poor) Finnish. No problem for either LyX nor LaTeX, but a bit slow on a 486 at 33 MHz. Then there is the Proceedings of the Second Continental Workshop on the Geoid in Europe, (Finnish Geodetic Institute Report 98:4), 292 pages, most of which passed through LyX. But not as a single doc so it doesn't count. Yet, I wonder if it is the largest published single effort using LyX. [...] Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin -- Martin Vermeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +358 9 295 55 215 Fax +358 9 295 55 200 Finnish Geodetic InstituteGeodeetinrinne 2FIN-02430 Masala FINLAND :wq
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
Martin Vermeer writes: Then there is the Proceedings of the Second Continental Workshop on the Geoid in Europe, (Finnish Geodetic Institute Report 98:4), 292 pages, most of which passed through LyX. But not as a single doc so it doesn't count. Yet, I wonder if it is the largest published single effort using LyX. I've completed an 836 page novel in LyX. There are 30 included chapters. It is still with my agent, so not yet in the category of `largest published single effort using LyX.' But I have a 400+ page novel coming out in September that was done with LyX. -- Ronald Florence http://members.home.net/18james
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:09:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record documents" (read it - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118 page thesis? Anyone write a proposal for more than $1 M (US)? etc. chaos and fractals, bookstyle 362 pages with 207 images, 27 tables and a lot of math stuff. printing one page, e.g. 182, takes about 20 minutes with winword8.0 in fact of the complicated formating process and 4 minutes with lyx! anyway, for one page and ???page only lyx! Herbert :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/voss
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Martin Vermeer wrote: | | On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:09:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | [...] | | Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record documents" (read it | - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118 page thesis? | Anyone write a proposal for more than $1 M (US)? etc. | | chaos and fractals, bookstyle | 362 pages with 207 images, 27 tables and a lot of math stuff. | | printing one page, e.g. 182, takes about 20 minutes with winword8.0 | in fact of the complicated formating process and 4 minutes with lyx! I'd really like to see ISBN numbers for published books/papers etc. Would be nice to have in the FAQ and on the WWW site. Lgb
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
Lars Gullik Bjønnes writes: No, use the copyright symbol directly or write it out - "Copyright", the strange thingie paranthesis-C-paranthesis have noe meaning legally. (it just looks kindo similar to the copyright symbol). Actually, under the Bern Convention, which governs copyright in the US, most of Western Europe, and Latin America, any statement that indicates `ownership' of the work is equally valid. Using the word copyright of the © symbol are traditional, and may be more readily recognized as symbols of ownership by a reader, but they have no legal significance. -- Ronald Florence http://members.home.net/18james
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
"Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oops! I sent the message by mistake. I have more complaints... Jean-Marc * 6.5: what's wrong with "math-insert root" (M-m r)? * 8.1: explicitely point to the Tutorial as minimum reading. * 9.4: why don't you want to use the nice math-text-mode feature that you just described to enter units? * 9.4: you could maybe use directly © for copyright. If you think this will be bad for our non-western countries readers, use (C). That's all for now. JMarc
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
"Kimmo" == Kimmo Koli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kimmo In our configuration we try to make a multi-platform Kimmo installation so that Linux, Solaris and HP-UX share the Kimmo platform independent files. However, reconfigure is now working Kimmo only on HP-UX, as the configure-script is not platform Kimmo independent enough in finding the LaTeX-distribution (ie. uses Kimmo absolute paths). Well, this is true at least for 1.04, we Kimmo haven't tried newer versions. Could you elaborate? JMarc
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just placed "Version 0.3.0pre0.build000, Alpha" of the LyX FAQ into the lyxdoc CVS module. It's not "finished" by any stretch, but I wanted people to have a chance to see it and offer comments before it gets too much bigger. The format is loosely based on the Linux FAQ. I did have a look at version 0.2.2 of the LyX FAQ, but it actually isn't very relevant anymore (good news, not bad!). It is a simple LyX document; hopefully it won't be too hard to export it as a decent looking HTML file. Also, I didn't write this with too straight a face (see 9.4 Disclaimer and Copyright for an example, amongst many). If this tone doesn't sit well with you, let me know and I'll tame it down a bit. Areas I would particularly like comments about are the following: Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record documents" (read it - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118 page thesis? Anyone write a proposal for more than $1 M (US)? etc. i wrote a ~300 pages document... the latex FAQ en french from the Text version from fr.comp.text.tex (you can have it on my homepage ) without problems, and with a heavy latex preamble (several included packages) Section 1.4 - Looking for machines/OS's known to run LyX. I use RedHat Linux 6.0 and Sun Solaris 2.6. I know there are a ton of others, including OS/2 and Windows - what are they and what special things (if any) do they need? I compiled and ran LyX 1.1.4 on a Sparc IPX sun station with RH 6.0 and on an Alpha ev6 under OSF1 flore V4.0 1091 alpha Ian -- "Y faut liiirrreee, Arlequin, Champion de l'amou" Dany Boon --- (Yann MORERE mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ) (Doctorant Automatique http://www.multimania.com/ymorere/ )
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
On 7 Apr 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Kimmo" == Kimmo Koli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kimmo In our configuration we try to make a multi-platform Kimmo installation so that Linux, Solaris and HP-UX share the Kimmo platform independent files. However, reconfigure is now working Kimmo only on HP-UX, as the configure-script is not platform Kimmo independent enough in finding the LaTeX-distribution (ie. uses Kimmo absolute paths). Well, this is true at least for 1.04, we Kimmo haven't tried newer versions. Could you elaborate? The Reconfigure in the Options-menu reruns the configure-script if I understand corrently. And this script seems to need the LaTeX binary path defined inside the script. So the start of the script is: --- #! /bin/sh # This script is a hand-made configure script. It contains a lot of # code stolen from GNU autoconf. I removed all the code that was not # useful for configuring a LyX installation. PATH=/prog/teTeX/bin/hppa1.1-hpux10:$PATH export PATH --- The default shell for user is tcsh and because we have "too many" applications in our system, we don't place all applications in the shell default search path but use a separate command to set the correct paths and enviroment variables only when required. So before starting LyX we issue a command "use lyx" which sets LyX and LaTeX paths. So although the paths are correctly set for LyX somehow the configure-script seem to get the plain path. Of cource we could add some architecture sensing into the script but as LyX gets updated quite often we would want to keep the amount of manually edited files to a minimum. Best regards, -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Kimmo Koli Helsinki University of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electronic Circuit Design Laboratory http://www.ecdl.hut.fi/~kimmo P.O.Box 3000 Tel: +358 9 451 2273 FIN-02015 HUT Fax: +358 9 451 2269 Finland =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 11:05:34AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: * 5: explain what the LaTeX preamble is. Note maybe that ERT and preamble work for SGML too (am I right wrt the preamble?). Both (ert and preamble) work with linuxdoc and docbook! -- José
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Areas I would particularly like comments about are the following: > > Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record documents" (read it > - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118 page thesis? > Anyone write a proposal for more than $1 M (US)? etc. My colleague just finished a thesis with 260 pages in a single LyX-document. My thesis at 217 pages now but I'm using include-files now. > > Section 1.4 - Looking for machines/OS's known to run LyX. I use RedHat > Linux 6.0 and Sun Solaris 2.6. I know there are a ton of others, > including OS/2 and Windows - what are they and what special things > (if any) do they need? Solaris 2.7 and HP-UX compilied without any problems. Of cource you need to specify xforms- and xpm-librarypaths for the configure skript. In our configuration we try to make a multi-platform installation so that Linux, Solaris and HP-UX share the platform independent files. However, reconfigure is now working only on HP-UX, as the configure-script is not platform independent enough in finding the LaTeX-distribution (ie. uses absolute paths). Well, this is true at least for 1.04, we haven't tried newer versions. Best regards, -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Kimmo Koli Helsinki University of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electronic Circuit Design Laboratory http://www.ecdl.hut.fi/~kimmo P.O.Box 3000 Tel: +358 9 451 2273 FIN-02015 HUT Fax: +358 9 451 2269 Finland =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:09:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record documents" (read it > - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118 page thesis? > Anyone write a proposal for more than $1 M (US)? etc. My lecture notes "Gravity field of the Earth" are 133 pages (Book class) with 27 figures. In (poor) Finnish. No problem for either LyX nor LaTeX, but a bit slow on a 486 at 33 MHz. Then there is the Proceedings of the Second Continental Workshop on the Geoid in Europe, (Finnish Geodetic Institute Report 98:4), 292 pages, most of which passed through LyX. But not as a single doc so it doesn't count. Yet, I wonder if it is the largest published single effort using LyX. [...] > Mike > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Martin -- Martin Vermeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +358 9 295 55 215 Fax +358 9 295 55 200 Finnish Geodetic InstituteGeodeetinrinne 2FIN-02430 Masala FINLAND :wq
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
Martin Vermeer writes: Then there is the Proceedings of the Second Continental Workshop on the Geoid in Europe, (Finnish Geodetic Institute Report 98:4), 292 pages, most of which passed through LyX. But not as a single doc so it doesn't count. Yet, I wonder if it is the largest published single effort using LyX. I've completed an 836 page novel in LyX. There are 30 included chapters. It is still with my agent, so not yet in the category of `largest published single effort using LyX.' But I have a 400+ page novel coming out in September that was done with LyX. -- Ronald Florence http://members.home.net/18james
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
Martin Vermeer wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:09:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [...] > > > Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record documents" (read it > > - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118 page thesis? > > Anyone write a proposal for more than $1 M (US)? etc. chaos and fractals, bookstyle 362 pages with 207 images, 27 tables and a lot of math stuff. printing one page, e.g. 182, takes about 20 minutes with winword8.0 in fact of the complicated formating process and 4 minutes with lyx! anyway, for one page and ???page only lyx! Herbert :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/voss
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Martin Vermeer wrote: | > | > On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:09:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > | > [...] | > | > > Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record documents" (read it | > > - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118 page thesis? | > > Anyone write a proposal for more than $1 M (US)? etc. | | chaos and fractals, bookstyle | 362 pages with 207 images, 27 tables and a lot of math stuff. | | printing one page, e.g. 182, takes about 20 minutes with winword8.0 | in fact of the complicated formating process and 4 minutes with lyx! I'd really like to see ISBN numbers for published books/papers etc. Would be nice to have in the FAQ and on the WWW site. Lgb
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
Lars Gullik Bjønnes writes: No, use the copyright symbol directly or write it out -> "Copyright", the strange thingie paranthesis-C-paranthesis have noe meaning legally. (it just looks kindo similar to the copyright symbol). Actually, under the Bern Convention, which governs copyright in the US, most of Western Europe, and Latin America, any statement that indicates `ownership' of the work is equally valid. Using the word copyright of the © symbol are traditional, and may be more readily recognized as symbols of ownership by a reader, but they have no legal significance. -- Ronald Florence http://members.home.net/18james
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
> "Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Oops! I sent the message by mistake. I have more complaints... Jean-Marc> * 6.5: what's wrong with "math-insert root" (M-m r)? * 8.1: explicitely point to the Tutorial as minimum reading. * 9.4: why don't you want to use the nice math-text-mode feature that you just described to enter units? * 9.4: you could maybe use directly © for copyright. If you think this will be bad for our non-western countries readers, use (C). That's all for now. JMarc
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
> "Kimmo" == Kimmo Koli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kimmo> In our configuration we try to make a multi-platform Kimmo> installation so that Linux, Solaris and HP-UX share the Kimmo> platform independent files. However, reconfigure is now working Kimmo> only on HP-UX, as the configure-script is not platform Kimmo> independent enough in finding the LaTeX-distribution (ie. uses Kimmo> absolute paths). Well, this is true at least for 1.04, we Kimmo> haven't tried newer versions. Could you elaborate? JMarc
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have just placed "Version 0.3.0pre0.build000, Alpha" of the LyX FAQ into > the lyxdoc CVS module. It's not "finished" by any stretch, but I wanted > people to have a chance to see it and offer comments before it gets too > much bigger. > > The format is loosely based on the Linux FAQ. I did have a look at version > 0.2.2 of the LyX FAQ, but it actually isn't very relevant anymore (good > news, not bad!). It is a simple LyX document; hopefully it won't be too > hard to export it as a decent looking HTML file. Also, I didn't write this > with too straight a face (see 9.4 Disclaimer and Copyright for an example, > amongst many). If this tone doesn't sit well with you, let me know and I'll > tame it down a bit. > > Areas I would particularly like comments about are the following: > > Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record documents" (read it > - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118 page thesis? > Anyone write a proposal for more than $1 M (US)? etc. i wrote a ~300 pages document... the latex FAQ en french from the Text version from fr.comp.text.tex (you can have it on my homepage ) without problems, and with a heavy latex preamble (several included packages) > Section 1.4 - Looking for machines/OS's known to run LyX. I use RedHat > Linux 6.0 and Sun Solaris 2.6. I know there are a ton of others, > including OS/2 and Windows - what are they and what special things > (if any) do they need? I compiled and ran LyX 1.1.4 on a Sparc IPX sun station with RH 6.0 and on an Alpha ev6 under OSF1 flore V4.0 1091 alpha Ian -- "Y faut liiirrreee, Arlequin, Champion de l'amou" Dany Boon --- (Yann MORERE mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ) (Doctorant Automatique http://www.multimania.com/ymorere/ )
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
On 7 Apr 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Kimmo" == Kimmo Koli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Kimmo> In our configuration we try to make a multi-platform > Kimmo> installation so that Linux, Solaris and HP-UX share the > Kimmo> platform independent files. However, reconfigure is now working > Kimmo> only on HP-UX, as the configure-script is not platform > Kimmo> independent enough in finding the LaTeX-distribution (ie. uses > Kimmo> absolute paths). Well, this is true at least for 1.04, we > Kimmo> haven't tried newer versions. > > Could you elaborate? The Reconfigure in the Options-menu reruns the configure-script if I understand corrently. And this script seems to need the LaTeX binary path defined inside the script. So the start of the script is: --- #! /bin/sh # This script is a hand-made configure script. It contains a lot of # code stolen from GNU autoconf. I removed all the code that was not # useful for configuring a LyX installation. PATH=/prog/teTeX/bin/hppa1.1-hpux10:$PATH export PATH --- The default shell for user is tcsh and because we have "too many" applications in our system, we don't place all applications in the shell default search path but use a separate command to set the correct paths and enviroment variables only when required. So before starting LyX we issue a command "use lyx" which sets LyX and LaTeX paths. So although the paths are correctly set for LyX somehow the configure-script seem to get the plain path. Of cource we could add some architecture sensing into the script but as LyX gets updated quite often we would want to keep the amount of manually edited files to a minimum. Best regards, -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Kimmo Koli Helsinki University of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electronic Circuit Design Laboratory http://www.ecdl.hut.fi/~kimmo P.O.Box 3000 Tel: +358 9 451 2273 FIN-02015 HUT Fax: +358 9 451 2269 Finland =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 11:05:34AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > * 5: explain what the LaTeX preamble is. Note maybe that ERT and > preamble work for SGML too (am I right wrt the preamble?). Both (ert and preamble) work with linuxdoc and docbook! -- José
RE: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record
documents" (read it
- you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118
page thesis?
Anyone write a proposal for more than $1 M (US)? etc.
I'm within a hair's breadth of importing a 500 page book into LyX, right
after I get my Linux setup working again (computer upgrade destroyed it).
It's a different question whether I'll be staying with it -- I'll have to
see whether it works the way I need.
This is a notebook for a seminar; I need book-style binding (facing pages),
very wide inside margin (to accomodate user notes as well as my own margin
notes), margin notes which always appear on the inside margins, and
underlines to allow me to provide stuff for seminar attendees to fill in
("When about to ask a question, you should demand that students
their hand").
So far I've yet to find any word processor which comes close; GeoWrite
(http://www.newdeal.com) comes the closest, but it only runs under DOS, and
doesn't support tables. LyX is so cool in so many other ways I may wind up
using it for other purposes anyhow, but it would sure be cool if it could
handle all of these things as well.
Mike
-Billy
RE: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record
documents" (read it
- you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118
page thesis?
Anyone write a proposal for more than $1 M (US)? etc.
I'm within a hair's breadth of importing a 500 page book into LyX, right
after I get my Linux setup working again (computer upgrade destroyed it).
It's a different question whether I'll be staying with it -- I'll have to
see whether it works the way I need.
This is a notebook for a seminar; I need book-style binding (facing pages),
very wide inside margin (to accomodate user notes as well as my own margin
notes), margin notes which always appear on the inside margins, and
underlines to allow me to provide stuff for seminar attendees to fill in
("When about to ask a question, you should demand that students
their hand").
So far I've yet to find any word processor which comes close; GeoWrite
(http://www.newdeal.com) comes the closest, but it only runs under DOS, and
doesn't support tables. LyX is so cool in so many other ways I may wind up
using it for other purposes anyhow, but it would sure be cool if it could
handle all of these things as well.
Mike
-Billy
RE: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record
>documents" (read it
> - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer than a 118
> page thesis?
> Anyone write a proposal for more than $1 M (US)? etc.
I'm within a hair's breadth of importing a 500 page book into LyX, right
after I get my Linux setup working again (computer upgrade destroyed it).
It's a different question whether I'll be staying with it -- I'll have to
see whether it works the way I need.
This is a notebook for a seminar; I need book-style binding (facing pages),
very wide inside margin (to accomodate user notes as well as my own margin
notes), margin notes which always appear on the inside margins, and
underlines to allow me to provide stuff for seminar attendees to fill in
("When about to ask a question, you should demand that students
their hand").
So far I've yet to find any word processor which comes close; GeoWrite
(http://www.newdeal.com) comes the closest, but it only runs under DOS, and
doesn't support tables. LyX is so cool in so many other ways I may wind up
using it for other purposes anyhow, but it would sure be cool if it could
handle all of these things as well.
>Mike
-Billy
