Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

John Pye wrote: Hellmut Weber wrote: For business reasons I'm obliged to produce some documents in Word-Format. The copy/paste-comfort offered by Windows is to be considered THE reference for any system which wants to compete. I think that the 'rich' copy/paste technology clearly

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling)

of the HTML generation I forgot to fix. On Jan 30, 2006, at 7:27 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: Yaron Y. Goland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 12:27 PM Subject: Re: A Newbie's

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling)

- Original Message - From: Yaron Y. Goland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:28 AM Subject: Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling) I don't think you were aware, when writing your review

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

John Pye wrote: Hellmut Weber wrote: For business reasons I'm obliged to produce some documents in Word-Format. The copy/paste-comfort offered by Windows is to be considered THE reference for any system which wants to compete. I think that the 'rich' copy/paste technology clearly

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling)

of the HTML generation I forgot to fix. On Jan 30, 2006, at 7:27 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: Yaron Y. Goland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 12:27 PM Subject: Re: A Newbie's

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling)

- Original Message - From: Yaron Y. Goland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:28 AM Subject: Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling) I don't think you were aware, when writing your review

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

John Pye wrote: Hellmut Weber wrote: For business reasons I'm obliged to produce some documents in Word-Format. The copy/paste-comfort offered by Windows is to be considered THE reference for any system which wants to compete. I think that the 'rich' copy/paste technology clearly

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling)

lt;lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 12:27 PM Subject: Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX Ligatures result in bizarre character choices in HTML if a font other than AE is used - I suspect this is just ignorance on my part. When I generate HTML directly form inside of

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling)

- Original Message - From: "Yaron Y. Goland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:28 AM Subject: Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling) I don't t

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Bo Peng wrote: I was talking about the same thing as Yaron, Cutting Pasting from Non-LyX Windows. And another session of lyx. If you have two lyx windows open, you can not paste selection from another window. That'd be nice to have, yes. Fortunately, there is a workaround for this

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

John Pye writes: Sven Schreiber wrote: If other users are also concerned about the copypaste-situation, please make your opinion visible on this list as well. (in a friendly way, of course) This has been an issue for me too. For me, too, but I've said nothing as I assumed that this had

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Mistakenly sent off-list by Dr. Hellmut Weber: Hi list, If other users are also concerned about the copypaste-situation, please make your opinion visible on this list as well. (in a friendly way, of course) I've been a LaTeX user for many years until I found LyX which is now my favorite

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Hellmut Weber wrote: For business reasons I'm obliged to produce some documents in Word-Format. The copy/paste-comfort offered by Windows is to be considered THE reference for any system which wants to compete. I think that the 'rich' copy/paste technology clearly exists on Linux, but it

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sunday 29 January 2006 17:20, Rich Shepard wrote: I've not read the OP's blog so I cannot directly comment on specific issues raised. However, I will share my initial reaction to reading the original post: Why use a typesetting system designed for text-heavy printed documents to produce

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Georg Baum schrieb: Am Sonntag, 29. Januar 2006 21:55 schrieb Sven Schreiber: So should bug 2138 be broadened to cover external copypaste from other applications as well, or should a new bug be opened? Do as you like :-) (if you open another bug, please link it as related to 2138) Ok,

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Rich, as the Newbie in question, I actually agree with your basic premise that if you are doing real web page design then LyX is the wrong tool in the exact same sense that you meant it, i.e. don't use a spreadsheet when what you need is a relational database. But I think if you review the

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Yaron Y. Goland wrote: But I think if you review the issues I list you will find that I am trying to create a static document that can be 'reasonably' outputted as HTML in the same sense that one uses LyX to create a document that can be 'reasonably' outputted as a PDF. The

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling)

- Original Message - From: Yaron Y. Goland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 12:27 PM Subject: Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX Ligatures result in bizarre character choices in HTML if a font other than

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Bo Peng wrote: I was talking about the same thing as Yaron, Cutting Pasting from Non-LyX Windows. And another session of lyx. If you have two lyx windows open, you can not paste selection from another window. That'd be nice to have, yes. Fortunately, there is a workaround for this

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

John Pye writes: Sven Schreiber wrote: If other users are also concerned about the copypaste-situation, please make your opinion visible on this list as well. (in a friendly way, of course) This has been an issue for me too. For me, too, but I've said nothing as I assumed that this had

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Mistakenly sent off-list by Dr. Hellmut Weber: Hi list, If other users are also concerned about the copypaste-situation, please make your opinion visible on this list as well. (in a friendly way, of course) I've been a LaTeX user for many years until I found LyX which is now my favorite

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Hellmut Weber wrote: For business reasons I'm obliged to produce some documents in Word-Format. The copy/paste-comfort offered by Windows is to be considered THE reference for any system which wants to compete. I think that the 'rich' copy/paste technology clearly exists on Linux, but it

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sunday 29 January 2006 17:20, Rich Shepard wrote: I've not read the OP's blog so I cannot directly comment on specific issues raised. However, I will share my initial reaction to reading the original post: Why use a typesetting system designed for text-heavy printed documents to produce

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Georg Baum schrieb: Am Sonntag, 29. Januar 2006 21:55 schrieb Sven Schreiber: So should bug 2138 be broadened to cover external copypaste from other applications as well, or should a new bug be opened? Do as you like :-) (if you open another bug, please link it as related to 2138) Ok,

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Rich, as the Newbie in question, I actually agree with your basic premise that if you are doing real web page design then LyX is the wrong tool in the exact same sense that you meant it, i.e. don't use a spreadsheet when what you need is a relational database. But I think if you review the

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Yaron Y. Goland wrote: But I think if you review the issues I list you will find that I am trying to create a static document that can be 'reasonably' outputted as HTML in the same sense that one uses LyX to create a document that can be 'reasonably' outputted as a PDF. The

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling)

- Original Message - From: Yaron Y. Goland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 12:27 PM Subject: Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX Ligatures result in bizarre character choices in HTML if a font other than

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Bo Peng wrote: I was talking about the same thing as Yaron, "Cutting & Pasting from Non-LyX Windows". And another session of lyx. If you have two lyx windows open, you can not paste selection from another window. That'd be nice to have, yes. Fortunately, there is a workaround for

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

John Pye writes: > Sven Schreiber wrote: > >If other users are also concerned about the copy, > > please make your opinion visible on this list as well. (in a > > friendly way, of course) > > This has been an issue for me too. For me, too, but I've said nothing as I assumed that this had already

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Mistakenly sent off-list by Dr. Hellmut Weber: > Hi list, > >>> If other users are also concerned about the copy, >>> please >>> make your opinion visible on this list as well. (in a friendly way, of >>> course) >> > > I've been a LaTeX user for many years until I found LyX which is now > my

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Hellmut Weber wrote: > For business reasons I'm obliged to produce some documents in > Word-Format. The copy/paste-comfort offered by Windows is to be > considered THE reference for any system which wants to compete. > I think that the 'rich' copy/paste technology clearly exists on Linux, but it

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sunday 29 January 2006 17:20, Rich Shepard wrote: > I've not read the OP's blog so I cannot directly comment on specific issues > raised. However, I will share my initial reaction to reading the original > post: Why use a typesetting system designed for text-heavy printed > documents to produce

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Georg Baum schrieb: > Am Sonntag, 29. Januar 2006 21:55 schrieb Sven Schreiber: > >>So should bug 2138 be broadened to cover external copy from other >>applications as well, or should a new bug be opened? > > > Do as you like :-) (if you open another bug, please link it as related to > 2138) >

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Rich, as the Newbie in question, I actually agree with your basic premise that if you are doing real web page design then LyX is the wrong tool in the exact same sense that you meant it, i.e. don't use a spreadsheet when what you need is a relational database. But I think if you review the

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Yaron Y. Goland wrote: But I think if you review the issues I list you will find that I am trying to create a static document that can be 'reasonably' outputted as HTML in the same sense that one uses LyX to create a document that can be 'reasonably' outputted as a PDF. The

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling)

- Original Message - From: "Yaron Y. Goland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rich Shepard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 12:27 PM Subject: Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX Ligatures result in bizar

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Yaron Y. Goland wrote: I wrote an article for my blog http://www.goland.org/lyx outlining the various things I had to do in order to get LyX to the point where it could generate decent HTML. I can't help but think that most of the issues I ran into could be fairly

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

i would love to hear the developers (and others) oppinion on the raised issues. :o) martin On 29/01/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Yaron Y. Goland wrote: I wrote an article for my blog http://www.goland.org/lyx outlining the various things I had to

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i would love to hear the developers (and others) oppinion on the raised issues. martin, I've not read the OP's blog so I cannot directly comment on specific issues raised. However, I will share my initial reaction to reading the original post:

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: |While I'm sure that others will strongly disagree with me, I think that LyX | is the wrong tool to prepare Web pages, just as I think it's the wrong tool | to do visually intensive page layout (use Scribus for that). I might agree with the arguemtents

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: I might agree with the arguemtents against web pages, but a lot of the problems there are exactly the same when creating document types that are hypertext capable: pdf for instance. Lars, I certainly appreciate this. I've not yet had a need

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Martin A. Hansen schrieb: i would love to hear the developers (and others) oppinion on the raised issues. As a devoted Lyx user I think he is very kind to Lyx when he says Thankfully I haven't needed to copy anything more complex than a few URLs so the limited copy/paste functionality is no

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Sven Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Martin A. Hansen schrieb: | i would love to hear the developers (and others) oppinion on the raised | issues. | | | As a devoted Lyx user I think he is very kind to Lyx when he says | Thankfully I haven't needed to copy anything more complex than a

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Lars Gullik Bjønnes schrieb: Is it copy/paste that you really want or to be able to insert larger/smaller pieces from other files/documents etc? I'm not sure I understand your question; I use copy/paste a lot within my lyx documents and it works great if that's what your aiming at (except

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

I was talking about the same thing as Yaron, Cutting Pasting from Non-LyX Windows. And another session of lyx. If you have two lyx windows open, you can not paste selection from another window. Bo

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Am Sonntag, 29. Januar 2006 20:18 schrieb Bo Peng: I was talking about the same thing as Yaron, Cutting Pasting from Non-LyX Windows. And another session of lyx. If you have two lyx windows open, you can not paste selection from another window. These two issues are related if you look

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Bo Peng wrote: I was talking about the same thing as Yaron, Cutting Pasting from Non-LyX Windows. And another session of lyx. If you have two lyx windows open, you can not paste selection from another window. Bo, I must be missing something here. I can copy from one

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

I've not tried invoking two instances of LyX, with a different document in each, and transferring text from one to the other. Is this where the problem shows up? This is the case. I sometimes open two lyx sessions (instances) when I need to refer to another file, or another part of a long

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Bo Peng I've not tried invoking two instances of LyX, with a different document in each, and transferring text from one to the other. Is this where the problem shows up? This is the case. I sometimes open two lyx sessions (instances) when I need to refer to another file, or another

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Just for me to understand, which platforms are you talking about? Linux, rhel4, lyx 1.3.7 and 1.4.0cvs, qt frontend. However copying from one LyX-document to another works fine including equations (in Mac I meant copy/paste between two lyx instances., Bo

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On 29 jan 2006, at 21.42, Bo Peng wrote: Just for me to understand, which platforms are you talking about? Linux, rhel4, lyx 1.3.7 and 1.4.0cvs, qt frontend. However copying from one LyX-document to another works fine including equations (in Mac I meant copy/paste between two lyx

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Georg Baum schrieb: Am Sonntag, 29. Januar 2006 20:18 schrieb Bo Peng: I was talking about the same thing as Yaron, Cutting Pasting from Non-LyX Windows. And another session of lyx. If you have two lyx windows open, you can not paste selection from another window. These two issues are

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Am Sonntag, 29. Januar 2006 21:55 schrieb Sven Schreiber: So should bug 2138 be broadened to cover external copypaste from other applications as well, or should a new bug be opened? Do as you like :-) (if you open another bug, please link it as related to 2138) Georg

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

- Original Message - From: Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 9:20 AM Subject: Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i would love to hear the developers (and others) oppinion

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Bo Peng wrote: This is the case. I sometimes open two lyx sessions (instances) when I need to refer to another file, or another part of a long lyx file. Bo, Thanks for the insight. I've just used two documents in the same window, or the navigation menu to move around a

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote: Just for me to understand, which platforms are you talking about? Anders, Oooo! Good point. My experiences are with linux only. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of Quantifying Environmental Applied Ecosystem Services,

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Sven Schreiber wrote: If other users are also concerned about the copypaste-situation, please make your opinion visible on this list as well. (in a friendly way, of course) This has been an issue for me too. Other programs like ms office, mozilla/thunderbird and openoffice do a great job of

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Yaron Y. Goland wrote: I wrote an article for my blog http://www.goland.org/lyx outlining the various things I had to do in order to get LyX to the point where it could generate decent HTML. I can't help but think that most of the issues I ran into could be fairly

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

i would love to hear the developers (and others) oppinion on the raised issues. :o) martin On 29/01/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Yaron Y. Goland wrote: I wrote an article for my blog http://www.goland.org/lyx outlining the various things I had to

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i would love to hear the developers (and others) oppinion on the raised issues. martin, I've not read the OP's blog so I cannot directly comment on specific issues raised. However, I will share my initial reaction to reading the original post:

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: |While I'm sure that others will strongly disagree with me, I think that LyX | is the wrong tool to prepare Web pages, just as I think it's the wrong tool | to do visually intensive page layout (use Scribus for that). I might agree with the arguemtents

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: I might agree with the arguemtents against web pages, but a lot of the problems there are exactly the same when creating document types that are hypertext capable: pdf for instance. Lars, I certainly appreciate this. I've not yet had a need

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Martin A. Hansen schrieb: i would love to hear the developers (and others) oppinion on the raised issues. As a devoted Lyx user I think he is very kind to Lyx when he says Thankfully I haven't needed to copy anything more complex than a few URLs so the limited copy/paste functionality is no

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Sven Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Martin A. Hansen schrieb: | i would love to hear the developers (and others) oppinion on the raised | issues. | | | As a devoted Lyx user I think he is very kind to Lyx when he says | Thankfully I haven't needed to copy anything more complex than a

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Lars Gullik Bjønnes schrieb: Is it copy/paste that you really want or to be able to insert larger/smaller pieces from other files/documents etc? I'm not sure I understand your question; I use copy/paste a lot within my lyx documents and it works great if that's what your aiming at (except

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

I was talking about the same thing as Yaron, Cutting Pasting from Non-LyX Windows. And another session of lyx. If you have two lyx windows open, you can not paste selection from another window. Bo

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Am Sonntag, 29. Januar 2006 20:18 schrieb Bo Peng: I was talking about the same thing as Yaron, Cutting Pasting from Non-LyX Windows. And another session of lyx. If you have two lyx windows open, you can not paste selection from another window. These two issues are related if you look

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Bo Peng wrote: I was talking about the same thing as Yaron, Cutting Pasting from Non-LyX Windows. And another session of lyx. If you have two lyx windows open, you can not paste selection from another window. Bo, I must be missing something here. I can copy from one

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

I've not tried invoking two instances of LyX, with a different document in each, and transferring text from one to the other. Is this where the problem shows up? This is the case. I sometimes open two lyx sessions (instances) when I need to refer to another file, or another part of a long

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Bo Peng I've not tried invoking two instances of LyX, with a different document in each, and transferring text from one to the other. Is this where the problem shows up? This is the case. I sometimes open two lyx sessions (instances) when I need to refer to another file, or another

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Just for me to understand, which platforms are you talking about? Linux, rhel4, lyx 1.3.7 and 1.4.0cvs, qt frontend. However copying from one LyX-document to another works fine including equations (in Mac I meant copy/paste between two lyx instances., Bo

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On 29 jan 2006, at 21.42, Bo Peng wrote: Just for me to understand, which platforms are you talking about? Linux, rhel4, lyx 1.3.7 and 1.4.0cvs, qt frontend. However copying from one LyX-document to another works fine including equations (in Mac I meant copy/paste between two lyx

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Georg Baum schrieb: Am Sonntag, 29. Januar 2006 20:18 schrieb Bo Peng: I was talking about the same thing as Yaron, Cutting Pasting from Non-LyX Windows. And another session of lyx. If you have two lyx windows open, you can not paste selection from another window. These two issues are

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Am Sonntag, 29. Januar 2006 21:55 schrieb Sven Schreiber: So should bug 2138 be broadened to cover external copypaste from other applications as well, or should a new bug be opened? Do as you like :-) (if you open another bug, please link it as related to 2138) Georg

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

- Original Message - From: Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 9:20 AM Subject: Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i would love to hear the developers (and others) oppinion

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Bo Peng wrote: This is the case. I sometimes open two lyx sessions (instances) when I need to refer to another file, or another part of a long lyx file. Bo, Thanks for the insight. I've just used two documents in the same window, or the navigation menu to move around a

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote: Just for me to understand, which platforms are you talking about? Anders, Oooo! Good point. My experiences are with linux only. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of Quantifying Environmental Applied Ecosystem Services,

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Sven Schreiber wrote: If other users are also concerned about the copypaste-situation, please make your opinion visible on this list as well. (in a friendly way, of course) This has been an issue for me too. Other programs like ms office, mozilla/thunderbird and openoffice do a great job of

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Yaron Y. Goland wrote: > I wrote an article for my blog outlining > the various things I had to do in order to get LyX to the point where > it could generate decent HTML. I can't help but think that most of > the issues I ran into could be

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

i would love to hear the developers (and others) oppinion on the raised issues. :o) martin On 29/01/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Yaron Y. Goland wrote: > > > I wrote an article for my blog outlining > > the various

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i would love to hear the developers (and others) oppinion on the raised issues. martin, I've not read the OP's blog so I cannot directly comment on specific issues raised. However, I will share my initial reaction to reading the original post:

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |While I'm sure that others will strongly disagree with me, I think that LyX | is the wrong tool to prepare Web pages, just as I think it's the wrong tool | to do visually intensive page layout (use Scribus for that). I might agree with the

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: I might agree with the arguemtents against web pages, but a lot of the problems there are exactly the same when creating document types that are hypertext capable: pdf for instance. Lars, I certainly appreciate this. I've not yet had a need

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Martin A. Hansen schrieb: > i would love to hear the developers (and others) oppinion on the raised > issues. > As a devoted Lyx user I think he is very kind to Lyx when he says "Thankfully I haven't needed to copy anything more complex than a few URLs so the limited copy/paste functionality is

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Sven Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Martin A. Hansen schrieb: | > i would love to hear the developers (and others) oppinion on the raised | > issues. | > | | As a devoted Lyx user I think he is very kind to Lyx when he says | "Thankfully I haven't needed to copy anything more complex

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Lars Gullik Bjønnes schrieb: > Is it copy/paste that you really want or to be able to insert > larger/smaller pieces from other files/documents etc? > I'm not sure I understand your question; I use copy/paste a lot within my lyx documents and it works great if that's what your aiming at (except

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

> I was talking about the same thing as Yaron, "Cutting & Pasting from > Non-LyX Windows". And another session of lyx. If you have two lyx windows open, you can not paste selection from another window. Bo

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Am Sonntag, 29. Januar 2006 20:18 schrieb Bo Peng: > > I was talking about the same thing as Yaron, "Cutting & Pasting from > > Non-LyX Windows". > > And another session of lyx. If you have two lyx windows open, you can > not paste selection from another window. These two issues are related if

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Bo Peng wrote: I was talking about the same thing as Yaron, "Cutting & Pasting from Non-LyX Windows". And another session of lyx. If you have two lyx windows open, you can not paste selection from another window. Bo, I must be missing something here. I can copy from

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

>I've not tried invoking two instances of LyX, with a different document in > each, and transferring text from one to the other. Is this where the problem > shows up? This is the case. I sometimes open two lyx sessions (instances) when I need to refer to another file, or another part of a

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Bo Peng >I've not tried invoking two instances of LyX, with a different document in > each, and transferring text from one to the other. Is this where the problem > shows up? This is the case. I sometimes open two lyx sessions (instances) when I need to refer to another file, or

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

> Just for me to understand, which platforms are you talking about? Linux, rhel4, lyx 1.3.7 and 1.4.0cvs, qt frontend. > However copying > from one LyX-document to another works fine including equations (in > Mac I meant copy/paste between two lyx instances., Bo

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On 29 jan 2006, at 21.42, Bo Peng wrote: Just for me to understand, which platforms are you talking about? Linux, rhel4, lyx 1.3.7 and 1.4.0cvs, qt frontend. However copying from one LyX-document to another works fine including equations (in Mac I meant copy/paste between two lyx

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Georg Baum schrieb: > Am Sonntag, 29. Januar 2006 20:18 schrieb Bo Peng: > >>>I was talking about the same thing as Yaron, "Cutting & Pasting from >>>Non-LyX Windows". >> >>And another session of lyx. If you have two lyx windows open, you can >>not paste selection from another window. > > >

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Am Sonntag, 29. Januar 2006 21:55 schrieb Sven Schreiber: > So should bug 2138 be broadened to cover external copy from other > applications as well, or should a new bug be opened? Do as you like :-) (if you open another bug, please link it as related to 2138) Georg

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

- Original Message - From: "Rich Shepard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 9:20 AM Subject: Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i would love to hear the developers

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Bo Peng wrote: This is the case. I sometimes open two lyx sessions (instances) when I need to refer to another file, or another part of a long lyx file. Bo, Thanks for the insight. I've just used two documents in the same window, or the navigation menu to move around a

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote: Just for me to understand, which platforms are you talking about? Anders, Oooo! Good point. My experiences are with linux only. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of "Quantifying Environmental Applied Ecosystem Services,

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

Sven Schreiber wrote: >If other users are also concerned about the copy, please >make your opinion visible on this list as well. (in a friendly way, of >course) > > This has been an issue for me too. Other programs like ms office, mozilla/thunderbird and openoffice do a great job of accepting