lyx FAQ

2000-03-22 Thread Amir Karger
Hi Mike. Congrats on taking this courageous step. Last I knew, Jose M. had the FAQ. Of course, that was around the release of 0.12.0... -Amir ps it's good to hear you've got so much free time right now. Would you like to type up a few sections of my thesis?

Re: lyx FAQ

2000-03-23 Thread mressler
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Amir Karger wrote: > Hi Mike. Congrats on taking this courageous step. > > Last I knew, Jose M. had the FAQ. Of course, that was around the release of > 0.12.0... > > -Amir > ps it's good to hear you've got so much free time right now. Would you like > to type up a few sect

Re: lyx FAQ

2000-03-23 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 09:03:32AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm only doing this because I figure I spend more time responding to FAQs > individually than I would spend writing a FAQ document (famous last > words), so I stupid enough to try to find out. Just don't hold your breath > wai

I will resurrect the LyX FAQ ...

2000-03-22 Thread mressler
nexplicable to anyone who knows what my schedule is like, I declare myself to be the resurrector/maintainer of the LyX FAQ, which will be added to the lyxdoc CVS module. If anyone wants to fight me for it, I will yield, but given how many of you like to write documentation, I will start on it. Plea

I will resurrect the LyX FAQ ...

2000-03-22 Thread mressler
nexplicable to anyone who knows what my schedule is like, I declare myself to be the resurrector/maintainer of the LyX FAQ, which will be added to the lyxdoc CVS module. If anyone wants to fight me for it, I will yield, but given how many of you like to write documentation, I will start on it. Plea

LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-06 Thread mressler
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 Lin

Re: I will resurrect the LyX FAQ ...

2000-03-22 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
and comp.text.tex lists. Therefore, > in a fit of utter insanity which is completely inexplicable to anyone who > knows what my schedule is like, I declare myself to be the > resurrector/maintainer of the LyX FAQ, which will be added to the lyxdoc > CVS module. If anyone wants to fight me for

Re: I will resurrect the LyX FAQ ...

2000-03-22 Thread Paul Evans
The original FAQ (1998) is still on my site http://paulwork.demon.co.uk Follow the link under the files section There is an sgml and tex version sitting in /files/lyxfaq/lyxfaq.0.2.2.sgml or...tex I doubt that anything is still relevant!

Re: I will resurrect the LyX FAQ ...

2000-03-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Kayvan" == Kayvan A Sylvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kayvan> On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:41:01AM -0800, Kayvan> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Please send me your FAQs with answers, and I will incorporate them. Kayvan> Yahoo!! That's great. I'll send you answers as I generate Kayvan> them,

Re: I will resurrect the LyX FAQ ...

2000-03-23 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 12:57:18PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Kayvan> ---Kayvan "the insane maintainer of reLyX" > > So, Kayvan, do you have reasonable hopes to make progress on reLyX? Yes. You'll see some results from my bug fixing this weekend/early next week.

RE: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-06 Thread btanksley
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 5

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-06 Thread Kimmo Koli
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 propos

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Kimmo" == Kimmo Koli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kimmo> The Reconfigure in the Options-menu reruns the configure-script Kimmo> if I understand corrently. Yes. Kimmo> The default shell for user is tcsh and because we have "too Kimmo> many" applications in our system, we don't place all K

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "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 i

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Mike" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> Areas I would particularly like comments about are the Mike> following: Mike> Section 1.2 - I would like to know about "world record Mike> documents" (read it - you'll see what I mean). Anyone do longer Mike> than a 118 page thesis? Anyone writ

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "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

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread Yann MORERE
[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 >

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread Kimmo Koli
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 w

Re: LyX FAQ 0.3.0... available (Please read)

2000-04-07 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
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

Anyone have a copy of the old LyX FAQ?

2000-03-29 Thread mressler
Hello all, I'd like to drop a copy of version 0.0 of the new FAQ in CVS sometime soon (yes, I really am going to do this, though v0.0 will be little more than an outline). I'd like to get my hands on a copy of the old FAQ first to steal as much from it as I can, but I haven't been able to access

Re: Anyone have a copy of the old LyX FAQ?

2000-03-29 Thread Paul Evans
Odd this. I have been emailing Mike both with the text and to say that my site is www.paulwork.demon.co.uk I think i may have a mail problem! On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > I'd like to drop a copy of version 0.0 of the new FAQ in CVS sometime soon > (yes, I real

Re: Anyone have a copy of the old LyX FAQ?

2000-04-03 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd like to drop a copy of version 0.0 of the new FAQ in CVS sometime soon A very good idea! I have saved a bunch of interesting tips posted to this mailing list, and I have been thinking that they should be put into an organized collection of hints