Where should this be reported.......?

[M-L]

I get this message when I try to open a recent or any document in LyX, but am 
not certain where it should be sent.

To the Debian maintainer or to someone programming LyX?

$ lyx
QPaintEngine::setSystemClip: Should not be changed while engine is active
QPaintEngine::setSystemClip: Should not be changed while engine is active
QWidgetPrivate::beginSharedPainter: Painter is already active
QWidgetPrivate::endSharedPainter: Attempting to end a null painter
QPaintEngine::setSystemClip: Should not be changed while engine is active
QPaintEngine::setSystemClip: Should not be changed while engine is active
QWidgetPrivate::beginSharedPainter: Painter is already active

lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught
Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting instructions 
in Help->Introduction and send us a bug report, if necessary. Thanks !
Bye.
Aborted

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no need to seek or follow the advice of others. Learn to listen to that voice 
within yourself just here and now. Your body and mind will become clear and 
you will realize the unity of all things. Do not doubt the possibilities 
because of the simplicity of these teachings. If you can't find the truth 
right where you are, where else do you think you will find it?  
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Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

[adam_taylor]

Folks,

I am a new LyX user, and have a very basic question.  I am using Lyx 1.5.1
under Ubuntu 7.10.  I believe the TeX system is TeXLive.

I created a new document (of class article), wrote a few lines in it, and
then wanted to make a PDF.  I selected View > PDF (pdflatex), and then
looked at the resulting document in Evince.  It seems to have two problems
(as least, problems for me).  First, the paper size is A4, and I would
prefer Letter.  Second, it seems to be using bitmap fonts (Postscript Type
3, I think), rather than outline fonts.  I tried to fix the A4 problem by
setting the paper size in Document > Settings... to "Letter" and then
re-making the PDF, but it still seems to be A4.  I tried the two other ways
of producing PDFs, dvipdfm and ps2pdf, and both solve the page size problem,
but not the bitmap font problem.  Nevertheless, I like the fact that
pdflatex goes directly from the source LaTeX file to a PDF, so it would be
nice to get the page size right with pdflatex...

Does anyone have any suggestions about how to fix these things?

Thanks in advance,
Adam


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Re: Error: Document class not available

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Alberto Sánchez
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  I have just installed the LyX (version 1.5.4) bundle for Windows XP.  
> Everything
>  installed successfully.  But now I cannot get LyX to produce any output at 
> all.
>   I cannot even execute the first step of the tutorial, where you are asked to
>  view a simple typed line in "dvi".  When I press on the "dvi" button I get 
> the
>  following error message:
>
>  "LyX: Couldn't export file.  No information for exporting the format DVI."
>
>  The same message appears when I attempt PDF or PS.  And when I try opening up
>  any other file or template I get a variant of the following message:
>
>  "LyX: Document class not available.  The layout file requested by this 
> document,
>  article.layout, is not usable.  This is probably because a LaTeX class or 
> style
>  file required by it is not available.  See the Customization documentation 
> for
>  more information.  LyX will not be able to produce output."
>
>  I have scrolled through the "Customization documentation" but since I am new 
> to
>  all of this, I cannot find anything that seems to address my problem.
>
>  Can anyone help me?
>
>  Alberto


It sounds like MiKTeX was not properly installed. Did you have an open
internet connection during installation?

If it were me I would open an internet connection and try to update
MiKTeX. After it updates do a Tools->Reconfigure within LyX.

Cheers,
/Bob

configuring makeindex?

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

I'd like to configure makeindex so that page ranges of 2 pages simply print 
the first page. My understanding is that you do this with the suffix_2p 
setting in the makeindex "style file", which can be any file, with 
extension .mst, on the $INDEXSTYLE environment variable.

I've been trying to find the makeindex style file on my box, and can't find 
it. Even if, in its absense, defaults rule, I still need one to use as an 
example from which to build my specific one.

Can anyone steer me in the right direction?

Thanks

Steve

Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: Thesis template in Lyx

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Adrian Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you for your response.  When you say:
>
> > So, like I said you'll probably want to start with a blank document and
> just modify it to match the thesis requirements.
>
> Do you mean that I should use the approach of creating the layout file like
> you suggested or just working with a blank report document.  If it is the
> latter approach, my only worry is that they have redefined so many of the
> latex settings (section, subsection, itemized list) that I would have to
> place ERT all over the document to get it to conform to their
> specifications.  Or am I misunderstanding this?  Thanks.
>
> Adrian
>
> Cheers,
> /Bob


I just meant that I would not use the example.tex they gave. Yes, I
would use the layout file that I have described. I would just start a
blank document with the ufthesis.layout and begin.

Cheers
/Bob

[lyx 1.5.3 ubuntu hardy] No caption using the program listing feature

[Axel Pospischil]

Hello,

i am having  some weird behaviour using the program listing environment.
Using Lyx 1.5.3 under Ubuntu 8.04. Also tested the debian version 1.5.4
backport) both with the same problem. Also tested on opensuse 10.3 (lyx
1.5.2) with the same result.

Looking at the (german) users-guide, i'll find a listing  containing a
numbered caption and space after it for a description.

But when i try to insert a listing via menu->insert->program listing, i
only get an __empty__ listing environment __without__ neither a numbered
caption nor a space for putting a label.

Copying the listing environment out of  the users-guide lyx document
into another lyx file works fine, the numbering is correct and so on. 

Inserting another list into the users-guide doesn't work either.

What am I doing wrong?
How can I get numberd program listings without copying from the
users-guide?

Greets
Axel
-- 
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Wiesbaden, Germany

E-Mail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how can I adapt documents for LARGE PRINT versions?

[Marcelo Acuña]

koma-script book have more options for fonts sizes.
regards
Marceo

--- "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
escribió:

> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> I like the idea of letting LyX keep track of font
> sizes and such so I
> can focus on "what I mean" rather than on "how it
> looks on paper".
> 
> If I can only choose the right words, LyX will make
> it look pretty.
> 
> I could for example write a book or a family news
> letter that looks good
> printed on standard 8.5"x 11" stock. And then decide
> to change the
> document settings for paper size and the output will
> still look good on
> 6"x9" paper.
> 
> If I were however to use LyX write a book with
> chapters, footnotes, etc.
> I'd like to know I could easily tell LyX to format
> output for weaker eyes
> without destroying all the relative font size
> differences that it so
> wisely set up for me while I concentrated on content
> instead of worrying
> about it's printed appearance.
> 
> And if for example I wrote a family news letter to
> send to all the
> extended family members in my addressbook. Including
> my older sister who
> often can't find her glasses. Who gets the large
> print edition of the
> readers digest simply because she doesn't need to
> find her glasses to
> read it. I could select all the standard text
> sections and force the
> font style to use larger font size.
> 
> Though that might result in section headings that no
> longer look larger
> than the paragraph text. And if the intended
> appearance of the newsletter
> were to already include places where for example
> some anecdotic incident
> or other was either emphasized and or trivialized
> via a font size of
> "M-s l" or "M-s s" Then each of them would have to
> again be customized
> relative to whatever size I just forced the
> surrounding standard text to
> be enlarged to So if the standard text was enlarged
> via "M-s l" Then the
> anecdote that was emphasized with that setting would
> need "M-s L" And the
> one that was trivialized with "M-s s" might need to
> be resized with
> "M-s n" etc...
> 
> Then if I wanted a hard copy that even my eyes I
> could read without my
> glasses I'd probably have to force all the standard
> text to an even
> larger size with "M-s L" which would, for relative
> consistency, lead to
> having to recustomize the anecdotic material with
> "M-s 8" or "M-s l" etc...
> 
> If I gotta do all that I might do as well to write
> the stuff with open
> office where I expect to micro-manage such changes.
> But I won't, I'd
> rather use LyX. 
> 
> Then I realized that there was a document setting
> called base size.
> Unfortunately it seems that the range of possible
> base sizes range only
> from 10 to 12 pt sizes. I suspect this is because
> the prevailing wisdom
> for "professional" writing is that a business letter
> should be in 10 pt
> type and anything much larger just makes the output
> look wrong.
> But if it were possible to set a base size of say 18
> pt I could take ANY
> LyX document that looked presentable to non-visually
> impaired recipients
> with a default base size.  And simply applying a
> base size of 18 I could
> then generate reasonable looking output for those of
> us who simply didn't
> eat enough carrots when we were kids.
> 
> But since the maximum base size is only 12 pts, I
> gotta ask if I'm
> missing some obvious technique to easily convert a
> document for a large
> print edition without micro managing or losing all
> the relative font
> sizes??? 
> 
> 
>   
>
#
>   
>
##_if_you'd_prefer_an_clearsigned_".asc"_text_file_of_this_##
>   
>
##message_as_an_mime_encoded_attachment,just_ask_me_while__##
>   
>
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>#gpg sig for: Joe (theWordy) Philbrook DSA key ID
> 0x6C2163DE#
># You can find my public gpg key at
> http://pgpkeys.mit.edu/ #
>   
>
#
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
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> 
>
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> ISCI7gsSfETTNgnm27YEDDs=
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> |Joe (theWordy) Philbrook
> |  ^J(tWdy)P
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> 
> 


Marcelo Acuña visitá mi sitio web http://www.aleph-uno.com.ar 
==


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Ahora encontrar pareja es mucho más fácil, probá el nuevo Yahoo! Encuentros 
http://yahoo.cupidovirtual.com/servlet/NewRegistration

unicode-math question

[snvv]

Hello,
I use xetex and I would like to install the unicode-math package[1]
I downloaded the files but I don't know how to install it.
The files have tdx, ins and tex extensions.
Any idea?
Thank you
sn


[1]http://scripts.sil.org/svn-view/xetex/TRUNK/texmf/source/xelatex/unicode-math/

Error: Document class not available

[Alberto Sánchez]

I have just installed the LyX (version 1.5.4) bundle for Windows XP.  Everything
installed successfully.  But now I cannot get LyX to produce any output at all.
 I cannot even execute the first step of the tutorial, where you are asked to
view a simple typed line in "dvi".  When I press on the "dvi" button I get the
following error message:

"LyX: Couldn't export file.  No information for exporting the format DVI."

The same message appears when I attempt PDF or PS.  And when I try opening up
any other file or template I get a variant of the following message:

"LyX: Document class not available.  The layout file requested by this document,
article.layout, is not usable.  This is probably because a LaTeX class or style
file required by it is not available.  See the Customization documentation for
more information.  LyX will not be able to produce output."

I have scrolled through the "Customization documentation" but since I am new to
all of this, I cannot find anything that seems to address my problem.  

Can anyone help me?

Alberto

Re: how can I adapt documents for LARGE PRINT versions?

[William Adams]

On May 1, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:


But since the maximum base size is only 12 pts, I gotta ask if I'm
missing some obvious technique to easily convert a document for a  
large

print edition without micro managing or losing all the relative font
sizes???



Peter Wilson's Memoir documentclass has support for up to 17 pt. type.

It also has support for a number of different pagesizes (as well as  
the ability to define them pretty easily) --- using b5, making a .pdf  
and using Acrobat's ability to scale .pdfs for display on-screen or  
print will get one quite large type.


William

--
William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications

how can I adapt documents for LARGE PRINT versions?

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

I like the idea of letting LyX keep track of font sizes and such so I
can focus on "what I mean" rather than on "how it looks on paper".

If I can only choose the right words, LyX will make it look pretty.

I could for example write a book or a family news letter that looks good
printed on standard 8.5"x 11" stock. And then decide to change the
document settings for paper size and the output will still look good on
6"x9" paper.

If I were however to use LyX write a book with chapters, footnotes, etc.
I'd like to know I could easily tell LyX to format output for weaker eyes
without destroying all the relative font size differences that it so
wisely set up for me while I concentrated on content instead of worrying
about it's printed appearance.

And if for example I wrote a family news letter to send to all the
extended family members in my addressbook. Including my older sister who
often can't find her glasses. Who gets the large print edition of the
readers digest simply because she doesn't need to find her glasses to
read it. I could select all the standard text sections and force the
font style to use larger font size.

Though that might result in section headings that no longer look larger
than the paragraph text. And if the intended appearance of the newsletter
were to already include places where for example some anecdotic incident
or other was either emphasized and or trivialized via a font size of
"M-s l" or "M-s s" Then each of them would have to again be customized
relative to whatever size I just forced the surrounding standard text to
be enlarged to So if the standard text was enlarged via "M-s l" Then the
anecdote that was emphasized with that setting would need "M-s L" And the
one that was trivialized with "M-s s" might need to be resized with
"M-s n" etc...

Then if I wanted a hard copy that even my eyes I could read without my
glasses I'd probably have to force all the standard text to an even
larger size with "M-s L" which would, for relative consistency, lead to
having to recustomize the anecdotic material with "M-s 8" or "M-s l" etc...

If I gotta do all that I might do as well to write the stuff with open
office where I expect to micro-manage such changes. But I won't, I'd
rather use LyX. 

Then I realized that there was a document setting called base size.
Unfortunately it seems that the range of possible base sizes range only
from 10 to 12 pt sizes. I suspect this is because the prevailing wisdom
for "professional" writing is that a business letter should be in 10 pt
type and anything much larger just makes the output look wrong.
But if it were possible to set a base size of say 18 pt I could take ANY
LyX document that looked presentable to non-visually impaired recipients
with a default base size.  And simply applying a base size of 18 I could
then generate reasonable looking output for those of us who simply didn't
eat enough carrots when we were kids.

But since the maximum base size is only 12 pts, I gotta ask if I'm
missing some obvious technique to easily convert a document for a large
print edition without micro managing or losing all the relative font
sizes??? 


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Re: Aspell setup problem

[Joost Verburg]

Máté Salát wrote:

The most recent Windows installer of LyX always breaks down during the 
downloading the Hungarian Aspell at this point:
http://www.screencast.com/users/salatmate/folders/Jing/media/ead56eaa-d47a-46e3-a2b1-5fd51a2be18a


Somehow, certain dictionaries on the server have become corrupted. This 
will be solved within a few days.


Joost

Aspell setup problem

[Máté Salát]

Hi,

The most recent Windows installer of LyX always breaks down during the 
downloading the Hungarian Aspell at this point:
http://www.screencast.com/users/salatmate/folders/Jing/media/ead56eaa-d47a-46e3-a2b1-5fd51a2be18a

Cheers, Máté

Re: Is this list selling our email addresses?

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 1 May 2008, James Sutherland wrote:


Are our addresses being syphoned by spammers?  Is anyone else seeing this?


  Probably. No. Don't forget that messages posted to mail lists are archived
on various web servers where they are readily available to the public.

  Install SpamAssassin and tune it.

Rich

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RE: Thesis template in Lyx

[Adrian Peter]

What do you mean by "start modifying it from there"? Do I have to modify the
layout file to define how sections, subsections, etc. should be in Lyx?
Sorry if this sounds like a dumb question.  If this is the case, is there an
specific example of how I should do this to match the CLS file?  Thanks.

-Original Message-
From: José Matos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:17 PM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Thesis template in Lyx

On Wednesday 30 April 2008 20:57:54 Bob Lounsbury wrote:
> I then renamed report.layout to ufthesis.layout and changed the first line
> from:
>
> \DeclareLaTeXClass{report}
> to
> \DeclareLaTeXClass{ufthesis}
>
> And done. You now have a layout file for your ufthesis.cls file.

Or better yet, include it and start modifying from there:

#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
#  \DeclareLaTeXClass[ufthesis]{UF Thesis}

Format 4
Input report

# Adding specific modifications below this line
..

-- 
José Abílio

Re: Is this list selling our email addresses?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

James Sutherland wrote:
> Are our addresses being syphoned by spammers?  Is anyone else seeing  
> this?

yes.

Jürgen

RE: Thesis template in Lyx

[Adrian Peter]

Thank you for your response.  When you say:

> So, like I said you'll probably want to start with a blank document and
just modify it to match the thesis requirements.

Do you mean that I should use the approach of creating the layout file like
you suggested or just working with a blank report document.  If it is the
latter approach, my only worry is that they have redefined so many of the
latex settings (section, subsection, itemized list) that I would have to
place ERT all over the document to get it to conform to their
specifications.  Or am I misunderstanding this?  Thanks.

Adrian


-Original Message-
From: Bob Lounsbury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:58 PM
To: Adrian Peter
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Thesis template in Lyx

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Adrian Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I want to use Lyx to write my dissertation.  However, our university
already
> provides a LaTex template (cls file) that has to be followed exactly.
What
> is the easiest way to use Lyx to write my dissertation?

If you want to use LyX it could get quite involved, but you can always
start slow and build up to see if it will work.

> (1)Should I try to create a layout file to use the latex cls file?  I
> have never created a Lyx layout file before so I don't know how difficult
> this is.  Any help on this or a if a tutorial exists on how to create a
> layout file for a cls file would be greatly appreciated.  I have attached
> the cls file.

The layout file is really just for LyX representation. I looked at
your .cls file and they use the report.cls so I just copied:

C:\Program Files\LyX15\Resources\layouts\report.layout
to
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application
Data\lyx15\layouts\report.layout

I then renamed report.layout to ufthesis.layout and changed the first line
from:

\DeclareLaTeXClass{report}
to
\DeclareLaTeXClass{ufthesis}

And done. You now have a layout file for your ufthesis.cls file.

Next, you need to place the ufthesis.cls in your local texmf
directory. For me on XP with MiKTeX 2.6 this is located at:

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6\tex\latex

Then refresh the MiKTeX FNDB. In Start->All Programs->MiKTeX
2.6->Settings->General. After that you should start LyX and
Tools->Reconfigure (Important step). Then restart LyX and under
Document->Settings->Document Class you should see ufthesis and now
when you insert the toc, chapters, etc they should match the
formatting of the thesis when you export to pdf or dvi.

> (2)Should I try to import a sample Tex file the university provides
into
> Lyx?  I tried to import it into Lyx but it failed.  Not sure what is going
> on.  I have attached the sample Tex file as well.

I was able to import the .tex with this new ufthesis.layout, but it
looks like it could be complicated. So, like I said you'll probably
want to start with a blank document and just modify it to match the
thesis requirements.

> I am not an advanced Lyx user so thank you very much in advance for the
> help.
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
>

Cheers,
/Bob

Is this list selling our email addresses?

[James Sutherland]

I received SPAM from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" after my last  
post to this list.  It was in a reply to the post I made to the list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
.


Are our addresses being syphoned by spammers?  Is anyone else seeing  
this?

Re: lyx vs. winedt?

[James Sutherland]

On 1-May-08, at 7:42 AM, Neal Becker wrote:

I pointed one of my colleagues to lyx.  She showed me winedt, which  
she
uses.  I'm not sure what advantages one has over the other.  Any  
info on

this topic?





I suspect that the reaction you will get from virtually everyone on  
this list is that LyX is far superior to WinEdt or other fanciful text  
editors for LaTeX.  When you are talking about a text editor, you will  
find that each person has his/her own favorite (my personal favorite  
is Emacs).  All of these have plugins/macros to help make LaTeX  
editing simpler.  However, all such editors require a familiarity with  
LaTeX far beyond what LyX requires.


For the vast majority of common documents that one would need to  
prepare in LaTeX, LyX is a much better choice than simple text editors  
like WinEdt because it actually doesn't expose the bowels of LaTeX to  
the user.  But it has the distinct advantage over WYSIWYG word  
processing packages that it harnesses the power of LaTeX underneath.


James

Re: lyx vs. winedt?

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 01 May 2008 09:42, Neal Becker wrote:
> I pointed one of my colleagues to lyx.  She showed me winedt, which she
> uses.  I'm not sure what advantages one has over the other.  Any info on
> this topic?

First, winedt is a Windows only product. If your collegue is absolutely, 
positively certain she'll never use Linux or MacOS, even if Microsoft's next 
OS is even crummier than Vista, then that's not a problem.

The other thing is winedt and LyX are totally different animals. winedt is a 
text editor with which you code LaTeX. It has macros and buttons to make tag 
creation easier, and syntax coloring to make tag detection easier, but it's a 
text editor showing all the tags.

LyX is a much more WYSIWYG product (yeah, that's my story and I'm sticking to 
it). Unless you use ERT, there are no tags in the LyX authoring environment. 
For me, not having to mess with tags is essential to pounding out 2000 words 
per day.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: lyx vs. winedt?

[Neil Hepburn]

I use both, although now that I have mostly switched to Mac I don't  
use WinEdt much anymore. LyX is definitely more user friendly for most  
users new to TeX and LaTeX.  LyX has built in tools for tables and  
labelling as well as equations and so on that aren't really present in  
WinEdt since you are working with native LaTeX code.  Also, with LyX  
you get to see what your document looks like without compiling and it  
is a bit easier to read since LaTeX tags aren't visible in LyX.


For most things I prefer LyX now compared to LaTeX editors, such as  
WinEdt, TeXShop (Mac), and Kile (Linux).  That said, however, there  
are times where I find it easier to use a LaTeX editor if I have  
special formatting challenges. For example, when setting exams, I like  
to have different sections to the exam and then have the question  
numbering in each section carry on from the numbering in the previous  
section.  This is very difficult to do in LyX, but in LaTeX it is as  
simple as \setcounter{enumi}{}.  Overall, if I am  
really concerned about document structure and layout, then I often  
revert to a LaTeX editor. But if I want to simply write something  
(such as lecture notes or assignments), LyX is my preferred option.


-Neil

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On 1-May-08, at 7:42 AM, Neal Becker wrote:

I pointed one of my colleagues to lyx.  She showed me winedt, which  
she
uses.  I'm not sure what advantages one has over the other.  Any  
info on

this topic?

lyx vs. winedt?

[Neal Becker]

I pointed one of my colleagues to lyx.  She showed me winedt, which she
uses.  I'm not sure what advantages one has over the other.  Any info on
this topic?

Re: Linespread "one and a half"

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

NicoWinger wrote:
> So if I use scrartcl with onehalfspacing, it would be (about) 1.5 * 1.0? Or
> is the "normal" spacing 1.0 in Koma-Script? It looks smaller than out of
> MS-Word or OO Writer...

It depends on the font size. The "normal" spacings, as defined in the *.clo 
files, are 1.2 for 10pt, 1.236 for 11pt and 1.208 for 12pt (i.e., 12pt in 
10pt texts, 13.6pt in 11pt texts and 14.5pt in 12pt texts; "line spacing" 
means the empty space between the lines [leading] _plus_ the line height).

Onehalfspacing consequently changes the values to 15pt for 10pt texts (= 1.25 
* singlespacing), 16,5pt for 11pt texts (= 1.21 * singlespacing) and 18pt for 
12pt texts (1.24 * singlespacing).

If you want a line spacing value of 1.5 * singlespacing, use line 
spacing "Custom: 1.5". 

Jürgen