Re: (general doc issue)

1999-01-16 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Amir Karger writes: | intelligently in such cases? But doesn't url.sty make url's break | cleanly? I just looked at the docs for it, and it sort of looks | like we ought to be using it for any url's or email addresses in | the docs... Yes, we should. One of the reasons why the inseturl suppo

Re: slides (and general doc issue)

1999-01-15 Thread Peter Suetterlin
Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > [Whether to use ERT to fix the printed versino of the docs] > > Compromise between the two. > > I say - ignore the printed version. Well, I wouldn't completely ignore it, really. I know many people that prefer to read printed matter over staring at the screen.

Re: slides (and general doc issue)

1999-01-15 Thread John Weiss
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 05:17:55PM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > [Whether to use ERT to fix the printed version of the docs] > > Compromise between the two. > > I say - ignore the printed version. > > It's impossible to fix the manual to be nice to A4 and > US paper at the same time.

Re: slides (and general doc issue)

1999-01-14 Thread mressler
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, John Weiss wrote: > Compromise between the two. > ... > Get the idea? Loud and clear, oh grand poobah. (Good advice, actually.) Mods hopefully in a few days ... Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: slides (and general doc issue)

1999-01-14 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
[Whether to use ERT to fix the printed versino of the docs] > Compromise between the two. I say - ignore the printed version. It's impossible to fix the manual to be nice to A4 and US paper at the same time. Instead, try to think of ways that LyX could be more intelligent to fix this automatica

Re: slides (and general doc issue)

1999-01-14 Thread John Weiss
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 09:04:15AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > New documentation is always good, but it will affect the need for some of > the linebreaks. So my question is this: should the docs be biased for > clean reading within LyX, or for clean printing on paper? As former LyX-Doc-Gran

Re: (general doc issue) [and now a plea for sloppypar]

1999-01-11 Thread Garst R. Reese
Larry S. Marso wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 10:18:00AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > I personally use the teTeX-0.9 pretest versions > > Is there someone out there using teTeX-0.9 who wouldn't mind jotting > down a few observations about additional capabilities it offers Ly

Re: (general doc issue) [and now a plea for sloppypar]

1999-01-11 Thread mressler
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Larry S. Marso wrote: > Is there someone out there using teTeX-0.9 who wouldn't mind jotting > down a few observations about additional capabilities it offers LyX > users? The primary reason I use it is rather stupid - the version of xdvi included with it doesn't complain abo

Re: (general doc issue) [and now a plea for sloppypar]

1999-01-11 Thread Larry S. Marso
> On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 10:18:00AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I personally use the teTeX-0.9 pretest versions Is there someone out there using teTeX-0.9 who wouldn't mind jotting down a few observations about additional capabilities it offers LyX users? Best regards -- Larry S.

Re: (general doc issue) [and now a plea for sloppypar]

1999-01-11 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 10:18:00AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As a separate issue, is there a way to get LyX to linebreak intelligently in > > such cases? But doesn't url.sty make url's break cleanly? I just looked at the > > docs for it, and it sort of looks like we ought to be using it

Re: (general doc issue) [and now a plea for sloppypar]

1999-01-11 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 10:18:00AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Editors' Revolt to Trim ERT) and optimizing for LyX. > > Is this ERTERT? :-) Sure. Remember that I"m also a member of the Redundant Redundancy Reduction Committee. > url.sty is certainly one option, at least for the URLs

Re: (general doc issue) [and now a plea for sloppypar]

1999-01-11 Thread mressler
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > I certainly don't want to suggest that you were wasting your time when you did > this, but I feel it's not worth optimizing for printing for several > reasons. Okay - if no one else objects, I'm going to nuke all the ERT I put in. This goes with my gut f

Re: (general doc issue)

1999-01-11 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 09:04:15AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Cut and paste should be okay but raises another issue. My last doc > submissions included a lot of "by hand" linebreaking so things would print > well. This resulted in some ERT being inserted into various docs. I did > this hopi

Re: slides (and general doc issue)

1999-01-11 Thread mressler
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Unfortunately, things are not correct yet :( Your file is in fact > older than the latest revision of Extended.lyx from Mike... So I have > a question: can I just cut and paste the new section on slides in > place of the older one? [and take the