1.0.0pre8 - newbie's first reactions

1999-01-23 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
I want to make high level comments on 1.0.0pre8. This is long (sorry). First, my background. I've used latex exactly twice - once for my resume and the other time for my Master's thesis. I assumed emacs's latex-mode was as good as it got. I've never used lyx before two days ago. I use unixen (spe

1.0.0pre8 - newbie's first reactions

1999-01-23 Thread Ronald Florence
Jeff Breidenbach writes: I assumed emacs's latex-mode was as good as it got. [...] I tried 1.0.0pre8 for the first time [...] and loved the search and replace tool. I apologize to Jeff for editing his comments so brutally. After using LyX for almost a year, and after many years of Auc

Re: 1.0.0pre8 - newbie's first reactions

1999-01-23 Thread Joerg Zieren
ron wrote: >Some features I'd like to see in LyX search and replace: [...] Talking about the search function: I don't remember if it was with pre2 or pre7 that footnotes and margin notes were not searched unless they happened to be open. I guess this is rather a bug than a feature ;) -- J

Re: 1.0.0pre8 - newbie's first reactions

1999-01-24 Thread Florian Cramer
Am Sat, 23.Jan.1999 um 10:50:22 -0500 schrieb Ronald Florence: > Some features I'd like to see in LyX search and replace: > > - regular expressions; > > - search multiple files, like all of the chapters of a book project; > > - initiate a search, find next, search backwards,replace yes/n

Re: 1.0.0pre8 - newbie's first reactions

1999-01-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Joerg" == Joerg Zieren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joerg> ron wrote: >> Some features I'd like to see in LyX search and replace: Joerg> [...] Joerg> Talking about the search function: I don't remember if it was Joerg> with pre2 or pre7 that footnotes and margin notes were not Joerg> sear

Re: 1.0.0pre8 - newbie's first reactions

1999-01-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Florian" == Florian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Florian> Am Sat, 23.Jan.1999 um 10:50:22 -0500 schrieb Ronald Florian> Florence: >> Some features I'd like to see in LyX search and replace: >> >> - regular expressions; >> >> - search multiple files, like all of the chapters of a bo

Re: 1.0.0pre8 - newbie's first reactions

1999-01-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jeff" == Jeff Breidenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> So, I tried 1.0.0pre8 for the first time. It autoconfigured and Jeff> compiled beautifully. It ran beautifully and was intuitive and Jeff> simple. It was easy for me to bang out a document, even though I Jeff> was totally rusty on

Re: 1.0.0pre8 - newbie's first reactions

1999-01-25 Thread Reuben Thomas
> Jeff> I do suggest, that for the majority of the > Jeff> people who try lyx, that the screen fonts shouldn't look blocky > Jeff> when lyx is first run. I'm guessing this is something to be > Jeff> addressed by the linux distributions or in RPMs or something. I > Jeff> want to emphasize that the

Re: 1.0.0pre8 - newbie's first reactions

1999-01-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Reuben" == Reuben Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> I do suggest, that for the majority of the people who try lyx, Jeff> that the screen fonts shouldn't look blocky when lyx is first Jeff> run. I'm guessing this is something to be addressed by the linux Jeff> distributions or in RPM

Re: 1.0.0pre8 - newbie's first reactions

1999-01-25 Thread Reuben Thomas
> Well, since you can do it direclty at lyxrc level, I am not sure it is > necessary... But doesn't LyX stop scaling *all* fonts if you turn scaling off? This trick *only* stops scaling bitmap fonts. -- www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rrt1001/ | maxim, n. wisdom for fools -- +++ the l

Re: 1.0.0pre8 - newbie's first reactions

1999-01-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Reuben" == Reuben Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Well, since you can do it direclty at lyxrc level, I am not sure it >> is necessary... Reuben> But doesn't LyX stop scaling *all* fonts if you turn scaling Reuben> off? This trick *only* stops scaling bitmap fonts. You are right, of