Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-17 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Ken Springer wrote: > NeoOffice exports LaTeX Being able to exchange Word docs when I need to > is a concern of mine. I don't know how much I'll need it, but I don't want > to have to jump through hoops to get it done. > Then I guess you're out of luck here.

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-17 Thread Ken Springer
On 8/17/13 2:57 PM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: I am using it for most everything in my private practice as an Obstetrician and Gynecologist. Letters, Operation Reports, Medical Certificates, Prescriptions, even third party forms (which I recreated), and of course presentations with Beamer. I use

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-17 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 07:30:43 -0600 "Ken Springer snowsh...@q.com" sent this: >I'm always looking for software that fits me better, giving me the >output I'm looking for. I use it for just about everything letters, notes, articles and anything that doesn't need fancy fonts for the output, a

Re: [Formating?]

2013-08-17 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 18/08/2013 4:44 a.m., Ignacio Martinez wrote: When I start a new paragraph after some "LyX-Code" text, that new paragraph is not indented. Pleas help!!! On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Ignacio Martinez mailto:ignaci...@gmail.com>> wrote: I just needed to add this to my preamble:

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I am using it for most everything in my private practice as an Obstetrician and Gynecologist. Letters, Operation Reports, Medical Certificates, Prescriptions, even third party forms (which I recreated), and of course presentations with Beamer. I use NeoOffice to import Word documents, export them

Re: Fonts antialiasing (RGB vs. grayscale)

2013-08-17 Thread Dmitry Zotikov
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Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-17 Thread Ken Springer
On 8/17/13 12:13 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: Sat, 17 Aug 2013, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: I'm interested in knowing what users of LyX think of the idea of using it as a general word processor, instead of MS Word, Libre Office, Apple's Pages, etc. Minuses: Much more difficult to cre

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
Sat, 17 Aug 2013, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: I'm interested in knowing what users of LyX think of the idea of using it as a general word processor, instead of MS Word, Libre Office, Apple's Pages, etc. Minuses: Much more difficult to create/change paragraph styles and character

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-17 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: > Minuses: Much more difficult to create/change paragraph styles and > character styles than in MSWord or LibreOffice. > - LaTeX errors may become a nightmare if you don't know how to deal with them. Liviu

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-17 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 07:30:43 -0600 Ken Springer wrote: > I'm always looking for software that fits me better, giving me the > output I'm looking for. > > I'm interested in knowing what users of LyX think of the idea of > using it as a general word processor, instead of MS Word, Libre > Office,

Re: [Formating?]

2013-08-17 Thread Ignacio Martinez
When I start a new paragraph after some "LyX-Code" text, that new paragraph is not indented. Pleas help!!! On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Ignacio Martinez wrote: > I just needed to add this to my preamble: > > \usepackage{indentfirst} > > \raggedright > > \setlength{\parindent}{1.0cm} > > >

Re: [Formating?]

2013-08-17 Thread Ignacio Martinez
I just needed to add this to my preamble: \usepackage{indentfirst} \raggedright \setlength{\parindent}{1.0cm} On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Ignacio Martinez wrote: > Hi, > > I need to change some formatting to meet some formal requirements. > > 1. Need the first paragraph of each section

Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-17 Thread Ken Springer
I'm always looking for software that fits me better, giving me the output I'm looking for. I'm interested in knowing what users of LyX think of the idea of using it as a general word processor, instead of MS Word, Libre Office, Apple's Pages, etc. Pluses? Minuses? -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.4 F

[Formating?]

2013-08-17 Thread Ignacio Martinez
Hi, I need to change some formatting to meet some formal requirements. 1. Need the first paragraph of each section to be indented, just like every other paragraph is. 2. I need the document to not justify the right margin. Any idea how to do this? Thanks!