OT: hilarious use of WYSIWYG wrt Facebook

Dear all, This is completely off-topic, but I found hilarious the use of WYSIWYG in the context of Facebook vs real-life encounters: They found that the most common emotion aroused by using Facebook is envy. Endlessly comparing themselves with peers who have doctored their photographs, amplified

Re: Error in new beta lyx

Am Sonntag 18 August 2013, 12:26:50 schrieb Aliabbas Petiwala: While my lyx projects in version LyX 2.0.5.1 http://www.lyx.org/News#item5 (jan2013 release ) are compiling without error or warning , but in the new beta version I get following error, also in other versions after 2.0.5.1 I am

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

Ken, On 2013-08-18 01:28 , 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. I'm not too sure about how well the RTF

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

I like Koma-Script for most everything which is very easy to tweak. But, the LaTeX requirement is a strength, rather than a weakness, in my view, forcing a certain structure for most cases. el On 2013-08-17 23:38 , Charlie wrote: [...] Pluses, minuses? Don't know what they mean? I think

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On 8/18/13 3:15 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Ken, ROTFLHMSBAHPIMP OK, this one has me stumped! LOL -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.4 Firefox 23.0 Thunderbird 17.0.8 LibreOffice 4.1.04

Re: Citation style

Am Friday, 16. August 2013, 19:38:09 schrieb Richard Heck: Thanks for the responses. What I actually would like to have is an example template of the Springer publisher (sv) svmult (multiple authors), which hopefully contains also the required citing and referencing style. This is not

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

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? Since I've started

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On 08/18/2013 04:24 PM, Wolfgang Keller 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, Apple's Pages, etc.

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On Aug 18, 2013 5:10 PM, David L. Johnson d...@lehigh.edu wrote: ... For my papers it is of course ideal. Math journals all accept (prefer) LaTeX source, and they can change margins and other style tweaks with their own style files --- so I don't have to worry about it. Two of our best journals

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On 8/18/13 5:02 PM, Chris Menzel wrote: On Aug 18, 2013 5:10 PM, David L. Johnson d...@lehigh.edu mailto:d...@lehigh.edu wrote: ... For my papers it is of course ideal. Math journals all accept (prefer) LaTeX source, and they can change margins and other style tweaks with their own style

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On 08/18/2013 09:26 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 8/18/13 5:02 PM, Chris Menzel wrote: On Aug 18, 2013 5:10 PM, David L. Johnson d...@lehigh.edu mailto:d...@lehigh.edu wrote: ... For my papers it is of course ideal. Math journals all accept (prefer) LaTeX source, and they can change margins and

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 19:02:31 -0400 Chris Menzel chris.men...@gmail.com wrote: Two of our best journals in philosophy -- journals that regularly publish rather technical papers -- require final versions of accepted papers be submitted in Word. Transcribing a fairly technical 30 page paper I'd

OT: hilarious use of WYSIWYG wrt Facebook

Dear all, This is completely off-topic, but I found hilarious the use of WYSIWYG in the context of Facebook vs real-life encounters: They found that the most common emotion aroused by using Facebook is envy. Endlessly comparing themselves with peers who have doctored their photographs, amplified

Re: Error in new beta lyx

Am Sonntag 18 August 2013, 12:26:50 schrieb Aliabbas Petiwala: While my lyx projects in version LyX 2.0.5.1 http://www.lyx.org/News#item5 (jan2013 release ) are compiling without error or warning , but in the new beta version I get following error, also in other versions after 2.0.5.1 I am

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

Ken, On 2013-08-18 01:28 , 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. I'm not too sure about how well the RTF

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

I like Koma-Script for most everything which is very easy to tweak. But, the LaTeX requirement is a strength, rather than a weakness, in my view, forcing a certain structure for most cases. el On 2013-08-17 23:38 , Charlie wrote: [...] Pluses, minuses? Don't know what they mean? I think

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On 8/18/13 3:15 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Ken, ROTFLHMSBAHPIMP OK, this one has me stumped! LOL -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.4 Firefox 23.0 Thunderbird 17.0.8 LibreOffice 4.1.04

Re: Citation style

Am Friday, 16. August 2013, 19:38:09 schrieb Richard Heck: Thanks for the responses. What I actually would like to have is an example template of the Springer publisher (sv) svmult (multiple authors), which hopefully contains also the required citing and referencing style. This is not

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

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? Since I've started

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On 08/18/2013 04:24 PM, Wolfgang Keller 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, Apple's Pages, etc.

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On Aug 18, 2013 5:10 PM, David L. Johnson d...@lehigh.edu wrote: ... For my papers it is of course ideal. Math journals all accept (prefer) LaTeX source, and they can change margins and other style tweaks with their own style files --- so I don't have to worry about it. Two of our best journals

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On 8/18/13 5:02 PM, Chris Menzel wrote: On Aug 18, 2013 5:10 PM, David L. Johnson d...@lehigh.edu mailto:d...@lehigh.edu wrote: ... For my papers it is of course ideal. Math journals all accept (prefer) LaTeX source, and they can change margins and other style tweaks with their own style

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On 08/18/2013 09:26 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 8/18/13 5:02 PM, Chris Menzel wrote: On Aug 18, 2013 5:10 PM, David L. Johnson d...@lehigh.edu mailto:d...@lehigh.edu wrote: ... For my papers it is of course ideal. Math journals all accept (prefer) LaTeX source, and they can change margins and

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 19:02:31 -0400 Chris Menzel chris.men...@gmail.com wrote: Two of our best journals in philosophy -- journals that regularly publish rather technical papers -- require final versions of accepted papers be submitted in Word. Transcribing a fairly technical 30 page paper I'd

OT: hilarious use of WYSIWYG wrt Facebook

Dear all, This is completely off-topic, but I found hilarious the use of WYSIWYG in the context of Facebook vs real-life encounters: "They found that the most common emotion aroused by using Facebook is envy. Endlessly comparing themselves with peers who have doctored their photographs, amplified

Re: Error in new beta lyx

Am Sonntag 18 August 2013, 12:26:50 schrieb Aliabbas Petiwala: > While my lyx projects in version LyX 2.0.5.1 > (jan2013 > release ) are compiling without error or warning , but in the new beta > version I get following error, also in other versions after 2.0.5.1 I

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

Ken, On 2013-08-18 01:28 , 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. > I'm not too sure about how well the

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

I like Koma-Script for most everything which is very easy to tweak. But, the LaTeX requirement is a strength, rather than a weakness, in my view, "forcing" a certain structure for most cases. el On 2013-08-17 23:38 , Charlie wrote: [...] > Pluses, minuses? Don't know what they mean? I think

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On 8/18/13 3:15 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Ken, ROTFLHMSBAHPIMP OK, this one has me stumped! LOL -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.4 Firefox 23.0 Thunderbird 17.0.8 LibreOffice 4.1.04

Re: Citation style

Am Friday, 16. August 2013, 19:38:09 schrieb Richard Heck: Thanks for the responses. What I actually would like to have is an example template of the Springer publisher (sv) svmult (multiple authors), which hopefully contains also the required citing and referencing style. This is not

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

> 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? Since I've

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On 08/18/2013 04:24 PM, Wolfgang Keller 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, Apple's Pages, etc.

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On Aug 18, 2013 5:10 PM, "David L. Johnson" wrote: >... > For my papers it is of course ideal. Math journals all accept (prefer) LaTeX source, and they can change margins and other style tweaks with their own style files --- so I don't have to worry about it. Two of our best

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On 8/18/13 5:02 PM, Chris Menzel wrote: On Aug 18, 2013 5:10 PM, "David L. Johnson" > wrote: >... > For my papers it is of course ideal. Math journals all accept (prefer) LaTeX source, and they can change margins and other style tweaks with their own

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On 08/18/2013 09:26 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 8/18/13 5:02 PM, Chris Menzel wrote: On Aug 18, 2013 5:10 PM, "David L. Johnson" > wrote: >... > For my papers it is of course ideal. Math journals all accept (prefer) LaTeX source, and they can change

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 19:02:31 -0400 Chris Menzel wrote: > Two of our best journals in philosophy -- journals that regularly > publish rather technical papers -- require final versions of accepted > papers be submitted in Word. Transcribing a fairly technical 30 page >