Problem using thesis template

2013-10-26 Thread fork
Hi all, Is there a step-by-step guide to using the thesis template? I tried "new from template" with thesis, then rendering the document before changing anything. I get "undefined control sequence" error. I am using Lyx 2.0.4, and have to continue with it for various reasons. Also running F

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-26 Thread Ken Springer
On 10/26/13 1:25 PM, John Coppens wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:53:35 -0600 Ken Springer wrote: But, as I wrote in news://news.gmane.org:119/l4bi37$vh$1...@ger.gmane.org, if I help by reporting bugs I find in a program, assuming that reporting is requested by developers, shouldn't there be som

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-26 Thread Ernesto Posse
Ken, you are not the one doing the fixing. The ones doing the fixing are the ones deserving of gratitude and the ones doing the real work, far more than the ones reporting the bugs. Reporting bugs (politely) is always appreciated. Reporting bugs while insulting, and trashing the *volunteer* work an

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-26 Thread Ken Springer
On 10/26/13 10:17 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:53:35 -0600 Ken Springer wrote: I'm not a programmer, learned many years ago that is not for me. But I did contribute, for free, to writing the help files of a commercial program for a platform now long gone. But, as I wrote in n

Re: "Canned" Beamer

2013-10-26 Thread gordon_cooper
Thanks Liviu, Your reply confirms my thinking that Beamer would need to be integrated into a recording system. I worked in this field years ago, when we made graphics by pasting symbols on to a background, or drew them by hand. Presentations were a sequence of 35mm slides,

Re: "Canned" Beamer

2013-10-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:28 PM, gordon_cooper wrote: > Has anybody used slide sequences produced with > Beamer in conjunction with a recorded audio track? > It would be possible, I suppose, to create the Beamer presentation, then display it full-screen and make some audio commentary, while recor

"Canned" Beamer

2013-10-26 Thread gordon_cooper
Has anybody used slide sequences produced with Beamer in conjunction with a recorded audio track? Gordon Tauranga N.Z.

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-26 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:53:35 -0600 Ken Springer wrote: > But, as I wrote in news://news.gmane.org:119/l4bi37$vh$1...@ger.gmane.org, > if I help by reporting bugs I find in a program, assuming that reporting > is requested by developers, shouldn't there be some thanks shown by > fixing the bug?

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-26 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 10:32:05 +1300 John O'Gorman wrote: > On 26/10/13 04:12, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > > On Oct 25, 2013, at 2:49 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > > > > For me, LyX is in fact a killer app, in the sense that it has killed any > > need or desire to have an affair, a one night s

Re: how to center a wide table float

2013-10-26 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all, > I've been battling with this issue for a couple of weeks now, and > today I finally found a solution. > > I have a document with some (very) wide table floats (which are also > long enough to fit the height of the 'portrait' pag

Re: Grafik in Beamer slides

2013-10-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Uwe Ade wrote: > Hello > > sorry Iam no native englisch speaker. I don´t understand „put in a float“ . > Are there a german speaking reader, who can say which menu this in the german > version is? > Try Insert > Float > Figure. (But I can't help with the exact Ge

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-26 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Hal Kierstead wrote: > > On Oct 26, 2013, at 9:25 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > >> On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:49:13 +0200 >> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> >>> 25/10/2013 02:37, Ken Springer: Just a question, does viable equate something that will be successful

Re: Grafik in Beamer slides

2013-10-26 Thread Uwe Ade
Hello sorry Iam no native englisch speaker. I don´t understand „put in a float“ . Are there a german speaking reader, who can say which menu this in the german version is? Thanks uwe Am 26.10.2013 um 20:40 schrieb Liviu Andronic : > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Uwe Ade wrote: >> Hello >

Re: Grafik in Beamer slides

2013-10-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Uwe Ade wrote: > Hello > > im using Beamer to show my work. Presenting Text and getting a Toc works > wonderful. But i had some problems to put pictures in my slides. I Searched > with google but i found no good solution. Are there a good (right) way to put > pi

Grafik in Beamer slides

2013-10-26 Thread Uwe Ade
Hello im using Beamer to show my work. Presenting Text and getting a Toc works wonderful. But i had some problems to put pictures in my slides. I Searched with google but i found no good solution. Are there a good (right) way to put pictures in Beamerslides? Is there anywhere a good Instructio

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-26 Thread Hal Kierstead
On Oct 26, 2013, at 9:25 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:49:13 +0200 > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> 25/10/2013 02:37, Ken Springer: >>> Just a question, does viable equate something that will be >>> successful in the long run? >> >> It is already successful. We have users,

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 11:28:44 +1300 Bryan Baldwin wrote: > On 10/26/2013 02:08 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote: > > And that may be the origin of the problem, SINCE IN ALL CAPS IT IS > > PLAIN UNREADABLE AND THUS NO ONE WILL ACTUALLY READ IT. > > That's backwards. Its part of the solution. It doesn't m

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:49:13 +0200 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > 25/10/2013 02:37, Ken Springer: > > Just a question, does viable equate something that will be > > successful in the long run? > > It is already successful. We have users, LyX continues to advance, > although at a frustratingly sl

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:53:35 -0600 Ken Springer wrote: > I'm not a programmer, learned many years ago that is not for me. But > I did contribute, for free, to writing the help files of a commercial > program for a platform now long gone. > > But, as I wrote in > news://news.gmane.org:119/l4bi3

lyx- list group

2013-10-26 Thread Jaka Aminata
Dear Lyx Group, Would you please make a mailing list  for me. Thank you, Jaka