F/OSS software choices: was Creating a statement of account

2017-12-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 12:47:51 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote: > Grahame, > >And that's one of the reasons we run F/OSS software: choices. > There are always multiple ways of accomplishing any task. Quoted For Truth! The absolute truth! Choice and DIY-ability (which is another aspect of choi

Re: Issues with version control

2017-12-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 25 Dec 2017, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: it seems to want to use ci (which means rcs).. el, 'ci' is also a git alias for 'commit' and works on the command line. Since I use git for my programming (python, grass, R, sql) saving versions using the CLI is fine with me. Regards, Rich

Re: Issues with version control

2017-12-24 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Rich, it seems to want to use ci (which means rcs).. el On 2017-12-24 00:36 , Rich Shepard wrote: >   I _thought_ I had set up version control using GIT. Checking in the > document after adding text now generates an error (see attached .png). > >   Turns out that there was no .git repository in

Re: Creating a statement of account

2017-12-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017, Grahame Blackwood wrote: When I started using Scrivener, I didn't know about gnumeric or spreadtab, but I've had Scrivener to hand (for about 30 years) and I used it to do spreadsheety arithmetic in plain text files and in the last 10 years in .tex files. This made it possib

Re: Creating a statement of account

2017-12-24 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi Rich When I started using Scrivener, I didn't know about gnumeric or spreadtab, but I've had Scrivener to hand (for about 30 years) and I used it to do spreadsheety arithmetic in plain text files and in the last 10 years in .tex files. This made it possible for me to have typeset documents cont

Re: chktex [RESOLVED]

2017-12-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017, Steve Litt wrote: Rich, now that you've resolved it, let me ask this: Do you fix every warning thrown by chktex? I ran it on one of my books, I got 108 warnings, with warning codes 1, 11, 12, 13, 23, 26, 38 and 39. Steve, I looked but need to resolve the preamble issue

Re: Setting default class preamble

2017-12-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017, Kornel Benko wrote: You have once set the document defaults to KOMA-Script letter2. To change this default behaviour: Open a new document. Set all what you want to have if you open a new document later. Save as document defaults. (Doc

Re: Setting default class preamble

2017-12-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Check ~/.lyx/templates/defaults.lyx. That's the document class (and settings) that LyX clones whenever you start a new document (File > New). Paul, OK. That explains it. There's only 1 premable in defaults.lyx and it's for the letter class. This pa

Re: Setting default class preamble

2017-12-24 Thread Kornel Benko
Am Sonntag, 24. Dezember 2017 um 09:30:34, schrieb Rich Shepard >I've dug a hole and need to learn how to climb out. > >For a reason I cannot find the preamble for every document class reverts > to that for a KOMA-Script letter2 document. Looking in ~/.lyx I don't see > why this happens.

Re: Creating a statement of account

2017-12-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 09:10:25 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote: >I recently learned that I could use gnumeric to track retainer > payments and draws and have the results automatically reflected in > the LyX article's table, but that involves another application. The > spreadtab package will do t

Re: chktex [RESOLVED]

2017-12-24 Thread Kornel Benko
Am Sonntag, 24. Dezember 2017 um 08:58:22, schrieb Rich Shepard > On Sun, 24 Dec 2017, Kornel Benko wrote: > > > Nonetheless it would be helpful for us too, to have an MWE showing this > > behaviour. > > Kornel, > >I no longer have a file that shows the behavior, believe that I know what >

Re: chktex [RESOLVED]

2017-12-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 06:51:57 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2017, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > > I mentioned modules in my first email so I'm assuming you already > > checked modules as the source of discrepancy. > > > > If you send us a minimal example, we can take a look. >

Re: Setting default class preamble

2017-12-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 12/24/2017 12:30 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: I've dug a hole and need to learn how to climb out.   For a reason I cannot find the preamble for every document class reverts to that for a KOMA-Script letter2 document. Looking in ~/.lyx I don't see why this happens. Check ~/.lyx/templates/defaults

Setting default class preamble

2017-12-24 Thread Rich Shepard
I've dug a hole and need to learn how to climb out. For a reason I cannot find the preamble for every document class reverts to that for a KOMA-Script letter2 document. Looking in ~/.lyx I don't see why this happens. I exported the book I'm writing as a .txt file; it has no preamble inform

Re: Creating a statement of account

2017-12-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017, Grahame Blackwood wrote: I don't use Lyx for invoices or any documents with calculations in them. Instead I use Latex usually (depending on what I am doing) with the letter class adapted for window envelopes and my header. Latex takes care of the typesetting and a program ca

Re: chktex [RESOLVED]

2017-12-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017, Kornel Benko wrote: Nonetheless it would be helpful for us too, to have an MWE showing this behaviour. Kornel, I no longer have a file that shows the behavior, believe that I know what happened. Now I need to figure out how to prevent this behavior in the future. Del

Re: Creating a statement of account

2017-12-24 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi Rich I don't use Lyx for invoices or any documents with calculations in them. Instead I use Latex usually (depending on what I am doing) with the letter class adapted for window envelopes and my header. Latex takes care of the typesetting and a program called Scrivener looks after the arithmet

Re: chktex [RESOLVED]

2017-12-24 Thread Kornel Benko
Am Sonntag, 24. Dezember 2017 um 06:51:57, schrieb Rich Shepard > On Sat, 23 Dec 2017, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > > I mentioned modules in my first email so I'm assuming you already checked > > modules as the source of discrepancy. > > > > If you send us a minimal example, we can take a look. >

Re: chktex [RESOLVED]

2017-12-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 23 Dec 2017, Scott Kostyshak wrote: I mentioned modules in my first email so I'm assuming you already checked modules as the source of discrepancy. If you send us a minimal example, we can take a look. Scott, Yes, I checked the modules. I resolved the issue by creating a new doc