Re: 2.4.0 for Debian stable

On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:53:40 +0200 Pavel Sanda wrote: > I have provisional agreement with debian maintainer that 2.4 will be > sooner or later backported to bookworm. But we were not aggresive > about timing so if you are no in hurry it will land, but probably > after 2.4.1. But maybe I can push

2.4.0 for Debian stable

Hello! Recently, after using Linux more than 25 years, mostly rolling/unstable distros/releases, I decided to settle on Debian stable (bookworm) and now I'm often enjoy "All packages are up to date." :-) However, Lyx's 2.4.0 release is exceptional and I wonder if there is some repository with

Re: grammar check

On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:16:37 + Bernt Lie via lyx-users wrote: > Not a perfect solution... > I copied text from LyX into Microsoft Edge co-pilot following [...] > -- I then copied the corrected text from MS Edge back into LyX. OK, that's similar to using LanguageTool/Andtidote or some

Re: grammar check

On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:56:43 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Does LyX have a Markdown export? Is it any better than LyX' HTML > export? I'm told about this: https://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ConvertMarkdown Sincerely, Saša -- The working senses are superior to dull matter; mind is higher than the senses;

grammar check

Hello, I've decided to do my note-taking (Zettelkasten) by just using pen & paper and when I want to produce some context I'll just use LyX - exporting to markdown when I want something for the web (using Tiki CMS) or LyX/LaTeX for writing articles (pdfs), slide-presentations, books… However,

Re: speaker notes & Beamer

On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 18:27:36 + tush via lyx-users wrote: > Try Présentation: > http://iihm.imag.fr/blanch/software/osx-presentation/ It looks like Mac OS only? Sincerely, Saša -- What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled; and the time of awakening

Re: speaker notes & Beamer

On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 10:26:01 -0500 Scott Kostyshak wrote: > In LyX, a "Beamer note" is just an inset, so it is saved in the .lyx > file as any inset (e.g., like a URL inset or a Note inset). There is > also a Note environment, and it is saved like any environment. Aha, that's good to know.

Re: embedding video in Beamer

On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 16:28:46 +0100 "Jürgen Spitzmüller" wrote: > I've good experience with the pdfpc presenting software in combination > with the pdfpc-movie latex package: Wow! You're my saviour!! > > https://pdfpc.github.io/ > > https://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfpc-movie It really does work.

Re: speaker notes & Beamer

On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 07:46:17 -0500 Scott Kostyshak wrote: Hello Scott, > On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 01:07:03PM +0100, Saša Janiška wrote: > I've heard great things about pdfpc and also Pympress. For Pympress, > then notes are embedded in the .pdf file themselves (by adding a > rig

embedding video in Beamer

Hello! Is it possible to embed video file in Beamer PDF presentation prepared with LyX which is suppsed to be presented from Linux (Debian)? What about using Windows OS for presenting from USB stick? In the archived I've found one message recommendeding to convert video file from *.mp4 to

speaker notes & Beamer

Hello, I need to put together one presentation and wonder how to deal with the speaker notes in Beamer? Are they visible in Linux PDF viewers like Atril/Evince or Acrobat if I'd just copy presentation on USB stick to present under Windows OS? One option for presenting might be to use

Lyx & Tectonic

Hello, the other day I was reading about Tectonic (https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/) and wonder if LyX could take advantage of it? Sincerely, Saša -- One who restrains the senses of action but whose mind dwells on sense objects certainly deludes himself and is called a

Re: LyZ can't be installed

On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 15:31:00 +0200 Saša Janiška via lyx-users wrote: > but it can't be installed on Firefox Someone off the list corrected my stupidity - it is supposed to be installed under Zotero. :-) Obviously, too many things on plate at the moment. :-) > Sincerely, > Gour --

LyZ can't be installed

Hello, I'll do my note-taking using pen, but want to keep bibliography in Zotero and use BBT. In order to be able to use my database, I looked at LyZ extension, but it can't be installed on Firefox (https://github.com/wshanks/lyz/issues/42), so wonder if there is some other way to easy insertion

using LanguageTool with LyX

Hello, I'd like to check my documents with the LanguageTool. There is support for it for different editors and LaTeX via LTeX Language Server (https://github.com/valentjn/ltex-ls), but wonder if there is something to add support for LyX? In the Wiki there is info

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 08:58:37 +0100 Herbert Voss wrote: > LuaHBTeX   (HB for HarfBuzz) is the default engine for lualatex > Thank you since I was not aware of it despite it is being installed on my Debian machine. Otherwise, I was aware of LuaTeX since I was considering to use ConTeXt instead

LuaTeX vs XeTeX

Hello, just curious which engine do you recommend to be used with Lyx: LuaTeX or XeTeX? Sincerely, Gour -- In the material world, one who is unaffected by whatever good or evil he may obtain, neither praising it nor despising it, is firmly fixed in perfect knowledge. -- lyx-users mailing

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 23:14:10 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: Hello from Croatia and thank you for very informative and inspiring thread? > LibreOffice is just fine if you don't use styles, but who would not > use styles when working with a large document? > > Working with LibreOffice reminds me of

Re: best route for org-mode --> LyX

On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 19:42:04 +0200 Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > Creating a template which exports LaTeX that translates 1-1 to LyX > has been done and been discussed here recently. OK, will take a look in the archive. Sincerely, Gour -- As a strong wind sweeps away a boat on the water, even

Re: best route for org-mode --> LyX

On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 19:43:41 +0100 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I know that org-mode can export to LaTeX. LyX can import that. > Assuming that you know how to export org-mode to latex by command > line, it would not be difficult to create an org-mode importer. I know that, but wonder if

best route for org-mode --> LyX

Hello, I'm about to start taking notees using org-roam (https://www.orgroam.com/) to be used for articles/presentations along with the Bib(la)tex bibliography. Considering that org-roam is depending on Emacs' org-mode, I wonder what would be recommended way to utilize those notes and use them in

Re: Markdown to Lyx

On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 12:27:14 +0700 Murat Yildizoglu wrote: > I have now created the WiKi page: > https://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ConvertMarkdown Thanks a lot! After deciding to use LyX as my main non-coding editor, that's just what I need. :-) Sincerely, Gour -- It is far better to discharge

Re: How to avoid RCS and use git always?

On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:15:17 +0100 Matěj Cepl wrote: > I am trying to persuade my wife to start using VCS for her > documents, and avoid pressing her to use command line for it. Have you considered to persuade her to use Fossil (https://fossil-scm.org) which is, imho, much safer/easier option?

Re: LaTeX Error: File `symbols.tex' not found

On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 15:19:50 +0200 Kornel Benko wrote: > It must be one of your private files. > Nothing to be found in texlive ... Ahh, thanks a lot!! I completely forgot about it...and was not working with LyX/LaTeX for quite some time considering to possibly switch to ConTeXt. > Probably

LaTeX Error: File `symbols.tex' not found

Hello, I am trying to typeset some old study notes of mine - document consisting of master document and several chapters, but I get the error mentioned in the Subject: The snippet of the log file is: [...] Package hyperref Info: Hyper figures OFF on input line 6411. Package hyperref Info: Link

Re: LyX --> markdown

On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 21:49:21 -0400 Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > But...LyX 2.4 will have much improved DocBook output, thanks to our new > contributor Thibault. Basically, he has made it possible for ANY document to > be output as DocBook (much as any document can be output as HTML). At least >

Re: LyX --> markdown

On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 03:05:21 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > One man's opinion: If you don't need write once display everywhere, > use LyX for PDF and Bluefish for HTML. Bluefish is still alive? Amazing! > Life will be much simpler, and your HTML will be much less junkified. I still think about

Re: LyX --> markdown

On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 05:38:56 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: Hello, > I wouldn't. You'd lose a heck of a lot of semantics going from LyX, > which allows all the arbitrary paragraph and character styles you > need, to Markdown, whose motto is "my way or the highway." I see..although for simple articles

Re: LyX --> markdown

On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 05:42:18 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: Hello Steve, > Could you please share the shellscript with which you converted LyX to > HTML via Pandoc and Markdown? I'll try it, and if it works well for my > purposes, I'll use it and quit griping about LyX' horrible HTML > export. Well,

Re: LyX --> markdown

On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:32:19 +0200 Peter GAAL wrote: > Once pandoc installed, it’s > fairly easy to define a markdown converter based on it. In LyX, that > configuration is done in /Tools› Preferences› File Handling › File > Formats/ respectively

Re: LyX --> markdown

On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:32:19 +0200 Peter GAAL wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 12:47:13 -0400 Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > or LyX's XHTML export. I'd suggest you experiment with both and see what > works best. (I'll guess the latter.) Triedthe letter and it works very nicely, although it's

LyX --> markdown

Hello! More than 20 yrs ago I did a 2-part full-fledged books using LyX/LaTeX/xindy and akthough in the meantime I was experimenting with several light markups (Asciidoc, rst, markdown..) now I'd čike to write all my study notes, articels, blog posts, slide-show presentations...using LyX editor,

Re: using unicode instead of marvosym symbols

On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 19:05:00 +0200 Ricardo Berlasso wrote: > After setting your document to use XeTeX and choosing an appropriate > font, in the Preamble write something like this > > \newcommand{\Name}{\symbol{"}} > > > where is the corresponding Unicode hex code. Now, on your >

using unicode instead of marvosym symbols

Hello, I plan to start using LyX for writing my study notes where the content requires lot of astro symbols. In the past I was using marvosym font/package and writing e.g. \Sun \Aries etc. Now I'd like to use Unicode symbols instead of marvosym and wonder what would be the optimal way to do it