Re: How would LyX perform?

On 12/30/2021 8:46 AM, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users said on Mon, 27 Dec 2021 11:31:55 +0100 This has shocked me https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0115069 Would be interesting to see how LyX performs My first two books were w

Re: How would LyX perform?

On 12/27/2021 9:15 AM, Jose Ramom Flores das Seixas via lyx-users wrote: Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) I just read into it a bit and see no reason to look into it further: * It only compares performance in short texts *only short texts*. However, TeX's strengths

RE: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

From: Herbert Voss via lyx-users<mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2021 6:06 AM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org<mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Subject: Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX Am 16.12.21 um 22:12 schrieb Virgil Arrington via lyx-users: > > Starting with th

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

On 12/16/2021 3:17 PM, Herbert Voss via lyx-users wrote: Do _not_ load any font and choose an empty preanble, then Computer Modern is used for pdflatex and Latin Modern for lualatex/xelatex. And then you will see _no_ difference in the created pdf. I did as you said, and you are right; with al

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

On 12/16/2021 9:31 AM, Herbert Voss via lyx-users wrote: LuaTeX ,and XeTeX too, are more or less frozen code, just like TeX. Only bugs will be fixed. There are no good reasons _not_ to use LuaTeX instead of pdfTeX: I just performed an interesting experiment comparing the results from compiling

Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]

On 12/15/2021 8:47 AM, Rich Shepard via lyx-users wrote: I don't know about others, but I'm a touch-typist (thanks to the Army decades ago) and I use a laptop-size keyboard with my desktops. That's one reason I prefer to type. And, while many moons ago I objected to the devs that I found noth

Re: Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]

On 12/15/2021 7:46 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users wrote: Rich, Steve, that was a rhetorical question of course  :-)-O I do however find that whenever I find myself using ERT I always try and look for a LyX way to do it, because I don't like ERT :-)-O I do the same, but I think that Rich m

Re: beamer metropolis fonts

On 12/1/2021 10:06 AM, Neal Becker wrote: I've been using beamer with metropolis theme for some time now. The recommended font here is Fira. I've used: \setsansfont[ BoldFont={Fira Sans SemiBold}, ItalicFont={Fira Sans BookItalic}, BoldItalicFont={Fira Sans SemiBold Italic} ]{Fira Sans Book}

RE: END-OF-FRAME, once again..

From: Daniel Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 11:03 AM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: END-OF-FRAME, once again.. > However, if you look at the LaTeX source code, you see that the last two are not actually frames, i.e. the content

RE: END-OF-FRAME, once again..

> On 10/27/21 Ehud wrote: > On 10/27/21 11:03 AM, Daniel wrote: > Since both of you replied but didn't directly commented on my suggestion > (basically, use increased depth/indentation for stuff that should go on a > frame which makes the whole separator machinery unnecessary between frames),

RE: END-OF-FRAME, once again..

> From: UD K > I think that your experience confirms my feeling that it shouldn't HAVE to > be that hard. I agree; it shouldn’t be that hard. To me it would make sense to have the selection of the “Frame” environment automatically create a new slide without the n

RE: END-OF-FRAME, once again..

> From: UD K > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 6:39 AM > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Subject: Re: END-OF-FRAME, once again.. > Since I am the one who started this END-OF-FRAME discussion because of > my inability to do the simplest thi

RE: END-OF-FRAME, once again..

I always just put the cursor on a blank, unnested line at the end of a frame and hit . Virgil Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Original message From: Dr Eberhard Lisse Date: 10/14/21 5:45 AM (GMT-05:00) To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: END-OF-FRAME,

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

On 10/7/2021 9:44 PM, Alan Tyree wrote: Why is it so hard to get people to use styles? I worked recently with a friend to convert his Word document into an ePub. My advice is don't ever, ever do this! Even though I had advocated the use of styles, he had spent hours using direct formatting. A

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

On 10/7/2021 2:50 PM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Virgil, how could that work in ANY program ("dorward" compatibility)? But it's Open Source, just pull the latest version once out of beta. No doubt that is an easy solution with FOSS. But I recall a time when I once upgraded LyX on my Linux bo

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

On 10/6/2021 11:14 PM, Steve Litt wrote: After importing my 300 page book from MS Word to LibreOffice, I looked extensively in the menu system, in the help docs, and on the Internet to resolve my magically changing styles problem, all to no avail. LibreOffice is just fine if you don't use styles

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

On 10/5/2021 6:07 PM, Charlie wrote: Nor can I say sticking with all the eggs in one program basket is necessarily a good thing. But someone once said, "Linux, the lifetime learning experience" In my autumn years; believe this to be correct, and find it keeps my mind active. I began using comp

RE: LibreOffice to LyX

On October 4, Charlie wrote: > However, if I read this correctly Beamer is fine, even good. > However, your problem stated above, seems to be that you have to > do a lot of searching, reading and learning to get it to do > more than what is standard and easy? > Isn't that what you have to do if y

RE: LibreOffice to LyX

On October 3, Steve Litt (on the LyX User List) wrote: > Several times, on long wordprocessing documents, I personally have had > LibreOffice writer styles spontaneously change. At one point my > personal problem with LibreOffice style prevented me from convertin

Re: Aw: Re: Ligatures in the text

For what it's worth, Palatino was designed in such a way that it doesn't need "f" ligatures. Ligatures are used because the "f" clashes with the next letter. When Hermann Zapf designed Palatino, he designed the "f" in such a way that it doesn't clash into following letters; hence the "f" ligatu

Re: Figure numbering problem

I assume that you mean 2.0.1, and not 2.1. I don’t see a version 2.1 available on LyX’s website. I’m running Windows 7 on a Sony Vaio. I just installed version 2.0.1. I did NOT uninstall version 2.0.0 first. I just installed 2.0.1 in a separate subfolder in “\Program Files (x86)”. Both copies s

Re: Adjusting LyX to do things by default

Kenedy, Allow me to make a humble suggestion. Ask yourself, "Do I REALLY NEED change these defaults?" I've spent over a year wrestling with LyX and LaTeX to customize their defaults to my liking. I have learned a lot about how to do things. While you CAN achieve the results you want, you're

Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

Thanks for the caution. I rarely use footnotes, and can’t imagine putting a quote in one, so I think I’m okay. Virgil From: Richard Heck Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:41 PM To: Virgil Arrington Cc: lyx-users-group Subject: Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment On 10/19/2011 01

Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

\leftmargin% \setlength{\parsep}{1em}}% \item\relax} {\endlist} Thanks again. Virgil (I really should get a good LaTeX manual) From: Richard Heck Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 11:52 AM To: Virgil Arrington Cc: lyx-users-group Subject: Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment On

Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

When using the Quote environment with several consecutive paragraphs, I notice that the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs is narrower than the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs and the surrounding Standard paragraphs. I’d like to widen the spacing between successive Qu

Re: Engineering student considering LyX for Thesis

it more like ..." This was an excellent piece of documentation. I've used LyX ten years, and didn't know about the microtype package until reading about it in your document. Thank you! SteveT On Tuesday, October 18, 2011 12:41:35 PM Virgil Arrington wrote: If it's helpful, att

Re: Engineering student considering LyX for Thesis

Here's the LyX file. I've never used the Wiki, but I'll try to figure it out and post it there as well. Virgil Hi, Virgil, I enjoyed your booklet about LyX. Would you also share the lyx file with the community? That would be the best way of learning for a beginner. Lyx-Booklet.lyx Descr

encrypting files

Does anyone know if there is any way to encrypt .lyx files and protect them with a password? thanks

latex fonts

Miktex 2.9. When installing Miktex, I chose the option to install the complete distribution and it seems to have more fonts than are recognized by LyX. Thanks, Virgil Arrington

Re: Screen Paragraph Spacing and Fonts

I use Palatino Linotype on the screen. It has a slightly wider default line spacing and is very pleasing on both screen and paper. Virgil -Original Message- From: Greg Kise Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 3:36 PM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Screen Paragraph Spacing and Fonts

on-screen justification

I'm relatively new to LaTeX and LyX, so I have a question for the more experienced of you. One feature I find annoying is that, with LyX, if your text is justified for PDF output, the onscreen editing is also justified. I would prefer to write in a ragged right format while still preserving ju