Conditional printing and formatting

2007-09-21 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, I want to create a document that contains different printing options for certain paragraphs. For example, let's say I have a series of questions and answers, I want to produce three types of output: 1. A question followed by the answer. 2. Only show the questions. 3. Only show the

Re: Conditional printing and formatting

2007-09-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, I want to create a document that contains different printing options for certain paragraphs. For example, let's say I have a series of questions and answers, I want to produce three types of output: 1. A question followed by the answer. 2. Only show the

Re: Conditional printing and formatting

2007-09-21 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, I want to create a document that contains different printing options for certain paragraphs. For example, let's say I have a series of questions and answers, I want to produce three types of output: 1. A question followed by the answer. 2.

Re: Conditional printing and formatting

2007-09-21 Thread Laurent Duperval
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:34:00 -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Branches handles most if not all of this. See section 6.4 of the User Guide. You can put questions in the main document, answers in a branch, and include or exclude the branch. I'm not sure about point 3. Thanks, I'll take a look

Conditional printing and formatting

2007-09-21 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, I want to create a document that contains different printing options for certain paragraphs. For example, let's say I have a series of questions and answers, I want to produce three types of output: 1. A question followed by the answer. 2. Only show the questions. 3. Only show the

Re: Conditional printing and formatting

2007-09-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, I want to create a document that contains different printing options for certain paragraphs. For example, let's say I have a series of questions and answers, I want to produce three types of output: 1. A question followed by the answer. 2. Only show the

Re: Conditional printing and formatting

2007-09-21 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, I want to create a document that contains different printing options for certain paragraphs. For example, let's say I have a series of questions and answers, I want to produce three types of output: 1. A question followed by the answer. 2.

Re: Conditional printing and formatting

2007-09-21 Thread Laurent Duperval
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:34:00 -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Branches handles most if not all of this. See section 6.4 of the User Guide. You can put questions in the main document, answers in a branch, and include or exclude the branch. I'm not sure about point 3. Thanks, I'll take a look

Conditional printing and formatting

2007-09-21 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, I want to create a document that contains different printing options for certain paragraphs. For example, let's say I have a series of questions and answers, I want to produce three types of output: 1. A question followed by the answer. 2. Only show the questions. 3. Only show the

Re: Conditional printing and formatting

2007-09-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, I want to create a document that contains different printing options for certain paragraphs. For example, let's say I have a series of questions and answers, I want to produce three types of output: 1. A question followed by the answer. 2. Only show the

Re: Conditional printing and formatting

2007-09-21 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, I want to create a document that contains different printing options for certain paragraphs. For example, let's say I have a series of questions and answers, I want to produce three types of output: 1. A question followed by the answer. 2.

Re: Conditional printing and formatting

2007-09-21 Thread Laurent Duperval
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:34:00 -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Branches handles most if not all of this. See section 6.4 of the User > Guide. You can put questions in the main document, answers in a branch, > and include or exclude the branch. I'm not sure about point 3. > Thanks, I'll take a

Re: Conditional printing

2005-06-14 Thread G. Milde
On 14.06.05, Richard Brown wrote: Thank you Gunter. I didn't really understand because it's all new to me, but I just followed your instructions and it worked!! Hurray!! Good news. You are welcome. But I don't really follow the wrapper idea: you wrote Or you create wrappers for all

Re: Conditional printing

2005-06-14 Thread G. Milde
On 14.06.05, Richard Brown wrote: Thank you Gunter. I didn't really understand because it's all new to me, but I just followed your instructions and it worked!! Hurray!! Good news. You are welcome. But I don't really follow the wrapper idea: you wrote Or you create wrappers for all

Re: Conditional printing

2005-06-14 Thread G. Milde
On 14.06.05, Richard Brown wrote: > Thank you Gunter. I didn't really understand because it's all new to me, > but I just followed your instructions and it worked!! Hurray!! Good news. You are welcome. > But I don't really follow the "wrapper" idea: you wrote > > > Or you create wrappers for

Re: Conditional printing

2005-06-13 Thread G. Milde
On 12.06.05, Richard Brown wrote: What I'd like to be able to do is write all the elements for each exercise at the same time in the same file, defining them as students book, teachers book CD stuff as I go, so that everything is checkable as I write it, and is co-ordinated. The ifthen

Re: Conditional printing

2005-06-13 Thread Richard Brown
Thank you Gunter. I didn't really understand because it's all new to me, but I just followed your instructions and it worked!! Hurray!! But I don't really follow the wrapper idea: you wrote Or you create wrappers for all versions that contain the right preamble and include the main content

Re: Conditional printing

2005-06-13 Thread G. Milde
On 12.06.05, Richard Brown wrote: What I'd like to be able to do is write all the elements for each exercise at the same time in the same file, defining them as students book, teachers book CD stuff as I go, so that everything is checkable as I write it, and is co-ordinated. The ifthen

Re: Conditional printing

2005-06-13 Thread Richard Brown
Thank you Gunter. I didn't really understand because it's all new to me, but I just followed your instructions and it worked!! Hurray!! But I don't really follow the wrapper idea: you wrote Or you create wrappers for all versions that contain the right preamble and include the main content

Re: Conditional printing

2005-06-13 Thread G. Milde
On 12.06.05, Richard Brown wrote: > What I'd like to be able to do is write all the elements for each > exercise at the same time in the same file, defining them as "students > book", "teachers book" "CD stuff" as I go, so that everything is > checkable as I write it, and is co-ordinated. The

Re: Conditional printing

2005-06-13 Thread Richard Brown
Thank you Gunter. I didn't really understand because it's all new to me, but I just followed your instructions and it worked!! Hurray!! But I don't really follow the "wrapper" idea: you wrote Or you create wrappers for all versions that contain the "right" preamble and include the main content

Conditional printing

2005-06-12 Thread Richard Brown
Hello LYX people. I'd be very greatful for a few pointers on how to do the following- bearing in mind that I'm an advanced technical idiot, and have been using Lyx for just 8 hours! Nevertheless, I'm sure it must be possible. This is likely to be quite a long post- apologies in advance! I write

Conditional printing

2005-06-12 Thread Richard Brown
Hello LYX people. I'd be very greatful for a few pointers on how to do the following- bearing in mind that I'm an advanced technical idiot, and have been using Lyx for just 8 hours! Nevertheless, I'm sure it must be possible. This is likely to be quite a long post- apologies in advance! I write

Conditional printing

2005-06-12 Thread Richard Brown
Hello LYX people. I'd be very greatful for a few pointers on how to do the following- bearing in mind that I'm an advanced technical idiot, and have been using Lyx for just 8 hours! Nevertheless, I'm sure it must be possible. This is likely to be quite a long post- apologies in advance! I write