Re: LyX for writing notes about a book

Thanks you for the link.  I have been looking for something like TreeLine for some time. It looks very nice --- especially now that I have discovered View Child Pane after wondering where all my test data was going. On Sunday, March 2, 2014 1:53:57 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 2 Ma

Re: LyX for writing notes about a book

Yes - org is brilliant - I really love it. And you get much more then simple note taking and math typsetting. Now wouldn't it be brilliant to have a set of org <--> Lyx converters? Cheers, Rainer Alan L Tyree writes: > With Org-mode you can enter special symbols, subscripts and > superscrip

Re: LyX for writing notes about a book

Thanks for the details, Alan. Org-mode certainly doesn't seem to lack power. Scott On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote: > With Org-mode you can enter special symbols, subscripts and superscripts, > LaTeX fragments and you can preview the LaTeX fragments directly in emacs: > http:/

Re: LyX for writing notes about a book

With Org-mode you can enter special symbols, subscripts and superscripts, LaTeX fragments and you can preview the LaTeX fragments directly in emacs: http://orgmode.org/manual/Embedded-LaTeX.html#Embedded-LaTeX Special symbols: \alpha, \beta and \gama Super/subscripts: The mass of the sun is

Re: LyX for writing notes about a book

Great, thanks for the suggestions. I'll take a look at TreeLine. I'll also look at Org-mode (I don't use Emacs but I'm always interested in trying new tools). I should have mentioned that a lot of the books I read have math in them and I enjoy using LyX to write math-related notes. I guess I'll hav

Re: LyX for writing notes about a book

I also agree that a good outliner is the way to go. If you use Emacs, the have a look at Org-mode: http://orgmode.org/ Brilliant stuff all in plain text files. On 3 March 2014 05:53, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 2 Mar 2014, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > I take notes while reading books and am l

Re: LyX for writing notes about a book

On Sun, 2 Mar 2014, Scott Kostyshak wrote: I take notes while reading books and am looking for a way to improve my messy organization of them. I agress with Steve that LyX is the wrong tool for taking notes. Take a very close look at TreeLine . It's exactly what y

Re: LyX for writing notes about a book

On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 13:20:07 -0500 Scott Kostyshak wrote: > I take notes while reading books and am looking for a way to improve > my messy organization of them. > > Does anyone use LyX to write up notes about books they are reading? > Do you have any suggestions as far as how to organize them?

LyX for writing notes about a book

I take notes while reading books and am looking for a way to improve my messy organization of them. Does anyone use LyX to write up notes about books they are reading? Do you have any suggestions as far as how to organize them? How do you separate quotes (e.g. quote environment?) from paraphrases