Re: Question

2012-03-12 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/10/2012 07:04 PM, Esther Beneish wrote: No I checked all the settings and all choices are the same as in older papers. In this paper some environments are missing. Can you send me this particular file? Something is weird. Richard Thanks, Esther. On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:54 PM,

Re: Question

2012-03-12 Thread David L. Johnson
On 03/12/2012 12:42 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 03/10/2012 07:04 PM, Esther Beneish wrote: No I checked all the settings and all choices are the same as in older papers. In this paper some environments are missing. Can you send me this particular file? Something is weird. She and I cleared

Re: Question

2012-03-12 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/10/2012 07:04 PM, Esther Beneish wrote: No I checked all the settings and all choices are the same as in older papers. In this paper some environments are missing. Can you send me this particular file? Something is weird. Richard Thanks, Esther. On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:54 PM,

Re: Question

2012-03-12 Thread David L. Johnson
On 03/12/2012 12:42 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 03/10/2012 07:04 PM, Esther Beneish wrote: No I checked all the settings and all choices are the same as in older papers. In this paper some environments are missing. Can you send me this particular file? Something is weird. She and I cleared

Re: Question

2012-03-10 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/10/2012 01:14 PM, Esther Beneish wrote: I just installed LyX 2.0.3 on my Mac. I am in the middle of writing an article(ams), and I lost the environment Notation. Can you help? Probably you need to activate the Theorems (AMS, Extended) module, under DocumentSettingsModules. Richard

Re: Question

2012-03-10 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/10/2012 04:33 PM, Esther Beneish wrote: Thanks very much, but I did and it does not work. Are there no changes to what shows up for choices? Richard PS Keep the discussion on the list, in case someone else has an idea. On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net

Re: Question

2012-03-10 Thread Esther Beneish
No I checked all the settings and all choices are the same as in older papers. In this paper some environments are missing. Thanks, Esther. On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: On 03/10/2012 04:33 PM, Esther Beneish wrote: Thanks very much, but I did and

Re: Question

2012-03-10 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/10/2012 01:14 PM, Esther Beneish wrote: I just installed LyX 2.0.3 on my Mac. I am in the middle of writing an article(ams), and I lost the environment Notation. Can you help? Probably you need to activate the Theorems (AMS, Extended) module, under DocumentSettingsModules. Richard

Re: Question

2012-03-10 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/10/2012 04:33 PM, Esther Beneish wrote: Thanks very much, but I did and it does not work. Are there no changes to what shows up for choices? Richard PS Keep the discussion on the list, in case someone else has an idea. On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net

Re: Question

2012-03-10 Thread Esther Beneish
No I checked all the settings and all choices are the same as in older papers. In this paper some environments are missing. Thanks, Esther. On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: On 03/10/2012 04:33 PM, Esther Beneish wrote: Thanks very much, but I did and

Re: Question

2012-03-10 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/10/2012 01:14 PM, Esther Beneish wrote: I just installed LyX 2.0.3 on my Mac. I am in the middle of writing an article(ams), and I lost the environment Notation. Can you help? Probably you need to activate the Theorems (AMS, Extended) module, under Document>Settings>Modules. Richard

Re: Question

2012-03-10 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/10/2012 04:33 PM, Esther Beneish wrote: Thanks very much, but I did and it does not work. Are there no changes to what shows up for choices? Richard PS Keep the discussion on the list, in case someone else has an idea. On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Richard Heck

Re: Question

2012-03-10 Thread Esther Beneish
No I checked all the settings and all choices are the same as in older papers. In this paper some environments are missing. Thanks, Esther. On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 03/10/2012 04:33 PM, Esther Beneish wrote: > > Thanks very much, but I did

Re: question and proposal re citations causing errors

2012-01-27 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/01/12 10:20, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I wonder whether the following could be done for Lyx without too much trouble: Often I found to get an error message after inserting a reference (with an uncompatible coding, e.g.). It takes quite

Re: question and proposal re citations causing errors

2012-01-27 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/01/12 10:20, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I wonder whether the following could be done for Lyx without too much trouble: Often I found to get an error message after inserting a reference (with an uncompatible coding, e.g.). It takes quite

Re: question and proposal re citations causing errors

2012-01-27 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/01/12 10:20, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > I wonder whether the following could be done for Lyx without too > much trouble: > > Often I found to get an error message after inserting a reference > (with an uncompatible coding, e.g.). It takes

Re: question about math equation editing

2012-01-18 Thread Richard Heck
On 01/18/2012 05:06 AM, Lesław Bieniasz wrote: Hi, I am trying to learn how to use the math equation editor in LyX, and I have encontered a problem. The manual says that while writing integrals one should pay special attention to correctly writing the d letter, which is an operator, hence it

Re: question about math equation editing

2012-01-18 Thread Richard Heck
On 01/18/2012 05:06 AM, Lesław Bieniasz wrote: Hi, I am trying to learn how to use the math equation editor in LyX, and I have encontered a problem. The manual says that while writing integrals one should pay special attention to correctly writing the d letter, which is an operator, hence it

Re: question about math equation editing

2012-01-18 Thread Richard Heck
On 01/18/2012 05:06 AM, Lesław Bieniasz wrote: Hi, I am trying to learn how to use the math equation editor in LyX, and I have encontered a problem. The manual says that while writing integrals one should pay special attention to correctly writing the "d" letter, which is an operator, hence it

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Yihui Xie x...@yihui.name wrote: So that is the problem. The 'View' button was disabled because the converter associated with the Sweave module does not exist. I am not sure about the reason why these converters are not there. Possibly an old profile folder

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Yihui Xie x...@yihui.name wrote: So that is the problem. The 'View' button was disabled because the converter associated with the Sweave module does not exist. I am not sure about the reason why these converters are not there. Possibly an old profile folder

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Yihui Xie wrote: > So that is the problem. The 'View' button was disabled because the > converter associated with the Sweave module does not exist. > > I am not sure about the reason why these converters are not there. > Possibly an old profile

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Yihui Xie
Is there a converter from Sweave to LaTeX? Check it in the menu Tools--Preferences--Converters. Normally you should have at least four converters from Sweave to different types of LaTeX output. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie xieyi...@gmail.com Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Z.L. Li terp.u...@gmail.com wrote: 2. download and install RTool for 2.13.x or later, checked to add the appropriate Rtools path during     installation. And C:\Program Files\Rtools\MinGW\bin, C:\Program Files\Rtools\MinGW64\bin     are in the PATH variable,

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Z.L. Li
Hi Yihui, Thanks for your help. I just checked the converter part, surprisingly there is 0 converter from Sweave to LaTeX ! I never thought about this as I think if Sweave is a module, such converters should be automatically loaded. Can you show me the how-to on putting those 4 converters into

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Z.L. Li
Hi Liviu, Thanks for your reply. When I installed Rtools, I did: 1) Change the installation directory; 2) Package authoring installation; 3) Select current value of PATH; Then installed. So I only used the default option for Step 2). And I restart Lyx multiple times after reconfiguration

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Yihui Xie
So that is the problem. The 'View' button was disabled because the converter associated with the Sweave module does not exist. I am not sure about the reason why these converters are not there. JMarc should be more familiar with the configuration behind the scene. I can give you steps to manually

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Z.L. Li
Hi Yihui, I did have the bin path of R in my PATH, but when I tried the command you showed me under command window, system says couldn't find it. I took out the string in PATH, it looks like this: C:\Program Files\Rtools\bin; C:\Program Files\Rtools\MinGW\bin; C:\Program

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Yihui Xie
I'm glad that I do not have to tell you dirty tricks. I love automatic jobs. For future reference, users can check in R if the correct Rscript.exe is really in PATH like this: Sys.which('Rscript') You need to make sure the above output is consistent with what you imagined. Chances are you have

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Yihui Xie
Is there a converter from Sweave to LaTeX? Check it in the menu Tools--Preferences--Converters. Normally you should have at least four converters from Sweave to different types of LaTeX output. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie xieyi...@gmail.com Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Z.L. Li terp.u...@gmail.com wrote: 2. download and install RTool for 2.13.x or later, checked to add the appropriate Rtools path during     installation. And C:\Program Files\Rtools\MinGW\bin, C:\Program Files\Rtools\MinGW64\bin     are in the PATH variable,

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Z.L. Li
Hi Yihui, Thanks for your help. I just checked the converter part, surprisingly there is 0 converter from Sweave to LaTeX ! I never thought about this as I think if Sweave is a module, such converters should be automatically loaded. Can you show me the how-to on putting those 4 converters into

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Z.L. Li
Hi Liviu, Thanks for your reply. When I installed Rtools, I did: 1) Change the installation directory; 2) Package authoring installation; 3) Select current value of PATH; Then installed. So I only used the default option for Step 2). And I restart Lyx multiple times after reconfiguration

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Yihui Xie
So that is the problem. The 'View' button was disabled because the converter associated with the Sweave module does not exist. I am not sure about the reason why these converters are not there. JMarc should be more familiar with the configuration behind the scene. I can give you steps to manually

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Z.L. Li
Hi Yihui, I did have the bin path of R in my PATH, but when I tried the command you showed me under command window, system says couldn't find it. I took out the string in PATH, it looks like this: C:\Program Files\Rtools\bin; C:\Program Files\Rtools\MinGW\bin; C:\Program

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Yihui Xie
I'm glad that I do not have to tell you dirty tricks. I love automatic jobs. For future reference, users can check in R if the correct Rscript.exe is really in PATH like this: Sys.which('Rscript') You need to make sure the above output is consistent with what you imagined. Chances are you have

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Yihui Xie
Is there a converter from Sweave to LaTeX? Check it in the menu Tools-->Preferences-->Converters. Normally you should have at least four converters from Sweave to different types of LaTeX output. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Z.L. Li wrote: > 2. download and install RTool for 2.13.x or later, checked to add the > appropriate Rtools path during >     installation. And "C:\Program Files\Rtools\MinGW\bin", "C:\Program > Files\Rtools\MinGW64\bin" >     are in the PATH

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Z.L. Li
Hi Yihui, Thanks for your help. I just checked the converter part, surprisingly there is 0 converter from Sweave to LaTeX ! I never thought about this as I think if Sweave is a module, such converters should be automatically loaded. Can you show me the how-to on putting those 4 converters into

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Z.L. Li
Hi Liviu, Thanks for your reply. When I installed Rtools, I did: 1) Change the installation directory; 2) Package authoring installation; 3) Select current value of PATH; Then installed. So I only used the default option for Step 2). And I restart Lyx multiple times after reconfiguration

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Yihui Xie
So that is the problem. The 'View' button was disabled because the converter associated with the Sweave module does not exist. I am not sure about the reason why these converters are not there. JMarc should be more familiar with the configuration behind the scene. I can give you steps to manually

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Z.L. Li
Hi Yihui, I did have the bin path of R in my PATH, but when I tried the command you showed me under command window, system says couldn't find it. I took out the string in PATH, it looks like this: C:\Program Files\Rtools\bin; C:\Program Files\Rtools\MinGW\bin; C:\Program

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-13 Thread Yihui Xie
I'm glad that I do not have to tell you dirty tricks. I love automatic jobs. For future reference, users can check in R if the correct Rscript.exe is really in PATH like this: Sys.which('Rscript') You need to make sure the above output is consistent with what you imagined. Chances are you have

Re: Question about multiple languages in a single document

2011-06-18 Thread Yves Bailly
Le Saturday 18 June 2011 07:54:11, Liviu Andronic a écrit : On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Yves Bailly yves.bai...@laposte.net wrote: [...] I'm writing a document, the main language being french. But here and there, I need to include some words in other language, e.g. japanese (words

Re: Question about multiple languages in a single document

2011-06-18 Thread Yves Bailly
Le Saturday 18 June 2011 07:54:11, Liviu Andronic a écrit : On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Yves Bailly yves.bai...@laposte.net wrote: [...] I'm writing a document, the main language being french. But here and there, I need to include some words in other language, e.g. japanese (words

Re: Question about multiple languages in a single document

2011-06-18 Thread Yves Bailly
Le Saturday 18 June 2011 07:54:11, Liviu Andronic a écrit : > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Yves Bailly wrote: > > [...] > > I'm writing a document, the main language being french. But here and > > there, I need to include some words in other language, e.g. japanese >

Re: Question about multiple languages in a single document

2011-06-17 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Yves Bailly yves.bai...@laposte.net wrote: Greetings all, First of all, thanks to all the ones who created that wonderful LyX program! I'm a great fan of it and pushing its use whenever I can. Now my question. I'm using LyX 2.0.0 on KUbuntu 11.04. I'm

Re: Question about multiple languages in a single document

2011-06-17 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Yves Bailly yves.bai...@laposte.net wrote: Greetings all, First of all, thanks to all the ones who created that wonderful LyX program! I'm a great fan of it and pushing its use whenever I can. Now my question. I'm using LyX 2.0.0 on KUbuntu 11.04. I'm

Re: Question about multiple languages in a single document

2011-06-17 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Yves Bailly wrote: > > Greetings all, > > First of all, thanks to all the ones who created that wonderful LyX program! > I'm a great fan of it and pushing its use whenever I can. > > Now my question. I'm using LyX 2.0.0 on KUbuntu 11.04. >

Re: Question about Ctrl M inline formula

2011-03-19 Thread Paul Rubin
Does the status bar (bottom of window) say anything when you hit Ctrl-M? Perhaps it was accidentally assigned to something other than inserting an inline formula. Also, it might help to report what OS you're using. Paul

Re: Question about Ctrl M inline formula

2011-03-19 Thread Paul Rubin
Does the status bar (bottom of window) say anything when you hit Ctrl-M? Perhaps it was accidentally assigned to something other than inserting an inline formula. Also, it might help to report what OS you're using. Paul

Re: Question about Ctrl M inline formula

2011-03-19 Thread Paul Rubin
Does the status bar (bottom of window) say anything when you hit Ctrl-M? Perhaps it was accidentally assigned to something other than inserting an inline formula. Also, it might help to report what OS you're using. Paul

Re: Question about database management

2011-03-14 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
I am quite happy with Jabref. -- Murat Yildizoglu murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr Le 14 mars 2011 à 08:35, Om Das om...@hawaii.edu a écrit : Hello, I am using LyX for writing purposes. I have a question. If I have several Bibtex files; how do I manage all the database and import

Re: Question about database management

2011-03-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: You might be especially interested in http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Programs. For a different list of alternatives see: http://alternativeto.net/software/jabref/ Liviu

Re: Question about database management

2011-03-14 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
I am quite happy with Jabref. -- Murat Yildizoglu murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr Le 14 mars 2011 à 08:35, Om Das om...@hawaii.edu a écrit : Hello, I am using LyX for writing purposes. I have a question. If I have several Bibtex files; how do I manage all the database and import

Re: Question about database management

2011-03-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: You might be especially interested in http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Programs. For a different list of alternatives see: http://alternativeto.net/software/jabref/ Liviu

Re: Question about database management

2011-03-14 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
I am quite happy with Jabref. -- Murat Yildizoglu murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr Le 14 mars 2011 à 08:35, Om Das a écrit : > Hello, > > I am using LyX for writing purposes. I have a question. If I have > several Bibtex files; how do I manage all the database and

Re: Question about database management

2011-03-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: > You might be especially interested in > http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Programs. > For a different list of alternatives see: http://alternativeto.net/software/jabref/ Liviu

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-21 Thread Ipacs Péter
Richard, Paul, Thanks for the quick reply. It seems I have to read and experiment much more on this matter. I've just found some suggestions around the acronym package. While the acronym package does not fulfill the ultimate goal it might partially serve my actual needs. The best would be the

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-21 Thread Ipacs Péter
Richard, Paul, Thanks for the quick reply. It seems I have to read and experiment much more on this matter. I've just found some suggestions around the acronym package. While the acronym package does not fulfill the ultimate goal it might partially serve my actual needs. The best would be the

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-21 Thread Ipacs Péter
Richard, Paul, Thanks for the quick reply. It seems I have to read and experiment much more on this matter. I've just found some suggestions around the acronym package. While the acronym package does not fulfill the ultimate goal it might partially serve my actual needs. The best would be the

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Paul Rubin
What you have in mind with automatic substitution would be a macro. LyX 1.6.x does not support macros directly; you can create them in the preamble if you know how to write LaTeX code. My impression is that LyX 2.0 will have a macro capability. As an alternative hand-coding macros in LaTeX, you

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/20/2010 08:55 AM, Ipacs Péter wrote: Hi Guys, Forgive me if my question is newbie but I'm indeed a newbie both to latex and to Lyx as well.I was trying to use some supported way to highlight abbreviations in a Lyx document but I found no good way so far. I also did the standard drill

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/20/2010 11:16 AM, Paul Rubin wrote: My impression is that LyX 2.0 will have a macro capability. Beyond the math macro stuff we already have, no, unfortunately. Richard

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Paul Rubin
What you have in mind with automatic substitution would be a macro. LyX 1.6.x does not support macros directly; you can create them in the preamble if you know how to write LaTeX code. My impression is that LyX 2.0 will have a macro capability. As an alternative hand-coding macros in LaTeX, you

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/20/2010 08:55 AM, Ipacs Péter wrote: Hi Guys, Forgive me if my question is newbie but I'm indeed a newbie both to latex and to Lyx as well.I was trying to use some supported way to highlight abbreviations in a Lyx document but I found no good way so far. I also did the standard drill

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/20/2010 11:16 AM, Paul Rubin wrote: My impression is that LyX 2.0 will have a macro capability. Beyond the math macro stuff we already have, no, unfortunately. Richard

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Paul Rubin
What you have in mind with automatic substitution would be a macro. LyX 1.6.x does not support macros directly; you can create them in the preamble if you know how to write LaTeX code. My impression is that LyX 2.0 will have a macro capability. As an alternative hand-coding macros in LaTeX, you

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/20/2010 08:55 AM, Ipacs Péter wrote: Hi Guys, Forgive me if my question is newbie but I'm indeed a newbie both to latex and to Lyx as well.I was trying to use some supported way to highlight abbreviations in a Lyx document but I found no good way so far. I also did the standard drill

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/20/2010 11:16 AM, Paul Rubin wrote: My impression is that LyX 2.0 will have a macro capability. Beyond the math macro stuff we already have, no, unfortunately. Richard

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-08-01 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Steve, I notice that your conversion isn't done by OO itself, but by ConvertDoc. Does ConvertDoc pass through paragraph and character styles? If so, this is VERY useful. Note that I don't even care if it translates the style defs -- I can just make a layout. What I want is a final doc with

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-08-01 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Steve, I notice that your conversion isn't done by OO itself, but by ConvertDoc. Does ConvertDoc pass through paragraph and character styles? If so, this is VERY useful. Note that I don't even care if it translates the style defs -- I can just make a layout. What I want is a final doc with

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-08-01 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Steve, << I notice that your conversion isn't done by OO itself, but by ConvertDoc. Does ConvertDoc pass through paragraph and character styles? If so, this is VERY useful. Note that I don't even care if it translates the style defs -- I can just make a layout. What I want is a final doc with

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-31 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Just a comment here, not a solution. A problem is, as stated, that open office produces very poor latex. It seems that the goal of the designers of the translation module was to make the latex output resemble the formatting of the open office document, rather than making the contents the same.

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-31 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Anders, I've had good success first converting to HTML, then running a filter on the HTML, and then importing to LyX. The overall process is described here: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import While some formatting is lost, it's mostly the type of formatting that

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 31 July 2010 22:10:14 Rob Oakes wrote: Hi Anders, I've had good success first converting to HTML, then running a filter on the HTML, and then importing to LyX. The overall process is described here: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import While

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-31 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Thanks, maybe I'll try this. I have a lot of documents in MS Word that I continually update, and ideally I would like to convert all of those to LyX. So far, though, it has been too cumbersome to be worth the while, so I continue to use MS Word.

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-31 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Just a comment here, not a solution. A problem is, as stated, that open office produces very poor latex. It seems that the goal of the designers of the translation module was to make the latex output resemble the formatting of the open office document, rather than making the contents the same.

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-31 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Anders, I've had good success first converting to HTML, then running a filter on the HTML, and then importing to LyX. The overall process is described here: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import While some formatting is lost, it's mostly the type of formatting that

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 31 July 2010 22:10:14 Rob Oakes wrote: Hi Anders, I've had good success first converting to HTML, then running a filter on the HTML, and then importing to LyX. The overall process is described here: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import While

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-31 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Thanks, maybe I'll try this. I have a lot of documents in MS Word that I continually update, and ideally I would like to convert all of those to LyX. So far, though, it has been too cumbersome to be worth the while, so I continue to use MS Word.

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-31 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Just a comment here, not a solution. A problem is, as stated, that open office produces very poor latex. It seems that the goal of the designers of the translation module was to make the latex output resemble the formatting of the open office document, rather than making the contents the same.

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-31 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Anders, I've had good success first converting to HTML, then running a filter on the HTML, and then importing to LyX. The overall process is described here: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import While some formatting is lost, it's mostly the type of formatting that

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 31 July 2010 22:10:14 Rob Oakes wrote: > Hi Anders, > > I've had good success first converting to HTML, then running a filter on > the HTML, and then importing to LyX. The overall process is described > here: > > http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import > >

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-31 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Thanks, maybe I'll try this. I have a lot of documents in MS Word that I continually update, and ideally I would like to convert all of those to LyX. So far, though, it has been too cumbersome to be worth the while, so I continue to use MS Word.

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-30 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/30/2010 10:25 AM, David Hopkins wrote: If I export an OOo document using writer2latex.oxt, it outputs a tex file which has all the necessary tex/latex commands to compile directly. However, I'd like to then import that document into LyX. My issue is that I seem to need to create a layout

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-30 Thread David Hopkins
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: On 07/30/2010 10:25 AM, David Hopkins wrote: If I export an OOo document using writer2latex.oxt, it outputs a tex file which has all the necessary tex/latex commands to compile directly. However, I'd like to then import

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-30 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/30/2010 11:16 AM, David Hopkins wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Richard Heckrgh...@comcast.net wrote: On 07/30/2010 10:25 AM, David Hopkins wrote: If I export an OOo document using writer2latex.oxt, it outputs a tex file which has all the necessary tex/latex commands

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-30 Thread David Hopkins
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: On 07/30/2010 11:16 AM, David Hopkins wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Richard Heckrgh...@comcast.net  wrote: On 07/30/2010 10:25 AM, David Hopkins wrote: If I export an OOo document using writer2latex.oxt,

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-30 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/30/2010 11:50 AM, David Hopkins wrote: There are two issues: 1) if I use writer2latex and get the 'ugly' LaTex. The first error is a misplaced \noalign in a table which seems to cascade into a lot of other errors. This is the kind of thing for which a perl script is helpful. 2)

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-30 Thread David Hopkins
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: On 07/30/2010 11:50 AM, David Hopkins wrote: There are two issues: 1) if I use writer2latex and get the 'ugly' LaTex. The first error is a misplaced \noalign in a table which seems to cascade into a lot of other

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-30 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/30/2010 10:25 AM, David Hopkins wrote: If I export an OOo document using writer2latex.oxt, it outputs a tex file which has all the necessary tex/latex commands to compile directly. However, I'd like to then import that document into LyX. My issue is that I seem to need to create a layout

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-30 Thread David Hopkins
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: On 07/30/2010 10:25 AM, David Hopkins wrote: If I export an OOo document using writer2latex.oxt, it outputs a tex file which has all the necessary tex/latex commands to compile directly. However, I'd like to then import

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-30 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/30/2010 11:16 AM, David Hopkins wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Richard Heckrgh...@comcast.net wrote: On 07/30/2010 10:25 AM, David Hopkins wrote: If I export an OOo document using writer2latex.oxt, it outputs a tex file which has all the necessary tex/latex commands

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-30 Thread David Hopkins
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: On 07/30/2010 11:16 AM, David Hopkins wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Richard Heckrgh...@comcast.net  wrote: On 07/30/2010 10:25 AM, David Hopkins wrote: If I export an OOo document using writer2latex.oxt,

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-30 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/30/2010 11:50 AM, David Hopkins wrote: There are two issues: 1) if I use writer2latex and get the 'ugly' LaTex. The first error is a misplaced \noalign in a table which seems to cascade into a lot of other errors. This is the kind of thing for which a perl script is helpful. 2)

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-30 Thread David Hopkins
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: On 07/30/2010 11:50 AM, David Hopkins wrote: There are two issues: 1) if I use writer2latex and get the 'ugly' LaTex. The first error is a misplaced \noalign in a table which seems to cascade into a lot of other

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-30 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/30/2010 10:25 AM, David Hopkins wrote: If I export an OOo document using writer2latex.oxt, it outputs a tex file which has all the necessary tex/latex commands to compile directly. However, I'd like to then import that document into LyX. My issue is that I seem to need to create a layout

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-30 Thread David Hopkins
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 07/30/2010 10:25 AM, David Hopkins wrote: >> >> If I export an OOo document using writer2latex.oxt, it outputs a tex >> file which has all the necessary tex/latex commands to compile >> directly. However, I'd like to

Re: question about overriding Lyx default document class

2010-07-30 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/30/2010 11:16 AM, David Hopkins wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Richard Heck wrote: On 07/30/2010 10:25 AM, David Hopkins wrote: If I export an OOo document using writer2latex.oxt, it outputs a tex file which has all the necessary tex/latex

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