Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread chr
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Jose Capco wrote: output (like lyx claims to produce) on the screen (the printed output is pretty much like LaTeX) but its fine anyway.. Considering that LyX uses LaTeX to produce the output it should really be *exactly* the same.. Oh by the by.. not related to the topic

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 07:30, Jose Capco wrote: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking it up in the email (like in a newsgroup or a http site.. someone has to put up a lyx newsgroup , that way I think

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Matej Cepl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InternetResources I found the link to the gmane interface as follows: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/ And of course it means there is also a Gmane newsgroup (which is what I am writing into right now)

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread chr
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Jose' Matos wrote: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 07:30, Jose Capco wrote: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking it up in the email (like in a newsgroup or a http site.. someone has

Reading lyx-users via newsgroup/http [Was Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor]

2005-02-02 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Jose Capco writes: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking it up in the email (like in a newsgroup or a http site.. someone has to put up a lyx newsgroup , that way I think its more practical) You could

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jose Capco wrote: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking it up in the email (like in a newsgroup or a http site.. someone has to put up a lyx newsgroup , that way I think its more practical)

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:29:27 -0500 Jose Capco wrote: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread chr
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Jose Capco wrote: output (like lyx claims to produce) on the screen (the printed output is pretty much like LaTeX) but its fine anyway.. Considering that LyX uses LaTeX to produce the output it should really be *exactly* the same.. Oh by the by.. not related to the topic

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 07:30, Jose Capco wrote: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking it up in the email (like in a newsgroup or a http site.. someone has to put up a lyx newsgroup , that way I think

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Matej Cepl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InternetResources I found the link to the gmane interface as follows: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/ And of course it means there is also a Gmane newsgroup (which is what I am writing into right now)

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread chr
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Jose' Matos wrote: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 07:30, Jose Capco wrote: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking it up in the email (like in a newsgroup or a http site.. someone has

Reading lyx-users via newsgroup/http [Was Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor]

2005-02-02 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Jose Capco writes: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking it up in the email (like in a newsgroup or a http site.. someone has to put up a lyx newsgroup , that way I think its more practical) You could

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jose Capco wrote: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking it up in the email (like in a newsgroup or a http site.. someone has to put up a lyx newsgroup , that way I think its more practical)

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:29:27 -0500 Jose Capco wrote: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread chr
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Jose Capco wrote: > output (like lyx claims to produce) on the screen (the > printed output is pretty much like LaTeX) but its fine > anyway.. Considering that LyX uses LaTeX to produce the output it should really be *exactly* the same.. > Oh by the by.. not related to the

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 07:30, Jose Capco wrote: > > Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there > a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts > without checking it up in the email (like in a > newsgroup or a http site.. someone has to put up a lyx > newsgroup , that way I

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Matej Cepl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Reading http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InternetResources I found the link to the > gmane interface as follows: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/ And of course it means there is also a Gmane newsgroup (which is what I am writing into right now)

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread chr
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Jose' Matos wrote: > On Wednesday 02 February 2005 07:30, Jose Capco wrote: > > > > Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there > > a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts > > without checking it up in the email (like in a > > newsgroup or a http site..

Reading lyx-users via newsgroup/http [Was Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor]

2005-02-02 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Jose Capco writes: > Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there > a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts > without checking it up in the email (like in a > newsgroup or a http site.. someone has to put up a lyx > newsgroup , that way I think its more practical) You could

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jose Capco wrote: Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is there a way to view the (most recent!) mailing list posts without checking it up in the email (like in a newsgroup or a http site.. someone has to put up a lyx newsgroup , that way I think its more practical)

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-02 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor >>Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:29:27 -0500 >>Jose Capco wrote: >> >>> Oh by the by.. not related to the topic here. Is

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-01 Thread Angus Leeming
Matej Cepl wrote: Jose Capco wrote: Are the .lyx files actually texts with commands similar to LaTeX and is it practical/possible to write Commands are not that similar to LaTeX and moreover there are many perils which can bite you. For example (my personal pet peeve), contrary to your

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-01 Thread Helge Hafting
Jose Capco wrote: Dear Mailing List, I do not recommend writing a lyx document with a text editor, the format isn't suited for that sort of work. since I am using windows and the LyX available for windows (I tried both the QT and the Xserver version) don't display or display badly many math

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-01 Thread Jose Capco
Thanks for all.. I guess I'll stick to the cygwin, lyx. I have still dont get a very nice graphical output (like lyx claims to produce) on the screen (the printed output is pretty much like LaTeX) but its fine anyway.. I really dont care anymore if its WYSWYM or whatever (LaTeX philosophy...) as

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-01 Thread Angus Leeming
Matej Cepl wrote: Jose Capco wrote: Are the .lyx files actually texts with commands similar to LaTeX and is it practical/possible to write Commands are not that similar to LaTeX and moreover there are many perils which can bite you. For example (my personal pet peeve), contrary to your

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-01 Thread Helge Hafting
Jose Capco wrote: Dear Mailing List, I do not recommend writing a lyx document with a text editor, the format isn't suited for that sort of work. since I am using windows and the LyX available for windows (I tried both the QT and the Xserver version) don't display or display badly many math

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-01 Thread Jose Capco
Thanks for all.. I guess I'll stick to the cygwin, lyx. I have still dont get a very nice graphical output (like lyx claims to produce) on the screen (the printed output is pretty much like LaTeX) but its fine anyway.. I really dont care anymore if its WYSWYM or whatever (LaTeX philosophy...) as

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-01 Thread Angus Leeming
Matej Cepl wrote: > Jose Capco wrote: >> Are the .lyx files actually texts with commands >> similar to LaTeX and is it practical/possible to write > > Commands are not that similar to LaTeX and moreover there are many perils > which can bite you. For example (my personal pet peeve), contrary to

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-01 Thread Helge Hafting
Jose Capco wrote: Dear Mailing List, I do not recommend writing a lyx document with a text editor, the format isn't suited for that sort of work. since I am using windows and the LyX available for windows (I tried both the QT and the Xserver version) don't display or display badly many math

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-02-01 Thread Jose Capco
Thanks for all.. I guess I'll stick to the cygwin, lyx. I have still dont get a very nice graphical output (like lyx claims to produce) on the screen (the printed output is pretty much like LaTeX) but its fine anyway.. I really dont care anymore if its WYSWYM or whatever (LaTeX philosophy...) as

Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-01-31 Thread Jose Capco
Dear Mailing List, Are the .lyx files actually texts with commands similar to LaTeX and is it practical/possible to write in LyX using an ordinary text editor? I am already very much used to writing in LaTeX and personally I prefer LaTeX than LyX... but I need to write some (mathematical)

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-01-31 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose Capco wrote: Dear Mailing List, Are the .lyx files actually texts with commands similar to LaTeX and is it practical/possible to write in LyX using an ordinary text editor? I am already very much used to writing in LaTeX and personally I prefer LaTeX than LyX... but I need to write

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-01-31 Thread G. Milde
On 31.01.05, Jose Capco wrote: Are the .lyx files actually texts with commands similar to LaTeX and is it practical/possible to write in LyX using an ordinary text editor? Possible, yes. Practical, no. Although the lyx files are text files and can be edited by hand, this makes only sense for

Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-01-31 Thread Jose Capco
Dear Mailing List, Are the .lyx files actually texts with commands similar to LaTeX and is it practical/possible to write in LyX using an ordinary text editor? I am already very much used to writing in LaTeX and personally I prefer LaTeX than LyX... but I need to write some (mathematical)

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-01-31 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose Capco wrote: Dear Mailing List, Are the .lyx files actually texts with commands similar to LaTeX and is it practical/possible to write in LyX using an ordinary text editor? I am already very much used to writing in LaTeX and personally I prefer LaTeX than LyX... but I need to write

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-01-31 Thread G. Milde
On 31.01.05, Jose Capco wrote: Are the .lyx files actually texts with commands similar to LaTeX and is it practical/possible to write in LyX using an ordinary text editor? Possible, yes. Practical, no. Although the lyx files are text files and can be edited by hand, this makes only sense for

Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-01-31 Thread Jose Capco
Dear Mailing List, Are the .lyx files actually texts with commands similar to LaTeX and is it practical/possible to write in LyX using an ordinary text editor? I am already very much used to writing in LaTeX and personally I prefer LaTeX than LyX... but I need to write some (mathematical)

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-01-31 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose Capco wrote: > Dear Mailing List, > > Are the .lyx files actually texts with commands > similar to LaTeX and is it practical/possible to write > in LyX using an ordinary text editor? I am already > very much used to writing in LaTeX and personally I > prefer LaTeX than LyX... but I need to

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

2005-01-31 Thread G. Milde
On 31.01.05, Jose Capco wrote: > Are the .lyx files actually texts with commands similar to LaTeX and is > it practical/possible to write in LyX using an ordinary text editor? Possible, yes. Practical, no. Although the lyx files are text files and can be edited by hand, this makes only sense