I have created a module that creates a custom inset for marginal paragraphs.
This inset is typed inside the Marginal Note inset.
When I type Hebrew text inside this inset, digits are converted to small font
size:
instead of 1, it is formatted as `{\small{}1}`. Why is it?
This is the module:
#
fabio de francesco wrote:
My interest for Lyx's philosophy has been caught up by a recent article on the
power of WYSIWYM. So I am a perfect newbie asking for something that could be
perfectly obvious to you all.
I started by opening the tutorial and making pdf of it. I have immediately
noti
fabio de francesco wrote:
My interest for Lyx's philosophy has been caught up by a recent article on the
power of WYSIWYM. So I am a perfect newbie asking for something that could be
perfectly obvious to you all.
I started by opening the tutorial and making pdf of it. I have immediately
noti
My interest for Lyx's philosophy has been caught up by a recent article on the
power of WYSIWYM. So I am a perfect newbie asking for something that could be
perfectly obvious to you all.
I started by opening the tutorial and making pdf of it. I have immediately
noticed that Lyx seems to arbitr
Julio Rojas wrote:
> Anyway, thanks Helge. I'll keep you guys informed on the process.
>
Not a solution for now but okular the next generation KDE pdf reader will
have annotations support.
http://kpdf.kde.org/okular/screenies/okular-annotations.png
KDE 4 applications should also work under Win
Well, that could work and some of that is what we've using, but for the
thesis I don't think that's plausible. Notes for text already written and
ideas about moving paragraphs, are better seen "in" the actual document. At
least from an editorial point of view. I think that for my theisis I'll
stic
Julio Rojas wrote:
Now my problem is that my tutor only uses Word. He doesn't want to
expend his time "learning" LyX, even thou there's really nothing to
learn (I'll do all the LaTeX job and he'll only do some writing).
How about:
You write with LyX, and sends him PDF. Anybody can read PDF.
He
As indeed modern versions of Wordperfect, for the last few version you
have been able to run in classic view which emulates the DOS version.
Graham
Helge Hafting wrote:
Richard Heck wrote:
Hey, I loved WordPerfect back when you had the blue background and stuff.
Note that LyX has color pr
Richard Heck wrote:
Hey, I loved WordPerfect back when you had the blue background and stuff.
Note that LyX has color preferences - so you can get that
white on blue feeling. :-)
Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS
Word...
I've never done it, but:
LyX is my preferred tool for all word processing / typesetting tasks.
Anything I need to write with formatting - a letter, a report, a book,
a pdf file, I st
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 17:51, Stefano Franchi wrote:
> On 15 May, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Jan Peters wrote:
> > One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you
> > are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by
> > cut-and-paste, would you write everything again
On 15 May, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Jan Peters wrote:
One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you
are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by
cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or resuse your old
text?
For me, this is THE reason. I wan
William Adams schrieb:
use booktabs (support has been added in v1.5) and read its documentation
as well:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/
LyX 1.5 will support booktabs. you can check out the beta3 for LyX 1.5.0 that is released tomorrow.
For infos about table fo
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 16:51, Steve Litt wrote:
> If you are *mega* impatient, you can read my article, "LyX, LaTeX and TeX"
> at http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm.
Oops, I meant http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm.
SteveT
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 13:24, Bo Peng wrote:
> > Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read "TeX for the
> > Impatient", available here:
> >
> > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf
>
> A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-)
>
> Bo
Hi Bo,
Yeah, but it's an easy
>>> Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read
>>> "TeX for the Impatient",available here:
>>> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:24:31PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote:
>> A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-)
On Tue, 15 May 2007, An
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:24:31PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote:
> >Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read "TeX for the
> >Impatient",available here:
> >
> >http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf
>
> A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-)
You found one of the propbl
Steve Litt wrote:
> Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read "TeX for the Impatient",
> available here:
>
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf
>
> After reading that book, I've never again been intimidated by LaTeX
> (confused,
> yes, but not intimidated).
>
L
Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read "TeX for the Impatient",
available here:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf
A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-)
Bo
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 12:04, Richard Heck wrote:
> Yes, but of course LaTeX isn't designed for end-users to do this kind of
> thing. The class is supposed to handle all of that, and the end-user is
> supposed to worry about content. True, there are times when one does
> want to do that kind of th
Daniel Lohmann wrote:
> I guess the main (non political nor domain-specific) problem many people have
> with Word is its /pretended/ simplicity. Yes it is simple to get a
> good-looking, personal letter out of it. However, if one wants to use it to
> write a more complex document, one really has
On May 15, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote:
While I know how to build some table in LyX/LaTeX, I get frequently
frustrated when I have to tweak and optimize the layout (individual
cell width, border styles, inner-cell margins, fonts, ...)
Read Edward Tufte's _The Visual Display of Quan
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote:
> Daniel Lohmann schrieb:
>
>> Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still "draw" tables with Word or
>> Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document...
>
> There's a tool that could be interesting for you, excel2latex:
Yes, I know it. Unfortunately it does *exa
Now Dom, that last one was a really useful tip. Thx!!!
On 5/15/07, Dominik Waßenhoven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Daniel Lohmann schrieb:
> Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still "draw" tables with Word or
> Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document...
There's a tool that could
Daniel Lohmann schrieb:
Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still "draw" tables with Word or
Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document...
There's a tool that could be interesting for you, excel2latex:
http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/xl2latex.zip
http://www.jam-software.com/f
I used to use Word quite a lot and was -- overall -- not too unhappy
with it. I used it, for instance, to typeset my diploma with >120 pages
and plenty of figures. All this worked quite well, but as I said, I
already was an experienced Word user at that time so I knew how to do it.
I guess the mai
Wonderful Dave, except for users who don't have or don't want to have
or can't have Word installed in their computers. Tex2word and word2tex
only work within Word, so it's not really a good solution for most of
us.
As for myself, after years of using Word and hating the "bugs" that
change the doc
One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you
are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by
cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or resuse your old
text?
For my party: I deny using Word and am not willing to use it or an OSF
clone of word
On Mon, May 14, 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
>
> But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in
> LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word.
>
As others have said, one doesn't always know where a manuscript will end up
when you start writing. Or you may be working with a co
On Monday 14 May 2007 12:30, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS
> Word...
>
> Why not use MS Word from the beginning?
Steve,
The documents I write tend to be technical reports with lots of figures. The
report I'm working o
I've been playing around with Lyx for about three months now. I am coming from a FrameMaker environment. I can not tell you why Lyx->Word, but I've been doing FM->Word for years. And the reason was/is clear to me: it is far easy accomplish Word requirements working with FM (I do
Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hi all,
>
> This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS
> Word...
>
> Why not use MS Word from the beginning?
Because it sucks writing math in MS Word.
Andreas
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Steve Litt apparently wrote:
> I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start
> a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word.
Interface, interoperability, and reliability.
I cannot write in Word. Too slow.
Large equations are a nightmare.
Not every publisher w
Richard Heck schrieb:
> Steve Litt wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS
>> Word...
>>
>> Why not use MS Word from the beginning? [snip] But hard as I rack my brains,
>> I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN conv
On Monday 14 May 2007 13:33, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
> > But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a
> > project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word.
>
> Interface preference.
>
> Or availability (maybe author has limited access to Wo
On Monday 14 May 2007 13:42, you wrote:
> Of course, OOo is an option, but then OOo to Word conversions
> aren't always trivial, either, and I still vastly prefer writing in LyX
> to writing in OOo.
One man's opinion: OOo word processing (as opposed to presentation) is an
abomination. If my onl
Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS
> Word...
>
> Why not use MS Word from the beginning? [snip] But hard as I rack my brains,
> I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to
> MS Word.
>
I d
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
> But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a
> project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word.
Interface preference.
Or availability (maybe author has limited access to Word).
Jeremy C. Reed
Hi all,
This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS
Word...
Why not use MS Word from the beginning? AFAIK once you convert to Word (or rtf
or whatever), you can't really get it back into LyX. Once you're in Word, you
don't have LyX->LaTeX->TeX ability to lay out
Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
> numbering. What it CAN'T do, is painless formatting changes - your
> reference database should be configured to reflect the desired format.
Which actually made me to run out of it -- it sucks!!! The most important of
all BibTeX/MODS qualities is that you have on
--- Luis Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hum...
>
> This looks to me like another Holy War.
>
>
Yup...just to remain completely off topic, the one big
feature of latex over word for me is the handling of
pictures and other floating objects. Word has a
tendency (or a positive need) to move
Steve Litt wrote:
> By the way, I finally just gave up on the underlining.
By the way, did you take a look at package soul?
matěj
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> Here's an example. I need a URL style for my book. I want it small, bold and
> underlined. This would be 2 minutes in WordPerfect 5.1 (the wordprocessor
> whose styles I'm most familiar with).
>
> In LyX, I don't have it yet, in spite of trying all the suggestions on the LyX
> list. Herbert's ca
Hum...
This looks to me like another Holy War.
Let me add my little bit of flame. To give everyone his due, let me
say that I also despise MSW*rd, precisely because I know how to use it
(I used to work with it as the formatter of a couple of tiny little
journals, and its most recent feat is tha
On Thursday 28 April 2005 07:13 am, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
> >On Monday 18 April 2005 02:33 am, Alexander BlÃm wrote:
> >>hello,
> >>
> >>I am still a convinced LyX user and I've "infected" a few people around
> >>me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documen
G. Milde wrote:
On 18.04.05, Alexander BlÃm wrote:
They say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with
WORD2000...
I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it
already. Any good arguments why one should use LyX instead of word?
I think, the days of "onl
Steve Litt wrote:
On Monday 18 April 2005 02:33 am, Alexander BlÃm wrote:
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've "infected" a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the
layout
Rich Drewes wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Ernesto Jardim wrote:
And for last, your arguments are very much depending on the use of
pybliographic.
That was the best free & open source GUI bibliographic manager I had found
at the time that could insert references into a Lyx doc with a click and
also
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Ernesto Jardim wrote:
> And for last, your arguments are very much depending on the use of
> pybliographic.
That was the best free & open source GUI bibliographic manager I had found
at the time that could insert references into a Lyx doc with a click and
also launch a refer
On Friday 22 April 2005 14:36, Mark Carroll wrote:
>
> True. (-: It'd be nice if the structure were documented somewhere, though
> - whenever I want to write software that generates LyX files, I have to
> reverse-engineer the format by inspecting various LyX files. At least, if
> I'm using software
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
(snip)
> Although Lyx provides another language layer over LaTeX (which works over
> plain TeX) its files still maintain a rather simple structure that becomes
> life-saving over crashes and glitches both Lyx-related and system-wide.
(snip)
Tr
Rich Drewes wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
One big issue here is that such third party add-ons for Word are usually paid
their LOC in gold.
(LOC?)
Another problem is the quite frequent instabillity derived
by "overloading" word with such bells and whistles. I can
On Thursday 21 April 2005 19:41, Rich Drewes wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
> > One big issue here is that such third party add-ons for Word are usually
> > paid their LOC in gold.
>
> (LOC?)
Lines Of Code :-) It's certainly not their weight (10-20 grams per cd more
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
> One big issue here is that such third party add-ons for Word are usually paid
> their LOC in gold.
(LOC?)
> Another problem is the quite frequent instabillity derived
> by "overloading" word with such bells and whistles. I can't tell any
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 19:44, Rich Drewes wrote:
> Serious Word users would point to EndNote and say that tools like
> BibTex/Pybliographic are toys in comparison. (EndNote supports importing
> BibTex, BTW.) For certain things they are right--BibTex+Pybliographic
> handles the basics well, but
Steve Litt wrote:
I think a person should use Word (or in my case OpenOffice) for most stuff.
Oh, goody. Now we start the Battle of Improperly-Generalized Anecdotes.
Here's mine:
> If
it's under 10,000 words, LyX is a hassle unless you're willing to accept ALL
LyX's defaults. Here's why...
In
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 08:33:56AM +0200, Alexander Blüm wrote:
> But I've also met a few very stubborn people, like most of my school.
> They say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with
> WORD2000...
> I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it
> already.
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:44:08AM -0700, Rich Drewes wrote:
> There are good equation packages (third party) for Word as well, I am
> told.
I've seen a couple of them. I would even admit that most of them look
better than LyX _on screen_. But when the criteria are either quality of
print output o
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Rich Drewes wrote:
> For my thesis I chose to go with Lyx and Pybliographic
...
> It has been quite a bit of work getting Lyx to conform to my
> University's formatting conventions but I managed it all, finally, with
> appropriate ERT in the Lyx doc.
Perhaps it'd be a good i
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Matej Cepl wrote:
> etc., where Word's instability goes into author's way. However, there are
> other factors where Word's inadequacy shows up -- somebody mentioned
> mathematics, I would add missing support for BibTeX
Serious Word users would point to EndNote and say that to
Steve Litt wrote:
> I think a person should use Word (or in my case OpenOffice) for most
> stuff. If it's under 10,000 words, LyX is a hassle unless you're willing
> to accept ALL LyX's defaults. Here's why...
I would respectfully disagree with my honorable colleague from Florida :-)
Steve, you us
Tysdag 19. april 2005 14:27 skreiv Steve Litt:
> On Monday 18 April 2005 07:00 pm, pano karambelas wrote:
> > Steve -
> >
> > Just to understand, do your comments apply to mathematical/technical
> > documents that are < 10 K words as well ?
>
> Mathematical, no. MS Word has no reasonable way to do
On Monday 18 April 2005 07:00 pm, pano karambelas wrote:
> Steve -
>
> Just to understand, do your comments apply to mathematical/technical
> documents that are < 10 K words as well ?
Mathematical, no. MS Word has no reasonable way to do equations. Other tech
docs, yes. Prose and screenshots are
Steve -
Just to understand, do your comments apply to mathematical/technical
documents that are < 10 K words as well ?
thanks
-Original Message-
From: Steve Litt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 9:55 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: "why
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Alexander Blüm wrote:
But I've also met a few very stubborn people, like most of my school. They
say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with WORD2000...
I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it
already. Any good arguments why one sh
On Monday 18 April 2005 02:33 am, Alexander Blüm wrote:
> hello,
>
> I am still a convinced LyX user and I've "infected" a few people around
> me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
> now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the
> layout - hehe).
G. Milde wrote:
> I think, the days of "only LaTeX can have proper logical layout (with
> \section instead of bold large text for section titles etc) are gone.
> Proper used word will do this too. (And in many cases, using a publisher
> provided style will be easier with word than with LyX.)
Can I
Is Word good at positioning floats yet? It always used to annoy me because
I'd have to shift figures and tables around by hand so that things would
paginate agreeably, and then redo it if things changed. Having to approach
positioning-for-good-pagination somewhat manually was dreadful because
thing
Alexander Blüm wrote:
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've "infected" a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents now
and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the layout -
hehe).
But I've also met a few very stubborn peopl
Alexander Blüm wrote:
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've "infected" a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the
layout - hehe).
But I've also met a few very stubborn peopl
Alexander Blüm wrote:
> I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it
> already. Any good arguments why one should use LyX instead of word?
>
An argument is that when you have created your own set of favorite templates
or classes, it is much faster to do it in LyX.
Cheer
On 18.04.05, Alexander Blüm wrote:
> They say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with
> WORD2000...
> I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it
> already. Any good arguments why one should use LyX instead of word?
I think, the days of "only LaTeX can ha
Quoting Alexander Blüm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> hello,
>
> I am still a convinced LyX user and I've "infected" a few people around
> me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
> now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the
> layout - hehe).
> But I've
hello,
I am still a convinced LyX user and I've "infected" a few people around
me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents
now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the
layout - hehe).
But I've also met a few very stubborn people, like most of my sc
On Friday 07 September 2001 01:51, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:46:55PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > > > One thing that LyX definitely does
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:46:55PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > > One thing that LyX definitely does worse is fonts -- but that's because
> > > of the limitations of Te
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:51:33PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:45, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote:
> > >>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000
> > >>From: Kathryn Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
&g
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:45:44PM +0200, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote:
>
> >>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000
> >>From: Kathryn Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Subject: Why Lyx?
> >>
> >>On Wed, Sep 05,
> On Wednesday 05 September 2001 16:09, you wrote:
> > John Levon writes:
> >
> > I've turned tens of normal students onto lyx instead
> > of word (even unix-hating students) entirely as a result of the output.
> >
> > Yes, but ...
My two bits:
The effect on my students has been the same. Tw
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 16:09, you wrote:
> John Levon writes:
>
> I've turned tens of normal students onto lyx instead
> of word (even unix-hating students) entirely as a result of the output.
>
> Yes, but ...
>
> I've never used ms-word, and haven't used any PC word-processing
> progr
John Levon writes:
I've turned tens of normal students onto lyx instead
of word (even unix-hating students) entirely as a result of the output.
Yes, but ...
I've never used ms-word, and haven't used any PC word-processing
program since the first version of word-perfect. For 16 years I've
>>From: Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: Why Lyx?
>>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:51:33 +0300
>>
>>On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:45, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote:
>>> >>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:0
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:45, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote:
> >>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000
> >>From: Kathryn Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Subject: Why Lyx?
> >>I wish I could use Lyx at work. Unfo
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > One thing that LyX definitely does worse is fonts -- but that's because
> > of the limitations of TeX. Does anyone know if that's ever likely to
> > improve?
>
> what do
>>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000
>>From: Kathryn Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Why Lyx?
>>
>>On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:30:14AM +0200, Giovanni Tummarello wrote:
>>> This opens up a question: if you leave
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> One thing that LyX definitely does worse is fonts -- but that's because
> of the limitations of TeX. Does anyone know if that's ever likely to
> improve?
what do you mean here ?
regards
john
--
"This is mindless pedantism up
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:30:14AM +0200, Giovanni Tummarello wrote:
> This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is
> free.. and that the underlying latex is supposely bug free. why
> features does lyx offer that word doesnt? (the contrary isnt really to
> be asked :) ) . I me
Yes, I had in mind the input markup being of use in 20 years time, as opposed to the
output format de jour. I have in my collections some old files in runnof (from Prime
computers amongst others) and nroff files that I can readily access with vi. This
works of course only if you have the means
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 03:28:24PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> increasingly popular variants on XML.
Things like
0ASE9ASDJ8923HJ894798Q374EHS90WAE7423329298UEWQJLKEFD09W4720734U
[...]
09SADASDJF394RTHSAD8J34HJ8F7EWHEU89SKLIO398KDFJKF89S9SDYOEFSWEFO
? ;-)
Andre'
--
André Pönitz ...
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 15:02, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> > Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc.
>
> That does not even hold for most .ps files. Having a format using ASCII
> char does not necessarily mea
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc.
That does not even hold for most .ps files. Having a format using ASCII
char does not necessarily mean you can read it painlessly...
Andre'
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On Wednesday 05 September 2001 14:48, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Finally, I like the idea that my work will be accessible in its source
> > format in 20 or 30 years time, as long as I have a readable ascii file, I
> > can get to it, I wou
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Finally, I like the idea that my work will be accessible in its source
> format in 20 or 30 years time, as long as I have a readable ascii file, I
> can get to it, I would be surprised if I could do the same with a Word
> format doc
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:57:49PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> Oh yes, and there's the pretty PS/PDF output as well. An untutored eye may
> not immediately pick up on the difference between the same document in
> LyX->LaTeX->PS and a standard word-processor, but I think there's a
> sublimina
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 03:30, Giovanni Tummarello wrote:
>
> This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is free..
> and that the underlying latex is supposely bug free. why features does lyx
> offer that word doesnt? (the contrary isnt really to be asked :) ) . I
> mea
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 11:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am using LyX to prepare conference papers and also my PhD thesis. What I
> find really powerful is the ability to format a large document in different
> ways, without having the source change in any substantial way. This is very
Having used Word (4,5 95, 97) for many years in industry (it was a corporate standard)
and at home, and having also used many other document preparation tools on Windoze and
Unix, I would like to add my tuppence worth to this. Just to be clear, this is not a
rant against word, but a comment tha
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On Tuesday 04 September 2001 20:30, Giovanni Tummarello wrote:
> This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is free..
> and that the underlying latex is supposely bug free. why features does lyx
> offer that word doesnt? (the cont
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:15:30AM +0100, Qingchang Zhong wrote:
> Dear Herbert,
> Along with your solution, I obtained a solution to change massive arrays including
>vertical lines.
>
> Some suggestions regarding to vertical/horizontal lines in arrays are:
>
> 1. horizontal lines can be input
Dear Herbert,
Thank you for your solution.
Along with your solution, I obtained a solution to change massive arrays
including vertical lines.
Some suggestions regarding to vertical/horizontal lines in arrays are:
1. horizontal lines can be input in arrays directly with \hline
at the first cell of
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