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Stephen Harris | 1 Feb 2006 01:33
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Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yaron Y. Goland" <yaron@...>
To: "Stephen Harris" <techmech@...>
Cc: <lyx-users@...>
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling)

>> I don't think you were aware, when writing your review, that
>> the strength of LyX is generating mathematical equations as
>> LyX is a front-end to (La)TeX.
>
> Actually my example article did use a mathematical equation to  illustrate 
> the power of LyX, in fact, that was the very first example  I gave and for 
> the reasons you site, TeX's background. In fact, in my  article I state 
> "TEX, the underlying technology for LyX, was original  invented in order 
> to produce beautiful mathematical equations." So it  would appear we are 
> in agreement.
>

I didn't see the equation. I used Internet Explorer which leaves a
large space before showing the equation, then I quit reading. When
I looked at it with Firefox the page shows up as very readable.

>> Why compare LyX in the
>> category of liberal arts html page-makers?

> I'm afraid I don't understand your point. As I state in my conclusion 
> "The only reason I put up with LyX is that it makes handling the  formulas 
> and bibliography issues with my book on retirement planning  much easier
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Herbert Voss | 1 Feb 2006 09:35
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Re: powerdot

Subir Singh Lamba wrote:

> I am facing problem while running the examples provided in doc directory 
> of the powedot distribution. Whenever I try to compile the example file in 
> lyx or latex it gives the following error message:-
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> I can't find file `xkeyval'.
>  ...XKeyValLoaded\endinput\else\input xkeyval 
>                                                   \fi
> Please type another input file name
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.

where is the problem?? You need xkeval, install it ...

http://www.dante.de/CTAN//help/Catalogue/entries/xkeyval.html

Herbert
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Herbert Voss | 1 Feb 2006 09:32
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Re: powerdot install

John O'Gorman wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 01:35, Subir Singh Lamba wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I tried to install powerdot package following the installation advice from 
>>the help menu of lyx.
> 
> How does powerdot compare with beamer?

powerdot: _always_ latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf, no problem
           with embedded PostScript code, like PSTricks, psfrag,
           eps, ps, ...

Herbert
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Herbert Voss | 1 Feb 2006 09:54
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Re: Typeface for Insert URL

Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> mail.k wrote:
> 
>> /Insert URL/ does a fine job of typesetting the link, but it doesn't 
>> use my default typeface. I do I force it to?
> 
> 
> The problem LyX's hardcoding of the typeface:
> 
>  \IfFileExists{url.sty}{\usepackage{url}}
>                        {\newcommand{\url}{\texttt}}

this is only valid, when url.sty doesn't exist.
url.sty is part of every distribution ... the above
line is superfluous.

The url gui should be edited to allow hyperrefs

Herbert
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Daryl Moulder | 1 Feb 2006 10:22

Can't install lyx 1.3.7 on OS X. Can't see my tetex install

I can't get lyx-aqua to see my tetex install, I've done the  
reconfigure thing, no dice.  I'm using the standard Os X latex  
install in the
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/ dir.

Thanks for any information about this.

Daryl Moulder

-- When everything is not as square as it may seem.
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Karsten Heymann | 1 Feb 2006 11:27
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Re: powerdot install


As I already deleted John's mail, I'll answer Herberts:

Herbert Voss schrieb:
| John O'Gorman wrote:
|> How does powerdot compare with beamer?

On LyX level? Not very much. On LaTeX level it's a matter of taste IMHO.

Some impressions from my experiences while preparing my first powerdot
presentation held yesterday:

Pro beamer:
there are subsections, subtitles, "blocks" (pretty boxes), fancier
overlay commands, better default vertial spacing on slides

Pro powerdot:
much nicer style presets, much cleaner latex interface, fast evolving
(promising), better reuse of existing packages (enumitem, xkeyval), many
contributors (not at least Herbert :) ), allows postscript specials
(killer argument if you need it)

Both are nicely documentated, allow verbatim text with overlays, allow
customization. I would use beamer for for larger presentations (i.E.
teaching classes as in [1]) and beamer for shorter, more visual
presentations.

HTH & YMMV.

Yours,
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Herbert Voss | 1 Feb 2006 11:46
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Re: powerdot install

Karsten Heymann wrote:

> Both are nicely documentated, allow verbatim text with overlays, allow
> customization. I would use beamer for for larger presentations (i.E.
                             ^^^^^^^^
> teaching classes as in [1]) and beamer for shorter, more visual
                                   ^^^^^^^
> presentations.

long speech short sense: then you always use beamer ... :-)

Herbert
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Karsten Heymann | 1 Feb 2006 12:05
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Re: powerdot install


Hello Herbert,

Herbert Voss schrieb:
| Karsten Heymann wrote:

|> Both are nicely documentated, allow verbatim text with overlays, allow
|> customization. I would use beamer for for larger presentations (i.E.
|                             ^^^^^^^^
|> teaching classes as in [1]) and beamer for shorter, more visual
|                                  ^^^^^^^

arg -- powerdot of course!

|> presentations.
|
| long speech short sense: then you always use beamer ... :-)

:-)

Looking forward to Berlin,
Karsten

PS: http://dict.leo.org/ende?search=long+speech+short+sense :o)
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Bennett Helm | 1 Feb 2006 14:56
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Re: Can't install lyx 1.3.7 on OS X. Can't see my tetex install

On Feb 1, 2006, at 4:22 AM, Daryl Moulder wrote:

> I can't get lyx-aqua to see my tetex install, I've done the  
> reconfigure thing, no dice.  I'm using the standard Os X latex  
> install in the
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/ dir.

You need to be a bit more specific and provide more details. Is it  
that the LyX installer (which changes things in your LyX user's  
directory and makes sure certain LaTeX classes/styles are installed  
properly) gives you an error message when you run it saying that it  
can't find the TeX installation? (Did you run the installer? --  
That's necessary to set paths properly so that LyX can find your TeX  
installation.) Or is it that from within LyX itself you don't find  
things like View > DVI, View > PDF (pdflatex), etc.?

Assuming it's the latter, what is the output from Console.app when  
you run reconfigure from within LyX?

Bennett
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Martin A. Hansen | 1 Feb 2006 15:21
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how to get address environment to span two columns in koma article?

well, the subject sas it all ...

martin
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