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John | 1 Apr 2008 05:50
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Re: New LyX website

On Monday 31 March 2008 01:07:40 pm Rex C. Eastbourne wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at:
> http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage
>
> We're still doing some design work, but the basics are in place. What do
> you all think?

Just one carping criticism: 
I don't think the 2nd par is punchy enough and doesn't do justice to how 
brilliant LyX is.

You have:

LyX combines the power and flexibility of the TeX typesetting system with the 
ease of use of a graphical interface. This results in world-class support for 
creation of mathematical content and structured documents. In addition, 
staples of scientific authoring such as reference list and index creation 
come standard. But you can also use LyX to create a letter or a novel or a 
theatre play or film script. A broad array of ready, well designed document 
layouts are built in.
>
I'd prefer something like this:

Achieve effortless superiority in document production!
Without learning any special language or code,  just type your content into a 
Graphic front end and the superb TeX typesetting system will give you 
beautifully presented documents laid out to professional standards developed 
over the centuries. Mathematics, academic stuff like reference lists and
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William R. Buckley | 1 Apr 2008 01:19

RE: WRB - Observations

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Wojcik [mailto:mwojcik@...] 
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:46 PM
> To: lyx-users@...
> Subject: Re: WRB - Observations
> 
> rgheck wrote:
> > Michael Wojcik wrote:
> >>
> >> I don't think this is a bug in Qt, though arguably it's a missing 
> >> feature. Shortcuts are not first-class filesystem objects 
> in Windows.
> >> They're files that are treated in a special manner by 
> Windows Explorer.
> >>
> > LyX uses Qt for its file dialogs, etc, so if this doesn't work 
> > correctly, it's got to do with Qt, bugs or otherwise.
> 
> Agreed, though it would be good to know why people report 
> different behavior in different dialogs, and different 
> behavior on different systems. It's conceivable that 
> something LyX is doing is either triggering a Qt bug in some 
> circumstances (which might be avoidable), or at least causing 
> differing behavior where we could be consistent.
> 
> If I weren't in the middle of about a zillion other things 
> I'd grab the current sources and take a look. (Maybe over the 
> summer I'll finally get a chance to dig into the LyX source.)
> 
> Though, pace William, the *real* problem, as I wrote above,
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Jean-Michel Bouffard | 1 Apr 2008 01:22
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Re: Bibtex bibliography

Bob Lounsbury wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Julio Rojas <jcredberry@...> wrote:
>> Bob, Babel matters because the person asking the question seems to be
>>  french. Or at least he speaks french.
>>  --
>>  -------------------------------------------------
>>  Julio Rojas
>>  jcredberry@...
>>
> 
> Good to know. Thanks. Would be nice if the people posting would
> clarify their needs. Also, if they would contribute once they post a
> question to let us know if a solution worked or if they are having
> further trouble. Since the poster hasn't responded to anything in this
> thread.
> 
> Cheers,
> /Bob

Thanks a lot for your help. I must say that after seeing the first 
answer yesterday I tried it and it worked so I didn't check again my 
email until now. I couldn't imagine that it would start such a discussion :)

So the solution I used was:
"\usepackage[english]{babel} \addto\captionsenglish 
{\renewcommand{\bibname}{References}}"

And it worked as expected. Julio was right, I speak french but in this 
case I'm writing my thesis in english but the general solution is 
appreciated since I may need to use french sometime.
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Michael Thompson | 1 Apr 2008 01:40
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Re: Visual Tour (Was: New LyX website)


> Michael, feel free to re-create pictures in screenshot section and/or
> graphical tour. the screenshots you sent are fine, just use standard
> colors and composition of toolbars.
> 
> pavel
> 
Sorry, the lyx background was the strong light, back porch version, which looks
pretty goofy. I have been studying the tour and screenshot bits, thinking how I
could make a better pitch to my fellow technical idiots.
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William R. Buckley | 1 Apr 2008 05:25

RE: WRB - Observations

Well, the open source tool Maxima has no problem following
a Windows shortcut in its browsing function.  So, your position
is therefore that LyX should be less than it might be, when other
open source tools have no problem with a simple if arcane
function.

The proper ideal for any open source tool should be operating
system universality, and I am sure that various tool makers
provide mechanisms to facilitate the interface between disparate
philosophies.  While I don't know all the various tools, it appears
that wxWidgets satisfies some of these idiosyncrasies and allows
a very complex product to work.

Bitterness at Microsoft?  Why?  The war is already won, and in the
end, Windows too will become open source.

Unix is the worst of all possible operating systems, except when
compared to all other operating systems.

There is no reason that this condition should persist.  Rather, quite
the opposite, and that will entail the incorporation of all available
tools.

What really surprises me is the effort various members have
expended to encourage me not to help your project.

I quite think your efforts are misguided.

wrb
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Joost Verburg | 1 Apr 2008 05:37
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Re: WRB - Observations

William R. Buckley wrote:
> Well, the open source tool Maxima has no problem following
> a Windows shortcut in its browsing function.  So, your position
> is therefore that LyX should be less than it might be, when other
> open source tools have no problem with a simple if arcane
> function.

On my system it's not even possible in Microsoft Word :) Does this 
Maxima tool use the standard Windows dialog?

Joost
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Geevarghese Philip | 1 Apr 2008 05:40
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Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

Richard Heck wrote:
> Geevarghese Philip wrote:

>> Thanks, but it works and it doesn't : The theorems are displayed in 
>> LyX with sequential numbering, but when I try to compile the file into 
>> dvi using Ctrl-D, I get the same error as before : \theoremstyle is 
>> not defined.
>>
> That's very odd. I compiled it and it worked fine for me. Are you using 
> at least one theorem? Or are you only using other things, like corollaries?
> 

I was using other things only, such as lemmas and definitions: no 
theorem per se.

Philip
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William R. Buckley | 1 Apr 2008 06:03

RE: WRB - Observations

Joost:

I really do not the particulars of the product.  It would be best for you to
download it from its sourceforge.net project site, and test for yourself.

On WindowsXPsp2 (I think that is the latest - the system is configured
for web-based automatic upgrading), and using Word 2003, I clicked
File:Open  and then from the dialog box (which always starts in
My Documents) used the pull-down menu to select the D hard drive,
and then double-clicked on the shortcut, which brings me to the 
corresponding directory, where I am able to view the files there stored.

What version of Word are you using?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: news [mailto:news@...] On Behalf Of Joost Verburg
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 8:37 PM
> To: lyx-users@...
> Subject: Re: WRB - Observations
> 
> William R. Buckley wrote:
> > Well, the open source tool Maxima has no problem following 
> a Windows 
> > shortcut in its browsing function.  So, your position is therefore 
> > that LyX should be less than it might be, when other open 
> source tools 
> > have no problem with a simple if arcane function.
> 
> On my system it's not even possible in Microsoft Word :) Does 
> this Maxima tool use the standard Windows dialog?
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G. Milde | 1 Apr 2008 08:33
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Re: Booklet headings

On 31.03.08, Grahame Blackwood wrote:
> On Monday 31 March 2008 17:05:21 Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Grahame Blackwood wrote:
> > > Is there anyway to do this properly so that standard text and
> > > section/subsections are increased in size proportionally?
> >
> >    Documents -> Settings -> Fonts

You could try the scaling factor box for the individual fonts (instead of
the global document fontsize), however this will give wrong proportions as
it will not increase the spacing accordingly.

> Hi Rich

> Thanks very much for the suggestion. I tried that but even when I have
> set the font to the maximum size i.e. 12 point, the print is quite
> small after the booklet package has reduced an a4 sheet of text down to
> a5 size. 

> What I would like to achieve is a result that looks like 12 point on an
> a4 sheet, but after it has been reduced by the booklet package to fit
> on a5 paper. The ERT method I used worked, but was a compromise since I
> didn't want the standard text to be bigger than the section headings. 

I do not know about the booklet package, but I would suggest to set the
papersize to a5 so LaTeX will know what is expected and do a proper layout.

 E.g. the koma-script packages will automatically compute text margins
 based on typographic conventions and experience (see scrguien.pdf).
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G. Milde | 1 Apr 2008 08:41
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Re: custom document language

On 31.03.08, Luis Rivera wrote:
> Liviu Andronic <landronimirc <at> ...> writes:

> > 
> > Does LaTeX support such rarely encountered languages?
> > Liviu
> > 

> It does: provided you supply an appropriately formatted <language>.ldf file
> somewhere in your TEXPATH.

Could LyX generate the list of supported languages by looking for *.ldf
files in the LaTeX-Configure step?

GM
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