On 07/02/2008, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > s. keeling wrote:
> > > Just curious, but what's wrong with breaking it up by chapters and
> > > figuring out how to merge it all together later? "lpr chap*" too much
> > > to remember?
> >
> > Now ema
s. keeling said...
> marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Micha said...
> > > On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:11:32 -
> > > > The reason I asked is that I write books yet haven't found anything to
> > > > match WinEdt, which is a Windows editor, for handling chapters and
> > > > LaTeX
> > >
> > > Personall
marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Micha said...
> > On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:11:32 -
> > > The reason I asked is that I write books yet haven't found anything to
> > > match WinEdt, which is a Windows editor, for handling chapters and LaTeX
> >
> > Personally I work with either lyx or emacs + auctex
Micha said...
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:11:32 -
> > The reason I asked is that I write books yet haven't found anything to
> > match WinEdt, which is a Windows editor, for handling chapters and LaTeX
> > on Linux. In all other cases, I use vim.
>
> Personally I work with either lyx or emacs +
On Feb 7, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
Emacs's bidirectional text rendering is still non-existing.
I recall that there was a patch for bidi support in Emacs. But I
have no
idea what ever came up with it.
It's buggy and based on an old version of Emacs. Last time I tried to
bu
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:11:14PM +0200, Emre Sahin wrote:
> marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Steve Lamb said...
> >> After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl. At first glance
> >> it
> >> seemed to work nicely but after 2-3 times I noticed that it was really
> >> chugging
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:11:32 -
marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Lamb said...
> > After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl. At first glance it
> > seemed to work nicely but after 2-3 times I noticed that it was really
> > chugging on dealing with my document which was a me
marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Steve Lamb said...
>> After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl. At first glance it
>> seemed to work nicely but after 2-3 times I noticed that it was really
>> chugging on dealing with my document which was a mere 25 pages of prose
>> so far. Unl
On 06 Feb 2008, marc wrote:
> Steve Lamb said...
> > s. keeling wrote:
> > > Just curious, but what's wrong with breaking it up by chapters and
> > > figuring out how to merge it all together later? "lpr chap*" too much
> > > to remember?
> >
> > Now email that ream of paper.
>
> Scanner?
>
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> s. keeling wrote:
> > Just curious, but what's wrong with breaking it up by chapters and
> > figuring out how to merge it all together later? "lpr chap*" too much
> > to remember?
>
> Now email that ream of paper.
s/lpr/mutt -a chap* .../
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marc wrote:
> Steve Lamb said...
>> s. keeling wrote:
>> > Just curious, but what's wrong with breaking it up by chapters and
>> > figuring out how to merge it all together later? "lpr chap*" too much
>> > to remember?
>>
>> Now email that ream of paper.
> Scanner?
Yeahh, that's effi
Steve Lamb said...
> After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl. At first glance it
> seemed to work nicely but after 2-3 times I noticed that it was really
> chugging on dealing with my document which was a mere 25 pages of prose
> so far. Unless I planned on breaking it up by chapt
Steve Lamb said...
> s. keeling wrote:
> > Just curious, but what's wrong with breaking it up by chapters and
> > figuring out how to merge it all together later? "lpr chap*" too much
> > to remember?
>
> Now email that ream of paper.
Scanner?
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s. keeling wrote:
> Just curious, but what's wrong with breaking it up by chapters and
> figuring out how to merge it all together later? "lpr chap*" too much
> to remember?
Now email that ream of paper.
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On 06 Feb 2008, Miles Bader wrote:
> Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Why has no one in this thread mentioned Lyx? I've just used it to
> > produce two books for Lulu and have found it good for that purpose.
>
> Last time I tried Lyx it crashed every 5 minutes even with fairly simp
On Feb 6, 4:10 am, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But I don't use it to produce the actual text; for that I use (g)vim.
It's an author's dream for the same reason that it's a programmer's
dream.
> the text is more or less as I want it I then import it into Lyx for
> working up int
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why has no one in this thread mentioned Lyx? I've just used it to
> produce two books for Lulu and have found it good for that purpose.
Last time I tried Lyx it crashed every 5 minutes even with fairly simple
documents...
"Texmacs" is kind of interes
On 06 Feb 2008, Dan H. wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:29:40AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > Just out of curiosity: why OOo instead of AbiWord?
> >
> > After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl. At first glance it
> > seemed to work nicely but after 2-3 t
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:29:40AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity: why OOo instead of AbiWord?
>
> After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl. At first glance it
> seemed to work nicely but after 2-3 times I noticed that it was really
> chuggi
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On 02/05/08 22:49, s. keeling wrote:
> Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> Just out of curiosity: why OOo instead of AbiWord?
>> I knew someone would remember the previous touching on authoring. ;)
>>
>> After you suggeste
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity: why OOo instead of AbiWord?
>
> I knew someone would remember the previous touching on authoring. ;)
>
> After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl. At first
> glance it seemed to work nicely but af
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On 02/05/08 18:11, Miles Bader wrote:
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Struggling to keep up with your typing? Slow page reformatting as
>> you scroll?
>
> I've tried abiword many times over the years (mostly because it does
> seem so muc
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Struggling to keep up with your typing? Slow page reformatting as
> you scroll?
I've tried abiword many times over the years (mostly because it does
seem so much more svelte and pretty than OO), but I always seem to end
up going back to ooword
Usuall
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On 02/05/08 14:35, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> Struggling to keep up with your typing? Slow page reformatting as
>> you scroll?
>
> Both. There was a detectable pause after typing. I could work around
> that as I'm no speed demon
On 05/02/2008, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals
>
> You, sir, you rock!
>
Take care what you say, with a name like yours!
Terence
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Ron Johnson wrote:
> Struggling to keep up with your typing? Slow page reformatting as
> you scroll?
Both. There was a detectable pause after typing. I could work around
that as I'm no speed demon when it comes to typing. However scrolling
was dog slow. Sometimes 2-3 seconds on a page dow
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On 02/05/08 13:29, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity: why OOo instead of AbiWord?
>
> I knew someone would remember the previous touching on authoring. ;)
>
> After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl.
Ron Johnson wrote:
> Just out of curiosity: why OOo instead of AbiWord?
I knew someone would remember the previous touching on authoring. ;)
After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl. At first glance it
seemed to work nicely but after 2-3 times I noticed that it was really
chu
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On 02/05/08 12:43, Steve Lamb wrote:
> marc wrote:
>> Steve Lamb said...
>> Cool, another LaTeX + vim devotee that doesn't use that combination
>> simultaneously. As a matter of interest, Steve, which editor do you use
>> for writing with LaTex?
>
>
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:43:44AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> marc wrote:
> > Steve Lamb said...
> > Cool, another LaTeX + vim devotee that doesn't use that combination
> > simultaneously. As a matter of interest, Steve, which editor do you use
> > for writing with LaTex?
>
> I don't. Never s
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