[Wylug-discuss] Digital scrapbook ideas?

[John R Hudson]

On Tuesday 10 January 2012 15:56:12 Dave Fisher wrote:
> On 10 January 2012 15:23, John R Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com> wrote:
> > Otherwise most things can be found in the drop-down menus (the Labeling
> > paragraph style is the same as you get in KOMA-Script) and there are lots
> > of short cuts for the common things.
> > 
> > There is a paper at
> > http://bradlug.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/LyX_2_the-
> > ultimate_document_software.pdf
> > (mind the wordwrap)
> > which introduces LyX 2 to complete beginners. Section 5 gives a
> > whistle-stop introduction to LyX 2.
> 
> Thanks ... I just took a look at the KOMA-Script user guide to refresh
> my memory of that package ....
> 
> WHOAA!!
> 
> Talk about 'how not to'  ... it looks like it was typeset for US
> letter, but output as an A4 pdf, i.e. there's about about 5 mm between
> the last word on a line and the right hand edge of the page.
> 
> The type itself is pretty hideous, but I guess that could be a
> combination of poor font substitution and the hair-shirt tastes of
> german type style
> 
> :-D
> 
> Dave
Agreed - it astounds me how many people don't appear to know how to use the 
facilities that come for free with LaTeX - you can take a horse to water and 
all that.

John
--