Graham Smith

Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac 12/9/2007

Stephen, Stephen R. Diamond wrote: >No, I'm suggesting that when OSX arrived, it often took years for a >developer with an OS 9 program to produce an OS X version. > >I wasn't on Windows for the >9...

Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac 12/9/2007

Stephen R. Diamond wrote: >But the Windows programs _were_ >available in an appropriate version that you could generally get at upgrade prices. >It appears to be a far bigger deal to upgrade a pro...

Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac 12/8/2007

Alx, Alexander Deliyannis wrote: >Hi Graham! >Just a note to say that it's >nice to hear from you again and hope all is well in your life here on Thanks for the welcome back, like you lots of th...

Off topic - Free Statistics Software 12/7/2007

Cassius wrote: While I suspect thee and me are the only one interested in this... >Graham neglected to mention a powerful and intuitively >easy-to-use program: SPSS I have a copy of SPSS on my ...

Off topic - Free Statistics Software 12/7/2007

quant wrote: >I'm not much into statistics, but what I hear from colleagues who do, then R is the way to >do (also a free sofware), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_programming_language R is prett...

Moving information 11/27/2007

Randall, I have been going through a similar issue and still working through it, so what I say now may change but for many things I am now using plain text or ISO standard formats (PDF and ODF), plus...

PIMs, Writing Software, and Windows XP, Vista, and OS X 11/27/2007

Randall, I recently added a MacBookPro to my toolkit after following forums and asking around for about 12 months. As I hinted in the Scrivener thread I am very pleased with it (mind you I am typing ...

Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac 11/24/2007

Matty wrote: > Please tell me that they are not that great and I should stop >fantasizing about switching platforms when really I should be writing. Having been woken from my temporary hibernatio...

Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac 11/24/2007

Stephen, prompted out my period of lurking (I've been ill and moved house, and not really had the time for a while) >It isn't hard to make an a priori case that Scrivener cannot be so great. As a...

Bibliographic databases 4/14/2007

Alx, >(Graham) one more thing: can you remind me which bibliographic programs one can link >to externally, i.e. use a URL such as endnote://1234567 to summon specific >records? I haven't ever done...

Bibliographic databases 4/14/2007

Alx, >This is probably a question for Graham Smith, for whom I am not sure whether he still >accesses this forum, I am still here, just very hectic, and trying not to spend time crimping. As re...

Outliner to find associations 1/21/2007

Sebastien, >Unfortunately, it works on unix based systems only, Seems to also work on the Mac, but I'm having problems finding anything positive about a Windows version. It also seems that develop...

Outliner to find associations 1/21/2007

Sebastien >What I would love is an outliner able to propose me *associations* on the >fly. Indeed, when I write, I constantly gather some keywords out of my new text and use >them to do a manual se...

What publishing software do you use? 1/13/2007

Franz Franz, >I did a bit of research: Indesign >should be able to do what we need. I found a tutorial (in German) that tells my >typographer how to proceed. Glad it seems this is sorted >I down...

What publishing software do you use? 1/12/2007

Cassius, >Springer Verlag and North Holland come to mind as well as For our book to be published by Springer in March this year, we were offered Word templates or latex templates (the latter also a...

Lyx 1/12/2007

Can I claim the prize for starting the most diverse (or is that most off topic) thread we have ever had on Outliners :-) Graham

What publishing software do you use? 1/12/2007

Franz, >This may be a bit off-topic (OTOH, I am sure a lot of people here create output that >goes to a printer or to a web site): What kind of publishing tools do you use? No experience, other th...

Lyx 1/12/2007

Derek > MiracleType looks good, too, but I think it may only be available for the UK English keyboard, Yes the faq says it is only for UK English keyboards, not sure how much of a difference that ...

Lyx 1/11/2007

Derek, >didn't get the opportunity to touch type at school, and my efforts over the years to do >so have always been frustrated by the need to hunt and peck to earn my daily bread while >struggling...

Lyx 1/11/2007

David >But the mouse is faster: >http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html Mmmm, sounds like a wasted $50 million. Seriously, the web page is meaningless without some background on what...

Lyx 1/10/2007

Derek >Linux is on my list this year, after persistent problems with XP's >automatic Windows update, its authentication procedures and so on. Yes, I plan to re-install it this year, its all part o...

Lyx 1/8/2007

Derek >Something like this could be the answer. I've heard reports that Zoot runs >under Win4lin (but not under Wine, unfortunately). You would expect it to run under Win4Lin of course as it is the...

Lyx 1/7/2007

Tom >occasionally do for text editing. But I live in a Microsoft world and I got tired of >fighting it. I pretty much live in Office now. Don't we all, and for the most part I too have given up...

Lyx 1/7/2007

Tom, >I can't remember off hand but there's a keyboard combination which I >believe worked by default. Esc-w? Alt q word wraps an existing paragraph, but I can't find the command to unwrap. >...

Lyx 1/7/2007

Derek >How are you dealing with the word wrap issue (Section 14)? The org.mode defaults to using longlines.el and I have been using this mode for my experimentation with emacs, so haven't had to t...

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