LyX is great, but the fact that it is something you need to install on a desktop + the interface makes it look like something from the early 1990s.
What is needed is really some thing like Google Docs, but made with latex output in mind. That icnldues citation management, etc.
Some friends and I are giving it a shot with Fidus Writer ( http://www.fiduswriter.com/ ). will be usable and open source very soon, but there is a video and a beta version there already.
Also, there's no major news organization that doesn't like war. War is exciting and entertaining. War draws in viewers and readers. War sells ads for the armed forces and cool guns and fast cars and action-packed movie extravaganzas. Remember, if it's white and bleeds, it leads (not-white and bleeds may be acceptable if no white victims are available).
I meaqnt more that there seems to be some social engineering of trying to create this "view" that is put out there which people who think they are intellectuals can feel they can copy: combining "being progressive" with being against Assange's stay at the Ecuadorian embassy. There are sevral versions of this. One of them is to claim that there is no reason not to go to Sweden. Another is that this is about women's right and that he raped two women in Sweden. A third is -- like this article: Julian Assange is doing exactly the same as the US government (conveniently forgetting that Assange didn't kill hundreds of thousands of people). etc.
well, actually, I just converted it directly to xhmtl/html, which I can import relatively easily to Epub. The issue is getting acceptable output from tex4ht in the first place. I needed something that could do it again and again, so that I could test the epub-output while the editors continue to fix errors.
Also, I hope to be able to use my script for similar projects in the future. I just found it strange that I needed to do this -- it seems fairly simple.
Indeed, this is what I did. If you check the tex4ht email list, you'll see a ton of my posts over the past month. My script mainly cleans the stuff up that tex4ht could not do on its own.
Btw, that script is here: http://www.johanneswilm.org/download/compile
I went away from Word and alike a long time ago as I really could automate making certain design choices, so it really didn't make a lot of sense.
I wrote in Kile for a long time, but when I needed to give editors access to the file, I figured that this would be too complicated and that LyX was probably as far as I would be able to stretch it. And indeed, they had no problems working in LyX.
In my experience it cannot handle the textflow completely, as that information is lost when the PDF is created. Do you have some tricks for making it do that better?
For the humanities/social sciences you need to use many of the features which currently only are accessible in biblatex -- which still is not supported by Lyx. Also other needed packages, such as pgfplots are not supported.. That's why I needed to go via a script. Btw, that script is here: http://www.johanneswilm.org/download/compile
Hey everybody,
most of the comments seem to assume that given I write about the politics of Nicaragua, I surely cannot have solved this. That is incorrect, indeed I did wrote a monster spaghetti code script that does what I set out to do. It works with graphs made with pgfplots, etc. . I just wondered why I needed to do something that I saw as a fairly basic task.
You can find it at: http://www.johanneswilm.org/download/compile
Interesting thoughts. But the first part about class not having to do much with income makes little sense to me. Marx operates with a class "in itself" which is a class due to objective indicators (As measured through their relation to the means of procution) and a class "for itself" which is a class that is aware of the fact that it has common interests. Just because the latter does not exist in the US very much at the moment does not mean that the former disappears. The other part about income groups and lifestyle seems to be taken out of a Weberian analysis -- not really connected to any kind of anti-capitalist theory.
I myself get my student loan from Denmark but am a student in Norway, this means I have two Skandiabanken accounts - one in Denmark, one in Norway. This semester I am doing some research in the US and suddenly the Norwegian Skandiabanken decided to get that new one-time password thing. Therefore I am now stuck here without knowing how much money is left in my account nor what my Norwegian account number is so that I could push money over there from Denmark. What a great idea!
Hasn't anyone thought of making an open source project out of this? I mean we could make two projects: 1. One that would allow for factories, etc. to communicate about needs, shortages, etc. in real time so that everyone involved in production can see what is going on and let the workers make democratic decision on how production is supposed to be shaped. 2. And one that would allow everyone to securely cast their vote on different issues and to promote them as well. The systen would have to be able to scale up to the size of world population, so that eventually decisions that affect the enitire world could be made by simple across-the-planet votes as well as national or reginal issues could be solved by letting the people instead of some politicians decide.
The whole thing would not really come into big-scale use before at least some part of the world overthrows its capitalist class and prevents the US or European Army to move in, but then it could help that part of the world to become a show-case-window for socialism pretty much immediatly!
well to devide amongst the people which build this planet up - and those that live on exploiting others seems like a not so artificial social structure to me.
oh yeah, so anything that karl marx could have said is not insightfull. that sounds pretty much like chinese ideology to me (which are = dont ever call into question the principles upon which our nation is build)
Its not that simply. My grandmother was in the Hitler Youth (ok, I know that is not the same as actually being a real soldier), and asking her, I get a sense that there was some kind of a truism in Germany/Europe/etc. at that time saying that "whatever is good for your country, is good for you". And this is the actual problem.
Although people probably would have problems escaping the military (etc.), it would be kind of hard to get people of an entire country to give their entire life for the war, if their would instead be a truism saying "wars only give the rulers more power - all weothers only loose our freedom in any war"
This is not a matter of US world domination, it is a question whether Bush and his fellow capitalist will dominate the world.
What difference will it make for farmers, programmers, dentists, teachers, etc. in the US if the US-President is a more powerfull man? None!
But thats the great illusion. Why did so many German soldiers go to war for Hitler? Did they imagine that they themselfs would be better of after the war, if Germany would be a huge country?
The problem is the illusion of NATIONS, and the answer is to wake up and to start understand the world in terms of classes!
does anybody know wheter normal copy and paste will work between kde 3 and gnome 2. i can copy out of gnome and into any kde app, but not the other way round...
that is right, but the equation only works if human work is more expensive then machines. why would a factory else change over to using machines instead of employing some humans instead that probably would be somewhat more effecient/flexible in the beginning.
I think the only way is by organizing labor through laborunions to ensure good wages for all working people. at the same time laborunions should watch out that all work will be somewhat equally distributed when machines take over so that the arrival of machines will not mean "death" for some.
oh i wasn't talking about the soviet union.
just think of it as being just like today, just money being absent. now why wouldn't that work? well many people would stop working altogether and production would not be as effective. but as technology advances it will be better with that kind of a system for most of us, since not eerybuddy is really needed in production.
you also have to take into account the huge buerocrazies that capitalism bilds up (for example all the people just being employed to change windows all the time so taht WINE will never be completely compatible, or the RIAA, or stock markets, etc.)
once a country needed A ruler who could take all the choices because a democrazy simply would have been to ineffective. now we have multiple centers of powers, although power still isn't equally distributed. that will be the next step. try to read marx!
well but what happens if you let those neighbors be robed and vandalized? your entire neighborhood will loose value and be more insecure.
in fact as technology progresses, the wrold can live with more and more "freeloaders" since we can do with less work.
thats why communism becomes a more and more attractivesolution every day.
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LyX is great, but the fact that it is something you need to install on a desktop + the interface makes it look like something from the early 1990s. What is needed is really some thing like Google Docs, but made with latex output in mind. That icnldues citation management, etc. Some friends and I are giving it a shot with Fidus Writer ( http://www.fiduswriter.com/ ). will be usable and open source very soon, but there is a video and a beta version there already.
Also, there's no major news organization that doesn't like war. War is exciting and entertaining. War draws in viewers and readers. War sells ads for the armed forces and cool guns and fast cars and action-packed movie extravaganzas. Remember, if it's white and bleeds, it leads (not-white and bleeds may be acceptable if no white victims are available).
I meaqnt more that there seems to be some social engineering of trying to create this "view" that is put out there which people who think they are intellectuals can feel they can copy: combining "being progressive" with being against Assange's stay at the Ecuadorian embassy. There are sevral versions of this. One of them is to claim that there is no reason not to go to Sweden. Another is that this is about women's right and that he raped two women in Sweden. A third is -- like this article: Julian Assange is doing exactly the same as the US government (conveniently forgetting that Assange didn't kill hundreds of thousands of people). etc.
well, actually, I just converted it directly to xhmtl/html, which I can import relatively easily to Epub. The issue is getting acceptable output from tex4ht in the first place. I needed something that could do it again and again, so that I could test the epub-output while the editors continue to fix errors. Also, I hope to be able to use my script for similar projects in the future. I just found it strange that I needed to do this -- it seems fairly simple.
Indeed, this is what I did. If you check the tex4ht email list, you'll see a ton of my posts over the past month. My script mainly cleans the stuff up that tex4ht could not do on its own. Btw, that script is here: http://www.johanneswilm.org/download/compile
I went away from Word and alike a long time ago as I really could automate making certain design choices, so it really didn't make a lot of sense. I wrote in Kile for a long time, but when I needed to give editors access to the file, I figured that this would be too complicated and that LyX was probably as far as I would be able to stretch it. And indeed, they had no problems working in LyX.
Ah, thanks a lot! My main problem was actually getting it into HTML. From there it was not that difficult, using Calibre.
In my experience it cannot handle the textflow completely, as that information is lost when the PDF is created. Do you have some tricks for making it do that better?
For the humanities/social sciences you need to use many of the features which currently only are accessible in biblatex -- which still is not supported by Lyx. Also other needed packages, such as pgfplots are not supported.. That's why I needed to go via a script. Btw, that script is here: http://www.johanneswilm.org/download/compile
Hey everybody, most of the comments seem to assume that given I write about the politics of Nicaragua, I surely cannot have solved this. That is incorrect, indeed I did wrote a monster spaghetti code script that does what I set out to do. It works with graphs made with pgfplots, etc. . I just wondered why I needed to do something that I saw as a fairly basic task. You can find it at: http://www.johanneswilm.org/download/compile
Interesting thoughts. But the first part about class not having to do much with income makes little sense to me. Marx operates with a class "in itself" which is a class due to objective indicators (As measured through their relation to the means of procution) and a class "for itself" which is a class that is aware of the fact that it has common interests. Just because the latter does not exist in the US very much at the moment does not mean that the former disappears.
The other part about income groups and lifestyle seems to be taken out of a Weberian analysis -- not really connected to any kind of anti-capitalist theory.
I myself get my student loan from Denmark but am a student in Norway, this means I have two Skandiabanken accounts - one in Denmark, one in Norway. This semester I am doing some research in the US and suddenly the Norwegian Skandiabanken decided to get that new one-time password thing. Therefore I am now stuck here without knowing how much money is left in my account nor what my Norwegian account number is so that I could push money over there from Denmark. What a great idea!
Hasn't anyone thought of making an open source project out of this?
I mean we could make two projects:
1. One that would allow for factories, etc. to communicate about needs, shortages, etc. in real time so that everyone involved in production can see what is going on and let the workers make democratic decision on how production is supposed to be shaped.
2. And one that would allow everyone to securely cast their vote on different issues and to promote them as well. The systen would have to be able to scale up to the size of world population, so that eventually decisions that affect the enitire world could be made by simple across-the-planet votes as well as national or reginal issues could be solved by letting the people instead of some politicians decide.
The whole thing would not really come into big-scale use before at least some part of the world overthrows its capitalist class and prevents the US or European Army to move in, but then it could help that part of the world to become a show-case-window for socialism pretty much immediatly!
Will that mean that they can make a true clone of you when they find you? Might be a way to get the official number of highway death go down...
well to devide amongst the people which build this planet up - and those that live on exploiting others seems like a not so artificial social structure to me.
oh yeah, so anything that karl marx could have said is not insightfull. that sounds pretty much like chinese ideology to me (which are = dont ever call into question the principles upon which our nation is build)
Its not that simply. My grandmother was in the Hitler Youth (ok, I know that is not the same as actually being a real soldier), and asking her, I get a sense that there was some kind of a truism in Germany/Europe/etc. at that time saying that "whatever is good for your country, is good for you". And this is the actual problem. Although people probably would have problems escaping the military (etc.), it would be kind of hard to get people of an entire country to give their entire life for the war, if their would instead be a truism saying "wars only give the rulers more power - all weothers only loose our freedom in any war"
This is not a matter of US world domination, it is a question whether Bush and his fellow capitalist will dominate the world. What difference will it make for farmers, programmers, dentists, teachers, etc. in the US if the US-President is a more powerfull man? None! But thats the great illusion. Why did so many German soldiers go to war for Hitler? Did they imagine that they themselfs would be better of after the war, if Germany would be a huge country? The problem is the illusion of NATIONS, and the answer is to wake up and to start understand the world in terms of classes!
Does anybody have screenshots??? Not just the ones of the kde3alpha1 from the kde.org-website, but REALLY new ones?
does anybody know wheter normal copy and paste will work between kde 3 and gnome 2. i can copy out of gnome and into any kde app, but not the other way round...
that is right, but the equation only works if human work is more expensive then machines. why would a factory else change over to using machines instead of employing some humans instead that probably would be somewhat more effecient/flexible in the beginning. I think the only way is by organizing labor through laborunions to ensure good wages for all working people. at the same time laborunions should watch out that all work will be somewhat equally distributed when machines take over so that the arrival of machines will not mean "death" for some.
oh i wasn't talking about the soviet union. just think of it as being just like today, just money being absent. now why wouldn't that work? well many people would stop working altogether and production would not be as effective. but as technology advances it will be better with that kind of a system for most of us, since not eerybuddy is really needed in production. you also have to take into account the huge buerocrazies that capitalism bilds up (for example all the people just being employed to change windows all the time so taht WINE will never be completely compatible, or the RIAA, or stock markets, etc.) once a country needed A ruler who could take all the choices because a democrazy simply would have been to ineffective. now we have multiple centers of powers, although power still isn't equally distributed. that will be the next step. try to read marx!
well but what happens if you let those neighbors be robed and vandalized? your entire neighborhood will loose value and be more insecure. in fact as technology progresses, the wrold can live with more and more "freeloaders" since we can do with less work. thats why communism becomes a more and more attractivesolution every day.