What’s coming in LibreOffice 7.6: style indicator

A short article about the alpha 0 release of LibreOffice 7.6: you can now activate a style indicator, both for paragraph and character styles: By activating the style editor option pointed out in the screenshot it is possible to see which styles are active in the document, all color and number coded for better tracking. …

Decorated and full-color initials with EBGaramond Initials and LyX

Georg Duffner has reactivated the original EBGaramond project and is in the midst of incorporating the improvements introduced in the Octavio Pardo fork, while recovering the features that were lost along the way. There is still some way to go to complete that process (I will report back when we have something clearer), but as …

The Coelacanth font family

Before I start, a warning: the font family I'm going to talk about today cannot be used in LibreOffice or other traditional systems, you need either Lua|XƎTEX, or sile (someday I'll have to talk about this), possibly Scribus (I think)… and that's it, that's all. Here you will run into optical sizes, which LibreOffice doesn't …

LyX 2.3.7 and 2.4.0 beta 2

The seventh update of the 2.3 series of this superb graphical interface for LATEX / XƎTEX and more is available. As of a few weeks ago we also have the second beta of what will be version 2.4 of the program. The team is now updating the documentation, there are a lot of new features! …

LibreOffice 7.5.0 beta 1

For starters, 7.5? Whatever happened to the tradition of never going over .4? Anyway, we're nearing the finishing stretch so a quick review of what's to come is in order. Math The equation editor doesn't usually get much love, so any improvement is welcome. In this edition many Math tools have finally been incorporated into …

The elephant in the room: an introduction to Mastodon

Taking advantage of the fact that a lot of people have been running away from the blue bird lately (who knows what happened), today I am going to talk about Mastodon, which I am sure someone will find useful. Everything I will tell below will be done from Mastodon's web interface, since some of these …

Second preliminary version of «LyX, the other way of writing» edition 2022

Letting a text rest has the advantage (or disadvantage, I would have to think about it) of being able to see errors and discover new and potentially better ways of expressing the same things. Well, I revised section 7.8 of the book, rewriting it almost completely. There I explain how unicode-math works when using OpenType …

Preliminary version of “LyX, the other way of writing” edition 2022

Clearly, I have an advantage: writing a manual about a program is much simpler and more relaxed than writing the program. This is why it has been possible for me to finish the new edition of the book, focused on LYX version 2.4, before version 2.4 of the program is released. Anyway, I have been …

Latest version of LyX for openSUSE / how to add a repository

Tumbleweed always offers the latest stable version (let's say) of all programs, which of course includes LYX. But this bleeding edge thing is not for everyone so you might wonder how to make sure you have the latest version in Leap. Or while we're at it, how to get the latest development versions? At the …

[Writer] Adding text lines to the table of contents

A quick trick for adding information to an index in Writer. Imagine you want to add the word Page in bold above the page numbers of the table of contents. Near the table of contents add in an empty line the word Page, select it and go to Insert → Table of Con­tents and Index …