LibreOffice to LyX

Tue Oct 5 18:45:15 UTC 2021

Virgil,

I have shortened and reformatted slightly for ease of reference.

On 2021-10-05 15:24 , Virgil Arrington wrote:
[...]
> Unlike our good Dr.  E.L., I can't leave my slide designs alone.
[...]

Actually constant misunderimprovements are one of the mistakes one
often makes in presentations.

> I tried to do the same thing in LyX.
[...]
> After much searching online, I learned about the LaTeX \xcolor
> package, which provides access to many, many more colors.  

The query

	https://www.google.com/search?q=lyx+text+color

returns 1260000 results, the very FIRST of which

	https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33225/color-text-in-lyx

explains this quite nicely.

[...]
> I then hit Ctrl-R to compile my slides and was met with a LaTeX error
> of "Option clash for package xcolor."  Say, what!?

As xcolor is loaded by LyX I just add something like

	\definecolor{MyBlue}{HTML}{000040}
	\definecolor{Firebrick4}{HTML}{8b1a1a}

to my preamble

[...]

> So, yes LyX/Beamer worked, but only after I spent many hours learning
> about an xcolor package to get the shade I wanted and troubleshooting
> errors.  As you can imagine, I could tell many other stories with
> similar processes and outcomes.

	https://www.google.com/search?q=xcolor+site%3A.lyx.org

shows 51 hits (on *.lyx.org), and after 30 years with LaTeX (and 15
with lyx) looking for stuff has become second nature.

It seems you have an aversion towards RTFM :-)-O, even though one only
needs to do this once.  I must say, even in (not so deep) Africa we have
Internet speed which allows me to look stuff up on the web as fast as in
the online help.

[...]
> The difference -- for me at least -- is that, with LO, I can usually
> track down errors and solve problems from within the program itself
> without having to resort to extensive other documentation or online
> StackExchange threads.
[...]

And, in case someone is interested I attach the template I use if I have
to write something for our weekly Continuing Professional Development/
Continuing Medical Education sessions.

In the preamble I include the multimedia package because sometimes I
like to play videos from within the PDF :-)-O, scrdate because I like
the \ISOToday (YYYY-MM-DD), as I wrote earlier I like a modified
metropolis theme, the NOTO fonts (need to be added late in the preamble,
never bothered to figure out why :-)-O), mess a bit around with the
formatting and font family, put a Draft/Date into the background and
make provision for handouts which are commented out.

I add

	17pt, xcolor=svgnames,aspectratio=1610

to Document --> Document Class --> Custom: because I like it big, am
used to svgnames rather than dvipsnames and I in particular like the
aspect ration change to that I get more real estate on the screen.

greetings, el

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