[XeTeX] Warning from fontspec on script not existing

2016-09-10 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I am typesetting text that contains English, Sanskrit, and Tamil scripts. My MWE file is: - \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Source Serif Pro} \setsansfont{Source Sans Pro} \setmonofont{Inconsolata}

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX generated pdf metadata

2014-09-20 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Could you try including this in your preamble: \usepackage{hyperref} \hypersetup{pdfcreator=XeLaTeX with hyperref} and compile and see if the resulting PDF is sufficient for your purposes. Section 3.7 at https://www.tug.org/applications/hyperref/manual.html explains these options in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1307648] Re: chromium 34 from proposed does not take input from keyboard in first entry point on several webpages

2014-08-05 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
OK. I have installed the chromium-broswer beta using sudo apt-add-repository ppa:saiarcot895/chromium-beta and installed Chromium 37. I can confirm that the problem then disappears. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1307648] Re: chromium 34 from proposed does not take input from keyboard in first entry point on several webpages

2014-08-05 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
OK. I have installed the chromium-broswer beta using sudo apt-add-repository ppa:saiarcot895/chromium-beta and installed Chromium 37. I can confirm that the problem then disappears. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1307648] Re: chromium 34 from proposed does not take input from keyboard in first entry point on several webpages

2014-08-04 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
+1 from me for Version 34.0.1847.116 Ubuntu 14.04 aura (260972). Killing ibus solves the problem. Which ppa should I use if I wanted Chromium 35? Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1307648] Re: chromium 34 from proposed does not take input from keyboard in first entry point on several webpages

2014-08-04 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
+1 from me for Version 34.0.1847.116 Ubuntu 14.04 aura (260972). Killing ibus solves the problem. Which ppa should I use if I wanted Chromium 35? Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1256591]

2014-01-07 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
The end of dmesg gives [22116.317942] usb 2-4: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci [22116.454299] usb 2-4: New USB device found, idVendor=04cb, idProduct=023e [22116.454312] usb 2-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [22116.454319] usb 2-4: Product: USB PTP

[Bug 1256591]

2014-01-07 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Kubuntu 13.10/KDE 4.11.3 with a Fuji Finepix AX 300 and the reported problems, here is what I get: solid-hardware query Camera.supportedDrivers == 'gphoto' gives Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceAdded(QDBusObjectPath) Object::connect: No such signal

[Bug 1256591]

2014-01-01 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. *** -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1256591 Title: The system is unable to read from a PTP camera. To manage notifications about this

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 232260] Re: Installing luatex causes bugs in texdoc

2013-06-20 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I am amazed to get this message five years after the original report. You people must get a medal for tenacity :-) Nothing else from me. Please close the bug. Chandra 20 Jun 2013 On 06/16/2013 12:37 AM, Daniel Karlsson wrote: Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Hardy Heron reached EOL

Re: [Bug 232260] Re: Installing luatex causes bugs in texdoc

2013-06-20 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I am amazed to get this message five years after the original report. You people must get a medal for tenacity :-) Nothing else from me. Please close the bug. Chandra 20 Jun 2013 On 06/16/2013 12:37 AM, Daniel Karlsson wrote: Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Hardy Heron reached EOL

[Bug 970139] Re: apt_check.py crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgPolicy::GetCandidateVer()

2012-08-24 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I have experienced this bug and it has resulted in the following consequences on my Kubuntu 12.04 amd64 system: 1. Inability to update or upgrade with apt-get update apt-get upgrade See example below for error message. 2. Error when trying to install or reinstall any existing package. For

[Bug 970139] Re: apt_check.py crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgPolicy::GetCandidateVer()

2012-08-24 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Is this connected to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1016040 by any chance? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/970139 Title: apt_check.py crashed with

[Bug 970139] Re: apt_check.py crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgPolicy::GetCandidateVer()

2012-08-24 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
And to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1024599 as well? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/970139 Title: apt_check.py crashed with SIGSEGV in

[Bug 1012167] Re: Version of PDFSam in the repository is incredibly old

2012-07-31 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
+1 from me. I have followed the instructions at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9109328postcount=5 but would prefer not to have a workaround. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

Re: [XeTeX] How to render this symbol in Xelatex

2012-04-30 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Sunday 29 April 2012 09:40 PM, A u wrote: Hi, I am using Texworks as editor. Sanskrit 2003 font in Ubuntu. I could render all alphabets except the attached image. I produced this in windows using iTranslator software. http://www.omkarananda-ashram.org/Sanskrit/itranslator2003.htm I followed

[Bug 915235] Re: muon-installer crash

2012-04-29 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Following up on my report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/muon/+bug/915235/comments/12 I re-installed Kubuntu 12.04 from the alternate CD and can now report that the problem is no more. Perhaps the first installation was corrupted in some way that is not reproducible. Sorry for the

[Bug 915235] Re: muon-installer crash

2012-04-28 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I am on fresh install of Kubuntu 12.04 on AMD64. Muon stoppedworking after an upgrade and when I do `apt-get install --reinstall muon` I get this error ** Reading en translations from /var/lib/apt/lists/ubuntuarchive.hnsdc.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_restricted_i18n_Translation-en: done.

[XeTeX] Displaying Devanagari characters with virama

2012-03-25 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dear Folks, This is a question regarding difference in output when the same file is compiled using xelatex and lualatex. The minimal example below also explains the difference: --- \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \newfontfamily{\skr}[Script=Devanagari]{Sanskrit 2003}

Re: [XeTeX] Displaying Devanagari characters with virama

2012-03-25 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On 25/03/12 21:26, Zdenek Wagner wrote: AFAIK lua(la)tex does not yet support Devanagari, it just displays the glyphs without using correctly all OpenType tables. Try eg word संक्षिप्त, i-matra will be at the wrong place. lualatex erroneously gives saṃkṣapti whereas xelatex correctly gives

Re: [XeTeX] How to Convert LaTeX to Html

2012-01-31 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On 01/31/2012 11:17 PM, A u wrote: I uploaded the working files with pdf output file to google docs here is the link docs.google.com https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2ORRM7gQAXeZWIwMGY2YTMtYTA2OS00MWVlLWIxNDktNzNkMzZmODU0MTVk I am trying to convert this file to html. I read few posts on the

Re: [XeTeX] How to Convert LaTeX to Html

2012-01-31 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On 02/01/2012 12:01 AM, A u wrote: Hello Chandra, I already know the link you sent me but I could not figure it out, thats why I gave the sample code hoping that someone will be able to tell me how to convert. On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:21 PM, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar chyav...@gmail.com

[Bug 881355] Re: citeproc-hs was not compiled with bibutils support

2012-01-15 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
+1 from me. I wish to compile from deb-src if possible and would appreciate some guidelines here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/881355 Title: citeproc-hs was not compiled with

Inline HTML link and mailto: link

2012-01-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dear Folks, I am just starting out with Markdown and am trying to get two elements working: (1) An inline HTML link; and (2) An inline mailto: link as shown in the text below: We invite you to [browse] (http://academy.swanlotus.com/index.html) this website. Take a look and see if you find

Re: Inline HTML link and mailto: link

2012-01-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
-- -- R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar Web: http://swanlotus.com email: chyav...@gmail.com -- ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

Re: Inline HTML link and mailto: link

2012-01-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Saturday 14 January 2012 12:05 AM, David Chambers wrote: How are em-dashes and en-dashes handled in Markdown? You can include Unicode characters in Markdown documents, so go ahead and use the actual characters if you want to. On OS X, ⌥- produces an en dash and ⇧⌥- an em dash. Many

Re: Inline HTML link and mailto: link

2012-01-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Saturday 14 January 2012 12:06 AM, Waylan Limberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:15 PM, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar chyav...@gmail.com wrote: May I ask a supplementary question please: How are em-dashes and en-dashes handled in Markdown? They aren't. You may want to check out

Re: Markdown-Discuss Digest, Vol 106, Issue 4

2012-01-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Saturday 14 January 2012 01:15 AM, John Laudun wrote: The only problem as I see it is that three dashes produce a long dash and a hyphen rather than an em-dash, although two dashes seem to work well. But investigating that will have to wait for the morrow! I'm afraid you are confusing two

[XeTeX] Free Erler Dingbats Unicode font

2011-11-19 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dear Folks, I have just received an email about a free Unicode font: Erler Dingbat. The web page at http://ffdingbatsfont.com/erler/index.html states, inter alia, Quote For the first time in the entire history of Unicode standard, the full encoding range for dingbats (U + 2700 –

[Bug 332663] Re: package gettext 0.17-3ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9

2011-11-08 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
IIRC, the bug was reported with Kubuntu 09.10. I am now using 11.10. which is four releases later. The bug has disappeared in the process and does not affect me any more. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Monday 07 November 2011 06:24 PM, Alessandro Ceschini wrote: To Chandra The reality is I just don't subscribe to the mailing list in order to avoid getting my box flooded with issues I don't bother with, I just answer by clicking on the address at tug.org/pipemail/xetex etc... I understand

[Bug 235018] Re: ImageMagick menu fonts are illegible in Hardy

2011-06-15 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Natty (the bug was reported with Hardy!) there are no problems. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/235018 Title: ImageMagick menu fonts are illegible in Hardy To manage

Re: [XeTeX] Quotation marks

2011-06-08 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Wednesday 08 June 2011 05:49 PM, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: If I remember correctly, I thought that there is in fact a \quote-command or something similar in latex which will produce the correct quotation marks for the currently active language. I remember that we had a lengthy discussion

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with preview, xelatex and shading in TikZ-PGF

2011-05-03 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Tuesday 03 May 2011 08:29 PM, Andy Lin wrote: Have you tried \usepackage[active,tightpage,xetex]{preview}? I just did and, alas, it does not make any difference. Chandra HTH -Andy On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 13:35, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar chyav...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Folks, I

[XeTeX] Getting vinculum in fractions with Asana Math and unicode-math when compiled with xelatex

2010-12-24 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dear Folks, With this minimal example: --- \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{unicode-math} \setmathfont{Asana Math} \begin{document} $\frac{2\pi r}{r} = 2\pi$ \end{document --- I am unable to get the horizontal bar or vinculum for the fraction on the left

Re: [XeTeX] Getting vinculum in fractions with Asana Math and unicode-math when compiled with xelatex

2010-12-24 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Friday 24 December 2010 11:53 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 24.12.2010 um 18:27 schrieb R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar: 10c10 l3tl.sty 2010/11/17 v2084 L3 Experimental Token Lists --- l3tl.sty 2010/12/18 v2103 L3 Experimental Token Lists 28c28 l3fp.sty 2010/11/25 v2092 L3 Experimental floating

Re: [XeTeX] Getting vinculum in fractions with Asana Math and unicode-math when compiled with xelatex

2010-12-24 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Saturday 25 December 2010 12:37 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: As a point of interest, Chandra, what do you get for : \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{unicode-math} \setmathfont{Asana Math} \begin{document} ${2\pi r \over r} = 2\pi$

Re: [XeTeX] Latex+Tamil

2010-12-10 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Saturday 11 December 2010 01:05 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote: On Dec 10, 2010, at 11:58 AM, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: \begin{document} The following text is in Tamil script: \tam{தமிழ் எழுத்து}. \end{document} Howdy, I believe that should be {\tam தமிழ் எழுத்து} since \tam

[Bug 183492] Re: [needs-packaging] Open Komodo Edit

2010-12-01 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Many thanks Michael Lustfield. Would you be kind enough to point us to a ppa or other source when the package is ready? -- [needs-packaging] Open Komodo Edit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183492 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[NTG-context] Feedback on draft manual

2010-10-08 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
How does one provide feedback on the current draft manual at: http://pmrb.free.fr/contextref.pdf Thanks. Chandra ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

[NTG-context] Example Gallery

2010-10-07 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dear Folks, When I first started learning to use TikZ-PGF, I was aided a great deal by the varied examples available at: http://www.texample.net/tikz/ Is there any such example gallery for ConTeXt? Thank you. Chandra 07 Oct 10

Re: [NTG-context] Running Mk-IV using TeXLive 2010

2010-10-06 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Wednesday 06 October 2010 03:33 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 04:07, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: If I wanted to fix my broken TeXLive, should I just re-install ConTeXt from the TeXLive 2010 DVD or should I do a full re-install of the full scheme? You have two

Re: [NTG-context] Running Mk-IV using TeXLive 2010

2010-10-06 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Wednesday 06 October 2010 11:39 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 19:19, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar chyav...@gmail.com wrote: ConTeXt ver: 2010.07.30 11:35 MKII fmt: 2010.10.5 int: english/english system : cont-new loaded (/localhost/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex

[NTG-context] Running Mk-IV using TeXLive 2010

2010-10-05 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dear Folks, I am a LaTeX user trying out ConTeXt for the first time. I am running TeXLive 2010 (full scheme) on a x86_64-linux platform. I have visited http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV and put the instructions there into an executable file: --- #! /bin/bash # # Manual update

Re: [NTG-context] Running Mk-IV using TeXLive 2010

2010-10-05 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Tuesday 05 October 2010 11:02 PM, David Rogers wrote: texexec gives MkII; context gives MkIV. I think this may need to be documented somewhere easier to find for those new to ConTeXt. Thank you for that. When I do context first I get, again among other output, the following at the head

Re: [NTG-context] Running Mk-IV using TeXLive 2010

2010-10-05 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Tuesday 05 October 2010 11:15 PM, Florian Wobbe wrote: I used to update TeXLive 2009 successfully with this method, however I ran into the same error when updating TeXLive 2010. As I did not succeed and could not figure out what caused the error I installed minimals without problems. I

Re: [NTG-context] Running Mk-IV using TeXLive 2010

2010-10-05 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Wednesday 06 October 2010 12:36 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Does mtxrun --selfupdate help? No, it did not for me. I got the same error after running it. The last time I tried, context runs sucessfully out of the box in TL. You only need to do the rsync stuff if you want the latest beta.

Re: [NTG-context] Running Mk-IV using TeXLive 2010

2010-10-05 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Wednesday 06 October 2010 12:33 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Thank you. I was searching for that piece of information on the wiki, but wasn't able to find the right page. I have removed it now to avoid any further confusion. The instructions were necessary back in 2009 since ConTeXt was

[XeTeX] Navigation links not active with beamer and xelatex

2010-09-18 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dear Folks, This is a beamer-xelatex question on a problem that arises with xelatex but not with pdflatex, and is hence likely to be xelatex-related. The following is a minimal test file: --- \documentclass{beamer} %\usepackage{fontspec} % Comment out this line for compilation with pdflatex

Re: [XeTeX] Thanks and Minor Bug Report

2010-09-18 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Saturday 18 September 2010 06:31 PM, Marc van Dongen wrote: You may find the result of the efforts at http://csweb.ucc.ie/~dongen/LaTeX-and-Friends-print.pdf. Congratulations on a magnificent labour of love! -- Chandra -- Subscriptions,

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-18 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Sunday 19 September 2010 12:01 AM, Manfred Lotz wrote: Hi there, A friend of mine wants to use a bunch of different languages aka. fonts in a single document, like for instance: Devanagari, Greek, Coptic, Cyrillic, IPA, Arabic and Hebrew. Main language is German. The exact solution depends

[Bug 358654] Re: udevadm trigger is not permitted while udev is unconfigured

2010-09-02 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
LL Phillips: You might want to see http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9796852postcount=10 for StewartM's step-by-step solution if you have previous kernel images that you can reboot from. If you do not have a previously working kernel, you might have to do what Andrux101 has suggested at

[Bug 522814] Re: ibus does not install itself as an option for the all_ALL quasi-locale

2010-07-25 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I can confirm the reported behaviour for ibus on a fresh CD install of Kubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 on an AMD 64 system. One consequent problem is that if I launch the KDE kate text editor version 3.4.5 for KDE 4.4.5 from the launchpad pparepos, I still get a No Input Window message from the ibus

Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenating Tamil

2010-06-26 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Saturday 26 June 2010 07:15 PM, Shrisha Rao wrote: Ubuntu has been well-known to include an out-of-date TeX Live (I think 2007!) with many long-resolved issues. It is also problematic to install TeX Live or some parts of it separately if one has already installed the TeX packages made

Re: Is automatic reload of a module available in Python?

2010-02-18 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Arnaud Delobelle wrote: Here is a very simple way to improve what you do, which won't require you to change the way you work or to learn a new paradigm: Instead of testing your functions interactively, put your testing code in a file, e.g. 'program_tests.py'. Your can then type python

Is automatic reload of a module available in Python?

2010-02-17 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dear Folks, I am currently developing a python program, let us call it generic.py, and I am testing out the functions therein by testing them out interactively in the python interpreter by invoking python and doing import generic Once I hit an error, I need to revise my file and reload the

Executing a command from within python using the subprocess module

2010-02-15 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dear Folks, I want to execute a command from within python using the subprocess module. Coming from a Perl background, I thought I could use variable interpolation in strings, but found that this is neither supported nor the Python way. Accordingly, I am a little at sea about how to

Re: Executing a command from within python using the subprocess module

2010-02-15 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Peter Otten wrote: import subprocess def convert(width=5, height=30, colors=['#abcdef', '#456789'], filename=tmp/image with space in its name.png): lookup = locals() assert all(\n not in str(s) for s in lookup.values()) subprocess.call(\ convert -size {width}x{height}

Re: Executing a command from within python using the subprocess module

2010-02-15 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Peter Otten wrote: import subprocess def convert(width=5, height=30, colors=['#abcdef', '#456789'], filename=tmp/image with space in its name.png): lookup = locals() assert all(\n not in str(s) for s in lookup.values()) subprocess.call(\ convert -size {width}x{height}

Re: Executing a command from within python using the subprocess module

2010-02-15 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar: width = 5 height = 30 colors = ['#abcdef]', '#456789'] filename = /tmp/image.png # I want to get the equivalent of variable interpolation in Perl # so that the command # # convert -size 5x30 gradient:#abcdef-#456789 /tmp/image.png

Re: Sorting a list of lists

2010-02-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
MRAB wrote: You'd have to post an example of that, but you could try deleting some of the entries before sorting so see whether you can still reproduce the problem with a smaller list. John Posner wrote: Please cut-and-paste the exact error message (or other evidence of failure) into a

Sorting a list of lists

2010-02-12 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dear Folks, I have lines of values like so: 14, [25, 105, 104] 10, [107, 106, 162] 21, [26, 116, 165] I need to sort them in two ways: (a) By the numeric value of the first column; and (b) by the sum of the elements of the second item in each list, which is a list in itself. At present, I

Dynamic variable names

2010-02-07 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dear Folks, I have read that one should use a dictionary in python to accommodate dynamic variable names. Yet, I am puzzled how to achieve that in my case. Here is what I want to do: 1. The user inputs a number of six-digit hex numbers as a comma-separated list. These numbers represent

[Bug 514170] [NEW] Klipper middle mouse select and paste fails sometimes

2010-01-29 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Public bug reported: In Kubuntu 9.10 using KDE 4.3.5 the middle mouse select and paste function fails in kate or kile. This seems to happen randomly and is very frustrating. Klipper has been configures to synchronize contents fo clipboard and selection, and yet this synchronization is absent.

[Bug 514170] Re: Klipper middle mouse select and paste fails sometimes

2010-01-29 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38519309/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38519310/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38519311/ProcStatus.txt ** Attachment

[Bug 514170] [NEW] Klipper middle mouse select and paste fails sometimes

2010-01-29 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Public bug reported: In Kubuntu 9.10 using KDE 4.3.5 the middle mouse select and paste function fails in kate or kile. This seems to happen randomly and is very frustrating. Klipper has been configures to synchronize contents fo clipboard and selection, and yet this synchronization is absent.

[Bug 514170] Re: Klipper middle mouse select and paste fails sometimes

2010-01-29 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38519309/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38519310/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38519311/ProcStatus.txt ** Attachment

[Bug 424249] Re: locks when trying to save as PDF

2010-01-25 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
It works in Kubuntu 9.10 with gscan2pdf 0.9.29-1ubuntu1~9.10prevu1 imagemagick 7:6.5.8.3-1~9.10prevu1 both combined from source packages using prevu. One curious observation though: there is no warning before an existing file is overwritten by a new scanned file, saved as a PDF. Thank you.

[Bug 424249] Re: locks when trying to save as PDF

2010-01-25 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
It works in Kubuntu 9.10 with gscan2pdf 0.9.29-1ubuntu1~9.10prevu1 imagemagick 7:6.5.8.3-1~9.10prevu1 both combined from source packages using prevu. One curious observation though: there is no warning before an existing file is overwritten by a new scanned file, saved as a PDF. Thank you.

[Bug 183492] Re: [needs-packaging] Open Komodo Edit

2010-01-24 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Any progress on packaging a .deb? Thanks. -- [needs-packaging] Open Komodo Edit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183492 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 424249] Re: locks when trying to save as PDF

2010-01-12 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I have experienced the same problems as noted above. Here is what I did to work around. 1. I installed the imagemagick-6.5.8.3 source package, generated the .deb using prevu, and installed the resulting package on Karmic Koala on an amd-64 PC. My packages have version number

[Bug 424249] Re: locks when trying to save as PDF

2010-01-12 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I have experienced the same problems as noted above. Here is what I did to work around. 1. I installed the imagemagick-6.5.8.3 source package, generated the .deb using prevu, and installed the resulting package on Karmic Koala on an amd-64 PC. My packages have version number

[Bug 368053] Re: Jaunty fails to recognize USB-connected cell phone as device

2009-11-21 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Kubuntu Karmic 9.10 I have the same problem with an Sony Ericsson K750i mobile phone. Here is what I did to get around the problem: 1. sudo apt-get install usbmount pmount 2. Create /etc/udev/rules.d/75-mobile-phone.rules with this content: SUBSYSTEM!=usb_device, ACTION!=add,

Re: [Bug 392898] Re: prevu error: No space left on device

2009-10-20 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
the problem with kate that I was trying to solve by compiling source with prevu. HTH. Chandra 20 Oct 09 -- -- R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar Perth, Western Australia email: chyav...@gmail.com -- -- prevu error: No space left on device https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/392898 You

Re: [Bug 392898] Re: prevu error: No space left on device

2009-10-20 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
the problem with kate that I was trying to solve by compiling source with prevu. HTH. Chandra 20 Oct 09 -- -- R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar Perth, Western Australia email: chyav...@gmail.com -- -- prevu error: No space left on device https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/392898 You

[Bug 392898] [NEW] prevu error: No space left on device

2009-06-27 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: prevu I am trying to compile kate from Karmic source using prevu on a Jaunty machine with lots of hard disk space on all partitions. I have confirmed that no partition is even close to maxing out. The highest usage is on my root (/) partition at 59.6%

[Bug 392898] [NEW] prevu error: No space left on device

2009-06-27 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: prevu I am trying to compile kate from Karmic source using prevu on a Jaunty machine with lots of hard disk space on all partitions. I have confirmed that no partition is even close to maxing out. The highest usage is on my root (/) partition at 59.6%

[Bug 220957] Re: Fails to see blank CD/DVDs for writing

2009-06-21 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I used to experience this problem with my previous i386 PC which had a Pioneer DVD reader-writer. The problem never went away. I am now on an AMD 64 machine with an ASUS DVD reader-writer and am running Jaunty. There is no problem now. It would perhaps be useful if you stated your brand and

[Bug 220957] Re: Fails to see blank CD/DVDs for writing

2009-06-21 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I used to experience this problem with my previous i386 PC which had a Pioneer DVD reader-writer. The problem never went away. I am now on an AMD 64 machine with an ASUS DVD reader-writer and am running Jaunty. There is no problem now. It would perhaps be useful if you stated your brand and

[Bug 362186] Re: Spurious lines on print outs

2009-06-03 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I replaced /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops with the new Poppler-based pdftops filter and changed its permissions to 755 as advised at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/362186/comments/43 above. Now, the job does not get printed although it shows up in the printer queue. The printer

[Bug 362186] Re: Spurious lines on print outs

2009-06-03 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I tried apport-collect 362186 and went as far as the Almost finished ... stage but did not know how to go back to the application window in which you started the process and inform it that you have done your part of the process. This seems arcane for a CLI. What does one type in on a terminal

[Bug 362186] Re: Spurious lines on print outs

2009-06-03 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I have re-installed poppler-utils and used the latest Improved Poppler- based pdftops and printed the PDF. I can report the following: 1. The small piece of the lower border of each letter [being] added to the upper border problem has now gone. Thank you very much for that. 2. When I

[Bug 362186] Re: Spurious lines on print outs

2009-06-03 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
After re-installing the printer on the Jaunty PC, the new printout is raised by 2 mm for the whole page. Once the pages are so aligned, if a light is shone through the two pages, the printout appears as one. This is sufficient for me. I think the problem has been solved. My deep gratitude to

[Bug 362186] Re: Spurious lines on print outs

2009-05-29 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I can confirm the same problems as reported above, with PDF documents written with Adobe Minion Pro and Wranock Pro on Kubuntu 9.04 on an AMD 64 PC. However, a PDF embodying Linux Libertine OTF, Lohit Tamil, and Lohit Hindi fonts does not suffer from the small piece of the lower border of each

[Bug 306002] Re: /etc/mysql/my.cnf cannot be read

2009-05-16 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Jerod D. Klink, you might wish to look at: http://www.jemmatzan.com/2009/02/the-default-ubuntu-mycnf-for-mysql- 50x.html -- /etc/mysql/my.cnf cannot be read https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306002 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is

[Bug 306002] Re: /etc/mysql/my.cnf cannot be read

2009-05-16 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Jerod D. Klink, you might wish to look at: http://www.jemmatzan.com/2009/02/the-default-ubuntu-mycnf-for-mysql- 50x.html -- /etc/mysql/my.cnf cannot be read https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306002 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 267399] Re: Intrepid: K3B fails to rip to MP3

2009-04-26 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Thank you so much Ralf Jung. I did what you suggested and it now works! Because it is not obvious how to do it, I have recorded below my sequence of steps: Settings - Configure K3b - Plugins - Audio Encoder - External Audio Encoder - Configure - Mp3 Lame - Edit Tick the checkboxes for Swap Byte

[Bug 289699] Re: Kate crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV)

2009-04-26 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
This problem still persists in Kubuntu Jaunty on an AMD 64. Backtrace is attached. ** Attachment added: kate.kcrash http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26001782/kate.kcrash -- Kate crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289699 You received this bug notification

[Bug 41651] Re: Created file doesn't appear on Open recent list unless opened through konqueror

2009-04-25 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I can confirm this kate bug on Kununtu Jaunty upgraded from Intrepid. Please fix this anomaly; kile does not suffer from it. -- Created file doesn't appear on Open recent list unless opened through konqueror https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41651 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 267399] Re: Intrepid: K3B fails to rip to MP3

2009-04-25 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I have upgraded Intrepid to Jaunty on Kubuntu and I still have the problem. The elegant workaround at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/k3b/+bug/267399/comments/15 does not work for me either. For the record, although I am running KDE 4.2.2, K3b is 1.0.5 on KDE 3.5.10. dpkg -l lame

Re: [Bug 229745] Re: after fix for #215728 - Committing to urlclassifier3.sqlite still causes excessive CPU usage and disk I/O (the 2nd)

2009-04-02 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Arthur wrote: This was Firefox idle? Without flash movies, Ajax applications etc.? Mine only shows low one digit kb/s values when using it actively. Nothing when not using it. Nothing more than a few open tabs and normal browsing. No flash, Googlemap, etc. Ever since FF 3.0.5 beta, I have

[Bug 229745] Re: after fix for #215728 - Committing to urlclassifier3.sqlite still causes excessive CPU usage and disk I/O (the 2nd)

2009-04-01 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Intrepid on an AMD 64 running firefox 3.0.8 this is a grep of all firefox related processes when I did pidstat -d 2 at different times: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic (hostname) 02/04/09_x86_64_ === 09:08:05 PID kB_rd/s kB_wr/s kB_ccwr/s Command 09:08:23 9140 0.00

Re: [Bug 136526] Re: Indic scripts not displayed properly (again)

2009-03-22 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
John Vivirito wrote: This should have been fixed in 3.0. I am unable to reproduce this bug. Can you please try running firefox in safe-mode and try a new profile to see if it helps if you are able to reproduce it again ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Invalid

Re: [Bug 229745] Re: after fix for #215728 - Committing to urlclassifier3.sqlite still causes excessive CPU usage and disk I/O (the 2nd)

2009-03-22 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Alexander Sack wrote: in anycase, if you still have an issue in jaunty you could also test ext4 filesystem which should help to make the filesystem access done by firefox less IO hungry. Thanks for that hint. I need clarification on the ext4 filesystem: 1. Will it be an option in jaunty? 2.

[sage-devel] Corrections to tutorial

2009-03-16 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dear Folks, I am working my way through the Sage 3.4 Tutorial from my local copy of it, with sage running in a terminal. I have encountered some pitfalls., some typographic errors, and some mystifying errors. I am collating these into a text file. But before I put in too much effort into it,

[sage-support] Re: Error in solving system of non-linear equations

2009-03-14 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Jason Grout wrote: R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: Would you recommend that I compile from the source tarball instead? Personally, that's what I recommend. Sage development moves at a nice pace, and you're already missing out on a lot of very nice features and a lot of bugfixes

[sage-support] Error in solving system of non-linear equations

2009-03-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dear Folks, Pardon for the double-posting since I am unsure which list is more appropriate. In section 2.4.1 of the Sage Tutorial, there is a non-linear equation example from Jason Grout that I tried out, but it failed. Details follow. My version is built from the Ubuntu jaunty package

[sage-support] Re: Error in solving system of non-linear equations

2009-03-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Jason Grout wrote: I'm not sure what is going on here. Version 3.0.5 is from quite a while ago, at least in Sage terms. The calculation works great in the current version of Sage (version 3.4, just released yesterday, as tested on http://www.sagenb.org.) Did you say that this was from

[sage-support] How do I close a function definition?

2009-03-11 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Folks, I am running SAGE Version 3.0.5, Release Date: 2008-07-11 compiled from the Ubuntu package source package sagemath_3.0.5dfsg-2ubuntu1 on my AMD 64 PC running a 2.6.27-11-generic Linux kernel with Kubuntu 8.04 and KDE 4.2. I am going through the tutorial and have just found a snag. In

[sage-devel] Re: Build of sagemath_3.0.5dfsg-2ubuntu1 using prevu fails on Kubuntu Intrepid

2009-03-11 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Tim Abbott wrote: I'm guessing your issue is too old m4ri. Try upgrading to libm4ri-dev from jaunty. Thank you. Installing libm4ri-dev from jaunty allowed sagemath to be built. After that, I needed to I needed to compile from source the following packages: lcalc gfan gap-guava libcdd-test

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