Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)

2000-01-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

 "Amir" == Amir Karger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Amir Well, that's pretty lame, even if you're trying to hide it by
Amir writing it in french. Could you perhaps convince one of the
Amir french translators to write up a quick web page in french? 

The problem right now is rather to convince the french translators to
write french translations ;) As many of us, they do not have much free
time.

JMarc



Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)

2000-01-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Amir> Well, that's pretty lame, even if you're trying to hide it by
Amir> writing it in french. Could you perhaps convince one of the
Amir> french translators to write up a quick web page in french? 

The problem right now is rather to convince the french translators to
write french translations ;) As many of us, they do not have much free
time.

JMarc



Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)

2000-01-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

 "Abdel" == Abdelrazak YOUNEs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Abdel checking for prefix by checking for reLyX... (cached) ./reLyX
  Do you have '.' in your PATH? This is probably the reason why
 reLyX is found in the build directory. Besides the fact that having
 '.' in

Abdel yes...

This should not be a problem in theory, I think it is a bug in
autoconf... 

Abdel Let's not loose faith. Just by watching how my students are
Abdel getting motivated, I'm convinced that it will take off !!

I hope you'll be proven right! You said earlier that you had machines
not suited for windows 9x/NT. What kind of machines are these? Is LyX
performance adequate on these machines? It is important that we get
feedback from people using slow machines, since most of the
developpers probably do not see some problems. In particular, there
are plans to remove the so-called 'fast selection' support, because it
complicates the code a lot. Do you use it? Also, is support for
black-and-white screens important to you?

JMarc

Abdel PS: Y'a t'il une version française du site???

Non, malheureusement. Il y a un site sur la traduction en francais de
la documentation (un peu au point mort en ce moment...), mais c'est
tout.



Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)

2000-01-26 Thread Juergen Vigna


On 25-Jan-2000 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

 Abdel By the way, I checked already the html export feature... very
 Abdel nice!!! Especially for maths!! I opened my 200p thesis full of
 Abdel maths and graphics without any problem... One side-note though,
 Abdel under KDE when the option 'Display content when resizing' is
 Abdel on, the lyx window doesn't resize well, tits*, the scroll bar
 Abdel gets scrambled and acts weirdly. I don't know if this is kwm's
 Abdel or lyx's fault but I thought I could tell you in case (this is
 Abdel kde-1.1.2).
 
 That is probably LyX fault (or rather xforms fault).
 

I don't really know! A lot of programs have problem with the KDE mode
of sending update requests when moving or resizing a window in the full
grafic mode. We here had problems with tcl-tk applications regulary so that
we have to set that option of and don't display the content of the window.
Also Motif application are VERY slow on updating there content when resizing.
IMO KDE is sending too many update requests and a lot can not be handled
correctly.

Greets Jürgen

-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._

Dr. Jürgen Vigna  E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Italienallee 13/N Tel:+39-0471-450260
I-39100 Bozen Fax:+39-0471-450296
ITALY Web:http://www.sad.it/~jug

If your life was a horse, you'd have to shoot it.

-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._



Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)

2000-01-26 Thread Amir Karger

On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:10:18AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
 
 Abdel PS: Y'a t'il une version française du site???
 
 Non, malheureusement. Il y a un site sur la traduction en francais de
 la documentation (un peu au point mort en ce moment...), mais c'est
 tout.

Well, that's pretty lame, even if you're trying to hide it by writing it in
french. Could you perhaps convince one of the french translators to write up
a quick web page in french? They don't have to write too much, since the
docs cover how to actually use LyX and they're (in the process of being)
translated already. It would just have to describe the simple aspects of
setting up french LyX. (Which means you could probably copy the mexican
mirror's spanish page and translate it to french.)

-Amir



Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)

2000-01-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

> "Abdel" == Abdelrazak YOUNEs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Abdel> checking for prefix by checking for reLyX... (cached) ./reLyX
>>  Do you have '.' in your PATH? This is probably the reason why
>> reLyX is found in the build directory. Besides the fact that having
>> '.' in

Abdel> yes...

This should not be a problem in theory, I think it is a bug in
autoconf... 

Abdel> Let's not loose faith. Just by watching how my students are
Abdel> getting motivated, I'm convinced that it will take off !!

I hope you'll be proven right! You said earlier that you had machines
not suited for windows 9x/NT. What kind of machines are these? Is LyX
performance adequate on these machines? It is important that we get
feedback from people using slow machines, since most of the
developpers probably do not see some problems. In particular, there
are plans to remove the so-called 'fast selection' support, because it
complicates the code a lot. Do you use it? Also, is support for
black-and-white screens important to you?

JMarc

Abdel> PS: Y'a t'il une version française du site???

Non, malheureusement. Il y a un site sur la traduction en francais de
la documentation (un peu au point mort en ce moment...), mais c'est
tout.



Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)

2000-01-26 Thread Juergen Vigna


On 25-Jan-2000 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

> Abdel> By the way, I checked already the html export feature... very
> Abdel> nice!!! Especially for maths!! I opened my 200p thesis full of
> Abdel> maths and graphics without any problem... One side-note though,
> Abdel> under KDE when the option 'Display content when resizing' is
> Abdel> on, the lyx window doesn't resize well, tits*, the scroll bar
> Abdel> gets scrambled and acts weirdly. I don't know if this is kwm's
> Abdel> or lyx's fault but I thought I could tell you in case (this is
> Abdel> kde-1.1.2).
> 
> That is probably LyX fault (or rather xforms fault).
> 

I don't really know! A lot of programs have problem with the KDE mode
of sending update requests when moving or resizing a window in the full
grafic mode. We here had problems with tcl-tk applications regulary so that
we have to set that option of and don't display the content of the window.
Also Motif application are VERY slow on updating there content when resizing.
IMO KDE is sending too many update requests and a lot can not be handled
correctly.

Greets Jürgen

-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._

Dr. Jürgen Vigna  E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Italienallee 13/N Tel:+39-0471-450260
I-39100 Bozen Fax:+39-0471-450296
ITALY Web:http://www.sad.it/~jug

If your life was a horse, you'd have to shoot it.

-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._



Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)

2000-01-26 Thread Amir Karger

On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:10:18AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> 
> Abdel> PS: Y'a t'il une version française du site???
> 
> Non, malheureusement. Il y a un site sur la traduction en francais de
> la documentation (un peu au point mort en ce moment...), mais c'est
> tout.

Well, that's pretty lame, even if you're trying to hide it by writing it in
french. Could you perhaps convince one of the french translators to write up
a quick web page in french? They don't have to write too much, since the
docs cover how to actually use LyX and they're (in the process of being)
translated already. It would just have to describe the simple aspects of
setting up french LyX. (Which means you could probably copy the mexican
mirror's spanish page and translate it to french.)

-Amir



lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)

2000-01-25 Thread Abdelrazak YOUNEs

Hi all,

I decided to switch from lyx 1.0.4 to lyx 1.1.4pre2 to check to newest
feature... I compiled from source the tarball and all compiled OK. The problem
was when I made a  make install... it stopped with :

Making install in reLyX
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/younes/install/lyx-1.1.4pre2/lib/reLyX'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/younes/install/lyx-1.1.4pre2/lib/reLyX'
/bin/sh ./../../config/mkinstalldirs ./reLyX/bin
mkdir ./reLyX
mkdir: cannot make directory `./reLyX': File exists
mkdir ./reLyX/bin
mkdir: cannot make directory `./reLyX/bin': Not a directory
make[3]: *** [install-binSCRIPTS] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/younes/install/lyx-1.1.4pre2/lib/reLyX'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/younes/install/lyx-1.1.4pre2/lib/reLyX'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/younes/install/lyx-1.1.4pre2/lib'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

I edited the Makefile under lib/reLyx/ and replaced the line:
prefix = ./reLyX
with the line:
prefix = .

After that it installed OK. My system is a slackware 7.0 vanilla (egcs 1.1.2)
and I used xforms-0.88. Hope this help.

By the way, I checked already the html export feature... very nice!!! Especially
for maths!! I opened my 200p thesis full of maths and graphics without any
problem... One side-note though, under KDE when the option 'Display content
when resizing' is on, the lyx window doesn't resize well, tits*, the scroll bar
gets scrambled and acts weirdly. I don't know if this is kwm's or lyx's fault
but I thought I could tell you in case (this is kde-1.1.2).

Thank you very much for your work, it saved me a lot of time,
Abdel.

*That Is To Say, not sexual at all... well, maybe a bit...
___
Abdelrazak YOUNES
Instructeur EAMAC
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)

2000-01-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

 "Abdel" == Abdelrazak YOUNEs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Abdel Hi all, I decided to switch from lyx 1.0.4 to lyx 1.1.4pre2 to
Abdel check to newest feature... I compiled from source the tarball
Abdel and all compiled OK. The problem was when I made a make
Abdel install... it stopped with :
[...]

Abdel I edited the Makefile under lib/reLyx/ and replaced the line:
Abdel prefix = ./reLyX with the line: prefix = .

The question is to know why the prefix was ./reLyX. How did you
configure LyX? Could you show the output of configure?

Abdel By the way, I checked already the html export feature... very
Abdel nice!!! Especially for maths!! I opened my 200p thesis full of
Abdel maths and graphics without any problem... One side-note though,
Abdel under KDE when the option 'Display content when resizing' is
Abdel on, the lyx window doesn't resize well, tits*, the scroll bar
Abdel gets scrambled and acts weirdly. I don't know if this is kwm's
Abdel or lyx's fault but I thought I could tell you in case (this is
Abdel kde-1.1.2).

That is probably LyX fault (or rather xforms fault).

JMarc

PS: does .ne stand for Niger? [That's what I guessed from EAMAC home
page] We did not have that many users from Africa until now. Welcome!



Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)

2000-01-25 Thread Amir Karger

On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 06:26:49PM +0100, Abdelrazak YOUNEs wrote:
  
  PS: does .ne stand for Niger? [That's what I guessed from EAMAC home
  page] We did not have that many users from Africa until now. Welcome!
 
 Yes indeed, we're based in Niamey, EAMAC is the African School for
 Meteorology and Civil Aviation. Our school have students from a lot of
 West African countries and I'm trying to influence them so that they use
 Lyx instead of word.

Great! (Welcome)

Someone has to find the paragraph in the web site or docs that talks about a
development effort on five continents and change it to six. (Actually
counter.li.org says there are a couple linux hosts in antarctica---anyone
know if they use lyx?)

-Amir



Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)

2000-01-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

 "Abdel" == Abdelrazak YOUNEs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Abdel checking for prefix by checking for reLyX... (cached) ./reLyX

Do you have '.' in your PATH? This is probably the reason why reLyX
is found in the build directory. Besides the fact that having '.' in
the PATH is a bad idea, I am not sure how I could avoid that... I'll
have to thing about it.

Abdel Yes indeed, we're based in Niamey, EAMAC is the African
Abdel School for Meteorology and Civil Aviation. Our school have
Abdel students from a lot of West African countries and I'm
Abdel trying to influence them so that they use Lyx instead of
Abdel word. I'm doing the same with my African colleagues by
Abdel giving them some courses about Unix and Lyx. There's not a
Abdel lot of Lyx users around here for now, but the number is
Abdel increasing, I guess (hope) that the students will start to
Abdel advocate the use of linux and lyx when they go back to
Abdel their countries. Here, the choice is clear: it is almost
Abdel impossible to use our very old computers with win95 and
Abdel word, whereas Linux and Lyx perform rather well. 

I really hope that linux (and to a lesser extent LyX) will help
computing in Africa. It has been predicted for some time, but I find
that it takes a lot of time to take off... It's a pity.

Abdel We're just beginning our internet adventure and we have a very
Abdel low bandwidth but if you'd like us to become a mirror of
Abdel the Lyx homepage in Africa, we can manage to do so...

If you think that it could be useful to African users, you are very
welcome to do so. There is some information about that at
http://www.devel.lyx.org/mirror.php3

JMarc



Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)

2000-01-25 Thread Abdelrazak YOUNEs

²On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
  "Abdel" == Abdelrazak YOUNEs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 Abdel checking for prefix by checking for reLyX... (cached) ./reLyX
 
 Do you have '.' in your PATH? This is probably the reason why reLyX
 is found in the build directory. Besides the fact that having '.' in

yes...

 the PATH is a bad idea, I am not sure how I could avoid that... I'll
 have to thing about it.

I agree with you but that's the default for slackware and I guess that the
newbie won't even know how to remove '.' from his PATH, anyway, without  it, the
problem is resolved...

 I really hope that linux (and to a lesser extent LyX) will help
 computing in Africa. It has been predicted for some time, but I find
 that it takes a lot of time to take off... It's a pity.

Let's not loose faith. Just by watching how my students are getting
motivated, I'm convinced that it will take off !! But as I said in a previous
mail, this is less than a year since we're connected to the internet so it will
obviously take some time. Anyway, most of the ISP in Africa are based on Linux
and we already have some civil aviation telecommunication solutions based on
Linux systems...
As in Asia, most of the software are illegal copies in Africa and Microsoft is
already talking about this to the different governments. So Linux is definitly a
solution to this problem, and on the road it will develops the skills of its
users Oups, sorry about talking that much...

 If you think that it could be useful to African users, you
are very  welcome to do so. There is some information about that at
 http://www.devel.lyx.org/mirror.php3

Well at least this will catch their interests, so I'll do that...

Regards,
Abdel.

PS: Y'a t'il une version française du site???

 
 JMarc
-- 
Abdelrazak YOUNES
Instructeur EAMAC
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)

2000-01-25 Thread Abdelrazak YOUNEs

Hi all,

I decided to switch from lyx 1.0.4 to lyx 1.1.4pre2 to check to newest
feature... I compiled from source the tarball and all compiled OK. The problem
was when I made a  make install... it stopped with :

Making install in reLyX
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/younes/install/lyx-1.1.4pre2/lib/reLyX'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/younes/install/lyx-1.1.4pre2/lib/reLyX'
/bin/sh ./../../config/mkinstalldirs ./reLyX/bin
mkdir ./reLyX
mkdir: cannot make directory `./reLyX': File exists
mkdir ./reLyX/bin
mkdir: cannot make directory `./reLyX/bin': Not a directory
make[3]: *** [install-binSCRIPTS] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/younes/install/lyx-1.1.4pre2/lib/reLyX'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/younes/install/lyx-1.1.4pre2/lib/reLyX'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/younes/install/lyx-1.1.4pre2/lib'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

I edited the Makefile under lib/reLyx/ and replaced the line:
prefix = ./reLyX
with the line:
prefix = .

After that it installed OK. My system is a slackware 7.0 vanilla (egcs 1.1.2)
and I used xforms-0.88. Hope this help.

By the way, I checked already the html export feature... very nice!!! Especially
for maths!! I opened my 200p thesis full of maths and graphics without any
problem... One side-note though, under KDE when the option 'Display content
when resizing' is on, the lyx window doesn't resize well, tits*, the scroll bar
gets scrambled and acts weirdly. I don't know if this is kwm's or lyx's fault
but I thought I could tell you in case (this is kde-1.1.2).

Thank you very much for your work, it saved me a lot of time,
Abdel.

*That Is To Say, not sexual at all... well, maybe a bit...
___
Abdelrazak YOUNES
Instructeur EAMAC
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)

2000-01-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

> "Abdel" == Abdelrazak YOUNEs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Abdel> Hi all, I decided to switch from lyx 1.0.4 to lyx 1.1.4pre2 to
Abdel> check to newest feature... I compiled from source the tarball
Abdel> and all compiled OK. The problem was when I made a make
Abdel> install... it stopped with :
[...]

Abdel> I edited the Makefile under lib/reLyx/ and replaced the line:
Abdel> prefix = ./reLyX with the line: prefix = .

The question is to know why the prefix was ./reLyX. How did you
configure LyX? Could you show the output of configure?

Abdel> By the way, I checked already the html export feature... very
Abdel> nice!!! Especially for maths!! I opened my 200p thesis full of
Abdel> maths and graphics without any problem... One side-note though,
Abdel> under KDE when the option 'Display content when resizing' is
Abdel> on, the lyx window doesn't resize well, tits*, the scroll bar
Abdel> gets scrambled and acts weirdly. I don't know if this is kwm's
Abdel> or lyx's fault but I thought I could tell you in case (this is
Abdel> kde-1.1.2).

That is probably LyX fault (or rather xforms fault).

JMarc

PS: does .ne stand for Niger? [That's what I guessed from EAMAC home
page] We did not have that many users from Africa until now. Welcome!



Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)

2000-01-25 Thread Amir Karger

On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 06:26:49PM +0100, Abdelrazak YOUNEs wrote:
> > 
> > PS: does .ne stand for Niger? [That's what I guessed from EAMAC home
> > page] We did not have that many users from Africa until now. Welcome!
> 
> Yes indeed, we're based in Niamey, EAMAC is the African School for
> Meteorology and Civil Aviation. Our school have students from a lot of
> West African countries and I'm trying to influence them so that they use
> Lyx instead of word.

Great! (Welcome)

Someone has to find the paragraph in the web site or docs that talks about a
development effort on five continents and change it to six. (Actually
counter.li.org says there are a couple linux hosts in antarctica---anyone
know if they use lyx?)

-Amir



Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)

2000-01-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

> "Abdel" == Abdelrazak YOUNEs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Abdel> checking for prefix by checking for reLyX... (cached) ./reLyX

Do you have '.' in your PATH? This is probably the reason why reLyX
is found in the build directory. Besides the fact that having '.' in
the PATH is a bad idea, I am not sure how I could avoid that... I'll
have to thing about it.

Abdel> Yes indeed, we're based in Niamey, EAMAC is the African
Abdel> School for Meteorology and Civil Aviation. Our school have
Abdel> students from a lot of West African countries and I'm
Abdel> trying to influence them so that they use Lyx instead of
Abdel> word. I'm doing the same with my African colleagues by
Abdel> giving them some courses about Unix and Lyx. There's not a
Abdel> lot of Lyx users around here for now, but the number is
Abdel> increasing, I guess (hope) that the students will start to
Abdel> advocate the use of linux and lyx when they go back to
Abdel> their countries. Here, the choice is clear: it is almost
Abdel> impossible to use our very old computers with win95 and
Abdel> word, whereas Linux and Lyx perform rather well. 

I really hope that linux (and to a lesser extent LyX) will help
computing in Africa. It has been predicted for some time, but I find
that it takes a lot of time to take off... It's a pity.

Abdel> We're just beginning our internet adventure and we have a very
Abdel> low bandwidth but if you'd like us to become a mirror of
Abdel> the Lyx homepage in Africa, we can manage to do so...

If you think that it could be useful to African users, you are very
welcome to do so. There is some information about that at
http://www.devel.lyx.org/mirror.php3

JMarc



Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)

2000-01-25 Thread Abdelrazak YOUNEs

²On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > "Abdel" == Abdelrazak YOUNEs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Abdel> checking for prefix by checking for reLyX... (cached) ./reLyX
> 
> Do you have '.' in your PATH? This is probably the reason why reLyX
> is found in the build directory. Besides the fact that having '.' in

yes...

> the PATH is a bad idea, I am not sure how I could avoid that... I'll
> have to thing about it.

I agree with you but that's the default for slackware and I guess that the
newbie won't even know how to remove '.' from his PATH, anyway, without  it, the
problem is resolved...

> I really hope that linux (and to a lesser extent LyX) will help
> computing in Africa. It has been predicted for some time, but I find
> that it takes a lot of time to take off... It's a pity.

Let's not loose faith. Just by watching how my students are getting
motivated, I'm convinced that it will take off !! But as I said in a previous
mail, this is less than a year since we're connected to the internet so it will
obviously take some time. Anyway, most of the ISP in Africa are based on Linux
and we already have some civil aviation telecommunication solutions based on
Linux systems...
As in Asia, most of the software are illegal copies in Africa and Microsoft is
already talking about this to the different governments. So Linux is definitly a
solution to this problem, and on the road it will develops the skills of its
users Oups, sorry about talking that much...

> If you think that it could be useful to African users, you
are very > welcome to do so. There is some information about that at
> http://www.devel.lyx.org/mirror.php3

Well at least this will catch their interests, so I'll do that...

Regards,
Abdel.

PS: Y'a t'il une version française du site???

> 
> JMarc
-- 
Abdelrazak YOUNES
Instructeur EAMAC
[EMAIL PROTECTED]