Bug in new prerelease 1.0.0-pre4

1998-11-25 Thread Ben Cazzolato
Hi Guys, Having done as Lars requested I've found that in changing from 1.0.0-pre2 to 1.0.0-pre4 the latex command "\today" no longer works. I have both binaries still available. With 1.0.0-pre2 I get the correct date stamp, ie November 26, 1998. However with 1.0.0-pre4 I get "protect toda

Re: Will it would be better for lyx to have -geometry and -iconify ?

1998-11-25 Thread Garst R. Reese
"Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote: > > *Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes: > | Since -width and friends are handled by xforms, I guess all we can > | do is to *add* -geometry. > > But it does not, so we replace it with -geometry > (how does GNU programs usually do this? --geometry and -g?) > > L

Re: The New Collapsable Insets

1998-11-25 Thread Larry S. Marso
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 10:33:26PM -0500, John Weiss wrote: > As Larry Marso pointed out, there have been [and continue to be] > requests for showing page numbers/page breaks, text flow around > figures, and similar in LyX. In short, the requests are for more > WYSIWYG. We then spend some time

development version

1998-11-25 Thread Amir Karger
Well, for the first time since 11.something, I've compiled a development version. I'm very impressed with myself! The bad news is, I had to get rid of -ansi to compile. Apparently, fileno() and struct sigaction and maybe one other thing I forgot are considered non-ansi by my SGI. The other bad n

Re: ReLyX

1998-11-25 Thread Garst R. Reese
John Weiss wrote: > > Amir Karger writes: > > So, feel free to suggest new short-term reLyX proposals. If not, I may > > just have to move on to the longer range goals. Or I suppose I could > > instead learn C++ and hack some LyX source. Or maybe work on my thesis :) > > Working on your thesis i

Math environments (was Re: AMS-LaTeX problems

1998-11-25 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Amir Karger wrote: > Of course, maybe Alejandro will answer that for 1.0, I should just make reLyX > translate equation* to displaymath... of course. ;-) BTW support for math environment was planned more than a year ago. We need some kind of math.layout file to define the

Bibliography in TOC ?

1998-11-25 Thread Soulby Jackson
I would like the bibliography to be included in the Table of Contents. I am using lyx 0.12.0. Thank you Soulby (* Soulby Jackson M.SC. Eng. Student Electrical And Electronic Engineering Department Banhoek Road University Of Stellenbosch So

Re: AMS-LaTeX problems

1998-11-25 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> Now go to layout character & select Tiny, to type something like "this line is > unimportant". Note that Line 1 & Line 2 now have less "height", so they > overlap each other rather unattractively. This doesn't happen when you have This is a known bug, that's actually a feature. It's the price

AMS-LaTeX problems

1998-11-25 Thread Amir Karger
So Mate (or should I say "Máté :) sent me a file to reLyX. reLyX (surprisingly!) didn't completely choke on it. Fortunately for me, a lot of the issues it brings up have nothing to do with reLyX. First, a small bug report. Open a doc, select Title layout, type Line 1 C-Return Line 2 C-R

Re: Russian patch

1998-11-25 Thread Victor Lavrenko
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> It will be possible to compile LyX 1.0 under Lars> WinNt/cygwin. but I don't know much about encodings. (how do OK, I've submitted the po-file for koi8-r as 'ru.po'. Other encodings --- later. Lars> you make LyX

Re: Russian patch

1998-11-25 Thread Victor Lavrenko
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> You can upload ru.po to ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming Lars> and I will put it into the distribution/sources. Done. I've put ru.po there. I'd like to write README.rus, by the way, but not today, possible tommorow

1.0.0pre4 rpm

1998-11-25 Thread Mate Wierdl
Available at ftp://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub I did not announce this on the announce list (I would think that list is not for announcing rpms) or on the users' list. Mate

Re: Russian patch

1998-11-25 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Victor Lavrenko writes: | You can upload ru.po to ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming | There are a lot of Russian encodings exist. The most popular are | koi8-r (most UNIXes) and win1251 (MS Windows). How do you think: | should I provide patches for all encoding types (is the Windows | po

Re: lyx-1.0.0pre4 crash.

1998-11-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "José" == José Abílio de Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: José> No, as I don't remember those shortcuts, I have done with the José> mouse. But probably yes because the third buton of the mouse José> maximizes the window, and I have used that one. This is an José> xforms bug, is

Re: lyx-1.0.0pre4 crash.

1998-11-25 Thread José Abílio de Oliveira Matos
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: [...] > File-> New lyx core dumped saying: > > José> BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) > > José> the resulting core file says: > > There have been a similar report when one leaves the mouse cursor on > the toolbar and then maximizes the window with a k

Re: Wider windows

1998-11-25 Thread Joacim Persson
On Wed, 25 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I suffer from too short windows: sometimes it is impossible to fit > Russian text without abbreviations. I've found that other > localizations suffer the same problem. Are you going to make the > windows wider and provide more space available in box

Re: Wider windows

1998-11-25 Thread Mate Wierdl
JM> Next public release is scheduled `soon'. You should grab JM> lyx-1.0.0pre4 from ftp.lyx.devel.org and make sure that your ^ *** ultra.cs.msu.su can't find ftp.lyx.devel.org: Non-existent host/domain :-) Try ftp.deve

Re: lyx-1.0.0pre4 crash.

1998-11-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "José" == José Abílio de Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: José> Hi, I was starting lyx, I have maximised the window, and befoer José> I select File-> New lyx core dumped saying: José> BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) José> the resulting core file says: There hav

lyx-1.0.0pre4 crash.

1998-11-25 Thread José Abílio de Oliveira Matos
Hi, I was starting lyx, I have maximised the window, and befoer I select File->New lyx core dumped saying: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) the resulting core file says: #0 0x40093f61 in __kill () (gdb) bt #0 0x40093f61 in __kill () #1 0x4006007d in gsignal () #2 0x4

Re: Russian patch

1998-11-25 Thread Victor Lavrenko
> "L" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: L> *lavrenko writes: | Hello, guys! I would like to become a L> person responsible for | Russian localization of LyX. I've L> already completed message L> Nice, I'd be happy to get your ru.po file. For what version did

Re: Russian patch

1998-11-25 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*lavrenko writes: | Hello, guys! I would like to become a person responsible for | Russian localization of LyX. I've already completed message Nice, I'd be happy to get your ru.po file. For what version did you make it? You could perhaps update it for the latest prerelease lyx-1.0.0pre4 to be

Re: linuxdoc support, fully textclass implementation.

1998-11-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "José" == José Abílio de Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: José> Here are some examples: layout top element ~~ ~~~ José> article article report report book book linuxdoc article José> linuxdoc_report report (*) linuxdoc_book book (*) José> docbook_article article (*)

Re: linuxdoc support, fully textclass implementation.

1998-11-25 Thread José Abílio de Oliveira Matos
"Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" wrote: > [...] > Please upload the patches to somewhere. I want to look at this! I have send a patch directly to Asger, it is against 1.0.0pre4. If anyone want to test it, I can send it to the list. > Congratulations on the effort! > > Greets, > > Asger The

Re: Wider windows

1998-11-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "lavrenko" == lavrenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: lavrenko> *** ultra.cs.msu.su can't find ftp.lyx.devel.org: lavrenko> Non-existent host/domain lavrenko> :-) lavrenko> Is this host correct: ftp.devel.lyx.org? Good guess. lavrenko> I suffer from too short windows: sometimes it is impo

Wider windows

1998-11-25 Thread lavrenko
> "JM" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Victor" == lavrenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Victor> Hello, guys! I would like to become a person responsible Victor> for Russian localization of LyX. I've already completed Victor> message translation and wond

Re: Russian patch

1998-11-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Victor" == lavrenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Victor> Hello, guys! I would like to become a person responsible for Victor> Russian localization of LyX. I've already completed message Victor> translation and wonder when is the next public release Victor> scheduled? Next public release

Russian patch

1998-11-25 Thread lavrenko
Hello, guys! I would like to become a person responsible for Russian localization of LyX. I've already completed message translation and wonder when is the next public release scheduled? -- Victor Lavrenko Homepage:http://www.lavrenko.pp.ru/ E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EM

Re: The New Collapsable Insets

1998-11-25 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*John Weiss writes: | #3: Margin Button | | I think this may have been what Alejandro had in mind. Replace the | "!" on the left margin with something that looks like a button. | Yes, the superscripted "margin" box would still be where we've | always put it; didn' I say that already? :) The

Re: Will it would be better for lyx to have -geometry and -iconify ?

1998-11-25 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes: | Since -width and friends are handled by xforms, I guess all we can | do is to *add* -geometry. But it does not, so we replace it with -geometry (how does GNU programs usually do this? --geometry and -g?) Lgb

Re: const-ness

1998-11-25 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*John Weiss writes: | constructor, a null constructor, a [possibly virtual] destructor , | and an operator= method." Depends a bit on the complexity of the class I'd say. And if it uses heap memory. Lgb

Re: David's Web Page

1998-11-25 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*John Weiss writes: | How about mirroring the cannonical LyX site? Lars, Asger? Any | thoughts? Please do. I guess we need to setup some mirror pages... Lgb

Re: const-ness

1998-11-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "John" == John Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Lars Gullik Bjønnes writes: >> I think I have to stress this point some more: >> >> Variables, arguments and methods should be as const as possible! John> Agreed! John> Because my RealJob® is mostly C++ programming, I recently bough

Re: The New Collapsable Insets

1998-11-25 Thread John Weiss
Asger Alstrup Nielsen writes: > However, I fear that it starts out a move in a dangerous direction > towards more WYSIWYG use, that would undermine the primary benefit > of LyX as it is. Let me explain what I mean: > > I don't agree that it would be a benefit to put the margin notes in > the mar

Re: ReLyX

1998-11-25 Thread John Weiss
Amir Karger writes: > So, feel free to suggest new short-term reLyX proposals. If not, I may > just have to move on to the longer range goals. Or I suppose I could > instead learn C++ and hack some LyX source. Or maybe work on my thesis :) Working on your thesis is always a Good Thing. I can't r

Re: const-ness

1998-11-25 Thread John Weiss
Lars Gullik Bjønnes writes: > > I think I have to stress this point some more: > > Variables, arguments and methods should be as const as possible! Agreed! Because my RealJob® is mostly C++ programming, I recently bought a book about effective/proper C++ coding style. Two things mentioned: "

Re: David's Web Page

1998-11-25 Thread John Weiss
David L. Johnson writes: > Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culps. I should really have updated, or > removed, my Web page long ago. How about mirroring the cannonical LyX site? Lars, Asger? Any thoughts? -- John Weiss

Re: example file contest

1998-11-25 Thread John Weiss
Amir Karger writes: > > I therefore propose an examples file contest. The winners of the contest > would get to have their files included in the LyX distribution. (Wildly > exciting, isn't it?) All right, I'll admit, it's not really a contest, but > if we just send out a message asking for people

Re: Will it would be better for lyx to have -geometry and -iconify ?

1998-11-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> *shaul writes: | Will it would be better for lyx to have Lars> -geometry instead of | -width and -height, as the former are Lars> more standard (IMHO) ? What | about having -iconify ? Lars> Yes, but we are not going to change