Boldface equation bugs

1998-12-10 Thread Peter Drummond
Hi Lyxers - following bugs occur in Lyx V1.0.0pre2: (1) If you have an equation with many mathbold or textbold symbols, the mathbox can exceed the window width even on a 20" monitor - then you can't edit the equation, since part of it becomes invisible, and doesn't wrap. This would be cured with

Re: Script language (was Re: 1st version of Graphical Tutorial

1998-12-10 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On 10 Dec 1998, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > I want it to be possible for several external programs to connect to > the LyX-server(s) at once. Will be similar to multipleviews. > (actually lyxserver will be a specialized BufferView) Rather BufferView should be a specialized Buffer which base cla

Re: Script language (was Re: 1st version of Graphical Tutorial

1998-12-10 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Amir Karger wrote: > > Ahem, we have not yet decided for phyton. The point of Lars post, AIUI, > > is to improve the lyxserver to be able to try it with more script > > languages. > > I agree! By the way, is AIUI spanish? As I Understand It. :) Alejandro

Re: Script language (was Re: 1st version of Graphical Tutorial

1998-12-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Alejandro Aguilar Sierra writes: || To be able to test this, stuff in LyXView, BufferView, LyXText, || LyXParagraph (and others) needs to be fixed. | Is the todo list updated? Depends upon what you mean... o better LyXServer support - perhaps use UNIX sockets instead o

Re: Script language (was Re: 1st version of Graphical Tutorial

1998-12-10 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 12:30:20PM -0600, Alejandro Aguilar Sierra wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Amir Karger wrote: > > Ahem, we have not yet decided for phyton. The point of Lars post, AIUI, > is to improve the lyxserver to be able to try it with more script > languages. I agree! By the way, is

Re: Script language (was Re: 1st version of Graphical Tutorial

1998-12-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Alejandro Aguilar Sierra writes: | Ahem, we have not yet decided for phyton. The point of Lars post, | AIUI, is to improve the lyxserver to be able to try it with more | script languages. AIUI? Still to be able to start arbitrary programs from inside lyx we need some scripting support. (pip

Re: Script language (was Re: 1st version of Graphical Tutorial

1998-12-10 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On 10 Dec 1998, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > I think a new lyxserver protocol should be made. yes. > To be able to test this, stuff in LyXView, BufferView, LyXText, > LyXParagraph (and others) needs to be fixed. Is the todo list updated? Alejandro

Re: Script language (was Re: 1st version of Graphical Tutorial

1998-12-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Alejandro Aguilar Sierra writes: | On 10 Dec 1998, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: || Concerning the lyx-server: to use this actively as a script/program || interface it needs rewritning. Currently it uses pipes and that || means that there is only one channel into lyx. We would need to || rewrite t

Re: Script language (was Re: 1st version of Graphical Tutorial

1998-12-10 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Amir Karger wrote: > > f.ex. the complete spellcheker support could be written in python. > > Would be neat, but only if we include python in the distribution! > I think a lot of people want to use the spellchecker! Ahem, we have not yet decided for phyton. The point of Lar

Re: no target in 1.1 . . .

1998-12-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Amir Karger writes: | aclocal automake autoconf configure make I think automake is independant aclocal must be run before autoconf and configure last. | | | Perhaps it doesn't really matter, though. And after that you got "*** No targets"? Lgb

Re: Proposition to modify Matrix Dialog Box

1998-12-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Emmanuel GUREGHIAN writes: | Couldn't we redesign and make the line slider vertical (fdesign | accepts it) it this way it seems more intuitive to me But the the form gets so large. We try to not use more screen estate than we have to. Lgb

Re: Script language (was Re: 1st version of Graphical Tutorial

1998-12-10 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On 10 Dec 1998, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Concerning the lyx-server: to use this actively as a script/program > interface it needs rewritning. Currently it uses pipes and that means > that there is only one channel into lyx. We would need to rewrite the > server too use sockets instead to get

Re: Script language (was Re: 1st version of Graphical Tutorial

1998-12-10 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 06:36:12PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > I imagine that several of the functions in LyXFunc really should be > written using the script language instead. So that we only have the > basic commands implemented in C++ and the compound(?) ones written in > scripts. > > f

Re: Proposition to modify Matrix Dialog Box

1998-12-10 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 06:55:16PM +0100, Emmanuel GUREGHIAN wrote: > Hello > > In the matrix dialog there are 2 xforms val-sliders for lines and the > columns : > > || > | [==line-valslider==] [centering] | > | [=colums valsli

Re: LaTeX-Import crashes ext2-FS

1998-12-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Amir Karger writes: | I'll check in this & some other minor changes for sure before 1.0, | even if I can't get the figure stuff in. I assume Lars will give us | a "make sure to check in your last patches" warning? I am just wainting for the last linux-doc patches now... After that: one new

Re: no target in 1.1 . . .

1998-12-10 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 06:37:43PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > *Richard E Hawkins Esq writes: > | hmm. I managed to install 1.1 source, I think. I figured out to > | run autoconf to get configure (though the instructions seem to > | imply that this somehow happens automatically). > >

Proposition to modify Matrix Dialog Box

1998-12-10 Thread Emmanuel GUREGHIAN
Hello In the matrix dialog there are 2 xforms val-sliders for lines and the columns : || | [==line-valslider==] [centering] | | [=colums valslider] [center]| || Cou

Re: Script language (was Re: 1st version of Graphical Tutorial

1998-12-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Richard E Hawkins Esq writes: | lars lamented, || *Asger Alstrup Nielsen writes: | The "only" serious problem is to || decide whether Python should be | mandatory or optional. (We have || to solve this problem for any | scripting language which can't be || included in the distribution.) | || I

Re: Script language (was Re: 1st version of Graphical Tutorial

1998-12-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Amir Karger writes: | It might be easy to add to 1.0, and a working graphical tutorial | that came in the distribution w/out adding 1.5 MB would be killer, | but I really think we should get 1.0 OUT there. We can always put | it in 1.0.1. Even if it wouldn't postpone it much, it would still

Re: where to put mailmerge menu in 1.1

1998-12-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Richard E Hawkins Esq writes: | It looks like something else has already been added to the edit | menu in 1.1, so I can't just use my old patch. Where should I put | MailMerge? after the last current entry in edit, or somewhere else. | (If it goes anywhere before a submenu, or in a subnmenu,

Re: no target in 1.1 . . .

1998-12-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Richard E Hawkins Esq writes: | hmm. I managed to install 1.1 source, I think. I figured out to | run autoconf to get configure (though the instructions seem to | imply that this somehow happens automatically). What instructions? | configure works (or so it claims, but: | | Configuratio

Re: LaTeX-Import crashes ext2-FS

1998-12-10 Thread Amir Karger
(Note to devvies: I've put a LyX feature-request below, so don't hit "d" yet) On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 02:54:38PM +0100, Sven Kopp wrote: > SuSe Linux 2.0.35 > XFree86 3.3.3 > LyX 1.0.0pre2 > SCSI-Disks > --- > Hi folks, > > trying to import a LaTeX-File (with included

Re: translation of layout list.

1998-12-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes: | It seems to me that this will be needed at least for the GUI parts, | and that it will be more convenient. I can't see the easy solution on how to implement that. Where to install f.ex. lyx/no.po lyx-layout/no.po lyx-xforms/no.po lyx-gtk/no.po lyx-qt/no.po It i

Re: latexdel inset news.

1998-12-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*José Abílio de Oliveira Matos writes: | Hi, for all that counts I have replaced the latexdel inset | reading, and converted it to something more usefull... | | Is there any kind soul to tell me the story of \latexdel? | | That is the only place where the latexdel inset is inserted now, i

where to put mailmerge menu in 1.1

1998-12-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
It looks like something else has already been added to the edit menu in 1.1, so I can't just use my old patch. Where should I put MailMerge? after the last current entry in edit, or somewhere else. (If it goes anywhere before a submenu, or in a subnmenu, i'm going to need some help here).

no target in 1.1 . . .

1998-12-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
hmm. I managed to install 1.1 source, I think. I figured out to run autoconf to get configure (though the instructions seem to imply that this somehow happens automatically). configure works (or so it claims, but: Configuration of LyX was successful. Type 'make' to compile the program, a

Re: Script language (was Re: 1st version of Graphical Tutorial

1998-12-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
lars lamented, > *Asger Alstrup Nielsen writes: > | The "only" serious problem is to decide whether Python should be > | mandatory or optional. (We have to solve this problem for any > | scripting language which can't be included in the distribution.) > IMO that is bad. The scripting language

Re: Script language (was Re: 1st version of Graphical Tutorial

1998-12-10 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 01:01:41PM +0100, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > The "only" serious problem is to decide whether Python should be mandatory > or optional. (We have to solve this problem for any scripting language > which can't be included in the distribution.) > I don't *really* thin

Re: Script language (was Re: 1st version of Graphical Tutorial

1998-12-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Asger Alstrup Nielsen writes: | The "only" serious problem is to decide whether Python should be | mandatory or optional. (We have to solve this problem for any | scripting language which can't be included in the distribution.) IMO that is bad. The scripting language should be mandatory and i

Re: Moral boast

1998-12-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Maybe somebody else could have a look some of the other offerings > these days. I think the KOffice word processor might be approaching > milestone 3, but "fortunately", their aim is different than ours: > They want to implement a desktop publishing program. Wait a minute, I thought klyx *w

Re: Moral boast

1998-12-10 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 11:03:34AM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > Hi! > > I know it's not Friday yet, but forgive me for wasting bandwidth > with something as simple as bragging. Well, the truth is, we wouldn't want to confine all of our bandwidth-wasting to just one day. I think Frida

latexdel inset news.

1998-12-10 Thread José Abílio de Oliveira Matos
Hi, for all that counts I have replaced the latexdel inset reading, and converted it to something more usefull... Is there any kind soul to tell me the story of \latexdel? That is the only place where the latexdel inset is inserted now, it is converted to an latexdel inset and I don'

Setting itemsep in specific lists?

1998-12-10 Thread Robert M. Fuhrer
Occasionally, when working with LaTeX, I've found it necessary to manually set the itemsep parameter for individual lists, like so: \begin{itemize}\setlength{\itemsep}{1ex} \item foo \item bar \end{itemize} How would I go about this in LyX? There doesn't seem to be an appropriate pl

Re: Enhancements to lyx

1998-12-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Peter" == Peter Suetterlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> It seems that XSetWMHints() can be used to tell that the math panel >> does not want any keyboard input. This would need some >> experimentation, though. Peter> Sounds reasonable. I just tested:

Re: Enhancements to lyx

1998-12-10 Thread Peter Suetterlin
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > It seems that XSetWMHints() can be used to tell that the math panel > does not want any keyboard input. This would need some > experimentation, though. Sounds reasonable. I just tested: Open another application, give it the focus, then move the cursor into the IDL

Re: Enhancements to lyx

1998-12-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Peter" == Peter Suetterlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Not 100% sure, but I think it isn't completely. I'm using Peter> follow-mouse, too. But the Image processing program I use Peter> (IDL) is able to open windows that leave the input focus in the Peter> text console when the mou

Re: Enhancements to lyx

1998-12-10 Thread Peter Suetterlin
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Alain" == Alain Leroux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alain> It would be more comfortable also, if it was possible to type > Alain> text when the mouse pointer lie in the math panel and not to be > Alain> obliged to put it back in the main window. > > This is

Re: Enhancements to lyx

1998-12-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Alain" == Alain Leroux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alain> I am not a devopper but an user of Lyx. Alain> This program is by now very useful, but will be more Alain> comfortable if it was possible to keep the pop-ups of the Alain> math-panel, like Greek characters permanently on the screen

Re: translation of layout list.

1998-12-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> This is a scheme for allowing us to translate the names of Lars> styles in the layout-dropdown. Lars> in lib/layouts I have added two files: Lars> extract_style.sh layout-l10n Lars> the layout-l10n is generated by the extrac

LaTeX-Import crashes ext2-FS

1998-12-10 Thread Sven Kopp
SuSe Linux 2.0.35 XFree86 3.3.3 LyX 1.0.0pre2 SCSI-Disks --- Hi folks, trying to import a LaTeX-File (with included sub-LaTeX-files) as "normal" user from a mounted DOS (FAT16)-partition /C on which I don't have a write permission (read-only) crashes the ext2-fs: It

Re: Script language (was Re: 1st version of Graphical Tutorial

1998-12-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Asger" == Asger Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Um, OK. This is above my head. Sounds like maybe Python and perl >> would be equally difficult in this case? Asger> Sounds like the vim people managed to solve the linking of Asger> Python problem. I'll try to check that out.

Re: Script language (was Re: 1st version of Graphical Tutorial

1998-12-10 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> Um, OK. This is above my head. Sounds like maybe Python and perl would be > equally difficult in this case? Sounds like the vim people managed to solve the linking of Python problem. I'll try to check that out. If the stuff is good, I think might have a winner: Amir is starting to agree, Lgb

Moral boast

1998-12-10 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Hi! I know it's not Friday yet, but forgive me for wasting bandwidth with something as simple as bragging. Check out one of our competitions "milestone" chart, or "roadmap". http://www.abisource.com/spec_abiword/ This time, we'll have a look at AbiWord. It's a fine project, and I wish the bes