Re: LaTeX-Import crashes ext2-FS

1998-12-14 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 11:40:20PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > Anyway I think that making LyX able to read from stdin is the wrong > solution (I am not even sure that it would work). This kind of problem > should be solved with something similar to popen(3), will most likely > be most e

Re: SIOD

1998-12-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Asger Alstrup Nielsen writes: | Hi! I just thought that I should give the pointer to the small | Scheme implementation: | | http://people.delphi.com/gjc/siod.html I will both be looking at siod and guile. To see which I prefere. (siod seems to be very neat) Lgb

Re: LaTeX-Import crashes ext2-FS

1998-12-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Amir Karger writes: | My suggestion was copying the tex file into the current directory | where lyx is creating stuff (either the temporary directory or | `pwd` if you've got use_tempdir set to false, I guess), then | deleting the .tex file when you close LyX. This doesn't use any | "new tec

Bug in multiple line equations

1998-12-14 Thread Ben Cazzolato
Hi Guys, I think this one has been posted before but I'm getting hassled by my mates who have just started using Lyx. It has to do with copying multiline equations which have been labelled with numbers, ie \begin_inset Formula \begin{eqnarray} \alpha & = & 1\\ \beta & = & 2 \end{eqnarray

Re: LaTeX-Import crashes ext2-FS

1998-12-14 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 08:55:08PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > *Asger Alstrup Nielsen writes: > | Of course we can choose not to fix the bug and document it in Bugs > | instead for 1.0.0. And then fix it in 1.0.1 (or simply not fix it > | in the 1.0.x series, but the bug report involved

Re: Bug in Lyx 0.12.0 with two screens

1998-12-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Walter Gull writes: | I have a Sun workstation with two screens. On Solaris 2.5.1 I | generated a lyx that is perfectly running when the DISPLAY variable | is set to "myhost:0", but it crashes when it is set to | "myhost:0.1", i.e. the other screen is selected. The output is: | | lyx |

Re: LaTeX-Import crashes ext2-FS

1998-12-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Asger Alstrup Nielsen writes: | Of course we can choose not to fix the bug and document it in Bugs | instead for 1.0.0. And then fix it in 1.0.1 (or simply not fix it | in the 1.0.x series, but the bug report involved something going | completely nuts, so that might be a bad decision.) But w

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

1998-12-14 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> You are right. It is not really what we are looking for. But maybe is > it easy to declare a 'for' function in this setting. After having a closer look, I think it's close to impossible.. However, doing a simple imperative language from scratch is not hard. > Do you have a pointer for ELK? h

Re: script language: global

1998-12-14 Thread Jacek M. Holeczek
Hi, I would again like to mention a nice embedable C/C++ interpreter called CINT. For details have a look at : http://root.cern.ch/root/Cint.html Do also have a look at how it is used as a scripting language in the ROOT environment at : http://root.cern.ch Jacek.

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

1998-12-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Asger" == Asger K Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Asger> Yes, I noticed this. It might be a good starting point, but Asger> unfortunately it's not documented much. I think I might have Asger> to try to dig out the article he has referenced to decipher the Asger> parser and un

Re: script language: global

1998-12-14 Thread Garst R. Reese
"Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" wrote: [snip] > The point is that if we want to support non-interactive use, an easy > way to implement this is with a scripting language. > Users have requested the option of doing "lyx -export tex *.lyx" and > similar things. A natural way to provide this functionali

Re: Candiate scripting language bases

1998-12-14 Thread Andre' Poenitz
> > However, we need to be careful about that new EU parentheses tax . . . > > :) If I read the tax manual correctly, smilies count as 'half of a pair of paranthesis' if imported from outside the EU. But if used in vegetarian text, the tax is halved. Anyway, I'd rather have something easy to r

Re: Boldface equation bugs

1998-12-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Amir> While we're talking about mbox: are there plans to support text Amir> mode within math mode, Alejandro? Not in 1.0, AFAIK. But it will be possible in 1.1, of course. >> In theory, reLyX could translate \textbf to \mathbf in math >> f

Re: Boldface equation bugs

1998-12-14 Thread Amir Karger
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 11:45:09AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Peter" == Peter Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Peter> (2) If you IMPORT a \tilde{\textbf A} combination from a valid > Peter> latex equation, reLyx modifies it to an invalid latex file, > Peter> which generat

Re: math inset 'feature'

1998-12-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Andre'> Try typing > > Andre'> G'_x > > Andre'> in a math inset. > > Andre'> The x appears above the ground line. The lower end of the ' > Andre'> seems to be taken as "base" of the index. A bit confusing > Andre'> when you look at it... I want to say that using a straight quote rather t

what the language should do

1998-12-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
joacim jabbed, > Isn't it a bit backward to evaluate scripting languages when we don't know > what we want to do? > A spec please! ;) what a pesky detail :) My assumed list is: 1) execute any lyx command 2) access shells 3) access file system 4) execute a list of commands 5) have looping in

Re: Candiate scripting language bases

1998-12-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
lars lamented, > *Mate Wierdl writes: > | Ah, I read the thread. My question was what was the objection to > | Scheme here on *this* list. > I have none. > Asger things it has complicated syntax for beginners. The fact that I was able to sit down and start using it in an afternoon sugges

Re: LaTeX-Import crashes ext2-FS

1998-12-14 Thread Amir Karger
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 12:33:24PM +0100, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: [Lars said:] > > I don't think you want 1.0 released. You keep suggestin and wanting to > > implement new things all the time... > > I see. > > The problem at hand originated in a bug report, that if it was to be fixed, > wo

Re: lyx2rtf

1998-12-14 Thread Jochen Kuepper
On Mon, 14 Dez 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Well, there is a sgml2rtf converter, as I would generally say sgml is a good >> format to write documentation in, since it can be converted to almost >> everything. >> >> Greetings, >> Jochen >> > > > Yes, sgml seems to be a good format, but ar

Re: lyx2rtf

1998-12-14 Thread xcalbet
On 14 Dec, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was an error in my previous message, where it said: > -XMGL seems to be a standard for the future, but word-processors > for it do exist, at least in the low-end market. It should say: > -XMGL seems to be a standard for the future, but word-p

Re: lyx2rtf

1998-12-14 Thread xcalbet
On 14 Dec, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> "xcalbet" == xcalbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > xcalbet> I have been looking at the formats of documents and it > xcalbet> seems like there is NO standard format in which to write > xcalbet> documents. > [...] > xcalbet> -XMGL seems to be

Re: lyx2rtf

1998-12-14 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> I have been looking at the formats of documents and it seems like > there is NO standard format in which to write documents. > > -There seem to exist several differente versions of RTF, so this is no > standard. > -XMGL seems to be a standard for the future, but word-processors >

Re: lyx2rtf

1998-12-14 Thread xcalbet
> > Well, there is a sgml2rtf converter, as I would generally say sgml is a good > format to write documentation in, since it can be converted to almost > everything. > > Greetings, > Jochen > Yes, sgml seems to be a good format, but are there any typewriter style word-proccessors for it?

Re: math inset 'feature'

1998-12-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre'" == Andre' Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre'> Try typing Andre'> G'_x Andre'> in a math inset. Andre'> The x appears above the ground line. The lower end of the ' Andre'> seems to be taken as "base" of the index. A bit confusing Andre'> when you look at it... I thin

Re: lyx2rtf

1998-12-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "xcalbet" == xcalbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: xcalbet> I have been looking at the formats of documents and it xcalbet> seems like there is NO standard format in which to write xcalbet> documents. [...] xcalbet> -XMGL seems to be a standard for the future, but xcalbet> word-process

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

1998-12-14 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> What about the pratt parser included with siod? It provides the same > language in a script-like syntax. Example from the docs: > > #!/usr/local/bin/siod -v01,-m2 -*-mode:text;parser:pratt-*- > main() := > {writes(nil,"Hello Scheme World.\n"); > fflush(nil); > writes(nil,"fib(20) = ",fib(20)

Re: LGT v0.2 (now v0.3)

1998-12-14 Thread mressler
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I like it. I think we should add that to the WEB page now (with proper > page layout). I have uploaded v0.3 to ftp.devel.lyx.org. As soon has Lars has the chance, it should be publicly available. No format changes, just a couple of fixes (like t

Re: GUI question!

1998-12-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "José" == José Abílio de Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: José> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> > "Asger" == Asger K Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Asger> I don't recall whether this form has a fd-file or not. If it Asger> does, this task involves use "fdesig

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

1998-12-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Asger" == Asger Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Asger> The progress in this discussion is not as fast as I'd hoped it Asger> would be, but this demonstrates how hard a problem this is to Asger> solve. I propose a solution in this mail, that I hope will Asger> move the decision

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

1998-12-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> | I thought you could connect several clients to the same Lars> server... | I'll have to check this out. Lars> But the server will never know which of the it speaks too. And Lars> all the clients connecting will work on the

Re: LGT v0.2

1998-12-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Mike" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> Greetings, Attached is version 0.2 of the LyX Graphical Mike> Tutorial, forever in the future to be known as "LGT". It's been Mike> table-fied, and shortened a little bit. I haven't gotten to the Mike> other suggestions given so far. To use it,

Re: GUI question!

1998-12-14 Thread José Abílio de Oliveira Matos
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > "Asger" == Asger K Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Asger> I don't recall whether this form has a fd-file or not. If it > Asger> does, this task involves use "fdesign" on the file, add the > Asger> field, and then save it. Now, you have to u

Re: script language: global

1998-12-14 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> > For instance, running LyX in batch mode: > > Write a small script which will open all *.lyx documents in a directory > > structure, and convert them to postscript. > > Could be done by 'make' if there was an command line switch for > 'generate .tex only'. I conjecture most people use 'make' a

math inset 'feature'

1998-12-14 Thread Andre' Poenitz
Try typing G'_x in a math inset. The x appears above the ground line. The lower end of the ' seems to be taken as "base" of the index. A bit confusing when you look at it... Printout is fine - as usual ;-) Andre' -- Andre' Poenitz, TU Chemnitz, Fakultaet fuer Mathematik [EMAIL PROTEC

lyx2rtf

1998-12-14 Thread xcalbet
I have been looking at the formats of documents and it seems like there is NO standard format in which to write documents. -There seem to exist several differente versions of RTF, so this is no standard. -XMGL seems to be a standard for the future, but word-processors for it do ex

Re: Boldface equation bugs

1998-12-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre'" == Andre' Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Not really. If you use a lot of other non-printable stuff (like >> '\atop') > the problem remains. I think there must be some way to >> scroll > horizontally through a table that *is* wider than the >> screen. > Even a couple of \

Re: script language: global

1998-12-14 Thread Andre' Poenitz
> > > Might I ask, what are a few straightforward examples of the new capabilities > > a scripting language will provide users of lyx? That's what I was asking myself all the time but since I missed the start of the thread I thought I should keep my mouth shut, but ... > Of course, a scripting

Re: styles

1998-12-14 Thread Allan Rae
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Garst R. Reese wrote: > Allan Rae wrote: > > > > On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, L. S. Colby wrote: > > > > > Hello: > > > > Hello. I've been away for a few weeks hence the apparently late reply to > > your email. > Welcome back. thanks. > > I've cc'd this reply to the developers

Re: styles

1998-12-14 Thread Garst R. Reese
Allan Rae wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, L. S. Colby wrote: > > > Hello: > > Hello. I've been away for a few weeks hence the apparently late reply to > your email. Welcome back. > > I've been following the development of Lyx for the past year or so but > > have not used it because it appears