Re: 1.1.2 and compose key

1999-01-17 Thread Peter Suetterlin
Hi Jean-Marc, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Yes, but I do not learn from past errors :) Add a > #define HAVE_XOPENIM 1 > in lyxlookup.C and recompile. This should fix the problem. The source > in cvs is correct now. As Garst also found out: It does not compile: lyxlookup.C: In function `vo

Re: offtopic: convert word doc to latex

1999-01-17 Thread Garst R. Reese
Andre' Poenitz wrote: > > > > > Sorry for the offtopic: can any body give me a pointer to a program > > that converts a Microsoft Word document to LaTeX? How about one that > > converts to lyx? > > There is no such beast yet for Word version larger than 6 (and there > won't be for a while). How

no X clipboard in lyx

1999-01-17 Thread Ulrich Günther
What is involved in making the X clipboard work for lyx? -- Ulrich Günther

Re: Bug in X not LyX

1999-01-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "miyata" == miyata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So, let's come to the original problem :) As far as I remember, my >> conclusion at the time was that I do not know how to call >> XOpenIM(). I probably have to set some of the parameters instead of >> giving 0, but I miyata> They must be

Re: Lyx/Relyx bug

1999-01-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Peter" == Peter Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> OK, but how many tries? I have used Lyx since v0.1, and I could Peter> never get mouse selection to work properly inside a bracket or Peter> a fraction or a square root. What happens is that it is all or Peter> nothing - you can s

Re: Must-be-a-bug report

1999-01-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Christian" == Christian Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christian> Converting document Christian> http://www.enter-net.com/~9sclavoi/NetBooks/output.lyx.bz2 Christian> to LaTeX, using LyX 1.1.2 and TeTeX 1.0 (see below) results Christian> in 29 weird errors. (READ: Something I couldn't

Re: 1.1.3cvs lyx-devel branch bugs

1999-01-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Kayvan" == Kayvan A Sylvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kayvan> Hi folks, Looks like there are debugging statements in Kayvan> src/trans.C in the method Trans::process(char, TransManager&) Kayvan> which must have been left in recently. This is temporary debugging code, because a nasty bug

Re: 1.1.2 and compose key

1999-01-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Peter" == Peter Suetterlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Hi Jean-Marc, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> Yes, but I do not learn from past errors :) Add a #define >> HAVE_XOPENIM 1 in lyxlookup.C and recompile. This should fix the >> problem. The source in cvs is correct now. Peter>

Re: no X clipboard in lyx

1999-01-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Ulrich" == Ulrich Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ulrich> What is involved in making the X clipboard work for lyx? -- It already works in the sense X -> LyX. The other way around is probably much more difficult. You can read the recent thread below to see why it is not done yet :) ht

Re: 1.1.2 and compose key

1999-01-17 Thread Peter Suetterlin
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > This has been fixed in cvs a few days ago by Lars. Since the code was > never used earlier, nobody noticed how broken it was... You can try to > apply the following patch (from cvs). Yes works now. Thanks :-) Pit --

Columns in LyX

1999-01-17 Thread J.J. Vicedo-Tamarit
Dear Sir/Madam, First of all, my sincere admiration to all of those who have contributed in building up the text editor which has now becomed my preferred one. I would like to ask if there is any option in which a page can be divided in one AND two columns at the same time, that is, a one column

Re: Columns in LyX

1999-01-17 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> I would like to ask if there is any option in which a page can be > divided in one AND two columns > at the same time, that is, a one column heading with a two column text, > similar to what is required > by scientific journals when proposing a paper. That tends to happen automatically. If y

doc. syntax

1999-01-17 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 05:53:14PM +1000, Peter Drummond wrote: > > No sweat - appreciate all your efforts at making RELYX work as well as it > does! If you don't go the Tex route for a native format, has anyone > thought about using XML - its very close to what you have got anyway, in > syntax,

Re: ABORT in LyX 1.12

1999-01-17 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 06:17:10PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > This one does not crash either for me. What I did is: > > - load the file > > - run File->View DVI > > Is this correct? Yes. Do you get the DVI file displayed? What locale setting do you have? Michael -- Michael Meskes

Re: And another question

1999-01-17 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 06:10:20PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Not in the very near future. There have been a lot of changes recently > and they need to stabilize a bit. Okay. Thanks. That means I have to create a bug fix release for Debian. Michael -- Michael Meskes

Re: offtopic: convert word doc to latex

1999-01-17 Thread Duncan Simpson
If it is properly structured document and word 8/97 format then mswordview will produce a well structured HMTL version, which presumably will generate a nice LyX version via hmtl2latex and relyx. If these conditions do not aplly then it may be better to try mswordview's "competition" which do

Re: ABORT in LyX 1.12

1999-01-17 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 06:14:51PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> I just tried it and it seems to work correctly... Could you provide > >> a backtrace? Okay, I found some time. Here it is: (gdb) run Starting program: /home/michael/todo/lyx-1.1.2/src/lyx Program received signal SIGABRT,

Anybody want a button?

1999-01-17 Thread ctdole
I made buttons to link my homepage back to the LyX website. So I thought I would go ahead and share them with everybody. Steal them off of: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~ctdole/old_links.html Chris -- /etc/passwd is full -- go away!

Failure to compile Lyx 1.1.2 on SuSE 6.2

1999-01-17 Thread David Nelson
Hello, I am using the g++ compiler & libraries which came with SuSE 6.2 (ie. egcs-2.91.66). Compilation runs ok, up to the point where it tries to link Lyx. Then this happens: -- make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/lyx-1.1.2/src' g++ -g -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -o lyx Buffer

Re: Lyx/Relyx bug

1999-01-17 Thread Peter Drummond
Dear Amir, thanks for your time. As I understand it, the empty brace after \begin{thebibliography}{} is the reason why reLyX crashes here. I therefore changed this to: \begin{thebibliography}{10} Everything worked fine. But why does it crash here with an empty brace, and not at your installatio

Footnotes in itemized text, Lyx 1.0.0pre6 Dec. 23 1998

1999-01-17 Thread Tvrtko Barbaric
Hi there! I encountered something that should be a bug: If you use footnotes in itemized text, Lyx writes (in TeX-file) \footnotemark{} instead of \footnote{} (I used no boxes, if you manually change it to \footnote, it works fine). If the itemized text is longer then one page (the end of the item

Re: Bug report 1.0.0pre6

1999-01-17 Thread Jochen Kuepper
To All, On Fre, 15 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have just realised reading this, that I say something similar with >one of my own software projects when moving over to ecgs instead of >gcc. It appears to be far less tolerant of un initilised pointers. >For some reason, it seems far less

Re: for crying out loud . . .

1999-01-17 Thread Jochen Kuepper
On Fre, 15 Jan 1999 Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: >The easy solution is to use HTML export, which the newer Word >versions read rather well. Maybe we should develop a native HTML >export with style sheet (CSS) support at some point in time? As stated previously: What's about rtf ? - Can be re

Re: what does LFUN_...

1999-01-17 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, > in lyxfunc.C there are several checks for LFUN_ When are these called, > especially LFUN_WORDFINDBACKWARD.? It has some code with many question > marks in the comments and the code seems (at a first glance) be nearly > identical to the code in lyxfr1.C (which does the find and rep

Re: inseturl

1999-01-17 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> I have commited changes that make inseturl usable for other document > classes than SGML (LinuxDoc). One thing that remain doing is Edit of > the inset. Currently you are only able to create and delete it. > > Unless somebody wants this edit feature a lot, I will not wait for it > to be include

Re: for crying out loud . . .

1999-01-17 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> As stated previously: > What's about rtf ? > - Can be read by ( almost ?) any WordProcessor. > - Can be produced via sgml ( sgml2rtf ). RTF format is a mirror of the Word document model. So it's basically the ordinary Word format in another wrapping. So the problems of mapping between Word docu

Re: inseturl

1999-01-17 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Asger K Alstrup Nielsen writes: | I think you should finish the support for inseturl. That requires some rewriting on how the dialog works. (doable, takes time) | Then, the documentation should be updated to use it, but we need | some kind of work around if the needed LaTeX package is not

Re: geometry of main window

1999-01-17 Thread Peter Suetterlin
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > *Peter Suetterlin writes: > | Hi all, > | > | I didn't see it in the docs or BUGS, so here it goes: lyx -width > | 700 -height 700 opens a LyX window that is 650x650 pixels in size > | :-( Where's that offset from (it is constant 50). > > I do not see this beha

Re: what does LFUN_...

1999-01-17 Thread Daniel Naber
Etienne Grossmann wrote: > However, I got used to clicking (although it's slower), and don't > use that function much. I proposed, to make a patch that removes > "word-find-forward" and "word-find-backward" from LyX. I'm not familiar with lyx source either, so I'm not sure if we should do this

Re: LyX: The Typesetter's Wordprocessor

1999-01-17 Thread Allan Rae
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Richard Noel Fell wrote: > Is there a version for the Next 3.3 operating system? Not a native port that uses any NeXTStep features. However, if there is an xforms port for your system it shouldn't be two difficult to get it to build. Hmmm... you might even need to install l