Look at scrpage! (was: Re: alfanum.cls, etc.)

1999-02-12 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 11:57:28 +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: looks fascinating. ... What fascinates me is your definition of greek letters for section titles, and the massive number of section levels. I might want to pinch that :-) Martin, what does 'pinch' mean here? Did it work?

Re: Power LyX

1999-02-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Elkin" == Elkin Rafael Arroyo Negrete [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Elkin LyX is really a great idea, I enjoy a lot using it. I have Elkin installed LyX in various PC with Linux, but when I try to Elkin install LyX in a IBM 370 AIX 3.2 I have found problems and I Elkin don't how solve it Elkin

Re: Mathed patch

1999-02-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Jochen" == Jochen Kuepper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jochen On Fre, 12 Feb 1999 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Alejandro" == Alejandro Aguilar Sierra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alejandro I'll do it in my next patch. Fixed bugs: the crash after Alejandro tab reported by Rick, your report about

Re: switching layouts problem

1999-02-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Allan" == Allan Rae [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Allan FWIW, I offered a solution last year that involved a bit more Allan trickery. It does require LyX to have some preconceived ideas Allan about sectioning though (and its already got those ;) (oops no Allan smiley day) [snip] I agree that we

Re: Lyx as a WYSIWIG editor for Literate Programming

1999-02-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Martin" == Martin Kew [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Presented below is a conversion that I had with the developer Martin of "noweb", a language independent, simple Literate Martin Programming tool (for more information on literate programming Martin I recommend the "noweb" home page, Martin

Re: Is LyX NOT Y2K ready?

1999-02-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Alejandro" == Alejandro Aguilar Sierra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alejandro Hi, Do you know any reason LyX could be NOT Y2K ready? Alejandro I think LyX has no problems with this but IMO we need an Alejandro official statement (but not a warranty), so I suggest Alejandro anybody let us know in

Re: Allow Lyx to find itself if symlinked.

1999-02-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Jan" == Jan Vroonhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jan Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, but we already have this one in config.h. If you have no other objection, I can add that. Jan I have no other "objection". It was not even an objection Jan before. I was just being lazy

Re: Allow Lyx to find itself if symlinked.

1999-02-12 Thread miyata
"Arnd Hanses" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As one of the concerns was portability and with all UN*X ports usually you have trouble with hardcoded pathnames hidden somewhere (at least on OS/2), could it be possible to forget about executable absolute pathname and just run it. On OS/2 DLL's

Re: Typesetting music

1999-02-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Joacim" == Joacim Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joacim On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Alejandro Aguilar Sierra wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Garst R. Reese wrote: make things so much better. I'm trying to learn enough new TryX to do this but it's making my brain hurt. I think this will be

Re: Allow Lyx to find itself if symlinked.

1999-02-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"miyata" == miyata [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: miyata The code in question is used to locate configuration files, miyata when LyX is *not* yet installed. This functionality is miyata important for developers/users to test new versions miyata (especially with developer versions). It is also

Re: easy $100 for nazgul? ;)

1999-02-12 Thread David L. Johnson
---Reply to mail from Jean-Marc Lasgouttes about easy $100 for nazgul? ;) "Alejandro" == Alejandro Aguilar Sierra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alejandro He he, did you see that the original name of the project Alejandro was LilyX?!!! :) Make the LyriX (I think). True. ---End reply --

Re: Local: Corrupted check bytes on input.

1999-02-12 Thread Garst R. Reese
Peter Suetterlin wrote: Hi, yesterday, the LyX session of one of our students died with the abovementioned error message. I hope you mean LyX died. All she did was open a new LyX document and use the scrollbar to scroll down the document. Emergency save succeeded. Definitely need to

UserGuide

1999-02-12 Thread Arkady Kitover
Dear lyx developers, I cannot open in lyx the User guide and Customization documents. The message is "Bad value, integer parameter not in range for operation. Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Arkady Kitover.

Re: Splash document

1999-02-12 Thread Daniel Naber
Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: I think we should open the splash document if the .lyx directory does not exist. This is a very nice point to present this, because we are rather sure that we are dealing with a new user. Okay, here it is ('splash.lyx', which it tries to load, is the file I

Re: Mathed patch

1999-02-12 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: So the mysterious crash with Linux/Aplha and egcs 1.1.1 is still there, right? Right, I have no Linux/Aplha so it's not easy to me to fix it. Maybe your purify results would help. Alejandro

LyX-Testing

1999-02-12 Thread Dieter's Standardbenutzer
Dear LyXicians, currently I do hard testing on the 1.0.0 release of LyX and would like to give you a short report on my findings you (hopefully) can make use of: - if you try to insert an index (or an exponential) in math - mode with the mouse, everything works fine. In contrast, trying to do

printing oddity

1999-02-12 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I found this by accident . . . When a space, rather than nothing, is in the printer name field, the postscritp file name from the other field is used as the printer name. rick --

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-12 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Roland Krause wrote: Jean-Marc, On 12-Feb-99 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Roland" == Roland Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roland All Wxwin ports are native, so speed is not an issue, afaict. Roland Code bloat is something you will get anyway, either it's your

Look at scrpage! (was: Re: alfanum.cls, etc.)

1999-02-12 Thread Martin Vermeer
> On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 11:57:28 +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > >looks fascinating. ... > >What fascinates me is your definition of greek letters for section titles, > >and the massive number of section levels. I might want to pinch that :-) > > Martin, > > what does 'pinch' mean here? Did it

Re: Power LyX

1999-02-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Elkin" == Elkin Rafael Arroyo Negrete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Elkin> LyX is really a great idea, I enjoy a lot using it. I have Elkin> installed LyX in various PC with Linux, but when I try to Elkin> install LyX in a IBM 370 AIX 3.2 I have found problems and I Elkin> don't how solve

Re: Mathed patch

1999-02-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jochen" == Jochen Kuepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jochen> On Fre, 12 Feb 1999 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>> "Alejandro" == Alejandro Aguilar Sierra >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alejandro> I'll do it in my next patch. Fixed bugs: the crash after Alejandro> tab reported by

Re: switching layouts problem

1999-02-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Allan> FWIW, I offered a solution last year that involved a bit more Allan> trickery. It does require LyX to have some preconceived ideas Allan> about sectioning though (and its already got those ;) (oops no Allan> smiley day) [snip] I

Re: Lyx as a WYSIWIG editor for Literate Programming

1999-02-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Martin" == Martin Kew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> Presented below is a conversion that I had with the developer Martin> of "noweb", a language independent, simple Literate Martin> Programming tool (for more information on literate programming Martin> I recommend the "noweb" home

Re: Is LyX NOT Y2K ready?

1999-02-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Alejandro" == Alejandro Aguilar Sierra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alejandro> Hi, Do you know any reason LyX could be NOT Y2K ready? Alejandro> I think LyX has no problems with this but IMO we need an Alejandro> official statement (but not a warranty), so I suggest Alejandro> anybody let

Re: Allow Lyx to find itself if symlinked.

1999-02-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jan" == Jan Vroonhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jan> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Yes, but we already have this one in config.h. If you have no other >> objection, I can add that. Jan> I have no other "objection". It was not even an objection Jan> before. I was

Re: Allow Lyx to find itself if symlinked.

1999-02-12 Thread miyata
"Arnd Hanses" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As one of the concerns was portability and with all UN*X ports usually > you have trouble with hardcoded pathnames hidden somewhere (at least on > OS/2), could it be possible to forget about executable absolute > pathname and just run it. > > On OS/2

Re: Typesetting music

1999-02-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Joacim" == Joacim Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joacim> On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Alejandro Aguilar Sierra wrote: >> On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Garst R. Reese wrote: > make things so much >> better. I'm trying to learn enough new TryX to do > this but it's >> making my brain hurt. >> >> I

Re: Allow Lyx to find itself if symlinked.

1999-02-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "miyata" == miyata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: miyata> The code in question is used to locate configuration files, miyata> when LyX is *not* yet installed. This functionality is miyata> important for developers/users to test new versions miyata> (especially with developer versions). It

Re: easy $100 for nazgul? ;)

1999-02-12 Thread David L. Johnson
---Reply to mail from Jean-Marc Lasgouttes about easy $100 for nazgul? ;) >> "Alejandro" == Alejandro Aguilar Sierra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alejandro> He he, did you see that the original name of the project > Alejandro> was LilyX?!!! :) > > Make the LyriX (I think). True.

Re: Local: Corrupted check bytes on input.

1999-02-12 Thread Garst R. Reese
Peter Suetterlin wrote: > > Hi, > > yesterday, the LyX session of one of our students died with the > abovementioned error message. I hope you mean LyX died. > All she did was open a new LyX document and use the scrollbar to scroll > down the document. Emergency save succeeded. Definitely

UserGuide

1999-02-12 Thread Arkady Kitover
Dear lyx developers, I cannot open in lyx the User guide and Customization documents. The message is "Bad value, integer parameter not in range for operation. Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Arkady Kitover.

Re: Splash document

1999-02-12 Thread Daniel Naber
Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > I think we should open the splash document if the .lyx directory does not > exist. This is a very nice point to present this, because we are rather sure > that we are dealing with a new user. Okay, here it is ('splash.lyx', which it tries to load, is the file I

Re: Mathed patch

1999-02-12 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > So the mysterious crash with Linux/Aplha and egcs 1.1.1 is still > there, right? Right, I have no Linux/Aplha so it's not easy to me to fix it. Maybe your purify results would help. Alejandro

LyX-Testing

1999-02-12 Thread Dieter's Standardbenutzer
Dear LyXicians, currently I do hard testing on the 1.0.0 release of LyX and would like to give you a short report on my findings you (hopefully) can make use of: - if you try to insert an index (or an exponential) in math - mode with the mouse, everything works fine. In contrast, trying to do

printing oddity

1999-02-12 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I found this by accident . . . When a space, rather than nothing, is in the printer name field, the postscritp file name from the other field is used as the printer name. rick --

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-12 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Roland Krause wrote: > Jean-Marc, > > On 12-Feb-99 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> "Roland" == Roland Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Roland> All Wxwin ports are native, so speed is not an issue, afaict. > > Roland> Code bloat is something you will get