Re: Updated references page

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
I only omitted the microsoft page proposed by Asger. It's not (just) prejudgement, but that site is rather related to Visual C++. If you (Asger) still want to include it, feel free to do it, you have the rights. ;) No, that's ok. People seem to dislike it for some reason, so I'll just

Re: editing, lyxserver, and an experiment with modules

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
Hehe, I could rephrase my statement above to use past tense: "mixing fundamentally different paradigms was asking for trouble.." LyX isn't the best of examples of a /successful/ mix of paradigms, is it? =) I think LyX is a success. I'm proud of being a part of it. I'm not proud of the

Re: Compile problem on SGI, 1.0.1pre4

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
CC -c -O2 -I. -I. -I../images math_root.C "math_root.C", line 25: error(1281): redefinition of default argument MathRootInset::MathRootInset(short st=LM_ST_TEXT): MathSqrtInset(st) ^ 1 error detected in the compilation of "math_root.C". Change that line to read

Re: Compile problem on SGI, 1.0.1pre4

1999-03-03 Thread Steve Holden
On 03-Mar-99 Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: CC -c -O2 -I. -I. -I../images math_root.C "math_root.C", line 25: error(1281): redefinition of default argument MathRootInset::MathRootInset(short st=LM_ST_TEXT): MathSqrtInset(st) ^ 1 error detected in the compilation of "math_root.C".

The menu separator

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
Hi! This issue has not been fully resolved yet. Allan and Lgb state that they don't think it's a good idea to use them in 1.0.1. Ok, I respect this, and suggest that we do this compromise, close to what Allan suggests: Release 1.0.1 without the menu separator in the docs (but keep the feature

Re: slashdot, and before we release

1999-03-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Alan added, The one sentence that will be quoted should include the words: Literate Programming Just off the cuff The LyX Development team is pleased to announce LyX 1.0.1, a full-featured word and document processor, which exports latex for printing. Additionally, latex may be

Re: slashdot, and before we release

1999-03-03 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 09:46:21AM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: Alan added, The one sentence that will be quoted should include the words: Literate Programming Just off the cuff The LyX Development team is pleased to announce LyX 1.0.1, a full-featured word and

Re: Compile problem on SGI, 1.0.1pre4

1999-03-03 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: Change that line to read MathRootInset::MathRootInset(short st): MathSqrtInset(st) and you should be fine. I thought someone had commited that fix recently. I'll do it now. Alejandro

Re: slashdot, and before we release

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
The LyX Development team is pleased to obliterate the FUD which claims there's no open source word processor! Here (www.lyx.org) is LyX 1.0.1, a full-featured document processor, which exports latex for printing. The first line will make it good slashdot material. "FUD" and "open source"

Martin! (was Re: slashdot, and before we release)

1999-03-03 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 07:24:03PM +0100, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: I think that's cool. The main thing is that WE are the first to report that the new version is out, rather than someone else that is not following this list. Martin and Amir, can you do that? Well, I doubt that anyone

Re: New references page

1999-03-03 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Alejandro Aguilar Sierra writes: AAS On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Amir Karger wrote: The Microsoft STL page (pretty good in general): I believe the GPL explicitly refuses linking to a site in the microsoft.com domain... AAS I agree, and what could be in this page that is not in

Re: New references page

1999-03-03 Thread Tim Waugh
On 3 Mar 1999, Lars Gullik Bjnnes wrote: Who decided that our webpages are under gpl? The GNU GPL doesn't in fact prohibit mentioning non-free software at all, but it is certainly against the spirit of free software. Tim. */

Design documents - strings and encodings

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
Hi! After Joacim's angry and furious rant about the lack of design documents, I figured that I would humour him a bit and write 11 pages about the strings and encodings in the new kernel. This is thus an experiment to try to prove him wrong about the design documents. I hope that nobody will

Re: Martin! (was Re: slashdot, and before we release)

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
Well, I doubt that anyone will send in to slashdot a 1.0.1 announcement. And they wouldn't post it anyway. But they might post one that mentions FUD and open source word processing. I vote for martin to do it since he's our official press guru. Martin? I vote that you do it NOW! 1.0.1 is

toolip for ghosted buttons

1999-03-03 Thread Daniel Naber
Hi, does xforms have a way to display tooltips for menu entries? Even for ghosted (grey) ones. Well, probably not? It would be great to tell the user why certain things are not available. E.g. that something with his latex environment isn't correct if he can't preview files and so on. Any

bug in 1.0.1 :-)

1999-03-03 Thread Daniel Naber
Hi, first major bug: my name is misspelled in the credits box, so let's get out 1.0.2 really soon :-) Regards Daniel -- PGP Key fingerprint = 3D 98 9E D2 00 B6 E0 9D 7E B9 77 23 17 E2 11 6A http://cgi4all.alabanza.com/glasatelier/

A suggestion about EPS clip

1999-03-03 Thread Kesti Tero
Hello, Would it be a good idea to make LyX "clip" inserted EPS figures to their bounding boxes? Some programs produce EPS files with extra whitespace around the bounding box. The bounding box may, however, correctly surround the actual picture and nothing else. A file like this is illustrated

LyX-1.0.1pre2/RH5.2 Crash

1999-03-03 Thread Martin Kew
Hi, I encountered a Lyx crash while (I think ?) I was closing of the application. Attached is transcript of the crash response and the result of a backtrace of the core file. Also included is information on local variables as requested by the bug report doco. Please let me know if you require

LinuxConf style LyX configuration dialog ?

1999-03-03 Thread Martin Kew
Hi, A suggestion for control format of LyX configuration information. Is that such information could be structured manipulated using a single dialog like linuxconf. -- Regards Martin Kew Vision Abell Pty Ltd Second Avenue, Technology Park Mawson Lakes SA 5095 Australia Tel +61 8 8300 4544

LyX 1.0.1

1999-03-03 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
I finaly got my act together and released LyX 1.0.1. (Two days late...) This fixes several bugs in 1.0.0 and has a couple of new features, most notably the support for literate programming. To be found at: ftp://www.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.0.1.tar.gz

Re: LinuxConf style LyX configuration dialog ?

1999-03-03 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Martin Kew wrote: Hi, A suggestion for control format of LyX configuration information. Is that such information could be structured manipulated using a single dialog like linuxconf. I am planning on a tabbed dialog for Preferences (ie. lyxrc) in 1.1. So it would be

Re: Core objects, Was: switching layouts problem

1999-03-03 Thread Joacim Persson
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: Yes, that'll do nicely for simple insets. I wouldn't want to write a complex inset like a music, tree or Feynman diagram inset with that though. Do you plan to have an internal API (i.e. functions and variables in this scripting language

Re: editing, lyxserver, and an experiment with modules

1999-03-03 Thread Joacim Persson
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: By extending LyX with a functional language, we can gain a quantum leap in expressive power. Suddenly we can handle an entire document (or chapter, or Can't we do that in c++ then? Yes, if we had a *useful* C++ interpreter. We

Re: Martin! (was Re: slashdot, and before we release)

1999-03-03 Thread Amir Karger
OK. I'm sending it in. This means martin doesn't have to! On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 12:08:58AM +0100, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: I vote that you do it NOW! 1.0.1 is out, and we don't want to be late. Just send the FUD version. Anything is better than "frontend for dummies". Later,

slashdot

1999-03-03 Thread Amir Karger
Submitted. Hope they like it; it could get us another 1 hits or so tomorrow. (No, I have no idea how many of those will translate into downloads, or new users, or (can we dare hope) new devvies...) -Amir

Re: Updated references page

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> I only omitted the microsoft page proposed by Asger. It's not (just) > prejudgement, but that site is rather related to Visual C++. If you > (Asger) still want to include it, feel free to do it, you have the rights. > ;) No, that's ok. People seem to dislike it for some reason, so I'll just

Re: editing, lyxserver, and an experiment with modules

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> Hehe, I could rephrase my statement above to use past tense: "mixing > fundamentally different paradigms was asking for trouble.." LyX isn't > the best of examples of a /successful/ mix of paradigms, is it? =) I think LyX is a success. I'm proud of being a part of it. I'm not proud of the

Re: Compile problem on SGI, 1.0.1pre4

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> CC -c -O2 -I. -I. -I../images math_root.C > "math_root.C", line 25: error(1281): redefinition of default argument > MathRootInset::MathRootInset(short st=LM_ST_TEXT): MathSqrtInset(st) > ^ > > 1 error detected in the compilation of "math_root.C". Change that line to read

Re: Compile problem on SGI, 1.0.1pre4

1999-03-03 Thread Steve Holden
On 03-Mar-99 Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: >> CC -c -O2 -I. -I. -I../images math_root.C >> "math_root.C", line 25: error(1281): redefinition of default argument >> MathRootInset::MathRootInset(short st=LM_ST_TEXT): MathSqrtInset(st) >> ^ >> >> 1 error detected in the compilation of

The menu separator

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
Hi! This issue has not been fully resolved yet. Allan and Lgb state that they don't think it's a good idea to use them in 1.0.1. Ok, I respect this, and suggest that we do this compromise, close to what Allan suggests: Release 1.0.1 without the menu separator in the docs (but keep the feature

Re: slashdot, and before we release

1999-03-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Alan added, >The one sentence that will be quoted should include the words: > Literate Programming Just off the cuff The LyX Development team is pleased to announce LyX 1.0.1, a full-featured word and document processor, which exports latex for printing. Additionally, latex may be

Re: slashdot, and before we release

1999-03-03 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 09:46:21AM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > Alan added, > >The one sentence that will be quoted should include the words: > > > Literate Programming > > > Just off the cuff > > The LyX Development team is pleased to announce LyX 1.0.1, a > full-featured

Re: Compile problem on SGI, 1.0.1pre4

1999-03-03 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > Change that line to read > > MathRootInset::MathRootInset(short st): MathSqrtInset(st) > > and you should be fine. I thought someone had commited that fix recently. I'll do it now. Alejandro

Re: slashdot, and before we release

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> The LyX Development team is pleased to obliterate the FUD which claims > there's no open source word processor! Here (www.lyx.org) is LyX 1.0.1, a > full-featured document processor, which exports latex for printing. > The first line will make it good slashdot material. "FUD" and "open

Martin! (was Re: slashdot, and before we release)

1999-03-03 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 07:24:03PM +0100, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > I think that's cool. The main thing is that WE are the first to report that > the new version is out, rather than someone else that is not following this > list. Martin and Amir, can you do that? Well, I doubt that

Re: New references page

1999-03-03 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> Alejandro Aguilar Sierra writes: AAS> On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Amir Karger wrote: >> > > The Microsoft STL page (pretty good in general): >> >> I believe the GPL explicitly refuses linking to a site in the >> microsoft.com domain... AAS> I agree, and what could be in this page that

Re: New references page

1999-03-03 Thread Tim Waugh
On 3 Mar 1999, Lars Gullik Bjnnes wrote: > Who decided that our webpages are under gpl? The GNU GPL doesn't in fact prohibit mentioning non-free software at all, but it is certainly against the spirit of free software. Tim. */

Design documents - strings and encodings

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
Hi! After Joacim's angry and furious rant about the lack of design documents, I figured that I would humour him a bit and write 11 pages about the strings and encodings in the new kernel. This is thus an experiment to try to prove him wrong about the design documents. I hope that nobody will

Re: Martin! (was Re: slashdot, and before we release)

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> Well, I doubt that anyone will send in to slashdot a 1.0.1 announcement. > And they wouldn't post it anyway. But they might post one that mentions FUD > and open source word processing. > > I vote for martin to do it since he's our official press guru. Martin? I vote that you do it NOW!

toolip for ghosted buttons

1999-03-03 Thread Daniel Naber
Hi, does xforms have a way to display tooltips for menu entries? Even for ghosted (grey) ones. Well, probably not? It would be great to tell the user why certain things are not available. E.g. that something with his latex environment isn't correct if he can't preview files and so on. Any

bug in 1.0.1 :-)

1999-03-03 Thread Daniel Naber
Hi, first major bug: my name is misspelled in the credits box, so let's get out 1.0.2 really soon :-) Regards Daniel -- PGP Key fingerprint = 3D 98 9E D2 00 B6 E0 9D 7E B9 77 23 17 E2 11 6A http://cgi4all.alabanza.com/glasatelier/

A suggestion about EPS clip

1999-03-03 Thread Kesti Tero
Hello, Would it be a good idea to make LyX "clip" inserted EPS figures to their bounding boxes? Some programs produce EPS files with extra whitespace around the bounding box. The bounding box may, however, correctly surround the actual picture and nothing else. A file like this is illustrated

LyX-1.0.1pre2/RH5.2 Crash

1999-03-03 Thread Martin Kew
Hi, I encountered a Lyx crash while (I think ?) I was closing of the application. Attached is transcript of the crash response and the result of a backtrace of the core file. Also included is information on local variables as requested by the bug report doco. Please let me know if you require

LinuxConf style LyX configuration dialog ?

1999-03-03 Thread Martin Kew
Hi, A suggestion for control & format of LyX configuration information. Is that such information could be structured & manipulated using a single dialog like linuxconf. -- Regards Martin Kew Vision Abell Pty Ltd Second Avenue, Technology Park Mawson Lakes SA 5095 Australia Tel +61 8 8300

LyX 1.0.1

1999-03-03 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
I finaly got my act together and released LyX 1.0.1. (Two days late...) This fixes several bugs in 1.0.0 and has a couple of new features, most notably the support for literate programming. To be found at: ftp://www.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.0.1.tar.gz

Re: LinuxConf style LyX configuration dialog ?

1999-03-03 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Martin Kew wrote: > Hi, > > A suggestion for control & format of LyX configuration information. Is > that such information could be structured & manipulated using a single > dialog like linuxconf. I am planning on a tabbed dialog for Preferences (ie. lyxrc) in 1.1. So it

Re: Core & objects, Was: switching layouts problem

1999-03-03 Thread Joacim Persson
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > Yes, that'll do nicely for simple insets. I wouldn't want to write a > > complex inset like a music, tree or Feynman diagram inset with that though. > > Do you plan to have an internal API (i.e. functions and variables in this > > scripting

Re: editing, lyxserver, and an experiment with modules

1999-03-03 Thread Joacim Persson
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > > By extending LyX with a functional language, we can gain a quantum leap in > > > expressive power. Suddenly we can handle an entire document (or chapter, or > > > > Can't we do that in c++ then? > > Yes, if we had a *useful* C++

Re: Martin! (was Re: slashdot, and before we release)

1999-03-03 Thread Amir Karger
OK. I'm sending it in. This means martin doesn't have to! On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 12:08:58AM +0100, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > I vote that you do it NOW! 1.0.1 is out, and we don't want to be late. > > Just send the FUD version. Anything is better than "frontend for dummies". > >

slashdot

1999-03-03 Thread Amir Karger
Submitted. Hope they like it; it could get us another 1 hits or so tomorrow. (No, I have no idea how many of those will translate into downloads, or new users, or (can we dare hope) new devvies...) -Amir