Coding Style (was Re: New file patch...)

1999-08-15 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Arnd Hanses wrote: [...] > 2) Is it 'legal' to use macros and the pre-processor to avoid ugly code > and cluttering it with OS-dependent #ifdef's ? It's generally considered a bad idea to use macros in C++ for two reasons: macros are not typesafe and C++ allows you to inline

Re: Small success story

1999-08-15 Thread John Weiss
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 09:21:18PM -0600, Alejandro Aguilar Sierra wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Garst R. Reese wrote: > > What about a small section of success stories in the (users) web site? > > May I include the story of my Msci. Thesis? ;) Only if I can include mention of my PhD... -- John

Re: Porting LyX to Win 32 real native?

1999-08-15 Thread John Weiss
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 11:18:14AM +0300, jahonen wrote: > > Hi all, > > Our institute has about 50 people and we have been seriously > considering the possibility of making LyX one of our main tools. The > problem is, however, that we do use Windows NT as the PC OS. The > LyX-ports which requi

LyX Scripting Language (was Re: Belated summary of LyX feedback from CALU)

1999-08-15 Thread John Weiss
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 05:06:25PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > Yes, on both counts (smart .layout files and extending LyX's capabilities > -- think plugins). But someone somewhere is likely to argue that they > should be able to incorporate such an extension into a document -- or to > have the ab

Re: WYSIWYG \prime problems

1999-08-15 Thread John Weiss
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 08:06:49PM -0500, Dan Mueth wrote: > The \prime character appears too high if used in the exponent, as one > would normally do in an equation: $x^\prime = x^2$ produces nice > postscript output, but looks poor in Lyx. (This is true independent of > whether one types "\prim

Re: Bug report: no tilde to avoid line breaks in latex mode

1999-08-15 Thread miyata
Fred Hucht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thats strange, under 1.0.0 and the actual 1.0.4pl4 I get the right > result (~ in the .tex file and protected blank in the output). I think protected blank should be input as CTRL+SPACE rather than ERT... Regards, SMiyata

Re: 3026 public symbol exports in LyX global name space (wa: Re: LaTeX file handling)

1999-08-15 Thread miyata
"Arnd Hanses" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wouldn't it improve readability to use strictly macros like > GET_CURRENT_DIR, CHANGE_DIR, etc. in C++ class headers and #define them > with support headers? We have already discussed this. The readability argument is your personal preference. While,

Re: 3026 public symbol exports in LyX global name space (wa: Re: LaTeX file handling)

1999-08-15 Thread miyata
"Arnd Hanses" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Here's my main interest: > > I made NormalizePath() a static function of src/lyx_main.C, as it's > only used > there. Am I right, that signal handler call (SIGSEGV in some forked > child) > happened before and my patch can't be the reason for the crash?

Re: 3026 public symbol exports in LyX global name space (wa: Re: LaTeX file handling)

1999-08-15 Thread miyata
"Arnd Hanses" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure. Perhaps CleanupPath() should better be implemented using nls-safe > emx lib C string macros internally, only if this not so nice toward > LString? Or even better make LString clean for Double/triple Byte > Character Strings? There are many encodin

Re: WeBLyX (maybe PalmLyX?)

1999-08-15 Thread mressler
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Nils Jeppe wrote: > Yes, someone should port LyX to the PalmPilot ;-) Now _that_ would be cool! (as Mike pulls out his Palm IIIx and prepares to hit the "HotSync" button ...) Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED]