Re: reLyx

1999-11-15 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 05:19:26PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > What I mean is that reLyX is certainly not supposed to use the > hardcoded $lyxdir. What I thought is that all data files would be > searched either in the user files, or in the files indexed by > maybe_dir (of course I am

How can I participate in the development of LyX?

1999-11-15 Thread Philippe PEYRE
I know C++ and latex I have to learn UML and STL What can I do ? Just read the online TODO and work on a item ? (I have compile and install LyX version 1.1.2)

Re: Bug in LaTeX import

1999-11-15 Thread Amir Karger
On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 04:54:41AM +, Umut Sezen wrote: > Hi, > > I think I found a bug in the LaTeX import section of LyX (version > 1.1.2). > > The bug is it can not import "dotless i" charecter (which is \i) from > a LaTeX source file. In order to test, please try the following two > file

more letter complaints

1999-11-15 Thread Amir Karger
OK, in addition to not having \ps, how come letter doesn't have a Date layout? I'm getting the impression that the class hasn't been worked on a lot in the past few years. Which is kind of strange; I know I've heard about several people talking about writing letters, and there was that whole mail

Re: Command sequences and a bit about spaceless discussions

1999-11-15 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
[How should UI-independence be handled?] André suggests to let each front-end be a dumb terminal which is feeded with detailed drawing instructions from the kernel. Thus, the frontend is ignorant of state. Allan suggests that each front-end is told carefully about state through signals, but each

Re: Command sequences and a bit about spaceless discussions

1999-11-15 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> Since it is monday now, I'll try to be *really* constructive. Ahh, you know *really* constructive is coding ;-) > Asger> 3) LaTeX, xdvi, ghostview, DocBook, OS/2, SGMLtools, the shell > Asger> all have different sets of problematic characters, and escaping > Asger> rules. > > What programs ha

And another question

1999-11-15 Thread Michael Meskes
I just saw the compile time define HAVE_XOPENIM. It seems there is no way to activate it. But the way I read the source (lyxlookup.C) it should be activated for all X11 releases starting with R5. Since I use R6 I activated it by hand just to learn the source doesn't even compile. So what is that

Bug in X not LyX

1999-11-15 Thread Michael Meskes
A while ago I forwarded the following Debian bug report to this list: First the french keymap is installed (cf the French-HOWTO). Then on a french keyboard : if LC_ALL=fr_FR then pressing the key 2é~ in UPPERCASE mode has no effect in LyX. if LC_ALL=fr then pressing the key 2é~ in UPPE

Re: Major 1.1.2 buggyness on alpha redhat-6.0

1999-11-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Carl" == Carl Quillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Carl> Hi. I can trigger a seg fault on lyx 1.1.2 almost immediately by Carl> doing undo. Here is a typical backtrace: Hello, Egcs 1.x has some known bugs on alpha architectures which generate bad code for memcpy on non-aligned memory acce

Re: Major 1.1.2 buggyness on alpha redhat-6.0

1999-11-15 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Carl Quillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi. I can trigger a seg fault on lyx 1.1.2 almost immediately by doing undo. | Here is a typical backtrace: unless we have the same problem with 32bit cpu's we probably have a 64bit problem somewhere... | This occurs at "delete inset", so I'd suspect

Major 1.1.2 buggyness on alpha redhat-6.0

1999-11-15 Thread Carl Quillen
Hi. I can trigger a seg fault on lyx 1.1.2 almost immediately by doing undo. Here is a typical backtrace: #0 0x12010dafc in MathedIter::Clear (this=0x11fffebc0) at math_iter.C:396 #1 0x120109ef8 in MathParInset::~MathParInset (this=0x1203e7de0, __in_chrg=3) at math_inset.C:111 #2 0x1200f

Re: reLyx

1999-11-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Amir> Perl isn't the one using syntax.default. reLyX is using that. Amir> For a command like "use RelyxTable", Perl searches for the file Amir> RelyxTable.pm in the directories included in the array @INC. The Amir> 'use lib @array_of_dirs' a

Re: Latest failure in lyx-devel cvs.

1999-11-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> I get this as a warning with egcs. until we fix this proper you Lars> can use a static_cast or a temporary: OK, I used a static cast. Lars> I want to write a geometry class for the paper stuff ++ so that Lars> we do not need

[Fwd: how to compile]

1999-11-15 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
Dear Sir , I was trying to compile the lyx from sources; downloading the xforms, too, from the official site. Here there are two .tar files for the 0.88 version, one for the libc, and the other for the libc2, libraries. So, in a linux/debian/slink, and with the first xforms version the compili

Re: Latest failure in lyx-devel cvs.

1999-11-15 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi Lars, | | When compiling latest cvs with dec cxx I had the following error: | | cxx: Error: ../../lyx-devel/src/lyx_cb.C, line 1257: a value of type "char" | cannot be used to initialize an entity of type | "BufferParams:

Re: reLyx

1999-11-15 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 04:33:44PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Hello there, > > There are probably two problems here: > > - $lyxdir is obviously not correct here, and this is configure's > fault. > > - however, reLyX should not need to use this value, since > syntax.defaults can

Re: reLyx

1999-11-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Amir> On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 10:04:24AM +0100, Pierre wrote: >> Hello, Amir> Hi, Pierre. >> In Lyx, when I try to import .tex file, I have this message : >> >> - reLyX, the LaTeX to LyX translator. Revision >> date 19

Re: reLyx

1999-11-15 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 10:04:24AM +0100, Pierre wrote: > Hello, Hi, Pierre. > In Lyx, when I try to import .tex file, I have this message : > > - > reLyX, the LaTeX to LyX translator. Revision date 1999/09/27 > > cannot find default syntax file NONE/share/lyx/reLyX/syntax.

Latest failure in lyx-devel cvs.

1999-11-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Hi Lars, When compiling latest cvs with dec cxx I had the following error: cxx: Error: ../../lyx-devel/src/lyx_cb.C, line 1257: a value of type "char" cannot be used to initialize an entity of type "BufferParams::PAPER_SIZE" BufferParams::PAPER_SIZE ps = curr

Re: Command sequences

1999-11-15 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Ok, I finally had a look at the patch. It seems ok, except for the change to lyxstring. The only question that is relevant is: What does the standard say? The standard does not use const_iterator, actually in the standard this constructor is a member template template basic_string(InputIterat

Re: Command sequences and a bit about spaceless discussions

1999-11-15 Thread Arnd Hanses
On 15 Nov 1999 12:15:17 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >What problems have problems other than LaTeX? OS/2 and Win9* file systems are localized (charsets!), this means all kind of trouble, but you cannot foresee what will happen. E.g. as SMi said here, you cannot even think of running X/2 on

Re: Command sequences and a bit about spaceless discussions

1999-11-15 Thread Arnd Hanses
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:11:49 MET, Andre' Poenitz wrote: >Depends. It makes the executable slimmer if only one frontend is linked >in at a time and it does not create dependencies on libraries you do not >need/want/have. Personally I am in favour of having a 'kernel library' >that contains all rea

Re: Command sequences

1999-11-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On 15 Nov 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > - The function trim() should not be in lyxfunc.C but in lstrings.C > and, besides, we have there the functions strip() and frontStrip() > which are probably enough for what you want to do... Could you > change that? I was not aware of the very

Re: Still problem with umlaut in math mode

1999-11-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Michael" == Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> The attached file was written with LC_ALL=de_DE and contains Michael> a german umlaut inside math mode. It works nicely. However, Michael> once I chnage my locale to us_US the unlaut disappeares. Not Michael> only is it left o

Re: de_menus.bind override mysterious old bindings

1999-11-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Arnd" == Arnd Hanses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Arnd> Finally found it: It's the build-program binding in Arnd> de_menus.bind. Reassigned the command to: Arnd> "M-d p" Arnd> which should be equally obvious. Perhaps you might want to Arnd> change it, too. Arnd> (It was just too simple

Installation problems with lyx-1.1.2

1999-11-15 Thread Michael Meskes
This probably is not really new to you, but I wanted to report it just in case. So please take my apologies if this is old stuff. I'm been experiencing problems with 1.1.2 in that it does not find its system_lyxdir. The binary is installed under /usr/X11R6/bin and the system_lyxdir should be /usr

Still problem with umlaut in math mode

1999-11-15 Thread Michael Meskes
The attached file was written with LC_ALL=de_DE and contains a german umlaut inside math mode. It works nicely. However, once I chnage my locale to us_US the unlaut disappeares. Not only is it left out on the screen but also when I save the document. Note this behaviour was added in one of the 1

Re: Command sequences and a bit about spaceless discussions

1999-11-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Asger" == Asger K Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Asger> Now, let's be a little productive instead, huh? These are the Asger> issues: Since it is monday now, I'll try to be *really* constructive. Asger> 1) The conversion is needed, because I want to be able to use Asger> spac

Re: Command sequences and a bit about spaceless discussions

1999-11-15 Thread Andre' Poenitz
> If you haven't already, and your comments > seem to indicate you haven't, I'd certainly like you to take a look at > the signal/slot approach I developed. Indeed I had not. But I just got the 'lyx' branch from CVS and had a really quick look. I mean 'really' quick, so please forgive me if I

Re: mime type for lyx documents

1999-11-15 Thread Nils Jeppe
On 15 Nov 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | I just wondered if there is a "standard" mime-type for lyx > | documents. > No there isn't. Should we try to register one? You probably should. A lot of software uses these mime types these days... ;) > | If there isn't, my suggestion is applicati

Re: mime type for lyx documents

1999-11-15 Thread Martin Norb{ck
Mon Nov 15 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes -> > Nils Jeppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On 15 Nov 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | > | > | I just wondered if there is a "standard" mime-type for lyx > | > | documents. > | > No there isn't. Should we try to register one? > | > | You probably

Re: Command sequences

1999-11-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> The attached patch adds a new 'command' called Andre> 'command-sequence' Hello André, Since everybody else has decided to comment on everything but your patch, I'll make a few comments. These are of course not meant to deter you

Re: Cancel label aborts LyX

1999-11-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Anssi" == Anssi Pekkarinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Anssi> I did not find any earlier report about this, so... It seems to Anssi> me that insert label dialog of Lyx 1.1.2 (and possible Anssi> earlier?) is broken. I tried to Insert->Label...->Cancel and Anssi> got Abort. It seems that it

Re: mime type for lyx documents

1999-11-15 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Nils Jeppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 15 Nov 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | | > | I just wondered if there is a "standard" mime-type for lyx | > | documents. | > No there isn't. Should we try to register one? | | You probably should. A lot of software uses these mime types these days

Re: mime type for lyx documents

1999-11-15 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Martin Norb{ck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I just wondered if there is a "standard" mime-type for lyx | documents. No there isn't. Should we try to register one? | If there isn't, my suggestion is application/x-lyx. Seems about right. Lgb

Re: Problem with Port to Cygwin

1999-11-15 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > "Claus" == Prof Dr Claus Hentschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |writes: | | Claus> I tried to port Lyx 1.1.2 to Win98 using the cygwin-b20.1 | Claus> environment, i.e gcc 2.95. What I first have done is to | Claus> configure Lyx as by calling fol

mime type for lyx documents

1999-11-15 Thread Martin Norb{ck
I just wondered if there is a "standard" mime-type for lyx documents. If there isn't, my suggestion is application/x-lyx. n. -- [ http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d95mback/ ] [ PGP: 0x453504F1 ] [ UIN: 4439498 ] Opinions expressed above are mine, and not those of my future employees.

Re: Problem with Port to Cygwin

1999-11-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Claus" == Prof Dr Claus Hentschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Claus> I tried to port Lyx 1.1.2 to Win98 using the cygwin-b20.1 Claus> environment, i.e gcc 2.95. What I first have done is to Claus> configure Lyx as by calling following script: Claus> === #!/bin/sh ./

Re: Lyx 1.1.2 ported to Windows98

1999-11-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Claus" == Prof Dr Claus Hentschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Claus> I've succesfully compiled Lyx 1.1.2 with Cygnus B20.1 on my Claus> system. I don't know how to make this public, so I tell you what Claus> problems I had and what I've done to fix those! We'd be glad to make any fixes ne

Re: Lyx 1.1.2 ported to Windows98

1999-11-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Juergen" == Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juergen> On 12-Nov-99 Prof. Dr. Claus Hentschel wrote: >> I've succesfully compiled Lyx 1.1.2 with Cygnus B20.1 on my system. >> I don't know how to make this public, so I tell you what problems I >> had and what I've done to fix those!

Lyx for Wind98 and inline figures

1999-11-15 Thread Prof. Dr. Claus Hentschel
According to your answer ... - Original Message - > >BTW: Inside viewing of ps-pics still doesn't work. The same is true trying > >to call "View DVI". In these cases a popup window appears (labeled with > >'sh') and telling me that this application has an error and will be closed! > > Thi