Re: Anybody tried to get the lyx-devel branch running on NT ?

1999-12-15 Thread Allan Rae
>From your log of autogen.sh output it appears you need to upgrade to automake-1.4 Allan. (ARRae)

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Greg Lee wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > > > Surely those voices didn't mean paragraph-level support without > > > also sentence- and word-level support. When you cite from a > > > different language, the citation is obviously not always

Re: DEBUG_AS_DEFAULT

1999-12-15 Thread Allan Rae
On 15 Dec 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > "Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | > Another solution would be to add an --enable-assertions flag which > | > defaults to 'yes' for development versions, but which can be turned > | > off (for speed reasons). > | > | This is

Anybody tried to get the lyx-devel branch running on NT ?

1999-12-15 Thread Dr. Ing. Roland Krause
Has anybody experiences to share ? I am having problems with the autogen.sh script, seems that some things are still missing on my system. When I run autogen.sh I get some messages (file attached), then when I try to run ./configure I see the following: loading cache ./config.cache ./configur

Re: small docbook patch

1999-12-15 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 03:50:38PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: | > > "Jose" == Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > Jose> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 | > Jose> Content-Transfer-Encoding

Re: DEBUG_AS_DEFAULT

1999-12-15 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > Another solution would be to add an --enable-assertions flag which | > defaults to 'yes' for development versions, but which can be turned | > off (for speed reasons). | | This is the better solution, because the distinction between deve

Re: Internalization

1999-12-15 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > About i18n, I've read the "encoding.lyx" article written by Asger | > Alstrup Nielsen. (By the way, the file is no longer available at the URL | > where I got it before. Is it no longer available?) The article is | | Good quest

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lgb, how long will it take to create those branches and give | the relevant people write access to the repository? To crate a branch takse close to no time, to give people asscess takes longer. And a screening process is also needed. In a

Re: Strange "feature"

1999-12-15 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Andre' Poenitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > Lars> Is this also treu after reading the file again? What keynap are | > | | This is about the third or fourth mail from Lars that gets cited in the | list although I did not receive the original. Since the question looks | like Lars asked me (i

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Greg Lee
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > Surely those voices didn't mean paragraph-level support without > > also sentence- and word-level support. When you cite from a > > different language, the citation is obviously not always > > going to be a separate paragraph. > > As it

Re: po-Patches, plus some bugs...

1999-12-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Peter" == Peter Suetterlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Pit, Thanks for the patches, I'll commit them soon. Peter> - The ballon tool tips are not translated. I'm not sure wether Peter> this has ever since been the case, but i thought they have been Peter> at some point... They used t

po-Patches, plus some bugs...

1999-12-15 Thread Peter Suetterlin
Hi Folks, as promised, I took some time to look through the german po-files. Attached are 2 patches for de.po and de_menus.bind. They are against 1.1.4pre1. Furthermore I found 2 (minor) glitches: - The ballon tool tips are not translated. I'm not sure wether this has ever since been th

Re: Hebrew support for LyX

1999-12-15 Thread Tsur Dekel
> > On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 01:19:23PM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > > > Yes, this patch is very cool. Hebrew support can be considered a FURF, > > and it's great to see somebody do something about it. > > Yay! > > Dekel, how is this patch related to TeX--XeT? I seem to remember

Re: small docbook patch

1999-12-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jose" == Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jose> I will, and since no is volunteer I volunteer myself to change Jose> the sgml load stuff. Your plan (in a previous mail message) is a Jose> good starting point. As I see it in the Changelog this hasn't Jose> been done,

Re: small docbook patch

1999-12-15 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 03:50:38PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Jose" == Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jose> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Jose> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Jose> Hi, I have tested the latest cvs and lyx. With t

Re: small docbook patch

1999-12-15 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 04:10:47PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Andre'" == Andre' Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> + ofs << "\n"; > > Andre'> Aehm.. sorry, forgot one. "userName"? I thought big brother > Andre'> was dropped a few weeks ago ;-) > > Well spotted. Jose', w

Re: cleanup

1999-12-15 Thread Martin Norbäck
Wed Dec 15 1999, Andre' Poenitz -> > > > > IMHO, you either should use only tabs to indent, or only spaces. > > Otherwise, you'll have problems when: > > * Showing in a proportional font > > * Showing with a different tab setting (!=3D 8) > > Erm, exactly that is the patch supposed to do. Sinc

Re: Strange "feature"

1999-12-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre'" == Andre' Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> Is this also treu after reading the file again? What keynap are >> Andre'> This is about the third or fourth mail from Lars that gets Andre'> cited in the list although I did not receive the original. Andre'> Since the question l

Re: Strange "feature"

1999-12-15 Thread Andre' Poenitz
> Lars> Is this also treu after reading the file again? What keynap are > This is about the third or fourth mail from Lars that gets cited in the list although I did not receive the original. Since the question looks like Lars asked me (it was my problem) I should have received at least one copy

Re: small docbook patch

1999-12-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre'" == Andre' Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> + ofs << "\n"; Andre'> Aehm.. sorry, forgot one. "userName"? I thought big brother Andre'> was dropped a few weeks ago ;-) Well spotted. Jose', would you care providing a sensible header without user name and copyright, before I ch

Re: FILE -> ostream

1999-12-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Asger" == Asger K Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Asger> The LaTeXWriter was not written. However, it would be an easy Asger> task to do it. The AsciiWriter exists in the old development Asger> branch, and only needs to be extended with a few routines Asger> before a usable LaT

Re: cleanup

1999-12-15 Thread Andre' Poenitz
> > IMHO, you either should use only tabs to indent, or only spaces. > Otherwise, you'll have problems when: > * Showing in a proportional font > * Showing with a different tab setting (!=3D 8) Erm, exactly that is the patch supposed to do. Since most of the lyx sources are tab-indented I chan

Re: Strange "feature"

1999-12-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> Is this also treu after reading the file again? What keynap are Lars> you using? Lars> Seems like Lyx does not think that this char can be directly Lars> showed/dispplayed, and used a InsetLatexInset to show it. After debuggi

Re: cleanup

1999-12-15 Thread Martin Norbäck
Tue Dec 14 1999, Andre' Poenitz -> > There are quite a few places where spaces had been used instead of tabs. > I put a patch under > > http://mathematik.htwm.de/Software/LyX/spacing-patch-1 > > or a bit shorter > > http://mathematik.htwm.de/Software/LyX/spacing-patch-1.gz > > that change

Re: DEBUG_AS_DEFAULT

1999-12-15 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> Another solution would be to add an --enable-assertions flag which > defaults to 'yes' for development versions, but which can be turned > off (for speed reasons). This is the better solution, because the distinction between development versions and stable releases is being blurred these days.

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> Surely those voices didn't mean paragraph-level support without > also sentence- and word-level support. When you cite from a > different language, the citation is obviously not always > going to be a separate paragraph. As it happens, sub-paragraph-level support is markedly more difficult tha

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Greg Lee
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: ... > not affect the left-to-right 8-bit languages, except maybe for a > small performance penalty. However, several voices say that > paragraph-level language support is important, so it seems that Surely those voices didn't mean paragraph-l

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Jules Bean wrote: > My instinct says that most people aren't going to care in the slightest > about a doubling of internal buffer sizes. The combination of cheap > memory, cheap hard disks, and sensible VM systems makes this not much of > an issue, IMO. Can't you make it a

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Andre' Poenitz
> My instinct says that most people aren't going to care in the slightest > about a doubling of internal buffer sizes. The combination of cheap > memory, cheap hard disks, and sensible VM systems makes this not much of > an issue, IMO. *grin* Well, I did not want to write obvious things ;-) And

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jules> On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Andre' Poenitz wrote: >> Concerning the multi-byte encoding: We should have a discussion >> whether it is sensible to use Unicode internally. The world is >> changing and last years' arguments won't fit anymore.

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Andre' Poenitz wrote: > > Concerning the multi-byte encoding: We should have a discussion whether > it is sensible to use Unicode internally. The world is changing and last > years' arguments won't fit anymore. We could get rid of almost all of > the encoding stuff at the pr

Re: Hebrew support for LyX

1999-12-15 Thread Shigeru Miyata
"Seak, Teng-Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chinese (as well as Japanese and Korean) can also be written from right to > left, even though this isn't very common nowadays. Actually, in tradition, > Chinese is written from top to the bottom, then from right to left. But I > don't think L

Re: Internalization

1999-12-15 Thread Shigeru Miyata
"Seak, Teng-Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, newer versions of XFree86 support already natively Unicode, so > do a lot of commercial X (if not all). It also introduces Big5 support. Other multibyte encodings have been supported for quite some time. >

DEBUG_AS_DEFAULT

1999-12-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Hello there, I was about to remove the --with-debug flag of configure and noticed that Allan has actually been using DEBUG_AS_DEFAULT in bullet code. Wouldn't it make sense to condition on DEVEL_VERSION instead? At least we would be sure that the invariants are actually tested. Another solution

Re: Internalization II

1999-12-15 Thread Peter Suetterlin
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Note that we cannot live with that way of updating po files, most of > the po files miss a lot to work ok with the current lyx sources. Yeek, I know, I'm a bit stuffed with work. When is 1.1.4 scheduled? I'll try to overhaul the menu stuff till then... Pit -- ~

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> I disagree. Merging branches after a year or so of development in these > not-so-modular LyX sources is a major pain and I think it's a sure bet > to assume that most of the work spent in these branches will be lost. Oh, I disagree. It's very easy to keep a branch up-to-date. It's only a matte

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Andre' Poenitz
> So it's time to create a few cvs-branches. I disagree. Merging branches after a year or so of development in these not-so-modular LyX sources is a major pain and I think it's a sure bet to assume that most of the work spent in these branches will be lost (for quite a while at least). You see it

Re: Internalization

1999-12-15 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> About i18n, I've read the "encoding.lyx" article written by Asger > Alstrup Nielsen. (By the way, the file is no longer available at the URL > where I got it before. Is it no longer available?) The article is Good question. Lgb, what happened with the old ftp.devel.lyx.org content?

Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Hi fellow LyXers from all over the world, These days, we are overwhelmed with patches that extend the scope of LyX to Hebrew, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and what have you. This is great, and very much appreciated. Now, the question is how to handle this. It seems to me that the Hebrew patch is

Re: handling evil stuff in mathed (and simplifying the lexer too :-).

1999-12-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "miyata" == miyata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: miyata> A half year ago, Duncan Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> mathed's lexer has some really stupid hacks in it. Following TeX on >> what is a macro makes the code *much* simpler and would eliminate >> even more if I could rebuild math

multibyte support for lyx

1999-12-15 Thread cghan
I would like to report that Korean as well as Japanese support for the lyx-1.1.3 is now possible. The binary package in the rpm format and the source package in the compressed atr format are available at ftp://stone.phys.pusan.ac.kr/pub/lyx-kr. The patch is entirely based on the patch against l