new layouts & reconfigure

2000-05-29 Thread Staffan Ringbom
Is this a bug? Use the latest rpm sunday May 28 18.00 from Sylvans site. Did the following 1. installed a new stylefile mylayout.sty in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc 2. run texhash 3. installed a new layout according to the instructions in chapter 6 customization. (as a new layout based on

1.1.5pre3: Bug List

2000-05-29 Thread Peter Suetterlin
Hi all! Using the weekend to work on the update of the german docs, I stepped across some more bugs in LyX 1.1.5pre3. Don't know wether some of them have already been reported, nevertheless here they go: 1 Something is strange with the tabulars. In de_Extended.lyx I had a table (end of

Re: Alphabetically sorting the strings rows of a table with Lyx

2000-05-29 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 08:27:57AM +0100, Carlos wrote: > Hi > > I'm a user of Lyx. > > I think that with the current Lyx 1.1.4fix3 released (May21, 2000) > it is not possible ('is it true? I think so') to make Lyx or Latex (any package) > to alphabetically sort the rows of a table, with, for e

Re: Alphabetically sorting the strings rows of a table with Lyx

2000-05-29 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 26-May-2000 Garst R. Reese wrote: > Wouldn't it be easier interface with a spreadsheet? Yes, we just need the one who makes the interface :) and then which spreadsheet should we use? Here we use xess4 I've seen you use gnumeric, but then there is also StarOffice 5.1, and ... #:O) > I just c

RE: Alphabetically sorting the strings rows of a table with Lyx

2000-05-29 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 28-May-2000 Carlos wrote: >> Jürgen > ...a solution in Lyx, in my opinion, can be: > first: I'm a user. I select "n" lines of text in 'Itemize' environment > or similar; > second: I press a button (or clic in a menu) and ...voilà!: all the lines in > alphabetical order. > third: I s

Re: Alphabetically sorting the strings rows of a table with Lyx

2000-05-29 Thread Garst R. Reese
Juergen Vigna wrote: > > On 26-May-2000 Garst R. Reese wrote: > > > Wouldn't it be easier interface with a spreadsheet? > > Yes, we just need the one who makes the interface :) and then which > spreadsheet should we use? Here we use xess4 I've seen you use gnumeric, > but then there is also Sta

Re: list environment (Lars, please read)

2000-05-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> But I thought that we set the \labelwidth to the with of the Lars> actual text. (- hfills). There is something I don't understand Lars> here. Is it so that the paragraph indent goes out of scope Lars> before it is used? The wi

Re: list environment (Lars, please read)

2000-05-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> I just had another look at this and IMO the list version is Lars> correct as it is now. This environment is a hack! And to get the Lars> label width correctly you have to set Label with in Lars> Layout->Paragraph. Lars> Why do

Re: Alphabetically sorting the strings rows of a table with Lyx

2000-05-29 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 29-May-2000 Garst R. Reese wrote: > By multicolumn I presume you mean more that one col in the spreadsheet. > It was two col.'s, Developer's name, and grade. It would have too boring > to give you all A's, so I "randomized" them. No I mean something like this ++--+---+--+ |

Re: Configuration and localization problems

2000-05-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Dave" == Drazen Kacar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> Hi, Hi, sorry for the late reply. Dave> I tried to build lyx 1.1.4fix3 on Solaris 7 first with Sun's C++ Dave> 5.0 (just to see if it would work) and then with g++ 2.95.1. Dave> Neither attempt was completely successful. Regardless

-MathColor and friends

2000-05-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Should they b nuked? It seems they do nothing now. JMarc

Re: LyX X fonts and the command line

2000-05-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lior" == Lior Silberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lior> Thanks for the help. Attached is a 'diff -r' file. (the Solaris Lior> diff does not recognize -u). Thanks. I'll commit it right now. Lior> BTW If you think it's useful, I can add a pagaraph somewhere in Lior> the docs about 'runn

Re: Alphabetically sorting the strings rows of a table with Lyx

2000-05-29 Thread Baruch Even
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Garst R. Reese wrote: > > > I'm a user of Lyx. > > > > > > I think that with the current Lyx 1.1.4fix3 released (May21, 2000) > > > it is not possible ('is it true? I think so') to make Lyx or Latex (any package) > > > to alphabetically sort the rows of a table, with, for ex

suggestions for LyX development

2000-05-29 Thread Vitor Araujo
Hellow! I'd like to leave here some suggestions for future developments of LyX. Before that, let me just encourage you all: KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK GUYS! LyX is just GREAT for someone who uses LaTeX a lot, like me. I'm a mathematician and I simply would like LyX to be even more practical for the

Re: list environment (Lars, please read)

2000-05-29 Thread Duncan Simpson
I emailed one of the major devleopers, not quite sur who, a lfew days back a proper solution based on the followiing fragment \long\def\hw#1{{\halign{% \hfil{\bf ##\unskip:\ }&\vtop{\parindent=0pt\hsize=\dimen0##\hfil\par}\cr% #1\crcr}}} \long\def\hl#1{% \dimen0=1000pt\setbox0=\vbox{\hw{#1}}% \

Re: new layouts & reconfigure

2000-05-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Staffan" == Staffan Ringbom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Staffan> the second line in mylayout.layout is Staffan># \DeclareLaTeXClass{article, mylayout.sty}{article (mylayout)} It should be (note the square brackets): # \DeclareLaTeXClass[article, mylayout.sty]{article (mylayout)} S

Re: suggestions for LyX development

2000-05-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Vitor" == Vitor Araujo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Vitor> Hellow! I'd like to leave here some suggestions for future Vitor> developments of LyX. Hello, Comments are always welcome. Vitor> 1. It should be possible to compose new symbols/formulas and Vitor> with some clicks add them to th

Re: LyX X fonts and the command line

2000-05-29 Thread Lior Silberman
Hi, I'm attaching the promised documentation to the -userdir feature. I wasn't sure about something: This feature allows having several personal configuration directories (similar to ~/.lyx). In this case I'd probably like to have the layouts, docs and similar sub-directories in them be symbolic

Suggestions for LyX improvement

2000-05-29 Thread Amir Karger
Hello, Vitor. You wrote that (1) you'd like LaTeX/LyX conversion to be better, and (2) you'd like a description of what constructs not to use. Please try "man reLyX", which is a long man page that describes exactly what reLyX can and can't handle. (See also the BUGS document in the reLyX direct

Re: Configuration and localization problems

2000-05-29 Thread Drazen Kacar
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Dave> cd . && automake --foreign --include-deps Makefile aclocal.m4: > Dave> 1630: `AM_PROG_INSTALL' is obsolete; use `AC_PROG_INSTALL' make: > Dave> *** [Makefile.in] Error 1 > > Did you do: > > touch Makefile.in */Makefile.in src/config.h.in > > as indicated in

Re: 1.1.5pre3: Bug List

2000-05-29 Thread Peter Suetterlin
Peter Suetterlin wrote: > 4 The new export-selection to other applications (*very* cool BTW!): >I am using Steak (an en<->de translation program, >http://www.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~razi/steak/steak.html) >which also has a nice gtk interface. >When I try to Mouse-2-click

Re: Problem with inputed files

2000-05-29 Thread Emmanuel GUREGHIAN
More clues about it : - my problem seems to occure only with the AMS Book class - following http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg04289.html seems to cure the problem Emmanuel GUREGHIAN wrote: > > Hello > > As I am getting back in lyx business ;-) , excuse me if the bug was

Re: User Interface to MuPAD

2000-05-29 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 02:44:32PM -0600, Martin D. Muggli wrote: > > I'd like some comments on possible user interfaces for this. > > In the initial stages, only a text interface will be available. A user > will type an expression exactly the way the would into MuPAD. Then they > will somehow

Re: German translation incomplete

2000-05-29 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 10:12:27PM +0200, Dennis Stachowicz wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am quite new to writing documents with Lyx/Klyx/Latex and I have the > following problem with German ones: > While "proof" becomes translated into "Beweis" when printing, "example" > and "corollary" stay untra

Re: LyX X fonts and the command line

2000-05-29 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 05:22:47PM +0300, Lior Silberman wrote: > Hi, > I'm attaching the promised documentation to the -userdir feature. > I wasn't sure about something: > > This feature allows having several personal configuration directories > (similar to ~/.lyx). In this case I'd probably li

Feature change suggestion

2000-05-29 Thread Baruch Even
Hello, There is a feature change that I would like to suggest, comments are asked for if this will improve or reduce from LyX. LyX has the ability to monitor changed files, even those files that are not directly generated by LyX, say for example a class file, if it gets installed in between late

LyX without XForms?

2000-05-29 Thread Richard Stallman
LyX could be a useful part of a free operating system if only it could run without XForms. Is there any chance you could modify it to use a free toolkit--perhaps GTK? I know that is probably not an easy job. But LyX will probably be around for years, and in the fullness of time, this will be a

Re: LyX without XForms?

2000-05-29 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 07:42:59PM -0600, Richard Stallman wrote: > LyX could be a useful part of a free operating system if only it could > run without XForms. Is there any chance you could modify it to use a > free toolkit--perhaps GTK? > > I know that is probably not an easy job. But LyX wil

Idea for useful features

2000-05-29 Thread Yann MORERE
Hello DevLyXppers, I'm writting lost of mathematical equations with lyx, and there is a feature which would be very useful for me (and for other I think.) When i write equation, I stick the math panel and other useful panel on the desktop, but, if I switch to another open document, the panels di

RE: Alphabetically sorting the strings rows of a table with Lyx

2000-05-29 Thread Carlos
On 28-May-2000 Carlos wrote: >> Jürgen > ...a solution in Lyx, in my opinion, can be: > first: I'm a user. I select "n" lines of text in 'Itemize' environment > or similar; > second: I press a button (or clic in a menu) and ...voilà!: all the lines in > alphabetical order. > third: I se