Re: things to do before 1.1.5

2000-05-31 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 31-May-2000 Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:30:36PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> | We should add a check for the varioref/prettyref packages >> >> yes we should. > > Don't count on me... > Who included support for varioref/prettyref? The one should also add the check

Re: helping to develop lyx

2000-05-31 Thread Carl Ollivier-Gooch
"Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote: > > santi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Hello, > | > | I am offering to help develop lyx. Can you please ge tin touch with me? > | > | I know C++ and would like to begin programming. How may I start? > > You should start by getting familiar with LyX. One usef

SunOs and Cxx

2000-05-31 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Can the Sun and Dec users that don't use gcc please run this for me: int main() { using namespace std; ostringstream ost; cout << "ostringstream.tellp() = " << ost.tellp() << endl; } I have library that I am checking out. Lgb

Nuissance with selecting menu items

2000-05-31 Thread R. Lahaye
Hi, I've just started with LyX (1.1.4fix3) on my Linux PC. First of all: I'm not subscribed to this mailing list; please send replies also to me. One thing that keeps confusing/annoying me is the way the menu items work. For example: 1) Press (left-mouse) on "File" and the file-menu appears.

Re: things to do before 1.1.5

2000-05-31 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: btw. Your nasa address bounces so you will not get any cvs commit mails anymore... unless you subscribe with your new address / resets the list delivery. Lgb

Re: things to do before 1.1.5

2000-05-31 Thread Garst R. Reese
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > Other new features > > * Better hollywood.layout Make that better hollywood.layout and broadway.layout > * -userdir > * varioref/prettyref > * End-of-proof box > * multi-lingual docs (preliminary support) > > One more thing is to add to the FAQ an answer to the followi

Re: Possibly a missing const

2000-05-31 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, | while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. | Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info. | | --8323328-1076413049-959790170=:10226 | Content

Re: Feature change suggestion

2000-05-31 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > Where is this check? | | It is in the function isDviClean(), being called from higher up. It was this place higher up that I was looking for. | > I _know_ that "Update DVI" works as expected, what do you do when it | > does not work? | | I usually s

Re: Feature change suggestion

2000-05-31 Thread Baruch Even
On 31 May 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | > If the macro file is not listed in the latex .log file LyX will not > | > know that it is used. > | > | The macro was listed, it was in the dependencies file, but LyX would skip > | checking it altogeth

Possibly a missing const

2000-05-31 Thread Baruch Even
Hello, While reading the sources I saw something that looks like a missing const to me. As I'm not into the code I present here a patch for you to see, and decide. Attached. -- Baruch Even http://techst02.technion.ac.il/~sbaruch/ (My Site) http://rpghost.com/jindor/ (My b

Re: things to do before 1.1.5

2000-05-31 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:30:36PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > | We should add a check for the varioref/prettyref packages | > | > yes we should. | | Don't count on me... I added the package to the checker, but dit not add any info agout the p

Re: things to do before 1.1.5

2000-05-31 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | What about my LTR numbers in RTL text patch? (this patch is of course | > | non-critical, but still I would like to see it in 1.1.5) | > | > Where is it? | | Here I am not sure if I like this patch. One non-issue first: _foo sr not a valid variabl

pb with included files (?)

2000-05-31 Thread ben
Lyx version: 1.1.4 Hello, I'm not sure that this mail reports a real bug: I try to include several lyx documents at different levels. For instance doc1.lyx includes doc2.lyx, and doc2.lyx includes doc3.lyx. The problem is when I want to see the postcript result : only doc2 is included, and the

Re: things to do before 1.1.5

2000-05-31 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:30:36PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj&resh;nnes wrote: > | We should add a check for the varioref/prettyref packages > > yes we should. Don't count on me... > > | Also, the NEWS file doesn't contain all new features (e.g., editable labels). > > Yes... should be updated. >

Re: things to do before 1.1.5

2000-05-31 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:30:36PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj&resh;nnes wrote: > Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 09:23:41PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj&resh;nnes wrote: > | > > | > Ok, I have all my things covered now, except the documentation > | > updates. I will not

Re: things to do before 1.1.5

2000-05-31 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 09:23:41PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > | > Ok, I have all my things covered now, except the documentation | > updates. I will not delay 1.1.5 because of them. | > | > So do people have any more issues with the current CV

Re: things to do before 1.1.5

2000-05-31 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 09:23:41PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj&resh;nnes wrote: > > Ok, I have all my things covered now, except the documentation > updates. I will not delay 1.1.5 because of them. > > So do people have any more issues with the current CVS that needs to > get fixed before 1.1.5 is rel

Re: dialogbase patch

2000-05-31 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 05:10:07PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > I've checked out the correct branch this time. > > Attached is a small patch allowing compilation of the dialogbase branch with > DEC compilers. The changes to the sourse are trivial: > Hi Angus, it seems that Allan is n

Re: helping to develop lyx

2000-05-31 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
santi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hello, | | I am offering to help develop lyx. Can you please ge tin touch with me? | | I know C++ and would like to begin programming. How may I start? You should start by getting familiar with LyX. With regard to coding you should either wait some small

scheduled downtime

2000-05-31 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
The two lyx machines will be down from 23:00 CEST June 5. 10:00 CEST June 6. due to some work by the power company. The LyX mailinglists at lists.lyx.org should have no problem because of this. Lgb

Re: things to do before 1.1.5

2000-05-31 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) writes: | o guard against too many pups in TOC and Refs menu items | o apply the bullet patch from Dekel. | o fix reported bugs. | o try to update the documentation | - cut and paste | - per paragraph spacing | - toc and refs | - sli

Re: Problem with iputed files (Lars?)

2000-05-31 Thread Emmanuel GUREGHIAN
I have just done a cvs update and the problem is solved my thesis in on the way again, congratulations and thanks you very much... "Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote: > > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | > "Emmanuel" == Emmanuel GUREGHIAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | E

Re: Problem with iputed files (Lars?)

2000-05-31 Thread Emmanuel GUREGHIAN
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > "Emmanuel" == Emmanuel GUREGHIAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Emmanuel> Hello As I am getting back in lyx business ;-) , excuse me > Emmanuel> if the bug was already referenced. > > Emmanuel> I have a main document wich input other lyx documents which >

Re: (Hopefully) minor feature request

2000-05-31 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 04:35:30PM +, C Y wrote: > Hi all. I am a college user of Lyx for physics stuff, and I was wondering > if a couple of things could be added to the math panel, or more specifically > the menu which allows things like underline, overline, etc. Right now, that > menu

Re: Croatian labels

2000-05-31 Thread Garst R. Reese
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Anyway, labels/refs were not really intended for what you are doing > with them. > > JMarc So, what else is new? :) Sasa says it an xforms problem, so maybe there is help in the future. Garst

Re: Importing tex files

2000-05-31 Thread Garst R. Reese
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > This is a bug in the factoring of LyX Import functions done by Andre'. > I just commited a patch fixing that. Please try it out, people. Wilco > JMarc, leaving for a long week-end until monday. Thanks, Bon voyage Garst

Re: Importing tex files

2000-05-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Garst> The way this works does not seem too intuitive to me. I Garst> expected it to import the tex file as a LyX insert to my Garst> current document. But if I am in bar.lyx and import foo.tex, I Garst> get a new file, foo.lyx, but there

Re: Problem with iputed files (Lars?)

2000-05-31 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > "Emmanuel" == Emmanuel GUREGHIAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | Emmanuel> Hello As I am getting back in lyx business ;-) , excuse me | Emmanuel> if the bug was already referenced. | | Emmanuel> I have a main document wich input other lyx

Re: Idea for useful features

2000-05-31 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 08:10:26AM +0100, Yann MORERE wrote: > 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

(Hopefully) minor feature request

2000-05-31 Thread C Y
Hi all. I am a college user of Lyx for physics stuff, and I was wondering if a couple of things could be added to the math panel, or more specifically the menu which allows things like underline, overline, etc. Right now, that menu does not include the ability to place dots over a symbol, lik

Fwd: Re: dialogbase patch

2000-05-31 Thread Angus Leeming
Sorry. The patch is now attached! A I've checked out the correct branch this time. Attached is a small patch allowing compilation of the dialogbase branch with DEC compilers. The changes to the sourse are trivial: * a tiny change to sigc++/object.cc. I point this out because of the DO_NOT_MODI

Re: hat and tilde in math formula

2000-05-31 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On 31 May 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > The problem is that accents are treated in a special way by mathed > (not as macros), so that they cannot be nested. Changing this would > probably be major work, considering that they are _not_ macros, > meaning that \hat{ab} is really \hat{a}b (hmm,

Re: dialogbase patch

2000-05-31 Thread Angus Leeming
I've checked out the correct branch this time. Attached is a small patch allowing compilation of the dialogbase branch with DEC compilers. The changes to the sourse are trivial: * a tiny change to sigc++/object.cc. I point this out because of the DO_NOT_MODIFY_THESE_FILES warning. * string::era

Re: Problem with iputed files (Lars?)

2000-05-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Emmanuel" == Emmanuel GUREGHIAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Emmanuel> Hello As I am getting back in lyx business ;-) , excuse me Emmanuel> if the bug was already referenced. Emmanuel> I have a main document wich input other lyx documents which Emmanuel> are placed in sub directories. But

Re: hat and tilde in math formula

2000-05-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Baruch" == Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Baruch> Hello, I need to typeset the psi character with a hat Baruch> (topmost) and a tilde (middle), in LyX I can only get one of Baruch> them. Baruch> Apparently when you want to have several of this, you need to Baruch> use a capital v

hat and tilde in math formula

2000-05-31 Thread Baruch Even
Hello, I need to typeset the psi character with a hat (topmost) and a tilde (middle), in LyX I can only get one of them. Apparently when you want to have several of this, you need to use a capital version, like \Hat{\Tilde{\psi}} in order for it to be possible AND aligned correctly. Currently l

Re: Feature change suggestion

2000-05-31 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > If the macro file is not listed in the latex .log file LyX will not | > know that it is used. | | The macro was listed, it was in the dependencies file, but LyX would skip | checking it altogether. I can't see why. I have fixed some code just now, but

helping to develop lyx

2000-05-31 Thread santi
Hello, I am offering to help develop lyx. Can you please ge tin touch with me? I know C++ and would like to begin programming. How may I start? Shall I start with helping to write the documentation? Anyhow I would like to help. Santi

the lyxlist envi

2000-05-31 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
After some testing I now see that just using a \hfil instead of a \hfill in the original code makes it work as I want it to. I have made the changes. Documentation needs to be updated. Lgb

Re: LyX without XForms?

2000-05-31 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Should we? | | In the best case the "GUI-indepentend people" will get some support, | and I guess this won't hurt. I think we should wait a bit. Until now you (GUII people) have been working on putting the framework in place, and too many people helpi

Re: LyX Code: word delete

2000-05-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lars> > "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | Lars> Lars> As usual I spoke a bit too fast. Your fix seems to work, Lars> even if | Lars> I prefer my

Re: Tiny patch

2000-05-31 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 31-May-2000 Andre Poenitz wrote: | > | > I wonder whether the patch submission policy could be changed to | > "send plain text to the list if the patch is small (say <200 lines), | > put the patch on a ftp- or webserver if it is large and you have

Re: LyX Code: word delete

2000-05-31 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | Lars> As usual I spoke a bit too fast. Your fix seems to work, even if | Lars> I prefer my fix. I don't like the use of "selection = true" to | Lars> fool the DeleteEmpty.. to n

Re: possible bug with read only mode

2000-05-31 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus> Good! Must be something silly that I've introduced. Many Angus> thanks, Jean-Marc. Hmmm! My crash occurs in fl_show_form() if (and only if) I call WarnReadonly() to create this warning dialog. The citation dialog cannot be edited if the document is read only, so the warning isn't needed. I

Re: Croatian labels

2000-05-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Garst> Sasa was kind enough to send me a copy of his play in Croatian, Garst> and I noticed that he did not use labels to make his cast of Garst> characters. I cut and pasted the speaker names into labels and Garst> the inserted cross-ref

Re: Configuration and localization problems

2000-05-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Dave" == Drazen Kacar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> Now, the variable values are strange: DESTDIR = bindir= Dave> ${exec_prefix}/bin exec_prefix= ${prefix} prefix= ./reLyX All these values are correct except for prefix. Dave> I didn't set $prefix anywhere, so it should default to Dav

Re: Installation of lyx-1.1.4fix2-20.i386.rpm

2000-05-31 Thread Emmanuel GUREGHIAN
Thorsten Grothe wrote: > > Hey everybody, > > I got (still) problems to install lyx-1.1.4fix2-20.i386.rpm on my Suse 6.4 > system. I'm working with KDE and so I try to install it with the kpackage > tool. The tool seams to work but after the end of the process, it happens > nothing. I can`t find

Re: possible bug with read only mode

2000-05-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Angus> Good! Must be something silly that I've introduced. Many Angus> thanks, Jean-Marc. It might also be a difference between our configuration, but it would be strange since you use tru64. JMarc

Installation of lyx-1.1.4fix2-20.i386.rpm

2000-05-31 Thread Thorsten Grothe
Hey everybody, I got (still) problems to install lyx-1.1.4fix2-20.i386.rpm on my Suse 6.4 system. I'm working with KDE and so I try to install it with the kpackage tool. The tool seams to work but after the end of the process, it happens nothing. I can`t find any lyx icon and just don't know how

Re: Invited paper at CCP2000

2000-05-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Peter" == Peter D Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> As the Chairman of the Organising Committee, I would like to Peter> invite one of you to give an invited paper on Lyx and Peter> scientific typography in a session on open source computing. We Peter> hope you can can give a gene

Re: possible bug with read only mode

2000-05-31 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus> If I make the same document read-only, then clicking on a Angus> citation dialog launches a warning that the document is Angus> read-only. Clicking Ok in this dialog (to presumably then Angus> launch the citation dialog) causes LyX to core dump with: Angus> BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or W

Re: possible bug with read only mode

2000-05-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Angus> If I make the same document read-only, then clicking on a Angus> citation dialog launches a warning that the document is Angus> read-only. Clicking Ok in this dialog (to presumably then Angus> launch the citation dialog) causes LyX

possible bug with read only mode

2000-05-31 Thread Angus Leeming
I'm classing this as only a POSSIBLE bug in current CVS, because its associated with the citation dialog and I've been playing with that... However, the test is simple and will take no time to confirm or refute. If I have a document containing citations and if the document has write permission t

Re: Citation dialog

2000-05-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> How would a small search field work for this? some kind of Lars> incremental search. Angus> Don't understand what you mean. Sorry. I guess Lars thinks of a text field where you can type the beginning of a word and see the browser

Re: Citation dialog

2000-05-31 Thread Angus Leeming
Lars> | The "Bibliography keys" browser contains all keys in the Lars> | Bibliography database. Lars> How would a small search field work for this? Lars> some kind of incremental search. Don't understand what you mean. Sorry. Lars> | * Selecting a key in either browser causes information assoc

Re: One last proposal

2000-05-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Mate" == Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mate> I already wanted to change this so that we have a Mate> Unamed-Document (without the need for giving a document name) Mate> with which we then can work. This would remove the need for the Mate> File-Dialog. Then when we do a save, the

Re: LyX Code: word delete

2000-05-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> As usual I spoke a bit too fast. Your fix seems to work, even if Lars> I prefer my fix. I don't like the use of "selection = true" to Lars> fool the DeleteEmpty.. to not do anything. I did not like it at first, and then notic

Re: Feature change suggestion

2000-05-31 Thread Baruch Even
On 30 May 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | 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 latex file generations, LyX will

Re: LyX without XForms?

2000-05-31 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 10:07:56AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > In the worst case we will have a lot of political discussion on > lyx-devel that distracts people from doing "real work". Most gnu hackers are more pragmatic than RMS, at least in when to discuss what. For example, I agree with

Re: Tiny patch

2000-05-31 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 31-May-2000 Andre Poenitz wrote: > > I wonder whether the patch submission policy could be changed to > "send plain text to the list if the patch is small (say <200 lines), > put the patch on a ftp- or webserver if it is large and you have access > to one, send it as a zipped attachment to t

RE: Tiny patch

2000-05-31 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 30-May-2000 Dekel Tsur wrote: > Is in! Jürgen -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._ Dr. Jürgen Vigna E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Italienallee 13/N Tel:+39-0471-450260 I-39100 Bozen Fax:

Re: LyX without XForms?

2000-05-31 Thread Andre Poenitz
Richard wrote: > ... But you're welcome to mail a request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to > recruit people to help make LyX not need XForms, and the moderator can > also forward the request to our webmasters who can post it on > www.gnu.org. Should we? In the best case the "GUI-indepentend people" will

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

2000-05-31 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 30-May-2000 Dekel Tsur wrote: > The attached patch fixes this bug. > I added it to my local tree and submit this soon! Thanks, Jürgen -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._ Dr. Jürgen Vigna E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Italienallee

Re: Tiny patch

2000-05-31 Thread Andre Poenitz
I wonder whether the patch submission policy could be changed to "send plain text to the list if the patch is small (say <200 lines), put the patch on a ftp- or webserver if it is large and you have access to one, send it as a zipped attachment to the list in the remaining case" It is always a

Re: LyX X fonts and the command line

2000-05-31 Thread Lior Silberman
> 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