RE: Never change a running system ...

2000-06-29 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 28-Jun-2000 Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza wrote: Dear listmembers, trying to compile the latest versions of lyx I had to become aware of the fact that my system (SuSE 6.0 / kernel 2.036 / gcc 2.7.x) seems somewhat out of date to the requirements of the sources to compile. However, will there

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
[Spaces in directories] Since it's "only" LaTeX that can't handle this, we should not disallow spaces in directories in general. For instance, it's entirely possible that DocBook handles spaces perfectly. Therefore, any measures to circumvent or diagnose the problem should be specific to the

Let's do the fix warp again ! (status report #2)

2000-06-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Hello, Yesterday's status update gave great results, so it is time for another one. Let me recall that all these fixes have been checked in the branch lyx-1_1_5, which you can get with the command cvs checkout -d lyx-1_1_5 -r lyx-1_1_5 lyx-devel I advise those of you who want the 1.1.5

Inset question

2000-06-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Hi. I'm trying to fix a small bug in the citation dialog. Namely, an empty inset can hang around after the user has returned from the citation dialog without entering anything. Prompted by Jean-Marc (a long time ago, admittedly) I thought I'd fix this. To do so, I modified a function

Re: Inset question

2000-06-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Angus" == Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Angus Hi. I'm trying to fix a small bug in the citation dialog. Angus Namely, an empty inset can hang around after the user has Angus returned from the citation dialog without entering anything. Angus Prompted by Jean-Marc (a long time ago,

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I do not like the linking idea, since it's not portable. "linking" is portable if you create the link every time you need access to that file. Then for fs's that supports symbolic links use that, hardlinks use that, copy the file use that.

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lars "Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I do not Lars like the linking idea, since it's not portable. Lars "linking" is portable if you create the link every time you need Lars access to that file. Then for fs's that

Re: Inset question

2000-06-29 Thread Angus Leeming
JMarc I do not really know, but I'd like to point out that it is a common JMarc problem for the insets. We should really find a fix. There are people out there who are FAR more knowledgeable than me. Could I have comments on the following scheme please. It seems to me that the place to check

Re: Let's do the fix warp again ! (status report #2)

2000-06-29 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:10:50AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Hello, Yesterday's status update gave great results, so it is time for another one. Let me recall that all these fixes have been checked in the branch lyx-1_1_5, which you can get with the command cvs checkout -d

Re: Let's do the fix warp again ! (status report #2)

2000-06-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Kayvan" == Kayvan A Sylvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kayvan On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:10:50AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Kayvan wrote: Hello, Yesterday's status update gave great results, so it is time for another one. Let me recall that all these fixes have been checked in the branch

Re: Inset question

2000-06-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | if (c == LyXParagraph::META_INSET) { | Inset const * tmpinset = row-par()-GetInset(pos); | if (tmpinset) { | tmpinset-draw(bview, font, offset+row-baseline(), x, |

Re: Let's do the fix warp again ! (status report #2)

2000-06-29 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
Thanks. It would probably be better to give it a different name, like lyx-1.1.5fix, or anything to make sure people do not think it is an actual version (hmm, maybe the name is just taken from the version string I forgot to update?). Yup. auto-generated. ;-) -- Kayvan A. Sylvan

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
[Directory with spaces in them] Asger However, a dialog that warned the user is in order. Asger Potentially, it could even offer to do the renaming for the Asger user. Rename the directory? What a strange idea... What's strange about that? Is the file system a sacred thing that we can not

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Asger" == Asger K Alstrup Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Asger [Directory with spaces in them] However, a dialog that warned Asger the user is in order. Potentially, it could even offer to do Asger the renaming for the user. Rename the directory? What a strange idea... Asger What's

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Angus Leeming
JMarc Asger [Directory with spaces in them] However, a dialog that warned JMarc Asger the user is in order. Potentially, it could even offer to do JMarc Asger the renaming for the user. JMarc Rename the directory? What a strange idea... JMarc Asger What's strange about that? JMarc Asger Is

Re: Inset question

2000-06-29 Thread Angus Leeming
| if (c == LyXParagraph::META_INSET) { | Inset const * tmpinset = row-par()-GetInset(pos); | if (tmpinset) { | tmpinset-draw(bview, font, offset+row-baseline(), x, |cleared); | } |

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Forgive me if I'm wrong, but doesn't lyx work from a temporary directory? Why | not create sym-links in this temporary directory to all include/accessed/used | files and then do the export to TeX etc also in the tmp directory (as at | present). Won't

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but doesn't lyx work from a temporary directory? Why not create sym-links in this temporary directory to all include/accessed/used files and then do the export to TeX etc also in the tmp directory (as at present). Won't this always work irrespective of the names

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Kayvan A. Sylvan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | present). Won't this always work irrespective of the names given by the user ro | his files? | | I use: | | \use_tempdir false | | So, no. It's not guaranteed that LyX works in a temp directory. And if we do it right we can remove that switch

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | What's wrong with offering to rename the directory? That you suddenly might break all the other programs that used this dir without your knowledge? Lgb

Spanish doc problem

2000-06-29 Thread Amir Karger
fermi2:~/lyx/CVS/lyxdoclyx es_Intro.lyx LyX: Unknown argument `spanish' [around line 20 of file es_Intro.lyx] Can someone who knows Spanish fix this to be the correct kind of quotes? (I.e., change layout-quotes) -Amir

Re: Export as HTML...

2000-06-29 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
After an investigation of the way URL are dealt with in LyX, it seems that the export to LateX looses the URLanchor structure which appears in the popup: e.g. if I type in Lyx as the anchor («Name» in the popup) and http://www.lyx.org/ as the url, this appears as \begin_inset LatexCommand

Menus too complicated?

2000-06-29 Thread Amir Karger
So I just realized that in the last couple months, two new top-level menus have been created. Has this been discussed? Are we sure it's a good idea? I suspect that a large number of people will use LyX a lot, but never use the Refs menu. Besides which, nearly all of the functionality in the refs

Re: Inset question

2000-06-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | What you (Lars) are suggesting is the GUI-Independence way of doing | things. Ie, | FormCitation and InsetCitation are separate classes. | | Pressing Insert-Citation Reference will launch a signal to show the citation | dialog (FormCitation). Nothing

Re: Export as HTML...

2000-06-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Jean-Pierre.Chretien" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | After an investigation of the way URL are dealt with in LyX, | it seems that the export to LateX looses the URLanchor structure | which appears in the popup: e.g. if I type in Lyx as the anchor («Name» | in the popup) and http://www.lyx.org/ as

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread edscott
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: [Spaces in directories] I do not like the linking idea, since it's not portable. I was wondering how that was going to work when someone compiled LyX to run on a wind*ws machine with an x-emulator or the sort. However, a dialog that

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
"Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | What's wrong with offering to rename the directory? That you suddenly might break all the other programs that used this dir without your knowledge? As long as it is the choice of the user, I don't see the problem. To make the

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Duncan Simpson
If LyX is going to detect and do special magic to deal with file names with natsty character like spaces in them, then the current suggestions are IMHO the wrong thing. File names with spaces, and practically anything else, can be made to work with catcode magic (see the TeXbook). While it

LyX CVS compile problem

2000-06-29 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
This works: ./autogen.sh ./configure make This does not: CXXFLAGS="-g" CFLAGS="-g" ./configure --prefix=/usr --without-warnings make Failing with this message (at link-time): FloatList.o: In function `global constructors keyed to floatList': /home/kayvan/src/lyx-temp/src/FloatList.C:5:

Re: docbook status

2000-06-29 Thread Garst R. Reese
Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 12:23:24AM -0300, Garst R. Reese wrote: I have a file 'docbook.lyx' dated Sept 99, from Jose' Matos with the TODO of generating a book class for docbook to compliment article. Is there any progress there, or notes on what needs to

Why citation references not like footnotes?

2000-06-29 Thread R. Lahaye
Hello, [I'm not member of lyx-devel, include my address in a CC for replies] The citation references have some troubles: many and/or long keys cause lines to overflow the right margin, which seems to be too complicated to handle nicely. I'm suprised why citation references are not handled

RE: Never change a running system ...

2000-06-29 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 28-Jun-2000 Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza wrote: > Dear listmembers, > trying to compile the latest versions of lyx I had to become aware of the fact > that my system (SuSE 6.0 / kernel 2.036 / gcc 2.7.x) seems somewhat out of date > to the requirements of the sources to compile. > However, will

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
[Spaces in directories] Since it's "only" LaTeX that can't handle this, we should not disallow spaces in directories in general. For instance, it's entirely possible that DocBook handles spaces perfectly. Therefore, any measures to circumvent or diagnose the problem should be specific to the

Let's do the fix warp again ! (status report #2)

2000-06-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Hello, Yesterday's status update gave great results, so it is time for another one. Let me recall that all these fixes have been checked in the branch lyx-1_1_5, which you can get with the command cvs checkout -d lyx-1_1_5 -r lyx-1_1_5 lyx-devel I advise those of you who want the 1.1.5

Inset question

2000-06-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Hi. I'm trying to fix a small bug in the citation dialog. Namely, an empty inset can hang around after the user has returned from the citation dialog without entering anything. Prompted by Jean-Marc (a long time ago, admittedly) I thought I'd fix this. To do so, I modified a function

Re: Inset question

2000-06-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Angus> Hi. I'm trying to fix a small bug in the citation dialog. Angus> Namely, an empty inset can hang around after the user has Angus> returned from the citation dialog without entering anything. Angus> Prompted by Jean-Marc (a long

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I do not like the linking idea, since it's not portable. "linking" is portable if you create the link every time you need access to that file. Then for fs's that supports symbolic links use that, hardlinks use that, copy the file use

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> "Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I do not Lars> like the linking idea, since it's not portable. Lars> "linking" is portable if you create the link every time you need Lars> access to that file. Then

Re: Inset question

2000-06-29 Thread Angus Leeming
JMarc> I do not really know, but I'd like to point out that it is a common JMarc> problem for the insets. We should really find a fix. There are people out there who are FAR more knowledgeable than me. Could I have comments on the following scheme please. It seems to me that the place to check

Re: Let's do the fix warp again ! (status report #2)

2000-06-29 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:10:50AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Hello, > > Yesterday's status update gave great results, so it is time for > another one. Let me recall that all these fixes have been checked in > the branch lyx-1_1_5, which you can get with the command > cvs checkout

Re: Let's do the fix warp again ! (status report #2)

2000-06-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Kayvan" == Kayvan A Sylvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kayvan> On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:10:50AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Kayvan> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Yesterday's status update gave great results, so it is time for >> another one. Let me recall that all these fixes have been

Re: Inset question

2000-06-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | if (c == LyXParagraph::META_INSET) { | Inset const * tmpinset = row->par()->GetInset(pos); | if (tmpinset) { | tmpinset->draw(bview, font, offset+row->baseline(), x, |

Re: Let's do the fix warp again ! (status report #2)

2000-06-29 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
> Thanks. It would probably be better to give it a different name, like > lyx-1.1.5fix, or anything to make sure people do not think it is an > actual version (hmm, maybe the name is just taken from the version > string I forgot to update?). Yup. auto-generated. ;-) -- Kayvan A. Sylvan

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
[Directory with spaces in them] > Asger> However, a dialog that warned the user is in order. > Asger> Potentially, it could even offer to do the renaming for the > Asger> user. > > Rename the directory? What a strange idea... What's strange about that? Is the file system a sacred thing that we

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Asger" == Asger K Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Asger> [Directory with spaces in them] However, a dialog that warned Asger> the user is in order. Potentially, it could even offer to do Asger> the renaming for the user. >> Rename the directory? What a strange idea... Asger>

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Angus Leeming
JMarc> Asger> [Directory with spaces in them] However, a dialog that warned JMarc> Asger> the user is in order. Potentially, it could even offer to do JMarc> Asger> the renaming for the user. JMarc> >> Rename the directory? What a strange idea... JMarc> Asger> What's strange about that? JMarc>

Re: Inset question

2000-06-29 Thread Angus Leeming
> | if (c == LyXParagraph::META_INSET) { > | Inset const * tmpinset = row->par()->GetInset(pos); > | if (tmpinset) { > | tmpinset->draw(bview, font, offset+row->baseline(), x, > |cleared); > | } > |

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Forgive me if I'm wrong, but doesn't lyx work from a temporary directory? Why | not create sym-links in this temporary directory to all include/accessed/used | files and then do the export to TeX etc also in the tmp directory (as at | present). Won't

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
> > Forgive me if I'm wrong, but doesn't lyx work from a temporary directory? Why > not create sym-links in this temporary directory to all include/accessed/used > files and then do the export to TeX etc also in the tmp directory (as at > present). Won't this always work irrespective of the

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > present). Won't this always work irrespective of the names given by the user ro | > his files? | | I use: | | \use_tempdir false | | So, no. It's not guaranteed that LyX works in a temp directory. And if we do it right we can remove that

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | What's wrong with offering to rename the directory? That you suddenly might break all the other programs that used this dir without your knowledge? Lgb

Spanish doc problem

2000-06-29 Thread Amir Karger
fermi2:~/lyx/CVS/lyxdoc>lyx es_Intro.lyx LyX: Unknown argument `spanish' [around line 20 of file es_Intro.lyx] Can someone who knows Spanish fix this to be the correct kind of quotes? (I.e., change layout->quotes) -Amir

Re: Export as HTML...

2000-06-29 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
After an investigation of the way URL are dealt with in LyX, it seems that the export to LateX looses the anchor structure which appears in the popup: e.g. if I type in Lyx as the anchor («Name» in the popup) and http://www.lyx.org/ as the url, this appears as \begin_inset LatexCommand

Menus too complicated?

2000-06-29 Thread Amir Karger
So I just realized that in the last couple months, two new top-level menus have been created. Has this been discussed? Are we sure it's a good idea? I suspect that a large number of people will use LyX a lot, but never use the Refs menu. Besides which, nearly all of the functionality in the refs

Re: Inset question

2000-06-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | What you (Lars) are suggesting is the GUI-Independence way of doing | things. Ie, | FormCitation and InsetCitation are separate classes. | | Pressing Insert->Citation Reference will launch a signal to show the citation | dialog (FormCitation).

Re: Export as HTML...

2000-06-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Jean-Pierre.Chretien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | After an investigation of the way URL are dealt with in LyX, | it seems that the export to LateX looses the anchor structure | which appears in the popup: e.g. if I type in Lyx as the anchor («Name» | in the popup) and http://www.lyx.org/ as

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread edscott
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: [Spaces in directories] > > > I do not like the linking idea, since it's not portable. > I was wondering how that was going to work when someone compiled LyX to run on a wind*ws machine with an x-emulator or the sort. > However, a dialog

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> "Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | What's wrong with offering to rename the directory? > > That you suddenly might break all the other programs that used this > dir without your knowledge? As long as it is the choice of the user, I don't see the problem. To make

Re: working example

2000-06-29 Thread Duncan Simpson
If LyX is going to detect and do special magic to deal with file names with natsty character like spaces in them, then the current suggestions are IMHO the wrong thing. File names with spaces, and practically anything else, can be made to work with catcode magic (see the TeXbook). While it

LyX CVS compile problem

2000-06-29 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
This works: ./autogen.sh ./configure make This does not: CXXFLAGS="-g" CFLAGS="-g" ./configure --prefix=/usr --without-warnings make Failing with this message (at link-time): FloatList.o: In function `global constructors keyed to floatList': /home/kayvan/src/lyx-temp/src/FloatList.C:5:

Re: docbook status

2000-06-29 Thread Garst R. Reese
Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 12:23:24AM -0300, Garst R. Reese wrote: > > I have a file 'docbook.lyx' dated Sept 99, from Jose' Matos with the > > TODO of generating a book class for docbook to compliment article. Is > > there any progress there, or notes on what

Why citation references not like footnotes?

2000-06-29 Thread R. Lahaye
Hello, [I'm not member of lyx-devel, include my address in a CC for replies] The citation references have some troubles: many and/or long keys cause lines to overflow the right margin, which seems to be too complicated to handle nicely. I'm suprised why citation references are not handled