Re: Lyx format?

2001-01-29 Thread Baruch Even
There is no formal documentation of the LyX file format, but for most of the time it can be understood as it is. You can also read the source code to understand the file format, though it won't be too easy. The new table code can be found in src/insets/insettabular.C Basically it is an XML like f

Lyx website feature request: one-click mailing list access (fwd)

2001-01-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Hi, I often get mail from people that can not find the mailing lists on the web site, so I agree with Ramon that something should be done. Greets, Asger P.S. Maybe it's time to change the e-mail on the first page as well, so that I'm not listed as the author. I can hardly claim that I am the w

layout menus

2001-01-29 Thread Garst R. Reese
I go to layout document, select book. The dialogue that asks if I want to set the defaults is half obscured under the list of document types, so I cannot select NO until I move the diaglogue. current cvs Garst

Re: Feature request for 1.2

2001-01-29 Thread Garst R. Reese
Duncan Simpson wrote: > > OK, you need a float with some plain TeX inside it. I would suggest something That serves to reserve the space, but allow me to descibe how the problem arose. There's me with a slow connection, a graphic artist in N.Y. with a T1, and my print shop with a T1. I'm typesett

High cpu load for inactive lyx

2001-01-29 Thread Mark van Rossum
Hi, First, Lyx is great. I love it. Second, lyx uses a lot of resources: it takes a lot of CPU time, even when nothing is happening, easily upto 15 % on a PIII-800, while other task are running as well. (Under linux that is) Does anyone know a solution ? I have a hunch this maybe rela

Re: bindings dying?

2001-01-29 Thread Garst R. Reese
"Richard E. Hawkins" wrote: > > I've had the line > > \bind "M-p g" "layout Slide" > > in my lyxrc for a couple of years now. It has suddenly stopped working. > I believe it worked for a while after my cvs update a couple of weeks > ago (I use it all the time to make slides for classes, so I'

bug report, possibly babel

2001-01-29 Thread A. L. Meyers
Dear LyX developers, I posted this problem to users, but perhaps it is a bug. I wanted to use the templates "letter(g-brief-ge)" and "letter(g-brief-en)" as bases for French letters. Encountered following errors: 1. I load the template and save it as a private file 2. using "File - View dvi" sho

bindings dying?

2001-01-29 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I've had the line \bind "M-p g" "layout Slide" in my lyxrc for a couple of years now. It has suddenly stopped working. I believe it worked for a while after my cvs update a couple of weeks ago (I use it all the time to make slides for classes, so I'd probably notice within a day or two). I n

Re: 1.1.6fix1 (status update #2) / HP-UX

2001-01-29 Thread Bruce Foster
At 10:42 AM +0100 1/29/01, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Bruce" == Bruce Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Bruce> As an HPUX 10.20 user, my advice is to always use the portable >Bruce> version of vsnprintf. That's what other software packages do. >Bruce> But if you have another solution

Re: Feature request for 1.2

2001-01-29 Thread Duncan Simpson
OK, you need a float with some plain TeX inside it. I would suggest something along the lines of \hbox to {\hfil\brule width 0pt height h depth d} where h+d=.. The dimensions can be in any suported units, which include cm (centimeters), in (inches) and pt (points). Using a single rule for th

Re: proposal for LyX 1.2

2001-01-29 Thread Garst R. Reese
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > You mean that you switched from ec fonts to cm+ae? Indeed, the ec > fonts have been slightly re-desined wrt the original cm fonts, so one > should not assume they are equivalent. > > JMarc I was not aware that using ae implied switching back to cm. Garst

Re: Way to crash lyx

2001-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Baruch" == Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Baruch> btw: have you looked at my IG patch of late? I'm now trying to Baruch> work out the problems that I still have with the auto image Baruch> conversion. I have only had a cursory look. I'll to look harder this week. JMarc

Re: 1.1.6fix1 (status update #3)

2001-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> I have a little patch to INSTALL describing the RH 7.0 compile John> problem, and how to fix it (upgrade xforms). John> I'll try to remember to bring it in tomorrow, and send it you Yes, please. JMarc

Re: New feature: Bookmarks in LyX?

2001-01-29 Thread mike.ressler
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:42:31PM +0900, R. Lahaye wrote: > > Well, if "Figures" are called "Graphics", then my change my be of no > > good. But then "Insert->Floats->Figure" and "Insert->Floats->Wide Figure" > > should be renamed to "Grap

Re: patch for default.ui

2001-01-29 Thread mike.ressler
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, R. Lahaye wrote: > 1) I renamed the 'Insert->Graphics' entry into 'Figure' (as it was before). > Although there is (will be?) a new graphics inset, I suggest to stick to call > it "Figure", to stay closer to LaTeX terminology. NOO! I know Lars already responded, but I wan

Lyx format?

2001-01-29 Thread Ramón Flores d'as Seixas
Hello: I have previously sent this message to the user list, but nobody has answered me. Is there any site where to find the format of a .lyx file?. I am interested in the table format specially, because I have had some problems with them, and I don't know how to solve them editing the .lyx file

Re: 1.1.6fix1 (status update #3)

2001-01-29 Thread John Levon
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > On 29-Jan-2001 John Levon wrote: > > > > I have a little patch to INSTALL describing the RH 7.0 > > compile problem, and how to fix it (upgrade xforms). > > > > Well I just today tried to compile the 1.2.0cvs version on RedHat 7.0 > with all the o

Re: Way to crash lyx

2001-01-29 Thread Baruch Even
* Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010129 16:16]: > > "Markus" == Markus Nentwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Markus> Hello, thanks to everybody involved - Lyx is a great program. > Markus> Anyway, I have found a foolproof way to crash it (1.1.6, > Markus> compiled myself): Click

Re: 1.1.6fix1 (status update #3)

2001-01-29 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 29-Jan-2001 John Levon wrote: > > I have a little patch to INSTALL describing the RH 7.0 > compile problem, and how to fix it (upgrade xforms). > Well I just today tried to compile the 1.2.0cvs version on RedHat 7.0 with all the official updates applied to the distribution and had no proble

Re: 1.1.6fix1 (status update #3)

2001-01-29 Thread John Levon
I have a little patch to INSTALL describing the RH 7.0 compile problem, and how to fix it (upgrade xforms). I'll try to remember to bring it in tomorrow, and send it you thanks john -- "To be fair i do look quite like a monkey ..." - Peter Reid

Re: 1.1.6fix1 (status update #2)

2001-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Michael" == Michael Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> Dear Jean Marc, I don't like to repeat myself nor do I want Michael> to go on your nerve but here are few things that I would like Michael> to see fixed in 1.1.6fix1: Yes, I kept all your messages in my mailbox :) Michael>

1.1.6fix1 (status update #3)

2001-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Hello, Lars would like to release 1.1.6fix1 on wednesday. Appended as usual is a list of what has been fixed since 1.1.6. Dekel, tell me what I forgot in your latest fixes. Please tell me what are the open bugs you consider important for 1.1.6fix1. Some known problems are: - docbook fixes. Jos

Re: command line exporting

2001-01-29 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:26:03PM +0200, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > There's something strange with command line export... > (1.1.6) > > s-inf-pc24 ~/work/implement> lyx -e ascii newfile2.lyx > About to handle -x 'buffer-export ascii' You need to use 'lyx -e text' NOTE: The ascii export from comm

command line exporting

2001-01-29 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
There's something strange with command line export... (1.1.6) s-inf-pc24 ~/work/implement> lyx -e ascii newfile2.lyx About to handle -x 'buffer-export ascii' Can not export file No information for exporting to ascii --

Re: LyX 1.1.6 and latvian

2001-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Amir> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 12:25:29PM +0200, Eugene A. Misnik Amir> wrote: >> Hello, i am use now lyx-1.1.5 with latvian and russian kbd maps and >> try to install new version 1.1.6. When i press in LyX-1.1.6 >> modifier on latvian map i

Re: 1st attempt to clean OS/2 support

2001-01-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Miyata Shigeru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I haven't modified my code to use traits as suggested by | Lars. However it seems to work all right. | Please take a look, comment, critisize, and help me write | a clean code. Please do not apply every thing blindly. | | BTW I had to modify the typ

Re: 1st attempt to clean OS/2 support

2001-01-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Miyata Shigeru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I haven't modified my code to use traits as suggested by | Lars. It was not a very goot suggestion so ... Lgb

1st attempt to clean OS/2 support

2001-01-29 Thread Miyata Shigeru
I haven't modified my code to use traits as suggested by Lars. However it seems to work all right. Please take a look, comment, critisize, and help me write a clean code. Please do not apply every thing blindly. BTW I had to modify the type of BufferView::Pimpl::Position::par_pos from int to Ly

Re: bibliography references

2001-01-29 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 12:38:12PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:47:45AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Dekel> Furthermore, InsetBibKey should show both the key and label. > > > > Yes. And if we are really ambitious, the label should be an editable > > text inset (

Re: LyX 1.1.6 and latvian

2001-01-29 Thread Amir Karger
I'm forwarding your question to the lyx list, which is a better place to send bug reports. I know there's a bug in keymaps in 1.1.6, which has been fixed since then. If you use cvs, you can download it, and 1.1.6fix1 is supposed to come out soon. But I'm not sure how else you can fix it. -Amir O

Re: new insets

2001-01-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | It doesn't seem like a hard problem: the solution is to use the layout code: | The attached patch is the basic ideas. I did it first in the same way you do it in your patch. The problem with it is that we should work towards making the code simpler and m

Re: new insets

2001-01-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:07:41PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > And this looks like a problem with InsetText, I really need J?rgen to | > take a look at this. | > | > Dekel, the two problems you point out here is the reason why I need | > some, a

Re: new insets

2001-01-29 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:07:41PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > And this looks like a problem with InsetText, I really need J?rgen to > take a look at this. > > Dekel, the two problems you point out here is the reason why I need > some, and ideas on how to fix this. It doesn't seem like

Re: new insets

2001-01-29 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 29-Jan-2001 Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > And this looks like a problem with InsetText, I really need Jürgen to > take a look at this. Well you wouldn't believe but I had a look already. This problems are also present in 1.1.6 and are update (repaint) problems. We have to find a way to alwa

Re: new insets

2001-01-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | 1. The indentation in the caption is wrong: | If there is only one line, the caption should be centered, but currently it | is not. If there several lines, then we currently have hanging indentation | i.e. |Table: Text .. | more text

Re: Way to crash lyx

2001-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Markus" == Markus Nentwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Markus> Hello, thanks to everybody involved - Lyx is a great program. Markus> Anyway, I have found a foolproof way to crash it (1.1.6, Markus> compiled myself): Click on Insert - Figure - Encapsulated Markus> Postscript Then resize the

RE: Way to crash lyx

2001-01-29 Thread John Levon
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Markus Nentwig wrote: > Hello, > > I have tried this with another windowmanager, which tries to prevent > windows being resized to 0 (it takes some time, but it still crashes if > you try it hard enough). With KDE 1 wm, it doesn't crash but gets very confused resizing. >

Re: new insets

2001-01-29 Thread Dekel Tsur
1. The indentation in the caption is wrong: If there is only one line, the caption should be centered, but currently it is not. If there several lines, then we currently have hanging indentation i.e. Table: Text .. more text while the correct indentation is Table: Text ..

RE: Way to crash lyx

2001-01-29 Thread Markus Nentwig
Hello, I have tried this with another windowmanager, which tries to prevent windows being resized to 0 (it takes some time, but it still crashes if you try it hard enough). Anyway, I think resizing of dialog boxes should be forbidden anyway?. For example, in the "preferences" dialog, there is a l

Re: Way to crash lyx

2001-01-29 Thread John Levon
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Markus Nentwig wrote: > Hello, > > thanks to everybody involved - Lyx is a great program. > Anyway, I have found a foolproof way to crash it (1.1.6, compiled > myself): > Click on > Insert - Figure - Encapsulated Postscript > Then resize the dialog box to a height or width o

new insets

2001-01-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
I have come so far in the new insets branch that is now time to ask for some help, both in testing and removing the remaining glitches. I have the footnotes, marginpars, floats and minipages working, but testing and some more work are needed. There are som emajor new insets planned: insettheore

Re: LyX Development News for 20010117

2001-01-29 Thread John Levon
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, John Levon wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > > > > Can someone try submitting the LDN URL to Linux Today, and other news > > > > services please. I just haven't time at the moment. > > > > > > > > TIA, > >

Re: bibliography references

2001-01-29 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:47:45AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Dekel> Furthermore, InsetBibKey should show both the key and label. > > Yes. And if we are really ambitious, the label should be an editable > text inset (to solve all the quoting problems). It is probably not worth to spent

Way to crash lyx

2001-01-29 Thread Markus Nentwig
Hello, thanks to everybody involved - Lyx is a great program. Anyway, I have found a foolproof way to crash it (1.1.6, compiled myself): Click on Insert - Figure - Encapsulated Postscript Then resize the dialog box to a height or width of 0. (Probably there should be a minimum size setting like i

Re: New feature: Bookmarks in LyX?

2001-01-29 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 29-Jan-2001 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > What about something like: > > \bind "C-~S-1" "bookmark-goto 1" > \bind "C-~S-2" "bookmark-goto 2" > \bind "C-~S-3" "bookmark-goto 3" > \bind "C-M-~S-exclam" "bookmark-save 1"

Re: New feature: Bookmarks in LyX?

2001-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dekel> I have just added bookmarks to the CVS: ctrl+shift+1 (or 2/3) Dekel> sets the bookmark, ctrl+1 go to the bookmark (it is possible to Dekel> have more bookmarks, but I only put bindings for three). I do not like much the bindings you

Re: bibliography references

2001-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dekel> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 09:01:01PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 07:36:32PM +0100, Marko Ivancevic wrote: > >> Is it normal that when a new reference is added to the bibliography >> > reference list, the other re

Re: New feature: Bookmarks in LyX?

2001-01-29 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:25:47AM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:04:54AM +, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote: > > > Well, if "Figures" are called "Graphics", then my change my be of no > > > good. But then "Insert->Floats->Figure" and "Insert->Floats->Wide Figure" > > >

Re: Playing with insettabular

2001-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dekel> I used 'relatively' because any change can potentially create Dekel> new bugs, but I'm quite sure that this is not the case here. Dekel> The patch really simplifies the use of insettabular, so maybe Dekel> we should put it in 1.1.6 (w

Re: 1.1.6fix1 (status update #2) / HP-UX

2001-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Bruce" == Bruce Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bruce> As an HPUX 10.20 user, my advice is to always use the portable Bruce> version of vsnprintf. That's what other software packages do. Bruce> But if you have another solution to try, I can test it for you. So, what do these package do

Re: proposal for LyX 1.2

2001-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dekel> My original suggestion was not very good. What about having 4 Dekel> choice buttons for choosing roman, sans serif, typewriter and Dekel> math fonts ? This is better IMO. We will certainly have a need a toggle to chose between separa

Re: LyX Development News for 20010117

2001-01-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Also I would like to know the status on AGU classes | support (AGUplus). It would require user defined floats | like "plate" and "planotable". I understand it is | planned, but... Are we prepared to work with AGU on | this? I have prelim. support fo

Re: proposal for LyX 1.2

2001-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Miyata" == Miyata Shigeru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Miyata> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There is no real differenciation between PS and compouter modern >> fonts. Where would you put malvern, concrete or cmbright fonts in >> your dichotomy? All the fonts should be

Re: patch for default.ui

2001-01-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"R. Lahaye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi, | | I've polished the default.ui a bit. | | 1) I renamed the 'Insert->Graphics' entry into 'Figure' (as it was before). | Although there is (will be?) a new graphics inset, I suggest to stick to call | it "Figure", to stay closer to LaTeX terminolog

Re: proposal for LyX 1.2

2001-01-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Garst> Just a cautionary note: When the subject of ae first appeared Garst> on this list, I tried it out on a book. The font size changed Garst> slightly, which changed the effect of page breaks, line Garst> over-runs etc. Garst You mean

Re: New feature: Bookmarks in LyX?

2001-01-29 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:04:54AM +, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote: > > Well, if "Figures" are called "Graphics", then my change my be of no > > good. But then "Insert->Floats->Figure" and "Insert->Floats->Wide Figure" > > should be renamed to "Graphics" and "Wide Graphics". Don't you thin

Re: patch for default.ui

2001-01-29 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:46:33AM +0900, R. Lahaye wrote: > 2) There is now one 'Insert->External' entry for inserting a LyX file, Ascii files > and other Material. This is one more moderate attempt to shorten the too long Insert > menu list. The "External material" menu item should not be in th

Re: New feature: Bookmarks in LyX?

2001-01-29 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:42:31PM +0900, R. Lahaye wrote: > > Why do want the names to refer again to the latex convention. We had > > agreed to change it last week, did you follow that discussion that started > > with Mike Ressler? > > Sorry, I haven't. It was Lunar New Year holidays in my re

Re: LyX Development News for 20010117

2001-01-29 Thread Martin Vermeer
Talking about publicity, I will be going in Feb to the AGU Infotech Committee meeting in Washington DC. Just in case, Allan, do you have (a link to) your latest overhead sheets on LyX, and could I use them? Of course there's always the Graphical Tour. But hese are pretty knowledgable people an

Re: New feature: Bookmarks in LyX?

2001-01-29 Thread R. Lahaye
Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:20:46PM +0900, R. Lahaye wrote: > > > > I have sent in a patch today for the default.ui file, which corrects that typo > > and has a few more modifications to that menu file. > > Why do want the names to refer again to the latex

Re: New feature: Bookmarks in LyX?

2001-01-29 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:20:46PM +0900, R. Lahaye wrote: > > I have sent in a patch today for the default.ui file, which corrects that typo > and has a few more modifications to that menu file. Why do want the names to refer again to the latex convention. We had agreed to change it last week

Re: New feature: Bookmarks in LyX?

2001-01-29 Thread R. Lahaye
Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 12:01:44AM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > > I have just added bookmarks to the CVS: ctrl+shift+1 (or 2/3) sets the > > bookmark, ctrl+1 go to the bookmark (it is possible to have more bookmarks, > > but I only put bindings for three).