Re: LyX Promotion

2011-03-22 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: > While I have some ideas about why it may have happened, I think that Pavel > hit the nail on the head. When I talk to people about LyX, they seem to think > of it as a specialized academic writing tool. Basically, a program which > helps prof

xetex/luatex issues

2011-03-22 Thread Julien Rioux
I run Ubuntu 10.10 with texlive 2009 Open splash.lyx Set "Use non-tex fonts" Leave everything else as default Under the View menu I got: DVI not working, hangs LyX DVI (LuaTeX) not working, \RequireXeTeX error, font mapping not loadable errors OpenDocument not working, hangs LyX PDF (dvipdfm)

[patch] fix instant preview with lilypond module and pdflatex route

2011-03-22 Thread Julien Rioux
Once we are in the preview script, what's a good way to identify that we use the pdflatex route? I have put if "pdf" in latex I'm not convinced that's bulletproof. -- Julien Index: lib/scripts/lyxpreview-lytex2bitmap.py === --- lib

Re: LyX 2.0.0 release candidate 1 - (Non official Win32 binaries)

2011-03-22 Thread Diego Queiroz
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Diego Queiroz wrote: >> I found the LyX >> 2.0 version for Windows very unstable including RC1 > > did you reported the problems or crashes? we didnt have this kind of reports > thats why RC is here. > > pavel > Pavel. I really didn't, but I

Re: tutorials / slides for seminars or workshops (was: 'Re: LyX Promotion')

2011-03-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Ronen Abravanel wrote: > How long should it be? A year ago I had one hour workshop on LyX in my > I highly doubt that it would exceed an hour. > department, and I started with very short into on LaTeX and "in what scene > LyX is different from word", and then ab

Re: tutorials / slides for seminars or workshops (was: 'Re: LyX Promotion')

2011-03-22 Thread Ronen Abravanel
How long should it be? A year ago I had one hour workshop on LyX in my department, and I started with very short into on LaTeX and "in what scene LyX is different from word", and then about 40 minutes of demonstration of what can I do and how can I do that. If there is nothing better, I can transl

[patch] output format clash

2011-03-22 Thread Julien Rioux
You cannot have two modules which both redefine the output format. This is a stupid patch. Something more clever might be done in the c++ code. -- Julien Index: lib/layouts/sweave.module === --- lib/layouts/sweave.module (revision

Re: Final round for UI changes

2011-03-22 Thread Julien Rioux
On 19/03/2011 11:54 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: 1. new layout was proposed by Rob. who agrees/disagrees with this? 2. some people won't be happy with icons change and there was proposal from me and supported by Enrico that we should allow to use older icons and in the same manner have prepare

[patch] conversion of included lyx child docs

2011-03-22 Thread Julien Rioux
Dear list, Here's a patch which fix the inclusion of child documents for those child documents which have outputtype!=latex, e.g. docs which include the lilypond or sweave module and require a preprocessing step. this problem was reported here: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.

Re: Summer of Code rejection feedback (or lack thereof) from Carol

2011-03-22 Thread stefano franchi
In case you guys are interested in reading through the whole, long discussion on the gsoc channel, the complete log should eventually made its way to this page: http://ibot.rikers.org/%23gsoc/ Right now the list stops at yesterday's log, so I guess it's updated once a day. Cheers, S. On Tue,

Re: LyX Promotion

2011-03-22 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
Il 22/03/2011 17:31, Liviu Andronic ha scritto: Yes, I always thought that LyX should tag PDFs by 'Created with LyX'. Is it difficult to achieve? Liviu that seems as easy as sed -i -e 's/\(%%Creator:\).*/\1 LyX/' filename.ps on the intermediate PS file, i.e., we are replacing: %%Creator: d

Re: Summer of Code rejection feedback (or lack thereof) from Carol

2011-03-22 Thread stefano franchi
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: >> At least, now I can sleep well, knowing I could not have done more. >> > As frustrating as it is, to me it is still comforting to know that the > application was top-notch an

Re: Summer of Code rejection feedback (or lack thereof) from Carol

2011-03-22 Thread Julien Rioux
On 22/03/2011 1:39 PM, stefano franchi wrote: Dear devs, I am appending below the log of the very brief exchange I had on freenode with Google´s 2011 Summer of Code´s Carol. Bottom line: our application was great, our ideas page was great, we made it to the final round, and then they had to cut

Re: Summer of Code rejection feedback (or lack thereof) from Carol

2011-03-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > At least, now I can sleep well, knowing I could not have done more. > As frustrating as it is, to me it is still comforting to know that the application was top-notch and exactly as Google expected it to be. For GSoC 2012 we will be

Re: Summer of Code rejection feedback (or lack thereof) from Carol

2011-03-22 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Stefano, Thanks for looking into that. I am glad to know that it wasn't the application and they liked the ideas page. It's still frustrating, though and brings me back to my earlier email. I think it would be worthwhile to conduct some LyX marketing and promotion. There are a lot of very s

Re: Summer of Code rejection feedback (or lack thereof) from Carol

2011-03-22 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 22-3-2011 18:39, stefano franchi schreef: Dear devs, I am appending below the log of the very brief exchange I had on freenode with Google´s 2011 Summer of Code´s Carol. Bottom line: our application was great, our ideas page was great, we made it to the final round, and then they had to cut

Summer of Code rejection feedback (or lack thereof) from Carol

2011-03-22 Thread stefano franchi
Dear devs, I am appending below the log of the very brief exchange I had on freenode with Google´s 2011 Summer of Code´s Carol. Bottom line: our application was great, our ideas page was great, we made it to the final round, and then they had to cut some more. And we were axed. Nothing more we cou

tutorials / slides for seminars or workshops (was: 'Re: LyX Promotion')

2011-03-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all I think this is a very good idea. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: > 4.) It seems that there are people willing to help promote/evangelize LyX, > but I'm not sure we offer much in the way of promotional materials to help. > Would it be worthwhile to create a limited n

Re: LyX Promotion

2011-03-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Manolo Martínez wrote: > There is something that might help: wouldn't it be possible to add a > "made with LyX" tag alongside TeX and pdfTeX in the properties of the > resulting pdf? > Yes, I always thought that LyX should tag PDFs by 'Created with LyX'. Is it diff

Re: LyX Promotion

2011-03-22 Thread Manolo Martínez
There is something that might help: wouldn't it be possible to add a "made with LyX" tag alongside TeX and pdfTeX in the properties of the resulting pdf? It'd be an easy way to communicate that a nice document -that gets you looking into its properties- was made with LyX. M

Re: LyX Promotion

2011-03-22 Thread stefano franchi
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Rob Oakes wrote: > Dear Users and Developers, > > Thank you to both Pavel and Stefano for ollowing up with Google about why the > GSoC application was turned down. Is there any way that I could help in that > review? Stefano, will you be attending the IRC meetin

LyX Promotion

2011-03-22 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Users and Developers, Thank you to both Pavel and Stefano for ollowing up with Google about why the GSoC application was turned down. Is there any way that I could help in that review? Stefano, will you be attending the IRC meeting to be held later today? I think it's very important that w

Re: #7377: Built-in pdf viewer

2011-03-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Michael wrote: > it's a shame. It would be a killer feature. > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:41 PM, LyX Ticket Tracker wrote: >> >> #7377: Built-in pdf viewer > I would be against LyX fancying a built-in PDF viewer, mainly because it is not its job. If you want to p

Re: #7377: Built-in pdf viewer

2011-03-22 Thread Michael
it's a shame. It would be a killer feature. On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:41 PM, LyX Ticket Tracker wrote: > #7377: Built-in pdf viewer > > -+-- > Reporter: mikesol | Owner: nobody@… > Type: enhancement |

Re: XeTeX Font Options Disabled

2011-03-22 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rob Oakes wrote: > I just updated to the latest SVN a few minutes ago and recompiled on > Windows. Upon re-launching, the XeTeX font options under Document Settings > > Fonts are all disabled. Do you have the fontspec package installed? If not, this widget is disabled (and the widget tooltip is s

Re: LyX 2.0 and XeTeX: Floats (figures, etc) are not translated

2011-03-22 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: > my feeling is that change of final output is more sensitive issue than > fileformat change and we should be strict here. I'm absolutely fine with that. Jürgen

Re: Crash when trying to open a document on a Samba share

2011-03-22 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 22.03.2011 um 08:13 schrieb : >> urmmm, Ale, please kill this "!"... >> pavel > > I'll do that tomorrow, today there's the conference about LyX and related > stuffs > that I've organized at my university! > It's the first time I have a talk in a public conference, I hope I won't > freeze > o

Re: [Patch] Cleanup patch that fixes #7375 (spellchecker gui)

2011-03-22 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 21.03.2011 um 18:00 schrieb Stephan Witt: > Am 21.03.2011 um 09:43 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: > >> On 03/21/2011 07:30 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: >>> Am 20.03.2011 um 17:50 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: >>> Hi Pavel, Here is a patch that should fixes #7375. The patch is big but this

RE: Crash when trying to open a document on a Samba share

2011-03-22 Thread venom00
> urmmm, Ale, please kill this "!"... > pavel I'll do that tomorrow, today there's the conference about LyX and related stuffs that I've organized at my university! It's the first time I have a talk in a public conference, I hope I won't freeze or make people sleep too much. :) venom00, LyX Evang