Re: [patch] final layout patches for branch

2012-12-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 06.12.2012 09:12, schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: >> For modernCV, I am not so sure it was a good idea. In texlive2012, I have >> version 0.12. > > But this version is 2.5 years old. > This is what Linux users usually have to put up with. Liviu

Re: [patch] final layout patches for branch

2012-12-06 Thread Pavel Sanda
Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> Not everybody run miktex. > > But TeXLive also has an update button. At least here on Windows it works. Yes, what you write works on Windows. As others already wrote this is not option on many other platforms (although TeXLive is present, "live update" is not used.) Pavel

Re: [patch] final layout patches for branch

2012-12-06 Thread Pavel Sanda
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 06.12.2012 21:21, schrieb Georg Baum: > >> Definitely. One big advantage of LyX is that you do not need to think if >> you switch between minor point releases. > > But who does this? At this moment for example me or more precisely several people working under SVN on a single

Re: [patch] final layout patches for branch

2012-12-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 06.12.2012 21:21, schrieb Georg Baum: Definitely. One big advantage of LyX is that you do not need to think if you switch between minor point releases. But who does this? Have you have downgraded your LyX from e.g. 1.6.8 back to 1.6.3? That doesn't make sense to me. We already discussed

Re: [patch] final layout patches for branch

2012-12-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 06.12.2012 14:56, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: My idea would be to provide a new layout with a new name (journalx-new.layout), then lyx2lyx could change this to journalx.layout in the new major release (and also the old journalx.layout) and revert accordingly. That is very confusing. What ha

Re: [patch] final layout patches for branch

2012-12-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 06.12.2012 09:12, schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: For modernCV, I am not so sure it was a good idea. In texlive2012, I have version 0.12. But this version is 2.5 years old. I would have bet that the example file that comes with LyX 2.0.5 fails with this version. Not everybody run miktex.

Re: [patch] final layout patches for branch

2012-12-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 06.12.2012 09:14, schrieb Liviu Andronic: Personally I'm rather uneasy about LyX shipping a layout file that works only with the latest version of the modernCV class. The trouble is that Linux distros usually lag for ages before shipping updated versions to their users (and on Linux by defaul

Re: [patch] final layout patches for branch

2012-12-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 06.12.2012 08:58, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: I'm not sure about that. Adding one or two new layouts is OK, but a major change is not, IMHO, unless you provide the old file for compatibility. All old files will still be compilable. But to fulfill the current guidelines, you have to use some

Re: an idea to improve lyx

2012-12-06 Thread bruno rigal
There is the same problem with the backslash in conventional latex and there is a command for that: \textbackslash. Then there are some stuff that I couldn't do with alt P. For exemple inserting numbered equations (which I do a lot as a physicist). And last but not least it is really natural for a

Re: [patch] final layout patches for branch

2012-12-06 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 05.12.2012 08:21, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: > >> Do you introduce new layouts? This would be a file format change in >> the strict sense (since LyX 2.0.4 would not be able to handle these >> new layouts). Definitely. One big advantage of LyX is that you do not need to thi

Re: an idea to improve lyx

2012-12-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Richard Heck wrote: >>> What do you think of that? >> >> It would be rather frustrating to not be able to type a backslash without >> having to quit the autocompletion or to suddenly end up writing the title. > > I wouldn't want to do this by default, but I can see

Re: an idea to improve lyx

2012-12-06 Thread Richard Heck
On 12/06/2012 12:21 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Op 6-12-2012 17:23, Bruno schreef: Hi, I had been using latex for a while but I switched to lyx because of its interesting features. Being able to see mathematical expressions you write is really practical. And I had an idea which could I th

Re: [patch] final layout patches for branch

2012-12-06 Thread Richard Heck
On 12/06/2012 08:56 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: 2012/12/6 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: For conferences/journals we probably do not have a choice (unless some people rely on old layouts). My idea would be to provide a new layout with a new name (journalx-new.layout), then lyx2lyx could change this to

Re: an idea to improve lyx

2012-12-06 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 6-12-2012 17:23, Bruno schreef: Hi, I had been using latex for a while but I switched to lyx because of its interesting features. Being able to see mathematical expressions you write is really practical. And I had an idea which could I think make it even much faster and user-friendly. Now, to

an idea to improve lyx

2012-12-06 Thread Bruno
Hi, I had been using latex for a while but I switched to lyx because of its interesting features. Being able to see mathematical expressions you write is really practical. And I had an idea which could I think make it even much faster and user-friendly. Now, to write a title you have either

Re: enumitem, missing translation

2012-12-06 Thread Kornel Benko
Am Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2012 um 13:59:24, schrieb Kornel Benko > Hi, > the "short title" of enum-list is not translated. > > Steps to reproduce: > > 1.) Open new document > 2.) In document settings select module for enumitem > 3.) create enumerated list > 4.) Right click to select "Optional

Re: [patch] final layout patches for branch

2012-12-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2012/12/6 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes : > For conferences/journals we probably do not have a choice (unless some > people rely on old layouts). My idea would be to provide a new layout with a new name (journalx-new.layout), then lyx2lyx could change this to journalx.layout in the new major release (and a

enumitem, missing translation

2012-12-06 Thread Kornel Benko
Hi, the "short title" of enum-list is not translated. Steps to reproduce: 1.) Open new document 2.) In document settings select module for enumitem 3.) create enumerated list 4.) Right click to select "Optional layout Argument" (Untranslated!) 5.) There is now "Optional layout Argument" entry.

Re: [patch] final layout patches for branch

2012-12-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > For conferences/journals we probably do not have a choice (unless some > people rely on old layouts). > Maybe it's time we introduced a 'Deprecated' Document class category. There we could throw in all layout files that have been obsole

Re: [patch] final layout patches for branch

2012-12-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >> for e.g. IJMP and ACM submissions. I'm sure that users will accept that and >> it would be strange if they insist using a older LyX version if a newer one >> is out fixing several bugs. > > I'm not sure about that. Adding one or two new

Re: [patch] final layout patches for branch

2012-12-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 06/12/12 08:58, Jürgen Spitzmüller a écrit : 2012/12/5 Uwe Stöhr : My changes are necessary to keep documents compilable and/or to keep them acceptable following the submission guidelines. However, older LyX files are still compilable using LyX 2.0.6 (except of modernCV as I wrote). I think i