Re: [LyX master] Now LyX correctly asks to retrieve non-existing file from GIT repo only if the file is actually registered in repo.

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: Nico Williams wrote: I see the smiley. I hope to convince you to stop the use of RCS :) Then you will need to show better arguments :) I was talking about single lyx documents 50-400 pages, not about linux kernel. I'm really

LyX accepted in GSoC 2013

We are happy to announce that LyX has been accepted as a mentoring organization in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2013. The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an annual program, in which Google awards stipends to hundreds of students who successfully complete a requested free and open-source software

Re: [LyX master] Now LyX correctly asks to retrieve non-existing file from GIT repo only if the file is actually registered in repo.

Nico Williams wrote: Indeed. I just want LyX to not ever run a git checkout command. Not This is between you and Georg :) limit itself to informational actions only in the case of git-like VCSes (Mercurial, Fossil, ...). Please don't let this get lost in the If you mean that we should

Re: [LyX master] Now LyX correctly asks to retrieve non-existing file from GIT repo only if the file is actually registered in repo.

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: Nico Williams wrote: Indeed. I just want LyX to not ever run a git checkout command. Not This is between you and Georg :) limit itself to informational actions only in the case of git-like VCSes (Mercurial, Fossil, ...).

expression of support for ePub export project

[Sent this to Pavel Sanda first---he recommended that I send it here.] Didn't quite know where to post this but wanted to express my support for the ePub export project. I am not a programmer myself---I'm an IT manager in publishing, and and a novelist---so I regret that I can't help out on the

Re: expression of support for ePub export project

Ben Hourigan wrote: It is almost there for me: with the aid of Pandoc I can use Markdown and LaTeX documents as the source for print and electronic editions of my novels. But Pandoc, taking you to the command line, is a bridge further than I believe most authors will ever go. Frankly we

Re: expression of support for ePub export project

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: Ben Hourigan wrote: It is almost there for me: with the aid of Pandoc I can use Markdown and LaTeX documents as the source for print and electronic editions of my novels. But Pandoc, taking you to the command line, is a bridge

Re: expression of support for ePub export project

Sorry to be relatively ignorant and intrude… This is wonderful to hear. I wonder—would Pandoc support come with good support for properly including cover images using the GUI? One of the most frequent problems I see people encountering with ePubs is files that don't validate because the cover

Re: [PATCH] Spelling: Postscript - PostScript

11/04/2013 04:51, Scott Kostyshak: From what I understand, PostScript is the correct way to write it. Does anyone have an opinion on this? Why not. If you go this way, git grep tells me that there are other places needing attention. JMarc

Re: ps2pdf13 - ps2pdf14 ?

08/04/2013 08:04, Jürgen Spitzmüller: Scott Kostyshak wrote: I don't have any particular reason for changing it and the safe thing would be to leave it alone, but I'm curious what others think. My vote would be to use plain ps2pdf without any format binding. +1 JMarc

Re: [LyX master] Avoid check mistakenly current folder for .git/.svn/.CVS, when going up the path checking for parents.

On 11/04/13 06:21, Stephan Witt wrote: Avoid check mistakenly current folder for .git/.svn/.CVS, when going up the path checking for parents. Why do you think it's a mistake to check the current folder for .git or .svn? It was checking the current folder from where LyX is launched, not

GSoC (further) ideas proposals (was: Re: Interested in contributing in some project.)

On 11/04/13 04:27, stefano franchi wrote: Bottom line: let your creative juices flow and submit ideas to the list. Sure: some of these may have been discussed on the ML in various occasions: 0) horizontal scrollbar for large pictures (something is being discussed on the list now, which is

Re: Python detection

On 2013-04-11, Pavel Sanda wrote: Enrico Forestieri wrote: On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:10:48AM -0700, Pavel Sanda wrote: As a long-term project, I suggest making the Python scripts run with both, Python 2.x and 3.x (with x some decent choice of not-too-old versions). For simple modules, this

Re: GSoC: Improved XHTML export and ePub support

On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:33 AM, Nico Williams wrote: It might well be wiser to drop all the docbook and XHTML code, re-write it in XSLT and use XML as a go-between: it's much less C++ code to maintain that way. Is there a reason why one couldn't just use LaTeXML? http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/

GSoC Project: Improved XHTML export and ePub support

Hi, My name is Elias Assarsson and I am interested in doing a GSoC project for LyX. The idea I found most interesting is Improved XHTML export and ePub support http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/SummerOfCode2013Ideas#toc4 What would be a good way to prepare in pursuing this project? Some things

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

10/04/2013 13:19, Hashini Senaratne: * Inserting a real scrollbar (that is, a Qt widget) in our workarea may prove difficult. Moreover the scrollbar would take room in the documents. Alternatives include: Is not it possible to implement to have a horizontal scrollbar (real scrollbar) like the

Re: GSOC 2013

Hi Manan, Let me forward your request to the development list. Abdel. -- *De: *Manan Dang mananrock...@gmail.com *Envoyé: *Mercredi 10 Avril 2013 21:38:55 *Objet: *GSOC 2013 Hi Abdelrazak Younes, I am a junior year undergraduate student from Delhi

Re: GSoC Project: Improved XHTML export and ePub support

On 04/11/2013 08:45 AM, Elias Assarsson wrote: Hi, My name is Elias Assarsson and I am interested in doing a GSoC project for LyX. The idea I found most interesting is Improved XHTML export and ePub support http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/SummerOfCode2013Ideas#toc4 What would be a good way to

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Jean, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgouttes at lyx.org writes: I am not competent at all when it comes to Qt, but I suuspect that a lot of work will be needed in our WorkArea widget to have it aware that it contains other Qt widgets (the scrollbars) and pass the needed messages (process

Re: GSoC: Improved XHTML export and ePub support

On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 17:46 -0700, Pavel Sanda wrote: Adrián Pereira wrote: I'll appreciate more information about this project, so i can start reading the documentation and maybe the code. More people already asked about XHTML/ePUB stuff, so few bits of info below. Current status of

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Scott, Scott Kostyshak skostysh at lyx.org writes: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Hashini Senaratne hashz1990 at gmail.com wrote: If you have some time could you please give me some more details about autotools that you are aware of, later. I do not want to keep on disturbing

Re: GSoC: Improved XHTML export and ePub support

Rob Oakes wrote: I apologize for being so quiet in the past few months. I've been absolutely swamped with work and family commitments (my wife and I were lucky enough to have a son born last August, and it's amazing how children change your life). The question is whether you would be inclined

Re: Python detection

Guenter Milde wrote: As a long-term project, I suggest making the Python scripts run with both, Python 2.x and 3.x (with x some decent choice of not-too-old versions). I think that long term solution was rather to switch to Python 3. But all such talk is cheap, we need patches :) Pavel

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hello again, Hashini Senaratne hashz1990 at gmail.com writes: Today I installed QT4 development tools and the QT4 designer. I could open all the files in /src/frontends/qt4/ui by using the designer. But I failed to open two files using qt4 designer;

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hashini Senaratne wrote: I noticed that the two files that I have mentioned are not in qt4 format after opening them as text. What is the use of them and why they are in .ui format? According to my thoughts, the main layout of the LyX document Bingo, they are no way related to QT and I suspect

Re: GSoC: Improved XHTML export and ePub support

On 04/11/2013 01:54 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: Rob Oakes wrote: I apologize for being so quiet in the past few months. I've been absolutely swamped with work and family commitments (my wife and I were lucky enough to have a son born last August, and it's amazing how children change your life). The

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals (was: Re: Interested in contributing in some project.)

Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: 6) Enhance LyX with remotely interactive writing capabilities, namely allow multiple users to work remotely and interactively on the same document. Solve issues due to conflicting editing, having a way to avoid them from the ground up, or have a GUI to

Re: GSoC: Improved XHTML export and ePub support

Richard Heck wrote: While others here know LyX internals, I think there is no experience with ePUB to make decisions or give directions when questions appear. Any way thanks for your pointers. What does mentoring involve? Rob and I would probably be the obvious team. Never been mentoring,

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals (was: Re: Interested in contributing in some project.)

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: 6) Enhance LyX with remotely interactive writing capabilities, namely allow multiple users to work remotely and interactively on the same document. Solve issues due to conflicting editing,

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals (was: Re: Interested in contributing in some project.)

Liviu Andronic wrote: the question is who else is willing to volunteer for a mentorship? I'm currently looking for ledpar/ledmac project student at my uni. P

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals

On 11/04/13 20:00, Liviu Andronic wrote: This was actually asked so many times on the list... Would you be willing to mentor? Those interested please let me know (in private, if you prefer). Regards, I'd be happy to mentor, then, one of the ideas I dropped on the list! However, do you know

Re: GSoC Project: Improved XHTML export and ePub support

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org wrote: On 04/11/2013 08:45 AM, Elias Assarsson wrote: Here's a quick guide to how the export routines work. Basically, it starst at Buffer::makeLyXHTMLFile(), which just sets up a file stream, does some preliminary configuration, and

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals (was: Re: Interested in contributing in some project.)

Here's my (8), really my #1: 3-way diff/merge support.

gsoc suggestion: cals tables support

Hello LyX team, congratulations for been accepted as a mentoring organization in GSoC 2013. I'd like to suggest a feature to LyX, which you and students might find useful: Reimplement tables on top of the package cals http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cals

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Hashini Senaratne hashz1...@gmail.com wrote: I tried to go through the source code and tried to figure out how the vertical scrollbar has been implemented. I think this would be a bit difficult task, until I get familiar with the code. I was able to disable

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals (was: Re: Interested in contributing in some project.)

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: Liviu Andronic wrote: the question is who else is willing to volunteer for a mentorship? I'm currently looking for ledpar/ledmac project student at my uni. Excellent. Could you register on Google Melange? Thanks, Liviu

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta tomm...@lyx.org wrote: On 11/04/13 20:00, Liviu Andronic wrote: This was actually asked so many times on the list... Would you be willing to mentor? Those interested please let me know (in private, if you prefer). Regards, I'd be happy to

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals

Le 11/04/13 21:27, Nico Williams a écrit : Here's my (8), really my #1: 3-way diff/merge support. Indeed. One could start by fine tuning normal diff to make it more usable. JMarc

Re: [LyX master] Now LyX correctly asks to retrieve non-existing file from GIT repo only if the file is actually registered in repo.

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Georg Baum georg.b...@post.rwth-aachen.de wrote: No. I don't want LyX to run any checkout command. I do not even need the simple checkout with svn that Pavel uses. If you look into the sources you can see that the VCS states VCS::LOCKED and VCS::UNLOCKED are not

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta tomm...@lyx.org wrote: On 11/04/13 20:00, Liviu Andronic wrote: This was actually asked so many times on the list... Would you be willing to mentor? Those

Re: GSoC: Improved XHTML export and ePub support

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: The comments I heard from other mentoring project was that at the end GSoC was more valuable as a way how to successfully get new devs into the team than finishing the project they started, that might other clue. Yes, that's

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals (was: Re: Interested in contributing in some project.)

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta tomm...@lyx.org wrote: 3) improve Advanced FR, making it fast, usable, non-failing in corner cases, namely implement what is now there as a proof of concept. This can be done in 2 ways: 3.a) build a find engine within various insets,

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

* have buttons with arrows in the left and right margin or (since these margins are currently thin) maybe buttons that appear as needed when the mouse if over the problematic inset. I think this option will not much user-friendly. Well, it requires to move the mouse to some particular

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals

On 11/04/13 23:34, stefano franchi wrote: My understanding is that the formal contract will be between Lyx---represented by the admins (Liviu and myself)---and the student(s). There is no formal contract involving the mentors. Good, then there should be no problems for me to mentor.

GSoC: On being a mentor

Hi all, There are some veteran LyX developers who are not sure if they can/want to become a mentor or not. There is a short manual online: http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/what-makes-a-good-mentor/ If you think that being a mentor appeals to you, then these are in my opinion the

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals

This was actually asked so many times on the list... Would you be willing to mentor? 8) Someone goes through the whole sources and make finally some documentation for the key structures with nice pictures for all the metrics, cursor stuff and lfun processing structures etc similar to

Re: gsoc2013

Do you have any suggestions about project, which I should take? 11.04.2013 08:56, Евгений Лежнин пишет: Hi, I'm Evgenii, I'm student and wish to participate in gsoc. I have been worked on different projects using C++ and Qt for 3 years. I would like to participate with UI Improvements and

Re: [LyX master] Now LyX correctly asks to retrieve non-existing file from GIT repo only if the file is actually registered in repo.

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Nico Williams wrote: >> I see the smiley. I hope to convince you to stop the use of RCS :) > > Then you will need to show better arguments :) I was talking about single > lyx documents 50-400 pages, not about linux kernel. >

LyX accepted in GSoC 2013

We are happy to announce that LyX has been accepted as a mentoring organization in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2013. The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an annual program, in which Google awards stipends to hundreds of students who successfully complete a requested free and open-source software

Re: [LyX master] Now LyX correctly asks to retrieve non-existing file from GIT repo only if the file is actually registered in repo.

Nico Williams wrote: > Indeed. I just want LyX to not ever run a git checkout command. Not This is between you and Georg :) > limit itself to informational actions only in the case of git-like > VCSes (Mercurial, Fossil, ...). Please don't let this get lost in the If you mean that we should

Re: [LyX master] Now LyX correctly asks to retrieve non-existing file from GIT repo only if the file is actually registered in repo.

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Nico Williams wrote: >> Indeed. I just want LyX to not ever run a git checkout command. Not > > This is between you and Georg :) > >> limit itself to informational actions only in the case of git-like >> VCSes (Mercurial,

expression of support for ePub export project

[Sent this to Pavel Sanda first---he recommended that I send it here.] Didn't quite know where to post this but wanted to express my support for the ePub export project. I am not a programmer myself---I'm an IT manager in publishing, and and a novelist---so I regret that I can't help out on the

Re: expression of support for ePub export project

Ben Hourigan wrote: > It is almost there for me: with the aid of Pandoc I can use Markdown and > LaTeX documents as the source for print and electronic editions of my novels. > But Pandoc, taking you to the command line, is a bridge further than I > believe most authors will ever go. Frankly

Re: expression of support for ePub export project

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Ben Hourigan wrote: >> It is almost there for me: with the aid of Pandoc I can use Markdown and >> LaTeX documents as the source for print and electronic editions of my >> novels. But Pandoc, taking you to the command line, is

Re: expression of support for ePub export project

Sorry to be relatively ignorant and intrude… This is wonderful to hear. I wonder—would Pandoc support come with good support for properly including cover images using the GUI? One of the most frequent problems I see people encountering with ePubs is files that don't validate because the cover

Re: [PATCH] Spelling: "Postscript" -> "PostScript"

11/04/2013 04:51, Scott Kostyshak: From what I understand, "PostScript" is the correct way to write it. Does anyone have an opinion on this? Why not. If you go this way, "git grep" tells me that there are other places needing attention. JMarc

Re: ps2pdf13 -> ps2pdf14 ?

08/04/2013 08:04, Jürgen Spitzmüller: Scott Kostyshak wrote: I don't have any particular reason for changing it and the safe thing would be to leave it alone, but I'm curious what others think. My vote would be to use plain "ps2pdf" without any format binding. +1 JMarc

Re: [LyX master] Avoid check mistakenly current folder for .git/.svn/.CVS, when going up the path checking for parents.

On 11/04/13 06:21, Stephan Witt wrote: >>Avoid check mistakenly current folder for .git/.svn/.CVS, when going up >> the path checking for parents. > > Why do you think it's a mistake to check the current folder for .git or .svn? It was checking the current folder from where LyX is launched,

GSoC (further) ideas proposals (was: Re: Interested in contributing in some project.)

On 11/04/13 04:27, stefano franchi wrote: > Bottom line: let your creative juices flow and submit ideas to the list. Sure: some of these may have been discussed on the ML in various occasions: 0) horizontal scrollbar for large pictures (something is being discussed on the list now, which is

Re: Python detection

On 2013-04-11, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:10:48AM -0700, Pavel Sanda wrote: As a long-term project, I suggest making the Python scripts run with both, Python 2.x and 3.x (with x some decent choice of not-too-old versions). For simple modules, this

Re: GSoC: Improved XHTML export and ePub support

On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:33 AM, Nico Williams wrote: > It might well be wiser to drop all the docbook and XHTML code, > re-write it in XSLT and use XML as a go-between: it's much less C++ > code to maintain that way. Is there a reason why one couldn't just use LaTeXML?

GSoC Project: Improved XHTML export and ePub support

Hi, My name is Elias Assarsson and I am interested in doing a GSoC project for LyX. The idea I found most interesting is Improved XHTML export and ePub support http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/SummerOfCode2013Ideas#toc4 What would be a good way to prepare in pursuing this project? Some things

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

10/04/2013 13:19, Hashini Senaratne: * Inserting a real scrollbar (that is, a Qt widget) in our workarea may prove difficult. Moreover the scrollbar would take room in the documents. Alternatives include: Is not it possible to implement to have a horizontal scrollbar (real scrollbar) like the

Re: GSOC 2013

Hi Manan, Let me forward your request to the development list. Abdel. -- > *De: *"Manan Dang" > *Envoyé: *Mercredi 10 Avril 2013 21:38:55 > *Objet: *GSOC 2013 > > Hi Abdelrazak Younes, > I am a junior year undergraduate student from Delhi

Re: GSoC Project: Improved XHTML export and ePub support

On 04/11/2013 08:45 AM, Elias Assarsson wrote: Hi, My name is Elias Assarsson and I am interested in doing a GSoC project for LyX. The idea I found most interesting is Improved XHTML export and ePub support http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/SummerOfCode2013Ideas#toc4 What would be a good way to

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Jean, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lyx.org> writes: > I am not competent at all when it comes to Qt, but I suuspect that a lot > of work will be needed in our WorkArea widget to have it aware that it > contains other Qt widgets (the scrollbars) and pass the needed messages > (process paint

Re: GSoC: Improved XHTML export and ePub support

On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 17:46 -0700, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Adrián Pereira wrote: > > I'll appreciate more information about this project, so i can start reading > > the documentation and maybe the code. > > More people already asked about XHTML/ePUB stuff, so few bits of info below. > > Current

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Scott, Scott Kostyshak lyx.org> writes: > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Hashini Senaratne gmail.com> wrote: > > If you have some time could you please give me some more details about > > autotools that you are aware of, later. I do not want to keep on disturbing > > you. So, I

Re: GSoC: Improved XHTML export and ePub support

Rob Oakes wrote: > I apologize for being so quiet in the past few months. I've been > absolutely swamped with work and family commitments (my wife and I were > lucky enough to have a son born last August, and it's amazing how > children change your life). The question is whether you would be

Re: Python detection

Guenter Milde wrote: > As a long-term project, I suggest making the Python scripts run with both, > Python 2.x and 3.x (with x some decent choice of not-too-old versions). I think that long term solution was rather to switch to Python 3. But all such talk is cheap, we need patches :) Pavel

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hello again, Hashini Senaratne gmail.com> writes: > Today I installed QT4 development tools and the QT4 designer. I could open > all the files in /src/frontends/qt4/ui by using the designer. But I failed > to open two files using qt4 designer; > /development/attic/lyxled/ui/MainWindowUi.ui >

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hashini Senaratne wrote: > I noticed that the two files that I have mentioned are not in qt4 format > after opening them as text. What is the use of them and why they are in .ui > format? According to my thoughts, the main layout of the LyX document Bingo, they are no way related to QT and I

Re: GSoC: Improved XHTML export and ePub support

On 04/11/2013 01:54 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: Rob Oakes wrote: I apologize for being so quiet in the past few months. I've been absolutely swamped with work and family commitments (my wife and I were lucky enough to have a son born last August, and it's amazing how children change your life). The

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals (was: Re: Interested in contributing in some project.)

Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > 6) Enhance LyX with remotely interactive writing capabilities, namely allow > multiple >users to work remotely and interactively on the same document. Solve > issues due to >conflicting editing, having a way to avoid them from the ground up, or > have a GUI >

Re: GSoC: Improved XHTML export and ePub support

Richard Heck wrote: >> While others here know LyX internals, I think there is no experience with >> ePUB to make decisions or give directions when questions appear. >> Any way thanks for your pointers. > > What does mentoring involve? Rob and I would probably be the obvious team. Never been

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals (was: Re: Interested in contributing in some project.)

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: >> 6) Enhance LyX with remotely interactive writing capabilities, namely allow >> multiple >>users to work remotely and interactively on the same document. Solve >> issues due to >>conflicting

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals (was: Re: Interested in contributing in some project.)

Liviu Andronic wrote: > the question is who else is willing to volunteer for a mentorship? I'm currently looking for ledpar/ledmac project student at my uni. P

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals

On 11/04/13 20:00, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> This was actually asked so many times on the list... Would you be willing to >> mentor? >> > Those interested please let me know (in private, if you prefer). Regards, I'd be happy to mentor, then, one of the ideas I dropped on the list! However, do you

Re: GSoC Project: Improved XHTML export and ePub support

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 04/11/2013 08:45 AM, Elias Assarsson wrote: > Here's a quick guide to how the export routines work. Basically, it starst > at Buffer::makeLyXHTMLFile(), which just sets up a file stream, does some > preliminary

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals (was: Re: Interested in contributing in some project.)

Here's my (8), really my #1: 3-way diff/merge support.

gsoc suggestion: cals tables support

Hello LyX team, congratulations for been accepted as a mentoring organization in GSoC 2013. I'd like to suggest a feature to LyX, which you and students might find useful: Reimplement tables on top of the package "cals" http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cals

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Hashini Senaratne wrote: > I tried to go through the source code and tried to figure out how the > vertical scrollbar has been implemented. I think this would be a bit > difficult task, until I get familiar with the code. I was able to disable

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals (was: Re: Interested in contributing in some project.)

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Liviu Andronic wrote: >> the question is who else is willing to volunteer for a mentorship? > > I'm currently looking for ledpar/ledmac project student at my uni. > Excellent. Could you register on Google Melange? Thanks, Liviu

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > On 11/04/13 20:00, Liviu Andronic wrote: >>> This was actually asked so many times on the list... Would you be willing >>> to mentor? >>> >> Those interested please let me know (in private, if you prefer). Regards, > >

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals

Le 11/04/13 21:27, Nico Williams a écrit : Here's my (8), really my #1: 3-way diff/merge support. Indeed. One could start by fine tuning normal diff to make it more usable. JMarc

Re: [LyX master] Now LyX correctly asks to retrieve non-existing file from GIT repo only if the file is actually registered in repo.

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Georg Baum wrote: > No. I don't want LyX to run any checkout command. I do not even need the > simple checkout with svn that Pavel uses. If you look into the sources you > can see that the VCS states VCS::LOCKED and VCS::UNLOCKED

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta > wrote: > > On 11/04/13 20:00, Liviu Andronic wrote: > >>> This was actually asked so many times on the list... Would you be > willing to mentor?

Re: GSoC: Improved XHTML export and ePub support

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > The comments I heard from other mentoring project was that at the end GSoC > was > more valuable as a way how to successfully get new devs into the team than > finishing the project they started, that might other clue. Yes,

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals (was: Re: Interested in contributing in some project.)

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > 3) improve Advanced F, making it fast, usable, non-failing in corner > cases, namely >implement what is now there as a proof of concept. This can be done in > 2 ways: >3.a) build a find engine within various

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

* have buttons with arrows in the left and right margin or (since these margins are currently thin) maybe buttons that appear as needed when the mouse if over the problematic inset. I think this option will not much user-friendly. Well, it requires to move the mouse to some particular

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals

On 11/04/13 23:34, stefano franchi wrote: > My understanding is that the formal contract will be between > Lyx---represented by the admins (Liviu and myself)---and the student(s). > There is no formal contract involving the mentors. Good, then there should be no problems for me to mentor. >

GSoC: On being a mentor

Hi all, There are some veteran LyX developers who are not sure if they can/want to become a mentor or not. There is a short manual online: http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/what-makes-a-good-mentor/ If you think that being a mentor appeals to you, then these are in my opinion the

Re: GSoC (further) ideas proposals

This was actually asked so many times on the list... Would you be willing to mentor? 8) Someone goes through the whole sources and make finally some documentation for the key structures with nice pictures for all the metrics, cursor stuff and lfun processing structures etc similar to

Re: gsoc2013

Do you have any suggestions about project, which I should take? 11.04.2013 08:56, Евгений Лежнин пишет: Hi, I'm Evgenii, I'm student and wish to participate in gsoc. I have been worked on different projects using C++ and Qt for 3 years. I would like to participate with "UI Improvements and