Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Rainer M Krug
Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us writes: Dear Developers, I've been following this conversation from the shadows, but I had one thought that they be relevant. I think everyone agrees that we want to avoid reimplementing the internal logic of a LyX document. While thinking about what might

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2014-02-28 Thread Ing. Reynier Vega Reyes
--- Ing. Reynier Vega Reyes "Regala tu sonrisa a quin la merezca, tu amor a quien lo valore, tus lgrimas a quin te acompaa y tu vida a quin te ame!!!"

Feature Request

2014-02-28 Thread Thomas Schwabhäuser
Hello, I am using LyX with Nicola Talbot's LaTeX package glossaries. Therefore I need to maintain several tex-files with databases for the data in each glossary. I asked Nicola Talbot for a best practice to do so. As explained in the forwarded discussion I am hoping for a database application

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/27/2014 03:53 PM, stefano franchi wrote: BTW, I guess this project assumes we start from Lyx 2.1? Am I right? Yes. It will surely be out by the time GSOC starts. rh

Re: About XML LyX file format [was: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats]

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/27/2014 03:58 PM, Georg Baum wrote: Richard Heck wrote: On 02/27/2014 11:27 AM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: I´m a LyX enthusiast and I can see how great this software is because I have used it for 5 years by now. I´ve always asked in this list for a static target lyx format that should be

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/27/2014 04:03 PM, Georg Baum wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Some of this stuff will have to be exported as comments that we can reparse on import. I believe that is already done with some math stuff in TeX export. Really? Do you have an example? I always thought LyX math is 100% equivalent

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/28/2014 02:43 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Am Donnerstag 27 Februar 2014, 12:29:36 schrieb stefano franchi: - Bibliography support with suitable styles is a must. This feature is as crucial to someone working in the Humanities, as math support is for someone working in the sciences.

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/28/2014 05:35 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us writes: Dear Developers, I've been following this conversation from the shadows, but I had one thought that they be relevant. I think everyone agrees that we want to avoid reimplementing the internal logic of a LyX

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Rainer M Krug
Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org writes: On 02/28/2014 05:35 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us writes: Dear Developers, I've been following this conversation from the shadows, but I had one thought that they be relevant. I think everyone agrees that we want to avoid

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Richard Heck wrote: Here, I think it's especially helpful to distinguish round trip conversion, which would be used during collaboration, from final export for publication. I take it that in the former case we just need to make sure not to lose bibliographic information. Only in the latter

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread stefano franchi
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Here, I think it's especially helpful to distinguish round trip conversion, which would be used during collaboration, from final export for publication. I take it that in the former case we just need

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/28/2014 10:56 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Here, I think it's especially helpful to distinguish round trip conversion, which would be used during collaboration, from final export for publication. I take it that in the former case we just need to make sure not to lose

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/28/2014 11:07 AM, stefano franchi wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Here, I think it's especially helpful to distinguish round trip conversion, which would be used during collaboration, from final export for publication. I

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
PS For import, what about modfying writer2latex? Richard

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
stefano franchi wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Rainer M Krug rai...@krugs.de wrote: I assume that in LyX, there is an API which could be used to convert *independent* from the file format? I don't assume they are exposed outside LyX so that they can be accessed from e.g.

Re: Feature Request

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/28/2014 08:55 AM, Thomas Schwabhäuser wrote: Hello, 1. I am using LyX with Nicola Talbot's LaTeX package glossaries. Therefore I need to maintain several tex-files with databases for the data in each glossary. I asked Nicola Talbot for a best practice to do so. As explained

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Richard Heck wrote: I don't have experience with biblatex. Isn't there some intermediate file we could parse? No. The bbl file consists of rather complex LaTeX code, which is then interpreted by LaTeX on the output route based on the bibliography, citation format and language style files. I

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Rainer M Krug
Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org writes: On 02/28/2014 02:43 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Am Donnerstag 27 Februar 2014, 12:29:36 schrieb stefano franchi: - Bibliography support with suitable styles is a must. This feature is as crucial to someone working in the Humanities, as math support is

Re: unofficial gnuplot external template?

2014-02-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
Scott Kostyshak wrote: A search suggests that there would be some demand: Feel free to prepapre the patch :) P http://www.gauhati.ac.in/files/uploaded_files/file510.pdf http://projectedneuralactivity.blogspot.com/2012/05/using-gnuplot-with-lyx.html

Re: GSoC Student Application

2014-02-28 Thread stefano franchi
Hi Jicksy, welcome to LyX! It's great to hear you are interested in the round trip conversion project. There is currently an intense and ongoing discussion about the project on the lyx-developers list. See [1]. That is a good starting point on the current state of the project and the various

How to provide useful bug-tracking information

2014-02-28 Thread Itai Shaked
Hello, I am encountering a recurrent bug, which I am non the less unable to reliably reproduce. LyX seems to get stuck in an infinite loop following certain cursor movement/selection. I have tried looking around using gdb, but I am not very familiar with this tool, and I don't know anything about

Re: GSoC Student Application

2014-02-28 Thread Jicksy John
Stefano, I am familiar with LaTeX, been using it for submitting Reports and for making Resume. LyX is now installed- will go through the documentation to get further hold of the things in there. You summed up things in a easy manner. Thanks would try to reach till bug fix soon enough and get

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread stefano franchi
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Rainer M Krug rai...@krugs.de wrote: Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org writes: On 02/28/2014 02:43 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Am Donnerstag 27 Februar 2014, 12:29:36 schrieb stefano franchi: - Bibliography support with suitable styles is a must. This feature is

Re: GSoC Student Application

2014-02-28 Thread Jicksy John
Is there LyX repo available? Can I have link to the same? When I try fixing bugs, will need to edit code and run LyX right? On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Jicksy John jicksy.j...@gmail.com wrote: Stefano, I am familiar with LaTeX, been using it for submitting Reports and for making

Google Summer of Code Project

2014-02-28 Thread Wang Kunzhen
Dear Lyx Developer’s Group, I am interested in the project Advanced Find and Replace proposed by Lyx for Google Summer of Code and would like to join the Lyx Dev’s group to discuss the possible ideas I might have. Regards, Wang Kunzhen

Re: About XML LyX file format [was: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats]

2014-02-28 Thread Georg Baum
Alex Vergara Gil wrote: Do you mean a native LyX file format which would be the primary format, or an auxiliary format for interfacing with external tools? I mean xml as primary format. Well, I wanted to know what Richard meant, but your opinion is welcome as well;-) If you have xml as

Re: GSoC Student Application

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/28/2014 02:31 PM, Jicksy John wrote: Is there LyX repo available? Can I have link to the same? http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/LyXGit When I try fixing bugs, will need to edit code and run LyX right? Yeah, that's usually how it goes. Richard

Re: Google Summer of Code Project

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/28/2014 02:58 PM, Wang Kunzhen wrote: Dear Lyx Developer's Group, I am interested in the project /Advanced Find and Replace /proposed by Lyx for Google Summer of Code and would like to join the Lyx Dev's group to discuss the possible ideas I might have. Go ahead, then. rh

Issue with the language setting after install

2014-02-28 Thread Leon Hendrian
Hello, I just installed Lyx by downloading the installer from the english webpage onto my english-language-windows-7, which is physically sitting in germany, and although being quite careful in the installation process, I wound up with German as a preset menu language. I do not think this is

Re: LyX on OS X 10.9

2014-02-28 Thread Georg Baum
Benjamin Piwowarski wrote: Hi Georg, here are some comments/answers on your questions: On 27 Feb 2014, at 22:36 , Georg Baum georg.b...@post.rwth-aachen.de wrote: We do not use C-style casts. Could you please rewrite this, e.g. like bool const success = (os contents) ? true :

Re: How to provide useful bug-tracking information

2014-02-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
Itai Shaked wrote: Hello, I am encountering a recurrent bug, which I am non the less unable to reliably reproduce. LyX seems to get stuck in an infinite loop following certain cursor movement/selection. I have tried looking around using gdb, but I am not very familiar with this tool, and I

Re: LyX on OS X 10.9

2014-02-28 Thread Benjamin Piwowarski
On 28 Feb 2014, at 23:01 , Georg Baum georg.b...@post.rwth-aachen.de wrote: I can't comment on the cmake part, but the C++ changes look good. To our Mac expperts: Is there any reason why they are not already in? I guess this is because since QT_WS_MACX was not defined anymore in QT5, the mac

Re: GSoC Student Application

2014-02-28 Thread Jicksy John
Thank you, was looking for that. Would clone and get started. On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org wrote: On 02/28/2014 02:31 PM, Jicksy John wrote: Is there LyX repo available? Can I have link to the same? http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/LyXGit When I try fixing

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Rainer M Krug
Rob Oakes writes: > Dear Developers, > > I've been following this conversation from the shadows, but I had one > thought that they be relevant. > > I think everyone agrees that we want to avoid reimplementing the > internal logic of a LyX document. While thinking about

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2014-02-28 Thread Ing. Reynier Vega Reyes
  --- Ing. Reynier Vega Reyes "Regala tu sonrisa a quién la merezca, tu amor a quien lo valore, tus lágrimas a quién te acompaña y tu vida a quién te ame!!!"

Feature Request

2014-02-28 Thread Thomas Schwabhäuser
Hello, I am using LyX with Nicola Talbot's LaTeX package glossaries. Therefore I need to maintain several tex-files with databases for the data in each glossary. I asked Nicola Talbot for a best practice to do so. As explained in the forwarded discussion I am hoping for a database application

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/27/2014 03:53 PM, stefano franchi wrote: BTW, I guess this project assumes we start from Lyx 2.1? Am I right? Yes. It will surely be out by the time GSOC starts. rh

Re: About XML LyX file format [was: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats]

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/27/2014 03:58 PM, Georg Baum wrote: Richard Heck wrote: On 02/27/2014 11:27 AM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: I´m a LyX enthusiast and I can see how great this software is because I have used it for 5 years by now. I´ve always asked in this list for a static target lyx format that should be

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/27/2014 04:03 PM, Georg Baum wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Some of this stuff will have to be exported as comments that we can reparse on import. I believe that is already done with some math stuff in TeX export. Really? Do you have an example? I always thought LyX math is 100% equivalent

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/28/2014 02:43 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Am Donnerstag 27 Februar 2014, 12:29:36 schrieb stefano franchi: - Bibliography support with suitable styles is a must. This feature is as crucial to someone working in the Humanities, as math support is for someone working in the sciences.

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/28/2014 05:35 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: Rob Oakes writes: Dear Developers, I've been following this conversation from the shadows, but I had one thought that they be relevant. I think everyone agrees that we want to avoid reimplementing the internal logic of a

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Rainer M Krug
Richard Heck writes: > On 02/28/2014 05:35 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: >> Rob Oakes writes: >> >>> Dear Developers, >>> >>> I've been following this conversation from the shadows, but I had one >>> thought that they be relevant. >>> >>> I think everyone

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Richard Heck wrote: > Here, I think it's especially helpful to distinguish "round trip" > conversion, which would be used during collaboration, from final export > for publication. I take it that in the former case we just need to make > sure not to lose bibliographic information. Only in the

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread stefano franchi
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Richard Heck wrote: >> Here, I think it's especially helpful to distinguish "round trip" >> conversion, which would be used during collaboration, from final export >> for publication. I take it that in the former case we

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/28/2014 10:56 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Here, I think it's especially helpful to distinguish "round trip" conversion, which would be used during collaboration, from final export for publication. I take it that in the former case we just need to make sure not to

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/28/2014 11:07 AM, stefano franchi wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Here, I think it's especially helpful to distinguish "round trip" conversion, which would be used during collaboration, from final export for

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
PS For import, what about modfying writer2latex? Richard

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
stefano franchi wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > > I assume that in LyX, there is an API which could be used to convert > > *independent* from > > the file format? I don't assume they are exposed outside LyX so that > > they can be accessed from

Re: Feature Request

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/28/2014 08:55 AM, Thomas Schwabhäuser wrote: Hello, 1. I am using LyX with Nicola Talbot's LaTeX package glossaries. Therefore I need to maintain several tex-files with databases for the data in each glossary. I asked Nicola Talbot for a best practice to do so. As explained

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Richard Heck wrote: > I don't have experience with biblatex. Isn't there some intermediate > file we could parse? No. The bbl file consists of rather complex LaTeX code, which is then interpreted by LaTeX on the output route based on the bibliography, citation format and language style files.

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread Rainer M Krug
Richard Heck writes: > On 02/28/2014 02:43 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >> Am Donnerstag 27 Februar 2014, 12:29:36 schrieb stefano franchi: >>> - Bibliography support with suitable styles is a must. This feature >>> is as crucial to someone working in the Humanities, as math

Re: unofficial gnuplot external template?

2014-02-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
Scott Kostyshak wrote: > A search suggests that there would be some demand: Feel free to prepapre the patch :) P > http://www.gauhati.ac.in/files/uploaded_files/file510.pdf > http://projectedneuralactivity.blogspot.com/2012/05/using-gnuplot-with-lyx.html >

Re: GSoC Student Application

2014-02-28 Thread stefano franchi
Hi Jicksy, welcome to LyX! It's great to hear you are interested in the round trip conversion project. There is currently an intense and ongoing discussion about the project on the lyx-developers list. See [1]. That is a good starting point on the current state of the project and the various

How to provide useful bug-tracking information

2014-02-28 Thread Itai Shaked
Hello, I am encountering a recurrent bug, which I am non the less unable to reliably reproduce. LyX seems to get stuck in an infinite loop following certain cursor movement/selection. I have tried looking around using gdb, but I am not very familiar with this tool, and I don't know anything about

Re: GSoC Student Application

2014-02-28 Thread Jicksy John
Stefano, I am familiar with LaTeX, been using it for submitting Reports and for making Resume. LyX is now installed- will go through the documentation to get further hold of the things in there. You summed up things in a easy manner. Thanks would try to reach till bug fix soon enough and get

Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-28 Thread stefano franchi
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > Richard Heck writes: > >> On 02/28/2014 02:43 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >>> Am Donnerstag 27 Februar 2014, 12:29:36 schrieb stefano franchi: - Bibliography support with suitable styles is a must.

Re: GSoC Student Application

2014-02-28 Thread Jicksy John
Is there LyX repo available? Can I have link to the same? When I try fixing bugs, will need to edit code and run LyX right? On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Jicksy John wrote: > Stefano, > > I am familiar with LaTeX, been using it for submitting Reports and for >

Google Summer of Code Project

2014-02-28 Thread Wang Kunzhen
Dear Lyx Developer’s Group, I am interested in the project Advanced Find and Replace proposed by Lyx for Google Summer of Code and would like to join the Lyx Dev’s group to discuss the possible ideas I might have. Regards, Wang Kunzhen

Re: About XML LyX file format [was: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats]

2014-02-28 Thread Georg Baum
Alex Vergara Gil wrote: >> Do you mean a native LyX file format which would be the primary format, >> or an auxiliary format for interfacing with external tools? > > I mean xml as primary format. Well, I wanted to know what Richard meant, but your opinion is welcome as well;-) > If you have

Re: GSoC Student Application

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/28/2014 02:31 PM, Jicksy John wrote: Is there LyX repo available? Can I have link to the same? http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/LyXGit When I try fixing bugs, will need to edit code and run LyX right? Yeah, that's usually how it goes. Richard

Re: Google Summer of Code Project

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/28/2014 02:58 PM, Wang Kunzhen wrote: Dear Lyx Developer's Group, I am interested in the project /Advanced Find and Replace /proposed by Lyx for Google Summer of Code and would like to join the Lyx Dev's group to discuss the possible ideas I might have. Go ahead, then. rh

Issue with the language setting after install

2014-02-28 Thread Leon Hendrian
Hello, I just installed Lyx by downloading the installer from the english webpage onto my english-language-windows-7, which is physically sitting in germany, and although being quite careful in the installation process, I wound up with German as a preset menu language. I do not think this is

Re: LyX on OS X 10.9

2014-02-28 Thread Georg Baum
Benjamin Piwowarski wrote: > Hi Georg, > > here are some comments/answers on your questions: > > On 27 Feb 2014, at 22:36 , Georg Baum > wrote: > >> >> We do not use C-style casts. Could you please rewrite this, e.g. like >> >> bool const success = (os <<

Re: How to provide useful bug-tracking information

2014-02-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
Itai Shaked wrote: > Hello, > I am encountering a recurrent bug, which I am non the less unable to > reliably reproduce. LyX seems to get stuck in an infinite loop following > certain cursor movement/selection. > I have tried looking around using gdb, but I am not very familiar with this > tool,

Re: LyX on OS X 10.9

2014-02-28 Thread Benjamin Piwowarski
On 28 Feb 2014, at 23:01 , Georg Baum wrote: >>> I can't comment on the cmake part, but the C++ changes look good. To our >>> Mac expperts: Is there any reason why they are not already in? >> I guess this is because since QT_WS_MACX was not defined anymore in

Re: GSoC Student Application

2014-02-28 Thread Jicksy John
Thank you, was looking for that. Would clone and get started. On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 02/28/2014 02:31 PM, Jicksy John wrote: > >> Is there LyX repo available? Can I have link to the same? >> > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/LyXGit > > > When I