Re: LyX 2.3.1 Installer 3

2018-09-28 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 29/09/2018 1:53 p.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 09/28/2018 12:04 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 9/28/18 10:31 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Am Freitag, den 28.09.2018, 16:13 +0200 schrieb Daniel: Maybe there is a reason for 1) but then the installer should tell the user to

Re: LyX 2.3.1 Installer 3

2018-09-28 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 29/09/2018 1:53 p.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 09/28/2018 12:04 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 9/28/18 10:31 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Am Freitag, den 28.09.2018, 16:13 +0200 schrieb Daniel: Maybe there is a reason for 1) but then the installer should tell the user to

Re: Newline can cause text before to shift upward

2018-09-22 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 22/09/2018 2:30 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 09:49:07AM +1200, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 21/09/2018 1:38 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 02:23:28PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 08/09/2018 à 00:38, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : In some cases

Re: Newline can cause text before to shift upward

2018-09-20 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 21/09/2018 1:38 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 02:23:28PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 08/09/2018 à 00:38, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : In some cases, when I break a line, the text to the left of the break is shifted upwards. See the attached screenshots. In case

Re: Two small mathed quibbles.

2018-09-20 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 20/09/2018 9:12 p.m., Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 18/09/2018 à 12:49, Andrew Parsloe a écrit : Could you show a screenshot? I do not see it. I've attached screenshots (15.6" Acer laptop screen). To the left a T with a prime (a single quote mark '), to the right a T without a

Re: Format 63

2018-09-20 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 20/09/2018 8:45 p.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Thank you very much for taking this task, Andrew! Much appreciated. The patch looks good. I do not think that we need to track this uncontroversial change, though. If it is not too much of additional work, can you just accept those changes

Re: Format 63

2018-09-20 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 18/09/2018 5:36 a.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Am Freitag, den 14.09.2018, 13:12 +1200 schrieb Andrew Parsloe: In two places in the Customization manual, Format 63 is mentioned as the current format, rather than 66. (Subsecs 5.2.1.1 and 5.2.2) Could you submit a patch? The numbers

Re: Two small mathed quibbles.

2018-09-18 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 18/09/2018 6:55 p.m., Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 04/09/2018 à 02:02, Andrew Parsloe a écrit : Working with mathed in 2.3.1, I've noted a couple of small items. 1. Some primes need more space. Lowercase: t', d'; uppercase T', E', F'. (T' is the worst.) This is using the default Times

Format 63

2018-09-13 Thread Andrew Parsloe
In two places in the Customization manual, Format 63 is mentioned as the current format, rather than 66. (Subsecs 5.2.1.1 and 5.2.2) Andrew --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: Crash

2018-09-10 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 10/09/2018 8:20 p.m., Daniel wrote: On 10/09/2018 08:30, Andrew Parsloe wrote: LyX 2.3.1, windows 7 1. Create a new document, type a letter 2. View the pdf (eyes button) 3. From the pdf  'Save as' to  a permanent directory. 4. Close the pdf viewer 5. Click on LyX -- crash. I often work

Crash

2018-09-10 Thread Andrew Parsloe
LyX 2.3.1, windows 7 1. Create a new document, type a letter 2. View the pdf (eyes button) 3. From the pdf  'Save as' to  a permanent directory. 4. Close the pdf viewer 5. Click on LyX -- crash. I often work in this way, viewing the pdf, correcting the LyX source, and then 'Saving as' from

Re: New 2.3.1 Windows Installer for Testing

2018-09-06 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 7/09/2018 5:37 a.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: Here:     http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/ Please let us know if this fixes the slowness bug from before. If so, we'll proceed to release. Riki I've installed this version and it solves the slowness problem with my test

Re: Two small mathed quibbles.

2018-09-03 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 4/09/2018 1:54 p.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 12:02:10PM +1200, Andrew Parsloe wrote: Working with mathed in 2.3.1, Hi Andrew, Are your comments comparing 2.3.1 to 2.3.0, or not necessarily? Scott The position of the prime is to be compared with 2.2.3, where

Two small mathed quibbles.

2018-09-03 Thread Andrew Parsloe
Working with mathed in 2.3.1, I've noted a couple of small items. 1. Some primes need more space. Lowercase: t', d'; uppercase T', E', F'. (T' is the worst.) This is using the default Times New Roman at 150% zoom. 2. It seems much harder now to select a subscript with the mouse in an inline

Re: Windows Installer for Testing

2018-09-01 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 1/09/2018 11:49 p.m., Enrico Forestieri wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 11:09:58AM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Am Samstag, den 01.09.2018, 20:27 +1200 schrieb Andrew Parsloe: OK, this time I inserted a Bib(la)TeX Bibliography via Insert > List/TOC, using an old BibTeX .bib file I

Re: Windows Installer for Testing

2018-09-01 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 1/09/2018 7:13 p.m., Daniel wrote: On 2018-09-01 08:57, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 1/09/2018 11:11 a.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 08/31/2018 05:58 PM, Daniel wrote: On 2018-08-31 22:51, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 08/31/2018 01:31 PM, Daniel wrote: On 2018-08-31 19:23, Richard

Re: Windows Installer for Testing

2018-09-01 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 1/09/2018 7:13 p.m., Daniel wrote: On 2018-09-01 08:57, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 1/09/2018 11:11 a.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 08/31/2018 05:58 PM, Daniel wrote: On 2018-08-31 22:51, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 08/31/2018 01:31 PM, Daniel wrote: On 2018-08-31 19:23, Richard

Re: Windows Installer for Testing

2018-09-01 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 1/09/2018 11:11 a.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 08/31/2018 05:58 PM, Daniel wrote: On 2018-08-31 22:51, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 08/31/2018 01:31 PM, Daniel wrote: On 2018-08-31 19:23, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 08/31/2018 10:33 AM, Daniel wrote: It might be the same

Re: WARNING: updating LaTeX or LyX under Windows will currently break LaTeX installation

2018-08-28 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 29/08/2018 1:30 p.m., Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dear LyX Windows users, yesterday I noticed a severe bug in the LaTeX system "MiKTeX" that LyX is usually using under Windows. The problem is that if you - upgrade MiKTeX or LyX or - install a new LaTeX package or - refresh the MiKTeX package

Re: Windows Installers: TESTING ONLY

2018-05-31 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 16/05/2018 3:33 p.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: I have finally managed to build Windows installers for 2.3.0. They can be found here:     http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/ Let me emphasize again that     THESE ARE FOR TESTING ONLY I have tested them a little bit myself,

Re: Windows Installers: TESTING ONLY

2018-05-19 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 19/05/2018 8:59 p.m., Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 16/05/2018 à 19:48, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit : It seems to me that there are two kinds of issues. One is what (if anything) we install, and the other is what happens after that. I think the "auto-install packages" feature of MiKTeX is

Re: LyX 2.3.0 on Windows

2018-05-18 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 19/05/2018 5:12 a.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 05/18/2018 11:16 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 05/18/2018 04:32 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 18/05/2018 11:27 a.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: I've fixed the problems reported by people who've tried the new installers

Re: LyX 2.3.0 on Windows

2018-05-18 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 18/05/2018 11:27 a.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: I've fixed the problems reported by people who've tried the new installers. The question is how now to proceed. Note that these are questions for 2.3.0 (and probably 2.3.1, since I will turn my attention to that once this issue is resolved).

Link to windows installers

2018-05-18 Thread Andrew Parsloe
Please ignore my previous message. I see the link  that pointed to version 1 now points to version 3. I will install it and try it out. Andrew --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: LyX 2.3.0 on Windows

2018-05-18 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 18/05/2018 11:27 a.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: ... I guess I am a bit nervous about these installers, since I have no idea what I'm doing, and we didn't get THAT much feedback from my previous messages. Riki I'm very happy to try your latest version if you can provide a link. Andrew

Re: Windows Installers: TESTING ONLY

2018-05-15 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 16/05/2018 3:33 p.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: I have finally managed to build Windows installers for 2.3.0. They can be found here:     http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/ Let me emphasize again that     THESE ARE FOR TESTING ONLY I have tested them a little bit myself,

Re: Windows Installer: Future Issues

2018-03-11 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 12/03/2018 4:32 p.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 03/11/2018 04:52 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 11.03.2018 um 18:12 schrieb Scott Kostyshak: I think that's what we're doing. The basic disagreement we have is that I think adding a dialog will bring more benefit than harm. And I made clear why I am

Re: Results of small poll - download speed of LyX installers & where we go from there

2018-03-01 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 1/03/2018 10:25 p.m., Pavel Sanda wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: Richard Heck wrote: From our side only one change in release process is needed - creating torrent and putting on ftp next to other binaries (and .sig file for security purpose). And perhaps one section in on Download page, I'll

Re: Planning to announce 2.3.0 around 17h00 UTC

2018-02-28 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 1/03/2018 8:27 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 02/28/2018 01:11 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: I'm planning to announce 2.3.0 around 17h00 UTC unless someone reports a major issue and suggests delaying. The biggest pending issue is that the 2.3.0 Windows binary is not working for racoon, but

Re: [LyX/master] Add LFUN_DOC_ANONYMIZE, quick fix for #7259.

2018-02-02 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 3/02/2018 11:51 a.m., Pavel Sanda wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: commit c19c3899d1b725cb341f6f18e6704a106eb1fc67 Author: Pavel Sanda Date: Fri Feb 2 23:42:56 2018 +0100 Add LFUN_DOC_ANONYMIZE, quick fix for #7259. Scott, 2.3.0 or 2.3.1? Pavel Dear Pavel, As far as I can

Re: [RFC][PATCH] native file dialogs

2018-01-30 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 31/01/2018 4:41 a.m., Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 30/01/2018 à 16:33, José Abílio Matos a écrit : One option that I thought about it sometimes is the removal of the native file dialogs and the placement in the Help menu of an entry that would allow to open the file picker for Examples.

Re: LyX & feature wishes

2018-01-17 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 15/01/2018 10:51 p.m., Bernt Lie wrote: Another thing related to efficiency: 3.I tend to experiment a bit with my notation. What symbol should I use for dimensionless variables? I have tried with math expressions with bar decoration, with subscript asterisk, etc., etc. I should probably

Re: Beamer & Outliner broken

2018-01-14 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 14/01/2018 10:12 p.m., Pavel Sanda wrote: Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 14/01/2018 7:59 a.m., Pavel Sanda wrote: Here we go: put beamer_test.lyx & beamer_test.tex.orig to our git tree. then outline & beamer test should be smt like: rm beamer_test.tex lyx -x 'command-sequence f

Re: Beamer & Outliner broken

2018-01-13 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 14/01/2018 7:59 a.m., Pavel Sanda wrote: Here we go: put beamer_test.lyx & beamer_test.tex.orig to our git tree. then outline & beamer test should be smt like: rm beamer_test.tex lyx -x 'command-sequence file-open beamer_test.lyx ; buffer-begin ; repeat 150 outline-down; repeat 150

Re: Slow opening of Document Settings in RC1

2017-11-02 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 3/11/2017 5:44 a.m., racoon wrote: On 02.11.2017 17:21, racoon wrote: The opening of Document Settings takes about 8 seconds for some Documents on my system. LyX becomes unresponsive in the meanwhile. (Core 2 Duo, Win7) I noticed that the delay became longer in beta1. But it was much

Re: List of notes not in beta1

2017-10-20 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 20/10/2017 6:50 p.m., racoon wrote: On 19.10.2017 15:25, Kornel Benko wrote: Am Donnerstag, 19. Oktober 2017 um 14:00:27, schrieb racoon My documents do not show the "Notes" list in the Outline pane in beta1. Is that a bug? Daniel Insert a note first? Kornel

Archaeology: LyX c.2000

2017-10-16 Thread Andrew Parsloe
As a side-effect of something else I stumbled across these links to LyX 1999--2003 including a graphical tour of LyX, 1999. Last year (I think) a binary for LyX 0.10.7 was found and Jean-Marc mentioned in relation to that the material at http://www.lyx.org/misc/archaeology/.  I read there,

Re: Colour schemes

2017-10-15 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 16/10/2017 5:22 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 10/14/2017 05:15 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: Recent eye trouble made it difficult to read black text on a white-ish screen and I found myself exploring colour schemes with dark backgrounds. There are some examples on the LyX wiki at /Tips

Colour schemes

2017-10-14 Thread Andrew Parsloe
Recent eye trouble made it difficult to read black text on a white-ish screen and I found myself exploring colour schemes with dark backgrounds. There are some examples on the LyX wiki at /Tips/ColorSchemes. White text against a blue background has proved helpful. But there is no built-in way

Re: Copiers & viewers

2017-10-06 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 6/10/2017 11:05 p.m., Guenter Milde wrote: On 2017-10-04, Andrew Parsloe wrote: At present a copier is triggered when a document is exported, yet my pattern of work tends to be: view the pdf, and then save a copy from the pdf viewer (Sumatra in my case). I recall reading on this  list

Copiers & viewers

2017-10-04 Thread Andrew Parsloe
At present a copier is triggered when a document is exported, yet my pattern of work tends to be: view the pdf, and then save a copy from the pdf viewer (Sumatra in my case). I recall reading on this  list earlier in the year I think it was Scott describing the same work flow. The easy

Re: ext_copy.py

2017-08-10 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 9/08/2017 3:35 a.m., José Abílio Matos wrote: On Thursday, 25 May 2017 01.31.05 WEST Andrew Parsloe wrote: (Deep breath.) I think ext_copy.py is only half of a pair of scripts. The other half is a "dummy exporter", something like ## dummy_export.py ## a minimal script used

Re: What kinds of "code" can be embedded in a LyX document and "run" from LyX?

2017-08-02 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 3/08/2017 8:45 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 09:50:47PM +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: * Execution occurs at preview or when related to exporting a document. I agree it is a good idea to discuss specifically what can happen during preview and what can

Re: Alt+A 0

2017-05-26 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 26/05/2017 7:40 p.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 25.05.2017, 12:51 +1200 schrieb Andrew Parsloe: Given the arrangement of keys on a keyboard, there seems a certain naturalness to assigning Alt+A 0 to the first post argument. Done. Jürgen Thank you Jürgen! Andrew

Re: Alt+A 0

2017-05-25 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 26/05/2017 1:46 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 12:51:26PM +1200, Andrew Parsloe wrote: The shortcut keys Alt+A 1, ..., Alt+A 9 are assigned to argument-insert 1 ... argument-insert 9. On all the keyboards I have used, the numbers run in a row 1234567890 from left

Re: Visible version id

2017-05-25 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 26/05/2017 2:46 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:09:11AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 16/05/2017 à 10:37, Andrew Parsloe a écrit : The version is displayed in the main window when no document is open, but if I understand correctly you would like

Alt+A 0

2017-05-24 Thread Andrew Parsloe
The shortcut keys Alt+A 1, ..., Alt+A 9 are assigned to argument-insert 1 ... argument-insert 9. On all the keyboards I have used, the numbers run in a row 1234567890 from left to right. On my system Alt+A 0 is unassigned. I suggest assigning it to argument-insert post:1. A post argument

Re: No toolbar menu and no toolbar icon-size in menu

2017-05-24 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 25/05/2017 11:10 a.m., Guillaume MM wrote: Le 24/05/2017 à 08:30, racoon a écrit : On 24.05.2017 08:21, racoon wrote: On 22.05.2017 18:55, racoon wrote: With LyX 2.2.3 on Win7 I have no toolbar menu (just "No Action Defined!") and no toolbar icon-size in menu. Can someone else verify? On

Re: ext_copy.py

2017-05-24 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 24/05/2017 9:24 p.m., José Abílio Matos wrote: On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 03.51.55 WEST Scott Kostyshak wrote: Any objection from anyone else? Scott Honestly the use of the plus sign as a special character seems unnatural to me. :-) My suggestion would be to pass an option that

Re: Asked for username/password when going to ftp.lyx.org from www.lyx.org/Download. (Was: can I get a username and password to download lyx?(

2017-05-20 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 20/05/2017 10:37 p.m., Christian Ridderström wrote: On 18 May 2017 at 09:09, Stephan Witt > wrote: For me - on Mac - it has always been like this. It’s not a big deal IMO to choose anonymous and proceed. Therefore I didn’t complain :)

Re: Adv. F. & R.

2017-05-18 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 18/05/2017 6:45 p.m., Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: All valuable comments, thanks for the detailed report. This deserves a TT on trac.lyx.org. I'd agree with 2. and 5., and for the others the issue is that the regexp inset is a kind of math inset ATM, but at the same time it is not, in that it

Re: Adv. F. & R.

2017-05-17 Thread Andrew Parsloe
Top posting deliberately: please ignore point 4. A thinko on my part. Andrew On 18/05/2017 1:31 p.m., Andrew Parsloe wrote: (alpha1-1, windows 7) Some "road testing" of adv. find & replace: UI matters (mainly minor): 1. With a document open and the Adv. F & R panel open, cli

Adv. F. & R.

2017-05-17 Thread Andrew Parsloe
(alpha1-1, windows 7) Some "road testing" of adv. find & replace: UI matters (mainly minor): 1. With a document open and the Adv. F & R panel open, click on the document to ensure the focus is there. Now click the X on the Adv F & R panel to close it. It closes but the toolbar button remains

Re: Blank buttons

2017-05-16 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 16/05/2017 10:17 p.m., Guillaume MM wrote: Le 14/05/2017 à 23:25, Andrew Parsloe a écrit : I was testing compilation of files with apostrophes in the filename. When I had finished I deleted the files on disk forgetting they were still open in LyX. The attached screenshot shows the choices

Re: Exporting docs with cross-refs to LyX 2.2.x fails in alpha1-1

2017-05-16 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 17/05/2017 4:35 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 05/15/2017 06:06 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: (alpha1-1, windows 7) When I export a document containing cross-refs to LyX 2.2.x format & then try to open it in LyX 2.2.2, I get the error message Unknown parameter name: noprefix and the docu

Re: Visible version id

2017-05-16 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 16/05/2017 8:22 p.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 07:27:18PM -0600, Joel Kulesza wrote: On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Andrew Parsloe <apars...@clear.net.nz> wrote: Perhaps rather than just the logo followed by LyX on the title bar, also include the version

Re: Exporting master-child docs to LyX 2.2.x fails in alpha1-1

2017-05-16 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 16/05/2017 1:04 p.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 05/15/2017 06:34 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: (alpha1-1, windows 7) When I try exporting a simple master document to LyX 2.2.2 I get an error message saying lyx2lyx failed to convert it. Clicking the message away, the document does open but doesn't

Visible version id

2017-05-15 Thread Andrew Parsloe
It would be helpful if LyX displayed its version number somewhere easily visible. If one has more than one version of LyX open at a time this would simplify navigation among them. I've recently had alpha, 2.2.2 and 2.1.5 open. It is easy to make silly mistakes, forgetting precisely which

Exporting master-child docs to LyX 2.2.x fails in alpha1-1

2017-05-15 Thread Andrew Parsloe
(alpha1-1, windows 7) When I try exporting a simple master document to LyX 2.2.2 I get an error message saying lyx2lyx failed to convert it. Clicking the message away, the document does open but doesn't compile. (Message: Could not load included file ...) Andrew --- This email has been

Exporting docs with cross-refs to LyX 2.2.x fails in alpha1-1

2017-05-15 Thread Andrew Parsloe
(alpha1-1, windows 7) When I export a document containing cross-refs to LyX 2.2.x format & then try to open it in LyX 2.2.2, I get the error message Unknown parameter name: noprefix and the document doesn't open. If I try to open it a second time, the document does open but is truncated at

Blank buttons

2017-05-14 Thread Andrew Parsloe
I was testing compilation of files with apostrophes in the filename. When I had finished I deleted the files on disk forgetting they were still open in LyX. The attached screenshot shows the choices LyX presented me with (a difficult choice). (alpha1-1, windows 7) Andrew --- This email has

Regression in child document referencing (alpha1-1)

2017-05-13 Thread Andrew Parsloe
I've attached a mwe consisting of a master and two child documents. References in Child-1 to Child-2 are labelled BROKEN. References in the other direction are OK. Reversing the order in which Child-1 and Child-2 are inserted in Master shows refs in Child-2 to Child-1 are now BROKEN while the

Re: default dir when save for first time is not cwd

2017-05-09 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 9/05/2017 11:04 p.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: If the Working Directory slot is not filled on Windows (or if it contains just a period) File > Open opens to LyX 2.3/bin which seems dangerous to me. I agree it should not open to 2.3/bin. I imagine it should be the My Documents folder.

Re: Migration of preferences

2017-05-09 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 9/05/2017 2:42 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 06:39:38PM +1200, Andrew Parsloe wrote: alpha1-1 installed on windows 7. I can't remember if preferences are supposed to migrate on a major release. They didn't. I renamed my LyX2.2 folder LyX2.3 and then had to manually

Re: default dir when save for first time is not cwd

2017-05-08 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 9/05/2017 8:42 a.m., Stephan Witt wrote: Am 08.05.2017 um 22:26 schrieb Andrew Parsloe <apars...@clear.net.nz>: On 9/05/2017 2:41 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 12:14:02PM +1200, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On windows 7, alpha1-1, the Open dialogue displays t

Re: default dir when save for first time is not cwd

2017-05-08 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 9/05/2017 2:41 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 12:14:02PM +1200, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On windows 7, alpha1-1, the Open dialogue displays the CWD. For alpha1-1, if you open LyX from the GUI (the Start menu?), and you create a new document, type something, and go

Migration of preferences

2017-05-08 Thread Andrew Parsloe
alpha1-1 installed on windows 7. I can't remember if preferences are supposed to migrate on a major release. They didn't. I renamed my LyX2.2 folder LyX2.3 and then had to manually increment the format numbers of the files in bind and ui. Andrew --- This email has been checked for viruses by

Re: default dir when save for first time is not cwd

2017-05-07 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 8/05/2017 10:52 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 11:54:56PM +0200, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 12.10.2016 um 04:30 schrieb Scott Kostyshak : On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 12:27:51PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: Looks fine to me. It's in at 892593f. Hi

ext_copy.py

2017-05-04 Thread Andrew Parsloe
I would like to see the following small change made to the script ext_copy.py for 2.3.0: Currently it contains the lines: # output directory to_dir = args[1] if targext != '.': to_dir += "." + targext Change this to # output directory if targext == '+': to_dir =

Re: copy inside math and paste in text mode gives LaTeX

2017-05-01 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 2/05/2017 9:50 a.m., Enrico Forestieri wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 12:41:40PM -0500, Scott Kostyshak wrote: I'm often asked by LyX users why LyX behaves in the following way: 1. Start math and type X to the power \alpha. 2. Inside the math inset, copy the contents. 3. Outside the math

Re: Tentative schedule for 2.3.0 release

2017-04-10 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 11/04/2017 2:45 p.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: A second reason to keep the alpha is that very few Windows and Mac users can compile a development version. An alpha is nice in situations where we cannot reproduce a bug. We can ask users if they can still reproduce e.g. a serious crash that

Re: Formal tables

2017-03-29 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 30/03/2017 11:11 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: On 03/29/2017 04:22 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 29/03/2017 1:04 p.m., Joel Kulesza wrote: On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Andrew Parsloe <apars...@clear.net.nz <mailto:apars...@clear.net.nz>> wrote: The booktabs package p

Re: Formal tables

2017-03-29 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 29/03/2017 1:04 p.m., Joel Kulesza wrote: On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Andrew Parsloe <apars...@clear.net.nz <mailto:apars...@clear.net.nz>> wrote: The booktabs package produces much cleaner tables than "native" LaTeX ones, but I wonder why LyX only &

Formal tables

2017-03-28 Thread Andrew Parsloe
The booktabs package produces much cleaner tables than "native" LaTeX ones, but I wonder why LyX only "half converts" a LaTeX table to formal style? In the attachment LyX produces the middle table from the left-hand one, but the right-hand one is what should be produced according to the

Re: PDF error

2017-03-09 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 10/03/2017 11:09 a.m., Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 03/08/2017 06:13 AM, Irene Dinah Wen wrote: Hi everyone, I'm new to LaTeX/Lyx (LyX Version 2.2.2, Windows 10, installed in the last few weeks), and I'm having some issues with printing to PDF that was not addressed in the

Re: User template directory

2017-01-20 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 21/01/2017 11:50 a.m., Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 01/20/2017 05:26 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: For easy access to both private and standard templates, I have * set a custom template dir path under Tools>Settings>Paths * added a symlink "stdtemplates" to the standard templates dir there. Günter

Re: Biblatex

2017-01-08 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 9/01/2017 7:50 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: Thanks so much for doing this. I've not yet moved to biblatex myself, but this will encourage me to give it a try. Richard On 01/08/2017 04:14 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Biblatex support is ready over at the features/biblatex2 branch. Of

Re: use cfrac.sty in lib/unicodesymbols?

2016-12-15 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 16/12/2016 5:15 a.m., Guenter Milde wrote: Dear LyX developers, To fix the 8 years old bug http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5220 "different conversion of vulgar fraction unicode chars", I recommend using \sfrac from the xfrac package. The xfrac.sty package (​http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xfrac)

Re: #10481: Hardening LyX against potential misuse

2016-12-12 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 13/12/2016 12:04 a.m., Helge Hafting wrote: I see a problem with this: Den 06. nov. 2016 20:57, skrev Tommaso Cucinotta: Converters marked with the new "needauth" option won't be run unless the user gives explicit authorization, which is asked on-demand when the converter

Re: Outliner problem

2016-12-05 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 5/12/2016 5:39 p.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 02:27:50PM +1300, Andrew Parsloe wrote: Working on two documents at once with different levels of headings reveals a problem with the outliner. If doc1 has, say, 3 levels (chap., sec., subsec.) and doc2 has none

Outliner problem

2016-12-04 Thread Andrew Parsloe
Working on two documents at once with different levels of headings reveals a problem with the outliner. If doc1 has, say, 3 levels (chap., sec., subsec.) and doc2 has none, then the slider indicating how many levels to display is dominated by doc2. Setting the slider for doc1 to show 3 levels,

Re: Assertion from Insert>Special Character

2016-12-03 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 2/12/2016 7:11 p.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 09:56:39AM +1300, Andrew Parsloe wrote: The assertion message references Paragraph.cpp, line 1723. Andrew can you reproduce this on current master? Scott I would need to download bleeding-edge lyx to test this and it's

Re: Mark line(s) on Reverse search instead of close position

2016-11-21 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 22/11/2016 9:31 a.m., racoon wrote: On 14.11.2016 22:59, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 15/11/2016 1:01 a.m., racoon wrote: On 23.09.2016 23:00, Guillaume Munch wrote: Le 29/08/2016 à 12:33, racoon a écrit : On Reverse search LyX puts the cursor at a position only *close* to but not exactly

Re: [patch] Do not open or close branches after doc settings

2016-11-21 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 21/11/2016 6:34 p.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 09:22:19PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 05:22:57PM -0700, Pavel Sanda wrote: Shrug. Opening branch insets I'm activating seems pretty intuitive to me. Pavel OK let's keep that behavior then,

GPL declaration

2016-11-17 Thread Andrew Parsloe
I hereby agree to license my contributions to LyX under the General Public License, version 2 or any later version. Andrew --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: Mark line(s) on Reverse search instead of close position

2016-11-14 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 15/11/2016 1:01 a.m., racoon wrote: On 23.09.2016 23:00, Guillaume Munch wrote: Le 29/08/2016 à 12:33, racoon a écrit : On Reverse search LyX puts the cursor at a position only *close* to but not exactly at the position chosen in the pdf document. It is a bit tricky for me to always find

Re: #10462: Add possibility to use an inverted cursor color

2016-11-09 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 10/11/2016 5:07 a.m., Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: For example, nobody remembers why we have the \show_banner option or \screen_font_sizes options. Or the three different interfaces for editing math macros. But it is just bikesheding IMO. JMarc I had never come across this use of

Assertion from Insert>Special Character

2016-11-01 Thread Andrew Parsloe
I tried out Insert>Special Character>Symbols in response to an email to the list from Michael Berger and triggered an assertion. (LyX 2.2.2 on Windows 7) Recipe: in a new document Insert>Special Character>Symbols>Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols Insert any symbol from this group Select the

Re: ! Package l3regex Error: Support package l3kernel too old.

2016-10-31 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 1/11/2016 6:22 a.m., edu Gpl wrote: Dear Uwe and lyx team i can't generate pdf file from math.lyx (in help menu), i got this msg: ! Package l3regex Error: Support package l3kernel too old. my system: windows 10 lyx: 2.2.1 pdf viewer: acrobat reader the error report in attachment file

Re: Modules dialogue

2016-10-25 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 25/10/2016 5:14 p.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Am Dienstag, den 25.10.2016, 08:55 +1300 schrieb Andrew Parsloe: My concern was for the list of modules to be scannable "at a glance". You rightly pointed out in your first post that "the modules dialogue [...] looks as if

Re: Modules dialogue

2016-10-24 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 25/10/2016 5:53 a.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Am Montag, den 24.10.2016, 13:15 +0200 schrieb racoon: Sorry, probably the attached is better. I would prefer a layout where we can maintain the horizontal order (which we use in all other similar dialogs). Maybe we can wrap the descriptions

Modules dialogue

2016-10-23 Thread Andrew Parsloe
In an earlier email I managed to overlook the Assumption environment, provided in the Theorems-AMS-Extended module, as Paul indicated. OK, more of this kind of thing is to be expected as I enter my dotage, but when I view the modules dialogue it looks as if it has outgrown its current

Re: Add Assumption to Theorems.inc

2016-10-22 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 23/10/2016 4:48 a.m., Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 10/21/2016 10:06 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: Dear LyX developers, I find myself needing an Assumption environment every now and again and think it should be added to Theorems.inc and its relatives. (As far as I can tell it isn't defined in any

Add Assumption to Theorems.inc

2016-10-21 Thread Andrew Parsloe
Dear LyX developers, I find myself needing an Assumption environment every now and again and think it should be added to Theorems.inc and its relatives. (As far as I can tell it isn't defined in any of the Theorems-.inc included in the Resources/layouts folder.) I've added it to a personal

Re: LyX 2.2.2 Tarballs

2016-10-11 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 11/10/2016 1:45 p.m., Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 11.10.2016 um 00:50 schrieb racoon: Which Qt version will be used for LyX 2.2.2? Qt 5.6.2 is around the corner (possibly next week). Qt 6.5.2 is delayed now for 3 weeks so I built using the available version 5.6.1. If 5.6.2 comes out, I will

Re: [PATCH] A fix for the zombie -lyxformat- files invasion ?

2016-09-09 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 9/09/2016 9:29 p.m., José Abílio Matos wrote: On Friday, September 9, 2016 10:45:44 AM WEST Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Hello, Here is a trivial idea to limit the proliferation of myfile-lyxformat-322.lyx files that are more annoying than helpful to many people (or helpful in a Clippy

Re: No math preview

2016-08-13 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 14/08/2016 9:10 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 10:04:50PM +0200, racoon wrote: On 13.08.2016 22:03, racoon wrote: In one of my documents the letter "x" is not previewed even though I have Preview set to "On". I then removed all other math to create a minimal example

Re: Buffer error assertion

2016-08-09 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 10/08/2016 1:54 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: Please file a bug report about this one. JMarc is the person who knows the most about TextMetrics, and he's often not around in August. Richard http://www.lyx.org/trac/attachment/ticket/10324/ Andrew --- This email has been checked for

Re: Buffer error assertion

2016-08-09 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 9/08/2016 9:28 p.m., Andrew Parsloe wrote: I can reliably reproduce the error shown in the attached png nearly every time with the attached LyX document. I position the cursor at the start of the first note (both note insets must be open) and then select the whole document with the mouse

Buffer error assertion

2016-08-09 Thread Andrew Parsloe
I can reliably reproduce the error shown in the attached png nearly every time with the attached LyX document. I position the cursor at the start of the first note (both note insets must be open) and then select the whole document with the mouse (with the left button depressed) by "whooshing"

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