Re: Getting Started Developing LyX

2009-02-19 Thread David Mertens
Thank you all for your responses. I remember thinking at one point months ago that I should learn to work with svn but I only gave it about 30 min, so I was generally overwhelmed by it. Now that I have a little more time, I have found the red book to be great. rh's instructions cover probably

Re: Getting Started Developing LyX

2009-02-19 Thread David Mertens
Thank you all for your responses. I remember thinking at one point months ago that I should learn to work with svn but I only gave it about 30 min, so I was generally overwhelmed by it. Now that I have a little more time, I have found the red book to be great. rh's instructions cover probably

Getting Started Developing LyX

2009-02-17 Thread David Mertens
Greetings All - I'd say I write some pretty solid C++ code, but I haven't the first clue where to start if I wanted to play with the LyX code, let alone contribute to the project. I looked around the website but I couldn't find what I was looking for. Links to any of the following information

Getting Started Developing LyX

2009-02-17 Thread David Mertens
Greetings All - I'd say I write some pretty solid C++ code, but I haven't the first clue where to start if I wanted to play with the LyX code, let alone contribute to the project. I looked around the website but I couldn't find what I was looking for. Links to any of the following information

Portable LyX File Format

2009-02-12 Thread David Mertens
Greetings all - I wanted to offer a suggestion about a portable LyX file format. This was recently brought up on the LyX-users mailing list and has been discussed previously (heatedly?) as documented here - http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/BundleSuggestions - and here -

Re: Portable LyX File Format

2009-02-12 Thread David Mertens
Hello Bo - Thanks for your thoughts. I skimmed your pdf but I'll have to give it a fuller read later. In the meantime I wanted to respond to your post. The lossy .plyx - .lyx - .plyx conversion has been the center of all discussions. As I envision things, the actual conversion of .plyx -

Re: Portable LyX File Format

2009-02-12 Thread David Mertens
Apparently the file that I attached is interpreted (in my OS/browser) as a .bin file when I try to download it. I'm assuming that's because firefox is choking on it due to the lack of a file extension, or it's Linux and the file starts with a period and that's a magic number...? I've made a

Re: Portable LyX File Format

2009-02-12 Thread David Mertens
Hey Bo, thanks again for your responses. it does not seem to differ much from a previous bundling implementation... It was due to a lot of technical and usage difficulties that that implementation was reverted. I found a thread from about a year ago

Portable LyX File Format

2009-02-12 Thread David Mertens
Greetings all - I wanted to offer a suggestion about a portable LyX file format. This was recently brought up on the LyX-users mailing list and has been discussed previously (heatedly?) as documented here - http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/BundleSuggestions - and here -

Re: Portable LyX File Format

2009-02-12 Thread David Mertens
Hello Bo - Thanks for your thoughts. I skimmed your pdf but I'll have to give it a fuller read later. In the meantime I wanted to respond to your post. The lossy .plyx -> .lyx -> .plyx conversion has been the center of all > discussions. > As I envision things, the actual conversion of .plyx

Re: Portable LyX File Format

2009-02-12 Thread David Mertens
Apparently the file that I attached is interpreted (in my OS/browser) as a .bin file when I try to download it. I'm assuming that's because firefox is choking on it due to the lack of a file extension, or it's Linux and the file starts with a period and that's a magic number...? I've made a

Re: Portable LyX File Format

2009-02-12 Thread David Mertens
Hey Bo, thanks again for your responses. it does not seem to differ much from a previous bundling implementation... > It was due to a lot of technical and usage difficulties that that > implementation was reverted. > I found a thread from about a year ago