Re: Online bibliography support

2004-04-03 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 03:32:49PM -0500, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > You mentioned scientific community before mentioning Word. > I do not know which scientific community you belong to, > but I know for sure that all computer scientists, mathematicians, and > physicists I know use LaTeX. It's _THE

Re: Online bibliography support

2004-04-03 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 08:00:08PM -0500, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > John, you really have a penchant to step on my toes for no particular > reason. :-) > Hopelessly naive implies that I'm an idiot who doesn't know what's he > talking about. I didn't mean to offend. Sorry. > I grant you that some

Re: Bugzilla has no 1.3.4 tag

2004-04-05 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 05:46:15PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > John, could you add it and/or grant me sufficient rights so that I can > do it? Have a go, I turned on all bits for you so you should be able to do it now in theory john

Re: OK button in xforms dalog

2004-04-07 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 04:57:55PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > >> Works for me for the "tabular create" dialog in both lyx 13x and > >> 14x. > > > > Well, not here. This is fvwm2 but I doubt this is the reason. Sounds to me like Andre is talking about the Tabular edit dialog not Create, which

Re: OK button in xforms dalog

2004-04-07 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 06:00:08PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Granted. But that doesn't have an "Ok" button, just a "Close". True. > Incidentally, How is life with you? Did you find your "Challenging > position in systems software development"? Sure did. I'm busy hacking Solaris for Sun. >

Re: OK button in xforms dalog

2004-04-07 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 06:09:50PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Interesting. Based here or in the US? Both really :) I'm still in Manchester but practically everybody I work with lives in California. > Fair enough. It's been a frustrating time, but things *are* getting > better. That's good t

Re: OK button in xforms dalog

2004-04-07 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:16:48PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > That'd be indeed a shame. But as all the change tracking code sits > around in a corner somewhere it 'only' takes someone who knows how it > used to work to cobble it together... Last I looked, fixing it would require some non-trivi

Re: My next target?

2004-04-07 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 12:04:26AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Question 1 > == > Is this safe? Ie, will it work if $FIG is empty? > +if test "$FIG" = "xfig"; then > > The usual strategy is: > +if test "x$FIG" = "xxfig"; then > > which is guaranteed to work with all versions of sh. I n

Re: 13x compared to 14x

2004-04-08 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 12:52:53PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > * In 1.4, the top/bottom margin in the lyxview is close to zero. Personally, I > don't like this. It also means you don't see the cursor on the first line due to our cursor displaying logic. We need the margins back john

Re: Command buffer

2004-04-08 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 05:25:10PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Now, personally, I think that it should be there, but leaving that to > one side, why don't we have a minibuffer that 'appears' when I type > 'M-x' and 'disappears' when I subsequently hit return? That way, its > behaviour is anal

Re: 13x compared to 14x

2004-04-09 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:59:25AM +0200, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > John Levon wrote: > > > It also means you don't see the cursor on the first line due to our > > cursor displaying logic. > > I don't see this problem. Try making the first line Title or

Re: Command buffer

2004-04-10 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 05:58:57PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > Is this a permanent change? Yes. I would like some things on top though (and have done for a long time). First, the M-x thing Angus mentioned. Second a View->Toolbars submenu. regards john

Re: 13x compared to 14x

2004-04-10 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 05:58:21PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > I do, at least in the numerator of a fraction on the first line... That's a different problem i.e. it was working before somebody messed up all the new cursor painting stuff... regards john

Re: Command buffer

2004-04-12 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 11:34:43PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > Well, if this would be done, I could live with it. Until then I'd > prefer a visible mini-buffer. Makes debugging a bit easier. We could probably enable it by default for development versions or something regards john

Re: Command buffer

2004-04-13 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 03:32:32PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > I think so. Here's why. > > The command buffer performs two roles: > 1. It provides us with state information. (All those useful 'Running > latex' etc messages.) > 2. It gives us a means to enter lfuns from 'by hand'. > > The xform

Re: My next target?

2004-04-13 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 05:02:59PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Resizing the Qt frontend dialog has no effect on the tabs :-( I'm sure > it is something trivial, but I'm blowed if I know what. You broke the layout (added something ?). You need to group stuff again (select the objects then use th

Re: Command buffer

2004-04-13 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 06:09:27PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > So, if I understand correctly, the argument goes as follows. > > - nobody but a few knew of the command line > - so we separated it from the status display to make them more visible > - now it takes too much space > - so we hide

Re: Spellchecker makes lyx crash

2004-04-18 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 06:16:21PM +0200, Rune Hansen wrote: > I have found a bug in the lyx spellchecker that makes lyx crach > > To reproduce the crash: > > 1. Open several documents in lyx (with some spelling errors in it...) > > 2. Start spellchecker in one of the documents - when dialogb

Redrawing screen on any change at all

2004-04-18 Thread John Levon
Is it really intended that we expose the entire workarea every time I move the cursor? Anybody tried this across a network yet? regards john

bugzilla

2004-04-18 Thread John Levon
How do I get access to change the bugzilla frontpage? Where is it? regards john

Re: bugzilla

2004-04-18 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 07:39:57PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Excellent question... This prompted me to try to find it. It turns out I couldn't work out how the virtual host ends up there though. There doesn't seem to be anything in httpd.conf that says. > This sucks. The frontpage nee

Re: Redrawing screen on any change at all

2004-04-18 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 07:19:18PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > It's no problem on a 10 Mbit LAN. I havent' tried anything slower, > though. OK, we can live with that I suppose. regards john

Re: lyx-devel src/: BufferView_pimpl.C

2004-04-18 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 08:22:52PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Modified files: > lyx-devel/src/: BufferView_pimpl.C > > Log message: > fix goto ref > > Patches: > http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/src/BufferView_pimpl.C?r1=1.539&r2=1.540 Um, didn't you test it?

Re: bugzilla

2004-04-18 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 09:30:10PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I found out by looking at /etc/httpd/virtual.d/ Weird, I must be going crazy, I looked but didn't see the virtual.d directory john

Re: lyx-devel src/mathed/: ref_inset.C command_inset.C command ...

2004-04-18 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 09:57:58PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > lyx-devel/src/mathed/: ref_inset.C command_inset.C > command_inset.h We abandoned changelogs? john

[PATCH] improve cursor visibility

2004-04-18 Thread John Levon
This simple patch partially restores the improvements to the cursor display logic I made some time ago. Now you don't lose the cursor entirely whilst holding down right arrow. However, the risk of regressions is high. I would like, however, to apply the patch and ask everyone to keep a look out f

[PATCH] show minibuffer on M-x

2004-04-19 Thread John Levon
OK? It should be relatively easy after this to add View->Toolbars, but semantics are not immediately obvious (auto-toolbars). regards john Index: lib/ui/default.ui === RCS file: /usr/local/lyx/cvsroot/lyx-devel/lib/ui/default.ui,v

Re: [PATCH] show minibuffer on M-x

2004-04-19 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 06:50:20PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > I don't see it dissappearing on Return. Am I missing something? I'm not sure whether we should do this or not to be honest. It's of dubious utility and we'd have to somehow store whether it's temporary or not. > Incidentally, it's

Re: [PATCH] show minibuffer on M-x

2004-04-19 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:21:15PM -0400, Kuba Ober wrote: > I drink imports. :) I should hope so too! Well that or the micros... I'm likely to be in Ohio some time around never, but I'll take you up on that. Ohio's really small, right ? ;) john

Re: [PATCH] show minibuffer on M-x

2004-04-19 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 08:51:33PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >I'd do that in a follow-up patch along with View->Toolbars (I don't > > Do we really need to have this in a menu? I never understood why > programs tend to do this. What's wrong with the preferences dialog? Because toolbar

Re: bugzilla

2004-04-20 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:09:49AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > | How can we change the bugzilla frontpage? > > /home/bugzilla/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/template/en/custom/index.html.tmpl > > I added you and John to the bugzilla group. Thanks. JMarc, I'm going to look at the page this ev

Re: Reworking QLToolbar

2004-04-20 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:31:41PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > because QLToolBar (and its counterparts in the other frontends) does > too much. are you sure QLayout isn't already a Qt class? > I think that the result is far cleaner. As a bonus, it gets rid of the > ToolbarProxy class. I don't

Re: bugzilla

2004-04-20 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:09:49AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > /home/bugzilla/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/template/en/custom/index.html.tmpl > > I added you and John to the bugzilla group. Unfortunately most of the files only have read permission for group "apache" john

Re: bugzilla

2004-04-20 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:09:49AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > I added you and John to the bugzilla group. I'm still not in the group: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bugzilla]$ groups levon cvsusers (despite /etc/group). Furthermore, most of the files are only readable by group "apache". john

Re: bugzilla

2004-04-21 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 09:08:40AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > | Unfortunately most of the files only have read permission for group > | "apache" > > but not the index file. That's not much use if it's in a directory I can't read or execute john

Re: Buglet: gtk+ frontend

2004-04-21 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:39:23PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > I have "look at subversion and try it out" on my agenda. Please no. You have to install a load of Apache crap (even if you don't need to use webdav) john

Re: bugzilla

2004-04-21 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:41:57PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > You should be able to access the file now, please tell if there are > other problems. (there will be) One thing is that the icons on the simple bug guide are broken... john

bugzilla.lyx.org

2004-04-21 Thread John Levon
Please, everyone, check out the new front page. cheers john

Re: bugzilla

2004-04-21 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 03:24:27PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > | One thing is that the icons on the simple bug guide are broken... > > right but what is the problem :-) I just replaced them with text. john

Re: Musings on multiple toolbars

2004-04-21 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:21:18PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > (To make John happy) XForms is stupid and Qt is clever. Hmmm... you have it half right :) > XForms has no such magic, so we need to do it ourselves. > At the moment the XForms frontend supports a single toolbar only and > both the

Re: bugzilla.lyx.org

2004-04-21 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:18:36PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > What are we supposed to look for? Problems... suggestions... john

Re: bugzilla

2004-04-21 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:42:23PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/ > Click on "simple bug guide" > > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/simple-bug-guide.html > Click on "2. most frequently reported bugs" > > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/mostfrequent.cgi > Click on "Log in" in the bottom,

Re: Buglet: gtk+ frontend

2004-04-21 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 04:16:49PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > I've recently seen a presentation on the subversion/submaster combo and > I was pretty impressed, especially with it's 'offline capabilities'. Um, are you sure? AFAIUI subversion has no real support for distributed development, as

Re: Buglet: gtk+ frontend

2004-04-22 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:01:11AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I agree, we should not create a barrier preventing entry of new > developers... and also avoid annoying existing ones :) > > Concerning the requirements of the client, they seem to be: > > - APR from apache 2.0 > > If I u

Re: Buglet: gtk+ frontend

2004-04-23 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:36:30PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > My understanding is that you would use an additional bunch of scripts > called 'submaster' to do that. I am not sure though, and it might even > be possible to use 'submaster' together with real CVS. I see, I hadn't realised there w

Re: Patches against 1.3.4 for SGI C++ compiler

2004-04-23 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:32:52PM -0500, Albert Chin wrote: > The SGI C++ compiler errors out because of #warning which is a GCCism. > > src/frontends/qt2/QBrowseBox.C needs 'use std::floor' because it makes > a call to floor(). Your patch seems wrong. All of them should be #ifdef WITH_WARNING

bugzilla

2004-05-11 Thread John Levon
I want to change the footer on the pages ... can I have write permission on template/en/default/global/* please? john

Re: Lyx About: license 1995 - 2001 / shouldn't that be 2004?

2004-05-12 Thread John Levon
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:52:40AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > LyX is Copyright (C) 1995-2004 by the scores of volunteers listed in Hmm, at least one bit of it wasn't volunteer work :) john

Re: [possible patch]: numerical citation fix

2004-05-13 Thread John Levon
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 12:48:36PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > One can always have a big tooltip There's no such thing as a big tooltip, so to speak... john

Re: DocBook Export - IDs should not be in anchors, but in the elements

2004-05-13 Thread John Levon
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 01:27:45PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > I'd like as soon as possible, but I am a bit unsure of the current > status. A bare minimum of 3 months development, 1 months testing away from release. If we really rattle through the regressions that is john

Re: DocBook Export - IDs should not be in anchors, but in the elements

2004-05-13 Thread John Levon
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 02:36:44PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > And we probably need that someone begins to compile a list of bugs, > like Michael did for 1.3.0. I think this was very useful. I would encourage people to file bugs targetted to 1.4.0 in bugzilla. There's a few there but I c

Re: The Umlaut Crash (XFT Gurus out there?)

2004-04-27 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 03:27:39PM +, Andreas Klostermann wrote: > So do you propose to stop a new discussion in the starts? > Obviously the GTK version cannot proccess non-English characters. This is a You're making an assumption that the only way to fix the GTK frontend bug is to use Pango

Re: The Umlaut Crash (XFT Gurus out there?)

2004-04-27 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 07:16:25PM +, Andreas Klostermann wrote: > The big benefit of UTF 8 is that you can use it for everything. No need to > switch or determine a special encoding. Another big benefit is that it keeps The encoding of LyX files is a small part of the problem. We also need t

Re: The Umlaut Crash (XFT Gurus out there?)

2004-04-27 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 12:13:07AM +, Andreas Klostermann wrote: > I believe the complete unicode transition will be a very big step, and can only > be done if a good number of developers really want it. I am new with lyx We ALL really want it :) > development and I didn't produce anything r

Re: This year's meeting

2004-04-28 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:22:20PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > Andre' Alfredo Lgb Jean-Marc Well, just in case I actually make it for once... assuming "5" is perfect, "0" is no way: > 4.7. 2 > (10.7.) 0 > 17.7.3 > (24.7.) 2 > 31.7.0 > [(07.8.)] 3 > [14.8.]

Re: A quiz about Fitts' law

2004-05-02 Thread John Levon
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 12:53:59PM +0200, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote: > I came across this link > > http://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html A stone cold classic indeed. You can find some other interesting stuff to read in the same vein via http://movementarian.org/ui/

Re: The flicker of the XForms frontend

2004-05-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 10:05:24AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > enabled XWorkArea to use the conventional X11 drawing model. (John, > do you have it archived, else I'll have to trawl the archives to dig > it out.) Sorry, long since lost john

Re: The flicker of the XForms frontend

2004-05-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 01:04:48PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > // Question: should XScreen::expose always post > // with x, y relative to the top left corner > // of the window? The code below would continue Dunno. If I had

Re: using gdb

2004-05-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 03:13:03PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > I've tracked down the first call to paint which is from > fl_unfreeze_form. I have not been able to ascertain what is calling > fl_unfreeze_form. Any ideas on how I might? Put that another way. How > do I tell gdb to stop execution i

Re: using gdb

2004-05-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 04:01:02PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > But, you cannot set this breakpoint when the binary is not > running already. GDB is unable to detect the shared libraries > which the program depends on. So I do a 'break main' first, > run the program and set the real breakpoint a

Re: popup blocker

2004-05-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 12:55:30PM -0400, Cengiz Gunay wrote: > 1) Having a concept of LyX log file/window similar to the LaTeX log >concept. We already have a "LaTeX errors" dialog box. It could, and should, go there. We need to make the following changes: o) allow our error dialog to have

Re: using gdb

2004-05-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 09:07:37PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Maybe we should do as John has done in the Qt frontend already and > > have separate widgets to display messages and to input commands? > > Btw, I discovered today that there's a Qt "WidgetStack" (or similar) > Why don't we use th

Re: QRef dialog

2004-05-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 10:30:37PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Can someone clued up in Qt ascertain why interaction with the 'sort', > 'update' or 'document' widgets invokes QRefDialog::changed_adaptor. I > can see no reason at all, either in the .ui file or in the > QRefDialog.C, QRef.C files.

Re: QRef dialog

2004-05-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 10:40:54PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Thanks, John. So what's the recommended strategy to address this? Manually save and restore the dialog state is the only one I can think of john

Re: using gdb

2004-05-05 Thread John Levon
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 08:23:08AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 09:07:37PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > > > > Maybe we should do as John has done in the Qt frontend already and > > > > have separate widgets to display messages and to input commands? > > > > > > Bt

Re: QRef dialog

2004-05-05 Thread John Levon
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 08:56:53AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Emitted signals disappear into hyperspace if signals are blocked. Note Are you positive this won't cause problems elsewhere? (timers etc.) regards john

Re: [patch] rework zipped file handling of insetgraphics

2004-05-05 Thread John Levon
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 10:00:47AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Georg, I don't know where you find the energy to resolve these, truly > tedious, bugs. Well done! Amen. I'm really glad George is working so hard on these issues. They're tricky, and cause real problems for users... john

Re: QRef dialog

2004-05-05 Thread John Levon
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 11:17:05AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > No, I admit I hadn't thought of that. However, there are no timers > connected to QRefDialogBase::refsLB, referenceED are there? Well, there's all sorts of internal fun. But if we're works we're probably* OK regards john

Re: LyX WikiWiki recent wiki posts (Wiki trashed)

2004-05-07 Thread John Levon
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 03:02:26PM +0200, Apache wrote: > Recent wiki posts: > (http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Main/AllRecentChanges) > > * http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Welcome - 14:07 7/05 by > * http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/LyX - 14:08 7/05 by > * http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.p

Re: DocBook Export - IDs should not be in anchors, but in the elements

2004-05-16 Thread John Levon
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 03:12:33PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > Have you really followed development/current status well enought to > give those numbers? I'm going by the current state when I test things, my attempts to fix some stuff, and how long it took to get 1.3.0 out of the door re

Re: Using reasonable Qt font defaults (was: lyx crash)

2004-05-17 Thread John Levon
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 03:14:42PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > The problem seems to be related to the use of the "sans" font family > which is unknown from qt. Could you try the attached patch which has > been send by Kornel Benko a while ago? It looks wrong. For starters, these default

Re: Using reasonable Qt font defaults

2004-05-17 Thread John Levon
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 04:56:32PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > John> It looks wrong. For starters, these default aliases should exist > John> on any sane Qt system using Xft. Secondly, even if they don't > John> exist, the created font should change to a default, NOT return a > John> NULL

Re: Using reasonable Qt font defaults (was: lyx crash)

2004-05-17 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 01:42:58AM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote: > The patch I am using now without any crash is attached. The selected fonts may > have some unwanted default value, but at least you are then able to select your > own font with the lyx-UI. Hmm, that's interesting. Why would fromqstr(

Re: lyx-devel config/: ChangeLog lyxinclude.m4

2004-05-18 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 01:05:41PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Log message: > Use the libstdc++ debugging mode if compiling with enable-debug Umm... when did we fix the multitude of new problems this option caused? john

Re: lyx-devel config/: ChangeLog lyxinclude.m4

2004-05-18 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 03:14:36PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > I fixed a lot of them earlier, there were never as many as you > proclaimed. OK doke. john

Re: LyX and Qt-Mac

2004-05-18 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:18:31PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > simple oversight on Qt's part. Has anybody reported this to Qt so > that they can merge the patch into their sources? It would be good if somebody did. > The second change is, IMO, our fault. I don't believe so. They're the librar

Re: LyX and Qt-Mac

2004-05-18 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:45:58PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:18:31PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > > > simple oversight on Qt's part. Has anybody reported this to Qt so > > > that they can merge the patch into their sources? > > > > It would be good if somebody did

Hello?

2004-05-23 Thread John Levon
Has everybody just gone quiet or what? I (and MARC) get no email... john

Re: Qt and debugstream.h

2004-05-24 Thread John Levon
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 11:27:03PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Would it be Ok if I added these blocks around struct debug_trait? > Maybe I'll make the macro name more polite ;-) I'm fairly sure one of the first changes I had rejected by the LyX team was trying to fix up Qt namespace pollution b

Re: Working of LyX

2004-05-24 Thread John Levon
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 12:13:09PM +0530, Amitabh Trehaan wrote: > Hi, > is there any document detailing the internal working of LyX? I am Not really no. > particualrly interested in adding another language package (which > actually uses a preprocessor in LaTeX) to LyX, Something like the > A

Re: Qt and debugstream.h

2004-05-24 Thread John Levon
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 12:46:15PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Qt has a similar problem with its 'signals' macro and namespace > boost::signals. Actually, that one is a bit more insidious because we > #include boost/signals[1-9]*.hpp in lots of other header files, so > the pollution can pop u

Re: Qt and debugstream.h

2004-05-24 Thread John Levon
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:18:44PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Because I was trying to wrap the Qt code inside namespace > lyx::frontend and got offended by it all. That's not too hard to do... > It wasn't me that added this comment: > > // Dear Lord, deliver us from Evil, > // aka the Qt he

Re: boost/cstdint.hpp:121: error

2004-05-31 Thread John Levon
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 11:00:13AM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > My make of up-to-date LyX-CVS ends with: Me too (well, something similar) gcc 3.5.0cvs Didn't spot the problem immediately john

Re: When will the next LyX version be released?

2004-05-31 Thread John Levon
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 11:56:11AM -0700, Jan Peters wrote: > When will the next LyX version be released? > > Is there a target date, or anything you tell me to hope > for (like Christmas or so?). There's no clear date. (Personal opinion: xmas is hopeful) john

Re: FEATURE FREEZE

2004-06-01 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 03:46:22PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > If it is not a (crashing) bug or a regression you are not supposed to > work on it. Could you clarify what the brackets mean here? regards john

Re: FEATURE FREEZE

2004-06-01 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 06:16:51PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > :-) Does "fatal bugs" say it better? Basically bugs that makes LyX > unusable. > > If it is minor bugs, or bugs that have workarounds then they can wait > (unless they are regressions at the same time.) OK john

Re: [patch] bug 1530 --- Mac OS X dialogs often don't have focus

2004-06-01 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:11:13PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > I ran this little script over the source to make the changes > automatically. Patch for 1.4.x is attached. It fixes the problem > described in the bug report but I think that some Qt guru > should have a look. It's fine john

Re: boost/cstdint.hpp:121: error

2004-06-02 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 12:56:24PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > Ok, it must be FreeBSD that is the "problem" No, I have recently started seeing a very similar problem on Linux. /usr/local/gcc-cvs/bin/g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../../src -I../../../../boost -I/usr/X11R6/include "

Re: boost/cstdint.hpp:121: error

2004-06-02 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 03:37:52PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > Sure it did. Or do you have a goblin in your box? > (you installed gcc 3.5 right? But I don't see these errors with 3.5...) I previously compiled CVS lyx fine with the same GCC version. A cvs update then caused it to fail. >

Re: boost/cstdint.hpp:121: error

2004-06-02 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 04:12:14PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > of gcc or lyx? lyx > nothing in lyx/boost changed... automake/autoconf differences? I haven't changed versions of that. > Your is some syntax problem, the one on FreeBSD is redefinition of a > type. Either way, I can't do

Re: boost/cstdint.hpp:121: error

2004-06-02 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 05:19:50PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > How can I help when you clam up on the info I need! What info do you want? john

Re: boost/cstdint.hpp:121: error

2004-06-02 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 06:35:15PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > But something _must_ have change I can't belive that it is lyx (sure > it could be ...) Nothing's changed, honest. No RPMs have been updated. GCC 3.5 is the one that previously compiled lyx successfully. LyX is CVS up to date.

Re: boost/cstdint.hpp:121: error

2004-06-02 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 06:48:07PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > How updated are your 3.5? Very. The problem is that the gettext.m4 changes are doing: typedef int ptrdiff_t into config.h. However, the check is going wrong because of course ptrdiff_t is defined fine on my system, so you e

Re: boost/cstdint.hpp:121: error

2004-06-02 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:46:51PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > I can only find ptrdiff_t in linux/types.h and in > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.3.2/include/stddef.h > (which leads me to suspect your way of calling the compiler...) > > It seems that STDC_HEADERS is undefined with y

Re: boost/cstdint.hpp:121: error

2004-06-02 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 12:31:01AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > Ha! I win! I gracefully concede (this one). But only because I appear to have burnt my nose. john

Re: [patch] More automake improvements

2004-06-08 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 07:42:08PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > (Or do we now require automake > 1.7?) (what version of automake is in > RH9?) 1.6.3 john

Re: [patch] More automake improvements

2004-06-08 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:38:33AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > Ok, thanks. You didn't try the patch did you? ah, you know me so well john

Re: streams, streambuffers and pipe (2)

2004-06-09 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:24:25PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > I have put together some test code to read a child processes stdout, > stderr and to write data to the child's stdin. Moreover, I've managed to > do this using C++ streams. Any reason we're not using one of the existing packages for

Re: streams, streambuffers and pipe (2)

2004-06-09 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:36:51PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Well, I've googled and googled and failed to find anything that can --- in > a platform independent way --- spawn a child process and communicate with > it through the child's stdin, stdout, stderr. What about: http://pstreams.sour

Re: streams, streambuffers and pipe (2)

2004-06-09 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 04:23:21PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > It seems to be a small world. oprofile is yours. You've contributed to > pstreams. Actually, I used to share a house with the author at university. This is why I know of it :) > Graydon Hoare who mentions that he's writing somethin

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