Re: FAQ

2010-08-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 8/13/2010 9:47 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: (I would vote for the latter, but I'm not entirely comfortable about deleting someone else's entries. If I find something I myself posted that is obsolete, I'll cheerfully recycle the bytes.) The wiki is

Re: FAQ

2010-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 8/5/2010 2:19 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Also, please watch out for outdated information. Can we define a criterion for "outdated"? And should attempt to fix it or delete it? For instance, LyX/LyXOnUbuntu starts with a comment about LyX 1.5.3 on Ubuntu Hardy. Leave it for the one or

Re: about the help in lyx 1.6.6

2010-06-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 6/2/2010 9:58 PM, zhangdavid37 wrote: Dear all, I have just installed the new version of lyx 1.6.6 for windows xp system. But I did not find the corresponding lyx file for help (menu). Can anyone tell me how to find them? English language versions are in C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.6\Resources

Re: Bug (?) with LyX-166-4-23-AltInstaller-Small

2010-05-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 5/21/2010 7:24 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > I used the new alt installer to install 1.6.6 on an XP box running 1.6.5. Prior to installing > 1.6.6, I had LyX configured to wake up maximized with the view toolbar positioned on the right > margin. Since installing 1.6.6, both 1.6.5 and 1.6.6 wake up

Bug (?) with LyX-166-4-23-AltInstaller-Small

2010-05-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
I used the new alt installer to install 1.6.6 on an XP box running 1.6.5. Prior to installing 1.6.6, I had LyX configured to wake up maximized with the view toolbar positioned on the right margin. Since installing 1.6.6, both 1.6.5 and 1.6.6 wake up windowed with the view toolbar in the defau

Re: LyX does not insert an \\\"&\\\" when inserting a \\\"Split\\\" environment

2010-05-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 5/20/2010 1:02 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Would a video showing how it occurs help? Sure. Additionally, what is the entry for split in your stdmenus.inc file? regards Uwe Here's a link to the video (only about one minute, Flash format): http://storemedia.vudat.msu.edu/public/display_package.

Re: LyX does not insert an \"&\" when inserting a \"Split\" environment

2010-05-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 5/19/2010 8:31 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: It seems that LyX 1.6.5 had a bug with the split environment that is fixed in LyX 1.6.6 (http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6700). Uwe, I just saw your comment on ticket 6700 indicating that you thought it impossible for the bug to exist. Would a video sh

Re: instant preview for tikz pictures in lyx

2010-01-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: In both cases, this works out of Lyx, but unfortunately, i cannot see the tikz-picture inside lyx (using the magic of instant preview). My question therefore: - is there a simple way to do this, or if not - is this a problem of instant preview, or - should I

OT: Suggestions for task manager

2009-11-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi all, Does anyone have a suggestion for a free/open source task manager (for a programming project) that lets you record which release will contain a completed task (enhancement or bug fix) and then has an easy way to generate a "what's new in this release" report? TIA, Paul

Re: How to become a LyX Developer

2009-09-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: For the rest, I do believe you'll have loads of fun while learning C++ programming with us :-) I used to program in C++ (a little) before I switched to Java. I recently had a colonoscopy. If I had to repeat one or the other, I'd sign up for another colonoscopy.

Re: math crash

2009-09-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Edwin Leuven wrote: 1. ctrl-m 2. \mathca 3. 4. 5. l 6. crash Confirmed here (LyX 1.6.4-1 on Win XP). The debug log says SIGSEGV signal caught and nothing else of interest. The dumped emergency file contains \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Formula $\mathcal{\mathcal{}}$ \end_inset

Re: Beware! Arsene is coming !

2009-09-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I wanted to avoid overflowing the list, ... as if there's anything more important going on here ... ;-) but I put a few there: http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~lasgoutt/photos/arsene/P1000420.JPG http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~lasgoutt/photos/arsene/P1000443.JPG http://www-roc

Re: Beware! Arsene is coming !

2009-08-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Some people say that good things always come to an end, but this implies that good things have to start at some point too. I am glad to announce the birth of our third child Arsène (who is thus a boy, for those of you who slept during French literature courses) this

Re: display context wider than the screen

2009-08-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
bsmile wrote: It seems the current lyx editor cannot display context wider than the screen. This could be very inconvenient for controlling the layout of the final document since sometimes the source sentence is very long but the compiled pdf verion is very short. Is it possible to add a horizont

Re: math font display in edit mode

2009-08-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
rgheck wrote: On 08/14/2009 08:47 AM, Steven Higgins wrote: thank you for your suggestion, if by "Does the suggestion for KDE 3.1 at the bottom of http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Qt help? " you meant the suggestion to try ./configure --with-frontend=qt --with-qt-includes=/usr/include/qt This suggest

Re: math font display in edit mode

2009-08-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steven Higgins wrote: I have been using lyx for several years now, and really enjoy using it. Recently I got a new PC and installed lyx 1.6.X under kde 4.2.4 on opensuse 11.1. my problem is that greek and other math symbols (even trivial ones like "=") do not display correctly in edit mode. I c

Re: [PATCH] article-beamer.layout

2009-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: ... which would have been more sensible had I actually attached the patch. (sigh) Since this is both trivial and straightforward, I committed it right away. Oh fine! Just like my academic career -- now I'm known for trivial results

Re: [PATCH] article-beamer.layout

2009-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: The attached patch to article-beamer.layout ... which would have been more sensible had I actually attached the patch. (sigh) --- C:/Program Files/LyX16/Resources/layouts/article-beamer.layout Wed Oct 22 20:28:36 2008 +++ C:/Documents and Settings/Paul Rubin

[PATCH] article-beamer.layout

2009-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi, The current layout file for "article (beamer)" prevents the user from changing paper size or margins from the defaults. This is an inheritance from "presentation (beamer)" (article-beamer.layout inputs beamer.layout). It is sensible for presentations since Beamer is designed specificall

Re: Qeustion about modules

2009-08-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
rgheck wrote: On 08/12/2009 05:05 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: hi, i just finished one module to fix dropped capitals enh request http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2536. my question is - should we put in our tree modules for each such feature or should we group them into bigger aggregates, like "Char

Re: Random leftover file

2009-07-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Raymond wrote: If you launch lyx, create and save the simplest lyx file, and then exit, the index file is created. (No exports, no viewing.) The index file has zero length, so it has no content. FWIW, I failed to reproduce this with LyX 1.6.3 on Win XP.

Re: Revised modules for theorem-like environments

2009-07-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: On a related note, I also posted a bug fix for the existing theorem modules -- under certain circumstances (which I've since forgotten), the title (Theorem, Lemma, ...) appears in italics rather than bold. I can't find a Trac ticket for that,

Re: Revised modules for theorem-like environments

2009-07-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5880 could you please upload the new patch there? I notice a link on the ticket to the revised files (at marc.info). Do you still want me to upload the new zip, or does that cover it? Please upload it, then we

Re: Need wiki upload id/pw

2009-07-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Hi Pavel, No, no response yet (and I do have something I need to upload). I've sent Paul the data. Jürgen Jürgen and Pavel, Thanks, it's working now. Not sure what happened here: I had the password stored in both Firefox and Ke

Re: Need wiki upload id/pw

2009-07-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi Pavel, No, no response yet (and I do have something I need to upload). Thanks, Paul Pavel Sanda wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Hi, My id/pw for uploads to the wiki suddenly stopped working. Can someone send me the current credentials? have you get response? pavel Thanks

Re: Revised modules for theorem-like environments

2009-07-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: On 07/23/2009 02:14 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I submitted some modules a while back to allow all the standard/AMS/AMS extended theorem-like environments to use separate counters. I don't see a ticket in Trac, so I guess I must have just e-mailed them to this

Revised modules for theorem-like environments

2009-07-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
I submitted some modules a while back to allow all the standard/AMS/AMS extended theorem-like environments to use separate counters. I don't see a ticket in Trac, so I guess I must have just e-mailed them to this list. Turns out I borked the counter display in some of them. Corrected versi

Need wiki upload id/pw

2009-07-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi, My id/pw for uploads to the wiki suddenly stopped working. Can someone send me the current credentials? Thanks, Paul

Re: Options for modules

2009-07-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: How do I tell LyX that option X belongs to package Y? If I just put \usepackage{Y} in the module and X in the class options, LyX passes option X to the document class, not to package Y. The ClassOptions section doesn't seem to help

Re: Options for modules

2009-07-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
rgheck wrote: On 07/21/2009 02:55 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Hi all, Is there any way to pass an optional argument (entered in Document -> Settings) to a module? I can't see one. (This relates to fixing bug 5058.) Do you mean pass it to a package the module loads? Yes. If so,

Options for modules

2009-07-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi all, Is there any way to pass an optional argument (entered in Document -> Settings) to a module? I can't see one. (This relates to fixing bug 5058.) Thanks, Paul

Did the wiki upload password change?

2009-07-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
The password I had (used with id 'lyx') worked a few days ago, but no joy today. Can someone e-mail me the current password? My direct address is rubin AT msu DOT edu. Thanks, Paul

Re: Suggestion: Add some more information to 'Help->About LyX'

2009-07-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Christian Ridderström wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Christian Ridderström wrote: For a Windoze user, the '~\Application\...' is probably going to be a bit difficult to understand Did we at some point have a separate document with this information, lik

Re: Suggestion: Add some more information to 'Help->About LyX'

2009-06-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Christian Ridderström wrote: For a Windoze user, the '~\Application\...' is probably going to be a bit difficult to understand Did we at some point have a separate document with this information, like how we have a document about the LaTeX configuration? I don't recall this ever bei

Re: Wiki question

2009-06-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Christian Ridderström wrote: Maybe it'd be a good idea to write some instructions on how to create and _license_ a module? Does a module file needs instructions that says who the author is and that it's licensed under some kind of licnese? I don't recall doing anything special about licen

Re: Wiki question

2009-06-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Ok, I put a hint about this at the top of LyX/Modules and took the blame for the two sets of files I uploaded. Incidentally, I noticed that the Modules upload directory already existed and contained a file (nomindex.module), but I have no idea who

Re: Wiki question

2009-06-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Christian Ridderström wrote: Btw, I think you should add a list of contributors, and some way to get in contact (which could of course be through the users' or developers' list). Ok, I put a hint about this at the top of LyX/Modules and took the blame for the two sets of files I uploaded

Re: Wiki question

2009-06-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Christian Ridderström wrote: Feel free to correct the title, e.g. by adding this: (:title AMS (for LyX 1.4.x and 1.5.x) :) or whatever title text you want. Tried that, but it "broke" the entry on the page list for the Layouts section (the link to the Layouts/AMS page was there, but the de

Re: Wiki question

2009-06-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Christian Ridderström wrote: It's probably a good idea to start with a single page, perhaps even in the main group, LyX/. http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Modules?action=edit If you then find this paging getting to big and difficult to maintain, then split into several separate pages, optionall

Re: Wiki question

2009-06-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Anybody know an easy way to rename a page on the wiki? (Easy => does not require creating a new page and copying all content of the existing one.) As an administrator, me or Jean-Marc can simply rename the f

Wiki question

2009-06-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi all, Anybody know an easy way to rename a page on the wiki? (Easy => does not require creating a new page and copying all content of the existing one.) Separate (but related in my case) question: We have a layouts page group. When we upload modules for sharing, should we put the associa

Re: probably a bug in theorems-sec.module

2009-06-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michal Skrzypek wrote: I don't reproduce that here (same setup minus the Polish). What document class are you using? Any other modules besides "Theorems" and "Theorems (By Section)"? The class is "article (AMS)", also "Theorems (AMS-Extended)" module. After further investigation I narrow

Re: Syntax for math-insert

2009-06-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
rgheck wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Hi all, I think this is a bug, in which case I'll add a ticket, but first I want to make sure I'm not missing something fundamental about the syntax of math-insert. Should 'math-insert x_y' insert $x_y$, or do I need something in f

Syntax for math-insert

2009-06-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi all, I think this is a bug, in which case I'll add a ticket, but first I want to make sure I'm not missing something fundamental about the syntax of math-insert. Should 'math-insert x_y' insert $x_y$, or do I need something in front of the x and/or after the y? As it stands, 'math-insert

Re: probably a bug in theorems-sec.module

2009-06-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michal Skrzypek wrote: Dear LyX developers, LyX 1.6.3 here, Win XP SP2 Polish. Adding the module "Theorems (By Section)" changes the style of "Theorem" title from bold to italic. Adding "\theoremstyle{plain}" as the first line of the "Preamble" section in the file theorems-sec.module changes

Odd window behavior (LyX 1.6.3/Win XP)

2009-06-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi all, Before entering a bug report, I thought I'd check and see if this is a known phenomenon (since I've seen other reports of issues with recent versions of Qt). In LyX 1.6.3-1 on Win XP, with the LyX window maximized (and with or without a document open), if I change anything in the Loo

Re: Submitted (for some future release): theorem numbering modules by type

2009-06-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Oops. By cosmic coincidence, as soon as I sent this, I got an update from Trac on bug 5880, about which I had totally forgotten. Looks like the same thing. I've upload the zip file to Trac and added a comment to the bug report. Sorry for the noise. /Paul

Submitted (for some future release): theorem numbering modules by type

2009-06-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi, There was a request on the user list (which I thought sensible) to provide theorem modules that number theorems, lemmas, propositions etc. separately, rather than all using the theorem counter. IIRC, this is the default behavior for LaTeX. I've put a set of hacked modules, along with fo

Re: LyX 1.6.2 -- svn on Windows

2009-04-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
sykes wrote: hi, I'm running LyX 1.6.2 on Windows XP. I use the Tortoise SVN client for subversion. I'm getting an error when I try to commit from within LyX: "Some problem occured while running the command: 'svn commit -m " ... " I'm assuming I need a command line client for svn to exec

Re: Amir Younes is born

2009-04-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: As I leaked the highly important news that my wife was pregnant (whatever JMarc says), I'd thought I should announce formally that this state of affair finally led to a small cute little guy named Amir :-) The mother (Aya) is doing very well. I guess this also means th

Re: Exporting problems

2009-04-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hartmann Sybill wrote: Dear Lyx Developers, let me please express my thankfullness to this wonderful software. LyX made writing my thesis a great time and certainly contributed to my A Grade. Thank you! I did encounter two difficulties while trying to export simple lyx-files. When trying to exp

Re: font shortcuts in math mode

2009-02-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Raymond wrote: Mostly when I want to use bold in math, it is plain bold rather than bold italic. FWIW, same here. By the way, nice work on 1.6 -- there are a lot of cool new features. Again, same here. :-) /Paul

Re: Some notes on content negotiaton and link location to change language

2008-12-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Christian Ridderström wrote: I did some reading. I tried that once. It made my head hurt. Much easier just to invent your own facts. Heck, you can run a superpower that way! !!! How do the W3-site do it? Only a few of their pages were translated. When they were translated, they had the

Hanging paragraph module: bug or intended behavior

2008-12-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Richard's probably the best equipped to answer this ... If you put a hanging paragraph immediately after a standard paragraph, using the hanging module, LyX does not insert a paragraph break between them, so the hanging "paragraph" just continues the previous one (with a little extra space).

Odd LyX 1.6 installer error (Win XP)

2008-12-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi, Someone on the user list got in touch with me about the dreaded "no classes" problem (LyX 1.6/MiKTeX 2.7 on Win XP -- I don't know which installer he had). After assorted fruitless tries, I looked at his configuration log, which had three anomalies in it: (a) The first line said config

Re: Something to fix for windows installers? (was: [Paul A. Rubin] Re: Import Table Error)

2008-11-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Subject: Re: Import Table Error From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:29:13 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-Path: [EMA

Re: svn access at work

2008-11-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Pavel Sanda wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Stephan Witt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I cannot use outgoing ssh from inside my office network. The administrators blocked that service :( Is it possible to build an ssh tunnel via https? If it is too much of trouble I have to commit at evening f

Re: Should I expect Uwe's AltInstaller for 1.6.0 final?

2008-11-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Joost Verburg wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Look in ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.0/ (which is linked off the download section of the LyX site). They file names no longer include 'Alt', but those are Uwe's installers No, these are not Uwe's installers. Both have

Re: Should I expect Uwe's AltInstaller for 1.6.0 final?

2008-11-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bob J. wrote: The new 1.6.0 is fabulous, and I'm so excited to download the final release! However, I'm sad to see no Windows AltInstaller in the download links. Since I haven't seen any recent discussion about the AltInstaller (which I would prefer), I don't know whether I should be expecting

Re: Should I expect Uwe's AltInstaller for 1.6.0 final?

2008-11-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bob J. wrote: The new 1.6.0 is fabulous, and I'm so excited to download the final release! However, I'm sad to see no Windows AltInstaller in the download links. Since I haven't seen any recent discussion about the AltInstaller (which I would prefer), I don't know whether I should be expecting

Re: 1.6.0rc5: lyx2lyx doesn't work

2008-11-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
rgheck wrote: I think Uwe made some kind of change to python in the Windows installer, so maybe that is the issue here. But the real question is: Does this problem persist in 1.6.0? Nope. Just installed and tested 1.6.0, and it opened my 1.5.x test doc fine. /Paul

Re: 1.6.0rc5: lyx2lyx doesn't work

2008-11-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Richard Heck wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: I just discovered that LyX 1.6.0rc5 will not import *any* of my older (1.5.x) LyX documents (lyx2lyx always fails). This is on Win XP. Is this something that's known (and hopefully fixed)? I think we had another report like this, and I think

1.6.0rc5: lyx2lyx doesn't work

2008-11-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
I just discovered that LyX 1.6.0rc5 will not import *any* of my older (1.5.x) LyX documents (lyx2lyx always fails). This is on Win XP. Is this something that's known (and hopefully fixed)? /Paul

Re: lyx-users mailing list problem: [Fwd: ***Your message was blocked***]

2008-11-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: SInce yesterday I get this email whenever I post on lyx-users. But my mails weren't blocked, the appear in gmane and the other archive sites. This is what I got from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]": Original-Message Betreff: ***Your message was blocked*** Datum: 9 Nov 20

Re: MiKTeX is now also available for Linux

2008-09-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Andre Poenitz wrote: What's wrong with the version coming with my distribution? Why do you ask? Nothing is wrong, MiKTeX is just an alternative for TeXLive. It is more user friendly than TeXLive with it's package manager and the install missing packages on the fly feature. So the main advant

Re: Input problems with Beamer

2008-09-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Incidentally, are you both on Windows? Yes for me. Eran? /Paul

Re: Input problems with Beamer

2008-09-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Attached. Incidentally, the language choice and the preamble stuff were innocent. This file has English as the language (apparently that's not the same as Canadian, eh?) and nothing in the preamble. I do not see the mentioned problem in

Re: Input problems with Beamer

2008-09-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Start Column (Increase depth!, width) and then ERT (.80\textwidth). If I modify the length of the column (say to .83\textwidth), the file won't compile. Looking at the source I see: \column{.8{3}\textwidth} I verify this in 1.6.0rc2, bu

Re: Input problems with Beamer

2008-09-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eran Kaplinsky wrote: In a beamer presentation, I have some two-column frames with new columns started with: Start Column (Increase depth!, width) and then ERT (.80\textwidth). If I modify the length of the column (say to .83\textwidth), the file won't compile. Looking at the source I see:

Re: LyX 1.6.0rc2

2008-09-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Nuno Cardoso wrote: Where can I download the windows version of LyX 1.6.0rc2? Uwe posted one at http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117. (As always, thanks Uwe!) /Paul

Re: Minor LyX comments

2008-07-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Will Robertson wrote: On 23/07/2008, at 12:55 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Will Robertson wrote: I've been meaning to pass on a few comments that I've collected over the years, but have hardly ever found the time. <http://willwont.blogspot.com/2008/07/problems-with-lyx-1.html>

Re: Minor LyX comments

2008-07-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Will Robertson wrote: I've been meaning to pass on a few comments that I've collected over the years, but have hardly ever found the time. <http://willwont.blogspot.com/2008/07/problems-with-lyx-1.html> I took a look at Wil

Re: Minor LyX comments

2008-07-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Will Robertson wrote: I've been meaning to pass on a few comments that I've collected over the years, but have hardly ever found the time. I took a look at Will's list, and in self-defense I have to vote against his first s

Re: Layout translations (bug #1476)

2008-07-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Feedback? As you correctly guessed this looks a bit over engineered :-). I reckon that a simple Layout parser in python would be enough for the task. The advantage being of course that we can rely on the already existing translation teams. Ok. I suspect (though

Layout translations (bug #1476)

2008-07-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bug #1476 deals with the intermittent problem of a user discovering that headings defined in layout files (such as "Theorem" or "Lemma" in the AMS stuff) manifest in English irrespective of the document language. Am I correct that nobody is currently working on this? If so, I have an idea for h

Re: AMS Math cases

2008-07-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Russ, Paul, how about the attached? It fixes the problem Paul reported. Is that a formatting you both could live with? Ping! Jürgen Jürgen, I tweaked your patch slightly. Attached is my patch against the copy of amsmaths.inc that shi

Re: Acrobat Reader nonsense: bug, regression or feature?

2008-07-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Enrico Forestieri wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 05:55:31PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: This came up on the user list. I'm not sure if it needs to go into bugzilla, so I'm looking for opinions. (I didn't find this in either bugzilla or the wiki.) On Windows, user specifie

Acrobat Reader nonsense: bug, regression or feature?

2008-07-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
This came up on the user list. I'm not sure if it needs to go into bugzilla, so I'm looking for opinions. (I didn't find this in either bugzilla or the wiki.) On Windows, user specifies PDF (pdflatex) viewer as acrord32.exe. View -> PDF (pdflatex) runs pdflatex, but no Acrobat Reader window

Re: Question on copiers

2008-06-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: The external template mechanism was designed exactly for this purpose. With an external template the user can define a set of input files, a set of output files, a conversion command that creates the output files from the input files, and the TeX code that should be inserted i

Re: Question on copiers

2008-06-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Richard heck wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Before putting an enhancement suggestion into bugzilla, I need to check my understanding on something. Let's say that a user inserts a LaTeX macro into ERT that contains a relative path to an external file. LyX fails to recognize it as a fil

Question on copiers

2008-06-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Before putting an enhancement suggestion into bugzilla, I need to check my understanding on something. Let's say that a user inserts a LaTeX macro into ERT that contains a relative path to an external file. LyX fails to recognize it as a file and therefore does not copy the source file to the

Re: Output of ./lyx --version

2008-06-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Konrad Hofbauer wrote: The output of "./lyx --version" contains among other useful things LyX binary dir: /Users/bennett/Desktop/lyx-1.5.5/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS LyX files dir: /Users/bennett/Desktop/lyx-1.5.5/LyX.app/Contents/Resources which is a path on the

Re: Output of ./lyx --version

2008-06-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Konrad Hofbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The output of "./lyx --version" contains among other useful things LyX binary dir: /Users/bennett/Desktop/lyx-1.5.5/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS LyX files dir: /Users/bennett/Desktop/lyx-1.5.5/

Enhancement: support for Graphviz

2008-05-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Abdel asked me to post this to bugzilla (bug #4882) and also here. Graphviz is a FOSS suite for producing large graph/network diagrams. It contains five separate layout engines (the most commonly used one I think being 'dot'), produces output in most major formats (including PS, PDF, SVG, JPG

Re: Need wiki edit pw

2008-05-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Pavel Sanda wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: I just edited http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc18. Apparently I need a password to bless the URL I included in the edit (unless some kind soul who knows the password would care to do it for me). even knowing password didn't helped me to approve tha

Need wiki edit pw

2008-05-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Christian (et al.), I just edited http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc18. Apparently I need a password to bless the URL I included in the edit (unless some kind soul who knows the password would care to do it for me). Thanks, Paul

Re: Alt-M and S E X

2008-05-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:08 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 7 May 2008, Helge Hafting wrote: The more serious question, to my mind, is whether this kind of display of shortcuts is even worth having. I've used LyX for several years now, and I have no idea

Re: PATCH: AMS plain theorem-like environments [REPOST]

2008-04-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
This may have slipped through the cracks, so I'm taking the liberty of reposting it. /Paul Paul A. Rubin wrote: Hi all, I just discovered that amsmaths-plain.inc is borked in 1.5.4. The problems occur when a user composes a doc in one of the numbered AMS classes and then changes the

Template/new file inconsistency: add to bugzilla?

2008-04-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi all, This came up on the user list, and I'm wondering if it should go into bugzilla (and, if so, as a minor bug or as an enhancement). A user ran into a problem with a math inset in a doc created using the IEEEtran template. Doing the same thing in a new doc using the IEEEtran class work

Re: Should we have a search box in the side bar?

2008-04-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: removed it later. Now I've added it so that it only shows up when you are logged in, but I wonder why we shouldn't have a search field for those that are not logged in? (i.e. regular users) it looks pretty awful. Hmm... Jus

Re: LyX feature upgrade

2008-04-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jeremy Boden wrote: Hi, Could I have something to expand the lists of "functions" in math mode to include ones of my own choosing? For now, you might take a gander at section 5.6 of the user guide. You can define math macros for your functions (and, if you use the same ones a lot, either m

Re: Re. LyX feature upgrade

2008-04-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Could I have something to expand the lists of "functions" in math mode > to include ones of my own choosing? Yes, look in the Math manual that comes with LyX 1.5.4 for self-defined functions, to see how this is done. Uwe, If you mean section 15.2, that won't put the us

Re: The new web site and that first image

2008-04-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: The new site is looking fantastic! Way to go, guys! Way to go! (See, I've become American :-P) Not unless there was a virtual butt-slap or high-five that I missed. ;-) Unless maybe by "American" you meant "Canadian", in which case you're within one "eh?" of qualifying.

Re: Problem pasting into lyx-code (but maybe not a bug)

2008-04-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 03:45:03PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Hi, I was going to put this into bugzilla, but I'm uncertain whether it's really a bug, a feature-enhancement or just one of those vicissitudes we have to live with. I copied some output from

Problem pasting into lyx-code (but maybe not a bug)

2008-04-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi, I was going to put this into bugzilla, but I'm uncertain whether it's really a bug, a feature-enhancement or just one of those vicissitudes we have to live with. I copied some output from R (a stats package) and pasted it into a lyx-code environment in an article. The copied text includ

PATCH: AMS plain theorem-like environments

2008-03-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi all, I just discovered that amsmaths-plain.inc is borked in 1.5.4. The problems occur when a user composes a doc in one of the numbered AMS classes and then changes the class to ASM plain. Theoretically (no pun intended) we convert all the unstarred theorem-like environments to their sta

Re: AMS Math cases

2008-03-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Russ Woodroofe wrote: ATTACHMENTS: Patch against 1.5.4 Patch against 'trunk' as downloaded Mar 22, 2008 Paul, could you have a look at these patches, please? Thanks, Jürgen Jürgen, Russ et al.: I can't test against trunk -- I don't have the 1.6 alpha, and theore

Re: AMS Math cases

2008-03-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Russ Woodroofe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Below, I have a patch to amsmaths.inc which uses the machinery of the new version, but which is closer in format to the old. (In particular, its flush with the margins, and italics rather than bold). Thanks for

Re: [patch] Re: Enhancement? Documentation issue? Neither?

2008-03-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: We could forbid the insertion of the specific types within the specific problematic context. Unless someone had a huge need to insert boxed text in a caption, that would make sense to me. For people who are not TeXperts, debugging a problem caused by a note in a

Re: [patch] Re: Enhancement? Documentation issue? Neither?

2008-03-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: The fix has been committed, so a bug report is not needed anymore. I just checked, and discovered the following: a. inserting any note object other than a LyX Note in a caption blows up LaTeX; and b. inserting a comment in a footnote blows up LaTeX (but inserti

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