LyX Development News

2000-02-16 Thread rae
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LyX is an advanced open-source document processor running on many Unix platforms, OS/2 and on Windows NT with the Cygwin environment. It is called a "document processor" because, unlike standard word processors, LyX encourages an approach to writing based on the structure

Re: BUGS.lyx

1999-10-13 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 10:54:15PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > > > What BUGS.lyx should we keep? The one in lyx-devel/lib/doc/BUGS.lyx or > > lyxdoc/BUGS.lyx ? > > The one in lyxdoc makes more sense, IMO. Why switch to a different (sub)r

Re: What is the convention for devel versions?

1999-10-14 Thread Allan Rae
On 14 Oct 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | In configure, we have some code which checks the version numbers and > | sets some things depending on whether we have a normal or debug > | version. This obviously does not work anymore. To fix t

Re: BUGS.lyx

1999-10-14 Thread Allan Rae
On 14 Oct 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Kayvan" == Kayvan A Sylvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Kayvan> On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:59:32PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > >> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > >>

Re: Nested environment

1999-10-20 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Martin Vermeer wrote: [...] > It really works! I even tried it for Theorem + enumerate in AMS article. > Works too. (Is this in the users guide???) > > This combination (red {}) is needed/useful in many other circumstances also. > What about making it an inset / special cha

Re: lyx: Some feature suggestions / bug-reports

1999-01-02 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Shaul Karl wrote: > Package: lyx > Version: 1.0.4-3 > Severity: wishlist > > 1) Changing the document causes any open math tools window to be closed. IMHO >these window should be kept open, just like the table of contents window > stays >open in this circumstances.

Re: type of storeate for paragraph.

1999-01-03 Thread Allan Rae
On 5 Nov 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > rope (the sgi::container) is the one that I had high expectations to, > but it was buggy and I have to edit the system files to make it > compile. Also it did not should a huge improvement. Rope is supposed to be good for very long strings or buffers t

Re: postscripts

1999-11-09 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > [From Amir] > > > Is *anyone* working on (english) docs right now? > > > > Good question. > > I've got a few minor mods, but the real world has been a bit too intrusive > lately. I've been trying to ke

Re: Command sequences and a bit about spaceless discussions

1999-11-14 Thread Allan Rae
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Andre' Poenitz wrote: > > Check the roadmap on the web site, and grab a task. Choose a small > > one, like backport the new menu-code from the old development branch. > > This menu-code is modelled after the Model-View-Control design pattern, > > and it's a help in the plan f

Re: Textclasses question

1999-11-14 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Damon Horrocks wrote: > Hi there Hello Damon, > I have a question for you regarding lyx: > > Is it possible for me to create my own textclasses using lyx? It is possible to create .layout files for existing LaTeX classes and styles. If you created a custom LaTeX class th

Re: Command sequences and a bit about spaceless discussions

1999-11-16 Thread Allan Rae
Thanks very much for your prompt and surprizingly thorough discussion Andre' (given your very brief skim of the documents and code involved). On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Andre' Poenitz wrote: [...] > > I think we should do both. The first, we should do for > > the canvas area. This is already what is

Supporting new document classes

1999-11-17 Thread Allan Rae
was Re: How can I use a Thesis style? On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Ben Stanley wrote: Hi Ben, > My university has a specified thesis style, and they have created a > LaTeX style file for it, called uowthesis.sty. I was wondering if there > is any way that I can use this style file in LyX? You need to

Re: homebrew latex?

1999-11-25 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > Lyx looks promising but I want do some stuff that isn't on the menus. > For example, I'd like to create a command like this (simplified): > > \newcommand{\techword}[1]{\emph{#1}} Kayvan has already commented on this bit. It's the next part I fi

Re: Layout

1999-11-29 Thread Allan Rae
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, José Luis Sánchez de la Rosa wrote: > Dear Sirs, > I have just discovered Klyx and I am very happy of that. I have two questions: > 1) How can I convert a Word document into a Klyx one? There have been several discussions about this lately. The short answer is: convert .do

Re: Layout

1999-11-30 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > > I have just discovered Klyx and I am very happy of that. I have two questions: > > > 1) How can I convert a Word document into a Klyx one? > > > There have been several discussions about this lately. The short answer > > is: convert .doc -

Re: Official RPM package and icon file [was Re: Feedback]

1999-12-01 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: > "Kayvan A. Sylvan" wrote: > > Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: > > > While we're here, allow me to suggest that LyX icon file be > > > installed too. In rpm packages, which are destinated for Linux, icon > > > file can be put in /usr/share/icons which is t

Re: Special superscript and subscript arrangements

1999-12-01 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Jules Bean wrote: > I would quite like, personally, a LyX-like program which is a more generic > 'structured' document editor. Probably an XML editor, with the ability to > backend onto LaTeX, but also other formats. If I have time, I may have a > look at that problem. Don't

Re: Special superscript and subscript arrangements

1999-12-02 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Andre' Poenitz wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Jules Bean wrote: > > > I would quite like, personally, a LyX-like program which is a more generic > > > 'structured' document editor. Probably an XML editor, with the ability to > > > backend onto LaTeX, but also other formats. If

Re: Style LaTex-LyX problem

1999-12-01 Thread Allan Rae
om the menu. Devvies, I'll try to incorporate this into the docs over the weekend. Allan. (ARRae) ## >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 2 12:43:10 1999 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 14:43:24 +1000 (GMT+1000) From: Allan Rae <

Re: Supporting new document classes

1999-12-02 Thread Allan Rae
On 2 Dec 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Mike" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mike> On 2 Dec 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > >> Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | LaTeX2e > >> Instructions | ===

Re: Special superscript and subscript arrangements

1999-12-02 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Andre' Poenitz wrote: > > So am I, I just don't see much point in starting yet-another-word-processor > > project when it's possible to improve an existing one. > > That's the point where opinions differ. There are perhaps as many as two dozen word-processors around figh

Re: Special superscript and subscript arrangements

1999-12-02 Thread Allan Rae
Jules are you subscribed to the list? If so I can stop cc'ing to you. On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Jules Bean wrote: > > If someone were to take this leap I'd suggest getting Asger's kernel first > > so you minimised your work. Either that or just start generalising the > > docbook support now instead

Re: Intuitive views of nesting -- conglomerate

1999-12-06 Thread Allan Rae
On 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jules> Have a look at the screenshots. That's the kind of thing I was > Jules> thinking of. > > This indeed looks like an interesting project. However, I think that > this interface adds way

Re: moving on

1999-12-07 Thread Allan Rae
e case of ChangeLog "cvs status ChangeLog" reports, both before and after merging: Working revision: 1.113 Repository revision: 1.113 Sticky Tag: rae (1.113.2) Would these change to 1.119 after commit? I've upgraded to cvs-1.10.6 and the docs there are a

Re: the perils of software re-use

1999-12-09 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Somewhat off-topic, and as likely to be urban legend as not, but > amusing . . . > > Mutant Marsupials Take Up Arms Against Australian Air Force This happened alright! I have a friend who was present. Very amusing! Much more fun than the a

Re: Hebrew support for LyX

1999-12-13 Thread Allan Rae
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Dekel Tsur wrote: > The following patch add basic Hebrew support for LyX: > When changing the document language to Hebrew (in Document Layout popup), > the text will be rendered from right-to-left > (except when entering TeX-mode) Cool! At last someone has done this! I've o

Re: Hebrew support for LyX

1999-12-14 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Arnd Hanses wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:15:30 -0500, Amir Karger wrote: > > >> After all, how common is it to write a mixed document? > > > >Actually, I suspect it's not uncommon. First, in the scientific world (a > >popular LyX niche) I think there's stuff you have to w

Re: DEBUG_AS_DEFAULT

1999-12-15 Thread Allan Rae
On 15 Dec 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > "Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | > Another solution would be to add an --enable-assertions flag which > | > defaults to 'yes' for development versions, but which can be turned > | > off (for speed reasons). > | > | This is

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Greg Lee wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > > > Surely those voices didn't mean paragraph-level support without > > > also sentence- and word-level support. When you cite from a > > > different language, the citation is obviously not always

Re: Anybody tried to get the lyx-devel branch running on NT ?

1999-12-15 Thread Allan Rae
>From your log of autogen.sh output it appears you need to upgrade to automake-1.4 Allan. (ARRae)

askForText()

1999-12-20 Thread Allan Rae
This function while useful is also a pain in the neck: string askForText(string, string); Yesterday, I was bitten by the "cancel-vc-checkin" bug and went looking for a cause. The problem is that askForText() lets you cancel an entry but there is no way for the calling function to know t

Re: stubborn me still trying...

1999-12-21 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Dr. Ing. Roland Krause wrote: > to compile the development branch on my NT box. > > I have managed to create the initial configure file on a Linux box and > ftp'ed the whole thing over to the NT box. > automake and autoconf seem to be either broken or I have some problems >

Re: lyx-1.1.2, problems under SuSe 5.3 (libc5)

1999-12-21 Thread Allan Rae
On 21 Dec 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | I think lyx 0.10 or 0.12 used to compile on gcc 2.6.x. > > You are probably right... I am not sure about the difference between > 2.6.x and 2.7.x when it comes to C++. Actually I'm sure I had 1.

Re: Cannot compile Lyx 1.1.3 with SUN C++ on Solaris

1999-12-21 Thread Allan Rae
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Michael Schmitt wrote: > PS: Is it true that you provide your own string class? Which C++ > compiler supports "pair" and algorithms but does not provide "string"? I > think you should take the string class for granted. Not all string classes are created equal. Take SGI's ST

Re: I'd like to help

1999-12-21 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, matt wrote: > Hello, Hello! > My name is Matt. I'm out of Florida, USA. I would like to tackle a > couple of things that it seems need to be done. > 1: First, it seems that in the export section, the Postscript@ stuff > needs to be implemented more directly(as opposed to th

Re: lyx-1.1.2, problems under SuSe 5.3 (libc5)

1999-12-22 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > On 22-Dec-1999 Allan Rae wrote: > > > > Juergen, what version of STLport did you try with 2.7.2? > > Oh I cannot remember but the ChangeLog file tells me: > > > The following changes were made since 3.2 release:

Re: Compilers, exceptions, code size, etc. [was: Re: Cannot compileLyx

1999-12-22 Thread Allan Rae
On 22 Dec 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > "Andre' Poenitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | > of virtual memory. The gcc/egcs faq has very 'helpful' recommendations: > | > > | > > | > Optimize less (or dont't optimize at all), use only small > | > functions. > | > | Well. The second pa

Re: Compilers, exceptions, code size, etc. [was: Re: Cannot compileLyx

1999-12-22 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 02:21:11PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > On 22 Dec 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > > > > And this is why it takes lyx two hours to compile on the new stdlib++, > > > 1 hour of that time is

Re: Cannot compile Lyx 1.1.3 with SUN C++ on Solaris

1999-12-22 Thread Allan Rae
On 22 Dec 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Not all string classes are created equal. Take SGI's STL string for > | example. It's implemented in such a way that there is a 3-5 fold increase > | in size in an unstr

Re: LyX-1.1.1 crashes with File->Export->Custom->Ascii->program

1999-12-22 Thread Allan Rae
On 20 Dec 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > A long time ago, Allan wrote: > > Allan> Other developers: You might like to take a look at this also > Allan> and I think we're really going to have to make a press release > Allan> about this. In fact, I'm inclinded to just merge my two > Allan>

Re: strange behaviour in table

1999-12-22 Thread Allan Rae
This is the other table bug Juergen. As you can see both are multicolumn cell related with a double lines again a problem. Slava have you tried a more recent release at all? I don't think anything much has changed with tables while Juergen was away but now he's back so our top-gun table man is

Re: Problem with multicolumn table cells

1999-12-22 Thread Allan Rae
Juergen, this is one of the table bugs I mentioned. Matt which version of LyX was this in? Have you tried 1.1.4pre1 or the latest cvs at all? I haven't been able to reproduce this myself with 1.1.4pre1/latest cvs but it might be a pecularity of your system that triggers it. Can you provide a

[Asger] Returned mail: Cannot send message within 5 days (fwd)

1999-12-26 Thread Allan Rae
ecipient: RFC822; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 4.4.7 Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.dtnet.dk Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 442 4.7.1 Exceeded IP count - Contact Telemetro International... Last-Attempt-Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 02:50:07 +0100 (MET) Date:

Re: askForText()

2000-01-03 Thread Allan Rae
On 21 Dec 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | pair askForText(string const &, string const &); > > I also prefer the pair version. The pair version it is! I've just committed the changes and it sure makes life a

Re: LyX-1.1.1 crashes with File->Export->Custom->Ascii->program

2000-01-04 Thread Allan Rae
On 4 Jan 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Allan> I guess that means me. > > Yes, that's what I guessed too ;) > > Allan> I'll merge the descriptions I'v

Re: Compilation failure

2000-01-04 Thread Allan Rae
On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Michael Schmitt wrote: > Hello again, > > please add the following lines to 'lyxsum.C': > > using std::FILE; etc. etc. etc. Is there a compiler flag for gcc to force namespace checking? I tried the info and man pages (admittedly for egcs-1.1.2) but couldn't find a single

Re: Compilers, exceptions, code size, etc. [was: Re: Cannot compile Lyx

2000-01-04 Thread Allan Rae
On 23 Dec 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Actually for me it's LyXAction that seems to be the "Compile Killer" but > | then maybe I've just left the room for a cup of tea by the time lyxfunc > | arrives on

Re: web site mirrors?

2000-01-05 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Amir Karger wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 01:59:42PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > > > > > Did anyone think to make a list of the sites that offered to create mirrors > > > for us or do we ne

Re: News from the NT front

2000-01-05 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Dr. Ing. Roland Krause wrote: > Ok, here is something strange, > I used the debugger to follow up on the crash on NT when lyx is started > from the command line, i.e. not using Stephens startup scripts. I was > able to locate the crash happening at lyxlookup.C line 50 when Xop

Re: News from the NT front

2000-01-06 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Dr. Ing. Roland Krause wrote: > Now the big question is, what is different when XopenIM is called and > the code is started by the startup script, because the it will work. Could you forward a copy of the startup script? I'm sure this has been asked before but I can't seem to

Transition vs 1.1.x (was: support for modern istream in cvs)

2000-01-06 Thread Allan Rae
I'm glad I write really long emails. It gives me a chance to calm down as I get further into the document. I haven't cut or reworded any of my early comments because I still believe they need to be said. On 7 Jan 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > I have put code that I think should make it po

Communicator methods become lyxfuncs

2000-01-07 Thread Allan Rae
Hi everyone, I said I had a few things to propose about gui-indep and here's at least one of them. After much sporadic thought on the subject I've decided that Alejandro was right. We shouldn't have a Communicator class but do everything with lyxfuncs. Originally I'd agreed we needed lyxfuncs

Re: file format

2000-01-09 Thread Allan Rae
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 04:15:02PM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > > I'd like to hear your comments and suggestions especially about syntax > > > and style. I've "translated" (well, my current built of LyX has) > > > the Userguide

Re: Mime-type

2000-01-09 Thread Allan Rae
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: > Juergen Vigna wrote: > > > > There are 4 possible mime-types: > > > application/lyx > > > application/x-lyx > > > text/lyx > > > text/x-lyx > > > > > > IMO, text/x-lyx seems more appropriate. What do you think? > > > > I would opt for appl

Re: Communicator methods become lyxfuncs

2000-01-09 Thread Allan Rae
On Sat, 8 Jan 100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > How do we define/interpret property strings? > > > ^ > or just this part. > This way it could be read by something that reads XML, too ;-) Which is mainly why I wrote it like: > >

Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-10 Thread Allan Rae
NOT FOR RELEASE DO NOT REMOVE THE ABOVE LINE Target audience: freshmeat, linuxdev.net, slashdot, icewalkers, c.o.l.a. [We need a brief introductory paragraph of what and who LyX and The LyX Team are. We should be able to pinch that from our previous PR] In September 1999 the LyX Team deci

Small Project: File->Open... and Version Control

2000-01-10 Thread Allan Rae
It'd be nice if someone were to make it possible to open a file which is only available in a version controlled repository. For example, using RCS we have filename.lyx,v. We can't open the file with File->Open because it doesn't exist as far as LyX is concerned. Probably should be an extra ta

Re: Small Project: File->Open... and Version Control

2000-01-10 Thread Allan Rae
On 11 Jan 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) writes: > > | I thought I had added some code that would check for this? Probably > | not, the problem is that we then have to run rcs and lock the file in > | question. > > I have added the code that checks fo

Re: a plea for XML, was RE: file format

2000-01-11 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 11 Jan 100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > I would go as far as to say, I would try to organize > > some sponsoring, maybe on the user mailing list, for Andre > > Thanks for the idea, but I think *I* won't need sponsoring unless > it happens in form of source code (preferably a DTD by Jose' ;-

Re: Small Project: File->Open... and Version Control

2000-01-11 Thread Allan Rae
On 11 Jan 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | *.lyx *.lyx,v RCS/*.lyx,v > > You know that after the addition of a realy regex class we can do > things like > > "*.(lyx|lyx,v)" But do you provide: regex

Re: Lyx trouble with MikTeX

2000-01-12 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Dr. Ing. Roland Krause wrote: > \view_dvi_command "yap `cygpath -w $$FName`" > > in your .lyxrc file. > I also got rid of the -paper option when the dvi command contains yap > although that is bad now that I think about it. > When someone names a regular document yap the -pap

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-12 Thread Allan Rae
On 12 Jan 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Michael" == Michael Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Michael> Hmmm, looks like Lyx 1.1.4 is almost finished. Not yet. > Michael> As you know I have experienced a lot of problems when > Michael> compiling Lyx with Sun CC (which IMHO ar

GUI indep, MathML/TeX, xml code reuse possibilities

2000-01-12 Thread Allan Rae
(was: Re: Who uses GTK? (Was: [gtkmm] API review coordination)) This came up in the Gtk-- mailing list and might interest Andre' and others interested in xml and gui-indep stuff. Allan. (ARRae) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 05:43:20 + Subject: Re: Who uses G

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-12 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Allan Rae wrote: > NOT FOR RELEASE > DO NOT REMOVE THE ABOVE LINE > > Target audience: freshmeat, linuxdev.net, slashdot, icewalkers, c.o.l.a. > > > [We need a brief introductory paragraph of what and who LyX and The LyX > Team are. We shou

Re: GUI indep, MathML/TeX, xml code reuse possibilities

2000-01-13 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 13 Jan 100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > Currently I am busy understanding LyX's internal structures and trying > to map them to something starting with "<...". It's No Fun ;-|, but I > don't think I'll need any toolkit for that. I am sure this could change > when it comes to proper encoding et

Re: Small Project: File->Open... and Version Control

2000-01-13 Thread Allan Rae
On 13 Jan 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On 11 Jan 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | > | > Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | *.lyx *.lyx,v RCS/*.lyx,v > | > > | > You know t

Re: LyX CVS access problem

2000-01-17 Thread Allan Rae
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > I am using the exact same settings I have always used: So am I... > > [kayvan@satyr ~/src/lyx]$ cvs update Fatal error, aborting. anoncvs: > no such user cvs [update aborted]: authorization failed: server > anoncvs.lyx.org rejected access [kayvan@s

Re: LyX CVS access problem

2000-01-18 Thread Allan Rae
On 18 Jan 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | using ssh2 and cvs update > | Disconnected; authentication error (No further authentication methods > | available.). > > This is because the ip-address you are connecting from does not

Re: LyX CVS access problem

2000-01-19 Thread Allan Rae
On 19 Jan 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On another interesting note my supervisor is away for the next two weeks > | but he made me repeat after him: "I will not work on LyX" > > But you crossed your fingers

Re: LyX CVS access problem

2000-01-19 Thread Allan Rae
On 20 Jan 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | > But you crossed your fingers right? > | > | And my toes! I do really need to get some work done on my thesis > | though... eventually. > > :-) It's been 4 years a

Re: ./configure error in lyx1.1.4pre2

2000-01-20 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > What I'd like to see on the other hand is a nice banner and nice icons > > when we have more that 256 colors available... > > So when do you start drawing? I was working with Gimp-1.1.x over the last weekend on a snazzy new splashscreen u

Re: Hebrew patch

2000-01-22 Thread Allan Rae
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > Lgb, please apply the Hebrew patch now. Don't wait for 1.1.4. > > We are at least three against one, and when you introduce > std::list in the figure code, there is no excuse anymore. I'll throw my hat in the ring and make it three against

Re: Lyx 1.1.4 and prereleases

2000-01-23 Thread Allan Rae
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Michael Schmitt wrote: > I noticed that you fixed some of the reported bugs. Thank you very much! > What do you think about releasing yet another pre-release before > announcing the final 1.1.4 version? > > This would give me the opportunity to do some more tests and to check

libsigc++ integration and gui-indep in LyX

2000-01-26 Thread Allan Rae
ters in our code [one return + two parameters] although that may change after a long arguement and much swearing) and we only compile it as a static library that isn't installed. If someone wants a libsigc++ library on their system then they should get the real thing. > Allan Rae wrote: > >

Re: ARRae, gui - indep

2000-01-26 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Dr. Ing. Roland Krause wrote: [...] See my other email "libsigc++ integration..." for details. > Also, I dont understand what the Communicator class was supposed to do. Is it > kind of a mediator between the LyX kernel and the popups? Will it become > obsolete with the using

Re: libsigc++ integration and gui-indep in LyX

2000-01-26 Thread Allan Rae
On 27 Jan 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [I dropped the sigc++ list] It was just Karl's private mail address not the list. > So you are not letting the included sigc++ use its own ./configure? My first draft does but

Re: libsigc++ integration and gui-indep in LyX

2000-01-26 Thread Allan Rae
I forgot to mention libsigc++ will drastically affect which compilers will be able to compile LyX. It looks like gcc-2.7.2 will never work and gcc-2.8.x is only just capable perhaps-maybe (sorry JMarc looks like you'll have some extra work). Libsigc++ is developed with egcs-1.1. It hasn't been

Re: libsigc++ integration and gui-indep in LyX

2000-01-27 Thread Allan Rae
ack from the mechanics today [new clutch + gearbox + engine mount + god-only-knows-whatelse]. > Ok, I switched the lyx-devel branch over to rae and I am trying to > compile it as we speak. I would strongly recommend not to drift too > far away from the main devel branch but you know that

Re: Drum roll please...

2000-01-31 Thread Allan Rae
On 31 Jan 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > btw. we don't want to build shared versions of the libsigc++ lib, only > static. I know. I thought I added/changed something so that was the case Hmmm... seems I didn't. Doesn't a target library with a .la extension mean "only build static libs"

Re: Last minute bug fix request

2000-01-31 Thread Allan Rae
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Michael Schmitt wrote: > Hi developers, > > found two additional purify reports in lyx-devel of January, 27th. Would > it be possible to fix them before the release of 1.1.4 How would you and your team of Purifiers like to get mentioned in the next LyX PR statement? Ju

Re: Labeling environment (KOMA-Script) in 1.1.4pre2

2000-01-31 Thread Allan Rae
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Reuben Thomas wrote: > As far as I can see, Meta-p l crashes LyX 1.1.4pre2 at any time in the > koma-script classes; if I just open a new article or book, then Meta-p l > selects "List" correctly. It's likely to be a problem with our search through the layout list. "M-p l"

Re: segfault on Reformat

2000-01-31 Thread Allan Rae
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Reuben Thomas wrote: > If I load two documents and then repeatedly press Ctrl+R for > "Reformat" then LyX segfaults after a few goes. It doesn't seem to happen > if I only have one document loaded. > > This is with LyX 1.1.4pre2. I've experienced this also but only once and

Re: libsigc++ doesn't like VPATH compiles

2000-01-31 Thread Allan Rae
I wish people would trim their reply to lists I keep getting duplicates from a lot of people. Uhhh. On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Arnd Hanses wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 23:06:39 -0800, Karl Nelson wrote: > > >One last suggestion is to rename sigc++config.h sigc++/config.h > >in all the headers so tha

VPATH compiles work again now.

2000-02-01 Thread Allan Rae
I'm going home to have a good sleep now. Allan. (ARRae)

Re: OS/2 compile

2000-02-01 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Shigeru Miyata wrote: [...] > Sorry if this is already fixed. src/Makefile.am lists > bmtable.c while there is only bmtable.C which cannot be I'm sure JMarc has already fixed this in CVS. > P.S. Is there any provision for libsigc++ to support > gcc 2.8? gcc-2.8.x shou

Re: [Fwd: Drum roll please...]

2000-02-02 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Dr. Ing. Roland Krause wrote: [...] > Well, the question is then how this will work with the proposed > integration of Signal/Slot for GUII. Much of what I wrote earlier was > to help me understanding how things work in LyX. I realize that > LyXFunc plays a central role in LyX

Re: NLDM

2000-02-02 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Amir Karger wrote: > We don't need any foreigners! We could just have a National LDM ourselves! > > Of course, none of us actually know the LyX core well enough to get anything > done, but we could certainly get together and drink cheap American beer! There's always document

Re: Aspell and LyX

2000-02-02 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: [...] > > If this is what you want, you might want to go elsewhere. The LyX > > team is a C++ team, and I think we can admit that we do not have > > the necessary expertice in wrapping C++ in a C sett

Re: Aspell and LyX

2000-02-03 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > On 3 Feb 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > [...] > > | modern C++ which means it is not the most portable thing in the > > | world. > > > > Perfect for LyX then. > > But you want to maintain compatibility with gcc 2.7.2? My library uses > exceptions

Re: Aspell and LyX

2000-02-04 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > > I've already said you might be better off wrapping ispell with your aspell > > C++ interface and then once that works worry about a C wrapper. > > My Aspell C++ interface using exceptions, and templates. If you can > compile and use my interface you

Re: rae branch compile woes.

2000-02-08 Thread Allan Rae
On 8 Feb 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I did not get far. First problem: ./autogen.sh gives the following > warnings/errors: > > fantomas: ./autogen.sh > Locating GNU m4... found: gm4 > Generate acinclude.m4... done. > Building macros... aclocal: configure.in: 101: macro > `AM_DISABLE_SHAR

Re: rae branch compile woes.

2000-02-08 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Allan Rae wrote: > > Second problem: configure dies with > > checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt-1.4 (headers and libraries) > > not found. Please check your installation! > > > > I indeed do not have Qt installed, but I shouldn't n

Re: rae branch compile woes.

2000-02-09 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > Allan> Actually I don't even see the --with-frontend option listed > > Allan> when I try ./configure --help. Something funny going on here. > > > > Did you run autogen.sh? > > I guess Jean-Marc is right here and you probably have to update you > sourc

Re: rae branch compile woes.

2000-02-09 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Allan Rae wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > > Allan> Actually I don't even see the --with-frontend option listed > > > Allan> when I try ./configure --help. Something funny going on here. > > > > > > Did

Re: rae branch compile woes.

2000-02-10 Thread Allan Rae
On 10 Feb 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | You should maybe update the rae branch wrt the main one. It will be > | more painful if you wait too much. > > Very true. Now that cvs is working again I will be a

Re: rae branch compile woes.

2000-02-10 Thread Allan Rae
On 9 Feb 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Allan> On 8 Feb 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> I did not get far. First problem: ./autogen.sh gives the following > >> wa

Re: LyX components?

2000-02-10 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > Right now, we need stability more than the new painter if you ask me. > People say that 1.1.2 was more stable than what we have now. That's > the wrong direction. 1.1.5 should be more stable than 1.1.2! Which is why I haven't sent my PR state

Re: rae branch compile woes.

2000-02-11 Thread Allan Rae
On 11 Feb 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | When I instead use: > | cvs update -j HEAD > > What does the cvs manual say about this? > Perhaps HEAD is not a good tag to merge against. The manual gives all its examples as m

Re: website

2000-02-13 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Dr. Ing. Roland Krause wrote: > > Nazgul's disks finally said goodbye. I have now setup baywatchg to > > take over nazgul's ip-address (as an alias, so now nazgul.lyx.org and > > baywatch.lyx.org points to different ip'addrs but same machine). > > Luckily nazgul only had dns

Re: GUI independence and XTL

2000-02-27 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > We have considered extending the string interface > > with various ways of encoding the information, but that would require > > slow and error-prone parsing of strings. > > I don't agree. Sorry... (Erm... well, it's friday, isn't it) > > String pa

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