Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-15 Thread John Weiss
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:05:05AM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: John Weiss wrote: 1. External LaTeX packages have no place in LyX. The question was not to include the LaTeX files, but the layout files. 2. What the heck is a beamer? A very nice and powerful presentation class, and even

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-15 Thread John Weiss
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:46:00AM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: John Weiss wrote: 2. What the heck is a beamer? Just because you think it's the greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread doesn't mean everyone else does. Or even knows it exists. (Your bias is showing, Uwe!) (Nobody forces you to add

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-15 Thread John Weiss
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:05:05AM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > John Weiss wrote: > > > 1. External LaTeX packages have no place in LyX. > > The question was not to include the LaTeX files, but the layout files. > > > 2. What the heck is a beamer? > > A very nice and powerful presentation class,

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-15 Thread John Weiss
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:46:00AM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > John Weiss wrote: > >2. What the heck is a beamer? > > > >Just because you think it's the greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread > >doesn't mean everyone else does. Or even knows it exists. (Your bias > >is showing, Uwe!) > > (Nobody

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-13 Thread Georg Baum
John Weiss wrote: 1. External LaTeX packages have no place in LyX. The question was not to include the LaTeX files, but the layout files. 2. What the heck is a beamer? A very nice and powerful presentation class, and even easy to use for beginners. Georg

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-13 Thread chr
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, John Weiss wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:56:11PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: Am Samstag, 8. Januar 2005 22:43 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: I want the example and template LyX files that comes with the beamer package to be added to LyX CVS. These files works very well and the

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-13 Thread Georg Baum
John Weiss wrote: > 1. External LaTeX packages have no place in LyX. The question was not to include the LaTeX files, but the layout files. > 2. What the heck is a beamer? A very nice and powerful presentation class, and even easy to use for beginners. Georg

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-13 Thread chr
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, John Weiss wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:56:11PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > > Am Samstag, 8. Januar 2005 22:43 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: > > > I want the example and template LyX files that comes with the beamer > > > package to be added to LyX CVS. These files works very

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-12 Thread John Weiss
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 03:12:07PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: I wrote: The menu Navigate - Refs seems to be broken. I expect that this menu let me jump from cross- and citation-reference to the next, but nothing happens. Sorry. The menu works., but it doesn't jump from reference to

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-12 Thread John Weiss
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:29:08PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: That I can copy a section with a section heading, keeping the format of the heading. At the moment the format of sections headings are lost by copy/cut and paste. I hope this now fixed now by Georg's patch (many thanks for looking

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-12 Thread John Weiss
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:56:11PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: Am Samstag, 8. Januar 2005 22:43 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: I want the example and template LyX files that comes with the beamer package to be added to LyX CVS. These files works very well and the author of course allows this. Is this

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-12 Thread John Weiss
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 04:26:18PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Georg Baum wrote: As I use LyXWin, could somebody please send me his file LaTeX-Configuration? This menu is broken in LyXWin and I need it to describe it in the docs. Thanks. I guess you don't mean the file that you can get via

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
John Weiss wrote: I concur: 1. External LaTeX packages have no place in LyX. Lars/Asger/Jean-Marc and a cast-of-thousands worked long and hard to ensure we'd never need to do this (hence the whole LaTeX-Config engine autogenerated manual). Why resurrect a long-rejected bad idea? LyX comes with

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-12 Thread John Weiss
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 03:12:07PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > I wrote: > > >The menu Navigate -> Refs seems to be broken. I expect that this menu > >let me jump from cross- and citation-reference to the next, but nothing > >happens. > > Sorry. The menu works., but it doesn't jump from reference

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-12 Thread John Weiss
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:29:08PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > That I can copy a section with a section heading, keeping the format of > the heading. At the moment the format of sections headings are lost by > copy/cut and paste. I hope this now fixed now by Georg's patch (many > thanks for

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-12 Thread John Weiss
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:56:11PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > Am Samstag, 8. Januar 2005 22:43 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: > > I want the example and template LyX files that comes with the beamer > > package to be added to LyX CVS. These files works very well and the > > author of course allows this. Is

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-12 Thread John Weiss
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 04:26:18PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Georg Baum wrote: > > >>As I use LyXWin, could somebody please send me his file > >>"LaTeX-Configuration"? This menu is broken in LyXWin and I need it to > >>describe it in the docs. Thanks. > > > >I guess you don't mean the file that

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
John Weiss wrote: I concur: 1. External LaTeX packages have no place in LyX. Lars/Asger/Jean-Marc and a cast-of-thousands worked long and hard to ensure we'd never need to do this (hence the whole LaTeX-Config engine & autogenerated manual). Why resurrect a long-rejected bad idea? LyX comes

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-11 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 10. Januar 2005 22:29 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: But I can't reproduce bug 922 under LyX 1.3.5. I can partially reproduce it: The layout of lists etc. stays as is when copying them into ERT boxes, and this is of course nonsense. The layout should be reset to standard in the ERT box. I guess

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-11 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 10. Januar 2005 22:29 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: > But I can't reproduce bug 922 under LyX 1.3.5. I can partially reproduce it: The layout of lists etc. stays as is when copying them into ERT boxes, and this is of course nonsense. The layout should be reset to standard in the ERT box. I

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Uwe == Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uwe I couldn't found a list of command line options for LyX. Where Uwe can I find one? lyx --help man lyx Uwe At last I have a suit: Could some body have a look at bug Uwe 922/1332? Because it is very annoying to loose the format when Uwe copying

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Uwe I couldn't found a list of command line options for LyX. Where Uwe can I find one? lyx --help man lyx Oh, how embarrassing for me, thanks anyway. Uwe At last I have a suit: Could some body have a look at bug Uwe 922/1332? Because it is very annoying to loose the

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Uwe" == Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Uwe> I couldn't found a list of command line options for LyX. Where Uwe> can I find one? lyx --help man lyx Uwe> At last I have a suit: Could some body have a look at bug Uwe> 922/1332? Because it is very annoying to loose the format when

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Uwe> I couldn't found a list of command line options for LyX. Where Uwe> can I find one? lyx --help man lyx Oh, how embarrassing for me, thanks anyway. Uwe> At last I have a suit: Could some body have a look at bug Uwe> 922/1332? Because it is very annoying to loose the

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-09 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 8. Januar 2005 22:43 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: As I use LyXWin, could somebody please send me his file LaTeX-Configuration? This menu is broken in LyXWin and I need it to describe it in the docs. Thanks. I guess you don't mean the file that you can get via Help-LaTeX Configuration?

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-09 Thread Uwe Sthr
I wrote: The menu Navigate - Refs seems to be broken. I expect that this menu let me jump from cross- and citation-reference to the next, but nothing happens. Sorry. The menu works., but it doesn't jump from reference to reference. It jumps from one label to the next. So the menu name is a bit

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-09 Thread Uwe Sthr
Georg Baum wrote: As I use LyXWin, could somebody please send me his file LaTeX-Configuration? This menu is broken in LyXWin and I need it to describe it in the docs. Thanks. I guess you don't mean the file that you can get via Help-LaTeX Configuration? No I mean exactly this one. BTW, this

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: There is a little bug: LyX searches for the obsolete package a4wide. This isn't a bug. LyX needs this package for the special a4 margin feature. As described in the file l2tabu, that can be downloaded from CTAN, a4wide shouldn't be used. Yes, therefore the native support for

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-09 Thread Georg Baum
Am Sonntag, 9. Januar 2005 16:26 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: The layout and example files needn't to be changed when beamer comes up with a new version. I tested the actual files hardly and improved them together with the beamer author, so that they are stable since beamer 2 (the actual one is

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-09 Thread Uwe Sthr
Georg Baum wrote: Why that? All we have to do, is to copy the files to the folders lyx/share/lyx/layouts etc. So why do files in different folders cause trouble? Because they are not in different folders. The debian package latex-beamer (in .deb format) installs them (ready for use) under

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-09 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 8. Januar 2005 22:43 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: > As I use LyXWin, could somebody please send me his file > "LaTeX-Configuration"? This menu is broken in LyXWin and I need it to > describe it in the docs. Thanks. I guess you don't mean the file that you can get via Help->LaTeX

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-09 Thread Uwe StÃhr
I wrote: The menu Navigate -> Refs seems to be broken. I expect that this menu let me jump from cross- and citation-reference to the next, but nothing happens. Sorry. The menu works., but it doesn't jump from reference to reference. It jumps from one label to the next. So the menu name is a bit

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Georg Baum wrote: As I use LyXWin, could somebody please send me his file "LaTeX-Configuration"? This menu is broken in LyXWin and I need it to describe it in the docs. Thanks. I guess you don't mean the file that you can get via Help->LaTeX Configuration? No I mean exactly this one. BTW, this

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > There is a little bug: LyX searches for the obsolete package "a4wide". This isn't a bug. LyX needs this package for the special a4 margin "feature". > As described in the file "l2tabu", that can be downloaded from CTAN, > a4wide shouldn't be used. Yes, therefore the native

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-09 Thread Georg Baum
Am Sonntag, 9. Januar 2005 16:26 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: > The layout and example files needn't to be changed when beamer comes up > with a new version. I tested the actual files hardly and improved them > together with the beamer author, so that they are stable since beamer 2 > (the actual one is

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Georg Baum wrote: Why that? All we have to do, is to copy the files to the folders lyx/share/lyx/layouts etc. So why do files in different folders cause trouble? Because they are not in different folders. The debian package latex-beamer (in .deb format) installs them (ready for use) under

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-08 Thread Uwe Sthr
Navigate menu: The menu Navigate - Refs seems to be broken. I expect that this menu let me jump from cross- and citation-reference to the next, but nothing happens. Possibly I found another bug: If one have set custom bookmarks with the navigate menu for a document and now closes this

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-08 Thread Uwe StÃhr
Navigate menu: The menu Navigate -> Refs seems to be broken. I expect that this menu let me jump from cross- and citation-reference to the next, but nothing happens. Possibly I found another bug: If one have set custom bookmarks with the navigate menu for a document and now closes this