Re: Suggestion for small UI improvement / click on Thesaurus

2020-06-15 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 6/15/20 2:43 PM, _johnny7_...@web.de wrote: > Hello, > > I really appreciate your work for LyX and use it very happily for my PhD > thesis in the humanities. > The usage for me is almost flawless, I would just have a minor > suggestion: When I click on Thesaurus, I would like to be able to > imm

Re: Suggestion: fixed preamble element for logical markup

2017-12-29 Thread Richard Heck
On 12/14/2017 01:30 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 03:39:38PM +, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Dear LyX-developers. >> >> Happy Holidays to you from Kansas! >> >> Would you consider making the preamble created by LyX more >> "predictable" from the settings, and less dependent on

Re: Suggestion: fixed preamble element for logical markup

2017-12-13 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 03:39:38PM +, Paul Johnson wrote: > Dear LyX-developers. > > Happy Holidays to you from Kansas! > > Would you consider making the preamble created by LyX more > "predictable" from the settings, and less dependent on the actual > content in the document? Recently I wis

Re: suggestion about local layouts

2016-11-13 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/13/2016 11:09 AM, edu Gpl wrote: > Dear lyx team > thank you for all > > suggestion: > i have a group of local layout, and its occupies a larg list. > Why? because lyx let me past the local layout in the same place, and > after some time i get over than 100 line of code. > So, i hope you make

Re: Suggestion: Inkscape External Document

2014-08-01 Thread Paul Johnson
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7510#comment:13 I see my idea has already received some attention. Nothing is truly new in my idea. It seems to me the patch proposer will not have his way. The patch needs to be implemented against a full source checkout, bug checked, etc. I have some difficulty

Re: Suggestion: Inkscape External Document

2014-07-28 Thread Cyrille Artho
Julien Rioux wrote: On 28/07/2014 10:18 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 28/07/2014 16:02, Paul Johnson a écrit : I've found Xfig to be increasingly difficult to use on newer Linux systems and consider now using Inkscape. [...] Now Inkscape has a similar --export-latex flag, described he

Re: Suggestion: Inkscape External Document

2014-07-28 Thread Julien Rioux
On 28/07/2014 10:18 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 28/07/2014 16:02, Paul Johnson a écrit : I've found Xfig to be increasingly difficult to use on newer Linux systems and consider now using Inkscape. [...] Now Inkscape has a similar --export-latex flag, described here: http://www.ctan.or

Re: Suggestion: Inkscape External Document

2014-07-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 28/07/2014 16:02, Paul Johnson a écrit : I've found Xfig to be increasingly difficult to use on newer Linux systems and consider now using Inkscape. [...] Now Inkscape has a similar --export-latex flag, described here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/svg-inkscape That has preamble co

Re: Suggestion: Captions for fixed images

2012-03-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 03.03.2012 21:05, schrieb Niklas Burtscheid: Sorry, I didn't knew that. That was hard to find. Really? If you don't know how a feature works, just have a look at the LyX UserGuide. There you should find anything. If not, please report that to the lyx-docs mailing list and I'll fix this. r

Re: Suggestion: Captions for fixed images

2012-03-03 Thread Niklas Burtscheid
Von: "Uwe Stöhr" > An: Niklas Burtscheid > CC: lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org > Betreff: Re: Suggestion: Captions for fixed images > Am 29.02.2012 22:44, schrieb Niklas Burtscheid: > > Sometimes you need a fixed image (with captions) instead of a floating > one, even if that

Re: Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-03-03 Thread Niklas Burtscheid
Jack Tanner hotmail.com> writes: > > Liviu Andronic gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Some ask for 500 words, others require 2000 characters. > > Do you know of situations where one needs both the word count and the > character > count? > > If the user has to decide which of both is displayed

Re: Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-03-01 Thread Jack Tanner
Liviu Andronic gmail.com> writes: > > Some ask for 500 words, others require 2000 characters. Do you know of situations where one needs both the word count and the character count?

Re: Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-03-01 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Jack Tanner wrote: > Richard Heck comcast.net> writes: > >> >> If someone wants to implement this, and have it off by default, I >> suppose they can do so, but I can't see the point of it. Do you really >> need to know, as you type each character, how many characte

Re: Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-03-01 Thread Jack Tanner
Richard Heck comcast.net> writes: > > If someone wants to implement this, and have it off by default, I > suppose they can do so, but I can't see the point of it. Do you really > need to know, as you type each character, how many characters there are? I never understood the need for the numbe

Re: Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-03-01 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/29/2012 10:45 PM, Jack Tanner wrote: Niklas Burtscheid gmx.de> writes: There should be an option in the general preferences to show the statistics (number of characters& number of words) permanently in the status-bar (at the right side of it). Recent versions of Word do exactly this

Re: Suggestion: Option for showing live-statistics in statusbar

2012-02-29 Thread Jack Tanner
Niklas Burtscheid gmx.de> writes: > > There should be an option in the general preferences to show the statistics (number of characters & number > of words) permanently in the status-bar (at the right side of it). Recent versions of Word do exactly this, and it's pretty handy. Implementing this

Re: Suggestion: Captions for fixed images

2012-02-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 29.02.2012 22:44, schrieb Niklas Burtscheid: Sometimes you need a fixed image (with captions) instead of a floating one, even if that means you'll get whitespace. In this case use the float placement option "here definitely". For more info about float placement see sec. 3.5 of the EmbeddedO

Re: suggestion: searchbar for insert special character

2011-07-08 Thread Neal Becker
Diego Queiroz wrote: > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > >> I tried to insert a special character ½, and found it difficult to locate. >> I >> use kcharselect (from kde) to find it. It has a search bar. Just type in >> the >> term 'half', and it's the first thing shown (on

Re: suggestion: searchbar for insert special character

2011-07-08 Thread Diego Queiroz
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > I tried to insert a special character ½, and found it difficult to locate. > I > use kcharselect (from kde) to find it. It has a search bar. Just type in > the > term 'half', and it's the first thing shown (on my machine). > > My suggestion

Re: suggestion: searchbar for insert special character

2011-07-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-07-08, Neal Becker wrote: > I tried to insert a special character ½, and found it difficult to > locate. I use kcharselect (from kde) to find it. It has a search bar. > Just type in the term 'half', and it's the first thing shown (on my > machine). > My suggestion is add a searchbar to

Re: Suggestion - preamble inset

2010-12-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 02/12/2010 22:45, Richard Heck wrote: On 12/01/2010 07:45 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Why not simply add a preamble editor in the branches dialog? LyX will then collect the preamble for each branches. I guess this would be a format change but it strikes me as the correct solution... Kin

Re: Suggestion - preamble inset

2010-12-02 Thread Richard Heck
On 12/01/2010 07:45 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Why not simply add a preamble editor in the branches dialog? LyX will then collect the preamble for each branches. I guess this would be a format change but it strikes me as the correct solution... Kind of crowded already, but perhaps a combo

Re: Suggestion - preamble inset

2010-12-01 Thread Michal
> Why not simply add a preamble editor in the branches dialog? LyX will > then collect the preamble for each branches. I guess this would be a > format change but it strikes me as the correct solution... This is similar to my first 'solution', which I've suggested a long time ago. The reactio

Re: Suggestion - preamble inset

2010-12-01 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 01/12/2010 13:29, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-11-30, Richard Heck wrote: On 11/30/2010 05:51 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-11-29, Michal wrote: That's something I didn't know - I thought that the InPreamble option works for 'Style' only. Well, I'll have to take a closer look into

Re: Suggestion - preamble inset

2010-12-01 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-30, Richard Heck wrote: > On 11/30/2010 05:51 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: >> On 2010-11-29, Michal wrote: >>> That's something I didn't know - I thought that the InPreamble >>> option works for 'Style' only. Well, I'll have to take a closer look >>> into a documentation then. Thank yo

Re: Suggestion - preamble inset

2010-11-30 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/30/2010 05:51 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-11-29, Michal wrote: That's something I didn't know - I thought that the InPreamble option works for 'Style' only. Well, I'll have to take a closer look into a documentation then. Thank you for pointing it out. Sorry, I did not test whe

Re: Suggestion - preamble inset

2010-11-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-29, Michal wrote: >> > [...] After that, I think the only remaining thing is >> > to change the look of it to be more like ERT (typewriter font, >> > changing color to red, etc.) >> This can all be done in a *.module file in your personal LYXDIR. See >> the "Help>Customization" document

Re: Suggestion - preamble inset

2010-11-29 Thread Michal
> > [...] After that, I think the only remaining thing is > > to change the look of it to be more like ERT (typewriter font, > > changing color to red, etc.) > > This can all be done in a *.module file in your personal LYXDIR. See > the "Help>Customization" documentation. That is exactly what

Re: Suggestion - preamble inset

2010-11-29 Thread Michal
> I'll have to think about including it. It's a pretty specialized > thing, and seems to me to be very much > an "expert" capability (the way local layout was for a while). I'm not sure. It could be very useful for novices, too. For instance, let's assume that each branch contains the same tex

Re: Suggestion - preamble inset

2010-11-29 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-29, Michal wrote: >> I've fixed this, in the sense that you can now use "LaTeXType >> paragraph". Try this: >> [...] > Thank you for your help! I guess I'll have to wait until the next > beta comes out then. After that, I think the only remaining thing is to > change the look of it

Re: Suggestion - preamble inset

2010-11-29 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/28/2010 10:25 PM, Michal wrote: I've fixed this, in the sense that you can now use "LaTeXType paragraph". Try this: [...] Thank you for your help! I guess I'll have to wait until the next beta comes out then. After that, I think the only remaining thing is to change the look of it to

Re: Suggestion - preamble inset

2010-11-28 Thread Michal
> I've fixed this, in the sense that you can now use "LaTeXType > paragraph". Try this: > [...] Thank you for your help! I guess I'll have to wait until the next beta comes out then. After that, I think the only remaining thing is to change the look of it to be more like ERT (typewriter font,

Re: Suggestion - preamble inset

2010-11-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/28/2010 01:21 AM, Michal Skrzypek wrote: I think this may be quite easy to do already, though it is a bit of a hack. LyX 2.0's layouts have an "InPreamble" tag, intended primarily for use with document classes that want, say, \title to be in the preamble. It should be possible to create a "

Re: Suggestion - preamble inset

2010-11-27 Thread Michal
> I think this may be quite easy to do already, though it is a bit of a > hack. LyX 2.0's layouts have an "InPreamble" tag, intended primarily > for use with document classes that want, say, \title to be in the > preamble. It should be possible to create a "Preamble" layout, with > InPreamble true,

Re: Suggestion - preamble inset

2010-11-27 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/27/10 10:03 PM, Michal wrote: Some time ago I've suggested to allow for differentiating preambles wrt branches, ie. allowing different preambles for different branches in the same document. Granted, this change was probably too big, and too little would be gained... but now I hav

Re: suggestion about tabs

2010-08-03 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
xPol wrote: > To increase space for the doc title in tabs, it would be convenient not > to display the 'close' button, except while hovering on the tab. It's not exactly what you want, but you can get rid of the close buttons (in favour of a global one) in Preferences > Look & Feel > User Inter

Re: suggestion about hyperref UI

2009-11-04 Thread Pavel Sanda
Guenter Milde wrote: > How would the editable preamble solve the problem that LyX does not > know whether hyperref > > was enabled in prefs by the users choice or by automatical proces > ? it wouldn't. it was just comment on the parallel bug about preamble being discussed in trac. pavel

Re: suggestion about hyperref UI

2009-11-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-02, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: >> Dear LyX developers >> When I use hyperlink, >> LyX automatically loading hyperref package, and writes in the source >> file (seen from view source), but the hyperref ui (Document>Settings) >> does not show it has been loaded? not a

Re: suggestion about hyperref UI

2009-11-02 Thread Pavel Sanda
Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: > Dear LyX developers > > When I use hyperlink, > LyX automatically loading hyperref package, and writes in the source > file (seen from view source), but the hyperref ui (Document>Settings) > does not show it has been loaded? not active. if user delete hyperlink from d

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, like how we

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

2009-07-02 Thread Christian Ridderström
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, like how we have a document about the LaTeX co

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

2009-06-29 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: > > You cannot copy from the preamble? > > both directions are problematic. if i select something in lyx window then i > never get it into preamble. opposite direction works only sometimes, eg > when something is already in the selection buffer it stays there and dont > get updat

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

2009-06-29 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > PS. Btw, it's annoying that I can't do a copy and paste from this about > > > window. That could be useful e.g. for people that want to do bug reports. > > > > this is even more annoying with preamble box... :) > > You cannot copy from the pream

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

2009-06-29 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: > > PS. Btw, it's annoying that I can't do a copy and paste from this about > > window. That could be useful e.g. for people that want to do bug reports. > > this is even more annoying with preamble box... :) You cannot copy from the preamble? Jürgen

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

2009-06-29 Thread Pavel Sanda
Christian Ridderström wrote: > PS. Btw, it's annoying that I can't do a copy and paste from this about > window. That could be useful e.g. for people that want to do bug reports. this is even more annoying with preamble box... :) pavel

RE: Suggestion

2009-06-11 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>Pavel Sanda wrote: >> > (b) tables... everyone seems to agree that the outstanding set-back >> > and frustration in lyx is the table interface. I'm sure you've >> > heard more input on this topic, so I'll refrain, but if you have >> > questions on what I mean I would definitely continue the

Re: Suggestion

2009-06-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: > > (b) tables... everyone seems to agree that the outstanding set-back > > and frustration in lyx is the table interface. I'm sure you've heard > > more input on this topic, so I'll refrain, but if you have questions > > on what I mean I would definitely continue the dialog. >

RE: suggestion for windows installar

2008-04-07 Thread Leuven, E.
Joost Verburg wrote: >> The Qt stuff would have been the difficult part for me :) To obtain the >> metafile data you just need a few API calls. The attached patch works >> fine for me. great... > Andre wrote: > Cool stuff. > > Nevertheless, could we try stick to LyX style also in Windows-only c

Re: suggestion for windows installar

2008-04-06 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 01:12:11AM +0200, Joost Verburg wrote: > Leuven, E. wrote: > [...] > This is really a great feature. I can now copy graphics from any Windows > application! > > Joost Cool stuff. Nevertheless, could we try stick to LyX style also in Windows-only code? E.g: > +#ifdef Q_WS

Re: suggestion for windows installar

2008-04-06 Thread Joost Verburg
Leuven, E. wrote: > Yes, that's a good idea. Can you have a look at the clipboard > copy-pasting of metafile data? was already looking at that (thus my installer request ;-), the attached is what i have. the getdata call seems to be unsuccessful so i am doing something wrong. am a bit stuc

RE: Re: suggestion for windows installar

2008-04-06 Thread Leuven, E.
Joost Verburg wrote: > Done :) Everything will be installed and configured automatically. that's quick! >> we could perhaps have the default paste in original >> format and offer an additional "paste as eps"... > > Yes, that's a good idea. Can you have a look at the clipboard > copy-pasting of

Re: suggestion for windows installar

2008-04-05 Thread Joost Verburg
Leuven, E. wrote: Joost Verburg wrote: I wrote this tool (some parts are based on other GPL software). it is very convenient Thanks. I'll have a look at the possibilities to install and configure the printer automatically. great Done :) Everything will be installed and configured auto

RE: Re: suggestion for windows installar

2008-04-05 Thread Leuven, E.
Joost Verburg wrote: > I wrote this tool (some parts are based on other GPL software). it is very convenient > I'll > have a look at the possibilities to install and configure the printer > automatically. great > I would recommend to save the EMF/WMF images in the original format. > There ca

Re: suggestion for windows installar

2008-04-05 Thread Joost Verburg
Leuven, E. wrote: i just discovered this: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/MetafileToEPSConverter and thought that i might be nice to have support for this in the installer (ie setting up the printer and converter) I wrote this tool (some parts are based on other GPL software). I'll have a look

Re: Suggestion: Intelligent new Section

2008-02-09 Thread Richard Heck
Christopher Reeve wrote: I'm currently writing a thesis with many sub sections and am tired of figuring out when I create a new section whether it is a Chapter, Section, Subsection or Subsubsection etc, and then I'm even more tired of finding it in the list and having to be careful to chose the nu

Re: Suggestion: Relative paths for figures

2004-03-24 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Georg" == Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Georg> It inserts the relative name if the file is in the same Georg> directory (1.3.5cvs, qt, I have no older version anymore). Georg> It does not if the file is above, e. g. ../../other/dir/a.eps Georg> gets converted to the absolute path,

Re: Suggestion: Relative paths for figures

2004-03-24 Thread Georg Baum
Jose' Matos wrote: > On Wednesday 24 March 2004 09:38, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: >> Hi developers > [...] >> I have noticed that LyX by default works with absolute paths if you use >> the browse-feature to point out your figures. I find this to be a little >> annoying and and can't see the pratical

Re: Suggestion: Relative paths for figures

2004-03-24 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 10:56, Jose' Matos wrote: > What is the lyx version you are using? LyX 1.3.2. I stick to the packages privided by SuSE and they are not up2date. > I think that this bug was fixed for the qt version in 1.3.3 (+/-). That explain things. I am happy to hear. You LyX d

Re: Suggestion: Relative paths for figures

2004-03-24 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 09:38, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: > Hi developers [...] > I have noticed that LyX by default works with absolute paths if you use > the browse-feature to point out your figures. I find this to be a little > annoying and and can't see the pratical reason why it works this way

Re: suggestion for timing events

2003-10-17 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I've got a suggestion for timing events in lyx. > | How about adding an LFUN that starts/stops/shows a timer? Then timing | something could be as simple as this: > | lyx -x 'command-sequence 'timer reset; file-open UserGuide.lyx; timer stop; |

Re: suggestion tex2lyx

2003-07-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:31:50PM +0200, Edwin Leuven wrote: > i guess this one's for andre, > > i often use dcolumn to align columns on the decimal point > > where i define a custom column alignment in the preamble as follows > > \usepackage{dcolumn} > \newcolumntype{d}[1]{D{.}{.}{#1}} > > an

Re: Suggestion for the QT frontend preferences dialog

2002-10-14 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 02:11:36PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dekel> Few suggestions: - The "Screen Fonts->Rescale bitmap fonts" > Dekel> button should not be implemented (not used by the QT frontend). > > Is Qt anti-aliasing

Re: Suggestion for the QT frontend preferences dialog

2002-10-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dekel> Few suggestions: - The "Screen Fonts->Rescale bitmap fonts" Dekel> button should not be implemented (not used by the QT frontend). Is Qt anti-aliasing support good enough to provide good scalable fonts on screen? JMarc

Re: Suggestion to simplify the Graphics dialog

2002-08-12 Thread Rob Lahaye
John, Please have a look at the attached Qt layout for the Graphics dialog. With the new ideas on Width/Height values, it can be so much simpler. I'm not too familiar with Qt and designer, so don't use my .ui file (I've removed too many items, such as spacers, grouping etc.) This is just about l

Re: Suggestion to simplify the Graphics dialog

2002-08-11 Thread Rob Lahaye
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > In latex you can either > 1) Set only the width (the height is chosen such that aspect ratio is kept) > 2) Set only the height (the width is chosen such that aspect ratio is kept) > 3) Set both width & height (aspect ratio is not kept) > 4) Set both width & height and use the

Re: Suggestion to simplify the Graphics dialog

2002-08-11 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 06:28:05PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > This might not be possible when, for example, you select the width to > be 30% column-width. What would you write in the height field ? Good point. > > > > 2) Replace the "Screen display" check buttons by a choice-list that > > > >

Re: Suggestion to simplify the Graphics dialog

2002-08-11 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 05:35:32PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > I agree. I would never use it. Furthermore most users think that it does what > they expect from "keep aspect ratio". And some developers :) Now I have a better idea what it does, yes, we should remove it. regards john --

Re: Suggestion to simplify the Graphics dialog

2002-08-11 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Dekel Tsur wrote: > This option is almost useless. > I think we can remove this button completely, and perhaps add > an "extra options" field that will allow to enter extra options > to the \includegraphics command. I agree. I would never use it. Furthermore most users think that it does what th

Re: Suggestion to simplify the Graphics dialog

2002-08-11 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 05:24:04PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > > You are talking about different things. Currently, the "keep aspect ratio" > button uses the "keepaspectratio" option from graphicx. > "If set to true then both specifying 'width' and 'height' (or 'totalheight') > does n

Re: Suggestion to simplify the Graphics dialog

2002-08-11 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 04:13:10PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 06:07:28PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > In latex you can either > > 1) Set only the width (the height is chosen such that aspect ratio is kept) > > 4) Set both width & height and use the keepaspectratio option

Re: Suggestion to simplify the Graphics dialog

2002-08-11 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
John Levon wrote: > > With your suggestion, 1 & 4 are not possible. > > Why not ? We must simply do what GIMP does and update the "other" field > correctly. e.g. I have aspect ratio set, and alter width, the height > field should change appropriately. You are talking about different things. Curre

Re: Suggestion to simplify the Graphics dialog

2002-08-11 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 06:07:28PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > In latex you can either > 1) Set only the width (the height is chosen such that aspect ratio is kept) > 4) Set both width & height and use the keepaspectratio options: > the image is scaled keeping the aspect ratio, such that neither o

Re: Suggestion to simplify the Graphics dialog

2002-08-11 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 08:23:57PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > 1) For both, LyX View and LaTeX Size, remove all the "Original Size", > "Scale", "Costum" entries and reduce all that to merely: > > --- > <> keep aspect ratio >Width [__] [u] >

Re: Suggestion to simplify the Graphics dialog

2002-08-11 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 08:23:57PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > There are far too many fields and buttons. yup > I suggest the following: > > 1) For both, LyX View and LaTeX Size, remove all the "Original Size", >"Scale", "Costum" entries and reduce all that to merely: > >--

Re: Suggestion : Stop current search

2002-05-31 Thread adrien . rebollo
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 06:57:38AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:55:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I launched a search for an inexistent word at the beginning of the User Guide, > > of course it took a while and I found no possibility to cancel the search. > >

Re: Suggestion : Stop current search

2002-05-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:55:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I launched a search for an inexistent word at the beginning of the User Guide, > of course it took a while and I found no possibility to cancel the search. > Maybe it could be a useful new feature. Good idea actually. Could you

Re: Suggestion for LyX and the Math Panel

2002-01-24 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:50:53AM +0100, Pascal Francq wrote: > Hi, > I have a suggestion for the math panel. Would it be a good idea to make the > main window of LyX activ after inserting a symbol taking from the math panel. > For example, when I insert the square root symbol, I must go with t

Re: Suggestion for aspell: per-document dictionaries (fwd)

2001-06-05 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 05-Jun-2001 Reuben Thomas wrote: > I thought you might be interested: I asked Kevin Atkinson about per-document > dictionaries, and he replied: Well ok this could be made possible in general and I agree this is stuff which should make the programm (well we have a upcoming meeting haven't we ;

Re: Suggestion for aspell: per-document dictionaries (fwd)

2001-06-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
I thought you might be interested: I asked Kevin Atkinson about per-document dictionaries, and he replied: > Aspell doesn't have a per document dictionary mainly because there is no > real good way to store them and also because it will add more complexity > to the user interface. However, if yo

Re: Suggestion

2001-03-30 Thread Mikael Säker
Mikael Säker wrote: Just a quick note on what I wrote previously: When thinking about it, this is NOT doable with nested styles. What I want to do is having a layout command-type style with a preamble like this: Preamble \newcommand{\sulingex}[3]{ \begin{exe}

Re: Suggestion for LyX

2000-09-05 Thread Gilles J. Seguin
John Levon wrote: > > On 4 Sep 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > > "Vladimir" == Vladimir Tamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Vladimir> Hi Congratulations for the good work with LyX. > > > > Vladimir> The only suggestion is to replace Xforms with a free > > Vladimir> library. (I

Re: Suggestion for LyX

2000-09-04 Thread John Levon
On 4 Sep 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Vladimir" == Vladimir Tamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Vladimir> Hi Congratulations for the good work with LyX. > > Vladimir> The only suggestion is to replace Xforms with a free > Vladimir> library. (In order to make LyX really free). >

Re: Suggestion for LyX

2000-09-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Vladimir" == Vladimir Tamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Vladimir> Hi Congratulations for the good work with LyX. Vladimir> The only suggestion is to replace Xforms with a free Vladimir> library. (In order to make LyX really free). Although nothing has been really realeased yet, most of

Re: Suggestion on FormTabular: Cell cettings and multicol

2000-08-22 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > > > You're right. I should have suggested: > > ./configure --with-cucumber=insets > > That's it why didn't you suggest this earlier :) > > Seriously, we could add the option, BUT we have to give BBB > warning at the end of configure

Re: Suggestion on FormTabular: Cell cettings and multicol

2000-08-22 Thread Juergen Vigna
> > You're right. I should have suggested: > ./configure --with-cucumber=insets That's it why didn't you suggest this earlier :) Seriously, we could add the option, BUT we have to give BBB warning at the end of configure that the resulting .lyx file "COULD" be incompatible with a

Re: Suggestion on FormTabular: Cell cettings and multicol

2000-08-21 Thread Allan Rae
On 21 Aug 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Juergen Vigna wrote: > | > | > > | > On 17-Aug-2000 Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | > > > | > > NEW_INSETS should be enabled at the same time, because: > | > > | > Well to answer you

Re: Suggestion on FormTabular: Cell cettings and multicol

2000-08-21 Thread Juergen Vigna
>| > My vote is 1.1.6 with ONLY NEW_TABULAR activated! > > I think I'd be willing to do this for 1.1.6. Ok then I'll do my best to fix all the "missing-feature" reports I got till now (when time permits). BTW.: Are you working on LyXGui-Class? I had in mind to remove all xforms calls from

Re: Suggestion on FormTabular: Cell cettings and multicol

2000-08-21 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Juergen Vigna wrote: | | > | > On 17-Aug-2000 Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > > | > > NEW_INSETS should be enabled at the same time, because: | > | > Well to answer you what I think: [...] | > Why activate NEW_TABULAR and not NEW_INS

Re: Suggestion on FormTabular: Cell cettings and multicol

2000-08-19 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > On 17-Aug-2000 Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > > > NEW_INSETS should be enabled at the same time, because: > > Well to answer you what I think: [...] > Why activate NEW_TABULAR and not NEW_INSETS: [...] > > So you see while the tabular-inset IS rea

Re: Suggestion on FormTabular: Cell cettings and multicol

2000-08-19 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Baruch Even wrote: > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Allan Rae wrote: > > > > I think that taking a break now will be a good idea, we could then try to > > > aim for better support for GUII in 1.2.0, as far as I looked into it, it > > > will require quite a bit of work to get LyX fully

Re: Suggestion on FormTabular: Cell cettings and multicol

2000-08-18 Thread Baruch Even
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Allan Rae wrote: > > I think that taking a break now will be a good idea, we could then try to > > aim for better support for GUII in 1.2.0, as far as I looked into it, it > > will require quite a bit of work to get LyX fully GUII, quite a bit of its > > internals are depende

Re: Suggestion on FormTabular: Cell cettings and multicol

2000-08-18 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 17-Aug-2000 Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > NEW_INSETS should be enabled at the same time, because: > - keep the fileformat changes localized to on version > - they also use the textinsets and the other insets that > tabular uses, better testing. > - deveopmen

Re: Suggestion on FormTabular: Cell cettings and multicol

2000-08-17 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Baruch Even wrote: > On 17 Aug 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > > Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > | It might be a good idea to release soon a lyx-1.1.6-beta1 in order to do > > | the testing by those who will need to use the code. It would be a bad idea

Re: Suggestion on FormTabular: Cell cettings and multicol

2000-08-17 Thread Garst R. Reese
Juergen Vigna wrote: > P.S.: Do you like the new Document-Layout? Can I remove the old code? Well, I love new layout, but under languages I need to ask if this affects the spell checker or just the po files. The reason I ask is that I provided a canadian dictionary for aspell. Canadians mostly

Re: Suggestion on FormTabular: Cell cettings and multicol

2000-08-17 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:04:41PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > If we want to get 1.1.6 out before Christmas you should not do that... > And if we decide to skip 1.1.6 and go directly at 1.2.0 we should make > that decision now, then we need to enable NEW_INSETS too. > > Actually I am n

Re: Suggestion on FormTabular: Cell cettings and multicol

2000-08-17 Thread Baruch Even
On 17 Aug 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | It might be a good idea to release soon a lyx-1.1.6-beta1 in order to do > | the testing by those who will need to use the code. It would be a bad idea > | to release so much new code without having some b

Re: Suggestion on FormTabular: Cell cettings and multicol

2000-08-17 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > If we want to get 1.1.6 out before Christmas you should not do that... | > And if we decide to skip 1.1.6 and go directly at 1.2.0 we should make | > that decision now, then we need to enable NEW_INSETS too. | > | | Why do we need to enable NEW

Re: Suggestion on FormTabular: Cell cettings and multicol

2000-08-17 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | It might be a good idea to release soon a lyx-1.1.6-beta1 in order to do | the testing by those who will need to use the code. It would be a bad idea | to release so much new code without having some brave users test it | beforehand, We always have at le

Re: Suggestion on FormTabular: Cell cettings and multicol

2000-08-17 Thread Juergen Vigna
> > If we want to get 1.1.6 out before Christmas you should not do that... > And if we decide to skip 1.1.6 and go directly at 1.2.0 we should make > that decision now, then we need to enable NEW_INSETS too. > Why do we need to enable NEW_INSETS too? I think that lyx-tabulars are pretty good mo

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