Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-04-04 Thread Charles de Miramon
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: >> * Easy to use support for oldstylenums. They look good, and are >> well supported by latex in any document class. Could be done >> with a charstyle, but this is problematic - text inside >> oldstylenums screws up sometimes, and applying a charstyle is too >>

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-04-04 Thread Helge Hafting
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:47:25AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: You are thinking about a dialog providing of Where can be 1cm, 4pt, big, med, small, or fill, and can be space, dots, or rule? This cer

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-04-03 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:47:25AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > > >Helge Hafting wrote: > > > > > >>You are thinking about a dialog providing of > >>Where can be 1cm, 4pt, big, med, small, or fill, > >>and can be space, dots, or rule? > >> > >>This certainly se

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-04-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: You are thinking about a dialog providing of Where can be 1cm, 4pt, big, med, small, or fill, and can be space, dots, or rule? This certainly seems more useful. I'll have to read up on latex to see if all the permutations are supported.

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-28 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 28. März 2006 15:56 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > > "Georg" == Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - /// > - bool nice() const { return nice_; }; > + /** If we are writing a nice LaTeX file or not. > + * Only needed by InsetInclude::validate(). > + */

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Georg" == Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Georg> Here comes an updated one. It renames the GUI names of the Georg> latex and pdflatex formats as Helge suggested. It also adds the Georg> needed changes to OutputParams::exportdata that I forgot in the Georg> last patch. I implemented t

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-28 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> "Helge" == Helge Hafting >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Helge> I think this is a low-risk item that could go into 1.4.x, for > Helge> it adds functionality without messing with other things. > > The patch looks good (but we must be careful about the pos

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Helge" == Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Helge> I think this is a low-risk item that could go into 1.4.x, for Helge> it adds functionality without messing with other things. The patch looks good (but we must be careful about the possible interaction; the export code has weird as

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-27 Thread Helge Hafting
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 09:05:59PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > Am Samstag, 25. März 2006 15:03 schrieb Georg Baum: > > Am Samstag, 25. März 2006 14:46 schrieb Helge Hafting: > > > * Implement export->latex(pdflatex), which gives a tex files where > > > pictures are prepared for pdflatex use. Shou

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Helge" == Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Helge> The thing with dialogs is that they slow things down. First you Helge> have to move the mouse into the dialog to make the selection, Helge> and then press ok. (Well, the dialog can be made to disappear Helge> as the user makes the c

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Helge Hafting wrote: > You are thinking about a dialog providing of > Where can be 1cm, 4pt, big, med, small, or  fill, > and can be space, dots, or rule? > > This certainly seems more useful.  I'll have to read up on latex to > see if all the permutations are supported.  I haven't heard of a >

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Helge Hafting wrote: > The thing with dialogs is that they slow things down.  First > you have to move the mouse into the dialog to make the > selection, and then press ok.  (Well, the dialog can be made > to disappear as the user makes the choice, but that would > differ from all other dialogs...)

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-27 Thread Helge Hafting
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: Are you telling me that LyX has a way for inserting an arbitrary length hspace? Where is it hidden? No, but LaTeX has. And I think it should be finally supported. It's base functionality in LaTeX. I have planned to implement a proper

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-27 Thread Helge Hafting
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: I have some ideas, several of which I will attempt to implement myself if there is acceptance. Cool. Welcome on board. * \dotfill and \hrulefill in addition to existing \hfill I use the former a lot for documents where you "sign

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-26 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 08:47:03PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: > Am Sonntag, 26. März 2006 20:01 schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller: > > No, but LaTeX has. And I think it should be finally supported. It's base > > functionality in LaTeX. > > Yes, I would also love to see this. Hmmm, it's "finger painting

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-26 Thread Georg Baum
Am Sonntag, 26. März 2006 20:01 schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller: > No, but LaTeX has. And I think it should be finally supported. It's base > functionality in LaTeX. Yes, I would also love to see this. > I have planned to implement a proper hspace solution (spaceinset + hfill + > hdorfill + hrule

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-26 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin Vermeer wrote: > Are you telling me that LyX has a way for inserting an arbitrary length > hspace? Where is it hidden? No, but LaTeX has. And I think it should be finally supported. It's base functionality in LaTeX. I have planned to implement a proper hspace solution (spaceinset + hfill +

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-26 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 07:15:44PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > At least for \hspace, a dialog is needed. > > > > Not in the current implementation, see lib/stdmenus.ui and > > src/factory.C. > > I don't understand. How would you enter the length, e.g. \hspace{3

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-26 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > a menu with 15 length entries is user friendly read: _not_ user friendly. Jürgen

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-26 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 02:46:10PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > I have some ideas, several of which I will attempt to implement myself > if there is acceptance. This is not ordered by priority: ... > * support for nicefrac.sty (fractions with a slanted line) > In text, this looks much bette

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-26 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin Vermeer wrote: > > At least for \hspace, a dialog is needed. > > Not in the current implementation, see lib/stdmenus.ui and > src/factory.C. I don't understand. How would you enter the length, e.g. \hspace{3em}? I think the minibuffer-only solution is not the way to go. And I also think th

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-26 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 06:38:03PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > A dialog might be nice, but a good start would be menu entries for all > > space _and_ hfill kinds. (Look inside insetspace.h to see what I mean > > by kinds) > > At least for \hspace, a dialog is nee

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-26 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin Vermeer wrote: > A dialog might be nice, but a good start would be menu entries for all > space _and_ hfill kinds. (Look inside insetspace.h to see what I mean > by kinds) At least for \hspace, a dialog is needed. And it would of course make altering hspaces easier. Jürgen

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-26 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 03:54:12PM +0100, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Helge Hafting wrote: > > I have some ideas, several of which I will attempt to implement myself > > if there is acceptance. > > Cool. Welcome on board. > > > * \dotfill and \hrulefill in addition to existing \hfill > > I

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-26 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Helge Hafting wrote: It will obvoiusly take quite a while to get time for all of this. Please tell me if something isn't ok - so I can avoid doing it. Helge, this is all useful and interesting - nothing that seems redundant. Yet I have still a further proposal (without being able to help w

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-25 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 25. März 2006 15:03 schrieb Georg Baum: > Am Samstag, 25. März 2006 14:46 schrieb Helge Hafting: > > * Implement export->latex(pdflatex), which gives a tex files where > > pictures are prepared for pdflatex use. Should be simple, by > > using the export->pdf(pdflatex) code. > > I

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-25 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Helge Hafting wrote: > I have some ideas, several of which I will attempt to implement myself > if there is acceptance. Cool. Welcome on board. > * \dotfill and \hrulefill in addition to existing \hfill > I use the former a lot for documents where you "sign on the dotted line" > I plan on s

Re: Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-25 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 25. März 2006 14:46 schrieb Helge Hafting: > * support for nicefrac.sty (fractions with a slanted line) > In text, this looks much better than the usual math fractions. > In tables, these are lower so numerators won't hit the table line > above. Should be easy to do, just look at

Some 1.5 ideas - is this the time for working on them?

2006-03-25 Thread Helge Hafting
I have some ideas, several of which I will attempt to implement myself if there is acceptance. This is not ordered by priority: * \dotfill and \hrulefill in addition to existing \hfill I use the former a lot for documents where you "sign on the dotted line" I plan on starting with this easy o