Re: Advantages of qt over xforms?

2003-03-24 Thread Davor Cengija
Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:08:50PM +0100, Davor Cengija wrote: >> I see many people are using (or at least, trying to use) qt version of >> LyX. What are the qt version's advantages over the xforms one? > > Anti-aliasing of fonts. This is an interesting, although not crucial,

Fwd: How can I an err.. border?

2003-03-24 Thread Munzir Taha
I want to make borders such as those which appear on this file (You may find the book useful ;-) ) http://linuxpip.org/LITWIndex_3.pdf -- Munzir Taha, Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer, Certified Internet Webmaster, (CIW), New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Re: Some problems with Arabic (Dekel Tsur?)

2003-03-24 Thread Munzir Taha
-- رسالة مرسلة -- Subject: Re: Some problems with Arabic (Dekel Tsur?) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 14:21:32 +0300 From: Munzir Taha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks a lot for your reply I thought you've got bored with Arabic support

How can I an err.. border?

2003-03-24 Thread Munzir Taha
I want to make borders such as those which appear on this file (You may find the book useful ;-) ) http://linuxpip.org/LITWIndex_3.pdf -- Munzir Taha, Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer, Certified Internet Webmaster, (CIW), New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia --

Re: nested paragraphs

2003-03-24 Thread Owen Lucas
I can do this in a bit of a messy way go into enumerate then type in "[description1] Some text ..." and hit return then change the enviroment depth with the third button from the left on you tool bar. Then change back into standard and type in what you want. once that is finished hit return and g

Re: Some problems with Arabic (Dekel Tsur?)

2003-03-24 Thread Munzir Taha
-- رسالة مرسلة -- Subject: Re: Some problems with Arabic (Dekel Tsur?) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 14:21:32 +0300 From: Munzir Taha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks a lot for your reply I thought you've got bored with Arabic support

Harvard referencing and pdflatex

2003-03-24 Thread Owen Lucas
I am using the harvard bibtex package. I would like to use PDFlatex to produce the final pdf as it seems to do a better job then ps2pdf etc. However pdflatex does not work when I use the harvard package. I can view it in every other way but pdflatx just spits out errors like command [EMAIL PROT

Fwd: Re: Some problems with Arabic (Dekel Tsur?)

2003-03-24 Thread Munzir Taha
-- رسالة مرسلة -- Subject: Re: Some problems with Arabic (Dekel Tsur?) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 14:21:32 +0300 From: Munzir Taha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks a lot for your reply I thought you've got bored with Arabic suppor

How can I an err.. border?

2003-03-24 Thread Munzir Taha
I want to make borders such as those which appear on this file (You may find the book useful ;-) ) http://linuxpip.org/LITWIndex_3.pdf -- Munzir Taha, Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer, Certified Internet Webmaster, (CIW), New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

nested paragraphs

2003-03-24 Thread Thomas Klimpel
I want to produce the following: [description1] Some text ... not realy important ... but still belonging to the same description 1. first point of an inner enumeration 2. second point of an inner enumeration more text, still belonging to the first description. but I can't produc

Re: What is moc?

2003-03-24 Thread Chris Carlen
John Levon wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:57:08AM -0800, Chris Carlen wrote: I tried to compile 1.3.1 using --with-frontend=qt and it complained that the moc or moc2 executable wasn't found. I don't seem to have this package available to install into my Suse 8.1 system. What is this? You

Re: Advantages of qt over xforms?

2003-03-24 Thread robin
Nirmal Govind wrote: missing something? Some killer feature? :-) Not really. There are just people out there who like pain, you know... Not sure I understand what you mean by "pain" Andre... cos I thought that one of the coolest features of the Qt version was being able to navigate thru folders

No section numbers?

2003-03-24 Thread Gunnar
Hello.. again. With LyX 1.3.1 I can't see the section numbers in the LyX window. The postscript preview shows them correctly. Why aren't they there in LyX? -- http://www.gunix.dk ---To boldly browse were no one has browsed before

Keeping paragraphs together

2003-03-24 Thread Guido Ostkamp
Hi, in my document I have some nested lists like in the following example: Listelem 1 <--- LaTeX breaks the page here Listelem 1.1 ,,, ... unfortunately LaTeX breaks the page at a very bad position. In a normal wordprocessor I would now goto "Listelem 1" a

Re: Advantages of qt over xforms?

2003-03-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:12:15PM +, John Levon wrote: > > Looks prettier, is more pain to use. > > I'm going to call you on this one, because it's plain bullshit, with > the one exception of the unicode stuff. Unusable with FocusFollowsMouse/Autoraise as the dialogs do not appear under t

Re: What is moc?

2003-03-24 Thread Nirmal Govind
> and it complained that the moc or moc2 executable wasn't found. I don't > seem to have this package available to install into my Suse 8.1 system. > What is this? > A Qt executable if I'm not too wrong.. you may have to specify the path to teh Qt directory using --with-qt-dir= .. nirmal

Re: Advantages of qt over xforms?

2003-03-24 Thread Nirmal Govind
> > missing something? Some killer feature? :-) > > Not really. There are just people out there who like pain, you know... > Not sure I understand what you mean by "pain" Andre... cos I thought that one of the coolest features of the Qt version was being able to navigate thru folders and files

Re: What is moc?

2003-03-24 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:57:08AM -0800, Chris Carlen wrote: > I tried to compile 1.3.1 using --with-frontend=qt > > and it complained that the moc or moc2 executable wasn't found. I don't > seem to have this package available to install into my Suse 8.1 system. > What is this? You either n

Re: Advantages of qt over xforms?

2003-03-24 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:30:09PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > I see many people are using (or at least, trying to use) qt version of LyX. > > What are the qt version's advantages over the xforms one? > > Looks prettier, is more pain to use. I'm going to call you on this one, because it's

What is moc?

2003-03-24 Thread Chris Carlen
Hi: I tried to compile 1.3.1 using --with-frontend=qt and it complained that the moc or moc2 executable wasn't found. I don't seem to have this package available to install into my Suse 8.1 system. What is this? Thanks. -- Christopher R. Carlen Principal

Re: Advantages of qt over xforms?

2003-03-24 Thread Max Bian
How to turn it on? On cygwin system, it looks worse than xform version as built. Max --- Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anti-aliasing of fonts.

Re: Advantages of qt over xforms?

2003-03-24 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:08:50PM +0100, Davor Cengija wrote: Hi, > I see many people are using (or at least, trying to use) qt version of LyX. hehe :) > What are the qt version's advantages over the xforms one? > I successfully compiled v1.3 with qt but had some problems displaying > latin-2

Re: customize userinterface

2003-03-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:36:27PM +0100, Gunnar wrote: > >Icon "command-sequence ert-insert ; self-insert xxx ; inset-toggle > > Allright, now it starts to get a little bit clearer, Still the question of > how to give a fixed parameter to ert-insert so I get that as LaTeX code. xxx is a fixed

Re: Advantages of qt over xforms?

2003-03-24 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:08:50PM +0100, Davor Cengija wrote: > I see many people are using (or at least, trying to use) qt version of LyX. > What are the qt version's advantages over the xforms one? Anti-aliasing of fonts.

Re: Advantages of qt over xforms?

2003-03-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:08:50PM +0100, Davor Cengija wrote: > I see many people are using (or at least, trying to use) qt version of LyX. > What are the qt version's advantages over the xforms one? Looks prettier, is more pain to use. > I successfully compiled v1.3 with qt but had some prob

Re: Advantages of qt over xforms?

2003-03-24 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:08:50PM +0100, Davor Cengija wrote: > I successfully compiled v1.3 with qt but had some problems displaying > latin-2 characters on the screen and I really really don't feel like You have to use the right fonts, and use a latin2 LANG. john

Re: customize userinterface

2003-03-24 Thread Gunnar
>Icon "command-sequence ert-insert ; self-insert xxx ; inset-toggle Allright, now it starts to get a little bit clearer, Still the question of how to give a fixed parameter to ert-insert so I get that as LaTeX code. I still use LyX 1.1.6fix4. Has much changend in 1.3.1 concerning this? I guess

Re: Advantages of qt over xforms?

2003-03-24 Thread I Wayan Warmada
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Davor Cengija wrote: | I see many people are using (or at least, trying to use) qt version of | LyX. What are the qt version's advantages over the xforms one? I have installed both... I think is similar, in the sence of functionality. In the lyx-1.3.0 xforms-frontend have o

Advantages of qt over xforms?

2003-03-24 Thread Davor Cengija
I see many people are using (or at least, trying to use) qt version of LyX. What are the qt version's advantages over the xforms one? I successfully compiled v1.3 with qt but had some problems displaying latin-2 characters on the screen and I really really don't feel like tweaking it endlessly

Re: customize userinterface

2003-03-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:08:26PM +, roy nicolas wrote: > Do we have to be root to do this modification (which will be for all > users) are can we copy this file to a local dir ? I think putting it in ~/.lyx/ui/default.ui would suffice. [As would quoting just the relevant parts of previous

Re: customize userinterface

2003-03-24 Thread roy nicolas
Do we have to be root to do this modification (which will be for all users) are can we copy this file to a local dir ? N. > in lib/ui/default.ui: > > Toolbar > Layouts > Icon "file-open" > Icon "buffer-write" > > So: > > Icon "command-sequence ert-insert ; self-insert xxx ; i

Re: customize userinterface

2003-03-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:03:39PM +0100, Gunnar wrote: > > > I would like the action to insert some LaTeX code, a figure, and then > > > some more LaTeX code. How do I define that? > > > > By playing around with > > command-sequence ert-insert ; self-insert xxx ; inset-toggle ; > > etc. > > Ehh..

Re: customize userinterface

2003-03-24 Thread Gunnar
> > I would like the action to insert some LaTeX code, a figure, and then > > some more LaTeX code. How do I define that? > By playing around with > command-sequence ert-insert ; self-insert xxx ; inset-toggle ; > etc. Ehh.. sorry for being stupid. Where do I write that? Is there any example I ca

Re: compiling 1.3.1 qt on Debian Sid fails. Which qt libs?

2003-03-24 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:18:36PM +, John Levon wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 07:05:21AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > Sorry. Forgot the config.log. > > /tmp/cckDVC0f.o(.text+0x17): In function `main': > : undefined reference to `QString::QString[in-charge](char const*)' > > > Yo

Re: customize userinterface

2003-03-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:19:27PM +0100, Gunnar wrote: > I would like the action to insert some LaTeX code, a figure, and then some > more LaTeX code. How do I define that? By playing around with command-sequence ert-insert ; self-insert xxx ; inset-toggle ; etc. Andre' -- Those who desir

customize userinterface

2003-03-24 Thread Gunnar
Hello. I would like to add a new button to the LyX interface. I have found the file: /usr/share/lyx/ui/default.ui and it seems easy to make changes to that file, but how do I define what action to perform when the button is pressed? I would like the action to insert some LaTeX code, a figure,

Re: compiling 1.3.1 qt on Debian Sid fails. Which qt libs?

2003-03-24 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 07:05:21AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > Sorry. Forgot the config.log. /tmp/cckDVC0f.o(.text+0x17): In function `main': : undefined reference to `QString::QString[in-charge](char const*)' You're using the wrong compiler version - it must match that which qt was compil

Re: Lyx and Latex Input and Output

2003-03-24 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:48:09AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Doran> (2) David Johnson's web page that describes lyx states that lyx > Doran> will output a LaTeX file, and version 1.0 will input most LaTeX > Doran> files. So I am confussed. Can lyx input and output LaTeX files? > > To a

Re: compiling 1.3.1 qt on Debian Sid fails. Which qt libs?

2003-03-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Sorry. Forgot the config.log. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest

Re: compiling 1.3.1 qt on Debian Sid fails. Which qt libs?

2003-03-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 02:40:28PM +, John Levon wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:17:03PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > I have the same problem mentioned by a fellow in an earlier thread, but I > > don't have a clue where my problem is. > > configure:11795:29: qglobal.h: No such fil

Re: Installing LyX

2003-03-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:29:44AM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: > > There was a bad bug in one of the older releases which caused /dev/null to > > be removed when ./configure was run as root... > > and if I remember right, 1.2.2, the version you're trying to install, is the > buggy one.. you might

Re: Installing LyX

2003-03-24 Thread Nirmal Govind
> There was a bad bug in one of the older releases which caused /dev/null to > be removed when ./configure was run as root... > and if I remember right, 1.2.2, the version you're trying to install, is the buggy one.. you might want to download and install 1.2.3 or the latest 1.3.1.. nirmal

Re: Installing LyX

2003-03-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 02:19:32PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > I've unpacked the file lyx-1.2.2.tar.gz (now the LyX folder is > > /usr/local/lyx-1.2.2). > Hm quite old, I suggest using the recent version 1.3.1 or a package > from your distribution. > > > Then I've typed ./configure and a error

Re: Installing LyX

2003-03-24 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 02:05:41PM +0100, Ivan Latorre wrote: Hi, > How do I install LyX? > I've unpacked the file lyx-1.2.2.tar.gz (now the LyX folder is > /usr/local/lyx-1.2.2). Hm quite old, I suggest using the recent version 1.3.1 or a package from your distribution. > Then I've typed ./conf

Installing LyX

2003-03-24 Thread Ivan Latorre
Hi How do I install LyX? I've unpacked the file lyx-1.2.2.tar.gz (now the LyX folder is /usr/local/lyx-1.2.2). Then I've typed ./configure and a error message about /dev/null appeared. The readme file included in the LyX directory has poorly instructions about the LyX installation: "Unpack it a

Re: interface to computer algebra systemts

2003-03-24 Thread Serge Winitzki
--- Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's something like [sqrt [frac 1 2] ]But it > is rather fragile... > This was just meant as a debugging aid, not as the > "real thing". Is there some place in the src/ tree where I can get a full list of these strings "sqrt", "frac", "mathalp

Re: interface to computer algebra systemts

2003-03-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 02:17:00AM -0800, Serge Winitzki wrote: > Thank you, I looked at that file. It seems that after > all it *is* possible to put a script into > ~/.lyx/mathed/extern_XYZ and then the command > "math-extern XYZ simplify" will call that script and > expect some answer. No changes

Re: interface to computer algebra systemts

2003-03-24 Thread Serge Winitzki
Thank you for your reply! --- Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 06:06:11AM -0800, Serge > Winitzki wrote: > > in 1.3.1 I noticed a new menu item "use computer > > algebra system". I have some questions: > > - how to add new computer algebra systems, > > particula

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Re: Lyx and Latex Input and Output

2003-03-24 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Doran" == Smithroadtrip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Doran> (2) David Johnson's web page that describes lyx states that lyx Doran> will output a LaTeX file, and version 1.0 will input most LaTeX Doran> files. So I am confussed. Can lyx input and output LaTeX files? To add to John's comment

Re: Lyx and Latex Input and Output

2003-03-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 01:32:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (1) The lyx main web site sayes Andre Ponitz is currently working to > give lyx round-trip LaTeX-lyx-LaTeX capibility so we can be compatable > with other users of LaTeX (My exact concern, and a requirement). Btw: You can help t

Re: Lyx and Latex Input and Output

2003-03-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 01:32:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Current users: >I just heard about lyx and am trying to determine if I want to use it. >I current use LaTeX and love it, but WYSIWYG would be nice to have. >I am confussed about LaTeX input/output. >

Re: Install error for LyX 1.3.1 ?!

2003-03-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:00:13PM +0800, Randy Burgess wrote: > 1.3.1. I'm using the Xforms front end, have already installed Xforms 1.0 > and Xpm. My LyX configure went OK according to the messages. The C > compiler (this is on a SuSE 8.1 distro) is gcc 3.2. When I went to > install, things bega

Re: interface to computer algebra systemts

2003-03-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 06:06:11AM -0800, Serge Winitzki wrote: > in 1.3.1 I noticed a new menu item "use computer > algebra system". I have some questions: > > - this feature is so far undocumented? Yes. > - how to add new computer algebra systems, > particularly free ones (gap, pari/gp, yacas

Re: Big parentheses over multiple lines of multiline equation

2003-03-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 05:53:09PM +0200, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > As the subject says, how can I insert big parentheses into my > multiline equation such that the left parenthesis is on line before the > right parenthesis? Using the standard parenthesis instead of Alt-M ( works > but gives too sma