Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Matej == Matej Cepl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matej Rich Shepard wrote: As long as it does not require KDE to run it's OK with me. I agree that Matej You can use whichever KDE application in whatever environment Matej if you have installed kdelibs. I am not sure what is the current status of

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Matej == Matej Cepl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matej Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I'll try to answer to some of your concerns. Matej Thanks, Jean-Marc, for answering. I was really getting worried Matej that my report about LyX's death were not that exaggerated

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Matej - documents revisions (hopefully, it is coming in 1.4.*), but Matej how is it going to work with RCS/CVS? We already have document revision with RCS (the Version control feature). I am not sure how this can be combined with the new change tracking feature.

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Juergen == Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Juergen Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Matej - documents revisions (hopefully, it is coming in 1.4.*), but Matej how is it going to work with RCS/CVS? Juergen We already have document revision with RCS (the Version Juergen control feature).

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I just repeat what John Levon said a few months ago. He seemd to thing that there was a lot of work to do on it (maybe for undo). A few months ago, change tracking was unusable because of the assert. I haven't found any showstopper yet (except the change tracking

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Matej Is there such list available somewhere -- I would be interested Matej even if it is vaporware for some time. Lars keeps a reasonably up to date list of things he would like here: http://www.devel.lyx.org/roadmap.php3 http://www.devel.lyx.org/tasks.php3 I

Re: No Search Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-04 Thread Charles de Miramon
Rich Shepard wrote: However, when I press ctrl-f I see a dialog box that has two text entry widgets (for search string and replace string) and four buttons: Find next, Replace, Replace all and Close. I've used it extensively. Works fine. I was not talking of ctrl-f but of a powerfull

Re: No Search Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Charles de Miramon wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: However, when I press ctrl-f I see a dialog box that has two text entry widgets (for search string and replace string) and four buttons: Find next, Replace, Replace all and Close. I've used it extensively. Works fine. I was not

Re: No Search Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Charles == Charles de Miramon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles Rich Shepard wrote: However, when I press ctrl-f I see a dialog box that has two text entry widgets (for search string and replace string) and four buttons: Find next, Replace, Replace all and Close. I've used it extensively.

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Charles == Charles de Miramon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles Part of KDE has been ported to OSX and some are working on a Charles Windows Port but it has not brought us any new developpers. Charles Maybe some new users. But the classical people ready to help Charles with an Open Source

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Steve == Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve 1. No character styles (I understand this is coming in a later Steve version). Yes, but in a basic form (no character style editor) Steve 2. Paragraph styles (environments) are soo hard to Steve construct. I understand this is more a

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Bo == Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bo 3. latex conversion: critical to the usability of lyx. I was Bo frustrated when I can not import a lyx-exported latex file that Bo has been slightly modified by my advisor. I am glad that it will Bo get better in 1.4. Currently, with tex2lyx we are

Re: LyX is not running with QT interface!

2005-01-04 Thread chr
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Yousef Raffah wrote: Thanks a lot guys. I guess it is an issue with the package I'm using or it is something with my machine. Maybe you should send a question to the person who made the gentoo package? (sounds like a bug in it) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström,

Re: Book without parts

2005-01-04 Thread chr
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Steve Litt wrote: I'm contemplating writing a book with 17 chapters and no parts. In other words, the highest level of the book is the chapter. I'd like to use the book document class because this is a book (expected to run

Re: A simple question on reference citation

2005-01-04 Thread chr
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Wang Xiangqi wrote: How to change the style like [2,3,4,5,6] to [2-6] in reference ciatation? I believe this is answered in the wiki FAQ, if you cant find it get back to the list. Start at http://wiki.lyx.org /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released

2005-01-04 Thread Ruurd Reitsma
Finally, I came around to compiling a fresh LyX for Win32. It can be found at the usual spot: http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/ The Qt version is now 3.2.1 Non-Commercial. Please note that: * The spell checking stuff has changed. * There are some visual improvements due to the new Qt

Re: A simple question on reference citation

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
chr == chr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: chr On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Wang Xiangqi wrote: How to change the style like [2,3,4,5,6] to [2-6] in reference ciatation? chr I believe this is answered in the wiki FAQ, if you cant find it chr get back to the list. Start at http://wiki.lyx.org I would add

[off-topic] Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread chr
The New Years spirit must be strong! Thanks to everyone for not starting a flame war and having such a pleasant, well mannered and constructive conversation in this thread. (For people who haven't followed the thread, I'm *not* being ironic here) Happy New Year and my sincerest regards

Re: Book without parts

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 08:39 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Steve Litt wrote: I'm contemplating writing a book with 17 chapters and no parts. In other words, the highest level of the book is the chapter. I'd like to use the

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Charles The Emacs-style interface is showing its age and rather weird Charles for Windows transfuges used to MsWord. Emacs-style in which sense? For example the shortcuts with the quite obsolete concept of 'Meta'. I think that LyX should show the shortcuts in

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Things that should happen in 1.3.6: ... Things that will be in 1.4.0: ... I'd like to state again my request for a way to close all open figure, table and footnotes that are opened by the spell checker. It's a great feature that they are

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rich Shepard wrote: I'd like to state again my request for a way to close all open figure, table and footnotes that are opened by the spell checker. It's a great feature that they are checked, but it would be very tidy to be able to close them all again without having to move through the

Re: No Search Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-04 Thread Charles de Miramon
Angus Leeming wrote: It has also used more and more external libraries. It's just that the libraries we have chosen to use are primarily those of Boost rather than of Qt or of KDE or of GTK. LyX 1.4.x is 30% smaller than LyX 1.3.x, both in terms of executable size and in terms of code that

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Charles de Miramon wrote: For example the shortcuts with the quite obsolete concept of 'Meta'. I think that LyX should show the shortcuts in the same Windowish way that Gnome or KDE. Who is using a Sun keyboard anyway ? key bindings are all configurable. See $PREFIX/share/lyx/bind. Personally,

New otl 2 lyx script

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Today I'm remaking my otl (tab indented outline) to lyx script. This is necessary because the old one was written before the existence of body text. As long as I'm doing it, I'll make the relationship between level and paragraph style configurable with a text config file. Anyone have

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Charles de Miramon
Angus Leeming wrote: Charles de Miramon wrote: For example the shortcuts with the quite obsolete concept of 'Meta'. I think that LyX should show the shortcuts in the same Windowish way that Gnome or KDE. Who is using a Sun keyboard anyway ? key bindings are all configurable. See

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 03 January 2005 23:33, Bo Peng wrote: 8. file format: I also sometimes modify lyx file directly using perl but lyx format is not very easy to handle. I would prefer a XML like format. The file format has changed a bit between 1.3 and 1.4, we had more than 15 changes in the file

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:58, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Matej 421 (I don't care that much), http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421 Export to ASCII does not export bibliography and references It seems to be fixed now, but Jose' knows better than I do. It is fixed now. -- José

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:58, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Matej - Docbook bibliography support (after being spoiled by LyX's Matej support of BibTeX, I just cannot live without Insert/Citation Matej Reference working) There is a feature request in bugzilla for this, I didn't had enough

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: 1.4 has an lfun which does exactly this (you can open, close or toggle all footnotes and others via the minibuffer). Jürgen, I _thought_ this was the case. I look forward to using it. Many thanks, Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Charles de Miramon wrote: I was talking of the way how shortcuts appear in the menu. Today it is C-n and I think it should be changed to Ctrl+N like Gnome/KDE/Windows applications. This has been changed in 1.4 (shortcuts are even translatable). Jürgen

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released

2005-01-04 Thread Rob S
Ruurd; Many, many thanks - just downloaded it and now about to have a play! Over the next few days I'll amend the Wiki page to reflect the update. It already looks as if much of the wiki page can be thinned out. Regards Rob S Ruurd Reitsma wrote: Finally, I came around to compiling a fresh LyX

Re: Adding A Leterhead to a Report

2005-01-04 Thread Charles de Miramon
Rich Shepard wrote: I want to use LyX for reports that should go out under my letterhead. I have the logo and address/phone information set up in an OpenOffice.org Writer page and exported as a .pdf file. I can also recreate it in The GIMP (if I can access the proper typeface). What

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Juergen == Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Juergen Rich Shepard wrote: I'd like to state again my request for a way to close all open figure, table and footnotes that are opened by the spell checker. It's a great feature that they are checked, but it would be very tidy to be

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jose' == Jose' Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jose' On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:58, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Matej 421 (I don't care that much), http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421 Export to ASCII does not export bibliography and references It seems to be fixed now, but Jose'

Re: Adding A Leterhead to a Report

2005-01-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Charles de Miramon wrote: Use the KOMA-Script report class and the titlehead style for the paragraph you want on top of the title page. KOMA-Script is very powerfull... Thank you, Charles. Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 17:13, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Jose' It is fixed now. So, why isn't marked as fixedintrunk? Because the bibliographic support is broken (for insertions) and I would like to close it when this is working. Consider it some kind of hidden dependency. :-)

LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 - install error

2005-01-04 Thread Kent Kostuk
I am having some difficulties getting LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 to start. When I attempt to execute lyx.exe I get a dialog box with the following text: LyX wasn't able to find any layout description! Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit :-( A reinstall did not make this

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:16 am, Angus Leeming wrote: Charles de Miramon wrote: For example the shortcuts with the quite obsolete concept of 'Meta'. I think that LyX should show the shortcuts in the same Windowish way that Gnome or KDE. Who is using a Sun keyboard anyway ? key

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 - install error

2005-01-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Kent Kostuk wrote: I am having some difficulties getting LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 to start. When I attempt to execute lyx.exe I get a dialog box with the following text: LyX wasn't able to find any layout description! Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Seems that LyX can't find your MikTeX.

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:17:12PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I just repeat what John Levon said a few months ago. He seemd to thing that there was a lot of work to do on it (maybe for undo). At the time there was a lot of brokenness around tables, insets, undo etc. This may indeed

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 - install error

2005-01-04 Thread Kent Kostuk
I was instructed to try opening yap: that worked. I was then instructed to compile the attached file from a console: that worked. I then checked if miktex was in my path. I see c:\texmf\miktex\bin in my path. Anyone have another suggestion? Kent

Re: No Search Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:00:50PM +0100, Charles de Miramon wrote: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/qtextdocument.html I just had a quick look at this. Unfortunately it's unsuitable. It is designed as a simple hand over the keys to the car and bring back my shopping interface. What we need is

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 - install error

2005-01-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Kent Kostuk wrote: I was instructed to try opening yap: that worked. I was then instructed to compile the attached file from a console: that worked. I then checked if miktex was in my path. I see c:\texmf\miktex\bin in my path. Anyone have another suggestion? OK if that works, assure that

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 - install error

2005-01-04 Thread Kent Kostuk
I get the same error if I try to run lyx from the console command (I had tried this previously and just to make sure, I tried again). It appears that the subfolders are write enabled for everyone. Any other suggestions? Kent OK if that works, assure that the installation folder of LyX and all

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released

2005-01-04 Thread Uwe Sthr
Finally, I came around to compiling a fresh LyX for Win32. Ruurd, many many thanks for this new version. It works very well. After testing the version, I updated the wiki site about LyXWin's setup http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup and have the following annotations: - It is still not

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 - install error

2005-01-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Kent Kostuk wrote: I get the same error if I try to run lyx from the console command (I had tried this previously and just to make sure, I tried again). Could you send us the text of the console window while reconfiguring LyX. regards Uwe

Hi at all

2005-01-04 Thread Alberto
Hi at all, as i subscribed this mailing list some years ago. I'm posting now my first mail, principally for two reasons. As first i'm italian and i don't speek very well english; as second i'm obliged to use lyx for my thesis...and i need help! :) I tried to use lyx some years ago, when i

Re: Hi at all

2005-01-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Alberto wrote: 1) i selected the book style, is that correct for my thesis? i'm not sure of what a style involves. Probably is easier to answer to this question seeing the other problems. (I hope...) Alberto, Does your university have either A) a defined thesis format or B)

Re: Hi at all

2005-01-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Alberto wrote: 3) i'm writing my thesis with some other people, but i'm not able to put their names on the authour field. i would like something like this: cippo lippo [EMAIL PROTECTED] lappo frappo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use only one author paragraph and separate the names by a forced line break

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released - a nasty bug

2005-01-04 Thread Uwe Sthr
many many thanks for this new version. It works very well. except of the mentioned bug: - The blue boxes in the math insets are too small and the cursor too big, see the two attached screenshots. Due to the too small and too high boxes, all math insets looks ugly - underlines and fraction lines

Block alignment inside tables

2005-01-04 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I have downloaded a LyX file with an example which contains a table. The horizontal alignment in this table is named block. If I create a table in a different document, I do not get the alignment named block in the list of possible alignments. How can I get the block alignment? Well, I

Available: New outline to LyX converter

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I just finished, and somewhat tested, the new Outline to LyX conversion script. It has 2 advantages over the old one (which I can't even find anymore): 1. It converts body text (preceded by colon space) 2. It facilitates outline level to LyX environment mapping in a data file. I

Re: Block alignment inside tables

2005-01-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have downloaded a LyX file with an example which contains a table. The horizontal alignment in this table is named block. If I create a table in a different document, I do not get the alignment named block in the list of possible alignments. How can I get the block

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Matej == Matej Cepl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matej Rich Shepard wrote: As long as it does not require KDE to run it's OK with me. I agree that Matej You can use whichever KDE application in whatever environment Matej if you have installed kdelibs. I am not sure what is the current status of

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Matej == Matej Cepl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matej Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I'll try to answer to some of your concerns. Matej Thanks, Jean-Marc, for answering. I was really getting worried Matej that my report about LyX's death were not that exaggerated

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Matej - documents revisions (hopefully, it is coming in 1.4.*), but Matej how is it going to work with RCS/CVS? We already have document revision with RCS (the Version control feature). I am not sure how this can be combined with the new change tracking feature.

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Juergen == Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Juergen Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Matej - documents revisions (hopefully, it is coming in 1.4.*), but Matej how is it going to work with RCS/CVS? Juergen We already have document revision with RCS (the Version Juergen control feature).

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I just repeat what John Levon said a few months ago. He seemd to thing that there was a lot of work to do on it (maybe for undo). A few months ago, change tracking was unusable because of the assert. I haven't found any showstopper yet (except the change tracking

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Matej Is there such list available somewhere -- I would be interested Matej even if it is vaporware for some time. Lars keeps a reasonably up to date list of things he would like here: http://www.devel.lyx.org/roadmap.php3 http://www.devel.lyx.org/tasks.php3 I

Re: No Search Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-04 Thread Charles de Miramon
Rich Shepard wrote: However, when I press ctrl-f I see a dialog box that has two text entry widgets (for search string and replace string) and four buttons: Find next, Replace, Replace all and Close. I've used it extensively. Works fine. I was not talking of ctrl-f but of a powerfull

Re: No Search Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Charles de Miramon wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: However, when I press ctrl-f I see a dialog box that has two text entry widgets (for search string and replace string) and four buttons: Find next, Replace, Replace all and Close. I've used it extensively. Works fine. I was not

Re: No Search Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Charles == Charles de Miramon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles Rich Shepard wrote: However, when I press ctrl-f I see a dialog box that has two text entry widgets (for search string and replace string) and four buttons: Find next, Replace, Replace all and Close. I've used it extensively.

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Charles == Charles de Miramon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles Part of KDE has been ported to OSX and some are working on a Charles Windows Port but it has not brought us any new developpers. Charles Maybe some new users. But the classical people ready to help Charles with an Open Source

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Steve == Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve 1. No character styles (I understand this is coming in a later Steve version). Yes, but in a basic form (no character style editor) Steve 2. Paragraph styles (environments) are soo hard to Steve construct. I understand this is more a

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Bo == Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bo 3. latex conversion: critical to the usability of lyx. I was Bo frustrated when I can not import a lyx-exported latex file that Bo has been slightly modified by my advisor. I am glad that it will Bo get better in 1.4. Currently, with tex2lyx we are

Re: LyX is not running with QT interface!

2005-01-04 Thread chr
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Yousef Raffah wrote: Thanks a lot guys. I guess it is an issue with the package I'm using or it is something with my machine. Maybe you should send a question to the person who made the gentoo package? (sounds like a bug in it) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström,

Re: Book without parts

2005-01-04 Thread chr
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Steve Litt wrote: I'm contemplating writing a book with 17 chapters and no parts. In other words, the highest level of the book is the chapter. I'd like to use the book document class because this is a book (expected to run

Re: A simple question on reference citation

2005-01-04 Thread chr
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Wang Xiangqi wrote: How to change the style like [2,3,4,5,6] to [2-6] in reference ciatation? I believe this is answered in the wiki FAQ, if you cant find it get back to the list. Start at http://wiki.lyx.org /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released

2005-01-04 Thread Ruurd Reitsma
Finally, I came around to compiling a fresh LyX for Win32. It can be found at the usual spot: http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/ The Qt version is now 3.2.1 Non-Commercial. Please note that: * The spell checking stuff has changed. * There are some visual improvements due to the new Qt

Re: A simple question on reference citation

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
chr == chr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: chr On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Wang Xiangqi wrote: How to change the style like [2,3,4,5,6] to [2-6] in reference ciatation? chr I believe this is answered in the wiki FAQ, if you cant find it chr get back to the list. Start at http://wiki.lyx.org I would add

[off-topic] Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread chr
The New Years spirit must be strong! Thanks to everyone for not starting a flame war and having such a pleasant, well mannered and constructive conversation in this thread. (For people who haven't followed the thread, I'm *not* being ironic here) Happy New Year and my sincerest regards

Re: Book without parts

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 08:39 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Steve Litt wrote: I'm contemplating writing a book with 17 chapters and no parts. In other words, the highest level of the book is the chapter. I'd like to use the

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Charles The Emacs-style interface is showing its age and rather weird Charles for Windows transfuges used to MsWord. Emacs-style in which sense? For example the shortcuts with the quite obsolete concept of 'Meta'. I think that LyX should show the shortcuts in

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Things that should happen in 1.3.6: ... Things that will be in 1.4.0: ... I'd like to state again my request for a way to close all open figure, table and footnotes that are opened by the spell checker. It's a great feature that they are

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rich Shepard wrote: I'd like to state again my request for a way to close all open figure, table and footnotes that are opened by the spell checker. It's a great feature that they are checked, but it would be very tidy to be able to close them all again without having to move through the

Re: No Search Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-04 Thread Charles de Miramon
Angus Leeming wrote: It has also used more and more external libraries. It's just that the libraries we have chosen to use are primarily those of Boost rather than of Qt or of KDE or of GTK. LyX 1.4.x is 30% smaller than LyX 1.3.x, both in terms of executable size and in terms of code that

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Charles de Miramon wrote: For example the shortcuts with the quite obsolete concept of 'Meta'. I think that LyX should show the shortcuts in the same Windowish way that Gnome or KDE. Who is using a Sun keyboard anyway ? key bindings are all configurable. See $PREFIX/share/lyx/bind. Personally,

New otl 2 lyx script

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Today I'm remaking my otl (tab indented outline) to lyx script. This is necessary because the old one was written before the existence of body text. As long as I'm doing it, I'll make the relationship between level and paragraph style configurable with a text config file. Anyone have

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Charles de Miramon
Angus Leeming wrote: Charles de Miramon wrote: For example the shortcuts with the quite obsolete concept of 'Meta'. I think that LyX should show the shortcuts in the same Windowish way that Gnome or KDE. Who is using a Sun keyboard anyway ? key bindings are all configurable. See

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 03 January 2005 23:33, Bo Peng wrote: 8. file format: I also sometimes modify lyx file directly using perl but lyx format is not very easy to handle. I would prefer a XML like format. The file format has changed a bit between 1.3 and 1.4, we had more than 15 changes in the file

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:58, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Matej 421 (I don't care that much), http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421 Export to ASCII does not export bibliography and references It seems to be fixed now, but Jose' knows better than I do. It is fixed now. -- José

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:58, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Matej - Docbook bibliography support (after being spoiled by LyX's Matej support of BibTeX, I just cannot live without Insert/Citation Matej Reference working) There is a feature request in bugzilla for this, I didn't had enough

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: 1.4 has an lfun which does exactly this (you can open, close or toggle all footnotes and others via the minibuffer). Jürgen, I _thought_ this was the case. I look forward to using it. Many thanks, Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Charles de Miramon wrote: I was talking of the way how shortcuts appear in the menu. Today it is C-n and I think it should be changed to Ctrl+N like Gnome/KDE/Windows applications. This has been changed in 1.4 (shortcuts are even translatable). Jürgen

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released

2005-01-04 Thread Rob S
Ruurd; Many, many thanks - just downloaded it and now about to have a play! Over the next few days I'll amend the Wiki page to reflect the update. It already looks as if much of the wiki page can be thinned out. Regards Rob S Ruurd Reitsma wrote: Finally, I came around to compiling a fresh LyX

Re: Adding A Leterhead to a Report

2005-01-04 Thread Charles de Miramon
Rich Shepard wrote: I want to use LyX for reports that should go out under my letterhead. I have the logo and address/phone information set up in an OpenOffice.org Writer page and exported as a .pdf file. I can also recreate it in The GIMP (if I can access the proper typeface). What

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Juergen == Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Juergen Rich Shepard wrote: I'd like to state again my request for a way to close all open figure, table and footnotes that are opened by the spell checker. It's a great feature that they are checked, but it would be very tidy to be

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jose' == Jose' Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jose' On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:58, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Matej 421 (I don't care that much), http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421 Export to ASCII does not export bibliography and references It seems to be fixed now, but Jose'

Re: Adding A Leterhead to a Report

2005-01-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Charles de Miramon wrote: Use the KOMA-Script report class and the titlehead style for the paragraph you want on top of the title page. KOMA-Script is very powerfull... Thank you, Charles. Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 17:13, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Jose' It is fixed now. So, why isn't marked as fixedintrunk? Because the bibliographic support is broken (for insertions) and I would like to close it when this is working. Consider it some kind of hidden dependency. :-)

LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 - install error

2005-01-04 Thread Kent Kostuk
I am having some difficulties getting LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 to start. When I attempt to execute lyx.exe I get a dialog box with the following text: LyX wasn't able to find any layout description! Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit :-( A reinstall did not make this

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:16 am, Angus Leeming wrote: Charles de Miramon wrote: For example the shortcuts with the quite obsolete concept of 'Meta'. I think that LyX should show the shortcuts in the same Windowish way that Gnome or KDE. Who is using a Sun keyboard anyway ? key

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 - install error

2005-01-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Kent Kostuk wrote: I am having some difficulties getting LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 to start. When I attempt to execute lyx.exe I get a dialog box with the following text: LyX wasn't able to find any layout description! Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Seems that LyX can't find your MikTeX.

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:17:12PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I just repeat what John Levon said a few months ago. He seemd to thing that there was a lot of work to do on it (maybe for undo). At the time there was a lot of brokenness around tables, insets, undo etc. This may indeed

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 - install error

2005-01-04 Thread Kent Kostuk
I was instructed to try opening yap: that worked. I was then instructed to compile the attached file from a console: that worked. I then checked if miktex was in my path. I see c:\texmf\miktex\bin in my path. Anyone have another suggestion? Kent

Re: No Search Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:00:50PM +0100, Charles de Miramon wrote: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/qtextdocument.html I just had a quick look at this. Unfortunately it's unsuitable. It is designed as a simple hand over the keys to the car and bring back my shopping interface. What we need is

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 - install error

2005-01-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Kent Kostuk wrote: I was instructed to try opening yap: that worked. I was then instructed to compile the attached file from a console: that worked. I then checked if miktex was in my path. I see c:\texmf\miktex\bin in my path. Anyone have another suggestion? OK if that works, assure that

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 - install error

2005-01-04 Thread Kent Kostuk
I get the same error if I try to run lyx from the console command (I had tried this previously and just to make sure, I tried again). It appears that the subfolders are write enabled for everyone. Any other suggestions? Kent OK if that works, assure that the installation folder of LyX and all

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released

2005-01-04 Thread Uwe Sthr
Finally, I came around to compiling a fresh LyX for Win32. Ruurd, many many thanks for this new version. It works very well. After testing the version, I updated the wiki site about LyXWin's setup http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup and have the following annotations: - It is still not

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