Re: Is RTL a goal for 2.x?

2010-07-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
Linux http://sites.google.com/site/avivgoll/articles/hebrewenabledlyxonubuntu904 Note that the F12 script on the second link has no effect for me. I am on Kubuntu 9.10 using Lyx 2.0.0svn (built today). Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com

Re: Is RTL a goal for 2.x?

2010-07-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 3 July 2010 09:47, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Assuming that RTL is a goal then I will start testing the Lyx 2 branch >> and filing bugs. Thanks. >> > I have no experience with RTL, but have you tried Tools > Prefe

Re: Is RTL a goal for 2.x?

2010-07-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 2 July 2010 20:16, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 2 juil. 10 à 18:44, Dotan Cohen a écrit : >> >> I have not been using Lyx as most of my documents are in an >> Right-to-Left (RTL) language or at a minimum contain some RTL text. Is >> RTL support planned for 2.x?

Is RTL a goal for 2.x?

2010-07-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
bugs. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com

Re: Formatting numbered equations

2010-04-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 20 April 2010 18:17, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 06:06:57PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> These are contrived examples. > > I'm pretty sure that all the examples in Fowler are not contrived > examples: they're real ones from real texts.  And

Re: Formatting numbered equations

2010-04-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
ir ability to convey meaning, they are wise for their ability to draw attention to their own egos. A similar example for capitalization: I once helped my uncle Jack off a horse. I once helped my uncle jack off a horse. Or for pronunciation: He asked for a new display. He asked far a nudist play. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not read all list mail.

Re: Formatting numbered equations

2010-04-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
God." "To Ayn Rand, my parents, and God." Or, if the order is important: "To my parents, Ayn Rand and to God." -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not read all list mail.

Re: Formatting numbered equations

2010-04-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
I have always understood this as: American English: A, B, and C British English: A, B and C -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not read all list mail.

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
> 3- I hate to do keyboard combos. they are bad for rsi and slower overall. > Autocapitalization would save thousands of those a month. > Use your window manager's sticky keys feature then. It should be found under accessibility. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com

Re: Force RTL onscreen rendering for paragraph or character style?

2010-03-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
isplay RTL in LyX.  Is that > possible, or is there some workaround? > > Philipp > > Have you tried the Unicode RLM character: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/200f/index.htm -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not read all list mail.

Re: Lyx 2.0

2010-02-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
lliant system for working outside > the normal package management system. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Stow > > http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/127393 > > Install stow with your normal package manager. > Thanks, Alan

Re: Lyx 2.0

2010-02-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
ake install > Thank you Julio Rojas! -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not read all list mail.

Re: Lyx 2.0

2010-02-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
Where can I download the current 2.0-testing tarball? I'd love to help test and report issues with BiDi and RTL issues. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not read all list mail.

Re: Lyx portable

2009-11-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
istry writing at least). -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il

Re: LyX is a pain in the butt, but it's the easiest among alternatives

2009-07-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
excuse my completely OT post, but that was very insightful. I love to read, especially coursework (yes, I am a nerd) and I never realized how much effort must go into the index. I simply never thought about that. Thank you for the insight into that technical bit that I've appreciated and cu

Re: Removing languages

2009-02-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Probably more effective to request features (and support for them) at: > > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/FeaturePoll > Thanks, Cameron, I added the feature. Grep that page for my name to find it, it's at the end of the "writing" section. -- Dotan Cohen h

Re: Removing languages

2009-02-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
between preconfigured input languages. Somewhere in the options these languages would be configured. Anyone with a language bar on their task bar will be familiar with the concept. In any case, I am not getting the confirmation mail from bugzilla. Who can troubleshoot this? It's not my spam filter

Re: Removing languages

2009-02-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
> >> +1 (from an end-user) for a separate _language_ button. > > So who is going to file an enhancement request to bugzilla.lyx.org? > Give me a few minutes... -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש

Re: English appearing backwards

2009-02-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
Thanks, Gunter. I will put some time into this. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я а-б-в-г

Re: English appearing backwards

2009-02-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
ppen to know his name, email address, or a text snippet that I could google to find his post? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н

Re: Removing languages

2009-02-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
> How about a separate toggle-language button? In most cases, a document > switches between at most 2 languages (native language and English, say). > ++votes -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
> My Debian system is LyX v 1.5.5 and I have tex4ht (which is what does > the OOo conversion) 20080701-2. Hope that helps. > Thanks, I am on Lyx 1.6.x on Kubuntu 8.04. I will install tex2ht and see how it goes. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-

Re: Problems importing Tex file

2009-02-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/2/23 Guenter Milde : > On 2009-02-23, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> Dotan Cohen schrieb: > >>> I suppose that _that_ is the detail that was not clear to me. I did >>> not know that I need to have LaTeX packages installed in my LaTeX >>> distribution. I'm

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I didn't read that URL, but the best way I find is to export to > OpenDocument, open it in OpenOffice.org, fix the right-hand border (at > least, I always have to), and save it as a Word .doc file. > Thanks. I do not seem to have an option to export to ODT. Must I add some

Re: Problems importing Tex file

2009-02-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
t from here. Steep learning curves don't frighten me! >> Thank you for your patience with this noob! > > What is a noob, another TLA thing? A new user. :) -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-

Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
nt=2 Is there not a better way? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м

Re: Problems importing Tex file

2009-02-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
indows or TeXLive under Linux? As this is a Kubuntu system, should I assume that I am using TeXLive? > In your case you only have to install the LaTeX-package "svjour" to your > LaTeX-distribution, that's all for now. > I see, thanks. I now know the "what" to do,

Re: Problems importing Tex file

2009-02-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/2/22 Uwe Stöhr : > Dotan Cohen schrieb: > >> Error: Could not find layout file for textclass "svjour3". >> >> However, in the same directory there exists svjour3.cls, svjour.clo, >> and template.txt, and I even put a copy of those files in >> ~/.l

Problems importing Tex file

2009-02-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
ror: Could not find layout file for textclass "svjour3". However, in the same directory there exists svjour3.cls, svjour.clo, and template.txt, and I even put a copy of those files in ~/.lyx/layouts as per the tex2lyx manpage. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://w

Re: Removing languages

2009-02-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
dialog under Editing->Shortcuts. > In any case, I do not need the languages. Thanks, though I will make the shortcut. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و

Removing languages

2009-02-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц-ч-ш-щ-ъ-ы-ь

Re: English appearing backwards

2009-02-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
y levels of nesting, > right-to-left inside left-to-right inside right-to-left inside > left-to-right, etc." > Thanks, David. Althoug TeX-XeT does not seem to be supported anymore, searching for it got me some pages that will help me. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http:

Re: English appearing backwards

2009-02-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
According to Wikipedia, Lyx "has substantial support for bidirectional writing". So the problem is most likely with me, not with Lyx. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ

Re: English appearing backwards

2009-02-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
it too, >> and therefore they cancel each other out? Like encoding rot13 twice? > > LyX needs to take this into consideration twice: for screen output > (using QT) and for LaTeX export (LaTeX, of course is QT-agnostic). > There might be room for improvement. > I see, thanks Gü

Re: Cannot export to PDF

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
gt; You perhaps mixed it up with the screen fonts you use for LyX, see sec. 3.7 > of the LyX UserGuide. > Thanks, Uwe, I did _not_ realize that the screen font would not be the PDF export font. I will RTFM and work it out. Thanks for pointing to the appropriate section! -- Dotan Cohen http://

Re: Cannot export to PDF

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
from a Hebrew Windows computer so it has the Hebrew glyphs. This is the best-looking standard Hebrew font there is. > Have you seen this?: > http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Hebrew > (many things there should work also on Linux) > > and > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/HebrewOnLinux > Yes. --

International keyboard (Was: How to write degree symbol)

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
to the discussion and might fal under the category of "gotcha". -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-

Re: English appearing backwards

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/2/19 Guenter Milde : > On 2009-02-19, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I have Lyx 1.6.1 installed on a Hebrew installation of Ubuntu 8.04. I >> can create Hebrew documents fine (from what I can tell). However, >> _English_ documents come out with their text going right to left >

Cannot export to PDF

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
uot; This is pretty much a new install, I changed some things trying to get better Hebrew support but nothing that seems relevant. Googling the error message I see that this is not an uncommon occurrence, however, I do not see a solution! Thanks in advance for any advice. -- Dotan Cohen http://w

English appearing backwards

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
discuss this problem: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/HebrewOnLinux http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Hebrew I intend on creating documents with mixtures of English and Hebrew text. How can I configure Lyx to flow Hebrew RTL and English LTR? Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il

Re: How to write degree symbol ° ?

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
> international keyboard layout: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#United_States > Switched, thank you! There are three or four characters in there that I use often enough to warrant it! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-

Re: How to write degree symbol ° ?

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
_does_ have the degree symbol to show that there are keyboards with this symbol. My keyboards (US English, Dvorak, Hebrew, and the occasional Russian and Arabic) do not have this symbol. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-

Re: How to write degree symbol ° ?

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
gh google lots of problems with this specific character, but that looks like the common solution. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-

Re: How to write degree symbol ° ?

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
omes to producing > output an error is the result. > What error? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ

Re: Two-flows text

2009-02-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
ments common to both flows, such as charts that can serve both languages. Do they need to have their sections syncronized (one section must be on the opposing page of it's other-language translation). Or will both be completely independant? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.

Re: Greek+English documents show English words with Greek letters

2009-02-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
esses that I have seen. In any case, we are getting off-topic, I apologize for causing that! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О

Re: Greek+English documents show English words with Greek letters

2009-02-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
ite. Those things eat more bandwidth than a good slashdotting. It is done to protect gmane, not to protect your email address! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г

Re: STOP THIS ON PUBLIC MAILINGLISTS [WAS: nocomment bush]

2009-01-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
who either live under their influence or near enough to be affected by more than spam. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-

Re: RTL documents?

2008-10-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/10/10 Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dotan Cohen schrieb: > >> My language runs from Right to Left. How do I configure LyX to handle >> this properly? Thanks. > > menu Tools->Settings->Language > enable there the RTL support. The rest is descr

RTL documents?

2008-10-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
My language runs from Right to Left. How do I configure LyX to handle this properly? Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

Re: Hebrew LyX

2008-10-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
onts? > I do not see how to change the fonts at all! However, LyX does use my system preferred font for Hebrew, which is nice. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
and edit the source where I see necessary. Is this not so? Although I have invested in learning a bit of PHP, a bit of C, a bit of HTML/CSS, etc, I don't have the resources at the moment to spend more than a few hours learning a new tool. And full LaTeX will take more than a few good hours :) --

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
covered Lyx and why I signed up for the list yesterday. I will now go back to lurking, and I hope to read less threads of the 'holy moly' type. It has been a long time since I've seen that kind of behaviour on a FOSS mailing list. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibbe