Re: 2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
24/03/2014 18:44, Jürgen Spitzmüller: 2014-03-24 0:06 GMT+01:00 Uwe Stöhr: I am currently updating the documentation of the LyX preferences and have 2 questions: 1. Under Language Settings-Language there is now a default length unit. What is this used for? It is used in all

Re: 2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-25 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2014-03-25 10:22 GMT+01:00 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: And this is something that we should eventually remove, by relying on the language file to provide this kind of information. Or the locale? Jürgen JMarc

Re: 2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
25/03/2014 10:28, Jürgen Spitzmüller: 2014-03-25 10:22 GMT+01:00 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: And this is something that we should eventually remove, by relying on the language file to provide this kind of information. Or the locale? Do you mean looking up the locale that corresponds to

Re: 2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 24.03.2014 18:44, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: 1. Under Language Settings-Language there is now a default length unit. What is this used for? It is used in all length combos as the default, if the object in question (inset etc.) does by itself not define a different default. See for

Re: 2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
24/03/2014 18:44, Jürgen Spitzmüller: 2014-03-24 0:06 GMT+01:00 Uwe Stöhr: I am currently updating the documentation of the LyX preferences and have 2 questions: 1. Under Language Settings-Language there is now a default length unit. What is this used for? It is used in all

Re: 2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-25 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2014-03-25 10:22 GMT+01:00 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: And this is something that we should eventually remove, by relying on the language file to provide this kind of information. Or the locale? Jürgen JMarc

Re: 2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
25/03/2014 10:28, Jürgen Spitzmüller: 2014-03-25 10:22 GMT+01:00 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: And this is something that we should eventually remove, by relying on the language file to provide this kind of information. Or the locale? Do you mean looking up the locale that corresponds to

Re: 2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 24.03.2014 18:44, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: 1. Under Language Settings-Language there is now a default length unit. What is this used for? It is used in all length combos as the default, if the object in question (inset etc.) does by itself not define a different default. See for

Re: 2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
24/03/2014 18:44, Jürgen Spitzmüller: 2014-03-24 0:06 GMT+01:00 Uwe Stöhr: I am currently updating the documentation of the LyX preferences and have 2 questions: 1. Under Language Settings->Language there is now a default length unit. What is this used for? It is used in all

Re: 2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-25 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2014-03-25 10:22 GMT+01:00 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > And this is something that we should eventually remove, by relying on the > language file to provide this kind of information. > Or the locale? Jürgen > > JMarc > >

Re: 2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
25/03/2014 10:28, Jürgen Spitzmüller: 2014-03-25 10:22 GMT+01:00 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: And this is something that we should eventually remove, by relying on the language file to provide this kind of information. Or the locale? Do you mean looking up the locale that corresponds to

Re: 2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 24.03.2014 18:44, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: 1. Under Language Settings->Language there is now a default length unit. What is this used for? It is used in all length combos as the default, if the object in question (inset etc.) does by itself not define a different default. See for

Re: 2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-24 Thread Itai Shaked
I don't know what 1 is used for. I also don't know what 2 was originally meant for, but one use case in which I can see it being useful is when working on a document with children. Currently (version 2.0.6) when you close a parent document all of it's children are automatically closed as well,

Re: 2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-24 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2014-03-24 0:06 GMT+01:00 Uwe Stöhr: I am currently updating the documentation of the LyX preferences and have 2 questions: 1. Under Language Settings-Language there is now a default length unit. What is this used for? It is used in all length combos as the default, if the object in

Re: 2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-24 Thread Itai Shaked
I don't know what 1 is used for. I also don't know what 2 was originally meant for, but one use case in which I can see it being useful is when working on a document with children. Currently (version 2.0.6) when you close a parent document all of it's children are automatically closed as well,

Re: 2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-24 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2014-03-24 0:06 GMT+01:00 Uwe Stöhr: I am currently updating the documentation of the LyX preferences and have 2 questions: 1. Under Language Settings-Language there is now a default length unit. What is this used for? It is used in all length combos as the default, if the object in

Re: 2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-24 Thread Itai Shaked
I don't know what 1 is used for. I also don't know what 2 was originally meant for, but one use case in which I can see it being useful is when working on a document with children. Currently (version 2.0.6) when you close a parent document all of it's children are automatically closed as well,

Re: 2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-24 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2014-03-24 0:06 GMT+01:00 Uwe Stöhr: > I am currently updating the documentation of the LyX preferences and have > 2 questions: > > 1. Under Language Settings->Language there is now a default length unit. > What is this used for? > It is used in all length combos as the default, if the object in

2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I am currently updating the documentation of the LyX preferences and have 2 questions: 1. Under Language Settings-Language there is now a default length unit. What is this used for? 2. Under Look Feel-Document Handling one can decide if the document is closed or hidden when its tab or view

2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I am currently updating the documentation of the LyX preferences and have 2 questions: 1. Under Language Settings-Language there is now a default length unit. What is this used for? 2. Under Look Feel-Document Handling one can decide if the document is closed or hidden when its tab or view

2 questions about new preference features

2014-03-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I am currently updating the documentation of the LyX preferences and have 2 questions: 1. Under Language Settings->Language there is now a default length unit. What is this used for? 2. Under Look & Feel->Document Handling one can decide if the document is closed or hidden when its tab or