Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: This is best solved by making sure LyX doesn't spit out spurious \n's everywhere... I've looked in the code, and this part does not seem beautiful at all. I won't even copy here some comments I read in the code; they were too awful! :-) That

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: I figure out how to compile the code locally [something to do with missing QChar], By the way, feel free to send the compile error to the devel list. Abdel.

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-30 Thread G. Milde
On 28.06.08, Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: Christopher Reeve wrote: This is best solved by making sure LyX doesn't spit out spurious \n's everywhere... The \n is not exactly spurious. The problem is that * while in plain LaTeX, you can freely insert a blank line or not depending on whether

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 08:26:57AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: En plus un troisième francophone sera le bienvenue pour compenser la présence Allemande, même si la plupart de nos Allemands parle Francais! :-) Pffft. Andre' [;-)]

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-30 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
G. Milde wrote: [...] * it is possible to force a new paragraph (insert a blank line) from within LyX (inserting an empty paragraph with the -- Environment Separator -- Layout) Interesting... I'll try this and look at the LaTeX output as soon as I get a standalone LyX version to compile

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-30 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: G. Milde wrote: [...] * it is possible to force a new paragraph (insert a blank line) from within LyX (inserting an empty paragraph with the -- Environment Separator -- Layout) Interesting... I'll try this and look at the LaTeX output as soon as I get a

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: This is best solved by making sure LyX doesn't spit out spurious \n's everywhere... I've looked in the code, and this part does not seem beautiful at all. I won't even copy here some comments I read in the code; they were too awful! :-) That

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: I figure out how to compile the code locally [something to do with missing QChar], By the way, feel free to send the compile error to the devel list. Abdel.

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-30 Thread G. Milde
On 28.06.08, Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: Christopher Reeve wrote: This is best solved by making sure LyX doesn't spit out spurious \n's everywhere... The \n is not exactly spurious. The problem is that * while in plain LaTeX, you can freely insert a blank line or not depending on whether

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 08:26:57AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: En plus un troisième francophone sera le bienvenue pour compenser la présence Allemande, même si la plupart de nos Allemands parle Francais! :-) Pffft. Andre' [;-)]

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-30 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
G. Milde wrote: [...] * it is possible to force a new paragraph (insert a blank line) from within LyX (inserting an empty paragraph with the -- Environment Separator -- Layout) Interesting... I'll try this and look at the LaTeX output as soon as I get a standalone LyX version to compile

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-30 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: G. Milde wrote: [...] * it is possible to force a new paragraph (insert a blank line) from within LyX (inserting an empty paragraph with the -- Environment Separator -- Layout) Interesting... I'll try this and look at the LaTeX output as soon as I get a

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: This is best solved by making sure LyX doesn't spit out spurious "\n"'s everywhere... I've looked in the code, and this part does not seem beautiful at all. I won't even copy here some comments I read in the code; they were too awful! :-)

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: I figure out how to compile the code locally [something to do with missing "QChar"], By the way, feel free to send the compile error to the devel list. Abdel.

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-30 Thread G. Milde
On 28.06.08, Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: > Christopher Reeve wrote: > This is best solved by making sure LyX doesn't spit out spurious "\n"'s > everywhere... The \n is not exactly spurious. The problem is that * while in plain LaTeX, you can freely insert a blank line or not depending on

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 08:26:57AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > En plus un troisième francophone sera le bienvenue pour compenser la > présence Allemande, même si la plupart de nos Allemands parle Francais! > :-) Pffft. Andre' [;-)]

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-30 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
G. Milde wrote: [...] * it is possible to force a new paragraph (insert a blank line) from within LyX (inserting an empty paragraph with the -- Environment Separator -- Layout) Interesting... I'll try this and look at the LaTeX output as soon as I get a standalone LyX version to compile

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-30 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: G. Milde wrote: [...] * it is possible to force a new paragraph (insert a blank line) from within LyX (inserting an empty paragraph with the -- Environment Separator -- Layout) Interesting... I'll try this and look at the LaTeX output as soon as I get a

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: This is best solved by making sure LyX doesn't spit out spurious \n's everywhere... I've looked in the code, and this part does not seem beautiful at all. I won't even copy here some comments I read in the code; they were too awful! :-) That the code is less than

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-29 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: This is best solved by making sure LyX doesn't spit out spurious \n's everywhere... I've looked in the code, and this part does not seem beautiful at all. I won't even copy here some comments I read in the code; they were too awful! :-) That the code is less than

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: This is best solved by making sure LyX doesn't spit out spurious \n's everywhere... I've looked in the code, and this part does not seem beautiful at all. I won't even copy here some comments I read in the code; they were too awful! :-) That the code is less than

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-29 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: This is best solved by making sure LyX doesn't spit out spurious \n's everywhere... I've looked in the code, and this part does not seem beautiful at all. I won't even copy here some comments I read in the code; they were too awful! :-) That the code is less than

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: This is best solved by making sure LyX doesn't spit out spurious "\n"'s everywhere... I've looked in the code, and this part does not seem beautiful at all. I won't even copy here some comments I read in the code; they were too awful! :-) That the code is less than

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-29 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: This is best solved by making sure LyX doesn't spit out spurious "\n"'s everywhere... I've looked in the code, and this part does not seem beautiful at all. I won't even copy here some comments I read in the code; they were too awful! :-) That the code is less than

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-28 Thread Christopher Reeve
Hi Etinne, I know you won't exactly love this solution, but it does work. You can remove the extra space again simply by entering a spacer with a user value with a negative in front. eg -1 em. This removes the text up a line again. You have to give LyX more of a chance. Writing in LaTeX requires

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-28 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Christopher Reeve wrote: I know you won't exactly love this solution, but it does work. You can remove the extra space again simply by entering a spacer with a user value with a negative in front. eg -1 em. This removes the text up a line again. The main problem with this approach is that:

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-28 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Bennett Helm wrote: [...] In the meantime, so your report doesn't get lost, may I suggest that you submit this as a bug [...] Done. See: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4993. Etienne -- Etienne M. Gagnon, Ph.D. SableCC:http://sablecc.org

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-28 Thread Christopher Reeve
Hi Etinne, I know you won't exactly love this solution, but it does work. You can remove the extra space again simply by entering a spacer with a user value with a negative in front. eg -1 em. This removes the text up a line again. You have to give LyX more of a chance. Writing in LaTeX requires

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-28 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Christopher Reeve wrote: I know you won't exactly love this solution, but it does work. You can remove the extra space again simply by entering a spacer with a user value with a negative in front. eg -1 em. This removes the text up a line again. The main problem with this approach is that:

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-28 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Bennett Helm wrote: [...] In the meantime, so your report doesn't get lost, may I suggest that you submit this as a bug [...] Done. See: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4993. Etienne -- Etienne M. Gagnon, Ph.D. SableCC:http://sablecc.org

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-28 Thread Christopher Reeve
Hi Etinne, I know you won't exactly love this solution, but it does work. You can remove the extra space again simply by entering a spacer with a user value with a negative in front. eg -1 em. This removes the text up a line again. You have to give LyX more of a chance. Writing in LaTeX requires

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-28 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Christopher Reeve wrote: I know you won't exactly love this solution, but it does work. You can remove the extra space again simply by entering a spacer with a user value with a negative in front. eg -1 em. This removes the text up a line again. The main problem with this approach is that:

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-28 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Bennett Helm wrote: [...] In the meantime, so your report doesn't get lost, may I suggest that you submit this as a bug [...] Done. See: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4993. Etienne -- Etienne M. Gagnon, Ph.D. SableCC:http://sablecc.org

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-27 Thread G. Milde
On 26.06.08, Christopher Reeve wrote: Sorry I can't help you, although personally I think the spacing looks just right. Maybe with your line spacing settings it looks funny? I agree thought that LyX does not seem to be very flexible here. It depends on whether a list should be a separate

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-27 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Hi Christopher, Thanks a lot for the reply! You know... What would be neat is if we could edit the text in the View LaTeX Source window. Then it would be so simple to fix. I guess that Lyx will remain a less than ideal front-end to Latex. One can use it to write the first draft of a big

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-27 Thread Bennett Helm
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Etienne M. Gagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sent a message to the devel list, but got no reply so far. I know a thing or two about languages and parsing, so I might have been interested to help writing a fix, but I guess that they're not interested. It's sad.

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: Thanks a lot for the reply! You know... What would be neat is if we could edit the text in the View LaTeX Source window. Then it would be so simple to fix. This requested periodically and discussed on the list. It would be very difficult for a variety of reasons.

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-27 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Bennett Helm wrote : I sent a message to the devel list, but got no reply so far. [...] I guess that they're not interested. [...] This is the wrong conclusion to draw. If you look at the developer's list for the last week or so, you'll discover that it has been basically silent,

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-27 Thread G. Milde
On 26.06.08, Christopher Reeve wrote: Sorry I can't help you, although personally I think the spacing looks just right. Maybe with your line spacing settings it looks funny? I agree thought that LyX does not seem to be very flexible here. It depends on whether a list should be a separate

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-27 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Hi Christopher, Thanks a lot for the reply! You know... What would be neat is if we could edit the text in the View LaTeX Source window. Then it would be so simple to fix. I guess that Lyx will remain a less than ideal front-end to Latex. One can use it to write the first draft of a big

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-27 Thread Bennett Helm
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Etienne M. Gagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sent a message to the devel list, but got no reply so far. I know a thing or two about languages and parsing, so I might have been interested to help writing a fix, but I guess that they're not interested. It's sad.

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: Thanks a lot for the reply! You know... What would be neat is if we could edit the text in the View LaTeX Source window. Then it would be so simple to fix. This requested periodically and discussed on the list. It would be very difficult for a variety of reasons.

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-27 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Bennett Helm wrote : I sent a message to the devel list, but got no reply so far. [...] I guess that they're not interested. [...] This is the wrong conclusion to draw. If you look at the developer's list for the last week or so, you'll discover that it has been basically silent,

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-27 Thread G. Milde
On 26.06.08, Christopher Reeve wrote: > Sorry I can't help you, although personally I think the spacing looks > just right. Maybe with your line spacing settings it looks funny? I > agree thought that LyX does not seem to be very flexible here. It depends on whether a list should be a separate

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-27 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Hi Christopher, Thanks a lot for the reply! You know... What would be neat is if we could edit the text in the "View LaTeX Source" window. Then it would be so simple to fix. I guess that Lyx will remain a less than ideal front-end to Latex. One can use it to write the first draft of a big

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-27 Thread Bennett Helm
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Etienne M. Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I sent a message to the devel list, but got no reply so far. I know a thing > or two about languages and parsing, so I might have been interested to help > writing a fix, but I guess that they're not interested. It's

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Etienne M. Gagnon wrote: Thanks a lot for the reply! You know... What would be neat is if we could edit the text in the "View LaTeX Source" window. Then it would be so simple to fix. This requested periodically and discussed on the list. It would be very difficult for a variety of reasons.

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-27 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Bennett Helm wrote : I sent a message to the devel list, but got no reply so far. [...] I guess that they're not interested. [...] This is the wrong conclusion to draw. If you look at the developer's list for the last week or so, you'll discover that it has been basically silent,

Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-26 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Hi LyX gurus, I've been playing with LyX lately. It has much improved since the last time I looked at it, 6 years ago. It really looks as a nice alternative to writing painful plain LaTeX by hand. I can't figure out if I missed some workaround in the documentation or if it is an

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-26 Thread Christopher Reeve
Sorry I can't help you, although personally I think the spacing looks just right. Maybe with your line spacing settings it looks funny? I agree thought that LyX does not seem to be very flexible here. I just wanted to add to your comments the following. When you start a display formula, if you

Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-26 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Hi LyX gurus, I've been playing with LyX lately. It has much improved since the last time I looked at it, 6 years ago. It really looks as a nice alternative to writing painful plain LaTeX by hand. I can't figure out if I missed some workaround in the documentation or if it is an

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-26 Thread Christopher Reeve
Sorry I can't help you, although personally I think the spacing looks just right. Maybe with your line spacing settings it looks funny? I agree thought that LyX does not seem to be very flexible here. I just wanted to add to your comments the following. When you start a display formula, if you

Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-26 Thread Etienne M. Gagnon
Hi LyX gurus, I've been playing with LyX lately. It has much improved since the last time I looked at it, 6 years ago. It really looks as a nice alternative to writing painful plain LaTeX by hand. I can't figure out if I missed some workaround in the documentation or if it is an

Re: Blank Line Before \begin{itemize} in Geneterated LaTeX

2008-06-26 Thread Christopher Reeve
Sorry I can't help you, although personally I think the spacing looks just right. Maybe with your line spacing settings it looks funny? I agree thought that LyX does not seem to be very flexible here. I just wanted to add to your comments the following. When you start a "display formula", if you