The pLyX system: sorting tables and lists

2013-01-01 Thread Andrew Parsloe
There are four scripts attached with this email and one compressed-format LyX document: sortable.py, sortable_help.py -- a script for sorting tables in LyX, & its help file sortlist.py, sortlist_help.py -- a script for sorting lists in LyX, & its help file pLyXSorting(compressed).l

Re: Sorting tables in LyX

2012-11-28 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > I don't think change tracking works here, since the file is modified > *externally* (the built-in feel, although pleasing, is pure illusion). My > I see. What about using the CLI: Can LyX compare two documents from the command line, and the

Re: Sorting tables in LyX

2012-11-28 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 28/11/2012 7:59 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I've used the same trick (exporting to an alternatively named LyX format, but retaining the lyx file extension) for a number of other tasks (e.g. sorting lists, expanding abbreviations) Quick

Re: Sorting tables in LyX

2012-11-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > I've used the same trick (exporting to an alternatively named LyX format, > but retaining the lyx file extension) for a number of other tasks (e.g. > sorting lists, expanding abbreviations) > Quick question: Would it be a good idea to turn T

Re: Sorting tables in LyX

2012-11-27 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 28/11/2012 1:13 p.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I've attached a python script, tablesort.py, a module tablesort.module containing a custom inset (suggested by Liviu Andronic), and an explanatory document, SortingTablesInLyX.lyx detailing w

Re: Sorting tables in LyX

2012-11-27 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > I've attached a python script, tablesort.py, a module tablesort.module > containing a custom inset (suggested by Liviu Andronic), and an explanatory > document, SortingTablesInLyX.lyx detailing what goes where and how to use > it. In this th

Re: Sorting tables in LyX

2012-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: >> - Section 2.1: After defining the 'Converter box', it would help to >> note that next teh user has to click Add and Apply. (Personally I find >> this handling confusing.) > > (Ah, you too type "teh" for "the".) > Oh, I stopped paying attent

Re: Sorting tables in LyX

2012-09-24 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 25/09/2012 8:59 a.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: Andrew Your script and module are great, and this is a functionality that deserves getting into base LyX. Maybe worth opening a bug report for this. OK. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I've attached a python script, tabl

Re: Sorting tables in LyX

2012-09-24 Thread Liviu Andronic
Andrew Your script and module are great, and this is a functionality that deserves getting into base LyX. Maybe worth opening a bug report for this. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > I've attached a python script, tablesort.py, a module tablesort.module > containing a cust

Redefinition of title (LONG) [Was: Re: sorting tables?]

2003-05-31 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-05-28, 06:16 GMT, Andre Poenitz wrote: >> Likewise I don't want a default 10 point typeface with 1.5 >> inch margins on each side, I want a title that's left-justified rather >> than centered, and so on through many choices. > > The point is: You can do that, but it hurts a bit. So if you

Re: sorting tables?

2003-05-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:34:20PM -0700, James Frye wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > Same here. The default spacing follow good type setting style. Exposing > > them to the casual user is likely to produce bad typesetting, so at least > > my interest in making that accessi

Re: sorting tables?

2003-05-30 Thread James Frye
On Mon, 26 May 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: > Same here. The default spacing follow good type setting style. Exposing > them to the casual user is likely to produce bad typesetting, so at least > my interest in making that accessible is limited. I'd say instead that the default spacing &c follows r

Re: Languages (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-06-08 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:32:57PM +0200, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > Hi Jean-Pierre, I know that you made a question but I haven't seen it. I got only a truncated message with quoted text... This happens sometimes, and I don't know why... the only pattern I see is that those message

Re: Languages (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-06-04 Thread Baruch Even
* George De Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010604 20:02]: > On Tuesday 29 May 2001 23:46, Allan Rae wrote: > > > FWIW, a number of Python folk are interested in LyX -- both for personal > > use (with python.cls etc.) and as a possible unofficial documenting tool. > > Their official documenting tools

Re: Languages (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-06-04 Thread George De Bruin
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 23:46, Allan Rae wrote: > FWIW, a number of Python folk are interested in LyX -- both for personal > use (with python.cls etc.) and as a possible unofficial documenting tool. > Their official documenting tools are a couple of scripts and any text > editor and they aren't ab

Re: sorting tables?

2001-06-04 Thread George De Bruin
On Monday 28 May 2001 03:34, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > George De Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Now, I see from a development point where it will be necessary to focus > | on one or two languages for the initial implementation / testing. But, > | as soon as that is done I think the supp

Re: sorting tables?

2001-06-04 Thread George De Bruin
Okay, I sat back for a bit on this. I didn't want to flood you while you were studying Baruch... On Sunday 27 May 2001 01:21, Baruch Even wrote: > I understand what you say, but you need to understand the side of the > developers too. Baruch, I assure you, I understand the developer's side be

Re: Languages (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-06-04 Thread Francisco Stefano Wechsler
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, George De Bruin wrote: > Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 15:04:55 -0500 > From: George De Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Reuben Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > LyX Users mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Languages (was Re: sorting ta

Re: Languages (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-06-03 Thread Erkko Airo
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Friday 01 June 2001 05:16, Reuben Thomas wrote: > > > There's also Lua (www.lua.org), which is much smaller than python, rather > > I just tried to go to this site, but couldn't connect to it...:( The link above doesn't seem to work now, but the

Re: Languages (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-06-02 Thread George De Bruin
On Friday 01 June 2001 05:16, Reuben Thomas wrote: > There's also Lua (www.lua.org), which is much smaller than python, rather I just tried to go to this site, but couldn't connect to it...:( -- George J. De Bruin Check Out 0l0rin's New Age compositions at http://mp3.com/0l0rin 0l0rin's latest

Re: Languages (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-06-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
> > > Anyway, past discussions have usually ended up with Python as best because > > > it's readable/writable even for newbies. Scheme/Lisp usually dropped as a > > > bad idea because no-one cares to type all the ()'s and Perl as a possible > > > second language. There's also Lua (www.lua.org),

Re: Languages (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-05-30 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:09:14 +0100 >>From: Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: LyX Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Languages (was Re: sorting tables?) >>Mail-Followup-To: LyX Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>User

Re: Languages (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-05-30 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:58:18PM +0200, ben wrote: > Allan Rae a écrit : > > > [...] > > > > Anyway, past discussions have usually ended up with Python as best because > > it's readable/writable even for newbies. Scheme/Lisp usually dropped as a > > bad idea because no-one cares to type all th

Re: Languages (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-05-30 Thread ben
Allan Rae a écrit : > [...] > > Anyway, past discussions have usually ended up with Python as best because > it's readable/writable even for newbies. Scheme/Lisp usually dropped as a > bad idea because no-one cares to type all the ()'s and Perl as a possible > second language. What are the adva

Re: csv2lyx (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-05-30 Thread A.Gulino
I will change the english in the documentation (and the suggestion too, of course) When I have made the changes, I post it. The script self I will send it at you, and who ask me. If someone want, I send the script (version 0.0.0fix1 :-) in the mailinglist self. Guenter Milde wrote: <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: csv2lyx (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-05-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On Fri, 25 May 2001 08:54:50 +0200 wrote A.Gulino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi folks, > I send you my very little perlscript. If you think it is long, its not true. > there are a only 30 codelines, the rest is documentation. Hi Antonio, thanks for that little script of yours- I like it and I like

Re: Languages (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-05-29 Thread Allan Rae
On Sun, 27 May 2001, Kathryn Andersen wrote: [...] [ Baruch wrote this bit ] > > The implementation as I expect it to be, will not force you to use one > > language over the other, only if you want the official scripts you'll > > need the official language. There is a need however to make the > >

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-28 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
George De Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Now, I see from a development point where it will be necessary to focus on | one or two languages for the initial implementation / testing. But, as soon | as that is done I think the support should be expanded to at least six or | more languages t

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-26 Thread Baruch Even
I understand what you say, but you need to understand the side of the developers too. If we do not decide that a single language is the official language than any feature that is moved to the scripting languages needs to be maintained in several languages, that's too much work for us to do. We hav

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-26 Thread George De Bruin
On Saturday 26 May 2001 11:11, Baruch Even wrote: > The need is for an "Official language" not necessarily a single one, but > one that is expected to be available in most installations, possibly it > will be available out of the box from packages. This is to make it > possible to have a library

Languages (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-05-26 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 07:11:51PM +0300, Baruch Even wrote: > * George De Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010526 19:05]: > > On Wednesday 23 May 2001 11:17, Baruch Even wrote: > > > > > To follow up on these comments and enthusiasm (and a developers > > > discussion), what is the language of choice f

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-26 Thread George De Bruin
On Thursday 24 May 2001 07:01, Joao B. Oliveira wrote: > Before choosing a language that will affect our (happy) LyX lives, > what requirements are really being made on this language? I The requirements are going to vary on a user by user basis. For example, I see the examples you listed as be

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-26 Thread Baruch Even
* George De Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010526 19:05]: > On Wednesday 23 May 2001 11:17, Baruch Even wrote: > > > To follow up on these comments and enthusiasm (and a developers > > discussion), what is the language of choice for such an embedded > > scripting language is from your perspective? >

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-26 Thread George De Bruin
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 11:17, Baruch Even wrote: > To follow up on these comments and enthusiasm (and a developers > discussion), what is the language of choice for such an embedded > scripting language is from your perspective? > > Several options that were raised (and I rememeber) include Ico

Re: csv2lyx (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-05-25 Thread Robin Turner
Just tried running it, but perl -d came out with "unrecognized character \xA0 at line 60" (which seems to be in the middle of a comment, so shouldn't apply, unless perl only numbers lines with instructions - it's been so long I can't remember). Looks pretty nifty if I can make it work though,

csv2lyx (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-05-24 Thread A.Gulino
"Joao B. Oliveira" wrote: > Antonio wrote: >>"Joao B. Oliveira" wrote: >>> See? Does not look that bad, but an even better solution would be >>> *other* feature: import .cvs files directly as tables. >>I have a little perlscript that produce a floattable (or a simple table) in >>lyx-format from a

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
> Other question: what about enlarging (if necessary) the language > already used in the minibuffer? I think it's a safe guess that the languange used in the minibuffer will be replaced by the Chosen Scripting Language at some point of time... Andre' -- André Pönitz ..

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-24 Thread Joao B. Oliveira
> On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:17:08PM +0300, Baruch Even wrote: > > To follow up on these comments and enthusiasm (and a developers > > discussion), what is the language of choice for such an embedded > > scripting language is from your perspective? > > > > Several options that were raised (and I

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-23 Thread Baruch Even
* Kathryn Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010524 09:52]: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:17:08PM +0300, Baruch Even wrote: > > To follow up on these comments and enthusiasm (and a developers > > discussion), what is the language of choice for such an embedded > > scripting language is from your perspec

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-23 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:17:08PM +0300, Baruch Even wrote: > To follow up on these comments and enthusiasm (and a developers > discussion), what is the language of choice for such an embedded > scripting language is from your perspective? > > Several options that were raised (and I rememeber) i

Re: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]

2001-05-23 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Ronald Florence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Allan Rae writes: | | On 23 May 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > What is .cvs? | | csv | | comma separated values | | Isn't .cvs the suffix for non-stable (development) versions of LyX? | According to the LDN: `... all releases w

Re: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]

2001-05-23 Thread Rem
Everyone seems to be having the same problem... The server tried to send the e-mails through a wormhole, eh?! R - Original Message - From: "Robin Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LyX Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 12:09 PM Subje

Re: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]

2001-05-23 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 16:18, Juergen Vigna wrote: > On 23-May-2001 Niklas Werner wrote: > > this would allow for importing database-records as well, since dumping > > them cvs-split is fairly easy. > > I'd like to add that to the 2.0-wishlist! > > I already told here that this IS already possib

Re: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]

2001-05-23 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 18:17, Allan Rae wrote: > On 23 May 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > What is .cvs? > > csv > > comma separated values Yup, that's what I meant. My tendency to reverse keys is one reason I never got very far with Prel scripting ;-) > Allan. (ARRae) > Why is it takin

Re: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]

2001-05-23 Thread Ronald Florence
Allan Rae writes: On 23 May 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > What is .cvs? csv comma separated values Isn't .cvs the suffix for non-stable (development) versions of LyX? According to the LDN: `... all releases without a suffix are stable releases.'[1] The development versions

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-23 Thread Baruch Even
* George De Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010523 18:12]: > On Wednesday 23 May 2001 06:56, Baruch Even wrote: > > > Hopefully in the future we will have an embedded scripting language in LyX > > and features like this one will be implementable with it. This will > > satisfy the feature-bloat propone

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-23 Thread Baruch Even
* Joao B. Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010523 17:37]: > > On Wednesday 23 May 2001 14:56, Baruch Even wrote: > > > Hopefully in the future we will have an embedded scripting language in LyX > > > and features like this one will be implementable with it. This will > > > satisfy the feature-bloat p

Re: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]

2001-05-23 Thread Baruch Even
* Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010523 17:37]: > On Wednesday 23 May 2001 15:28, Baruch Even wrote: > > * Niklas Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010523 15:25]: > > > > See? Does not look that bad, but an even better solution would be > > > > *other* feature: import .cvs files directly as tables. T

Re: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]

2001-05-23 Thread Allan Rae
On 23 May 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > What is .cvs? csv comma separated values Allan. (ARRae) Why is it taking so bloody long for my emails to get back from the mailing list? I announced LDN almost half an hour ago and the emails still haven't arrived!

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-23 Thread George De Bruin
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 06:56, Baruch Even wrote: > Hopefully in the future we will have an embedded scripting language in LyX > and features like this one will be implementable with it. This will > satisfy the feature-bloat proponents and the feature-bloat opponents, you > will be able to use s

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-23 Thread George De Bruin
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 04:54, Robin Turner wrote: > front-end for 'nix hackers, little features like sortable lists will make a > lot of difference. I'm not advocating feature-bloat (if I want that, I can > download Star Office!) just a few bits and bobs to make life easier. Of course, this i

Re: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]

2001-05-23 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Wednesday 23 May 2001 15:28, Baruch Even wrote: | > * Niklas Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010523 15:25]: | > > > See? Does not look that bad, but an even better solution would be | > > > *other* feature: import .cvs files directly as tables. This seems

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-23 Thread Joao B. Oliveira
> On Wednesday 23 May 2001 14:56, Baruch Even wrote: > > Hopefully in the future we will have an embedded scripting language in LyX > > and features like this one will be implementable with it. This will > > satisfy the feature-bloat proponents and the feature-bloat opponents, you > > will be able

Re: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]

2001-05-23 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 15:28, Baruch Even wrote: > * Niklas Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010523 15:25]: > > > See? Does not look that bad, but an even better solution would be > > > *other* feature: import .cvs files directly as tables. This seems a > > > better solution, as data are produced in

RE: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]

2001-05-23 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 23-May-2001 Niklas Werner wrote: > this would allow for importing database-records as well, since dumping > them cvs-split is fairly easy. > I'd like to add that to the 2.0-wishlist! I already told here that this IS already possible. Just select the tsv (tab-separated-value) in f.ex. emacs a

Re: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]

2001-05-23 Thread Baruch Even
* Niklas Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010523 15:25]: > > See? Does not look that bad, but an even better solution would be > > *other* feature: import .cvs files directly as tables. This seems a > > better solution, as data are produced in your favorite spreadsheet, > > exported as cvs and imported

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-23 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 14:56, Baruch Even wrote: > Hopefully in the future we will have an embedded scripting language in LyX > and features like this one will be implementable with it. This will > satisfy the feature-bloat proponents and the feature-bloat opponents, you > will be able to use su

[Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]

2001-05-23 Thread Niklas Werner
keep forgetting to reply to the list ;-(, probably getting old... Original Message Betrifft: Re: sorting tables? Datum: Wed, 23 May 2001 14:12:38 +0200 Von: Niklas Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organisation: WebCrew An: "Joao B. Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-23 Thread Baruch Even
Hopefully in the future we will have an embedded scripting language in LyX and features like this one will be implementable with it. This will satisfy the feature-bloat proponents and the feature-bloat opponents, you will be able to use such features if you want and you will be able to disable the

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-23 Thread Joao B. Oliveira
> > > If you have the data from some other application which allows > > formatted printing, conditional predicates and sorting functions, this > > kind of problem is readily solved by printing in a file the > > latex or lyx code and the data as you want it > > and inputting it in the document. It

RE: sorting tables?

2001-05-23 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 22-May-2001 Dave Brown wrote: > Is there any sort of Latex command that will automatically sort a table >alphabetically > by, say, the first column, leaving the header at the top? Barring this, is there any > way to sort the table automatically or do I have to make sure I'm entering the data

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-23 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 10:12, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > >Is there any sort of Latex command that will automatically sort a table >> alphabetically by, say, the first column, leaving the header at the top? >> Barring this, is there any way to sort the table automatically or do I have >> to m

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-22 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>X-Apparently-From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>From: "Dave Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "LyX Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: sorting tables? >>Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 15:43:03 -0700 >> >>Is there any sort of

Re: sorting tables?

2001-05-22 Thread Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes
de Lima-Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU/Linux Registered User # 182240 On Tue, 22 May 2001, Dave Brown wrote: > Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 15:43:03 -0700 > From: Dave Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: LyX Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: sorting tables? > > Is there any sort of

sorting tables?

2001-05-22 Thread Dave Brown
Is there any sort of Latex command that will automatically sort a table alphabetically by, say, the first column, leaving the header at the top?  Barring this, is there any way to sort the table automatically or do I have to make sure I'm entering the data in alphabetical order?   Thanks for