On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote:
> > traced... (I wish I knew how to use the damned gdb...:(
>
> There is a ultra-short tutorial on gdb in the Known Bugs document.
> But notice: A description of a reproducable way of triggering a bug
> is much more useful than a gdb trace.
> The reason is obvious: With a description of a bug, a developer
> can roll his own trace and thus investigate exactly what is going
> on. Even further, it's possible to step through the situation,
> which will typically give much insight to the cause of a bug.
I'll do my best...
> > Now I just wished I could specify a bit where floats are preferred (a la
> > HTML way)... I think I remember that LaTeX has a way to specify that, but
> > it's not on the figure's popup... well, it won't be fancy but it'll be
> > clear and 'perfect' :)
>
> Somewhere in some strange pop-up, there is actually a field where you
> can globally define a policy for float placement. It's a user unfriendly
> input field where you have to insert !htb or something strange like that,
> but it'll probably do what you need once you figure it out.
I'll look for it, thanks :)
> I suppose it's mentioned in the User Guide somewhere. (We need an
> index of the documentation -- then we could also scrap large parts
> of the reference manual, which is redundant in many aspects.)
Nod... Considering that my possibilities of helping in actually
programming are almost null (I can't "even" dig into reLyX adecuately,
sorry Amir) I'd like to commit to the Documentation project, so if the
leader is around, please get in touch with me to tell me what to do,
meanwhile I'll read what comes with the sources...
Thanks,
D@
