Re: Dia escapes LaTeX in PGF Export

2010-08-05 Thread Hans Breuer
At 04.08.2010 17:05, Pooya wrote: [...] Any text containing special charactes, which are needed for LaTeX, will be escaped by the PGF-Export Plug-In. Yes, intentionally. See : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143414 and a lot of duplicates, e.g.: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.

Re: Dia escapes LaTeX in PGF Export

2010-08-05 Thread Steffen Macke
Hi Pooya, as you continue to ask questions: Would you mind to subscribe to the mailing list? I think that you'll appreciate if we spend our time answering your questions instead of moderating your messages. The TeX escaping that worries you stems from bug #112377, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/s

Re: Remote access causes trouble.

2010-08-05 Thread Hans Breuer
At 03.08.2010 23:54, Michael Ross wrote: I have been working on DIAgrams remotely using VPN. I don't have any problem doing this with M$ Office type programs, but DIA seems to be auto-saving or something. Yes, autosaving every five minutes (if there is some change). It regularly gets "distrac

Re: center-point-snapping-shapes

2010-08-05 Thread Steffen Macke
Hi John, please take the time to add a subject when addressing the mailing list - this makes live easier for all of us that are trying to help you out. You've mentioned that you're trying to create shapes that will align as you wish. Have you tried to add a transparent or background color box to

Re: Remote access causes trouble.

2010-08-05 Thread Steffen Macke
Michael, I assume that you're using a Windows share (SMB) over the VPN. Have you thought about a version management system like SVN or Git? TortoiseGit or TortoiseSVN offer nice Windows explorer integration. In case you're interested, these are just some benefits: * Faster, compressed transfer (o

Re: Re: Dia escapes LaTeX in PGF Export

2010-08-05 Thread Input Pooya
Hi Hans, Hi Steffen, thank you very much. How to patch my version? a) Is it ok, to comment out the whole function? Or maybe I can modify the arguement of each call to function "g_string_append"? b) After patching this source code, how to compile this for my Dia version running on OS X from Mac

Re: Dia escapes LaTeX in PGF Export

2010-08-05 Thread Steffen Macke
Hi Pooya, > How to patch my version? > That's up to you :-) > a) Is it ok, to comment out the whole function? Or maybe I can modify the > arguement of each call to function "g_string_append"? > Commenting out the whole function will result in an error unless you also remove all calls to th

Re: Remote access causes trouble.

2010-08-05 Thread Michael Ross
Steffen, I have lost work when working from remote directories via VPN. I have messed with Tortise and subversion. But I am an island, a solitary user, and I have no one after which to model my methods. Each time I have used it I've assumed something incorrect (probably applying a definition fo

Re: Remote access causes trouble.

2010-08-05 Thread Steffen Macke
Michael, things get a little off-topic here (and I'm to blame). I suggest that we continue in the SF support tracker: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3040269&group_id=16768&atid=216768 In case you don't have an account there and no time to create one, please email me at sdtef..

Re: Remote access causes trouble.

2010-08-05 Thread Michael Ross
Yes, I get it. Here is the real topic: If I could turn off the auto save that would be a nice temporary fix. I am not in a position to worry about version control for a while so let's drop that. Michael On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Steffen Macke wrote: > Michael, > > things get a little

Diashapes available for Mac OS X

2010-08-05 Thread Steffen Macke
Hi, Diashapes, the tool that simplifies the process to download additional shapes and sheets from the Dia Shape Repository is now also available for Mac OS X (32bit Intel). Mac users can grab their copy from http://dia-installer.de/diashapes/index.html.en Note that you've to download and instal