Re: anchoring end points to objects

2001-05-22 Thread James Henstridge
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > According to D. Stimits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I'm also wondering how hard it would be to create jpeg's as an export > > option? > > > I think if I'm not mistaken, that libart can do this easily. > The best is IMHO to file bug a report on http://b

Re: anchoring end points to objects

2001-05-23 Thread James Henstridge
On Wed, 23 May 2001, D. Stimits wrote: > Despite being named "portable", PNG is not as well supported for many > readers/viewers as is jpeg. Jpeg quality is also not necessarily worse, > it has a controllable "lossy" compression, which can be turned off Maybe JPEG 2000 supports lossless compress

Re: anchoring end points to objects

2001-05-23 Thread James Henstridge
On Thu, 24 May 2001, James Henstridge wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2001, D. Stimits wrote: > > > Despite being named "portable", PNG is not as well supported for many > > readers/viewers as is jpeg. Jpeg quality is also not necessarily worse, > > it has a controlla

Re: [OT] Re: anchoring end points to objects

2001-05-24 Thread James Henstridge
On Thu, 24 May 2001, D. Stimits wrote: > But a big argument for adding JPEG export is that some browsers don't > work correctly with PNG. Regardless of whether a PNG or JPEG is used, it > would be nice to see high quality Dia snapshots with anti-aliasing. Well, we are accepting patches :) In th

Re: AM_PATH_PYTHON_JH

2001-05-25 Thread James Henstridge
On 25 May 2001, Lars Clausen wrote: > > I was trying to run autogen.sh from a fresh CVS checkout (my old one has > too many forgotten changes:), but aclocal choked on missing AM_PATH_PYTHON, > AM_PATH_PYTHON_JH was defined instead. By changing it back to > AM_PATH_PYTHON there and in configure.i

Re: --enable-unicode

2001-05-27 Thread James Henstridge
On Sun, 27 May 2001, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > > I think I'm going to turn it as enabled by default, at least for the current > CVS cycle. > > I haven't been able to crash this code, and it works at least as good as the > previous code with respect to i18n (it should of course be better). > > Any

Re: --enable-unicode

2001-05-27 Thread James Henstridge
On Mon, 28 May 2001, James Henstridge wrote: > Nope. We should also look at switching the internal encoding in .dia > files to utf8. This will be needed when we switch over to gtk+ 2.0 and > libxml2 (even though you can compile dia with libxml2 at the moment, you > get corruptio

Re: --enable-unicode

2001-05-28 Thread James Henstridge
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > Normally, XML files already embed character set encoding information in the > very first element ( That sounds like the best way to discriminate between old and new files. > > Is (libxml1 8-bit only) and (libxml2 dependent on gtk2) ? If not, we li

Re: Your message to Dia-list awaits moderator approval

2001-05-29 Thread James Henstridge
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Thomas Gagne wrote: > I thought I was on the list. Maybe its with a different reply-to, like > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does case matter? Hmm. I await > your comment... :-) Since moving the mailing list to gnome.org, the list is following the policy of all

Re: XML Stuff in Sheet and Shape Definitions

2001-05-29 Thread James Henstridge
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Jamin Collins wrote: > I'm working on some basic Chapin shapes for Dia, but I'm a little unsure of > what some of the XML in the .shape and .sheet files are for. It appears to > be important as the sheets and shapes don't load without it. However, it > also appears to be so

Re: po compilation breakage

2001-06-08 Thread James Henstridge
On 8 Jun 2001, Lars Clausen wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > > > > > I can't finish building Dia because of these errors in a .po file: > > > > file=./echo zh_TW.Big5 | sed 's,.*/,,'.gmo \ > > && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file > > zh_TW.Big5.po

Re: [RFC] moving translations off sheets ?

2001-06-09 Thread James Henstridge
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > Hi all, > >while I've been advocating the fun side of keeping a bazillion > translations in the same file a few weeks ago, I've now come to a few > conclusions: > 1) this won't scale past the half dozen languages we have in sheets. > Certain

Re: [RFC] moving translations off sheets ?

2001-06-09 Thread James Henstridge
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > Le sam, jun 09, 2001, à 09:05:11 +0800, James Henstridge a écrit: > > > It acts as a small wrapper around the gettext build scripts > > (po/Makefile.in.in), adding support for extracting and merging from > > various othe

Re: [RFC] moving translations off sheets ?

2001-06-09 Thread James Henstridge
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > According to Cyrille Chepelov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > [***] Yes, I know that UTF-8 is actually just a payload encoding standard for > > multi-byte characters of relatively arbitrary length, and that the meaning > > of which sequence of bytes means

Re: [RFC] moving translations off sheets ?

2001-06-10 Thread James Henstridge
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > Le dim, jun 10, 2001, à 10:40:23 +0800, James Henstridge a écrit: > > > I don't think it is as simple as a simple sed job. The xml-i18n-tools > > package needs knowledge of each format it supports. It would not be > >

Re: [RFC] moving translations off sheets ?

2001-06-10 Thread James Henstridge
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > Ah ? xml-i18n-merge looks up the .po files for translations and merges them > back into the resulting XML file ? Nice: we don't even have to modify the > code we have, then. That is Good(tm). Sounds like it would be a good idea to switch over then.

Re: dead-keys

2001-06-11 Thread James Henstridge
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes wrote: > > Hello! > > First of all, congratulations about the good work at dia. Second, please > answer me directly as I'm not subscribed to the list. Finally: I'm portuguese > and it would be nice to write text with accents under dia

Re: error parsing point

2001-06-11 Thread James Henstridge
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, marion schmid wrote: > Hello! > > Is there anyone who can tell me why I have continously following error > message which,if the error occurs, appears approx. 20 times? > > I started dia to try out the program. It is in Version 0.85. > I began to draw a ER and saved it as test

xml-i18n-tools

2001-06-11 Thread James Henstridge
I just put some of the key points about the move to xml-i18n-tools into a bugzilla bug so that we can track track this issue: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56059 If you have any comments, please add them. If you are interested in the progress, add yourself to the CC list, etc. It

Re: Dia 0.88.1: Problems with exporting to xfig

2001-06-12 Thread James Henstridge
On 12 Jun 2001, Lars Clausen wrote: > Sounds like a good implementation plan. Only the FEATURE and SHAPE groups > don't really solve the problem, as all you can really do at this level is > group. > > Somebody (I forget who) suggested having some more complex shapes (arrows, > rounded rectangles

Re: Shapes layout proposal

2001-06-14 Thread James Henstridge
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > > James, > > Part A) I'll begin by summarising the various kind of objects we had in this > project ; the evolution of "how to write objects" is IMO interesting and > pretty much explains what I think about the project. > > We have had no less than f

Re: My proposal (Was: Shapes layout proposal)

2001-06-14 Thread James Henstridge
On 14 Jun 2001, Lars Clausen wrote: > On 14 Jun 2001, Lars Clausen wrote: > > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Andre Kloss wrote: > > > >> On 14 Jun 2001, Lars Clausen wrote: > >> > >>> The reason for GUIs to have the equal-spacing setup is that the actual > >>> widget layout may be determined by somebody

Re: dia2shape

2001-06-17 Thread James Henstridge
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > Le dim, jun 17, 2001, à 10:41:24 +, James K. Lowden a écrit: > > > It seems to me it should be possible to use Dia to create Dia shapes. > > [snip] > > > Does anyone think this is infeasible? Worthwhile? > > infeasible, certainly not. In fact, d

Re: XML Schema

2001-06-24 Thread James Henstridge
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, John Palmieri wrote: > Sorry for double posting but my computer's clock was messed up. > > I'm getting a little bit of a feel for XML Schema's. The documentation > islittered with new terminology that takes a bit getting use to. The > examples look straight forward. I thin

Re: GTK+ 2.0 widget for dia

2001-06-30 Thread James Henstridge
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > Le mer, jun 27, 2001, à 08:44:36 +0200, Xavier Ordoquy a écrit: > > > I just looked a bit in diagramdata.c and dia-newcanvas looks pretty > > similar. I think Jamesh would explain better than I can do how this > > fits, but looks like it's fine. > >

Re: SGV-sgv, ...not svg? sure?

2001-07-03 Thread James Henstridge
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Dolores Alia de Saravia wrote: > James: > > Now you say it, I also agree with you. But then, instead of correcting > the NEWS file, may be Dia itself should be corrected: > > I beleive that > > if an user designs a .shape file and writes ". /SVG" instead of > "/svg",

Re: SGV-sgv, ...not svg? sure?

2001-07-08 Thread James Henstridge
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, James K. Lowden wrote: > > Saying that 2 URIs with different path sections are or should be the same > > resource is plain wrong > > As indicated by "Namespaces in XML" at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/ to > wit: > > > [Definition:] URI references which identify namespace

Re: Autoconf trouble

2001-08-01 Thread James Henstridge
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > Le mer, aoû 01, 2001, à 07:45:41 -0500, Lars Clausen a écrit: > > > > When I try to ./autogen.sh the newest CVS, I get the following from > > autoheader: > > > > FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.50 or higher is required for this script > > So it works.

test release of dia-0.89

2001-09-01 Thread James Henstridge
There is a testing release of dia-0.89 available at: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/testing/dia-0.89-test.tar.gz Please give this tarball a bit of testing, and if there are any obvious build problems, please post about them. The tarball was built using the following tools: autoconf-2.52 aut

Re: where are the shape files for the basic shapes?

2001-09-01 Thread James Henstridge
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, John Ellson wrote: > Can somebody point me to the .shape files for the basic shapes? > > I'm probably just not looking in the right place, but I couldn't > find them in the source tree, or in the generated output files. > > In particular I'm looking for the xml description of

Re: test release of dia-0.89

2001-09-01 Thread James Henstridge
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Steffen Macke wrote: > Hi, > > configure complained that I have libxml and libxml2 installed and that I have > to choose one of them. Do I actually have to uninstall one of them? > As I didn't find a configure switch for this, I tried to add > XML2_CONFIG="" Hmm. I will get

Re: size of eps files exported

2001-09-02 Thread James Henstridge
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > Le dim, sep 02, 2001, à 08:28:34 +0100, Nicholas Piper a écrit: > > > .89 is not yet available; this was a test release. > > > > I mean is .89-test still available, or did you mean for me to try CVS ? > > CVS, snapshot, or .89-test if it is still avai

Re: feature request

2001-09-03 Thread James Henstridge
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Nicholas Piper wrote: > On Mon, 03 Sep 2001, Abraham van der Merwe wrote: > > > --scale is very important to me. The reason for this is that I use dia to > > make figures that I embed in latex documents. The problem is that by > > default, if I convert dia -> eps (or fig), th

Re: dia-shape-ns

2001-09-06 Thread James Henstridge
On 6 Sep 2001, Lars Clausen wrote: > On Thu, 06 Sep 2001, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: > > > Sorry if these questions have been answered -- I'm new here, and > > haven't seen them answered in the archive. > > > > 1. I'm wondering if the name space definition from the dtd's found in > > the doc dir

dia-0.89

2001-09-06 Thread James Henstridge
I have just uploaded the dia-0.89 tarball to master.gnome.org. I have fixed the issue in the configure script when both libxml1 and libxml2 headers are found (it only checks for libxml2 now if libxml1 wasn't found). The package will be available from the following location as soon as ftp.gnome.o

Re: Can't launch

2001-09-06 Thread James Henstridge
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have run the dia-088.2-setup.exe to install the program. After the files > and directories are installed, the program launch fails. The error is in a > DOS window: > > Warning**:- could not create per-user Dia config directory > Glib-critical **:

Re: dia-0.89

2001-09-06 Thread James Henstridge
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > Le ven, sep 07, 2001, à 11:54:03 +0800, James Henstridge a écrit: > > > I have just uploaded the dia-0.89 tarball to master.gnome.org. I have > > fixed the issue in the configure script when both libxml1 and libxml2 > > he