Re: for crying out loud . . .

1999-01-14 Thread David C. Brown N2RJT
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > I've found that a conference I'm submitting papers to requires that > "Attachments should be in MS Word 7.0 or WordPerfect 8.0 or lower > version." Not a solution for you here and now, but this need does bring up a possible future feature..

Re: for crying out loud . . .

1999-01-14 Thread Larry S. Marso
Ask them to accept a postscript version. You can easily print *.ps files to most network printers in office/educational environments these days. Best regards -- Larry S. Marso [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 11:01:16AM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > I've found that a co

Re: PR

1999-01-14 Thread Garst R. Reese
Martin Vermeer wrote: [lots of really excellent stuff snipped] > One feature lacking from LyX is import of MS Word documents. So, if you > need continued access to these legacy documents, you should also keep > a traditional word processor (like Corel's WordPerfect for Linux) on > your disk. The

Re: slides

1999-01-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "John" == John Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Yeah, I figured that would happen. I tried to keep up-to-date, John> really I did! OK, consider yourself as forgiven. John> Yes, cut&paste the new section on slides. There's also a use of John> the \SliTeX macro in the "foils" secti

Re: lyx-1.0.0pre6 an HP's aCC

1999-01-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Klaus" == Klaus Dittrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Klaus> Dear developers, I downloaded lyx-1.0.0pre6 an tried to compile Klaus> it on HPUX-10.20 using HP aCC. Klaus> I hope you will find the output usefull for your work. Klaus> Error 221: "../src/buffer.h", line 227 # Member 'isLinuxD

Re: for crying out loud . . .

1999-01-14 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 11:01:16AM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > I've found that a conference I'm submitting papers to requires that > "Attachments should be in MS Word 7.0 or WordPerfect 8.0 or lower > version." > > I suppose the text can convert though latex2html or some such, bu

Re: license clarification

1999-01-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
asger averred, > I will never accept to put my code under a license that > excludes the FSF (or anybody else.) I'm not suggesting that we actually do it. But sometimes (e.g., lignux), it's a delightful fantasy . . . :) --

for crying out loud . . .

1999-01-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I've found that a conference I'm submitting papers to requires that "Attachments should be in MS Word 7.0 or WordPerfect 8.0 or lower version." I suppose the text can convert though latex2html or some such, but what about my equations? There's no way in hell that i'm going to mess with equa

Re: slides (and general doc issue)

1999-01-14 Thread mressler
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, John Weiss wrote: > Compromise between the two. > ... > Get the idea? Loud and clear, oh grand poobah. (Good advice, actually.) Mods hopefully in a few days ... Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED]

lyx-1.0.0pre6 an HP's aCC

1999-01-14 Thread Klaus Dittrich
Dear developers, I downloaded lyx-1.0.0pre6 an tried to compile it on HPUX-10.20 using HP aCC. I hope you will find the output usefull for your work. Error 221: "../src/buffer.h", line 227 # Member 'isLinuxDoc' not declared in class Buffer ["../src/buffer.h", line 49]. bool Bu

Re: license clarification

1999-01-14 Thread Roland Krause
On 14-Jan-99 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> "Asger" == Asger K Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> I've thought of license terms in the past that specifically exclude >>> the FSF . . . but i've never really thought of being explicit about >>> "muttonhead," thought "totalitarian

Re: license clarification

1999-01-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Asger" == Asger K Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I've thought of license terms in the past that specifically exclude >> the FSF . . . but i've never really thought of being explicit about >> "muttonhead," thought "totalitarian" and "imperialistic" have come >> up . . . As

Re: license clarification

1999-01-14 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> I've thought of license terms in the past that specifically exclude the > FSF . . . but i've never really thought of being explicit about > "muttonhead," thought "totalitarian" and "imperialistic" have come up . > . . I know it's soon Friday, but I want to clarify one thing: I will never ac

Re: slides (and general doc issue)

1999-01-14 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
[Whether to use ERT to fix the printed versino of the docs] > Compromise between the two. I say - ignore the printed version. It's impossible to fix the manual to be nice to A4 and US paper at the same time. Instead, try to think of ways that LyX could be more intelligent to fix this automatica

Re: license clarification

1999-01-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
john jabbered, > On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 11:11:37AM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > "2) There is no limitation on the license or nature of any software, > > source, binary, library, or other, that may be linked to LyX, or to > > which LyX may be linked. Particularly, clauses *** of t

Re: slides (and general doc issue)

1999-01-14 Thread John Weiss
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 09:04:15AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > New documentation is always good, but it will affect the need for some of > the linebreaks. So my question is this: should the docs be biased for > clean reading within LyX, or for clean printing on paper? As former LyX-Doc-Gran

Re: January issue of Linux Journal

1999-01-14 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> Please consider any other info about LyX on this page out-of-date; > I'll fix it as time permits." > > There. Painless to add. Can everyone do that by the 25th? The main problem is the main LyX site, which needs a revamp. I've started working on that on my own machine, and hope to finish bef

Re: disk space

1999-01-14 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> Are you/we still in search of a new home ? The Danish site sunsite.auc.dk offered to host us. They are already doing a mirror of the ftp-area, but there are still a few problems to sort out. I'm waiting for them to get back to me. So: I don't think we are looking for a new home. Greets, As

Re: slides

1999-01-14 Thread John Weiss
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 04:35:03PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > John, > > Unfortunately, things are not correct yet :( Your file is in fact > older than the latest revision of Extended.lyx from Mike... So I have > a question: can I just cut and paste the new section on slides in > place

Re: license clarification

1999-01-14 Thread John Weiss
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 03:15:21PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > btw, since my licenses are inactive to save $700/year in fees, my > suggestion isn't legal advice, etc. Okay, so we add another endnote with that as a disclaimer. "Crafted by a LyX developer who is an inactive lawyer [he

Re: Bug (pre7) hat on macro moves to subscript

1999-01-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Etienne" == Etienne Grossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Etienne> Hello, Etienne> ** Start lyx, create a new document, Etienne> ** Create a math-macro called "aa" wich is just a plain "a" >> M-x math-macro aa a Etienne> ** Create a display-math (M-m d), and do a \aa with a hat on E

Re: license clarification

1999-01-14 Thread John Weiss
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 11:11:37AM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > "2) There is no limitation on the license or nature of any software, > source, binary, library, or other, that may be linked to LyX, or to > which LyX may be linked. Particularly, clauses *** of the GPL are > rejected i

Re: PR

1999-01-14 Thread Roland Krause
Very good, a few suggestions On 14-Jan-99 Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > Public release of LyX version 1.0.0 > === > > What is LyX? > > > LyX is a free document processor providing a modern approach to writing > documents on your computer. Compared

Re: January issue of Linux Journal

1999-01-14 Thread John Weiss
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 03:09:43PM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > But what we need is somebody who is commited to the PR of LyX. Any > > volunteer? > > H, I suppose that would be me. If I'm acceptable to you developers. > Haven't done anything useful yet, really, beside some scripting stu

Letter class documentation [was Re: Lyx making me insane! Top margin for letterhead needed]

1999-01-14 Thread John Weiss
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 09:39:39PM -0500, Amir Karger wrote: > Someone (?) ought to take Richard's letter and turn it into an > example, which could be referenced, e.g., in UG or Extended (in some It should go in EG. I have some suggestions for reorganization of the EG [not major], but wanted to

Re: Install Problem with Xforms ... ctd.

1999-01-14 Thread Roland Krause
Hallo, ldconfig shows the shared libraries that the linker finds on your system. I just checked a Redhat 5.2 system and the libraries you listed belong to ncurses not to xforms. So I conclude that xforms is not properly installed on your system. If it was you should find the following librar

RE: disk space

1999-01-14 Thread Roland Krause
On 14-Jan-99 Amir Karger wrote: > I don't know whatever happened to this discussion, but I saw this on slashdot > today: "LinuxBox.com is providing free hosting for Open Source developers" > > -Amir Too bad, there was an announcement on freshmeat two days ago. Once it is on slashdot the Linux

Re: disk space

1999-01-14 Thread Mate Wierdl
There is an Open Source committee; I thought this is what you were treferring to. Apparently not. Mate

Re: disk space

1999-01-14 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:42:41AM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: >I don't know whatever happened to this discussion, but I saw this on >slashdot today: "LinuxBox.com is providing free hosting for Open Source >developers" > >-Amir > > Open Source has a policy what is considered ope

Re: disk space

1999-01-14 Thread Mate Wierdl
I don't know whatever happened to this discussion, but I saw this on slashdot today: "LinuxBox.com is providing free hosting for Open Source developers" -Amir Open Source has a policy what is considered open source. There could be a problem b/c of xforms. Mate

Re: Install Problem with Xforms ... ctd.

1999-01-14 Thread Mate Wierdl
Since you have RH 5.1, why not get the xforms rpm from ftp://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub Mate

disk space

1999-01-14 Thread Amir Karger
I don't know whatever happened to this discussion, but I saw this on slashdot today: "LinuxBox.com is providing free hosting for Open Source developers" -Amir

Re: Alt-right/left bug

1999-01-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Larry" == Larry S Marso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Larry> If you're using ERT, navigating the document with alt right Larry> skips to a position after, rather than before, the "\" in an Larry> ERT statement. That is: Larry>{\bfseries\small test} ^ to here ^ rather than to here This

Re: Patch for Find and Replace dialog

1999-01-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Daniel" == Daniel Naber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> Could you modify your patch according to those remarks? Daniel> It's not ready yet, I couldn't get this running, it just Daniel> doesn't display the number: minibuffer-> Set(LString(int(replace_cou

Re: PR

1999-01-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Martin" == Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> I think (and I REALLY do) it works the other way around. We're Martin> more credible by a small display of honesty. Aboslutely right. We don't plan to make maney on this (do we?), so we can afford to be honest and avoid pure P

Re: PR

1999-01-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Allan> Sorry, for being so quiet. I did actually get back on the Allan> evening of Satruday the 9th, committed my few gui-indep changes Allan> on Sunday or Monday and then decided to upgrade my linux Allan> installation --- which I'm still d

Re: Install Problem with Xforms ... ctd.

1999-01-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Fred" == Fred Brkich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Fred> Hi Peter Thank you for your help. I have had a look at the Fred> XForms home page, from where I got my copy of XForms for Linux. Fred> There seems to be only one appropriate tar file to download Fred> ... and I got it. Fred> When I u

Re: Install Problem with Xforms ... ctd.

1999-01-14 Thread Fred Brkich
Hi Peter Thank you for your help. I have had a look at the XForms home page, from where I got my copy of XForms for Linux. There seems to be only one appropriate tar file to download ... and I got it. When I untar it ... there is no dynamic .so library at all. Simply the .a file, which is what

Re: PR

1999-01-14 Thread Allan Rae
> Martin Vermeer wrote: > > Still it might be fun. But if Allan has something done already, > > we should use it. I don't (yet) have my ego invested in this ;-) Amir wrote this bit: > Right. If Allan isn't available I guess you get to do a bit more directing. > His latest message implied that he'

Re: lyxmacros in amsdef.inc

1999-01-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Garst> Well, in some circles I am known as a poet and others as a Garst> mathematician, and I found the comment "poetry ain't Garst> mathematics" a bit narrow. Indeed, I have several books on Garst> mathematics which include poetry, howev

Re: PR

1999-01-14 Thread Martin Vermeer
> Just one small comment: > > We have a stable OS/2 XFree port, and > a new Win NT port working to some extend > (requires an X server.) The OS/2 port should probably be mentioned. However, I have my doubts about NT. Shouldn't we wait for it to become a bit more usable? Judging by the web site,

Re: PR

1999-01-14 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Just one small comment: We have a stable OS/2 XFree port, and a new Win NT port working to some extend (requires an X server.) Greets, Asger

Re: PR

1999-01-14 Thread Martin Vermeer
Thanks Amir! This is the kind of feedback I need. [...MS Word ...] > Why tell them what we can't do? Good for a readme, maybe, but not for an > announce. I don't think anyone's about to delete their traditional word > processor the day they download LyX. I think (and I REALLY do) it works the

Bug (pre7) hat on macro moves to subscript

1999-01-14 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, ** Start lyx, create a new document, ** Create a math-macro called "aa" wich is just a plain "a" > M-x math-macro aa > a ** Create a display-math (M-m d), and do a \aa with a hat on it, and a subscripted "1" on its right : > \hat\aa_1 ** Then save this document, reload it, a

Re: Install Problem with Xforms ... ctd.

1999-01-14 Thread Fred Brkich
Hi, Thanks for the help. But the problem remains. I tried to run ldconfig as people suggested but it had no effect. After running /sbin/ldconfig -v | grep form I get: [root@rose xforms]# /sbin/ldconfig -v | grep form libform.so.3.0 => libform.so.1.9.9e libform.so.4 => libform.so

Re: Install Problem with Xforms

1999-01-14 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> But when I run ./configure in the lyx directory I get ... > > ** Can't find libforms or libxforms > > Obviously libforms.a is in the right place. And obviously > I have done the standard things to do the installation. > So I don't know what is wrong? I think that standard > things should

Re: Patch for Find and Replace dialog

1999-01-14 Thread Jochen Kuepper
On Mit, 13 Jan 1999 Daniel Naber wrote: >Another point I didn't yet think about: Replace all starts replacing at >cursor position. Is that okay or should it start at the top of the >document? IMHO you have to handle the whole document, the order doesn't matter to much though. >I also agree that