Re: LyX for Windows

1999-01-28 Thread David C. Brown N2RJT
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Steven van Dijk wrote: > Come to think of it, when LyX is released, will > anybody send email to the major Linux distributors? It might help to send a pre-announcement. Lots of people have been waiting for Linux 2.2.0, but since it recently arrived, they think they don't ne

Re: My latest :-)

1999-01-28 Thread mressler
One nit - please change "LyX Graphical Tutorial" to "LyX Graphical Tour" down toward the end of the release. John Weiss suggested this change to distinguish it from the real Tutorial; I agree with his suggestion. Thanks. Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED]

web page for Swedish translations

1999-01-28 Thread Joacim Persson
I've put it at http://home1.2.sbbs.se/pjp/lyx-sv.html All the current sv_*-files are there Joacim - With both feet on the ground, you won't get very far. -- Loesje

Can't build 1.1

1999-01-28 Thread Joacim Persson
src/include/Regexp.h won't compile (Linux, egcs) >From my /usr/include/regexp.h: /* POSIX says that must be included (by the caller) before . */ --- Regexp.h.oldFri Jan 29 02:45:46 1999 +++ Regexp.hFri Jan 29 02:46:07 1999 @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ // Some structure in regex.h declea

Re: Debian bug #32299 in LyX

1999-01-28 Thread David Starner
"Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" wrote: > > Hi! > > I noticed by coincidence that there is a "critical" > bug in the Debian package for LyX regarding the > copyright. > > The bug is number 32299. > > The question is whether the clarification of the > licensing question we have put on the web page is

License updated in cvs repository

1999-01-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Hi! I updated the COPYING file with the text from Rick. Also, I fixed the click policy problem that Fred reported a long time ago. Greets, Asger

Re: My latest :-)

1999-01-28 Thread Larry S. Marso
Yes. They're both teleportation stories. But in the original, the result was an immediate genetic melting, no "morphing" after the fact. Thank God Star Trek never did a "Fly" story about the transporter. Amazing, just the "two Kirks" episode. Compare that with every 3rd episode of the sequel s

Re: My latest :-)

1999-01-28 Thread Larry S. Marso
Great work. Congratulations. A few nits. Best regards -- Larry S. Marso [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 11:15:22PM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: > - > Public release of LyX version 1.0.0 > === > > LyX is an advanced open

Re: web site

1999-01-28 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> If there are large blocks of text (i.e., simple HTML) that need to be > written, I'm sure there will be a few fluent English writers happy to take > on the task, and then you would only have to debug the text, not write it > all. As I wrote some other place: please go ahead and do that. > Spea

Re: LyX for Chinese??

1999-01-28 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> Hi, I found LyX and guessed that would be the perfect idea > to get people using LaTeX instead of stupid MS-Word. > > I have been using LaTeX+CJK package for Chinese documents in LaTeX. > CJK did a great job and it is an add-on package which can work with > LaTeX2e. I know LyX can not let me ed

Re: LGT thoughts

1999-01-28 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> If everyone sees it, any recommended solution? One idea is to break it up > into 5 or so pages, that way only 15 thumbs will be loaded at a time vs. > 75. Another possibility is to have each image pop up a new browser window, > leaving the main window intact. Yuck. I guess I might be able to do

Re: 1.0.0-pl8: Crash with illegal instruction WITHOUT emergency :-(

1999-01-28 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> one minute ago, my LyX (1.0.0-pl8) crashed without emergency handling. > Fortunately I saved some minutes earlier and did only very few > changes. > Hope that helps, I'll save a copy of the document (10 pages, 6 > figures), I can send it if this is not enough info. I'm not sure whether you did

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Larry S. Marso
Yes, sorry LyX members. My email client sometimes encrypts messages when it's not appropriate. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth. Best regards -- Larry S. Marso [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 04:31:58PM -0500, Amir Karger wrote: > Your last message was PGP signed! > > -Amir

Re: web site

1999-01-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:16:28PM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > I sent the mail to the debain guy, because I noticed that > > the LyX problem was "holding back" Debian 1.3, because they > > judged it to be a "critical" bug. (Politics...) > Politics is right. Did any of them ever

Re: Debian bug #32299 in LyX

1999-01-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
asger added, >I iterated, > > I *really* think we need more than the web page says. Particularly, > > the sections of the body which we specifically disclaim. > > I believe the solution is a clarification that provides: > > 1) the legal reasons that we aren't GPL. > > 2) That the clarification

Re: web site

1999-01-28 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:16:28PM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > I sent the mail to the debain guy, because I noticed that > the LyX problem was "holding back" Debian 1.3, because they > judged it to be a "critical" bug. (Politics...) Politics is right. Did any of them ever try to con

Re: My latest :-)

1999-01-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
>Remember the Scifi movie about the scientist experimenting with >teleportation, that got mixed up with a fly? called, for some inexplicable reason, "The Fly" :) Which was a remake. I forget what he was messing with in the original (or was that also teleportation?) rick --

My latest :-)

1999-01-28 Thread Martin Vermeer
OK, let's call this final, bar something serious that HAS to be fixed. Remember the Scifi movie about the scientist experimenting with teleportation, that got mixed up with a fly? Well this version feels a bit like that. It's a mixed quantum state of my previous one and Larry Marso's reworking o

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Larry S. Marso
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Re: Debian bug #32299 in LyX

1999-01-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> I *really* think we need more than the web page says. Particularly, > the sections of the body which we specifically disclaim. > > I believe the solution is a clarification that provides: > > 1) the legal reasons that we aren't GPL. > 2) That the clarification is not a *change* in the license

Re: Debian bug #32299 in LyX

1999-01-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I *really* think we need more than the web page says. Particularly, the sections of the body which we specifically disclaim. This isn't a change in our license; we are not GPL to start with. And with debian's GPL interpretation (which i'll repeat, is a legal absurdity), debian cannot distri

Re: Instability in line spacing?

1999-01-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> I don't know whether this is particular to 1.0.0pre8, but I just replaced > a space with a hard space, and this caused a word to be pulled back from > the next line to the current one. I then went down to the next line, and > came back up by moving the cursor left; when I had moved a little way

Debian bug #32299 in LyX

1999-01-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Hi! I noticed by coincidence that there is a "critical" bug in the Debian package for LyX regarding the copyright. The bug is number 32299. The question is whether the clarification of the licensing question we have put on the web page is a change to the license or an attempt at a clarificati

Instability in line spacing?

1999-01-28 Thread Reuben Thomas
I don't know whether this is particular to 1.0.0pre8, but I just replaced a space with a hard space, and this caused a word to be pulled back from the next line to the current one. I then went down to the next line, and came back up by moving the cursor left; when I had moved a little way along th

collapsing grey ERT boxes

1999-01-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I noted a while ago that I couldn't print many mailmerge documents after saving and opening them. I just traced down why: Those grey boxes to hold ERT that I used don't seem to work right. I insert a box with \setcounter{page}{1} successfully. I now have a lyx document. But close and

Re: bug of SIGSEGV

1999-01-28 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, could you send more information concerning the bug ? Can you reproduce it? Also, could you send a whole stack trace (not only top of it). Cheers, Etienne

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> I'll just reregister my opinion that while open source is a great thing, > it's not what we're selling here. We've mentioned that LyX (and latex) are > open source. Linux et al. are doing just fine in the press and don't need > our PR help. "LyX runs on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and most proprieta

Re: Little Bug with German sz

1999-01-28 Thread Daniel Naber
Gebhard Thier wrote: > - the German SZ is displayed correctly but printed as "SS" Insert this into Layout -> LaTex Preamble: \usepackage{german} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} Regards Daniel Naber PS: www.suse.de offers a great database that covers 'bugs' like this. -- PGP Key fingerprint

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 12:32:38PM -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:24:06PM -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote: > > > LyX runs on standard Unix platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD > > and most proprietary Unix systems. > > Having taken another look, the above might be

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Larry S. Marso
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:24:06PM -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote: > LyX runs on standard Unix platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD > and most proprietary Unix systems. Having taken another look, the above might better read: Lyx runs on the free, open source Unix platforms Linux, FreeBSD

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Martin Vermeer
> > "Larry" == Larry S Marso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Larry> Er, these are comments *on* Martin's latest. Best regards -- > > Isn't it a (partial) rewrite of Martin's latest?? > > I beginning to be lost in all these versions... > > JMarc It *was* a comment on my latest brainchild,

bug of SIGSEGV

1999-01-28 Thread Chan-Su Yun
Hi, Thanks for your good softwate of LyX. But, I found a bug in LyX. The message from DDD debuger is follows, "Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x401e79bd in _IO_unbuffer_all () at genops.c:628 genops.c:628: No such file or directory." When I try to exit the LyX, I meet t

Re: spec file for 1.0.0

1999-01-28 Thread Mate Wierdl
OK, I'll put it in development/. Thanks for the files. BTW, I see that /usr/local is hardcoded in the spec file. Is it intentional? Isn't there a way to make spec files relocatable? You mean, if it is possible to make the rpm relocatable? I'll look into it. It also depends on the p

Re: languages

1999-01-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Amir> I know we're not thinking about 1.1 right now, with the deadline Amir> and all, but I notice that the 1.1 README wasn't updated when Amir> the 1.0 README was. So it still has all the old mailing list Amir> stuff, etc. It also says that

Re: languages

1999-01-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Amir> You're right. Why don't you add that and, if no one complains, Amir> check it in. Too late, I deleted your mail. I have to leave now, so if you send it again, I'll commit that. JMarc

Re: languages

1999-01-28 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 04:54:29PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Amir> I'm attaching a new README which contains the language support > Amir> stuff. (You may or may not like where I chose to put it). I also > Amir> added a paragra

Re: languages

1999-01-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Amir> I'm attaching a new README which contains the language support Amir> stuff. (You may or may not like where I chose to put it). I also Amir> added a paragraph at the end under "How can I participate in Amir> development" saying that if

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Larry" == Larry S Marso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Larry> Er, these are comments *on* Martin's latest. Best regards -- Isn't it a (partial) rewrite of Martin's latest?? I beginning to be lost in all these versions... JMarc

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Larry S. Marso
Er, these are comments *on* Martin's latest. Best regards -- Larry S. Marso [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 04:03:10PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > This looks good. I'd say I like it almost as much as Martin's > latest. > > JMarc >

Re: languages

1999-01-28 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 04:31:10PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Amir> Actually, though, there *is* a fr_menus.bind. Are you talking > Amir> about something different, JMarc? > > Yes. I mean the nice little underlined letters in

Re: languages

1999-01-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Amir> Actually, though, there *is* a fr_menus.bind. Are you talking Amir> about something different, JMarc? Yes. I mean the nice little underlined letters in menus and popups are not done. JMarc

Re: languages

1999-01-28 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 10:31:38AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Amir> I hope people will respond, since we need to decide this in the > Amir> next few days. We *could* make this much shorter by not having > Amir> one line per lan

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Larry" == Larry S Marso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Larry> I worked over the language. Hope this is helpful. Hi Larry, This looks good. I'd say I like it almost as much as Martin's latest. JMarc

Re: revtex.lyx

1999-01-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Amir> On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:26:08AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Amir> wrote: >> > "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Amir> I'm enclosing a new version of templatex/revtex.lyx. Comments Amir> welcome. If noone comm

oops!

1999-01-28 Thread Amir Karger
forgot the file! #This file was created by Tue Jan 26 17:48:36 1999 #LyX 1.0 (C) 1995-1998 Matthias Ettrich and the LyX Team \lyxformat 2.15 \textclass revtex \options aps,manuscript \layout Title Insert your Title Here \layout Author Author1 \begin_float footnote \layout Standard Author t

Re: revtex.lyx

1999-01-28 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:26:08AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Amir> I'm enclosing a new version of templatex/revtex.lyx. Comments > Amir> welcome. If noone comments, I'll just check it in in a couple of > Amir> days. (ooh! a th

what am i forgetting on cvs make?

1999-01-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Having finally got around to trying to make lyx again (after being bit by the beyond char 0 loop), I'm having those same cvs troubles. I ran automake, autoconf, and autoheader (after finding that my ill-advised update to debian frozen had removed some of these and assorted other useful things

Re: spec file for 1.0.0

1999-01-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Mate" == Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mate> Hope you are not asking me. There was a discussion about Mate> perhaps putting a lyx.spec file in the distribution---so I made Mate> one. You can do with it whatever you want---can leave it out Mate> too. OK, I'll put it in developm

pl8: bug in math-mode with math-macros

1999-01-28 Thread Fred Hucht
Hi LyXers, this bug is new in 1.0.0-pl8, i.e. it wasn't in 1.0.0-pl2, my last version: 1) define a math-marco with one argument, say "<#1>". 2) Enter math-mode, insert this macro and put a char in, say 'a', you get || (The | symbolize the math-mode margin) 3) Leave math-mode with ESC 4) Use

Re: spec file for 1.0.0

1999-01-28 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:04:25AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Mate" == Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mate> I have made a spec file for 1.0.0. My next two messages are: > Mate> lyx.spec > > Mate> lyx.rpm.README > > Where shall I put that? In development/? Hope y

Re: New Code for XDVI and eps rendering

1999-01-28 Thread Fred Hucht
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: JML> > "Richard" == Richard Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JML> Richard> Since my last complaint I've written some code and tested Richard> it. I've found that it works correctly. Please test it and Richard> include the code in future d

Little Bug with German sz

1999-01-28 Thread Gebhard Thier
Hi, I discovered a little oddity in version 1.0.0pre8 (running SuSE Linux 6.0): - document is set to German - keyboard is set to German - all German Umlaute are displayed correctly and are printed correctly - the German SZ is displayed correctly but printed as "SS" Please let me know if you

Re: spec file for 1.0.0

1999-01-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Mate" == Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mate> I have made a spec file for 1.0.0. My next two messages are: Mate> lyx.spec Mate> lyx.rpm.README Where shall I put that? In development/? JMarc

Re: Three pre-versions of PR doc

1999-01-28 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I was a bit disappointed, at the time the message about SciWord was > sent to the list, to see that you did not show more interest for > it. So I just stored it, waiting for the right moment :) At that time I was rather busy with things I left t