Re: Crash loading 0.12 documents

1999-02-03 Thread Bob McElrath
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Garst R. Reese wrote: > Bob McElrath wrote: > > > > Lyx 1.0.0 (and all pre versions that I've tried) crash when I try to load > > some documents created with 0.12. Here's the backtrace: > > > Attached is the document that caused this crash. This is on a: > > (0) uname -a

Re: Crash loading 0.12 documents

1999-02-03 Thread Garst R. Reese
Mate Wierdl wrote: > > Well his machine is not intel. Hey, I can read too. Just trying to narrow the problem a bit.

Re: Crash loading 0.12 documents

1999-02-03 Thread Mate Wierdl
Well his machine is not intel. Mate Bob McElrath wrote: > > Lyx 1.0.0 (and all pre versions that I've tried) crash when I try to load > some documents created with 0.12. Here's the backtrace: > Attached is the document that caused this crash. This is on a: > (0) uname

Re: Crash loading 0.12 documents

1999-02-03 Thread Garst R. Reese
Bob McElrath wrote: > > Lyx 1.0.0 (and all pre versions that I've tried) crash when I try to load > some documents created with 0.12. Here's the backtrace: > Attached is the document that caused this crash. This is on a: > (0) uname -a > Linux draal.physics.wisc.edu 2.2.1-ac1 #18 Wed Feb 3 11

list owner on webpage

1999-02-03 Thread lyx
Though I wanted to protect myself a bit, perhaps it is not a bad idea to put the list owners' addresses on the webpage, www.lyx.org. (As we saw, there are extreme cases when people's envelope sender address is such that the sender does not receive mail there. As a consequence, they would never g

Crash loading 0.12 documents

1999-02-03 Thread Bob McElrath
Lyx 1.0.0 (and all pre versions that I've tried) crash when I try to load some documents created with 0.12. Here's the backtrace: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x1200fa5b4 in MathParInset::Metrics (this=0x12039f7b0) at math_draw.C:172 172 p->SetStyle(size

Re: freshmeat has wrong text

1999-02-03 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Larry S. Marso wrote: > Didn't Freshmeat get the PR? Why are they using the two year old text from > the old web page? They have an application index with exactly that text in it. Whenever an announcement arrives they tend to reuse that text and add an extra note if required

Re: Lyx don't work properly with xforms-0.88.1-1

1999-02-03 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Pedro Kroger wrote: > > Hi, > > How reported I had some problems with export/print DVI/PS. > After hard hacking in the lyxrc and lyxrc.defaults (without success) I > found the problem ;-) > I was using the xforms-0.88.1-1 and change to the 0.88-2 and everything > works ! > I

Table with linebreaks fails

1999-02-03 Thread Dag Nygren
Hi, and thanks for Lyx. I just found a bug that is fairly reproducable and will generate a Latex error. 1. Create a table, default 5x5 is OK 2. Enable linebreaks in 1,2 (Upmost row) 3. Enter 1 2 in this cell 4. Tie together 2,1 and 2,2 to a multicolumn cell and enter something 5. Try to view t

[hedemark@raleigh.ibm.com: LyX 1.0.0 - bad URL]

1999-02-03 Thread Larry S. Marso
Warning Could not process message with given Content-Type: multipart/encrypted; boundary=wtjvnLv0o8UUzur2;protocol="application/pgp-encrypted"

Re: lyx binaries for HP?

1999-02-03 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
*Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes: | || "Peter" == Peter Suetterlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter| g++ -c -g -O2 -fpcc-struct-return -I. -I../../src Peter| -I../../images \ -I/usr/X11R6/include ../../src/spellchecker.C Peter| ../../src/spellchecker.C: In function `void Peter| create_ispell_pip

misbehaving pictures

1999-02-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Warning Could not process message with given Content-Type: multipart/mixed ;boundary="==_Exmh_-6295571270"

RE: Where's Martin?

1999-02-03 Thread Roland Krause
Larry, On 03-Feb-99 Larry S. Marso wrote: > I thought Martin was shepparding the PR. > He's probably already sleeping - Finland is 9 hours ahead I guess... > Somehow we have Freshmeat publishing the wrong text and no one at Slashdot > paying attention. > I did request a change on Freshmeat

Re: Where's Martin?

1999-02-03 Thread Paul Seelig
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Larry S. Marso wrote: > I thought Martin was shepparding the PR. > And he seems to be pretty good at it. Even posted it to debian-devel! :-) > Somehow we have Freshmeat publishing the wrong text and no one at Slashdot > paying attention. > /. is actually pretty lame now

Re: mailinglists on webpage

1999-02-03 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 04:03:59PM -0500, Rich Fields at 407.356.5842 wrote: > > I'm glad you said this. I'd never been there before and was > rather appalled when I looked at /. for the first > time a few minutes ago. I wouldn't worry about lack of > coverage from this place... Probably not t

Re: mailinglists on webpage

1999-02-03 Thread Roland Krause
Unfortunately it is regarded __the__ most powerfule ezine of the Linux community. It's doing more damage these days then anything... Ignoring is the only choice :-) Roland On 03-Feb-99 Rich Fields at 407.356.5842 wrote: > Roland Krause wrote >> Yes, as Tex for dummies, I'd rather not seen it th

Where's Martin?

1999-02-03 Thread Larry S. Marso
I thought Martin was shepparding the PR. Somehow we have Freshmeat publishing the wrong text and no one at Slashdot paying attention. Wasn't there any effort to ***pre-contact*** these two primary news outlets for the Linux community? Didn't they know it was coming? Hasn't there been a coupl

Re: mailinglists on webpage

1999-02-03 Thread Rich Fields at 407.356.5842
Roland Krause wrote > Yes, as Tex for dummies, I'd rather not seen it there at all. > To be honest, I am getting pretty fed up with that psycho-kiddie website. > It was really good in the very beginning, but now its just your average > 90/10 web hangout. I'm glad you said this. I'd never been th

Re: mailinglists on webpage

1999-02-03 Thread Roland Krause
Wehell, On 03-Feb-99 Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > roland rolled, > >> That's what I was saying, >> if you want the /. dudes attention you'll have to go over the license. >> But as Rick is the only one who has a clue about that, I would ask him. >> He's the guy who they are going to flame

Re: Slashdot won't announce?

1999-02-03 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 03:38:55PM -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote: > Our failure to promote LyX as a first-rate *word processor* has led the > Slashdot management to yawn. "Just that LaTeX front-end again. Old news". > You may be right, as they did have a link for the new open source word process

Slashdot won't announce?

1999-02-03 Thread Larry S. Marso
Our failure to promote LyX as a first-rate *word processor* has led the Slashdot management to yawn. "Just that LaTeX front-end again. Old news". Best regards -- Larry S. Marso [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mailinglists on webpage

1999-02-03 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 02:32:49PM -0600, Roland Krause wrote: > That's what I was saying, > if you want the /. dudes attention you'll have to go over the license. > But as Rick is the only one who has a clue about that, I would ask him. > He's the guy who they are going to flame the living crap

Re: mailinglists on webpage

1999-02-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
roland rolled, > That's what I was saying, > if you want the /. dudes attention you'll have to go over the license. > But as Rick is the only one who has a clue about that, I would ask him. > He's the guy who they are going to flame the living crap out of... They're not even in my league :) Y

Re: mailinglists on webpage

1999-02-03 Thread Roland Krause
That's what I was saying, if you want the /. dudes attention you'll have to go over the license. But as Rick is the only one who has a clue about that, I would ask him. He's the guy who they are going to flame the living crap out of... Roland On 03-Feb-99 Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: >> "ja

freshmeat

1999-02-03 Thread Amir Karger
re larry's message: I suspect they're using the ANNOUNCE, which has unfortunately still got the old text. Sorry! We ought to change it and the README before 1.0.1, but it's too late for that now. Well, at least the site's back up. -Amir

freshmeat has wrong text

1999-02-03 Thread Larry S. Marso
Didn't Freshmeat get the PR? Why are they using the two year old text from the old web page? Best regards -- Larry S. Marso [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Math causes crash on linux/alpha

1999-02-03 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Hi, LyX 1.0.0 crashes when I try to use math. The following backtrace is from a crash when I open a new file, click on "Math mode", and click on "Square root". That is absolutely all I did. Similar things happen every time an attempt is made to use math. My machine is a DEC Alpha personal workst

is this getting tedious for anyone else? (aka getit.html update)

1999-02-03 Thread Amir Karger
Well, since I've updated all of the other pages... I did very little with this. Just put in a link for LGT, removed the patchtracker, fixed the mailing lists, and made a couple link changes. JMarc had suggested splitting this page into two pages. I can't decide if I like that idea or not. It doe

Re: freshmeat

1999-02-03 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > For some reason netscape can't find freshmeat.net. Strangely, running lynx > on my computer in utah or on nazgul *also* can't find it. What's going on? RedHat is moving servers around. Freshmeat is RedHat-hosted. Tim. */

Re: error while compiling lyx-1.0.0

1999-02-03 Thread Richard Ketchersid
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Garst R. Reese wrote: GR> Abdelrazak YOUNES wrote: GR> > GR> > Hi, GR> > GR> > When I try to compile lyx-1.0.0. I get the following error : GR> > GR> > > g++ -c -g -I. -I. -I../images -I/usr/X11R6/include figinset.C GR> > figinset.C: In function `void sigchldchecker(pid_t,

pl8: Problem with multipart docs and latex batchmode

1999-02-03 Thread Fred Hucht
Hi LyXers, I have the following problem which is presumably also in 1.0.0: I have "\use_tempdir false" in my lyxrc. When I first compile the master doc of a multipart suite, all OK. The child doc latex files are written without preamble and without \batchmode(!). When I then compile a child do

Re: 1.0.0 rpm

1999-02-03 Thread lyx
On 3 Feb 1999, Harald Wagener wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Is this you: > > > > Feb 3 12:26:35 moni ftpd[27906]: ANONYMOUS FTP LOGIN FROM > > soyuz.informatik.uni-bremen.de [134.102.204.211], >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Feb 3 12:26:42 moni ftpd[27906]: FTP ses

Re: new home page

1999-02-03 Thread Larry S. Marso
Looks very good. I'd say put it up ASAP. Best regards -- Larry S. Marso [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 12:04:18PM -0500, Amir Karger wrote: > OK, I've created a new version of the home page. > > I started with Larry's version of Martin's PR paragraphs. I took the first > paragrap

freshmeat

1999-02-03 Thread Amir Karger
I rest my case. http://linuxtoday.com/stories/2797.html ("GNOME, Freshmeat, Red Hat: All websites malfunctional") Sigh. This *would* have to happen the day we release. Well, I guess every day is release day for somebody; that's why they have freshmeat. -Amir

Re: Advertise the RPMs!

1999-02-03 Thread Mate Wierdl
In that case the rpm package should perhaps be mirrored on the main ftp site. I think Mate Wierdl doesn't fancy the idea of his personal workplace PC becoming a big time server. Well, that is probably true: I personally would not mind, but I think our dept's net

Re: freshmeat

1999-02-03 Thread Mate Wierdl
> I have this problem periodically. Maybe when they get too many hits? I don't buy it. When that happens you might get a "server may be down or unreachable. Try again later." Also, nslookup (even though I don't *really* know what it is) finds www.lyx.org but not www.freshmeat.n

Re: Advertise the RPMs!

1999-02-03 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 10:37:20AM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: > >In that case the rpm package should perhaps be mirrored on the main ftp site. >I think Mate Wierdl doesn't fancy the idea of his personal workplace >PC becoming a big time server. > > Well, that is probably true: I p

new home page

1999-02-03 Thread Amir Karger
OK, I've created a new version of the home page. I started with Larry's version of Martin's PR paragraphs. I took the first paragraph and put it in "What is LyX?". Then I added a couple sentences, and moved the LGT back to the top of the page. I think the intro paragraphs are still short enough t

Re: HELP! someone put 1.0.0 in!

1999-02-03 Thread Mate Wierdl
In fact I don't even get in! I do get into bouddha.via.ecp.fr, (same machine at Ecole Centrale de Paris) but -- yes, no 1.0.0 directory yet. 0.10.7 and 0.12.0 are there allright. If you use command line ftp, all is well: # ftp ftp.lyx.org Connected to ftp.lyx.org. 220 bouddha

and another

1999-02-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I took about a pages worth from a long file, pasted it into a new file, and one of the multiline equations collapsed on paste (not at either end). I tried to move the cursor into it, and Starting program: /usr/src/lyx-1_0_x/src/lyx Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x810

caught a latex/mathed crash

1999-02-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I think this is similar to some i've had before, maybe even the one i'm looking for. Create a new file, then M-m d, C-Enter to get a two line equation. Put something in every entry. (a,b,c,d,e,f) Return to the middle cell of the second row, delete the contents. type \geq The latex isn't pro

Re: Advertise the RPMs!

1999-02-03 Thread Mate Wierdl
In that case the rpm package should perhaps be mirrored on the main ftp site. I think Mate Wierdl doesn't fancy the idea of his personal workplace PC becoming a big time server. Well, that is probably true: I personally would not mind, but I think our dept's network traffic might in

Re: freshmeat

1999-02-03 Thread José Abílio de Oliveira Matos
Amir Karger wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 04:15:49PM +, Matthew Kirkwood wrote: [...] > > tx.us.mirrors.freshmeat.net is often more reliable than the main site > > hosted at RedHat. > > > > Make of that what you will... :) > > > > Matthew. > > > > And yet neither tx.us.mirrors nor the d

Re: freshmeat

1999-02-03 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 04:15:49PM +, Matthew Kirkwood wrote: > On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > > > > I have this problem periodically. Maybe when they get too many hits? > > > > I don't buy it. When that happens you might get a "server may be down or > > unreachable. Try again late

Re: usenet?

1999-02-03 Thread David L. Johnson
---Reply to mail from Joacim Persson about usenet? > > Has the release been announced on any newsgroup? c.o.l.a? comp.text.tex? > Maybe it just hasn't propagated here yet? I haven't seen it yet. I had actually posted those announcements in the past, but others have taken over publicity now (or

Re: freshmeat

1999-02-03 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > > I have this problem periodically. Maybe when they get too many hits? > > I don't buy it. When that happens you might get a "server may be down or > unreachable. Try again later." Also, nslookup (even though I don't > *really* know what it is) finds www.

Re: freshmeat

1999-02-03 Thread Jochen Kuepper
On Mit, 03 Feb 1999 Amir Karger wrote: >For some reason netscape can't find freshmeat.net. Strangely, running lynx >on my computer in utah or on nazgul *also* can't find it. What's going on? I actually use http://de.eu.mirrors.freshmeat.net/ from the US that might not be a good idea, though :-

Re: freshmeat

1999-02-03 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 12:10:04PM -0400, Garst R. Reese wrote: > I have this problem periodically. Maybe when they get too many hits? I don't buy it. When that happens you might get a "server may be down or unreachable. Try again later." Also, nslookup (even though I don't *really* know what it

Re: License

1999-02-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
asger added, > > Since I understand that a bug in the Insert->URL command is likely to mean > > an update sooner rather than later, perhaps you could take the opportunity > > to sort out the COPYING problem too. Personally, I'd much rather that LyX > > was simply released under the GPL, but if

Re: freshmeat

1999-02-03 Thread Garst R. Reese
Amir Karger wrote: > > For some reason netscape can't find freshmeat.net. Strangely, running lynx > on my computer in utah or on nazgul *also* can't find it. What's going on? > > -Amir I have this problem periodically. Maybe when they get too many hits?

freshmeat

1999-02-03 Thread Amir Karger
For some reason netscape can't find freshmeat.net. Strangely, running lynx on my computer in utah or on nazgul *also* can't find it. What's going on? -Amir

freshmeat

1999-02-03 Thread Jochen Kuepper
Here we go :-) LyX-1.0.0 is right on top of freshmeat at this time. Greetings, Jochen --- Jochen K"upper Heinrich-Heine-Universit"at D"usseldorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institut f"ur Physikalische Chemie I Universit"atsstr.

Re: error while compiling lyx-1.0.0

1999-02-03 Thread Garst R. Reese
Abdelrazak YOUNES wrote: > > Hi, > > When I try to compile lyx-1.0.0. I get the following error : > > > g++ -c -g -I. -I. -I../images -I/usr/X11R6/include figinset.C > figinset.C: In function `void sigchldchecker(pid_t, int *)': > figinset.C:843: `status' undeclared (first use this function) >

Re: HELP! someone put 1.0.0 in!

1999-02-03 Thread José Abílio de Oliveira Matos
Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > Precompiled binaries for various platforms are available at: > > > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.0.0/ > > > > but the directory doesn't exist: > > > > ERROR > > In fact I don't even get in! > > I do get into bouddha.via.ecp.fr, (same machine at Ecole Central

HELP! someone put 1.0.0 in!

1999-02-03 Thread Martin Vermeer
> Precompiled binaries for various platforms are available at: > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.0.0/ > > but the directory doesn't exist: > > ERROR In fact I don't even get in! I do get into bouddha.via.ecp.fr, (same machine at Ecole Centrale de Paris) but -- yes, no 1.0.0 directory ye

Re: Advertise the RPMs!

1999-02-03 Thread Martin Vermeer
> You should advertise the availability of RPMs on the main LyX page, it'd > encourage people to download and install it who don't fancy compiling it! In that case the rpm package should perhaps be mirrored on the main ftp site. I think Mate Wierdl doesn't fancy the idea of his personal workplac

error while compiling lyx-1.0.0

1999-02-03 Thread Abdelrazak YOUNES
Hi, When I try to compile lyx-1.0.0. I get the following error : > g++ -c -g -I. -I. -I../images -I/usr/X11R6/include figinset.C figinset.C: In function `void sigchldchecker(pid_t, int *)': figinset.C:843: `status' undeclared (first use this function) figinset.C:843: (Each undeclared identifier

usenet?

1999-02-03 Thread Joacim Persson
Has the release been announced on any newsgroup? c.o.l.a? comp.text.tex? Maybe it just hasn't propagated here yet? I've just sent one to se.dator.sys.unix (Swedish-speaking unix-related newsgroup) anyway. Joacim - All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

jeff covey: Re: Public release of LyX version 1.0.0

1999-02-03 Thread Mate Wierdl
--- Forwarded Message Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-Date: Wed Feb 03 12:42:49 1999 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 28723 invoked from network); 3 Feb 1999 12:42:48 - Received: from plaything.smart.net ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by wi

Re: Public release of LyX version 1.0.0

1999-02-03 Thread Mate Wierdl
Could the lyx-announce list be made a moderated list? Replies to announcements have come through several times now... I am no decision maker here. Perhaps bouncing messages with Re: in the subject would do a satisfying job. Or I can just simply give a list of addresses that can post.

[durr@eeyore.cs.huji.ac.il: Re: Public release of LyX version 1.0.0]

1999-02-03 Thread Mate Wierdl
- Forwarded message from Christoph Durr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:38:38 +0200 (IST) From: Christoph Durr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Public release of LyX version 1.0.0 In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Correction to documentation file and lyxdoc address problem

1999-02-03 Thread Garst R. Reese
Reuben Thomas wrote: > > I sent the message below to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it was returned with "mail > delivery failed". If the address is wrong it should be corrected urgently > in the release documentation to avoid putting people off contributing! > > -- > > I've made a few small corrections

Lyx don't work properly with xforms-0.88.1-1

1999-02-03 Thread Pedro Kroger
Hi, How reported I had some problems with export/print DVI/PS. After hard hacking in the lyxrc and lyxrc.defaults (without success) I found the problem ;-) I was using the xforms-0.88.1-1 and change to the 0.88-2 and everything works ! I don't know if this problem occurs with everybody that uses

Lyx1.0.0 crashes :-(

1999-02-03 Thread Steven van Dijk
Hi, I wanted to update my binary for (Cygwin, WinNT) for the recent release, but I get an unexpected crash when I try to run the program. The output is thus: 231> lyx . . Initializing LyXFunc Initializing LyXView...done BufferView::redraw()

Correction to documentation file and lyxdoc address problem

1999-02-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
I sent the message below to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it was returned with "mail delivery failed". If the address is wrong it should be corrected urgently in the release documentation to avoid putting people off contributing! -- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rrt1001/ | maxim, n. wisdom for fools D

SGI inst image

1999-02-03 Thread Steve Holden
I thought it might be worth putting together an inst image for the SGI, so people don't have to compile for themselves, and so lyx goes into the list of installed packages. I just need to check - is the only post install command to run configure in the library directory to find out which latex stu

Advertise the RPMs!

1999-02-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
You should advertise the availability of RPMs on the main LyX page, it'd encourage people to download and install it who don't fancy compiling it! -- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rrt1001/ | maxim, n. wisdom for fools

Re: inseturl.C

1999-02-03 Thread Joacim Persson
> I do get problem with screen updates though (an urlinset at the far right > ends outside the margin) False alarm, sort of. I was just using a long line with no spaces in it; all the other insetcommand-insets has the same effect. > --- inseturl.C.old Wed Feb 3 13:15:02 1999 > +++ insetur

inseturl.C

1999-02-03 Thread Joacim Persson
The problem seems to be that the form is freed in the callback, but libforms tries to reach it anyway (just after the return from the callback). Maybe it's because the callback is installed for the Close-button, and not for the entire form. I have a version that *works* now (i.e. doesn't crash o

Re: Compiler warnings

1999-02-03 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Robert Harley wrote: > g++ -c -g -O2 -I. -I. -I../images -I/usr/X11R6/include FileInfo.C > FileInfo.C: In method `time_t & FileInfo::getModificationTime()': > FileInfo.C:287: warning: initializing non-const `time_t &' with `long unsigned int' >will use a temporary > FileIn

Re: License

1999-02-03 Thread David S de Lis
Now that we talk about the license... someone (Amir?) commented that all code has copyright 98... there are actually pieces from 96... I think a sed 's///' is inorder in here... Laters, D@

Re: LyX for Windows

1999-02-03 Thread Steven van Dijk
At 12:46 PM 1/27/99 +0100, you wrote: >Steven> Several people reported problems (mostly running configure) >Steven> which I have tried to solve. Please try again. Unfortunately, >Please tell me what you had to do. The configure scripts are fine. The problems arise due to the fact that sh not al

Re: License

1999-02-03 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> 1. The COPYING file is now *extremely* confusing. "Patching" the GNU > license means that LyX is now distributed under an unfamiliar license, and > one of dubious value. The license as such is not patched. We clarify how we read it, but did not change it. Yes, the file is patched, but we are

DE: Webpage, LGT

1999-02-03 Thread Peter Suetterlin
Hi all! this is just to let you know that I have posted the (translated) announcement of LyX 1.0.0 to some relevant german Newsgroups. I have updated my german LyX-webpage (www.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~pit/LyX), all links and the information on the mailing lists should be correct. Furthermmore I sham

License

1999-02-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
There's a problem here in version 1.0.0. Two main problems in fact: 1. The COPYING file is now *extremely* confusing. "Patching" the GNU license means that LyX is now distributed under an unfamiliar license, and one of dubious value. 2. The "Copyright and Warranty" box in the program just says t

Re: mailinglists on webpage

1999-02-03 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> "ja wrote in to say that LyX, TeX a frontend for dummies has officially hit > v1.0". > > Thanks folks :-( With such friends, who needs to worry about the license? Well, at least the linuxtoday.com site posted the press release. Let's hope LWN, freshmeat and the others will make a more proper

Compiler warnings

1999-02-03 Thread Robert Harley
I built Lyx 1.0.0 on a Alpha running RedHat Linux 4.2 + updates. I compiled with g++ from the egcs 1.1.1 distribution. The following warnings were a little worrying: -- g++ -c -g -O2 -I. -I. -I../images -I/usr/X11R6/inc

announce on the user list

1999-02-03 Thread Mate Wierdl
I sent the announcement to the announce and devel list, but I was not sure I should do it to the user list (Martin did not do the devel list either, but I took the liberty). Mate

Public release of LyX version 1.0.0

1999-02-03 Thread Mate Wierdl
Public release of LyX version 1.0.0 === LyX is an advanced open source document processor running on many Unix platforms. It is called a "document processor", because unlike standard word processors, LyX encourages an approach to writing based on the structure o

Re: mailinglists on webpage

1999-02-03 Thread Mate Wierdl
> Also, list problems usually are due to misconfigured mailers, and so > we get a chance to fix them. you can be very sure that I did indeed follow the specified instructions as given. And that I received no response from the subscription daemon whatsoever. Yes, I just subscr

Re: the dreaded license could be good for something...

1999-02-03 Thread John Weiss
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 03:33:31PM -0600, Roland Krause wrote: > Devys, Rick, > I have read through the LyX license again. > If you and the other developers are up for some real big publicity, > here is a proposal what to do in order to get a flamewar on slashdot > started. > > Someone post th

Re: release

1999-02-03 Thread Mate Wierdl
> I thought the release will be Feb 1... Did the announce list fail? > > Mate Yes unfortunately. I forgot that I have no privileges to the announce list. Would you please put the message from http://www.netby.net/Oest/Europa-Alle/vermeer/LyX-PR.txt there? You ju

Re: mailinglists on webpage

1999-02-03 Thread Martin Vermeer
In slashdot quickies: "ja wrote in to say that LyX, TeX a frontend for dummies has officially hit v1.0". Thanks folks :-( With such friends, who needs to worry about the license? Martin

Re: mailinglists on webpage

1999-02-03 Thread John Weiss
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 09:49:01PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: >ps the good news is that regardless of my annoying response, Mate can >probably just make the change for you. > > True, but it would be good if people would figure out how to help > themselves, otherwise I would end up manually

Re: "not" end of period sentance

1999-02-03 Thread John Weiss
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 04:01:01PM +0100, Arnd Hanses wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:03:24 -0500, John Weiss wrote: > > >FIFTH: > >International considerations would be left unaffected. Our > >non-American collegues already have to specify "french spacing" or > >the like to shut off

Re: "not" end of period sentance

1999-02-03 Thread John Weiss
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 05:28:14PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Note that the correct solution for "Mr." is "~" > > So: "Mr.~Lars Gullik Bjonnes" Yes, I know. Same with "i.~e.\ ". But I was talking about *simple* "." conversion. Recognizing that an abbreviation dot should be followed