Re: widow/orphan?

1999-02-10 Thread David C. Brown N2RJT
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Larry S. Marso wrote: > Was it a paragraph or a bullet point? Definitely a paragraph. He was using default settings except 12 point font. > On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 10:12:22PM -0500, David C. Brown N2RJT wrote: > > My son was doing an article for school with LyX 1.0. When

Re: ReLyX error : Can't locate object method "exact_print"

1999-02-10 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > I'm cc'ing the list again because this error is bizzarre. Unfortunately, > there don't seem to be too many (non-lurking) Perl experts on this list (or > I never would have been picked to write reLyX :) but maybe someone has a > clue. [...] > If anyone els

Re: writing letters with LaTeX

1999-02-10 Thread Joacim Persson
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Ralf Mueller wrote: > Hello developers, > > I am author of tk_Brief which is a GUI written in Tcl/Tk for easily > writing letters with LaTeX using the g-brief style. > > As I am a German writer I do not know which package is usually used to > write (commercial) letters in En

Re: easy $100 for nazgul? ;)

1999-02-10 Thread Joacim Persson
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 11:34:15AM -0500, David L. Johnson wrote: > > ---Reply to mail from Joacim Persson about easy $100 for nazgul? ;) > > > > > > > > I just had a look at http://visar.csustan.edu/bazaar/, someone offers $100 > > > for a Hebrew capab

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-10 Thread johnston
> >I can understand that. But do you think there will still be a > >window-manager-independent version of Lyx like there is today? > > What do you mean - I know several people using _KLyX_ on fvwm2 :-) I now understand that is possible. Thanks. Scott Johnston

Re: table patch

1999-02-10 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On 10 Feb 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > AAS> Joacim is right, Juergen rewrote and moved the table stuff to > AAS> his table inset already. > > Yes, but it has only been moved, not rewritten. It seems that you forget that an entirely new *text* inset was wrote to support it. That's, IMD

Find and replace problem

1999-02-10 Thread Reuben Thomas
If I enter "priorit" to find, and then find an instance so that it is highlighted, then change the find entry to "priorities", it will not be found when the only occurrence of "priorities" in the document is the same as the occurrence of "priorit" that has just been highlighted. Whether I click ba

Re: Splash document

1999-02-10 Thread Daniel Naber
Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > Daniel, could you implement this and maybe could write up a very short Welcome > document? This document should reside in the "examples" directory. People on > this list would soon read it and improve it, so just have a go at it. Okay, here it is. The new beginni

Re: Doubclick; X Copy+Paste

1999-02-10 Thread Daniel Naber
Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > change this. Try "xev" and see if there is an appropriately discriminated It only tells me about button press and release, not about doubleclicks and such. My favourite editor (nedit) manually checks for a doubleclick using the time since the last click (I just l

latexconf

1999-02-10 Thread Amir Karger
http://visar.csustan.edu/bazaar/bazaar_list.html In addition to the hebrew word processor, there's something that looks like (a piece of) what Martin was requesting for LaTeX. And apparently someone's working on it. -Amir

Re: widow/orphan?

1999-02-10 Thread John Weiss
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 09:58:48AM -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote: > If this is true, can you please comment for our readers on what LyX does > when you activate the following button? > > Layout->Paragraph Vertical Spaces->Keep Why, it keeps whatever vertical spacings you've set when you start the

Re: bug "Include File"/Latex generation

1999-02-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> Judicael Courant writes: JC> Hi, JC> I have a document test that does an "include" of a document JC> test2 which itself includes test3. When I want to JC> visualize/update the DVI or postscript, lyx forgets to convert C JC> to latex, so that Latex fails to find B. This is a probl

Re: Remote CVS of the devel tree... D'OH!

1999-02-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> John Weiss writes: JW> Sorry... I spoke too soon. Seems I needed "cvs checkout JW> lyx/src/" [what I was trying lacked the final '/']. JW> I had this problem due to our goofy use of CVS at work; some of JW> the senior software engineers are too damned lazy to type, so JW> the repo

Re: Splash document

1999-02-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> John Weiss writes: JW> I said I felt Intro.lyx needed some work. I also said, however, JW> that Intro.lyx wouldn't work as the opening splash document. Why can't we have some shourt messages pointing the user where to get help or more information in the splash screen? In the way that ema

Re: Allow Lyx to find itself if symlinked.

1999-02-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> Arnd Hanses writes: AH> What about rewrite for AH> system () (ANSI-C90) How? We want to get a string with the real name of the executable. Not run it. Lgb

Re: table patch

1999-02-10 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> Alejandro Aguilar Sierra writes: AAS> On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Joacim Persson wrote: >> On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> >> > BTW, you shold probably keep your patch and the comments you >> just made > so that we can use them when Juergen comes back. I'm >> sure tho

Re: Allow Lyx to find itself if symlinked.

1999-02-10 Thread Arnd Hanses
On 09 Feb 1999 16:22:05 +0100, Lars Gullik Bj°nnes wrote: > >> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes: > >[...] > JL> Another concern: how portable is readlink()? Is it commonly > JL> supported on all unices? What to do about OS/2? > >It seems to not be posix. > >I can't find out if readpath is posix, if

Re: ReLyX error : Can't locate object method "exact_print"

1999-02-10 Thread Amir Karger
I'm cc'ing the list again because this error is bizzarre. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be too many (non-lurking) Perl experts on this list (or I never would have been picked to write reLyX :) but maybe someone has a clue. On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 04:26:48PM +0100, Jean-Michel Barbet wrote: >

Re: easy $100 for nazgul? ;)

1999-02-10 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 11:34:15AM -0500, David L. Johnson wrote: > ---Reply to mail from Joacim Persson about easy $100 for nazgul? ;) > > > > > I just had a look at http://visar.csustan.edu/bazaar/, someone offers $100 > > for a Hebrew capable editor for Linux. (just a matter of recompute the

Re: Allow Lyx to find itself if symlinked.

1999-02-10 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it. A question: is there a particular reason why you named the new > function LyXReadLink? Would ReadLink cause a particular problem? [just > that the other functions in filetools do not use that prefix] Not really apart from the fact that I dis

Re: easy $100 for nazgul? ;)

1999-02-10 Thread David L. Johnson
---Reply to mail from Joacim Persson about easy $100 for nazgul? ;) > > I just had a look at http://visar.csustan.edu/bazaar/, someone offers $100 > for a Hebrew capable editor for Linux. (just a matter of recompute the > coordinates here and there to get right-to-left editing? =) Right-to-left

Re: LyX license

1999-02-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
In article <79sbm8$8su$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Feb 5, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Martin) wrote: > >>> 3) There is no limitation on combining LyX source code with code >>> subject to any other license, pro

Philipp Boerker: Re: [grond@cs.tu-berlin.de] LyX Feedback

1999-02-10 Thread Mate Wierdl
I think the point about LyX should not dump core if fonts missing is valid, is not it? Mate --- Forwarded Message From: Philipp Boerker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] LyX Feedback To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mate Wierdl) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999

Re: Allow Lyx to find itself if symlinked.

1999-02-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jan" == Jan Vroonhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jan> I am afraid I found it easier to just convert everything to Jan> LString now than to try to add up all the buffer sizes. The Code Jan> is much simpler and cleaner in this way. That's good anyway. The patch looks good. I'll test it and

Re: Licence fun

1999-02-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
john jabbered, > On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 10:40:23AM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > i've bcc'd this list a copy of the reply I posted. > > Much better to confront this before the flames start. > Yes, good to reserve the m-word until we need it. :) yes, we always have the mutton opt

Re: docbook support (some questions)

1999-02-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "José" == José Abílio de Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: José> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> > "José" == José Abílio de Oliveira Matos >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> José> [...] >> José> I have one doubt related with the paragraph handling of José> >> linuxdoc and docbo

Re: docbook support (some questions)

1999-02-10 Thread José Abílio de Oliveira Matos
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > "José" == José Abílio de Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > José> I have one doubt related with the paragraph handling of > José> linuxdoc and docbook documents. That part of the code should be > José> moved to paragraph, Jean-Marc sugges

Re: docbook support (some questions)

1999-02-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "José" == José Abílio de Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: José> Hi, I'm introduting docbook support in LyX. Basically I have José> done what as been descrived in the writer discussion by Allan José> :-) José> I have one doubt related with the paragraph handling of José> linuxdo

Re: widow/orphan?

1999-02-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Larry" == Larry S Marso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Larry> If this is true, can you please comment for our readers on what Larry> LyX does when you activate the following button? Layout-> Paragraph Vertical Spaces->Keep Larry> On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 09:44:03AM -0500, John Weiss wrote: >

Re: widow/orphan?

1999-02-10 Thread Larry S. Marso
If this is true, can you please comment for our readers on what LyX does when you activate the following button? Layout->Paragraph Vertical Spaces->Keep On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 09:44:03AM -0500, John Weiss wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 10:12:22PM -0500, David C. Brown N2RJT wrote: > > My son

docbook support (some questions)

1999-02-10 Thread José Abílio de Oliveira Matos
Hi, I'm introduting docbook support in LyX. Basically I have done what as been descrived in the writer discussion by Allan :-) I have one doubt related with the paragraph handling of linuxdoc and docbook documents. That part of the code should be moved to paragraph, Jean-Marc sugg

Re: widow/orphan?

1999-02-10 Thread John Weiss
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 10:12:22PM -0500, David C. Brown N2RJT wrote: > My son was doing an article for school with LyX 1.0. When he printed his > article, I noticed a paragraph that ended in a single line at the top of a > page. I was surprised, since I thought LaTeX would prevent such things.

Re: Splash document

1999-02-10 Thread John Weiss
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 02:46:53PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Asger" == Asger Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Asger> I think we should open the splash document if the .lyx > Asger> directory does not exist. This is a very nice point to present > Asger> this, beca

Re: ReLyX error : Can't locate object method "exact_print"

1999-02-10 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 11:34:58AM +0100, Jean Michel BARBET wrote: > reLyX crashes with this message : > > reLyX, the LaTeX to LyX translator. Revision date 1999/01/25 > > Reading LaTeX command syntax > Can't locate object method "exact_print" via package "Text::TeX::Group" > at /usr/ > re

easy $100 for nazgul? ;)

1999-02-10 Thread Joacim Persson
I just had a look at http://visar.csustan.edu/bazaar/, someone offers $100 for a Hebrew capable editor for Linux. (just a matter of recompute the coordinates here and there to get right-to-left editing? =) Joacim - All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

Re: Printing and Filenames

1999-02-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Charles" == Charles P Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: >> > Linux does support spaces in file names, and LyX output's >> postscript > with spaces in filenames. The lpr command tries to >> use _'s instead of > spaces which is the problem. >> >> I c

Re: widow/orphan?

1999-02-10 Thread Larry S. Marso
Was it a paragraph or a bullet point? Best regards -- Larry S. Marso [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 10:12:22PM -0500, David C. Brown N2RJT wrote: > My son was doing an article for school with LyX 1.0. When he printed his > article, I noticed a paragraph that ended in a single line

Re: Splash document

1999-02-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Asger" == Asger Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Asger> I think we should open the splash document if the .lyx Asger> directory does not exist. This is a very nice point to present Asger> this, because we are rather sure that we are dealing with a new Asger> user. Daniel, coul

Re: toolkit agnosticism

1999-02-10 Thread Jochen Kuepper
On Die, 09 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> The route we are trying to take is to have a tk-independent LyX >> core, and let people develop native frontends on top of that. It is >> clear that KDE people, for example, would not want something which >> looks like a KDE app, but something which

bug "Include File"/Latex generation

1999-02-10 Thread Judicael Courant
Hi, I have a document test that does an "include" of a document test2 which itself includes test3. When I want to visualize/update the DVI or postscript, lyx forgets to convert C to latex, so that Latex fails to find B. My version of Lyx is 1.0.0. Here are the three files that show the problem

widow/orphan?

1999-02-10 Thread David C. Brown N2RJT
My son was doing an article for school with LyX 1.0. When he printed his article, I noticed a paragraph that ended in a single line at the top of a page. I was surprised, since I thought LaTeX would prevent such things. Is this (a) a LyX bug, (b) a LaTeX bug, (c) my system being

Re: The boy who cried 'Wolf!'

1999-02-10 Thread Steven van Dijk
At 03:45 PM 2/4/99 -0200, you wrote: >> To be clearer, my problem is that I'd like to know whether the problem >> lies in the X server, or the cygwin port (or whatever) before adding a >If the version of Xlib is 6.4, I guess is is X11R6.4. There is a bug in >the fix-2 version of the library [XOpe

Re: Mathed patch

1999-02-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Alejandro" == Alejandro Aguilar Sierra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alejandro> Hello All, I have commited several bug fixes for *some* of Alejandro> the mathed bugs recently reported. Sorry for the "weak Alejandro> breeze" but I really don't have all the time I'd Alejandro> like. Anyway I'l

ReLyX error : Can't locate object method "exact_print"

1999-02-10 Thread Jean Michel BARBET
a) First I would like to thank people developping LyX for their valuable work. b) I downloaded this morning a binary LyX V1.0.0 for HP-UX 9 on the main ftp site. Everything went Ok until I try to import a small LaTeX file. reLyX crashes with this message : reLyX, the LaTeX to LyX tran

Re: Printing and Filenames

1999-02-10 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > Linux does support spaces in file names, and LyX output's postscript > > with spaces in filenames. The lpr command tries to use _'s instead of > > spaces which is the problem. > > I can confirm that this is most probably a bug in LyX. > Someo

Re: Printing and Filenames

1999-02-10 Thread Charles P. Wright
Tim Waugh wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > > > Linux does support spaces in file names, and LyX output's postscript > > > with spaces in filenames. The lpr command tries to use _'s instead of > > > spaces which is the problem. > > > > I can confirm that this is mo

Re: Printing and Filenames

1999-02-10 Thread Charles P. Wright
Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > > Linux does support spaces in file names, and LyX output's postscript > > with spaces in filenames. The lpr command tries to use _'s instead of > > spaces which is the problem. > > I can confirm that this is most probably a bug in LyX. > Someone with some time

Re: Printing and Filenames

1999-02-10 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Charles P. Wright wrote: > As can I, it is that LyX will try printing "a_file" instead. Try making > a dummy document with a space and printing it. I just did; it worked. I started LyX, File->New, "space age", typed in "space age", and clicked on the save icon. "space age.

latex and file names with spaces

1999-02-10 Thread Mate Wierdl
It cannot cope with it: do echo '\documentclass{article} \begin{document} Hi \end{document} ' > "a .tex" Latex will not like it. Mate

Re: Changing "latex file.tex" to "latex '\batchmode\input{file.tex}'"

1999-02-10 Thread Miyata Shigeru
Sorry for the late reply. Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And would > latex "\\batchmode\\input{file.tex}" > work? This is what unix requires, I think. No. It is not system dependent but highly shell dependent. I don't have a time to look into emacs source but something like l

Re: writer [and Insets]

1999-02-10 Thread John Weiss
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 09:14:43PM +, Allan Rae wrote: > WARNING: this is even longer than Lars' original post! [ergo: I've snipped much of it] Much of this conversation is about a "Writer" class that handles output to a particular format [e.g. LaTeX, HTML, ASCII, etc.] and how that might in

Re: slide broken in lyx 1.0.0?

1999-02-10 Thread John Weiss
Yikes! I'll look into this as soon as I can... On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 11:23:06AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Martin" == Martin Rother <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Martin>hello... yesterday afternoon I installed lyx 1.0.0, but > Martin> the slide style is broken now -- i

Re: Correction to documentation file and lyxdoc address problem

1999-02-10 Thread John Weiss
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 03:16:42AM -0400, Garst R. Reese wrote: > John Weiss wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 11:55:10AM -0500, Amir Karger wrote: > > > (3) Write "Parenthetical:" instead of '(' or '()'. Obviously this would work > > > best in combination with #2 above > > > > I think "A

Re: README.scriptone

1999-02-10 Thread John Weiss
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 05:19:31AM -0400, Garst R. Reese wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > What about turning this text into a piece of documentation to put un > > Extended.lyx? I really think that it belongs there. > > > > JMarc > OK--I'll give a whirl. I need to learn how to do that anyw

Re: Licence fun

1999-02-10 Thread John Weiss
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 10:40:23AM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > i've bcc'd this list a copy of the reply I posted. > Much better to confront this before the flames start. Yes, good to reserve the m-word until we need it. :) -- John Weiss On a train, someplace between Pawling and

Remote CVS of the devel tree

1999-02-10 Thread John Weiss
There exists a problem with the CVS development tree. Or, perhaps, the problem is me. Either way, I am having trouble checking out the development source, "lyx/src". I *thought* I could just specify the directory I wanted. However, I seem to be turning up dry: uqbar:~/src$ cvs checkout lyx/sr

Remote CVS of the devel tree... D'OH!

1999-02-10 Thread John Weiss
Sorry... I spoke too soon. Seems I needed "cvs checkout lyx/src/" [what I was trying lacked the final '/']. I had this problem due to our goofy use of CVS at work; some of the senior software engineers are too damned lazy to type, so the repository is tagged to death. That includes tags for dir

Re: writer [and Insets]

1999-02-10 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, John Weiss wrote: [...] > > How often do we add new insets? > > (I'd say more often than new writers) > > Therein lies a major problem: > > Every time someone wants to support some new whiz-bang LaTeX package, > or an SGMLDocBook feature, and so on, they go and add:

Mathed patch

1999-02-10 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
Hello All, I have commited several bug fixes for *some* of the mathed bugs recently reported. Sorry for the "weak breeze" but I really don't have all the time I'd like. Anyway I'll try to fix most reported bugs before 1.0.1 release. The only new stuff is the root (somebody insisted I had to add