Re: strange error making 1.1

1999-02-18 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> Allan Rae writes: AR> On 18 Feb 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> >> Richard E Hawkins Esq writes: REHE> sed: can't read ./Makefile.in: No such file or directory >> Hmm, are you missing the Makefile.in in lib/relyx/ ? >> >> If so you need to to a cvs checkout. >> >> Lgb

Re: Customization.lyx

1999-02-18 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 10:38:13AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Asger" == Asger Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> ps heavily edited splash.lyx coming soon > Asger> OK, I read it, and I think it's far too long. > > Agreed. This document should be as short as possibl

Re: strange error making 1.1

1999-02-18 Thread Allan Rae
On 18 Feb 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > >> Richard E Hawkins Esq writes: > REHE> sed: can't read ./Makefile.in: No such file or directory > > Hmm, are you missing the Makefile.in in lib/relyx/ ? > > If so you need to to a cvs checkout. > > Lgb I tried with a clean checkout and

lyx-1.0.1pre2 is out

1999-02-18 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Available at ftp.lyx.org, ftp.devel.lyx.org. Next pre scheduled in a week. 1.0.1 scheduled 1. Mar. Lgb

Re: Aspell and LyX 1.1

1999-02-18 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> Kevin Atkinson writes: KA> Ok. But how do you manage multiple documents. Do you have a KA> seperate ispell process for each open document or do you load KA> and unload the word list before spell checking a specific KA> document. Unloading and loading will work fine if you don't plan

[dat96gln@student3.lu.se] LyX Feedback

1999-02-18 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Do anyone compile Lyx on a sun system? SunOS or Solaris? I'd be grateful to accept binary distributions for these. Lgb --- Start of forwarded message --- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 14:02:51 +0100 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

lists

1999-02-18 Thread Mate Wierdl
The lyx-users and the klyx-devel lists are ready to go---my test messages already appeared at www.mail-archive.com. I am just awaiting Martin's sending me the current subscribers' lists. Hopefully, this is not going to become a Y2K problem. Mate

Re: Aspell and LyX 1.1

1999-02-18 Thread Kevin Atkinson
"Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote: > > >> Kevin Atkinson writes: > KA> 1) Have a diffrent "ignore all" word list for each document so > KA> that you won't keep aving to press ignore for special words you > KA> are not willing to insert into you personal dictiionares. > > This is planned, and i

Fax dialog box: can Comments be written to a temp file?

1999-02-18 Thread Thomas Porter
Not sure if this should be on the developers list or not: I use mgetty+sendfax to do my faxes with Lyx. Lyx evidently passes all the data keyed into the Fax dialog box as strings to the fax_comand. mgetty can handle comments to go on a cover sheet, like $$Comment, but expects these to be in a f

Re: compiling devel lyx

1999-02-18 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> Jochen Kuepper writes: JK> On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> 2. The string class supplied with gcc and egcs are not compatible >> with STL string. So the check we use to decide if the included >> string class should be used of not is wrong. We should try to >> find

Re: outstanding bugs

1999-02-18 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes: >> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes: JL> - I have some pending changes/cleanups for urls. I did not JL> commit them yet since I have to find a clean way to emulate \url JL> with \verb when ur

Re: compiling devel lyx

1999-02-18 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes: >> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JL> We should probably make --with-included-string the default and JL> remove the automatic test, then. If even egcs is not good JL> enough, I'm not sure that LyX is ready to use STL strings

Re: Aspell and LyX 1.1

1999-02-18 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> Kevin Atkinson writes: KA> 1) Have a diffrent "ignore all" word list for each document so KA> that you won't keep aving to press ignore for special words you KA> are not willing to insert into you personal dictiionares. This is planned, and is also fairly easy to do for ispell. KA>

Re: strange error making 1.1

1999-02-18 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> Richard E Hawkins Esq writes: REHE> sed: can't read ./Makefile.in: No such file or directory Hmm, are you missing the Makefile.in in lib/relyx/ ? If so you need to to a cvs checkout. Lgb

Re: The -> arrows in the manual

1999-02-18 Thread Mate Wierdl
Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > [How to handle the -> in the docs.] > > Another solution would be to use an arrow in math mode in the > > docs. It would be blue on screen, though. That's what we use in the german version: \rightarrow $\to$ is more economical, but I'd go wi

Re: Fwd: [XFreeOS2] Patches to LyX/2 1.0.0

1999-02-18 Thread Arnd Hanses
On 19 Feb 1999 00:31:47 +0900, Miyata Shigeru wrote: >"Arnd Hanses" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> l.60-64 old: >> call SysFileTree 'reLyX\reLyx.cmd', 'found', 'F' >> if found.0 = 0 then >> RELYX='none' >> else >> RELYX='reLyX.cmd' >> >> l.60-63 new: >> if \(''=SysSearchPath('PAT

Re: [XFreeOS2] lyx installation: no layouts found

1999-02-18 Thread Arnd Hanses
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:16:59 +0100, Wolfgang Fritsch wrote: >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/18/99 > at 11:39 AM, "Arnd Hanses" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>> >on installation of lyx 1.0, everything seems to go smoothly, >including running configure.cmd, up to the point when I start >>>

1.0.0: One small bug, two suggestions...

1999-02-18 Thread Fred Hucht
Hi LyXers, first the bug: Do "Insert->Citation...", then cancel. The citation is nevertheless inserted. OK, I reported that already some time ago. The problem occurs when you nevertheless latex the file, as in the .tex file one then finds "\cite" without argument, which latex doesn't like. It sh

Re: Request for features

1999-02-18 Thread miyata
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andre'> 3. It still would be *really* nice to have an xfig-inset that > Andre'> brings up xfig when trying to edit the contents, perhaps even > Andre'> storing the xfig-source within the .lyx if the users want it. > > Sure. You just have to find s

Re: Fwd: [XFreeOS2] Patches to LyX/2 1.0.0

1999-02-18 Thread Miyata Shigeru
"Arnd Hanses" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > l.60-64 old: > call SysFileTree 'reLyX\reLyx.cmd', 'found', 'F' > if found.0 = 0 then > RELYX='none' > else > RELYX='reLyX.cmd' > > l.60-63 new: > if \(''=SysSearchPath('PATH','RELYX.CMD')) then > RELYX='reLyX.cmd' > else > RELYX='non

Re: Allow Lyx to find itself if symlinked.

1999-02-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Miyata" == Miyata Shigeru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Miyata> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think we can use the portable versions of the auxilliary >> files. The problem is with the autoconf script itself. Miyata> I found out today that autoconf 2.13 for OS/2 uses

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

1999-02-18 Thread Miyata Shigeru
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. If I write the code for unix, can you do the OS/2 adaptation? Sure, I will, of course. Do you think I should check out 1.0 CVS or can I wait for 1.0.1pre package? > Miyata> BTW I guess configure does not detect shell aliases, right? > Miyat

Re: Allow Lyx to find itself if symlinked.

1999-02-18 Thread Miyata Shigeru
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we can use the portable versions of the auxilliary files. The > problem is with the autoconf script itself. I found out today that autoconf 2.13 for OS/2 uses auxilliary files from AC_PREFIX/share/autoconf rather than those in the current

Re: Testing LaTeX version?

1999-02-18 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 02:32:35PM +, Reuben Thomas wrote: > > Well, is not teTeX 0.4 the *latest* stable version is 2 yrs old. 0.9 is > > still beta. > > teTeX 0.4 is the latest stable distribution of teTeX, not the latest > stable version of LaTeX. Also, RedHat are quite happily distribu

Re: The -> arrows in the manual

1999-02-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Asger" == Asger K Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Asger> [How to handle the -> in the docs.] >> Another solution would be to use an arrow in math mode in the >> docs. It would be blue on screen, though. >> >> The grand plan I have for 1.1 is to have an inset which returns the

Re: The -> arrows in the manual

1999-02-18 Thread Peter Suetterlin
Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > [How to handle the -> in the docs.] > > Another solution would be to use an arrow in math mode in the > > docs. It would be blue on screen, though. That's what we use in the german version: \rightarrow > Anyway, this is clearly 1.1 stuff. For 1.0.1, I just want

Re: The -> arrows in the manual

1999-02-18 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
[How to handle the -> in the docs.] > Another solution would be to use an arrow in math mode in the > docs. It would be blue on screen, though. > > The grand plan I have for 1.1 is to have an inset which returns the > menu item implementing a given function, complete with > underscores. This way,

Re: The -> arrows in the manual

1999-02-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Asger" == Asger K Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Asger> Hi! I find the -> arrows ugly. Asger> Does anybody have a suggestion of what we should replace them Asger> with in LaTeX and SGML? I can add the code for a special Asger> character for this, if the need be. Alternativ

The -> arrows in the manual

1999-02-18 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Hi! I find the -> arrows ugly. Does anybody have a suggestion of what we should replace them with in LaTeX and SGML? I can add the code for a special character for this, if the need be. Alternatively, it could be implemented as a special macro, like the LaTeX and LyX texts are. Greets, Asger

Re: Testing LaTeX version?

1999-02-18 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 12:20:45PM +, Reuben Thomas wrote: > With regard to the recent discussion of problems processing LyX documents > with old LaTeX2e installations: > > As the official policy of the LaTeX maintainers is that you should upgrade > regularly (for example, trying to build a f

Re: Compiling lyx 1.0.0 for linuxppc

1999-02-18 Thread Franz Sirl
At 08:22 05.02.99 , Zvi Boshernitzan wrote: >Am using lyx 0.12 successfully on linuxppc kernel 2.1.24 (mklinux). Lyx >1.0.0 does not compile successfully on the machine using egcs 2.90.25: > >Configuration: > Source code location: . > Compiler: g++ > Compiler flags:

Re: Testing LaTeX version?

1999-02-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Reuben" == Reuben Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Reuben> With regard to the recent discussion of problems processing Reuben> LyX documents with old LaTeX2e installations: Reuben> As the official policy of the LaTeX maintainers is that you Reuben> should upgrade regularly (for example,

Re: Bug in bug report...

1999-02-18 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> * start lyx > * create new document > * Insert->Float->Figure > * Insert->Figure > * choose Encapsulated Postscript > * In the figure menu, do not load a figure but press OK > * Insert->Figure > * choose Encapsulated Postscript > * In the figure menu, do not load a figure but press OK > * crash!

Testing LaTeX version?

1999-02-18 Thread Reuben Thomas
With regard to the recent discussion of problems processing LyX documents with old LaTeX2e installations: As the official policy of the LaTeX maintainers is that you should upgrade regularly (for example, trying to build a format from a latex.ltx file more than a year old gives a warning message)

Re: Crash deleting notes (now with debug info)

1999-02-18 Thread Carlos A M dos Santos
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Allan Rae wrote: > Where was the note? in plain text, a heading or a table? It was in plain text. > One way of trying to find out is to run lyx from within gdb rather than > wait for a coredump. The other option is to hope that by going 'up' the > stack you will see the ca

Bug in bug report...

1999-02-18 Thread Andreas Paul
There is a mistake in the procedure to reproduce the behaviour I described in my last mail. The correct version looks like this: * start lyx * create new document * Insert->Float->Figure * Insert->Figure * choose Encapsulated Postscript * In the figure menu, do not load a figure but press OK * In

Re: splash.lyx

1999-02-18 Thread Steven van Dijk
At 04:24 PM 2/17/99 -0500, you wrote: >I just checked in a new version of splash.lyx. I added a lot, and heavily >edited what was there. It looks good. >> Top N Things to know when using LyX >Thoughts & responses welcome from anyone who managed to get this far. I introduced LyX to some colle

Re: Bug report

1999-02-18 Thread Peter Suetterlin
Andreas Paul wrote: > > Hello, I just discovered a bug in LyX Version 1.0.0: > > I want to include 2 figures in one float, which causes LyX to crash with a > FPE exception (division by zero) sometimes. > > To reproduce: > > * start lyx > * create new document > * Insert->Float->Figure > * Inse

Re: Customization.lyx

1999-02-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Amir> I know the internationalization stuff isn't entirely Amir> current. However, the first paragraph in the Amir> Internationalization chapter gives an obsolete list of the Amir> translations. (It *might* be a good idea to just not give a

Latest development version

1999-02-18 Thread Andre' Poenitz
Ok, I am probably just beeing stupid ;-) Could anybody please explain how I reach the latest (development) version starting from http://www.lyx.org. Andre' -- Andre' Poenitz, TU Chemnitz, Fakultaet fuer Mathematik [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... +49 3727 58 1381

Re: Customization.lyx

1999-02-18 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> The user is not supposed at this stage to know how to handle footnotes > :) If you see a button, you press it. I think most people will know that. :-) Greets, Asger

Re: Customization.lyx

1999-02-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Asger" == Asger Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> ps heavily edited splash.lyx coming soon Asger> OK, I read it, and I think it's far too long. Asger> In my opinion, the splash document should fit on one screen. Asger> When you first start a program, you are anxious to try it

Re: including printouts & code

1999-02-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Richard" == Richard E Hawkins Esq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> I suppose this is more a tex question than a lyx, but it may Richard> lead to a useful addition. Richard> I need to include chunks of code, and output from programs, Richard> quite often. What is the best whey to do t

Bug report

1999-02-18 Thread Andreas Paul
Hello, I just discovered a bug in LyX Version 1.0.0: I want to include 2 figures in one float, which causes LyX to crash with a FPE exception (division by zero) sometimes. To reproduce: * start lyx * create new document * Insert->Float->Figure * Insert->Figure * choose Encapsulated Postscript

Re: outstanding bugs

1999-02-18 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> Perhaps this is the more correct option. Hmmm... The main reason for the > changes in the first place was the bizarre combinations of toggling in the > character popup. So perhaps we should make the popup an exception. I think we should make the popup set, not toggle. The rest should toggle

Re: Crash deleting notes (now with debug info)

1999-02-18 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Carlos A M dos Santos wrote: > > Hello, again > > I sent a report on Feb 4 about this bug, but at that time there was no > debug information available. My environment is the following: [...] > After opening and closing an existing note I tried to remove it moving the > curs

Re: Shall I poke at promotion/demotion?

1999-02-18 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that the promotion/demotion > functions of heading levels suddenly came to me. SHould I start > poking at these when I'm hiding from my dissertation, or is someone > already working on these? > > rick Rick

Re: including printouts & code

1999-02-18 Thread Andre' Poenitz
> I need to include chunks of code, and output from programs, quite > often. What is the best whey to do this? Should I be blasting them > into postscript, and using floats? Setting font to typewriter? using > tables? I can see ways of doing all of these, but I'm looking for > greater experie

Problem of compiling of lyx-1.0.0 at IRIX6.2

1999-02-18 Thread ChangGil Han
Hello, The compilation of lyx-1.0.0 at my Indigo2 (IRIX6.2) fails with the attached error messages (I have had no problem with the previos versions). My compiler is gcc-2.7.2.3. I know there are binary distributions, but I want to compile myself. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance. **

Re: [XFreeOS2] lyx installation: no layouts found

1999-02-18 Thread Arnd Hanses
>On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 16:14:14 +0100, Wolfgang Fritsch wrote: > > > >>Hi, >> >>I cannot find information that addresses this problem: >>on installation of lyx 1.0, everything seems to go smoothly, >>including running configure.cmd, up to the point when I start >>lyx. I then get a window saying "no