slashdot

1999-03-03 Thread Amir Karger
Submitted. Hope they like it; it could get us another 1 hits or so tomorrow. (No, I have no idea how many of those will translate into downloads, or new users, or (can we dare hope) new devvies...) -Amir

lyx web page

1999-03-03 Thread Amir Karger
Someone with web access: please change the main web site to point out that 1.0.1 is the latest version! Hopefully lars will fix the lyx-current link in the ftp site soon, too. (It's annoying to keep changing the web site now, but obviously we won't be releasing as often in the future, and once w

Re: Martin! (was Re: slashdot, and before we release)

1999-03-03 Thread Amir Karger
OK. I'm sending it in. This means martin doesn't have to! On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 12:08:58AM +0100, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > I vote that you do it NOW! 1.0.1 is out, and we don't want to be late. > > Just send the FUD version. Anything is better than "frontend for dummies". > > Later

Re: editing, lyxserver, and an experiment with modules

1999-03-03 Thread Joacim Persson
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > > By extending LyX with a functional language, we can gain a quantum leap in > > > expressive power. Suddenly we can handle an entire document (or chapter, or > > > > Can't we do that in c++ then? > > Yes, if we had a *useful* C++ interpreter

Re: Core & objects, Was: switching layouts problem

1999-03-03 Thread Joacim Persson
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > Yes, that'll do nicely for simple insets. I wouldn't want to write a > > complex inset like a music, tree or Feynman diagram inset with that though. > > Do you plan to have an internal API (i.e. functions and variables in this > > scripting la

Re: LinuxConf style LyX configuration dialog ?

1999-03-03 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Martin Kew wrote: > Hi, > > A suggestion for control & format of LyX configuration information. Is > that such information could be structured & manipulated using a single > dialog like linuxconf. I am planning on a tabbed dialog for Preferences (ie. lyxrc) in 1.1. So it wo

LinuxConf style LyX configuration dialog ?

1999-03-03 Thread Martin Kew
Hi, A suggestion for control & format of LyX configuration information. Is that such information could be structured & manipulated using a single dialog like linuxconf. -- Regards Martin Kew Vision Abell Pty Ltd Second Avenue, Technology Park Mawson Lakes SA 5095 Australia Tel +61 8 8300 454

LyX-1.0.1pre2/RH5.2 Crash

1999-03-03 Thread Martin Kew
Hi, I encountered a Lyx crash while (I think ?) I was closing of the application. Attached is transcript of the crash response and the result of a backtrace of the core file. Also included is information on local variables as requested by the bug report doco. Please let me know if you require

A suggestion about EPS clip

1999-03-03 Thread Kesti Tero
Hello, Would it be a good idea to make LyX "clip" inserted EPS figures to their bounding boxes? Some programs produce EPS files with extra whitespace around the bounding box. The bounding box may, however, correctly surround the actual picture and nothing else. A file like this is illustrated b

bug in 1.0.1 :-)

1999-03-03 Thread Daniel Naber
Hi, first major bug: my name is misspelled in the credits box, so let's get out 1.0.2 really soon :-) Regards Daniel -- PGP Key fingerprint = 3D 98 9E D2 00 B6 E0 9D 7E B9 77 23 17 E2 11 6A http://cgi4all.alabanza.com/glasatelier/

toolip for ghosted buttons

1999-03-03 Thread Daniel Naber
Hi, does xforms have a way to display tooltips for menu entries? Even for ghosted (grey) ones. Well, probably not? It would be great to tell the user why certain things are not available. E.g. that something with his latex environment isn't correct if he can't preview files and so on. Any ideas

Re: Martin! (was Re: slashdot, and before we release)

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> Well, I doubt that anyone will send in to slashdot a 1.0.1 announcement. > And they wouldn't post it anyway. But they might post one that mentions FUD > and open source word processing. > > I vote for martin to do it since he's our official press guru. Martin? I vote that you do it NOW! 1.0.1

Design documents - strings and encodings

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
Hi! After Joacim's angry and furious rant about the lack of design documents, I figured that I would humour him a bit and write 11 pages about the strings and encodings in the new kernel. This is thus an experiment to try to prove him wrong about the design documents. I hope that nobody will re

LyX 1.0.1

1999-03-03 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
I finaly got my act together and released LyX 1.0.1. (Two days late...) This fixes several bugs in 1.0.0 and has a couple of new features, most notably the support for literate programming. To be found at: ftp://www.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.0.1.tar.gz ftp://www.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.

Re: New references page

1999-03-03 Thread Tim Waugh
On 3 Mar 1999, Lars Gullik Bjnnes wrote: > Who decided that our webpages are under gpl? The GNU GPL doesn't in fact prohibit mentioning non-free software at all, but it is certainly against the spirit of free software. Tim. */

Re: New references page

1999-03-03 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On 3 Mar 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > AAS> I agree, and what could be in this page that is not in other > AAS> good STL links? > > ??? > This must be a joke? > > Who decided that our webpages are under gpl? Of course we don't have to restrict the contents of our page, but we already

Re: Compile problem on SGI, 1.0.1pre4

1999-03-03 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> Asger Alstrup Nielsen writes: >> CC -c -O2 -I. -I. -I../images math_root.C "math_root.C", line 25: >> error(1281): redefinition of default argument >> MathRootInset::MathRootInset(short st=LM_ST_TEXT): >> MathSqrtInset(st) ^ >> >> 1 error detected in the compilation of "math_roo

Re: libsigc++

1999-03-03 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> Allan Rae writes: AR> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Allan Rae wrote: >> There is a new gnome library for signals/slots. It is a totally >> revised design of the gtk-- signal/slot mechanism which is even >> more impressive in its capabilities than the original. They are >> nearly ready to un

Re: New references page

1999-03-03 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 09:25:27PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > >> Alejandro Aguilar Sierra writes: > > AAS> On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > >> > > The Microsoft STL page (pretty good in general): > >> > >> I believe the GPL explicitly refuses linking to a site in the >

Re: New references page

1999-03-03 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> Alejandro Aguilar Sierra writes: AAS> On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Amir Karger wrote: >> > > The Microsoft STL page (pretty good in general): >> >> I believe the GPL explicitly refuses linking to a site in the >> microsoft.com domain... AAS> I agree, and what could be in this page that

Martin! (was Re: slashdot, and before we release)

1999-03-03 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 07:24:03PM +0100, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > I think that's cool. The main thing is that WE are the first to report that > the new version is out, rather than someone else that is not following this > list. Martin and Amir, can you do that? Well, I doubt that anyo

[markp@aps.org: Re: new RevTeX availability]

1999-03-03 Thread Amir Karger
News about revtex 4, in case anyone cares. (It will be latex2e compatible, which will make the lyx revtex layout better.) Apparently, this means "soon". Sigh. -Amir - Forwarded message from Mark P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 12:26:22 -0500 From: Mark P <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: slashdot, and before we release

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> The LyX Development team is pleased to obliterate the FUD which claims > there's no open source word processor! Here (www.lyx.org) is LyX 1.0.1, a > full-featured document processor, which exports latex for printing. > The first line will make it good slashdot material. "FUD" and "open source"

Re: translations

1999-03-03 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > Now that the translation page is up, we don't need as much translation > info in index.php3. Here's a new version of the main page. Alejandro, > could you put it up (if it's ok)? Done (next time send a patch). BTW could you check the English in the refe

de_math.bind

1999-03-03 Thread Peter Suetterlin
Hi all! I just found out that the german menu bindings are not complete - math.bind was missing :-( So here it goes... Peter -- ~~ Peter "Pit" Suetterlin http://www.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~pit Universitae

translations

1999-03-03 Thread Amir Karger
Now that the translation page is up, we don't need as much translation info in index.php3. Here's a new version of the main page. Alejandro, could you put it up (if it's ok)? -Amir Welcome to the LyX developers only web-site. This site is meant to be used primarily by the developers of LyX

Re: example_*

1999-03-03 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > If that's the case, then I'm definitely not the right person to put on > there. I may be what passes for an active member of the DocTeam, but I > really know very litle about translation. For example, I very rarely even > write letters with accents in LyX,

Re: Compile problem on SGI, 1.0.1pre4

1999-03-03 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > Change that line to read > > MathRootInset::MathRootInset(short st): MathSqrtInset(st) > > and you should be fine. I thought someone had commited that fix recently. I'll do it now. Alejandro

Re: slashdot, and before we release

1999-03-03 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 09:46:21AM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > Alan added, > >The one sentence that will be quoted should include the words: > > > Literate Programming > > > Just off the cuff > > The LyX Development team is pleased to announce LyX 1.0.1, a > full-featured w

Re: slashdot, and before we release

1999-03-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Alan added, >The one sentence that will be quoted should include the words: > Literate Programming Just off the cuff The LyX Development team is pleased to announce LyX 1.0.1, a full-featured word and document processor, which exports latex for printing. Additionally, latex may be us

The menu separator

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
Hi! This issue has not been fully resolved yet. Allan and Lgb state that they don't think it's a good idea to use them in 1.0.1. Ok, I respect this, and suggest that we do this compromise, close to what Allan suggests: Release 1.0.1 without the menu separator in the docs (but keep the feature

Re: example_*

1999-03-03 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 10:12:36AM +0100, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > I'd prefer to use my [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail. I have a complicated set-up for my > five different e-mail accounts, and I'd rather not make that six e-mails if > possible. I figured it was something like that. > (You may hav

Re: Compile problem on SGI, 1.0.1pre4

1999-03-03 Thread Steve Holden
On 03-Mar-99 Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: >> CC -c -O2 -I. -I. -I../images math_root.C >> "math_root.C", line 25: error(1281): redefinition of default argument >> MathRootInset::MathRootInset(short st=LM_ST_TEXT): MathSqrtInset(st) >> ^ >> >> 1 error detected in the compilation of "math_ro

Re: Compile problem on SGI, 1.0.1pre4

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> CC -c -O2 -I. -I. -I../images math_root.C > "math_root.C", line 25: error(1281): redefinition of default argument > MathRootInset::MathRootInset(short st=LM_ST_TEXT): MathSqrtInset(st) > ^ > > 1 error detected in the compilation of "math_root.C". Change that line to read MathRootInset:

Re: editing, lyxserver, and an experiment with modules

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> Hehe, I could rephrase my statement above to use past tense: "mixing > fundamentally different paradigms was asking for trouble.." LyX isn't > the best of examples of a /successful/ mix of paradigms, is it? =) I think LyX is a success. I'm proud of being a part of it. I'm not proud of the de

Re: Core & objects, Was: switching layouts problem

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> Yes, that'll do nicely for simple insets. I wouldn't want to write a > complex inset like a music, tree or Feynman diagram inset with that though. > Do you plan to have an internal API (i.e. functions and variables in this > scripting language that interfaces to the public members in the object

Re: Updated references page

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> I only omitted the microsoft page proposed by Asger. It's not (just) > prejudgement, but that site is rather related to Visual C++. If you > (Asger) still want to include it, feel free to do it, you have the rights. > ;) No, that's ok. People seem to dislike it for some reason, so I'll just

Re: example_*

1999-03-03 Thread Asger Alstrup Nielsen
> Great idea. In fact, I would propose making asger's & Lars's addresses > @lyx.org too. But of course, they're the ones in charge of their addresses. I'd prefer to use my [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail. I have a complicated set-up for my five different e-mail accounts, and I'd rather not make that six

Compile problem on SGI, 1.0.1pre4

1999-03-03 Thread Steve Holden
Hi, I'm having problems compiling 1.0.1pre4 on SGI using the native compiler: CC -c -O2 -I. -I. -I../images math_root.C "math_root.C", line 25: error(1281): redefinition of default argument MathRootInset::MathRootInset(short st=LM_ST_TEXT): MathSqrtInset(st) ^ 1 error detected in the com

Re: libsigc++

1999-03-03 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Allan Rae wrote: > > There is a new gnome library for signals/slots. It is a totally revised > design of the gtk-- signal/slot mechanism which is even more impressive in > its capabilities than the original. They are nearly ready to unleash it > on the world and need tester

Re: editing, lyxserver, and an experiment with modules

1999-03-03 Thread Joacim Persson
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > be necessary. :P Maybe it's possible to have a scripting language that > > can n/handle any arbitrary c++ object, but I have no idea how that would > > be implemented. If a scripting language should operate on such a low > > level, it should

Re: Core & objects, Was: switching layouts problem

1999-03-03 Thread Joacim Persson
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > [How to handle the extendibility problem.] > [Layout files on steroids or linked objects a la Gimp.] > > > A compromise or rather a combination of the two would be my favourite > > choice. I think there should be /both/ an easy-to-use quick&dir