Re: Layout problems with 1.0.3

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> "Michal" == Michal Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michal> That was it. I had libc5 version of XForms sitting on Michal> "priviledged" place. Linker even gives warning about that, Michal> but I did make; make install, so I didn't see it :( Anyway, it Michal> is strange, that it worked

Re: docbook

1999-06-15 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > So it's time to dig out the old documents about the EBNF proposal, and > reread those. I now see that you don't agree that we should use it for > parsing, but only for production. I can live with that, but I always > thought that you disliked th

Re: lyxserver development

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> Ok, can you give me a deadline? I also saw that 1.1.x uses "string" > instead of LString and a different syntax for error streams. I have coded > for 1.1.x, will 1.0.4 be based on that or on the 1.0.3 code? As Jean-Marc noticed, 1.0.4 will be based on the 1.0.3 code (or specifically, on the ly

Re: docbook

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> My suggestion, outlined here several years ago, was to remove completely > the writting methods from insets, but all insets would have an id key so > the specific document language writer would get a syntax definition and > write the corresponding code. Of course the inset still has to > give i

Re: docbook

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> I considered several possible solutions, but all have their drawbacks. > > First note, using the present implementation is possible to write a lyx > file that gives this result without any ERT (lyx jargon ;-). > But both and should be empty environments with the > other and nested i

Re: new in Lyx!

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> My code modifications consist of the file linked_list.h, that I attach to > this mail, and the following changes: The linked_list.h file is missing. I had a quick look at the patch, and could not see what is wrong. Maybe you could try to generate a complete, cleaned up patch with the makepatc

Re: LyX 1.0.3 has a quite a bit to go on Alpha

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> Docs seem to indicate that somebody out of frustration - instead of > checking available tools - re-invented, in a form of 'chktex', a long > existing - for years and years, predating initial versions of LyX - > and well working wheel known as 'lacheck' and that LyX team is not aware > of that.

Re: Layout problems with 1.0.3

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> Michal> Hello all! I have upgraded from LyX 1.0.2 to 1.0.3, using > Michal> source package. I used configure, make, make install. No > Michal> other change, no problem. But when I run LyX, it gives message > Michal> "LyX wasn't able to find its layout descriptions" in dialog > Michal> box

Re: LyX 1.0.3 has a quite a bit to go on Alpha

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Hi Michael, I've incorporated your changes for alpha into my relocatable package spec file. Here is the new version: LyX spec file ---Kayvan -- Kayvan Aghaiepour Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan

Re: new in Lyx!

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes escribió: > > "Edgardo" == Edgardo Szulsztein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Edgardo> Hi Excuse my english, I'm a Spanish speaker :-) > > Hello, > > Don;t worry, we are a lot of non-english speakers around here ;) > > Edgardo> I'm using the lyx processor to write my thes

Re: 1.0.3 Binary release

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:59:28 +0200, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > LString sh = ""; > >is sub-optimal. Just do > > LString sh; > >LString is default constructible, and defaults to the empty string. AAhh, yes: I see, C++ is so much more intelligent than C. Unfortunately I've no ide

Re: docbook

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On 15 Jun 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Stop looking to hard at the code in 1.0.x, it has been removed in > 1.1.x. OK, I'll wait for your (thought) comments about a new inset model. Alejandro

Re: docbook

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Alejandro Aguilar Sierra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote: | > InsetLatex is the only exception as I think it is completly obsolete. | | I agree. Why it has not been removed? Stop looking to hard at the code in 1.0.x, it has been removed in 1.

Re: docbook

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote: > Although I agree with you in several points I should say that, here, > almost all the cases where the definition is empty are used as > placeholders for future improvement. I don't like it but it's not your fault. Finally we are discussin

Re: docbook

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > Some time ago, we did discuss this problem briefly. I proposed that we > had only one method for all writers, but that it was kept inside the > Insets. The improvement compared to now is that we don't have to > introduce a new method for a new

Re: still errors in find/replace with spaces

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> Richard> oh, well. I though someone fixed it a few months ago, and > Richard> figured it had krept back in. > What I fixed recently is that any inset matched a space in > Find/Replace. awe :( > Richard> I had to fight with this for the mailmerge, too. iirc, it > Richard> was a matter of

Re: docbook

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 04:12:57PM +0200, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: [...] > > I tried to mimic the latex counterpart in those cases... > > As Jean-Marc pointed out, there is probably no bug there after all. I was > mistaken, and you did the right thing. Ok. Warning: from here it follow pos

Re: 1.0.3 Binary release

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
"Asger Alstrup Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On the other hand, exceptions are not easy to emulate, so I think we should | avoid using those. Well, I don't agree. (I agree as for now). But we need to be very concious about using eceptions, it is not something you just throw in. Much

Re: LyX 1.0.3 has a quite a bit to go on Alpha

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
After some e-mail discussions with Jean-Marc Lasgoutt and Allan Rae (thanks, guys!) it transpired that I should read more of INSTALL file and that 'lyx.spec' file supplied with lyx-1.0.3 is basically broken. A general problem with it, beyond a wrong version number, is that it has BUGS file is li

Re: docbook

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> > I found a few easy bugs in InsetLabel::DocBook. It should not return 0, but the > > width of the string. > > I tried to mimic the latex counterpart in those cases... As Jean-Marc pointed out, there is probably no bug there after all. I was mistaken, and you did the right thing. > The header

Re: 1.0.3 Binary release

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> Yes, -malign-jumps=4 -malign-functions=4 is what any i486 really needs. > > I like the 20% smaller executable; a performance change isn't so > obvious on my old box (classic pentium). Your mileage may differ. When it comes to executable size, you save a lot more in LyX 1.0.x by adding the flag

Re: 1.0.3 Binary release

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On 15 Jun 1999 06:44:07 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> limited testing. Its fast. Only the old inline image bug seems to >> remain here. > >As far as I remember, the last report of yours suggested it was really >a bug in the temporary path handling in LyX. Will you please send >the output of

Re: 1.0.3 Binary release

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On 15 Jun 1999 06:44:28 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> No, the problem is upper/lower case difference in: >> if (!sh.contains("sh") && !sh.contains("SH")) > >Thanks for finding the bug. But you have to use lowercase() here. >Consider "Cmd", "Sh" etc. Well, it may even

Re: docbook

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> "Asger" == Asger Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Hmmm, are you sure? I thought those methods were supposed to return >> a number of newlines, not a number of characters. Besides, if we >> want the width of the string, we can get it by reading the string >> itself. Asger> No,

Re: docbook

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> Hmmm, are you sure? I thought those methods were supposed to return a > number of newlines, not a number of characters. Besides, if we want > the width of the string, we can get it by reading the string itself. No, I'm not sure. I probably had a temporary cerebral haemorrhage. Sorry. Greets,

Re: Compile problem

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> "Andre'" == Andre' Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre'> lyx/po/Makefile contains the line 35 Andre'> XGETTEXT = PATH=../src:$$PATH cp ${srcdir}/lyx.pot Andre'> ./${PACKAGE}.po ; : Andre'> which looks a bit odd. The same line is contained in Andre'> lyx/po/Makefile.in and the XGETTE

Re: docbook

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Asger Alstrup Nielsen writes: > > I have ported the docbook support to a recent CVS, without > > Juergen's last patch, but as I don't touch that file, there should > > be no problem. > > Fantastic! > > I found a few easy bugs in InsetLabel::DocBook. It should not return 0, but the > wid

Re: Spanish version problem - None in the French

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> If you check the File (Fichero) menu everything works... > > but if you have a document opened, and leiter you check the File menu, > you find it in English! > > This is happening to the Catalan version that I'm doing, also. > > But in the French version everithing seems OK. > > Does anybod

Re: docbook

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> Hmm.. that's the only thing I disliked. Having to write a new method for > every new document language we want to export, and most times to do > nothing (as with most insets in this case), reflect a not exactly smart > design... of the current inset model. I agree that this is bad design, but w

Re: How to submit

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> I would like to know how to submit a new version of LyX, with the Catalan > language included... Just attach the po-file, and any translated documents, to a mail to this list, or alternatively, put them up on the web and post the link here. I'm sure someone (such as the ever diligent Jean-Mar

Re: new in Lyx!

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> Because of this I changed in the file buffer.C, the function > getReferenceList. Instead of just add LStrings to the list variable, I > use an ordered linked list to store the references, then I copy them > to the list variable. It works fine. However, the program causes a > Segmentation faut

Re: 1.0.3 Binary release

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> // OS/2 cmd.exe has another use for '&' > if (!wait) { > LString sh = ""; > sh = getenv("EMXSHELL"); > if (sh.empty()) > sh = getenv("COMSPEC"); >

Re: docbook

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Alejandro Aguilar Sierra writes: > On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote: > > [..] > > PS: There are several places where the support could be improved, the > > support for some of the insets is basic, and since the support for the > > insets is modular this can be worked l

Compile problem

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Once again I followed the instructions given on the "LyX - getting the source with CVS" - page. When running make I get the following error: - snip --- gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/X11R6/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/usr/X11R6/share /locale\" -DLOCALE_AL

Re: docbook

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> "Jose" == Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jose> PS: There are several places where the support could be Jose> improved, the support for some of the insets is basic, and since Jose> the support for the insets is modular this can be worked later. Hi! I am currently c

Re: docbook

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> "Asger" == Asger Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Asger> I think we should apply this right away, and get lots of people Asger> to test it, find the other bugs, and polish the implementation. Asger> We need to introduce more of the special DocBook environments, Asger> and documen

Re: new in Lyx!

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> "Edgardo" == Edgardo Szulsztein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Edgardo> Hi Excuse my english, I'm a Spanish speaker :-) Hello, Don;t worry, we are a lot of non-english speakers around here ;) Edgardo> I'm using the lyx processor to write my thesis, and I found Edgardo> it great (I installed

Re: Release of LyX 1.0.3

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> "Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes: Kayvan> I'll abide by the group's decision and create RH 6.0 packages Kayvan> with whatever the official spec file is. I'll continue using Kayvan> my /usr-based spec file myself. ;-) Jean-Marc> It would be nice to make sure that the rpm is Jean-M

Re: docbook

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On 15-Jun-99 Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > I found a few easy bugs in InsetLabel::DocBook. It should not return 0, but the > width of the string. Similar in InsetLatex::DocBook, > InsetLatexAccent::DocBook, InsetQuotes::DocBook, InsetRef::DocBook, > InsetSpecialChar::DocBook, InsetTOC::DocBo

Re: Spanish version problem - None in the French

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> "Francesc" == Francesc Burrull i Mestres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Francesc> Hi, I'm doing the Catalan version, and I have a problem that Francesc> I detected in the spanish version too. Francesc> When: export LANG=es; lyx& Francesc> appears LyX in Spanish. Francesc> If you check the F

Re: How to submit

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> "Francesc" == Francesc Burrull i Mestres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Francesc> Hi, I would like to know how to submit a new version of LyX, Francesc> with the Catalan language included... Just send the po file (gzipped and encoded, so that no information is lost) to the list (or to me). Or

Re: still errors in find/replace with spaces

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> "Richard" == Richard E Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> jmarc jmentioned, >> > "Richard" == Richard E Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> writes: >> Richard> I found that I had several loose spaces before commas. I Richard> tried to use find/replace to replace " ," with ",", bu

Re: Layout problems with 1.0.3

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> "Michal" == Michal Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michal> Hello all! I have upgraded from LyX 1.0.2 to 1.0.3, using Michal> source package. I used configure, make, make install. No Michal> other change, no problem. But when I run LyX, it gives message Michal> "LyX wasn't able to fin

Re: docbook

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> "Asger" == Asger Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I have ported the docbook support to a recent CVS, without >> Juergen's last patch, but as I don't touch that file, there should >> be no problem. Asger> Fantastic! Asger> I found a few easy bugs in InsetLabel::DocBook. It sh

Re: docbook

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
> I have ported the docbook support to a recent CVS, without > Juergen's last patch, but as I don't touch that file, there should > be no problem. Fantastic! I found a few easy bugs in InsetLabel::DocBook. It should not return 0, but the width of the string. Similar in InsetLatex::DocBook, Ins