Re: spam prevention

1999-10-26 Thread Martin Vermeer
Mate, just received a message from your good friend ezmlm that some of the list messages to me had bounced. Tracking down the reason, I found it was due to the sendmail/procmail in my new Red Hat 6.1 setup. Already two weeks ago, I noticed that procmail didn't work properly (that's when the b

RE: Press about LyX

1999-10-26 Thread Juergen Vigna
> > So, if you have a link to a review or other article about > LyX, please provide a link, and we can collect it into a > Press page. What about: http://www.sad.it/~jug/lyx/article.html Jürgen -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._ Dr. Jürgen Vigna

Suggested new features for LyX (1.04)

1999-10-26 Thread Martina Schwarz van Doorn
Dear LyX developers, you are really doing a hell of a job !! It has been of great use to me thus far. Possible improvements: 1. After adding math-characters it may be a good idea to set the focus back to the main document (instead of the Math Panel), so that it is easier to continue typing. 2. C

Re: new prerelease LyX 1.1.1pre3

1999-10-26 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Linux checks gcc version # and adds -fno-strict-aliasing if 2.9+ found. mmm.. This is not a problem for us, LyX should work very well with stict aliasing turned on... Lgb

Re: new prerelease LyX 1.1.1pre3

1999-10-26 Thread Garst R. Reese
"Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote: > > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Also, what is missing for 1.1.1 is a chaeck to add -fpermissive to gcc > | 2.95 arguments. I do not really know where to add it. Should we add it > | always for gcc 2.95? Or test whether compiling with Xlib.h

Re: compilation-error

1999-10-26 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Wolfram) writes: | src/table.C - | | "table.C", line 1422: Error: A previously specified default argument | value cannot be changed. | | Source is: | const char *LyXTable::getDocBookAlig

Re: \.{32} in black

1999-10-26 Thread Garst R. Reese
"Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote: > > "Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | I was just using Document Layout letter to write a letter. In the from > | address and the signature, when I hit the period in Garst R. Reese, I > | got \.{32}. > > This looks as if we have a tostr to many somep

Re: \.{32} in black

1999-10-26 Thread Garst R. Reese
"Kayvan A. Sylvan" wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 05:27:05PM -0300, Garst R. Reese wrote: > > > > I was just using Document Layout letter to write a letter. In the from > > address and the signature, when I hit the period in Garst R. Reese, I > > got \.{32}. > > I tried to reproduce your ste

compilation-error

1999-10-26 Thread Uwe Wolfram
Configuration: - Sparc Solaris 2.6, C++ 5.0 (including up to date patches), libforms 0.88, lyx 1.0.4 When compiling the source code 1.0.4 I get the following 2 errors (I guess this will also happen with previous versions): src/table.C

Re: \.{32} in black

1999-10-26 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) writes: | "Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | | I was just using Document Layout letter to write a letter. In the from | | address and the signature, when I hit the period in Garst R. Reese, I | | got \.{32}. | | This looks as if we have a to

Re: Warning!! Bug ahead: subst()

1999-10-26 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) writes: | | So who is right? Should we change the code or the subst() functions? | | The code. Ok I have done this change now. Will commit very soon. Note also that my substring class is able to handle things like this quite elegant. string s("He

Re: Warning!! Bug ahead: subst()

1999-10-26 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Since subst is our own creation, we can decide which is right. | Personally, I prefer to make it a proper function without side-effects | (and thus only two parameters), but since it's easier to just change Two parameters? That will not wo

Re: Warning!! Bug ahead: subst()

1999-10-26 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | It seems that subst(str, oldstr,newstr), as defined in lstring.C, does | not modify str, but returns the modified version instead. However, a | quick grep shows that the code relies on a different behaviour: No it does not really relies on diffe

Re: \.{32} in black

1999-10-26 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I was just using Document Layout letter to write a letter. In the from | address and the signature, when I hit the period in Garst R. Reese, I | got \.{32}. This looks as if we have a tostr to many someplace. Someplace where we want to output a spac

Re: new prerelease LyX 1.1.1pre3

1999-10-26 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Also, what is missing for 1.1.1 is a chaeck to add -fpermissive to gcc | 2.95 arguments. I do not really know where to add it. Should we add it | always for gcc 2.95? Or test whether compiling with Xlib.h causes an | error? A first shot could be

Re: new prerelease LyX 1.1.1pre3

1999-10-26 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I have some changes pending which | - rename tth_command to html_command | - add a check for tth, latex2html and hevea (a translator from INRIA | written in OCAML), with appropriate (?) settings for each translator. | - grey out the export menu

Re: new prerelease LyX 1.1.1pre3

1999-10-26 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Ben Cazzolato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Would it be possible to add another useful filter to export as pdf? | A good one | is ps2pdf - Aladdin Ghostscript PostScript to PDF translator (although I | prefer Acrobat Distiller). Typical command line structure is ps2pdf file.ps | (output file i

Re: \.{32} in black

1999-10-26 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 05:27:05PM -0300, Garst R. Reese wrote: > > I was just using Document Layout letter to write a letter. In the from > address and the signature, when I hit the period in Garst R. Reese, I > got \.{32}. I tried to reproduce your steps but don't get this at all. I have no LA

Press about LyX

1999-10-26 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
http://www.tcp.ca/1999/9911/software/linux/linux.html I think it's time for the Press section on the Web? Maybe somebody would collect a bunch of links to reviews and such about LyX so we could stash it on a web-page? There have been several so far, and all I have seen have been mostly positive..

Re: Warning!! Bug ahead: subst()

1999-10-26 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> It seems that subst(str, oldstr,newstr), as defined in lstring.C, does > not modify str, but returns the modified version instead. However, a > quick grep shows that the code relies on a different behaviour: > So who is right? Should we change the code or the subst() functions? Since subst is

Re: \.{32} in black

1999-10-26 Thread Garst R. Reese
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Garst> This is showing up typing in doc type letter when I type my > Garst> middle initial. I presume it is supposed to be ERT. I can bkspc > Garst> over it and type a period and goes away, but I supp

page number in slides

1999-10-26 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I've just started splitting up my slides of lecture notes, and it seems that the page counter is not used. \thepage is initialized to 0, and after I reset it, the first page remains 1. I didn't find anything about this in Extended.lyx Rick --

spam prevention

1999-10-26 Thread Mate Wierdl
Please read this, it might affect your participation on this list. 1) My server started to get a lot of spam from dialup sources (the latest spam to the list also came from such a source), and I decided I will use the service described at http://maps.vix.com/dul/ I will implement this

Warning!! Bug ahead: subst()

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
It seems that subst(str, oldstr,newstr), as defined in lstring.C, does not modify str, but returns the modified version instead. However, a quick grep shows that the code relies on a different behaviour: fantomas: grep 'subst(' *.[Ch] LyXSendto.C:subst(command, "$$FName",fname); buffer.C:

Bug in new pre-release

1999-10-26 Thread Ben Cazzolato
JM et al I can make the latest prerelease core dump consistantly (LyX 1.1.1pre3 on RH 6.0) I was trying to work out how to use the Custom Export (which incidently there is nothing in the documents as far as I could tell). I (stupidly) typed "latex2html" and bang, it core dumps. [1]+ Aborted

Re: new prerelease LyX 1.1.1pre3

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Also, what is missing for 1.1.1 is a chaeck to add -fpermissive to gcc 2.95 arguments. I do not really know where to add it. Should we add it always for gcc 2.95? Or test whether compiling with Xlib.h causes an error? JMarc

Re: \.{32} in black

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Garst> This is showing up typing in doc type letter when I type my Garst> middle initial. I presume it is supposed to be ERT. I can bkspc Garst> over it and type a period and goes away, but I suppose then the Garst> spacing is not correc

Re: new prerelease LyX 1.1.1pre3

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> Hello again, I have just put out a new prerelease we have fixed Lars> some more bugs and to my knowledge this prerelease should be Lars> almost as stable as 1.0.4. However since we can not be sure Lars> about that, please be ca

Re: new prerelease LyX 1.1.1pre3

1999-10-26 Thread Ben Cazzolato
Guys Thanks for the latest pre release. Have started testing already. The export to HTML is a very useful feature (and will be even better when it is made more general so that I can use latex2html). Would it be possible to add another useful filter to export as pdf? A good one is ps2pdf - Al

Re: Footnotes in Tables?

1999-10-26 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 25-Oct-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What about a normal table specified as a minipage? I could have > sworn that works here. > Look below I stated: >> - normal table in a minipage with \footnote{} #:O) > At any rate, specifying multipage *does* put the footnotes at the > bottom of your