Re: Diffs for modification to allow Fraktur and Blackboard Bold fonts

1999-12-03 Thread miyata
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) wrote: > I already have the xfonts in the texmf tree and we should leave them > there. Yes, I forget where I got it from but I have amsps-unix.tar.gz 887925 bytes. Other CM fonts by BlueSky are available from CTAN/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bluesky On the

Re: SpaceLess() function is dead :) [Arnd and SMiyata, please read]

1999-12-03 Thread Jules Bean
On 3 Dec 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | E.g. you can't put ' inside a '-string: > | > | sh-2.02$ echo 'as\'ds' > > perhaps a reason to use "" instead Perhaps. But the escaping rules for "" are even more complex. You have to escape, backslashe

Re: lyx-1.1.3 view ps/dvi bug (?)

1999-12-03 Thread Garst R. Reese
Jörg Ziefle wrote: > > Hi there, > > I just tried the new lyx-1.1.3 and encountered problems viewing my old lyx > files, especially the big ones, while the smaller ones do well (the files > are all in the same directory, so there is no permission problem): Did you check the permission of the fi

Re: 1.1.3 fi = £ --problem found

1999-12-03 Thread Garst R. Reese
"Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote: > > "Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | "Garst R. Reese" wrote: > | > > | > When I type an fi, ViewPostscript is showing the British Currency > | > symbol, £ no i. Hmm, this does not happen with default font or helvetica > | > or avant, but does happen

Mirror site in Italy isn't up to date

1999-12-03 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
I just found that the mirror site in Italy isn't up to date at all. Haven't tried the others yet. How are mirror sites setup? Manually or using a programme (robot) doing automatic mirror (once a day or once a week)?

Re: 1.1.3 fi = £

1999-12-03 Thread Garst R. Reese
"Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote: > > "Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | "Garst R. Reese" wrote: > | > > | > When I type an fi, ViewPostscript is showing the British Currency > | > symbol, £ no i. Hmm, this does not happen with default font or helvetica > | > or avant, but does happen

Re: 1.1.3 fi = £

1999-12-03 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | "Garst R. Reese" wrote: | > | > When I type an fi, ViewPostscript is showing the British Currency | > symbol, £ no i. Hmm, this does not happen with default font or helvetica | > or avant, but does happen with Times, Palatino, Newcentury and Bookman

Re: 1.1.3 fi = £

1999-12-03 Thread Garst R. Reese
"Garst R. Reese" wrote: > > When I type an fi, ViewPostscript is showing the British Currency > symbol, £ no i. Hmm, this does not happen with default font or helvetica > or avant, but does happen with Times, Palatino, Newcentury and Bookman. > All with latin1 encoding, but switching to default d

Re: LyX net down

1999-12-03 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Lars Gullik Bjonnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Something happened, and they shut off the net that the lyx machines | resides on. | Might not be able to do something about this until over the weekend. Ok, we are living on leased time unil over the weekend... (this has nothing to do with LyX.)

1.1.3 fi = £

1999-12-03 Thread Garst R. Reese
When I type an fi, ViewPostscript is showing the British Currency symbol, £ no i. Hmm, this does not happen with default font or helvetica or avant, but does happen with Times, Palatino, Newcentury and Bookman. All with latin1 encoding, but switching to default does not help. Weird eh? Garst

Re: SpaceLess() function is dead :) [Arnd and SMiyata, please read]

1999-12-03 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | E.g. you can't put ' inside a '-string: | | sh-2.02$ echo 'as\'ds' perhaps a reason to use "" instead Lgb

LyX 1.1.3 trace log - reproducible

1999-12-03 Thread Sasa Janiska
Hello dear Developers! After finishing one book (two editions - Croatian & English) with LyX and taking advantage to mention LyX & LaTeX as tools for producing layouts, I had a small pause. Soon, I have to start with some new writing and today I downloaded new 1.1.3 version. I just changed the

Re: [seak.teng-fong@iname.com] Feedback from www.lyx.org

1999-12-03 Thread Duncan Simpson
OK, Try the following (including the spaces, which are required) \def\ip2#1{{\catcode` =11\input{#1}\catcode` =10}} and I think you will find that \ip2{foo bar baz.tex} will without any trouble. The best effect can be had by putting that definition in the preamble. The same approach can be ap

LyX net down

1999-12-03 Thread Lars Gullik Bjonnes
Something happened, and they shut off the net that the lyx machines resides on. Might not be able to do something about this until over the weekend. Bummer. Lgb

Re: SpaceLess() function is dead :) [Arnd and SMiyata, please read]

1999-12-03 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Jules Bean wrote: > On 3 Dec 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > > "Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Jules> Do you mean you're passing the arguments as one big string, not > > Jules> as separate arguments? This is dangerous, it relies on the >

Re: SpaceLess() function is dead :) [Arnd and SMiyata, please read]

1999-12-03 Thread Jules Bean
On 3 Dec 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jules> Do you mean you're passing the arguments as one big string, not > Jules> as separate arguments? This is dangerous, it relies on the > Jules> quoting characteristics of the user's SHELL

Re: SpaceLess() function is dead :) [Arnd and SMiyata, please read]

1999-12-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jules> Do you mean you're passing the arguments as one big string, not Jules> as separate arguments? This is dangerous, it relies on the Jules> quoting characteristics of the user's SHELL. Well, we use system() and this invokes sh, right? S

Re: SpaceLess() function is dead :) [Arnd and SMiyata, please read]

1999-12-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lars> Lars> Why not double quotes? | | Because $ is not protected Lars> inside them. Lars> In what context? (the shell?) Yes, most programs are called via the shell. tth, for

Re: SpaceLess() function is dead :) [Arnd and SMiyata, please read]

1999-12-03 Thread Andre' Poenitz
> > Do you mean you're passing the arguments as one big string, not as > separate arguments? This is dangerous, it relies on the quoting > characteristics of the user's SHELL. > > It's better to use functions like execl or execv. Look like you've found the place for your first piece of work on

Re: SpaceLess() function is dead :) [Arnd and SMiyata, please read]

1999-12-03 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lars> Why not double quotes? | | Because $ is not protected inside them. In what context? (the shell?) | Single quotes are stricter. We | can change that, but will have to protect $ (and maybe others), | then. If the shell "!" needs to be pr

Re: Supporting new document classes

1999-12-03 Thread mressler
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Allan Rae wrote: > > Mike> Allan - if you don't add this to the docs, I should have some > > Mike> time next week to do it (finally). I've been meaning to do an > > Mike> expanded "how to do your own layout" chapter for quite a while > > Mike> ... > > I saw you added that the

Re: SpaceLess() function is dead :) [Arnd and SMiyata, please read]

1999-12-03 Thread Jules Bean
On 3 Dec 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jules> On 3 Dec 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> What remains to do now is to find all cases where stringe file > >> names (containing spaces or quotes for example) create problems to

Re: SpaceLess() function is dead :) [Arnd and SMiyata, please read]

1999-12-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lars> There were however a few places where spaceless was actually Lars> used to | avoid spaces. I replaced it by a new function Lars> QuoteName() which adds | single quotes ar

Re: Diffs for modification to allow Fraktur and Blackboard Bold fonts

1999-12-03 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 01:27:25PM -0500, Justin Smith wrote: | > Here they are. They were taken from the Dec 1 version of the 1.1.4cvs source: | > ... | | Is it normal for this list to carry such huge patches? If so I'm going to | unsubscribe. I ho

Re: SpaceLess() function is dead :) [Arnd and SMiyata, please read]

1999-12-03 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | There were however a few places where spaceless was actually used to | avoid spaces. I replaced it by a new function QuoteName() which adds | single quotes around the argument: | aa-> 'aa' | JMarc's file -> 'JMarc\'s file' Why not

Re: SpaceLess() function is dead :) [Arnd and SMiyata, please read]

1999-12-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jules> On 3 Dec 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> What remains to do now is to find all cases where stringe file >> names (containing spaces or quotes for example) create problems to >> programs other that latex. I did a lot of experimen

Re: SpaceLess() function is dead :) [Arnd and SMiyata, please read]

1999-12-03 Thread Jules Bean
On 3 Dec 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > What remains to do now is to find all cases where stringe file names > (containing spaces or quotes for example) create problems to programs > other that latex. I did a lot of experiments, but all is not done. Remember of course that such programs

Re: Diffs for modification to allow Fraktur and Blackboard Bold fonts

1999-12-03 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 01:27:25PM -0500, Justin Smith wrote: > Here they are. They were taken from the Dec 1 version of the 1.1.4cvs source: > ... Is it normal for this list to carry such huge patches? If so I'm going to unsubscribe. Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 4

Re: Diffs for modification to allow Fraktur and Blackboard Bold fonts

1999-12-03 Thread Michael Meskes
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 12:33:16AM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > You must have completely lost your marbles sending out a 3.4MB file to a > mailing list. Learn some basic netiquette please and upload such a file to > the LyX FTP site next time. Seems it's not usual. Please remember that some of us

Re: lyx-1.1.3 view ps/dvi bug (?)

1999-12-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jörg" == Jörg Ziefle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jörg> Hi there, I just tried the new lyx-1.1.3 and encountered Jörg> problems viewing my old lyx files, especially the big ones, Jörg> while the smaller ones do well (the files are all in the same Jörg> directory, so there is no permission p

Re: SpaceLess() function is dead :) [Arnd and SMiyata, please read]

1999-12-03 Thread Nils Jeppe
On 3 Dec 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > One question: when a command line in lyxrc contains $$FName, should we > provide the quotes automatically? This would force to rewrite some > definition which already have them, but it is maybe a good idea for > the long term anyway. > Thoughts? Sound

SpaceLess() function is dead :) [Arnd and SMiyata, please read]

1999-12-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Hello, I have finally killed the SpaceLess(). In fact , it has been renamed to MakeLatexName() and Buffer now has a new getLatexName() method which returns the name of the .tex file (with .tex extension). There were however a few places where spaceless was actually used to avoid spaces. I repla

Re: Lyx trouble with MikTeX

1999-12-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Miyata" == Miyata Shigeru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Miyata> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> which displays ThisIsLaTeX2e if \documentclass is defined. What >> happens when you run this under miktex? Where does the output go? >> Maybe is it standard error instead of std

Re: Photo Float

1999-12-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Ben" == Ben Cazzolato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> Guys I've just installed the photo float package and was Ben> wondering if there are any plans to include the use of it in Lyx, Ben> ie Insert > Float > Photo Float? There are plans for making floats configurable from the .layout file

Photo Float

1999-12-03 Thread Ben Cazzolato
Guys I've just installed the photo float package and was wondering if there are any plans to include the use of it in Lyx, ie Insert > Float > Photo Float? ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/photo.html Ben -- _ Ben Cazzolato Fluid

Re: Special superscript and subscript arrangements

1999-12-03 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Andre' Poenitz wrote: > Andre' > > PS: I am really sorry if I sounded too harsh (again) yesterday. > Hey, if any of us bothered to take offence at mailing lists or usenet, we'd have dropped of the net ages ago ;-) /+---+-

Re: LaTeX to unicode translation table

1999-12-03 Thread Jules Bean
On 3 Dec 1999, Miyata Shigeru wrote: > BTW be careful if you are to use fonts distributed by Microsoft. > I'm not sure about the legal position of Microsoft US. However, > Microsoft Japan quite blatantly states in a magazine interview > that all the fonts shipped with Windows operating system, M

Re: LaTeX to unicode translation table

1999-12-03 Thread Martin Norbäck
Fri Dec 03 1999, Miyata Shigeru -> > It seems BitStream corporation is no longer distributing the CyberBit > font. It is a complete Unicode 2.0 TrueType font except for 12,000 > Hangul Syllables and contains 26217 glyphs: Well, I've got that font. However, running ttmkfdir (the one distribute

Re: Special superscript and subscript arrangements

1999-12-03 Thread Andre' Poenitz
> directory src/kernel. There's a very good design doc there also -- I > think Asger has this on his web site as well. I can't find the included .eps picture. ANy idea? Andre' PS: I am really sorry if I sounded too harsh (again) yesterday. -- Andre' Poenitz .. [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Special superscript and subscript arrangements

1999-12-03 Thread Andre' Poenitz
If this lyx DTD is close to that used by TeX4ht, somebody else has done the work already ;-) Andre' -- Andre' Poenitz .. [EMAIL PROTECTED]