Re: pod2lyx would you use it?

2000-04-27 Thread Andre Poenitz
> I'm also thinking of writing a lyx2pod converter. If I spent the time to > do this would anyone use it? I personally don't think that the current .lyx format will remain for ages. It is difficult to represent tree-like structures and quite a bit away from any other format used for documents (ev

"rae" branch soon to be...

2000-04-27 Thread Allan Rae
I've started updating the branch to 1.1.5pre1 only 15 files had conflicts which is excellent although I suspect the po files probably have plenty of duplicate entries again(still). Sometime this weekend these updates should be done. Also, José (XTL) has accepted my patch and some of Angus's so

Re: wish list

2000-04-27 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > On 27-Apr-2000 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> "Ulrich" == Ulrich Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Ulrich> I am currently using lyx intensively to write a number of > > Ulrich> large documents. I almost feal I owe you developers at l

pod2lyx would you use it?

2000-04-27 Thread Richard D. Jackson
I would like to know how many people are interested in a pod2lyx converter? I know that a while back Amir Karger wrote a basic pod2lyx parser ( actually I e-mailed him and got a copy of what he had done as he put it a long time ago ). After a few e-mail's between the two of us I decided to do a re

1.1.14 vs 1.1.15 output

2000-04-27 Thread Garst R. Reese
I have a book with 12 pages of frontmatter (roman), including a TOC. TOC's and Chapters start on odd numbered pages. The TOC starts on page v and ends on page ix, but the frontmatter has to have an even number of pages, so I put the dedication on page x. In 1.1.14, this allowed Chapter 1 to go on

amsfonts

2000-04-27 Thread Eran Tromer
Hello, In my installation, \mathbb and \mathfrak are not available unless I add \usepackage{amsfonts} to the LaTeX preamble. This contradicts the User's Guide, which states that enabling "Use AMS Math" should suffice. I suggest to either document this or (preferably) change "Use AMS Math" to use

Re: lazy generation of lyxtext

2000-04-27 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> Lazy Generation of LyXText I like lazy generation. Also, your proposal seems fine. A few thoughts: - I have always wanted to do probabilistic formatting. The reason it takes 15 seconds to format the user guide is that the formatting is linear in number of characters, and doing the

Re: GUI discussion

2000-04-27 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> Now, it seems that almost everybody don't like the red dot suggestion, so > I'll think of alternative solutions. Please notice that everybody agrees that the red dots might be relevant to solve the direction problem. In particular, we completely trust your judgement in this situation, because y

Re: wish list

2000-04-27 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> Instead of having a million view_x_command and x_to_y_command in lyxrc, it > may be better to write a general converting/viewing code: > For example, in lyxrc you put lines like > \converter_command dvi ps "dvips" > \converter_command ps pdf "ps2pdf" > etc., and LyX will automatically create an

GUI discussion

2000-04-27 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 12:17:56PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Amir> ALternatively, you could change the cursor depending on the > Amir> direction. > > I thought it was already the case. Yes, it is. Now, it seems that almost

Re: wish list

2000-04-27 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 01:03:42PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj&resh;nnes wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Ulrich> 4. What about adding pdf output (ps2pdf or pdftex)? > | > | There is some preliminary support for pdflatex. Have a look in > | lyxrc. > > _very_ preliminary

[scotto@u.washington.edu] Feedback from www.lyx.org

2000-04-27 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
--- Start of forwarded message --- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 21:02:27 +0200 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Feedback from www.lyx.org FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scott Otterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) entered the following feedback message on the LyX home page: -

prerelease 1.1.5pre1 is out. RPMS are ready.

2000-04-27 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
> You can get the last prerelease at: > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.1.5pre1.tar.gz > ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.5pre1.tar.gz > > I am sure rpm's will be announced soon. :-) They are ready. You can find a copy of the tarball here: ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/lyx-

Re: CVS problem

2000-04-27 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | [kayvan@satyr ~/src/lyx]$ cvs -t update | cvs update: notice: main loop with |CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/lyx/cvsroot | cvs [update aborted]: authorization failed: server anoncvs.lyx.org rejected access | [kayvan@satyr ~/src/lyx]

Re: CVS problem

2000-04-27 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 06:02:00PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > "Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | [kayvan@camel ~/src/lyx]$ cvs update > | cvs [update aborted]: authorization failed: server anoncvs.lyx.org > | rejected access > > Are you able to do a checkout? No. I c

Re: CVS problem

2000-04-27 Thread Garst R. Reese
"Kayvan A. Sylvan" wrote: > > [kayvan@camel ~/src/lyx]$ cvs update > cvs [update aborted]: authorization failed: server anoncvs.lyx.org rejected access > > -- > Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: > Sylvan Associates, Inc.| Laura Isabella S

Re: CVS problem

2000-04-27 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | [kayvan@camel ~/src/lyx]$ cvs update | cvs [update aborted]: authorization failed: server anoncvs.lyx.org | rejected access Are you able to do a checkout? And when giving cvs reports always run cvs with -t. The cvs server does not log anything.

CVS problem

2000-04-27 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
[kayvan@camel ~/src/lyx]$ cvs update cvs [update aborted]: authorization failed: server anoncvs.lyx.org rejected access -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan Associates, Inc.| Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena http://www.succ

Re: lyx-1.1.4 build fails -- fix included ...

2000-04-27 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Bush Doctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I've fixed the problem by patching patch-1.1.4fix2.gz at line #130 | replacing 'AM_PROG_INSTALL' with 'AC_PROG_INSTALL'. Versions of autoconf and automake, please. Lgb

lyx-1.1.4 build fails -- fix included ...

2000-04-27 Thread Bush Doctor
We've encountered a problem with patch-1.1.4fix2.gz under FreeBSD goku.cl.msu.edu 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #36: Thu Apr 20 13:26:38 EDT 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GOKU i386 When building lyx we get the following diagnostic > cd . && automake --foreign --include-deps Make

Re: wish list

2000-04-27 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Well I hope the use is to bring them to the FODEM :) FODEM? What kind of an acronym is that? Lgb

Re: wish list

2000-04-27 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Ulrich> 4. What about adding pdf output (ps2pdf or pdftex)? | | There is some preliminary support for pdflatex. Have a look in | lyxrc. _very_ preliminary. You are able to set the lyxrc variables, but lyx will not use them for anything.

Re: wish list

2000-04-27 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 27-Apr-2000 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> "Ulrich" == Ulrich Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ulrich> I am currently using lyx intensively to write a number of > Ulrich> large documents. I almost feal I owe you developers at least a > Ulrich> bottle of fine wine. Let we know when

Re: wish list

2000-04-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Ulrich" == Ulrich Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ulrich> I am currently using lyx intensively to write a number of Ulrich> large documents. I almost feal I owe you developers at least a Ulrich> bottle of fine wine. Let we know when you hold a meeting in Ulrich> Germany. Or you can ju

Re: 1.1.5pre1 (was: spellchecker.C and the LGPL)

2000-04-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Mike" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> Please leave in the addition of the FAQ and TOC to the Help menu Mike> if it isn't too offensive. Everything else can be nuked until it Mike> is redone properly. I left them in. JMarc

Re: \SpecialChar

2000-04-27 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lars> It does not buy anything other than 19 bytes saved. | | It buys us a somewhat more coherent file format (roughly | latex-based). And we will probably move away from latex and towards something like (or perhaps a short variant )

Re: \SpecialChar

2000-04-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 Lars> at 09:46:39AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > We could Lars> have a script that converts that part of format 2.16 back to | > Lars> the one used in 2.15.

Re: \SpecialChar

2000-04-27 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 09:46:39AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > We could have a script that converts that part of format 2.16 back to | > the one used in 2.15. | > | > sed -e 's/\\SpecialChar \\protected_separator/\\protected_separator/' | > \ <

Re: \SpecialChar

2000-04-27 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 09:46:39AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj&resh;nnes wrote: > We could have a script that converts that part of format 2.16 back to > the one used in 2.15. > > sed -e 's/\\SpecialChar \\protected_separator/\\protected_separator/' > \ < newformat.lyx > oldformat.lyx > > should hope

Re: gearing up for prerelease

2000-04-27 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 27-Apr-2000 Juergen Vigna wrote: > > Thanks Denkel :) Sorry should be Dekel ! Jürgen -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._ Dr. Jürgen Vigna E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Italienallee 13/N Tel:+39-0471-450260 I-3

Re: gearing up for prerelease

2000-04-27 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 27-Apr-2000 Juergen Vigna wrote: > > On 26-Apr-2000 Dekel Tsur wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 08:39:39PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: >>> >>> I've encountered crashes while doing cut & paste (with the new cut&paste code). >>> I'll give more details later. >> >> I've found a way to reproduce

prerelease 1.1.5pre1 is out.

2000-04-27 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
The long awaited first prerelease of 1.1.5 is finally out. This is from news: Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added. We are taking the C++ Standard Library in greater use for each day, this will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain and expand. User-vi

Re: \SpecialChar

2000-04-27 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Special care is needed. | I love the look of 1.1.15 but it took me about 6 hours to recover from | going back to 1.1.14 after 1.1.15 crashed with an emergency save | (cutting and pasting ERT). (red...) | Would it be possible for 1.1.14 to detect wh

Re: gearing up for prerelease

2000-04-27 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 26-Apr-2000 Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 08:39:39PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: >> >> I've encountered crashes while doing cut & paste (with the new cut&paste code). >> I'll give more details later. > > I've found a way to reproduce this bug: create a file with two paragraphs > (

Re: gearing up for prerelease

2000-04-27 Thread Garst R. Reese
"Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote: > > "Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Crash cutting and pasting ERT, no emergency file. > > This does obvioulsy not happen all the time. > > | Huge headache when I then went back to 1.1.14pre3 and edited the same > | file. > | I forgot about the pr

\SpecialChar

2000-04-27 Thread Garst R. Reese
Special care is needed. I love the look of 1.1.15 but it took me about 6 hours to recover from going back to 1.1.14 after 1.1.15 crashed with an emergency save (cutting and pasting ERT). Would it be possible for 1.1.14 to detect when it is asked to edit an older version file and make a versioned

Re: gearing up for prerelease

2000-04-27 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Crash cutting and pasting ERT, no emergency file. This does obvioulsy not happen all the time. | Huge headache when I then went back to 1.1.14pre3 and edited the same | file. | I forgot about the protected space change and it bit me big time. Sorr