Re: Random results from the fourth international LyX developers meetingin Norway

2000-06-16 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> An alternative approach would be to keep all the member variables, without > having the query_* methods. > The only disadvantage of this (comparing to your suggestion) is that adding > a new variable requires adding two lines (one in lyxrc.C and one in lyxrc.h) > instead of one (in lyxrc.C), and

Re: Insert xfig

2000-06-16 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> > Yes, I think so to. If you read the ExternalTemplate.lyx file, you will > > notice that this is mentioned as a feature to implement for a volunteer. > > I've added more options to the external inset: the ability to resize/rotate > the result (the resize buttons doesn't work yet). > > I also

Re: Insert xfig

2000-06-16 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> For some strange reason, I named the script fig2psfig.py, where it should be > fig2pstex.py. > Here is a fixed patch. This patch set is good. Thanks Dekel ;-) Could somebody please apply it to the cvs? Thanks, Asger

Re: Insert xfig

2000-06-16 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> > Why not have support for ";" in the external figure code? > > (i.e. define UpdateCommand as "cmd1 parameters;cmd2 parameters;..." ) > > This will save a call to python. > > Better yet is, perhaps, to create a python secure module, that could be used as > a wrapper around safe system calls.

Re: Insert xfig

2000-06-16 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 01:18:49PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > However, I think that resizing/rotation options should be added to the > > external inset. > > Yes, I think so to. If you read the ExternalTemplate.lyx file, you will > notice that this is mentioned as a feature to impl

LyX segfaults on color allocation failure

2000-06-16 Thread Simon Hill
Hello, Just upgraded to 1.1.5 after 1.0.2 started segfaulting on me. Turned out that 1.1.5 segfaulted as well. So I tried starting another X client, and got a long stream of color allocation failure messages. Realized I had a vnc session up, shut that down, and tried again. Presto, LyX works fine

Re: Insert xfig

2000-06-16 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 08:07:18PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > Why not have support for ";" in the external figure code? > (i.e. define UpdateCommand as "cmd1 parameters;cmd2 parameters;..." ) > This will save a call to python. Better yet is, perhaps, to create a python secure module, that co

Table size

2000-06-16 Thread Kristoffer Lawson
Is there any idea when we might get visual feedback to the "size" attribute for table cells? Or even a horizontal scrollbar when tables go off-screen? Currently editing tables is virtually impossible. I use the size for when I have a longer piece of text for a table cell and I believe there is n

Re: Insert xfig

2000-06-16 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 01:08:47PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > If what you meant was to provide a small facility to allow the > "safe" script constructs, sure we could do that. We already showed > the way with the script for the external date inset which uses > a general Python script

Re: Insert xfig

2000-06-16 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 07:52:08PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > No. You should write a python script that generates both the pstex and the > > > pstex_t files automatically (in the example above, the suffix of the > > > Postscript file should be changed from pstex to eps). > > > > By now, it w

Re: Insert xfig

2000-06-16 Thread Dekel Tsur
> > No. You should write a python script that generates both the pstex and the > > pstex_t files automatically (in the example above, the suffix of the > > Postscript file should be changed from pstex to eps). > > By now, it would come as no surprise that I'd like to ask Dekel to submit > a patc

Re: [Q] How to generate the character « and »?

2000-06-16 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:59:14 +0100 >>From: Yann MORERE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: LyX Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, LyX devel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: [Q] How to generate the character « and »? >> >>Hello, >> >>I have imported a text document in lyx which contains « and » "french >>quote"

[Q] How to generate the character « and »?

2000-06-16 Thread Yann MORERE
Hello, I have imported a text document in lyx which contains « and » "french quote" How can i input them in my lyx document compose + <+< does not works is there a tips There are a few things you need to know about this table. This manual is set up --- by hand, mind you --- to print all of t

Re: kde frontend: LyXFunc or LyXView

2000-06-16 Thread Marko Vendelin
> all development has been done with the xforms code. The code in the kde > directory was written as proof of concept a long, long time ago. As such, it > has lagged behind... > > You are correct to report that the code in kde/Dialogs.C is inconsistent with > that in xforms/Dialogs.C. It is wron

Re: Random results from the fourth international LyX developers meeting in Norway

2000-06-16 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 11:04:52AM +0300, Lior Silberman wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > To be more specific, lyxrc.C should contain a big array with entries for the > > lyxrc variables, each entry contains information like token name, default > > value, etc. Another field w

Re: kde frontend: LyXFunc or LyXView

2000-06-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Marko> current CVS does not compile with KDE frontend due to the difference in Marko> Dialogs class definition for KDE and Xforms frontends. Namely, Dialogs Marko> class constructor expects LyXView* as its argument in Xforms frontend Marko> (src/frontends/Dialogs.h src/frontends/xforms/Dialogs.C)

Keyboard problems (lyx-1.1.5 and below)

2000-06-16 Thread Jacek Konieczny
It is very sad that LyX still can't support X keyboard other than ISO-8859-1. It is one of those broken program for which I still need a broken xmodmap. And I also don't think using LyX own keymaps is a good thing, as the Xserver is ment to handle the keyboard. The problem is, that when I have eg

Re: Insert xfig

2000-06-16 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> However, I think that resizing/rotation options should be added to the > external inset. Yes, I think so to. If you read the ExternalTemplate.lyx file, you will notice that this is mentioned as a feature to implement for a volunteer. I think it should be designed such that there are optional pa

Re: Insert xfig

2000-06-16 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> > PS (to Asger) The need for writing scripts for the external inset is a little > > annoying. Can't we just add an option to define UpdateCommand to be > > "cmd1;cmd2;.." with the meanning to execute cmd1, then cmd2 etc. ? > > And what is the difference between pic2png_eps.py and pic2png_eps.sh

Re: Batchjob .lyx -> .dvi howto?

2000-06-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
> Why there is now lyx --export dvi option? Erm... now that you mention it... I think lyx --export dvi is possible, too. Stupid me... Andre' -- It'll take a long time to eat 63.000 peanuts. André Pönitz . [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: configure error

2000-06-16 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 16-Jun-2000 Angus Leeming wrote: > using configure --with-frontend=kde > configuration falls over if QT or KDE aren't installed in certain hardwired > locations. This is daft, since two shell variables are defined when running KDE > but not employed by the configure script. > > Why not test

Re: Batchjob .lyx -> .dvi howto?

2000-06-16 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:12:08AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > How does one make a batch job for .lyx -> .dvi "conversion" ? > > lyx2dvi: > > #!/bin/sh > lyx --export latex $1 > latex $1 > latex $1 > latex $1 > Why there is now lyx --export dvi option? However, it is possible to use lyx --

Re: Batchjob .lyx -> .dvi howto?

2000-06-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> There had been some discussion on the naming of the flags and I Andre> did not have the impression that the issue was settled. Until Andre> then I did not want to "officially" document the flag in order Andre> to prevent people fro

Re: Batchjob .lyx -> .dvi howto?

2000-06-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
> Andre> #!/bin/sh lyx --export latex $1 > > BTW andre, did you document this flag somewhere? I found nothing in > the man page (hint!). Of course not ;-) There had been some discussion on the naming of the flags and I did not have the impression that the issue was settled. Until then I did no

configure error

2000-06-16 Thread Angus Leeming
using configure --with-frontend=kde configuration falls over if QT or KDE aren't installed in certain hardwired locations. This is daft, since two shell variables are defined when running KDE but not employed by the configure script. Why not test $KDEDIR (=/usr/local/kde on my system) $QTDIR (

Re: Clean CVS get still does not compile

2000-06-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Kayvan> This is on RH 6.1, default compiler/linker/etc.: Kayvan> /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I./.. -I./.. -O2 -m486 -fno-strength-reduce -ansi -W -Wall -Wno-return-type -c marshal.cc Kayvan> c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I./.. -I./.. -O2 -m486 -fno-str

Re: Batchjob .lyx -> .dvi howto?

2000-06-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> How does one make a batch job for .lyx -> .dvi "conversion" ? Andre> lyx2dvi: Andre> #!/bin/sh lyx --export latex $1 BTW andre, did you document this flag somewhere? I found nothing in the man page (hint!). JMarc

kde frontend: LyXFunc or LyXView

2000-06-16 Thread Marko Vendelin
current CVS does not compile with KDE frontend due to the difference in Dialogs class definition for KDE and Xforms frontends. Namely, Dialogs class constructor expects LyXView* as its argument in Xforms frontend (src/frontends/Dialogs.h src/frontends/xforms/Dialogs.C) and LyXFunc* as an argument

Re: Random results from the fourth international LyX developersmeeting in Norway

2000-06-16 Thread Lior Silberman
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Dekel Tsur wrote: > To be more specific, lyxrc.C should contain a big array with entries for the > lyxrc variables, each entry contains information like token name, default > value, etc. Another field will be type (e.g. "printer", "screen fonts", etc.) > which will be used fo

Re: Random results from the fourth international LyX developers

2000-06-16 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 15-Jun-2000 Dekel Tsur wrote: > I also want to add that routines for building forms automatically, can also > be used for adding support for arbitrary latex packages: a text file will > define the arguments/config commands to the package, and a form for changing > these values will be created

Re: Random results from the fourth international LyX developers

2000-06-16 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 15-Jun-2000 Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 02:54:33PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: >> >> The highlights include: >> >> - Mayor clean up in the LyXText and inset handling by Juergen and >> Lgb. This leads in the direction of a lot of new posibilities >> for nesting

Re: Batchjob .lyx -> .dvi howto?

2000-06-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
> How does one make a batch job for .lyx -> .dvi "conversion" ? lyx2dvi: #!/bin/sh lyx --export latex $1 latex $1 latex $1 latex $1 or something like that. Andre' -- It'll take a long time to eat 63.000 peanuts. André Pönitz . [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Insert xfig

2000-06-16 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 12:09:48AM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > Sorry, python scripts aren't on my radar screen :) > > So I guess I'll have to write it ... > > PS (to Asger) The need for writing scripts for the external inset is a little > annoying. Can't we just add an option to define UpdateCo