LyX beginner

2000-08-08 Thread Li Bing
Dear all, I am a LyX user. After I installed LyX on my Solaris machine, I found that some other ones, xdvi, dvips and latex were also needed. Where can I find these software? And are binary ones available? Thanks, Bing ---

Re: PATCH (InsetGraphics)

2000-08-08 Thread Garst R. Reese
Allan Rae wrote: > P.S. If we were really keen we could start a system/ subdirectory for > holding system-independent files. That would leave frontends/ for > specific toolkit implementations that might share a particular system. > This could help avoid confusion over why a frontends/Xlib dir do

Re: PATCH (InsetGraphics)

2000-08-08 Thread Allan Rae
On 8 Aug 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Yes, ofcourse, the Xlib can be used by everything unix. > > More thatn that, Xlib can be used for anything X, we already use that > both on OS/2 and MSNT. This has been a great little thread. I'm glad to se

lib/listerrors in CVS?

2000-08-08 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
Why is lib/listerrors in CVS? lib/listerrors should be generated from the build process, and should not be in CVS. Please delete it. -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan Associates, Inc.| Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena

Re: ghostscript x11 device

2000-08-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > Sure tis is easy: gs -sDEVICE=x11 -sOutputfile=tmp | > (or wat ever devide that gs --help shows) | | Maybe: | | gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=x11 -sOutputFile=tmpfilename | | could work better. sure, but tat was not the point :-) Lgb

Re: new "New" functionality

2000-08-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | have IS working correctly for both cases (hug me if I'm wrong) Group Hug! :-) Lgb | pretty sure that there are no more bugs for this naming stuff now. | | Jürgen | | -- | -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-

Re: ghostscript x11 device

2000-08-08 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 08-Aug-2000 Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >| Hmm, ok, but then I need to save it to some format that I can read, the >| only thing I can depend on is XPM, since we already depend on the xpm >| library. I'll check that out. > > Sure tis is easy: gs

Re: new "New" functionality

2000-08-08 Thread Juergen Vigna
> > Jürgen, I am not sure if you remember, but we used to have both > Buffer::filename and Buffer::buffername. Buffername was something I > introduced when I created the Buffer class (1996 something...), > this was ntended for this specific case where you have a buffer that > has not been given a

Re: new "New" functionality

2000-08-08 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 08-Aug-2000 Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > My implict point about emergency files is that we need the autosave > files. And we will have them! I just changed the few things we talked about before. I'll submit soon, just let me test it again ;) Jürgen -- -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._

Re: new "New" functionality

2000-08-08 Thread Baruch Even
On 8 Aug 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | The way I expect (and mostly see) programs acting in the new file problem > | is that when you create a new file it's a new, unnamed file, when you go > | about quick-saving it [C-s], it pops up a "save-as"

Re: PATCH (InsetGraphics)

2000-08-08 Thread Baruch Even
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Juergen Vigna wrote: > [snipped the nice explanation] > > > > As I said, I'm not trying to be not GUII, I am not dependent on the > > toolkit, the only things I use are Xpm library and Xlib. That should be > > independent enough for now. It isn't for Windows or OS/2, but when

Re: ghostscript x11 device

2000-08-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hmm, ok, but then I need to save it to some format that I can read, the | only thing I can depend on is XPM, since we already depend on the xpm | library. I'll check that out. Sure tis is easy: gs -sDEVICE=x11 -sOutputfile=tmp (or wat ever devide that g

Re: ghostscript x11 device

2000-08-08 Thread Baruch Even
On 8 Aug 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Anyone knows where I can find the documentation for the ghostscript X11 > | device? I'd need that to match InsetFig, and I'd like an external doc > | besides the InsetFig sources. > > We really, really do

Re: new "New" functionality

2000-08-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | The way I expect (and mostly see) programs acting in the new file problem | is that when you create a new file it's a new, unnamed file, when you go | about quick-saving it [C-s], it pops up a "save-as" dialog asking for a | name, from there on it acts as

Re: new "New" functionality

2000-08-08 Thread Baruch Even
The way I expect (and mostly see) programs acting in the new file problem is that when you create a new file it's a new, unnamed file, when you go about quick-saving it [C-s], it pops up a "save-as" dialog asking for a name, from there on it acts as usual. The auto-save file can be a unique name

Re: Compile issues

2000-08-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 04:20:58PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > | Downloaded the latest CVS just now, reran autogen.sh; configure; make. It | > | still breaks with the attached errors (which I thin

Re: new "New" functionality

2000-08-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I don't get it what this has to do with the emergency file now, but at | least Emacs is your opinion :), so I'll have a look that unsaved files | if the don't want to be saved the autosave file get removed. My implict point about emergency files is th

Re: Changing tabular multirow latex output!

2000-08-08 Thread Juergen Vigna
> > Generally, good LaTeX style is to put out \\ for line-ends, table-ends or > whatever ends you have in the current context (\\ is just a token assigned > by \let). \newline is for the special case you want to have a text line end > inside a table. > Well then I can at least let the parbox as

Re: Compile issues

2000-08-08 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 04:20:58PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Downloaded the latest CVS just now, reran autogen.sh; configure; make. It > | still breaks with the attached errors (which I think are exactly the same). > | > | gcc is still gcc

Re: new "New" functionality

2000-08-08 Thread Juergen Vigna
>| They are not deleted! > > Then that should be fixed. > I'll have a look. >| I don't know I really don't like dummy files around I have to delete >| by hand and all this in my document directory (therefore I liked the >| new directive for the backup_directory ;), well at least Emacs does >|

Re: ghostscript x11 device

2000-08-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Anyone knows where I can find the documentation for the ghostscript X11 | device? I'd need that to match InsetFig, and I'd like an external doc | besides the InsetFig sources. We really, really do not want to do the rendering the insetfig way. What you

Re: new "New" functionality

2000-08-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 08-Aug-2000 Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | >| Well I guess we won't loose anything while emergency save is working, | >| but ok how is the behaviour of autosave-files after an save as and | >| a renaming of the document are they deleted? | > | > If th

Re: PATCH (InsetGraphics)

2000-08-08 Thread Juergen Vigna
[snipped the nice explanation] > > As I said, I'm not trying to be not GUII, I am not dependent on the > toolkit, the only things I use are Xpm library and Xlib. That should be > independent enough for now. It isn't for Windows or OS/2, but when we get > there we'll need to do some more work on P

ghostscript x11 device

2000-08-08 Thread Baruch Even
Anyone knows where I can find the documentation for the ghostscript X11 device? I'd need that to match InsetFig, and I'd like an external doc besides the InsetFig sources. -- Baruch Even http://techst02.technion.ac.il/~sbaruch/ (My Site) http://rpghost.com/jindor/ (My brot

Re: PATCH (InsetGraphics)

2000-08-08 Thread Baruch Even
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > > > It's pretty hard for me to handle the X11 work itself, let alone the work > > for GUII, I prefer to get something up and running now, that will be > > comparable with features to the InsetFig and be able to replace it, than > > shoot for the stars

Re: new "New" functionality

2000-08-08 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 08-Aug-2000 Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >| Well I guess we won't loose anything while emergency save is working, >| but ok how is the behaviour of autosave-files after an save as and >| a renaming of the document are they deleted? > > If they are not they sould. But I would regard that as a bu

Re: PATCH (InsetGraphics)

2000-08-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > We don't _ave to_ draw to a Pixmap, the painter is very much gui | > dependant. And other imge objects than Pixmaps can very well be used | > there. | | The Painter is not really GUII, it takes a Pixmap to draw, and I prefer to | work as much as I can

Re: compiling CVS

2000-08-08 Thread Baruch Even
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Angus Leeming wrote: > 2. ios::noreplace does not appear to be a part of the modern standard. At > least, DEC's compiler throws it out. I therefore removed it from > XPM_Renderer::isImageFormatOK() Ok, I'll learn for next time. I guess there is no chance to learn this but to

Re: PATCH (InsetGraphics)

2000-08-08 Thread Baruch Even
On 8 Aug 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | Regarding the image format support in the toolkits, the problem is not > | loading the images and showing them, the problem is that we need to do > | various transforms on the images, rotation, resizing and color reductions > | are the required ones.

Re: new "New" functionality

2000-08-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Well I guess we won't loose anything while emergency save is working, | but ok how is the behaviour of autosave-files after an save as and | a renaming of the document are they deleted? If they are not they sould. But I would regard that as a bug. | A

Re: new "New" functionality

2000-08-08 Thread Juergen Vigna
> > Why care about this? Make make this special case? What are the > benefits? (and what are the drawbacks?) > Do you _always_ give the document a name at once if you plan to keep > the file? Or are your wont to loose data unless you have remembered to > rename the document? Well I guess we won'

Re: new "New" functionality

2000-08-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Well Lars you should point on your nose first before saying such a thing | and second I seem to have read in a mail that we are still in a cvs tree | and not a released one so "errors are allowed". I am not pointing at you, but it is a fact and we hav

Bug reports

2000-08-08 Thread Schmitt
Hello, here are two short comments on the latest lyx version: when adding two bibtex bibliographies as separate insets, adding some citations, changing the order of the bibliographies and manipulating the citations again, lyx-1.1.5fix1 crashes. The error does not occur, if you specify both bibli

RE: full InsetRef patch

2000-08-08 Thread Juergen Vigna
> > Attached is a full InsetRef patch. > InsetRef is now GUI-independent. Seems really nice work, I'll apply it! Jürgen -- -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._ Dr. Jürgen VignaE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Italienallee 13/N Tel/Fax: +39-0471-4

Re: new "New" functionality

2000-08-08 Thread Juergen Vigna
> > This is totally unacceptable. (#define, configure option and lyxrc > alike) We need a way that seem natural. > > That is another point, this code was introduced too fast, without > thought on other alternatives. Is (now) also clear that the issues > about temporary directories was not closel

full InsetRef patch

2000-08-08 Thread Angus Leeming
This is probably going to be my last contribution for a few weeks... Attached is a full InsetRef patch. InsetRef is now GUI-independent. "reference-insert" will emit a signal, launching a large-scale FormRef dialog similar (a little better? ;-) to the current one. Clicking on an existing refere

Re: compiling CVS

2000-08-08 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 08-Aug-2000 Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >| 1. Renderer.[Ch] and XPM_Renderer.[Ch] are required by the source >|code but not > > Did you forget those file Jürgen? > Yes I did but they are already in place (you should have got the mail ;) Jürgen -- -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-

Re: PATCH (InsetGraphics)

2000-08-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 8 Aug 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | | > Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > | Again the same patch against the most recent CVS, can you please apply | > | this? or do you have any problem with it? | > | > I have no particular proble

Re: compiling CVS

2000-08-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Three points: | 1. Renderer.[Ch] and XPM_Renderer.[Ch] are required by the source |code but not Did you forget those file Jürgen? | 2. ios::noreplace does not appear to be a part of the modern standard. At | least, DEC's compiler throws it out. I ther

Re: string include order errors in cvs

2000-08-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | When compiling the latest cvs the include order of header files does | not seem to be correct: I belive this is a bogus report, note that you are using gcc 2.96 that is currently a _very_ experimental/unstable compiler. Especially that the included-s

compiling CVS

2000-08-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Three points: 1. Renderer.[Ch] and XPM_Renderer.[Ch] are required by the source code but not present. I got them out of Baruch's patch directly. (I use "cvs update -dP".) 2. ios::noreplace does not appear to be a part of the modern standard. At least, DEC's compiler throws it out. I therefore rem

Re: PATCH (InsetGraphics)

2000-08-08 Thread Juergen Vigna
> > It's pretty hard for me to handle the X11 work itself, let alone the work > for GUII, I prefer to get something up and running now, that will be > comparable with features to the InsetFig and be able to replace it, than > shoot for the stars and build the mega graphics widget that does it all

Re: new "New" functionality

2000-08-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Well Lars IMO we could discuss just a bit about this, I could give you | the same 'blinding fast...' fast keybindings and so we could go on discussing | about wrongly saving a newfile.lyx or having a autosave-file #newfile.lyx# | around I don't want, bu

Re: PATCH (InsetGraphics)

2000-08-08 Thread Baruch Even
On 8 Aug 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Again the same patch against the most recent CVS, can you please apply > | this? or do you have any problem with it? > > I have no particular problem with it. However I want you to remember > that the diff

Re: PATCH (InsetGraphics)

2000-08-08 Thread Baruch Even
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Juergen Vigna wrote: > >> > >> Please apply this. > > Applied, will commit soon, just some observations: > > - you really should fix your indentation, when I look into insetgraphics.C > you mix tab-indentation (8 chars normally) and 4 spaces, so the indent > level is no

Re: InsetRef suggestion: comments please

2000-08-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Allan> Angus, from what I'm reading you seem to want to have two dialogs with Allan> almost identical capabilities. Just make one. Maybe this is what you are Allan> working towards with the addition of the browser? One dialog only. When called with an inset (as in showRef( this );), the browser

RE: Layout->Paper bug in 1.1.6CVS

2000-08-08 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 06-Aug-2000 Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > Hi folks, > > The Layout->Paper option has a couple of bugs in it: > > 1) I can not input 0pt (or 0in) in there. I seem to remember being able >to set margins or headheight to 0 in previous versions. Now, the code >does not allow such settings. >

Re: new "New" functionality

2000-08-08 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 07-Aug-2000 Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > C-X C-s to save no pop and blinding fast... > And no, it is not MUCH less work "C-x C-f ret" in most cases with old > scheme. This is not possible anymore. Well Lars IMO we could discuss just a bit about this, I could give you the same 'blinding fas

Re: Xlib wrapping

2000-08-08 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 08-Aug-2000 Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >| For this I'd like to open a new directory, say lyx-devel/xlib++ or >| lyx-deve/src/xlib++ or whatever other name you feel like. > > should be almost completely hidden from the rest of LyX. Remember tat > we really want to support MS and OS/2 using nat

Re: PATCH (InsetGraphics)

2000-08-08 Thread Juergen Vigna
>> >> Please apply this. Applied, will commit soon, just some observations: - you really should fix your indentation, when I look into insetgraphics.C you mix tab-indentation (8 chars normally) and 4 spaces, so the indent level is not equal on the whole file. - I don't like the bv_ variabl

string include order errors in cvs

2000-08-08 Thread Svante Signell
When compiling the latest cvs the include order of header files does not seem to be correct: formula.C->formula.h->insets/lyxinset.h->lyxfont.h->LString.h #ifdef __STRING__ #error The header has been included before LString.h #else #define __STRING__ #endif Environment: Approx RH 7.0 beta gcc-2

Re: Xlib wrapping

2000-08-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I need for the upcoming EPS_Renderer to work quite a bit with various Xlib | elements, I would like to wrap them up with a lightweight C++ wrapping so | has to make it all easier to manage, The reason I'd like that is that I | would like to avoid quite a

Re: PATCH (InsetGraphics)

2000-08-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Again the same patch against the most recent CVS, can you please apply | this? or do you have any problem with it? I have no particular problem with it. However I want you to remember that the different gui toolkits usually have support for different ima

mouse-click copy/paste vs. menu-copy/paste ?

2000-08-08 Thread R. Lahaye
Hello, I use the mouse to select text, that also contains math environment. When I do a Edit->Copy and then Edit->Paste somewhere else, the text is nicely copied. However, I use the middle mouse click to paste the selected text elsewhere, the math-environment is gone and replaced by escape seq

Xlib wrapping

2000-08-08 Thread Baruch Even
I need for the upcoming EPS_Renderer to work quite a bit with various Xlib elements, I would like to wrap them up with a lightweight C++ wrapping so has to make it all easier to manage, The reason I'd like that is that I would like to avoid quite a bit of the account keeping needed (stuff like th