Re: LyX made the press again ...

2000-12-21 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Allan Rae wrote: > On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, John Levon wrote: > > > http://www.advogato.org/article/218.html > > "The Demon of Portability" > > Most interesting. It'd be nice to know how many, if any, of the > correspondents read the LDN and even more interesting to know how man

Re: LyX made the press again ...

2000-12-21 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, John Levon wrote: > http://www.advogato.org/article/218.html > "The Demon of Portability" Most interesting. It'd be nice to know how many, if any, of the correspondents read the LDN and even more interesting to know how many bothered to follow the links to the actual archiv

LyX made the press again ...

2000-12-21 Thread John Levon
http://www.advogato.org/article/218.html "The Demon of Portability" john -- "They're talking about a submanifold of space which is a 2-dimensional torus whose cross-sectional radii are on the order of a millimeter. Please make some minimal attempt to understand what's being discussed be

Patch: insetinclude

2000-12-21 Thread Dekel Tsur
This patch adds an Ascii method to insetinclude (but it handles only verbatim input). I consider this a bug fix. patch.gz

Re: Lyx future

2000-12-21 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I think LyX will not spread among users as long as > one cannot: [...] You might want to take a closer look at abiword from www.abisource.com. It does offer some of the features you are interested in although it is not LaTeX oriented. Che

Re: Lyx future

2000-12-21 Thread Garst R. Reese
Martin Vermeer wrote: > But actually converting and importing a doc into LyX tends > to be a nontrivial operation still. My best luck has been converting to .txt and importing that. This is particulary true with wp2latex or whatever it is called, because it tries to do things to make the doc look

Re: Lyx future

2000-12-21 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:28:10PM -0400, Garst R. Reese wrote: ... > > > Did I make my point? I really would love to propose > > > LyX to my wife, instead of that damned StarOffice, > > > but I just can't. > Sure you can. Courage. > > Not YET, that is. I have the same problem... had to > > pr

Re: Lyx future

2000-12-21 Thread Garst R. Reese
Martin Vermeer wrote: > That's called an attitude problem ;-) My wife has it > too. Lucky she has me... :) > > Let's take a REAL-WORLD > > example: > > > My wife intends (and has the skill) to become a book > > writer. She has writen small poems and novels on > > Dos-Word since under the age of

Re: Dead keys still not working with xforms 0.88

2000-12-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> I don't get what you are aiming at. hmmm I thing you are reading Lars> me wrong, what I am saying that when override_deadkey == false Lars> _then_ there are no other way to make dead_keys work than Lars> binding them to the app

Re: Lyx future

2000-12-21 Thread Martin Vermeer
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Re: [Angus?] Re: 1.1.6: Paragraph layouts combo-box does not update properly

2000-12-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Hello all, please excuse my continued absence. I had a hard disk crash last week and it subsequently transpired that my nightly backup was corrupted ;-( All is not lost (I was lucky; the disk failure was not a magnetic media problem, just an electronic one) so I shall eventually return, older an

Lyx future

2000-12-21 Thread yves-gablin
Hi, I love LyX "spirit", its way of writing documents. But... I think LyX will not spread among users as long as one cannot: - define a new personal template (is that what a group of styles is called?) starting from nothing, using a GUI, - extend an existing template by: * modifying existing st