Wish: Multiple Windows

2001-06-21 Thread Axel Boldt
First of all, thank you all very much for a wonderful product. My biggest wish for lyx is to be able to edit a document simultaneously in several windows, as is possible in emacs and word. I often find myself wondering "what exactly did I write up there three pages ago?" Marking the current po

Re: Sponsorship news coverage

2001-06-21 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > cool. But wouldn't, say, Guinness as a sponsor have more practical > advantages for the developers meeting? :) You are welcome to actively seek out sponsors for the next meeting. But why wait till then? Go out and find another nice sponsor now! A

Re: OS/2 help needed Re: Lyx User's Guide

2001-06-21 Thread Shigeru Miyata
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But I cannot read the User's Guide (which is pretty > > crucial for someone with my background). When I > > try to open it, Lyx displays the message "Loading > > font into X server" in its gray message window at > > the bottom, and it stays like this indefinitely (2

OS/2 help needed Re: Lyx User's Guide

2001-06-21 Thread mike.ressler
Hello Jeff, I'm forwarding your email to the LyX Developer's list since I haven't a clue what might be hanging you up. Hopefully someone there will know. Also, please let us know what version of LyX you are using, whether you compiled it yourself, and if so, what xforms library you are using, et

Re: Towards LyX 1.1.6fix3 (status update #2)

2001-06-21 Thread Matej Cepl
Unfortunately, I am out in the Windows wilderness until September, so sorry I cannot test it now. Matej On 21 Jun 2001, at 23:24, Roman Maurer wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > > Roman> IMHO it would be very good to apply Lars's fix for > > non-Latin-1 Roman> keyboards to 1.1.6fix3.

Re: Towards LyX 1.1.6fix3 (status update #2)

2001-06-21 Thread Roman Maurer
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Roman> IMHO it would be very good to apply Lars's fix for non-Latin-1 > Roman> keyboards to 1.1.6fix3. > > I thought about this, but somebody mentionned getting crashes with it. > In particular, I would like to be sure that it works on machines with > a different e

Re: www-user(css) version 2.0

2001-06-21 Thread Zvezdan Petkovic
I got it. I apologise to everybody who feels insulted by my impatient reply. Best regards, -- Zvezdan Petkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/

Re: www-user(css) version 2.0

2001-06-21 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Zvezdan Petkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | No, I don't. But we sometimes react in a way that's not the best. I hope | you do that much less often than I do. If you follow carefully that | thread, you'll see yourself how many times I pointed out some things. | That might make you understand wh

Re: www-user(css) version 2.0

2001-06-21 Thread Zvezdan Petkovic
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:03:55PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > spare us... > > Do you really believe this attitude is the right way to get your voice > heard? > > -- > Lgb No, I don't. But we sometimes react in a way that's not the best. I hope you do that much less often than

Re: www-user(css) version 2.0

2001-06-21 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Zvezdan Petkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | You take that work, and than play Smart Alec and screw up everything | because you do not understand the difference between the block and | inline element (and some other things about CSS)! All you need to do is | pickup the CSS, implement the XHTML

[Wishitem] Drag'n Drop Cross-References

2001-06-21 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, for me inserting labels and then for inserting a cross reference, diving in a menu to find the label again seems to be not very convenient. Thus I wish I could just drag'n and drop a label, if I would like to use it as cross reference (maybe this is not there because it is difficult to

Re: www-user(css) version 2.0

2001-06-21 Thread Zvezdan Petkovic
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 07:12:35PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > I don't know what's changed since yesterday but I now see both at your > site and at my work area with your patch applied that netscape 4.77 > Communicator renders the two screenshots over the top of the last > section of text on the mai

Re: Sponsorship news coverage

2001-06-21 Thread dochawk
cool. But wouldn't, say, Guinness as a sponsor have more practical advantages for the developers meeting? :) hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will

2 bugs

2001-06-21 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
1) unmapped alt- sequences are passed as characters--Alt-o (to open [ok, I was wrong!]) put an o in my title. 2) inability to read old files. I don't know if this was a spring bug or a current bug. I've attached the offending document and the simple postscript insert. This worked in the sp

Re: Long list of bugs

2001-06-21 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 21 June 2001 15:19, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:58:17PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > > On Thursday 21 June 2001 12:44, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > To keep you occupied... > > > > > > Citation dialog: > > > > > > - In the info area, the year appear after the authors an

Re: Long list of bugs

2001-06-21 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:50:53PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > | - Minipage in 1.2 are inconsistent with minipage in 1.1.6: in the later, the | > | paragraphs are indented, while in the latter, they are not. | > | > I'd put this down as "not a

Re: Long list of bugs

2001-06-21 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:50:53PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | - Minipage in 1.2 are inconsistent with minipage in 1.1.6: in the later, the > | paragraphs are indented, while in the latter, they are not. > > I'd put this down as "not a bug". 1.2.0 behaves by default as latex, > and IM

Re: Long list of bugs

2001-06-21 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:58:17PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Thursday 21 June 2001 12:44, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > To keep you occupied... > > > > Citation dialog: > > > > - In the info area, the year appear after the authors and not at the end. > > Not a bug. Just a preference. I thought

Re: Long list of bugs

2001-06-21 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 21 June 2001 12:44, Dekel Tsur wrote: > To keep you occupied... > > Citation dialog: > > - In the info area, the year appear after the authors and not at the end. Not a bug. Just a preference. > - strings defined by @string are not expanded I've been doing some work on this. The n

Re: LyX 1.2.0cvs and bibtopic support

2001-06-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:22:37PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > > I just tested 1.2.0cvs (RPM from Kayvan) which should have finally > > bibtopic support, as Dekel Tsur told me some times ago > > (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg10938.html) > > U

RE: Long list of bugs

2001-06-21 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 21-Jun-2001 Dekel Tsur wrote: > To keep you occupied... > > NEW_INSETS: > [snip the rest] I printed it and we'll have a look! Jürgen -- -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._ Dr. Jürgen VignaE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Italienallee 13/N Te

Re: LyX 1.2.0cvs and bibtopic support

2001-06-21 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
On Thursday, 21. June 2001 13:42, Dekel Tsur wrote: > \renewcommand{\thebtauxfile}{\jobname.\arabic{btauxfile}} Thank you. This works fine :-) > The reason I choose the former format, is for safety reason - the > user may have a file called filename2 and this might cause troubles. A sensible

Re: Long list of bugs

2001-06-21 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | To keep you occupied... | | NEW_INSETS: | | - When reading a 1.1.6 file with a minipage, the language inside the minipage | is set to default_language and not to the language of the document. Ok... I'd almost say that the one responsible for the langu

BUGREPORT - lyx1.1.6fix2: citation dialog

2001-06-21 Thread Moritz Moeller-Herrmann
If you try to add a bibtex reference, I think adding should work via double click on a bitex entry. but that's not the bug. The bug is comes up if you modify a bibtex citation, but don't add a new entry. E.g. if you change the page number in the "additional text", you can't close/okay the dialog.

Long list of bugs

2001-06-21 Thread Dekel Tsur
To keep you occupied... NEW_INSETS: - When reading a 1.1.6 file with a minipage, the language inside the minipage is set to default_language and not to the language of the document. - Minipage in 1.2 are inconsistent with minipage in 1.1.6: in the later, the paragraphs are indented, while i

Re: LyX 1.2.0cvs and bibtopic support

2001-06-21 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:22:37PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > I just tested 1.2.0cvs (RPM from Kayvan) which should have finally > bibtopic support, as Dekel Tsur told me some times ago > (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg10938.html) > Unfortunately it doesn't seem t

LyX 1.2.0cvs and bibtopic support

2001-06-21 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Dear Developers, I just tested 1.2.0cvs (RPM from Kayvan) which should have finally bibtopic support, as Dekel Tsur told me some times ago (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg10938.html) Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work (I still seems to call bibtex only one time). One

Re: my recent bug report

2001-06-21 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 21 June 2001 11:25, Michael Creel wrote: > Hello all, > A couple of people have pointed out that I'm using xforms 0.88 linked against > glibc 2.0, while I have 2.1 installed. I'm currently solving that. The > previous problem with accents was with LyX 1.1.5fix1, as included with SuS

my recent bug report

2001-06-21 Thread Michael Creel
Hello all, A couple of people have pointed out that I'm using xforms 0.88 linked against glibc 2.0, while I have 2.1 installed. I'm currently solving that. The previous problem with accents was with LyX 1.1.5fix1, as included with SuSE 7.1. My problem with accents, which I reported to this list

Re: bug report - 1.1.6f2 crash

2001-06-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Michael" == Michael Creel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> * Running KDE 2.1.2, xforms 0.88, SuSE 7.1 (xforms 0.89 gives Michael> problems with accents) What kind of problems do you have with accents? Michael> * every so often when I switch away from the desktop LyX is Michael> on, t

Re: www-user(css) version 2.0

2001-06-21 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Michael Koziarski wrote: > The patch for www-user is done and is available at: > > http://www.koziarski.org/LyX/ I don't know what's changed since yesterday but I now see both at your site and at my work area with your patch applied that netscape 4.77 Communicator renders th

bug report - 1.1.6f2 crash

2001-06-21 Thread Michael Creel
Hello esteemed LyX developers. Since I love LyX so much, I did the gdb backtrace on a crash I've been experiencing. The description/symptoms are * Running KDE 2.1.2, xforms 0.88, SuSE 7.1 (xforms 0.89 gives problems with accents) * every so often when I switch away from the desktop LyX is on,

Re: mathed85.diff

2001-06-21 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 20-Jun-2001 Andre Poenitz wrote: | >> Bozano input (would be nice if you could fetch this somehow, Juergen): | > | > Aehm... Under | > | >http://mathematik.htwm.de/tmp/mathed85.diff [or mathed85.diff.gz] | > | > of course. | > | > And: THI

Re: between beers

2001-06-21 Thread Garst R. Reese
Juergen Vigna wrote: > > On 21-Jun-2001 Garst R. Reese wrote: > > Alice asked if there was not a way to convert highlighted text to lower > > case. > > You know probably of 'word-lowcase' lyx-function, do you? No :) > But that is a bit limited. I guess as our longstanding testing user > you can

Re: between beers

2001-06-21 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Alice asked if there was not a way to convert highlighted text to lower | case. Hmm... perhaps not for selections... we have something though. -- Lgb

Re: www-user(css) version 2.0

2001-06-21 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > I'll fetch the new www-user and look it over -- I'll try to get it applied > tonight. CVS lists lyx.css, imgs and images/line.gif as unknown files or directories. I can retrieve these direct from your website. There is an unresolved conflict in site_map.

Re: mathed85.diff

2001-06-21 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 20-Jun-2001 Andre Poenitz wrote: >> Bozano input (would be nice if you could fetch this somehow, Juergen): > > Aehm... Under > >http://mathematik.htwm.de/tmp/mathed85.diff [or mathed85.diff.gz] > > of course. > > And: THIS IS NOT MEANT TO BE USED FOR SERIOUS WORK. Lars would it be

RE: between beers

2001-06-21 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 21-Jun-2001 Garst R. Reese wrote: > Alice asked if there was not a way to convert highlighted text to lower > case. You know probably of 'word-lowcase' lyx-function, do you? But that is a bit limited. I guess as our longstanding testing user you can express a wish for the next meeting, is you