Quotes in PassThru layouts

2001-08-02 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
Hi folks, Here is a patch that fixes the quote handling inside the PassThru layouts. Having Quote insets inside these layouts makes no sense. Please review and apply. Thanks. ---Kayvan -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan As

Re: Latest CVS: big-ass scrollbars

2001-08-02 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:02:32PM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > Any document, > > 1) Layout-Latex Preamble > > 2) Resize the preamble window (larger). > > 3) The scrollbar and arrows gain some almost comical height and width... this is a really old known xforms bug ... been there since th

inset-toggle

2001-08-02 Thread John Levon
can this work whilst locked in an inset ? I'd like to unlock the inset and deposit the cursor to the left ... thanks john -- "They didn't know what the symbols and paradoxes meant. Instead of following the finger that points to the moon, they sat down and worshipped the finger itself. Instea

Re: citation and bib database

2001-08-02 Thread Angus Leeming
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 20:51, John Levon wrote: > it's really slow to open the cite dialog when you've a big database (takes > about 3 seconds on my machine with a database of 1700 odd entries). > > can it not be cached somehow if we're using bibtex ? Yes it could be. At the moment the data

Re: 1.2.0cvs: Crash after inserting ERT

2001-08-02 Thread Garst R. Reese
"Kayvan A. Sylvan" wrote: > > (as an aside, I love doing real work with LyX --- I get to do my job > and do some testing/debugging at the same time!) > > I inserted ERT, inlined it (using Button 2), then attempted to walk > past the right-edge of the ERT box using the arrow keys. > > LyX crashe

Re: Let's try again to change the matrix dialog without being flamed (c:

2001-08-02 Thread Emmanuel GUREGHIAN
John Levon a écrit : > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 05:00:59PM +0200, Emmanuel GUREGHIAN wrote: > > > Dears developpers (c: > > > > A few years ago, I send a mail about changing the matrix dialog in a > > more intuitive way. > > It was not not a good idea because the dialog size should remain small

Re: Management of bug reports

2001-08-02 Thread Andre Poenitz
> this is perfectly acceptable for you to do this as a bug reporter. Any > bugs that last will hopefully end up on the tracker via me (that's /my/ > job) I can see a problem with people like me who do not check the bug tracking thingy regularly. I certainly would have a look at some src/BUGS or s

core dump !

2001-08-02 Thread John Levon
opening and closes footnotes can cause core dumps for me (userguide.lyx), or infinite loops if you open a footnote that is partially below the bottom of the workarea just a couple more major inset/tabular problems that need fixing ! we have lots of them right now. A pre release looks quite some

Re: CVS Update: lyx-devel

2001-08-02 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 05:02:46PM +0200, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > On 02-Aug-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Log message: > > Update/cursor and drawing fixes. > > Ok this should fix some of the drawing problems we see with insets containing > InsetText. Please have a try and report ba

Re: Management of bug reports

2001-08-02 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:24:32PM +0200, Michael Schmitt wrote: > Some time ago, you convinced me to use SF but it was an unacceptable > burden for me to cope with SF's WWW frontend during my regular work. > (Reports have to be made quickly; I have another job I am paid for) this is fine, Micha

Bug (CVS): display math \frac with subscripts.

2001-08-02 Thread R. Lahaye
Hi, Mathematical \frac with subscripts, for example: \begin_inset Formula $\frac{\alpha _{1} }{\beta _{2} }$ \end_inset is wrongly displayed on the LyX canvas. I have attached an example JPEG. Regards, Rob. <>

ERT-converting from 1.1.6 to 1.2

2001-08-02 Thread Herbert Voss
ert with a formula inside is converted into ert(until formula) - formula - ert(the rest) look at example. is this intended, that a formula shouldn't appear in an ert-inset? Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/ #LyX 1.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org

compose key bug

2001-08-02 Thread Angus Leeming
When I press my compose key I get the minibuffer message "unknown function" and I can't create accented chars. Things work fine in other apps, so this appears to be a LyX problem not an X one. Do other people see this? Angus

Re: Bug list

2001-08-02 Thread Michael Schmitt
>> - The dots dialog in the math panel is drawn accurately; at the right >> a fine vertical bar is not drawn >I suppose you mean inaccurately. Can you explain further, what do you >expect to >see ? I've never used this before ... See the attached screen shot. Note that I have _not_ stretched

Re: Bug: Paper orientation 'landscape'

2001-08-02 Thread Michael Schmitt
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: > > By the way: If "geometry" is a standard package and it does not cause any > > harm in combination with other packages, I recommend to use it all the > > time. IMHO too many options are just confusing the user. For the same > > geometry has other default

Re: ERT converting

2001-08-02 Thread Garst R. Reese
John Levon wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:46:34PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote: > > > can anyone proof, please: > > I can no more mark text in ert-inset > > yep, me neither > > ah well I updated about 30min ago and can make text in ert, copy and paste it. It starts out with a red backgroun

More on Footnote inset (latest CVS)

2001-08-02 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
Hi folks, Using the latest CVS, I found the following: 1) Footnotes still displayed past the right edge of the canvas (hiding the last couple of characters on the line). 2) However, when I started inserting into the inset, the footnote inset was re-drawn correctly. 3) I did some editing

Re: "Bug": Splash screen

2001-08-02 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:23:56AM +0200, Michael Schmitt wrote: > me it seems like the picture is programmed as a separate window but it > should be considered as a kind of background of the main window if no > document is loaded. we should do this yes. however i'm really bored of that code ...

"Bug": Missing status line information about LaTeX runs

2001-08-02 Thread Michael Schmitt
Hi, believe it or not - the message "LaTeX run number #" which was originally printed in the status line (within LyX, not on the console!) has vanished. Could somebody please check why it has been removed? It gave me a good feeling in the past if a large document took several long latex passe

Re: citation and bib database

2001-08-02 Thread R. Lahaye
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | > "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | John> it's really slow to open the cite dialog when you've a big > | John> database (takes about 3 seconds on my machine with a database of > | Joh

Re: Management of bug reports

2001-08-02 Thread Andre Poenitz
> if mathed bugs appear, I can assign them to you. Then you should get an email > (I think). Or I can tell lyx-devel ... is that good enough ? What am I supposed to do if the bug is fixed? Andre' -- André Pönitz . [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Management of bug reports

2001-08-02 Thread Michael Schmitt
Hello everybody, as you know there is a bug tracker for LyX at SourceForge. However, as you also might know the system requires some administration and it is not appropriate for bugs occuring during the main development phase, since they only live for a very short time. Some time ago, you convin

Re: Bug: Paper orientation 'landscape'

2001-08-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Michael Schmitt wrote: > > By the way: If "geometry" is a standard package and it does not cause any > harm in combination with other packages, I recommend to use it all the > time. IMHO too many options are just confusing the user. For the same geometry has other default values for the margins

Removal of broken math-greek stuff

2001-08-02 Thread Andre Poenitz
Please apply. We retain the current level of functionality without this cruft. Andre' -- André Pönitz . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: BufferView_pimpl.C === RCS file: /usr/local/lyx/cvsroo

Re: citation dialog

2001-08-02 Thread Angus Leeming
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 20:14, John Levon wrote: > re-sizing it is not fun, not at all. but having a "long" style > in the style button goes wrong too. Resizing: why not fix the size and be done with it. "long" style: ??? > and it doesn't seem to be running bibtex for some reason I'

Re: MathArray

2001-08-02 Thread Andre Poenitz
> > I promise you, size does not matter either. > > Andre would something similar as we have it for paragraph work for you? > A placeholder META_INSET it the char array and a map to > find the right inset? Or is that to complicated? Probably... there are on average only about two or three items

Re: compiling lyx

2001-08-02 Thread Edwin Leuven
> > I am not sure that will be enough, though. > > It isn't :-( and rather unfortunate that the *really* stable version of lyx doesn't compile anymore. gr.ed. ps. yes I can use the rpm. pps. but I like to replace \begin{tabular}{ with \begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}

"Bug": Splash screen

2001-08-02 Thread Michael Schmitt
Hi, I am afraid that I have to rewarm an old discussion about the intro (splash) screen. IMHO the current solution is still not satisfying. Currently, if you start LyX with "lyx foo.lyx" where foo.lyx is a non-existing file, it happens from time to time that the dialog (warning about the missing

Re: font changes in math

2001-08-02 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 02-Aug-2001 Andre Poenitz wrote: > Yes. It would be nice for drawing and the like. The problem is editing. I > would need some way to "merge" neighboring insets with similar > properties... And where is the "characters" hold? Ahh no I think I understand from your problem yesterday. Well I wo

Re: CVS Update: lyx-devel

2001-08-02 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:13:14AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Lars> I'd rather never add it... > > Why? My guess is that Lars wishes that people would never use ERT at all (it is "evil" after all). As he said, we are

Re: font changes in math

2001-08-02 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 02-Aug-2001 Andre Poenitz wrote: > So what should I do if I have an \mathwhatever _in_ an \mathbf inset > (or is this not possible at all?) and toggle bold. I.e: > > \mathbf{sss\mathwhatever{aaa|aaa}sss}(| is the cursor) [snip] Hmm that's the problem of having font changes as insets.

Re: compiling lyx

2001-08-02 Thread Edwin Leuven
> I am not sure that will be enough, though. It isn't :-( gr.ed.

Re: font changes in math

2001-08-02 Thread Andre Poenitz
> Well Andre what IS \mathbf for you? Is it an inset on it's own or some > property you set? Currently it is a property that only "characters" have > IMO as mathed is made this should be an inset of it's > own which can hold other insets isn't this? This would fit in the "everything is an inset

Math: eqnarray from 1.6 to 1.2

2001-08-02 Thread Herbert Voss
the attached math-example from 1.1.6fix3 is an eqnarray, which is by default left-center-right justified. opening with 1.2.0 gives always center Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/ #LyX 1.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 218 \textclass arti

Re: "\lang ignore" in ERT insets

2001-08-02 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 02-Aug-2001 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Asger> Now, language is not an ortogonal properties of text. Instead, > Asger> it's a coupled property. You can not logically change the > Asger> language of the text without changing the text itself, and vice > Asger> versa. > > So what is the langu

Re: Pretty bug!

2001-08-02 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 02-Aug-2001 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Yes, but it is difficult to now what NEED_REFRESH, NEED_LITTLE_REFRESH > et al really mean. Well this was in LyXText since the begining of time! I didn't make them. Anyway NEED_REFRESH does not exist you surely meant NEED_MORE_REFRESH. The LITTLE one

Re: font changes in math

2001-08-02 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 02-Aug-2001 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I think your should model that by what happens at latex level. So if > you are in a \mathbf inset and toggle bold, the inset is suppressed > and merged into the owner inset. Well Andre what IS \mathbf for you? Is it an inset on it's own or some prope

A small error on LyX web site

2001-08-02 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
Hi, There's a small error on one of the lyx web pages, http://www.lyx.org/internet/mailing.php3 A text line is displayed in black. According to page source, it's just a missing ...: [...] Developer's list digest Send an empty mail message to: [...] -- Thomas.

Re: Textclass Loading Error

2001-08-02 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 02-Aug-2001 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> "Herbert" == Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Herbert> when loading a doc, lyx gives an errormessage, when some > Herbert> layouts are missing. it would be very nice when the name of > Herbert> these missing layouts appear in the erro

Re: MathArray

2001-08-02 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 01-Aug-2001 Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Andre Poenitz wrote: > >> A bit. But speed does not really matter. I've never seen a complaint that >> mathed is slow, and I've never got that impression myself. > > I promise you, size does not matter either. Andre would som

Re: MathArray

2001-08-02 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 02-Aug-2001 Allan Rae wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > >> I promise you, size does not matter either. > > That's not what you were saying about cucumbers at last years developers > meeting. I can remember that to! > Perhaps, cucumbers are the exception. I see

RE: Bug in collapsable insets

2001-08-02 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 01-Aug-2001 Angus Leeming wrote: > It looks to me like all these insets think that their width when expanded is > the width of the work area + the width of the scroll bar. Makes it impossible > to read the last few letters and the cursor does funny things... No the problem is the "LeftMarg

Re: "\lang ignore" in ERT insets

2001-08-02 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 01-Aug-2001 Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Dekel Tsur wrote: > >> Let's look at the two reason why you added the language_inherit > > Juergen, I actually agreed with Dekel in this case. > > Let me try to explain why: [snip] Well I agree with both of you! I always sai

compiling lyx

2001-08-02 Thread Edwin Leuven
Hi I'm trying to compile lyx-1.1.5fix2 on my redhat 7.1 system and get the following error message: make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/lyx-1.1.5fix2/src/mathed' /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src -I../../images -I./../ -isystem /usr/X11R6/include -g -

Re: CVS Update: lyx-devel

2001-08-02 Thread Juergen Vigna
>> Yes, but this dialog is what gives sense to the interface. You want to >> change the properties of the inset, so you use right mouse button on >> it. Then you have adialog, and you are happy. >> > > Yeah, I guess this is the best idea in terms of interface consistency. I think this is settl

Re: Pretty bug!

2001-08-02 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 01-Aug-2001 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Basically what is missing is, when some magic update code causes the Well the update codes are quite verbose ;) > whole outer row to be repainted (and it seems to happen really really And these seems also easy to understand, what do you think is th

Re: citation dialog

2001-08-02 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Mit, 01 Aug 2001 21:14:35 schrieb John Levon: > > re-sizing it is not fun, not at all. but having a "long" style > in the style button goes wrong too. I suppose, I'm to blame for this because I did the last resizising of the citation dialog (only made it a little bit narrower for 800x600 scre