LyX crashes on loading my lyx-file

2001-10-28 Thread Rob Lahaye
Hi, I have a LyX file, generated with 1.2 a few weeks ago. LyX CVS crashes on that one. The LyX-file has as the first line: #LyX 1.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 220 When I open this file in gdb, I get the following: Program received signal SIGSEGV,

Re: CVS update: www-user/help

2001-10-28 Thread Herbert Voss
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > | > | deleted files in cvs still appear in www > > How do you delete the files? cvs remove blah.html cvs commit Herbert

noun style bug

2001-10-28 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
It looks like "noun" style is not turning on the "noun" feature in the latest CVS. Try this attached file and you will see what I mean. DVI preview, etc. all fail because of the lack of the \noun definition. ---Kayvan -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of

Re: so many core dumps

2001-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:46:46AM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > Well, in worst case you can always try to print it, and then OCR it. > > A bit easier is to convert the ps to pdf, and then try Adobe Acrobat > and copy/paste it. It sometimes work. Note that he had two pages of math. I

Re: math_metricsinfo.C

2001-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 08:56:03PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Shouldn't it just be removed? I am going to move the constructor bodys there once the interface has settled... Well... right now maybe... Andre' -- André Pönitz .. [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: change include order

2001-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 08:37:49PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > I'd like us to make sure that the header files is as self enclosed as > possible. > > So I'd like us to change the order of the included files to most > specific to least specific. So instead of: Would it hurt you much if we

Re: so many core dumps

2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 05:05:48PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Anyone know how to go back from .ps to .tex??? > > No way I am afraid. Well, in worst case you can always try to print it, and then OCR it. A bit easier is to convert the ps to pd

Re: so many core dumps

2001-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 05:05:48PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At least I'd previewed in ghostview and got a .ps file out of it. > > Anyone know how to go back from .ps to .tex??? No way I am afraid. Andre' -- André Pönitz .. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ricardof@sel.eesc.sc.usp.br] Feedback from www.lyx.org

2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > SuperDOS (er... I mean Windows) apps the lot of them. We should file > bug reports to Microsoft to fix their buggy implementation ;-) FYI Mozilla and JBuilder are both cross platform, and runs natively on Linux, Windows, and what not. I would think Java a

Re: New chess (skak.sty) support

2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > P.S. Now, how about somebody implementing external material inset > support for Rosegarden/NoteEdit and musicTex? That would make LyX the > first word processor that supported writing really beautiful music. > Check out http://icking-music-ar

Re: New chess (skak.sty) support

2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > Okay. Here is my first crack at this. Once this goes in, we can > just remove lyxchess.sty (and the reference in the lib/Makefile.am > to tex/*.sty) Since the old version did not work because of the makefile problem, this has to be considered a bug-

Re: [ricardof@sel.eesc.sc.usp.br] Feedback from www.lyx.org

2001-10-28 Thread Allan Rae
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > > > If the selection is left selected and you don't paste the copy but > > instead press any key the selection will be replaced by that key. > > Maybe this is what Ricardo wanted but it might be a big s

Re: LyX Review

2001-10-28 Thread Allan Rae
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Brian Proffitt wrote: > What is the overall strategy of the GIP? Asger and John have answered this pretty well. > What are the most challenging aspects of the GIP? Convincing the nay-sayers that it was worthwhile in the first place then spending three years trying to build

Re: CVS update: www-user/help

2001-10-28 Thread Herbert Voss
John Levon wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 10:32:27PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Date: Sunday October 28, 2001 @ 22:32 > > Author: voss > > any chance of changelogs now your tips stuff is in ? no, it isn't really in. too much problems with the automatix generated www-user f

Re: [ricardof@sel.eesc.sc.usp.br] Feedback from www.lyx.org

2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > If the selection is left selected and you don't paste the copy but > instead press any key the selection will be replaced by that key. > Maybe this is what Ricardo wanted but it might be a big surprise for > everyone else -- especially if you'd scrolled som

Re: [ricardof@sel.eesc.sc.usp.br] Feedback from www.lyx.org

2001-10-28 Thread Allan Rae
Don't you hate it when you think of another good point or three within seconds of sending an email. sigh. If the selection is left selected and you don't paste the copy but instead press any key the selection will be replaced by that key. Maybe this is what Ricardo wanted but it might be a big

Re: [ricardof@sel.eesc.sc.usp.br] Feedback from www.lyx.org

2001-10-28 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote: > On 26-Oct-2001 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > It seems that this behaviour has been introduced in 0.11.53: > > - Made "Cancel" and "Copy" correctly cancel selections when mark-on (ARRae) > > > > So Allan, we are all waiting for your justification. B

New chess (skak.sty) support

2001-10-28 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 07:25:34PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > It looks good (better/easier than chess.sty). > > Since you seem to have interest in this, I suggest you supply the > necessary patch. Okay. Here is my first crack at this. Once this goes in, we can just remove lyxchess.sty (and t

[PATCH] Killing of a BUGS.lyx Episode 1

2001-10-28 Thread John Levon
this removes the menu entry please apply thanks john -- "If the software that a company produces isn't reliable, adding a bunch of 'Mother, may I' rules to the language and the code won't fix it." - Pete Becker Index: lib/ChangeLog

Re: CVS update: www-user/help

2001-10-28 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 10:32:27PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Sunday October 28, 2001 @ 22:32 > Author: voss any chance of changelogs now your tips stuff is in ? regards john -- "If the software that a company produces isn't reliable, adding a bunch of 'Mother, may I' rules

relyx

2001-10-28 Thread Eddie Benowitz
Lyx is a really cool tool. It seems relyx can't import algorithms or longtables that lyx itself outputs after an export latex. This would be really useful. Thanks. Eddie. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://pers

Bath Virtual Tour

2001-10-28 Thread martin watts
Hi there, A quick note to tell you about the Bath Virtual Vistarama Tour (which will load in the space below if you are using microsoft outlook). The Bath Virtual Vistarama Tour is a tour which you can use for free as part of your website. It is easy to integrate and customise. For example

Re: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au: Second Call for Papers (fwd)

2001-10-28 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 07:25:34PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > It looks good (better/easier than chess.sty). > > Since you seem to have interest in this, I suggest you supply the > necessary patch. That's fine. I will be happy to. I do a lot of chess stuff (teaching to kids) with LyX using ERT

Re: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au: Second Call for Papers (fwd)

2001-10-28 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 09:06:03AM -0800, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > > Please note that you have to install some non-standard LaTeX package > > > with a chess font to use the chess support. Also, you'll obviously need > > > xboard, and finally Python as well. > > > The requirements should be docu

Re: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au: Second Call for Papers (fwd)

2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Dekel Tsur wrote: > BTW, there is a new package for chess called skak. Wouldn't it better to use > it instead of the very old chess.sty ? Looking at it docs, I see it can read > FEN files directly, so there is no need for the python script (I haven't > tested it). Sure, it w

Re: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au: Second Call for Papers (fwd)

2001-10-28 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 06:35:19PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 05:09:31PM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > On 28 Oct 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > > Please note that you have to install some non-standard LaTeX package > > with a chess font to use the chess

Re: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au: Second Call for Papers (fwd)

2001-10-28 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 05:09:31PM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > On 28 Oct 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Please note that you have to install some non-standard LaTeX package > with a chess font to use the chess support. Also, you'll obviously need > xboard, and finally Python as w

Re: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au: Second Call for Papers (fwd)

2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On 28 Oct 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 07:03:06AM -0800, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > | > | > Chess diagrams through xboard? Do you have working code for this? > | > I am drooling... > | > | it's been in default releases f

Re: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au: Second Call for Papers (fwd)

2001-10-28 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 04:58:05PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | it's been in default releases for /ages/. Try insert->external material > > It has been there for about 2.5 years. and this is before I even looked at lyx source, therefore it is ages :) john -- "If the software that a

Re: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au: Second Call for Papers (fwd)

2001-10-28 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 03:03:59PM +, John Levon wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 07:03:06AM -0800, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > > Chess diagrams through xboard? Do you have working code for this? > > I am drooling... > > it's been in default releases for /ages/. Try insert->external material

Re: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au: Second Call for Papers (fwd)

2001-10-28 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 07:03:06AM -0800, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > Chess diagrams through xboard? Do you have working code for this? > I am drooling... it's been in default releases for /ages/. Try insert->external material regards john -- "If the software that a company produces isn't relia

Re: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au: Second Call for Papers (fwd)

2001-10-28 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 09:38:00AM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > And as the ultimate killer, talk about the external material inset > which allows you to plug basically any existing program into LyX, > without requiring that this software supports KParts, Bonobo or > other such compo

Re: newfloat feature ...

2001-10-28 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 02:04:25PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | > | The only difference between our suggestions is that I want to keep a single > | > | common layout file for all the lyx files that use the same style. > | > > | > And why is tha

Re: newfloat feature ...

2001-10-28 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 01:45:27AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | > How this is organised on the locel box is one thing, but when you want > | > to distribute everything have to be in the document. > | > | And what prevent you from distributing the layout file ? > > distributing a new art

Re: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au: Second Call for Papers (fwd)

2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > What shall I do a LyX presentation on? Any ideas? What about talking about how LyX reuses and leverages a lot of existing tools? I.e. LyX is build on LaTeX, but it requires Perl for reLyX, it exploits ispell/aspell for spell checking, it uses kdvi/xdvi/g

Re: LyX Review

2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> Specifically, I am interested in the status of the GUI Independence Project. > I have looked over the status report on your Web site, but I wanted to ask > some additional questions: The GUII project has been running for a very long time. Thoughts about the project were floating around even bef