1.2.0

2002-02-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
Hi folks, it's Friday, isn't it? >From what I hear current CVS is still much more unstable than 1.1.6fix4, frequent non-reproducable crashs in Undo, lately scrollbars get stuck etc. Given that none of the people who understand the undo issue seem to have enough time to fix it I would suggest t

Re: 'reveal codes'

2002-02-14 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:01:40PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > First of all, empty your stomachs, this is about the ugliest hack I've ever > porduced, so it obviously won't go into CVS. > > Having said that, what do you think about the idea? > [Aplly to your local tree, create some math, watc

Re: Conversion problems using Grace files

2002-02-14 Thread R. Lahaye
Herbert Voss wrote: > > lyx gets the filetype from its contents, not from the > extension. If it's an unknown one, like your grace > than it returns "user". You can define a converter > > \converter "user" "eps" "gracebat -hdevice EPS $$i" "" Still doesn't work; but leave it at this point; will

Re: scrollbar stopped working

2002-02-14 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, R. Lahaye wrote: [...] > Exactly same happens here on my PC (FreeBSD version 4.3) also with > xforms-0.88.1. Is this particular version of xforms the culprit? It had been working fine until recently so if it is down to this version then someone must have changed something in

Re: Conversion problems using Grace files

2002-02-14 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: > R. Lahaye wrote: > > > I was wondering whether the Preferences/Conversion can already be > > used to load directly Grace-format files (a 2D graphics package), > > and have these converted to EPS (from where LyX can take over). > > I tried but failed. > >

Re: XPM lib question.

2002-02-14 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Angus Leeming wrote: > Does setting the color attribute (MONOCHROME, GRAYSCALE, COLOR) have any > effect for anyone? Here I always, always get either a pixmap in COLOR (Unless > NONE is set!) I'm using a TrueColor display if that makes any difference, but > I don't see why. >

Re: graphics

2002-02-14 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 06:43:32PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Andre> #6 0x40210224 in vfprintf () at vfprintf.c:1565 > > Andre> #7 0x40217d27 in fprintf () at fprintf.c:36 > > > > Bad xforms version. Poor xforms tries to output a friendly er

Re: Conversion problems using Grace files

2002-02-14 Thread Herbert Voss
R. Lahaye wrote: > I was wondering whether the Preferences/Conversion can already be > used to load directly Grace-format files (a 2D graphics package), > and have these converted to EPS (from where LyX can take over). > I tried but failed. getExtFromContents() returns "user" as ext when it's n

Re: scrollbar stopped working

2002-02-14 Thread R. Lahaye
Allan Rae wrote: > > Compaq Armada 500 with Mdk-8.1, XFree86-4.1.0, lyx-1.2.0cvs and > xforms-0.88.1. Compile in either XForms or qt2 frontend and load any > lyx file that is longer than one screenful. The first time you want to > scroll the scrollbar with a mouse it does not budge. You have to >

Conversion problems using Grace files

2002-02-14 Thread R. Lahaye
Hi, I'm running LyX CVS. I was wondering whether the Preferences/Conversion can already be used to load directly Grace-format files (a 2D graphics package), and have these converted to EPS (from where LyX can take over). I tried but failed. I did following in Prefences/Conversion: Add a new f

Re: scrollbar stopped working

2002-02-14 Thread Allan Rae
On 14 Feb 2002, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "dochawk" == dochawk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > dochawk> jmarc jmentioned, > >> > "Richard" == Richard E Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Richard> My scrollbar stopped working, but the rest of lyx continued. > > Richard> I had i

Re: Problems Compiling 1.2.0cvs

2002-02-14 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Jan-Peter Koopmann wrote: > Hi, > > i am running into problems compiling 1.2.0 and maybe somebody here can > help. > > autogen.sh and configure work but the make process stops with > > "Don't know how to make slot.h" > > I cannot find slot.h anyhwer only slot.h.m4. Why is slo

Re: Dreaming of plugins...

2002-02-14 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, John Levon wrote: > personally I have no real desire for embedding. But that is most definitely > not the point Then why raise it as an issue? > : inset external CANNOT and DOES NOT do what Jules was asking for. > > That's all I'm saying. Nothing does what Jules is asking

word wrap in the notes box

2002-02-14 Thread Matt Brennan
Folks, I like using LyX 1.1.6fix4-1 - it's great for taking notes on my research, including plot of results, and then shaping those notes into technical papers. Really nice to use with SixPack and pipes! I like LyX even more when I checked out the list of future features. I was please to see

spellchecker (ispell) problem

2002-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 11:06:07AM -0500, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Using the spellchecker under Lyx it crashed by > finding the word `entrain´ > where entrain´ was highlighted. > I reacted to it by saying ignore, > but Lyx crashed: > > Invalid word "entrain'": The character ''' may not appe

'reveal codes'

2002-02-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
First of all, empty your stomachs, this is about the ugliest hack I've ever porduced, so it obviously won't go into CVS. Having said that, what do you think about the idea? [Aplly to your local tree, create some math, watch teh minibuffer] Andre' -- André Pönitz ..

XPM lib question.

2002-02-14 Thread Angus Leeming
Does setting the color attribute (MONOCHROME, GRAYSCALE, COLOR) have any effect for anyone? Here I always, always get either a pixmap in COLOR (Unless NONE is set!) I'm using a TrueColor display if that makes any difference, but I don't see why. What's your mileage? Angus

Re: [patch] Re: graphics

2002-02-14 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 14 February 2002 5:21 pm, Herbert Voss wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > [...] > > > [new lyx file, insert graphics (doesn't matter whether it exists, 'latex > > size' to 'custom' and '55%', click ok, click right on the picture. boom.] > [..] > > > there is a bug in UpdateWidgetsFrom

Re: mathed AMS fonts

2002-02-14 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:23:40PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > Why do you want it in lib/configure ? > > You only need to create a system fonts dir when doing make install > > (there is no point of having a user fonts dir). > > Edit->Reconfigure updates ~/.lyx/ > > FWIW, I installed the TTF font

Re: [patch] graphics12.diff

2002-02-14 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 14 February 2002 3:00 pm, Herbert Voss wrote: > Herbert Voss wrote: > > > Angus, can you please apply. > > Should fix the bug with a "not existing" file. > > > sorry, but a patch with 0bytes seems to be too short > here it comes > > > Herbert Applied. A

Re: InsetGraphics and relative paths don't mix well

2002-02-14 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 14 February 2002 4:23 pm, John Levon wrote: > perhaps even better would be to secretly store both the relative and absoluate > paths. That way the document then also has a chance of surviving a "mv", because > we look at the absolute path after a failing relative path I've thoug

[patch] Re: graphics

2002-02-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Andre Poenitz wrote: [...] > [new lyx file, insert graphics (doesn't matter whether it exists, 'latex > size' to 'custom' and '55%', click ok, click right on the picture. boom.] [..] there is a bug in UpdateWidgetsFromLength with this ?% units. But this can't be the reason for your crash. Her

Re: graphics

2002-02-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 06:43:32PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Andre> #6 0x40210224 in vfprintf () at vfprintf.c:1565 > Andre> #7 0x40217d27 in fprintf () at fprintf.c:36 > > Bad xforms version. Poor xforms tries to output a friendly error > message, Which kind of error message? Any w

AW: Problems Compiling 1.2.0cvs

2002-02-14 Thread Jan-Peter Koopmann
Hi, > What you need is the m4 macro processor. E.g. GNU m4. Strange if you don't > have > it, it's one of those things that just get installed because so much uses > it. > > What is your system? m4-1.4_1GNU's m4 is on the system. I was looking for this as well but it is there. Why

Re: [patch] graphics12.diff

2002-02-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 06:36:08PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Andre> PS: Did I mention lately that enums are a pain in the ass when > Andre> it comes to compile dependencies? > > Yes, but I think they are very handy when it come to compile-time > checks... The other solution would be fo

Re: InsetGraphics and relative paths don't mix well

2002-02-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:05:33PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes John> wrote: >> I think insetgraphics should treat all file names as relative to >> buffer directory. John> definitely because then it also allows : John> /home/moz/mypict

Re: graphics

2002-02-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> I am currently trying to teach my favourite ... aehm ... user Andre> ... to produce usable bugreports. It would be nice if that Andre> could be solved somehow. You know... positive feedback ;-) Andre> [new lyx file, insert graphic

Re: graphics

2002-02-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Andre Poenitz wrote: > I am currently trying to teach my favourite ... aehm ... user ... to > produce usable bugreports. It would be nice if that could be solved > somehow. You know... positive feedback ;-) oh, I understand that well. That's the reason why I replied your favourite users mails

Re: [patch] graphics12.diff

2002-02-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> PS: Did I mention lately that enums are a pain in the ass when Andre> it comes to compile dependencies? Yes, but I think they are very handy when it come to compile-time checks... The other solution would be for all parts of lyx w

Re: scrollbar stopped working

2002-02-14 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:02:08AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'll watch for it; I think I"ve seen it once before. But if ithappens, > is there some way to dump state or some such to produceuseful > information? or force a core dump? if you run lyx from a console, you can use control-\

Re: InsetGraphics and relative paths don't mix well

2002-02-14 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:05:33PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I think insetgraphics should treat all file names as relative to buffer > directory. definitely because then it also allows : /home/moz/mypictures/picture.png so both cases would be covered fine perhaps even better would

graphics

2002-02-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
I am currently trying to teach my favourite ... aehm ... user ... to produce usable bugreports. It would be nice if that could be solved somehow. You know... positive feedback ;-) [new lyx file, insert graphics (doesn't matter whether it exists, 'latex size' to 'custom' and '55%', click ok, cl

Re: Dreaming of plugins...

2002-02-14 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 01:50:29PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > Thankyou for agreeing that inset external is not a sufficient mechanism for making >lyx > > extendible ! > > No. The problem is more restricted than you imply. InsetExternal is > _inappropriate_ for extending LyX's LaTeX support i

Re: src/frontends/qt2/Makefile.am

2002-02-14 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 01:34:15PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > Yes. That was what I said needed doing in the later part of my email. > What is supposed to go wrong? It seems to work as I would expect make > to work when I remove it -- ie. libqt2.a is rebuilt when the xforms > stuff changes. If c

Re: [patch] graphics12.diff

2002-02-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 06:09:09PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Andre> Would anybody mind if I created some Debug::MATHPARSER > Andre> 'channel'? I find myself commenting in and out the same code > Andre> all over. 'MATHED' itself is too broad. > > No problem, go ahead. People will compla

Re: [patch] graphics12.diff

2002-02-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 05:10:23PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Andre> wrote: >> Herbert, concerning the lyxerr debug channel: you may want to send >> debug info to Debug:FILES or Debug::INSETS instead of the generic >> Debug::INFO

Re: [patch] graphics12.diff

2002-02-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 05:10:23PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Herbert, concerning the lyxerr debug channel: you may want to send > debug info to Debug:FILES or Debug::INSETS instead of the generic > Debug::INFO (unless you plan to eventually remove the debug messages). Would anybody min

Re: [patch] graphics12.diff

2002-02-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:00:19PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: > sorry, but a patch with 0bytes seems to be too short Not really. That's a pretty safe way to make sure the patch does not break anything. Andre' -- André Pönitz .. [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [patch] graphics12.diff

2002-02-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>"Herbert" == Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > Herbert> Herbert Voss wrote: > >>>Angus, can you please apply. Should fix the bug with a "not >>>existing" file. >>> > > > Herbert> sorry, but a patch with 0bytes seems to be too short > He

Re: scrollbar stopped working

2002-02-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "dochawk" == dochawk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dochawk> jmarc jmentioned, >> > "Richard" == Richard E Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> My scrollbar stopped working, but the rest of lyx continued. Richard> I had it running in a debugger, but had no idea how to obtain Ric

Re: [patch] graphics12.diff

2002-02-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Herbert" == Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Herbert> Herbert Voss wrote: >> Angus, can you please apply. Should fix the bug with a "not >> existing" file. Herbert> sorry, but a patch with 0bytes seems to be too short Herbert> here it comes Herbert, concerning the lyxerr de

Re: [patch] graphics12.diff

2002-02-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Herbert Voss wrote: > Angus, can you please apply. > Should fix the bug with a "not existing" file. sorry, but a patch with 0bytes seems to be too short here it comes Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/ Index: src/insets/ChangeLog ===

[patch] graphics12.diff

2002-02-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Angus, can you please apply. Should fix the bug with a "not existing" file. HErbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/

Re: Problems Compiling 1.2.0cvs

2002-02-14 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:07:09PM +0100, Jan-Peter Koopmann wrote: > Hi, > > i am running into problems compiling 1.2.0 and maybe somebody here can > help. > > autogen.sh and configure work but the make process stops with > > "Don't know how to make slot.h" > > I cannot find slot.h anyh

Re: [PATCH] graphics11.diff

2002-02-14 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 14 February 2002 2:45 am, R. Lahaye wrote: > Hi, > > Great! After this patch, I've improved a few things in the > graphics dialog. Just little details, such as: > [snip...] > > Patch attached. > > Rob. Thanks, Rob. Looks good. Applied. Angus

Problems Compiling 1.2.0cvs

2002-02-14 Thread Jan-Peter Koopmann
Hi, i am running into problems compiling 1.2.0 and maybe somebody here can help. autogen.sh and configure work but the make process stops with "Don't know how to make slot.h" I cannot find slot.h anyhwer only slot.h.m4. Why is slot.h not generated? Any ideas? Regards, JP

Re: Reading floats from layout file (for AGU)

2002-02-14 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:01:52PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Martin> Have you looked at the layout format for Float? Is this > Martin> similar to what you had in mind? > > You can see what Herbert has in mind at > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg28647.html > >

Re: InsetGraphics and relative paths don't mix well

2002-02-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Allan> I have a figure at: Allan> ../common/new-banner.png Allan> that I'm using in a document. PDFLaTeX is able to find and Allan> render it but InsetGraphics complains with an error message Allan> (Alert dialog) that the file either does

Re: scrollbar stopped working

2002-02-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Richard" == Richard E Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> My scrollbar stopped working, but the rest of lyx continued. Richard> I had it running in a debugger, but had no idea how to obtain Richard> any useful information. Tell us if you can reproduce it. JMarc

Re: Reading floats from layout file (for AGU)

2002-02-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Martin" == Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I guess this will go in shortly after 1.2.0. Martin> Meaning? 1.2.1? or 1.3.x? Probably 1.3.x, since there will probably be problems to sort out, and 1.2.x series will be like 1.1.xfixy, that is only small changes. Martin> Have y

Re: A request for help or a bug report...

2002-02-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Angus> On Thursday 14 February 2002 10:25 am, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Angus> wrote: >> > "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Angus> Now repeatedly type and erase the letter "a" in front of the Angus> inset. >> Angus>

Re: A request for help or a bug report...

2002-02-14 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 14 February 2002 9:42 am, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2002 10:25 am, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Angus> Now repeatedly type and erase the letter "a" in front of the > > Angus> inset. > > > > Ang

Re: A request for help or a bug report...

2002-02-14 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 14 February 2002 10:25 am, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Angus> Now repeatedly type and erase the letter "a" in front of the > Angus> inset. > > Angus> Here I get a new graphics inset created with each key stroke. > Angus

Re: Why "Figure #:" and "Table #:"; why not using real numbers?

2002-02-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Allan> On 13 Feb 2002, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> > "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Allan> If we got really really keen it would then be a simple matter Allan> to display the chosen bullet in the buffer. Although

Re: A request for help or a bug report...

2002-02-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Angus> Now repeatedly type and erase the letter "a" in front of the Angus> inset. Angus> Here I get a new graphics inset created with each key stroke. Angus> This may be something to do with my hacking here, but I don't Angus> think so s

Re: an even uglier conversion

2002-02-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 01:24:08PM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > I see no current way around this but to learn enough latex to write all > the math for my captions in latex, as it seems impossible to paste the > math inset into the ERT. You could copy open the .lyx file in a text editor. T

Re: mathed AMS fonts

2002-02-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Edit-> Reconfigure updates ~/.lyx/ Allan> FWIW, I installed the TTF fonts for the seminar in my home dir Allan> so updating the system only is not much use as the system Allan> doesn't see them. Does the script work for ttf fonts? JMarc

Re: Why "Figure #:" and "Table #:"; why not using real numbers?

2002-02-14 Thread Allan Rae
On 13 Feb 2002, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Allan> If we got really really keen it would then be a simple matter > Allan> to display the chosen bullet in the buffer. Although I'm not > Allan> particularly concerned about this. > > It sh

Strange crash: RevTeX4 with bibtex + references section!?

2002-02-14 Thread R. Lahaye
Hi, version: Current CVS. I have installed RevTeX4 on my PC (ran hashtex after that). I opened from Template revtex4.lyx. This goes smoothly. At the end, before the References section, I've inserted a BibTeX entry with my own bibtex file and "revtex" as style (though it also happens when style