Re: status for cascading depths problem?

2002-10-11 Thread Dr. Richard E. Hawkins
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:14:06PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Friday 11 October 2002 3:08 pm, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > Here's the original. > which appears fine with my copy of today's cvs... Hmm, and now it's fine on mine. And now I realize that yesterday I probably opened t

Re: Patch: automatic reconfiguration

2002-10-11 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:12:21PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > There is a bug in the automatic reconfiguration code: > If the user don't have ~/.lyx/lyxrc.default file, then the configure > script is invoked. > This is wrong: if the user environment is equal to the system environment, > then runnin

Re: Patch: ps2pdf flag

2002-10-11 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 11:25:59AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > This seems reasonable to me. Lars? Do you also want it in 1.2.2cvs ? > Dekel, note that, if I am not mistaken, you can actually use > SEARCH_PROG as > > SEARCH_PROG([for a PS to PDF converter],ps_to_pdf_command,"ps2pdf >-d

Re: Bug in lyx2lyx -- minimal test case

2002-10-11 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 05:49:10PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > Attached. It seems that a paragraph containing a float abutted from > both sides with ERT will send lyx2lyx into a tailspin. > Fixed.

Re: Mathed previews and fleqn

2002-10-11 Thread Angus Leeming
On Friday 11 October 2002 2:30 pm, Angus Leeming wrote: > Is there a LaTeX way to do: > if (loaded fleqn) > \mathindent 0em Already resolved: \ifx\mathindent\undefined \else \mathindent=0em \fi

Re: UI question about multiline formulas

2002-10-11 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 05:05:19PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Is there some way to easily revert to the previous behavior, and let me > > put the ctrl-tabs where I want them? > > What is "the previous behaviour"? Some magic like that has been in for > ages. When converting an inline/display

[Patch] Make pasting external selection work in mathed

2002-10-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
This is a new feature (again) but does not break anything. Ok to commit? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson) Index: formulabase.C =

Yesterday's flAlign patch

2002-10-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
I am still waiting for 'yes' or 'no'... Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)

Re: [PATCH] fix bug in insetquote

2002-10-11 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Is the patch reversed? The text above would imply that? No, I was a little confused when sending the second version of the quote patch. This one (quotmarks3.diff) corrects some mistakes in the quotmarks2.diff (guillemots handling) and it is sane to apply IMO (and we

Re: UI question about multiline formulas

2002-10-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 04:56:04PM +0200, Gady Kozma wrote: > I have an annoying problem with the Edit>Math>EqnArray/Align menu entries > since 1.2.0, stemming from the fact that LyX now breaks the formula in the > equal sign when you choose either entry. However, I work in probability and > ha

Re: [PATCH] fix bug in insetquote

2002-10-11 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Juergen" == Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Juergen> Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: >>> Not good enough. I have left out the «guillemots» > | Juergen> Hmpff. The guillemots need the brackets when they are used as | Juergen

Re: [PATCH] Re: Crash on "Saver as defaults"

2002-10-11 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:12:18PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> | Jean-Marc> OK to apply? >> >> I guess yes, would be nice to get someone to test it though. > | *sigh* > | Just for the record: What is worse than a lockup or a crash? Code that

Re: Towards 1.2.2 [status update #1]

2002-10-11 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Any chance of a yeah or nay on this one: yeah -- Lgb

UI question about multiline formulas

2002-10-11 Thread Gady Kozma
Hi all. I have an annoying problem with the Edit>Math>EqnArray/Align menu entries since 1.2.0, stemming from the fact that LyX now breaks the formula in the equal sign when you choose either entry. However, I work in probability and have lots of formulas that look like this P(X=Y)=... so whe

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 01:24:33PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> |num=`expr $num + 1` >> >> couldn't this just be written as >> >> let num=$num+1 >> >> ?? Wouldn't that be a bit more portable? > | Short test: > | poenitz@millo:~ > ash

Re: Towards 1.2.2 [status update #1]

2002-10-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Any chance of a yeah or nay on this one: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg45713.html Michael has tested it and says it cures the problem (bug 633). Angus

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Friday 11 October 2002 12:43 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> | On Friday 11 October 2002 12:24 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes | wrote: >> >> |num=`expr $num + 1` >> >> >> >> let num=$num+1 >> >> >> >>

Re: [PATCH] Re: Crash on "Saver as defaults"

2002-10-11 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:12:18PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> | Jean-Marc> OK to apply? >> >> I guess yes, would be nice to get someone to test it though. > | *sigh* > | Just for the record: What is worse than a lockup or a crash? > | I'd thi

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Angus Leeming
On Friday 11 October 2002 12:43 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | On Friday 11 October 2002 12:24 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > >> |num=`expr $num + 1` > >> > >> let num=$num+1 > >> > >> ?? Wouldn't that be a bit more portable? > | > | There

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 01:24:33PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > |num=`expr $num + 1` > > couldn't this just be written as > > let num=$num+1 > > ?? Wouldn't that be a bit more portable? Short test: poenitz@millo:~ > ash $ i=1 $ let j=$i+1 let: not found $ echo `expr $i + 1` 2

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Rob Lahaye
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > >>>Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>| Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >>>| > Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>| > | +if test -z $GNUM4 ; then >>>| > This test looks wrong... what h

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Friday 11 October 2002 12:24 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> |num=`expr $num + 1` >> >> let num=$num+1 >> >> ?? Wouldn't that be a bit more portable? > | There's no 'let' in sh. The sh way is | i=`expr $i + 1` oh well... a bashism th

Re: [PATCH] Re: Crash on "Saver as defaults"

2002-10-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:12:18PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | Jean-Marc> OK to apply? > > I guess yes, would be nice to get someone to test it though. *sigh* Just for the record: What is worse than a lockup or a crash? I'd think Jean-Marc had made sure that it works for the reported

Re: [PATCH] Re: Crash on "Saver as defaults"

2002-10-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Juergen" == Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juergen> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: >> Somebody willing to try it out with qt? Juergen> The problem is that "Save as Default" does not crash with qt Juergen> (without your patch). Actually, "Save as Default" seems not Juergen> to wor

Re: Mathed previews and fleqn

2002-10-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:22:31PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > My first question is about the mechanics of this solution. Can I > use the fleqn option with any document class? I don't know. > My second question is should I make this change? Yes, why not. [I still consider the preview featur

Re: [PATCH] Re: Crash on "Saver as defaults"

2002-10-11 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > Somebody willing to try it out with qt? The problem is that "Save as Default" does not crash with qt (without your patch). Actually, "Save as Default" seems not to work at all there. Jürgen.

Bug in lyx2lyx -- minimal test case

2002-10-11 Thread Martin Vermeer
Attached. It seems that a paragraph containing a float abutted from both sides with ERT will send lyx2lyx into a tailspin. This seems remotely similar to Hawk of Slytherin's depth cascading bug. Martin -- Martin Vermeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Helsinki University of Technology Department of Survey

Re: Print dialog: missing comma input (was: Lost feature)

2002-10-11 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | It is better to generate a Postscript file that is printer independent (using | scalable fonts). Depends on you objective. If you want best possible output, you absolutely want the postscript generated specifically for the printer in question. --

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Angus Leeming
On Friday 11 October 2002 12:24 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > |num=`expr $num + 1` > > let num=$num+1 > > ?? Wouldn't that be a bit more portable? There's no 'let' in sh. The sh way is i=`expr $i + 1` Angus

Re: [PATCH] Re: Crash on "Saver as defaults"

2002-10-11 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Andre> New Doc, Layout->Doceument->Save as Document Defaults, Yes. | Andre> Boom. > | Andre> Does anybody else se

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>>"Rob" == Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Rob> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> >"Rob" == Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Rob> - Locating GNU m4... not found. [...] No

Re: [PATCH] Re: Crash on "Saver as defaults"

2002-10-11 Thread Angus Leeming
On Friday 11 October 2002 2:06 pm, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Actually I wonder a bit why there is identical code in > > frontends/xforms and forntends/controllers... once as > > 'saveAsDefault and once as saveParamsAsDefault) > > Edwin did the controller-view split onl

Re: Towards 1.2.2 [status update #1]

2002-10-11 Thread Angus Leeming
On Friday 11 October 2002 1:06 pm, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Angus> Any chance of a yeah or nay on this one: > Angus> > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg45713.h >tml > > Angus> Michael has tested it and says i

Re: [PATCH] fix bug in insetquote

2002-10-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Juergen" == Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juergen> Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: >> Not good enough. I have left out the «guillemots» Juergen> Hmpff. The guillemots need the brackets when they are used as Juergen> closing quotes (otherwise the space to the next word is Ju

Re: [PATCH] Re: Crash on "Saver as defaults"

2002-10-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> New Doc, Layout->Doceument->Save as Document Defaults, Yes. Andre> Boom. Andre> Does anybody else see this? Jean-Marc> I think the attached patch fixes the pro

Re: Patch: ps2pdf flag

2002-10-11 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Dekel> Due to bugs in Acrobat Reader, it is preferable to use the | Dekel> -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 flag of ps2pdf (or use ps2pdf13). This | Dekel> requires the Acrobat >= 4 to read the f

Mathed previews and fleqn

2002-10-11 Thread Angus Leeming
You may have noticed that previews of equations in display style have a large amount of embedded space to the left of the equation. This means that, when switching from preview mode to edit mode, the user gets a nasty jump in his view of the equation. I've been chatting with David Kastrup abo

Re: Print dialog: missing comma input (was: Lost feature)

2002-10-11 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:47:47AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > 1/ we have to work on systems which have none of these things Then the ps->printer converter is lpr. If the user need something more complicated, he can write a dialog in tcl/tk, python/tk, etc. In fact, we can provide a s

Re: Mathed previews and fleqn

2002-10-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Angus> My first question is about the mechanics of this solution. Can Angus> I use the fleqn option with any document class? At worst, it will do nothing. Would that be a problem for you? JMarc

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> | > Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> | > | +if test -z $GNUM4 ; then >> | > This test looks wrong... what happens if GNUM4 is not set? >> is is

Re: [PATCH] Re: Crash on "Saver as defaults"

2002-10-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:44:31PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > So my patch does not really harm there? No, does not harm at all. Please apply. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> So what is the problem then? That m4 sees the backticks and is unhappy because its defaults quotes are `like this'. This is an m4 error, not a sh one. We should probably still require m4 until this script is rewritten in pure

preparation for watching for the undo crash?

2002-10-11 Thread Dr. Richard E. Hawkins
I haven't been bit for a couple of weeks, but knowing that it's a hard to solve problem, I assume that it will byte again. I'm already running lyx in a debugger all the time (I've aliased ly to xterm -iconic -n lyxterm -e gdb /usr/local/bin/lyx -x ~/.scripts/lyxrun & and the script is merely "ru

Re: [PATCH] Re: Crash on "Saver as defaults"

2002-10-11 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Andre Poenitz wrote: > Actually I wonder a bit why there is identical code in frontends/xforms and > forntends/controllers... once as 'saveAsDefault and once as > saveParamsAsDefault) Edwin did the controller-view split only for qt. The xforms document dialog does not use ControlDocument (unless

Re: status for cascading depths problem?

2002-10-11 Thread Angus Leeming
On Friday 11 October 2002 3:08 pm, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 04:20:26PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:16:11AM -0400, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > > > If you have a file doesn't work, post it here. > > > > > > Here's one from November, 2

Re: [PATCH] Re: Crash on "Saver as defaults"

2002-10-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:34:49PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Actually, "Save as Default" seems not to work at all there. I just had a look, seems not to be implenmented at all. Actually I wonder a bit why there is identical code in frontends/xforms and forntends/controllers... once as

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Rob Lahaye
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>"Rob" == Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Rob> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > "Rob" == Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> > Rob> - Locating GNU m4... not found. [...] No GNU m4. > Rob> Impossible to build lib/config

Re: [PATCH] Re: Crash on "Saver as defaults"

2002-10-11 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Juergen> The problem is that "Save as Default" does not crash with qt > Juergen> (without your patch). Actually, "Save as Default" seems not > Juergen> to work at all there. > > So my patch does not really harm there? I cannot imagine that it does (pressing the butto

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 01:56:01PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | I did not check the other shells ;-) > > I care a rats ass about ash... the only thing that I care about is > bash and sh. Come on. I started with 'ls /bin | grep sh' and went top down... Andre' -- Those who desire to gi

Re: status for cascading depths problem?

2002-10-11 Thread Dr. Richard E. Hawkins
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 04:20:26PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:16:11AM -0400, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > > If you have a file doesn't work, post it here. > > Here's one from November, 2000: > > #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ > >

Re: insetcite

2002-10-11 Thread Angus Leeming
On Friday 11 October 2002 3:03 pm, Andre Poenitz wrote: > maybe committing the header file would be in order, too? Thank you. Done. A

Re: Print dialog: missing comma input (was: Lost feature)

2002-10-11 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 11:33:50AM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > >Just that the original thread was about whether we should hardcode the > >use of dvips. > > What's against? What's in favour? Are there alternatives? > Hardcode dvips would imply a strict dependency of LyX on dvips. > It also would me

Re: Towards 1.2.2 [status update #1]

2002-10-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Angus> Any chance of a yeah or nay on this one: Angus> http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg45713.html Angus> Michael has tested it and says it cures the problem (bug 633). How sure are you that it works? I want to be

insetcite

2002-10-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
maybe committing the header file would be in order, too? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)

Re: Lyx upgrade & Latex to Lyx & *.cls files

2002-10-11 Thread Dekel Tsur
[from lyx-users] On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 07:49:29AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > te_etex-1.0.7-319 > tetex-latex-heb-1.0-3 > te_latex-1.0.7-285 > tetex-1.0.7-285 > > The problem is that the dependencies built into the .rpm are for RedHat > packages, and naming differs between RedHat and SuSE.

Re: [PATCH] Re: Crash on "Saver as defaults"

2002-10-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> | On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:12:18PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >>> | Jean-Marc> OK to apply? >>> >>> I guess yes, would be nice to get someone to test it though. >> Lars>

Re: Towards 1.2.2 [status update #1]

2002-10-11 Thread Angus Leeming
On Friday 11 October 2002 11:43 am, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Any chance of a yeah or nay on this one: > > yeah Thank you. Jean-Marc, shall I apply it to 1.2.X too? Angus

Re: Mathed previews and fleqn

2002-10-11 Thread Angus Leeming
On Friday 11 October 2002 1:20 pm, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Angus> My first question is about the mechanics of this > solution. Can Angus> I use the fleqn option with any document > class? > > At worst, it will do nothing. Would t

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:50:04PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > > but the exe-ticks are still a problem, right? > > I don't see why. Continuing André's test: I think he meant using $(...) instead of `...` Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Rob" == Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>> "Rob" == Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Rob> - Locating GNU m4... not found. [...] No GNU m4. Rob> Impossible to build lib/configure -- aborting Rob> and the

Re: development process

2002-10-11 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:51:59AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Andre Poenitz wrote: > | > I have no strong opinion or even an idea on how to solve that, I just > | > want to say that there _is_ a problem. A serious one to be precise. > | > |

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Rob Lahaye
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>"Rob" == Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Rob> - Locating GNU m4... not found. [...] No GNU m4. > Rob> Impossible to build lib/configure -- aborting > > Rob> > > Rob> and the script exits, leaving an incomplete resul

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Rob Lahaye
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > the test will be rewritten as: > > if test -z ; then > > if GNUM4 is not set or is set to empty var. > > imho the best way to solve is the x$GNUM != xyes trick, since that > requires the least of the test features. Don't use "yes", since GNUM4 is either

Re: Patch: ps2pdf flag

2002-10-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dekel> Due to bugs in Acrobat Reader, it is preferable to use the Dekel> -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 flag of ps2pdf (or use ps2pdf13). This Dekel> requires the Acrobat >= 4 to read the file, but this is a Dekel> reasonable requirement. This se

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Rob Lahaye
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | > Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | +if test -z $GNUM4 ; then > | > This test looks wrong... what happens if GNUM4 is not set? > > is isolation the test is not robust enough, and

Re: cannot bind M-< and M->

2002-10-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:40:45PM -0400, Dan Bikel wrote: >>> That does not appear to work, either. Any other suggestions? Andre> M-~S-less Jean-Marc> Lars, I

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Rob Lahaye
Rob Lahaye wrote: > Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> | +if test -z $GNUM4 ; then >> >> This test looks wrong... what happens if GNUM4 is not set? > > Hey, look at the scipt. The script does now: Sorry, I missed your point completely. I apologize. The

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | +if test -z $GNUM4 ; then | > This test looks wrong... what happens if GNUM4 is not set? is isolation the test is not robust enough, and it costs nothing to make it robust. --

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Rob" == Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> - Locating GNU m4... not found. [...] No GNU m4. Rob> Impossible to build lib/configure -- aborting Rob> Rob> and the script exits, leaving an incomplete result of autogen.sh! Note that I am not sure that b

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Rob Lahaye
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | +if test -z $GNUM4 ; then > > This test looks wrong... what happens if GNUM4 is not set? Hey, look at the scipt. The script does now: # Autogenerate lib/configure.m4. if test x$GNUM4 != x ; then echo -n "Building li

Re: cannot bind M-< and M->

2002-10-11 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | Andre> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:40:45PM -0400, Dan Bikel wrote: | >> That does not appear to work, either. Any other suggestions? | | Andre> M-~S-less | | Lars, I guess that the

Re: autogen.sh: GNU m4 test is fake!

2002-10-11 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | +ACLOCAL=aclocal | +AUTOHEADER="autoheader" | +AUTOMAKE="automake -a -c --foreign" | +AUTOCONF="autoconf" | + This change is ok. | echo -n "Locating GNU m4... " | +GNUM4= | for prog in $M4 gm4 gnum4 m4 ; do | - case `$prog --version 2>&1` in | -*G

Re: development process

2002-10-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:02:42AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Not in stability terms, probably, but there is still some cleanups to > do to the `plain' (ie xforms) version. And there is the qt version, > which still is not working completely (from what I read, I personally > just cannot

Re: development process

2002-10-11 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Another option that _might_ work slightly better is to branch the | releases not from CVS head of some arbitrary day but from 'best CVS within | the last few month'. So if many people are happy with 'early August' but | not with 'September 20', we could

Re: development process

2002-10-11 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Andre Poenitz wrote: | > I have no strong opinion or even an idea on how to solve that, I just | > want to say that there _is_ a problem. A serious one to be precise. | | Would it be really such a bad idea to branch off 1.4.0 immediately at the | moment 1

Re: Print dialog: missing comma input (was: Lost feature)

2002-10-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Rob" == Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> But then, we have to make sure that there is no loss of >> functionality. Rob> Have a look at one of these printing tools, xpp, qtcups etc. I Rob> think we only gain functionality. 1/ we have to work on sy

Re: cannot bind M-< and M->

2002-10-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:40:45PM -0400, Dan Bikel wrote: >> That does not appear to work, either. Any other suggestions? Andre> M-~S-less Lars, I guess that the following patch is OK? JMarc Index: lib/ChangeLog

Re: development process

2002-10-11 Thread Joao Luis M. Assirati
Hi, If you allow me some comments, Rob Lahaye wrote: > Yes there are bugs, and there always will be bugs. But they cannot be > that serious. I've been using 1.3.0 from almost its start for three > papers already; no serious problems at all; I'm not a power user, though. André Poenitz wrote: >

Re: development process

2002-10-11 Thread Juergen Vigna
Andre Poenitz wrote: >>But I am not sure that these are the bugs which prevent us from >>shipping 1.3.0. > > > Probably not. > > But there are things like the undo crashs that have been in for ages > without any improvment on the horizon. Well maybe there is light on the horizont. I'm actuall

Re: Print dialog: missing comma input (was: Lost feature)

2002-10-11 Thread Rob Lahaye
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > But then, we have to make sure that there is no loss of functionality. Have a look at one of these printing tools, xpp, qtcups etc. I think we only gain functionality. Rob.

Re: development process

2002-10-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Rob" == Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> Another thing that keeps popping up in my humble mind: is the Rob> present 1.3.0 as it is now, that much worse than the present Rob> 1.2.x release; in stability terms, that is. Not in stability terms, probably, but there is still some cl

Re: Print dialog: missing comma input (was: Lost feature)

2002-10-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Rob" == Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> Just that the original thread was about whether we should hardcode >> the use of dvips. Rob> What's against? What's in favour? Are there alternatives? Rob> Hardcode dvips would imply a strict dependency of