permanent loss of data during import of old LyX files

2004-01-29 Thread Paul Stansell
Hi, I previously reported a bug in lyx-1.3.1 to http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1459 (I hope that was correct). Any, the bug is still present in lyx-1.3.3. I consider this bug to be very serious because data may be permanently lost from a lyx file. The bug report can still be accessed

Re: booktabs/tableaux support in 1.4.x ?

2004-01-29 Thread Kuba Ober
> Here's a limited patch for 1.4cvs. WOW! > It has several limitations: > > * As Alfredo wrote, tables don't work currently in 1.4cvs, so they're a > bit hard to test :) :) > * Vertical bars are not disabled. Should they? And they're > systematically removed at creation time (yay! ;-)) They sh

Re: booktabs/tableaux support in 1.3.x ?

2004-01-29 Thread Kuba Ober
On Thursday 29 January 2004 07:41 am, Georg Baum wrote: > Kuba Ober wrote: > > I'm thinking of adding a per-table "Book-style table" checkbox which will > > limit what you can do to the table - i.e. no vertical lines, as well as > > adding support for top/mid/bottom rule and cmidrule. Since this wo

Re: booktabs/tableaux support in 1.3.x ?

2004-01-29 Thread Kuba Ober
> > I'm not the one to decide this, but I think there are no (major) new > > features allowed for 1.3.x. Why not code it up for 1.4? [1] > > Note that tables are severely broken in 1.4... Of course, you are welcomed > to fix them on the way going (not easy I suspect) That's why I wanted to do it f

Re: booktabs/tableaux support in 1.3.x ?

2004-01-29 Thread Kuba Ober
> [1] If you need booktabs tabulars in lyx: you know that there are some ERT > tricks to use booktabs within the lyx tabulars? Yep I know, but I find that it's easier to use just plain old ERT. Kuba

xfonts and builds --without-x

2004-01-29 Thread Ronald Florence
If LyX is built --without-x, for example for LyX/Mac, should it install xfonts? LyX-1.3.4cvs does, and it isn't clear to me what use the xfonts are on a non-X11 installation. -- Ronald

booktabs/tableaux support in 1.4.x ?

2004-01-29 Thread Yves Bastide
Kuba Ober wrote: > > Hi, > > Since some time I'm contemplating implementing booktabs a.k.a. tableaux > support for 1.3.x. Would that have a chance to go in, if properly done? I.e. > are any new features allowed into 1.3.x? I might have asked that before, but > have forgotten the answer since :) *

Improvement: new external paste mode

2004-01-29 Thread Mark van Rossum
I hav an idea about external pastes: Currently, one can import external selections as either lines or paragraphs. I propose a third mode. Sometimes it would be very useful to paste lines,seperated by hard line breaks (Ctrl-Return). For instance if you copy code fragments, this comes very handy

Re: booktabs/tableaux support in 1.3.x ?

2004-01-29 Thread Georg Baum
Kuba Ober wrote: > I'm thinking of adding a per-table "Book-style table" checkbox which will > limit what you can do to the table - i.e. no vertical lines, as well as > adding support for top/mid/bottom rule and cmidrule. Since this would > rather trivially extend the file format keeping it 100% up

Re: booktabs/tableaux support in 1.3.x ?

2004-01-29 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
On Thursday 29 January 2004 10:22, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Kuba Ober wrote: > > Since some time I'm contemplating implementing booktabs a.k.a. > > tableaux support for 1.3.x. Would that have a chance to go in, if > > properly done? I.e. are any new features allowed into 1.3.x? I might > > hav

Re: booktabs/tableaux support in 1.3.x ?

2004-01-29 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kuba Ober wrote: > Since some time I'm contemplating implementing booktabs a.k.a. tableaux > support for 1.3.x. Would that have a chance to go in, if properly done? > I.e. are any new features allowed into 1.3.x? I might have asked that > before, but have forgotten the answer since :) * I'm not th