Re: eLyXer integration, round two

2009-09-17 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi Jean-Marc, On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> This is kind of a chicken-and-egg situation. It is hard to have >> confidence in a one-man show even if I promise to maintain eLyXer for >> the foreseeable future. > > This is where having built-in support for lyx2lyx w

Re: eLyXer integration, round two

2009-09-17 Thread rgheck
On 09/17/2009 09:02 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Alex Fernandez writes: Consequently, I think we ought to be careful here to ensure consistency over time and over changes in binary distributors. It's in general not a good thing to provide a feature in earlier releases and fail to provide

Re: Simple Drawing Ability

2009-09-17 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
Afief Halumi ha scritto: One thing I do miss in Lyx though is the ability to take up my stylus and draw whatever physical experiment is being explained and having the drawing automatically appear in lyx. What I currently do whenever Isn't it already possible to associate an external editor to

Simple Drawing Ability

2009-09-17 Thread Afief Halumi
Hello everyone, I've been using lyx to write my lecture notes for the last year and I absolutely love it, I've gone from simple text+math to text+math+floats+footnotes+++ One thing I do miss in Lyx though is the ability to take up my stylus and draw whatever physical experiment is being expla

Re: eLyXer integration, round two

2009-09-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Alex Fernandez writes: >> Can't you just put the full path to elyxer.py on the command line? So, >> detect the elyxer.py location in the configure script and provide the full >> path to python? > > That is a possibility, but it would break on other systems. For > example on Mac OS X, where the use

Re: eLyXer integration, round two

2009-09-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Alex Fernandez writes: >> Consequently, I think >> we ought to be careful here to ensure consistency over time and over >> changes in binary distributors. It's in general not a good thing to >> provide a feature in earlier releases and fail to provide it in later >> releases, and, impressed though

Re: eLyXer integration, round two

2009-09-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Alex Fernandez writes: >> Why not: >> >>  python -m module-name >>              Searches  sys.path for the named module and runs the correspond‐ >>              ing .py file as a script. >> >> ? >> >> and in the elyxer.py module: >> >>  # Run main, if called from the command line:: >> >>  if __nam