eLyXer Converter Fails with Unicode Characters in Image Path

2010-03-23 Thread Jack Desert
> > > It works perfectly on LyX 1.6.5. I will report it to lyx-devel as > > soon as I can download a copy and try it out -- if you don't prefer > > to do so yourself. > > > > Alex. > > I'll let you report it once you've had a chance to try it out with LyX > 2.0. I am unclear at this point whethe

Re: How to build LyX using CMake?

2010-03-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 23.03.2010 07:04, schrieb Peter Kümmel: Reading the file "INSTALL.cmake" I see that this file is outdated (it tells me that I should install MSVC 2005). Do we have a more recent description how to use CMake? Sorry about it state of the file, you could use also msvc 2009. Could you pleas

Consolidating LyxBlogger's Documentation and Hosting

2010-03-23 Thread Jack Desert
I finally have all of the pieces of LyxBlogger together to where I'm ready to share it with the outside world, including submitting it to inclusion with the release of future versions of LyX. That said, I'm looking for a way to pull all the documentation and hosting into one central location. Her

Re: Compiling with Qt 4.2

2010-03-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > dropping 4.2 compatibility. However, I think that it would be lame of us > to simply drop it for easily fixable problems. The point is that if even > JMarc will not use 4.2 anymore, nobody is going to notice problems. yes, lets try to hold 4.2 if possible. pavel

Re: Compiling with Qt 4.2

2010-03-23 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:57:41PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > > The last round of changes has been pretty bad for Qt 4.2 support. I have > > a patch for some issues (below), but then I have problems with CompareUi and > > PrefLatexUi which use left/right/top/bott

Re: lyx rev. 33817 make error on mac os x SL

2010-03-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
Stephan Witt wrote: >for an alpha release I may provide my current disk image without it. better than nothing. 10.4 is 5 years old and according to wikipedia "As of November 2009, Apple will not be releasing any more security updates for Tiger." so even apple do not care anymore. i have no idea w

Re: Compiling with Qt 4.2

2010-03-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > The last round of changes has been pretty bad for Qt 4.2 support. I have > a patch for some issues (below), but then I have problems with CompareUi and > PrefLatexUi which use left/right/top/bottom margins. > > Can somebody fix that or are we going to decide to dro

Re: Compiling with Qt 4.2

2010-03-23 Thread Edwin Leuven
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > The last round of changes has been pretty bad for Qt 4.2 support. I have > a patch for some issues (below), but then I have problems with CompareUi and > PrefLatexUi which use left/right/top/bottom margins. does this http://www.lyx

Re: lyx rev. 33817 make error on mac os x SL

2010-03-23 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 22.03.2010 um 13:07 schrieb BH: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: > >> BTW, what do you think is a *must* to support platform-wise and what is nice >> to have? > > I think we must support 10.5, with a strong preference for 10.4. I > think we must support PPC. And we mus

RE: [Patch] Improving the Citation GUI.

2010-03-23 Thread Rob Oakes
Regular expressions might be useful in the search dialog, but I would make it one of those "power-user" features (well documented and well hidden). I know that I personally don't use them enough to get much benefit. Every time I need regular expressions for something, I invariably spend an aftern

Re: [Patch] Improving the Citation GUI.

2010-03-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > The attached patch resolved the following tickets: > #6486 Citation not selected by default. > #6487 Add "file" and "url" links to Citation Dialog. Thank you for #6486 I think the dialog would be simpler to use if it had a more classical look like Endnote X2 ins

Compiling with Qt 4.2

2010-03-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
The last round of changes has been pretty bad for Qt 4.2 support. I have a patch for some issues (below), but then I have problems with CompareUi and PrefLatexUi which use left/right/top/bottom margins. Can somebody fix that or are we going to decide to drop qt 4.2 and jump to 4.3 or 4.4? I can l

Re: LyX problem with arabic

2010-03-23 Thread Mohamed Magdy
which means: send the reply to lyx-devel (at) lists (dot) lyx (dot) org, not > (only) to my personal address. > > Thank you for making it clear, since i did not get what you mean. I see. Do you observe the same problem for instance in the preamble > (Document>Settings>Preamble) and in other Qt ap

Re: [Patch] Improving the Citation GUI.

2010-03-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
Richard Heck wrote: > xdg-open should open different things depending upon the extension. Here, > e.g., xdg-open file.tex opens kile. xdg-open knows nothing about extensions. it just passes the control to the desktop manager, i.e. it detect in a hackish style what dm you use and then sends the fi

Re: LyX problem with arabic

2010-03-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Also sprach Mohamed Magdy: > please keep the list in CC:. Other developers have more expertise on the > metrics stuff than me, so let's keep them on the radar. > > ok which means: send the reply to lyx-devel (at) lists (dot) lyx (dot) org, not (only) to my personal address. > Do you mean: also

Re: [Patch] Improving the Citation GUI.

2010-03-23 Thread rgheck
On 03/23/2010 10:41 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: John McCabe-Dansted wrote: I could paste the patch into the email, but I don't think that is what you mean. Could you give an example of an email client that can do this? (I don't think the gmail webclient can). the patches from John look cor

Re: #6601: Lyx should offer the Mathematica system for entering greek (and other) chars

2010-03-23 Thread rgheck
On 03/23/2010 10:44 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: On 03/23/2010 03:27 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: i cant remember anybody who wanted to be admin for the server. I remember you kind of did at the time :-) But now he has a new job. rh

RE: Reporting about some problems in LyX

2010-03-23 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>> > Do you see this problem also with other insets (such as "Box" or >> > "Float")? If so, it might be a problem of metrics calculation. >> >> Yes, i do. the language of the user interface is not the case "english >> or arabic", the problem appears when writing in arabic,some spaces are >> a

Re: #6601: Lyx should offer the Mathematica system for entering greek (and other) chars

2010-03-23 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 03/23/2010 03:27 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: We should try to find another host for that IMO. who is this we? Well, just because I don't want to say 'I' ? i cant remember anybody who wanted to be admin for the server. I remember you kind of did at t

Re: Reporting about some problems in LyX

2010-03-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Mohamed, please keep the list in CC:. Other developers have more expertise on the metrics stuff than me, so let's keep them on the radar. Mohamed Magdy wrote: > > Do you see this problem also with other insets (such as "Box" or > > "Float")? If > > so, it might be a problem of metrics calculatio

Re: [Patch] Improving the Citation GUI.

2010-03-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > I could paste the patch into the email, but I don't think that is what > you mean. Could you give an example of an email client that can do > this? (I don't think the gmail webclient can). the patches from John look correct here (mutt). > > +// Tells OS to open a File

Re: lyx rev. 33817 make error on mac os x SL

2010-03-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Abdelrazak Younes writes: > It depends on the MAC packager really. I personally prefer to avoid > indirection and our spellchecker API is just enough for our use. Using > Enchant means that the MAC package will have to take care of glib > integration in the build system. Agreed. The question is w

Re: #6601: Lyx should offer the Mathematica system for entering greek (and other) chars

2010-03-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > We should try to find another host for that IMO. who is this we? i cant remember anybody who wanted to be admin for the server. pavel

Re: #6601: Lyx should offer the Mathematica system for entering greek (and other) chars

2010-03-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > In principle you'd bind it like this*: > \bind "Escape a Escape" "math-insert \alpha" > and > \bind "Escape a l p h a Escape" "math-insert \alpha" no this wont work. if you declare esc-a-esc then esc-b-esc wont be caught i think. entering and escaping mat

RE: Re: donating to LyX project

2010-03-23 Thread Chris Reynolds
Oh but you don't have to add everyone there. That was the reason why we ask for this place. For other prospective donators you can suggest a different page, like the Donate one. We just wanted more anonymity and to be away from a place where people see us as a money giving project. We just liked LY

Re: [Patch] Improving the Citation GUI.

2010-03-23 Thread rgheck
On 03/23/2010 05:52 AM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:25 AM, rgheck wrote: On 03/22/2010 03:14 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: The attached patch resolved the following tickets: #6486 Citation not selected by default. #6487 Add "file" and "url" links to Citation

Re: lyx rev. 33817 make error on mac os x SL

2010-03-23 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 23.03.2010 um 15:00 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: > On 03/23/2010 02:04 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> Abdelrazak Younes writes: >> >>> No, I really meant that implementing that in LyX directly is easier >>> that implementing that in Enchant if it was there already. >>> >> If you like

Re: #6601: Lyx should offer the Mathematica system for entering greek (and other) chars

2010-03-23 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 03/23/2010 03:05 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: painful for you to use every day. Do you know why it is so slow --- lack of CPU, RAM, or fast disk? Would a donation of $1000 help speed it up and get LyX bugs fixes happening a little faster? Send me an apple system and I'll try to opt

Re: #6601: Lyx should offer the Mathematica system for entering greek (and other) chars

2010-03-23 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >On 03/22/2010 11:27 PM, Maynard Handley wrote: ... >> (1) How do you use esc, as you claim, in key bindings. I tried to do so a >> few months ago and could never figure out a way to express it. >> I wanted to be able to create macros that

Re: donating to LyX project

2010-03-23 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 03/23/2010 09:41 AM, Chris Reynolds wrote: Hello Abdel, My and our manager had a talk about the placement of our link and we came to a conclusion that the best and most natural way of doing it is to place it on your About page in the form like illustrated in the preview screenshot attached. P

Re: lyx rev. 33817 make error on mac os x SL

2010-03-23 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 03/23/2010 02:04 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes writes: No, I really meant that implementing that in LyX directly is easier that implementing that in Enchant if it was there already. If you like coding in Objective C++, yes. But this is really a weird beast. I a

Re: lyx rev. 33817 make error on mac os x SL

2010-03-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Abdelrazak Younes writes: > No, I really meant that implementing that in LyX directly is easier > that implementing that in Enchant if it was there already. If you like coding in Objective C++, yes. But this is really a weird beast. I attach the file from enchant as reference. > I am not sure he

Re: [Patch] Dialog to produce backtrace after each crash,

2010-03-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > Would some one else be interesting in > integrating this with the several build systems LyX supports (or > waiting a couple of months)? my guess is that you are alone in this project :) > - Mentioning the svn revision (maybe this should be added to lyx -version?) we

Re: #6601: Lyx should offer the Mathematica system for entering greek (and other) chars

2010-03-23 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 03/22/2010 11:27 PM, Maynard Handley wrote: On Mar 22, 2010, at 3:36 AM, LyX Ticket Tracker wrote: #6601: Lyx should offer the Mathematica system for entering greek (and other) chars -+-- Reporter: name99 |

Re: Add Converter via Reconfigure

2010-03-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jack Desert writes: > It's becoming tedious and error-prone to manually set up file formats > and converter definitions for a script I'm writing. How do I > automate the process so that the file formats and converter definitions > are created when I run Tools --> Reconfigure? You can add convert

Re: Scons death knell?

2010-03-23 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 03/22/2010 09:40 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: btw. I will now also switch from SCons to CMake. It is good that all developers use the same basics. these are good news. what about killing the scons support? anybody needs it? If Uwe manage to switch then I'd say yes.

Re: [Patch] Improving the Citation GUI.

2010-03-23 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:25 AM, rgheck wrote: > On 03/22/2010 03:14 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > > The attached patch resolved the following tickets: > #6486 Citation not selected by default. > #6487 Add "file" and "url" links to Citation Dialog. ... > Please try to attach the patch in su

Re: Add Converter via Reconfigure

2010-03-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-23, Jack Desert wrote: > It's becoming tedious and error-prone to manually set up file formats > and converter definitions for a script I'm writing. How do I > automate the process so that the file formats and converter definitions > are created when I run Tools --> Reconfigure? This i