need Linux help with documentation how to install LaTeX packages

2010-09-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I just stumbled over sec. 5.1 of the customization manual which describes how to install LaTeX-package manually. This section seems quite outdated: - it contains a lot of special commands and settings that are most probably not needed - the important point how to unpack a LaTeX-package was miss

[patch] was: Re: Question about allowed filenames on Unix systems

2010-09-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 25.09.2010 22:08, schrieb Richard Heck: Perhaps the warning could be (a) rephrased to make it sound less dire and (b) given a "don't show again" box. The attached patch does this and also distinguishes between LaTeX and DVI. This is in my opinion important. The method isValidLaTeXFileName

Re: [RFC] and [patch] - support to define header /footer lines

2010-09-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
In some classes fancyhdr is not the solution. However we can expect the layouts to provide the right environments already. In this case they can be made incompatible with the new module, can't they? fancyhdr can be used with all document classes. See for example my example file that uses KOMA-s

Re: Question about allowed filenames on Unix systems

2010-09-25 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/25/2010 12:54 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Removing a warning just because it works for you is not an option IMHO. Before > you remove it, it is up to you to prove that it really is obsolete in all > cases. That's why I asked you do test this with your TeXLive installation. If we identify the

Re: Question about allowed filenames on Unix systems

2010-09-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> Removing a warning just because it works for you is not an option IMHO. Before > you remove it, it is up to you to prove that it really is obsolete in all > cases. That's why I asked you do test this with your TeXLive installation. If we identify the problem of beeing only a problem in xdvi, th

Re: Question about allowed filenames on Unix systems

2010-09-25 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > I cannot accept that we show a warning that is invalid. On Windows this > warning is definitively invalid - TeXLive, MiKTeX and their DVI viewers > can handle brackets. As I said, a warning that states that something _might_ go wrong is not invalid if it doesn't go wrong in ce

Re: Question about allowed filenames on Unix systems

2010-09-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> I do not understand this argument. We do not "forbid" this characters in any > way. We just issue a warning that users might run into problems when using > these in file names. These warnings are still valid for the mentioned cases. > So I do not see a reason to ditch the warning. I cannot acce

Re: Question about allowed filenames on Unix systems

2010-09-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 25.09.2010 16:51, schrieb Uwe Stöhr: On Windows only the following characters are not allowed by the OS: / \ | > < " : * ? Sorry, my mistake. This is irrelevant because I was only referring to valid LaTeX filenames and that is what we are checking in isValidLaTeXFileName. regards Uwe

Re: Question about allowed filenames on Unix systems

2010-09-25 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > We should allow all other characters in isValidLaTeXFileName. If necessary, > we have to differentiate between Unix systems, MaCOS and Windows. I do not understand this argument. We do not "forbid" this characters in any way. We just issue a warning that users might run into p

Re: Encoding Issue in Bug 6223

2010-09-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> Can someone who knows about encodings look at #6223? Its language is Korean and the encoding set to auto. It therefore uses the encoding "euc-kr". regards Uwe

Re: to branch: correct icon size in math panels

2010-09-25 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Edwin Leuven wrote: > jurgen, perhaps you can put this into branch? > > http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/35492 Could you say a bit more about the problem (I do not see icon size problems) and the fix? And while I have you online, there's also a pending question for you here: http://www.lyx.org

Re: r35494 - lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X/src/support

2010-09-25 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: > Author: rgheck > Date: Fri Sep 24 19:24:25 2010 > New Revision: 35494 > URL: http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/35494 > > Log: > Fix #6914 for branch. status.16x, please. Jürgen