Re: About LyX menus & usability.

2012-10-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2012/10/18 Jürgen Spitzmüller : > How are these things called in Word Processors and PDF Readers in English UIs? "Comments", AFAICS. Jürgen

Re: About LyX menus & usability.

2012-10-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2012/10/18 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes : > Yes, but the point is that there is note and note. I agree that our current > UI is not very good at separating the two (markup vs author annotation), but > it is not a reason for making this worse. I wonder if the term "Annotation" for LyX Notes and comments wo

Re: About LyX menus & usability.

2012-10-17 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > But knowing which one of pane or panel is more suited to UI is more > delicate. > I'm no native English speaker either, but from my experience with FOSS programs the Source and Messages thingies that LyX has are 'panes'. However the

Re: About LyX menus & usability.

2012-10-17 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 18/10/2012 11:15 a.m., Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 15/10/12 22:41, Andrew Parsloe a écrit : Anyone who can drop "pleonastic" into a sentence hardly needs a native English speaker. Well I am able to check in a dictionary that the French word "pléonastique" actually translates to English (

Re: Noweb/Literate programming Copier problem

2012-10-17 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:15 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> OK thanks for the tips. I'm guessing it's OK to update the format in >> trunk when changing the manuals? > > For additional manual it's OK. IIRC Uwe wanted the manuals under his > maintenance to remain in 2.0.x for eas

Re: Manuals contain outdated break-paragraph-keep-layout

2012-10-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 29.09.2012 18:22, schrieb Pavel Sanda: break-paragraph-keep-layout is LFUN outdated for a long time, we still have it in these manuals: lib/doc/de/UserGuide.lyx lib/doc/eu/Customization.lyx lib/doc/eu/UserGuide.lyx lib/doc/sk/UserGuide.lyx Thanks for the hint. I have now removed the refere

Re: $$e not set on import --> import of .Rnw (knitr) fails

2012-10-17 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 17/10/12 06:09, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : > >> I have this problem on master and 2.0.x. >> >> An empty $$e variable is being passed to the converter script on >> import because the document is not open yet: >> command = subst(comman

Re: Press about LyX

2012-10-17 Thread Jerry
Who among the LyX developers has the power to edit the press page, http://www.lyx.org/PressAboutLyX? Daniel has written an article about LyX for the HowToAnswer web site and would like to get it linked from the LyX press page. Surely this benefits the LyX community as well. Jerry On Oct 16, 2

Re: About LyX menus & usability.

2012-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 18/10/12 00:40, Tommaso Cucinotta a écrit : On 17/10/12 23:19, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: On 17/10/12 11:26, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: For my lectures, I use marginal notes quite a lot, and I would be quite annoyed if they wouldn't be easily reachable anymore (via Alt+E+R in my German l7n curr

Re: $$e not set on import --> import of .Rnw (knitr) fails

2012-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 17/10/12 06:09, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : I have this problem on master and 2.0.x. An empty $$e variable is being passed to the converter script on import because the document is not open yet: command = subst(command, token_encoding, buffer ? buffer->params().encoding().iconvName() : string()

Re: About LyX menus & usability.

2012-10-17 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
On 17/10/12 23:19, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: On 17/10/12 11:26, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: For my lectures, I use marginal notes quite a lot, and I would be quite annoyed if they wouldn't be easily reachable anymore (via Alt+E+R in my German l7n currently). Further alternative/proposal: what abo

Re: About LyX menus & usability.

2012-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 18/10/12 00:30, Tommaso Cucinotta a écrit : Do you mean: moving "Insert->Branch" to document ? AFAIU, it's really a local edit, so it should stay in Insert. Yes. What about "Version Control" operations ? They probably affect the whole document, so move them to Document ? However, it's quit

Re: About LyX menus & usability.

2012-10-17 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
On 09/10/12 14:44, Charles de Miramon wrote: Like Pavel, I find the Insert menu too long. Maybe, everything that relates to the life cycle of the document (annotations, branches) could go into 'Document' Do you mean: moving "Insert->Branch" to document ? AFAIU, it's really a local edit, so it

Re: About LyX menus & usability.

2012-10-17 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
On 17/10/12 11:26, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Marginal notes and footnotes are conceptually different to the LyX notes, despite the similar name. LyX notes are rather editiorial tools (adressed at the author/editor; except for "greyed out maybe, which is a problematic case in itself). Footnotes, e

Re: About USE_META_KEYBINDING (Stephan?)

2012-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 17/10/12 07:41, Stephan Witt a écrit : Why not just define USE_META_KEYBINDING in configure for the mac build? Yes, this can be done. Other options are 1) to remove the USE_META_KEYBINDING macro 2) to handle Alt and Meta separately on all platforms This is what I though afterwards. Is the

Re: About LyX menus & usability.

2012-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 15/10/12 22:41, Andrew Parsloe a écrit : Anyone who can drop "pleonastic" into a sentence hardly needs a native English speaker. Well I am able to check in a dictionary that the French word "pléonastique" actually translates to English (it looks like it comes from English actually). But of

Re: Re: Qt issue? (Re: #8374: missing/bad display of dots and cdots)

2012-10-17 Thread Kornel Benko
Am Mittwoch, 17. Oktober 2012 um 16:37:27, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller > 2012/10/17 Richard Heck: > >> Is there anyone around who can see rendering of three dots instead of two > >> dots when typing \cdots in mathed? The code looks correct and unchanged > >> compared to older versions where it wor

Re: Qt issue? (Re: #8374: missing/bad display of dots and cdots)

2012-10-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2012/10/17 Jürgen Spitzmüller : > I get three, both for \dots and \cdots. Qt 4.8.2 as well. However, scaling matters! I have 200 dpi. If I scale down, I get two dots at ~140 dpi and one dot at ~100 dpi. At some scale rates (such as 150), the dots even disappear completely. Jürgen

Re: Qt issue? (Re: #8374: missing/bad display of dots and cdots)

2012-10-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2012/10/17 Richard Heck: >> Is there anyone around who can see rendering of three dots instead of two >> dots when typing \cdots in mathed? The code looks correct and unchanged >> compared to older versions where it worked. > > Two dots here. I noticed this recently. Qt is 4.8.2. I get three, both

Re: Qt issue? (Re: #8374: missing/bad display of dots and cdots)

2012-10-17 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/17/2012 04:11 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: LyX Ticket Tracker wrote: #8374: missing/bad display of dots and cdots +-- Reporter: MarkBravington | Owner: poenitz Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal

Re: About LyX menus & usability.

2012-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 17/10/2012 12:26, Jürgen Spitzmüller a écrit : Agreed. Marginal notes and footnotes are conceptually different to the LyX notes, despite the similar name. LyX notes are rather editiorial tools (adressed at the author/editor; except for "greyed out maybe, which is a problematic case in itself).

Re: About LyX menus & usability.

2012-10-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2012/10/17 Pavel Sanda: > Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: >> However, nobody seems to care about "marginal note". So, I would readily >> move it to the Insert->Note sub-menu. At least, it will be 1 less entry in >> the "crowded" Insert menu. > > I think margin/foot note should be rather coupled together..

Re: About LyX menus & usability.

2012-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 17/10/2012 10:30, Pavel Sanda a écrit : Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: However, nobody seems to care about "marginal note". So, I would readily move it to the Insert->Note sub-menu. At least, it will be 1 less entry in the "crowded" Insert menu. I think margin/foot note should be rather coupled t

Re: Re: Re: Error in build process on Windows 7, using Visual Studio 2012

2012-10-17 Thread Kornel Benko
Am Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2012 um 18:06:18, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn > > > > > > > > > > Yes, but nonetheless I'd like to have it resolved. > > > > I would like to know: > > > > > > > > Is the problem in > > > > * Compiling: maybe a missing include reference (something not defined?) > > > >

Re: About LyX menus & usability.

2012-10-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > However, nobody seems to care about "marginal note". So, I would readily > move it to the Insert->Note sub-menu. At least, it will be 1 less entry in > the "crowded" Insert menu. I think margin/foot note should be rather coupled together... > I also noticed that the [

Re: Noweb/Literate programming Copier problem

2012-10-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
Scott Kostyshak wrote: > OK thanks for the tips. I'm guessing it's OK to update the format in > trunk when changing the manuals? For additional manual it's OK. IIRC Uwe wanted the manuals under his maintenance to remain in 2.0.x for easy synchronization. > Attached is a patch to update the Additi

Qt issue? (Re: #8374: missing/bad display of dots and cdots)

2012-10-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
LyX Ticket Tracker wrote: > #8374: missing/bad display of dots and cdots > +-- > Reporter: MarkBravington | Owner: poenitz > Type: defect | Status: new > Priority: normal | Milestone: > Component: mathed