Re: Mentors to contact

Dear Pulkit, On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Pulkit Mendiratta wrote: > I am interested in a few projects. Where can i get the contact details of > mentors of the respective projects for the further details on the it ? > Feel free to drop you inquiries to lyx-devel. Most mentors follow this lis

Re: GSoC -- Interested in Layout Editor Project

Dear Alex, Welcome to LyX. On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Alexander Nord wrote: > I'm Alex. I'm a junior at Reed College in Portland, OR. > > I think what you guys are doing sounds awesome, and I'd love to apply to > take on the > "Layout Editor" project. I've never done GSoC (or, for that m

Re: GSOC 2013

Dear Manan, Welcome to LyX. On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >> Hi Abdelrazak Younes, >> I am a junior year undergraduate student from Delhi Technological >> University pursuing Computer Science Engineering. >> >> I went through the project ideas for GSOC [1] and found

Mentors to contact

I am interested in a few projects. Where can i get the contact details of mentors of the respective projects for the further details on the it ?

GSoC 2013: Interactive LyX

Greetings! My name is Marcelo Galvão Póvoa, a Computer Science graduate student from UNICAMP, Brazil. I am very glad to see LyX participating in GSoC this year, I hope to be able to contribute to this great application. One project idea that caught my attention was the "Interactive LyX": it's a ve

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Python detection

On Saturday 13 April 2013 16:37:55 Pavel Sanda wrote: > facepalm.jpg By using a polar bear instead of a cat you have spoken to my heart. ;-) Cheers, -- José Abílio

Re: Re: Python detection

On Saturday 13 April 2013 16:53:42 Richard Heck wrote: > Isn't there some "import __future__" thing we can use to make this easy? > Or is that what is only in 2.7? > > Richard python 2.7 supports both "from future import " as well as new features that were backported from python 3 (specific

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Python detection

José Matos wrote: > Oh, BTW and then if we go with python 3.x we can call the next version lyx > 3.0. :-D > Or we can already adopt the firefox convention and go with lyx-3.0 for new > release. :-) 195.113.26.193/~sanda/facepalm.jpg :D

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Python detection

On Saturday 13 April 2013 11:36:18 Pavel Sanda wrote: > José Matos wrote: > > In the mean time it is possible to use the features of python 2.7 that > > allow an easy update to python 3.3. > > I hope we already at least support python 2.7, cause what I see in > changelogs, Uwe already ships it i

Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

On 04/13/2013 02:11 PM, José Matos wrote: On Friday 12 April 2013 18:00:09 Pavel Sanda wrote: José Matos wrote: The patch attached fixes the first problem you describe the "DUMMY" references (pun intended). :-D Dunno how much related but I remember docbook&dummy problem reported in bug track

Re: Python detection

On 04/13/2013 02:09 PM, José Matos wrote: On Friday 12 April 2013 18:09:02 Pavel Sanda wrote: I thought we want to be >3.0 compatible and ditch 2.x series completely(?). Otherwise it looks like just maintenace burden without profit. What's the status of python 3 on fedora/debian/suse? Pavel I

Re: Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

José Matos wrote: > The question between docbook 4 (mostly 4.5) and docbook 5 is the same that we > are having in another thread regarding python. I must admit that I'm so confused, that I don't even know what version do we support now(4?). And what is the relation between SGML and XML version o

Re: [LyX master] Hungarian Tutorial.lyx: revert last change

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 12.04.2013 09:48, schrieb Scott Kostyshak: > > >> OK, I committed this at 18f5500a. > > > Thanks. Can you please also do the same for the files in branch? Yes, what is the protocol for doc files in branch. You are doc maintainer and Richard i

Re: Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 2:32 PM, José Matos wrote: > The question between docbook 4 (mostly 4.5) and docbook 5 is the same that we > are having in another thread regarding python. Interesting coincidence. I guess major releases are a good time to talk about changing version support. > docbook 4

Re: Re: Re: Re: Python detection

José Matos wrote: > In the mean time it is possible to use the features of python 2.7 that allow > an easy update to python 3.3. I hope we already at least support python 2.7, cause what I see in changelogs, Uwe already ships it in Win version :) > Note that even if we go python 3 we should set

Making LYX accessible to the blind

Hi everyone, I am responsible for a project we call F123 (pronounced F 1 2 3), which seeks to improve access to education and employment for the blind in developing countries through high performance low cost software such as the Orca screen reader and Compiz Fusion eZoom screen magnification.

Re: Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

On Saturday 13 April 2013 14:24:52 Scott Kostyshak wrote: > There was someone interested in adding support for DocBook 5: > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8444 > > Let me know if there's anything I can do to test. > > Scott The question between docbook 4 (mostly 4.5) and docbook 5 is the same th

Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 2:16 PM, José Matos wrote: > On Friday 12 April 2013 23:30:16 Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> Your patch does help. Here is the output I get now from db2pdf (exit code is >> 8): >> > > Yes, I get the same. I think that the reasonable course of action is to > update the docbook

Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 1:32 PM, José Matos wrote: > On Friday 12 April 2013 23:31:55 Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> >> OK, I will apply the patch then unless someone disagrees. José cannot >> test because he does not use sgmltools. >> >> Scott > > You can test easily if you create a new document from

Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

On Friday 12 April 2013 23:30:16 Scott Kostyshak wrote: > Your patch does help. Here is the output I get now from db2pdf (exit code is > 8): > Yes, I get the same. I think that the reasonable course of action is to update the docbook support for 4.5 (released in 2006). I will look in to this b

Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

On Friday 12 April 2013 18:00:09 Pavel Sanda wrote: > José Matos wrote: > > The patch attached fixes the first problem you describe the "DUMMY" > > references (pun intended). :-D > > Dunno how much related but I remember docbook&dummy problem reported in bug > tracker. > Pavel I think that you

Re: Re: Re: Re: Python detection

On Friday 12 April 2013 18:09:02 Pavel Sanda wrote: > I thought we want to be >3.0 compatible and ditch 2.x series completely(?). > Otherwise it looks like just maintenace burden without profit. > > What's the status of python 3 on fedora/debian/suse? > > Pavel In the mean time it is possible to

Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

On Friday 12 April 2013 23:31:55 Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > OK, I will apply the patch then unless someone disagrees. José cannot > test because he does not use sgmltools. > > Scott You can test easily if you create a new document from templates. There is a simple docbook template that will wor

GSoC: Integrating with Cloud based compilers

Hello LyX Devs, Stefan Kottwitz of LaTeX-Community has suggested that integrationwith a cloud-based LaTeX compiling service would be a useful feature for LyX users to have, so that a local installation of LaTeX need no

Re: Python detection

On 2013-04-13, Georg Baum wrote: > Pavel Sanda wrote: >> Stephan Witt wrote: >>> > What's the status of python 3 on fedora/debian/suse? >>> On my Mac (latest version Mac OS X 10.8.3) the default is 2.7.2. >> Default is not so important, important is 3.x availability, we have >> mostly working sel

Re: [LyX master] support for \mbox and \fbox

Am 10.04.2013 11:36, schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: Look for some comments below. I am not sure that what I propose will be enough to make things work, but it should be a good first step. That does not cure the problem. Attached is the updated patch. The problem is that LyX requires a length.

Re: [LyX master] Hungarian Tutorial.lyx: revert last change

Am 12.04.2013 09:48, schrieb Scott Kostyshak: OK, I committed this at 18f5500a. Thanks. Can you please also do the same for the files in branch? This affects other files to, right?. Please don't forget to add an entry in the status.20x file. thanks and regards Uwe

GSoC - Toolbar Customization Dialog

Hello, my name is Mihai, i'm a first year student at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, and i am interested in the Toolbar Customization Dialog project. Could you please give me a starting idea or let me know if there are any issues related to this matter that i can solve. I have acquired som

Beamer goto buttons and text hyperlinks

Beamer buttons are used to reference one slide from another so that you can jump around your presentation (useful if a viewer asks a question about details, for example). These buttons are pretty popular. For example, one of the beamer examples has three of the goto buttons: examples/beamerlyxexam

Re: Python detection

Georg Baum wrote: > 3.2.1 is available in debian squeeze (the current stable version). Wrong, it is 3.1.3, but does not matter. Georg

Re: Python detection

Pavel Sanda wrote: > Stephan Witt wrote: >> > What's the status of python 3 on fedora/debian/suse? >> >> On my Mac (latest version Mac OS X 10.8.3) the default is 2.7.2. > > Default is not so important, important is 3.x availability, we have > mostly working selection mechanism thanks to Enrico.

Re: Python detection

Stephan Witt wrote: > > What's the status of python 3 on fedora/debian/suse? > > On my Mac (latest version Mac OS X 10.8.3) the default is 2.7.2. Default is not so important, important is 3.x availability, we have mostly working selection mechanism thanks to Enrico. Pavel

Re: Python detection

Op 13-04-13 03:09, Pavel Sanda schreef: José Matos wrote: So these are the facts. The question then is how do we want to proceed? I thought we want to be >3.0 compatible and ditch 2.x series completely(?). Otherwise it looks like just maintenace burden without profit. What's the status of pyt

Re: Python detection

Am 13.04.2013 um 03:09 schrieb Pavel Sanda : > José Matos wrote: >> So these are the facts. The question then is how do we want to proceed? > > I thought we want to be >3.0 compatible and ditch 2.x series completely(?). > Otherwise it looks like just maintenace burden without profit. > > What's

Re: GSoC -- Interested in Layout Editor Project

Hi Alex, I am subscribed to this list, but not yet involved much in LyX development. Most (almost all) here are much more knowledgeable and experienced than me, so remember that when you read this response; however, I do have some suggestions that might help you get started. If you are going to w