Re: Interested in GSoC Project

2013-04-15 Thread stefano franchi
Hi Rajat, welcome to thew Lyx community! There has been quite a bit of discussion on the list on how to implement horizontal scroll bars for tables. Here is a starting point: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg178012.html Feel free to ask any questions you may have as you pu

GSoC 2013 - Improved XHTML export and ePub support

2013-04-15 Thread Josh Edgcomb
Hi, I'm Josh. I'm a Computer Science student at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and I'm interested in working on the xhtml/epub project listed on the wiki. I have a lot of experience with Python, a fair amount with HTML and CSS, and a bit with C++ as well. I've been looking through

Interested in GSoC Project

2013-04-15 Thread Rajat Gupta
Hi I am Rajat Gupta , a first year CSE student at MIT , Manipal . I have decent knowledge of Qt .I am really interested in "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" project and would like to know more from the mentor about it and also a bit guidance how to start with it . Regards Rajat gupta

Re: Interested in Google Summer of Code

2013-04-15 Thread Cyrille Artho
Dear Xueqing Shan, It's too bad that your classes start one month before GSoC is over. However, Google's schedule is not absolutely strict when it comes to the *start* times. Only the evaluation deadlines are strict (a miss is an automatic fail). So it is possible to shift the schedule forwar

Open source project for GSOC

2013-04-15 Thread Peter Zeman
Hi! I am writing to ask whether you would be interested in mentoring my open source project during Google Summer of Code. Note that this email is not a proposal. Your organization is the closest to the topic of my project. What is my project about? The purpose is to speed up the development of i

Re: JASA.lyx: Error in latexParagraphs: You should not mix title layouts with normal ones.

2013-04-15 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Hashini Senaratne wrote: > Scott Kostyshak lyx.org> writes: >> I get the following error when exporting templates/JASA.lyx: >> output_latex.cpp (): Error in latexParagraphs: You should not mix >> title layouts with normal ones. >> >> Is there something in the

Re: Interested in Google Summer of Code

2013-04-15 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > LyX support for bilingual (critical) text editions > > > Could you elaborate what you had in mind for these projects, respectively? I tried to put relevant links in http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/4221 The only news is that those latex packages have new maintainer and he is responsive. Pavel

Re: Saying hello - GSoC 3013

2013-04-15 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear Jaydeep, On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Jaydeep Solanki wrote: > Hello everyone, > I saw LyX 2013 Summer of Code Ideas and I found them really interesting. > A particular one that interests me the most is 'Improving XHTML export and > ePub support'. > This project has already been discuss

Re: Interested in Google Summer of Code

2013-04-15 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear Xueqing Shan, Welcome to LyX! On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Ashley Shan wrote: > Dear Sir or Madam, > > My name is Xueqing Shan. I am a rising sophomore in Vanderbilt University > interested in participating in Google Summer of Code. I saw LyX's projects > and I think I am capable of con

Re: Want to associate with Lyx development

2013-04-15 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear Puja, On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Puja Singh wrote: > Since my last mail to this mailing group, I had been communicating with > Stefano (Thanks Stefano,it was really of great help),I was trying to setup > the LyxGit ,which is sucessfully done now,and parallel to this,I went > through t

Re: GSoC - Toolbar Customization Dialog

2013-04-15 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear Mihai, Welcome to LyX. In addition to Abdel's suggestions, I would point you to the application process as outlined here: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/lyx . Please feel free to ask here should you have any questions. Regards , Liviu On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 1:23 PM,

Re: GSoC 2013: Interactive LyX

2013-04-15 Thread Pavel Sanda
Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > However, how difficult is it to extrapolate the LyX editor and merge it into > Pidgin ? If pidgin supported images to be put into chat window via some api (socket or similar) it would be fairly easy to let the equation render via instant preview and send it there via

Re: GSOC 2013

2013-04-15 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
On 15/04/13 15:02, parag gupta wrote: > I am interested in *Project:* Advanced Find and Replace. Hi Parag, welcome to LyX! First of all, let me redirect you to the information available at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/lyx where you can find how to apply to GSoC 2013

Re: GSoC 2013: Interactive LyX

2013-04-15 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
On 14/04/13 21:02, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Liviu Andronic wrote: >> to have a LyX plugin in Pidgin, > > You mean for equations? P Of course, a plugin in Pidgin would seem the natural thing to do, as all the infrastructure for letting users register and find each other would already be there. Howe

Re: JASA.lyx: Error in latexParagraphs: You should not mix title layouts with normal ones.

2013-04-15 Thread Hashini Senaratne
Hello Scott, Scott Kostyshak lyx.org> writes: > I get the following error when exporting templates/JASA.lyx: > output_latex.cpp (): Error in latexParagraphs: You should not mix > title layouts with normal ones. > > Is there something in the layout that needs fixing? > As you know I am new

Re: Making LYX accessible to the blind

2013-04-15 Thread Nico Williams
On Monday, April 15, 2013, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > 15/04/2013 13:54, William Adams: > >> I guess the best solution would be for QT to become friendly to screen >> readers, but that's out-of-scope. >> > > Actually, the WorkArea is completely curtom, not under the control of Qt. > So we would

Saying hello - GSoC 3013

2013-04-15 Thread Jaydeep Solanki
Hello everyone, I saw LyX 2013 Summer of Code Ideas and I found them really interesting. A particular one that interests me the most is 'Improving XHTML export and ePub support'. I would like to know more about it. Do you have a particular library that I'm supposed to use for creating ePub ? I goo

Re: GSoC: Integrating with Cloud based compilers

2013-04-15 Thread stefano franchi
Hi Gregori, I won't get into the technical issues---I am not a developer. Besides, both Jean-Marc and Pavel, two of our most experienced devels have already entered the discussion. As for my LyX/Latex usage: I actually use it for everything, from lecture notes to article to books. Most of my writ

GSOC 2013

2013-04-15 Thread parag gupta
Hey, I would like to contribute to Lyx via Google Summer of Code 2013. I am a 3rd year undergraduate student at 'International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad', India, pursuing Bachelor of Technology in 'Computer Science and Engineering'. I have seen the project lists : http://wiki

Re: Making LYX accessible to the blind

2013-04-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
15/04/2013 13:54, William Adams: I guess the best solution would be for QT to become friendly to screen readers, but that's out-of-scope. Actually, the WorkArea is completely curtom, not under the control of Qt. So we would have to implement everything by ourselves. JMarc

Re: Making LYX accessible to the blind

2013-04-15 Thread William Adams
On Apr 14, 2013, at 9:56 PM, Nico Williams wrote: > There's nothing in the LyX GUI that makes it inherently less accessible than, > say, Microsoft's Word. The main problem with adding accessibility is in > using an API that keeps LyX portable. There's lots of little details that > need to be

Re: GSOC 2013

2013-04-15 Thread Manan Dang
I have downloaded the patch and rename it to "*toolbar_lyx.patch*" Then I have created a new branch named as "*lyx_manan*" But when I tried to apply the patch with command "*git apply --check toolbar_lyx.patch*" I got an error messages error: patch failed: src/frontends/qt4/GuiView.cpp:1719 error:

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

2013-04-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
13/04/2013 14:00, Uwe Stöhr: That does not cure the problem. Attached is the updated patch. The problem is that LyX requires a length. Length() stores Length::UNIT_NONE but this is translated during the reading of the buffer to the default unit and this is "pt". As an empty value was stored "0" i

Re: [patch] improve copy/paste interaction with external apps (bug 3096)

2013-04-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
14/04/2013 20:06, Georg Baum: This is already available: Edit->Paste Special (and it also contains some entries for pasting graphics). After further thinking, I came to the conclusion that the new formats for text contents could go to this menu as well, since there is not really a difference betw

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

2013-04-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
14/04/2013 15:53, Hashini Senaratne: Thank you for the explanation. That makes more sense for me. I think I fully understood your point 1 and 3. I want to make sure if I correctly understood what you have mentioned under point 2. "when the test cursor is moved to a place where it would not be vis

Re: GSoC: Integrating with Cloud based compilers

2013-04-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
14/04/2013 21:37, Pavel Sanda: What is needed is just - directory mapped somewhere in the cloud (dropbox or similar or via fuse-based FS on linux) - single script (bash, python, i believe even telnet would be enough:) which just triggers the compilation on your service and get errors on stdo

Idea GSoC - support for online LaTeX compiling

2013-04-15 Thread Rainer M. Krug
Hi I guess many have seen it - LyX and it's successful application for GSoC was on Slashdot [1]. That should give some publicity. The first comment raised an interesting (already discussed) feature which is missing in LyX: to enable the use of online LaTeX backends for compilation. This would ha

Re: Interested in Google Summer of Code

2013-04-15 Thread stefano franchi
Hi Ashley, I can probably answer the non-technical questions. For specific issues concerning the LyX projects you're interested, the developers (who are very active on this list) will most likely be able to answer your questions. So, go ahead with your general questions and I'll do my best to add