Re: GSOC 2014 Horizontal Scroll Bar

2013-04-18 Thread Benjamin Le Cam
Hi Scott, Thanks for the quick answer! I'll take a more accurate look on this week-end. I just threw basic stuff I thought about when reading some comments from this discussion and the project description. Ben. On Apr 18, 2013, at 9:40 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > Hi Ben, > > It might be w

Re: GSOC 2014 Horizontal Scroll Bar

2013-04-18 Thread Scott Kostyshak
Hi Ben, It might be worth it to read through this recent email: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/145717 See, in particular, JMarc's comment, containing the following "I suuspect that a lot of work will be needed in our WorkArea widget to have it aware that it contains other Qt wi

GSOC 2014 Horizontal Scroll Bar

2013-04-18 Thread Benjamin Le Cam
Hi! The Horizontal Scroll Bar issue interests me. It looks like to be a major issue for many people so that would a great thing done. I already have a good background with Qt and so I'm wondering what there is no use of QScrollArea in order to have a horizontal scroll bar needed? I already had

Re: improve latex-lyx roundtripping (GSoC)

2013-04-18 Thread Cyrille Artho
Hi Georg, I'm not familiar enough with the capabilities of LaTeX macros to be the final judge on that, but it seems plausible that macros may work better for many features. However, it is also desirable to keep the LaTeX code simple. For features that are merely related to displaying things (

Re: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-18 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Mayank Jha wrote: >>> Thanks for referring me to the mailing-list history page! >>> We would need a GUI interface which allows one to create docum

Re: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Mayank Jha wrote: >> Thanks for referring me to the mailing-list history page! >> We would need a GUI interface which allows one to create document classes >> from the Latex classes without any prior know

Re: improve latex-lyx roundtripping (GSoC)

2013-04-18 Thread Akshay Nautiyal
sorry my bad ...wrong pm. On 19 April 2013 02:40, Akshay Nautiyal wrote: > Dear Liviu, > on recommendation i saw all the posts by Tommaso.But i need to be able to > pm him for any growth on what needs to be done.Thanks. > > cheers , > Akshay Nautiyal >

Re: improve latex-lyx roundtripping (GSoC)

2013-04-18 Thread Akshay Nautiyal
Dear Liviu, on recommendation i saw all the posts by Tommaso.But i need to be able to pm him for any growth on what needs to be done.Thanks. cheers , Akshay Nautiyal

Re: improve latex-lyx roundtripping (GSoC)

2013-04-18 Thread Georg Baum
Cyrille Artho wrote: > I think it is possible to save some internal features of LyX (inset > collapsed/expanded, notes, etc.) in LaTeX as well. They could be exported > as special LaTeX comments. Of course, editing these comments would lose > the extra data, but we'd have to trust people working o

Re: improve latex-lyx roundtripping (GSoC)

2013-04-18 Thread Georg Baum
Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear Daniel, > > > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Daniel Vainsencher > wrote: >> Please CC me on answers. >> >> I often collaborate with people who (still) prefer LaTeX, and also submit >> papers to conferences that make it easy to submit latex via >> style/class/samp

Re: Introduction Ben

2013-04-18 Thread stefano franchi
Hi Be, welcome to Lyx! In addition to the descriptions of the projects on our ideas page, be sure to search the lyx-devel archive. Several projects have been discussed already sometimes in considerable detail. Feel free to ask any question you may have as you decide the project you'd like to work

Introduction Ben

2013-04-18 Thread Benjamin Le Cam
Hi! My name is Benjamin Le Cam, I am a French first-year student at St. Olaf College. You can also call me "frenchie". I'm majoring in Computer Science with a concentration in Management Studies. I've been developping for a couple years now, mainly in C++ with Qt. I also learned C++, php, CSS,

Re: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-18 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Mayank Jha wrote: > Thanks for referring me to the mailing-list history page! > We would need a GUI interface which allows one to create document classes > from the Latex classes without any prior knowledge of Latex or .layout files > and at the same time enabli

Re: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-18 Thread Mayank Jha
Thanks for referring me to the mailing-list history page! I cloned the latest git repo and compiled it. After going through the User Manual, I seemed to get a rough idea as to what would we be needing! We would need a GUI interface which allows one to create document classes from the Latex classes

Re: docx roundtrip

2013-04-18 Thread Rainer M. Krug
Daniel Vainsencher writes: > I would suggest some connections between seemingly different projects > here: I agree that they could be liked, especially in regards to the underlying infrastructure needed for a roundtrip. > 1. For round tripping, there is a close link between the exporter and > i

Re: docx roundtrip

2013-04-18 Thread Rainer M. Krug
Liviu Andronic writes: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:50 AM, stefano franchi > wrote: >>> While we are talking about roundtrip - there is still the dreaded issue >>> of MS Word (docx) roundtrip. >>> >>> There is again and again the discussion coming up of exporting to docx >>> and importing docx,

Re: docx roundtrip

2013-04-18 Thread Daniel Vainsencher
I would suggest some connections between seemingly different projects here: 1. For round tripping, there is a close link between the exporter and importer, because the importer must understand, in addition to the external format, the side information provided by t

Re: docx roundtrip

2013-04-18 Thread Rainer M. Krug
stefano franchi writes: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Rainer M. Krug wrote: > >> Liviu Andronic writes: >> >> > Dear Daniel, >> > >> > >> > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Daniel Vainsencher >> > wrote: >> >> Please CC me on answers. >> >> >> >> I often collaborate with people who (stil

Re: docx roundtrip WAS: improve latex-lyx roundtripping (GSoC)

2013-04-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:50 AM, stefano franchi wrote: >> While we are talking about roundtrip - there is still the dreaded issue >> of MS Word (docx) roundtrip. >> >> There is again and again the discussion coming up of exporting to docx >> and importing docx, and (especially in the humanities

Re: patch for scrolling issue - LyXscrollpatch20130302.diff (1/1)

2013-04-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
17/04/2013 00:05, pdv: I do now all the width-calculations in one function. In that function the widths are cached in a map. I then obtain again a substantial speed increase. For testing I defined a static map, but I assume that eventually the map should be stored in a suitable object so that the

Re: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-18 Thread stefano franchi
Hi Mayank, welcome to the LyX community! You can find some specs on how to go about the Layout editor in this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg144165.html Also, you may want to search the recent discussions (last couple of weeks) on the lyx-devel list. Feel free to

Re: docx roundtrip WAS: improve latex-lyx roundtripping (GSoC)

2013-04-18 Thread stefano franchi
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Rainer M. Krug wrote: > Liviu Andronic writes: > > > Dear Daniel, > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Daniel Vainsencher > > wrote: > >> Please CC me on answers. > >> > >> I often collaborate with people who (still) prefer LaTeX, and also > submit > >>

Re: improve latex-lyx roundtripping (GSoC)

2013-04-18 Thread Akshay Nautiyal
can i get a link to the thread where discussion about the lyx chat client is happening. thnaks. cheers, Akshay On 18 April 2013 13:31, Daniel Vainsencher wrote: > On 04/18/2013 07:58 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > > I would strongly agree with this. Round-tripping LyX <--> LaTeX documents > is on

Re: improve latex-lyx roundtripping (GSoC)

2013-04-18 Thread Daniel Vainsencher
On 04/18/2013 07:58 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: I would strongly agree with this. Round-tripping LyX <--> LaTeX documents is one of the long-term goals of LyX. And in my understanding this is something that lies in the realm of achievable. What

GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-18 Thread Mayank Jha
Hello everyone, I am Mayank Jha, a student of NIT Durgapur, India pursuing Computer Science and Engineering currently in the second year. am really interested into doing a project involving Qt, QML. I am well-versed in C,C++. Have a first hand knowledge of Python,Qt and HTML. I strongly believe in

docx roundtrip WAS: improve latex-lyx roundtripping (GSoC)

2013-04-18 Thread Rainer M. Krug
Liviu Andronic writes: > Dear Daniel, > > > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Daniel Vainsencher > wrote: >> Please CC me on answers. >> >> I often collaborate with people who (still) prefer LaTeX, and also submit >> papers to conferences that make it easy to submit latex via >> style/class/samp