Re: New wiki site ready to roll

2003-08-20 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 01:30:50AM +0200, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote: > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Angus Leeming wrote: > > > Christian Ridderstr?m wrote: > > > > Try http://wiki.dotgnu.org/ > > Thanks. I only checked sites using the PmWiki wiki engine before... but > this site works beatifully. Is

Re: Spellchecker dialog

2002-11-11 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 05:39:35PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > It's getting a little tedious hitting the "ignore" button every time "rms" > comes up... Anyone else see the (unintentional) humour here? ;-P Jules

Re: Debian packages [was: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.2.1 is released]

2002-09-03 Thread Jules Bean
piled with > > Paul> libforms_1.0-RC4.1 are available here: > > > > Do you want them to go on ftp.lyx.org? > > > I'd need the approval of Jules Bean, the official Debian maintainer > for this package. But unfortunately he doesn't seem to be reachable. > So be

Re: Draft paper about WYSIWYG/LaTeX for TUG2002

2002-09-03 Thread Jules Bean
[Apologies for replying to a long-dead thread] On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 12:54:42PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 12:20:39PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > > Don't know what one uses with an installed version of LyX. I always > > > run it from the build dir and put /path/to

Re: previews, display mode and vertical spacing

2002-07-22 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 03:11:19PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > For example, depending on the line length of preceding lines, TeX > either adds \abovedisplayshortskip or \abovedisplayskip. It does not > make sense to reproduce this difference when the line above is not > part of the preview. In

Re: preview lyx

2002-06-27 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 12:59:27PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 01:54:59PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > But then there is always stuff defined in local .sty files... > > > > LyX should support defining macros in a different .lyx files. > > I know. > > But even that's

Re: preview lyx

2002-06-27 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 01:36:50PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:57:18AM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 12:26:17PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > > > > The math editor already gives a good approximation on hour your formu

Re: preview lyx

2002-06-27 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 12:26:17PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > The math editor already gives a good approximation on hour your formulae > will look, so the need for a preview is much less needed than in emacs. > In fact, in my opinion, the change in display that is performed when > opening a for

Re: Is this a fair representation?

2002-06-25 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:39:41PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > On http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net/others.html> I outline > several WYSIWYG-related software pieces in connection with LaTeX. > Among others, I mention LyX. > > Would you say that I have missed out features that would warran

Re: Lyx on OSX

2002-06-25 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:46:19PM +0200, bernhard wrote: > Hello, > I'm a fan of Lyx, usually running on Linux. But now Ihave OSX and miss > Lyx so much. I know there is a version on X on X, but will there be a > port to native OSX? I think this will be a nice thing for Tex users on > OSX, and

Re: File format robustness

2002-05-28 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:36:43PM +0100, Jos? Ab?lio Oliveira Matos wrote: > I would like to work to attain such goal but you should notice that the > internal structure of such a block can change between versions so your plan > isn't bullet proof. Yes, there's no such thing as a free lunch.

File format robustness

2002-05-28 Thread Jules Bean
OK. Well, seeing the problems being debated in that thread, I have a proposal to make. I can't over-emphasise how important the bitrot thing is: it really *must* be possible to read 3,5,7, 10 year old documents in LyX. Consider that in many jurisdictions there is some requirement to keep financ

Re: Try File->New with 1.3.0cvs

2002-05-27 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:04:12PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > > By requiring that 1.3.0 must be compatible with 1.1.6 we effetively > stops all fileformat cleanup and changes. And it was a real > bee-hive... not nice code at all. Please at least ship a utility which can read 1.1.6 fil

Re: mathematical epsilon symbol

2002-04-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:03:04PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 01:40:02PM +0200, C. van Wijk wrote: > > A big visual improvement, a small effort? > > I don't know, I thought we once had some technically discussion that turned > up cases where this approach was not fe

Re: small mathed annoyance

2002-04-11 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:46:38AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > Yes, but I don't think I want implement this. We would need a 'stateful > cursor' again to distiguish between '{' pressed or not, and editing > probably would get a mess again. How should editing work when you want to > change a_i

Re: small mathed annoyance

2002-04-11 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:29:52AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Anyway, I thought about a different thing this morning (for later :). > In mathed you have some macros which only have a scope of one > character (like font changes), while most of them create a box, from > which you have to e

Re: a quickie

2002-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 02:46:15PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? Yes, you can't use \verb in an argument. (it's to do with the way category codes work). I fear backslashing everything is the right approach :-( Jules

Re: Just relaying

2002-03-21 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 06:16:40PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Can anybody help? Yes, but I don't quite understand the question. > > > - Forwarded message from ... -- > Would you know what the Tex equivs are for the fonts in the > Layout -> Document font drop-down? If not is the

Re: Reading the emacs manual reveals all...

2002-03-21 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:05:31PM +, Duncan Simpson wrote: > A feature you might not be aware of is using M-q is for formatting > multiple line comments. I guess a lot of people have also discovered > VC mode too. Given all the above it is any suprise I am hopelessly > addicted to emacs for

Re: a symbol for ||| ... |||

2002-03-14 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:16:10AM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Does anybody know a symbol like \Vert, but with three lines? You want symbols-a4.ps from CTAN http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/ Short answer: Stmaryrd appears to include one to be used as an operator,

Re: LyX Migration

2002-03-05 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 03:40:08PM +0100, Helmut Lichtenberg wrote: > Anyway, it helps me in solving one more problem but it also shows me > that using LyX is (currently) not a full alternative for people who > use common office suites. It needs too much knowledge for everyday > users. ..but mayb

Re: LyX Migration

2002-02-28 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 04:05:41PM +, John Levon wrote: > This needs to be done automatically in a "revision" mode. A delete > operation would not delete text, but make it strikethrough. The > containing paragraph can have a flag which is translated into the > begin/end needed for the latex

Re: updated graphics patch

2002-02-27 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 01:38:20PM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:26:57AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:18:10AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > > > string id; > > > for (int i = 0; i < image.cpp; ++i)

Re: updated graphics patch

2002-02-27 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:18:10AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > string id; > for (int i = 0; i < image.cpp; ++i) { > id.push_back('A'); > } > > It's a bit clunky. Is there a better way of initialising a string, with length >image.cpp? According to my copy of Str

Re: Bug#135151: lyx: improper formatting of paragraphs in letter

2002-02-22 Thread Jules Bean
Dear LyX Developers: Here's a teaser for you to think about. I've never totally understood the right way to put paragraphs inside lists in LaTeX, although I could investigate if it will help. But maybe you'll recognise this problem. Jules On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 05:14:43PM +1100, Brian May w

Re: [PATCH]: Forked calls

2002-02-19 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 04:28:39PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Tuesday 19 February 2002 4:18 pm, John Levon wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:59:09PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > > > > > I'd like to commit the attached patch. > > > > are you trying to confuse :) > > > > +

Re: Dreaming of plugins...

2002-02-15 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:08:45PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, John Levon wrote: > > : inset external CANNOT and DOES NOT do what Jules was asking for. > > > > That's all I'm saying. > > Nothing does what Jules is asking for. That's what I thought. That's why I asked for it.

Re: Threads on comp.text.tex

2002-02-13 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 04:26:16PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 04:50:46PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Interesting thread... at least for the amount of gratuitous > > agressivity LyX can get :) > > But the two of you spoiled all the fun ;-} How? What did we d

Re: Threads on comp.text.tex

2002-02-13 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 04:50:46PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jules> Those of you who don't read newsgroups might nonetheless like > Jules> to scan the following thread, wh

Threads on comp.text.tex

2002-02-13 Thread Jules Bean
Those of you who don't read newsgroups might nonetheless like to scan the following thread, which mentions LyX (Andre and Lars and I defend it to the death ;) http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=3C681D71.8E9BF939%40active-tex.demon.co.uk Actually, google is not very up-to-date at all o

Re: Dreaming of plugins...

2002-02-13 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:52:28AM +0100, Otto Tronarp wrote: > On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 09:07, Jules Bean wrote: > > 1) Because if I use LaTeX, the labels at the points, and on the > > arrows, can be arbitrary math objects. Can Dia do a blackboard bold R > > to the power o

Re: Dreaming of plugins...

2002-02-12 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 12:16:09PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Jules Bean wrote: > > > Unless dia is *far* better than it was when I last looked, it's still > > essentially a graphical tool. WYSIWYG, in other words. I search for > > a more form

Re: Re: Graphics inset & converters

2002-02-12 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:18:24PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:10:12PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > I wonder if you could shell out to the 'file' command, on systems > > which support it. > > That is certainly an option, but the point

Re: Re: Graphics inset & converters

2002-02-12 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:03:03PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > This is a well made point. Here's an idea: why don't we throw out (or rather > use it only on old format LyX files) the clever code that interrogates the > contents of the file. It's a lot of special code that could be replaced by

Re: mathed AMS fonts

2002-02-06 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:54:51PM +0100, Yves Bastide wrote: > Maybe something to document: (some versions of?) XSetFontPath don't like > (some version of?) nfs mounted directories... > > chellas:~/build/lyx-devel/lib% xset fp+ `pwd`/fonts > xset: bad font path element (#38), possible causes a

Re: mathed AMS fonts

2002-02-05 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:10:40PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 08:26:21PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 08:40:46PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > Comments ? (and can I do this before 1.2.0 ?) > > > > It would be nice if it worked. The new symbols a

Re: Dreaming of plugins...

2002-02-04 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 06:33:20PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:28:45PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > The hardest bit of exposing an API is factoring your application into > > commands. Thanks to LFUNs, LyX is already factored! > > Not everything

Re: Dreaming of plugins...

2002-02-04 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 06:30:45PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:14:53PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > But there *is* no external program to draw commutative diagrams that > > we could call. And even if there were, the poor external program > > wo

Re: Dreaming of plugins...

2002-02-04 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:55:07PM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > Furthermore, I think we should draw another bold conclusion: Nobody would > really make full use of a complete document API either. People might > say that they would, but in reality, it would still be simpler just to > ha

Re: Dreaming of plugins...

2002-02-04 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:06:13AM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 09:58:16AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > As an example of the kind of thing I'm thinking of, categorists and > > topologists often want to draw commutative diagrams. I'm neither,

Re: Dreaming of plugins...

2002-02-04 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:15:03AM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 09:58:16AM +, Jules Bean wrote: > > > >>As an example of the kind of thing I'm thinking of, categorists and > >>topologists ofte

Re: Dreaming of plugins...

2002-02-04 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:55:07PM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > 2) In a distant future, the entire LyX document data-structure is >inspectable and manipulatable via an API. I.e. LyX becomes >a component in the sense of COM technology on Windows, or >KParts in KDE. An ext

Re: Dreaming of plugins...

2002-02-04 Thread Jules Bean
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:30:16AM -0800, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 09:58:16AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > As an example of the kind of thing I'm thinking of, categorists and > > topologists often want to draw commutative diagrams. I'm neither,

Dreaming of plugins...

2002-02-02 Thread Jules Bean
This message is not at all apropos of getting 1.2 released, so read it when you're in a dreamy mood. Something which I think would really be a *killer* feature for LyX would be the ability to write plug-ins to handle custom environments. As an example of the kind of thing I'm thinking of, catego

Re: Umlauts

2002-02-02 Thread Jules Bean
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 11:22:46AM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: > (BTW what about a "units" panel? cm, kg, m^3, lb in^{-2}, what not ;-) Units should use the 'units' package really. Jules

Re: Umlauts

2002-02-01 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:35:15PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:32:12PM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > There isn't anything else that I am aware of and that you can get > > rendered by LaTeX. It just refuses in math mode. Of couse \ddot is > > double differentiation

Re: lyx1.1.6fix4 segfaults when selecting Layout->Document->Bullets (?) (last Tab)

2002-01-31 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 04:50:07PM +0100, Peter Suetterlin wrote: > Hm, my screen setup should be OK. I.e., with long texts the bug can be > triggered even with correct settings. OTOH, by just changing the font used > for the dialogs I couldn't exceed the available space, so probably in > the cur

config.{sub,guess}

2002-01-23 Thread Jules Bean
Note that the config/ directory has very old config.{guess,sub} files. I am updating this for the debian package; this hopefully means that lyx will be compiled for the debian S390 port. Possibly the first time LyX has been compiled for an S390 ;-) Jules

Re: A possible suggestion...

2002-01-18 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 06:42:45AM -0600, Daniel Joyce wrote: > On Friday 18 January 2002 05:19 am, you wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 05:07:19AM -0600, Daniel Joyce wrote: > > > I've messed with Lyx, and LaTeX, trying to get more control. > > > > [snip slightly over-the-top praise of ConTeX

Re: A possible suggestion...

2002-01-18 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 05:07:19AM -0600, Daniel Joyce wrote: > I've messed with Lyx, and LaTeX, trying to get more control. [snip slightly over-the-top praise of ConTeXT and complaints about LaTeX] OTOH, ConTeXT math isn't up to much, and it doesn't support bibliographies well. For an in

Re: feature request: open a new file in lyx from the shell

2002-01-17 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 06:47:50AM +, John Levon wrote: > > > command echo "LYXCMD:lyxopen:file-open:$fullpath" \ > > hmm do we require fullpath then ? Even you you don't, the current working directory of the LyX program is unlikely to be that of the shell script... Jules

Re: Look Ma, no macros! (Re: Brush-up on Blackboard Bold)

2002-01-16 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 03:14:28PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:52:29AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > > Actually, imagemagick uses Ghostscript, and Ghostscript doesn't do a good > > > work at low res rendering. > > > > Even wi

Re: Request to our TeXperts!

2002-01-16 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 01:15:42PM +0100, Juergen Vigna wrote: > \begin{document} > \texttt{\begin{tabular}{|p{6cm}|c|} > \hline > \texttt{dfasdfasdf sdf asdf} > > \texttt{sdf asdfasdf asdf} > > \texttt{sdf asdfasdfasdf}& > \\ > \hline > \hline > & > \\ > \hline > \end{tabular}} > \end{documen

Re: Request to our TeXperts!

2002-01-16 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:19:02PM +0100, Juergen Vigna wrote: > There is a problem when using multiple paragraphs inside a multicolumn cell. > Is this not permitted? Or how is the right LaTeX code to do this? > Well I investigated a bit and it seems that latex produces errors only if > we have th

Re: Look Ma, no macros! (Re: Brush-up on Blackboard Bold)

2002-01-16 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:42:40PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 08:57:32AM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > Using ps2epsi+imagemagick, you can convert directly from Postscript to a > > > bitmap format with anti-aliasing, with no need for manual fix. > > > > Thanks! I'll tr

Re: How would you like this?

2002-01-10 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:39:36PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > Most font commands should not be used directly. > For example, if you want to use bold to denote vectors, > you should not write \mathbf{x} but \vec{x} where \vec is a macro: > \newcommand{\vec}[1]{\mathbf{#1}} Writing bare LaTeX, yo

Re: How would you like this?

2002-01-09 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:55:54PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 06:48:24PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > But what if I want to keep my preferred behaviour ? > > Just to get it right: Your prefered behaviour is > >' L ' > > to enter \mathcal{L}? What make this super

Re: dramantic increases in forced rodent use

2001-12-12 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 09:22:40AM +, John Levon wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 09:19:35AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > > Or just allow lyxfunc grouping. In emacs, it would look something > > like this: > > > > ( (paragraph-general-set-alignment left

Re: dramantic increases in forced rodent use

2001-12-12 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:17:16AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:50:04AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > > >> IMO every dialog should, when OK or Apply has been clicked, call > >>

Re: mathbb{1}

2001-12-12 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:57:57PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > How do I get a black board bold '1' with mathbb? > > \mathbbm{1} works, but \mathbb{1} gives some symbol I've never needed so > far... *If* I remember correctly, you can't, and that's one of the reasons \mathbbm may be more usef

Re: dramantic increases in forced rodent use

2001-12-12 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:44:07AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > | the problem is that it is taking increasing amounts of user effort to > | use lyx, and htis is a trend that has been continuing for some time. I > | understand that UI and maintainability are

Re: Some bug fixes

2001-11-30 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:00:51PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:00:01PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > | That is my belief. Although, when you care about these things, I've > > | always thought a naming scheme like u32int is better style. > > > > So how many mm

Re: Some bug fixes

2001-11-30 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:16:40PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 03:12:02PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > There is a standardised 64 bit integer type: long long int is standard. > > It's in C99 as far as I know, but in C++98? I don't know. It&#

Re: Some bug fixes

2001-11-30 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:04:03PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:59:50PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > And the difference between 'multiple of some small value' and 'some > > fixed point thingy' is what, exactly? > > I'd sti

Re: Some bug fixes

2001-11-30 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 03:48:27PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andre> LaTeX stores length as multiple of some small value if I got > Andre> this right, and we should do likewise. The 'scaled point' which is 2^(-32) of a poi

Configure...

2001-11-22 Thread Jules Bean
I *think* I've asked this before, but I don't remember an answer. When a new version of LyX is released, I often have to run the 'Reconfigure' menu item to make it notice my latex install properly, and suchlike. Is there any way I can make the lyx debian package somehow have the effect of runnin

Re: quotation marks ...

2001-11-22 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 03:06:10PM +0100, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > E..g.: People talking a lot about ,War against Terrorism`these days. > (irritating, isn't it? ;-) They're called scare quotes in English. Overuse is frowned up by the powers that be, I think. Jules

Re: German locale segfault (?!)

2001-11-21 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:05:24AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Wednesday 21 November 2001 10:38 am, Jules Bean wrote: > > http://bugs.debian.org/120450 > > > > I haven't tried to reproduce it yet, any comments? > > > > Jules > > Trust him, it

German locale segfault (?!)

2001-11-21 Thread Jules Bean
http://bugs.debian.org/120450 I haven't tried to reproduce it yet, any comments? Jules

Re: lyxtext.h

2001-11-21 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 07:18:48PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > This replaces an #include by a forward declaration. (Sorry. Pretend it's Friday). Good work. Reminds me of my early days in C++: I had no idea about forward declarations, so every single class had to #include the header for every

Re: space after formula

2001-11-16 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 01:04:19PM +0100, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > On 16-Nov-2001 Jules Bean wrote: > > > So configure your mailer to add the following header: > > > > Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ...and (more) people won't. > &g

Re: space after formula

2001-11-16 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:07:26AM +, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:46:46AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > > > Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Better yet, educate people to behave politely. > > I will I increase the

Re: space after formula

2001-11-16 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:43:43AM +0100, Juergen Vigna wrote: > P.S.: I REALLY get your mail from lyx-devel you don't have to Cc: me all mail > separately. So configure your mailer to add the following header: Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...and (more) people won't. Jules

Dual head, anyone?

2001-11-15 Thread Jules Bean
Anyone have any experience of LyX with a dual-headed (:0.0 and :0.1) context? The following bug claims there is an XForms problem here: http://bugs.debian.org/119413 ..and we'd appreciate any evidence you might have either way. Jules

Re: math-extern stuff

2001-11-15 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 08:24:04AM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:38:11PM -0400, Garst R. Reese wrote: > > math-extern octave simplify > > No, octave can't simplify. But Maple can: Would be cool to have the interface for some free software algebra, if anything exists.

Re: Still : noteedit --> LilyPond

2001-11-01 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 08:59:03PM -0400, Garst R. Reese wrote: > "Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" wrote: > > > > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Joerg Anders wrote: > > > > > ... you know: A presupposition is the KDE-environmant is correctly set ... > > > > Yes, I know. This is acceptable: If the user wants to

Re: stupid way to hang lyx

2001-10-05 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:33:49AM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 04:05:55PM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > > custom export as ps, with command "psnup -2 | less" (should have been > > lpr). > > I agree it's stupid, but it's not lyx's fault :) I don't understand. I ha

Re: mathed question

2001-09-05 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:57:43AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:45:35AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > > André, this may well be a dumn question, but WHY do we "swallow" the "\" when > > displaying math commands, eg \Diamond. Would it not make your life easier as > > w

Re: \mapsto, depth of subscripts, height of superscripts

2001-09-04 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:15:44PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > I think it is easier for me to go through it myself if I get such specific > hints like "Appendix G", if possible with the opening sentence or > something similar easy to find ;-) Try 'Generating boxes from Formulas' or 'People

Re: \mapsto, depth of subscripts, height of superscripts

2001-09-04 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 04:17:03PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:12:24PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > > I might know what TeX is doing, but I don't know what you're asking ;-) > > > > TeX, when it typesets a subscript, goes back and look

Re: \mapsto, depth of subscripts, height of superscripts

2001-09-04 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:41:28PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 04:22:55PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > Moreover, I think the depth or height of subscripts or superscripts is too > > > large. > > > > Confirmed. > > In fact, if the subscript is empty, then the empty box

Re: mathed symbols

2001-09-03 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 05:10:06PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 03:18:15PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > | > | > Maybe this info should go in the INSTALL? > | > | Probably ;-} > > I am getting more and more reluctan

Re: multi-bindings [was: math-greek]

2001-08-30 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:32:38PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:18:51AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Essentially, there would be some kind of meta-command, which rather > > than issuing commands for immediate execution, instead pushes them > > onto a stack. >

Re: modern greek characters [was: Re: M-m v inserts\ar instead of my binding

2001-08-29 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:21:44PM -0300, Garst R. Reese wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 11:51:24AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Ugh. I need to type a lot of greek symbols this afternoon, too . . . > > > > Ah.. have you tried that in math modus? > > > So

Re: Sans serif fonts

2001-08-29 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:06:00PM +0200, Michael Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > why are characters with sans serif font bigger (on screen) than "normal" > characters even though their actual size is equal? Is this a problem with > missing X11 fonts? I checked the problem both on SUN Sparc Solaris and

Re: New Fonts in mathed

2001-08-23 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:37:16AM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > It is not hard to generate the information we need for all latex symbols > from the latex files (fontmath.ltx and amssymb.sty). > Therefore, I don't see the need for the mechanism you described for parsing > unknown macros. For user

Re: More font stuff

2001-08-22 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:40:57PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 07:07:35PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > > (Lars: your name looks funny in my email now, although it used to work > > fine. The character between the 'Bj' and the 'nnes' is a

Re: New Fonts in mathed

2001-08-22 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 08:58:37PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > I didn't have one handy when I wrote the first mail. > > > > I have now located it: > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel%40lists.lyx.org/msg21960.html > > We are doing something resembling this "macro interpretatioN" on

Re: New Fonts in mathed

2001-08-22 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 08:15:16PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 07:04:14PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > > I recall demonstrating how we could use LaTeX itself to generate the > > required information. > > I don't recall this. Maybe you have a p

Re: More font stuff

2001-08-22 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 07:13:28PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | The attached patch extends yesterday's by some kind of "graceful failing" > | in case of missing symbol fonts. Math symbols for which we can't find a > | font simply get displaye

Re: New Fonts in mathed

2001-08-22 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:47:43PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > This means we'd need to expand the latexkeys structure to hold information > about two fonts (X and TeX). No problem, but a lot of work for 300 symbols > or so... I recall demonstrating how we could use LaTeX itself to generate the

Re: TeX's parser.

2001-08-21 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:29:04AM -0700, Mike Ressler wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > I wonder at what time TeX's input routeine transforms "incoming chars" into > > tokens. This obviously is not something like a preprocessing phase, since > > this would not allow for catco

Re: 1.1.6fix3 build report (debian packages)

2001-07-29 Thread Jules Bean
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 07:25:52PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > Secondly, probably less important, make distclean doesn't quite get > you back to 'square one'. In my rules file I've added: > > EXTRA_CLEAN=development/lyx.spec sigc++/slot.h sigc++/object_slot.h

1.1.6fix3 build report (debian packages)

2001-07-28 Thread Jules Bean
Just quickly, because I'm on my way out, some observations: The building of the 'listerrors' binary is dependent on already having installed and reconfigured a lyx binary, it seems. It tries to use the lyx binary in the source tree (../src/lyx) but that binary doesn't know about the fact that n

Re: GCC version

2001-07-28 Thread Jules Bean
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:32:12PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 01:28:01PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > > > I'm about to try to build official debian packages of lyx. > > > > Any thoughts on gcc/g++/libstdc++ versions? 2.95? 3.0? > > i

Re: GCC version

2001-07-28 Thread Jules Bean
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:30:41PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | I'm about to try to build official debian packages of lyx. > | > | Any thoughts on gcc/g++/libstdc++ versions? 2.95? 3.0? > > Do you really have

GCC version

2001-07-28 Thread Jules Bean
I'm about to try to build official debian packages of lyx. Any thoughts on gcc/g++/libstdc++ versions? 2.95? 3.0? Jules

Re: Bug #12

2001-07-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:55:23PM +0200, Michael Schmitt wrote: > Learning by example: > > Correct output by LyX-1.1.6fix1: > > \caption{My math\protect\( _{i}\protect \)test}\end{figure}% > > Incorrect output by LyX cvs: > > caption{My math\(_{i}\)test}\end{figure}% > > LyX-1.1.

Re: Bug #12

2001-07-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:21:18PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > adding some math code in a figure caption breaks LyX' latex output if your > > documents includes a table of figures (see tiny example file). Note: This > > worked about three weeks ago - AFAIK it's not a limitation of Latex. > >

Re: [noreply@sourceforge.net: [ lyxbugs-Bugs-233242 ] \land and \lor are not printed on screen]

2001-07-20 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 01:05:06PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > What I do not know is whether mathed supports showing the > > same symbol for several macros. If it does, other things > > defined with \let in fontdefs.dtx should be aliased too. > > There is no such file on my harddisk. That's

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