Re: lyx-1.4.0pre2-qt-cygwin doesn't display characters

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Luis Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > In short, this port of LyX-Qt on Cygwin-X requires the Cygwin native python > interpreter, ImageMagick, ghostscript, and the jpeg and qt3 packages, plus the > Xserver scalable fonts. Apparently, LyX-Qt on Cygwin-X does posix style >

Re: Python script conversion

2005-10-12 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: > > The downside is that you wind up with one copy of Python installed for > > every script. If you've only got one script, this is ok. If you've got > > more than one, you probably want to consider another approach. > It will be the same, using seve

Re: Python script conversion

2005-10-12 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: > Dears, > > I found that I could convert all the python script to .exe. > Thus I can remove Pyhthon dependecy. Are you sure? The only way I know of to convert a python script to .exe is with py2exe, which does it by creating an executable archive,

Re: Bundle everything into lyx windows installer.

2005-10-08 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > I personally do not *want* such a distribution since I am a linux > user. I was trying to tell lyx developers that current windows > installer is not good enough to attract windows users and suggest that > they make the installation proce

Re: Bundle everything into lyx windows installer.

2005-10-08 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > The last question is that whether or not the developers are required, > or willing, to please these 'ignorant' windows users It doesn't matter whether or not they are willing - they are neither required nor necessary. Most of the to

Re: Bundle everything into lyx windows installer.

2005-10-08 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Joachim Krieg wrote: > > I think the idea to make a bundle LyX installer is very interesting > > for people who start working with LyX. I know many people who will > > never try out LyX because installing it is very difficult for th

Re: OpenDocument format

2005-09-29 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Another question is, whether it is worth the effort to make LyX do this if > good XML-to-XML transformation tools exist (do they yet?) Depends on how you define good. But XSLT is defined, available as a C library - with Python bin

Re: Compile .py files to .exe under windows.

2005-09-25 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > May it be a good idea to compile .py files to windows .exe files > under windows? Because you can't reaaly do that? The various .py->.exe tools available for windows just fake it. They bundle the byte-compiled python files and the pytho

Re: Bugs in 1.4.0CVS for Mac OS X

2005-09-19 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike> "configure --help" says that won't work > What do you mean? "configure --help"

Re: Bugs in 1.4.0CVS for Mac OS X

2005-09-16 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Mike> Configure ignores (some of) the --datadir, --bindir and --mandir > Mike> options. I set them all to > Mike> /Users/mwm/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/... to install > Mike> 1.4.0CVSin ~/Applications, and "make intsall" s

Re: Python version of configure script (preview version)

2005-09-16 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > One problem with the rc approach is that re-configuration is required > whenever users change a filetype association. Also, opening a file > with its associated application is quite easy under windows. (There are APIs.) Since Bo Peng d

Bugs in 1.4.0CVS for Mac OS X

2005-09-16 Thread Mike Meyer
Readme.MacOSX refers to ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-mac-1.3.5-skeleton.tar.gz. That file doesn't exist - it's actually a .zip file. Configure ignores (some of) the --datadir, --bindir and --mandir options. I set them all to /Users/mwm/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/... to install 1.4.0CVSi

bugs in CVS build of 1.4.0

2005-09-15 Thread Mike Meyer
I couldn't find references to either of these in bugzilla, and I'm not sure one of them is a bug, so I'll post here. After making the appropriate gyrations with the environment of the configure command (see the thread "Errors building 1.4.0"), I got the CVS version to build. The configure script s

Re: Fwd: Re: Errors building 1.4.0 (?)

2005-09-14 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Subject: Re: Errors building 1.4.0 (?) > > Date: Mittwoch, 14. September 2005 03:41 > > From: Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Georg Baum > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > &

Re: Errors building 1.4.0 (?)

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > "Georg" == Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Georg> Am Dienstag, 13. September 2005 14:30 schrieb John Levon: > >> On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 09:24:07AM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: > It > >> looks like configure doe

Re: Errors building 1.4.0 (?)

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Meyer
if test -z "$UIC"; then > LYX_ERROR([uic binary not found !]) > + fi > + if test -z "$QT_LIB"; then > + LYX_ERROR([qt library not found !]) > fi >;; > *) -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.

Re: Errors building 1.4.0 (?)

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Meyer
[Apologies to George, who's seeing this twice.] In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > On Sep 13, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Mike Meyer wrote: > > the configure script walks your $PATH looking for sgmltools and/or > > db2dvi to decide whether or

Re: Errors building 1.4.0 (?)

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > Looking over this, it's a link command - except that I don't see a qt > > library being linked in. Grovelling through config.status finds: > > "s,@QT_LIB@,,;

Errors building 1.4.0 (?)

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Meyer
I'm trying to build the CVS version for the first time. I used the page that google had cached from www.devel.lyx.org on getting LyX sources from CVS to get started. That page talks about building "the development module" but doesn't talk about what that is. The difference is that you run the auto

Re: Change in pdf viewer search order?

2005-09-09 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Jose' Matos wrote: > > > Better than that we should have some kind of profile configuration, so > > that > > if I choose kde as my preferred desktop environment I get kpdf, if I > > choose gnome I get evince and if I choose plain

Re: Change in pdf viewer search order?

2005-09-09 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > "Jose'" == Jose' Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jose'> This is precisely the point. We always took a neutral stance > Jose'> on this although more and more unix is linux. Are we ready to > Jose'> take the next st

Change in pdf viewer search order?

2005-09-08 Thread Mike Meyer
The default search list for a pdf previewer (in lib/configure.m4) goes gv ghostview xpdf, or some such - xpdf is definitely last. xpdf is a *much* nicer pdf previewer than ghostview. I'd like to suggest that it be moved in front of the two ghostview entries. Thanks, http: