Re: about the unicode symbols in delimiter dialog

2007-04-10 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: A quick solution for now (besides reverting this stuff) could be to change the UCS4 code points to the font code points of the cmsy font and use that for drawing. I definitely don't like yet another font requirement. IMO, requiring a font covering all of Unicode for the

Re: How to develop support for Kannada language in LyX?

2003-02-07 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
e capable of handling Indic scripts on Unix is Pango (http://www.pango.org), upon which GTK2 is based. Cheers - Philipp Reichmuthmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Seeing my great fault / Through darkening blue windows / I begin again

automake 2.57 unsupported?

2003-01-12 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
Hi folks, is there a reason why automake 2.57 is listed as unsupported? Cheers - Philipp Reichmuthmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To have no errors / Would be life without meaning / No struggle, no joy

Re: LyX for Win32 - Test release

2003-01-07 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
l. I think this would be useful for a lot of people. I've got it running by now, and it's rather pretty, though unstable. Cheers - Philipp Reichmuthmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Wind catches lily / scatt'ring petals to the wind / segmentation fault

Re: LyX for Win32 - Test release

2003-01-07 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
r's equivalent of libm, and you'll have to redistribute it with the binary application). If you could just send me the file I'll continue testing. Have you ever tried linking against a newer Qt? Cheers - Philipp Reichmuthmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Wit

Re: Using the Qt port for native Macosx/Win32 ports?

2003-01-06 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
X in this direction.) JL> He sent patches a while back. These were mainly for compilation with the Intel compiler. Cheers - Philipp Reichmuthmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Serious error / All data has disappeared / Screen. Mind. Both are blank

Re: a suggestion about instant preview

2003-01-06 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
ith bitmaps? KB> If you would have hundreds of formulas , you would know the answer. KB> Having a slower processor is a pain on startup. Would it be possible to generate bitmaps ahead while the user does nothing, just to utilize idle periods? Cheers - Philipp Reichmuthmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Use locale codec for Qt key insert

2002-12-20 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
s possible, such as "e" + ACUTE ACCENT into "é", and define an order on all combining marks to have them comparable. On input, both are trivial to do. On pasting & file import, both are a bit of work, but generally in the linear range. Note that this problem is not speci

Re: Fwd: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Use locale codec for Qt key insert

2002-12-20 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
n the document excluding combining characters, but including some combining characters (like Arabic or Hebrew vowels), one will need a secondary function. Cheers - Philipp Reichmuthmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- With searching comes loss / and the presence of absence / The data, not found

Re: One more table spoils the document.

2002-12-20 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
on, and with the option to include selected secondary material in the file itself. Cheers - Philipp Reichmuthmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Der, der ich bin, grüßt den, der ich sein sollte." - Augustinus

Re: Fwd: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Use locale codec for Qt key insert

2002-12-20 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
27;t have a clue about chinese. :-)) I mean, this does somehow remind me of this 640 kB thingy, so with 32 bits one is on the safe side ;-) Cheers - Philipp Reichmuthmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Server's poor response / Not quick enough for browser / Timed out, plum blossom

Re: Fwd: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Use locale codec for Qt key insert

2002-12-19 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
guess that most of our users can JL> encode most of their document text in the first byte. for storage, utf-8 is not a bad choice, mainly because of the partial ascii-compatibility with existing tools... but i was talking about internal representation :-) Cheers - Philipp Reichmuth

Re: Fwd: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Use locale codec for Qt key insert

2002-12-19 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
sing, one can safely use wchar_t, whatever that is on the respective operating system, and use the operating system's conversion routines for wcbar_t - because there is no data exchange of internals of LyX's running on two separate operating system. Cheers - Philipp Reichmuthmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No keyboard present / Hit F1 to continue / Zen engineering?

Re: Fwd: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Use locale codec for Qt key insert

2002-12-19 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
inter to have a UCS-4 to font and glyph mapping function. That's something either offered by most frontends anyway or trivially simple to implement. Cheers - Philipp Reichmuthmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Stay the patient course / Of little worth is your ire / The network is down

Re: Fwd: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Use locale codec for Qt key insert

2002-12-19 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
ty of accidentally generating malformed bit sequences, which means a lot of extra special cases in debugging. On the positive side, it's binary compatible with existing 8-bit systems. Cheers - Philipp Reichmuthmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Having been erased, / The document you're seeking / Must now be retyped

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Use locale codec for Qt key insert

2002-12-17 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
s the Euro sign, which Polish or otherwise non-Latin-1 users might have a use for, too. :-) Cheers - Philipp Reichmuthmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Stay the patient course / Of little worth is your ire / The network is down

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Use locale codec for Qt key insert

2002-12-17 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
on of LyX, in order to save the double work of first enabling all sorts of encodings in the document, and then converting the whole system to Unicode. Cheers - Philipp Reichmuthmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The ten thousand things / How long do any persist? / The file is not there

Re: FLTK

2002-10-15 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
MJ> I think we should consider to use FLTK (www.fltk.org) as graphic library: MJ> - it runs over Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS and OS/2. MJ> - can be linked staticaly 'cause it's tiny. MJ> - it's open source and free. MJ> What do you think about it? In principle, not a bad thing, however FLTK does

Re: Patch: unicode support in qt painter

2002-10-13 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
DT> Since, QT uses unicode internally, we should use that. Unicode support in Qt 2.1 is *bad*, and even 3 has some problems. I'm not sure about RTL scripts, for example. At least for Qt 2.1 and Qt for Windows, this could mean some serious working around trouble for Hebrew and Arabic. Philipp

Re: Qt Math Panel layout

2002-08-30 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
Hi John, JL> Comments please. I'm not sure how this will fit into my "favourite JL> icons" panel yet. Variation screenshot attached. Changes: - Added group boxes for better grouping to overall enhance usability, especially for the symbol area, where I think there should be a distinction be

Re: "more" on File menu for a single entry?

2002-08-28 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
JL> I see no reason to have this configurable (especially to such a silly JL> range). Of course, one could configure a maximum of 9, display up to 9 in the list and then break it at 7 to populate the submenu with 3 entries, but then the configurability loses a lot of its point. Maybe one could al

Re: "more" on File menu for a single entry?

2002-08-28 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
>> Setting lastfile limit to an obscene value, maybe. JAOM> The limit is 9, and I don't consider that an abscene since I use it. ;-) JAOM> I changed the preferences value by hand but lyx detected that it was out of JAOM> range [4,9] Why not use a lastfiles value of X, and when there's >X la

Re: Insert Sourcecode GUI

2002-05-24 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
AKAN> "Misc" ->> "Miscallenous" or "Misc." If you do correct this, make it "Miscellaneous" ;-) Philippmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ First snow, then silence / This thousand dollar screen dies / so beautifully

Re: CJK merge?

2002-05-17 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
LGB> | For most uses of non-Latin script in TeX, Omega + Unicode probably is LGB> | the way to go already or will be within some time. A LyX that fits LGB> | into such a workflow with Unicode input/output would complement this LGB> | rather nicely. LGB> My plan is to use unicode (or rather ucs4)

Re: CJK merge?

2002-05-17 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
>> Installing Unicode fonts that way (by splitting them into subfonts and >> then unifying them under a virtual font) is not a convenient process; >> however, a user has to do it only once, and the entire font selection >> is done by Omega, so that the complexity is largely hidden from the >> user

Re: CJK merge?

2002-05-17 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
>> Would it seem a good idea to merge the CJK patch for support of >> multibyte character sets with the main trunk sometime in the near >> future (such as for 1.3)? SM> No. The CJK patch is not something we want to see merged with its SM> current status, and xforms-0. is not something CJK us

CJK merge?

2002-05-16 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
Would it seem a good idea to merge the CJK patch for support of multibyte character sets with the main trunk sometime in the near future (such as for 1.3)? Supporting a whole extra version of LyX is probably a pain in the rear. Moreover, merging it in would be a good step towards Unicode/Omega su

Re: preview-LyX ?

2002-05-15 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
>> What would be the format that (a) can be produced by gs, (b) displayed >> "natively" by LyX and (c) is the "fastest"? JL> Undoubtedly the fastest method is to use the X rendering we used to for JL> figinset, since there is no intermediate file, and probably no need to JL> spawn another gs proc

Re: A WinXP patch

2002-04-28 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
> Hi,This is a WinXP patch > I wish you would like it. Since I am quite sure that I don't like it, and since I'm sitting on a modem line where five extra 120 to 200 kByte mails a day do make a difference, I wonder whether it would be possible to filter out e-mail viruses in the mailing list engi

Re: pre4 on Win32 linking problem

2002-04-26 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
>> I'm using recent cygwin, bxforms-0.89 with libforms.a in place. LyX >> compiles OK. On linking, however, it seems that libforms.a isn't >> linked against: all references from the frontends bit are complained >> to be undefined. KAS> 1.2.0pre4 configure, compiles and links for me. KAS> What ver

pre4 on Win32 linking problem

2002-04-25 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
Hello folks, Is there a recommended way to get 1.2.0pre4 to link on Cygwin? I'm using recent cygwin, bxforms-0.89 with libforms.a in place. LyX compiles OK. On linking, however, it seems that libforms.a isn't linked against: all references from the frontends bit are complained to be undefined.

Re: License on www site

2001-10-31 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, AR> Wasn't the point of the GNU suggested wording to be a model of how to AR> allow linking to Qt2 on Windows? On Unix there is no problem with AR> either GPL or QPL as I understand it. So we would still need to AR> mention Qt2. What hap

Re: GELLMU, GUI, Unicode

2001-09-07 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
Hi Jose, >> That would be a >> nice step towards integrating LyX into a SGML/XML workflow, something >> which I'm really looking for. JAOM> LyX already has support for docbook, it lags behind the latex support but JAOM> is comming along very well. JAOM> What would you like to do differently?

Re: Wordcount routine available within LyX ?

2001-09-04 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
>> Is "I" a word? "i.e."? "a"? "b"? "a+b"? "a+\frac{4}{5b}"? RL> Yes to all. There we are, the first divergence of opinion :-) My German WordPerfect counts i.e. as two words. Philippmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __ The ten thousand things / How lo

Re: Wordcount routine available within LyX ?

2001-09-04 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
>> As far as I understand does LyX not have a straightforward word-count >> routine. Often journals or publications put limitations on the number >> of words, in which case a word-count would come in handy. AP> I think the main problem is answering the question "What constitutes a word?" AP> Is "