Re: [GSoC 2014]Interested in Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats

2014-02-27 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Developers, I've been following this conversation from the shadows, but I had one thought that they be relevant. I think everyone agrees that we want to avoid reimplementing the internal logic of a LyX document. While thinking about what might be the best way to implement a converter, it

Re: Corkboard code

2013-11-04 Thread Rob Oakes
On 10/26/2013 03:00 AM, Peter Kümmel wrote: > Hi Rob, > > did you make any progress? What is the current status of the code, > and what is your plan? Is someone still working on it? > > If current state is not too "hopeless" I would also work on it. > > Peter Hi Peter, Unfortunately, I have not

Re: Corkboard code

2013-10-17 Thread Rob Oakes
Hey all, I'm in the process of merging this code into the LyX codebase. I'll push what I have as soon as I have a chance. (Probably tomorrow or Saturday.) Rob

Corkboard Development and Bug Squashing

2013-07-18 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Ashley, On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 16:23 -0500, Ashley Shan wrote: > Sorry for my mistake! I worked on another local branch, and I believe > it didn't get pushed. Now I pushed again, and please let me know if > you still can't find them. Thanks for pushing the most recent changes. I will look at

Re: XML Parsing Library [was Re: XML For LyX]

2013-05-09 Thread Rob Oakes
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Richard Heck wrote: I just had a look at those. He had an XML parser here: http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyxsvn/lyx-devel/branches/personal/larsbj/xml/src/support/xmlparser.h?rev=19478 but it appears to be based upon xmlpp, which I cannot get to compile on

Re: Signals/Slots in Core (branch from UI improvements and non-linear enhancements)

2013-05-03 Thread Rob Oakes
On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 14:46 +0200, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > There have been ideas to remove the ugly connections using the > WorkAreaManager and GuiBufferDelegate and to replace them by Qt signals. > > I'm not sure it is a good idea to have a connection between each inset > and the gui.

Re: Proposal updated

2013-05-03 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Richard, On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 00:35 -0500, Vanderbilt wrote: > There is only one point in your comment that I'm not clear about; if > I'm understanding you correctly, do you mean the community is not sure > about whether to use signals/slots so I probably shouldn't include > that part in my p

Branch for UI Improvements/Outliner

2013-04-30 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Developers, Would it be possible for someone to create a branch on git.lyx.org for the UI improvement code? Since there has been some recent interest in it, I thought it would be good to have it in a format more easily merged with lyx-master. To that end, I created a git repo with all of my c

Re: Proposal submitted; suggestions wanted

2013-04-30 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Xueqing, I apologize for not responding earlier. I saw your draft proposal, and I had several things I wanted to point out. I am still desperately trying to finish my work project (our deadline has been extended), and will respond in more detail when able. With that said: I agree with Cyrille

GSOC Proposal Thoughts

2013-04-24 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear GSOC Students, What follows is an excerpt from another email, but I thought that it might be useful for others than the intended recipient. _ I've now seen a few proposals that students have submitted for LyX, and in general, I've found the description of

Re: GSoC idea: UI improvements and non-linear writing enhancements (Technical)

2013-04-24 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Xueqing, Again, this is a brief reply. I've got a massive deadline looming on Monday and I will not have much time to respond until after then. Hopefully the notes below will be enough to get you started. If not, let me know and we can set up a time to visit via Skype/Google Chat. A lot of thi

Re: Asking IRC Channel

2013-04-23 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Sanjeev, On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 00:57 +0530, sanjeevkumar shetty wrote: > I searched for your IRC Channel, I couldnt get it, Please help me to > get it, so that i can specify myself and about my project(advanced > find and replace). I want to utilize my knowing knowledge for it and > also i lov

Re: GSoC idea: UI improvements and non-linear writing enhancements

2013-04-22 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Xueqing, For a more thorough technical overview, please see my earlier response. On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 00:45 -0500, Ashley Shan wrote: > Thank you so much for replying and encouragement. I was a little bit > discouraged because everyone else in the mailing list trying to apply > to GSoC seems

Re: GSoC idea: UI improvements and non-linear writing enhancements (Technical)

2013-04-22 Thread Rob Oakes
.di.ens.fr/~baghdadi/TXT_blog/5_advices_to_get_your_proposal_accepted.lyx.html which has several pieces of advice for writing a strong proposal.) # Conclusion # As I said before, I'm looking forward to working with you and sincerely hope that your project will be approved. Discussing the

Signals/Slots in Core (branch from UI improvements and non-linear enhancements)

2013-04-22 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Developers, If I remember correctly, as of the last developer meeting, QtCore classes were being tolerated in the core of LyX. http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg172533.html Is this correct? Are there any examples of QtCore and Signals/Slots being integrated into the core

Re: GSoC idea: UI improvements and non-linear writing enhancements

2013-04-21 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Xueqing, On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 00:30 -0500, Ashley Shan wrote: > Thank you for replying. Before you have time to more fully respond, I > want to briefly explain my concerns and ideas. I appreciate your forthrightness. I will respond with a technical outline in a separate email sent to the mai

Re: GSoC: Question about UI improvement and non-linear writing

2013-04-17 Thread Rob Oakes
On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 07:32 +0200, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Ashley Shan > wrote: > Rob correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this was part of the original intent. Yes, and has been implemented. It needs some cleanup, but that should be relatively minor. I'll respon

Re: GSoC idea: UI improvements and non-linear writing enhancements

2013-04-17 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Xueqing, On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 21:42 -0500, Ashley Shan wrote > My name is Xueqing Shan, and I am a freshman in Vanderbilt University > in Tennessee planning to participate in Google Summer of Code. I am > particularly interested in this project of LyX: "UI improvements and > non-linear writin

Re: GSoC: Improved XHTML export and ePub support

2013-04-11 Thread Rob Oakes
On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 17:46 -0700, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Adrián Pereira wrote: > > I'll appreciate more information about this project, so i can start reading > > the documentation and maybe the code. > > More people already asked about XHTML/ePUB stuff, so few bits of info below. > > Current stat

Re: Commercial support for LyX?

2012-10-21 Thread Rob Oakes
On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 02:32 +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Is that what this is? > > http://aprenderlyx.com/ > Fascinating link. It looks like a course about how to use LyX for writing a thesis. They have five or six modules which covers creating a document, typesetting a document, and ent

Disable Aspell Support from Compiling

2012-06-21 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Developers, In the past few days, I've finally had some time to work on LyX ebook stuff. However, I'm having a very strange problem. On Mac OS X, I'm getting compiler errors for aspell. Of itself, this isn't so strange (since I don't have Aspell installed on the system). What is strang

Re: Multiple Body Tags in XHTML Export

2012-04-30 Thread Rob Oakes
On 4/30/2012 4:27 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > I don't know if this is possible. The svn repo still exists, but it's > been closed to commits for a while, and I don't myself know how to > reactivate it locally. Okay. I think I may have worked out a way to merge all of my work using git, but haven't ha

Re: Multiple Body Tags in XHTML Export

2012-04-23 Thread Rob Oakes
On 4/23/2012 12:14 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > OK, found the problem. Silly error. Should be fixed. Awesome! Thanks for taking a look at it. On another point, might it be possible to have master branch of lyx.git pushed to SVN on a semi-regular basis? There are a number of branches set up over on L

Re: Multiple Body Tags in XHTML Export

2012-04-23 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Richard, On 4/23/2012 9:20 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > If you could post a file that caused this, I would be happy to have a > look. But > I'm puzzled what might cause it. Are these files with includes? So far, yes. They've all had includes and child documents. Attached is one example (I've only

Multiple Body Tags in XHTML Export

2012-04-23 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Developers, This weekend I've been working on my ePub packaging module for LyX. I've made good progress. The script will correctly package XHTML output (from both LyX and eLyXer). It has support for defining points at which you would like the file to split the file, rewriting links, moving im

Re: Updates to gitolite progress

2012-03-12 Thread Rob Oakes
On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > The main repo would be automatically synchronized (only the 2.0 and > 2.1 branches); either via a git hook or a cron script at server side. > The cron idea is better if only we had some automatic regression > testing in place. Then only tho

Re: word2lyx (Word to LyX Translator): Status Update

2012-03-08 Thread Rob Oakes
On Mar 8, 2012, at 2:21 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > I would love to agree, but round-trip is what is needed most of the > time. An import word2lyx is perfect, but in most cases only half the > story. I would use it extensively if the round trip is

word2lyx: Word to LyX Document Converter

2012-03-07 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Users and Developers, First off, thank you to everyone who sent me documents over the weekend. I was able to make a lot of tweaks to word2lyx based on what you sent me. With that hurdle out of the way, I think it's ready to release it into the wild. If you'd like to download a copy of it, yo

Import/Export Error Information (word2lyx)

2012-03-06 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Developers, I'm getting ready to publish the source for Word2LyX, but ran into one last problem. I created an input filter/filetype to completely automate the conversion of Word documents. However, when run, I'm getting an error: An error occurred while running: python "inputfile.docx" "ou

eLyXer for Document Parsing

2012-02-04 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear eLyXer Users and Developers, I'm still at work on the import/export module for Microsoft Word documents. I'm making pretty good progress. I've got a rough prototype that works pretty well and I'm now starting to refine it. My approach up to now has been to use regular expressions to match

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Thank you everyone for the comments so far. I really appreciate hearing from others as it helps me to build out a more detailed use-case. In addition to the earlier questions, I have one more: How important is support of .doc? I know that it is the standard upon which the publishing industry is

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Rob Oakes
On Feb 2, 2012, at 8:55 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 02/01/2012 03:11 PM, Xu Wang wrote: >> Hey Rob, that sounds like quite a nice project you have in mind! >> >> My two cents: it's not worth carrying it out if you can't get the math to >> import somewhat well. That seems to be the biggest prob

Import into LyX

2012-02-01 Thread Rob Oakes
es"? 5. Just how important do you consider "round-tripping" a document, e.g., going from LyX to Word and back to LyX. 6. Is there anyone who might be interested in collaborating on this? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Rob Oakes

Updated Kindle Tools

2012-01-12 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users, Given the recent discussion about publishing to the Kindle format, I thought that this announcement might be of interest to you. Amazon just recently updated its suite of KindleGen tools to support HTML5 and CSS. http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_357613402_1?ie=UT

LyX Dependencies - Microsoft Windows

2012-01-10 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Developers, Do you know if anyone has compiled the dependencies for mingw64 bit? I finally realized that I'm getting linker errors because the dependencies were compiled with an older, 32 bit version of the mingw. Do you know if there is a set of dependencies that have been compiled for mingw

Re: Compile Errors with MinGW-w64

2012-01-09 Thread Rob Oakes
On 1/9/2012 3:03 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 09/01/12 19:19, Rob Oakes a écrit : >> I've tried to Google the source of this error, but can't figure it. The >> code compiles fine on Mac OS X, Linux, and 32 bit Windows mingw. >> Moreover, there are templates

Compile Errors with MinGW-w64

2012-01-09 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Developers, I had a few minutes this morning so I thought that I would try and fix some bugs related to XHTML output. However, I don't have access to my normal laptop and was working on a Windows box with a 64 build of Qt 4.8, QtCreator (x64) and the mingw-w64 compiler. In the process of try

Re: LyX Chat

2012-01-02 Thread Rob Oakes
On 1/2/2012 9:00 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > On 02/01/2012 16:53, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > Unless we buy some server I don't think this will be possible. Maybe > someone wants to deliver this kind of services for free or not... it > does not have to be a LyX.org service I guess. If we're just

Re: Suppressing Inner Tags

2011-12-15 Thread Rob Oakes
On Dec 15, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Richard Heck wrote: >> While working on the HTML5 definitions I mentioned in the previous message, >> I had another question about the XHTML output. Is there a way to suppress >> div tags within InsetLayout insets? Frequently, I'm finding that the LyX >> XHTML wil

Suppressing Inner Tags

2011-12-15 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Developers, While working on the HTML5 definitions I mentioned in the previous message, I had another question about the XHTML output. Is there a way to suppress div tags within InsetLayout insets? Frequently, I'm finding that the LyX XHTML will open and close a bunch of random, unnecessar

Modifying HTML for Figure Labels, Wraps

2011-12-15 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Developers, I've been working on modifying the XHTML created by LyX to be more compliant with HTML5. In the process, though, I've run into a couple of snags, particularly with wrap floats and figure labels. In way of experimentation, I would like to use the tag for figures and tables and

Re: HTML Footnotes as Endnotes

2011-12-11 Thread Rob Oakes
On 12/10/2011 1:42 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: > However, we should also think about "graceful degradation", i.e. the > document should be rendered "sensibly" in a browser that does not > understand the newest standards. > http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/augm.html Günter I agree, most users shoul

Re: HTML Footnotes as Endnotes

2011-12-09 Thread Rob Oakes
On Dec 8, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Richard Heck wrote: >> LyX already provides for two and three. With some tweaking, the XHTML that >> comes out can be very clean and the LyXHTML can be customized via the >> document or Internal layout file. >> > Let me know where things need improving re (1) ... F

Re: HTML Footnotes as Endnotes

2011-12-09 Thread Rob Oakes
On Dec 9, 2011, at 8:03 AM, rgheck wrote: > > I've been thinking a fair bit about this and about the "split by chapter" > issue. I'm pretty sure now that what I'll need to do for labels, etc, to get > cross-file links working, is about the same as what I'd need to do for > footnotes to get th

Re: HTML Footnotes as Endnotes

2011-12-08 Thread Rob Oakes
Okay, so I've got the compilation error taken sorted out. (It was due to modifications that I had made to the class.) I've added a list object to the output parameters class. I'm now trying to figure out how to successfully collect the footnotes into the list. Using: In InsetFoot::xhtml(): op

Compile Errors in OutputParams

2011-12-08 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Developers, I'm trying to add a simple list objet to the OutputParams header file, but I keep getting strange errors and I can't figure out what's causing them. Here's what I would like to do: #include #include ... std::list footlist; However, I can't get that far. When I include In

Re: HTML Footnotes as Endnotes

2011-12-08 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Jean-Marc, Could you point me at an example of how this might be done or provide a few lines of code? I'm trying to add a std::list object to OutputParams and getting a wide variety of strange errors. Apparently, including it doesn't like it when I include "InsetFoot.h". I was able to create

Re: HTML Footnotes as Endnotes

2011-12-08 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Richard, Just trying to implement the gathering of footnotes via std::list. I placed the structure in the LatexFeatures header, however, I didn't see any way to access LatexFeatures via OutputParams (e.g. op.features ...). Am I missing something obvious? Cheers, Rob

Re: HTML Footnotes as Endnotes

2011-12-08 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Guenter, On Dec 7, 2011, at 1:14 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: > IMV, we should make the placement of footnotes in HTML configurable. > > Sensible options include > > a) inline (as "tooltip" via CSS :mouseover:) > b) in the footer for page-based output (e.g. print from HTML or ePub) > c) endnot

Re: HTML Footnotes as Endnotes

2011-12-06 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Richard, Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it. On Dec 6, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > I wonder if we'd be better just outputting footnotes as endnotes > all the time. The inline version we now use is cool, but maybe it's too > cool for it's own good. I actually think th

HTML Footnotes as Endnotes

2011-12-06 Thread Rob Oakes
I'd appreciate any comments. Cheers, Rob Oakes htmlendnotelist.diff Description: Binary data

Re: Export Stylesheet as Separate File

2011-12-04 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Richard and Others, Thanks for the clarification. I've rewritten the export CSS to export CSS as a separate file. It now uses the export machinery correctly to copy the files. I've also tried to structure it so that it fails more gracefully, per your recommendations. It still isn't quite pr

Re: Export Stylesheet as Separate File

2011-12-03 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Richard, Thanks for getting back to me. > This file should be written to the *temporary* directory, in the first > instance---all files for export should first be written there---and > registered as an included file. This would be something like: > string const fcssname = addName(temppa

Export Stylesheet as Separate File

2011-12-03 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Developers, I've spent some time today working on a patch to support exporting the LyX CSS stylesheet as a separate file. This is what I've come up with so far. Would you mind having a look and letting me know if there is amore efficient way to do it? ++ Line 1773, Buffer.cpp if (para

Re: LyX and Kindle books

2011-12-03 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Alex, On 12/3/2011 10:51 AM, Alex Fernandez wrote: > I don't know of anything similar, I usually hand-tune the CSS. Do you > need anything from eLyXer at the moment? I suggest that you start with > the CSS classes in eLyXer, which are the result of careful tuning: > http://elyxer.nongnu.org/lyx

Re: Subfigures in Memoir

2011-11-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Julien, > In a module to prevent the automatic loading of subfig: > Provide subfig 1 > > Cheers, > Julien Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. I can then add some code to the preamble to point the subfigure and subtable to the appropriate subfloat, and it should "Just Work." I love LyX

Subfigures in Memoir

2011-11-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Does anyone know if it is possible to use memoir's subfloat environment inside of LyX for subfigures and sub-tables? Or if there is a way to override the loading of the subfig pacakge? There appears to be an incompatability between subfig and many of the font customization macros, and I'm not quite

Broken Modules

2011-11-09 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Developers, Out of curiosity, is anyone else having problems loading modules in the SVN version of LyX 2.1? The module list is completely list broken with blank modules filling about half of it and other modules (which are present) listed, but saying "unavailable"). I've tried recreating

Re: Beginner Tutorials

2011-10-26 Thread Rob Oakes
Sent from Rob's Palm On Oct 26, 2011, at 4:10 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > are you willing to update the galleries? > pavel Yes. And post videos with audio and rework the layout of the page.

Re: Beginner Tutorials

2011-10-25 Thread Rob Oakes
Right, after writing my last post, I decided to conduct a bit more online research and came across the Visual Tour site. These are very nice, albeit dated. In addition to working on updated video tutorials -- so that they use 2.0, include audio, etc. -- it might also be good to update the websit

LyX Branding

2011-10-25 Thread Rob Oakes
Here's a quick question for the devs: How attached are we to our current branding scheme? Specifically, would anyone be open to modifying how we refer to LyX? When I opened up LyX today and stared at "LyX: The Document Processor," for probably the 50,000th time, I found myself thinking it was k

LyX Branding

2011-10-25 Thread Rob Oakes
Here's a quick question for the devs: How attached are we to our current branding scheme? Specifically, would anyone be open to modifying how we refer to LyX? When I opened up LyX today and stared at "LyX: The Document Processor," for probably the 50,000th time, I found myself thinking it was k

Re: LyX ppa - was [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.0.1 Released

2011-09-20 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Bjorn, > Ok...I guess it is possible to climb a learning curve that tangents the > Matterhorn...(?) Thanks for your guidance :-) Possible, yes, but deeply miserable. This is why I always get into it four or five hours and throw my hands up in disgust. Regarding stuff, here are some things

Re: drag in outline panel?

2011-09-13 Thread Rob Oakes
I've done some work on this in the Outline enhancements branch. I've got a class of helper functions which implement the changes to the underlying document. If you're interested in seeing what I've done, take a look at the "DataManager.h" (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lyx-outline-devel/lyx-out

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Richard, > I'll see if I can't sort out the footnote issue at some point. Last I thought > about it, it didn't seem as hard as I'd thought, since we do have a list of > all the footnotes in the TOC Let me pack up what I've already written and send it to the list for comment. I've got a

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Rob Oakes
> Rob Oakes has also done some work along these lines, but starting with > LyX's internal XHTML export. Yes, and still working on it. For plain vanilla books, LyX does a fantastic job for exporting to XHTML (and from there to ePub). But there are a couple of sticking points that aren

Configuration Strangeness on LyX SVN (Mac OS X)

2011-08-28 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Developers, Thanks for fixing the configuration error. It now configures correctly (or almost correctly). I am still having a couple of problems with configuration on Mac OS X, though (Snow Leopard). 1.) After the first time configuration runs, the option to "Reconfigure LyX" disappears f

Re: r39526 - lyx-devel/trunk/lib

2011-08-26 Thread Rob Oakes
This is probably already known, but I'm getting Python configuration errors, here is a traceback (using the most recent SVN version): File "/Users/RobOakes/Developer/LyX-Outline/LyX-Outline-Devel/lib/configure.py", line 1351, in LATEX = checkLatex(dtl_tools) File "/Users/RobOakes/Develo

Debian Folder for LyX

2011-06-22 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Developers, The recent discussion of creating a daily build of LyX made me think that I should probably spend a bit of time and update the package archive I maintain for Ubuntu. However, while working on this, I realized something: I don't have a copy of the debian folder needed for creati

Re: URL of branches for mrroring for PPA build?

2011-06-15 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Rainer, > Thanks - but when I try this, I get an error: > > "The URI scheme "svn" is not allowed. Only URIs with the following schemes > may be used: bzr+ssh, ftp, http, https, sftp" > > Can I use any of the specified protocolls? I tried the address, given above, > but that does not work.

Re: Compilation Errors

2011-05-14 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Peter, > I assume it links against the wrong libiconv. I tried to fix this it > yesterday when I had the same error. > Building with internal libintl it should work with /usr/lib/libiconv.dylib, > you could set the library > with -DICONV_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/libiconv.dylib. If it doesn't work wit

Re: Compilation Errors

2011-05-13 Thread Rob Oakes
>> It's fixed. It's possible to build with external and internal libintl now. > > Thanks for taking a look at it. For some reason, I still kept having problems > (even after deleting my build directory and CMakeLists.txt.user). It still > kept trying to use the external libintl. > > So ... I we

Re: Compilation Errors

2011-05-13 Thread Rob Oakes
Thanks Peter, > It's fixed. It's possible to build with external and internal libintl now. Thanks for taking a look at it. For some reason, I still kept having problems (even after deleting my build directory and CMakeLists.txt.user). It still kept trying to use the external libintl. So ... I

Compilation Errors

2011-05-12 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Developers, Is anyone else getting compilation errors on Mac OS X after the cmake directory cleanup? I just merged with the most recent SVN, and this is what I'm getting (after reconfiguring with cmake): /Users/RobOakes/Developer/LyX-Outline/LyX-Outline-Devel/src/support/Messages.cp

Re: SVN mirror of git

2011-05-04 Thread Rob Oakes
On May 4, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > Probably not, but I don't understand the problem here. What are these > branches about ? They are packaging branches. Launchpad (Ubuntu's development website and package management system) provides tools to import code from developer

Re: Asynchronous Export - Essential Feature, Not Bloat (was Re: Goals for 2.1)

2011-05-04 Thread Rob Oakes
On May 4, 2011, at 2:38 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Rob Oakes wrote: >> The book I've been working on takes nearly 15 minutes to compile.\ > this looks horrible. what hardware and OS do you use? Not looks, is horrible. But, in LyX's defense, it's a very complicated

Asynchronous Export - Essential Feature, Not Bloat (was Re: Goals for 2.1)

2011-05-04 Thread Rob Oakes
>> Again, I am not going to point the finger against something in particular. >> I would like that major attention be paid to the increasead bloat with >> respect to the benefits that come from a particular feature. >> >> As it is clear that I was against the export in thread/qprocess features, >>

Re: "Start" page

2011-05-04 Thread Rob Oakes
>> I was thinking of the "home" or "start" tab (or maybe just as a background >> of the work area, instead of the LyX logo) where you can choose things like >> "Create new presentation", "Create a letter", a list of recent documents, >> link to option dialog, maybe an RSS feed, things like that

SVN mirror of git

2011-05-04 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Developers, I've been following the debate regarding development models with some interest. It sounds as though some people are ready to move to git now. While I'm not thrilled about that (I don't care for git very much), I think it makes a lot of good sense. A move to a distributed model

Re: Goals for 2.1

2011-05-04 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Abdel, Sorry for the general density. I'm an infant amongst men when it comes to most programming things. >> Hmm. I'm curious to hear more details on how this would work. Would all >> documents use this by default, > > No > >> or would it be something that the user would enable? > > Yes

Re: Goals for 2.1

2011-05-04 Thread Rob Oakes
Thanks for the clarification. >>> I think that more attention should be put in the memory footprint. I have >>> the impression that LyX is becoming a bloatware. >> >> How so? Are you referring to just the memory imprint or the feature set as >> well? (Bloatware means many things to different peop

Re: Goals for 2.1

2011-05-04 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Enrico, > I think that more attention should be put in the memory footprint. I have > the impression that LyX is becoming a bloatware. How so? Are you referring to just the memory imprint or the feature set as well? (Bloatware means many things to different people.) Cheers, Rob

Re: Goals for 2.1

2011-05-04 Thread Rob Oakes
>> As a typical start of a new release cycle I want to poll >> - what features are a must in the next release; > >> - what work do you think you will be doing; >> > Continued work on XHTML output, with Rob Oakes's help +1 During the next year: - Add support for exporting lower resolution ima

Re: LyXHTML image resolution

2011-04-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Ramin, > I'm using 2.0 to export html which I can then convert to epub format > with Calibre. I've been playing with the same export. So far I've been really happy. Rather than using Calibre to do the conversion, you might take a look at Sigil. It creates a much cleaner ePub (though Calibre

Re: Development for LyX 2.1

2011-04-28 Thread Rob Oakes
> I'm happy to go with git, as long as we're all going to get this kind of help. It sounds as though consensus is emerging. Would it be possible to have the the git master branch mirrored into the existing SVN repository? This would make it easy for those of us trying to maintain packages to ha

Re: Self-contained lyx documents

2011-04-27 Thread Rob Oakes
> There is presently the ability to have a layout file in the same folder as > the document, and modules we don't find in the usual places could, I suppose, > be sought there. But my own view is that this form of "local layout" causes > too many problems already. If you save such a file to a ne

Re: Self-contained lyx documents

2011-04-27 Thread Rob Oakes
A quick thought, how hard would it be to incorporate the folder where the LyX document is saved into the local path? I know that we create a temporary directory for compiling the document, but doing a bit of path trickery and adding the document to the active path before compilation would allow

Re: Development for LyX 2.1

2011-04-26 Thread Rob Oakes
Though it's completely arbitrary, a six month release schedule might make sense. Once a year for format changes, once a year for file formats? It seems to have worked well for Ubuntu, KDE and Gnome ... Cheers, Rob

Re: Goals and Milestones for LyX3.0

2011-04-26 Thread Rob Oakes
On Apr 26, 2011, at 8:33 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > One possibility is to use the Xfce numbering scheme: odd for > development releases and even for stable releases. For example, 2.0.0 > is the major stable release, 2.0.2 is the minor stable release, 2.0.3 > is the minor development release. Th

Re: Goals and Milestones for LyX3.0

2011-04-26 Thread Rob Oakes
I know that I don't really have a vote in this things, but I can't help but jump in on the conversation. > So the idea is to have two parallel development trees, basically: One that is > devoted to changes that do not touch the file format, like GUI improvements, > and one where we can make for

Re: LyX ppa

2011-04-21 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Rainer, My apologies for the delay in getting back to you. I've been meaning to write for the better part of two weeks. And while I am generally irresponsible, there are actually reasons for this delay ;) Two of them, actually. The first is a result of the general poor state of my scripts. I

Re: EndNotes the Third

2011-04-18 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Richard and Other Developers, I was able to spend some additional time playing with the EndNote export code, and I am happy to report that I've got a working example. I'm not completely thrilled with it, but I've at least got a working example. The patch is attached. There are still severa

Re: More Yet More EndNotes

2011-04-16 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Richard and Other LyX Developers,Again, thanks for all of the feedback you've provided. With the hints and guidance, I am now happy to report that I can add a "List of EndNotes" to a document. That, however, is the end of the good news. Though the inset appears, it doesn't work correctly.LyX t

Re: XHTML Questions

2011-04-15 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Richard, Thanks for all of the advice that you've given me already. Using your suggestions, I've been able to get a skeleton in place that lets me start to play with different ways of exporting the footnotes as end notes. Those changes are attached as a patch. While everything works pretty

Re: XHTML Questions

2011-04-13 Thread Rob Oakes
> On 2011-04-12, Richard Heck wrote: >> On 04/12/2011 11:01 AM, Rob Oakes wrote: > >>> 1.) Is it possible to export footnotes at the end of a chapter as >>> EndNotes? The style currently in use (which shows the note when you >>> hover over it with the mo

Re: XHTML Questions

2011-04-12 Thread Rob Oakes
On Apr 12, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Richard Heck wrote: >> 3.) Is there a way to use numbered instances in the Index, e.g. >> >> Subject 11, 2, 3 >> >> Where 1, 2, 3 all point to instances in the text? > Is that not how it works? I just exported the user's guide, and I've got > things like: >

XHTML Questions

2011-04-12 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Developers, I'm continuing my experiments with the XHTML questions and had a couple of questions: 1.) Is it possible to export footnotes at the end of a chapter as EndNotes? The style currently in use (which shows the note when you hover over it with the mouse), doesn't correctly render i

RE: Re: rc2 and non-tex fonts

2011-03-31 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Liviu, It's strange that you're having this problem, I am as well. In my case, though I'm seeing it on the Windows SVN version. (I haven't updated on Linux for a while.) My Mac build of LyX is working just fine though. I thought that I might have accidentally flipped one of the compile swit

Re: Summer of Code rejection feedback (or lack thereof) from Carol

2011-03-22 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Stefano, Thanks for looking into that. I am glad to know that it wasn't the application and they liked the ideas page. It's still frustrating, though and brings me back to my earlier email. I think it would be worthwhile to conduct some LyX marketing and promotion. There are a lot of very s

LyX Promotion

2011-03-22 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Users and Developers, Thank you to both Pavel and Stefano for ollowing up with Google about why the GSoC application was turned down. Is there any way that I could help in that review? Stefano, will you be attending the IRC meeting to be held later today? I think it's very important that w

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