Re: XML format status

2010-06-09 Thread Sam Liddicott
On 09/06/10 09:10, Pavel Sanda wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-06-08, Sam Liddicott wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --050502020101020702060201 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 08/06/10 15:27

Re: XML format status

2010-06-09 Thread Sam Liddicott
On 09/06/10 04:27, Peter Kümmel wrote: Am Dienstag, den 08.06.2010, 17:22 -0400 schrieb Richard Heck: On 06/08/2010 03:49 PM, Peter Kümmel wrote: Am Dienstag, den 08.06.2010, 20:52 +0200 schrieb Andre Poenitz: On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 04:29:21PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: On 06/08/2010

Re: XML format status

2010-06-08 Thread Sam Liddicott
On 08/06/10 15:29, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: On 06/08/2010 03:27 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: What is the current status or thinking of the XML format for lyx 2? Ideally, LyX 2 would have an XML file format. However, no-one is actively working on the issue, so we postponed it. As far as

Re: XML format status

2010-06-08 Thread Sam Liddicott
On 08/06/10 15:27, Pavel Sanda wrote: Sam Liddicott wrote: I also still dream about lyx being the first decent docbook editor. are you aware of the fact that lyx already have output routines for docbook? Yes, but I recall being told that it wasn't supported and that if it still work

Re: XML format status

2010-06-08 Thread Sam Liddicott
On 08/06/10 14:27, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: What is the current status or thinking of the XML format for lyx 2? Ideally, LyX 2 would have an XML file format. However, no-one is actively working on the issue, so we postponed it. As far as I know, we didn't really decide when and how to do

XML format status

2010-06-08 Thread Sam Liddicott
What is the current status or thinking of the XML format for lyx 2? Sam -- *Sam's signature*

Re: How to stringify a CPP macro

2010-04-13 Thread Sam Liddicott
Your stringify looks ok. -DSTR_ASPELL_FRAMEWORK="x.y" probably didn't work because of the shell eating the quotation marks. -DSTR_ASPELL_FRAMEWORK='"x.y"' might have worked as far as invoking the makefile, but when it invoked the compiler you may then loose the remaining quote marks (unless

Re: elyxer requests

2010-01-21 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Alex Fernandez wrote, On 20/01/10 22:58: Hi Sam, On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Sam Liddicott wrote: Elyxer is great. Thanks! I've used it to generate some great looking html for my lyx literate programming tool at: http://repo.or.cz/w/newfangle.git/blob_plain/master

elyxer requests

2010-01-20 Thread Sam Liddicott
Elyxer is great. I've used it to generate some great looking html for my lyx literate programming tool at: http://repo.or.cz/w/newfangle.git/blob_plain/master:/www/docs/newfangle.html (git site: http://repo.or.cz/w/newfangle.git) I have a few requests... 1. Please could elyxer support alterna

Re: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2009-11-24 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Liviu Andronic wrote, On 24/11/09 14:51: On a different note, Features [1] fails to mention Sweave. A rephrasing similar to the one bellow would be nice. Document formats > * Literate programming support, via the "noweb" tool -> * Literate programming support (noweb, Sweave) Noweb is buggy (a

Re: lyx and composite window managers

2009-11-23 Thread Sam Liddicott
Xaver Gerster wrote: Hi, my lyx 1.6.0 behaves strange if used under compiz-fusion as a window mananger. The cursor shows up doubled, separated by one character moreover typesetting in formulas is incredibly slow (it takes several seconds before typed-in symbols appear on screen). Is anything

RE: Approaching LyX 1.6.5 [status update #1]

2009-11-22 Thread Sam Liddicott
A caption with a label? Maybe footnote? sam -Original Message- From: Vincent van Ravesteijn Sent: 22 November 2009 13:37 To: Jürgen Spitzmüller Cc: LyX Devel Subject: Re: Approaching LyX 1.6.5 [status update #1] Jürgen Spitzmüller schreef: > Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > >> I al

RE: Scripting fun - removing unneeded headers from source code

2009-11-08 Thread Sam Liddicott
I think only a reasoned approach will produce a result that compils and makes sense. A file my compile because a header it needs is wrongly included in a header it uses. Each header fle must be exained in conjunction with an accepted coding policy to see if the headers it includes can be justi

footmisc.sty

2009-10-10 Thread Sam Liddicott
Please can Lyx have support for footmisc, which allows you to re-use footnotes. http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=repfootnote .. .. Alternatively, one may use the |\||footref| command, which has the advantage of working even when the footnote mark isn't expressed as a number. The

Re: eLyXer integration, round two

2009-09-18 Thread Sam Liddicott
Alex Fernandez wrote: Having used XSLT extensively for some project in the past (actually, the one I wrote the XML parser for), I can tell you this: if you think XSLT transformations are a good thing then you haven't used them, or you have a completely different mind for languages. Transforming

Re: eLyXer integration, round two

2009-09-18 Thread Sam Liddicott
Pavel Sanda wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Well, your eyes are yours, I guess. But it seems to me that the lack of any indication of what's an option, what's real text, and the like, makes it rather a mess. And I speak from some experience. If you've ever fought lyx2lyx bugs and tried to figure

Re: eLyXer integration, round two

2009-09-18 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Pavel Sanda wrote, On 18/09/09 14:48: Richard Heck wrote: Indeed. I still can't understand why the XML stuff causes such panic. As if \begin_inset CommandInset footnote status Collapsed ... \end_inset was somehow inherently clearer than: ... as far as plain reading in vi the non xml par

Re: eLyXer integration, round two

2009-09-15 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Pavel Sanda wrote, On 15/09/09 12:56: Sam Liddicott wrote: as an example: If Richard requires changes that Alex will not meet, then Lyx will suffer, not Alex and not Richard. i am sorry but i completely disagree. Richard is trying to keep the code maintanable and clean. this value may

Re: eLyXer integration, round two

2009-09-15 Thread Sam Liddicott
In top-quoting, I would like to recount a funny and baffling story which happened to me just a few months ago, and which suggests that the problems currently facing open source development are not technical problems. I offered a small patch to a well known project; a patch which would make re

Re: HTML export to different formats

2009-09-04 Thread Sam Liddicott
Alex Fernandez wrote: ... But that is not the argument I am making. Instead, it is: this nice little hack solves a problem (HTML export with different tools) in the long term, and it does not add to the big issue (clutter in the export menu) significantly. The "better" solution is an overall imp

Re: New literate programming with Lyx

2009-08-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
ject and had to keep all my variable names in-sync, so parameterized chunks would be a great benefit to me. Sam Sam Liddicott wrote: At the suggestion of kayvan, I posted this message that was originally sent to lyx-users. I hope I got the right addresses for Cc: I've posted o

Re: New literate programming with Lyx

2009-08-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
Gorjanc Gregor wrote: Based upon previous work I used literate classes since this has been proposed earlier. However, Jean-Marc has been working on another approach with modules, which make literate classes for R-LyX obsolete. Right Jean-Marc? Can this approach also be used for noweb and work o

Re: New literate programming with Lyx

2009-08-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: >> Can I use it on Windows ? I haven't got windows to try but AFAIk there is nothign windows-specific or even path-related in it, so I guess you can, as long as you have a decent awk for windows. > > Please let me know how you get on. Can't i

Re: New literate programming with Lyx

2009-08-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: >> Can I use it on Windows ? > > I haven't got windows to try but AFAIk there is nothign > windows-specific or even path-related in it, so I guess you > can, as long as you have a decent awk for windows. > > Please let me know how you get on. Can't

Re: New literate programming with Lyx

2009-08-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
Jean-Marc, I would be glad to see what you have. I've been pulling test results in with \include Sam Regards, gg ____ From: Sam Liddicott [...@liddicott.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 7:01 PM To: LyX Users List Cc: Gorjanc Gregor; landronim...@gma

Re: New literate programming with Lyx

2009-08-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: notangle (which was buggy) is not used to generate the source, instead an awk script, newfangle, is used, fixing various notangle bugs; such as: Can I use it on Windows ? I haven't got windows to try but AFAIk there is nothign windows-specific or eve

New literate programming with Lyx

2009-08-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
At the suggestion of kayvan, I posted this message that was originally sent to lyx-users. I hope I got the right addresses for Cc: I've posted on http://www.lyx.org/trac/attachment/ticket/6137/ my alternative literate programming style with Lyx. I put this together because literate programming