change tracking for mathed

2012-04-10 Thread Xu Wang
I'm just curious as to whether change tracking will be implemented for mathed or if there is some fundamental problem with doing so. I imagine it will take a lot of work, but just curious if it's on anyone's (long term?) todo list.

Re: can't clone git (non-developer)

2012-03-14 Thread Xu Wang
"git branch" lists only one branch for me (master). Should there be more? On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Xu Wang wrote: > Thank you, Richard. And thank you for creating and updating the guide! > Regards, Xu > > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Richard Heck wrote:

Re: can't clone git (non-developer)

2012-03-14 Thread Xu Wang
Thank you, Richard. And thank you for creating and updating the guide! Regards, Xu On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 03/14/2012 04:08 PM, Xu Wang wrote: > > I am not developer but would like to clone the git. > I am following the new guide here http://wiki.l

can't clone git (non-developer)

2012-03-14 Thread Xu Wang
I am not developer but would like to clone the git. I am following the new guide here http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/LyXGit git clone git://git.lyx.org/ Cloning into git.lyx.org... fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly Even though not a developer I should still be able to clone right? Regards, X

Re: git.lyx.org - developers! your ssh public key please

2012-03-01 Thread Xu Wang
Excellent! How does this work for non-developers? For example, I would like to be able to do something and then do a pull-request. I think at this point I can only fix typos and maybe a small error, but my work would need to be verified. Thank you for this, Xu On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Lars

Re: Using git to push

2012-02-28 Thread Xu Wang
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > > To conclude: let's not discuss this for another year or two, pretty > please. I'll shut up now. > > Abdel. > > Sorry to already break the silence. Am I right that if we were using git now, there would be no problem with the server go

Re: where in source code are keys mapped to functions?

2012-02-28 Thread Xu Wang
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 02/28/2012 06:09 PM, Xu Wang wrote: > >> Hi, Where do I find what a certain key does depending on the context. For >> example, a space must activate some function in math and a different >> function outside of math

where in source code are keys mapped to functions?

2012-02-28 Thread Xu Wang
Hi, Where do I find what a certain key does depending on the context. For example, a space must activate some function in math and a different function outside of math. What about return? And delete? Is there one central place I can look in source code for? Xu

Re: Using git to push

2012-02-16 Thread Xu Wang
okay, thank you for your responses. Kind regards, Xu On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Xu Wang writes: > > | Hi, > > > | I have read here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Git > > > | and I see there is lyx here: https://gitorious.org/lyx >

google summer of code is starting

2012-02-04 Thread Xu Wang
I remember there was an effort to participate last year but it didn't work out. Just thought I would share this that gives the timeline for this year: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2012/02/google-summer-of-code-2012-is-on.html Xu

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-01 Thread Xu Wang
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 problem with most ways of converting doc to lyx. I understand it's very difficult, but I think it's also the

Re: String Freeze for 2.0.3

2012-02-01 Thread Xu Wang
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Jean-Pierre Chrétien < jeanpierre.chret...@free.fr> wrote: > Le 31/01/2012 16:45, Richard Heck a écrit : > > > Translators, please prepare for 2.0.3. I am tentatively planning to >> prepare the release on 16 February, so if you could have your new po >> files in by

Re: plans for Sweave

2012-01-18 Thread Xu Wang
Yihui, Thank you for your contributions! It's especially impressive how you're continuing to develop LyX support and documentation of Sweave, even though in some sense knitr is a competitor. From what I have been reading, knitr has clear advantages. Are the following correct? 1. knitr will be in

Re: Unable to save wiki

2012-01-16 Thread Xu Wang
ick, Your last edit seems to have been made a month ago. Are you done or just taking a break? You were very straightforward that you would only work on it until you got bored, so I'm not at all asking anything of you. I'm just curious :). Thanks a lot for what you have done! Xu Wang

using git

2011-12-17 Thread Xu Wang
>From what I've read, svn will be replaced with git for LyX development. And I guess some developers are using git already? I have been reading http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Git Will git eventually fully replace svn or will we always rely on git-svn? If fully replace, is there any (rough) estimate on

Re: Bug in lyx

2011-12-14 Thread Xu Wang
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Michi Speck wrote: > I'll give it that a go, but does lyx 2 column layout allow for single > column abstract at the top? > > Regards > Michi > > On 14 December 2011 21:30, Xu Wang wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 13, 20

Re: Bug in lyx

2011-12-14 Thread Xu Wang
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Michi Speck wrote: > Hello there, > > I would like to report a bug. I have Lyx version 2.0.1 installed on Win > 7. When I have figure floats selected to 'Use default placement' under > float settings my figures do not shown up in the published pdf. However if

Re: Unable to save wiki

2011-12-11 Thread Xu Wang
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Nicu Tofan wrote: > > -- > ** > Did you figure it out? > > I am *very* interested in your project and hope that it doesn't get > interrupted because of the wiki problems. > > Thank you Nicu! > > Xu > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Ni

Re: Unable to save wiki

2011-12-11 Thread Xu Wang
Did you figure it out? I am *very* interested in your project and hope that it doesn't get interrupted because of the wiki problems. Thank you Nicu! Xu On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Nicu Tofan wrote: > Nicu Tofan yahoo.com> writes: > > > > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/SourceCodeExploration?a

Re: idea for LyX 2.1.0: allow to paste text lists directly to tables

2011-12-07 Thread Xu Wang
+1 This would really be great and I've met several people that expected this from the "paste special" menu option and were then disappointed. Is it possible to use already existing code, e.g. from libre office, that has such functionality? I'm guessing there are some technical issues that make t

Re: Review of SourceCodeExploration wiki page

2011-12-02 Thread Xu Wang
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Nicu Tofan wrote: > Hello. > > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/SourceCodeExploration#sDevel.SourceCodeExploration_18 > If anyone has time to review what I've put together there, it would be > great. > Please edit, suggest different layout, ... > There is, of course, a

Re: Ideas for Development

2011-11-23 Thread Xu Wang
Could say a little bit what yWriter is? for Number 2, is tools>preferences>editing>scroll below end of document what you're looking for? I think this is only in 2.0 and later. Xu On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Graham Telfer wrote: > Hi there, > > I am using LyX now and would like to suggest 2

Re: Qt creator?

2011-11-19 Thread Xu Wang
Great, thanks for all of the advice! I just noticed a .ui folder in the source code, which I think suggests using Creator(?). In any case, I'm convinced. On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Peter Kümmel wrote: > On 19.11.2011 04:45, Richard Heck wrote: > >> On 11/18/2011 07:44

Qt creator?

2011-11-18 Thread Xu Wang
I'm learning Qt from "C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4" and am curious if most LyX developers write Qt C++ code using a text editor or Qt Creator? I would like to get used to doing whatever others are doing to make communication and questions easier. Thanks, Xu

Re: #7894: Cannot use keyboard to "find next"

2011-11-18 Thread Xu Wang
il that was sent to me. > Remember --- I'm not a LyX developer or part of this culture, even though > I am a programmer. I'm simply a user trying to report bugs. > > Maynard > > > On Nov 18, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Xu Wang wrote: > > Dear Maynard, > > I think Richar

Re: #7894: Cannot use keyboard to "find next"

2011-11-18 Thread Xu Wang
Dear Maynard, I think Richard's reply was actually quite polite compared to yours. I'm not sure what it is that you don't understand. English seems like your native language (you probably speak it better than me lol), so I'm guessing that you do understand the meaning of the words you chose to use

Re: introduction to programming LyX, anyone?

2011-10-29 Thread Xu Wang
I agree with you Philip! I have been wanting to write a similar email for a while. I would love to help develop LyX. In fact, I learned C++ with that being my primary purpose. But I am still lost when trying to navigate the code. I would love for some of the experienced developers to maybe documen

Re: drag in outline panel?

2011-09-12 Thread Xu Wang
Thank you, Richard, for the explanation. It makes sense that convenience feature requests are not high on anyone's priority list. Xu On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 09/12/2011 04:24 AM, Michel Lavaud wrote: > >> Le 11/09/2011 22:37, Xu Wang a écrit

Re: drag in outline panel?

2011-09-11 Thread Xu Wang
exactly what I was looking for, thanks! I'm guessing if there hasn't been much movement in 3 years then I'm out of luck. Oh well. On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Xu Wang wrote: > > bump > > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5778 > > Jürgen >

Re: drag in outline panel?

2011-09-10 Thread Xu Wang
bump On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Xu Wang wrote: > Would it be difficult in Qt to allow dragging of elements in the outline > panel? Sometimes it's annoying to keep pushing the "up" or "down" buttons. > > Thanks, > > Xu >

drag in outline panel?

2011-09-07 Thread Xu Wang
Would it be difficult in Qt to allow dragging of elements in the outline panel? Sometimes it's annoying to keep pushing the "up" or "down" buttons. Thanks, Xu

Re: Image Lifecycle (Create) Patch - Video

2011-07-28 Thread Xu Wang
Tomasso, This looks great! Also, sending an email is a great way to show what your new feature does. I think more bug reports and/or fixes should have videos attached. Thanks, Xu On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > Il 28/07/2011 17:29, Edwin Leuven ha scritto: > > Tomm

ubuntu - an error when I double click on a .lyx flie, but no error when I run from terminal

2011-07-20 Thread Xu Wang
If I start LyX from the terminal, everything works fine. But if I just start LyX by double clicking on a .lyx file, then I have problems (pasted at the end of email). I have tried reconfigure. Do I have a problem with permissions or something? I don't see why the two would be different. I have

Re: recompile one .cpp

2011-07-14 Thread Xu Wang
ok, thanks On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 07/14/2011 06:00 PM, Xu Wang wrote: > > I just want to check that I can do the same thing after updating from > > svn. Is the following fine? > > > > svn update > > make > > sudo make

Re: recompile one .cpp

2011-07-14 Thread Xu Wang
I just want to check that I can do the same thing after updating from svn. Is the following fine? svn update make sudo make install Thanks On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Xu Wang wrote: > beautiful, > > Thank you > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Julien Rioux > wrote:

Re: recompile one .cpp

2011-07-14 Thread Xu Wang
beautiful, Thank you On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Julien Rioux wrote: > On 14/07/2011 4:19 PM, Xu Wang wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> How can I recompile just one of the .cpp and reinstall lyx on ubuntu? >> >> Before, I was doing >> make uninstall >> m

recompile one .cpp

2011-07-14 Thread Xu Wang
Hi, How can I recompile just one of the .cpp and reinstall lyx on ubuntu? Before, I was doing make uninstall make clean make sudo make install But this takes a long time. See my pitiful attempt below for recompiling one cpp: xuwang@ubuntu:~/lyx-2.0.x/src$ g++ LaTeX.cpp LaTeX.cpp:16:20: fatal e

Re: testing with svn before bug report

2011-07-01 Thread Xu Wang
thank you for the advice Pavel. I will start studying http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Git On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Xu Wang wrote: > > With all this talk of building testing binaries, I figure I should learn > > which versions I should be testing against.

testing with svn before bug report

2011-07-01 Thread Xu Wang
Hi, With all this talk of building testing binaries, I figure I should learn which versions I should be testing against. Before filing a bug report, should I test with all of the following? -the current stable lyx release -BRANCH_2_0_X -trunk If the bug I found is present in some of them but not

Re: Qt books

2011-06-07 Thread Xu Wang
Hi Abdel, My apologies for the double email, Xu On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Abdel Younes wrote: > Hello Xu, > > Please adjust your email settings as we are receiving your emails twice. > > For the rest, just believe André :-) > > Abdel > > On Jun 7, 2011,

Re: Qt books

2011-06-07 Thread Xu Wang
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Andre Poenitz < andre.poen...@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 03:18:01PM -0700, Xu Wang wrote: > > Hi, I would like to learn Qt. I learn much better from physical books > than > > online resources, although I&#

Re: Qt books

2011-06-07 Thread Xu Wang
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Andre Poenitz < andre.poen...@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 03:18:01PM -0700, Xu Wang wrote: > > Hi, I would like to learn Qt. I learn much better from physical books > than > > online resources, although I&#

Qt books

2011-06-06 Thread Xu Wang
Hi, I would like to learn Qt. I learn much better from physical books than online resources, although I've heard the Qt manual is very good. Does anyone have suggestions for me? How much does Qt change from year to year? I am trying to figure out how new the book that I look for should be. Is th

Re: advice on how to implement my dream LyX feature

2011-06-06 Thread Xu Wang
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Cyrille Artho wrote: > >>I think this is a useful addition for the cropping of images. The >>way I now have to crop an image is to guess some numbers, press >>Apply, check in the main LyX window whether it is correct, adjust >>the numbers, check..

Re: advice on how to implement my dream LyX feature

2011-05-28 Thread Xu Wang
o IMHO if implemented in LyX, I see two ways, a choice between a quick > operation and a more consistent/controllable way to do it. > Which way would you vote for? I don't know enough about "the LyX way" to be able to have an opinion. Xu On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Tommaso

Re: advice on how to implement my dream LyX feature

2011-05-25 Thread Xu Wang
Cyrille, thank you for the reply and the explanations! See my comments below On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Cyrille Artho wrote: > Dear Xu, > I think this is a useful feature, but it would be best implemented as an > enhancement to an existing open source PDF viewer (such as xpdf or Okular).

advice on how to implement my dream LyX feature

2011-05-25 Thread Xu Wang
I am currently learning C++ programming (from Accelerated C++). There is a feature that I would like to implement, but I would like some advice as to 1) what I need to know in order to implement it, 2) is it feasible? 3) would this be useful to others? Here is the feature: The user could select a

a guide to LyX source code

2011-05-22 Thread Xu Wang
Hi, I am currently learning C++ from Accelerated C++. I know enough to understand what most chunks of code do. However, I am lost when trying to navigate through the lyx source code. It seems that grep is my only friend. I have read the Developing FAQ as well as many pages on the Wiki for develope

Re: lyx.org down?

2011-05-21 Thread Xu Wang
It's working fine more me now as well. On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Xu Wang wrote: > > Is the www.lyx.org website temporarily down? I haven't been able to > connect > > for the last few minutes. >

lyx.org down?

2011-05-21 Thread Xu Wang
Is the www.lyx.org website temporarily down? I haven't been able to connect for the last few minutes.

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.0.0 is released

2011-05-08 Thread Xu Wang
Thank you for everything to everyone that contributed! LyX is a beautiful piece of software. On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Public release of LyX version 2.0.0 > === > > We are proud to announce the public release of LyX 2.0.0. > > With this

Re: Trunk is completely frozen for any commits

2011-04-29 Thread Xu Wang
compiled and ran successfully on ubuntu. On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:23 AM, venom00 wrote: > > Local control tower: giving permission to land. > > Over. > > One small step for a bunch of developers, a giant leap for mankind. > > venom00 > >

feature: "page" in import graphics dialog

2011-04-26 Thread Xu Wang
Sure, the user can put it manually under "LaTeX options" but I think it would be helpful to have a text box. This way, LyX could also display that page instead of the first page. Would this be difficult? My guess is that the text box would not be difficult, but displaying the correct page would be

Re: auto add AMS math package when using Cases envirnoment

2011-02-20 Thread Xu Wang
; Thanks, Xu On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 02/20/2011 11:21 AM, Xu Wang wrote: > > By default, when one use the cases environment and beginners do not know > that they have to add the AMS math option. Could we either add the package > whenever the use

Re: books on c++ to get started

2011-02-13 Thread Xu Wang
, Xu Wang On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Edwin Leuven wrote: > xuwang wangxu wrote: > > Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example > > this was my introduction to c++ and i liked it > > > And after that, I guess I should learn the STL? I would thus focus on > &