Re: New Arrival

2001-03-13 Thread hawk
garst gobbled, > > I don't suppose that anyone has written a script to go grab everything > > needed for the darkside . . . (don't look at me; I don't know much > > more about windows than to know that it's *very* painful whenever I > > have to sit in front of it, and that it screws up my partit

Re: New Arrival

2001-03-13 Thread hawk
hat it's *very* painful whenever I have to sit in front of it, and that it screws up my partition tables . . .) hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.

Re: New Arrival

2001-03-13 Thread hawk
jmarc jmentioned > >>>>> "hawk" == hawk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We already have a windows port which is done using the quick (and not > completely satisfactory one). That's why a real port should use the > best possible solution, not just a

Re: New Arrival

2001-03-12 Thread hawk
ut to try saving as html, load/save from words as html, then student editing, making a diff, and merging *that* back into the html on my machine, then somehow mangling that back into lyx. I really need a lyx on windows just to support my own lyx usage . . . hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq

odd printing note

2001-02-22 Thread hawk
and second tab taking the user to the start and end page, whereas lyx starts with the start page. I noticed this when ding an absent-minded print, tab, 1, tab, 1, return, to print my first page. Not a big worry, but a deviation from what fingers expect. hawk

double subscript bug is back.

2001-02-19 Thread hawk
couple of years ago, and it was fixed. Now It's back. In the fourth line of the multiline equation in 1., something has a double subscript. It's not visible in LyX, but it makes LaTeX choke. I'm assumint that it is the p_{i}_{i}\mu hawk #LyX 1.2 created this file. For more in

wierd filling of file system on make

2001-02-06 Thread hawk
all up df, and find nothing close to full. This time, I called df in another window, then killed the process. /home was 100% full. Upon killing the process, it drops back to 65% full. This is a 500M+ partition; somehow or anotehr 150M is being snatched up during the make. It's a stock FreeBSD 4.2. hawk

Re: here we go again on install (cat-id-tbl.c)

2001-02-06 Thread hawk
lars lamented, > hawk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Making all in po > | make: don't know how to make cat-id-tbl.c. Stop > | *** Error code 1 > are you using gnu make? if not try that. Thanks. that did it. I typed "gmake" rather than "make",

Re: Bug or feature in slides class

2001-02-06 Thread hawk
all 99 semester, summer 99, or whenever it was in 98 that I did my preliminary oral . . . (or was that 97???) hawk

here we go again on install (cat-id-tbl.c)

2001-02-05 Thread hawk
*** Error code 1 I'm pretty sure that I hit this one before I was using autogen.sh properly . . . hawk

Re: bindings dying?

2001-01-30 Thread hawk
garst gabbed, > > I now get the message at the bottom, > > Unkown sequence M-p g > > My other sequences seem to be dead, too. > Check preferences->interface to see where your bind file is set ahh. It just says cua. But aren't bindings in lyxrc supposed to be read after everythign else? r

Re: file recovery and format

2001-01-24 Thread hawk
haracters . . . > Try the command "tr" for example: > tr -d :cntrl: > or something similar. Yes, but it's too late :( I saved the output of strings to work with, and went back to using hte computer . . . hawk

Re: file recovery and format

2001-01-23 Thread hawk
garst gabbed, > > | Neither idea addresses the simple fact that rm is plain stupid. lars lamented, > > "Stupid is as stupid does" > > Lgb > Well, I work with a lot of handicapped people (aren't we all?) and have > become very aware of how a small deficit in hand-eye coordination or > v

Re: backtrace of crash

2001-01-22 Thread hawk
garst gabbed > Are you sure you got your 100dpi fonts reinstalled correctly and you > probably needed to kill and restart X with a proper XF86Config if > perchance you changed that also. logout/login worked. Amongh other odd things the last few days, my xdm login box had reduced in size drasti

Re: backtrace of crash

2001-01-22 Thread hawk
> hawk> Also, I removed the 100dpi fonts the other day when I was > hawk> scrounging for compile space. If anywone speaks debian, this may > hawk> help: > And are things different if you re-enable them? They don't seem to be different, no. (gdb) run Starting p

Re: backtrace of crash

2001-01-22 Thread hawk
ld_font_name No symbol "bold_font_name" in current context. (gdb) quit The program is running. Exit anyway? (y or n) y I hope this means more to you than to me :) Also, I removed the 100dpi fonts the other day when I was scrounging for compile space. If anywone speaks debian, this ma

Re: floating images within a page

2001-01-17 Thread hawk
forced into raw latex hacks :( hawk

Re: build instructions wrong?

2001-01-16 Thread hawk
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, hawk wrote: > > > OK, then maybe the page at devel.lyx.org should be changed to reflect > > this? It states to follow the instructions in INSTALL.autoconf, > > which doesn't include that step. > Which URL ? The page I am looking at (h

Re: build instructions wrong?

2001-01-16 Thread hawk
john jobbled, > On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > Unless I'm missing something, the cvs build instructions are wrong. > This file is the standard instructions for an autoconf system. They are > intended to be read by a user using a pre-setup tarball package. It looked like th

missing pieces in cvs??

2001-01-13 Thread hawk
I'll preface this with the fact that I really know almost nothing about cvs, which is probably the real problem. However, what I get is: fac13pts/2:lyx.devel>cvs update ? configure.scan ? boost ? src/frontends/kde/moc ? src/frontends/kde/dlg/moc cvs server: Updating . cvs server: Updating conf

Re: seminar.layout

2001-01-12 Thread hawk
John jumbled, > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 01:26:25PM -0500, hawk wrote: > > I've never been able to get this one to work, eiher way. I've > > always ended up giving them to secretaries to separate the > > slides and notes :) > Well, it *used* to work a coupl

Re: Automatic dialogs

2000-09-27 Thread hawk
he > environments have different ways of doing things anyway How about a two stage setup? the base mydialoginfo, with a the general information, but also an optional mydialoginfo.kde, etc., which could have additional information if needed? hawk --

Re: Heretics and Perverts [was: Re: I'm back, take 2 :)

2000-09-22 Thread hawk
im, > the ^V'ing is a bit more user friendly, but IIRC, it works just fine in > vanilla vi. Ah, thanks. I thought that that wasn't allowed in regexps, and so hadn't tried . . . hawk --

Re: I'm back, take 2 :)

2000-09-20 Thread hawk
e he finally managed to get himself started, he'd also sorted the sand on the beach, checked everyone's mail, and rebuilt a transmission. By then, VI-Man had everything taken care of. Besides, she didn't like his Lisp anyway . . . hawk -- You can see from her statement tha

slides-only in slide class

2000-09-18 Thread hawk
\relax l.58 \lyxnewslide{} ? ) Runaway argument? \fi ! File ended while scanning use of \@ggobtoend. \par <*> random__variables.tex ? hawk --

oops [Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition--disk editor?

2000-09-16 Thread hawk
ack, wrong list . . . --

Re: I'm back, take 2 :)

2000-09-15 Thread hawk
Greek characters in the middle of a sentence, for instance, or fractions. hawk --

Re: I'm back, take 2 :)

2000-09-15 Thread hawk
>But I have a strange feeling this discussion has gone on before somewhere >... ;) --

Re: [Jules Bean ] Various (math-mode) HMI improvements

2000-09-15 Thread hawk
(I'd personally >love to have that), but I do not personnally know many people who are >fluent in regexps (and especially not the one who would be interested >in LyX). but regexps are things you pick up a bit at a time, as you need them. And (to harp on the subject) LyX picks up folks over teh shorter keystrokes, too--my natural inclination would probably be raw latex, but the combination of less keystrokes and display of my equations keep me firmly with lyx. >All I meant to say is that regexp support is not a top priority for >many users, IMO. However, it may happen soon since it is a priority >for many of the coders :) Speaking of which, what happened to the regexp find and replace patch? hawk --

Re: I'm back, take 2 :)

2000-09-14 Thread hawk
end to vi rather than emacs. *everything* should be mapped to quick sequences. It's friday; that means I can call emacs users vile heretics, can't I? > It is only in your mind. It's my fingers. More keystrokes leads to less typed output. hawk, who still needs to file bug repo

thinking aloud about phantom text styles

2000-09-13 Thread hawk
This has been fermenting between the ears for some time now, and only picked up concrete form the other day. I want to have a type of text tjat can be excluded in a "save as" operation. Alternatively, there could be an abridged export to lyx operation. Text marked in this way would act as n

Re: I'm back, take 2 :)

2000-09-11 Thread hawk
jmarc jmentioned, > >>>>> "hawk" == hawk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hawk> 2) I had a builid on a fresh install of debian that supposedly > hawk> had never had a lyx before. nonetheless, without using --prefix, > hawk> it didn't land

I'm back, take 2 :)

2000-09-08 Thread hawk
Once more I think I'm back; let's see if the machines let me stay this time :) In a rare event, I've successfully cvs'd the source and installed with no help, lost machines, or other demonic intervention. Thins have certainly changed a bit since I unsubscribed for Christmas :) A couple of th

the perils of software re-use

1999-12-09 Thread hawk
aff reports -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (319) 266-7114 http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.