Re: Feature Suggestion: Copy Selection as Latex

2013-08-27 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 06:38:40PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:19:43PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 04:38:29PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > >> > > >> > Did parenleft and

Re: Feature Suggestion: Copy Selection as Latex

2013-08-27 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:19:43PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 04:38:29PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> > >> > Did parenleft and bracketleft bind codes ever work on Windows? >> >> Of course. Only now I no

Re: Feature Suggestion: Copy Selection as Latex

2013-08-27 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 04:38:29PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> This seems related to #8364. > > Likely. Maybe it is different. I got the impression that #8364 had been a problem for a long time. In any case, if someone looks into t

Re: Feature Suggestion: Copy Selection as Latex

2013-08-27 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:19:43PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 04:38:29PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > > > Did parenleft and bracketleft bind codes ever work on Windows? > > Of course. Only now I noticed the breakage, so it must be a recently > introduced featur

Re: Feature Suggestion: Copy Selection as Latex

2013-08-27 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 04:38:29PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 03:12:00AM -0700, Pavel Sanda wrote: > >> Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:30:29PM -0700, Pavel Sanda wrote: > >> > >>

Re: Feature Suggestion: Copy Selection as Latex

2013-08-27 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 03:12:00AM -0700, Pavel Sanda wrote: >> Enrico Forestieri wrote: >> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:30:29PM -0700, Pavel Sanda wrote: >> >> Would you mind to place this document as a section somewhere into our >> man

Re: Feature Suggestion: Copy Selection as Latex

2013-08-27 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 03:12:00AM -0700, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:30:29PM -0700, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Would you mind to place this document as a section somewhere into our manuals? Note that this is not a document of mine. I found it here: ht

Re: Feature Suggestion: Copy Selection as Latex

2013-08-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Sebastian Kranz wrote: > Dear Liviu, > > thanks for your suggestion. From my point of view, the feature as you have > described it would be really useful. Shall I add it to the bug tracker, or > do you want to do it? (I first have to register). > http://www.lyx.org

Re: Feature Suggestion: Copy Selection as Latex

2013-08-27 Thread Sebastian Kranz
Dear Liviu, thanks for your suggestion. From my point of view, the feature as you have described it would be really useful. Shall I add it to the bug tracker, or do you want to do it? (I first have to register). All the best, Sebastian Am 27.08.2013 11:16, schrieb Liviu Andronic: Dear Sebas

Re: Feature Suggestion: Copy Selection as Latex

2013-08-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear Sebastien, On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Sebastian Kranz wrote: > I wanted to ask if perhaps, it could be possible to add a Lyx command that > allows to copy selected Lyx text containing math and text as Latex code. To > be more precise, when I paste copied Lyx text in a text editor it s

Re: Feature Suggestion: Copy Selection as Latex

2013-08-25 Thread Pavel Sanda
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:30:29PM -0700, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > Sebastian Kranz wrote: > > > I wanted to ask if perhaps, it could be possible to add a Lyx command > > > that > > > allows to copy selected Lyx text containing math and text as Latex code. > > > To >

Re: Feature Suggestion: Copy Selection as Latex

2013-08-22 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:30:29PM -0700, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Sebastian Kranz wrote: > > I wanted to ask if perhaps, it could be possible to add a Lyx command that > > allows to copy selected Lyx text containing math and text as Latex code. To > > be more precise, when I paste copied Lyx text i

Re: Feature Suggestion: Copy Selection as Latex

2013-08-22 Thread Richard Heck
On 08/22/2013 05:42 AM, Sebastian Kranz wrote: Dear Liviu, thanks for your email. After Pavel's reply I took a look at that function and the MathExtern.cpp code. I agree that an improved MathExtern.cpp would probably the best solution. However, I have basically no c++ skills, so I fear I am n

Re: Feature Suggestion: Copy Selection as Latex

2013-08-22 Thread Sebastian Kranz
Dear Liviu, thanks for your email. After Pavel's reply I took a look at that function and the MathExtern.cpp code. I agree that an improved MathExtern.cpp would probably the best solution. However, I have basically no c++ skills, so I fear I am not well fitted to contribute along that route.

Re: Feature Suggestion: Copy Selection as Latex

2013-08-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear Sebastien, As Pavel suggested LyX already has basic support for various Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) - Maple, Maxima, Octave, Mathematica. Usually you write some math, c-menu on the math inset and select your favourite CAS. The trouble with this support, and it has been discussed previously

Re: Re: Feature Suggestion: Copy Selection as Latex

2013-08-19 Thread bsermesinde
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Re: Feature Suggestion: Copy Selection as Latex

2013-08-19 Thread Pavel Sanda
Sebastian Kranz wrote: > I wanted to ask if perhaps, it could be possible to add a Lyx command that > allows to copy selected Lyx text containing math and text as Latex code. To > be more precise, when I paste copied Lyx text in a text editor it shall be > correct Latex code including $ signs. C

Feature Suggestion: Copy Selection as Latex

2013-08-19 Thread Sebastian Kranz
Dear Developers, first of all thanks for spending so much time into improving Lyx: it is really great and helps me a lot in my academic daily live. I wanted to ask if perhaps, it could be possible to add a Lyx command that allows to copy selected Lyx text containing math and text as Latex co

Re: Feature Suggestion: Specifying Exact LaTeX Preamble in LyX

2009-06-12 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Helge Hafting wrote: > It is necessary to select language and document class. Providing "default" > for these is dangerous, because it won't work without explicit preamble > commands. There is no "default" document class. I'll note that I sometimes find it conve

Re: Feature Suggestion: Specifying Exact LaTeX Preamble in LyX

2009-06-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Helge Hafting writes: > secnumdepth and tocnumdepth lack a "default" setting. Perhaps it'd be > useful with a checkbox "Default Depths" similiar to the "Default > Margins" we already have. It'd implicate that latex, the preamble > commands, or some package makes the decision. There is a default s

Re: Feature Suggestion: Specifying Exact LaTeX Preamble in LyX

2009-06-12 Thread Helge Hafting
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: Often proceedings give authors sample .tex files to demonstrate how a paper should be formatted. I generally want to make my preamble as close as possible the sample. My recommendation: Copy the sample preamble into the Document->Settings->Latex preamble. Leave all o

Re: Feature Suggestion: Specifying Exact LaTeX Preamble in LyX

2009-06-06 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Pavel Sanda schreef: Richard Heck wrote: I have a very hard time seeing how this might be implemented reliably. What would be easy, however, would be a kind of "expert" mode, where LyX does not output ANY preamble other than the one specified by the user. This could be toggled on and off, a

Re: Feature Suggestion: Specifying Exact LaTeX Preamble in LyX

2009-06-06 Thread Pavel Sanda
Richard Heck wrote: > I have a very hard time seeing how this might be implemented reliably. What > would be easy, however, would be a kind of "expert" mode, where LyX does > not output ANY preamble other than the one specified by the user. This > could be toggled on and off, and people could cu

Re: Feature Suggestion: Specifying Exact LaTeX Preamble in LyX

2009-06-06 Thread rgheck
Pavel Sanda wrote: John McCabe-Dansted wrote: However I was wondering if this sounds like a good feature for LyX itself? http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5031 http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5366 I have a very hard time seeing how this might be implemented reliably. What would be eas

Re: Feature Suggestion: Specifying Exact LaTeX Preamble in LyX

2009-06-06 Thread Pavel Sanda
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > However I was wondering if this sounds like a good feature for LyX itself? http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5031 http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5366

Re: Feature Suggestion: Specifying Exact LaTeX Preamble in LyX

2009-06-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 06 June 2009 02:02:25 am John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > Often proceedings give authors sample .tex files to demonstrate how a > paper should be formatted. I generally want to make my preamble as > close as possible the sample. Usually I can trick LyX into generating > something pretty clo

Feature Suggestion: Specifying Exact LaTeX Preamble in LyX

2009-06-05 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Often proceedings give authors sample .tex files to demonstrate how a paper should be formatted. I generally want to make my preamble as close as possible the sample. Usually I can trick LyX into generating something pretty close to the sample preamble, but before submitting manually tweak the .tex

Re: Feature suggestion (for 1.6): Export All to Directory

2008-09-08 Thread rgheck
Pavel Sanda wrote: Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Would there be any problem to make a File -> Export -> Directory and/or File -> Export -> ZIP that basically contains the same as the tmp directory PLUS the .lyx file (with all file references local)? i think for this you don't need to code a

Re: Feature suggestion (for 1.6): Export All to Directory

2008-09-05 Thread Bo Peng
>> i dont think this a lucky way how to do archivation and encourage users >> do it this way. better to wait for proper solution. > > That was what I would wanted to hint to without saying it. ;-) lib/scripts/extract_embed.py, lib/scripts/dir_copy.py and lib/configure.py in http://www.lyx.org/~bpe

Re: Feature suggestion (for 1.6): Export All to Directory

2008-09-05 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Pavel Sanda wrote: i think for this you don't need to code anything. just add some convertor to your preferences, which gets tmp filename, extract the path name, zip it and copy the result into appropriate place. This still would not include the lyx file (but therefore all the other (e.g. prev

Re: Feature suggestion (for 1.6): Export All to Directory

2008-09-05 Thread Pavel Sanda
Konrad Hofbauer wrote: > Would there be any problem to make a > File -> Export -> Directory and/or > File -> Export -> ZIP > > that basically contains the same as the tmp directory PLUS the .lyx file > (with all file references local)? i think for this you don't need to code anything. just add so

Feature suggestion (for 1.6): Export All to Directory

2008-09-05 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Since 1.7 is far away and there will be no embedding in 1.6: Would there be any problem to make a File -> Export -> Directory and/or File -> Export -> ZIP that basically contains the same as the tmp directory PLUS the .lyx file (with all file references local)? I would think this should be ve

Re: Question/feature suggestion: View->PDF

2005-07-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Hi, A common problem for those of us trapped on Planet Redmond (and using Acrobat Reader to view PDFs) is that View->PDF and View->PDF (xxx) will fail if Reader is already open. The PDF file is output, but Reader claims not to be able to find the fil

Re: Question/feature suggestion: View->PDF

2005-07-20 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Hi, > > A common problem for those of us trapped on Planet Redmond (and using > Acrobat Reader to view PDFs) is that View->PDF and View->PDF (xxx) will > fail if Reader is already open. The PDF file is output, but Reader > claims not to be able to find the file. > > On th

Question/feature suggestion: View->PDF

2005-07-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi, A common problem for those of us trapped on Planet Redmond (and using Acrobat Reader to view PDFs) is that View->PDF and View->PDF (xxx) will fail if Reader is already open. The PDF file is output, but Reader claims not to be able to find the file. On the other hand, File->Export->Custo

Re: Feature suggestion

2005-05-27 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Angus Leeming wrote: >> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> >>> G> However, adding the bibtex format without an lfun to open the >>> G> bibtex database in the "viewer" doesnot make much sense. (We could >>> G> have a script bib2lyx that inserts \citeall and c

Re: Feature suggestion

2005-05-27 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus Leeming wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: G> However, adding the bibtex format without an lfun to open the G> bibtex database in the "viewer" doesnot make much sense. (We could G> have a script bib2lyx that inserts \citeall and calls bibtex-insert G> on the given bibtex database added to

Re: Feature suggestion

2005-05-27 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: G> However, adding the bibtex format without an lfun to open the G> bibtex database in the "viewer" doesnot make much sense. (We could G> have a script bib2lyx that inserts \citeall and calls bibtex-insert G> on the given bibtex database added to the converters.) Sure

Re: Feature suggestion

2005-05-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "G" == G Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> However, adding the bibtex format without an lfun to open the G> bibtex database in the "viewer" doesnot make much sense. (We could G> have a script bib2lyx that inserts \citeall and calls bibtex-insert G> on the given bibtex database added to th

Re: Feature suggestion

2005-05-25 Thread G. Milde
On 25.05.05, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "G" == G Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > G> Not a patch but a suggestion: Quite a lot of tasks are "delegated" > G> by LyX to external programs, yet easy to start from within LyX. How > G> about a button [Start bibtex editor] in the bibtex dat

Re: Feature suggestion

2005-05-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "G" == G Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> Not a patch but a suggestion: Quite a lot of tasks are "delegated" G> by LyX to external programs, yet easy to start from within LyX. How G> about a button [Start bibtex editor] in the bibtex database dialog? G> The acutal program called would be

Re: Feature suggestion

2005-05-25 Thread G. Milde
On 25.05.05, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > "G. Milde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | On 24.05.05, Rune Schjellerup wrote: > >> BibTeX file creation. > > > | I think we can leave this to specialized programs. > > But we would expect a patch. > (But it would have to be fairly complete...) Not a pat

Re: Feature suggestion

2005-05-24 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"G. Milde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 24.05.05, Rune Schjellerup wrote: >> BibTeX file creation. > | I think we can leave this to specialized programs. But we would expect a patch. (But it would have to be fairly complete...) -- Lgb

Re: Feature suggestion

2005-05-24 Thread G. Milde
On 24.05.05, Rune Schjellerup wrote: > BibTeX file creation. I think we can leave this to specialized programs. > It would be nice if users didn't have to search the web for tools like > JabRef. Just search the wiki.lyx.org and find the listing of programs under http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Progr

Feature suggestion

2005-05-24 Thread Rune Schjellerup
BibTeX file creation. It would be nice if users didn't have to search the web for tools like JabRef. -- Rune Schjellerup

Feature suggestion: automatic labels

2002-05-28 Thread Jeroen Versteeg
Hi, My compliments on LyX, I really like it! (Currenly writing my master thesis using it). I would like to propose two feature-enhancements: 1) automatic labels: whenever I insert a section or chapter header, it would be nice to automagically have a label added to it (with the same name as the

Feature Suggestion: Highlighting large blocks of text

2000-08-02 Thread Chris Eliasmith
Hi, I imagine this has been suggested already, but couldn't find the message. As great as LyX is, I find it annoying to move large blocks of text around. This is mainly because you have to drag the cursor over the entire text you want to select (i.e., you can't specify start and end points - to

Re: Feature suggestion: removing of space in front of a period.

2000-05-15 Thread Garst R. Reese
Pauli Virtanen wrote: > > Would it be possible to add a feature which would prevent > an unnecessary space be left between a word and a period after it. This is just one of a whole class of errors that chktex takes care of. Just get it. Garst

Feature suggestion: removing of space in front of a period.

2000-05-15 Thread Pauli Virtanen
Would it be possible to add a feature which would prevent an unnecessary space be left between a word and a period after it. So for example: This is a sentence|. Another sentence [space pressed] This is a sentence |. Another sentence [move caret to right] This is a sentence.| Another sentence