Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin Vermeer wrote: > BTW is there a 'cvs subtract' to cancel a 'cvs add'? No, but if you open CVS/Entries in the appropriate dir, find the file you've added and remove that line, then who's to know ;-) (Ie, cvs add is just a local command. No change to the repository at all.) -- Angus

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 05:10:59PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes spake thusly: ... > Martin> OK, so minipage must be provided at least. > > ... and in a way that replaces the minipage inset. ... > The corrections for oval box seem even worse. Concerning oval box, we > have to wonder: do we

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Martin" == Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> OK, so minipage must be provided at least. >> ... and in a way that replaces the minipage inset. Martin> Eventually, why not. I think this is something that we have to do to keep the UI coherent. >> You want to make sure t

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 05:22:09PM +0200, Andre Poenitz spake thusly: > > In fact I'd think something along the lines of > > \usepackage{fancybox} > \usepackage{calc} > > \par\fbox{\parbox{\columnwidth-2\fboxsep-2\fboxrule}{}} > \par\ovalbox{\parbox{\columnwidth-2\fboxsep-0.8pt}{}} > >

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:13:18PM +, Angus Leeming spake thusly: > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > Getting better all the time... see attached. > > and why are you blaming me for your code ? > + * \author Angus Leeming > > -- > Angus One day you'll be grateful ;-) Okay, okay, ... - M pgp0

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 05:10:59PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes spake thusly: > > > "Martin" == Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Could also be fixed width or 'twice the natural size of this text' > >> (like latex2e allows) or 'make the box square'... > > Martin> Sure. Some e

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 05:08:16PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:53:54PM +0200, Andre Poenitz spake thusly: > > What's the real world problem you are currently trying to solve? > > The one the (tested, working) solution of which is the following: > > (lyx_sty.C) > > s

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin Vermeer wrote: > Getting better all the time... see attached. and why are you blaming me for your code ? + * \author Angus Leeming -- Angus

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Martin" == Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Could also be fixed width or 'twice the natural size of this text' >> (like latex2e allows) or 'make the box square'... Martin> Sure. Some easy, some not so easy. But ask the UI folks first Martin> :-) Those are chosen to be easy e

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:10:42PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes spake thusly: > > > "Martin" == Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> - set a width (which could be columnwidth) > > Martin> The two most popular widths will be (corrected) \columnwidth > Martin> and "adaptive" (i.e.,

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Martin" == Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> - set a width (which could be columnwidth) Martin> The two most popular widths will be (corrected) \columnwidth Martin> and "adaptive" (i.e., don't put a parbox inside the fbox). I Martin> was considering at least having that in the

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:33:47PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes spake thusly: > > > "Martin" == Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Martin> This patch adds support for rectangular frames containing one > Martin> or more paragraphs of text, at the width of the column, using > Martin>

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:53:54PM +0200, Andre Poenitz spake thusly: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:50:30PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > > How about a Preamble dialog (or pane) that displayed the stuff that LyX was > > auto-inserting too. These lines would be displayed in a different colour > >

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:50:30PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > How about a Preamble dialog (or pane) that displayed the stuff that LyX was > auto-inserting too. These lines would be displayed in a different colour > and could not be deleted. However, if the user hit the 'Return' button > when

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I am not sure that we will be easy to do this in a clean way. I fear > that for some people, the thing you think should be before user > preamble should actually be another place for their usage pattern. We > should try to get these things as straightforward as possibl

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Angus> On Monday 22 September 2003 12:16 pm, Martin Vermeer wrote: >> About the LaTeX stuff here BTW I noticed one unfortunate thing. If >> you try to redefine fboxsep in the preamble, it ends up after the >> fboxwidth definition... should

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Martin" == Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> This patch adds support for rectangular frames containing one Martin> or more paragraphs of text, at the width of the column, using Martin> the Note infrastructure. Why hardcoding the width?? Not everybody wants to to have boxen

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
On Monday 22 September 2003 12:16 pm, Martin Vermeer wrote: > About the LaTeX stuff here BTW I noticed one unfortunate thing. If you > try to redefine fboxsep in the preamble, it ends up after the fboxwidth > definition... should I make that rather a newcommand? Then it is > called from the inset i

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin Vermeer wrote: > Colorbox would be nice too, but I want to see first what > Jürgen has in mind for character colours (i.e., general LaTeX colours > support.) Don't hold your breath, Martin. Although I have submitted my PH.D. thesis few weeks ago, I am already snowed with real work :-( Jue

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 12:12:46PM +, Angus Leeming spake thusly: > > On Monday 22 September 2003 10:37 am, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:42:04PM +, Angus Leeming spake thusly: > > > Returning to nit-picking mode: > > > > Do I infer correctly that > > discussion-in-p

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
On Monday 22 September 2003 10:37 am, Martin Vermeer wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:42:04PM +, Angus Leeming spake thusly: > > Returning to nit-picking mode: > > Do I infer correctly that > discussion-in-principle-whether-this-is-a-good-idea-at-all-mode has > been turned off? Support for

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:42:04PM +, Angus Leeming spake thusly: > > Returning to nit-picking mode: Do I infer correctly that discussion-in-principle-whether-this-is-a-good-idea-at-all-mode has been turned off? Anyway, new version. Only the ControlBox/FormBox stuff still missing, but should

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:34:25AM +, Angus Leeming spake thusly: > On Monday 22 September 2003 6:26 am, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > Question. Why doesn't InsetBoxMailer::string2params set the "type" > > > > It does... Hmmm. Could this be simplified? Yes! Like this > > > > case LFUN_INSET_M

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
On Monday 22 September 2003 6:26 am, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > Question. Why doesn't InsetBoxMailer::string2params set the "type" > > It does... Hmmm. Could this be simplified? Yes! Like this > > case LFUN_INSET_MODIFY: { > InsetNoteMailer::string2params(cmd.argument, params_); >

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-21 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:42:04PM +, Angus Leeming spake thusly: ... > Returning to nit-picking mode: > > +InsetBox::InsetBox(BufferParams const & bp, string const & label) > + : InsetCollapsable(bp) > +{ > + params_.type = label; > + init(); > + setButtonLabel(); >

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin Vermeer wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:51:21PM +, Angus Leeming spake thusly: >> >> Martin Vermeer wrote: >> >> > This patch adds support for rectangular frames containing one or more >> > paragraphs of text, at the width of the column, using the Note >> > infrastructure. >> > >

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-21 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 04:22:09PM +0100, John Levon spake thusly: > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 06:36:09PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > Okay, did just that. Here is the next attempt. > > > > + Menu "insert_box" > > + Item "Boxed|B" "box-insert Boxed" > > End > > Can you exp

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-21 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 06:36:09PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > Okay, did just that. Here is the next attempt. > > + Menu "insert_box" > + Item "Boxed|B" "box-insert Boxed" > End Can you explain what further menu items are likely to end up on this menu for me please ? th

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-21 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:51:21PM +, Angus Leeming spake thusly: > > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > This patch adds support for rectangular frames containing one or more > > paragraphs of text, at the width of the column, using the Note > > infrastructure. > > > > It wouldn't be too hard to ex

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-18 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:35:00PM +0100, John Levon spake thusly: > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 12:30:18AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > + Item "[Boxed]|B" "note-insert Boxed" > > In my usual "trivial carping" mode - please don't. It's visually jarring > and potentially misleading.

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-18 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:51:21PM +, Angus Leeming spake thusly: > > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > This patch adds support for rectangular frames containing one or more > > paragraphs of text, at the width of the column, using the Note > > infrastructure. > > > > It wouldn't be too hard to ex

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin Vermeer wrote: > This patch adds support for rectangular frames containing one or more > paragraphs of text, at the width of the column, using the Note > infrastructure. > > It wouldn't be too hard to extend this to fancybox support. > > Does this look like the right thing to do? What ha

Re: Support for boxes

2003-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 12:30:18AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > + Item "[Boxed]|B" "note-insert Boxed" In my usual "trivial carping" mode - please don't. It's visually jarring and potentially misleading. (The "correct" way to do something like this is with gnome-style menu icons)