> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dekel> On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 10:19:32AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Dekel> wrote:
>> > "matthew" == matthew arnison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
matthew> I don't understand that logic. If you have specified a
matthew> scalable font
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 10:19:32AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > "matthew" == matthew arnison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> matthew> I don't understand that logic. If you have specified a
> matthew> scalable font in the box above, why do you need another
> matthew> button to confir
> "matthew" == matthew arnison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
matthew> I don't understand that logic. If you have specified a
matthew> scalable font in the box above, why do you need another
matthew> button to confirm it? It's confusing. I can see why you might
matthew> want it, but in practice,
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 03:09:12PM +1100, matthew arnison wrote:
> If you think you do still need this second option, wouldn't it be clearer
> to split this logic into two separate buttons?
Yes IMHO
> I mean the whole dialog box needs reworking with a proper font selector,
> but that's presumab
On 17 Jan 2002, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > "matthew" == matthew arnison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> matthew> Then you could ship lyx with a little script that opens new
> matthew> documents in a running lyx from the command line. You could
> matthew> call it lyxopen or something.
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 06:47:50AM +, John Levon wrote:
>
> > command echo "LYXCMD:lyxopen:file-open:$fullpath" \
>
> hmm do we require fullpath then ?
Even you you don't, the current working directory of the LyX program
is unlikely to be that of the shell script...
Jules
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:03:55AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> But it does not tell people that if they check this they will not be
> able to get their nifty truetype fonts to work. And that's a major
> shortcoming in my opinion.
OK so add "Note that if you deselect this option, truly s
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 08:00:48PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> If we know what font we are displaying, -*-times- for example, then
> won't we be able to ask the server for all the fonts that match and
> for a given font size check a list and if none matches exactly and
> there is no scalable font i
> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> I know how scalable fonts work. You are not going to be able to
John> describe the intracacies of how this works inside the GUI. We
John> must make a best-effort attempt instead, and I personally think
John> this is clearer.
But it doe
> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> As it's written it's perfectly correct: if it's on then bitmap
John> fonts can get scaled. If it's not, they won't.
If it is on then you can get the urw type 1 font for times, if it is
off you can't.
Can you see the difference?
John>
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:49:06AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> This description is wrong IMO. it should rather be 'allow scalable
> fonts and resized bitmap fonts', but of course this is too long. I
see my other mail.
> really think the earlier 'use scalable fonts' was technically exac
> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> str = N_("Allow
John> bitmap fonts to be resized. If you are using a bitmap font,
John> selecting this option may make some fonts look blocky in LyX.
John> Deselecting this option makes LyX use the nearest bitmap font
John> size availab
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:44:52AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> matthew> Perhaps you could rename this option to "Rescale bitmap
> matthew> fonts".
>
> That's not what it does. It does also allow for using real scalable fonts.
I think those three words are the best button-size descript
> "matthew" == matthew arnison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
matthew> Then you could ship lyx with a little script that opens new
matthew> documents in a running lyx from the command line. You could
matthew> call it lyxopen or something.
Or better add this to LyX itself.
matthew> Also a note
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 05:18:35PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> Actually, the help message that appears when the cursor is over the
> checkbox is very misleading. Care to rewrite that as well?
best I can do in the limited space (lyx-doc has more ...)
thanks
john
--
"Hey, we could invent a progr
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, John Levon wrote:
> patch attached, I'll commit to the docs after this is applied
Actually, the help message that appears when the cursor is over the
checkbox is very misleading. Care to rewrite that as well?
Allan. (ARRae)
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 04:57:45PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> ie. rename outer_tab to inner_tab (to what it actually is).
please :)
john
--
"Hey, we could invent a programming paradigm where the program is expressed as
a series of statements to be executed in a fixed order."
- Khendon
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, John Levon wrote:
> oops, didn't mean to include that ( thought I changed outer_tab anyway ??)
You did but maybe we should change the names of the tabs because
currently we have:
prefs_tab
outer_tab
and maybe that should be:
outer_tab
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 04:40:46PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:40:55PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> >
> > > Pick me. So long as it only affects bitmap fonts -- do scalable fonts
> > > come in fixed sizes? Or do we handle scalable fonts any differently
> > > with this opt
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 05:38:58PM +1100, matthew arnison wrote:
> in which case, that triggers a bug report: the file-open command isn't
> documented or even mentioned in Help -> Reference Manual (alteast not in
> 1.1.6fix3).
The reference manual is sadly out of date, and is likely to remain so
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, John Levon wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:40:55PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
>
> > Pick me. So long as it only affects bitmap fonts -- do scalable fonts
> > come in fixed sizes? Or do we handle scalable fonts any differently
> > with this option?
>
> patch attached, I'll
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, John Levon wrote:
> try
>
> LYXCMD:hello:file-open:file.lyx
that works. thanks!
in which case, that triggers a bug report: the file-open command isn't
documented or even mentioned in Help -> Reference Manual (alteast not in
1.1.6fix3).
> > Then you could ship lyx with a l
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:40:55PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> Pick me. So long as it only affects bitmap fonts -- do scalable fonts
> come in fixed sizes? Or do we handle scalable fonts any differently
> with this option?
patch attached, I'll commit to the docs after this is applied
thanks
joh
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:40:55PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> > > Perhaps you could rename this option to "Rescale bitmap fonts". Or inverse
> >
> > I agree. Who else does ?
>
> Pick me. So long as it only affects bitmap fonts -- do scalable fonts
> come in fixed sizes? Or do we handle scalable
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, John Levon wrote:
[...]
> > Perhaps you could rename this option to "Rescale bitmap fonts". Or inverse
>
> I agree. Who else does ?
Pick me. So long as it only affects bitmap fonts -- do scalable fonts
come in fixed sizes? Or do we handle scalable fonts any differently
with
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 06:28:35PM +1100, matthew arnison wrote:
> matthewa@focus:~/local/lyx$ echo \
> "LYXCMD:hello:buffer-open:/full/path/to/file.lyx" > lyxpipe.in
>
> and I still get the File Open dialog.
try
LYXCMD:hello:file-open:file.lyx
> Then you could ship lyx with a little script t
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