Re: updating NEWS

2002-03-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dekel> On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:43:20AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Dekel> wrote: >> >> > - Babel can be disabled when using the default language > >> > >> your >> >> >> >> you're Garst> Well it could be "...when you're using your de

Re: updating NEWS

2002-03-27 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:43:20AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> > - Babel can be disabled when using the default language > > > >> your > >> > >> you're > Garst> Well it could be "...when you're using your default language," > Garst> but the point was that "the default language" c

Re: updating NEWS

2002-03-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
>>>>> "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Garst> Angus Leeming wrote: >> >> On Tuesday 26 March 2002 3:20 pm, Garst R. Reese wrote: >> > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> > > I commited a first try at updating N

Re: updating NEWS

2002-03-26 Thread Angus Leeming
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 3:20 pm, Garst R. Reese wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > I commited a first try at updating NEWS. I'm sure I forgot many things. > > > > - New minipage inset > > Minipage support went from maddening to simple. > > > > -

Re: updating NEWS

2002-03-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dekel> So just mention that most of the old mathed bugs has been Dekel> fixed. Done. Here is the result. Note also that I updated README and INSTALL. Feel free to comment on those. JMarc What's new in version 1.2.0? --

Re: updating NEWS

2002-03-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:09:47AM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:06:40AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Andre> Old mathed swallowed them from time to time... > > > > So, should I keep that? > > On a second thought: there are probably several dozen of these thin

Re: updating NEWS

2002-03-26 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:06:40AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Andre> Old mathed swallowed them from time to time... > > So, should I keep that? On a second thought: there are probably several dozen of these things, so it's not really worth mentioning a single one of them... Andre' --

Re: updating NEWS

2002-03-26 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:06:40AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> What is this ? Whatever it is, I don't think it is important > >> enough. > > Andre> Old mathed swallowed them from time to time... > > So, should I keep that? Yes, I think so. I know at least two people who found that a

Re: updating NEWS

2002-03-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thanks Dekel. Points taken. JMarc

Re: updating NEWS

2002-03-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:59:25AM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: >> - Preliminary support for xymatrix Andre> Scrap that, this will take quite a while before it is usable.. >> > - (Better) support for \limits/\nolimits >> >> What is

Re: updating NEWS

2002-03-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Martin" == Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> Great! Thanks for the comments martin. JMarc

Re: updating NEWS

2002-03-26 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:59:25AM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > - Preliminary support for xymatrix Scrap that, this will take quite a while before it is usable.. > > - (Better) support for \limits/\nolimits > > What is this ? Whatever it is, I don't think it is important enough. Old mathed swall

Re: updating NEWS

2002-03-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 12:32:21AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general > cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this > process, among which: > > - possibility to display arbitrary TeX symbols as long as t

Re: updating NEWS

2002-03-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Juergen" == Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juergen> On 25-Mar-2002 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been >> resolved (memory consumption, spell-checking, search and >> replace...) Juergen> Better longtable header/footer

Re: updating NEWS

2002-03-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 12:32:21AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes John> wrote: >> - Most of the popups have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, >> and John> I know this isn't very helpful, but we agreed a while ago to use John> "dialog

Re: updating NEWS

2002-03-26 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 12:32:21AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I commited a first try at updating NEWS. I'm sure I forgot many things. > > Don't be shy; tell me. And if someone wants to take over this file, > please do. Trying to write correct english is somewha

RE: updating NEWS

2002-03-26 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 25-Mar-2002 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been resolved >(memory consumption, spell-checking, search and replace...) Better longtable header/footer support was implemented. Jug -- -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-

Re: updating NEWS

2002-03-25 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 12:32:21AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > - Most of the popups have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and I know this isn't very helpful, but we agreed a while ago to use "dialog" in place of "popup", and the docs now reflect such. I can't immediately spot any

updating NEWS

2002-03-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
I commited a first try at updating NEWS. I'm sure I forgot many things. Don't be shy; tell me. And if someone wants to take over this file, please do. Trying to write correct english is somewhat painful. Anyway, here is the relevant part. JMarc What's new i

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-25 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Jean-Marc, can I suggest that you make it more explicit that in 1.2.0 round-trip LyX->LaTeX->LyX works better? I know you mention that reLyX can parse the preamble, but this is a very indirect way of saying it (and also the new way of centering paragraphs is omitted). Greets, Asger P.S. This is

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-25 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2001 19:23 schrieb Dekel Tsur: > We already discussed this: LyX doesn't support the default naming > scheme of bibtopic since it might lead to confusion when the user has > filename.lyx and filename2.lyx, and he doesn't use tempdir. > If you think that the above situation is

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-25 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 06:11:05PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> You mean multiple bibliographies? > > Dekel> Yes. Perhaps it should be noted that when using bibtopic, the > Dekel> 'dot' option should be used. > > This belon

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-25 Thread Mike Ressler
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2001 18:44 schrieb Mike Ressler: > > I disagree somewhat strongly - footnotes to table-floats (or endnotes > > as they are more properly called) are used all the time (in > ... > > Isn't the best way to get this b

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-25 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2001 18:44 schrieb Mike Ressler: > I disagree somewhat strongly - footnotes to table-floats (or endnotes > as they are more properly called) are used all the time (in > astronomical journals, at least), and they appear under the table, > inside the float :-) The AASTeX packag

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-25 Thread Mike Ressler
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: > yes, because footnotes in table-floats make no sense! > and where shall they appear? under the table, inside a float? > on the bottom of the page, like others? ... I disagree somewhat strongly - footnotes to table-floats (or endnotes as they are more pro

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > > > yes, because footnotes in table-floats make no sense! > > and where shall they appear? under the table, inside a float? > > on the bottom of the page, like others? ... > > I think Dekel is talking about footnotes in tables _outside_ floats > here. We have discusse

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-25 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2001 18:08 schrieb Herbert Voss: > > Dekel> Maybe mention that it is now possible to put footnotes > > inside Dekel> tables (we still have the problem of what to do in > > that case). > > > > We should probably think more about this feature before announcing > > it. > > yes,

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dekel> - Preliminary support for multiple citations. > > You mean multiple bibliographies? > > Dekel> - Option to disable babel when using the default language. > > >> - floats, footnotes and margin no

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-25 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:34:45PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dekel> - Preliminary support for multiple citations. > > You mean multiple bibliographies? Yes. Perhaps it should be noted that when using bibtopic, the 'dot' opti

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-25 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:00:43PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > The math editor has been mostly rewritten (and thus may have many new > bugs :). Most of the changes should not be visible for the user, > except: > - enable switching between equation/eqnarray and align environment Replace

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-25 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:10:40PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > I have begun to update NEWS for version 1.2.0. Appended is my first > attempt. I do know that things are missing, but I am sure you will be > able to point them out. Corrections to my faulty english and complete > rewrites

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-23 Thread Baruch Even
* Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010723 20:43]: > But the current code does require to have imagemagick (or something > equivalent) to be installed in order to have image previewing. > > You can always use an image library (libmagick,imlib, etc.) if it is > present, and otherwise use an external

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-23 Thread Garst R. Reese
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > "Baruch" == Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Baruch> I cannot depend on ImageMagick, I need the configurability of > Baruch> Converter. > > netpbm comes to mind, but I do not know whether it is still > maintained. > > JMarc This just in, so I su

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-23 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 07:19:05PM +0300, Baruch Even wrote: > * Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010723 19:06]: > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:55:23AM -0400, Baruch Even wrote: > > > The reason for not doing it right now is to support those users who cannot > > > install a good supporting library.

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-23 Thread Baruch Even
* Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010723 19:06]: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:55:23AM -0400, Baruch Even wrote: > > The reason for not doing it right now is to support those users who cannot > > install a good supporting library. The simplest route could be to require > > everyone to install gdk-p

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-23 Thread Baruch Even
* Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010723 17:28]: > There are several problem with the preview code in graphics inset: > > 1) It doesn't work. I get "Need converter from eps to xpm" message. > Even if I define such a converter, it doesn't work. Fixed. I'll commit this soon. It was a mistake of mi

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-23 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:55:23AM -0400, Baruch Even wrote: > > 2) I really don't like the idea to use convert to create an xpm file. > > Why not use pipes ? (namely run 'convert xpm:-' ) > > Basically because I use XpmReadFileToPixmap to get the XPixmap, I don't > know how to make it load the

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-23 Thread Baruch Even
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Dekel Tsur wrote: > There are several problem with the preview code in graphics inset: > > 1) It doesn't work. I get "Need converter from eps to xpm" message. > Even if I define such a converter, it doesn't work. I think there should be such converters defined automatically

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-23 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 08:47:07AM -0400, Baruch Even wrote: > On 23 Jul 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > > "Baruch" == Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Baruch> On 23 Jul 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > >> - new graphics inset superseding the older figure inset [w

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-23 Thread Baruch Even
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, John Levon wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 08:47:07AM -0400, Baruch Even wrote: > > > > Could you write a few lines on the advantages of insetgraphics wrt > > > figinset? > > > > Basically, cleaner code. It has no reall addition in it compared to > > figinset, but it stops

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-23 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 08:47:07AM -0400, Baruch Even wrote: > > Could you write a few lines on the advantages of insetgraphics wrt > > figinset? > > Basically, cleaner code. It has no reall addition in it compared to > figinset, but it stops using ghostscript for preview which was a problem > w

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-23 Thread Baruch Even
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, John Levon wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 08:20:45AM -0400, Baruch Even wrote: > > > Question is actually, do we mind not being able to resize/dither for 1.2.0 > > For me it doesn't matter, but this isn't WYSIWYM and is a step backwards > > from the current inset. > > thi

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-23 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:30:47PM +0200, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > On 23-Jul-2001 John Levon wrote: > > > the figure float doesn't resize *itself* anyway now, so it's basically unusable > > (try it on platypus.eps) > > Should it? I made this types of insets only be wider than the WorkArea if t

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-23 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 23-Jul-2001 John Levon wrote: > the figure float doesn't resize *itself* anyway now, so it's basically unusable > (try it on platypus.eps) Should it? I made this types of insets only be wider than the WorkArea if the include inset is wider otherwise they are always the width of the workarea.

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-23 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 08:20:45AM -0400, Baruch Even wrote: > Question is actually, do we mind not being able to resize/dither for 1.2.0 > For me it doesn't matter, but this isn't WYSIWYM and is a step backwards > from the current inset. think screen shots. I don't want them taking up more than

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.2.0

2001-07-23 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:10:40PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > - TeX mode has been superseded by the 666 (aka ERT) inset, which is > foldable or is it collapsable ? I would prefer "foldable" as the user term for this indeed, I just want to mamake sure we're consistent in

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.1.6

2000-10-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Thanks Dekel, I updated NEWS accordingly. JMarc

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.1.6

2000-10-18 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:37:07PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the > process they have gotten a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph > popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered > in m

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.1.6

2000-10-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jean-Marc> Ah, this one is mine. Thansk Amir. It should probably have been "Thansk Amri". JMarc

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.1.6

2000-10-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> - the menus can now be defined from a text file (like the toolbar) >> and shows the keyboard bindings associated to commands. Amir> Should this be "which shows" instead of "and shows"? I'm not sure. I'm not describing the underscored sh

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.1.6

2000-10-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Allan> Excellent just as I was about to write out a bunch of similar Allan> things for LDN you lovely people drop this in my lap. Thanks Allan> heaps! Note that a few parts were taken from your past LDN issues ;) JMarc

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.1.6

2000-10-17 Thread Allan Rae
On 17 Oct 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Juergen" == Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Juergen> - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now > > Thanks. Here is the revised version. Excellent just as I was about to write out a bunch of similar things for

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.1.6

2000-10-17 Thread Amir Karger
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:37:07PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Juergen" == Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - the menus can now be defined from a text file (like the toolbar) and > shows the keyboard bindings associated to commands. Should this be "which shows"

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.1.6

2000-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jose" == Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jose> On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:08:43PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Jose> wrote: [...] >> - DocBook improvements [José, details?] Jose> The included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc. Added Jose> docbook-book layout.

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.1.6

2000-10-17 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:08:43PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: | [...] | > - DocBook improvements [José, details?] | The included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc. | Added docbook-book layout. | | PS: The docbook impleme

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.1.6

2000-10-17 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:08:43PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: [...] > - DocBook improvements [José, details?] The included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc. Added docbook-book layout. PS: The docbook implementation for the inset tabular is missing, I am working on it... Due to

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.1.6

2000-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Juergen" == Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juergen> - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now Thanks. Here is the revised version. JMarc What's new in LyX version 1.1.6? As for all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release

RE: Updating NEWS for 1.1.6

2000-10-17 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 17-Oct-2000 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > - the table support has been completely rewritten. It uses the new > text inset which will be use throughout LyX in version 1.2.0 and > offers many new features: [Juergen??] - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular

Updating NEWS for 1.1.6

2000-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
I took a first look at documenting 1.1.6 changes in the NEWS file. Let me emphasize that this is incomplete, written in bad english, and maybe even false in some places. So, take a look at it, and feel free to criticize as long as you provide an alternate wording or some extra information. In fa