Re: [patch] Give feedback if TeXFiles.py fails

2006-07-18 Thread Georg Baum
Bo Peng wrote: > As of error messages, I am not sure how startscript handles output (or > does not do it at all). It does not handle it at all. > It is possible to wrap the python script and > direct its output to a log file like this: > > try1.py: > print 'ab' > > try2.py > import sys > err

Re: [PATCH] Re: note/comment eats the blank after it?

2006-07-18 Thread Georg Baum
Bo Peng wrote: > Dear all, > > Attached patch is far away from elegant, but it works. Comments are > welcome, especially if you have a better way to make space at the > beginning of a line significant other than \hspace{0in}. a) this is a file format change, so it must not go to 1.4.x and needs

Re: Question about ftp.lyx.org

2006-07-18 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Jul 16, 2006, at 3:22 AM, Georg Baum wrote: | | > Am Samstag, 15. Juli 2006 21:45 schrieb | > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | > | >> AFAIK, it's just a matter of placing stuff in some directory | >> (which) and | >> then you should perhaps tell someone (who?). |

Re: Bidirectional text on Lyx-1.5-unicode

2006-07-18 Thread Charles de Miramon
Hossein Noorikhah wrote: > Hi. > I'm interested in making LyX bidirectional text work in Unicode branch > work, and I think with some help from you, LyX guys, I can do it. > I will try to use libfribidi, but Is there any document that describes > what's happening in Unicode branch? > And, a questi

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: For people interested in helping with the documentation, please read the links at the bottom of this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#toc5 Especially look at this page http://wiki.lyx.org/devel/pmwiki.php/Devel/MiscNotes

Re: List of branches

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've added some text about branches to the following page. http://wiki.lyx.org/devel/pmwiki.php/Devel/Branches I don't think I'll get any further, so I'd like someone to verify that the content (at least at the top) is correct. Do we have s

Uploading large files to the wiki

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
The issue of uploading large files to the wiki has popped up a few times recently so I thought I'd explain what the problem is and how we work around it. I've tried to document uploading in general on this page http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/AboutUploading The problem with using the wiki's m

Re: Uploading large files to the wiki

2006-07-18 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with using the wiki's mechanism is that the Apache server and/or PHP chokes on large files. Uploading works fine. The file manager gives an error: "File to large". So it's a limit that can be configured. Joost

LyX/Mac-1.4.2 Uploaded

2006-07-18 Thread Bennett Helm
I've now succeeded in uploading LyX/Mac-1.4.2 to ftp.devel.lyx.org/ pub/incoming. Could someone please place it where it belongs? Thanks. Bennett

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: Yes, easily getting an overview of what's in the help file. Good point. To summarize: * We'd like an overview of what's in all the help files. Perhaps some kind of table of contents for the whole thing. * We'd like to be able to search all the hel

Math Panels (Lyx 1.4.2 under MS Win)

2006-07-18 Thread Philip A. Viton
Lyx 1.4.2 on Windows XP (Home and Pro, both sp 2). The behavior of the detached Math Panels is very un-Windows-like: I wonder if this is determined by the Qt library, or whether it can be fixed. a. On the right of the panels there are the three traditional Windows controls for closing, maxi

Re: [PATCH] Re: note/comment eats the blank after it?

2006-07-18 Thread Bo Peng
a) this is a file format change, so it must not go to 1.4.x and needs lyx2lyx support for 1.5. BTW, does 1.3.x have the same problem? If not, then this is not a file format change but a bug and should be correct ASAP. I can not test for 1.3.x, but the source code shows that it did not have the c

Re: Uploading large files to the wiki

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with using the wiki's mechanism is that the Apache server and/or PHP chokes on large files. Uploading works fine. The file manager gives an error: "File to large". So it's a limit that can be configured. Hmm...

Re: [PATCH] Re: note/comment eats the blank after it?

2006-07-18 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 15:26, Bo Peng wrote: > +       // Adding {} before ' b' fixes this. > +       if  (params_.type == InsetNoteParams::Comment) > +               ss << "{}"; Shouldn't this code be conditional? This will work for 'a[comment] b' what about the 'a[comment]b' case? In this c

Re: [PATCH] Re: note/comment eats the blank after it?

2006-07-18 Thread Bo Peng
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 15:26, Bo Peng wrote: > + // Adding {} before ' b' fixes this. > + if (params_.type == InsetNoteParams::Comment) > + ss << "{}"; Shouldn't this code be conditional? This will work for 'a[comment] b' what about the 'a[comment]b' case? In this case no space should be expo

Re: [PATCH] Re: note/comment eats the blank after it?

2006-07-18 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 15:36, Bo Peng wrote: > {} outputs nothing, just makes ' ' after it significant. In the > a[comment]b case, the last line of the latex output is {}b, which is > simply b. That is fair. Thanks. :-) > Cheers, > Bo -- José Abílio

Re: [PATCH] Re: note/comment eats the blank after it?

2006-07-18 Thread Angus Leeming
José Matos writes: > On Tuesday 18 July 2006 15:26, Bo Peng wrote: > > +       // Adding {} before ' b' fixes this. > > +       if  (params_.type == InsetNoteParams::Comment) > > +               ss << "{}"; > Shouldn't this code be conditional? > This will work for 'a[comment] b' what about the 'a

Re: [PATCH] Re: note/comment eats the blank after it?

2006-07-18 Thread Georg Baum
Bo Peng wrote: >> a) this is a file format change, so it must not go to 1.4.x and needs >> lyx2lyx support for 1.5. BTW, does 1.3.x have the same problem? If not, >> then this is not a file format change but a bug and should be correct >> ASAP. > > I can not test for 1.3.x, but the source code sh

Re: Lyx: vector graphics editor, description of the code

2006-07-18 Thread Helge Hafting
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:34:07PM +0200, Tribulations Parallèles wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I love LyX, I used it for my PhD thesis, it is a great tool for productivity > compared to pure LaTeX.. > But, to increase the productivity a lot, I imagine often the possibility to > draw vector grap

Re: [PATCH] Re: note/comment eats the blank after it?

2006-07-18 Thread Bo Peng
1) (what you want): Declare that it was never intended to swallow the space. Then the current behaviour is buggy. Yes. I do consider this as a bug. A comment inset should not change the output of the original paragraph. 2) (what I think is correct): Realize that the current behaviour is a mist

Re: Bidirectional text on Lyx-1.5-unicode

2006-07-18 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | QT 4.x has made a lot of progress for Unicode rendering in the Scribe | engine : http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/qt4-scribe.html | | I've watched a demonstration by the developer Lars Knoll and I was quite | impressed. It handles not only RTL language

Re: [PATCH] Re: note/comment eats the blank after it?

2006-07-18 Thread Georg Baum
Bo Peng wrote: >> 1) (what you want): Declare that it was never intended to swallow the >> space. Then the current behaviour is buggy. > > Yes. I do consider this as a bug. A comment inset should not change > the output of the original paragraph. I think we all agree that the comment inset shoul

Re: List of branches

2006-07-18 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | > I've added some text about branches to the following page. | > http://wiki.lyx.org/devel/pmwiki.php/Devel/Branches | > | > I don't think I'll get any further, so I'd like someone to verify that the | > content (at

Re: [PATCH] Re: note/comment eats the blank after it?

2006-07-18 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Bo Peng wrote: | | >> a) this is a file format change, so it must not go to 1.4.x and needs | >> lyx2lyx support for 1.5. BTW, does 1.3.x have the same problem? If not, | >> then this is not a file format change but a bug and should be correct | >> ASAP. |

Re: [PATCH] Re: note/comment eats the blank after it?

2006-07-18 Thread Bo Peng
No, I don't want to do that. On upgrade, lyx2lyx would simply go through all comment insets, and remove a space that may be directly after the comment inset. On downgrade, lyx2lyx would add a {} in ERT if there is a space directly after the comment inset. That would not be difficult to code, we ha

Re: Math Panels (Lyx 1.4.2 under MS Win)

2006-07-18 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 10:19:19AM -0300, Philip A. Viton wrote: > > > Lyx 1.4.2 on Windows XP (Home and Pro, both sp 2). > > The behavior of the detached Math Panels is very un-Windows-like: I > wonder if this is determined by the Qt library, or whether it can be fixed. I can confirm that eve

Re: Math Panels (Lyx 1.4.2 under MS Win)

2006-07-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Philip A. Viton wrote: Lyx 1.4.2 on Windows XP (Home and Pro, both sp 2). The behavior of the detached Math Panels is very un-Windows-like: I wonder if this is determined by the Qt library, or whether it can be fixed. a. On the right of the panels there are the three traditional Windows co

Re: Lyx: vector graphics editor, description of the code

2006-07-18 Thread Tribulations Parallèles
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 16:49, Helge Hafting wrote: > Perhaps xfig itself could be better, but I fail to see how using an > external application is a problem. > Slower? Not really, why should using two apps that do one thing be > slower than one app that does two things? The two-app approach > gi

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Harris wrote: Paul: I have the full Python 2.3 on my system path (relatively early). It's also on my LyX path prefix, near the front. This is inherited from 1.4.1; I don't know if the 1.4.2 installer would put the full Python directory in the path prefix on its own. Have you tried th

Sudden lose of keyboard input.

2006-07-18 Thread Bo Peng
Dear all, I have lyx 1.4.2 installed on a win2k system. I can not reliably reproduce this, but after a few minutes, lyx would not respond to keyboard input. Mouse/menu etc still work. All other applications (cygwin, firefox etc) still get keyboard input. Has anyone experienced the same behavior?

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

2006-07-18 Thread Bo Peng
I have lyx 1.4.2 installed on a win2k system. I can not reliably reproduce this, but after a few minutes, lyx would not respond to keyboard input. Mouse/menu etc still work. All other applications (cygwin, firefox etc) still get keyboard input. Follow up: I can use Alt-F etc to invoke menu and

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Schreiber
Bo Peng schrieb: >> I have lyx 1.4.2 installed on a win2k system. I can not reliably >> reproduce this, but after a few minutes, lyx would not respond to >> keyboard input. Mouse/menu etc still work. All other applications >> (cygwin, firefox etc) still get keyboard input. > > Follow up: > > I ca

Document does not open completely

2006-07-18 Thread Kenneth Petersen
To whom it may concern! my LyX program crashed last night, and now I can't open my document completely. In particular, I get the following warning: "Reading the document is not complete". My LyX program is version 1.3.5 and I operate it under windows 98se. Can anyone help me? Many thanks in adv

Re: Document does not open completely

2006-07-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Kenneth Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > my LyX program crashed last night, and now I can't > open my document completely. In particular, I get the > following warning: > > "Reading the document is not complete". > > My LyX program is version 1.3.5 and I operate it under > windows 98se. Yo

permanent global configuration for lyx

2006-07-18 Thread Jose' Matos
Hi, Rex Dieter (Fedora Extras packager of LyX) has this patch for the fedora rpm (that follows attached). The reason given for carrying the patch is: """ Normally, manual modifications to (the global) lyxrc.defaults get lost the next time configure is run. With this patch, users can

Fun

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
I'm sure some of you have alread seen this, but maybe not all. Interview with Stroustrup. http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=191465&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=15735942 cheers ;-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: Lyx: vector graphics editor, description of the code

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Tribulations Parallèles wrote: Ok. So I must find an external to improve, particularly the support of equations: Inkscape or Qcad? Another? Try asking on the users' list for tips on drawing programs. Cheers /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: List of branches

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Why is the svnlook commands on that page? That's just the way I figured out in order to get a list of branches, didn't know of a better way. What's the equivalent of svnlook tree /home/lyx/svnstore/lyx --full-paths assuming that ther

Problem with host lookup or something on aussie

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Could someone help me figure out/fix why I have problems on aussie when I try to upgrade the pmwiki software using subversion, or just doing something simple like this: wget http://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/uploads/Cookbook/excuse.txt Any tips on how I can track down the problem? (The command

Information about the FTP-sites - please check

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
I've put down some notes the two ftp sites here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InternetResources#ftp Here's the actual text (wiki markup) for your convenicne as I hope someone can verify it's ok. Please tell me about error and/or just fix them... /Christian --- !![

Re: [PATCH] xforms relicts, part 1

2006-07-18 Thread Michael Gerz
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Could you fix also what's below while you're at it? Done. Michael + Or: + * The Qt4 library, version 4.1.1 or newer. +Possible values: qt, qt4, gtk(EXPERIMENTAL)],

PLEASE: can someone move the Mac 1.4.2 binary from incoming to the bin directory? (fwd)

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
-- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:44:35 +0100 From: Andreas Busch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gmane.editors.lyx.general Subject: PLEASE: can someone move the Mac 1.4.2 binar

Re: [PATCH] xforms relicts, part 2

2006-07-18 Thread Michael Gerz
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Michael, I am a bit late, but the following seems dubious to me: --- po/pocheck.pl (Revision 14371) +++ po/pocheck.pl (Arbeitskopie) @@ -81,18 +81,9 @@ $warn++; } -# Check for "|..." shortcut(s) -if ( ( $msgid =~ m/\|[^

LyX 1.4.2: problem finding IEEEtran

2006-07-18 Thread Andrea Censi
I've updated from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2 (self-compiled, Mac OS X, latex contained in fink) and it doesn't find the IEEEtran class. +checking for document class IEEEtran [IEEEtran]... no However, if I change the line in textclass.lst "IEEEtran" "IEEEtran" "article (IEEEtran)" "false" to "

Re: [PATCH] lengthcommon.C

2006-07-18 Thread Michael Gerz
Georg Baum wrote: I have a nervous feeling that these strings are parsed somewhere. If you made sure that that is not the case then this is a good change. I would maybe even go further and use real language like e.g. "page width %" (or capitalized?) I checked that the string are handled corre

LyXConfig.lyx.in

2006-07-18 Thread Michael Gerz
Hi, what is the purpose of LyXConfig.lyx.in? It seems to be unused (replaced by LaTeXConfig.lyx.in?) Shall we drop the file? It makes no sense to maintain documents that aren't used at all (and tend to become outdated). Michael

help needed with configure.py and lyxrc.defaults

2006-07-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I have the problem that LyX 1.4.2 doesn't use the settings written by configure.py to lyxrc.defaults. As I'm on Windows I added the correct names of the win executables to configure.py. My configure.py contains the line: path, ie = checkViewer('a raster image editor', ['gimp', 'gimp-2.2', 'g

A dash more to splash.lyx

2006-07-18 Thread Steve Harris
More effort is now being spent to improve the LyX Wiki, especially expanding documentation. How about adding another blurb to promote the Wiki? From the splash.lyx 6. The LyX home page is at [http://www.lyx.org/]. Get information about LyX, subscribe to the LyX mailing list(s), take the LyX

Re: LyX/Mac-1.4.2 Uploaded

2006-07-18 Thread David Green
On 7/18/06 9:11 AM, "Bennett Helm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've now succeeded in uploading LyX/Mac-1.4.2 to ftp.devel.lyx.org/ > pub/incoming. Could someone please place it where it belongs? Thanks. Is this a universal version or PPC only? Dave

Re: permanent global configuration for lyx

2006-07-18 Thread Georg Baum
Jose' Matos wrote: > Do I have any objection to applying this patch to trunk? If this is > accepted > I will ask Jean-Marc for 1.4.x as well. Yes, there are objections. Jean-Marc introduced lyxrc.dist exactly for this purpose. Just create that file with the wanted settings, and you are done.

Re: Information about the FTP-sites - please check

2006-07-18 Thread Georg Baum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ** [[(ftp://)ftp.lyx.org/incoming]] — > Files can be uploaded (but ''not'' downloaded) to this directory > for placement on the ftp-server. They can be uploaded, but if nothing changed then nobody can get them from there, so they'll just eat up disk space. Geo

Re: LyX 1.4.2: problem finding IEEEtran

2006-07-18 Thread Andrea Censi
On 7/18/06, Andrea Censi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've updated from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2 (self-compiled, Mac OS X, latex contained in fink) and it doesn't find the IEEEtran class. +checking for document class IEEEtran [IEEEtran]... no However, if I change the line in textclass.lst "

Re: help needed with configure.py and lyxrc.defaults

2006-07-18 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > So why does LyX not use this setting? > > Btw. this bug does not occur for PGM-images, where gimp-2.2 remains > after the restart of LyX - strange. > > Could anybody help me? That is by design. If you want to customize settings, use the preferences file. configure.py is not m