branch deep freeze

2008-05-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
I'm preparing the release now. Please do not commit to branch for the time being. Jürgen

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.5 is released

2008-05-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Public release of LyX version 1.5.5 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.5. Being the fourth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle, this release further improves the stability and usability of the application. Besides this, it also introduces some

Re: [Cvslog] r24722 - in /www-user/trunk: announce/1_5_5.txt news.inc

2008-05-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
spitz wrote: > * www-user: announce 1.5.5. > > I'm curious if this actually shows up on the website. It doesn't. Joost, can you fix this, please? Jürgen

Re: branch deep freeze

2008-05-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > I'm preparing the release now. Please do not commit to branch for the time > being. Freeze is lifted. Jürgen

Re: Filename in .lyx file issue resolved (patch attached).

2008-05-11 Thread José Matos
On Sunday 11 May 2008 00:24:46 Bo Peng wrote: > At this stage, the file_map section will be empty and all embedded > files will be anonymous. This section is put there to avoid later > lyx2lyx hassles. I fail to see the problems, what lyx2lyx hassles? If this goes later we deal with it later in l

Re: A base64-based embedding design without bundle/unbundle.

2008-05-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
José Matos schrieb: anyway its strange to have announcement of alternative win installer of alpha1 without any tarball or offic installer being announced too. Again I think that this was an honest mistake too. :-) Yes the alpha1 release was a mistake since svn was tagged as alpha1 for a we

removing Spanish mathed.lyx from branch

2008-05-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Can I do the same for branch?: http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/24726 LyX 1.5.5 has a Spanish math manual, so this file is now obsolete. regards Uwe

Re: Filename in .lyx file issue resolved (patch attached).

2008-05-11 Thread Bo Peng
> I fail to see the problems, what lyx2lyx hassles? > > If this goes later we deal with it later in lyx2lyx. This is not specific to > this code, this applies to every change to the file format. It is easier if > the changes are done in small chunks. I would like to avoid adding another lyx2lyx fu

Suggestions: ~/.lyx16 and lyx2lyx downloader for compatibility.

2008-05-11 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Different Linux distributions tend to package different versions of LyX. This can cause a bit of a headache since these packaged versions are usually not forward compatible with later major released (e.g. are not LyX 1.5.5.). Two things might make this a little easier. 1) LyX 1.6.x could use ~/.ly

Re: Filename in .lyx file issue resolved (patch attached).

2008-05-11 Thread rgheck
Bo Peng wrote: Technically speaking, it is perfectly OK to keep embedded files anonymous, just like how they exist in MS/Word or OOffice. However, keeping original filepaths in .lyx file leads to a few convenient features such as 'un-embed an inset' and 'extract all embedded files'. More importan

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-11 Thread rgheck
Bo Peng wrote: Richard claimed that his bundling method does not have the filename in .lyx file issue, is easy, less intrusive and have no trouble in unbundling. Fortunately, while I was not able to compare my previous approach to air last time, he has partially implemented his method in his pers

Re: removing Spanish mathed.lyx from branch

2008-05-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > LyX 1.5.5 has a Spanish math manual, so this file is now obsolete. OK. Jürgen

Re: Suggestions: ~/.lyx16 and lyx2lyx downloader for compatibility.

2008-05-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > Different Linux distributions tend to package different versions of LyX. > This can cause a bit of a headache since these packaged versions are > usually not forward compatible with later major released (e.g. are not LyX > 1.5.5.). The minor releases are backward compa

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-11 Thread rgheck
rgheck wrote: 4. The switching between bundle and unbundled mode is non-reversible. For example, when ../figures/figure.png is copied to filename.lyxdir/figures/figure.png during bundling, it is not copied back during unbundling. That is to say, if you work in unbundled mode locally, send your do

Re: Filename in .lyx file issue resolved (patch attached).

2008-05-11 Thread Bo Peng
> As Jose has pointed out, there is no need for this information to be kept in > the LyX file itself, and in a sense it makes no sense to keep it there, > since it is machine-specific. So I still do not understand why you insist > upon keeping it there. If you don't keep it there, then none of the

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-11 Thread Bo Peng
>> This discussion would also involve the words "session-based alternative". >> > And I should have added: I thought we had agreed that we will not implement > any form of reversibility. It's what leads to the really bad security > problems. Technically speaking, we are aiming at different goals.

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-11 Thread Bo Peng
> This is all more or less correct, but bundling is separate from compressing. > Bundled mode doesn't involve any file format change, except for a buffer > parameter flag (\bundled). It is important to understand this, as many of > the remarks made below have to do with the "*.lyz" business. This h

Home page picture

2008-05-11 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Here's the new version of the home page picture, with a "download" button added in. As per Andre's comment, I had the pixelation fixed. http://www.lyx.org/HomeNewGraphic What I like about this picture is that it conveys the uniqueness and personality of LyX by showing some of the beautiful out

Skins for the wiki

2008-05-11 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 May 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Now that the new www.lyx.org is up and running (and looking good), I'm ready to turn my attention to wiki.lyx.org. I believe Christian might be keeping track of suggested changes to the wiki; is such a list available anywhe

Re: Skins for the wiki

2008-05-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > On the topic of skins for the wiki, here are two possibilities: > > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/BarthelmeSkin > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/DropDownSkin > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/NotSoSimpleSkin > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/SimpleTabSk