New StackExchange TeX Site

2010-06-22 Thread Amir Rachum
Hi all, I hope many of you know about stackoverflow.com. It's the best programming Q&A site out there. Anyway, there is a plan to open a similar Q&A site for TeX, which of course will also cover LyX. Right now the site is in the "commit" phase which means that they are looking for people to commit

Re: Possible branch-inset improvements

2010-06-22 Thread Helge Hafting
On 14. juni 2010 16:45, Pavel Sanda wrote: hi, would you find it a good idea to enhance branch insets in the following way ? 1. add possibility to define pre-post latex commands for a branch which would be inserted just before/after each branch inset? Don't we already have a mechanism for

Re: Possible branch-inset improvements

2010-06-22 Thread Pavel Sanda
Helge Hafting wrote: > Or did you mean something different? i meant exactly this and proposed this hack because i dont like nesting insets... the color patch didnt went in since it higlights another problem we have - branch has only foreground color defined and background color is part of local

Re: spreadsheet capability?

2010-06-22 Thread Helge Hafting
On 15. juni 2010 00:17, Pavel Sanda wrote: [...] i'm all for having support of gnumeric/excel/oofice. but we are talking about delicate issue - before adding ssconvert we should be pretty confident that it only produces .tex files without running any additional code/script in the source files. (q

RE: cmake, mingw, Windows and _snprint

2010-06-22 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear LyX-Developers, Thank you to everyone who made suggestions regarding my problem with os_win32.cpp. After trying a variety of things, I finally gave up and chose to go the path of least resistance. I downloaded the C++ version of Visual Studio 2010 Express and used the command line compil

Re: cmake, mingw, Windows and _snprint

2010-06-22 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
However, I now have a related question. According to the README, I need to include a copy of the Microsoft.VC100.CRT.manifest file in the same directory before I can run it. If anyone could point me toward a copy of the Microsoft.VC100.CRT.manifest for Visual Studio 2010, I would greatly ap

Image resolution in preview

2010-06-22 Thread Pietro Cortese
Hello, I need often to look in detail at a graph that I recently imported into lyx. The resolution of the displayed image is poor (e.g. when you import a pdf image). In order to improve this I tried to modify the line "opts" of the file /usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.py into for examp