Re: so... objections

2002-04-19 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: > if we want to build up a 16bit color correct to > a 8 bit one than we cannot do only a shift of > 8 bit to get the high or low byte. This is a very good approximation. > we had to take every second _bit_ from the original one. Or > every third if it's

Re: so... objections

2002-04-19 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: > I want to understand, so please give an answer to this: > > r/g or b has a range from to or only 6 bits > for some graphic cards. > converting to for example 4 bit could'nt only take the significant > nibble ... Assume you have the col

Re: [Bug 339] Cursor up/down in nested insets

2002-04-23 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, John Levon wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 05:28:21PM +0300, Eran Tromer wrote: > > > A naive question of Bugzilla policy -- if this is an acknowledged by all > > as a problematic issue, why mark it WONTFIX as opposed to setting a > > far-away milestone or something? Definit

Re: relyx & bugzilla

2002-05-01 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > | So, should I mass-WONTFIX relyx bugs Lars ? > > > > if we cannot hoax anyone to at least work on one og the bugs... > > You can go ahead and assign a few to me. I won't get it done > for a week or two, but I will get it done. We do this in our us

Re: preview-LyX ?

2002-05-14 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On 12 May 2002, David Kastrup wrote: > Several of you probably are already aware of the preview-latex project > where I am head developer. I delivered a talk about it at the recent I propose that you stay around a bit, and when 1.3.0 opens, we can look into this. Right now, LyX is in feature fr

Re: Insert Sourcecode GUI

2002-05-24 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: > the attached patch gives support for the listings-package > to insert Source-code. it's avilable via > > insert->insert file->Dourcecode formatted > > a view of the gui: http://www.lyx.org/~voss/listings.gif A few comments based on the screenshot only:

Re: Developers Meeting (was: Re: wrappers for xforms cont.)

2002-05-24 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Thu, 23 May 2002, John Levon wrote: > > So, fellow devvies: What is your (stupid) reason to not attend? > > Really, money ! Record shops are evil ... How much money do you need? Maybe we can chip together... Greets, Asger

Porto - here I come

2002-06-07 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Dear All, I have received my flight ticket now. I'll arrive in Oporto 12.50 on the 13th of June. My flight back to Denmark leaves at 13.15 on the 17th of June. Jose, could you please send your mobile number, and instructions for how to get to your place? BTW, what is the abbreviation for this

SixPack

2002-06-07 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> Someone in the ANSOL list (Portuguese Free Software Association) propose the > simple: SixPack That's a good one. Let's use that. Greets, Asger

Re: [PATCH] the dreaded work area patch again

2002-06-11 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, John Levon wrote: > I'm going to try new "executive summaries" in the hope that this makes > the purpose AND the rationale of each patch clearer. > > o removes useless methods belowMouse() and active() from workarea > o hides access to the work area behind workarea() Good st

Re: [PATCH] split font metrics

2002-06-11 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, John Levon wrote: > o makes font_metrics a namespace > o moves X-specific metric functions into xforms/ > > Simple enough change I think, and allows Qt to do its > own thing with the metrics > > OK to apply ? This looks good to me as well. Greets, Asger

Re: [PATCH] Painter split

2002-06-12 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, John Levon wrote: > o s/PainterBase/Painter/ as discussed before > o s/Painter/XPainter/ in xforms/ > o remove some unused stuff in Painter > o add begin()/end() for the benefit of Qt (not used yet) > > Look OK ? Looks good to me. > (Asger, should I put you as original auth

Re: can't open the paragraph dialog anymore...

2002-06-12 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> > I have this theory that football is great to play and crap to watch. I did > > try and watch the England game this morning, but got bored... I can't wait till Denmark beats England this Saturday! I sure hope that some channel in Portugal tramits this moster of a fight ;-) See some of you swi

Re: GIFs

2001-05-27 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Thu, 24 May 2001, John Levon wrote: > Is it OK for me to convert all the GIFs on lyx.org to PNGs ? > > I doubt anyone runs a browser these days that can't handle PNG > (well except transparent PNGs). Please note that the PNG support in Netscape 4.x is buggy. If you do this, you have to manua

Bolzano, here I come

2001-05-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Hi, I've booked my flight to the Famous LyX Drinking Meeting: I'm leaving from Copenhagen the 22th of June, and arrive in Milan at 14.10. I'm going home from Milan the 26th of June at 13.50. That should be enough time to get drunk and sober a few times. Jurgen, I hope you can pick me up at the

Re: Bolzano, here I come

2001-05-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On 29 May 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Juergen" == Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Juergen> On 29-May-2001 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> And I guess it is not possible to get the ticket in advance? > > Not from france, it seems... >From what it's worth: I got my

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-05 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However, as we approach the 2nd half of 2001, one might ask whether > there is an end in site, a point at which 1.1.6 will be intended as a > release worthy to succeed 1.1.5fix in all respects? Has there been > any loss of momentum? Is it possible t

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-05 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > Is this list in the lyxbugs project at SourceForge? I don't know which bug-tracker is the "official" one. > I think the SourceForge bugtracker should get more exposure and more > use. In particular, we should encourage everyone to file new bugs they

Any LyXers in Oxford?

2001-06-08 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 12:39:12 +0100 From: Simon Dales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: GUI TeX UKTUG is having an informal meeting in Oxford 27th July 2001. We are going to be discussing GUI frontends to TeX, and obviously LyX is part o

Re: when lyx say bye bye to xforms?

2001-06-10 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - resources wasted on a ridiculous quest for GUII We waste resources on a lot of other ridiculous quests. I'm surprised you are only bitching about the GUII stuff. Come on, you can do better. Greets, Asger

Re: when lyx say bye bye to xforms?

2001-06-11 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My concern is more that many of the ridiculous quests relate to support > for an out-of-date toolkit or, lord help us, GUII. Not much time is wasted on maintaining the XForms port. Why? Because XForms changes so slowly ;-) > Aren't these distractio

Re: when lyx say bye bye to xforms?

2001-06-11 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Dear Larry, > Wading through the archives in search of rationale for these and other > decisions is probably not a realistic option for most people who might > want to take a look at this effort and its future. Those ethical people should follow the LyX Development news: http://www.lyx.org/news

broken link (fwd)

2001-06-19 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:36:08 +0200 From: A.Gulino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: broken link at page http://www.it.lyx.org/about/klyx.php3 > The development teams are separate, and the distribution > channels are different. Read mor

News from Italy

2001-06-24 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Hi all, Just a short update from Italy: So far, we have managed to follow the wishes of the sponsors pretty well: Drink beer, and discuss what to do, drink some more, and plan to drink more. Lars might be commiting some of the work we have been doing soon. Maybe not. We'll see. Good news: - T

LyX Website (fwd)

2001-06-26 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:02:28 +0200 From: Bas Spitters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LyX Website I like the new lay-out! The link to tkbibtex on http://www.lyx.org/download/related.php3 appears to be outdated. Best, Bas Spitters

Pretty site, but KLyX-Link is dead (fwd)

2001-06-26 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:35:59 +0100 From: Heiko Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Pretty site, but KLyX-Link is dead Dear webmaster, the new LyX site looks very good. But there have not been a cont

Re: Long list of bugs

2001-06-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On 28 Jun 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > My gripe with it, is that we are reimplementing X's dead keyhandling, > the compose handling and all of xmodmap... So what? We are also reimplementing large parts of the LaTeX parser. So "redundant code" is not a good reason in itself. You have to a

Re: Long list of bugs

2001-07-01 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On 28 Jun 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | since both Dekel and Jean-Marc have argued that they (or somebody > | else) need the feature. > > Where? I never saw their arguments for that. In that case, you didn't pay attention. > As I see it they never argued that they need _this_ feature...

Re: Background color for math insets

2001-07-03 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> - I don't like the different background color for math insets. If you can find a color which is *very* close to linen, I hope you will all like a new background color for math. I think it will help to subtly identify inline math in your text. That was the original plan, but I decided to have s

Re: Crash and rendering bug in tabular row

2001-07-04 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Eran Tromer wrote: > Attached is a further simplified case that still exhibits the crash (but > not the rendering problem). The 3x3 table is now empty, but deleting its > first row causes a crash. FWIW, I hacked the math displaying to display all math insets two pixels higher

Re: Keyboard selection in mathed

2001-07-04 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Eran Tromer wrote: > Keyboard selection in mathed using Shift-movement should act as > similarly as possible to normal movement inside mathed. Specifically, > the following should be supported: > * S- and S- (with the nested behavior of ,) > * S-C- and S-C- > and possibly othe

Re: Undo II - The (hopefully) working patch

2001-07-06 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Just to chime in: I agree with Andre. Having only private member variables is highly overrated. I know all the arguments for doing that. I've read all fine books. They did not convince me, and I doubt that Lgb can. (I almost put a smiley there. Phew.) Greets, Asger

Re: External inset

2001-07-10 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On 10 Jul 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > What are the names of the empty files? > > BTW, how is this stuff supposed to work??? AFAIK, the pstex_t > component of an xfig figure already includes the .pstex part (named > .eps here for some unknown reason). Can somebody give me clues? Asger? I

Re: External inset

2001-07-10 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Dekel Tsur wrote: > It is easy to change fig2pstex.py so it will create the following pstex_t file: > > \begin{picture}(0,0)% > \includegraphics{foo.eps}% > \end{picture}% > > > and this is perhaps better than the current behavior. You are welcome to chance it as you see

Re: Fast question, hopefully fast answer!

2001-07-21 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote: > Hmm, probably it will not work, but then it's just stupid IMO! I just > want some metrics which surely are not dependant from anything (draw==false) > and I'm not able to get them. IMO we should add this static methods to be > able to call them without

How to choose packages (was Re: Natbib)

2001-07-21 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Dekel Tsur wrote: > I'm not against the option of generating a latex code that doesn't use fancy > packages. However, I'm not sure that the best way is to have a dialog in which > you can disable each package individually. Why is this not the best way? I suppose it is becaus

Re: Updated (Lyx/Latex) -> (ps/pdf/html) script

2001-07-21 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Fernando Pérez wrote: > I've put up a bare bones web page for it at > http://www-hep.colorado.edu/~fperez/lyxport > > Jean-Marc, you are welcome to include the latest version from the web page > in lyx/contrib if you find it good enough for general use. I think we should do

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

Up and running - what to do?

2001-07-25 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Ok, kids. I'm up and running again. I've just succeeded in compiling the cvs version of LyX, and it seems to run. So a few questions: - What should I work on? - What should go into my .cvs file? - What should go into my .emacs file? - When will I get write access to the cvs? Thanks, Asger

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, John Levon wrote: > The attached patch uses libaiksaurus which in turn uses project gutenberg's english > thesaurus. hopefully the library will support wordnet soon. > > http://aiken.clan11.com/aiksaurus/ > > (the auto stuff is a bit screwed up, you might have trouble build

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:38:44PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > > The patch has rotten a bit, but the conflicts were trivial. It was > > however a pain in the ass to get AikSaurus to work > > can you detail you

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On 26 Jul 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > On platforms that support it we can dynamically load the lib... > That is probably the nicest solution. I don't see why. You have to compile AikSaurus nomatter what. The stripped library has the amazing footprint of a full, whopping 32 kilobytes, or

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-27 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On 27 Jul 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | So, would you please consider to apply the patch instead of arguing > | wildly? I don't have write access yet. > > BS!, of course you have. Thanks. Unfortunately, I didn't think you'd move so fast, so I deleted the patch from my mailbox a long time

Re: [PATCH] InsetGraphics updates

2001-07-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Baruch Even wrote: > Please apply soon, the GRAPHICS to Graphics change means that the inset > loading after saving doesnt work until it is applied. I'd love to if you send the patch. Thanks, Asger

Re: [PATCH] InsetGraphics updates

2001-07-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Baruch Even wrote: > Sure, sure, couldn't you just read it off my mind... ah, never mind I'll > send it anyway... I promise to practice that. After all, it would be fairly useful. Meanwhile, I'll applied the patch. Greets, Asger graphics.diff.gz

Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Hi, The 666 name is fun, but not very intuitive/informative. What about changing it to TEX? Failing that, we should at least use ERT, which is not very intuitive either, but at least more established? Greets, Asger

Re: What version of XPM to use?

2001-07-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> > ImageLoaderXPM.C: In method `enum ImageLoader::Result >ImageLoaderXPM::runImageLoader(const string &)': > > ImageLoaderXPM.C:73: `XpmAllocColor' undeclared (first use this function) > > ImageLoaderXPM.C:73: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once > > ImageLoaderXPM.C:73: for each fu

Re: new Thesaurus.C in cvs

2001-07-30 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: > i always get the following error with latest cvs > > > nds.a support/.libs/libsupport.a ../sigc++/.libs/libsigc.a -lforms -lXpm > -lSM -lICE -liberty -lc -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 > g++: @AIKSAURUS_LIBS@: No such file or directory > make[3]: *** [

Re: makecvs.log

2001-07-30 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Do you still get problems compiling insetgraphicsParams.C ? I compile this without any problems. If you still have problems, try to include #include "support/lstrings.h" or #include "support/LOstream.h" in insetgraphicsParams.C and see if it helps. Thank you, Asger Making all in insets

Re: makecvs.log

2001-07-30 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Baruch Even wrote: > Locally I needed to add ostream to both insetgraphicsParams and > insetparent. You probably really need to add LOstream to both. Ok. I wonder why I don't need those? Anyway, I'll not have opportunity to commit this stuff until tomorrow, so maybe someone

Re: new Thesaurus.C in cvs

2001-07-30 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On 30 Jul 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Also, why are we linking libbz2.so in even when we do not use > AikSaurus? That is not intentional. Greets, Asger

Compiling outside src

2001-07-30 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> | I'm compiling the qt2 front-end. What's up? > > Compiling in "src/" ? > (then the sigc lib will not be compiled...) No, I'm not compiling in src. When will this be fixed? Greets, Asger

Re: Compiling outside src

2001-07-30 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On 30 Jul 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > You are the only one seeing the problem... > qt2 problem perhaps... No, it also happens when compiling xforms outside src. Did you try it? Greets, Asger

Re: makecvs.log

2001-07-30 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
FWIW, the lyxfont.h include in commandtags.h is a expensive include. You might want to add a comment about this, so that we will remember to nuke it, when the code is ready for that. Greets, Asger

Re: Hmmm, ...

2001-07-30 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote: > // this will not be needed anymore when NO_LATEX is the default. > #include "lyxfont.h" > > Do we really want this? Wouldn't it be better (as this and the other is > a hack to just do: > > // needed here too! > #define NO_LATEX 1 > > The best way wou

Re: makecvs.log

2001-07-30 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On 30 Jul 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > BTW, do you have an idea about the gains (object size, compile times) > obtained by your major chirurgical session? As it is now, I don't expect any mayor changes in neither object size nor compile times from a clean install. It's still too much of a

Re: makecvs.log

2001-07-30 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> So all your answer boils down to ``I don't know, but since it is not > worse, it is probably better''. I can buy that, but I was hoping you > had hard results. Hey! Why do you think I started this work in the first place? Answer: It takes too long to compile the code and make changes. And now

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-30 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Amazingly it seems like we have reached a kind of consensus that ERT is better than 666, and this within two days! What the fuck? I had expected this thread to continue for weeks!?! Normally trivial details take forever to settle because everybody has an opinion. Hmm. I have to practice that mind

Re: new Thesaurus.C in cvs

2001-07-30 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: > AikSaurus is installed! > > there is no hint in my config.log for aiksaurus. > the log is attached. What do you know. I can only say: Keep bugging John until he can fix it, or uninstall aiksaurus and try again. Another option would be to try the new c

Re: A big Thank You!

2001-07-30 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Some very nice stuff removed that surely warms the heart of the lonely developer. On 30 Jul 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > There are tree kinds of messages... Here's my take on it: We appreciate all kinds of feedback, even the purely negative stuff. After all, it's important to know what the

Re: "\lang ignore" in ERT insets

2001-08-01 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Dekel Tsur wrote: > Let's look at the two reason why you added the language_inherit Juergen, I actually agreed with Dekel in this case. Let me try to explain why: Font, font size, italic, bold, color. These are all ortogonal properties of text: You can change them without c

Re: MathArray

2001-08-01 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Andre Poenitz wrote: > A bit. But speed does not really matter. I've never seen a complaint that > mathed is slow, and I've never got that impression myself. I promise you, size does not matter either. Each math formula is on average less than 1k with all your proposals. Now

Re: lyx file format changes

2001-08-06 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, John Levon wrote: > > No, I don't think you understand what I mean by XML-like. Let's call > > it well-formed XML instead. > > I must admit I'm totally confused then ;) > > If it is XML, then it is well-formed XML and vice versa. So we are using > an XML format (good that's

Re: lyx file format changes

2001-08-09 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Andre Poenitz wrote: > I wonder whether the situation would improve once we had (a) a decent > document structure and (b) the reLyX code in C++. > > I think there are not many things in reLyX that cant' be done in C++ and > - that's the point - there are more developers that

Re: lyx file format changes

2001-08-09 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > - If done properly, a C++ LaTeX parser would be a nice contribution to > > > That's the scary part of the implementation... I had a look at the TeXBook > and I still don't really know how it should work... In as far as reLyX is a

Re: Math panel

2001-08-13 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Dekel Tsur wrote: > It is not a good idea to rearrange the menus on every release. It is a good idea to fix a user interface problem, even if it takes a few releases to get it right. It is a bad idea to be reluctant to change something that has been identified as a mistake.

Re: Artwork 12.Aug2001

2001-08-13 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Reinhard Stepanek wrote: > Please have a look at the icons at > http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/Reinhard.Stepanek/lyx/lyx_artwork_icons.html > and give me some comments about. They are not perfect yet... Lgb, I think you should consider to use one of Reinhard's banners for the p

Re: reLyX bug

2001-09-04 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote: > Thank you Yves for restoring my mental health... :-) Come on, Jose. We don't buy that after all this time. How can anyone restore what never was? Greets, Asger

Re: keyboard BUG

2001-10-04 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, John Weiss wrote: > My $0.02: Stick to the Xmodmap definition of keys. If we must, add > the ability to "disambiguate equivalents", > i.e. (translate-bind-key "$" "S-4") or similar. Please note that $ is AltGr + 4 on Danish keyboards. We do not use shift to get $s. S-4 in

Re: Improving the Systemcalls interface

2001-10-18 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Angus Leeming wrote: [Symmetry.] > I still don't buy this argument. It strikes me that if the controlling Well, I don't care much either way. Your solution is fine. > > What I would like to see is a process manager in LyX: In this dialog, you > > would have a list of all

Re: LyX Review

2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> Specifically, I am interested in the status of the GUI Independence Project. > I have looked over the status report on your Web site, but I wanted to ask > some additional questions: The GUII project has been running for a very long time. Thoughts about the project were floating around even bef

Re: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au: Second Call for Papers (fwd)

2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > What shall I do a LyX presentation on? Any ideas? What about talking about how LyX reuses and leverages a lot of existing tools? I.e. LyX is build on LaTeX, but it requires Perl for reLyX, it exploits ispell/aspell for spell checking, it uses kdvi/xdvi/g

Re: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au: Second Call for Papers (fwd)

2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On 28 Oct 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 07:03:06AM -0800, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > | > | > Chess diagrams through xboard? Do you have working code for this? > | > I am drooling... > | > | it's been in default releases f

Re: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au: Second Call for Papers (fwd)

2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Dekel Tsur wrote: > BTW, there is a new package for chess called skak. Wouldn't it better to use > it instead of the very old chess.sty ? Looking at it docs, I see it can read > FEN files directly, so there is no need for the python script (I haven't > tested it). Sure, it w

Re: [ricardof@sel.eesc.sc.usp.br] Feedback from www.lyx.org

2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > If the selection is left selected and you don't paste the copy but > instead press any key the selection will be replaced by that key. > Maybe this is what Ricardo wanted but it might be a big surprise for > everyone else -- especially if you'd scrolled som

Re: New chess (skak.sty) support

2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > Okay. Here is my first crack at this. Once this goes in, we can > just remove lyxchess.sty (and the reference in the lib/Makefile.am > to tex/*.sty) Since the old version did not work because of the makefile problem, this has to be considered a bug-

Re: New chess (skak.sty) support

2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > P.S. Now, how about somebody implementing external material inset > support for Rosegarden/NoteEdit and musicTex? That would make LyX the > first word processor that supported writing really beautiful music. > Check out http://

Re: [ricardof@sel.eesc.sc.usp.br] Feedback from www.lyx.org

2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > SuperDOS (er... I mean Windows) apps the lot of them. We should file > bug reports to Microsoft to fix their buggy implementation ;-) FYI Mozilla and JBuilder are both cross platform, and runs natively on Linux, Windows, and what not. I would think Java a

Re: so many core dumps

2001-10-28 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 05:05:48PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Anyone know how to go back from .ps to .tex??? > > No way I am afraid. Well, in worst case you can always try to print it, and then OCR it. A bit easier is to convert the ps to pd

Re: New chess (skak.sty) support

2001-10-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Garst R. Reese wrote: [Lilypond] > I think this was the subject of about my first post to the list. > At the time, devlopers could be counted on one finger challenged hand. > Maybe it is an idea whose time has come :) > Garst So maybe Garst is ready to read up on the externa

Feature request for NoteEdit: Command line export to Lilypond

2001-10-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Dear Joerg, I write to you because there is interest in supporting NoteEdit in LyX. LyX is an open source word processor that builds on LaTeX. See http://www.lyx.org for more information about LyX. LyX has a feature for embedding external material in your documents. We would like to implement su

Re: New chess (skak.sty) support

2001-10-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Garst R. Reese wrote: > "Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" wrote: > > [Lilypond] > > Nice challenge :) I'll start updating, downloading, and reading. As you could see, NoteEdit does not support converting NoteEdit documents to Lilypond from the command

Re: Feature request for NoteEdit: Command line export to Lilypond

2001-10-30 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Joerg Anders wrote: > First of all: I'm interested in all improvements. BTW: Some users > wrote me whether I could implement a closer association between > Noteedit and the TeX tools to achieve a more useable printing procedure. It would be great for LyX if NoteEdit could ex

Re: Still : noteedit --> LilyPond

2001-10-30 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Joerg Anders wrote: > ... you know: A presupposition is the KDE-environmant is correctly set ... Yes, I know. This is acceptable: If the user wants to use a KDE program to edit the music, he has to have KDE-programs working. > > Is it more clear now? > > Yes it is! I think

Re: Still : noteedit --> LilyPond

2001-10-31 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Garst R. Reese wrote: > OK, I have not yet tried KDE, or Qt. I basically do not like KDE's > cluttered DE viewed only from various screenshots. OTOH keeping up with > GNOME updates has pretty much soured me on that route also. So, which Qt > (2 or 3) should I start with? You

Re: noteedit-1.15.2a has moved

2001-10-31 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Joerg Anders wrote: > > Perhaps I can provide the extraction later. Till now, I produced > > a special version called "noteedit-1.15.2a". Unfortunately, > > it is linked with QT, KDE and (eventually) TSE3. You can get it from: > > http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/n

Re: [ricardof@sel.eesc.sc.usp.br] Feedback from www.lyx.org

2001-11-01 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Allan Rae wrote: ^^^ Nice. You waited till Friday. Maybe that rotten patch has been in there for 3 years, and we have all been sleeping, but it's still rotten, and you know it. You are just being pisseirriterende. I propose we leave it in there, because then we have an ex

Re: Bug list - Update

2001-11-25 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Hi, Just curious: That bug list is huge, and I'm lazy. How many of the bugs are showstoppers that must be fixed for 1.2.0? Greets, Asger

Re: dramantic increases in forced rodent use

2001-12-11 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, John Levon wrote: > Richard is not talking about accessibility. He is talking about keyboard interaction, > and that is an xforms bug. John, with all respect: Rule number one in usability is to listen to the users. Traditionally, LyX has gone to great lengths to work around

Re: new spam control?

2001-12-13 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote: > Well IMO that we could do something like that on lyx-devel as I've seen > that lot's of devel list restrict the access much more. Are there really Those mailing lists are broken, IMO. Once upon a time, we needed a small feature in GTK to let it live p

Re: Some bugs

2001-12-16 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote: [Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah] So, when and where is the next LyX developer's meeting going to be held? It seems Juergen needs some fun to lighten up. He could sure need to drink some beer, introduce a bunch of bugs in the code, and sleep in forbidden p

Re: Crash on File Menu

2001-12-26 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On 18 Dec 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Lars> It is kindo a philosophical question. (where to declare global > Lars> objects) > > I would say global objects can be declared where ones expects to see > them, i.e. together with their class definition, or in a given header > file which contai

Re: RFC: Sound Approach?

2001-12-30 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Ben Stanley wrote: > typedef vector > ParagraphList; > > Of course, your choice of vector or list depends on what iterator > properties you want; vector gives you random access, whereas list only > gives you bidirectional iterators (this is all we are currently using). Th

Re: RFC: Sound Approach?

2001-12-30 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > typedef list > ParagraphList; But of course this *has* to wait till after 1.2.0. Greets, Asger

Re: spellchecker crash

2002-01-09 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > if fl_get_browser_line can return null, then it must be > > char const * tmp = fl_get_browser_line(...); > string blah = (tmp ? tmp : ""); I think you meant string blah = tmp ? tmp : string(); Never use "" as a substitute for string(). It's not

Re: a thought

2002-01-14 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On 14 Jan 2002, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Python does not yet play a role in LyX AFAIK. The external material inset includes a few definitions that rely on Python. Greets, Asger

Re: (Jug) [Devel] Revised bug list - tables

2002-01-26 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Jürgen Vigna wrote: > What I don´t know is the format of leftline without the =true part. > Is this more or less valid XML code? I changed this fileformat from > the compact one before to this format to have an XML like format so > I surely don´t change it back to an incompat

Re: Dreaming of plugins...

2002-02-04 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Jules Bean wrote: > Something which I think would really be a *killer* feature for LyX > would be the ability to write plug-ins to handle custom environments. You can do what you want with the external material inset that is already there. Greets, Asger

Re: Dreaming of plugins...

2002-02-04 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, John Levon wrote: > no you can't. the external material inset is very basic and provides no > interface inside lyx, which is what he was asking for. Suppose we wanted to implement the spread-sheet functionality that Martin recently hacked up. In overall terms, which approache

Re: Chess board now a problem :(

2002-02-08 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > wait a minute... xboard doesn't overwrite existing files when > > renaming a previous game save by the looks... yes... really helpful. > > No warning or anything... > > Yeah, a pet peeve of mine. It just appends!!! The maintainer of xboard is real

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