Joost Verburg wrote:
> It's more a marketing thing, you don't want your software to look too
> unusual at first sight. Just like with websites, people tend to quickly
> uninstall things they don't understand.
I think the background color is something that makes LyX unique in a positive
way.
Jürg
Rudi Gaelzer writes:
> I want to report this first here. If you agree that this is a bug, I can
> file
> a report...
Yes, this is a bug. Indeed, if you move the paragraph with accented chars
in yadas_ascii.lyx before the figure float, everything works.
Please, file a bug report.
--
Enrico
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg shared this with us all:
>--} A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one
>--} here that is somewhat unique. I don't know how it represents the "LyX
>--} brand" and it may be more a mascot than a logo, but in my opinion we
>--} should no
Andre Poenitz wrote:
I'd like to have "the bird" in one way or the other.
Smoothing edges, adding something in the background
or similar I can live with...
A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one
here that is somewhat unique. I don't know how it represents the "L
Hello LyXers -
I have been using Gregor Gorjanc's literate-
{article,book,report}.layout files with LyX and Sweave (http://gregor.gorjanc.googlepages.com/lyx-sweave
) with success.
Lately, I have been trying to get Sweave to work with beamer through
LyX. To start, I modified literate-artic
- Original Message
From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 12:32:14 PM
Subject: Re: Request for screenshots
On
Mon,
24
Mar
2008,
John
Coppens
wrote:
>>
But
would
you
be
opposed
to
having
the
usual
colors
a
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:46:49 -0500
AK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> AFAIK no browsers
> let you set them to use some color if no background is set but will
> show document's color if it is set -
> but I could be wrong about this.
Firefox does this, feature which I've been using for years now. Ther
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think you probably have a point here. I wrote that page in... oh, say
around 2003, and at that time wikis weren't that common. Now I suspect
that it's not really necessary to explain the concept of the wiki any more.
What kind of information do people think should be
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Joost Verburg wrote:
But would you be opposed to having the usual colors as default?
Personally, I'm opposed, yes (which does not mean that much).
You can of course set your own color in the preferences.
you too ;-)
You're right about that. For both of us the de
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do "LyX" have some sort of "primary" colours? Or some kind of colour
theme? My company spent money on letting a designer come up with a
colour set, where we should try and use a certain combo of colours... Do
we have something like that?
In my opinion a color set sh
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 03:12:32PM -0400, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote:
> Since we are discussing design issues, and we have a graphic designer
> on board (Andrei), it seems a logical time to bring up the topic of
> logo design that was discussed a bit earlier this month. I am
> attaching some of the gr
Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:25:35PM +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Joost Verburg wrote:
I think the default setting should be black-on-white because everyone is
used to these colors.
FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to
br
>>> nice if we give him our input, even if it would just be a modification
>>> to the existing monster/bird/? design. What do you all think?
>>
>> there was quite agreement the lyx-icon/document you picked now back is not
>> better then our monster. pavel
>
> I didn't understand what you wrote to
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:25:35PM +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Joost Verburg wrote:
> > I think the default setting should be black-on-white because everyone is
> > used to these colors.
>
> FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to
> bright-white paper. The w
--- John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ever wonder why legal pads are yellow(ish)?
Sulpher stains?
Okay, I'm leaving.
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On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:41:28PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > > which is the current state in your opinion?
> >
> > From a user POV, yes (except for the bug Richard referred to).
>
> in such a case we should at least rename the lfun to be clear
> that it does also the dialog opening for certai
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote:
I think we could do a more impressive design with something fractal or a
graph of some impressive-looking function.. if that makes any sense. The
first design here could be good as an app icon.. -andrei
there are currently two main logos - monster and th
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote:
nice if we give him our input, even if it would just be a modification
to the existing monster/bird/? design. What do you all think?
there was quite agreement the lyx-icon/document you picked now back is
not better then our monster. pavel
I didn't und
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What kind of information do people think should be on that page? (I.e. the
very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) Please
give me some ideas!
Take out all the text in the mi
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, AK wrote:
Just for the record, when I said I didn't like pure white as a
background, I was talking about the main window of the LyX
application...
Doh, I completely missed the point where we branched off to talk about
the LyX app as well as the site.. But, it seems to
> I think we could do a more impressive design with something fractal or a
> graph of some impressive-looking function.. if that makes any sense. The
> first design here could be good as an app icon.. -andrei
there are currently two main logos - monster and the banner you see
when launch lyx.
i d
> nice if we give him our input, even if it would just be a modification
> to the existing monster/bird/? design. What do you all think?
there was quite agreement the lyx-icon/document you picked now back is not
better then our monster.
pavel
Rex C. Eastbourne wrote:
Since we are discussing design issues, and we have a graphic designer
on board (Andrei), it seems a logical time to bring up the topic of
logo design that was discussed a bit earlier this month. I am
attaching some of the graphic designs that were proposed last time.
Andr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote:
Glad to have you on the list, Andrei.
Hi Andrei,
Just for the record, when I said I didn't like pure white as a
background, I was talking about the main window of the LyX application...
/C
Doh, I completely missed the
Since we are discussing design issues, and we have a graphic designer
on board (Andrei), it seems a logical time to bring up the topic of
logo design that was discussed a bit earlier this month. I am
attaching some of the graphic designs that were proposed last time.
Andrei is a creative guy and co
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What kind of information do people think should be on that page? (I.e. the
very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) Please
give me some ideas!
Take out all the text in the middle and emphasize the menus. There can be
a s
It looks like we will be creating a whole new design soon, but as a
temporary solution that looks like an improvement to me.
Rex
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:28 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote:
>
> >> I also think the LyX.org site is OK except for the backgro
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not leave the page background undefined? Most browsers allow
selection of a default background color, don't they?
Eh... what would this result in for most users? (I'm not sure I'd realise
that I can change the colour)
I've changed the back
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and
the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the wiki
wasn't worst at least... Slashdot got some good comments from her though.
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, John Coppens wrote:
But would you be opposed to having the usual colors as default? You can
of course set your own color in the preferences.
Again, FWIW, I _hate_ white backgrounds, and spend time with each
program to figure out how I can reprogram it to something more 'q
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote:
Glad to have you on the list, Andrei.
Hi Andrei,
Just for the record, when I said I didn't like pure white as a background,
I was talking about the main window of the LyX application...
/C
--
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote:
Rich Shepard wrote:
Regardless of what layout you choose and how you go about building
it (I, too, support xhtml and css), there is one universal design
criterion I urge you to follow: high contrast between text and
background.
I fully agree. Th
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote:
I also think the LyX.org site is OK except for the background and the
white text... changing that alone could make a huge difference. I
we have fix for this long time, but nobody on dev list commented the
design so i let it die. http://195.113.31.123/~s
> I also think the LyX.org site is OK except for the background and the
> white text... changing that alone could make a huge difference. I
we have fix for this long time, but nobody on dev list commented the
design so i let it die.
http://195.113.31.123/~sanda/junk/lyx/www/
pavel
Glad to have you on the list, Andrei.
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:46 PM, AK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Coppens wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:32:36 +0100
> > Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>> FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured
> >>> t
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Jens Noeckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Wait a minute - weren't we talking about the PDF output... ;)
>
Ack...I'll summarize my understanding:
(1) I originally sent an email requesting that people send me LyX files,
which I could turn into screenshots of eithe
haha...it looks like half the people are talking about the background within
the program *LyX* (i.e. the pinkish background canvas), and half the people
are referring to the background of the website, www.lyx.org. that might
explain some confusion.
rex
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:17 PM, John Coppe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you're doing that, though, it sounds like what you really want is a
float.
Possibly, though I don't want any re-ordering. I'm only concerned in the
case
where the whole block is small - a conditional page throw if very near end
of page would do the trick too.
I'll
On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
On Monday 24 March 2008 10:56, Joost Verburg wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original
www.lyx.org and
the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that
the
wiki wasn't worst at le
John Coppens wrote:
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:32:36 +0100
Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured
to bright-white paper. The white background of usual text processors
hurts my eyes.
But would you be opposed to having t
On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:17 AM, John Coppens wrote:
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:32:36 +0100
Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured
to bright-white paper. The white background of usual text processors
hurts my eyes.
But would you
On Monday 24 March 2008 10:56, Joost Verburg wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and
> > the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the
> > wiki wasn't worst at least... Slashdot got some good comments fr
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:32:36 +0100
Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured
> > to bright-white paper. The white background of usual text processors
> > hurts my eyes.
>
> But would you be opposed to having the usual colors
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
The white background of usual text processors hurts my eyes.
That's a very common complaint. The brightness of large white backgrounds
apparently make very subtle flickers apparent to the brain even when we do
not consciously notice them. I find
Joost Verburg wrote:
> But would you be opposed to having the usual colors as default?
Personally, I'm opposed, yes (which does not mean that much).
> You can of course set your own color in the preferences.
you too ;-)
Jürgen
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Joost Verburg wrote:
I think the default setting should be black-on-white because everyone is
used to these colors.
FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to
bright-white paper. The white background of usual text processors hurts my
eye
Joost Verburg wrote:
> I think the default setting should be black-on-white because everyone is
> used to these colors.
FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to
bright-white paper. The white background of usual text processors hurts my
eyes.
Jürgen
Dominik Böhm wrote:
To be honest with you, I first also thought that the main canvas
looked old-fashioned, particularly the background color looked somehow
like dirty old parchment to me. But it is very gentle to my eyes as
the contrast between text and background isn't as high as in MS Word.
I
Rich Shepard wrote:
Regardless of what layout you choose and how you go about building it (I,
too, support xhtml and css), there is one universal design criterion I urge
you to follow: high contrast between text and background.
I fully agree. The main text should be black-on-white instead of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and
the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the
wiki wasn't worst at least... Slashdot got some good comments from her
though.
I agree that the current wiki looks a bit bet
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 9:22 AM, WT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear LyX Developer,
> I am a LyX user from China. At first, thank you for giving us such a
> useful tool.
> I have some question about the template of LyX. I need to write my thesis
> in Chinese, so I can't use the inherent
>> unfortunately all naming coming to my mind now are bit weird. any
>> proposals?
>>
>>
> Well, note that what it does is highly context-dependent. If you're in a
> note but in front of ERT, for example, then Ctrl-I will do something to the
> ERT, not to the note. So, well, ???
lets bump it
Pavel Sanda wrote:
which is the current state in your opinion?
From a user POV, yes (except for the bug Richard referred to).
in such a case we should at least rename the lfun to be clear
that it does also the dialog opening for certain insets.
when even devs are not able to find s
> > which is the current state in your opinion?
>
> From a user POV, yes (except for the bug Richard referred to).
in such a case we should at least rename the lfun to be clear
that it does also the dialog opening for certain insets.
when even devs are not able to find such an lfun there is somet
Pavel Sanda wrote:
> which is the current state in your opinion?
From a user POV, yes (except for the bug Richard referred to).
Jürgen
> > Before posting, I did look through the list of LFUNs (as offered by
> > the Alt+X command bar). However, I couldn't imagine next-inset-toggle
> > as the one I was looking for.
>
> Probably. More important, however, is that Ctrl-i somewhat acts consistently
> (IMHO).
which is the current
Les Sharpe wrote:
Good Morning All,
Not sure who can best advise me so I am sending to both suggested
addresses.
I cannot get past the first example/test in the Tutorial (2.1.1 et
seq). I type in the suggested sentence and whether I hit the view -
dvi item in the drop down menu or the squ
Geevarghese Philip wrote:
This is fixed now. See the layout file attached. The fix was to add:
Preamble
\usepackage{amsthm}
EndPreamble
to the layout file.
Yes, sorry. That's elsewhere in the ams class files. Put that in the
theorem environment and
Steve Litt wrote:
I think some good can come of this, assuming the author is reasonable about
what he puts in the box. For instance, my 10 step Universal Troubleshooting
Process really should be on one page, along with its header, even if it
creates a gap on a page.
If you're doing that, t
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Daniel Lohmann wrote:
Before posting, I did look through the list of LFUNs (as offered by
the Alt+X command bar). However, I couldn't imagine next-inset-toggle
as the one I was looking for.
Probably. More important, however, is that Ctrl-i somewhat acts con
Rudi Gaelzer schrieb:
However, if I change the language encoding at Document -> Settings ->
Language -> Encoding to ascii, I can neither process nor export the text to
LaTeX. This is the case of the yadas_ascii.lyx file attached.
On the last file, if I remove the figure float and/or the acce
Bruno Azria schrieb:
I am a new user of the LyX system, which I find outstanding.
I face the following issue:
- when I try to open the User's Guide from the LyX Help menu, I get the
following error message : "Document class not available : layout file
requested by this document is not available
WT schrieb:
I am a LyX user from China. At first, thank you for giving us such a useful
tool.
I have some question about the template of LyX. I need to write my thesis
in Chinese, so I can't use the inherent template. How can I construct my own
template? Could you help me?
You shoul
Hello Wu,
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:22 PM, WT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear LyX Developer,
> I am a LyX user from China. At first, thank you for giving us such a
> useful tool.
> I have some question about the template of LyX. I need to write my thesis
> in Chinese, so I can't use th
Daniel Lohmann wrote:
> Before posting, I did look through the list of LFUNs (as offered by
> the Alt+X command bar). However, I couldn't imagine next-inset-toggle
> as the one I was looking for.
Probably. More important, however, is that Ctrl-i somewhat acts consistently
(IMHO).
Jürgen
Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind)
>
> this behaviour is intended?
Yes. For the users. C-i allows editing of the dialog. We had a request that
this also should be possible for URL and friends, that's why it has been
implemented.
Query bugzilla for details.
Jür
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