Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Jose Quesada
Hi, I think Greg's post is key here. Even if the two users are never editing at the same time, having always the latest version with all merges applied is reassuring. @Rob: "Yet, I've never actually met anyone who writes with others in real time." I think this is because the tech didn't even exist

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Jose Quesada
Hi Kevin, I tried Gobby. it's as simple as notepad, so for serious programming/writing it'd feel a bit limited. But the deal breaker is no undo. Yes, you hear that right. I think Gobby is actually feature-wise worse than in-browser alternatives. Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Research scientist, M

Re: Spell checker

2010-09-24 Thread Jacob Bishop
Alberto, I am also using LyX 1.6.7 on Windows, and have no trouble with the spell checker. Can you provide a bit more information? What installer did you use? What os (Vista, XP, W7)? Do you know how to start a spell-check, and you get a message? What exactly? Please explain. Jacob On Fri, Sep 2

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/24/2010 05:34 PM, Julien Rioux wrote: On 24/09/2010 3:01 PM, Richard Heck wrote: This could almost be done without any changes to LyX. Here's how. 1. Set up a cron job that does "svn up filename.lyx" every two minutes. 2. Set up another cron job that watches filename.lyx and, if it changes

Re: spellchecker

2010-09-24 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 24.09.2010 um 18:47 schrieb goncalo.b.santos: > > Hi! > > I'm using Lyx on a mac (OSX) but am not being able to get the spellchecker > to work. You're using which version? > I've downloaded the latest version of cocoaspell, installed it, went to > system preferences/spelling/dictionaries an

Spell checker

2010-09-24 Thread Alberto Sanchez
Hi I have installed Lyx 1.6.7 for windows, and noticed that there is no spell checker. Downloaded Aspell and reconfigured Lyx. However, I have not been able to make it work.Everything else works just fine. Will appreciate your help Regards Alberto

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Julien Rioux
On 24/09/2010 3:01 PM, Richard Heck wrote: This could almost be done without any changes to LyX. Here's how. 1. Set up a cron job that does "svn up filename.lyx" every two minutes. 2. Set up another cron job that watches filename.lyx and, if it changes, does "svn ci filename.lyx". If I was craz

Re: Printing a beamer outline

2010-09-24 Thread Graham Smith
Paul, > First off, unless you have a specific reason to put the article-only text in > child documents, I'd probably advocate including it in the original text file > in > branches (just to keep things together).  If you have a particular reason to > use > child documents, then maybe put the chi

Re: Printing a beamer outline

2010-09-24 Thread Paul Rubin
First off, unless you have a specific reason to put the article-only text in child documents, I'd probably advocate including it in the original text file in branches (just to keep things together). If you have a particular reason to use child documents, then maybe put the child include statements

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/24/2010 01:34 PM, Gregory Jefferis wrote: Non-interactive collaborative editing means that there can always be one live version of a document to which anyone can apply changes that are versioned, identified and much more likely. Essentially it solves the conflicting merge problem by autom

Re: Printing a beamer outline

2010-09-24 Thread Graham Smith
Richard >> I guess this is impossible. >> >> Unless someone has had a brainwave since my original post. >> >> > > I just haven't had time to think about it. LyX time is spent chasing other > bugs right now. I still appreciate you thinking about it, if you do have a sudden eureka moment, then I w

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/24/2010 02:21 PM, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote: I think the ideal situation would look like Gobby[1] running inside LyX (not necessarily with chat features, but at least showing where the other user is editing), but I can understand how that would be a lot of work to implement. Sponsorship

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Graham Smith
Steve, > All Unleashed books are written by a main author and lots of contributing > authors. However, it's carved up by chapter, so no chapter is collaborative. While this may well be true in general, the two books I have collaborated on (my only book experience) I contributed to every chapter,

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Jacob Bishop
I would simply like to say that I think going too far down this road could lead to a lot of effort, and only a marginal return. I think we do need to make LyX better, but I don't think it needs to be too multi-purpose. You know the whole Swiss-Army knife versus a tool that does one thing, but does

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
2010/9/24 Gregory Jefferis : > Non-interactive collaborative editing means that there can always be one > live version of a document to which anyone can apply changes that are > versioned, identified and much more likely.  Essentially it solves the > conflicting merge problem by automatically mergi

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 24 September 2010 11:29:10 Rob Oakes wrote: > Hi Jose and other LyX-Users, > > Very interesting articles, thanks for sending them. > > While trying to digest the ideas, though, I found myself asking two > questions and I'd be interested in your feedback. The first question, of > cour

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 24 September 2010 10:18:30 Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote: > 2010/9/24 Jose Quesada : > > Hi, > > We've had previous discussions on whether or not it's useful to have some > > kind of real-time collaboration in LyX. > > The death of wave seemed to reinforce the idea that this is not a kille

Re: change pdf save location

2010-09-24 Thread Gwen Barnes
Thank you all for your responses. I will just leave it with the comment that this is a functionality that I would definitely be interested in, if it were to be incorporated in some future version of lyx. -Gwen On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Murat Yildizoglu < murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Gregory Jefferis
Hi all, I would distinguish two kinds of collaborative editing. * interactive collaborative editing - 2 or more people working simultaneously on a document * non-interactive collaborative editing - only one person actually modifying the document at any one time BUT others always having live acce

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Les, > I had no idea people were asking for this kind of feature. Real-time > collaboration on a document seems to me to be a formula for a colossal waste > of time, extending the concept of endless meetings to an online equivalent. I'm not sure if ti's people in general or just people that

Re: Printing a beamer outline

2010-09-24 Thread Graham Smith
I guess this is impossible. Unless someone has had a brainwave since my original post. I've had no reply to this on the Beamer forum or on the comp.text.tex group. I was hoping that someone might have known of a simple Latex switch to switch off the graphics and the article only text, but obvio

Re: References not exporting

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/24/2010 11:58 AM, Lars Olesen wrote: I tried to export my lyx document. It has a lot of bibtex references. The references shows up correctly in the document when editing it. However, they appear just as question marks when I export the file. The only way I can export it where the reference

Re: Spacing Around Quote Environment

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/24/2010 12:31 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: In the article class, the quote environment puts some extra space above and below the quotation to help separate it from the body text. In the article (AMS) class, though, the quote environment inserts no extra space, which would seem in conflict wi

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux
On 24 September 2010 12:41, Richard Heck wrote: > > Still, I have to agree with Rob that doing this at the level of each > program just seems wrong in principle. Having some very generic > client-server model, where the program's display could show up here there > and everywhere, and the program

spellchecker

2010-09-24 Thread goncalo.b.santos
Hi! I'm using Lyx on a mac (OSX) but am not being able to get the spellchecker to work. I've downloaded the latest version of cocoaspell, installed it, went to system preferences/spelling/dictionaries and put all the dictionaries in the list "on". In Lyx I did preferences/language settings/spell

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/24/2010 11:43 AM, Les Denham wrote: On Friday 24 September 2010 10:29:10 Rob Oakes wrote: Anyone else have any thoughts? Rob, I had no idea people were asking for this kind of feature. Real-time collaboration on a document seems to me to be a formula for a colossal waste of t

Spacing Around Quote Environment

2010-09-24 Thread Bruce Pourciau
In the article class, the quote environment puts some extra space above and below the quotation to help separate it from the body text. In the article (AMS) class, though, the quote environment inserts no extra space, which would seem in conflict with normal typographic practice. What would

References not exporting

2010-09-24 Thread Lars Olesen
I tried to export my lyx document. It has a lot of bibtex references. The references shows up correctly in the document when editing it. However, they appear just as question marks when I export the file. The only way I can export it where the reference name (but not the entire reference list) appe

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 24 September 2010 10:29:10 Rob Oakes wrote: > Anyone else have any thoughts? > Rob, I had no idea people were asking for this kind of feature. Real-time collaboration on a document seems to me to be a formula for a colossal waste of time, extending the concept of endless meetings to

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Jose and other LyX-Users, Very interesting articles, thanks for sending them. While trying to digest the ideas, though, I found myself asking two questions and I'd be interested in your feedback. The first question, of course is spurred by pure skepticism. In what instances do you think th

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Gregory Jefferis
Hi Kevin, Jose et al, We use version control (git) + to write papers in the lab. It works fine but handling merge conflicts is still difficult; the chaps in the lab are all very computer literate but I regularly have to help out with a broken merge. It's certainly too complicated for me to insist

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
2010/9/24 Jose Quesada : > Hi, > We've had previous discussions on whether or not it's useful to have some > kind of real-time collaboration in LyX. > The death of wave seemed to reinforce the idea that this is not a killer > feature, and people don't need it. Collaboration using a VCS is sufficien

more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Jose Quesada
Hi, We've had previous discussions on whether or not it's useful to have some kind of real-time collaboration in LyX. The death of wave seemed to reinforce the idea that this is not a killer feature, and people don't need it. Collaboration using a VCS is sufficient. Well, recently I found two coun

Re: IEEEtran file Inserting photo help please..............

2010-09-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 24.09.2010 14:39, schrieb Sachin Garg: What exactly is the problem? In the IEEEtran template there is an image named "CV-image.png" as example. Simply left-click on that image and select an image file you like. I am also unable to add a photo. I can't also see this "CV-image.png" file. I am

Re: IEEEtran file Inserting photo help please..............

2010-09-24 Thread Sachin Garg
On Tuesday 14 September 2010 08:05 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 13.09.2010 07:20, schrieb step...@vinvish.com: > >> In the end of the IEEE trans template there is an option to insert the >> authors photo in the Biography section >> If we do nothing a BOX printed with "PLACE YOUR PHOTO HERE " appears

Re: arccot?

2010-09-24 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
xPol wrote: > How to type the arccot function? > > It seems strange it is not included in the lyx functions list. Isn't a latex > function? No, LaTeX stops at arctan... If you use it often, just put in your document preamble: \DeclareMathOperator{\arccot}{arccot} and then you can typeset just

arccot?

2010-09-24 Thread xPol
How to type the arccot function? It seems strange it is not included in the lyx functions list. Isn't a latex function? thank you ---p