Re: Feedback on dialog for Windows installer (round 2)

2018-04-01 Thread Andrew Parsloe
Dear Scott, MiKTeX 2.9 has been available since 2010 and the *only* version available since 2014; see https://miktex.org/releases. Hence the message in your proposed dialogue     LyX requires MiKTeX 2.9 or later. Your version is X.X.     Choose "Continue" to automatically update MiKTe

Re: Recommendations for metadata storage in Stylz

2018-04-01 Thread Alan Tyree
Hello Steve, I would think YAML is the best choice here. It is easy to type and easy for the beginner to understand. You could provide simple templates for the most common cases. My own feeling is that anything more complicated is going to turn off would-be authors. Good luck with this project! Re

Re: Search and Focus in LyX

2018-04-01 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan
On 04/01/2018 04:29 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote: It's rather difficult to believe that you've no experience with something such as MS Word or OpenOffice or gedit, even if you prefer to use emacs and joe for everything not done in LyX. (I do a large

Re: Recommendations for metadata storage in Stylz

2018-04-01 Thread Shay Riggs
I like Yaml. Easy to read, easy to type, easy for humans to comprehend. I think I’d prefer it. You could also have a look at CSS syntax as it’s kind of a halfway house between Yaml and JSON. Not sure how you’d deal with hierarchical data though. My thoughts on JSON are that if you’re going to use

Recommendations for metadata storage in Stylz

2018-04-01 Thread Steve Litt
As many of you know, I'm in the middle of creating an authoring format called Stylz. You author Stylz docs in any old editor. Think of an Asciidoc knockoff which greatly prioritizes styles based authoring at the expense of Asciidoc's "we do it all for you." One of my tasks in order to reach Minimu

Re: Force previews to update

2018-04-01 Thread Shay Riggs
There is another instance where the ability to update previews would be nice, namely when you change the maths font. (I usually do this in the document preamble.) I use lualatex for most things but I’d imagine the issue remains for other TeX variants too. Sometimes I don’t get around to changing t

Re: Search and Focus in LyX

2018-04-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote: It's rather difficult to believe that you've no experience with something such as MS Word or OpenOffice or gedit, even if you prefer to use emacs and joe for everything not done in LyX. (I do a large share of my editting with vim; but I have mu

Re: Search and Focus in LyX

2018-04-01 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan
On 04/01/2018 03:58 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote: That example _shouldn't_ have helped. The problem was already _clearly_ described in general form, and experience with other editors, which indeed restore focus to the primary text pane, should have

Re: Search and Focus in LyX

2018-04-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote: That example _shouldn't_ have helped. The problem was already _clearly_ described in general form, and experience with other editors, which indeed restore focus to the primary text pane, should have made the process familiar. Ah, well. My 'ot

Re: Search and Focus in LyX

2018-04-01 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan
On 04/01/2018 03:13 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote: You're not understanding. More specifically, you're considering exactly and only one of three cases that I identified, for which case I noted that there were no problem. Daniel,   That's probably

Re: Feedback on dialog for Windows installer (round 2)

2018-04-01 Thread Michael Berger
Hello Scott, the message under #1 sounds clear and unambiguously to. Michael On 01.04.2018 15:05, V K wrote: Message is quite clear, but "If you do not understand this message, you should choose "Continue"." says too little and indirectly states, that user is dumb. I've read previous thread

Re: Feedback on dialog for Windows installer (round 2)

2018-04-01 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sun, Apr 01, 2018 at 04:08:30PM +, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 04/01/2018 12:02 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 01, 2018 at 01:05:18PM +, V K wrote: > >> I've read previous thread and discussion in lyx-devel. Maybe this sentence > >> can be replayced with warning about

Re: Feedback on dialog for Windows installer (round 2)

2018-04-01 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 04/01/2018 12:02 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2018 at 01:05:18PM +, V K wrote: >> I've read previous thread and discussion in lyx-devel. Maybe this sentence >> can be replayced with warning about not working LyX? Something like "Not >> upgrading MiKTeX can leave LyX in not

Re: Feedback on dialog for Windows installer (round 2)

2018-04-01 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sun, Apr 01, 2018 at 01:05:18PM +, V K wrote: > Message is quite clear, but "If you do not understand this message, you > should choose "Continue"." says too little and indirectly states, that user > is dumb. Another Windows user I talked to in person said the same thing. They said that t

Re: Feedback on dialog for Windows installer (round 2)

2018-04-01 Thread V K
Message is quite clear, but "If you do not understand this message, you should choose "Continue"." says too little and indirectly states, that user is dumb. I've read previous thread and discussion in lyx-devel. Maybe this sentence can be replayced with warning about not working LyX? Something l

Re: Search and Focus in LyX

2018-04-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote: I notice that, when I search for text in LyX, focus simply remains with the search/replace dialogue.  ... But when the user is tweaking a large number different occurrences in different ways, having to change focus can become significant.