Re: behaviour of changebars (tracking changes)

2005-05-11 Thread John Levon
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 10:14:14AM -0700, Jane McKean wrote: > Yes, it is annoying that accepting all the changes bounces you to the > end of the doc, but it's something I found I can live with. It is still a bug though; if it's not filed already, it should be. regards john

Re: Asking for confirming a bug

2005-03-29 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:26:07PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > * open a new document and open an empty ERT, keeping the ERT and the > document open; > * open a different document and selecting something therein; > * return to the first document and look at the open ERT. Please file a bug on http:/

Re: No Search & Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-13 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:06:28PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Wherever it makes sense we do use the Qt library for UI, as much as > > possible. Unfortunately the Qt library is very much "our way or no way > > at all" in large part... in particular truly separated MVC seems very > > hard to do

Re: No Search & Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:00:50PM +0100, Charles de Miramon wrote: > http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/qtextdocument.html I just had a quick look at this. Unfortunately it's unsuitable. It is designed as a simple "hand over the keys to the car and bring back my shopping" interface. What we need is co

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:17:12PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I just repeat what John Levon said a few months ago. He seemd to thing > that there was a lot of work to do on it (maybe for undo). At the time there was a lot of brokenness around tables, insets, undo etc. This may

Re: Change bar patch for 1.3.5

2004-11-18 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 09:06:34AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > John> A pity that there's nowhere we can put these patches and > John> officially release them... > > Huh? We have a web site and a ftp site, after all... I meant a release of LyX. regards john

Re: Change bar patch for 1.3.5

2004-11-15 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:12:12AM -0800, Jane McKean wrote: > in Pittsburgh. All of the compiler and debugger docs are written in LyX! > > So now, finally, I have the change bar patches for LyX 1.3.5. I've been Cool! Glad you found them useful. > 1.3.5 version and made a couple of small bug fi

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 03:05:43PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts > > > deleted my /dev/null. How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could > > > help-me? > > How do you know it was caused by the lyx configuration? > > Can you show

Re: [lyx-users] in the subject line

2004-08-23 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:55:26PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > I think it would be helpful (for identifying and managing messages) to > have the label "[lyx-users]" automatically inserted in the subject line > of the messages of this list, similarly to what happens with other > mailing lists. Do

Re: selection bug in lyx 1.3.4, kicker

2004-08-19 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 08:41:39AM +0100, Jose' Matos wrote: > > Turn off kicker, it's moronic software > > Actually John I think that this problem is related with klipper and not > kicker. :-) Heh, indeed. kicker is fine. > klipper is the responsible for the copy and past selection transf

Re: selection bug in lyx 1.3.4, kicker

2004-08-18 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 05:29:29PM +0200, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: > I was am not certain if this has been noticed by others, but if I select text > in lyx-1.3.4 (qt) and select another desktop in kpager, kicker becomes > unresponsive. I can use the ctrl-tab and tab to move between the differe

Re: LyXFont::setLyXShape: Unknown shape `normal'

2004-07-15 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:42:09AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Err, things in the stable 1.3.x branch are supposed to be zorking all > the time... Freudian slip perchance? john

Re: Password for editing pages on the lyx wiki

2004-06-19 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 12:04:06PM +0200, Roland Schmitz wrote: > using a static password, which is posted in a mailinglist, isn't very secure. It doesn't need to be secure, it needs to foil the automated spamming scripts the intruders are using. john

Re: Should the wiki be password protected? (was: wiki site looks as if is just been hacked!)

2004-06-16 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 09:10:14PM +0200, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote: > The password for uploading files is simply 'lyx', and I could just set the > "edit password" to 'lyx' as well. I think we are forced to do something like this. For a first round, we can add text directly above that gives us

Re: LyX wites words instead of math symbols

2004-06-01 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 12:43:59PM +0400, ? ? ?? wrote: > Do you use Qt front-end & locale !=en ? > This is Qt bug. No way to fix by youself. > With locale=en _almost_ every symbol is displayed > With xforms _every_ symbol looks as is. Hmm, what symbols are displayed in xforms bu

Re: buffer-export bindings do not work.

2004-05-06 Thread John Levon
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 06:29:04PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > F9 and S-F9 etc work well but C-F9 etc do not work. There is no response > for C-F9, F10 and F11. Yeah, weird isn't it? No idea what the problem is. john

Re: "ASCII" considered obscure

2004-04-25 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 10:25:26PM +0200, Reuben Thomas wrote: > First, in most programs, "Text" is a file type listed on the save dialog, > not under "Export", which tends to be reserved for non-editable formats > such as PDF. This is certainly the case in most word processors. Hence, > she was c

Re: Problem with spellchecker

2004-04-23 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 06:29:19PM +, Les Denham wrote: > This is not just useful for spellchecking: it makes the text within the ERT > visible as normal text in the Lyx window. I found you could do this by trial > and error -- is it documented anywhere? I don't know. Read through the lyx

Re: lyx-1.3.4 rpm

2004-02-19 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 04:23:04PM -0500, Yu-Xi Lim wrote: > I've the src and bin rpm's up at http://128.61.49.129/lyx/, compiled for > my system, which is Fedora Core 1. Hadn't really tested them, but the > bin works fine on my system. Guys, if you've made a package, please ftp into ftp.lyx.or

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.4 is released

2004-02-19 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:34:22PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Public release of LyX version 1.3.4 > === > Can someone update freshmeat ? I'm a bit busy thanks john

Re: suitability

2004-02-05 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 05:42:25PM +0100, Richard O'Regan wrote: > might be more practical than the programs I have mentioned. > If so, where can I get some clear one-two-three explanations of how a > complete beginner would go about installing and using Lyx? I find that http://www.18james.com/

Re: when is the 1.4 release due?

2004-01-15 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:41:42PM -0800, christoff pale wrote: > When is the 1.4 release date? 2005 probably. regards john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.

Re: equivalent?

2003-12-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 04:42:09PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: > >What about the environment 'LyX Code' ? > > this should be deleted in LyX, it is misleading, > because no real verbatim, no real listing, no > real parbox, no real alltt. Only lines of typewriter > format, which doesn't allow linebr

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha -> compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:55:55AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: > > How should the warning message look like? I don't think a full blown > > message box is in order, > > It is not a very bad idea. A big message box will be intrusive (and > scary) but users will learn very quickly how to avoid it. No

Re: Format=>Document=>Page size not working

2003-12-03 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 07:31:45AM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: > we were talking about page size and not page margin. Oops, sorry john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.

Re: Format=>Document=>Page size not working

2003-12-02 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:53:49PM +0100, Herbert Vo? wrote: > Marko wrote: > > >when trying to set the page size of a document to a custom size I notized > >that this does not work in Lyx 1.3.2 (QT frontend). Any custom size seems > >to be completely ignored! > >Attached are two small example

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-27 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:04:48PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > What effort would be required to display an index box with the marked > word/phrase as a lable, similar to the way ERT is displayed? In my book I've Not much effort regards john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice b

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-27 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 07:05:59AM -0800, Ed Sawicki wrote: > I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created. > The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that > I find annoying. I'd also like a bit more automation to make > indexing easier. I'm wondering whether I'm overlooking a

Re: Newbie's question: what is the input box at the bottom of lyx

2003-11-19 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:47:01PM -0500, Wei Zhou wrote: > Could any one tell me what is the input box at the bottom used for? > > If I try to type something, it says unknown function. It's for entering commands, for example "lyx-quit". It's not particulalrly useful most of the time regards j

Re: Installation directory

2003-11-13 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:05:06AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > I seem to have version 1.3.3 installed in both /usr and /usr/local. When I > locate *.layout I find the same files -- same file size, too -- in both > /usr/share/lyx and /usr/local/share/lyx. I believe that /usr/local/ is where > it

Re: LyX-1.3.3-qt on Fedora Core 1

2003-11-08 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 01:21:55PM -0500, David Utidjian wrote: > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.3/lyx-1.3.3-1_qt.src.rpm > package and did a: > > rpmbuild --rebuild lyx-1.3.3-1_qt.src.rpm Could you upload the rebuilt RPMs to ftp.lyx.org (dir incoming/) ? regards john -- Khendon's Law: If

Re: scrolling (three questions)

2003-10-29 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:31:20PM -0500, Ronald Florence wrote: > LyX users have -- workarounds. Why can't the scrolling be fixed? It > would be very useful to be able to mark large blocks of text with the > mouse. It could be fixed. It just needs somebody to do it. john -- Khendon's Law: I

Re: Lyx for Win32, troubleshooting, Results

2003-10-22 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:16:33PM -0700, Henry Pfister wrote: > Could you explain this to me? Right now, Lyx is compatible with the > Qt toolkit for unix (which is under the GPL). What prevents a single > Lyx developer from buying the single user windows Qt toolkit from > Trolltech for $1500, a

Re: Lyx for Win32, troubleshooting, Results

2003-10-22 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 02:32:46AM +0200, Uwe St?hr wrote: > > QT 2.3 was the only version released with a free licence. Of course, > > if you and other Win32 users were to chip in and buy LyX a commercial > > Win32 Qt licence... > > Isn't the LyX founder Matthias Ettrich able to underwrite a QT3

Re: Pasting Russian into Macintosh LyX

2003-10-21 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:35:56PM +0400, Peter Ringwood wrote: > I am a little new to the game, but is it usual for someone to put things as > strongly as 'refusing' to fix? 'Haven't got the time' or 'the issue is > considered low priority at the current stage' I understand, but 'refuse to > fix

Re: e diaresis (or umlaut)

2003-10-16 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:24:03PM +0100, Raphael Clifford wrote: > Is there a lyx way to put two dots over an e (not in maths mode)? My > name has such a character in it :) In latex it is \"{e}. Just type it directly in... You may need to set up a compose key in X (search the net for how: yo

Re: VERY SIMPLE QUESTION (!)

2003-10-16 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:10:32PM +0200, Tomasz Koziara wrote: > HOW TO CENTER A TABLE OR A FIGURE (e.g. in float field) IN LYX There's no need to shout. Centre the paragraph it is in (Layout->Paragraph) john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the threa

Re: ascii output

2003-10-13 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 04:53:11PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > I've found the file > designer2 ui/QPrefAsciiModule.ui > I've found the maxValue thingy, set to 120. How do I remove the > restriction? Set it to -1? I dunno, to be honest john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made

Re: ascii output

2003-10-13 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:23:24AM +0100, Jose' Matos wrote: > This is the trick, choose some huge value, say 1 (if you have paragraphs > with more than 1 characters then you should reconsider your writing style > ;-)). > This will not work, at least in the qt case as the maximum va

Re: Problem with displayed mathematical symbols

2003-10-08 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:15:27AM -0700, JC wrote: > I am using LyX 1.3.2 on a Linux box under X. Some > of the mathematical symbols are not correctly > displayed on the screen. Upgrade to 1.3.3 and install latex-xft-fonts. john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the sam

Re: qt & lyx & locale pl_PL

2003-10-08 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 05:02:04PM +0200, Marcin Bukat wrote: > In README in latex-xft-fonts one can see: > > "If you're using a locale such as LANG=ru_RU, and some others, > these fonts will not load in Qt. This is a Qt bug that Troll > Tech refuse to fix." > > So: > 1. Is there a chance to sol

Re: Layout->Document question

2003-10-06 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 03:43:50PM -0500, Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: > I guess people is used to wait a little bit when the document is opening. > So, maybe you could load the data displayed in document->layout dialog in > that moment? This would just move the cost about so that everybody a

Re: Layout->Document question

2003-10-06 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:34:15AM -0500, Andres Becerra wrote: > Two persons have told me that the Layout->Document dialog takes a little > bit to load in (really) fast machines. Qt frontend ? How long are we talking ? Only the first time the dialog is opened, or each time ? It's around a secon

Re: Toolbar positions

2003-09-29 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 05:10:05PM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > I do use it every day. But my usage is not math-intensive (mostly > literate programming documents). I guess you don't use tables or insets then. Or undo etc. john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same

Re: Toolbar positions

2003-09-28 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 07:36:03PM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Hi John.. how useable is 1.4cvs at the moment? The last time I tried It's not usable. john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.

Re: Toolbar positions

2003-09-28 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 09:57:00PM +0200, Kim Roland Rasmussen wrote: > Is there any way to make LyX (fantastic application BTW) remember the > position of the toolbars? Not in 1.3.x > Specifically, when I start LyX the toolbar and the command entry toolbar > are located above and below the text

Re: Key bindings

2003-09-23 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 04:30:20PM +0200, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > Key [action=257][S-F9] it wasn't even recognising S-F9 in my tests a while ago with some user on #lyx john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.

Re: Key bindings

2003-09-23 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:20:07AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > In ~/.lyx/bind/emacs.bind (and a one-line second file called "my.bind") I > have this line: > > \bind "S-F9" "self-insert environmental impact assessment" I've seen this myself, something is really funny with the F9 key in parti

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-22 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:18:38PM -0700, James Frye wrote: > Which I suppose was really my point: The universe in which I think most > Lyx users spend most of their time is one in which simple, sensible > software is a desirable goal. The rule about filenames not containing > spaces is there for

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:36:22PM +0200, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > > Still, when I press alt-e I get the edit menu. > > Unfortunately, you cannot use any key which is already taken by a menu > shortcut (the underlined letters in the menus). So you'll have to choose > another key. Or edit th

Re: button tools

2003-09-20 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 12:31:58PM -0400, William O. Bray wrote: > Dear list, I wonder if it is possible to add a tool button which will open the > delimiter and bracket dialog directly without going through the math panel. I I don't think this is possible in 1.3. However, you CAN add buttons f

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 06:58:55PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote: > then tell me which LyX layout file is (nearly) a 1:1 translation of > an existing class file ... ;-) Well, in what sense ? It's not very important IMHO for the in-lyx display to look exactly like what latex does. Can you explain fu

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 06:31:46PM +0200, Herbert Vo? wrote: > >The priority is to find a class for LaTeX. Then it's relatively easy > >(probably) to write a lyx layout file that can use that LaTeX class. > > seems to be a joke, that this is easy if you want a > _real_ LyX layout file ... It's a

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:06:13AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > Oh. Thanks. I read the Web page and understand it as far as it goes, but I > do not -- yet? -- see the advantages. For example, I do not see the > advantage of typing "LFUN_FILE_OPEN" in the minibuffer when a ctrl-o does > the same

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:55:19AM -0400, Bruce wrote: > It seems that court documents are really a specialized enough type of > document that they would need their own document class. Moreover, > different jurisdictions may have wildly varying layout requirements > (though the basic elements will

Re: Xfig question

2003-09-17 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:42:10PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > I'm brand new to Xfig and I'm trying to draw xspline curves quickly and > accurately. I'm slowly getting the idea, but now and then I get a little > zig-zag in the line between nodes and I have no idea how to remove that and > make

Re: Alternatives to Lyx?, was: Re: parallel.sty

2003-09-16 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 05:37:49PM +0200, Marcus Beyer wrote: > I think most LyX users have made ugly experiences with other > word processors (like ms word) and are now very glad to have > a deterministic software that produces excellent output. IMHO > it is worth to invest some days of traini

Re: Missed words during spell-check

2003-09-15 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:50:20AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > A volunteer reviewer of my book draft found two words that were not caught > by the spell checker: "seawee" (should be "seaweed") and "methoes" (should > be "methods"). > > Is this an ispell/aspell issue under control of the LyX

Re: Again a pb with math display !

2003-09-09 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:25:10AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > These have a much more friendly licence, meaning that Linux distributors will > actually provide them for you. (They were written by a couple of Debian guys > specifically to get away from the latex-ttf-fonts licence.) Actually mo

Re: buttons

2003-09-08 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 08:20:31PM +0200, Horst Jurkat wrote: > combination) in the opened mask is not set "printing" as standard but > "cancel". I cannot find the file where these defaults can be changed to Current CVS has "Print" as the default. It's not been back-ported to 1.3.3cvs though (y

Re: problem with math display

2003-09-07 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:52:17PM +0200, Johannes Simon wrote: > fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/latex-xft-fonts": caching, 7 fonts, 0 dirs > fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts": caching, 6 fonts, 0 dirs It's probably getting confused. Install latex-xft-fonts once only, and remove all trace

Re: problem with math display

2003-09-07 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:06:31PM +0200, Johannes Simon wrote: > fc-list > > says, among others (like Bitstream, Nimbus): Where did you put the fonts ? Did you make sure to run fc-cache -fv for the failing user as well as root ? john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the sa

Re: problem with math display

2003-09-07 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 09:54:54PM +0200, Johannes Simon wrote: > Now I also tried the latex-xft-fonts (see > http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/FAQ/Qt > ), but without success. Check fc-list can see the new fonts. > > Getting lost, I also tried adding the ttf- and xft-fonts to the X11 > font path

Re: problem with math display after recompiling

2003-09-07 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 07:50:06PM +0100, Rajil Saraswat wrote: > I am not sure about this. I am. It entirely depends on exactly which variant of Qt you're running. > I am running qt 3.2cvs/kde3.2cvs under gentoo with fontconfig. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15629 john -- Khendon's

Re: problem with math display after recompiling

2003-09-07 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 02:15:56PM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: > 2. Why did the math symbols disappear and become ERT after recompilation? Is > this related to the version of Qt? (although I'm pretty sure I recompiled > LyX with the same version of Qt as I had with the previous compile...) Yes, Q

Re: problem with math display after recompiling

2003-09-07 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 10:25:10AM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: > \screen_font_roman "Bitstream Charter" > > I tried changing the fonts to Bookman, Cent. Sch.Book. and now everything > looks fine.. incompatibility with Bitstream Charter maybe? Or something to > do with xft? See what happens if yo

Re: problem with math display after recompiling

2003-09-07 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 09:52:50AM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: > www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/LyXSnapshot1.jpg !! What lyx version ? What distro ? What are your font settings in your prefs ? What is the output of fc-cache -fv ? john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the sam

Re: LyX 1.3.2

2003-09-06 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 12:58:40PM +0200, Jaime D?az-Deus Fern?ndez wrote: > Hi. I use LyX 1.2.3 on a MK 9.1, installed from the distro CD,s. I want to > install LyX 1.3.2 with the file lyx-1.3.2-1mdk91-qt.i586.rpm, but I have the > error: "qt=2.2.1 is required for LyX 1.3.2_qt". My KDE is the v

Re: 1.4.0?

2003-09-05 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:00:26AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > As for the code itself? Well it doesn't crash too much anymore. (ie, not all > the time ;-) I wouldn't say that. It regularly crashes on the simlpest of things. > * Change tracking. Broken to the point of uselessness currently.

Re: current issue of Nature

2003-09-04 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:31:41AM -0500, david nicol wrote: > there's a letter talking up Lyx in the current issue of Nature Care to type it in for us ? :) john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.

Re: Spellcheck Bug

2003-09-02 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:51:00PM +0100, Rajil Saraswat wrote: > 4. Sit for some time with the word 'aer' selected , it will get deselected in > a second Ah, hold on, are you running xclipboard, klipper or the equivalent ? Turn it off. Something is telling us it's taken the selection from us.

Re: Spellcheck Bug

2003-09-02 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:51:00PM +0100, Rajil Saraswat wrote: > 4. Sit for some time with the word 'aer' selected , it will get deselected in > a second I'm not sure why you are seeing things get deselected randomly after some time, we certainly don't have any code that does that. And I can't

Re: Spellcheck Bug

2003-09-02 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:03:46PM +0100, Rob Saunders wrote: > Sorry for lengthy route - Its far easier and quicker to see this > happening in Lyx than to try and describe it. > > Can anyone else confirm this? No. regards john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same pers

Re: Spellcheck Bug

2003-09-02 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:30:50PM +0100, Rajil Saraswat wrote: > I am using Lyx 1.3.2 QT under gentoo linux. There is a serious spellcheck > problem i am facing. The spellcheck(using aspell) is working fine, it is able > to point out the wrong spellings, however the problem comes in replacing t

Re: Mathematical symbols not showing up in lyx-1.3.1 under RH 9

2003-08-26 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:47:51PM -0500, Christopher C. Weis wrote: > except that I'm running RH9 with lyx-1.3.1-1_qt. I've tried the binary http://www.movement.uklinux.net/lyxqt john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.

Re: LyX-1.1.6 Layout->Paragraph Apply does nothing

2003-08-25 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 02:56:06PM -0700, Jim Osborn wrote: > applied to paragraph B. When I do this in LyX 1.1.6fix2, nothing happens; That version is extremely out of date. > How do I accomplish this transfer of details such as vertical spacing it works fine in the current release, 1.3.2 jo

Re: staying inside a nested list level

2003-08-14 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:47:24PM -0400, Brett Dikeman wrote: > This one's been bugging me for a while- when doing an itemized(or numerated) > list, if I go in a level, enter an item, and hit enter to input another list > item(on that same nested level), lyx bounces me ALL the way out to the high

Re: Euro symbol not displayed in lyx

2003-08-02 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 10:50:44PM +0200, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: > I am pretty sure the Euro symbol is a part of ISO-8859-15. Is LyX moving to > utf8? Eventually lyx will use utf-8 output and UCS-4 internally. regards john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person,

Re: Euro symbol not displayed in lyx

2003-08-02 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 07:44:30PM +0200, Holger Zebner wrote: > I don't get the Euro symbol (ALT Gr+e) in Lyx with a document encoded in > latin9. When I oopen the testeuro example file I see only question marks > instead of € . this is a problem of lyx not using unicode unfortunately, I think

Re: no bibtex style file not seen in LYX!

2003-07-31 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 02:28:18PM +0300, Harri Kiiskinen wrote: > I'll admit to having had the same problem while importing 1.1.6 files to > my current 1.3.1 (under Debian testing). Bibliography references did not Can somebody please file a bug, including a minimal testcase john -- Khendon's

Re: no bibtex style file not seen in LYX!

2003-07-29 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:37:20PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > There was a change in the way bibtex was referred to. Click on the > bibliography box in your document and reset the database and style - > your citations should come back. If you have to do this, we have a bug. john -- Khendon

Re: delete all notes at once?

2003-07-26 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 11:16:55PM +0200, Holger Zebner wrote: > does anyone know if there's a way of deleting all notes inside a lyx-doc at > once? Not quite but you can do : command-sequence note-next ; delete-forward as a keybinding and press that repeatedly regards john

Re: FEATURE REQUEST

2003-07-25 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:14:23PM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: > Oh, that's a pity. ): Maybe I'm strange, but I prefer the xforms frontend > to lyx to the qt one. To clarify: it's not dead at all, it's still actively supported. john

Re: FEATURE REQUEST

2003-07-24 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 12:01:38AM +0200, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: > And does lyx always have to stick to the feature set of xforms, which > is not used by many applications beside lyx? No. But this has nothing to do with anything. In particular, the squiggly-line support is independent of

Re: FEATURE REQUEST

2003-07-24 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:47:53AM -0700, woodbd wrote: > The red line under misspelled words is one of the *only* things I ever > did like about Word... It would be nice to have as an option (that > could be turned off...) It's already listed on bugzilla anyhoo john

Re: interleaf

2003-07-24 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 05:37:55PM +0200, Ulla Stubbe wrote: > I already tried Filtrix which is a converter for Interleaf into Word, > but this won't work either. > so please, I'd be thankful for any idea. You are probably stuck (the dangers of using proprietary formats). It's been a *very* long

Re: From a new user

2003-07-23 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:31:51PM +0300, Paul Jahshan wrote: > I would like to say that I am totally impressed by LyX and amazed at how Thanks (from everybody) :) I hope this means that you're going to do your part: reporting documentation problems, apparent bugs, etc. ;) regards john

Re: No Greek Letters in Lyx 1.3.2

2003-07-23 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 07:34:30PM +0200, Kai Johannes Keller wrote: > installed LyX 1.3.2 no ERT is converted, and formulas look bad. > > Has anybody an idea how to fix this? Or does anybody have the same > problem? http://movementarian.org/lyxqt (hopefully people can remember this url) john

Re: More on Invisible fonts

2003-07-22 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 05:53:47PM -0400, David L. Johnson wrote: > Are you moving away from the xforms front end? If so, I will try to > make the qt frontend work. Pointers to help on that would be > appreciated, but I know that is a vague question. Install the following in $HOME/.fonts/ and r

Re: Prob installing latex-ttf...(sorry, question was discussed already)

2003-07-17 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 06:21:12PM +0200, Heiko Schr?der wrote: > Uff. Again the same question: why is Linux so fascinating since installing of > packages can be so very, very difficult and can take you whole days to get > things done? It is really a phaenomenon. Indeed. It's not my problem if

Re: Cleaning up the spellchecker controller

2003-07-17 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 06:07:19PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > John, I think that you know this code well. Am I on the right track? Why all in LFUN_SPELLCHECK ? Most of these seem fairly generic (not spellcheck specific). > FuncRequest(LFUN_SPELLCHECK, string("nextword " + tostr(newval_))); >

Re: why cut->paste text from other documents = blue underlined?

2003-07-12 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 05:39:16PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I cut text out of one LyX document, shift to another and paste ... > why is the text underlined in blue -- seemingly permanently? Blue underlining means different language (and you can turn it off if you like) john

Re: spell checker little annoying things

2003-07-10 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 03:05:49PM +0200, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > When I go into format-> Document -> Language and set it to English, wouldn't > it be nice if the spell checker knew automatically to switch to English? Cos > the way it works right now, I have to go into preferences and tell the

Re: Bad Interface?

2003-07-10 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 07:57:12PM +0200, Francesco Orsenigo wrote: > How can i know where qt are installed? (apt-get does not speak about it...) If you're on debian, just use the lyx .deb regards john

Re: Invisible font

2003-07-10 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 10:49:54AM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote: > > xforms. Sorry, I thought that was still the standard. > > It is an _official_ standard Not really. It's just the default regards john

Re: Bad Interface?

2003-07-10 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 06:33:30PM +0200, Francesco Orsenigo wrote: > How can i tell Lyx to use the qt frontend? Set $QTDIR correctly, and use --with-frontend=qt. You may need to use --with-qt-includes/libs .. john

Re: Bad Interface?

2003-07-10 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 05:07:57PM +0200, Francesco Orsenigo wrote: > 1) In the program menubar (File, Edit, Insert, Layout...) when i select a tab (for > example: Edit) and then try to select the next tab (in this case: Insert) > the mouse pointer becomes a double arrow pointing right ( somethin

Re: Toolbars/Modification for Aqua

2003-07-10 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:47:37PM +0900, Jan Peters wrote: > 1. how I can create pull-down menus in the toolbar? You cannot (yet) > 2. how I can change the size of the icons in the toolbar? Simply replace the icons in the lyx installation with your own ones ... regards john

Re: spell checking

2003-07-09 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 12:23:31PM -0400, William Adams wrote: > Subject: announce: inputenc support for utf8 > Organization: LaTeX3 project Sounds relatively blue-sky in terms of what lyx can use then... regards john

Re: spell checking

2003-07-09 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:19:15PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I think that nobody tried to touch this because the right solution is > actually unicode. Can latex accept utf8 (or whatever) encoded source files ? Or woould we need a pass to export such accented characters ? regards john

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