Re: Macros with optional arguments - LyX 1.6.1

2009-01-08 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Am 07.01.2009 um 22:45 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: xargs is only needed if you have macros with optional arguments. Of course, \newcommand could handle the case with one optional. But, what we need in fact is something equivalent to \global\def for this case. Is there a way to do this wi

Re: Macros with optional arguments - LyX 1.6.1

2009-01-08 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Am 07.01.2009 um 22:45 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: xargs is only needed if you have macros with optional arguments. Of course, \newcommand could handle the case with one optional. But, what we need in fact is something equivalent to \global\def for this case. Is there a way to do this wi

Re: Macros with optional arguments - LyX 1.6.1

2009-01-07 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Am 06.01.2009 um 16:58 schrieb James C. Sutherland: I have been using macros in 1.6.1, and recently tried to use a macro with an optional argument. I have attached a trivial LyX file that shows this macro and an example of its use. This compiles through LyX just fine. The problem is th

Re: Macros with optional arguments - LyX 1.6.1

2009-01-07 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Am 07.01.2009 um 10:59 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: [cc:ing to lyx-devel] "James C. Sutherland" writes: Okay, I think that I found the problem: I am missing the "xargs" package. The exported LaTeX file actually had a line: \usepackage{xargs}[2008/03/08] which I discarded. This is

Re: Find and Replace math

2008-12-06 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Am 06.12.2008 um 15:23 schrieb Erez Yerushalmi: Hi Tommaso, Thanks for your mail, and for the time you spent writing it! LyX is really a good tool for me, especially because I have horrible/unorganized writing. So, I actually work-out all the math directly with LyX. What I liked about your v

Re: Macros and Parent/Child Documents in 1.6

2008-12-02 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Am 01.12.2008 um 18:59 schrieb James Sutherland: I have a parent document where I have defined macros. In the child document, I have used the macro. The compiled output (either from the child, or the parent), is fine. However, the LyX preview for the equations using macros is not corre

Re: autocomplete question

2008-11-29 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Hi! In fact there is some logic in the autocompletion to remember the last choice. I fear it is not working correctly and should be fixed (and extended). It is not that obvious what exactly should be remembered. Probably it would be enough to remember just a fixed number of completions an

Re: displaying long division of polynomials in lyx

2008-11-26 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Am 26.11.2008 um 09:39 schrieb Guenter Milde: Jamesdaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: I'm writing an Algebra textbook and I need to show division of polynomials (both long division and synthetic division / Horner's method). I am new to LyX, and have just kind of been stumbling my way throu

Re: fullscreen stuck

2008-11-13 Thread Stefan Schimanski
It's probably the same problem as described here: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5274 Stefan Am 13.11.2008 um 20:56 schrieb Ivan Werning: Using LyX 1.6 for Mac OS X 10.5.5 The following gets me stuck in Fullscreen: -Open any file, or a start a new file. (or you can do this without a

Re: Feature request: Macro updates when definitions are pasted after use

2008-11-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Am 09.11.2008 um 23:08 schrieb Manoj Rajagopalan: When copy-pasting between LyX documents, sometimes I find I have forgotten to paste the definition of some macros. When I copy and paste them later (always before the first use in the document), I find there is no way to get LyX to iterate

Re: spellchecking problem…

2008-10-21 Thread Stefan Schimanski
I had to put the correct directionary path into ~/.aspell.conf dict-dir /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/ Now it works for me (at least UK English, maybe German as well). Stefan Am 12.10.2008 um 10:45 schrieb macnews: Hello, I have a problem using spellchecking in

Re: math-macros in included file

2008-04-07 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Am 07.04.2008 um 11:44 schrieb G. Milde: Dear LyX users, for my thesis, I define a set of about 20 math-macros that reside in a well commented file math-macros.lyx that is included by the document file(s). When I open the document file before opening the math-macro.lyx file, all macros will

Re: How to avoid Macro pop-up?

2007-11-06 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Hallo! So what can I do now to make further suggestions. As far as I could see, all what I had in mind (about macros) is already implemented, but to really see that, it would be fine to use it. What is your advice. Shall I compile the development version, or try to compile your own branch?

Re: How to avoid Macro pop-up?

2007-11-06 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Hello! First about the popups: I think in 1.5.x, if they don't appear it's a bug in the rendering code in fact because the math mode does not detect the cursor correctly going into the macro. The behaviour that macros popup was the starting point for me to think about redoing the LyX macr

Re: lyx 1.5 problems - slowness, scrolling, listings

2007-06-20 Thread Stefan Schimanski
- when I scroll through the document using my mouse's wheel, and there are floats in the doc (pictures or listings), sometimes the float is scrolled part at a time, like it should (especially when I'm scrolling up), and sometimes entire float is scrolled with one move of the wheel (esp. when scrol

Re: RC1 -- strange behaviour

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Make a bug report in bugzilla please. Stefan Hi, the attached file is the reduced form of a template i have prepared into which i edit the path to and the name of the document when using it (doing a tiny bit of bash scripting). 1.) Open the file with RC1 from the command line, in my case

Re: Lyx 1.5 RC1 Mac, Problem with absolute Path

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
I recently started to use the Lyx RC1 and I am very impressed. I realy like the new outline TOC feature. But I do have a Problem with Lyx Files I recieve from other People. Aparently Lyx saves Bibtex Bibliographies with an absolute path. That leads to problems when the files are moved ore

Re: Lyx 1.5 RC1 Mac, Problem with absolute Path

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Am 08.06.2007 um 15:08 schrieb Alexander Kern: Hi fellow Lyx Users, I recently started to use the Lyx RC1 and I am very impressed. I realy like the new outline TOC feature. But I do have a Problem with Lyx Files I recieve from other People. Aparently Lyx saves Bibtex Bibliographies with

Re: LyX-1.5.0 Release Candidate 1 on Mac PPC: Speed issues (solution?)

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Am 09.06.2007 um 17:05 schrieb Gerard Ateshian: Bob, The version of Qt I had used for that compilation was 4.2. Just like you, I had noticed that the Times font was not a problem in that version. At least it helps to know that this font problem is due to Qt, not to LyX. That a proble

Re: LyX-1.5.0 Release Candidate 1 on Mac PPC: Speed issues (solution?)

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Don't know how much known this is: Apple provides a wonderful easy to use profiling application for OSX, called Shark. You get it here for free (maybe you have to register for the ADC website, but it's free): http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/ Shark is part of the package "Computer

Re: crash with rc1

2007-06-10 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Am 10.06.2007 um 16:49 schrieb Sven Schreiber: Stefan Schimanski schrieb: don't know if this issue is known, I got a crash today with rc1 on winxp. It apparently happened while I hit backspace and kept it pressed a little. The error information window contained the following: P

Re: crash with rc1

2007-06-09 Thread Stefan Schimanski
don't know if this issue is known, I got a crash today with rc1 on winxp. It apparently happened while I hit backspace and kept it pressed a little. The error information window contained the following: Please compare to the following (already fixed) bugs: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cg

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-06 Thread Stefan Schimanski
me word processors behave like that, and I don't like to use them :). I will be willing to compile and test. I thought Dov knows Hebrew :). Miki "Stefan Schimanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! Myself and Dov Feldstern are working on the

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Another open question (at least to me): how common and convenient is this logical cursor movement? For me it is rather strange and confusing. But maybe one just needs some years of working with it to get used to it intuitively. I ask because I don't think it's very complicated to add visual

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Definitely the non-magic solution: If you enter a space it gets the direction (RTL or LTR) of the current font, and is drawn on screen according to that direction (place and underlining), and cursor navigation follows that direction. It should not be possible to enter two consecutive spaces (on

Re: The close button on macos X windows

2007-06-05 Thread Stefan Schimanski
That's only true for the last window. In fact there are quite a lot of other Mac apps which behave this way (although I agree that even without a window the application should keep running). As long as you have more than one window the red button will only close that one. Stefan Am 05.06.2

WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Stefan Schimanski
side the RTL, one outside, are merged silently by Latex, i.e. "english \R{HEBREW }" will look the same as "english \R{HEBREW}". If you have an opinion, please tell us. Thanks Stefan Schimanski PGP.sig Description: Signierter Teil der Nachricht

Re: Math alias

2007-04-19 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Is there any way I can create a custom function in a math environment? I'm writing a lot of formulas that basically have the same style for variables: \underset{\sim}{I} \underset{\sim}{P_1} What I would like is to type (within LyX math environment): \fuzzy And that it shows an underset wi

Password for wiki

2007-04-18 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Hello, can anybody send me the Wiki upload password by private mail? Thanks Stefan PGP.sig Description: Signierter Teil der Nachricht

Re: math-macro and inline editing

2007-02-15 Thread Stefan Schimanski
>> Why isn't LyX using my preview definition for the macro with some >> placeholder boxes as the arguments? > > Navigation between the arguments is non-obvious. > Macro arguments can be used more than once. But as I understand the second part of the macro is the editing template. That uses a "

math-macro and inline editing

2007-02-15 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Hi! I want to make heavy use of math-macros to create type inference rules using proof.sty. I defined some macros using the \frac construct in the right box of the math-macro definition as preview, with several arguments #1, #2, ... In the left box I use the corresponding commands from proof.s