Re: New LyX website

2008-04-04 Thread G. Milde
On 1.04.08, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > Thanks for the feedback, Guenter! > G. Milde wrote: >> On 31.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: >>> 3. Should we provide output samples (DVI, PDF) somewhere ... >> Of course we should. Also as illustration of the WYSIWYM principle and the >> sensible distinction

Re: New LyX website

2008-04-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: By the way, when you guys click on a .lyx file in your browser, do you get a download prompt or does your browser display the LyX source? New users might be confused if they see the LyX source and don't know what to do with it. I get the source displayed as text in

Re: New LyX website

2008-04-01 Thread M-L
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne shared this with us all: >--} Thanks for the feedback, Guenter! >--} >--} G. Milde wrote: >--} > On 31.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: >--} > >--} >> 3. Should we provide output samples (DVI, PDF) somewhere (under > About --} >> LyX or Visual Tour)? Non-LaTeX-user

Re: New LyX website

2008-04-01 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Thanks for the feedback, Guenter! G. Milde wrote: On 31.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: 3. Should we provide output samples (DVI, PDF) somewhere (under About LyX or Visual Tour)? Non-LaTeX-users might not know what they're getting. Of course we should. Also as illustration of the WYSIWYM

Re: Visual Tour (Was: New LyX website)

2008-04-01 Thread G. Milde
On 31.03.08, Michael Thompson wrote: > On the question of screenshots, > a) it bugs me that the illustrations are all in a serif font, > which should never be used on a screen, unless it's maybe old > courier. Well, we should provide at least one screenshot resembling the appearance of LyX o

Re: New LyX website

2008-04-01 Thread G. Milde
On 31.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: >> For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at: >> http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage >> We're still doing some design work, but the basics are in place. What >> do yo

Re: Visual Tour (Was: New LyX website)

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Thompson
> Michael, feel free to re-create pictures in screenshot section and/or > graphical tour. the screenshots you sent are fine, just use standard > colors and composition of toolbars. > > pavel > Sorry, the lyx background was the strong light, back porch version, which looks pretty goofy. I have be

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 31 March 2008 14:03, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 08:07:40PM -0400, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at: > > http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage >

Re: Visual Tour (Was: New LyX website)

2008-03-31 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On the question of screenshots, > > a) it bugs me that the illustrations are all in a serif font, > which should never be used on a screen, unless it's maybe old > courier. Michael, feel free to re-create pictures in screenshot section and/or graphical tour. the screenshots you sent are fine

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-31 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 08:07:40PM -0400, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > Hello all, > > For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at: > http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage > > We're still doing some design work, but the basics are in place. What

Re: Visual Tour (Was: New LyX website)

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Thompson
Man, the website is amazing! I just wish the cool playground block letters of the old website could replace this incoherent three lets-have-fun-colors + Times Roman silliness. On the question of screenshots, a) it bugs me that the illustrations are all in a serif font, which should never be

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-31 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 07:45:45AM +0200, Rudi van der Linde wrote: > > > John wrote: > > >> For the TeX (or LaTeX) expert you can still indulge your love of (or need >> for) the arcana of the TeX language and LaTeX macros for special effects >> and tinkering via LyX's Evil Red TeX (ERT) dialog

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-31 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 02:33:01AM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > I like it much more than our current webpage. > > But there are some bugs: This page > > http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/Translation > > btw i think the listing of translated things is very outdated. > either update or delete

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-31 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 08:07:40PM -0400, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > Hello all, > > For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at: > http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage > > We're still doing some design work, but the basics are in place. What

Re: Visual Tour (Was: New LyX website)

2008-03-31 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: > Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: >> >> [...] >> What do you suggest for the "visual tour" aspect? Just to sum up, >> currently there is a link on the sidebar that says "Visual Tour." > > [...] > I think the current setup is fine. At the risk of redundancy, it might > be worth i

Re: Visual Tour (Was: New LyX website)

2008-03-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: 2. I suggest a direct link to the visual tour, or at least the screenshots, in the left margin. When I'm shopping for software, that's usually one of the first things I seek out, and I'll sometimes not bother poking around a site if I can't see screenshots early on.

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-31 Thread Pavel Sanda
> I really like the structure and the cleanliness. It's very usable and > navigable. > > I'd change the home page text slightly, getting rid of the (IMHO) meaningless > term "WYSIWYM". For instance, I'd change the first paragraph to: this paragraph was changed by me, sorry Steve... i've post my

Re: Visual Tour (Was: New LyX website)

2008-03-31 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Looks very nice. I have a few minor suggestions, mostly pertaining to the home page: 1. I would include the word "license" in the link to the license. Currently only "Free Software / Open Source" is highlighted, so it's slightly unclear whether this is a link to the act

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-31 Thread Pavel Sanda
> 2. I suggest a direct link to the visual tour, or at least the > screenshots, in the left margin. When I'm shopping for software, that's > usually one of the first things I seek out, and I'll sometimes not bother > poking around a site if I can't see screenshots early on. good point, i usua

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Hello all, For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at: http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage We're still doing some design work, but the basics are in place. What do you all think? Rex Looks very nice. I have a few minor s

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 30 March 2008 20:07, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > Hello all, > > For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at: > http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage > > We're still doing some design work, but the basics are in place. What do > you

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-31 Thread Pavel Sanda
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Re: New LyX website

2008-03-31 Thread Konrad Blum
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, ernesto wrote: > Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at: > > http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage > > > > We're still doing some design work,

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-31 Thread ernesto
Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Hello all, For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at: http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage We're still doing some design work, but the basics are in place. What do you all think? Rex Hi, It looks very good. Simple and i

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Rex C. Eastbourne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Glad you like it Rich! Christian, Joost, Jean-Marc, Pavel, and others > were all instrumental in putting this all together. I do not think I deserve any credit here... BTW, is it possible to hide "index.php/Main" from the URLs? It is pretty ugly.

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-31 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
On Monday 31 March 2008 02:07:40 Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > Hello all, > > For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at: > http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage I like it very much! May I suggest that you include the "Recent L

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-30 Thread Rudi van der Linde
John wrote: For the TeX (or LaTeX) expert you can still indulge your love of (or need for) the arcana of the TeX language and LaTeX macros for special effects and tinkering via LyX's Evil Red TeX (ERT) dialogue box. IMHO I don't think its such a good idea to tell new people about the "E

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-30 Thread John
On Monday 31 March 2008 01:07:40 pm Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > Hello all, > > For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at: > http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage > > We're still doing some design work, but the basics are in place. What d

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-30 Thread Les Denham
On Sunday 30 March 2008 19:07, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at: > http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage > > We're still doing some design work, but the basics are in place. What do > you all think? Rex,

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-30 Thread Pavel Sanda
> I like it much more than our current webpage. > But there are some bugs: This page > http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/Translation btw i think the listing of translated things is very outdated. either update or delete it? > When will the new webpage will replace the old one- with the relea

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: But there are some bugs: Here's another one: This page contains email adresses as direct links leading to spam: http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/Translation regards Uwe

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-30 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: What do you all think? Rex, Sharp as a tack! Very professional and impressive. Kudos to all of you. Rich Glad you like it Rich! Christian, Joost, Jean-Marc, Pavel, and others were all instrumental in putting this all toge

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rex C. Eastbourne schrieb: We're still doing some design work, but the basics are in place. What do you all think? I like it much more than our current webpage. But there are some bugs: This page http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/Translation contains a link to http://www.lyx.org/i18n.php

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: What do you all think? Rex, Sharp as a tack! Very professional and impressive. Kudos to all of you. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innova

New LyX website

2008-03-30 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Hello all, For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at: http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage We're still doing some design work, but the basics are in place. What do you all think? Rex

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-27 Thread Stephen Carville
On 27 Jun 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: - John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: - - | On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:07:32AM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: - | - | > This may sound silly, but I miss the embossed LyX logo in the - | > background... can you bring it back? (-8 - | - | I think you'v

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-27 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 02:07:45PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Count me in. When do we have the old background back? The new site is > a bit boring. well let's add some javascript ! and some flash stuff ! ooh, and some streaming audio (I want my links to go "quack" too !) that backgrou

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-27 Thread Beyer, Marcus
> This may sound silly, but I miss the embossed LyX logo > in the background... can you bring it back? (-8 Please don't! The page is *much* better readable without background images! Best Regards Marcus Beyer _ Dipl.-Inform. Marcus Be

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-27 Thread Remzi Seker
> > Really, I love the look of the logo, and I very dislike the mascot, it > > looks ugly. So just having the logo replace the mascot would make me > > happy... (-8 > > You must know some graphic artists. Why not get one of them to draw us a > new mascot. The current one is sort of, kind a lik

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-27 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 27-Jun-2001 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Allan> ...and Lars makes 3. Hmmm let's see 3 versus umpteen. No > Allan> contest ;-) > > Count me in. When do we have the old background back? The new site is > a bit boring. I can only agree with this! Jürgen -- -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Allan> On 27 Jun 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> | On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:07:32AM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: >> | | > This may sound silly, but I miss the embossed LyX logo in the >> |

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-27 Thread Ragnar Beer
I like the look. The only thing I'm missing is underlined links. It just makes it a lot harder to find links when the eye is used to the conventional style of displaying them. Ragnar >The emporers new clothes are awaiting your perusal and (hopefully) >your approval at: > > http://www.lyx

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-27 Thread Allan Rae
On 27 Jun 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:07:32AM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > | > | > This may sound silly, but I miss the embossed LyX logo in the > | > background... can you bring it back? (-8 > | > | I think you'v

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-27 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:07:32AM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: | | > This may sound silly, but I miss the embossed LyX logo in the | > background... can you bring it back? (-8 | | I think you've been outvoted on this one :) I am not so sure about th

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-26 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:26:12PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > > > This email originally went only to lyx-devel but I figure I better make > > sure it gets to lyx-users also... > > > > On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > > > This may sound

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-26 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:26:12PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > This email originally went only to lyx-devel but I figure I better make > sure it gets to lyx-users also... > > On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > > This may sound silly, but I miss the embossed LyX logo in the > > backgr

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-25 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Baruch Even wrote: > This is usually done by placing the file favicon.ico in the root of the > web site. If that is all it takes then sure we can add that. Allan. (ARRae)

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-25 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 09:05, Baruch Even wrote: > An extension of this is something i've seen in Wikis, that is the > ability of the user to say what is the url of the CSS file he wants, he > can then point it to a local file and edit the look of the site to > whatever he wants, though I believ

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-25 Thread Allan Rae
This email originally went only to lyx-devel but I figure I better make sure it gets to lyx-users also... On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > This may sound silly, but I miss the embossed LyX logo in the > background... can you bring it back? (-8 Well the short answer is yes very ea

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-25 Thread Baruch Even
* Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010626 09:13]: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > > It looks cool. However, would you consider making a bookmark icons? It > > does work with IE and konqueror. I think it does no harm to other web > > browser though. > > I'm not sure what you mea

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-25 Thread Baruch Even
* John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010626 08:18]: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:07:32AM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > > > This may sound silly, but I miss the embossed LyX logo in the > > background... can you bring it back? (-8 > > I think you've been outvoted on this one :) > > The new page

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-25 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > It looks cool. However, would you consider making a bookmark icons? It > does work with IE and konqueror. I think it does no harm to other web > browser though. I'm not sure what you mean. Where/How is this used/coded in a webpage? > I can create

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-25 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
It looks cool. However, would you consider making a bookmark icons? It does work with IE and konqueror. I think it does no harm to other web browser though. I can create one from the lyx_small3.gif. Chanop Once upon a time, I heard Allan Rae say > > The emporers new clothes are awaiting your

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-25 Thread Allan Rae
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:56:45AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Look pretty good, but why is everything double spaced? > > > > Because currently paragraph spacing is defined as: > > p { > line-height: 1.4em; > } > > Changing that to smalle

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-25 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:07:32AM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > This may sound silly, but I miss the embossed LyX logo in the > background... can you bring it back? (-8 I think you've been outvoted on this one :) The new pages loads faster and looks better IMHO ! regards, john -- "Euler

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-25 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:25:51AM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > The emporers new clothes are awaiting your perusal and (hopefully) > your approval at: > > http://www.lyx.org/ > > XHTML1-Strict and CSS2 are the order of the day. > > The content still needs some more work but at least it lo

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-25 Thread Zvezdan Petkovic
We have made all possible effort to make this thing work on all important browsers. I personally test it first in Konqueror, but, yes, I do have Konqueror 2.1.1 on KDE 2.1.2. I believe you are aware that Konqueror below 2.x version was a rather buggy browser, especially in regard to CSS. Since yo

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-25 Thread Francesco Scaglioni
I think it looks good but unfortunately my konqueror (1.9.8 under kde 2.0.1) fails to display it - the menu bar appears as a stripe overlaying the middle of the page. F

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-25 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > The emporers new clothes are awaiting your perusal and (hopefully) > your approval at: > > http://www.lyx.org/ > > XHTML1-Strict and CSS2 are the order of the day. > > The content still needs some more work but at least it looks really pretty > now.

New LyX website released

2001-06-25 Thread Allan Rae
The emporers new clothes are awaiting your perusal and (hopefully) your approval at: http://www.lyx.org/ XHTML1-Strict and CSS2 are the order of the day. The content still needs some more work but at least it looks really pretty now. For the first time in a long time (ever?) the LyX w