Re: ArabTeX bug is now resolved (was Re: Eureka! This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1)

2003-08-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Munzir Taha wrote: > I received this from Mr. Lagally, the author of ArabTex: "Up to version > 3.11 ArabTeX required a blank space before any control sequence within > Arabic or Hebrew input text; this, as I was informed, led to problems in > context of LyX. > The new version 3.11, presently at CTA

ArabTeX bug is now resolved (was Re: Eureka! This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1)

2003-08-26 Thread Munzir Taha
Regarding this bug http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225 I received this from Mr. Lagally, the author of ArabTex: "Up to version 3.11 ArabTeX required a blank space before any control sequence within Arabic or Hebrew input text; this, as I was informed, led to problems in context of LyX. Th

Re: [PATCH] Re: Eureka! This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-07-02 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:14:11PM +0300, Munzir Taha Obeid wrote: > Yeah! I understand the problem now. But can I argue that if we exclude some > odd situations like te\TeX,..., it's considered good output to have > formatting tags like center,... to be in a newline. It is _really_ hard to get

Re: [PATCH] Re: Eureka! This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-07-02 Thread Munzir Taha Obeid
On Monday 30 June 2003 7:42 pm, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > The problem is that this package implements something which is not > really latex, but a subset of latex. For example, I may want to write > te\TeX (name of a famous distribution). I arabic context, this is > forbidden, and I shall write

Re: [PATCH] Re: Eureka! This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-28 Thread Munzir Taha Obeid
On Friday 27 June 2003 12:28 pm, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Munzir" == Munzir Taha Obeid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, it would be easier to grab lyx-1.3.2.tar.gz from > ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/ and apply the patch to that. Ok, I downloaded the lyx-1.3.2.tar.bz2, extracted it, copi

Re: [PATCH] Re: Eureka! This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-26 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:41:26AM +0300, Munzir Taha Obeid wrote: > On Tuesday 24 June 2003 12:56 pm, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Munzir, I do not know if you are able to apply this patch and rebuild > > LyX, but I'd appreciate feedback on whether this fixes your problem. > > PS: there is a sm

Re: [PATCH] Re: Eureka! This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-26 Thread Munzir Taha Obeid
I am sorry just now I knew the thread spreaded between the devel and users mailing lists and this is why I receive part of the messages only. I am going to forward it again to both and try to keep an eye ;-) On Tuesday 24 June 2003 12:56 pm, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Munzir, I do not know if

Re: [PATCH] Re: Eureka! This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-26 Thread Munzir Taha Obeid
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 12:56 pm, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Munzir, I do not know if you are able to apply this patch and rebuild > LyX, but I'd appreciate feedback on whether this fixes your problem. > PS: there is a small unrelated change with the patch Ok, I will be happy to try the patch an

Re: This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:59:41PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > This means that the following code is not OK: > \begin{arabtex}abcd\foo{bar}\end{arabtex} > > So shall we add a space before each and every \foo{bar} construct just > in case arabtex is active?? Certainly not, as this breaks

Re: This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:43:28PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I do not see how we could fix this. I do not think LyX should add > spaces all over the place just for the benefit of arabtex. Not 'all over the place', but if \end{xxx} has xxx == arabtex perhaps? Andre' -- Those who desir

Re: This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-21 Thread Munzir Taha Obeid
I want to emphasize it again. Bear with me, please. --- There are two errors here: Error #1: An error when we want to view a document that contains Arabic text through view -> PDF. LaTeX Error: \begin{arabtext} on input line 16 ended by \end{document}. \end{document}

Re: This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-19 Thread Munzir Taha Obeid
On Thursday 19 June 2003 10:42 am, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Munzir Taha Obeid wrote: > > ! LaTeX Error: \begin{center} on input line 11 ended by \end{document}. > > Have I missed an obvious thing?! > > Does the error also occur if you add a paragraph in the standard language > (english) at the

Re: This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-19 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Munzir Taha Obeid wrote: > ! LaTeX Error: \begin{center} on input line 11 ended by \end{document}. > Have I missed an obvious thing?! Does the error also occur if you add a paragraph in the standard language (english) at the end of the document? Juergen.

Re: This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Munzir Taha Obeid wrote: > ! LaTeX Error: \begin{center} on input line 11 ended by \end{document}. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225 Regards, Juergen

Re: This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Munzir Taha Obeid wrote: > Open the latex file in an editor and add a space before any closing LaTeX > code within the \begin{arabtext} and the \end{arabtext}. I mean a space > should be entered before \end{arabtext} and if you have any formatting say > you centered some text you should go to the l

This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-17 Thread Munzir Taha Obeid
Sometime ago, I tried to write Arabic in lyx but failed to do it. I asked in the lyx mailing list and Dekel Tsur, the person behind the support, thankfully tried to help me but we couldn't figure out why it didn't work for me. He checked my preferences file and the exported TeX file to no avail.

Re: Eureka! This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-11 Thread Munzir Taha Obeid
> Does the problem go away if you place the \end{arabtex} on a line of its > own? Yes, if I place the \end{arabtex} in a line of its known or if I place a space before it, the problem goes away completely. I hope you can find out why this happens and who is accused here ;-) Thanks Andre for you

Re: Eureka! This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:23:09AM +, Munzir Taha Obeid wrote: > On Wednesday 11 June 2003 6:09 am, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:04:52PM +, Munzir Taha Obeid wrote: > > > > > What does the exported .tex look like? > Attached is a tex file that just contains my name i

Re: Eureka! This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-11 Thread Munzir Taha Obeid
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 6:09 am, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:04:52PM +, Munzir Taha Obeid wrote: > > What does the exported .tex look like? Attached is a tex file that just contains my name in Arabic. -- __/__/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _\ _/ _\_/ _/

Re: Eureka! This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-10 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:04:52PM +, Munzir Taha Obeid wrote: > The problem: > - > I open lyx and wrote some Arabic. View -> PDF (pdflatex) gives this error > > LaTeX Error: \begin{arabtext} on input line 12 ended by \end{document}. > \end{document} >

Eureka! This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-10 Thread Munzir Taha Obeid
Sometime ago, I tried to write Arabic in lyx but failed to do it. I asked in the lyx mailing list and Dekel Tsur, the person behind the support, thankfully tried to help me but we couldn't figure out why it didn't work for me. He checked my preferences file and the exported TeX file to no avail.

Eureka! This is why Arabic support for lyx 1.3.2 doesn't work in my Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-10 Thread Munzir Taha Obeid
Sometime ago, I tried to write Arabic in lyx but failed to do it. I asked in the lyx mailing list and Dekel Tsur, the person behind the support, thankfully tried to help me but we couldn't figure out why it didn't work for me. He checked my preferences file and the exported TeX file to no avail.