Re: English thesaurus?

2000-11-16 Thread John Levon
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Matej Cepl wrote: > Does anybody know about something like %subj% for Linux? If > there already is such animal, are there plans for its linking to > LyX (in similar manner as [ia]spell is)? > > Thanx > > Matej > not as far as I'm aware. The only

Re: No rendering with Ghostscript 6.50

2000-12-08 Thread John Levon
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Idar Tollefsen wrote: > >after upgrading to ghostscript 6.50, lyx1.1.5fix2 and the latest > >cvs-version don't render eps-pictures any more. > >Anybody else suffering the same problem ? > > Some of the same. I'm running the Win32 port of LyX 1.1.5fix2 > and using Ghostscript

Re: No rendering with Ghostscript 6.50

2000-12-08 Thread John Levon
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Armin Geisse wrote: > Hi, > > after upgrading to ghostscript 6.50, lyx1.1.5fix2 and the latest > cvs-version don't render eps-pictures any more. > > Anybody else suffering the same problem ? > > Cheers > Armin I've just confirmed this happens with lyx 1.0.4 (yep, that's ho

Ghostscript 6.50 and LyX

2000-12-11 Thread John Levon
A couple of users reported that they couldn't get recent Ghostscript versions to work with LyX with displaying figures inline. It transpires this is a Ghostscript bug http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=124957&group_id=1897 This bug appears to affect 6.22 upwards. Hopefully a bu

Re: bug with space in dir name

2000-12-18 Thread John Levon
On 16 Dec 2000, Stefano Ghirlanda wrote: > Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Stefano Ghirlanda wrote: > > > Hi, I do not know wheter this is a bug in LyX or LaTeX/TeX, but > > > is seems that documents whose full path contains spaces cannot be > > > typeset. For instance I see thi

Re: KLyX [Was: Re: Hyphenation problem]

2000-12-28 Thread John Levon
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Matej Cepl wrote: > At 10:06 PM 12/25/2000 +0100, Javier Nieto Esteban wrote: > >Hi, > > I'm an Spanish newbie user of Lyx (really, I use Klyx in my > > Mandrake Linux). > > > I have read something about re-emergence of KLyX in LDN, but I did not > understood it w

Re: Suitable vector graphics program?

2001-01-05 Thread John Levon
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, James Sinnamon wrote: > Dear LyX users, > > I feel as if I am at my wit's end trying to find a vector drwaing > program which allow me to create drawings which I can export as eps > files for > inclusion in a LyX document. I may have no alternative, but to use > xfig, but it

Re: Prerelease #2 of LyX 1.3.0

2003-01-14 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:42:47AM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: > What is the status of ispell support in the this release? I do I don't know a reason why it wouldn't work john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.

Re: Prerelease #2 of LyX 1.3.0

2003-01-14 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:57:38PM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: > Somebody mentioned, that LyX from 1.3.0 will support aspell only. who ? what changed ? john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.

Re: Sobig worm

2003-01-14 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 04:20:49PM +0100, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Recently several mails from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with attachments reached the list. > This is the well known worm "Sobig": > http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99950.htm or even better, ban any mails with .pif attachments john

Re: Prerelease #2 of LyX 1.3.0

2003-01-14 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 04:18:06PM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: > Well, I have mentioned in message > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg23431.html, > that it was in LDN, but I cannot find it there now. that's because I never wrote anything like that john -- Khendon's Law: If t

Re: 1.3pre2 problems

2003-01-15 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 09:42:21AM +, Jos? Matos wrote: > > X Error: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length > > error) 16 > > Funny you mention it because I also get those but only when running > remotely. we need to find where they come from then. -sync might help jo

Re: [Web-team] Funding for Lyx development

2003-01-15 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:06:04AM -0600, Todd Flaming wrote: > But I am also interested in helping the project -- I'm not rich, but I can Hi Todd. > contribute more than a few dollars. I'd like to know more about how the > development team/process is organized. Quite simple really. We have ou

Re: 1.1 to 1.2.3

2003-01-17 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 01:08:15PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Which do you think is the more user-friendly option? > > John's disease is spreading. ;-) > > Unfortunately. A HA ! Now I have you on record as wanting to be user unfriendly :) regards john -- "Life is like a clock: You c

Re: lyx 1.3pre2 does not display oe and euro symbol

2003-01-21 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:14:37PM +0100, Nabil Hathout wrote: > In fact, the problem exists only with the Qt front-end. It seems (-dbg 512) > that the font encoding is guessed from the language value and that the ones > associated with "Français" are either iso8859-1 and iso10646-1. I have adde

Re: Inserting an URL: not anyone?

2003-01-21 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:30:20PM -0500, Raymond Ouellette wrote: > Using LyX 1.2.2 (my last compile of 1.2.3 src.rpm failed :-() I noticed this problem: > I can't insert in a LyX document an URL if it contains certain characters. You need to type latex not normal text at the moment. > http://w

Re: How to preview-latex?

2003-01-23 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:30:17AM +, Morgan Kelly wrote: > is there any step-by-step guide to setting up and using preview-latex with lyx > 1.3pre2/cvs? o install preview-latex o run Edit->Reconfigure in lyx o enable "Instant preview" in the prefs o restart lyx regards john -- " It is qu

Re: Bug: lyx-qt 1.3.0pre3 cannot use ISO-8859-15

2003-01-30 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:54:59PM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: > Well, /usr/share/lyx/languages has correctly iso-8859-2 for > Czech, but the symptoms are exactly the same (and it worked in > xforms-based lyx 1.2.1): Czech in minibuffer but not in text What is your lang setting ? What distro/qt ? W

Re: Bug: lyx-qt 1.3.0pre3 cannot use ISO-8859-15

2003-01-30 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 06:16:56PM +0100, Nabil Hathout wrote: > The problem in 1.3.0pre2 when used with Qt has not been solved in the > pre-realease 3. My locale variable is correctely set but I can type ? (euro) > and ? (oe) in the minibuffer, but I cannot type them in the text. This is not lik

Re: Bug: lyx-qt 1.3.0pre3 cannot use ISO-8859-15

2003-01-30 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:00:31PM +0100, Nabil Hathout wrote: > Thank you. This solves the problem for the euro, but not for oe. I am not > even able to insert one by copy/paste (the char is shown as "?"). What is the Xlib symbol name for oe ? Lower case ? What is your $LANG again ? What does

Re: Third Prerelease of LyX 1.3.0

2003-01-31 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:20:56AM -0500, Chris H wrote: > using ./congifigure --with-front-end=qt --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt3 > works all ok. I guess this isn't what you reallly typed. >error in expand_call, at calls.c:3049 > Please submit a full bug report, > with preprocessed source if ap

Re: Bug: lyx-qt 1.3.0pre3 cannot use ISO-8859-15

2003-01-31 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:53:22PM +0100, Nabil Hathout wrote: > How can I know the name of this symbol ? I cannot type the lower case > (AltGr-S-g) ; this is what says "/usr/local/lyx-qt/bin/lyx-qt -dbg key" Works for me. Here's what I did : Changed French in lib/languages to use iso-8859-15 L

Re: 1.3.0pre3 keymap problems

2003-02-01 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 06:19:07PM +0200, robin wrote: > I've just installed 1.3.0pre3 from the i386 RPM. It still has the > Turkish keymap bug from 1.2.* (bug #413, IIRC). To get Turkish (Latin 5 > / iso-8859-9) characters to work at all, I need to change my normal > keyboard layout from Tu

Re: Bug: lyx-qt 1.3.0pre3 cannot use ISO-8859-15

2003-02-01 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:57:55PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > | This seems to be a local problem on your system. > > Font differences? No. This is before any consideration of fonts. His Qt is claiming that iso-8869-15 cannot encode oe. regards john

Re: Bug: lyx-qt 1.3.0pre3 cannot use ISO-8859-15

2003-02-02 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 10:31:41PM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: >Using codec ISO 8859-1 >Oof. Can't encode the text ! You either changed the wrong languages file, or you're trying to insert it into text/document that isn't Czech. > What about this? Should I file a bug into bugzilla? No, loo

Re: Bug: lyx-qt 1.3.0pre3 cannot use ISO-8859-15

2003-02-02 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:10:07AM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: > I see -- it is change from previous/xforms version, when it was > not necessary to have set up language of the text correctly, so > I could write my name (Mat\v{e}j) even in the English texts. That can only have worked by accident. cca

Re: Bug: lyx-qt 1.3.0pre3 cannot use ISO-8859-15

2003-02-03 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:27:33AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > John> Once the care is unicode, all the codec stuff becomes > John> irrelevant, but it must do for now. > > Aren't we supposed to use InsetLatexAccent in this case? I do not > think it was an accident. Ah, OK, I think I see.

LyX Development News

2003-02-05 Thread John Levon
A new LyX Development News is available : http://www.lyx.org/news/ Topics covered include the release of 1.2.3, CJK LyX, and the translation effort. regards, john

Re: What do you think this c++ error means?

2003-02-07 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:50:56PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > On a RedHat 8 system I'm using a newer snapshot of gcc, which is > necessary for my other research. I've compiled xforms with that gcc, OK. > > ../../../../../boost/boost/regex/detail/regex_match.hpp:1902: internal > compiler erro

Re: Antialiasing vs Math fonts with qt: Need to choose?

2003-02-07 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:13:55AM +, Unai Garro wrote: > I just compiled lyx with qt support: amazing! until I found that I > couldn't see properly the math fonts. Why? Well, that's the question that I > made myself. You need to add some ttf fonts. A tarball and RPM should be availabl

Re: Rebuilding rpm

2003-02-07 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 09:14:19AM -0500, Remzi Seker wrote: > Hi, I am trying to rebuild the lyx.src rpm (1.3) I get a configure error > saying moc binary not found.. > > I have qt3, is that the problem? You need to have qt-devel package installed, and $QTDIR set appropriately or use the config

Re: Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy

2003-02-07 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:52:05PM +0100, Henrik Edlund wrote: > Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy > > with LyX 1.3.0 when I exit it, always Compiled with Qt on a > Slackware 8.1 system. just ignore it. It's a stupid Qt thing john

Re: Interpretation of ERT

2003-02-07 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 05:19:00PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > It is not a newline character, but a paragraph break character. So LyX > outputs it as such. I really think ERT should be just like editing tex in vi. I have been confused by this before. regards john

Re: Rebuilding rpm

2003-02-07 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:27:12AM -0500, Remzi Seker wrote: > ln -s qt3 qt You shouldn't need any such link. Just set $QTDIR > And rebuilt the src rpm for Mandrake 9.0. Is there a public ftp server I > can push it on, if anyone is ineterested? I can not send it through > e-mail, too la

Re: Announce: LyX 1.3.0 released.

2003-02-07 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 06:24:19PM +0200, robin wrote: > Wow - I finally managed to compile 1.3.0 with the Qt frontend and it is > a joy to use. Congratulations to all the developers. > > As an added bonus, I finally get to use Turkish characters, and I don't The Qt frontend behaves very diff

Re: Questions about the QT front end for the RH8 rpms

2003-02-07 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:23:03PM -0700, Fernando Perez wrote: > - Is tab-completion gone from the mini-buffer? I learned a lot about lyx > functions by simply typing a letter or two and hitting tab to see what came > out. Is there an alternate way to get this behavior? Try right-arrow inste

Re: Announce: LyX 1.3.0 released.

2003-02-07 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:43:28PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.3.0. I'm doing freshmeat now. Is somebody going to notify linuxtoday and lwn ? Moritz has said he's looking a the KDE apps stuff john

Re: Qt/X11 or Qt/Embedded

2003-02-08 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 03:57:02PM +0100, Nabil Hathout wrote: > > I wonder if you could try compiling the latest Qt release on your > > machine, then building lyx against that ? If you fancy giving this a go > > and want some help, just shout.. > > I think I am going to follow your advise. C

Re: QTDIR problem

2003-02-08 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:13:54PM +0100, Martijn Brouwer wrote: > When I ./configure --with-frontend=qt, configure stops with this message: > configure: error: Cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you have the right >$QTDIR ! > > I am using debian/testing and have both libqt3 and libqt3

Re: LyX Qt 1.3.0 - couple of problems

2003-02-09 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 09:54:04PM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: > menu) does not work by keyboard. Whatever combination of numeric > keys I use, LyX doesn't open the first file in the list. What's > wrong with me (output of lyx -dbg key is also attached)? works fine for me. Alt-F, then 3, opens the

Re: lyx-1.3.0 - how display ams symbols on the screen ?

2003-02-09 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 08:48:17PM +0100, Pierrick wrote: > I have just installed LyX-1.3.0-1qt.i386.rpm on my RED HAT 8.0. > > One question : what must I do for display AMS symbols on the screen ? > And greek characters, etc... ? Install latex-ttf-fonts from ftp.lyx.org in the contrib dir john

Re: Sorry - ignore last post!

2003-02-09 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 12:17:18AM +0200, robin wrote: > A link in the Help menu would be good, though. It was removed as it's so out of date as to be practically useless. john

Re: lyx-qt sessions?

2003-02-09 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 06:29:55PM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: > I have been always frustrated with the fact that LyX did not seem > to be able to work with session management (maybe, I just did not > get it). What should I do to persuade LyX, that when I will again > restart my KDE session it will b

Re: QTDIR problem

2003-02-10 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 12:02:08AM -0600, David Green wrote: > ./configure --with-frontend=qt --with-qt-includes=/usr/lib/qt3/include/ >--with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib/qt3/lib/ Assuming moc/uic are in /usr/lib/qt3/bin, all you needed was to set QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 john

Re: Env. Depth

2003-02-11 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:45:06PM -0500, Remzi Seker wrote: > Click on environment depth, depth increases. Click again, it doesn't > take you out, as it used to behave in older versions? Use "Decrease environment depth" menu item in Layout menu, or you can add a button for depth-decrement. even

Re: Aiksaurus and Lyx-1.3.0 (qt)

2003-02-11 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:19:56PM +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote: > Does aiksaurus still work with lyx. Yes. > I tried rebuilding the lyx-1.3.0 qt source rpm with aiksaurus support. > I didn't get any indication that something went wrong but I don't see > how you can use it under lyx. Huh ? s

Re: Inconsistencies in User Interface.

2003-02-11 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:11:38PM -0700, Sherwood Botsford wrote: > I'm a new lyx user. Often people get used to odd quirks in software, and > get so that they don't notice them anymore, but to a newcomer they pinch and > distract. I'll post periodically so that the design team can incorporate

Re: installing (1.3.0) Thesaurus mini-bug?

2003-02-13 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:21:00PM +0200, Amir Seginer wrote: > installed Aiksaurus (Aiksaurus-0.15-1rh80.i386.rpm from the Lyx ftp > site). However during the make process Lyx complained that it couldn't > find /usr/lib/libAiksaurus.so. For some reason, ldconfig doesn't create libAiksaurus.so

Re: greek documents chores in Lyx

2003-02-14 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:18:48PM +0100, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote: > I recently installed Lyx 1.3 with qt on a Gentoo 1.4-rc1 box with the > intention to produce documents among others also in greek (that is not using > While the .dvi produced looks ok I cannot type on Lyx using the gre

Re: Setting matheditor font

2003-02-15 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 10:49:45AM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > > The problem with using BaKoMa is its license, which doesn't allow usage > > in commercial environments. There's nothing we can do about this, unless someone knows of some other fonts that can actually be used with fontconfig-based Qt

Re: OOT: Is there something wrong with irc.openprojects.net?

2003-02-15 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:56:00AM -0500, Adinda Praditya wrote: > dear list, > > I'm trying to connect to irc.openprojects.net it always goes to the same Try irc.freenode.net john

Re: Setting matheditor font

2003-02-15 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:56:44PM +0200, Dan Armak wrote: > In detail, there's a problem (not sure if it's a bug in lyx or a > misconfiguration of something else): mathed draws capital latin letters > instead of any math symbols or greek letters etc. See > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?

Re: greek documents chores in Lyx

2003-02-15 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:10:51PM +0100, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote: > Well, all other X apps work fine, and so does Lyx if the document language is > set to english. Exporting LANG="el_GR" before loading lyx obviously does not > help... Obviously ? > Press key 0 text "ó", ascii "243" >

Re: Setting matheditor font

2003-02-15 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 06:29:08PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > Xft won't work with these fonts properly. > > IT shouldn't be hard to fix fontconfig to work with these fonts. > I've send a mail about it to the fontconfig mailing list. That would be great, thanks for looking into this. Do you kn

Re: lyx-qt and printing in KDE - more

2003-02-15 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 07:48:16AM -0500, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: > Running lyx from a cli and trying to print gives me an error: > > lp: unable to print file: client-error-not-found I get that from kprinter. iIf I set kprinter in Qt LyX, I just get : sending job 'root@localhost+247'

Re: lyx-qt and printing in KDE - more

2003-02-15 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:44:01PM +, John Levon wrote: > iIf I set kprinter in Qt LyX, I just get : Maybe a bug I just fixed in LyX preferences. Can you still get the problem if you do : rm -rf ~/.lyx/ and then print a document *without opening the preferences dialog at all* ? john

Re: greek documents chores in Lyx

2003-02-15 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:46:57PM +, John Levon wrote: > Qt is seriously broken. What version are you using, what distro ? I have just built LyX against Qt 3.1.1 release... > I get, on RH8.0, LANG=el_GR, Qt 3.0.5, xmodmapping F10 to Greek_sigma : > > Note that my version of

Re: Ack! What happened to the preamble?

2003-02-16 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:39:02PM -0600, Peter Clark wrote: > I'm using LyX 1.3 (QT) and there's no option in the Layout menu for accessing > the preamble. I haven't changed anything (to my knowledge) from when I > switched from 1.2 to 1.3; how do I get it back? Layout->Document, choose

Re: Ack! What happened to the preamble?

2003-02-16 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:48:05PM -0600, Peter Clark wrote: > Right. Thanks. Should I file a bug report against the documentation (since > Extended Features still lists it as being under Layout -> Preamble)? Yes regards john

Re: When are we going to get character styles

2003-02-17 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 08:42:06AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Several months ago there was much agreement that LyX needed character styles, > and in fact character styles was the one seriously missing feature. Any idea > when we'll get character styles? No. john

Re: spellchecking in LyX 1.3.0 for Qt

2003-02-17 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:53:22PM -0500, Kamil Anis wrote: > and it seems that LyX doesn't worry about that. The spellchecker behaves > as the option \escape_chars "..." was not set. aspell --help : The following options will be ignored for compatabilty with ispell: -m -n -P -S -w ARG -T ARG

Re: When are we going to get character styles

2003-02-17 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 12:50:48PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > > feature. Any idea when we'll get character styles? > > > > > > No. > > "Repudiation" is a bit strong, IMO. There is no suggestion in John's reply My response was quite simple. I do not have any idea when we will get charac

Re: When are we going to get character styles

2003-02-17 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 07:19:43PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Whoaaa -- sorry, in no way did I mean that *John* was repudiating anything. I > meant the lack of character styles, which is nobody's fault, is inconsistent > (much better word than repudiate) with WYSIWYM. I think everybody agrees s

Re: Option to set all ERT's to 'inline'

2003-02-17 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:56:32PM -0700, Fernando Perez wrote: > > I think that I can say definitively that that won't happen. 'Inlined' > > is good only for short snippets of ERT. We couldn't allow it to be > > the default. Anyway, you have your script, so what's the problem ;-) > > If I may

Re: When are we going to get character styles

2003-02-18 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 08:27:39AM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > Real basic question...what is meant by "character styles"? Much like paragraph styles. It allows you to define a semantic name for a particular visual mark up. So instead of marking text in "monospace 10pt" or whatever, you mark

Re: small bugs in 1.3.0-qt?

2003-02-18 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:23:05PM +0100, Giovanni Bicz? wrote: > The first is, that when I click on my ToC, I cannot navigate in the document > by double-clicking on (sub)titles: I can still do it by clicking the navigate > menu, but it was a nice feature... Single click works fine. What is th

Re: Lyx programming docs?

2003-02-18 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:15:25AM -0800, James Frye wrote: > Is there any documentation around on programming Lyx? It looks like I may Not really. > need do hack into the code to fix some of the bugs, and add a few things > to make my life easier, and that sure would be easier if I had some so

Re: Option to set all ERT's to 'inline'

2003-02-18 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:56:37PM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote: > These are the alternatives (and a new one) I've seen so far: > 1. A user preference indicating how new ERTs are created: open or inline. > 2. Modify inset-toggle() to switch between three modes instead of two. > 3. A lyx f

Re: small bugs in 1.3.0-qt?

2003-02-20 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:17:18AM +0100, Giovanni Bicz? wrote: > Now this is a bit strange... > I use the hungarian keyboard, but my LANG and similar env variables are set to > C, which seems to be EN, that causes - by default - the toc to be displayed > with small squares instead of the accent

Re: spellchecking in LyX 1.3.0 for Qt

2003-02-20 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:12:47PM -0500, Kamil Anis wrote: > Of course I can. By the way I subscribed the lyx-users mailing list and > got no reply whether my subscription was successfull or not. I've tried > to send an (empty) email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and got nothing. > So I do Cc: lyx-users :

Re: greek documents chores in Lyx

2003-02-23 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 03:17:49PM +0100, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote: > 1) "Obviously" because I tried it and it did not work... I also think it's > unrelated since other qt-based apps (like this very kmail for example) have > no problems handling iso8859-7 encodings. It is not unrelated

Re: LyX site down?

2003-02-23 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 11:42:50AM -0600, Chris Menzel wrote: > I've been unable to access *.lyx.org for the past couple of days. Does > anyone know what the problem is? No, not really. It keeps on going down for some reason :/ Think yourself lucky, it means us developers can't even do any LyX

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0

2003-02-26 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:47:55PM -0500, Kostas Oikonomou wrote: > I am using lyx 1.3.0 on a Solaris 8 Sparc system. I moved to 1.3.0 from 1.2.1. You forgot to mention what frontend you're using, or if you're using fontconfig etc. > Everything works fine, except that when I type $a \leq b$, Ly

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0

2003-02-26 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:02:56PM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: > I am having the same problem (on debian unstable wi/ qt frontend and qt 3.1). > I just installed latex-ttf-fonts, but it hasn't helped. They seem to be > installed properly -- they show up in xfontsel, and I can choose them as my

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

2003-02-26 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:23:57PM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: > The directory where the fonts were installed was not in my XftConfig. I was > thrown off by the fact that a) the fonts showed up in xfontsel, etc and b) > my other font directories are not listed there either (debian has some wei

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

2003-02-27 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:14:21PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > John, something that looks suspiscious is that > qfont_loader.C:addFontPath() does not return a success value, so it is > difficult to assess whether we have a font. Compare this to the code > in xfont_loader.C:addFontPath().

Re: Mutex destroy failure: Dispositivo o recurso ocupado

2003-02-27 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:58:54AM -0300, Osvaldo Fornaro wrote: > I have LyX 1.3.0 compiled for Slackware 8.1 working very well with > qt-frontend. When program finish, appears in the console the message > > Finished successfully! > Mutex destroy failure: Dispositivo o recurso ocupado Ignore i

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

2003-02-27 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:39:42PM -0500, Kostas Oikonomou wrote: > A) The problem: why can't Qt use Type 1 CM fonts? Why do you need Truetype >fonts? Simply put: they do not work properly with fontconfig. > B) The solution: What is fontconfig? It doesn't show up when I do "ldd lyx". >

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

2003-02-27 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 07:00:07PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Simply put: they do not work properly with fontconfig. > > Is there some explanation why Qt/fonconfig does not use the font path as > all the other children do? It does, but it does not read or handle the fonts properly. john

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

2003-02-28 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:16:00AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I see this particular problem, and I am on a system where fontconfig > is _not_ used. We should make sure that this one works too... Then Dekel's changes to lib/symbols must have been broken, or there is some other fault. Eit

Re: Lyx 1.3.0 ignoring paper sizes?

2003-02-28 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 02:32:00PM -0700, Fernando Perez wrote: > I just tried to use the paper size option in lyx 1.3.0 (the redhat8 rpm > from the lyx site, qt frontend). I can set the option allright, but it > seems to be blissfully ignored. I get letter-sized output regardless of > what I

Re: Lyx 1.3.0 ignoring paper sizes?

2003-02-28 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 05:57:05PM -0700, Fernando Perez wrote: > No problem. When you say fixed, does it mean that 1.3.1 will have the fix > in (whenever it's out), or is it something deeper which will have to wait > until 1.4? 1.3.1 will have the fix - http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?i

Re: spellchecking in LyX-1.3.0 (qt-GUI)

2003-03-01 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 05:08:13PM +0100, Thomas Sch?nhoff wrote: > The spellchecker has failed > I am sorry, I can't find suitable word lists for the language-tag: "deutsch" > > How to adjust LyX to find these word lists? I haven't any clue where > these files reside!? Try making a symbolic l

Re: spellchecking in LyX-1.3.0 (qt-GUI)

2003-03-01 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 06:11:45PM +0100, Thomas Sch?nhoff wrote: > I've to generate a link from "german.multi" too "deutsch.multi", isn't it!? No, you want a link deutsch -> german I think john

Re: spellchecking in LyX-1.3.0 (qt-GUI)

2003-03-01 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 07:05:39PM +0100, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > This cannot be right, since deutsch and german are two different dictionaries. > Deutsch is old german spelling, german is new spelling. This Red Hat box disagrees with you ... regards john

Re: Renewal Notice on the lyx.org domain - Fees due

2003-03-03 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:15:12PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > | The person that contacts me first (privately) will get the opportunity > | to make this contribution, and I will provide him with the necessary > | information when/if that happens. > > This has now been taken care of. Are

Re: Problems checking spelling...

2003-03-05 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:54:47PM -0600, Roger Alexander wrote: > When I try to spell check, I get the following message: "Unable to load > module aspell".Aspell is installed on my system (RedHat 8, and I am > using Lyx 1.3. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Works fine for me on Re

LyX Development News 2003-03-06 is available

2003-03-06 Thread John Levon
http://www.lyx.org/news/20030306.php3 Covering 1.3.0 release and recent development work. john

Re: Printing

2003-03-09 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 04:58:32PM -0500, Andrew Benton wrote: > I'm having some trouble printing from lyx 1.3 in RedHat 8.0. I have tried This is all a very vague report, but I suspect you're seeing a bug in the Qt frontend that resets the options passed to dvips erroneously. Check the prefer

Re: Pb QFont & QApplication

2003-03-13 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 02:13:50PM +0100, Charles Bouveyron wrote: > I will to compile a LyX file with the command lyx -e pdf2 my_file.lyx, but i > have the error: > > QFont: Must construct a QApplication before a QFont > > What is the problem ? The problem is that it doesn't work. It will wor

Re: Aiksaurus install question

2003-03-15 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:01:30PM -0500, gavron wrote: > Is it possible to hook Aiksaurus into an already-installed LyX..? Or do > I have to install Aiksaurus and run LyX 'configure+make+make install' > again so that lyx is aware of the presence of Aiksaurus on this system..? The latter john

Re: \sum shows as box in lyx 1.3.0 rh8

2003-03-15 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 07:09:39PM +, James Brusey wrote: > I've recently installed lyx 1.3.0 build for redhat 8.0. I'm having a It's a good idea to always mention the frontend you're using Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the latex-ttf-fonts package, tobe

Re: Page up ad page down.

2003-03-18 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 08:38:25AM -0500, gavron wrote: > this and it might have its use when writing a document rather than > browsing a manual - though I don't see the philosopy behind it at this > point.. Doesn't sound like a big deal but at times it has me totally There's no philosophy to

Re: Page up ad page down.

2003-03-18 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:36:35AM -0500, gavron wrote: > can suggest a simple way of converting these manuals to html - I've > tried different things like using latex2html from the CLI as well.. but > that breaks somewhere along the line though I ran it against a copy of > the User Guide that

Re: Cannot build lyx-1.3.1qt src rpm

2003-03-19 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:45:41PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > checking for Qt library name... failed > configure: error: Cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you have the > right $QTDIR ! > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.46146 (%build) > > What lines in the configure

Re: screen fonts in math problem

2003-03-19 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:59:42PM +0100, Marcin Bukat wrote: > http://soliton.ch.pw.edu.pl/~wodz/lyx-131-screenshot.png Now things are working as they should. You have to install the right set of fonts, now, to get the symbols to appear. john

Re: Cannot build lyx-1.3.1qt src rpm

2003-03-19 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 03:36:27PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > seems to be based on assumptions made by the configure script on what the > system should be like (like Redhat's broken system?). It assumes there MUST > be an environment variable called QTDIR set which is not necessarily tru

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.1 is released

2003-03-19 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 03:49:04PM -0800, Max Bian wrote: > Any config time option to speed up the build process besides turning > off -O2? You didn't state what compiler you're using. I suspect recent gcc. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-01/msg01336.html regards john

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.1 is released

2003-03-20 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 04:52:03AM -0800, Max Bian wrote: > It is probably related to the extensive use of libtool. It runs every > time a source file is compiled. It has absolutely nothing to do with libtool. john

Re: Really simple question..

2003-03-20 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:30:29AM -0500, gavron wrote: >Item "Caption..." "layout Caption" > > I wonder if this is possible..? I had tried using the keyword "Layouts" > before this but lyx apprently only recognizes it in the "toolbar" > section of the ui config file.. Well, if we ha

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