Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Bo Peng wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In that sense, the reversibility problem is yours, not mine. I'm perplexed about this, since I don't have any such problem. Let me try it the last time. Let me try to summarize the

Re: [patch] fix subfig - caption package clash

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: caption is one of the most popular LaTeX-packages, so we can expect that many users load it in the preamble. Where do you get such information? How do we measure 'popular'? I would be surprised to learn that people are more excited about customizing

Re: A base64-based embedding design without bundle/unbundle.

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PS: As a bold but reasonably educated guess: We could get rid of 90% of the code in support/* _and_ reduce compile and link times by a third (on top of that what we gained lately _and_ get a decent socket _and_ get a decent concurrency framework if that

Re: [Cvslog] r24703 - /lyx-devel/trunk/src/LyXAction.cpp

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Doxy for word-level cursor movement lfuns. cool :) BTW, pavel, did I congratulate you already for your persistence at writing these documentation strings? JMarc

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Charles de Miramon
I like Richard's solution better. Having a zip based solution means that you can 'unbundle' from the command line even without LyX, the base64 solution is more complex. I would favour a simple bundling / unbundling where everything is bundled and everything is unbundled but add the possibility

Re: Home page picture

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Rex C. Eastbourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's the new version of the home page picture, with a download button added in. As per Andre's comment, I had the pixelation fixed. http://www.lyx.org/HomeNewGraphic I'd prefer a more sexy download button that stands out better. I thought we had

Re: [Cvslog] r24703 - /lyx-devel/trunk/src/LyXAction.cpp

2008-05-13 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:05:08 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Doxy for word-level cursor movement lfuns. cool :) BTW, pavel, did I congratulate you already for your persistence at writing these documentation strings? +1 :-) JMarc -- José Abílio

Re: bug ubuntu hardy heron

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pavel Sanda wrote: btw this is the second bug report i'm responding today about 1.5.5, Juergen can you hurry up? I will release when I am ready. I will not hurry up. Very wise man. JMarc

Re: A base64-based embedding design without bundle/unbundle.

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
José Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 09 May 2008 10:35:00 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: We (I think I can speak for everybody) certainly want you to be the 1.6.x stable release manager. You made a pretty good job at managing 1.5.x. +1 me too!

Re: A base64-based embedding design without bundle/unbundle.

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and no response from Edwin and JMarc. Yes, I intend to remain out of this discussion, which looks like it is going to be tough (again!). That said, I planned to answer your message (nothing to declare) and then forgot. Sorry. JMarc

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Charles de Miramon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I like Richard's solution better. Having a zip based solution means that you can 'unbundle' from the command line even without LyX, the base64 solution is more complex. Yes, a file that can be read/handled without LyX is more powerful. We could try

Re: [patch] fix subfig - caption package clash

2008-05-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: caption is one of the most popular LaTeX-packages, so we can expect that many users load it in the preamble. Where do you get such information? How do we measure 'popular'? I would be surprised to learn that people are more excited about customizing captions

Proposal for small change in the release procedure

2008-05-13 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Dear all, I would want to suggest a (what I would think) small improvement to the release procedure. Would it not make more sense to announce new stable/rc releases to the users and announcement lists AFTER the major binary installers are available (and the website updated)? I think this

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread rgheck
Bo Peng wrote: Working like OOo does not mean it is a good way for latex because we routinely work with external files. If you do not want users to mess around the filename.lyxdir directory, I would suggest that you always put this directory under the temporary directory. If you do allow users

Re: Proposal for small change in the release procedure

2008-05-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Would it not make more sense to announce new stable/rc releases to the users and announcement lists AFTER the major binary installers are available (and the website updated)? I don't think so. This is an open source project. We, as the LyX project, release the source

Re: [patch] fix subfig - caption package clash

2008-05-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/24746 Are you sure this works? Yes, I tested this. - PassOptionsToPackage must be called before the package is loaded. I was not sure about the loading order and both orders do work. I'll change this as you suggested. - According to clsguide and TLC2,

Re: Proposal for small change in the release procedure

2008-05-13 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think so. This is an open source project. We, as the LyX project, release the source code. Understood. Still, the source code release as is is of little use for most _users_ (at least on Windows Mac). The binaries are additions

Re: [patch] fix subfig - caption package clash

2008-05-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Jürgen Spitzmüller schrieb: Uwe Stöhr wrote: \PassOptionsToPackage{options}{package} Thanks for thehint. I implemented this now using this: http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/24746 Are you sure this works? - PassOptionsToPackage must be called before the package is loaded. - According to

Re: Proposal for small change in the release procedure

2008-05-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Understood. Still, the source code release as is is of little use for most _users_ (at least on Windows Mac). note that this is not necessary situtation on linux (and i'm still talking about the users). The binaries are additions contributed by some team members,

Re: Proposal for small change in the release procedure

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Konrad Hofbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think so. This is an open source project. We, as the LyX project, release the source code. Understood. Still, the source code release as is is of little use for most _users_ (at least on Windows

Re: Proposal for small change in the release procedure

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Pavel Sanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For example http://www.lyx.org/Download suggests that they are released from you, the LyX project, and not from some dubious third party. looking at the download page i see somebody changed the order. originally the source code was the first section.

Re: Proposal for small change in the release procedure

2008-05-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Yes, I think so. done p

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Bo Peng
Many users already maintain their own directory underneath the document directory. They can of course continue to do so. They cannot. Once the document is turned to the 'bundled mode', users have to depend on 'update from external' to make their changes to these files available to lyx. What

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Bo Peng
Yes, a file that can be read/handled without LyX is more powerful. We could try to use MIME format for LyX files, but it may become unpleasant to handle. Sure, 'may become unpleasant' when you try to handle .lyx file without lyx, but the problems I have mentioned may make everyday lyx usage

Re: LyX webpage problem with I18n

2008-05-13 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 12 May 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: The drawback is that the old, still accessible site at http://www.lyx.org/news.php I've added some manual redirections for these pages: donations.php, feedback.php, mailing.php and news.php. The redirections are simple HTML redirect. We can

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Matt Benjamin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 It does sound like an advantage. It seems more in accord with the way Lyx has traditionally worked, to me. Bo Peng wrote: | On the other hand, the file format in my proposal is still plain text. | For many other operations such as search and

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sure, 'may become unpleasant' when you try to handle .lyx file without lyx, but the problems I have mentioned may make everyday lyx usage unpleasant. Which one is more important? If I think of openoffice zip file versus ms office filesystem-in-a-file, I know

Re: [Cvslog] r24560 - /lyx-devel/trunk/src/BufferView.cpp

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Pavel Sanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: fyi this is the working code, when status check is put inside LyXFunc::getStatus in LyXFunc.cpp when i put equivalent code inside Text::getStatus in text3.cpp then flag settings are ignored. Could you show us this code? The lfun is already handled in

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Bo Peng
I like Richard's solution better. Having a zip based solution means that you can 'unbundle' from the command line even without LyX, the base64 solution is more complex. On the other hand, the file format in my proposal is still plain text. For many other operations such as search and

Re: bash completion file licence clarification needed

2008-05-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Sven Hoexter wrote: Hi Julien, hi Cengiz, ok you might wonder why I'm mailing you so here's the story: Cengiz Gunay modified your bash_completion file for inkscape to work with LyX and submitted it for inclusion in the Debian package.[1] I picked it up and added it to the Debian LyX package

Re: Proposal for small change in the release procedure

2008-05-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Would it not make more sense to announce new stable/rc releases to the users and announcement lists AFTER the major binary installers are available (and the website updated)? A fair proportion of the LyX users don't use Windows and are sufficiently technically

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Charles de Miramon
Bo Peng wrote: On the other hand, the file format in my proposal is still plain text. For many other operations such as search and replace, you do not have to unzip. I consider this as an advantage. You have got a point. But the mix of text and base64 which is what is done in rtf, if I'm

Re: [Cvslog] r24751 - in /lyx-devel/trunk/src: LyXFunc.cpp Text3.cpp f...

2008-05-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Author: sanda Date: Tue May 13 16:26:47 2008 New Revision: 24751 URL: http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/24751 Log: getStatus for LFUN_SET_GRAPHICS_GROUP so context menu looks nicer. What is a graphics group? How is this

Re: Proposal for small change in the release procedure

2008-05-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Understood. Still, the source code release as is is of little use for most _users_ (at least on Windows Mac). But not on Unix. And having a long tradition on Unix, I'm not sure who and where most users of LyX are. Should the binaries really just be an addition ??? Are

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Bo Peng
If I think of openoffice zip file versus ms office filesystem-in-a-file, I know which one is easier to tinker with. Base64 may seem nice because it is text, but if child documents end up being in base64, all the interested of svn is lost, for example. We should choose a file format that

Re: [patch] fix subfig - caption package clash

2008-05-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Herbert Voss wrote: And TLC2 doesn't say that it should be used only with \DeclareOption. It should be used in any case, where a document class and a user may load the same package with different options. Both clsguide and TLC2 are at least ambigouous in their statements:

Re: [Cvslog] r24751 - in /lyx-devel/trunk/src: LyXFunc.cpp Text3.cpp f...

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Author: sanda Date: Tue May 13 16:26:47 2008 New Revision: 24751 URL: http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/24751 Log: getStatus for LFUN_SET_GRAPHICS_GROUP so context menu looks nicer. What is a graphics group? How is this supposed to work? JMarc

Re: [Cvslog] r24560 - /lyx-devel/trunk/src/BufferView.cpp

2008-05-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Pavel Sanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: fyi this is the working code, when status check is put inside LyXFunc::getStatus in LyXFunc.cpp when i put equivalent code inside Text::getStatus in text3.cpp then flag settings are ignored. Could you show us this

Re: [patch] fix subfig - caption package clash

2008-05-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Jürgen Spitzmüller schrieb: Herbert Voss wrote: And TLC2 doesn't say that it should be used only with \DeclareOption. It should be used in any case, where a document class and a user may load the same package with different options. Both clsguide and TLC2 are at least ambigouous in their

Re: Proposal for small change in the release procedure

2008-05-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Understood. Still, the source code release as is is of little use for most _users_ (at least on Windows Mac). But not on Unix. And having a long tradition on Unix, I'm not sure who and where most users of LyX are. Here is an

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Bo Peng wrote: If I think of openoffice zip file versus ms office filesystem-in-a-file, I know which one is easier to tinker with. Base64 may seem nice because it is text, but if child documents end up being in base64, all the interested of svn is lost, for example. We should choose a

Re: Proposal for small change in the release procedure

2008-05-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: But not on Unix. And having a long tradition on Unix, I'm not sure who and where most users of LyX are. Here is an interesting subject for a poll! :-) considering the fact that linux users don't need to see lyx homepage ever to get lyx inside their distro while

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Base64 may seem nice because it is text, but if child documents end up being in base64, all the interested of svn is lost, for example. This is non issue IMHO. I really don't think users that use svn should be interested in this bundle/embedded business. It's

Re: Proposal for small change in the release procedure

2008-05-13 Thread Joost Verburg
Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Would it not make more sense to announce new stable/rc releases to the users and announcement lists AFTER the major binary installers are available (and the website updated)? I think it would be a good idea to announce the release on the devel list first and to wait

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Bo Peng
Base64 may seem nice because it is text, but if child documents end up being in base64, all the interested of svn is lost, for example. This is non issue IMHO. I really don't think users that use svn should be interested in this bundle/embedded business. It's rather the opposite, only

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Bo Peng
Bo's embedding proposal: 1) This is about embedding files directly in the '.lyx' file encoded with base64. 2) Each and every external file can be embedded individually. Right. Note that 3, 4 and 5 are not part of the proposal at this stage. 1 and 2 are enough to achieve my goal, and 3, 4,

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Richard Heck
Bo Peng wrote: My solution achieves full reversibility without security problem. This is impossible. If LyX can write arbitrary embedded files to arbitrary locations in the file system, then that is a massive security problem. If that isn't clear, then, well, that's unfortunate, but I have

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Bo Peng wrote: Base64 may seem nice because it is text, but if child documents end up being in base64, all the interested of svn is lost, for example. This is non issue IMHO. I really don't think users that use svn should be interested in this bundle/embedded business. It's rather the

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Richard Heck
Bo Peng wrote: My solution achieves full reversibility without security problem. This is impossible. If LyX can write arbitrary embedded files to arbitrary locations in the file system, then that is a massive security problem. If that isn't clear, then, well, that's unfortunate,

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Bo Peng
Well, then you don't have full reversibility. OK. Depending on how you define it. As I have said, my approach does not have the reversibility problem because there is no bundled mode. If you really want to 'bundle all' and 'unbundled all', a feature I might not even offer, my approach allows

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Richard Heck
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Bo Peng wrote: If I think of openoffice zip file versus ms office filesystem-in-a-file, I know which one is easier to tinker with. Base64 may seem nice because it is text, but if child documents end up being in base64, all the interested of svn is lost, for example.

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Richard Heck wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Bo Peng wrote: If I think of openoffice zip file versus ms office filesystem-in-a-file, I know which one is easier to tinker with. Base64 may seem nice because it is text, but if child documents end up being in base64, all the interested of

Re: Proposal for small change in the release procedure

2008-05-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: That would give us an indication at least. Plus the situation is exactly the same for Win and Mac corporate users who don't install LyX themselves. no, its not symmetrical :) - these installs in organizations are the same for all archs (eg my university have it his

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Bo Peng
auto-update would be interesting. I have heard the 'URL' idea, and now the auto-update idea. I am interested to know how these can make the bundled mode work better. Please note that my approach needs no change of how users work with external files. Also, these will make the 'simple' idea of

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Bo Peng
Well, maybe you're mirroring the original directory structure, in a way like chroot. But you're not recreating it. And I don't see the advantage of doing that myself. This is Enrico's idea. The lyx file may be put several levels under the new directory so that the original

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Bo Peng
My solution achieves full reversibility without security problem. This is impossible. If LyX can write arbitrary embedded files to arbitrary locations in the file system, then that is a massive security problem. If that isn't clear, then, well, that's unfortunate, but I have already wasted

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Richard Heck
Bo Peng wrote: File-Export-LyX with extracted files. A Python script will be called to extract a .lyx file to a new directory (e.g. filename.extracted under the document directory), and arrange files in their original layout. By full reversibility, I take it you mean that you can

Re: Proposal for small change in the release procedure

2008-05-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Pavel Sanda wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: But not on Unix. And having a long tradition on Unix, I'm not sure who and where most users of LyX are. Here is an interesting subject for a poll! :-) considering the fact that linux users don't need to see lyx homepage ever to

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Bo Peng
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: auto-update would be interesting. By the way, the 'auto-update' idea was mine. :-) I proposed it before and was convinced by Jose (and JMarc?) that it is too confusing to users. Bo

RCS usage in lyx, git

2008-05-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
hi, following the last discussions about embedding and lyx usage via RCS i would like to ask if there anyone still usgin our integrated RCS in lyx. its seems as some archelogical stuff, but maybe i'm wrong. i'm playing now with git/qgit and just read our code of lyx VCS and think it wouldn't be

Re: RCS usage in lyx, git

2008-05-13 Thread Bo Peng
what do you think about integrating this support to lyx? I do not use the rcs feature of lyx at all, but I am using git for local embedding development. Uwe has suggested me to open a branch for this purpose but subversion branch is a pain to work with. Cheers, Bo

Re: RCS usage in lyx, git

2008-05-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Bo Peng wrote: what do you think about integrating this support to lyx? I do not use the rcs feature of lyx at all, but I am using git for local embedding development. Uwe has suggested me to open a branch for this purpose but subversion branch is a pain to work with. nono, thats

Re: Proposal for small change in the release procedure

2008-05-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Pavel Sanda wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: That would give us an indication at least. Plus the situation is exactly the same for Win and Mac corporate users who don't install LyX themselves. no, its not symmetrical :) - these installs in organizations are the same for all archs (eg

Re: RCS usage in lyx, git

2008-05-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Pavel Sanda wrote: hi, following the last discussions about embedding and lyx usage via RCS i would like to ask if there anyone still usgin our integrated RCS in lyx. its seems as some archelogical stuff, but maybe i'm wrong. i'm playing now with git/qgit and just read our code of lyx VCS and

Re: RCS usage in lyx, git

2008-05-13 Thread Bo Peng
I've thought many time about this too. That would be very, very nice. But my understanding is that git is current unix (even linux) only so this feature will only benefit a few users. Bo

Re: RCS usage in lyx, git

2008-05-13 Thread Matt Benjamin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Pavel Sanda wrote: | hi, | | following the last discussions about embedding and lyx usage via RCS | i would like to ask if there anyone still usgin our integrated RCS in lyx. | its seems as some archelogical stuff, but maybe i'm wrong. I have

Re: RCS usage in lyx, git

2008-05-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
I have tried to use it in 1.5.2, but found it, apparently, a bit broken. could you be more verbose which bugs you encountered? pavel

Re: RCS usage in lyx, git

2008-05-13 Thread Matt Benjamin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 OpenAFS is moving to git from CVS--and we have very strong Windows contingent. The git port is Cygwin based, so there are some line-termination issues, but they seem to be manageable with git-provided hooks. Matt Bo Peng wrote: | I've thought

Re: RCS usage in lyx, git

2008-05-13 Thread Matt Benjamin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I found I could create an RCS archive from a file, but could not check-in changes. Simple as that... Matt Pavel Sanda wrote: | I have tried to use it in 1.5.2, but found it, apparently, a bit broken. | | could you be more verbose which bugs you

[Fwd: checkinstall failure]

2008-05-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello I'm not able to create a .deb package with checkinstall, on Ubuntu Hardy amd64. Here is the tail of 'make check': PASS: test_convert FAIL: test_filetools PASS: test_lstrings 1 of 3 tests failed Please report to lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org

Re: [Fwd: checkinstall failure]

2008-05-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
I'm not able to create a .deb package with checkinstall, on Ubuntu Hardy amd64. Here is the tail of 'make check': PASS: test_convert FAIL: test_filetools PASS: test_lstrings 1 of 3 tests failed Please report to lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org

Re: RCS usage in lyx, git

2008-05-13 Thread Dov Feldstern
Bo Peng wrote: I've thought many time about this too. That would be very, very nice. But my understanding is that git is current unix (even linux) only so this feature will only benefit a few users. Bo There's also mercurial, which I find very very nice, and which is cross-platform

Re: RCS usage in lyx, git

2008-05-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Bo Peng wrote: I've thought many time about this too. That would be very, very nice. But my understanding is that git is current unix (even linux) only so this feature will only benefit a few users. git is officially supported on cygwin and native install is on its way too (

Re: RCS usage in lyx, git

2008-05-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Bo Peng wrote: Using an external program is also more flexible. you will be of course able to use it externaly. one thing which i have dreamt of - and this wont give you external program - is to have some kind of gui window or toolbar which only by mouse click show you the other revision

Re: RCS usage in lyx, git

2008-05-13 Thread Bo Peng
More on topic, though, I've never used the Version Control options from within LyX, nor have I ever really had the urge to; if I want to version control a document, I do it externally, and prefer it that way. This is my feeling about this feature as well. There are so many version control

Re: RCS usage in lyx, git

2008-05-13 Thread cmiramon
Pavel Sanda wrote: what do you think about integrating this support to lyx? I think it is a great idea to add a generic RCS framework with a git plugin for LyX. I have never used a RCS with LyX because there is no easy way to have a visual diff between two versions of the same LyX file. I

Re: RCS usage in lyx, git

2008-05-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
visual diff between two versions of the same LyX file. I guess the difficult part is to create this visual diff part. this is a different story, which has only little to do with RCS. pavel

Re: RCS usage in lyx, git

2008-05-13 Thread Bo Peng
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Pavel Sanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: visual diff between two versions of the same LyX file. I guess the difficult part is to create this visual diff part. this is a different story, which has only little to do with RCS. Indeed, that is another feature,

Re: RCS usage in lyx, git

2008-05-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Bo Peng wrote: I've thought many time about this too. That would be very, very nice. But my understanding is that git is current unix (even linux) only so this feature will only benefit a few users. No, I used the msysgit port and it works dwell. Abdel.

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Richard Heck
Bo Peng wrote: Well, maybe you're mirroring the original directory structure, in a way like chroot. But you're not recreating it. And I don't see the advantage of doing that myself. This is Enrico's idea. The lyx file may be put several levels under the new directory so that the original

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Richard Heck
Bo Peng wrote: auto-update would be interesting. I have heard the 'URL' idea, and now the auto-update idea. I am interested to know how these can make the bundled mode work better. Please note that my approach needs no change of how users work with external files. Also, these will make

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Bo Peng
Well, if that's the idea, then I'm with Edwin (was it?) who proposed just using a python script for this kind of purpose. It was Enrico's idea. If you have read my response to Enrico's proposal, you should have known that I would support his proposal, if only my goal is to provide a way to

Re: LyX1.6svn Build Errors Mac OSX 10.5.2 Leopard

2008-05-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
José Matos wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2008 01:54:17 Pavel Sanda wrote: if we just add cstdlib will it work with 4.3? Yes. :-) Jose, when you wrote this have you actually tried to compile it? i just got next report that 1.5.5 fails to compile with --disable-pch --without-included-boost

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.5 is released

2008-05-13 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:11:06PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Public release of LyX version 1.5.5 Congrats, Jürgen! I have placed a cygwin binary here: http://www.lyx.org/~forenr/lyx-1.5.5-cygwin.tar.gz -- Enrico

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Bo Peng wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In that sense, the > > reversibility problem is yours, not mine. > > > I'm perplexed about this, since I don't have any such problem. Let me try it the last time. Let me try to

Re: [patch] fix subfig - caption package clash

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > caption is one of the most popular LaTeX-packages, so we can expect > that many users load it in the preamble. Where do you get such information? How do we measure 'popular'? I would be surprised to learn that people are more excited about customizing

Re: A base64-based embedding design without bundle/unbundle.

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PS: As a bold but reasonably educated guess: We could get rid of 90% of > the code in support/* _and_ reduce compile and link times by a third (on > top of that what we gained lately _and_ get a decent socket _and_ get > a decent concurrency framework

Re: [Cvslog] r24703 - /lyx-devel/trunk/src/LyXAction.cpp

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
>> Doxy for word-level cursor movement lfuns. > > cool :) BTW, pavel, did I congratulate you already for your persistence at writing these documentation strings? JMarc

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Charles de Miramon
I like Richard's solution better. Having a zip based solution means that you can 'unbundle' from the command line even without LyX, the base64 solution is more complex. I would favour a simple bundling / unbundling where everything is bundled and everything is unbundled but add the possibility

Re: Home page picture

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Rex C. Eastbourne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's the new version of the home page picture, with a "download" > button added in. As per Andre's comment, I had the pixelation fixed. > > http://www.lyx.org/HomeNewGraphic I'd prefer a more sexy download button that stands out better. I

Re: [Cvslog] r24703 - /lyx-devel/trunk/src/LyXAction.cpp

2008-05-13 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:05:08 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> Doxy for word-level cursor movement lfuns. > > > > cool :) > > BTW, pavel, did I congratulate you already for your persistence at > writing these documentation strings? +1 :-) > JMarc -- José Abílio

Re: bug ubuntu hardy heron

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pavel Sanda wrote: >> btw this is the second bug report i'm responding today about 1.5.5, Juergen >> can you hurry up? > > I will release when I am ready. I will not hurry up. Very wise man. JMarc

Re: A base64-based embedding design without bundle/unbundle.

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 09 May 2008 10:35:00 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >> We (I think I can speak for everybody) certainly want you to be the >> 1.6.x stable release manager. You made a pretty good job at managing 1.5.x. > > +1 me too!

Re: A base64-based embedding design without bundle/unbundle.

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > and no response from Edwin and JMarc. Yes, I intend to remain out of this discussion, which looks like it is going to be tough (again!). That said, I planned to answer your message ("nothing to declare") and then forgot. Sorry. JMarc

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I like Richard's solution better. Having a zip based solution means that you > can 'unbundle' from the command line even without LyX, the base64 solution > is more complex. Yes, a file that can be read/handled without LyX is more powerful. We

Re: [patch] fix subfig - caption package clash

2008-05-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: caption is one of the most popular LaTeX-packages, so we can expect that many users load it in the preamble. Where do you get such information? How do we measure 'popular'? I would be surprised to learn that people are more excited about customizing captions

Proposal for small change in the release procedure

2008-05-13 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Dear all, I would want to suggest a (what I would think) small improvement to the release procedure. Would it not make more sense to announce new stable/rc releases to the users and announcement lists AFTER the major binary installers are available (and the website updated)? I think this

Re: Alternative to individual embedding?

2008-05-13 Thread rgheck
Bo Peng wrote: Working like OOo does not mean it is a good way for latex because we routinely work with external files. If you do not want users to mess around the filename.lyxdir directory, I would suggest that you always put this directory under the temporary directory. If you do allow users

Re: Proposal for small change in the release procedure

2008-05-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Konrad Hofbauer wrote: > Would it not make more sense to announce new stable/rc releases to the > users and announcement lists AFTER the major binary installers are > available (and the website updated)? I don't think so. This is an open source project. We, as the LyX project, release the source

Re: [patch] fix subfig - caption package clash

2008-05-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
>> http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/24746 > > Are you sure this works? Yes, I tested this. > - PassOptionsToPackage must be called before the package is loaded. I was not sure about the loading order and both orders do work. I'll change this as you suggested. > - According to clsguide and

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