LyX 1.3.6pre and cygwin

2005-06-11 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Hi all, I tried the latest prelease of lyx 1.3.6 (version 12)using cygwin tools (i.e., sh, python, perl co.) and it works after some tweaking. First of all, when trying to reconfigure lyx through Edit-Reconfigure the configure script hangs. Launching configure from the command line in

Re: Fw: Lyx 1.3.6pre

2005-06-11 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Eugenio Guevara [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After a couple of test, I decided to move the temp directory to a location where the path has no spaces on it, c:\temp, and modify the path for the python script so it also has no spaces in it, c:\program files\lyx\resources\lyx\scripts to

Re: LyX 1.3.6pre and cygwin

2005-06-12 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico Forestieri wrote: Hi all, [snip] The second problem is that, in cygwin, python.exe is a soft link to the real program python2.4.exe and thus it is not recognized as an executable. So why would soft links exist? Or do they work from

Re: The LANG environment variable...

2005-06-15 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Angus Leeming wrote: [snip] In that case, shouldn't it be lyx.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 No, that will turn lyx.bat file with spaces.lyx into lyx.exe file with spaces.lyx and that won't work too well. To avoid double quoting

Re: The LANG environment variable...

2005-06-15 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2 Launching LyX at the end of the installer as !define PRODUCT_BAT $INSTDIR\bin\lyx.bat !define MUI_FINISHPAGE_RUN ${PRODUCT_BAT} works perfectly well, but I get a bloody great cmd window in the background. How do I make it go away?

Re: [PATCH 13x, 14x] the PATH env var

2005-06-15 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Angus The attached patch ensures that the LyX binary dir is the first Angus element in the PATH on non-POSIX builds. The change will mean Angus that fixes like Enrico Forestieri's, described here: Angus

Re: The LANG environment variable...

2005-06-15 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico Forestieri wrote: Helge Hafting helge.hafting at ... writes: To avoid double quoting the ~ character should be used. So: lyx.exe %~1 %~2 %~3 %~4 %~5 %~6 %~7 %~8 %~9 works as expected. Excellent! Done. I'll upload Version 15 ASAP

Re: The LANG environment variable...

2005-06-15 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico Forestieri wrote: [snip] Launching the last command in the bat file with start should do the trick. $ cat lyx.bat at echo off rem rem some stuff here rem start lyx.exe Enrico I'm afraid that doesn't work. How odd

Re: lyxpreview2ppm.py

2005-06-16 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:16:08 +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: [snip] Finally, could I ask you to drop a line to the lyx-devel list (so that it is archived) stating explicitly that you agree to licence your contributions under the Gnu General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. Regards,

Re: Windows installer version 15 unworkable on win98?

2005-06-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Helge Hafting wrote: This should work for win98: at echo off if %LANG%== SET LANG=fr_FR C:\Program Files\LyX\bin\lyx.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 Excellent! And is the existing .bat file OK on more modern Windows versions? at echo off

Re: Windows installer version 15 unworkable on win98?

2005-06-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico Forestieri wrote: Enrico (quite confused) Ha! You're confused? Put yourself in my boots! You have a claim on our sympathy ;-) Your effort is much appreciated. -- Enrico

Re: LyX 1.3.6pre and cygwin

2005-06-18 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico Forestieri wrote: Angus Leeming leeming at ... writes: Enrico Forestieri wrote: Hi all, [snip] The second problem is that, in cygwin, python.exe is a soft link to the real program python2.4.exe and thus

Re: Windows installer version 15 unworkable on win98?

2005-06-18 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Asger Ottar Alstrup wrote: Well, if you use the if-trick, then this single bat-file should work for you as well: -- at echo off if %LANG%== SET LANG=fr_FR if %~1 == ~1 goto win95 C:\program files\lyx\bin\lyx.exe %~* goto

Re: LyX 1.3.6pre and cygwin

2005-06-18 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico Forestieri wrote: [snip] Actually, when I try to execute python through the symlink in a *cmd.exe* I get this kind of requester: | Sottosistema MS-DOS a 16 bit

Re: Mysterious addition of dots after citation

2005-11-26 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear list, I have not been able to track down the source of this problem. Some of my colleagues use different versions of lyx (such as 1.3.5) on different platforms (linux/windows). If I send my lyx file (linux/1.3.6-1) to them and let them modify it,

Re: plans for LyX, was: fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-26 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Michael Gerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Angus Leeming wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: How about just LyX then? No spaces, and no copying documents when LyX 1.4 appear. It will be able to deal with 1.3.x documents, I belive. Michael wants to be able to have both installed...

Re: Mysterious addition of dots after citation

2005-11-28 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pay attention whether it is an email transfer problem. Dot doubling happens to me when the sender uses thunderbird. This is unlikely the case since 1. I am using mutt and one of my friends will never use things like thunderbird (he is MS/OE only). 2.

Re: Possible cure to a pdf generation anomaly

2005-11-28 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pdftex older than version 1.3 produces PDF1.4 so that the user gets a consistent PDF. (If the image is included as PDF1.3 it is internally converted which might take some extra time). As far as I know is the change between PDF1.4 and PDF1.5 much bigger

Re: Possible cure to a pdf generation anomaly

2005-11-28 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tetex 1.x supports PDF1.3 while tetex 2.x supports PDF1.4. I am not sure that no one uses tetex 1.x anymore. Sorry, my mistake: tetex 1.x supports PDF1.2 Enrico

Re: Possible cure to a pdf generation anomaly

2005-11-28 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That means when we want to support teTeX 1.x we need to go down to ps2pdf12 or we could directly upgrade to ps2pdf14. teTeX 2.0 was released on 20/01/2003 so it is possible that somebody is still using teTeX 1.x. I don't know if PDF 1.2 makes troubles

Re: Mysterious addition of dots after citation

2005-11-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bo Peng ben.bob at ... writes: Pay attention whether it is an email transfer problem. Dot doubling happens to me when the sender uses thunderbird. This is unlikely the case since 1. I am using mutt and one of my friends will never

Re: Possible cure to a pdf generation anomaly

2005-11-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's already code in the script to test whether ps2pdf13 exists. That code should be extended to test whether the ps2pdf version that's used actually works with pdflatex. Something like:

Re: Mysterious addition of dots after citation

2005-11-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Bo Peng ha scritto: I verified that MS/OE behaves the same, i.e., if the first character on a line is a dot (no matter if in the email body or in a text attachment) it gets doubled when sending. Conversely, if the first two characters on a line are two dots they are collapsed to a single dot.

Re: Mysterious addition of dots after citation

2005-11-30 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Bo Peng ha scritto: I asked to a friend of mine to send me an email with lines starting with a dot. Now I am using thunderbird to reply. Tell me what you see. .this line starts with a single dot ..this line starts with two and only two dots this line ends with a single dot. I see correct

Re: Mysterious addition of dots after citation

2005-11-30 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes ha scritto: Enrico == Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico I asked to a friend of mine to send me an email with lines Enrico starting with a dot. Now I am using thunderbird to reply. Tell Enrico me what you see. .this line starts with a single dot

Re: Mysterious addition of dots after citation

2005-11-30 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Martin Vermeer ha scritto: From the sendmail man page: With no flags, sendmail reads its standard input up to an end-of-file or a line consisting only of a single dot and sends a copy of the mes- sage found there to all of the addresses listed. It determines the

Re: Mysterious addition of dots after citation

2005-12-02 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Helge Hafting ha scritto: Please submit bug reports - to the makers of bad email clients. I tried sending with thunderbird 1.0.7 and receiving with mutt - no problem. I tried to read some RFCs on the subject and I think that it could be the fault of broken email clients. I report here on some

Re: Mysterious addition of dots after citation

2005-12-02 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 23:21:51 +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:02:21PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: [...] From the SMTP definition (RFC-822): 1. Before sending a line of mail text the sender-SMTP checks the first character of the line. If it is a period, one

Re: Mysterious addition of dots after citation

2005-12-03 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 10:07:01 +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 01:23:38AM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: [...] Alas, to my knowledge, XCmail is the only mailer with a GUI which lets me open a mailbox in whatever place on disk or network it is located. I hope that someday

Re: Mysterious addition of dots after citation

2005-12-03 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then for pities sake, take this to a sendmail forum. Fix the problem not the symptoms. Have you read the previous posts? This is a known feature (written in the standards), not bug of sendmail. That's correct. Having read some RFCs on the subject, I am

Re: Mysterious addition of dots after citation

2005-12-04 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Lars Gullik Bjønnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Send you attachments as application/octet-stream and be done with it. I am sorry, but this doesn't solve the problem. Indeed, when the attachment is encoded it may happen (as far as I know) that a line starts with a dot. So, if the mailer

Re: Mysterious addition of dots after citation

2005-12-04 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lars Gullik Bjønnes larsbj at ... writes: [...] Send you attachments as application/octet-stream and be done with it. I am sorry, but this doesn't solve the problem. Indeed, when the attachment is encoded it may happen (as far as I know

Instant preview in LyX/Win 1.4.0pre3

2006-01-03 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Hi all! For some reason the dvipng distributed with miktex (at least the one I have installed) fails to generate the instant preview images: $ python /path/to/lyxpreview2bitmap.py png 0lyxpreview.tex 128 00 f0f0f0 makepk: METAFONT failed on cmmi12. C:\texmf\miktex\bin\dvipng.exe warning:

Re: Instant preview in LyX/Win 1.4.0pre3

2006-01-03 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You need to refresh the MikTeX databases. It's some obvious entry in the package manager's menus. If you can't find it then this is a FAQ on the MikTeX list. (Sorry I can't be less vague :() Easy, Angus. I wasn't asking for help there ;-) It is not

Re: Instant preview in LyX/Win 1.4.0pre3

2006-01-04 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico Forestieri wrote: Perhaps you mean that the dpi variable is *proportional* to preview_scale_factor. Indeed, when not setting preview_scale_factor I obtain dpi=112, whereas setting it to 1.02 I obtain dpi=127. However, I don't know

Re: Instant preview in LyX/Win 1.4.0pre3

2006-01-04 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It may be the format files rather than the package database. The MiKTeX Options app has a button on the General tab, Format files section labeled Update Now. Enrico should give that a whirl. I ran into something similar, albeit not with preview,

Re: Instant preview in LyX/Win 1.4.0pre3

2006-01-04 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd suggest that we just leave things as they are. The fix is available to you; you can fudge your script file. Angus, sorry to be a PITA, but I would like to get your attention to the fact that a regular expression in lyxpreview2bitmap.py may be needs

Re: No automake-1.9 on mingw/msys yet...

2006-01-04 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Michael Gerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also noticed that MinGW no longer allows you to build 1.4.0cvs. As a workaround, I use cygwin's automake to generate the Makefiles. It works as expected but, of course, it isn't nice to have to install and use cygwin in addition to MinGW. Thank god,

Re: Instant preview in LyX/Win 1.4.0pre3

2006-01-04 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh, that's horrid and the one that follows is worse. What I think you should do is talk to David Kastrup and Jan-Åke Larsson on the AucTeX mailing list (gmane.emacs.auc-tex) and see why they're messing up the output that they devised for us. I tried

Re: Instant preview in LyX/Win 1.4.0pre3

2006-01-05 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico Forestieri wrote: I tried dvipng 1.7 on linux and its output is exactly equal to what that RE matches. So it is not a problem with dvipng itself but seemingly with the dvipng shipped with MikTeX. Then I guess you know who to complain

Re: Instant preview in LyX/Win 1.4.0pre3

2006-01-05 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Angus Leeming leeming at ... writes: Enrico Forestieri wrote: I tried dvipng 1.7 on linux and its output is exactly equal to what that RE matches. So it is not a problem with dvipng itself but seemingly with the dvipng shipped

Re: Instant preview in LyX/Win 1.4.0pre3

2006-01-05 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Our agreement was simply that David Kastrup and, to a lesser extent, Jan-Åke Larsson created all the hooks needed by LyX in preview.sty and in dvipng. They'll certainly remember, albeit hazily. I was a PITA (that's their arses) for a couple of months

Re: Instant preview in LyX/Win 1.4.0pre3

2006-01-05 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm afraid I'm extremely busy tying up lose ends ATM before I start a new job on Monday. Please contact them on the AucTeX mailing list; you'll tell the story so much better than I could Done: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.auctex.devel/870 --

Another (small) problem with instant preview in 1.4.0

2006-01-07 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Hi all! In 1.4.0 dvipng is used by default for generating instant preview images of math formulas. One has to adjust preview_scale_factor in the preference file in order to have a correct size and alignment for the images. However, when the latex font size is changed in Document-Settings, this

Re: Another (small) problem with instant preview in 1.4.0

2006-01-08 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: could this be bug 2167? If yes, could you get Bo Peng testing your patch? http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2167 Hi Jürgen, no, it is not the same. The patch for bug 2167 is buried in the patch you can find in this thread:

Re: Another (small) problem with instant preview in 1.4.0

2006-01-09 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see. That patch has not been committed to cvs, no? Could you please add it to the above bugzilla report, so that it will not be lost? Done. Yes, I can reproduce that. You should open a separate report for it on bugzilla and add your patch.

Re: Another (small) problem with instant preview in 1.4.0

2006-01-09 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico == Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico The problem I am referring to here is different. By trial and Enrico error I found that for a given Screen DPI and Zoom % set Enrico in Tools-Preferences, there exist a magical

Re: Another (small) problem with instant preview in 1.4.0

2006-01-10 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico $ identify 0lyxpreview1.png 0lyxpreview1.png PNG 11x11 Enrico 11x11+0+0 PseudoClass 14c 186 Are you sure? Don't you want the ascent and descent? That info is already provided by dvipng. What is passed back through the metrics file is

Re: Another (small) problem with instant preview in 1.4.0

2006-01-10 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico == Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, but you have to assume that the default size is 10pt for this to work (and incidentally the work you have to do is ugly :). Enrico Uh? I said ugly because adding things

Re: Another (small) problem with instant preview in 1.4.0

2006-01-10 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico == Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico I suspect that there is a misunderstanding here. I am talking Enrico about the files that LyX constructs for the preview-latex Enrico thing, i.e., the files named #lyxpreview.tex

Re: Updating the translations of the Windows installer

2006-01-12 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -LangString FinishPageMessage ${LYX_LANG} Congratulations! LyX has been installed successfully. +LangString FinishPageMessage ${LYX_LANG} LyX should now be installed. However, some of our users report that the configure script fails to run and, as a

Re: Updating the translations of the Windows installer

2006-01-13 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And for these observations. I'm not going to do anything with them though I think that the message is enough to allow people to investigate without getting too despondent and throwing this bloody, broken software away. I fully agree with your

Re: Updating the translations of the Windows installer

2006-01-13 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico, I see that the Italian translation is missing a few translations: LangString CreateCmdFilesFailed ${LYX_LANG} Failed atempting to create lyx.cmd and reLyX.cmd LangString UILangageTitle ${LYX_LANG} The language of LyX's interface LangString

Re: Updating the translations of the Windows installer

2006-01-13 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks. And one more: LangString UILanguageAvailableLanguages ${LYX_LANG} Available Languages LangString UILanguageAvailableLanguages ${LYX_LANG} Lingue disponibili -- Enrico

Re: No automake-1.9 on mingw/msys yet...

2006-01-15 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you were to do that, you'd probably want a third package containing only C:\Program Files\LyXxtras\bin dt2dv.exe dv2dt.exe libiconv-2.dll mingwm10.dll qt-mt3.dll and have the lyx.bat in the 1.3 and 1.4 versions of the LyX package add

Re: No automake-1.9 on mingw/msys yet...

2006-01-15 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Abdel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hum, I'm no expert in that domain but maybe the linker has to unique each and every methods that are defined in the duplicate headers. As mingw gcc 3.4 has no support for precompiled header the linker has to do this triage and this should take time,

Re: No automake-1.9 on mingw/msys yet...

2006-01-16 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh, nice! I had no idea that ldd worked on Windows. Oh well, this isn't the real ldd ;-) $ cat /usr/local/bin/ldd #!/bin/sh # Emulate ldd FULL_WIN_PATH=`cygpath -w -a $1` cygcheck $FULL_WIN_PATH -- Enrico

Re: Version-suffix with 1.4.0.cvs

2006-01-23 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: I just find out that the --with-version-suffix=-1.4.0cvs-qt does not works anymore for lyx, lyxclient and tex2lyx, which clobber the current installed lyx working version. Does this deserve a bugzilla message ?

Many labels bug in 1.1.5fix2

2000-11-22 Thread Enrico Forestieri
in LyX. If possible, please read 'Known bugs' under the Help menu and then send us a full bug report. Thanks! This bug was not present in 1.1.5fix1. I am using LyX under SunOS 5.7 with xforms 0.88. -- Enrico Forestieri Dip.to di Ingegneria dell'Informazione voice: +39 (0)521 905764 Universita

Re: Warning to users of debian testing/unstable, libxft2 (2.1.8.2-2) is broken

2006-01-28 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: libxft2 (2.1.8.2-2) is missing FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden, revert to version 2.1.7-1 from stable. AFAIK debian testing still has 2.1.7-1 -- Enrico

Re: help needed for bug 2248

2006-01-28 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Georg Baum schrieb: Babel probably makes active for french. But why can I compile the file manually? The exported file, perhaps. If you try to compile it by hand in the lyx_tmpdir, you'll find that you can't. The problem is that ':' is made active

Re: help needed for bug 2248

2006-01-28 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uwe Stöhr uwestoehr at ... writes: Georg Baum schrieb: Babel probably makes active for french. But why can I compile the file manually? The exported file, perhaps. If you try to compile it by hand in the lyx_tmpdir, you'll find

Re: help needed for bug 2248

2006-01-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Many thanks Enrico, this fixes the problem. I tested this with all possible babel languages and it works, except for turkish. The turkish language problem is bug 2005: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2005 So perhaps you and/or Herbert Voss

Re: help needed for bug 2248

2006-01-30 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bo BTW, I notice another problem with 1.4.0cvs. The Bo sections/subsections in the file I loaded are not numbered, and Bo are not shown in the navigation menu. The ps/pdf output is correct Bo (with section numbers). What might be causing the problem?

Re: Bug 2264: Problems with text over \overbrace

2006-02-01 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But try moving only *one* step left! Then you get the cursor in a weird position. Typing/inserting anything there will not extend the overbrace, but it *will* steal the text over the overbrace and use it as an exponent. This behavior may be

Re: Bug 2264: Problems with text over \overbrace

2006-02-01 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico Forestieri writes: But try moving only *one* step left! Then you get the cursor in a weird position. Typing/inserting anything there will not extend the overbrace, but it *will* steal the text over the overbrace and use it as an exponent

Re: Bug 2264: Problems with text over \overbrace

2006-02-01 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see that. The bug is that LyX allows this senseless cursor position. It should instead jump to the text over the brace. Sorry, I disagree. If you want to go to the text over the brace, you should simply press cursor up, consistent with the way

Re: Compiling LyX for Windows - free MSVC available

2006-02-05 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anybody ever tried to compile LyX with MSVC and perhaps has a project file for this? I discovered that Qt cannot be compiled with the free MSVC because it is missing a library (delayimp.lib). The free MSVC does not include an IDE, so a project file is

Re: Compiling LyX for Windows - free MSVC available

2006-02-05 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Note that Ruurd Reitsma has had success in the past using a cygwin tool that takes a g++ command and converts it to an msvc one. Do a google search on wrapmsvc. Personally, I never succeeded in getting it to work, but then I never really tried that

Re: Compiling LyX for Windows - free MSVC available

2006-02-05 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Michael Abshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rantLast time I checked the free Microsoft Compiler (the one shiped with VS2003) even missed essential tools like nmake or lib! I could not believe how useless that compiler package is. Certainly people will not be using the free Microsoft compiler if

Re: [PATCH] bug 2237: --with-version-suffix does not attach suffix to main binaries: lyx, lyxclient, tex2lyx

2006-02-06 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This patch seems to work correctly in my tests. I am not sure what happens in windows though (due to the use of $(EXE_EXT)). Please test. On Windows a plain --with-version-suffix does not provide a default suffix. I didn't try compiling, but

Re: Compiling LyX for Windows - free MSVC available

2006-02-06 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is that you cannot compile Qt with the free MSVC, so even if you can build LyX, you would be stuck. The problem you described doesn't sound like a real problem to me. You should get the Q../Free developers interested. Since they put a

LyX/Cygwin

2006-02-11 Thread Enrico Forestieri
I am trying to compile a LyX/Cygwin with native Qt support (no X11). I had to make minimal changes to the Qt sources (configured using -platform cygwin-g++-win32) and no changes to the LyX sources. Only, I had to use -DQ_CYGWIN_WIN for compiling the stuff in frontend/qt2, otherwise X11 calls are

Re: LyX/Cygwin

2006-02-11 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Kayvan A. Sylvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 12:08:16AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: Enrico is trying to push the code where it isn't meant to go He's essentially using the Cygwin build environment to build a native Window executable (ie, --without-x) because

Re: LyX/Cygwin

2006-02-11 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Freitag, 10. Februar 2006 17:17 schrieb Enrico Forestieri: I am trying to compile a LyX/Cygwin with native Qt support (no X11). Why? Because of the linker problems of mingw? Several reasons. Cygwin offers a posix compliant environment. It already

Re: LyX/Cygwin

2006-02-12 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico == Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico Well... I had to manually add -DQ_CYGWIN_WIN to the defines in Enrico the Makefiles in src/frontends/qt2, but only because I didn't Enrico want to reconfigure. I think

Re: LyX/Cygwin

2006-02-12 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:06:15 -0800, Stephen Harris wrote: Hello Enrico, I am interested in your Cygwin Howto. Someone just asked about this on the User list, and might appreciate a copy. Shenghua Fan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Stephen, here it is. I also take this opportunity for sending it to

Re: LyX/Cygwin

2006-02-12 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:47:10 -0800, Stephen Harris wrote: Hello Enrico, Thanks for your Howto, it looks like you did a lot of work on it! I forwarded a copy to Shenghua and asked him to make notes. Maybe the Cygwin maintainers will add LyX back into the downloadable package list once the

Re: LyX/Cygwin -- is wiki.lyx.org server down?

2006-02-13 Thread Enrico Forestieri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would you like me to place the howto on a wiki page? If so, would say that the intended audience is more for user's than developers? Assuming that, perhaps placing it on this page would be useful: LyX.LyXOnCygwinHowTo I can't do it right now since

Re: LyX/Cygwin -- is wiki.lyx.org server down?

2006-02-13 Thread Enrico Forestieri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You're welcome, as this was quite quick work for me I put your stuff in a temporary location here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Playground/LyXOnCygwin You can just edit and play with this page... when you're happy we can come up with a better location for it.

Re: LyX/Cygwin -- is wiki.lyx.org server down?

2006-02-14 Thread Enrico Forestieri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You're right that incoming/ can be used for downloading. As I think the ftp server is down (uhm... not sure how you could upload then, now that I think about it though), I think it is up. I simply did: ftp ftp.devel.lyx.org user: anonymous pass: email cd

Re: LyX/Cygwin

2006-02-14 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico == Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico Yes, I am sure. It really is Q_CYGWIN_WIN and it is used in Enrico qglobal.h to discriminate between X11 and WIN. OK, I see now that you are right. I think it will be possible

Re: LyX/Cygwin

2006-02-14 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico Forestieri forenr at ... writes: this is just to inform you that defining Q_CYGWIN_WIN in src/config.h is not sufficient to avoid X11 calls. I don't know why. That sounds as if some .C file doesn't #include config.h for file in `find

Re: LyX/Cygwin

2006-02-15 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, given that these are generated files, it should be easy enough to fix them. Fancy putting together a patch? The _moc.C files are generated from .h files that in turn are generated form .ui files that I don't grok (is it XML?). So, you will not

Re: LyX/Cygwin

2006-02-15 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico Forestieri forenr at ... writes: Angus Leeming leeming at ... writes: Well, given that these are generated files, it should be easy enough to fix them. Fancy putting together a patch? The _moc.C files are generated from .h

Re: About bugs targeted at 1.4.1

2006-02-16 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bo == Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bo 2. Why the patch for http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2167 Bo is not applied? It should indeed. At least the ascent/descent part. Enrico, what is the rationale for allowing png generation

Re: [PATCH] Bug 2016: Saving a quoted converter adds extra quotes in the preferences file

2006-02-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2016 I forgot to mention here that I attached a patch to bug 2016. This is of particular interest to windows people. So if you want this patch to go in, apply it and test it! It is conceptually

Re: [PATCH] Bug 2016: Saving a quoted converter adds extra quotes in the preferences file

2006-02-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lines 17 and 18 in ~/.lyx-1.4.0/lyxrc.defaults are the following ones: \Format dvi2 dvi DraftDVI \Format epseps EPS gv Supplying the extra on line 17 cures the problem: \Format dvi2 dvi

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-24 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For Msys/mingw binaries, I might be able to help if needed. Packaging is something else... Uwe might propose something and Angus might come out of his retirement . I can see some well positioned outsiders (Enrico? Michael?). It is my intention

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-25 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico Forestieri a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes abdelrazak.younes.m3system at ... writes: For Msys/mingw binaries, I might be able to help if needed. Packaging is something else... Uwe might propose something and Angus might come out of his

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-02 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I spent an awful lot of time trying to fix my msys install without success so I decided to give cygwin a try. There is a way to use cygwin environment with mingw without the -mno-cygwin option (see the mingw FAQ at the end of this email).

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-02 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use cygwin with the -mno-cygwin option to build a LyX package which runs without needing cygwin. I paste at the bottom an uuencoded tar archive I just noticed that this damn'd gmane interface horribly mangled the uuencoded archive. I am posting

Re: Bugzilla 2315

2006-03-02 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Then someone have to test it promptly or this will not be in 1.4.0. OK, here is an updated patch for testing (nothing had changed, I only moved the ChangeLog entry). Any takers? With this patch the behavior is as in 1.3.7,

Re: Bugzilla 2315

2006-03-02 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: try this: 1. write \text{test} in text mode 2. select it 3. hit C-M you get an ampty text inset. The patch fixes that. Yes, I was missing that. Then I would say that the patch works, even if it is a small nuisance that now you have to

Re: Bugzilla 2315

2006-03-02 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico, could you file the paste outside of LyX bug in bugzilla, please (or si it alreday there?) I'll do that. Here is a better patch (only two code lines were changed), that does allow all these cases: \text{test} $\text{test}$ \[\text{test}\]

Re: Bugzilla 2315

2006-03-02 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jürgen, Enrico, it would be nice if you could test this one again, so that it can go in 1.4.0. For me it does work. The new patch seems to work. However, if the selection does not include any delimiter I get some messages on the terminal. For example,

Re: Bugzilla 2315

2006-03-02 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Enrico Forestieri wrote: With this patch the behavior is as in 1.3.7, including that when selecting a math inset and pasting it outside of LyX, the delimiters are still left out. Enrico, could you file the paste

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-03 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK thanks Enrico, I'll take a look. I was under the impression that your method would need a cygwin installation a user but if you tell me that this is not mandatory. Maybe we could switch to your version altogether instead of the MSYS based

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-03 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm retired :) ;-) More seriously, how hard would it be to merge the two scripts into one? The thing is written as a series of subroutines anyway so it would just need a check on the build environment so that it could call the correct ones. Angus,

Re: [PATCHES 13x, 14x, head] The updated Windows installer stuff

2006-03-03 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: $ LANG=ru_RU.cp1251 $ export LANG [...] $ LANG=pl_PL.cp1250 $ export LANG [...] Is there any way to debug this? Find whether iconv is actually being used or not? FWIW, with a cygwin build I obtain correct results with LANG=ru_RU.cp1251 (cyrillic

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