fast light toolkit and GUI independence

2001-03-06 Thread Guenter Milde
Dear Developers, I hope I won't be the n+199th to tell you this: I wonder whether the "fast and light toolkit" (fltk) could help Lyx towards GUI independence: it is fast, it is light, it works for both X-Windows and MS-Windows and a user on the jed-list stated that it facilitates GUI

notes/comments proposal

2001-07-18 Thread Guenter Milde
, 18 Jul 2001 00:02:39 -0400 wrote Matej Cepl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes!!! This is something which I would love to have for a long time. Together with importing comments in LaTeX file into LyX as notes. Matej On 9 Jul 2001, at 13:56, Guenter Milde wrote: On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:54:16

Re: Breaking paragraph in a keepempty Section

2002-03-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 02:04:18 + wrote John Levon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If this is the case why on earth didn't you open a bug ?! Becouse I am lazy (and did not have access when I recovered this one). However, now I did: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313 Guenter -- [EMAIL

Re: [Bug 313] Enter key doesnot work in KeepEmpty paragraphs

2002-04-22 Thread Guenter Milde
Dear Developers, On 12 Apr 2002 10:25:44 - wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Bug 313] Enter key doesnot work in KeepEmpty paragraphs Fixed! Thanks for fixing. It will make the work with the Seminar class (and the layout from the contributions site) a lot easier. I will update the documentation

Re: defaults

2002-05-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On Wed, 22 May 2002 04:14:54 -0700 (PDT) wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've searched high and low for reference to /$UserDir/templates/defaults.lyx which I finally figured out is how to set my document defaults. There's lots of data about templates and the lyxrc file but I can't find this one.

Re: Re: seminar.layout doesn't work as expected

2002-08-01 Thread Guenter Milde
On 30 Jul 2002 10:37:28 +0200 wrote Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 17 Jul 2002 11:33:15 -0400 wrote German Poo Caaman~o Since lyx-1.1.6-fix (AFAIR) I've been having some problems with seminar.layout. I defined frames on my slides, but now one slide appears with frame and

lib/languages polutonikogreek bug

2010-01-11 Thread Guenter Milde
Dear developers, I have to admit that my latest patch for poytonic Greek, though looking simple and innocent contained a bug that makes compilation of (some) documents in polutonikogreek fail. Fortunately, the fix is simple and even more simplifies lib/languages: * as the special meaning of the

Re: lib/languages polutonikogreek bug

2010-01-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-12, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: * as the special meaning of the ~ character in babel's polutonikogreek is now cared for by LyX, we don't need special setup code. --- a/lib/languages +++ b/lib/languages -polutonikogreek polutonikogreekGreek (polytonic

Re: r33009 - in lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X: development/Win32/packaging/AltInstaller lib/doc lib/doc/de lib/doc/es lib/doc/fr

2010-01-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-13, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 13.01.2010 01:54, schrieb rgheck: The tutorial is a file for newbies and thus should only contain the basics. Another possibility would be to give more verbose error messages from tex2lyx, and perhaps in the GUI, error messages that would direct the user

Re: tex2lyx and the manuals [was: r33009]

2010-01-13 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-13, rgheck wrote: On 01/13/2010 02:28 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: However, pointing out the distinction between a LateX documentclass/-style and a LyX layout file and pointing to the relevant parts of the documentation will help them and, by reduced faqs, us. Some of that material

Re: xml in lyx

2010-01-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-13, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 06:36:09PM +, José Matos wrote: - what to do with math? Try to use the 'layout oriented' bits of MathML and invent our own for the few cases where there is no clean match. I suggest keeping math in LaTeX format (inside a

Re: tex2lyx and the manuals [was: r33009]

2010-01-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-13, Pavel Sanda wrote: Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: doesn't work because of different preambles and different needs of manuals. Which I still don't understand. http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5460 only repeats this claim: to make that work through master/child is

Re: r33007 - lyx-devel/trunk/lib/doc

2010-01-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-13, rgheck wrote: On 01/13/2010 06:34 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Of course, a better UI could be to transform a - into a -- (I do not have the unicode codepoint handy, sorry) when typing - after it (like spaces in math). A better UI *might* (and I do mean *might*) be to

Re: r33007 - lyx-devel/trunk/lib/doc

2010-01-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-14, rgheck wrote: On 01/14/2010 03:24 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I think this is a case where we can just say : do like that now, this is the LyX philosophy... But there is no need to push this on the readers of the tutorial... Yes, and because it is the right way to do it,

Re: r33007 - lyx-devel/trunk/lib/doc

2010-01-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-14, rgheck wrote: On 01/14/2010 11:39 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: rgheckrgh...@bobjweil.com writes: The input ligature can have unwanted side-effects. Copy the following into a LyX window: To get help, use # ls --help Look at the PDF. I copied the text back from

Re: xml in lyx

2010-01-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-14, rgheck wrote: On 01/14/2010 03:05 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: We could consider using Unicode characters for LaTeX macros which are supported by our 'unicodesymbols' file, e.g. β for \beta and ∫ for \int. Here again, unless we're proposing to write \beta as β and then read β

Re: r33007 - lyx-devel/trunk/lib/doc

2010-01-15 Thread Guenter Milde
glyph (correctly applied) results in proper typography, it can be used in the Guide and Tutorial without adverse effects. * a) and c) are related too: we should not use --- if this results in three hyphens in the printout. On 01/14/2010 05:06 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-01-14, rgheck

Re: xml in lyx

2010-01-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-14, rgheck wrote: On 01/14/2010 05:28 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-01-14, rgheck wrote: On 01/14/2010 03:05 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: I propose to use Unicode chars in the LyX file (so that if your write \hbar, the math editor would not only show ℏ in the GUI but also write

Re: tex2lyx and the manuals [was: r33009]

2010-01-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-14, Pavel Sanda wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-01-13, Pavel Sanda wrote: Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: doesn't work because of different preambles and different needs of manuals. Which I still don't understand. http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5460 only

Re: r33007 - lyx-devel/trunk/lib/doc

2010-01-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-15, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: Another, more relevant example is XeTeX: If (like in the default LyX-svn setup) system fonts are used, --- is rendered as three hyphens. Not here. But definitely here with LMRoman10-Regular. What fonts do you use? Jürgen

erratic undo behaviour with trunk

2010-01-20 Thread Guenter Milde
Dear LyXers, Trying out a recently updated and compiled LyX (SVN trunk) LyX 2.0.0svn (not released yet) Built on Jan 15 2010, 08:40:26 I have problems with the undo feature: * sometimes, when editing a test case for a bug report, undo will undo all changes since the buffer was opened in

Re: Metric (TFM) file not found

2010-01-21 Thread Guenter Milde
`lgrlmr.fd', %% %% %% Copyright 2009 Guenter Milde %% %% based on lgrcmr.fd by Johannes L. Braams it makes the Greek CB fonts %% working with the `lmodern' package. %% %% It may be distributed and/or modified under the %% conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3

Re: Metric (TFM) file not found

2010-01-22 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-21, Pavel Sanda wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-01-21, Pavel Sanda wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: I got greek fonts working also with lmodern, however no emphasized/italic, small caps, or bold versions. i was rather asking why document edited in lyx 1.6.2/3 stop working

Re: Trac rights

2010-01-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-25, Vincent wrote: Please, can we make the keywords, priority, severity and milestone fields to be editable only by people with rights. I understand that for people taking the step to report a bug, the bug is really major, but if everyone that reports a bug sets the milestone to

Re: conflict during svn-update

2010-01-29 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-28, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Sebastian Guttenberg wrote: Thanks a lot. Had to type it quite often, but it's fine now. Next time just delete all *.po files and svn up. Those *.po conflicts just happen, once in a while. Why are the *.po files under version control if they are

Re: XML?

2010-02-01 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-30, Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 29 January 2010 18:41:57 Peter Kümmel wrote: Am Freitag, den 29.01.2010, 17:55 -0500 schrieb Steve Litt: This example has no content. I'd be interested to see a real LuaTeX document in its native format. AFAIK LuaTeX is an engine (TeX to PDF

Re: Goals for alpha 1

2010-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-01, José Matos wrote: On Friday 29 January 2010 22:38:05 Peter Kümmel wrote: So I propose to rename it to 0.19 because we have always evolved and never had any real revolution. We had the transition to Unicode but missed it (version number wise). LyX 1.6.x is a different beast

Re: XML?

2010-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-01, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 01 February 2010 05:24:30 Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: OK, I guess my question is this: If LyX were using LuaTex, what would my LyX document look like in Vim? I'd rather make sure you won't need vim anymore :). That's not gonna work. One of

Re: XML?

2010-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-02, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: This is why I would greatly welcome improved support for external editing of the lyx source: * open a lyx file in LyX and jump to a specified place/line, so that I can easily go to `grep` results or the place I have been editing

Re: XML?

2010-02-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-03, Pavel Sanda wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: This is why I would greatly welcome improved support for external editing of the lyx source: * open file of current buffer in a configurable application, reload buffer once this application is closed. i feel this is task for only

Re: XML?

2010-02-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-02, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: However, grep for a phrase in a set of lyx documents (all papers of the last 3 years, say) is still a valid case. sure, that's something at which grep is surely unbeatable and faster. Now combine this with locate to search

line breaks in variable width table columns

2010-02-03 Thread Guenter Milde
This came up in the users list, but boils down to a feature request: It would be nice if LyX could interpret a Ctrl-Enter in a variable-width table cell as insert the content in a \shortstack with a line-break at this place. On 2010-01-28, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-01-27, Uwe Stöhr

Edit buffer in external editor

2010-02-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-04, Pavel Sanda wrote: Thanks a lot Pavel, vc-command DR $$p my-editor $$i (with - instead of _ in the command name) works like a charm. This solves a long-standing issue for me. Binding this with the ToolsSettingsKeybindings dialogue failed, however: after saving, the command

Re: Wishlist items - document templates

2010-02-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-04, Helge Hafting wrote: File-New from Template currently shows only templates in /usr/share/lyx/templates. The dialog ought to have a couple of shortcut buttons: system templates and private templates that goes directly to these two directories. Seconded. The reason is to

Re: Edit buffer in external editor

2010-02-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-05, Pavel Sanda wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: (Should the keydindings dialogue escape quotes automatically?) dunno, please put this into bugzilla. Done. http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6511 Günter

Re: texlive language packages

2010-02-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-05, Hartmut Haase wrote: in two cases I already found, that texlive does not install language packages automatically, if you install lyx through the package manager: ubuntu and openSUSE. Same on Debian. This is normally *the right thing* as the lyx package should not bring more

Re: Another Lyx Error Detected

2010-02-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-08, Lara Pagano wrote: Another problem I am having is with too many floating figures. I have a large document with anywhere from 3-100 figures within each chapter. I keep getting the error regarding too many floats. I worked around this issue by placing /clearpage every so often

Re: [patch] implement multirow support - request for help

2010-02-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-09, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Attached is what I currently have to support multirows. There is currently one issue I cannot solve: The metrics and drawing of the cells that are part of a multirow is broken. The drawing of the first multirow cell is however correct. I failed to figure

Re: [patch] 6534: fix unicode issues in bibitem

2010-02-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-12, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Currently, a unicode glyph (outside the output file's encoding) either in the label or in the key yields a silent iconv error ... The attached patch against branch solves both issues. Objections, comments? Thanks. However, the silence of the iconv

wrong hint change the encoding to UTF8

2010-02-20 Thread Guenter Milde
Dear LyX developers, once again, a post on lyx-users regarding the wrong hint: changing the encoding to UTF8 might help displayed with encoding errors. LyX's unicodesymbols file is more complete than inputenc's utf8 definitions, so this is just misleading. On 2010-02-15, Jürgen Spitzmüller

Re: wrong hint change the encoding to UTF8

2010-02-22 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-22, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: LyX's unicodesymbols file is more complete than inputenc's utf8 definitions, so this is just misleading. Probably yes. For now, your best bet is to open View Source, search for the character (it is marked in red in the source

Re: Greek text mixed with English

2010-02-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-25, Νίκος Αλεξανδρής wrote: I use LyX and (probably) only LyX for everything that has to do with writing a nice--clean looking text/ document. I would love to see the Greek-English problem solved once and forever [1]. I mean, to set the language in Greek, write your stuff in Greek

Re: #6558: Edit-Language lacks keyboard shortcuts.

2010-02-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-25, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Thanks for the work on the language menu, while there is still room for improvement, I think it is going in the right direction. in the rather usual case when only one language is used ... ... This new menu entry is a

trunk: Font change in XeTeX sets black background!

2010-02-27 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-27, Liviu Andronic wrote: --0016e656b5989321f8048092a3d5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 2/27/10, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: It works here, with both Charis SIL and DejaVu as document fonts (LyX-2.0 makes it easy to select fonts for XeTeX

Re: Greek text mixed with English

2010-02-27 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-27, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Νίκος Αλεξανδρής schreef: Would it be possible to set the language automatically when recognizing a certain unicode range ? While possible, it is ambiguous (and therefore not helpful): * Cyrillic: Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Church Slavonic,

Re: Greek text mixed with English

2010-02-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-28, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: This is my interpretation of the problem: unexpected output of greek characters while there are latin characters on screen. Yes, this is the OP's problem. Maybe it should rather be named: words using written

Re: Greek text mixed with English

2010-02-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-28, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: Yes, that's exactly the point. If there are latin characters on screen in LyX, we don't want to have greek letters appearing in the output right ? No. If I use the transliteration, I want exactly this. Even

Re: Greek text mixed with English

2010-02-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-28, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: I think we should output \textlatin for the latin characters as we do with \textgreek for greek characters. I thought about this once, but this would make Greek even more the odd one out, because e.g. Cyrillic does not work this way:

Re: Greek text mixed with English

2010-02-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-01, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: But this is just one side. A filename, a C command or some Acronym in a Greek document do not gain from beeing marked as another language but still should keep Latin letters as such! Then, the user should still mark the code

Re: Greek text mixed with English

2010-03-01 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-01, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: While this is the reine Lehre, it is often impractical. * Quite a lot of acronyms are international and will not be hyphenated anyway. Not true. Why, it is not a contradiction to quite a lot of ... if some.. Acronyms

trunk crash (missing Addsec*)

2010-03-02 Thread Guenter Milde
LyX 2.0.0svn (2009-03-25) crashed on me with: We failed to find the layout 'Addsec*' in the layout list. You MUST investigate! Plain Layout Standard ... Quote Verse --Separator-- lassert.cpp(21): ASSERTION false VIOLATED IN TextClass.cpp:1013 lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught Sorry, you have

Re: Greek text mixed with English

2010-03-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-02, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: I just verified that transliteration is still active with XeTeX, so compiling with XeTeX does _not_ change the rendering of old documents (if so, I would rate that a XeTeX bug). Here, (LyX 2.0.0 svn and XeTeX

Re: Greek text mixed with English

2010-03-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-02, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-03-01, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: While this is the reine Lehre, it is often impractical. But this is unfair: in a German document, you kan keep the language as German and write RADAR or Laser

Re: trunk crash (missing Addsec*)

2010-03-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-02, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: when I tried to open DocumentSettings on a file containing Could you post this file? Yes. The crash happens in lyx-svn but not in the release version. It disappeared after manually deleting the Addsec* part. Günter #LyX 1.6.5

Re: Greek text mixed with English

2010-03-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-02, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: The following minimal document - \documentclass[greek]{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{babel} \usepackage{xunicode} \usepackage{xltxtra} \begin{document} test \end{document

Re: The emission of \maketitle

2010-03-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-05, Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: Hi lyx-devel, What controls the emission of \maketitle when exporting to latex? There is an intitle (or something like that) keyword for layout styles. It is explained in the Customization guide. (Or look at the implementation of the abstract style.)

Re: Greek text mixed with English

2010-03-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-05, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: However, Greek Unicode chars are missing in the output in the following example if: a) babel is included, or b) the \setmainfont line is commented ... Please file reports for these. Done. http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6576

Re: trunk crash (missing Addsec*)

2010-03-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-05, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: Could you post this file? Yes. Please send an attachment (not inline). Unfortunately, I can't, as I follow the list via Gmane and my slrn newsreader does not support attachments (or I did not find the way how to get this working

Re: better maxima integration, devel.

2010-03-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-05, Janek Kozicki wrote: rgheck said: (by the date of Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:18:35 -0500) ... besides improving that communication, the only missing thing is to be able to declare variables within maxima, and operate on them later. It means a running maxima session, instead of

Re: Feature request: find-and-replace within selection

2010-03-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-05, Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: It would be useful to support this feature because we could perform a replace-all within a selection and quickly achieve the desired result without clobbering the rest of the document. Agreed. But maybe better making this even more generic: My

Re: Tabular code question

2010-03-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-11, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Uwe Stöhr schreef: I want to fix the vertical alignment bugs in LyX 1.6 and also trunk. To be able to do this, I need to calculate the height of the content of the current cell (not the height of the row). How is this done? Edwin, Abdel,

Re: sweave module and custom font issues

2010-03-18 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-16, Liviu Andronic wrote: --0016e6d99b98aa25240481f389dc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Dear LyX developers I notice this issue in current SVN (probably Alpha1): 1. open a new 'article' document 2. add the Sweave module 3. write something 4. change Document Fonts

Re: Cleaning some files

2010-03-18 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-16, Pavel Sanda wrote: - Seminar.txt : Uwe you might want to look at this file and either delete it or add some note into out official manuals? This is a TODO description, obsoleted by seminar.layout since 2002. Günter

Re: sweave module and custom font issues

2010-03-19 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-18, Liviu Andronic wrote: --0016e6d7f07bc6fb1e0482107256 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 3/18/10, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: Could you post a minimal tex file (i.e. the result of FileExportpdflatex). Yes, see attached. Any obvious issues

Re: LyX's LaTeX preferences dialog needs quick UI overhaul

2010-03-22 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-22, Uwe Stöhr wrote: mailarchive is dropping mails and you are probably regularly missing parts of lyx devel communication. In contrary to gmane, mail-archive offers to reply directly to the author of a mail and to sort the mails by date. I read lyx-devel via news.gmane.org and

Re: Add Converter via Reconfigure

2010-03-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-23, Jack Desert wrote: It's becoming tedious and error-prone to manually set up file formats and converter definitions for a script I'm writing. How do I automate the process so that the file formats and converter definitions are created when I run Tools -- Reconfigure? This is

accents on Cyrillic and Greek chars

2010-03-25 Thread Guenter Milde
Dear LyX developers, The 'accent-*' LFUNs place a combining Unicode behind the to-be-accented char and normalize them if possible. Without normalization, the expansion of combining Unicode chars fails for Cyrillic and Greek letters. Example: accent-tilde alpha becomes \~{\textgreek{a}} which

Re: sweave module and custom font issues

2010-03-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-25, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.org writes: Solution 3: Use \PassOptionToClass. Hmm, it might just work. I just tried it and it did not work, because \PassOptionToClass{noae}{Sweave} is not correct in presence of a \usepackage{/path/to/Sweave}

Re: Enhancement bugs for 2.0

2010-03-31 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-30, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org writes: last call for 2.0 feature requests we have reported. - currently, Sweave reads the files in the encoding of the current locale. This fails as soon as the locale is UTF-8 and the document is 8bit (because the

Re: Compile Time

2010-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-04-06, Jack Desert wrote: Is there a faster way to compile LyX? I'm compiling on a 2.0 GHz / 387 MB RAM Compaq Presario, and it takes about 45 minutes. How long should it take? Well, on my Duron 700 with 512 MB, it took several hours (and finally crashed). You can save memory/time if

Re: edit ERT insets with external editor?

2010-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-04-01, rgheck wrote: On 04/01/2010 04:41 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: On 03/31/2010 05:53 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear LyX developers Would it be a good idea to allow users to edit ERT insets with an external editor? [snip] It is a good idea but it sounds a bit complicated to

Re: Enhancement bugs for 2.0

2010-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-04-01, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 31/03/2010 13:07, Guenter Milde a écrit : I wonder if we could use utf-8 as default latex source encoding for most (all) languages if the locale is UTF-8. AFAIK, UTF8 support is too weak in LaTeX right now. While it is weak in LaTeX, LyX's own

Re: LyX 1.6.6: please prepare for landing

2010-04-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-04-05, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Translation updates and patches should be submitted *no later* than Friday, April 23. Please apply the following patches to fix/clean up the Greek language support: http://www.lyx.org/trac/attachment/ticket/6456/languages-polutonikogreek-branch.patch

Re: LyX 1.6.6: please prepare for landing

2010-04-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-04-09, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: I prefer to apply all those changes to trunk first, let them be tested you are probably the one to commit it? Done: http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/34099 http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/34100 Günter, please check if

Re: posible bug: url and percentage

2010-04-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-04-13, Fox_Van wrote: --001636e0a5ac84c7de0484265273 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Working on a document I put a url tag inside a footnote and then the document did not exported to PDF anymore, but DVI does with not working references This is the case: *FOOTNOTE[*

Re: result of a first test with LyX 2.0alpha2

2010-04-19 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-04-19, Enrico Forestieri wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 02:14:25AM +0200, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Uwe Stöhr schreef: There is room for improvement here, Enrico ? Maybe the alert dialog could be redesigned for accepting 4 buttons instead of 3, such that to avoid the need for

LyX leaves empty file index in pwd

2010-05-20 Thread Guenter Milde
Dear LyXers, since some time, I find strange files named index with no content here and there in my directories. Today I examined the problem and found out that my LyX (LyX 1.6.5 (2009-12-05) from the Debian/testing package) leaves them behind in the working directory. How to reproduce: * go

Re: Problem using tex2lyx Unicode char \u8:�in not set up for use with LaTeX.

2010-05-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-05-22, Niklaus Giger wrote: ... But when I tried to import all the files from https://elexis.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/elexis/trunk/doc_fr I did run into several problems: ... b) When converting to PDF via pdflatex I ran into several problems: b1) (a lot of them) wrong input

Re: Python 3

2010-05-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-05-26, José Matos wrote: On Wednesday 26 May 2010 15:29:13 Pavel Sanda wrote: can you be even more verbose abou the subtle problems? my imagination was that there exists pythonic code running under both 2 3 so once we convert the code we dont need to care anymore about versioning...

Re: Problem using tex2lyx Unicode char \u8:�in not set up for use with LaTeX.

2010-05-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-05-27, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: b) When converting to PDF via pdflatex I ran into several problems: b1) (a lot of them) wrong input encoding: ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:=EF=BF=BDin not set up for use w= ith LaTeX. The standard unicode input encoding (utf8) is

Re: spreadsheet capability?

2010-05-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-05-28, xPol wrote: Has anybody ever tried to provide lyx with some spreadsheet capability, exploiting its symbolic computation backends? Not to my knowledge. However, the Gnumeric spreadsheet has a LaTeX export feature, so one could possibly write an external inset wrapper for it.

Re: Stix fonts are out!

2010-05-31 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-05-31, Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES wrote: Manoj Rajagopalan rma...@umich.edu writes: Hi lyx developers, Just thought this news would interest you. From the stixfonts.org: It is definitely interesting. I am not sure that we should rush on them now. Maybe wait a bit until they get into

Re: show the lyx code (was: feature proposal: show latex code: allow to manipulate the latex code: reveal code)

2010-06-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-07, Pavel Sanda wrote: Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: what looks much easier is to allow mutating math environment into ERT and back. pavel This is already possible. It needs some copy-pasting but it works. I once implemented this, but then disregarded it because it was

Re: show the lyx code (was: feature proposal: show latex code: allow to manipulate the latex code: reveal code)

2010-06-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-07, Pavel Sanda wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: * Backspace at the first position in the inset converts it to normal text (in this case LaTeX code (without beeing marked as ERT)) not in math inset. Sorry, then this is a feature request. OK, I see 2 advantages: 1. no need

Re: r34591 - in lyx-devel/trunk: lib/scripts src src/insets src/tex2lyx

2010-06-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-08, José Matos wrote: On the same vein as your work and since I dislike the latex output of lyx- beamer I have a workaround in the form of a python script and another layout. Did already you consider using custom insets for the frames? I started doing this for the seminar.layout.

Re: XML format status

2010-06-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-08, Sam Liddicott wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --050502020101020702060201 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 08/06/10 15:27, Pavel Sanda wrote: Sam Liddicott wrote: I also still

Re: Navigate to last paragraph of section

2010-06-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-14, Rob Oakes wrote: Specifically, I'd like to create an LFUN that allows me to quickly place = the cursor at the end of the last paragraph of the current section = (e.g., the paragraph before another section at the same toclevel). I = initially thought that I could use some of

Re: [patch] layout dependencies

2010-08-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-07-30, Julien Rioux wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --030503040800070104030405 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi LyX developers, LyX 2.0 now has a new mechanism for relaying layout

Re: FAQ

2010-08-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-08-13, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can we define a criterion for outdated? And should attempt to fix it or delete it? ... (I would vote for the latter, but I'm not entirely comfortable about deleting someone else's entries. If I find something I myself posted

Re: short cuts: fonts in math mode

2010-08-15 Thread Guenter Milde
From the users list... On 2010-08-13, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 8/12/2010 6:22 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: There are already some shortcuts. Highlight some parts of your formula and then press Alt+c and then r. This leads to upright characters (\mathrm). Alt+c and c gives for example \mathbb.

Re: Typing in LyX extremely slow / produced high X server load

2010-08-21 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-08-20, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Am Freitag, 20. August 2010 schrieb Paul Johnson: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Rainer Dorsch rdor...@web.de wrote: I noticed that typing in LyX sometimes becomes incredibly slow (it takes approximately 1s per character). top shows in these cases a

Re: what does the local layout in the document settings do?

2010-08-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-08-30, Uwe Stöhr wrote: What exactly does the local layout feature in the document settings? It is in the document settings now? Then this is an interface to the hithere hidden possibility to include a layout with a document. I tried to use it but don't understand how it works. Here

Re: lilybook module

2010-09-01 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-08-31, Julien Rioux wrote: On 31/08/2010 3:35 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-08-30, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Using the OutputFormat tag defined for use with sweave, one can have a module that changes the format (and thus add an extra convert step). ... Could this be used

Re: r35662 - in lyx-devel/trunk/src: . frontends/qt4

2010-10-22 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-10-21, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: but now we have new problem - how to notice user that exporting is stillbr= in progress or finished (some subvserion of hourglass cursor?).br Status bar: Moving icons. Text. Messages. greyed out (or otherwise modified) export toolbar buttons?

Re: Improvements to Recover Emergency File prompts. (pseudo-patch with discussion)

2010-10-25 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-10-25, Richard Heck wrote: On 10/25/2010 01:23 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Richard Heckrgh...@comcast.net wrote: +e.checksum() != s.checksum()) { There are a number of ways to get a dirty buffer without actually changing

Re: crash with trunk

2010-11-19 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-19, Guenter Milde wrote: trying to test LyX (trunk), I updated my repository with `git svn rebase` and compiled. (On a Debian/testing 64-bit system.) However, even the simple Ctrl-N (open new buffer) leads to a crash: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault

Re: [patch] fix bug 3008

2010-11-22 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-19, Georg Baum wrote: Hi, after I needed to explain several times lately why one should not use the menu entries for sub/superscript in text and what to do instead, I finally sat down and completed a fix for bug 3008 that I started years ago. It implements a new inset for

Re: [patch] fix bug 3008

2010-11-22 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-22, Uwe Stöhr wrote: On 21/11/2010 5:20 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: That it is not included in MiKTeX, also not via the fragments or fixltx2e package. Therefore all LyX on Windows would be forced to install the file manually which is not acceptable. How about using

Re: [patch] LuaTeX

2010-11-22 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-22, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: * why do we want it at all - or in more general, what are we aiming to support? all pdftex, xetex, luatex? Yes. Seconded. ... pdftex is very stable and reliable, and for people who do not need all the nifty new features,

Re: [patch] LuaTeX

2010-11-22 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-22, Richard Heck wrote: On 11/22/2010 10:55 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Out of curiosity, I checked out what it would need us to implement basic support for Lua(La)TeX (basic in the sense of what we had for XeTeX prior to the polyglossia commit today*). And it's really as simple

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