Re: Windows installer finished

2005-06-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: - Is it really necessary to install msys, perl and phthon fully? Also, why not point the installer to the folder containing Ruurd's stripped down versions? Or something equivalent. That's a good solution. Basically, I don't want to commit myself to creating, testing

Re: Windows installer finished

2005-06-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: What other files are needed? That's precisely my point. I don't know. Off the top of my head: sed, tr, cut, grep... Looking at Ruurds Version, I know what is needed. I uploaded the files as .rar to http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tools/LyXWinTest/lyxutils.rar The files

Re: Windows installer finished

2005-06-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: Why extensive testing? We know which files are needed and provide the official actual versions (the same that are used in the actual MSYS version). I'm afraid that I don't believe that this is so. Several scripts have changed since Ruurd released LyX/Win 1.3.5 and

Re: Windows installer finished

2005-06-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: Then the user chooses an install directory for LyX and the LyX-files are extracted there. The stripped versions of python etc. are included in the install package. Assuming the install directory is C:\LyX they are extracted in C:\LyX\bin (the same directory like the

Re: Windows installer finished

2005-06-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hi Angus, I've some more annotations: I mean that the folder of the stripped files have to be in the system environment variable PATH so that every script can find them. That's what happens now. LyX fires up, reads its lyxrc.defaults file and prepends its PATH environment variable with the

[LyXWin1.3.6CVS] menu problem

2005-06-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hi Angus, there is n annoying menu problem in your LyXWin version that don't exist in Ruurds version: - create a displayed formula, leave the cursor in this formula - now open the menu Edit - Math - move the mouse over the appearing submenu Change Limits Type and the submenus will appear -

Re: [LyXWin1.3.6CVS] menu problem

2005-06-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I've updated http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre to cover everything you've reported, some of which I've resolved and some of which remain. Have I missed anything? No. But could you give the installer package file a new number when you upload a new version. E.g.

Re: Windows installer finished

2005-06-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Do you get a pop up dialog appearing Failed attempting to set 'path_prefix' in the configure script OK No because the 'path_prefix' is set correctly. As the path to the sh.exe isn't in the PATH (I haven't installed MSYS and use stripped files), Windows shows

Re: Windows installer finished

2005-06-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: But, somehow, I'm not understanding you. If no dialog pops up then sh configure ran correctly, no? Yes, if no dialog pops up the configuration runs correctly. path_prefix is stored in the configure script so that LyX can grab it from the generated lyxrc.defaults ---

[LyX 1.3.6CVS] LaTeX-preamble problems

2005-06-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, I encountered two LyX 1.3.6CVS-bugs: I can't compile my Mathed documentation anymore: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/LyXMathebefehle/LyXMathebefehle.lyx The problem is that LyX 1.3.6CVS adds the line \usepackage{wasysym} automatically to the preamble. This causes errors when

Re: [LyX 1.3.6CVS] LaTeX-preamble problems

2005-06-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jrgen Spitzmller wrote: What is the problem with this (it fixes bug 1677)? I didn't know that. You wrote in bugzilla The standard classes do a \let\footnote\thanks inside the \maketitle definition. So this shouldn't cause any problems. I just mentioned the difference as I wasn't sure if

Possible Bug in Lyx 1.3.6 (Windows)

2005-06-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
In order to get this character in my norwegian keyboard, I press Alt Gr+ +a. This used to work fine in LyX 1.3.5 but in this new version I get a. Indeed, accent key don't work in general in 1.3.6. I also have some problems running View/Export of PDF or PS (detailed info below) Mee too,

Re:Possible Bug in Lyx 1.3.6 (Windows)

2005-06-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicols a crit: In order to get this character in my norwegian keyboard, I press Alt Gr+ +a. This used to work fine in LyX 1.3.5 but in this new version I get a. Indeed, accent keys don't work in general in 1.3.6. I also have some problems running View/Export of PDF or PS (detailed info

Re: The LyX licence

2005-06-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hereby I agree to license my LyX contributions under the terms of the Gnu General Public Licence version 2 or later. Uwe Sthr

Re: Possible Bug in Lyx 1.3.6 (Windows)

2005-06-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: I also have some problems running View/Export of PDF or PS Now fixed. Version 9 is available on the wiki site. It is still there: - Open acroread/acrobat without any pdf loaded - Create a new LyX-document and save the file - now use View-pdflatex As result acrobat is

Re: Possible Bug in Lyx 1.3.6 (Windows)

2005-06-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: - now add a charcter in the LyX-file, so that you have e.g. abcd - use the menu View-Update-pdflatex As result nothing happens, the pdf wasn't changed - use the menu View-pdflatex As result acrobat comes up showing the old version of the pdf with abc. the pdf in the

Re: Possible Bug in Lyx 1.3.6 (Windows)

2005-06-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: I did suggest that you go grab an official distribution of Python... It would appear that you need to be adding something to your minimal package :-) Thanks for the hint. You load some .pyc-files in the clean_dvi.py. I added the missing files to my minimal package:

Re: More Bugs in Lyx 1.3.6 (Windows)

2005-06-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicolás a écrit: 2) When a pdf already exists in the temp directory, which is already loaded in Acrobat, and View-PDF(dvipdfm) is called, the user gets this error: Cannot convert file. Error while executing dvipdfm The debugging message is: Unable to open newfile1.pdf This is an

[LyXWin1.3.6CVS] installer issue

2005-06-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello Angus, I encountered an installer unpleasantness: When I set the path to e.g. the sh.exe, go to the next step, python, and then backwards to the MSYS step, the installer looses the path information for the sh.exe and jumps to the install option. I expect that the setted path is still

Re: [LyXWin1.3.6CVS] installer issue

2005-06-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: See below for where to find lyx_installer.nsi et al. Thanks. But I need some time to get it work. So could you fix the problem I found in the meantime? thanks and regards Uwe

Re: LyXWinUtils

2005-06-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Peter Kümmel schrieb: Seems that this file misses some msys stuff. I could only install lyx if I use the original msys files. I'm the author of this package and tested it on two Win2000 systems with success. But this package is still under development and I have to investigate further. I'll

Re: [LyXWin1.3.6CVS] installer issue

2005-06-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello Angus, In Version 11 of the installer is still a bug: When I go back to the previous install step, the folder appears with an additional \bin. E.g. I set the path to sh.exe as F:\LyXTest and it appears as F:\LyXTest\bin when I go back. So I have to correct the path if I want go to the

Re: Lyx 1.3.6pre

2005-06-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Eugenio Guevara wrote: I'm using version 12, installed before my previous questions were sended. With instant preview I'm referring just to the good looking math formulae inside a document. I wasn't able to make it work (this worked well after all the tunning, in version 1.3.5) I cannot

LyXWin installer - small version with an improvement

2005-06-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
be found in the file COPYING or copy at ; http://www.lyx.org/about/license.php3 -; Author Angus Leeming +; Author Uwe Stöhr based on the work of Angus Leeming ; Full author contact details are available in file CREDITS or copy at ; http://www.lyx.org/about/credits.php @@ -19,22 +19,22

Re: LyXWin 1.3.6 + MiKTeX = dual nagging

2005-06-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I have MiKTeX set to prompt me any time something requires a LaTeX package I don't have installed. So each time I run the 1.3.6 installer, when the configuration script gets to the right place, I get a sequence of pop-up windows from MiKTeX asking if I want to install

Re: LyXWin 1.3.6 + MiKTeX = dual nagging

2005-06-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I wrote: If this is the case the reconfiguration is done twice and should be fixed. I know now why: LyX's reconfiguration is indeed done twice, once by the installer and once if it is started the first time. I mean that it is not necessary to reconfigure LyX by the installer. This would

Re: LyXWin installer - small version with an improvement

2005-06-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
, the document processor. ; http://www.lyx.org/ ; Licence details can be found in the file COPYING or copy at ; http://www.lyx.org/about/license.php3 -; Author Angus Leeming +; Author Uwe Stöhr based on the work of Angus Leeming ; Full author contact details are available in file CREDITS or copy

Re: [LyX Wiki] special account needed

2005-06-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason that you can't upload files 2 MB is due to a setting in the Apache server. Lars is reluctant to change this without reasons that this is something that is generally needed (which is why I'm forwarding this to the list for Lars' attention). I understand

Re: LyXWin 1.3.6pre13: Bug, bug bug!

2005-06-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicolás a écrit: And the winner is... Qt/Win! With v13, selecting text in a document only works with the mouse, but not with the keyboard (i.e. pressing SHIFT). works for me Ctrl+Shift+cursor, works for me Ctrl+End, indeed, it works not Ctrl+Home works for me Short-cuts do not

Re: Lyx Graphical Tour - es

2005-06-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: I have added your file to the site. Go have a look at http://www.lyx.org/LGT If I press on the buttons for Norsk or Spanish nothing happens. I use Firefox with enabled JavaScript and Java. So what is necessary to ge it work? regards Uwe

Re: Lyx Graphical Tour - es

2005-06-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Lars Gullik Bjønnes schrieb: | If I press on the buttons for Norsk or Spanish nothing happens. I use | Firefox with enabled JavaScript and Java. So what is necessary to ge | it work? With my firefox it just works. (you have cookies enabled?) That was the problem. Cookies are needed. So you

[LyXWin Installer] new small version for testing

2005-06-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello Angus and volunteer installer testers, I just uploaded an improved version of the installer to: http://fkurth.de/uwest/LyX/Installer/ NOTE: My installer version is not a replacement for Angus' version. It is based on Angus' code (version 13) and implements new features that will be

Re: [LyXWin Installer] new small version for testing

2005-06-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: Uwe, why don't you get Lars to give you CVS write access to development/Win32/packaging ? I'll ask him. But I still need some space to access test releases to testers. I've been thinking over Asger's suggestion on how best to present all these packages. I don't know

Re: [LyXWin Installer] new small version for testing

2005-06-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I wrote: I think about to omit the install of imagemagick, as LyX uses only its convert.exe. I think it is possible... Sorry. Forget this. Of course convert.exe needs nearly all imagemagick dll's to be able to convert all the different image formats. Ruurds file repository is just the

Re: The LANG environment variable...

2005-06-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: That way, Uwe wouldn't set LANG globably from the Windows installer Now that I've invested my time you will change it :-(. (Just joking) rather would get the configure script to output \ui_language de_DE to lyxrc.defaults. Fine with me. regards Uwe

Re: Installing Windows fonts

2005-06-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
or copy at ; http://www.lyx.org/about/license.php3 ; Author Uwe Stöhr based on the work of Angus Leeming ; Full author contact details are available in file CREDITS or copy at ; http://www.lyx.org/about/credits.php ; This script requires NSIS 2.06 and above ; http://nsis.sourceforge.net

[LyXWin Installer] new small version for testing - updated

2005-06-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, Asger wrotes: Yes, there is maintenance involved in keeping such a package up-to-date, and it will be fragile for a while until all missing pieces have been found, but there are lots and lots of Windows users, and some of those are bound to help out with keeping such a package

Re: [LyXWin Installer] new small version for testing

2005-06-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: Well, as I said to Jean-Marc earlier, I'm going to cut back on my LyX activities in the very near future. I hope this are good news for you. I you've a new job congratulations. I think that now would be a good time to hand over the reigns for this installer thingie

Re: lyx 1.3.6pre/Win

2005-06-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
jorgen johansson wrote: Some comments/bugs alt + letter does not work. I'll add this to the wiki page. 3) When changing the display font to e.g. Times New Roman I get the following in the command window (I started lyx with -dbg 3) QFontEngineWin::boundingBox( glyph_t ) GetGlyphOutline:

Re: The LANG environment variable...

2005-06-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: Uwe, We have these po files in 1.3.x: bg ca cs da de es eu fi fr he hu it nl nn no pl pt ro ru sk sl sv tr wa and your installer dropdown has these language strings: Dansk|Deutsch|English|Espagol|Euskara|Franais|Italiano|

Re: Installing Windows fonts

2005-06-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Johann Kellerman schrieb: Everything seems fine. The summary of the page is nice for novice users, but I would prefer a advanced button with a more detailed explanation. It just seems wrong if it says it found everything. I mean that the standard use doesn't want to be bothered with such

Re: The LANG environment variable...

2005-06-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: googling on nsis LOCALE_LANGUAGE_NAME hebrew pulls up http://cvs.limewire.org/fisheye/viewrep/~raw,r=1.51/limecvs/lib/messagebundles/MessagesBundle_iw.properties Oh this looks complicated and I'm not sure it it's possible to get hebrew, kyrillic, and latin displayed in

Re: The LANG environment variable...

2005-06-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I wrote: Whenever I checkout CVS I get e.g. version lyx_path_prefix.C in revision 1.3 (08-06) instead of revision 1.1.2.3 (09-06), also If I use the CVS interface from lyx.org. Argh I checked out HEAD insted of the branch! I need a break now. sorry Uwe

Re: Installing Windows fonts

2005-06-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Johann Kellerman schrieb: For the languages I have the following suggestion. Include all the available languages in Lyx as .nsh files in the installer. I excluded the language material from the main script to LyXUtils.nsh. This is now the language database and makes the main script more

Re: [LyXWin Installer] new small version for testing - updated

2005-06-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Asger Alstrup wrote: When I run it, it finds out that I lack LaTeX, Was this correct? I mean was LaTeX installed at this time or not. If it was installed, could you send me the registry path of your distribution where it stores the path to the latex.exe. At the moment the installer

Re: [LyXWin Installer] new small version for testing

2005-06-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: In other words, I think that the installer should lead the user through the installation. It shouldn't just do it for him. That's why I think a summary page at the beginning listing everything that LyX has found (or not found) that it can use would be a good thing. So I

[LyXWin Installer] small version updated again

2005-06-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, again an update to the installer: http://fkurth.de/uwest/LyX/Installer/lyx_setup_136proposal-v14-2.exe Angus Leeming wrote: In other words, I think that the installer should lead the user through the installation. It shouldn't just do it for him. That's why I think a summary

Re: [LyXWin Installer] small version updated again

2005-06-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I wrote: But we need also the entries \viewer pdf2 acrobat \viewer pdf3 acrobat Simple fix attached, please apply. I've a better solution. The entries should only be made if pdflatex and dvipdfm does really exists. The attached patch works for me. Angus, two questions about the configure

Re: The LANG environment variable...

2005-06-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: Putting the two dataabses together: nn_NO Nynorsk It is no_NY. I put some code tables on http://fkurth.de/uwest/LyX/Installer/LangCodes/ regards Uwe

Re: [LyXWin Installer] small version updated again

2005-06-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit: Isn't there a way in NSIS to check whether the pdf extension is registered? There is no reason to force the user to use acrobat if he prefers gsview or whatever. Good idea. The actual version: http://fkurth.de/uwest/LyX/Installer/lyx_setup_136proposal-v15.exe

Re: Installing Windows fonts

2005-06-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: Or, perhaps more simply: StrCpy $0 $MiKTeXPath$\r$\n$GhostscriptPath$\r$\n$ImageMagickPath$\r$\n$PythonPath$\r$\n$PerlPath ${StrNSISToIO} $0 $0 Thanks Angus. I implemented it in the actual version: (http://fkurth.de/uwest/LyX/Installer/lyx_setup_136proposal-v15.exe)

Re: Installing Windows fonts

2005-06-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Johann Kellerman wrote: I know there are only a couple of translated languages. What I propose is create the other languages as nullsoft languages. For now the installer strings can be in english until a concerned user post the correct translations. The only string we can translate for now is

Re: The LANG environment variable...

2005-06-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | Both appear to be quite common. google on nn_NO and on no_NY. Note | that the po file is nn.po... I'll apply this. thanks and regards Uwe

Re: Windows installer version 15

2005-06-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: Uwe, I didn't do anythiing with your fonts stuff because I don't think it should go on the same page as the UI language stuff and, more importantly, becase I was unsure whether it was finished. Why don't you start making patches against the stuff in CVS (BRANCH_1_3_X ;-))

Re: Windows installer version 15

2005-06-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: To be honest, I haven't tried it since the original proposal. I don't think that our views are wildly different though, so there's hope ;-) I added a summary page at the beginning as you want it. So please give it a try and PLEASE report me if acroread was found (I need

Re: [LyXWin Installer] small version updated again

2005-06-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Don't know if it makes a difference, but it might be safer to use HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\7.0\InstallPath Hello Paul, I implement a solution that checks which program is associated to the .pdf file extension. Could you please thest if this

Re: Windows installer version 15

2005-06-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: Btw. please don't deform my code as you for example did in lyx_utils.nsh. I don't like meaningless variable names like $0 as it makes it difficult for me, others and yourself (e.g. if you haven't had a look at the code for half a year). Shrug. Your code caused the

Re: Windows installer, first page

2005-06-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: Ok, here's what I think we should have for the first page. All those other pages will be visited only if the user explicitly wants to. No this is what I DON'T want! I want to have a page with two radion buttons, one for the advanced installation and one for standard.

Re: Windows installer, first page

2005-06-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: I'm still lost. Even your hiding their head in the sand like an ostrich users will have to install latex,gs,imagemagick so why not tell them that you've found these things. But I will inform them about the three programs. I just want to hide the Unix shell, perl, and

Re: Windows installer, first page

2005-06-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: So, when distiller is associated to .ps what happens when you double click? Does it transform the file to pdf and them show the said pdf? It is converted to pdf but not shown in any cases. If I remember correctly the default is to open it with acrobat. But you

Re: Windows installer, first page

2005-06-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I wrote: - We can't search for a PostScript viewer in the way we do for pdf. Because if acrobat is installed it associates the .ps extension to Acrobat Distiller (a ps to pdf converter program). I've a solution: We read out the OpenWithList registry subentry a as we do it for .pdf. If the

Re: [LyXWin Installer] small version updated again

2005-06-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin wrote: In the Software summary dialog, where it lists the paths it will set as defaults, it runs the paths for Acrobat and Python together. This appears to be just cosmetic (a missed newline). Thanks for the feedback. After installation, acrord32 is listed as the viewer for

[LyXWin Installer] solution for checking the ps viewer

2005-06-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello Angus, I implemented the check for a PS viewer: - When acrodist (Acrobat Distiller) is associated with the .ps file extension it is checked for the next program in OpenWithList. - If the next program exists, it is used as PS viewer - If it don't exist, acrodist is used as PS viewer

[patch] [LyXWin Installer] check correctly for ghostscript

2005-06-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello Angus, I received a report that the installer doesn't find an installed GPL ghostscript. We currently check only for AFPL ghostscript. Patch attached, please apply. regards Uwe --- lyx_installer.nsi Thu Jun 16 18:05:12 2005 +++ lyx_installerPatch.nsi Fri Jun 17 02:25:34 2005 @@

[math fonts] BaKoMa fonts are now free!

2005-06-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, good news, the BaKoMa fonts are now FREE (also for our modifications): http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.ctan.announce/2227 Ekkehart, I think we should change the License file of the BaKoMa for LyX bundle. regards Uwe

Re: [math fonts] BaKoMa fonts are now free!

2005-06-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Georg Baum schrieb: These are good news indeed. Do the latex-xft fonts have any advantage over the BaKoMa fonts, or can we always recommend BaKoMa now? Not that I know. But they have obvious disadvantages: - large operators are displayed too high when the have limits - relations disappear on

Re: [patch] [LyXWin Installer] check correctly for ghostscript

2005-06-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: Ok, done. However, it looks to me like some refactoring would make like nicer. Could you try out the attached patch (against current CVS/your patched version) which simply moves the EnumRegKey stuff into a separate function. OK, but the code isn't smaller then. You

Re: [LyXWin Installer] solution for checking the ps viewer

2005-06-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: I implemented the check for a PS viewer: I tested it for the registry combinations a=acrodist + b=gsview32 a=gsview32 + b=acrodist a=acrodist + b= a=gsview32 + a= Before I do so, perhaps you might look at SearchMinSYS which uses a loop to iterate over the elements in

Re: [1.3.6pre17 Win installer] Who ate my fonts?

2005-06-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul Rubin wrote: I tried his version 15 (I think), but then installed your v. 16, at which point fonts were intact. It was after installing your v. 17 that fonts disappeared. As an erstwhile mathematician, though, I am not going to leap blindly into the post hoc, ergo propter hoc pit.

Re:Towards LyX 1.3.6 [status update #2]

2005-07-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
JMarc a écrit: Let's try to give a bit of acceleration to the 1.3.6 release process... I think everything is in place now. What else should be done? In my opinion only one thing: Fix bug 1521 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521 This is a trivial problem but unfortunately a killer

Re: Towards LyX 1.3.6 [status update #2]

2005-07-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: I accept such changes when (1) we have a patch already (2) it has been well tested and (3) Lars accepts it in 1.4.0cvs. The best way to proceed would be to make a patch against 1.3.6cvs and work with it for some time. Unfortunately I don't have the time for this

Re: Towards LyX 1.3.6 [status update #2]

2005-07-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: Isn't foo\end{env} semantically the same as foo% \end{env} It is the same. ? If so, why not do that? Hmm, I just want to do that but as I understand JMarc the problem is that to implement this the ouput of every LyX component (Mathed, Tabular, etc.) have to

Re: Towards LyX 1.3.6 [status update #2]

2005-07-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: JMarc I think I prefered the idea of default/custom installation, JMarc where default would only ask for things it _has_ ask. Since I'm doing the work, I'll go with my page. I'm bored of that particular discussion. Hey Angus, I taught we agreed to an installer start

Re:Remaining LyX 1.3.6 bugs

2005-07-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: I've just updated the list of bugs in LyX 1.3.6 that I know about. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre#known_bugs Am I missing anything? Yes. LyXWin 1.3.6 version 21 doesn't install. I get the error message: LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file

Re: Remaining LyX 1.3.6 bugs

2005-07-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: LyXWin 1.3.6 version 21 doesn't install. I get the error message: LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file `'. Exiting. Oh, for [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s sake! Thanks for the report. Now have you any idea why not? Not yet. I need more time to find the bug.

[update] g-brief2 class and example file

2005-07-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hi JMarc, I have an update for the g-brief2.layout and its example file. It fixes the environment labels as they are currently protruding over the left border of the screen. I also introduced a standard environment to ease the writing and I rearranged the environments in a more logical

Re: Remaining LyX 1.3.6 bugs

2005-07-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sven Schreiber schrieb: And it seems it's the ghost_view_ frontend that crashes, not ghostscript itself (8.50 btw), since yap works and somebody said it uses the gs libs. So nothing really for me to do I'm afraid. No gsview don't crash. It simply don't show the image when it is embedded in a

Re: [update] g-brief2 class and example file

2005-07-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Attached the diffs against current CVS and the new layout and example file. If you want, apply them for LyX 1.3.x and/or LyX 1.4.x. Argh I forgot them again. Now attached. sorry uwe --- g-brief2CVS.layout Fri Jul 08 15:47:39 2005 +++ g-brief2.layout Fri Jul 08 16:04:45 2005 @@ -2,20 +2,18 @@

Re: [update] g-brief2 class and example file

2005-07-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Michael Schmitt schrieb: Hmm, looks very similar to my previous patch. We should check that both patches fit together. Isn't your latest patch in the CVS? My diffs are against todays CVS (HEAD branch) and there are a lot of differences. Could you send me your patch anyway - I missed it.

Re: Remaining LyX 1.3.6 bugs

2005-07-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin wrote: You mean the lyx folder under Application Data, right? Yes. I deleted it and installed version 21 with no problems. On my office machine, which previously had not seen 1.3.6, I did a fresh install, deleted the folder and did another install, all with no problems.

beamer layout file was: Ongoing problems with 1.3.6pre on windows

2005-07-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: Or, to put it another way, Beamer knows about LyX but LyX doesn't officially know about Beamer. Proper LyX support for Beamer would require additions to the core LyX code and until someone volunteers to do that it's unlikely that we'd introduce the current hack, however

Fwd: Re: Remaining LyX 1.3.6 bugs

2005-07-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello Angus, I'm not the only one having problems with the installation of LyXWin136pre, see below. Unfortunately I'm a bit under stress this week and wont have time to check what the problem is. My installer version deletes the folder application data/lyx while uninstalling. But that

Re: Bug in lyx_setup_136_version22.exe - large monochrome graphics preview

2005-07-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ekkehart Schlicht schrieb: Another little bug - quite unimportant: If you insert a large monochrome graphic and scale it down, the preview in Lyx shows a black or brown rectangle. I think this is a problem of Imagemagick's convert.exe. What happens if you convert your graphic to .ppm and

Re: maybe known bug? lyx 1.3.5 crash

2005-07-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sven Schreiber schrieb: I suspect this is already known, but I figured a message couldn't hurt. The following happened on the windows-port of lyx 1.3.5 (on win 2000). 1) Start lyx 2) start a new default document 3) type a character (or whatever) 4) hit return 5) choose insert-index entry from

[Fwd: [Bug 688198] ghostscript can't handle files with long names/paths]

2005-07-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, just for information. The problem with long file names should be fixed now also in ghostscript. The developer of MikTeX said that the next version of MikTeX will fix this problem in Yap. regards Uwe Original-Message

LyXWin 1.3.6 - or the installer super GAU

2005-07-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello Angus, hello LyXers, my mailbox was filled the last hours with mails from friends and collegues pointing me to this review: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/61789 heise.de is the webpage of the most important computer magazin in Germany c't. If they publish a negative review,

Re: LyXWin 1.3.6 - or the installer super GAU

2005-07-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: And that is the crux of the matter. I've worked like a dog on this release. If I haven't incorporated your whizzy work on the installer, it's because I had to sleep too. Given that my time was limited, I chose to spend it on fixing bugs in LyX itself. Hello Angus, it

Re: LyXWin 1.3.6 - or the installer super GAU

2005-07-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Lars Gullik Bjønnes writes: So did they review LyX or just the install process... Just the install process. | regards Uwe, | who don't know how to explain the people I once convinced to use LyX | under Win that LyXWin is _not_ difficult to install at all. Is it hard, just because it takes

Re: LyXWin 1.3.6 - or the installer super GAU

2005-07-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: Waiting on others is never a good idea. Release now and improve later. Like Microsoft does ;-) Just joking, I understand now your decision. Even if you only take on the Installer, that'd be a huge help. I hope that you'll leave not to too far so that I can ask you

[announce] beta release of new LyXWin installer

2005-10-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, I followed the discussion on this and the lyx-devel list about the installer for LyXWin. As consequence especially from this article: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/61789 (in german) I decided to write a new one that includes all neccessary files and programs. The

Re: [announce] beta release of new LyXWin installer

2005-10-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Asger Ottar Alstrup wrote: I've worked a bit on the English texts, which it is downloading the complete package. A patch to english.nsh attached, along with the new english.nsh. Thanks, I'll have a look at it. And what is about norwegian.nsh ;-)? Suggestions: - Change it to include at

Re: [announce] beta release of new LyXWin installer

2005-10-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello Asger, I added the reported bugs to the bugtracker: https://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?group_id=5117 If you find other installer bugs or have some enhancements, please add them here. But it works! I can typeset, view DVI, and so on. Great stuff. Cool! Can you also view and process

Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre

2005-10-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus, is it possible to set the screen fonts and the zoom while LyX's configuration? We would then be independent from Qt's behaviour. Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New are part of all Windows installations, so that this should work on all machines. regards uwe

Re: [announce] beta release of new LyXWin installer

2005-10-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Asger Ottar Alstrup wrote: Can you also view and process pdf, eps, gif, jpg, and png images? At least JPG and GIF works, so that's nice. However, it takes forever and ever to preview a document with this stuff. Do you mean to preview it as DVI? In PDF it would take less time because there

Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre

2005-11-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: Michael tells me that these fonts problems are fixed in the latest and greatest version of Qt/Win Free. Could you compile an actual qt-mt3.dll and put it on the web. Many thanks in advance and regards Uwe

second release of LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, I'm proud to announce the second version (0.2) of the LyXWinInstaller: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=7989 (it could take a while until the download begins) The installer sources are available here:

Re: [announce] third beta release of new LyXWin installer

2005-11-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I wrote: Shortly after the last version I'm proud to announce the third version (0.3) of the LyXWinInstaller I'm very sorry, I accidently uploaded an old buggy version so that I need to release a new version 0.31:

[announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, with the help from many people I'm now able to present the new version 0.4 of the LyX installer for Windows. You can download it from http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=8085 The sources are at

Invokation of tex2lyx and lyx2lyx

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello developers, while testing tex2lyx and lyx2lyx together with LyX 1.3.6 I encountered the following problem: When the user imports a .tex-file, the lyx-file produced by tex2lyx is immediately stored in the same directory where the .tex-file is. LyX converts this file via lyx2lyx to a

Re:Invokation of tex2lyx and lyx2lyx

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Georg Baum schrieb: Why is this a problem? The user does not need to know at all what the format of the file is. What matters is the fact that LyX can open it. So keep always a suitable version of lyx2lyx in lib/lyx2lyx, and you are done. Of course it is only necessary that LyX can open

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