Re: Who!

2001-01-11 Thread mike.ressler
On 12 Jan 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > ...wants to do the announcement for LyX 1.1.6? > > and don't forget to update the web site... > > go get at > > ftp.lyx.org or ftp.devel.lyx.org Argh! It's looks like my doc CVS updates were about an hour late. Sigh. Intro and the UG should be up to

Stupid cucumber in 1.1.6 splash screen

2001-01-12 Thread mike.ressler
Hi guys, I noticed the cucumber escaped from CVS into the 1.1.6 distribution. It's okay for CVS, but doesn't exactly convey the supposed seriousness of the development effort. Please kill it. (No smileys.) Now back to more late documentation ... Mike -- Mike Ressler [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, I'm

Re: Another book written using LyX

2001-01-17 Thread mike.ressler
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Alejandro Aguilar Sierra wrote: > Did anybody know about this book on postgresql? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/awbook.html > > IMHO the link should be somewhere in the users site, in a section "Who > uses LyX". There should be also some other success stories that > have

Old docs in 1.1.6

2001-01-17 Thread mike.ressler
I was about to tell someone in the User's list to RTFM, when I found that the docs in 1.1.6 are ancient (at least two weeks old :-). Lars, did you forget to update them before you created 1.1.6? Mike -- Mike Ressler [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, I'm lame: I don't have my own website ...

Re: Old docs in 1.1.6 - Never Mind.

2001-01-17 Thread mike.ressler
On 17 Jan 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | I was about to tell someone in the User's list to RTFM, when I found that > | the docs in 1.1.6 are ancient (at least two weeks old :-). Lars, did you > | forget to update them before you created 1.1.6? > > Or have

Re: Another book written using LyX

2001-01-18 Thread mike.ressler
On 18 Jan 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Mike" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike> Ahem. It's in the FAQ - Section 1.2 "That's fine, but is it > Mike> useful?". It's time to get the @#$% FAQ on the web page. Anyone > Mike> want to make a whizzy thing to update an HTML page

Re: deleting one line from multiline equation

2001-01-23 Thread mike.ressler
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > This feels like simple question but I cannot find answer from LyX > documents. How can I delete one line from multiline math equation? > > User Guide says M-e k but it doesn't work with 1.1.6. I couldn't find the > command from reference manual. I

Repeated request to change "Figure" to "Graphic"

2001-01-24 Thread mike.ressler
Hi guys (and girls, if there are any reading), Since you are munging the user layout and file formats right now, I would like to repeat my request of a few months ago to change the name of Insert->Figure to Insert->Graphic. The reasons are several: 1) A "figure" as defined by LaTeX does not

Re: Repeated request to change "Figure" to "Graphic"

2001-01-24 Thread mike.ressler
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please change this. I know it's only a trivial user interface issue, but > it's a blaringly obvious one. I'd like to move us from LaTeXese to > English. And yes, I mean for 1.1.6fix1! Mike -- Mike Ressler [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, I'm lame: I don't

Re: Repeated request to change "Figure" to "Graphic"

2001-01-24 Thread mike.ressler
On 24 Jan 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Since you are munging the user layout and file formats right now, I would > | like to repeat my request of a few months ago to change the name of > | Insert->Figure to Insert->Graphic. The reasons are several: > > I

Re: Repeated request to change "Figure" to "Graphic"

2001-01-24 Thread mike.ressler
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Garst R. Reese wrote: > I agree completely with this. The current terminology is gobbledegook if > you are not a latex guru. And I second the motion to do it for fix1. > Even with Mike's excellent suggestions, but why not just Insert->Table > for Insert->Tabular. > The word

Re: patch for default.ui

2001-01-29 Thread mike.ressler
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, R. Lahaye wrote: > 1) I renamed the 'Insert->Graphics' entry into 'Figure' (as it was before). > Although there is (will be?) a new graphics inset, I suggest to stick to call > it "Figure", to stay closer to LaTeX terminology. NOO! I know Lars already responded, but I

Re: New feature: Bookmarks in LyX?

2001-01-29 Thread mike.ressler
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:42:31PM +0900, R. Lahaye wrote: > > Well, if "Figures" are called "Graphics", then my change my be of no > > good. But then "Insert->Floats->Figure" and "Insert->Floats->Wide Figure" > > should be renamed to

Math mode (sort of) bug

2001-02-02 Thread mike.ressler
In the old days, if I typed "M-m g m m" I would get the greek letter mu followed by an m - the usual symbol for micrometer (or micron). With 1.1.6fix1, if I type this sequence, the mu is created, but the cursor stays at the front edge of the math box, so that the m is then placed in front of the

Bug in float fig captions

2001-02-08 Thread mike.ressler
Hi, The figure caption in a float appears to be immune to justification commands: setting left, right, center, or block has no effect. And worse, the state it is in is "center", which is probably the worst of the 4 possibilities (well, maybe right would be worse). Reopening Layout->Paragraph

Re: 1.1.6fix1 stability?

2001-02-16 Thread mike.ressler
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote: > On 15-Feb-2001 Michael Schmitt wrote: > > However, it is my impression that 1.1.6 has been released a bit too early > > Well the problem is that we wouldn't have found all the problems with > the tabulars so fast if we wouldn't have released it to

Re: 1.1.6fix1 stability?

2001-02-20 Thread mike.ressler
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote: > On 16-Feb-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I've been trying to figure out a polite way to say this for some time. > > Juergen just pushed me over the edge :-) > > Well you shouldn't have put that smily there on a friday, you're a heretic! ;) > >

Re: another patch...

2001-03-05 Thread mike.ressler
On 5 Mar 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I tried the "benchmark" a bit here, and the times in successive rune > fluctuate enough that I do not see how you can interpret them... This wins the "Cool Typo" award. When reading your (the developers') discussions of compilers, pragmas, etc. my

Re: Menu Separator aka lyxarrow

2001-03-06 Thread mike.ressler
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, John Levon wrote: > Why do we have this ? It seems a bit ad hoc. Is it just for > the convenience of the doc writers or something ? Put on your asbestos suit! John Weiss is going to hunt you down and smack you with his small fish :-) (Find a message from him and look at his

Why docs don't get updated very often Re: asciitilde binding bug

2001-05-29 Thread mike.ressler
On 29 May 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jules> It's a relief someone agrees with me! > Jules> Yes, M-p asterisk would seem like a sensible set of > Jules> bindings to me.. > Would you have time to review the bindings and propose an

Re: Why docs don't get updated very often Re: asciitilde bindingbug

2001-05-29 Thread mike.ressler
On 29 May 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Mike> The default user interface has to stop changing before the Doc > Mike> Team can update everything. Don't stop changing it yet, but > Mike> expect there to be problems until 1.2.0pre is declared ready, > Mike> and everyone agrees the interface

Attempting (and failing) to compile natbib branch

2001-05-29 Thread mike.ressler
In spite of my whining, I thought I'd sneak in an attempt to compile Angus' natbib branch, since he went to the effort to merge it with the latest main CVS branch. I cruise along okay until I get smacked with the following: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src -I./../ -I../.. -I../..

Re: Attempting (and failing) to compile natbib branch

2001-05-29 Thread mike.ressler
On Wed, 30 May 2001, John Levon wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It's a Mandrake 8.0 OS with gcc-2.96. Let me know if I'm doing something > > Mandrake 8.0 comes with some version of RH gcc 2.96 ? Yuck ! > What's the RPM version ? I wonder which RH version it's based on.

Re: Attempting (and failing) to compile natbib branch

2001-05-30 Thread mike.ressler
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Tuesday 29 May 2001 23:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In spite of my whining, I thought I'd sneak in an attempt to compile > > Angus' natbib branch, since he went to the effort to merge it with the > > latest main CVS branch. I cruise along okay

Unknown function error in BRANCH_NATBIB

2001-05-31 Thread mike.ressler
Hi, Still playing with the natbib branch. I was able to compile it successfully once Angus finished his update :-) Gcc-2.96 seems to have worked okay. However, now when I open a new/existing document and start typing, I get a "Unknown function" error printed at the bottom and no text inserted. I

Re: Unknown function error in BRANCH_NATBIB

2001-05-31 Thread mike.ressler
On Thu, 31 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > typing, I get a "Unknown function" error printed at the bottom and no text > inserted. I can open existing documents, but can't type new text. Any > ideas? Lars wrote back about a possible bad key bindings file. That was it. I had an old ~/.lyx-cvs

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-08 Thread mike.ressler
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > Compare also with the natbib work that lives on a branch: I don't think > Angus has gotten much feedback on that. This in turns results in less > entuisiasm from the developer, and there is a real fear that the work will > never be merged.

Re: Picture preview rendering error under Solaris

2001-06-08 Thread mike.ressler
On 7 Jun 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Picture preview does not work with ghostscript 6.00--6.50 I haven't had any problem with 6.01. Later versions, yes ... Mike -- Mike Ressler [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, I'm lame: I don't have my own website ...

OS/2 help needed Re: Lyx User's Guide

2001-06-21 Thread mike.ressler
Hello Jeff, I'm forwarding your email to the LyX Developer's list since I haven't a clue what might be hanging you up. Hopefully someone there will know. Also, please let us know what version of LyX you are using, whether you compiled it yourself, and if so, what xforms library you are using,

Re: Who!

2001-01-11 Thread mike.ressler
On 12 Jan 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: ...wants to do the announcement for LyX 1.1.6? and don't forget to update the web site... go get at ftp.lyx.org or ftp.devel.lyx.org Argh! It's looks like my doc CVS updates were about an hour late. Sigh. Intro and the UG should be up to date

Stupid cucumber in 1.1.6 splash screen

2001-01-12 Thread mike.ressler
Hi guys, I noticed the cucumber escaped from CVS into the 1.1.6 distribution. It's okay for CVS, but doesn't exactly convey the supposed seriousness of the development effort. Please kill it. (No smileys.) Now back to more late documentation ... Mike -- Mike Ressler [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, I'm

Re: Another book written using LyX

2001-01-17 Thread mike.ressler
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Alejandro Aguilar Sierra wrote: Did anybody know about this book on postgresql? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/awbook.html IMHO the link should be somewhere in the users site, in a section "Who uses LyX". There should be also some other success stories that have been

Old docs in 1.1.6

2001-01-17 Thread mike.ressler
I was about to tell someone in the User's list to RTFM, when I found that the docs in 1.1.6 are ancient (at least two weeks old :-). Lars, did you forget to update them before you created 1.1.6? Mike -- Mike Ressler [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, I'm lame: I don't have my own website ...

Re: Old docs in 1.1.6 - Never Mind.

2001-01-17 Thread mike.ressler
On 17 Jan 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I was about to tell someone in the User's list to RTFM, when I found that | the docs in 1.1.6 are ancient (at least two weeks old :-). Lars, did you | forget to update them before you created 1.1.6? Or have you been

Re: Another book written using LyX

2001-01-18 Thread mike.ressler
On 18 Jan 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Mike" == [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mike Ahem. It's in the FAQ - Section 1.2 "That's fine, but is it Mike useful?". It's time to get the @#$% FAQ on the web page. Anyone Mike want to make a whizzy thing to update an HTML page automatically Mike

Re: deleting one line from multiline equation

2001-01-23 Thread mike.ressler
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: This feels like simple question but I cannot find answer from LyX documents. How can I delete one line from multiline math equation? User Guide says M-e k but it doesn't work with 1.1.6. I couldn't find the command from reference manual. I noticed

Repeated request to change Figure to Graphic

2001-01-24 Thread mike.ressler
Hi guys (and girls, if there are any reading), Since you are munging the user layout and file formats right now, I would like to repeat my request of a few months ago to change the name of Insert-Figure to Insert-Graphic. The reasons are several: 1) A "figure" as defined by LaTeX does not

Re: Repeated request to change Figure to Graphic

2001-01-24 Thread mike.ressler
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please change this. I know it's only a trivial user interface issue, but it's a blaringly obvious one. I'd like to move us from LaTeXese to English. And yes, I mean for 1.1.6fix1! Mike -- Mike Ressler [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, I'm lame: I don't have

Re: Repeated request to change Figure to Graphic

2001-01-24 Thread mike.ressler
On 24 Jan 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Since you are munging the user layout and file formats right now, I would | like to repeat my request of a few months ago to change the name of | Insert-Figure to Insert-Graphic. The reasons are several: I agree with

Re: Repeated request to change Figure to Graphic

2001-01-24 Thread mike.ressler
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Garst R. Reese wrote: I agree completely with this. The current terminology is gobbledegook if you are not a latex guru. And I second the motion to do it for fix1. Even with Mike's excellent suggestions, but why not just Insert-Table for Insert-Tabular. The word tabular

Re: patch for default.ui

2001-01-29 Thread mike.ressler
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, R. Lahaye wrote: 1) I renamed the 'Insert-Graphics' entry into 'Figure' (as it was before). Although there is (will be?) a new graphics inset, I suggest to stick to call it "Figure", to stay closer to LaTeX terminology. NOO! I know Lars already responded, but I want

Re: New feature: Bookmarks in LyX?

2001-01-29 Thread mike.ressler
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:42:31PM +0900, R. Lahaye wrote: Well, if "Figures" are called "Graphics", then my change my be of no good. But then "Insert-Floats-Figure" and "Insert-Floats-Wide Figure" should be renamed to "Graphics" and

Math mode (sort of) bug

2001-02-02 Thread mike.ressler
In the old days, if I typed "M-m g m m" I would get the greek letter mu followed by an m - the usual symbol for micrometer (or micron). With 1.1.6fix1, if I type this sequence, the mu is created, but the cursor stays at the front edge of the math box, so that the m is then placed in front of the

Bug in float fig captions

2001-02-08 Thread mike.ressler
Hi, The figure caption in a float appears to be immune to justification commands: setting left, right, center, or block has no effect. And worse, the state it is in is "center", which is probably the worst of the 4 possibilities (well, maybe right would be worse). Reopening Layout-Paragraph

Re: 1.1.6fix1 stability?

2001-02-16 Thread mike.ressler
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote: On 15-Feb-2001 Michael Schmitt wrote: However, it is my impression that 1.1.6 has been released a bit too early Well the problem is that we wouldn't have found all the problems with the tabulars so fast if we wouldn't have released it to public,

Re: 1.1.6fix1 stability?

2001-02-20 Thread mike.ressler
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote: On 16-Feb-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to figure out a polite way to say this for some time. Juergen just pushed me over the edge :-) Well you shouldn't have put that smily there on a friday, you're a heretic! ;)

Re: another patch...

2001-03-05 Thread mike.ressler
On 5 Mar 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I tried the "benchmark" a bit here, and the times in successive rune fluctuate enough that I do not see how you can interpret them... This wins the "Cool Typo" award. When reading your (the developers') discussions of compilers, pragmas, etc. my head

Re: Menu Separator aka lyxarrow

2001-03-06 Thread mike.ressler
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, John Levon wrote: Why do we have this ? It seems a bit ad hoc. Is it just for the convenience of the doc writers or something ? Put on your asbestos suit! John Weiss is going to hunt you down and smack you with his small fish :-) (Find a message from him and look at his

Why docs don't get updated very often Re: asciitilde binding bug

2001-05-29 Thread mike.ressler
On 29 May 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Jules == Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jules It's a relief someone agrees with me! Jules Yes, M-p asterisk num would seem like a sensible set of Jules bindings to me.. Would you have time to review the bindings and propose an update? [...]

Re: Why docs don't get updated very often Re: asciitilde bindingbug

2001-05-29 Thread mike.ressler
On 29 May 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Mike The default user interface has to stop changing before the Doc Mike Team can update everything. Don't stop changing it yet, but Mike expect there to be problems until 1.2.0pre is declared ready, Mike and everyone agrees the interface will be

Attempting (and failing) to compile natbib branch

2001-05-29 Thread mike.ressler
In spite of my whining, I thought I'd sneak in an attempt to compile Angus' natbib branch, since he went to the effort to merge it with the latest main CVS branch. I cruise along okay until I get smacked with the following: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src -I./../ -I../.. -I../..

Re: Attempting (and failing) to compile natbib branch

2001-05-29 Thread mike.ressler
On Wed, 30 May 2001, John Levon wrote: On Tue, 29 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a Mandrake 8.0 OS with gcc-2.96. Let me know if I'm doing something Mandrake 8.0 comes with some version of RH gcc 2.96 ? Yuck ! What's the RPM version ? I wonder which RH version it's based on. Any

Re: Attempting (and failing) to compile natbib branch

2001-05-30 Thread mike.ressler
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Angus Leeming wrote: On Tuesday 29 May 2001 23:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In spite of my whining, I thought I'd sneak in an attempt to compile Angus' natbib branch, since he went to the effort to merge it with the latest main CVS branch. I cruise along okay until I

Unknown function error in BRANCH_NATBIB

2001-05-31 Thread mike.ressler
Hi, Still playing with the natbib branch. I was able to compile it successfully once Angus finished his update :-) Gcc-2.96 seems to have worked okay. However, now when I open a new/existing document and start typing, I get a Unknown function error printed at the bottom and no text inserted. I

Re: Unknown function error in BRANCH_NATBIB

2001-05-31 Thread mike.ressler
On Thu, 31 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: typing, I get a Unknown function error printed at the bottom and no text inserted. I can open existing documents, but can't type new text. Any ideas? Lars wrote back about a possible bad key bindings file. That was it. I had an old ~/.lyx-cvs

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-08 Thread mike.ressler
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: Compare also with the natbib work that lives on a branch: I don't think Angus has gotten much feedback on that. This in turns results in less entuisiasm from the developer, and there is a real fear that the work will never be merged. This is

Re: Picture preview rendering error under Solaris

2001-06-08 Thread mike.ressler
On 7 Jun 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Picture preview does not work with ghostscript 6.00--6.50 I haven't had any problem with 6.01. Later versions, yes ... Mike -- Mike Ressler [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, I'm lame: I don't have my own website ...

OS/2 help needed Re: Lyx User's Guide

2001-06-21 Thread mike.ressler
Hello Jeff, I'm forwarding your email to the LyX Developer's list since I haven't a clue what might be hanging you up. Hopefully someone there will know. Also, please let us know what version of LyX you are using, whether you compiled it yourself, and if so, what xforms library you are using,